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• Anne Hathaway & Jake Gyllenhaal’s on-screen chemistry: icky or hot?
• Kim Kardashian blew more than $100,000 at Hermes: wouldn’t you?
• Annette Bening & Warren Beatty’s marriage might be on the rocks
• Insane diagram of who slept and make out with whom on Jersey Shore
• Elle Mag digitally lightened Gabourey Sidibe’s skin on the October cover
• Jon Stewart meets Jon Hamm, homoerotic destiny fulfilled
• Jessica Simpson slims down dramatically: diet, exercise or Spanx?
• LeAnn Rimes continues to be completely inappropriate with Eddie’s kids
• Michelle Duggar to her family: “someone’s expecting!”
• Top Chef finale: we have a winner! (Spoilers)

Anne Hathaway & Jake Gyllenhaal’s on-screen chemistry: icky or hot? Posted: 16 Sep 2010 08:52 AM PDT Above is the new poster for Love and Other Drugs, the film that will be coming out shortly, this fall sometime. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a pharmaceutical rep/salesman who ends up promoting the best-selling drug in the world: Viagra. Anne Hathaway plays the girl Jake meets and falls for, even though she's intense and his career is taking off and he could bone every nurse he wanted. The trailer came out last month, and I watched it, expecting to hate it. I didn't. And now I'm ashamed: Okay, here's my question: does anyone else remember the stories about Jake and Anne hating each other? They previously worked on Brokeback Mountain together, and I have strong memories of Jake insinuating that he thought Anne was a major a–hole. Am I hallucinating? If they did (do) hate each other, then I guess their acting is a lot better than you would think - they do seem to have some kind of chemistry together, and it's good to see them both in these kinds of roles. Will this just be another interchangeable rom-com? Eh. There is something icky about it though - they both trying to seem so wholesome. Jake: “This bitch.” Poster courtesy of HuffPo. Anne & Jake promoting Brokeback in 2005, credit: WENN.

Kim Kardashian blew more than $100,000 at Hermes: wouldn’t you? Posted: 16 Sep 2010 08:29 AM PDT This should come as a shock to no one, but Kim Kardashian makes a lot of money. A ton. More money than all of us combined, probably. Of course she does - she has no discernable talent. Why wouldn't she make lots of money? She can't sing. She can't dance. She's a horrible model. But she's a "brand" and people pay her to show up and show off her big ass and her big cat face. Anyway, Kim and her mom are in Paris… for some reason. Yesterday, they went shopping. And Kim blew more than $100,000 on purses at Hermes. Mother of God. One of purses was worth $30,000. Ooooohh…. Kim Kardashian and her mom spent over $100,000 on handbags in Paris yesterday — and no, they didn’t buy a truckload of ‘em … they bought seven. It all went down in the notoriously expensive Hermes store — where we’re told Kim and her mother Kris purchased six of the label’s exclusive “Birkin” bags … valued at around $10,000 apiece. But here’s the kicker — sources close to the reality star tell TMZ, Kim also bought herself an extremely rare crocodile-skin bag from the upscale French boutique … worth around $30,000. Overall, the Kardashians easily surpassed the $100k mark. [From TMZ] Am I going to hate on Kim for this? Eh… if I had her money, I would be blowing it on Hermes purses as well. They are gorgeous, and if you must think of them in these terms, they are an investment. A beautiful investment that you should treat like your very own special baby. The Birkins especially. I just can't believe Kim just walked in Hermes and walked out with all of those purses though - isn't there a waiting list?!? Sure, there isn't a waiting list for celebrities, but why is Kim getting the celebrity treatment?!? Header: Kim Kardashian in Paris on Sept. 15, 2010. Credit: Fame.

