| Beyonce’s rep blasts “stupid, ridiculous and false” fake-bump stories Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:49 AM PDT 
Here's what I don't understand: why is everyone bending over backwards to insult and patronize Beyonce's critics? Ever since the video of Beyonce's Sunday Night interview came out - complete with her baby bump "magically" folding in on itself as she sat down, Bey's stans have been pulling out their hair that anyone would dare question The Beyonce Bump. She's a celebrity, not Jesus. She's not untouchable, and in my mind, I think it's perfectly valid to ask "WTF?" when viewing the collapsing "bump". You want to see it again? Now legitimate, mainstream media outlets are getting into to it too - from People and Us Weekly to ABC News and the Washington Post. They've all run stories about the "bump conspiracies". It's getting so bad Beyonce's publicist Yvette Noel-Schure even had to come out and do some damage control, telling ABC News, "Stupid, ridiculous and false." BITCH PLEASE. But since everybody is debating the bump and whether or not it's real and why it looks like it's collapsing on itself, let me just lay out my theory. I'm sorry I haven't done this clearly before now, but I thought I already said some of this when the bump conspiracies came out. My conspiracy theory: * Beyonce is actually pregnant. This is not a surrogate situation where Beyonce is wearing a fake bump to simply pretend she's pregnant, and she's going to pass off a someone else's baby as her own. *It's debatable whether she's due in February, but that's what she claims, so I'm guessing it's probably true-ish. Maybe the baby will be "late" and she'll end up giving birth in March. We'll see. My take is that she's not as far along as everyone thinks she is. If she's due in late February/early March, that means she's about 4-and-a-half months right now. *Beyonce is wearing a fake bump for the simplest of reasons: famewhorin'. She started wearing a prosthetic bump at the VMAs, when she did her big bump "debut" - when she was only about 12 weeks along and she magically had a nice-sized "bump" which she cradled lovingly for the cameras. She didn't have a big enough bump on her own (remember how flat and fit she was just days earlier?), and she wanted to be the center of attention at the VMAs. She strapped on a prosthetic, and she created her own media-storm. *For why? Because her latest album sucked, and it was the worst-reviewed album of Bey's career. Beyonce did what any good con artist does: draws your eye to something else. Plus, she now gets to play the "I'm going to be a mother!" card to the hilt and introduce herself to the Mother Mafia fanbase. *So now that Bey is presumably showing, why is she still wearing a prosthetic bump? I don't know. But I do know that over the past month and half, every time Beyonce is photographed, her bump is a different size, and it goes up and down constantly. I honestly think Bey just wants the visual to be very powerful, and she thinks wearing a fake bump will be a bigger impact. Sometimes. Other times, she still wants to wander around NYC in a what amounts to a blouse and nothing else. *Epilogue conspiracy theory: It might have something to do with deflecting attention from her recently tweaked face too. Several months ago, Bey debuted a new "look" that I've had difficulty describing. I think it's a nose job, but there's something else in the eyebrows/eyes too. Now she gets to say that her face just changed because of pregnancy, I guess. 
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| Angelina Jolie is in Libya “to see a country in transition at every level” Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:48 AM PDT 
Back in April, as the "Arab Spring" was in full effect after the successful protests in Egypt, Libyans decided that they wanted a piece of democracy too. Libya has been under the control of Moammar Gadhafi for decades, and in the protests/revolution/uprising/civil war that came next, thousands were left homeless, and thousands simply crossed over the Libyan border, hoping to find a better life. Angelina Jolie met with some of those refugees in April, on the Tunisian-Libyan border camps that had sprung up during the Arab Spring - go here for our coverage of that trip. Anyway, Jolie is back in Libya, but this time she's not acting in her official capacity with the UNHCR. A UNHCR spokesperson says that she's made the trip "in a personal capacity" - although she's meeting with aid agencies and UN teams. Angelina gave an exclusive statement to Reuters while she was on the ground: Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie was in Libya on Tuesday for a visit to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in Tripoli and Misrata, she said in a statement provided to Reuters. “I have come to Libya for a variety of reasons, to see a country in transition at every level and to witness efforts to fully realise the promise of the Arab Spring,” Jolie said. “The country faces a host of challenges, including internally displaced people, refugees, rule of law, security, sanitation, education, health and other humanitarian needs. All of these pieces must be delivered and coordinated properly in an environment of reconciliation and justice.” The two-day trip was Jolie’s first to Libya, but she previously visited Libyan refugees in Malta and on the Italian island of Lampedusa in June, and went to Tunisia in April to appeal for international support for people fleeing the revolution there. Jolie is an ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR and is expected to announce an expanded role soon. On her Libya trip, she met representatives from UNHCR, Medecins Sans Frontieres and local non-governmental organisations delivering assistance to Libyans in Misrata and Tripoli. “I will be meeting with officials from all sides but above all, listening to the local people in the street. I am here to express solidarity with them. It is the work of rebuilding and recovery that will determine Libya’s future.”
