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Sue Mengers advised Jennifer Aniston to get Brad Pitt’s sperm post-divorce
Jim Carrey’s new “mystery” girlfriend is age-appropriate
Zoe Kravitz & Penn Badgley spend a humid Christmas together in Miami
Robert DeNiro, 68, and wife Grace, 56, welcome daughter Helen Grace via surrogate
Mel Gibson’s divorce finalized, Robyn Gibson walks away with $400 million?
Matthew McConaughey proposed to Camila Alves
Woman gets huge “Drake” tattoo across her entire forehead
Hall & Oates are totally cool with “Callin’ Oates” hotline, aren’t going to sue

Sue Mengers advised Jennifer Aniston to get Brad Pitt’s sperm post-divorce

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST

I didn't really understand why this story became a big deal a few days ago. It's all about legendary super-agent Sue Mengers, who was a big deal in the 1970s and 1980s. She was friends with all of the big stars, she threw lavish, cocaine-soaked parties and she was brilliant at promotion and self-promotion in the era before the internet. Mengers died this year, and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd eulogized her in a NYT Magazine piece. In the piece, Dowd mentions an anecdote about Mengers and her friendship with Jennifer Aniston. I've actually read comments from Mengers about her friendship with Aniston before – Mengers never rep'd Aniston, but Mengers acted as an "advisor" of sorts for Aniston for years. Mengers thought Aniston was awesome and fabulous, and Mengers had harsh words for Angelina Jolie. Anyhoodle, Dowd claims that Menger "advised" Aniston to ask for Brad Pitt's sperm after they had split up:

Top Hollywood agent Sue Mengers gave Jennifer Aniston some plum advice when she split with husband Brad Pitt — ask Pitt for a sperm donation.

Bizarrely, Maureen Dowd delivers this shocking showbiz tidbit in an ode to Mengers, who died this year, in The New York Times Magazine. Dowd recalls, “She was a yenta who loved fixing people up, in work and in love. If a match struck, she would urge the woman, ‘We have to close the deal.’ After Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie, Mengers told me that she advised her beloved Jen to ask Brad for some of his sperm.”

Comments like this, as stinging as it may have been to the heartbroken Aniston at the time, were apparently part of Mengers’ nature. The agent — who threw parties attended by Jack Nicholson, Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Aaron Sorkin, and many others — was known for her brash ideas. She was a close [friend] to many stars, including Aniston.

“The first woman to become the Man among Hollywood superagents was full of exhilarating vulgarity,” writes Dowd. “Mengers presided with a devilish wit and an angelic smile, a dirty, flirty girl with devastating timing.”

Presumably, Aniston did not take Mengers’ advice. Instead, she appears to have a more laidback approach to motherhood.

“There’s no desperation,” Aniston told Elle in October. “If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. I’m at peace with whatever the plan is.”

[From Page Six]

Am I missing something? Why is this story getting so much ink? A former "super-agent" told her recently divorced mentee to get some of her ex-husband's sperm… for what? So that Aniston could have Brad's baby after they had split up? So Aniston could further insinuate herself into Brad's life after they were over? So that Aniston could get pregnant with Brad's baby and he would come running back to Jennifer? I don't understand this plot. At all. It actually makes Aniston look bad, in my opinion, which probably isn't what Mengers wanted? Except that I suspect that Mengers advised Aniston to play the "pity party" card for a long time.

Photos courtesy of WENN, archive image of Mengers.

Jim Carrey’s new “mystery” girlfriend is age-appropriate

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:22 AM PST

Several days ago, Jim Carrey brought his "new girlfriend" out to a Guns N Roses concert in LA. These are photos of Jim and the chica leaving the concert. No media outlet – that I've seen – has this lady's name. As far as I know, this is only his second girlfriend since he and Jenny McCarthy called it quits, right? Hmm… he went on a few dates with someone else for a hot minute – Anchal Joseph, who was a contestant on America's Next Top Model. I remember that Jenny McCarthy moved on very quickly to some bodybuilder dumbass, but Jim's post-split activities are largely blank to me.

Jim Carrey took his new mystery girlfriend to the Guns N’ Roses reunion concert in Los Angeles. The pair embraced the rock spirit with a co-ordinated look – he wore a leather jacket while she opted for skin-tight trousers in the same material.

The Ace Ventura star, 49,who also declared his love for the music genre on his T-shirt, kept a tight grip on the curly-haired blonde, who strutted by his side in Christian Louboutin heels.

The pair were first spotted together left in New York City last month, but her identity remains a mystery. Carrey has been largely single since splitting from long-term love, model and TV presenter Jenny McCarthy in April 2010.