Annette Bening & Warren Beatty’s marriage might be on the rocks Posted: 16 Sep 2010 08:07 AM PDT This seems kind of like the gossip world is making a mountain out of a molehill, but there could totally be something there. According to Page Six, when Annette Bening was at the Deauville Film Festival to promote The Kids Are All Right, she imposed a "media blackout" on any questions about her husband Warren Beatty or their marriage. Now - lots of celebrities do this. When you get to a certain status in Hollywood, most media outlets will let you get away with it too, for fear that you'll rip away their access. It's not always about "conspiracy!" or divorce. But it could be! What does Annette Bening have to hide? Reporters at the Deauville Film Festival in France — where Bening was promoting “The Kids Are All Right,” the movie in which she plays a lesbian mother — were shocked when organizers warned them not to ask the actress any questions about her family, and specifically about her husband, Warren Beatty. “The blackout immediately amped up speculation by the press corps of an impending split,” said one journalist. Beatty has been notably absent as Bening has traveled the world promoting her latest film, which features a steamy Sapphic sex scene with Julianne Moore. The couple has barely been seen together except for a sighting at the Ago restaurant in LA on Aug. 7. The National Enquirer reported last month that Bening and Beatty are fighting and finger-pointing over their daughter, Kathlyn, 18, and her plans to have gender-reassignment surgery. Kathlyn, the eldest of four kids, allegedly has been living as a man for two years under the name Stephen Ira, and is now in college awaiting sex-change operations. The Enquirer reports Bening has agreed to pay for the surgery. “Annette accepts that Kathlyn wants to surgically become a man, while Warren is still trying to come to terms with it,” a source allegedly told the weekly. Bening’s publicist Simon Halls told Page Six: “Ridiculous. She was there to promote two films and that’s what she did.” Reps for Beatty didn’t return calls for comment. Stephen Ira couldn’t be reached. Meanwhile, the Deauville Film Festival, in its 36th year, appears to be a victim of tighter budgets. “Where are the stars? The studios have opted to go to closer-to-home Toronto instead,” said one source. “If the festival goes on like this, it won’t go on much longer.” [From Page Six] Yes, that National Enquirer story is one I haven't really been following - Warren and Annette's oldest, Kathryn, is probably trying to get a sex change operation to become a man (stories here and here). I think the Enquirer's reporting is probably right on the money, and they probably paid some source for details. I'll also buy that Warren is probably not handling it very well, where Annette is more "live and let live." But would this be the way their marriage ends? Eh. I think Warren is kind of dotty at this point, and honestly, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that he was sick or dealing with some senility issues. I think he needs Annette now more than ever. header: Warren and Annette in June, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Insane diagram of who slept and make out with whom on Jersey Shore Posted: 16 Sep 2010 07:54 AM PDT US Weekly’s cover story this week “Jersey Shore Wars: Secret Fights” is predictably all about the drama on that asinine ubiquitous show. You get a bunch of stupid kids together, let them drink all day and go to clubs at night and lo and behold: they fight and have sex. What a concept. The fighting involves the women ganging up against Angelina, who is off the show next season after leaving and coming back again. She’s being replaced by a friend of Snooki’s called Deena Nicole Cortese, who is supposed to be nice and to get along with the other women. They need someone else to hate, so supposedly they’re feuding with Sammi as she’s mad at best buds Snooki and J-Woww for letting her know that her boyfriend, Ronnie, is a cheater. That’s all I can be bothered to recount from that story. Oh - and one more detail in the story before I forget. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, who will probably make $5 million dollars this year, owns a Bentley and is about to have a stint on Dancing With The Stars, thinks he’ll have a career as a movie star. He says “In another couple of years, I’ll graduate into TV and scripted, which we’re talking about now. Feature roles in films.” Good luck with that. The best part of this story was an inset diagram from US showing who has slept with whom on the show. I’ve recreated it above, with full credit to US Weekly for this excellent concept. Angelina had sex with three out of four of the guys! She slept with Pauly, The Situation, and Vinny. Both Pauly and Vinny had sex with two out of the four, Angelina being one of them, and Ronnie and Sammi only had sex with each other. Just check out the photo below and enlarge it for the full effect. US even included makeout lines, with The Situation making out with a couple more girls and J-Woww and Snooki making out with each other. Add in the random chicks and guys these fools pick up at bars and I’m sure Chelsea Handler was right when she quipped that they’ve got herpes. There’s probably a lot of other things going around that house too. Snooki kisses and tells too. She says that having sex with Vinny was like “putting a watermelon in a pinhole” and that he should get a career in porn. That’s not what that hole is usually for, Snooki.

