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Angelina Jolie is greeted warmly during her UNHCR trip to Turkey (video, photos)
Christina Hendricks covers up her assets: just hideous or simply tragic?
Bristol Palin lost her virginity while blackout drunk & on the pill
Ryan Gosling is a great dog-father to his puppy George
Cameron Diaz in an Akris jumpsuit: too formal or refreshingly appropriate?

Angelina Jolie is greeted warmly during her UNHCR trip to Turkey (video, photos)

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 08:01 AM PDT

As we talked about on Friday, Angelina Jolie arrived in Turkey and made her way to the Turkish-Syrian border, where thousands of Syrians have fled their country after a government crackdown. Jolie visited the makeshift refugee camps in the Hatay province on Turkey, meeting with hundreds of refugees, both adults and children. The UNHCR even put together this video of her trip - Jolie looks like hell, but she's on the job. I like how she interacts with the kids and with the young men who seem fascinated by her:

That's what she looks like without any under-eye cover up or powder. Very pretty, but shiny and like she has two black eyes. Get some rest, girl! Anyway, the UNHCR also has this summary of her trip:

HATAY PROVINCE, Turkey, June 17 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie travelled on Friday to Turkey’s border with Syria, meeting with many of the refugees who have fled their country in recent weeks.

The flight of civilians from north-west of Syria has picked up considerably in the last two weeks. There are now more than 9,600 people living in four camps managed by Turkey with the Turkish Red Crescent.

Accompanied by UNHCR staff and Turkish government officials, Jolie visited the Altinozu camp in Hatay province, 20 kilometres from the Syrian border. Some 1700 Syrians have found shelter there. “The people in this camp have fled in fear for their lives, and many told me they were distraught about the safety of loved ones still in Syria,” Jolie said.

She met with one woman who managed to leave Syria heavily pregnant, and has since given birth to her child in the camp. The mother told how her husband had been killed.

Another distraught woman told Jolie she was sick with worry about the fate of her husband still in Syria and unable to cross the border. “The woman claimed her husband was one of many, too afraid to cross,” Jolie added.

The American actress praised Turkey for welcoming the refugees, saying it was critical in these situations that people have access to safety. “I am really grateful for the open-door policy of Turkey in allowing these people to enter and the assurances that there will be no forced returns.”

When Jolie arrived, a mob of excited children chanted “look who is here” and “welcome, welcome” as they pushed forward to shake her hand. Many had slogans such as “freedom” painted on their foreheads.

“I appreciate the opportunity to visit this camp and talk to these families,” Jolie said. “It is a really complex situation and everyone needs to be doing all they can for the innocent families caught in the crossfire. I will be following this situation very closely and doing everything I can,” she added.

“The government of Turkey and the Turkish Red Crescent have shown tremendous generosity to the thousands fleeing Syria. The Red Crescent has set up camps really quickly and provided medical and other care. And UNHCR stands ready to assist if the situation starts to escalate.”

Ahead of Jolie’s mission, UNHCR received dozens of e-mail messages thanking her for her planned visit to the Turkish-Syrian border and her support for the displaced. The refugees living in Altinozu camp greeted her with enthusiastic chanting.

Meanwhile the Goodwill Ambassador highlighted the relevance of UNHCR’s new global campaign – dubbed “1 is too many” – to the unfolding crisis.

“In the campaign we highlighted the fact that one refugee without shelter is too many, and in this latest displacement crisis we are seeing thousands in need and there may be many more in Syria yet to receive help. These people deserve and need our help.” she said.

[From UNHCR]

It doesn't surprise me that Jolie was welcomed so warmly, nor that her visit is getting such wide coverage, not only in the West, but also in the Middle East. I spied coverage on Al Arabiya, the BBC and CNN, and it wouldn't surprise to me learn that Al Jazeera might also have had coverage. I think it's because Angelina has entered into a realm that's not purely humanitarian, but also geopolitical. Many think that Syria is due for an Egyptian-like revolution, and this government crackdown (and subsequent refugee crisis) might be a sign of larger things to come.

Photos courtesy of the UNHCR.

Christina Hendricks covers up her assets: just hideous or simply tragic?

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 07:57 AM PDT

A few weeks ago, I gave Christina Hendricks credit for finding two somewhat flattering outfits. The first was just a casual jeans-shirt-blazer combination that I thought suited her, and the second was a boob-tastic, strapless, corset dress in black. Many of you liked the booby dress, mostly because (in my opinion), if you click on a Christina Hendricks story, you expect to see her most publicized feature: BOOBS. I'm starting to wonder if Christina is happy with that situation. She seems to be trying to cover up a bit more often lately.