[From Reuters] I wonder why the UNHCR doesn't want their fingerprints on this trip? Maybe the situation is a political hot potato and they're just letting Angelina get out in front of it? I don't get the politics of it. You know what interests me? How did Angelina get into the country? Did she just fly commercial from Budapest or London, into Tripoli? Or did she hitch a ride on a UN plane? I know it's not particularly deep, but I'm always amazed by Angelina's low-key, no-drama traveling. Oh, there are even more quotes here, in another Reuters article. Jolie praised the revolutionaries, saying: “What’s extraordinary … is that a lot of the people who are part of the solution and are working in positions of even military, and you find that just before the revolution they had retired, or were running restaurants or were selling baby clothes and they’ve all quit their jobs and they are all working here now on behalf of their country. They have all lost family members … they’ve suffered casualties themselves, they’ve lost limbs themselves and yet they’re all really fighting for something they believe in, and for the future of the country for their children, so it’s quite moving.” “I’m also here on behalf of the Libyan people to show them solidarity. I think this revolution on behalf of human rights, which is what I feel these people really have been doing and what they have pushed for, and to help them to implement these new laws and help them with the future of their country.”
[Via Reuters] Here are some photos of Angelina yesterday in Libya: 
Photos courtesy of Fame and Reuters/Jason Tanner/Handout.
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| In Touch: Demi Moore has a drinking problem, she’s “a complete mess” Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:46 AM PDT 
Last week, as Ashton Kutcher's wandering dong and its various sketchy escapades eclipsed all other gossip stories, there was a surprising report via Life & Style. I thought it was just a planted story from Ashton's team, trying to justify Ashton's zipper problems, but I also thought there could something there. The basic gist was that Ashton and Demi's marriage was on the rocks not because of Ashton's dong, but because of Demi's ongoing substance abuse problems. Demi used to have issues, back in the 1980s, but she's allegedly been clean and sober since then. Last week's report made it seem like Ashton left Demi as some sort of exercise in "tough love". Now In Touch is piling on, claiming that Demi is drowning her sorrows in liquor: 
Demi Moore is spiraling out of control according to a new report in InTouch Weekly. The magazine alleges that Demi, 48, has been behaving more like a 'Girl Gone Wild' over the past year instead of a married mom-of-three. The report claims that Demi has been so insecure that her husband Ashton Kutcher, 33, would leave her for a younger woman that she has reportedly turned to drinking. "Demi is a complete mess," a friend reveals. "The last year of her life has been a downward spiral, and she's being urged to face her demons." The magazine points out one instance when Demi and Ashton were having their home renovated and Demi reportedly greeted the workers "sloppy drunk" every day. "She would be drunk to the point of sexy dancing and passing out," says the insider. "The workers were embarrassed for Ashton. Demi seemed to insecure — like she was working so hard to prove her appeal." Demi entered rehab in the 80s for a reported cocaine addiction and after a two week stint she was said to have kicked the habit for good. "Demi is in a bad place, and her loved ones are concerned," says the source. "They want her to get better … it's a misconception that she was ever 100 percent sober. She's been drinking for years."
[From Hollywood Life] "She would be drunk to the point of sexy dancing and passing out" - ah, college. "Youwannaseemedance? Issosexy. Zzzzz…." As I said last week, I'll buy that Demi Moore has issues. I'll buy that she's drinking a lot and drowning her sorrows. I'll buy that she has self-esteem issues - I think that's why she hasn't left him, even with a perfectly good "out" and the potential to play it all for sympathy. What I don't buy is that Ashton left her in a fury of "tough love" and that he was only boning 20-somethings in the hot tub because he was so "worried" about Demi. 
Cover courtesy of In Touch, additional pics by Fame.