In January, he was spotted on a date with America’s Next Top Model contestant Anchal Joseph, 24, but the pair weren’t seen together again.

Prior to meeting McCarthy, Carrey was once engaged to Renee Zellweger and has been divorced twice.

He has a 23-year-old daughter Jane from his first marriage to Melissa Womer and was wed to his Dumb And Dumber co-star Lauren Holly for a year.

[From The Mail]

Well, one thing's for sure. I doubt this lady was on ANTM. Is that too mean? Look, I'm sure she's perfectly pleasant and all, but she looks kind of busted in these photos. At first glance, I thought, "Oh, wow, Jim went for a woman his own age!" Jim turns 50 in a few weeks, and I thought this woman was probably in her 40s, but at second glance, I think she may be in her 30s. But she's lived a hard life, I suspect. THAT HAIR. Is that a PERM? Good God. You can see more photos of them here – Jessica at INF has a great comment about chica's forehead.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Zoe Kravitz & Penn Badgley spend a humid Christmas together in Miami

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 06:46 AM PST

How funny is it that Zoe Kravitz ended up with a dude who has the same hair as her dad? These are new photos of Zoe and her super-special boyfriend Penn Badgley in Miami over the holiday. They were photographed constantly at the beach and at their hotel, where you can see that the Miami humidity is not agreeing with Penn's curly hair. I have to give Penn some credit – he definitely increased his credibility as an interesting person by going from Blake Lively to Zoe. It seems like both Blake and Penn upgraded after they broke up – when they were together, it seemed like Blake was just Penn's beard, and she was always cheating on him. Now that they're apart, Blake is free to be "the girlfriend" to a series of A-list men, and Penn now appears heterosexual, with a cute little hipster girl to boot, and a growing career in independent films.

Let's talk about Zoe's body for a second – I dislike her bikini, and even though she's got small boobs, she totally needs more support from a bikini top. That being said, her body is bangin'. I wish my ass looked that cute. And I don't think she has any cellulite anywhere. UGH! Damn it, Zoe.

As for Penn – seeing him shirtless is NOT sexy. He's all skinny and furry and oddly feminine. I can't believe Zoe CHOSE Penn over Michael Fassbender. True, we don't know what went down, whether Fassy left Zoe or whether she wanted a "real" relationship with someone more low-key or whatever. But we know that Zoe started showing up everywhere with Penn over the summer while she and Michael seemed like they were still "together". So all I know is that she gave up this…

For this.

Girl, we need to talk.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Robert DeNiro, 68, and wife Grace, 56, welcome daughter Helen Grace via surrogate

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 06:13 AM PST

I kind of forgot that Robert DeNiro is actually married. I thought Bob and Grace Hightower were simply "longterm partners." They've been together for a really long time, so why don't I have any memory of them actually getting hitched? Was it hush-hush? Or is it common-law? Anyway, Grace and Bob have just welcomed their second child together – via surrogate. Grace gave birth to their son Elliot in the 1990s, and now they are parents to newborn Helen Grace. This is Robert's sixth child overall:

Robert De Niro and his wife, Grace Hightower De Niro, have welcomed a daughter, his rep tells PEOPLE.

Helen Grace, born via surrogate, weighed in at 7 lbs., 2 oz.

She is the second child for the couple, who first met back in 1987 in London and are already parents to son Elliot, 13.  

The Academy Award winning actor, 68, also has four other children: daughter Drena, 40, and son Raphael, 35, with former wife Diahnne Abbott, as well as 16-year-old twin sons Julian and Aaron, born via surrogate with ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith.

[From People]

God, Robert's twin sons are already 16? I remember seeing photos of the twins when they were toddlers!! Jesus, I'm old. As is Bob DeNiro. He's 68 years old!!! And Grace is 56 years old!! I mean, loving parents are loving parents, at any age. But… really? SIXTY-EIGHT. I don't even know. Congratulations to the happy couple and welcome to the world, baby Helen Grace.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Mel Gibson’s divorce finalized, Robyn Gibson walks away with $400 million?

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 05:54 AM PST

Well, this was a long time coming. Mel Gibson and Robyn Gibson's divorce has, at long last, been finalized. Mel and Robyn were married for nearly 30 years, but she started divorce proceedings on Mel back in April, 2009. Between that time and now, Mel impregnated Oksana Gregorieva, and they had a baby girl. The custody dispute between Mel and Oksana took less time than Mel and Robyn's divorce. Would you like to know why? Because Robyn was getting PAID.

