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- Octomom on death threats: My kids could never have a better mother, people are jealous
- Ashley Judd: “I think it’s hatred of women that invites the criticism”
- Salma Hayek says she is financially successful due to awesome karma, basically
- Rooney Mara reveals ombre wig for ‘The Bitter Pill’: busted and completely miscast?
- Dear Michael Fassbender: WTF is wrong with your hair & why do you look awful?
- Jennifer Lawrence guts squirrel, says “screw PETA,” and PETA cries about it
- Madonna’s ‘MDNA’ bombed & her label is probably inflating the numbers too
- Miley Cyrus criticized by dietitians for recommending a gluten free diet for everyone
- Kanye West to Kim Kardashian: “Imma let you be my Beyonce, girl”
- Stacy Keibler models wedding gowns for Hello Mag, so… she’ll get dumped soon
| Octomom on death threats: My kids could never have a better mother, people are jealous Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:24 AM PDT
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Suleman interview starts at 2:20 Octomom Nadya Suleman was on the Today Show via satellite from her home this morning. (Video is above.) She was much more subdued and less manic than we’ve seen from her in previous interviews. The issue was that she seemed genuinely scared, and was talking about a recent death threat she’d received. Suleman of course recently made the admission that she was back on food stamps to make ends meet. Many people were outraged that she had seemly squandered all the money she earned from photo spreads, interviews, and appearance fees and was now relying on public assistance to raise the 14 children she got IVF to conceive as a single unemployed mom. Someone went so far as to smash out the back window on Octo’s minivan and scrawl a note to her to “leave California or die,” which is the death threat we’re talking about. In this interview, Suleman explained that she lost the original note, and claimed she gave it to a news outlet that interviewed her. (Maybe TMZ, they have a photo of it.) She said she handed a copy over to police though. I found myself feeling sorry for this lady, who is clearly in way over her head. Then she added a bunch of stuff about how she’s the best mother ever and people are jealous of the bonds her kids have with each other. (Like soldiers bonding in the trenches.)
Oh Nadya. Well her kids definitely need help, and they need to eat. They also need protection from anyone who would threaten them or their mother, that’s despicable. It’s easy to see how Suleman deluded herself into thinking she could handle all this though. She’s the best mother ev-ah! Her kids are so special! Everyone is jealous that they didn’t have 13 brothers and sisters competing for the love of just one narcissist who never manages to pay the rent.
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| Ashley Judd: “I think it’s hatred of women that invites the criticism” Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:56 AM PDT
These are some new photos of Ashley Judd and her husband Dario Franchitti at an LA screening of Ashley's new ABC show, Missing, at the Paley Center. Can I just interject for a moment and tell how crappy that show looks? It looks AWFUL. I don't know if the show is better than the commercials, because I haven't watched it, but just the idea of Ashley going all Jason Bourne and running around Europe, kicking ass… it just looks horrible. Now, Ashley looks pretty good in these photos. Is that terribly misogynistic to say that? That Ashley looks healthy and pretty here? Or is it only anti-woman when you point out that a woman looks less attractive? Why are we talking about a woman's appearance at all? Oh, right. Because she's a film and television star who has made millions of dollars off of her appearance through Hollywood work and beauty and modeling contracts with Estee Lauder and others. Some people took offense yesterday to CB's coverage of Ashley Judd's Daily Beast essay. I'd just like to say… I cosign CB's thoughts and then some. In my opinion, Ashley was not making a larger argument about patriarchy and the objectification of women. She was just angry because people talked about how she looked puffy and waxy, much like someone who had recently gone in for fillers and Botox. She was angry because people said she looked BAD, not because people were talking about her appearance in general. And you know what? She had and has every right to be angry, and she has every right to defend herself. But I too think she's full of it for couching her defense in a larger feminist discourse, especially when her defense includes the phrase, "When my skin is nearly flawless, and at age 43, I do not yet have visible wrinkles that can be seen on television…" Anyway, Ashley is going to be interviewed tonight on the NBC Nightly News. She basically going to double down on her (flawed) argument, judging from this preview on Today:
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Photos courtesy of WENN. |
| Salma Hayek says she is financially successful due to awesome karma, basically Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:18 AM PDT
Quite recently, Salma Hayek discussed her acne-triggered depression, and Kaiser theorized that Salma was using the topic as a talking point to relate to the little people. It was a very valid hypothesis given that Salma is now married to a billionaire, but it appears that Salma also had another purpose to bringing up the topic; that is, Salma is now promoting her own anti-pimple medication. It’s an over-the-counter product that is part of her beauty line, Nuance Salma Hayek, which contains 100 different items (cosmetics, moisturizers, and cleansers) that are now available online and at a CVS drugstore near you. It’s quite a departure from the image of a spitfire actress with a huge rack even though the cover of this magazine obviously highlights Salma’s most prominent assets. Here are some excerpts from the interview, which also takes the editorial stance that Salma has basically done the vast majority of of the creation and chemical work for her line. Is she full of crap? Maybe.