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| Baby Lisa’s disappearance: do the parents have something to do with it? Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:45 AM PDT 
I haven’t been following all the details in the disappearance of 10 month old baby Lisa Irwin from her parents’ home in Kansas City last week. Ever since I saw the parents give a press conference asking for help finding their lost daughter though, I’ve wanted to read Eyes for Lies’ take on it . Eyes for Lies is a truth expert who holds seminars in spotting deception. Her ability is similar to the professionals shown on “Lie to Me,” and I find her take on cases fascinating. Personally, I found baby Lisa’s father sketchy in the press conference and in my no-way-informed opinion, he was acting suspicious. Eyes agrees with that, and she points out holes in the parents’ story about how Lisa allegedly went missing. Go here for her analysis.
Good Morning America and People have more on the latest developments in this case. Apparently Lisa’s mother failed a lie detector test, by her own admission, and at one point she and her husband were no longer cooperating with police. They’re in communication with police again now, though. Cops tried to recreate the way they claimed the kidnapper(s) entered their home to snatch the baby - through a window. It was loud and difficult, and the window was too high up for a person to have reached it without a step or an accomplice. Here’s part of People’s story on it and you can see a video of the re-enactment at ABC.com: According to her parents, the night of Oct. 3 started out like any other at their Kansas City, Mo., home. While Lisa’s dad Jeremy Irwin was working the graveyard shift as an electrician, Lisa’s mom Deborah Bradley put the baby to bed in her crib. But when Irwin returned home early the next morning, he found the front door unlocked, a window open, three cell phones missing – and Lisa’s crib empty. Her parents say they are devastated and desperate to find Lisa – and have hired a private investigator to aid the search. In one of several public pleas, Bradley held up a Barney stuffed animal and sobbed: “We just want our baby back. Please, bring her home.” But in a case reminiscent of the Caylee Anthony disappearance, as police begin a second week of searching for baby Lisa, questions are being raised about the parents’ story, and what really happened that Monday night. Bradley has acknowledged that police accused her of doing something to Lisa. She says authorities also told her that she failed a polygraph test (police said they would not discuss any result). A relative says that Bradley is bracing to be arrested at any moment. “From the start when they’ve questioned me, once I couldn’t fill in gaps, it turned into: ‘You did it, you did it,’” Bradley tells Good Morning America. Irwin acknowledges the bizarre nature of the scene, telling GMA that, “The windows were open and lights were on and she was nowhere to be found. We’ve been going over everything in our minds. We just don’t have any idea.” Still, both parents – who are engaged to be married and have two other children – have worked with police along the way, with the notable exception of one disputed point when investigators claimed the parents had ceased cooperating. The family say they were simply exhausted by incessant questioning, and soon after were back speaking with police. Police Capt. Steve Young denies that the investigation is focusing primarily on family members. “We’re spending our time looking at everything,” he tells the Today show. “We have detectives farmed in and out of it all day long, chasing leads as they come and getting a lot of help from local police departments and some federal agencies as well, so we’re spending our time everywhere.” Police staged a recreation of a break-in into the home, and the outcome showed that entering through a window was awkward and noisy. On Tuesday, investigators spent several hours at a well at an abandoned house near Lisa’s home, but came up empty. The front- and backyards of the family home have been searched with metal detectors. Local TV stations have been subpoenaed for footage of interviews with family, friends and neighbors. People have been interviewed about a homeless man seen recently in the neighborhood. But with what appears to be a lack of solid leads in this baffling case, the family says they believe police are focusing on them to the exclusion of other possibilities.
[From People] Something similar happened when Madeleine McCann went missing. People blamed her parents because it didn’t seem possible that a small child could be stolen like that. We just don’t want to believe that there are people out there who would do that to a child, particularly our child. That’s what parents inevitably think of when we hear these horrible stories about children who were kidnapped. What if it were my kid? It’s just easier to think that the parents are hiding something and were somehow complicit in it. I get that vibe from this case, though I can’t say whether it’s because I don’t want to imagine the hell these parents are going through if they’re telling the truth. 