Mel Gibson is now legally single after his divorce was finalized Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, but bachelorhood came at a heavy price.

Robyn, his ex-wife of nearly 30 years and the mother of their seven children, is walking away with half his fortune, once estimated to be as high as $850 million (according to the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2006) in what is considered the biggest divorce payout in Hollywood history.

Because the couple didn’t have a prenuptial agreement, Robyn, 55, was legally entitled to half of everything he earned during their marriage.

Among Gibson’s estimated assets: more than $600 million grossed by The Passion of the Christ alone; $100-plus million in real estate investments worldwide (he bought an island in Fiji for $15 million in 2005); and $75 million for film and TV projects for which Gibson, 55, executive produced.

It appears some of his wealth has already been transferred to Robyn, in particular two Malibu homes worth a combined $22.5 million. As for film residuals, Robyn is entitled to half of every future check Gibson receives for the rest of his life.

“I left my wife because we had no spiritual common ground,” Gibson told his then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in secretly recorded tapes she made of the actor in February 2010.

During his custody battle with Grigorieva, in which the Russian musician accused Gibson of domestic violence, Robyn filed a sworn statement in July 2010 stating that “Mel was a wonderful and loving father” and never abused Robyn or their kids.

Gibson met Robyn, at the time a dental nurse, in the late 1970s after the American-born actor, who moved to Australia when he was 12, had filmed his breakout role in Mad Max.

[From People]

You know what? After 30 years with that alcoholic, anti-Semitic, violent POS, Robyn deserves every penny. I always thought that she came out and claimed that Mel had never been violent with her because it was part of the divorce negotiations. Robyn battled hard for the money, and she got what she wanted.

Photos courtesy of Fame, Pacific Coast News & Bauer-Griffin.

Matthew McConaughey proposed to Camila Alves

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 04:53 AM PST

Matthew McConaughey on WhoSay
Did you know that Matthew McConaughey was on Twitter? I didn’t. Matthew used his Twitter account to make a major announcement this Christmas: he proposed to his longterm girlfriend, Camila Alves! Matthew, 42, and Camila, 29, have been together since 2006. They are parents to son Levi, 3 and a half, and daughter Vida, who turns two next week. McConaughey tweeted the above photo yesterday with the caption “Just asked camila to marry me, #MerryChristmas” I wonder what prompted McConaughey to propose after so long. In April, McConaughey told Cigar Aficiando magazine that he wasn’t opposed to marriage, but that he didn’t feel like it was necessary:

"Marriage isn't something I'm against. My parents married each other three times – and divorced twice. I know a few older couples who have been married a long time and are happy; I've been around healthy marriages. I knew I wanted a family and I found a woman I love and felt was right for me. I thought, 'That's the woman I want to make a family with.' But marriage – it's not something we feel we need to be complete. It doesn't mean we won't do it.

"It doesn't make my mom that happy that we're not married. But it doesn't make her mad either. Of course, I was raised to believe that you don't have sex until you're married. So there you are."

[From Cigar Aficionado, print edition, via Celebitchy]

So it sounds like he’s been cautious about it for a while, but that he finally felt ready to take the plunge. Congratulations to Matthew and Camila! I find holiday proposals so romantic, and I’m hoping they have a big showy wedding with a photo spread in People. Maybe they’ll do a barefoot beach wedding, though. That’s sounds more their style.

For those of you who are going to mention the blind item about the famous couple doing cocaine that has been neglecting their kids, I hope it’s not true. It was obviously written about McConaughey and Alves, but that doesn’t mean it’s true at all. That’s the problem I have with blind items: even if you figure out who they’re supposed to be about, that doesn’t make them accurate. That’s why no names are used.

Here’s another photo Matt tweeted of his newly-shorn head. He’s looking a little thin, but I like him bald.

Matthew McConaughey on WhoSay

Matthew and Camila are shown on 6/9/11 and 9/25/11. Credit: PRPhotos

Woman gets huge “Drake” tattoo across her entire forehead

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 04:44 AM PST

Did you hear the story of that reformed neo-Nazi who had multiple very painful laser treatments to remove the skinhead tattoos all over his face? That’s what I thought of when I saw the photo of this woman with “Drake” tattooed across her head in this super ugly block font. It’s something that will stay with her forever barring extreme measures, but at least she has the option of growing bangs or wearing hats. Unlike the neo-Nazi guy, it’s not an offensive tattoo – it merely signifies that she’s a fool. Canadian singer/autotune abuser Drake knows all about this tattoo, and he blames the tattoo artist for helping this woman realize her dream of having his name permanently emblazoned on her forehead. Drake said the guy is a “f’ing a**hole” and “should never do tattoos again.” He also said he would like “to talk to this girl and understand it all.” That’s probably exactly why she did it. Here’s more:

She tatted his name on her forehead, and, as promised, Drake has confirmed that he knows she is for real. He’s not 100% pleased, though.