[From Marie Claire @Work] While I can admire Salma’s entreprenurial drive in creating this line of beauty products, I have to wonder where she came up with the start-up capital for such a product. Did she put up the money herself or pound the pavement looking for investors? Or was it a case of her billionaire husband financing the entire schbang? Who knows. I’ll admit to a bit of jealousy here because Salma will never have to worry about money for the rest of her life, but it seems awfully convenient for Salma to say that merely perservering and acting with conviction will make somebody rich because of the “karma” involved. Salma does acknowledge that she is “the luckiest person” she knows, but still, she is so out of touch with reality. It’s almost like she’s becoming the Latina Goop.
Photos courtesy of Marie Claire @Work    |
| Rooney Mara reveals ombre wig for ‘The Bitter Pill’: busted and completely miscast? Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:14 AM PDT
Back in January, Blake Lively was cast in a lead role in Steven Soderbergh's new film, The Bitter Pill. Blake would have playing a woman in the midst of some kind of nervous breakdown, a wife of newly-released felon, being heavily medicated by her therapist – with Channing Tatum playing the husband and Jude Law playing the therapist. When Blake's attachment to the film was announced, everyone was like "WTF?". Including the financial backers for the film, who demanded that Lively's role be recast. Which it was – Soderbergh ended up recasting the role with Rooney Mara. These are some photos of Rooney and Jude Law on the NYC set yesterday.
As you can see, Rooney is wearing either a really busted wig or really a really tacky-looking weave for her role. Us Weekly says it's totally a wig, and they describe it as "ombre". I just call it ugly, though. Like, I understand the fascination with wigs and stuff, and I understand that Rooney couldn't and shouldn't have her "Dragon Tattoo" hair for another film. But if you're going to go through the process of getting a realistic-looking wig, does it have to look like you're making poor Rooney wear a skinned cat on her head? It looks cheap. It makes Rooney look cheap. This makes me think that Sodergergh is actively trying to make a film about characters living within very modest means. Which makes me wonder… why was Rooney Mara cast? She's got that Gwyneth Paltrow-esque snotty, bored voice. She sounds like what she is – a rich girl. Not that Blake Lively would have been better – I'm not saying that! If the female character is supposed to be poor and busted, try to cast someone who isn't justly typecast as a "bored rich girl". There should be other options besides Blake Lively and Rooney Mara, for goodness sake. Maybe that's why Jude Law looks so sad.
Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame/Flynet. |
| Dear Michael Fassbender: WTF is wrong with your hair & why do you look awful? Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:41 AM PDT
These might be the first batch of Michael Fassbender photos that do absolutely nothing for my lady parts. My lady parts throw a party for nearly anything Fassbender-related or Fassbender-adjacent, so imagine my surprise. I think it's the hair. It's the hair, right? Something about Fassy with darker hair, and having it all spiked up… it makes it seem like he's wearing a bad rug. The suit isn't helping either – it looks baggy and borrowed. Fassy's a lean, slender, rangy guy – he should be wearing very tailored, slim-cut slacks and tight t-shirts and such, not oversized suits. Anyway, these are photos from today's Paris photo call for Prometheus. Director Ridley Scott was there, as was Noomi Rapace (!!!) and Charlize Theron. None of them are blowing me away sartorially. Charlize's dress doesn't really suit her, and I hate her booties. Noomi just looks like ten kinds of hell, which is sad because I love her to pieces. But the worst is definitely Fassbender. WHY?!?!?!?!!? Two more Fassy stories. One, Fassy is a producer now! He's started his own production company and he really wants to make a film adaptation of The Cuchulainn Saga, a set of famous Irish myths. Fassy said in a new interview that: "I'll try and bribe, convince, whatever it takes to try and get the people we would like to have in it. But at the moment it's really just a matter of getting the story tight so I can send something out there that will entice people to do it, so fingers crossed we'll see what happens. We should have a script by July in the summer and then hopefully something to take to studios around September, October." Bribe me with your body, Fassy. I have money. I will give you my check card in exchange for a week in bed with you. Seriously. Second Fassy story: MY DREAM IS COMING TRUE. Remember I had a "dream" (sexual fantasy) that Michael Fassbender and Angelina Jolie would end up having a torrid affair at some point? Well, Angelina is in talks to take a "small part" in Ridley Scott's upcoming film, The Counselor, which will film this summer. Fassbender's the lead. Seriously, they need to get together. Brad would understand, surely. This is for the sake of sexual fantasies everywhere.