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| Kim Kardashian is “miserable” in her marriage, thinks she made a huge mistake Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:14 AM PDT 
Just shoot me in the face now, because not only did I watch part of Kim Kardashian's wedding special, I'm also prepared to talk about it. Granted, it made me sick so I ended up changing the channel after about 10 minutes, so I never saw anything past the "she's picking out a dress from all of the sketches she got" part. But dear God, Kris Humphries is a much bigger douche than I originally thought. He's such a horrible d-bag, I'm kind of rooting for Kim to get out of this marriage, and I'll take her side and everything. Sure, I think Kim talked him into the marriage and wedding because he's a dumbass who can be easily manipulated. But there's also a reason why he was ripe for Kim's devious machinations: he's a moron, he's rude, he's unpleasant, and no other (sane) chick would touch that with a ten-foot pole. Now, is he so awful, he only deserves a Kardashian? I'll say this: I felt a twinge of sympathy for Kim, I honestly did. I'm not saying she didn't ask for this, or that this wasn't the story line she was hoping for ("Catfaced famewhore marries douche, chaos ensues"), but I'm saying that I feel bad that she has to spend time with someone who is clearly a douche. Anyway, according to Life & Style, Kim now realizes she made a huge mistake: Kim Kardashian thought her dreams came true when she said "I do" to Kris Humphries on Aug. 20 — but now the cold, "hard" reality of their marriage is creeping in. Sources say that Kim's completely torn apart by how married life is turning out — and that she's totally let down by Kris. He's not the man that she thought she married! "Kim's miserable," a show source tells Life & Style magazine. "They're always fighting." Kim's said so herself. "I didn't know marriage was going to be so hard," she grieved to a friend at Clover Nails on Oct. 9 in NYC. "With all this travel and work, it's been a big adjustment for both of us." "She doesn't feel like she's ready for the commitment," a friend shares. "Kim feels this all happened too soon, that she didn't take time to get to know Kris. She's embarrassed — she rushed into things, and now she's stuck." Kim fears that Kris is using her for fame. "Kim is definitely worried that Kris isn't mature enough and could be using her for her money — especially since he's not working right now with the NBA lockout," says the show source. "He tries to have creative input in Kourtney & Kim Take New York. It's her show, and he tries to dominate it." Kris has also caused Kim to put her baby making plans on hold because he's not sure where, or if, he'll be playing basketball next year. Kim's not happy that they haven't settled into a real home and are stuck at the Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel in NYC. She's unable to cook meals for Kris — and in turn, he has left Kim at the hotel on occasion and gone to grab burgers with his buddies. Now, Kim's heading for a separation as she travels to Dubai and Australia. "Kris is not invited — she's leaving him behind," notes the source.
[From Hollywood Life] And so goes another fairy tale romance down the drain. Like anybody really thought Kim and Kris would last, I know. So, what are the theories on how this is all going to play out? Here's my guess: Kim and Kris will stay married, but in the months to come, Kim is going to be "traveling" more on "business" - just to stay away from Kris. And then Kris will cheat on her and it will become public and Kim will file for divorce and play the "wronged woman" storyline. And babies will never happen. I see that all going down within a year. 
Here are some photos of Kim arriving at the UAE yesterday: 
Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame.
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| Elizabeth Olsen in Alexander McQueen at NYFF: is she tweaked or natural? Posted: 12 Oct 2011 08:10 AM PDT 
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Olsen posed on the red carpet for the New York Film Festival premiere of Martha Marcy May Marlene, for which she’s already getting Oscar buzz for her performance as a young woman struggling to overcome her damaging experiences with a cult. Lizzie was wearing an Alexander McQueen dress and shoes to match, and I think the look is … alright, but I’m not crazy about the really thick, gold belt. Honestly, I’d like to see her wearing something from The Row. Of course, Lizzie probably wants to fully achieve success on her own and not lend the appearance of relying on Mary-Kate and Ashley to help her get there, but I think that wearing their clothing on the red carpet would be a nice show of Olsen solidarity. It would also ward off those persistent rumors of sibling rivalry that the sisters have already attempted to debunk. Also in attendance at the premiere were John Hawkes, Hugh Dancy, and Sean Durkin. Wouldn’t you like to be in that sandwich? 
