| AnnaLynne McCord goes dark brown, attaches herself to Gerard Butler Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:31 AM PDT 
Excuse me for a moment. BITCH, GET OFF OF HIM. Sorry about that. These are new photos of Gerard Butler and AnnaLynne McCord at last night's benefit event for Artists for Peace and Justice. Gerard has been very active in this charity, which funds rebuilding and humanitarian projects in Haiti (and beyond, I believe). Gerry has even traveled to Haiti with the charity (and likely to bone some hot Haitian women). I don't know what AnnaLynne's druggy face means to the charity, but considering how much face-time she got with Gerard on the press line, I suspect she was there officially, like she was one of the co-sponsors or something. The big news is that AnnaLynne looks almost unrecognizable because she dramatically darkened her hair. Previously, she was working a blonde-caramel color which… I actually preferred. This shade is just too dark, and it accentuates her negative features (druggy face). 
So, what's the deal between Gerard and AnnaLynne? Why are they so chummy and handsy? Well, you know The Butler has a type, right? Leggy brunettes, the darker the better. Some part of me thinks AnnaLynne's newly dark hair is a "bone me" signal to Gerard. Would he hit it? God, I hope not. That ass was with Kellan Lutz, for the love of God. KELLAN LUTZ. But Gerard's probably up for it. He's probably been boning Jessica Biel and Ashley Greene, and now he's hitting up AnnaLynne with his moves - his moves being "getting the girl liquored up, rubbing her ass and then crooking his finger at the end of the night." He's so terrible. I love him. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Another Duggar was born. Soon they will rule the planet. Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:08 AM PDT 
No, the Duggar mom with the storybook hair didn’t have yet another kid. She’s not going to make it an even twenty this year. Her daughter-in-law, Anna, had her second baby with the oldest Duggar boy, Josh, 23, a little boy whose name stars with M. (In honor of Josh’s mom, Michelle, and in keeping with his older sister MacKynzie, 20 months.) They’re not releasing the baby’s name yet because there’s basically no plot for their TLC reality show and they need to add some mystery to it. (Sources tell Crushable the family’s Facebook page says his name is Michael James anyway. [via Dlisted]) So if all the Duggar kids have 2-3 kids (let’s make it 2.5) and don’t have the large families they all swear they want, Michelle and Jim-Bob will still have 47 or 48 grandkids. And if those kids have 2.5 kids each, that’s 119 great grandchildren and so on. These people know what they’re doing. Their permagrins and homeschooled creationist belief system are going to inevitably spread out enough to populate a small town.
The Duggar family just got even bigger – it’s a boy for Josh and Anna! Josh, 23 – the eldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar – and his wife welcomed a new addition on Wednesday, four days earlier than expected, a source confirms to PEOPLE. The couple are not ready to release the name publicly yet, but they are staying with the “M” theme. Weighing in at 8 lbs., 5 oz., he joins big sister MacKynzie, 20 months. And he’ll have plenty of doting relatives with 18 aunts and uncles – Jim Bob and Michelle’s children – whose lives are documented on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting. Anna, 22, gave birth at 5:55 p.m. in the family’s Tontitown, Ark., home, the same place MacKynzie was born. The newborn will also have a very special playmate: Michelle’s youngest, Josie, who was born very premature, is now a healthy 17-month-old. “I think of Josie being born at only 25 weeks,” Josh told PEOPLE prior to the birth, “and it makes us think about how precious life is and what a blessing each child is.” For more on the latest Duggar addition, tune-in to 19 Kids: First Grandson this Sunday at 8/7c on TLC.
[From People] Well congratulations to them. They’re nice enough people that’s for sure. As far as birth control goes, the new father has said to the press “We have no control over that. God has the control.” It’s unclear what role free will plays in that. There was some drama on the latest episode of 19 Kids and Counting when the littlest original Duggar, Josie, now 17 months, had a fever and a seizure back home in Arkansas while her parents Jim-Bob and Michelle were in El Salvador doing missionary work. Josie was being cared for by one of the teen Duggar girls, who called her parents and the local hospital, where the baby was admitted. It sounds like everything worked out fine, but it must have been so scary for all of them. 