So, these are photos of Christina at the LA Film Festival premiere of Drive, the film that she did with Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan (Carey wasn't at the premiere, but Ryan was). I don't know who or what Christina is wearing. It's absolutely hideous. It must be hell to find a suit that fits her, so I applaud her effort on that part. But the high-necked, ruffled blouse - in that unflattering blush-pink - is just awful. It looks awful with the suit, it looks terrible on Christina, and it's all so bad that it's made me recall something that Jessica Simpson once said. You know it's bad when I'm citing Jessica as some kind of style expert, but she was right about this: women with big boobs (Jess, Christina, me) should not and cannot wear high-neck anything. No high-neck blouses, no turtlenecks, nothing like that. It makes you look top heavy and stubby. Which is exactly what's happening here to Christina - she's added unneeded weight on her top half, and she's covered up one (two?) of her best assets. Plus, that blouse is just fug. Here's another style tip for the big-breasted: NO RUFFLES. Jesus.

I dislike the hairstyle too, but at least she's growing out her bangs, I guess.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Bristol Palin lost her virginity while blackout drunk & on the pill

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 07:29 AM PDT

At this point, we can stop with the argument that Bristol Palin is just a private citizen, right? I felt that changed long ago, even before Bristol was on Dancing With the Stars. Not only is she a "celebrity" now, we can also stop with the argument that she's just a "child" or that she's somehow "off limits" simply because she's the daughter of a politician. That ended before Dancing With the Stars too, by the way, and this current Bristol situation only underlines the point. I didn't know this before Saturday, but Bristol has "written" a memoir. Ten bucks says she didn't actually write it, but that's neither here nor there. The memoir/autobiography is called Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, which I'm assuming is some kind of conscious effort to stay away from a title that could easily be made into a porn film title.

So, the publisher of Bristol's book has been sending out advanced copies and excerpts. Because she's so off limits and private! In the book, Bristol talks about how she lost her virginity, and SURPRISE, it's not her fault. Shocking, I know. If it actually went down like this, I am very sympathetic towards her, but "being blackout drunk on wine coolers when she was 17 years old" maybe isn't the most conservative excuse you could come up with:

When Bristol Palin lost her virginity, it wasn’t the romantic experience she had envisioned. In her new autobiography, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, the 20-year-old single mom reveals that, while drunk for the very first time, she lost her virginity to Levi Johnston during a camping trip.

Palin says she woke up alone in her tent, with no recollection as to what happened. Johnston, meanwhile, “talked with his friends on the other side of the canvas.”

When she confronted him about their sexual encounter, Johnston, now 21, told Palin what she wanted to hear: they wouldn’t have sex again until they were married. But, Palin writes, they became intimate again shortly after. When she learned she was pregnant in 2008, Palin was on birth control pills prescribed to treat her cramps; it took eight home pregnancy tests to convince her that she was expecting.

Palin’s parents, to her surprise, were incredibly supportive. They also reminded her to stay focused on the future, particularly her continuing education. Johnston’s reaction was less comforting. “Better be a f***ing boy,” he told her.

The memoir, co-written with Nancy French, describes Johnston (the father of Palin’s 2-year-old son, Tripp) as a “gnat” who is “constantly spreading false accusations against our family.” Palin also calls him a self-involved slacker “who cheated on me about as frequently as he sharpened his hockey skates.”

And yet, Palin writes that when her mother, Sarah, was introduced as Senator John McCain’s vice presidential pick in August 2008, being on display with Johnston “somehow legitimized us as a couple.”

After Tripp’s birth in December, Palin discovered via text message that Johnston had been cheating on her. Once Johnston admitted to the affair, they decided to break up. Eighteen months later, the couple reunited and shocked their families with an announcement: they were engaged. Shortly after, Johnston informed Plain that he had gotten another woman pregnant, which ended their relationship for good. “I’d just made a complete fool of myself and given my family the middle finger,” Palin writes.

Johnston, for his part, will share his side of the story with his own book, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs, which arrives in bookstores this fall.

[From Us Weekly]

Wait, what? So she doesn't remember losing her virginity because she was blackout drunk (her "first time" with both drinking and sex?), but she was on the pill (because of cramps…?), and she and Levi still had sex even though they both swore to wait until marriage? And in this disarray, she got pregnant. Sure. Don't get me wrong, it happens, it happens a lot. It happens to a lot of young women and adult women. That's the point. It happens, so why not be realistic about it, politically? Why continue to shove abstinence-only education down everybody's throats? Why PROFIT from that message?

Some photos of Bristol's new and old face. I kind of liked her old face better.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ryan Gosling is a great dog-father to his puppy George

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:59 AM PDT

You may know by now that I am both a cat and a dog person. I grew up, for the most part, with cats, but I did have a childhood dog that I adored, and I am currently a proud dog mother to one 100-pound neurotic monster/mutt. I have cat siblings, though, as my mom is still very much a cat person, and whenever I go to her house, the cats seem to gravitate towards me, knowing that I cannot resist their little kitty faces. One in particular (the insane one) seems to want to live in my hair. I let her. What I'm trying to say is that I get a sense about people when I see them around their animals, and you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their animal(s).