Now onto the obvious part of this story, which is Elizabeth’s tweaked-looking nose, which was already looking pretty sketchy in her recent Nylon cover shoot, where it was a question of whether Photoshop was a big contributor in said wonkiness. Here, her nose still doesn’t look natural at all, right? Also, Kaiser and I both think that Lizzie’s face looks rather tweaked in general here. It’s possible that the severely pulled-back bun is a contributing factor, for the Croydon facelift hairstyle rarely flatters anyone: 
Certainly, Lizzie’s nose looks much more “normal” when she smiles. In fact, she appears to be a completely different person in this photo: 
Ultimately, it’s really difficult to tell whether Lizzie has gone under the knife. She’s only 22-years-old, and it looks like she’s had the same nose for at least the past few years. Here she is in March 2009: 
And here’s Elizabeth in May 2007 with the same nose she has today. It’s highly possible that she was just born with an immensely narrow, pinched-looking nose, right? Or maybe she just got a really early nose job. 
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| Ashton’s mistress Sara Leal: ‘told me he was separated,’ didn’t wear a condom Posted: 12 Oct 2011 07:57 AM PDT 
It was just about a year ago that Ashton Kutcher’s first known mistress, Brittney Jones, talked to the press. At that time Brittany said that Ashton told her that “he and Demi have an open relationship and have threesomes often,” in order to justify their hookup, which in no way involved Demi. (That we know of.) It looks like Ashton has changed his pickup line, because he told his latest mistress that he and Demi were separated. Sara Leal is the party girl who slept with Ashton at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego on what would have been his sixth anniversary about two and a half weeks ago. So far we’ve heard the story of that night from “sources” and from Sara’s “friend,” who confirmed that Sara and Ashton “definitely boned.” A couple of outlets met Sara’s asking price for an interview, and she just spoke to US Weekly and to British rag The Sun about her night with Ashton. In fact Sara takes the cover of US this week and it looks like she got fresh extensions for the occasion. A lot of the crap that Sara claims Ashton told her made me cringe. She also claimed that they didn’t use protection. Gross.
US Weekly: He was tender, they didn’t use a condom
In the new Us Weekly, the 22-year-old San Diego-based administrative assistant breaks her silence about the fateful early morning of Sept. 24 — Kutcher’s six-year anniversary with wife Demi Moore — when she had sex with the actor, 33, following a wild, all-night party in his suite at San Diego’s Hard Rock Hotel. “He just came up and kissed me,” the Texas native tells Us of Kutcher’s first bold move in the wee hours; minutes later, Leal, Kutcher and another young woman were completely nude and in a hot tub on the balcony. “I didn’t think it was out of the ordinary,” Leal admits. “I wasn’t self-conscious about getting naked.” When Kutcher claimed that he was “separated” from wife Moore, 48, Leal tells Us she believed him. After retreating to Kutcher’s bedroom past 6 a.m., “he lost his towel and I took my robe off,” Leal says. “Then we had sex.” “He was good,” Leal reveals. “It wasn’t weird or perverted.” It also wasn’t 100 percent safe, either: Leal tells Us that Kutcher did not wear a condom during their one-on-one encounter. The post-coital talk was a little unexpected, she confesses; the duo talked astrology (they’re both Aquarius), religion, love, even politics. “I told him I was a Lutheran from Texas. He said, ‘Oh my gosh! Are you a Republican?’” Leal says. Democratic-leaning Kutcher quizzed her on “up-and-coming candidates. I said Rick Perry. He asked if I’d vote for him. I said I didn’t know and he laughed. He laughed at pretty much everything I said.” But it wasn’t all twenty questions between the lovers, according to Leal. After having sex for a second time — and arguing over Leal’s cell phone — the married Two and a Half Men star was tender. “He was like, ‘I enjoy things like this because I’m an actor 90 percent of the time and it’s fake. It’s nice to have moments that are real,’” Leal recalls.
The Sun: Ashton wanted a threesome, checked out her body afterwards
Speaking to The Sun newspaper, Sara described how she had sex twice with the 33-year-old actor. She said: ‘We had sex twice. Everything felt natural. We were having a good time. He was good, but it wasn’t weird or perverted or creepy. ‘He had good endurance. We were up for a while. It was about two hours.’ Leal described how earlier in the night he had kissed her and her friend Marta on the bed of his hotel room. ‘I’m sure he wanted to have a threesome,’ she said. ‘It was clear he wasn’t opposed to it.’ Sara said there were around 20 revellers partying with Kutcher in his lavish suite, drinking vodka, tequila and beer. Most of the guests left at around 5am, leaving Kutcher with Sara and some of her girlfriends. Leal claims they then all jumped in the hot tub naked, saying: ‘Ashton looked hot naked.’ When one of Sara’s friends asked if Kutcher was married, Leal claims he replied: ‘I am separated’. After the hot tub session, Sara and friend Marta ended up in Kutcher’s bed - but Marta left after a short while leaving Kutcher alone with Sara. ‘The last thing I remember him saying was he did a good job. We woke up and I wearing a robe. ‘He opened it up and I was like “What are you doing?” He was like, “Just checking. Ok, I did good. You’re really pretty.’”