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| Gwyneth Paltrow, lobster-faced in J. Mendel: awful, unflattering or…? Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:58 AM PDT 
I was going to wait to cover these new photos of Gwyneth Paltrow until I had gotten a chance to look at this week's GOOP-letter, but whatever. These are photos of Gwyneth attending the "Bent of Learning" benefit last night. Something about Zen and yoga, I think. Her dress is J. Mendel, and good God is it fug and unflattering. This is something I have never understood about Gwyneth: she works out for HOURS every day and neurotically obsesses over her diet, so why does she consistently choose styles that don't flatter her figure? This dress ADDS weight on her slender frame. Perhaps she's trying to look "fat" so that she can appeal to chunky peasants? Now let's talk about her face. LOBSTER GOOP. That's what it is. In Gwyneth's mind, she resembles an exquisite pink diamond (not like the tacky one Ben Affleck gave J. Lo, Goop sniffs), but in truth, the bitch just needs to remember her sunscreen. 
Ahhh, she just released her Goop. It's about Father's Day, because Gwyneth will absolutely exhaust you with tales about her late father, and barely mention that she was also raised by a mother who adored her and enabled her as well. Poor Blythe Danner. Gwyneth probably tells Blythe that she's fat too. Or maybe Goop is still pissed that her mom is descended from peasants. Anyway, you can read this week's Goop here - it's an interview with her very dear friend, the editor in chief of Bon Appetit. She also shills for her cookbook. 
Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.
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| Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux move in together, wear matching rings Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:57 AM PDT 
All of Jennifer Aniston’s past words to kind of clumsily explain her ex husband’s infidelity are coming back to her - “uncool,” “lacking a sensitivity chip,” “pity party,” I think I covered the most popular ones. We’ve heard recently that Aniston’s latest boyfriend, her upcoming costar Justin Theroux, had a longterm girlfriend and that she just moved out of the house they shared last weekend. This wasn’t just a rumor, either, the ex girlfriend’s rep confirmed it, and her mother told the press a few weeks ago that it wasn’t true that Aniston and Theroux were more than friends. So these two moved fast, they did it under the nose of Theroux’s girlfriend of 14 years, and they’re going full throttle to the press. Hence these latest photos of Aniston and Theroux wearing matching gold watches - and matching chunky gold rings on their left ring fingers. (We don’t have access to those pictures, but you can see them here, on Radar. Update! Oh snap, Radar took those photos down, but they do have a new glowing piece on Theroux’s career.) It could be a cheeky nod to the press that they’re together, but it does come off as insensitive, for lack of a better word, to Theroux’s very recent and blindsided ex.
US Weekly has a whole piece on Aniston and Theroux’s romance, and it reads suspiciously like a publicist-planted story. It’s hard to tell, though, because US hasn’t been kind to Aniston in the past and they basically admit that Aniston and Theroux were cheating together, although they downplay it. It could be an attempt to revamp her image as the wronged woman, I have no idea. It’s not like she’s been making smart PR moves lately. After a brief on-set fling last fall, they reconnected in March. And now? “He’s living at her place in L.A.!” says an insider. “And she’s introducing him as her boyfriend…” But an Aniston source says friends - including pal Courteney Cox - have no worries about the speedy romance: “They like him, and they like seeing her happy.” Aniston had her eye on Theroux as soon as she met him in September on the set of Wanderlust in Georgia… She was taken by his sense of humor, says a pal, adding “He’s sweet and funny and so easy to be with.” One thing she ignore? His live-in girlfriend, costume designer Heidi Bivens, 35. “Jen went after him,” a Theroux source says, adding that she set the scene for seduction at her rented lakeside home, hosting intimate parties for the cast. “They drink and play games, and they started hooking up.” However, nervous that word would get out - or perhaps that comparisons to Angelina Jolie would be made - they soon cooled things off. But by March, after Theroux finally split with Bivens, they reconnected in L.A…. And the whirlwind continues: Conveniently, Aniston just bought not one but two NYC apartments near Theroux’s (she’s combining a $5.9 million pad with an $1.8 million one), and a pal says he’s mulling a stay in L.A. through summer, telling Us, “He really likes Jennifer. He’s like a new man.” As for Aniston? “She’s very hopeful,” says a source. “She’s excited for a fun summer.”