The rapper on Friday spoke out about the California woman who got his name tattooed in huge block letters across her forehead, calling her “incredible,” but the artist who did it “a f*cking asshole.”

“I want to meet her and understand what happened,” he told LA radio host Mando Fresko. “That’s cool though, I feel you 100%, that to me is absolutely incredible.”

As for the artist, Kevin Campbell, Drake put out a warning.

“The guy who tatted is a f*cking as*hole though, I will tell you that,” he said. “I don’t f*ck with that guy. F*ck you to that tat artist by the way. And you should lose your job and should never do tattoos again and I don’t f*ck with you. And if I ever see you, I’m a f*ck you up.”

For his part, the artist told Vice Magazine that he wasn’t exactly keen on doing the ink in the first place.

“She was really psyched about it. She had the sh*tty font all picked out on her iPhone ready to go and was pretty adamant about putting it on her forehead,” he said. “She acted as if she had planned it out for a while, but I’m not really sure how much extended coherent thought could actually go into getting such a stupid tattoo on your forehead.”

However, that mea culpa will probably get drowned out by this: “The funny thing is, I didn’t know who Drake was,” Campbell admitted. “I figured it was her hood or some shit, not some goofnugget R&B dude.”

[From Huffington Post via ONTD]

So is it the tattoo artist’s fault for helping this woman get a tattoo he knew was terrible and that he admitted was stupid? It bothers me that the tattoo artist would so thoroughly diss the tattoo, but that he took the money and went through with it anyway. They should have some sort of policy against facial tattoos. Unless they don’t care and just want the cash. That’s obviously the case here.

Drake is no stranger to tattoos. He has a giant tattoo of deceased singer Aaliyah’s face on his back.

This video has multiple F bombs and is not safe for work, depending on where you work.

Header Photo via Imgur. Other photos are from May, 2011 and credit: Fame

Hall & Oates are totally cool with “Callin’ Oates” hotline, aren’t going to sue

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 04:33 AM PST

I love this story so much. I adore Hall & Oats and remember first hearing them when I was a kid. Their music is so catchy and fun. If you get one of their songs stuck in a loop in your head (like “Private Eyes” is for me now), it somehow manages to uplift you instead of irritate you. So it’s nice to hear that Hall & Oates aren’t sue happy like nearly the entire recording industry. Some guy started a “Callin’ Oates” hotline where you can call a regular phone number and listen to one of the duos 80s hits for free. Instead of sending the guy a takedown notice, their spokesperson issued a tentative statement that they’re very happy that people still love to listen to their music.

You might think Daryl Hall and John Oates would have a problem with their music being played for free through the crazy popular Callin’ Oates service — but it turns out the guys are thrilled about it … so far.

For the uninitiated … Callin’ Oates is a phone number you can call when you have a “Hall & Oates emergency.” Dial the number ( 719-26-OATES) press a button, and you have a choice between "One on One,” “Rich Girl,” “Maneater,” or “Private Eyes.”

The guys behind the site aren’t affiliated with Hall & Oates at all, but a rep for the group tells us they’re thrilled so many people are calling the number and listening to their music.

The rep tells us, “We had nothing to do with it and we’re still trying to to process what the company’s intentions are. But we’re always happy when people are interested in our music.”

[From TMZ]

They forgot “Kiss on My List,” “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” and “Out of Touch“!

Like all good memes, it wasn’t exactly clear how and why this one got started or if it was an advertisement for something. It turns out to have been a project by a new employee at a company called Twilio, which provides a platform to build voice and text messaging applications. The Atlantic Wire has an article which explains how “Callin’ Oates” came about. Creator Michael Selvidge told The Atlantic that he spent his own money to fund the hotline and keep it running (he wouldn’t say how much, but hinted that it was substantial) and added that he did it as a fan, not someone who wanted to poke fun. “I do sort of recognize the cheesy factor but I actually do appreciate their music and I do actually listen to it and they are one one of my favorite bands. It’s definitely an affectionate thing.” Aw, that kind of warms my heart, just like Hall & Oates’ music.

Here’s a video showing how the hotline works. You can call it yourself at 719-26-OATES. This video will only play in the US, which makes me wonder if some RIAA honcho is going to step in and put the kibosh on this any day now.