Elle Mag digitally lightened Gabourey Sidibe’s skin on the October cover Posted: 16 Sep 2010 07:50 AM PDT Last week, we had a minor preview of Elle Magazine's October issue - Elle is celebrating their 25th anniversary, and they chose to do four different newstand covers, in addition to a lovely pictorial of the 25 hottest celebrities around the age of 25. Megan Fox seemed like the most gossip-worthy of those chosen, but other celebrities like Amanda Seyfried and Lauren Conrad and Meghan McCain were also chosen for pictorials, amongst others. Gabourey Sidibe was chosen for one of the four covers - and the above image is the cover. They dramatically lightened her skin. Sigh… Jesus, Elle. The magazine even released a statement about the controversy, basically saying that everyone gets retouched, so whatever. The 27-year-old is one of four celebrities to appear on four separate covers for its 25th anniversary issue. In the image Sidibe's skin appears to be several shades lighter than her normal colour. The magazine said the four celebrities – Sidibé, actresses Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, and Lauren Conrad, the reality star – were chosen as examples of young women who were "changing the world". ELLE has also been criticised because each of the other three cover girls are shown in full length photographs while Sidibe's image is cropped at chest level. In a statement the magazine said that "nothing out of the ordinary" had been done to the photograph. "We have four separate covers this month and Gabby’s cover was not retouched any more or less than the others" it read. "We had 25 cover-worthy subjects in our portfolio and we chose Gabby because of who she is. We shot this as a story of exuberant young women changing the world. If you take a look at the portfolio, each of the women were shot in different ways and for different reasons.” It is not the first time there has been a row over the use of skin lightening of celebrities on magazine covers or advertisements. In 2008 beauty giant L’Oréal was accused of ‘whitewashing’ the complexion of Beyoncé Knowles in an advertisement for a haircare product. Sidibé shot to fame after her appearance as Claireece Jones, a 16-year-old who is abused by her mother, and pregnant with her father’s child in the film Precious. [From The Telegraph] The criticism about the cover started almost immediately - a Salon columnist seemed to take note of Sidibe's "token" status on Elle's list, both as an African-American woman, and as an overweight woman. Others are simply complaining about the skin-lightening thing, which honestly, I find more offensive. The whole "Sidibe is on the cover of magazine, shock" thing is overblown, as is the breast-beating that she didn't get enough press this past awards season. However, when editors start lightening black actresses or models skin to make a point about "beauty" and "style" - we're treading in very dangerous waters. Elle photos courtesy of Elle online, additional photos of Sidibe courtesy of WENN. Thanks to CB for the side-by-sides!

Jon Stewart meets Jon Hamm, homoerotic destiny fulfilled Posted: 16 Sep 2010 06:55 AM PDT Last night, Jon Hamm was the guest on The Daily Show. It. Was. Porn. It was delicious. The Jons are fabulous. Even Jon Stewart succumbed to The Hamm's magnificence, suggesting that The Hamm was Stewart's own personal "Freebie One". Honestly, I wish Jon Stewart had gushed a little bit more over The Hamm, but The Hamm was a lovely interview, and there is an excellent Mad Men joke in there - something about Don Draper in 1984, working for Ronald Reagan. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Jon Hamm www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party The Hamm was also on the Today Show, making Meredith Vieira moist. Too much? It's WAY too early for The Hamm. I need to prepare myself for his raspy goodness, as does Meredith: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Ha! The Hamm says Brian Williams is in love with him. Probably true. I bet there a lot of straight guys out there who are obsessed with The Hamm/The Draper. Also: Don't you love how Meredith is all "Blah, blah The Town, blah" and then she gets all excited for Mad Men. That's the power of Don Draper, right there. Honestly, I'm totally proud of Meredith for containing herself throughout the interview. About one minute in I would have begun quietly humping his leg. Too much? Whatever.