So what can we tell about Ryan Gosling by the way he treats his dog, George? At first I thought Ryan was just mother-hen-ing his puppy because of the crowd, but I think the enormous puppy is being carried in his daddy's arms because there was an escalator situation. George looks like the kind of dog who gives his dad a "I'm not walking on that motherchucking thing, you need to carry me" look, and his dad complies. Note: when my dog gives me that look, I give HIM a look that says "Dream on, a–hole."

Basically, my take on Ryan and George's dynamic is that George is probably the love of Ryan's life. I think George is probably priority number one, and George probably gets final say on all of the girlfriends that come around too. My guess is that George likes to sleep in his dad's beg too. A man and his dog - don't mess with it, ladies.

Here are some additional photos of Ryan at the LA Film Festival premiere of his new film, Drive. I'll have some photos of Christina Hendricks in a moment. Don't get me started.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Cameron Diaz in an Akris jumpsuit: too formal or refreshingly appropriate?

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 06:31 AM PDT

I've been staring at these Cameron Diaz photos for too long, trying to figure out exactly what's going on with Camy's supposed Akris "jumpsuit". At first glance, I liked it, although it seemed too heavy and too formal for the German premiere of Bad Teacher. Maybe it's colder in Berlin now (CB should tell us)…? Bad Teacher is being sold a raunchy summer comedy, and this look doesn't say that. Anyway, beyond the seasonal issue, I was trying to figure out if this was a true jumpsuit or if it was a separate halter and high-waisted pants. I still can't really tell, but my guess is that it's all one piece. Sure. It looks nice on her, and to give her credit, at least she's not in booty shorts.

Camy has several new interviews out this weekend, and I thought this big one with the Los Angeles Times was pretty good. You can read the whole thing here, and here are some highlights.

Not wanting to sign on to Bad Teacher: “I’m trained as an actor to look for a character to be someone at the end who people like. Reading this script, I was thinking, there’s no way out of this for this girl. She does so many things that are so selfish and narcissistic and closed off. How can she be redeemed? Her disdain for life is one that I relished playing,” Diaz says. “I’m such a cheerleader, it’s kind of fun to play a character who thinks everything sucks.”

The difference between There's Something About Mary and Bad Teacher: “Mary, the character, the movie, was sort of innocent,” Diaz said. “But Elizabeth is definitely a different kind of woman than existed in the ’90s. She’s driven in a different way. Comedy is always a reflection of what we can laugh at about ourselves. Humor is really just people telling the truth. It just depends what truth needs to be told at that time.”

Camy took a paycut to get the movie made: “Bad Teacher” was made for less than $20 million from a script by writers of NBC’s “The Office,” Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg — a sum that would only have covered Diaz’s salary on “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” according to Forbes magazine. The actress took a drastic pay cut to get “Bad Teacher” greenlighted. The supporting cast includes Jason Segel of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” as a gym teacher more suited to Diaz’s character than the rich guys she’s chasing; Lucy Punch of “Hot Fuzz” as Elizabeth’s goodie-goodie nemesis; and Phyllis Smith of “The Office” as a complaisant friend in awe of Elizabeth’s reckless bravado.

On the sex scene with Justin Timberlake: In what may be the year’s most awkward sex scene, Diaz and Timberlake share a fully clothed tryst in a hotel room. “The faces he made are so brave,” Diaz said of Timberlake. “What guy would ever make those faces? The noises. He was like, ‘I’m creeping myself out.’ I was like, ‘I don’t even know if I want to know what’s going on back there.’” That Timberlake and Diaz are exes in real life, the actress said, only eased the shooting process. “That would have been kind of weird to do with someone I didn’t know and trust,” she said. “With somebody else I may not have known where it stood, but we know where it stands.”

No formulaic rom-coms: “When I see romantic comedies where at the end you tie it up with the happily ever after, it makes my skin crawl because I feel like you never come to a happy ending in life,” Diaz said. “It’s always just the next progression. That’s what I liked about Elizabeth. I liked the fact that this was only one stop at the station. She didn’t make it all the way. Her growth was this increment. She got that one little inch.”

[From The Los Angeles Times]

I didn't know she took a paycut for this film. Smart girl - and if she's as smart as I think she is (about business), she's probably going to get a back-end percentage of the profits. But I like when big stars show enough intelligence and loyalty to a project to take crop their overblown asking price.

Meanwhile, while Camy was in Germany, she also appeared on a TV show, Wetten Dass. Those photos are below - where she's wearing a romper, because the bitch loves her rompers and onesies. I don't get it either, but meh. I think it was during her German press that Camy opened up about therapy, confessing that she's been seeing a therapist for 15 years: “I’ve been doing it for 15 years and I thank God. My life would not be half as fulfilled as it is without therapy.” Okay. I didn't know that.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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