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- Rihanna on Chris Brown to Oprah: “It was embarrassing, I lost my best friend.”
- Jessica Biel loses the bangs, goes with a fancy belly shirt in Berlin: cute or fug?
- Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner flaunt their reconciled January December romance
- NY Mag: ‘Does Kim Kardashian belong on the cover of a fashion magazine?’
- Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux are engaged, he proposed on his b-day
- Miley Cyrus gets a very short quasi-Gosselin hair cut: super cute?
- The Olympics Closing Ceremony: so much better than the Opening Ceremony?
- Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I can’t just get anyone pregnant, it’s got to be the right person’
- Robert Downey Jr. left jars of urine on the set of ‘Zodiac’ to protest his director
- Anderson Cooper’s live-in boyfriend photographed making out with another man
Rihanna on Chris Brown to Oprah: “It was embarrassing, I lost my best friend.” Posted: 13 Aug 2012 08:52 AM PDT These days, it always amazes me when the bigger pop stars sit down for an interview with Oprah, as if Oprah is still “a thing” when (clearly) very few poople watch OWN, and the network itself is shuttling steadily towards its own impending doom. But alas, now Rihanna has done an interview, which was conducted in RiRi’s own native Barbados, with O; and of course, the subject of Chris Brown came up. At one point, Rihanna also says, “I’m super-dooper afraid of the pedestal that comes with fame,” which is just more of the same crap Rihanna always says about learning to ignore the attention while she has one finger on the mouse to post her latest batch of bikini and boozing photos on Twitter and Facebook. Anyway, I don’t mean to make light of the fact that Chris Brown beat the living hell out of his girlfriend three ago, but I do find it strange that Rihanna characterizes the incident as, “I lost my best friend.” She’s still very conflicted about what happened, right?
[From HuffPo] Meanwhile, the battle over Rihanna’s finances continues unabated. In 2009, there were whisperings that Rihanna was actually broke (to the tune of only having $20,000 because allegedly, she was “not properly funded by her record label Def Jam“). Then last year, Rihanna reportedly listed her mansion as a “short sale” on the market. Now RiRi has sued her former accountants for taking too high of a commission (which she agreed to beforehand) as well as “mismanag[ing] her dough and fail[ing] to inform her that her 2009 “Last Girl on Earth” tour was losing cash.” Honestly? I obviously don’t know the entire situation, but it sounds like RiRi’s accountants tried to warn her years ago, and Rihanna basically ignored them. Also, exactly where does Jay-Z (as her manager) figure into this huge mess, hmm? Photos courtesy of OWN |
Jessica Biel loses the bangs, goes with a fancy belly shirt in Berlin: cute or fug? Posted: 13 Aug 2012 08:06 AM PDT Good lord, I've never found all of these actors less attractive. That's the problem with this Total Recall remake – Colin Farrell simply doesn't have chemistry with Kate Beckinsale or Jessica Biel, and the women don't have chemistry with each other, and Jessica looks like a wax figure (and she has the personality of a wax figure), and Kate looks like she sauntered out of an old-timey saloon/brothel. They all seem like they were in Berlin to promote completely separate projects, and they just chanced upon each other for a photo shoot. The only thing Kate and Jessica coordinated as footwear – and I really believe that was an accident. I can't find the designer IDs on these dresses right now, so let's just analyze the looks. Is it weird that I hate Kate's more? Kate's dress is somewhat flattering, and God knows I love a jewel tone… but the whole ensemble just looks so cheap to me. It's just a knee-jerk reaction: I dislike it, and I can't really explain why. As for Biel's two-piece, a cropped belly shirt and a tiered skirt… it would have looked better as a one-piece. And the skirt is too high to actually make it look sexy or anything. It just looks weird. But I will Jessica extra credit for doing something with her bangs (which Timberlake hates) and going back to a flattering hairstyle. But why does she looks like a robot?! Last thing: why am I completely "over" Colin Farrell at this point? His haircut really isn't that awful, he's in shape, and his jeans look great on him… but I still feel nothing. Is it just a situation where my "Hot Irishman" love/lust has been fulfilled by another? Shouldn't I have room in my heart (and loins) for both Fassbender and Farrell?! |
Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner flaunt their reconciled January December romance Posted: 13 Aug 2012 07:53 AM PDT
Well the $2k a week allowance and the fame must have been worth the trade off to her, because Crystal and Hef are still together after reuniting in May. I’m honestly surprised. These two are said to have been filming scenes for Hef’s show “The Playboy Club,” that awful show on NBC starring Eddie Cibrian that was cancelled last year. Maybe it’s some kind of reboot to air on The Playboy Network or something, as our friends at MoeJackson point out. Whatever is going on, Crystal sure is happy to have the camera back on her again. Unlike Hef’s other exes, she wasn’t getting much attention on her own, hence the reunion. Hugh’s teeth look bad here. Not that we would notice if he wasn’t with a “26″ year-old woman. Here’s 2008 Playmate Jayde Nicole. She and her cameltoe were there too. Photo credit: Pacific Coast News |
NY Mag: ‘Does Kim Kardashian belong on the cover of a fashion magazine?’ Posted: 13 Aug 2012 07:26 AM PDT Kim Kardashian is the cover girl for New York Magazine's Fall Fashion issue. The cover tagline is "Does Kim Kardashian Belong on the Cover of A Fashion Magazine?" Which is meta, considering they put her on the cover of their fashion magazine. They actually did an artsy photo shoot with Kim too, and they did a long-ass interview (go here to see the complete NY Mag piece). Will you forgive me for not caring enough to read the whole seven-page interview and lovingly extract excerpts from the junk? Because I really don't care that much. Just skimming the NY Mag piece… it seems like they don't care much either, or at least they don't care about alienating the Family Kardashian, because the first part of the piece reads like a greatest-hits of Why and How People Dislike The Kardashians. The moral of the story? "There's a sense that everything is for sale, and nothing should go un-monetized." That really is the gist of it – it's less an interview with Kim and more about Kim's relationship to the fashion industry, and how real fashion people shun her:
During the "interview" part of the piece, Kim talks about how she's Zen and chilled out now, admitting that she doesn't read the tabloids as much anymore, she canceled her Google Alerts, and she started having the occasional drink after she turned 30. She says, "I used to be so involved with what's going on around, what's up with this person. I just really truly feel so much more calm now, and I just don't care." When asked if she would ever like to be on the cover of Vogue, she just says, "I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that. I think my goals are more just expanding my line, and having my line be really successful. That's the ultimate goal, I think, for me. I don't say, 'Oh, I want to be on this magazine or I want to do this.' It's all fun." So… Kim Kardashian is more Zen about it than Victoria Beckham. Good to know. |
Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux are engaged, he proposed on his b-day Posted: 13 Aug 2012 06:55 AM PDT This announcement has made me review and revise my working theories about Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux. Didn't you hear? JUSTJEN FOREVER!!! Justin Theroux proposed to Jennifer Aniston on Friday (last week) – HIS 41st birthday. The backstory – Jennifer had been in North Carolina filming her latest movie, We're The Millers, for approximately two to three weeks. Until Justin flew to North Carolina last Thursday, they hadn't seen each other while Jennifer was working. Justin had been in New York and LA, and last Wednesday, Star Mag devoted their cover story to JustJen's "breakup" – the gist of Star's story was that Jennifer had issued an ultimatum to Justin about getting engaged, and he shined her on and they decided to take a break. And then the breakup rumors were denied, Justin flew to North Carolina, and magically, they got engaged!