Jessica Simpson slims down dramatically: diet, exercise or Spanx? Posted: 16 Sep 2010 06:32 AM PDT Goodness, Jessica Simpson certainly looks dramatically slimmer, doesn't she? She’s still in New York, only this appearance yesterday wasn’t making people gasp at how bloated she looked. I'm always amazed at Jessica's ability to lose weight so quickly. She really does - I don't know if it's because she's so petite already and there really isn't that much weight to lose, or whether she just has the kind of metabolism and workout ethic where the weight comes pouring off quickly. Or maybe it's just three pairs of Spanx worn together? Anyway, these are new photos of Jessica promoting her clothing line at Macy's yesterday. Her boyfriend was in attendance… because what else does he have to do? Jessica Simpson squeezed into a little black dress Wednesday to launch her new Jessica Simpson Collection at Macy’s in NYC. During the two-hour store appearance, she signed autographs and greeted fans, whom she had earlier invited (via Twitter) to wear articles from her denim, shoes or accessories line. (She later posted shots of them on Twitter, writing: “Everyone looks amazing in their denim! I’m so proud.”) Simpson, 30, was pleased with the turn-out. “What a great night!!!” she gushed on Twitter. “Thanks to everyone for coming out and supporting the line.” After the launch, she treated her boyfriend Eric Johnson to dinner to celebrate his 31st birthday. They were spotted at Lavo, where Us Weekly held its annual 25th Most Stylish New Yorkers bash earlier in the evening. “It’s Eric’s birthday!!!!” Simpson Twittered earlier in the day. “Party in NYC!!!!!” [From Us Weekly] Below are photos of Jessica and Eric out in NYC yesterday - their body language is strange. She's walking slightly ahead of him, and yet he's kind of leading her, like she's too stupid to walk by herself. They walk this way all the time - it's their way. It's also reminiscent of the way Tom Cruise leads Katie Holmes when Katie is all loopy on Xenu's Love (Valium?). They're so weird. I bet Jessica is pregnant by the end of the year. Jessica Simpson on Sept. 15, 2010. Credit: Fame.

LeAnn Rimes continues to be completely inappropriate with Eddie’s kids Posted: 16 Sep 2010 06:12 AM PDT As many of you mentioned in yesterday's LeAnn Rimes thread, there was some recent drama between LeAnn and Eddie Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville. Generally speaking, I do think Brandi should lighten up on LeAnn and Eddie, and not try so actively to destroy them and interject herself. However, I do still see Brandi's point about a lot of things - those are her children that LeAnn is trying to take as her own, and also to be fair to Brandi, LeAnn is a delusional fruitcake, and I wouldn't want her around my kids (if I had kids - I wouldn't want LeAnn around my dog, let me put it that way). So, the basic story is this: On Saturday, LeAnn rushed 7-year-old Mason to the emergency room over a "chin-splitting incident". It sounds like the kid needed a few stitches, but it was nothing life-threatening. Still, you'd think LeAnn would call Mason's mother, right? Nope. Instead, LeAnn alerted her Twitter followers that she was at the ER, but didn't call or text Brandi whatsoever. JESUS. Everyone loves a catfight. But clearly no one more so than Eddie Cibrian’s former and current loves, Brandi Glanville and LeAnn Rimes, both of whom apparently refuse to play nice. The latest round of sniping comes after a weekend incident involving Cibrian and Glanville’s two sons. We’ll let LeAnn explain: “Flew home for 5 hrs to see Eddie & the lil one’s and ended up in the ER!” Rimes tweeted on Saturday. “Everybody’s fine, just a minor kiddo accident. Boys will be boys!” And mothers will be mothers—which means they don’t want to be the last ones to hear about their kids’ forays into the emergency room, which is how Glanville says she came to find out about 7-year-old Mason’s injury. “All I know is I didn’t get a phone call,” Glanville told E! News. “Poor choice. Bad parenting.” As for how the chin-splitting injury occurred, the concerned mom said, “I don’t know how exactly it happened, but Mason told me LeAnn had oil on her hardwood floors and he fell. Eddie didn’t bother to call me and I showed up to Mason’s soccer game that day only to get a text from Eddie afterwards saying Mason wouldn’t be playing since he was in the ER all morning.” The blame for that, according to Glanville, is Rimes. “I’m disappointed in their decision. I’m the mother of these two boys and if we’re going to coparent, we have to do that together. It’s not call me after.” And while Glanville previously told E! News she was becoming increasingly concerned about her children’s safety at Casa Rimes, she admits that may have been a bit of an overblown reaction. “[The boys] are not in danger,” she said. “The only thing that’s in danger is our coparenting relationship if [LeAnn] keeps involving herself and doesn’t allow [Eddie] to call me.” Incidentally, this isn’t the first time one of the children has contracted a boo-boo under LeAnn’s care: youngest son, 3-year-old Jake, also sustained an injury while playing on the singer’s tour bus. “The last time they had the boys, Jake