[From US Weekly, print edition, June 27, 2011] This reads like a PR piece, doesn’t it? Theroux and his girlfriend broke up in March, according to this account, even though the girlfriend’s rep kind-of said that it wasn’t over until last weekend. (It’s hard to tell as their statement is vague, but that’s heavily implied.) It’s all about how much fun they’re having and how happy they are together. They admit that Aniston was cheating, but that’s downplayed and supposedly they didn’t get serious until Theroux broke it off “in March,” but his girlfriend stayed at the house they shared for three more months anyway. Aniston just hooked a guy who is more than happy to trade up to a movie star, but who didn’t cut his longterm girlfriend loose until he was absolutely sure that he had another warm bed to roll into. Douches like that are a dime a dozen, but not to Jen. She needed someone to help her promote her latest films and this guy fit the bill. I’m sure her people convinced her to play it for all it was worth. Rather than explore this mess any further, I think I’ll back up a little and impart some wisdom that someone told me ages ago about dating people you work with. I think it also applies to Hollywood. “You don’t sh*t where you eat.” With this latest romance, Aniston just got a toilet installed in her kitchen yet she keeps whipping up boxed mac and cheese and expecting the public to eat it. In the photo above Theroux is shown on 4/26/10. Aniston is shown on 5/5/11. Credit: WENN. In the photo below Theroux is shown on 6/4/11. Credit: Fame 
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| Prince Harry is probably going back to Afghanistan later this year Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:25 AM PDT 
Oooooooh NOOOO! Prince Harry is probably going back to Afghanistan! Good for him, true, because I get the feeling that Harry desperately wants to serve his country yet again. Harry memorably served several months in Afghanistan in 2007-2008, but was yanked out in March 2008 after British and American tabloids leaked it. Harry had been undercover before then. So… I'm not sure why we're hearing about this now, but I do know that I admire him a great deal for wanting to go back. Prince Harry will be granted his wish to return to Afghanistan as an Apache attack helicopter pilot after completing his training next year. The Prince, who was hastily withdrawn from a tour of Helmand in 2008 after his position was compromised by foreign media reports, has often expressed the desire to return to the front line. Now he is set to be granted another tour when his squadron is deployed to Afghanistan next year, by which time he should have completed his Apache pilot training. Clarence House said the Prince would complete his training next year and would then be available for deployment wherever Apaches were needed – including Afghanistan. It is understood that his squadron is being lined up for a return to Afghanistan next year, most likely in late summer. Rather than serving as a front line junior officer with the Household Cavalry, as he did on his previous tour, Prince Harry will fly a £40 million AH-64 attack helicopter in operations against insurgents. The Prince gained his wings earlier this year and he has been told by flying instructors he has a “natural flair” for flying. He is currently undergoing an eight-month “conversion to role” course to teach him to use the Apache’s weapons in battle. Training a pilot to fly the state-of-the-art helicopters costs £1 million, and only the top one in every 50 pilots is cleared to fly them. Apaches are two-man helicopters designed to hunt and destroy tanks using their array of weapons, which include rockets and Hellfire missiles. They are worth £35 million each. The Queen, Prince Charles and Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry’s on-off girlfriend, are said to be anxious about his redeployment, but he is determined to fulfil his duty as a serving officer. But the Prince has frequently expressed his desire to rejoin his comrades in active service. In a television interview last year he said he had a “real determination” to return to Afghanistan, adding that his “heart was in the Army”. Earlier this year he reiterated his wish while on a charity mission to the North Pole in aid of wounded servicemen. When asked if he still wanted to return to active service, the Prince said: “I severely hope so, and from the military’s point of view I seriously hope so. You know money’s been spent towards your training – God knows how much money’s been spent on us. So from their point of view if I’m not going then I’m taking up someone else’s space.” A source close to the Prince added in April: “Nothing has changed since he expressed those views … he is fully aware that he is different to his brother but he would still like to do his duty. He is passionate about his military service and unless he publicly comes out and says otherwise, his ambition will remain to serve in Afghanistan.” A Clarence House spokesman said: "It has always been the prince's intention to serve operationally wherever the MoD request of him." A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: “We do not comment on the deployment of individual service personnel.”