[From US Weekly and The Sun via The Daily Mail] Yes she’s “22″ and an “administrative assistant” from a small town in Texas. She just happened to be there that night, and to be playing the press perfectly after boning Ashton. The article in the Daily Mail has more about Ashton and Demi’s big camping weekend with Kabbalah counselors that Kaiser covered yesterday. I knew that it was Yom Kippur last weekend, but I didn’t realize that it was a special day of atonement in the Jewish religion. (I’m a little slow on the uptake and I tend to ignore anything having to do with religion.) To me that means that Demi could be using her faith to justify taking Ashton back. She’s probably heartbroken, really wants it to work and is pushing him to stay in the marriage. It’s hard to say whether Ashton wants to stay or not. I’ve seen guys cheat who are conflicted at leaving their wives and don’t want to give up the stable easy home life while they get some strange on the side. Demi needs to face it, though, Ashton has been doing this for a while. These are the two women that he’s cheated with that we know of. There are surely plenty more. Ashton sent a tweet to Demi, finally, wishing her luck with something. He also changed the background of his Twitter accoun to this weird clock with emotion names listed where the numbers should be. At 12 is “epiphany,” followed by “anxiety,” “duty,” “guilt,” “indifference,” etc. Ashton’s was pointing to “anxiety” and “fear.” He doesn’t know what the hell he wants. 
Ashton is shown with Jon Cryer while Cryer gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 9/19/11. Credit: WENN.com  |
| Kristen Stewart: “People are crazy. I never wanted to be this famous” Posted: 12 Oct 2011 07:10 AM PDT 
As CB talked about yesterday, Kristen Stewart's full GQ UK interview has come out. Last week, I had the earliest excerpts here and here (as well as the photo shoot), but what got the most attention was Kristen's admission that ALL of her teachers failed her. Would you like some more excerpts from the GQ piece? Sure, why not. You can read the full thing here, and here are a few more excerpts: On Breaking Dawn: "Yes, we're finished. Filmed every scene… It's so rare in a career to feel that a chapter is closing but there's something final about this. No more epic, iconic scnenes…I was nervous for the wedding scene. When I looked at the set, with the pews and the lights, and I could see everyone was there in all their outfits, I cried. God, that f***ing dress! I was stuck in that thing for a week; I could hardly move. But it felt incredibly ceremonial. It felt like a real wedding." Her bodyguard: "The big jump for me, I guess, was having security. And I mean, going everywhere with you. Just a big guy standing next to me the whole time. JB is his name — that's my guy. And he would kill me for saying this, but even he has a goddamn fan site. All these girls have identified him and he's now known as 'HBG' — Hottie Bodyguard." On the craziness surrounding Twilight: "Sure. I mean, people are crazy. Everyone does what they have to do to protect themselves, but it would be fake for me to sit here and say people are not crazy. I'm sure lots of people shy away from this question as they want to make sure they look 100 per cent appreciative all the time and that everything is the most amazing thing always… But at the end of the line, people are f***ing crazy! I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself." "Her first proper role": It was in the independent film The Safety Of Objects, originally an AM Homes book about dysfunction and turmoil in small-town America. Kristen played the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother (Patricia Clarkson). "I got Safety… towards the end of that period where I thought I should keep acting. As a little kid, you audition for so many f***ing goddamn embarrassing parts — and my words would have been pretty much the same at that age too…" On her expletive-ridden language: "I would be like, 'No. Way.' Which is why I never got offered very many of those roles. I would just go though the motions. Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid." She's always been this hardcore: "It's funny. I picked an old backpack out of the closet the other day, one I used to wear all the time as a teenager. It's covered with anarchy signs, all these quotes and these metal studs. I was like, 'Wow, you must have really liked how that looked!' Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic." On acting: "I don't want to discredit people's individuality, bit I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting." On pretensions: "I think when I was younger, I was trying very hard to sound unpretentious. At that age, I was so bitterly self-conscious, and so desperate not to sound like a total douche. I don't feel like that at all now. I think it was something I heard my parents say." Kristen's parents work in the film industry, as crew members, solid blue-collar liberals, behind the camera. "My folks have always given me hell for how easy I have it," Kristen admits. "My dad would say stuff like, 'Oh, just go and sit in your trailer, practise your lines, and go lie for a living.' It was something I said as a kid. Don't worry, I have a much more pretentious view of acting nowadays." On working out: "I've never worked out before. Now I'm only allowed to eat stuff out of a box. It works. Also, I feel more energised and stronger. It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman."