ended up getting seven stitches,” she said. “I had to call in a plastic surgeon to stitch up Jake’s forehead.” We’re guessing the phrase “boys will be boys” was no more consoling the first time around, either. For her part, Rimes’ rep told E! News that the most recent accident was nothing more than “a minor slip” and that “Eddie and LeAnn were with him the whole time, and he is all smiles now.” Which is more or less what she tweeted immediately after the incident. “Nothing that a little skin glue and a few kisses won’t fix! He’s all good!” she wrote, later adding, just for good measure, “Everyone is great now, thx!” Everyone except Glanville, whom Rimes perhaps suspected would not be pleased about the seemingly harmless accident. She spent the next two days both defending herself against followers who seemed to take issue with her newfound surrogate parenting and her relationship with Brandi. “To be really honest, it’s not her place to tell me how to be,” Rimes wrote. “I respect her as their mom, but she has to understand they’re in my life. I can talk about my life just like she can take about her’s. Just so you know, she has never spoken to me. This IS my life too and they are in it 50% of the time…I’ve stepped into a very tough, but rewarding role…I treat those boys like they are my own because that’s how I love.” And, from the sounds of it, she plans to go on doing more of the same for awhile to come. “Not an easy situation,” she went on, “but I know there are many women out there who are experiencing some if the same challenges as me. I have hope for a peaceful future.” [From E! News] Okay, don't you really feel badly for Brandi now? She has to deal with LeAnn's delusions full time now - and LeAnn just needs to stop. It's one thing to be in the step-mother role and have the kids get hurt - that sucks, but kids are kids and they will get hurt. But when you're in the emergency room, for Christ's sake, CALL THEIR MOTHER. This is ridiculous. No more of this "It’s not her place to tell me how to be. I respect her as their mom, but she has to understand they’re in my life." NO, LEANN, you have to understand that Brandi is their mother and that it's not about YOU and your hyper-narcissism.

Michelle Duggar to her family: “someone’s expecting!” Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:52 AM PDT Everyone’s favorite delusional creationist baby-maker, Michelle Duggar, punked her family on a recent episode of their delightful reality show. She brought all her kids into the room to announce that “someone’s expecting” with a wicked little twinkle in her eye. Michelle didn’t announce that she was pregnant again with her 20th kid as they were anticipating and broke the news that the wife of a guy who works on their show was going to have her first baby. I’m sure she added “amateur” under her breath. Radar Online has the news along with a video segment: Michelle Duggar made a bombshell announcement on the latest episode of her show, stunning all 19 of her children as they were gathered together. "Someone's expecting!" Michelle revealed to the family. The news that Michelle is pregnant with her 20th child would be a surprise to the family, but not something unexpected. She has spoken out on recent episodes of wanting to have another child if "it is God's plan." "But it's not us," she revealed with a big laugh to the family that was quietly standing around her! Michelle announced that Jon Boyle, a production assistant, and his wife were expecting their first child. The family all clapped and cheered, maybe a little relieved that Michelle and Jim Bob weren't having their 20th child yet. "I think my family was looking at me like, Mom?" Michelle laughed. She was tickled to tell the news to her family and said "we get thrilled to find out that anyone is expecting, just because we know how special that is." The episode also showed that the 19th and tiniest Duggar, Josie, is doing a really well after her return home from her long hospitalization and the older sisters are taking care of her. Josie is off of her oxygen for two hours a day and Michelle says "she's doing so good. She's happy not to have that in her nose." Michelle also said that the littlest little hardly ever cries. [From Radar Online] You know Michelle would never make the announcement of her pregnancy just on her own show anyway. She announced her last two pregnancies on the Today Show, and she didn’t even tell her kids ahead of time when she was pregnant with her 18th baby, preferring to let them know live on air (announcement is at 2:30) so we could see their shocked faces. Michelle thought it was funny to punk her kids into thinking she was pregnant again. She’s probably incredibly disappointed that she’s not pregnant considering that it’s been a whole nine months since she had the last one. Given all those poor kids go through caring for their siblings, especially the last one who was born prematurely and almost died, it seems particularly cruel both to joke around that she’s pregnant again and to even consider having more. Michelle is going to keep having as many as “God” “wants” her to even if it kills her, preferring to ignore the fact that she’s burdening her children with adult responsibilities.