[From The Telegraph] So if he goes, it will be later this year, and right now it's looking like he'll be going with his unit. This is the kind of situation where he could pretty easily pull rank and ask for special treatment as a prince, but I doubt he will. But here's a question: do you like the idea of Haz flying a $70 million piece of equipment? 
Photos of Harry's 2008 deployment, courtesy of WENN. Additional pics by Fame.
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| Christina Aguilera is a drunken, delusional, lie-filled monster in W Mag Posted: 16 Jun 2011 06:21 AM PDT 
I did a preview of Christina Aguilera's W Magazine cover and pictorial a few days ago, and now W Magazine has released the interview. It's five pages of drunken X-Tina genius. And by "genius" I mean "seriously, she's a raging alcoholic, and she tries to play everything like she's the biggest victim in the world." If you like denial, sketchiness and drag queen hot messes, I suggest you read the full piece. Here are lots of highlights (sorry I did so much, there was a lot of whining and denial!): Trauma and The Sound of Music: "I felt caged by my childhood. And unsafe: Bad things happened in my home; there was violence. The Sound of Music looked like a form of release. I would open my bedroom window to sing out like Maria. In my own way, I'd be in those hills. Sometimes… especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles… I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong." A summary of how Christina both mocked and copied Lady Gaga: While Aguilera once owned the little-girl-with-the-big-voice pop-star niche, with Bionic, she willfully entered the land of Lady Gaga. In the press, she pretended not to care or notice. "Oh, the newcomer?" Aguilera told reporters when asked about Gaga. "This person was just brought to my attention not too long ago. I'm not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don't know if it is a man or a woman." Despite her feeble claims to confusion over Gaga's gender and her uncharitable reluctance to give her credit, the video for "Not Myself Tonight," Bionic's first single, had eerily similar tableaux to Gaga's smash video "Bad Romance." Image for S&M image, they matched up. Old fans of Aguilera's weren't intrigued by her revamped identity, and new fans didn't materialize. As the album sputtered, her 20-city summer tour didn't sell and was canceled, at a cost of millions. There were rumors that her record company wanted to drop her. Things were not good. She claims her ex-husband Jordan Bratman screwed around too: "At one time or another," Aguilera told me, hinting at affairs on both sides, "we were both not angels. It got to a point where our life at home was reminding me of my own childhood. I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. That goes against everything I sing on my records. I have to be myself." Behind the scenes on Burlesque: By all accounts, Burlesque was a tumultuous set: Steve Antin, the first-time director, and Clint Culpepper, the head of the studio, were longtime boyfriends who clashed and almost broke up over the movie. Their fights were loud, constant, and often physical. During one skirmish, Culpepper reportedly poured an iced tea over Antin's head. "There was a lot of incestuous energy in that movie," Aguilera recalled. "And it was very hard to be in the center of all that. A lot was riding on the film, and I bore the brunt. I was like, 'Hey, stop fighting—this is my career.'" On the failure of Burlesque: "I was sad, but I'm still glad that I did the movie," she said. "During production, I was going through a lot of self-discovery. As a quote-unquote pop star, you have your entourage with you at all times. When you enter and leave a place, backstage, even at home—you always have your team. On the movie set, I didn't have anyone around me. And it felt good. When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me. After the movie, I grew out of being that little girl: I became more of an adult." Plus, she met Matt Rutler on the set: "I could depend on him for everything. Matt was working on the movie, and he was so supportive. And he still is. We've been through a lot in the past year." Flubbing the National Anthem: "Everything on the field at the Super Bowl was vividly bright, and I was having a moment," Aguilera recalled. "I got lost in the emotion of being there and I messed up the lyrics to the song." Instead of singing, "O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming," she belted out, "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming." Her improvised line made instant headlines. "I knew the press would glom onto it," she said. "I went to dinner after the Super Bowl with Matt and I laughed about how I'd made myself into a Trivial Pursuit question: 