[From GQ UK, via Kristen Stewart Web] I'll say what I always say about Kristen: it's takes a lot of thought and a lot of effort to be that self-aware, neurotic and "uncomfortable". I think it's just an act, her public persona, but feel free to disagree. In addition to those additional GQ excerpts, there's also this expletive-ridden piece too: You know this character so well, what’s it like to take her through this huge change when she becomes a vampire herself?
Kristen: It felt good. It was really weird. It was such a long process of the two movies being shot at the same time as if they’re one. You shoot, obviously, out of order and you keep going back and forth between pregnant, human and dead vampire Bella. There’s so many different versions of Bella in this, it’s insane. It was a strange experience walking on set the first time I played a scene as a vampire because I’d watched everyone around me doing it all the time. I sound so lame, but vampire Bella really is my favorite character—she’s very representative of a matriarch. She’s very intuitive on almost a psychic level and no one ever acknowledges it, which is interesting. Maybe that says something about Stephenie that she doesn’t get respect for all of her f–king amazing qualities. And that’s also one of the things that makes her appealing to me, so that’s not a strike at it—that’s something that I like about it. And I think it’s nice to see her finally get what she wants. That’s probably the best thing, even if it sounds simple and indulgent, which is why the f–king thing is criticized all the time. It’s nice to see people be happy. And she really—if I’ve played it right—is born to be where she is. You’re shooting Snow White and the Huntsman right now which imagines Snow White as this warrior princess. What’s her fighting style like?
Kristen: Not to trivialize it at all, but it’s hard to play an action hero who is also the most compassionate person on earth. You can’t hate. You epitomize bleeding hearts, so how the f–k do you do an action movie like that? She is sort of the last shred of hope for her land. She has this ethereal, spiritual connection to her people—she really feels things-and so it’s like we don’t really feel empathy. I’ve had some f–king eye-opening experiences on this movie. I think that to truly care for something isn’t just putting yourself in that situation aesthetically and then going, “Oh my god, I feel so bad for them.” It’s truly not thinking of yourself at all. The way that you fight is that you must take out anything that hurt your people. Basically, I’m fighting evil—I’m fighting the most evil motherf–kers-and it’s fine that they’re being killed. It’s anguish. It’s literally f–king anguish. She takes absolutely no pleasure in ever hurting anything. I’m exhausted right now and I was thinking, “The fight stuff is coming up, maybe that won’t be so bad.” And then I realized that they’re probably going to be my most emotional scenes because I’m killing people and I’m Snow White. It’s a really f–king cool way to approach a movie where so many people die. Not that I’m criticizing violent movies—I love them, generally—but it is nice to do it this way.
[From Box Office Magazine] I was feeling nothing but disgust at the idea of Kristen as a "warrior princess" version of Snow White, but then I saw those images from the other Snow White, the one with Unibrow McBusted and Julia Roberts. Now I'm kind of looking forward to Kristen's version. And just a word about Kristen's language… look, I cuss like a sailor too, but once again, Kristen's "blue language" seems like a put-on. Like she's doing it for a more "hardcore" effect, like a little girl who just learned those words and now thinks she's all hip. 
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| TMZ posts Michael Jackson death pic as shown on TV: ok or what the hell? (no pic here) Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:10 AM PDT 
Jackson’s kids at his tribute concert.