Top Chef finale: we have a winner! (Spoilers) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:45 AM PDT ***This whole post is a SPOILER for last night's Top Chef finale, as well as previous episodes of Top Chef. I like to pretend that I don't watch Top Chef. Like watching it is beneath me, somehow. I don't know - I'm weird like that about some shows. But this was the first season that I actually made an effort to watch, and I caught maybe two-thirds of the season. I think I started watching because I loved Tiffany so much - she was the rare "top chef" candidate that seemed to be able to cook her ass off while simultaneously being really cool and generally nice (but able to whip her bitch out for the appropriate occasions). Alas, Tiffany was eliminated two weeks ago, and I just wasn't very excited about the four finalists that got to move on to the final elimination rounds in Singapore. The four finalists were: Ed Cotton, Angelo Sosa, Kevin Sbraga and Kelly. In their first days in Singapore, they had two challenges (this was last week's episode) - make Asian food using traditional ingredients found at the Singapore markets. Ed won both challenges, and Kelly was eliminated last week. Honestly, I thought she deserved to go weeks beforehand - and her spot would have been better used by Tiffany, seriously. So, the actual final episode picked up right after Kelly had been eliminated. Going into it, I guess I was rooting for Ed by default, just because the sweaty, chubby white guy with the bitchy mouth was more appealing to me than Angelo's passive-aggressive bitch or Kevin's misanthropic ways. Padma ordered the men back to the judge's circle, where they were told their challenge: they each had to make a four-course meal - one vegetable course, one fish course, one meat course and one dessert. And they would get their own sous chefs too - former Top Chef winners Ilan Hall, Hung Huynh and Michael Voltaggio. I always thought that Michael Voltaggio was a major douche, but I really liked seeing him work as Kevin's sous chef - and Michael really brought it, and helped Kevin out and they worked really well as a team. And I had always liked Ilan, but he totally sucked as Ed's sous chef - it seemed like Ilan spent most of his time second-guessing Ed. But the award has to go to Hung Huynh, because he pretty much thought up, prepared and cooked Angelo's entire meal while Angelo lounged around in bed, being "sick". Granted, Angelo really could have been ill, and there was some talk of throwing up and migraines and dehydration. But he didn't really look sick, and he didn't really sound sick, and the whole thing was just kind of weird, right? At the end of the day, you knew Ed wasn't going to win because his dessert sucked ass and even he had a sh-tty attitude about it. I think if Ed had really put some time and effort into his dessert rather than sub-contracting to Ilan, Ed would have been a contender (although his duck necks sounded weird, right?). And while the judges seemed to like Angelo's food (Hung's food), but you got the feeling that Angelo was out of the running pretty quickly too. And that left Kevin standing - plus, I think the judges were impressed that he had the balls to make a Singapore Sling. So Kevin became the first African-American to win Top Chef, and the glum-bot even showed some emotion, which was nice - his reaction to winning ("I am?" he asked, stunned, when told he was the Top Chef). Hurray? What did you think? I think the judges were only looking at the four-course meal, and not at the whole scope of the season. For which it seems like Kevin should have won, I guess. Whatever. Poor Ed. At least Angelo was very gracious in defeat, right?

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