Photos courtesy of WENN. |
| Jennifer Lawrence guts squirrel, says “screw PETA,” and PETA cries about it Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT
In Jennifer Lawrence's recent Rolling Stone cover interview, she was discussing her breakout performance in 2010's Winter's Bone. The role scored Jennifer a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and everything has been uphill in her career since then. During the interview, J-Law discussed a particular scene in the film in which she guts a squirrel. Quoth the J-Law, "I should say it wasn’t real, for PETA. But screw PETA." Ooooh, girl. So of course, PETA is now calling attention to this quote (a quote that was so shocking and controversial, everyone ignored it until PETA brought it up) and calling out the J-Law:
[From Us Weekly] Look, I like animals too, and I understand the whole "who am I to judge the soul of Mother Nature" and all of that. But we're still talking about squirrels, right? They are glorified rats, only dumber. These are the creatures who are too dumb to move out of the road when they see the car coming a mile away. J-Law knows what I'm talking about – she grew up on a Kentucky farm and she’s comfortable with A) gun culture and B) the daily life-and-death decisions of farm life. I don't think she's some anti-animal-terrorist. I think she's just like, "F–k it, it's a SQUIRREL." UPDATE: Okay, so apparently there are lots of squirrel-lovers out there. Here’s the thing: I live out in the country, and I grew up around and in farm and hunting culture, just like Jennifer. I am not saying – and I don’t think J-Law is saying – “Squirrels are dumb and no one cares, so kill them.” It’s just that I’m not personally going to get upset if I see or hear about a dead squirrel. I see dead squirrels by the side of the road every day. I also see dead groundhogs, deer and assorted woodland creatures by the side of the road often enough and I can’t stop to mourn every one of them, you know? Oh, and as several people pointed out, the dead squirrels used in the film were bought off of a hunter who had already killed them. So yes, the film used actual dead squirrels but Jennifer didn’t kill them and the squirrels were not killed expressly for the film.
Photos courtesy of WENN. |
| Madonna’s ‘MDNA’ bombed & her label is probably inflating the numbers too Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT
Madonna really wanted her new album, MDNA, to work out. She seemed like she was back to her old stunt-queen self, causing controversy at the Super Bowl (not really), releasing "controversial" music videos for "Give Me All Your Luv" and "Girl Gone Wild" (except not really, they were just bad, try-hard videos). And she also had some "controversial" cross-promotional crap when the commercial for her "Truth or Dare" perfume was banned on ABC, sort of, because no one wanted to look at Madonna's jugs. Madonna was working all of the old angles, hoping that MDNA would blow everyone away and sell like crazy and then she would be on top, forever and always and she would be the most important person for ETERNITY!! Except nothing happened. No one is buying Madonna's album. Poor Madge.
Reports also indicate that while MDNA sold well in its first week of release, the sales numbers were partially the result of some "trickery" (or "gristly magic"). Her label, Interscope, joined up with Live Nation (owner of Ticketmaster) to combine album "sales" with ticket sales for Madonna's upcoming tour. Meaning that everyone who paid an exorbitant amount for a ticket to one of Madonna's upcoming tour dates got a free copy of MDNA, and then Interscope counted those free albums into the sales numbers. Which may have inflated the "359,000 copies" number by as much as 185,000. Meaning that maybe Madonna only sold 179,000 copies of MDNA, and the rest were given away for free. Meaning that Lionel Richie's new album totally out-sold her. Poor Madonna.