'In 2011 what female singer flubbed the lyrics to the national anthem?'" About that story about passing out in Jeremy Renner's bed: The weirdness was compounded by a bizarre incident that had happened a few weeks earlier, when Rutler and Aguilera attended a birthday party at actor Jeremy Renner's house. "Matt was the one who was invited—I went as his girlfriend," Aguilera recalled. "It was an open party, and everyone was spread out all over the house. At one point I sat on the edge of a bed. It was a guest room. But it only takes one person to start the negativity, and then everyone wants to hop aboard and continue the story." The story, according to Renner, was that Aguilera climbed into his bed. He insinuated that she was intoxicated or cuckoo or both. Falling down drunk at the Grammys, people saying she's a mess: "I know what everyone was saying. And during that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage. My heel got caught in my train, and if it wasn't for Jennifer Hudson, who picked me up as I went down, I would have fallen to the floor." Aguilera paused. "When it happened," she continued, "it was just like, What else, God?! What else?! I threw my hands up in the air and started smiling, because what else could go wrong?" On The Voice versus American Idol: "I've never watched an entire episode of American Idol," Aguilera said, explaining her initial resistance to The Voice. "It's too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don't want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on The Voice that if you really want this, you'll be kicked when you're down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it." As an ambitious nine-year-old, Aguilera competed on Star Search, performing "Sunday Kind of Love." She lost in the semifinals. "Do we even remember who I lost to?" she joked. "At that age, I always sang songs meant for older people. That fit my personality—I had pain to sing about. If there had been a show like The Voice, I would have gone on it. It would have been amazing to be coached by a mentor." Matthew Rutler's arrest for DUI (which was later dropped) and the reports that Christina was hammered too: "It never should have happened in the first place," Aguilera told me. "The police knew my recent history and wanted to jump on the bandwagon. I don't mean to martyr myself, but I think I was a victim of celebrity. I don't drive, I wasn't driving, and I committed no crimes, but they put me in jail. They called me a 'political hot potato.' They said, 'What are we going to do with this woman?' I think they were bored that night." In the end: "I really admire all the greats," Aguilera said. "They've had their ups and downs during their careers. And I would never go down without a fight. I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits."
[From W Magazine] Basically, nothing is ever Christina's fault and every bad story you ever hear about her was made up out of thin air. If you see her drunkenly flub a line during the National Anthem, or you see her drunkenly bust her ass at the Grammys, you should just ignore it because it didn't happen and you're a horrible person for bringing it up, but now that you've brought it up, Christina would like you to know that ALL OF IT has made her STRONGER. Look, I know some of you love her voice, and yeah, she has pipes. But those pipes are attached to a crazy, narcissistic monster who surrounds herself with enablers, sycophants and yes-men. She's not a victim. Stop treating her like one. 
Photos courtesy of W Magazine/The Mail.
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| Pink & Carey Hart step out with baby Willow, Pink says she “misses the whiskey” Posted: 16 Jun 2011 06:14 AM PDT 
Pink and Carey Hart have stepped out with their newborn baby Willow several times already, but this is the first time we've had post-partum photos of Pink. You can't even make out baby Willow - I guess she's in the carrier strapped to her dad. Look at how big Pink's boobs are! Ah, breast-feeding. Anyway, Pink was tweeting (literally, I first typed "teating") about what her life is like as a new mom: It's been just over two weeks since Pink and husband Carey Hart welcomed a baby girl, Willow Sage, into their family — and they're already finding the humor in the less-than-glamorous aspects of parenthood. "My life was once whiskey, tears, and cigarettes … now it's snot, tears, and the color of poop. #bliss," the singer, 31, Tweeted Tuesday. The new mom is yet to lose her edge, however — she later added, "I do miss the whiskey though." On a mushier note, proud papa Hart, 35, shared his own thoughts via Twitter. "My wife Pink owns my heart," he wrote days after Willow's birth. "And she just gave me my best achievement of my life … Medals and flips got nothing on her."