Congrats! I mean that too. I'm very happy for Jennifer and Justin, and I hope they last a long, long time. Mostly because I enjoy seeing photos of them together, and I enjoy The Transformation of The Theroux. I'm glad that Jennifer got some version of her fairytale – a dude who accepts her as she is, a dude who loves her lifestyle, a dude who is fine with the fact that she's always going to be the more famous person in the relationship (that's the big one – many dudes wouldn't and can't deal with that). When's the wedding?! Oh, God. I just realized that the tabloids are going to go crazy planning Jennifer's alleged epic beach wedding. |
Miley Cyrus gets a very short quasi-Gosselin hair cut: super cute? Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:55 AM PDT
It occurred to me that Miley may have chopped off her hair in response to some kind of relationship crisis with Liam, but she’s still wearing her engagement ring and they honestly seem solid to me. She’s just 19 years old and she’s messing with her hair. (First she dyed it blonde, and then she chopped it off.) I had this same style in the eighth grade. I’m not making fun of it, I actually think it looks great on her and emphasizes how pretty she is. Jessica Chastain just got a similar cut for a role, except with smooth hair on the shorter side, and she looks gorgeous with this style too. Will asymmetric hair be a new trend? I like it better than the fakey-fake extensions that celebrities have been wearing for years. Sometimes all that hair just looks ridiculous. Oh and there’s a rumor that Miley just got a recurring role on Two and a Half Men. That originated in a blog I’ve never heard of called Life of The Rich and Famous [via ONTD]. I could see it happening, and having Miley would be a coup for any show. I’ll believe it when another outlet picks it up. |
The Olympics Closing Ceremony: so much better than the Opening Ceremony? Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:40 AM PDT These are some selected photos from last night's Olympics Closing Ceremony. I have to admit… I found it so much more enjoyable than the Opening Ceremony. Was there still some bizarre and "eccentric" stuff? Of course. Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill and the tribute to London traffic? SURE. Why not? But considering the lack of A) giant creepy babies, B) an army of Mary Poppins, C) Pop-up villains that terrified adults, and D) Kenneth Branagh looking embarrassed, I'd say that the closing ceremony was WAY better. I loved all of the music stuff, I got wistful with John Lennon's "Imagine", I adored Russell Brand's cover of "I Am The Walrus" and it was really cool to see George Michael. As for Jessie J – ordinarily, I like her a lot. I think she has a killer voice and I like her general vibe. But I'm not sure if she was the best choice for the Queen tribute, nor do I think her butt cheeks should have made an appearance. Oh, and The Spice Girls! They were kind of meh, right? I was also afraid that we were going to lose a Spice because of how fast those cars were going. Oh, and you already know my favorite part. DAVID GANDY!! At first, "the tribute to British fashion" felt out of place, but then those screens came down and there was Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Stella Tennant, David Gandy, Lily Cole, Lily Donaldson, Karen Elson, and Georgia May Jagger walking the Union Jack catwalk, and it was really cool and unexpected. Gandy was the only male model up there too! And he looked FINE. GAH. I love him so much. There was no Queen Elizabeth at the Closing Ceremony – Liz is already in Scotland, on holiday. Prince Harry and Duchess Kate were sent as the Queen's royal replacements. Well, more Harry than Kate. But Kate was there too, and the cameras cut to her several times as she whispered sweet nothings into Harry's ear. The camera also caught Harry singing along to "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" which was super-cute. Kate wore a repeat – the Whistles "Bella Body Conscious Dress". Don't ask me why she's doing an "I'm preggo" pose with her hand on her belly. I'm just assuming she and Harry went off after the Closing Ceremony and they went for a ginger heir, whom they will name Olympia Diana. Yeah, I said it. PS… this is just a weird question, but why didn't anyone pay tribute to Elton John or Eric Clapton? Right? Elton and Eric are both English singers, arguably two of the most talented and successful people in the music industry… and both now spend most of their time in America. Is that it? |
Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I can’t just get anyone pregnant, it’s got to be the right person’ Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:20 AM PDT I don't even know how to describe this interview with Benedict Cumberbatch. He made me laugh several times, he made me want to have his strangely beautiful babies, he made me long to move to London to stalk his pale, English ass. He's lovely. He's perfect. And he's hilarious. The Telegraph sat down for an extensive interview with Cumby because he's promoting his latest mini-series, a collaboration between HBO and the BBC – it's an five-part miniseries adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, with Cumby playing the lead character, Christopher Tietjens. The miniseries and book is set in the 1910s-1920s, before, during and after World War I, and the book was adapted by Tom Stoppard. You can read the full interview here – there's quite a bit about the miniseries, which is interesting but I'm not going to excerpt much of it. Here are my highlights:
"I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant, it has got to be the right person" – PICK ME!!! ME!! For the love of God, I will have his posh, bizarrely beautiful babies. He should know that his weird features plus my Indian features will probably produce an amazing baby. Do you think he knows that? I hope he knows that. I'm waiting for you, Cumby. Also – the bit about playing Joseph and pushing Mary off the stage because "I was just furious about how self-indulgent she was being" is Classic Cumby. I LOVE HIM. |
Robert Downey Jr. left jars of urine on the set of ‘Zodiac’ to protest his director Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:19 AM PDT Have you ever seen David Fincher's Zodiac? I didn't see it when it first came out – I think I saw it for the first time maybe two years ago. I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. I think it might even be David Fincher's finest film, and I'm saying that as a big fan of Seven and The Social Network (but not so much The Game, Fight Club and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – solid films, but not my favorites). At first, I thought Zodiac was going to be an interesting character study and period piece about what went down in San Francisco in the 1970s when the Zodiac Killer was prowling around. But what Fincher created was so incredibly creepy and get-under-your-skin terrifying, simply because the viewer becomes completely enmeshed in the world of the film. Zodiac is full of great performances, mostly by Mark Ruffalo (an SFPD detective tracking Zodiac) and Jake Gyllenhaal (a cartoonist and amateur cryptographer obsessed with the Zodiac case). But there's also a ballsy, intense supporting performance by Robert Downey Jr. as a beat journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle. The film was before RDJ's giant Hollywood comeback in Iron Man – this was done in the years when RDJ was sober, but still trying to prove himself to establishment Hollywood. Here's something I didn't know about Zodiac: it was shot on digital film (a misnomer, etc). And in a new documentary, Fincher described how RDJ was unaccustomed to the kind of rapid filmmaking pace of a digital film… and how RDJ "protested" by leaving jars of urine around the set:
Keanu's documentary actually sounds incredibly interesting – the Wall Street Journal has a great piece about it here. As for RDJ and the mason jars full of urine… gross. Maybe I just don't get it because I'm a girl. There have been so many times when I wished I could just pee standing up, or just be to go without having to make a pit stop in the bathroom. But mostly… I'm really glad I'm not a boy. Boys are GROSS. Ugh, mason jars. |
Anderson Cooper’s live-in boyfriend photographed making out with another man Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:16 AM PDT The photos of Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend kissing another man are on The Daily Mail’s site. Photo above from 2010. Dreamboat news anchor Anderson Cooper came out of the closet just last month after years of speculation. He issued a statement to The Daily Beast that was heartfelt, thoughtful, and detailed his reasons for publicly discussing his orientation, and for not being open about it for so long. He said that he was striving for privacy in his personal life so as not to interfere with his professional obligations as a journalist, but that he didn’t want to give the impression that he was hiding anything. Cooper concluded that “I still consider myself a reserved person and I hope this doesn't mean an end to a small amount of personal space.” He also seemed to suggest that he was coming out in part because he had a long term partner, but he was vague about it, writing “In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.” His statement was touching and gave the impression that Cooper was in a happy committed relationship. Only that might not be the case anymore. New photos have come out of Cooper’s live-in boyfriend, bar owner Ben Maisani, kissing another man. (We don’t have the pictures, you can see them on The Daily Mail’s website.) The two weren’t just kissing hello in a friendly way, they’re sitting down and holding hands too. It looks like they’re making out and honestly my heart kind of sunk seeing those photos. Can you imagine if you saw pictures of your partner like that with someone else? I would freak. Here’s more:
The story about how Cooper’s mom wanted these two to adopt a child came out last May in the National Enquirer. So whether that was true or not they’re reportedly serious. We know they’ve been together since at least 2009. I only hope that they’ve broken up and that Ben isn’t cheating on Anderson, and he’s not finding out about it through the press. It must have been huge for him to write that e-mail and to come out, and now he has to deal with the very thing he was trying to avoid – press speculation into his personal life. Whatever is going on with his relationship, you know he’s not going to address it. I just thought of something – maybe this is a case of mistaken identity and that guy isn’t really Ben Maisani. Some of our photo agencies have been doing that lately and mislabeling average people as celebrities. It sure looks like him, but it’s hard to tell. Photo credit: Pacific Coast News and WENN.com |
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