Photos courtesy of Madonna's MDNA art. |
| Miley Cyrus criticized by dietitians for recommending a gluten free diet for everyone Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT
[From US Weekly] Of course if you give up gluten and keep eating crappy processed food, whether corn, rice or soy-based, you’re not going to get the nutrients that you once had from whole grains. It’s similar to going vegetarian and substituting all the meat you used to eat with processed soy products. It’s not healthy to eat like that. If you give up gluten and are eating more whole foods like fruits, vegetables, beans and lean meats it can only be better for you.* My mom has a friend with celiac disease and she said the same thing as these dietitians quoted by US, you really shouldn’t go gluten free unless you have to. From what I understand, a gluten free diet can be beneficial for a lot of medical conditions, although its efficacy is not proven. One of my friends has Chron’s disease and she gave up all gluten and dairy and improved significantly. Years ago I read The Okinawa Program, which revealed the lifestyle of the healthiest longest-living society in the world, in the Okinawa islands off Japan. People regularly live into their 90s and beyond in Okinawa, and they eat a low calorie diet rich in fish, rice and vegetables. I also had a doctor who introduced me to the work of Weston A. Price, who found that traditional societies ate locally sourced whole foods in season. It’s just about eating foods that are healthy and whole, not created in a lab. I don’t see how Miley has harmed anyone who would actually take her seriously by recommending a gluten free diet. It’s not necessarily about going gluten free, though, it’s about cutting out the processed crap and eating healthier overall. *I am not a doctor, etc. This article in Wikipedia has more on the potential nutritional drawbacks of a gluten free diet.
Here’s Miley outside of pilates on 3-29-12 and 4-6-12. Credit: WENN.com |
| Kanye West to Kim Kardashian: “Imma let you be my Beyonce, girl” Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:27 AM PDT
Another week, another motherload of Kim Kardashian tabloid covers. Kim's ass might have finally eclipsed the Uncool Bermuda Triangle. May it rest in peace. The best story, in my opinion, is from Us Weekly. They put the Kim-Kanye thing on their cover, and the story is absolutely priceless. Kanye thinks Kim is his Beyonce!!! OMG.
[From Us Weekly] Do you buy this Kardashian-approved, Kardashian-pushed, Kardashian-imagined side of the story? I think it's interesting that Kanye said he "loved" Kim in the lyrics to "Theraflu" and I'll also buy that Kanye is probably enamored with that ass. But I don't think this is some grand love story or anything, or that Kanye was hopelessly pursuing Kim for months. She's not Elizabeth Taylor. She's just a random cat-faced p0rn star. She will never be Kanye's "Beyonce". Also – Radar has a slightly interesting story about how Kim was really trying to get back with Reggie Bush before all of the Kanye stuff went down. Kim and Reggie met up in South Beach, Florida several weeks ago and a source claims:
[Via Radar] Eh. I kind of buy that. Kim was shopping around for a new boyfriend and she went back to Reggie and Reggie was all, "Meh." And then Kim lucked out when Kanye was all, "Let's give a try, girl. Imma let you be my muse, girl." And the final Kardashian story of the day (hopefully) comes via Page Six – Kim now claims that she's going to give all of her wedding gifts to charity. One guest, speaking anonymously, says, "What is a charity going to do with a Tiffany picture frame or an onyx vase? And, this is nine months after the wedding. Why is she doing it now?" That's in addition to donating $200,000 to the Dream Foundation as a way of "paying back" the wedding gifts. So now Kim doesn't even want to keep her haul? Interesting.
Photos courtesy of Us Weekly, WENN. |
| Stacy Keibler models wedding gowns for Hello Mag, so… she’ll get dumped soon Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:27 AM PDT
We can't use the photos in the new issue of Hello Magazine, but that's okay, because it's better if I verbally draw you a picture. Imagine Stacy Keibler in all of her budget glory. Imagine Stacy with her busted hair pulled into an elegant chignon. Imagine that chignon accessorized with a simple, elegant veil. Imagine Stacy's toned, wrestler physique clad in a lovely wedding dress. YES. THIS IS HAPPENING. Stacy Keibler did a photo shoot for Hello Magazine in which she's modeling wedding gowns!!!!!!! For real. George Clooney is going to dump her so fast, it's going to be so sad, y’all. Here are some highlights from Stacy's Hello interview, which is basically just an ad for these Pronovias wedding gowns:
[From Hello Magazine, print edition] Blah, it doesn't even matter at this point. I can't imagine Clooney cosigned Stacy doing a photo shoot in wedding gowns, and I have to think that Clooney will end up dumping her shortly. CB pointed out that Sarah Larson did a Hello Mag interview (likely a paid interview) shortly after Clooney dumped her too. Hello Magazine: picking up Clooney's castoffs, one cocktail waitress/escort at a time.
Photos courtesy of WENN. |
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