[From People] There's probably a joke in there somewhere about Willow getting White Russians straight from the tap, but I won't go there, mostly because I love White Russians but I can't drink them anymore because all of that lactose makes me sick! Sigh… lucky drunk baby. NO! Pink would never. But seriously, I'm really, genuinely happy for Pink and Carey and Willow. I think it's cool that Pink fronts like she's so hardcore and tough (and she is, really), but underneath it all, she's just a big softie. 
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| Brad Pitt looks really hot again in Malta & other gerbil conspiracies Posted: 16 Jun 2011 06:14 AM PDT 
Here are some new photos of Brad Pitt in Malta yesterday, where he will be filming World War Z shortly. Most people are saying that he's scouting locations for the film. Sure. I will say this - Brad looks hot. I thought he looked hot when he was shooting that mob movie in NOLA, but now that his bob is grown out and he looks clean and de-greased… well, he's really, really hot. According to Us Weekly, the Jolie-Pitts are due to spend a month in Malta, and they've rented an $11 million mansion in Qrendi, Malta, which is "just five minutes from the ocean." On Tuesday night, Angelina and Brad went out to dinner with some people from the film: Explains a local insider: “It’s a lunchtime restaurant, so it was opened especially for them. Brad wanted a dinner for some of the people working on the film. It was an intimate setting.” As ever, Pitt was “a gentleman” with his love of six years. “He held the door, and pulled out her seat,” the insider says, adding that the sat next to each other. On the menu for the feast? Antipasto of parma ham, salami, Maltese sausage and maltese goat cheese, mussels, pasta with clams, sea urchins and (more!) Maltese sausage, veal with parma ham and sage, plus king prawns and fried calamari. “They looked relaxed and enjoyed the evening,” the source says. Toward the end of the meal, they were joined by Franco Debono, a local politician, for a quick chat. “I love Malta!” Pitt raved to Debono. “Glad to be here.” Adds a second onlooker of the couple: “They are very nice people, very quiet, they were relaxed and enjoyed their evening.”
[From Us Weekly] You can see a photo from the dinner here - Brad looks toasty, Angelina looks tired. Yesterday, many sites got photos of Angelina and the kids on their way to a park as well - you can see those photos on Dlisted here. I love these photos because you get to see all of the kids, even little Knox and Vivienne. Knox is wearing a ladybug costume, and as he gets older, his hair is turning WAY more ginger. FOXY KNOXY!! Other Brangelina stories… Jezebel's Midweek Madness covered In Touch Weekly's story about what Brad and Angelina did for her recent 36th birthday: Brad took Angelina on a trip to the heartland to celebrate her birthday, “because he wants to do whatever it takes to capture what they once had.” They flew to his hometown, then donated $500,000 to tornado-stricken Joplin, MO. You know how she loves to give money away. Then Brad dumped the kids with his parents in Springfield, rented a $70,000 vintage convertible, made a mixtape to play — which included Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin hits from 1975, the year Angelina was born — and took her on a drive. He presented her with a bottle of fancy wine, also from 1975, and they stopped at a local motel for 2 hours, to fool around. After a dose of afternoon delight, they headed back to his parents’ house, where there was a surprise party. So completely awesome.