Yesterday we heard that a photo of Michael Jackson nude after he was deceased and was laid out was shown on live television during the trial of Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray. The Daily Mail, TMZ and The Mirror have published the photo of Jackson and none gave a warning about it or obscured the photo other than covering his private parts, which was already a part of the image before it was shown in the courtroom. (I’m not going to post the links here, you can find them easily enough if you’re interested.) I was really shocked and saddened to see the photo right on TMZ’s website and on the front page without a lead-in. Even though this is my job, I probably wouldn’t have clicked on it if they would have given me a choice. I don’t like to see dead people, and there’s something so really heart-wrenching to me about the fact that we’re able to see this. I know that sounds melodramatic: Jackson was a public figure, he had a reputation as a pedophile, and he was a drug addict. Still, he was somebody’s father, brother and son and he was so private he covered his kids’ faces when they went out. He wouldn’t have wanted anyone to see him like that, and his kids don’t need to be confronted with that image whenever they want to do a google search on it. I was also upset to hear that the details of Michael’s kids’ reactions to his death were made public a couple of weeks ago as part of the trial. Of course they were distraught and crying and screaming. That’s how people react when a family member dies! There was also more revealed yesterday about what Paris said in the wake of her dad’s death. We don’t need to know that! We’re not covering the Jackson trial much here because it’s just not our usual fare. This is sad, it’s depressing and apart from some colorful witnesses there hasn’t been much to report. What do you even say about it though? None of this trial should have been open to the media and the details just don’t seem that interesting to me. Once a verdict is reached, we’ll probably cover it though. RIP Michael. 
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| Salma Hayek covers Latina: “I was born to be a wife and a mother” Posted: 12 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT 
Salma Hayek got another November cover! I think these covers are all for Puss in Boots, where Salma has reteamed with Antonio Banderas, this time for voice work for the Puss spinoff (which I'm looking forward to - I think Puss is maybe Antonio's greatest character ever). Salma already covered the new issue of Redbook, where she was discussing how she loves making her own money while being married to a billionaire. In this new Latina Magazine cover story, Salma is once again talking about her marriage, but this time it's not all rah-rah-feminism-money stuff. This time, Salma makes it sound like she's perfectly happy "just" being a wife and mother: On waiting patiently to become a mother & wife: "To be your own woman, you have to question who you really are and what it is you really want – and you have to have a level of acceptance of what you can do. The things I expected of myself when I was 20 did not happen, or did not happen the way I imagined they would, and it's okay. Let's just take this one day at a time and do the best that I can and be grateful for the things I do have." On her husband François-Henri Pinault: "I found a man better than any man I could ever in my life imagine existed. He found me, actually. I wasn't even looking." On having divine skin: "When I was 16, I looked 19. When I was 19, I looked 25. But I got stuck on 25 – thank God! – until I was 35. So that was good. But it's also important to take care of your skin because if you're not careful, one day you'll wake up and a spider will have taken over your face and you'll be full of lines." On cosmetic surgery: "I have no Botox. The thought of a needle coming to my forehead, it really gives me the heebie-jeebies. So I'd rather put on my creams. It's fun, it smells good, and it's relaxing. Am I opposed to doing it later? I don't know. I want to see how far I can go." On launching her new beauty line: "At the time I wanted to do the beauty line I didn't know how, but I never stopped trying to learn. It's not that I said, 'I've gotta do this no matter what.' It was like, 'I know how to act. I don't know how to do this other thing, but I think I could.' So I studied, I paid attention, I asked a lot of questions, I investigated each product. And then, in time, it came." On the busiest year of her career: "I'm 45, so it's a miracle I'm working in the first place – especially because I'm not even here [stateside] chasing it. Nowadays I only work with friends or somebody I admire, or on something that is really special. Somehow, just by doing that, it's the year that I worked the most in my life!" On what's next: "I'm in a very comfortable position because, [even] if I never worked again and am just a housewife and a mother, I'm happy. I really am. I was born to be a wife and a mother."
[From Latina] Do I even care enough to parse? "…If I never worked again and am JUST a housewife and a mother, I'm happy" (emphasis mine)… is that something that will upset people? The "just"? I personally don't care, because I don't think Salma means that housewives and mothers are somehow "less than" women who work outside of the home. I think this was an episode of The West Wing, right? Stockard Channing/Abby Bartlett said "just a wife and mother" and it was a political scandal during Pres. Bartlett’s re-election campaign? As for her comments on Botox… do you believe her? Salma doesn't have a frozen cat face, nor does she look puffy, waxy, filled-in or jacked. I kind of buy her "no Botox" claims, honestly. I think she takes really great care of her skin and she eats right, and doing THAT is so much better than getting tweaked and worked on. Now, if you told me she had a nose job, I wouldn't balk. 
Cover courtesy of Latina. Additional pics by Fame.
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