[From Jezebel] Star magazine also has a big Brangelina story on its cover this week. It's all about how Angelina's former bodyguard, Mickey Brett, is still trying to publish his "tell-all" book about her, even though he signed a confidentiality agreement. So Star's story is basically what Mickey "might" have written in his book. Let's see… in 2005, the Kenyan police raided Angelina's hotel room in search of drugs, and they held a gun to Angelina's head. Angelina and Brad had a "trial separation" just before Shiloh was born. In 2000, while married to Billy Bob, Angelina was in Cambodia filming Tomb Raider and she would go to bars and try to pick up ladies (hot!). She gave a drug-addicted ex-girlfriend money to get clean, but the ex just took the money and didn't got to rehab. And then there's the story about Aniston "confronting" Angelina, which I covered yesterday. Meh. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Blake Lively in Chanel for ‘The Green Lantern’ premiere: pretty or too bridal? Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:57 AM PDT 
I admire Blake Lively's transformation. She used to be a boring, pushy mall girl on a television show. Now she's the face of Chanel, dating Leonardo DiCaprio and the star of a red carpet for one of the big comic book franchise films. Of course, she still just looks like a mall girl in Chanel, but that's beside the point. The point? Blake is living the dream, methinks. And she knows it. 
These are photos from last night's LA premiere of The Green Lantern. Blake was pretty much the only high-profile celebrity woman there, so she got to make her big-impact fashion statement without worrying about someone drawing attention away. Blake wore Chanel Couture, of course. I actually don't hate it - Lagerfeld actually gave her a decent, pretty dress for a change, although the effect of the sheer skirt reminds me of a shower curtain. Also, it's rather bridal, which… I think might scare Leo off. Leonardo was not at the premiere (that I can see, although if you told me he met up with Blake at the post-premiere party, I wouldn't be surprised). But the premiere was a sausage party! Below are photos of Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman (and his wife), Mark Strong (and his wife) and Peter Sarsgard (who I think is so hot). 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Tobey Maguire for Prada: pensively hot or pissed off to be mugging for luxury goods? Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:50 AM PDT 
These are some photos of Tobey MaGuire for Prada menswear looking like he’s a convicted investment banker biding his time until his house arrest is over. He looks trapped and annoyed, and like he’s staring off into the distance, wishing for a career that has passed him by. We haven’t heard much about Tobey since Spiderman ended (and is subsequently being rebooted without him) but I never expected him to represent a luxury label - or any label for that matter. This is a guy who is notoriously careful with his money, who grew up being raised by relatives, and who has admitted that he’s budget-conscious. He doesn’t seem like he would actually buy Prada, nonetheless model for them. It’s a strange choice for Tobey, but it makes sense for Prada. Tobey is famous, he’s relatively elusive, and he’s A list. He just seems so listless in these ads.
Despite the fact that he basically fell off the cultural radar when the “Spider-Man” trilogy ended, and also considering he has never exactly been considered a heartthrob, Tobey Maguire is nevertheless the face of the new campaign for Prada’s menswear. Describing this unexpected, unconventional choice, Miuccia Prada is quoted in The Hollywood Reporter as saying: “his mood is transfixed and pensive, full of vibrant intensity and mystery.” Meanwhile, for his part, model Maguire is (also unexpectedly) a big fan of the Prada head: “Miuccia Prada has inspired a culture of creativity that is woven through every aspect of her company, from her collections, her campaigns, to every design detail in her stores,” the actor said in the THR story, adding: “I have such admiration for her artistry and I’m thrilled to be a part of Prada’s fall campaign.” We… really don’t know what to say. He looks pensive? Confused? Forlorn? Pallid? Going out on a limb here, but somehow we don’t see teen girls across the country ripping these ads out to paste on their walls.
[From OMG.yahoo.com] This is not the same guy who said that he was “very conservative with my money,” or that he would do fine without it. “If you stripped away everything I’ve got – the money, the fame, the possessions, everything – I know that I’d find a way to get along, because, basically, that’s what I’ve had to do all my life.” Guys who talk like that don’t drop thousands on designer outfits, but maybe they’re willing to wear them and pose for some pictures when their film careers have slowed considerably. Tobey has three movies coming out next year. This year, he had a film that premiered at Sundance and he was the voice in a video game. Before that he was in 2009’s Brothers. 
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