“PRECIOUS” IS EASILY ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR
Filed Under: "Precious" > Movies > Paula Patton
If you’ve been looking forward to seeing the movie “Precious,” you might be surprised to learn that MANY moviegoers have been waiting for this one to open. It’s surprising, considering the subject matter – the story of an obese, illiterate, teenage girl struggling in Harlem to survive under unbearable conditions. It’s not pretty, but the brilliant director Lee Daniels successfully adds humor and fantasy to the desperate story, plus, and most important, hope. It’s a heartbreaking but life affirming movie that illustrates the world is not ALL bad. And one can always improve one’s circumstances. Every character is well cast and the story will pull you right in. Robin Thicke’s wife Paula Patton is a great discovery as a caring teacher. This is a very special movie. Bring some kleenex when you see it.
Posted by Janet on November 7, 2009
THIS IS WHAT HAPPINESS LOOKS LIKE
Filed Under: Animals
Photo Credit: Splash News
Four year old Willy the polar bear lives in a zoo in North Carolina and apparently he’d been showing signs of melancholy. To cheer him up, the zoo surprised him with 5000 pounds of ice cubes and he almost exploded with happiness. Willy wallowed and rolled and nuzzled and licked the ice and seemed to be in complete ecstasy. Until it melted. It reminds us that he would probably be happier back at his arctic habitat.
Posted by Janet on November 6, 2009
HALLE BERRY’S MODERN AMERICAN FAMILY
Filed Under: Boyfriend > Gabriel Aubry > Halle Berry
Photo Credit: Splash News
Is this a picture perfect family or what? Halle Berry pulled the luggage while Gabriel Aubry carried their daughter Nahla through LAX when they arrived from New York. Approximately four years ago (around the time she met Gabriel,) Halle said that she wanted a baby, but she vowed that after two failures, she’d “never marry again.” Let’s see if she sticks to her guns.
Posted by Janet on November 5, 2009
EMBARRASSED RIHANNA CONFESSED THAT SHE HAD A SECRET TRYST WITH CHRIS, BUT CAME TO HER SENSES
Filed Under: Chris Brown > Confession > Rihanna
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
We were RIGHT when we told you that Rihanna would go back to her abusive boyfriend Chris Brown after he beat her up. Chris was her first big love and she had a terrible time getting over him. Now Rihanna has confessed that she DID reunite with Chris, but eventually put love aside and came to her senses. She couldn’t bear to talk about the incident until now because she was still in love with Chris. We give Rihanna a lot of credit – both for confessing and for leaving Chris for good. We only hope she doesn’t change her mind. Since legally Chris is restrained from going anywhere near her, maybe she’ll have time to fall for someone else.
Posted by Janet on November 5, 2009
TYRA BANKS: NOT SO DEFIANT ANY MORE
Filed Under: Hair! > Tyra Banks > Weight
Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin
Two years ago, Tyra Banks was photographed looking hefty in a bathing suit and on her show she defiantly told the world to “kiss my fat ass!” Well, it’s not so fat any more. Chubby fans might not be pleased to know that Tyra has pared off 30 pounds since that dramatic day and she’s very pleased with herself. Tyra is looking very natural in this recent photo of her in the East Village – with no apparent make up and what looks like her own hair.
Posted by Janet on November 5, 2009
JOEY FATONE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
Filed Under: Dancing With the Stars > Joey Fatone
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
We appreciate Joey Fatone laughing at himself with this t-shirt. Sure, he’d like to have an ‘Nsync reunion after seven years of separation, but ALL the members must agree, and that can take time. Before this photo was taken, Joey was in the audience at “Dancing with the Stars.” ABC is polling viewers about who they’d like to see return to DWTS and Joey is one of the favorites, along with Drew Lachey and Mel B.
Posted by Janet on November 5, 2009
SPENCER PRATT: WOULD YOU TAKE ADVICE FROM THIS MAN?
Filed Under: Spencer Pratt > The Hills
Hold onto your lunch, we just heard that Spencer Pratt wants to go from “The Hills” to a motivational speaking career! An insider has leaked that Spencer is in talks with The Learning Annex to participate in a series of lectures where he’ll share his secrets about “how to become rich and famous.” If things work out, he’d eventually love to travel around the country and appear with other speakers at paid self improvement seminars. We’re flabbergasted.
Posted by Janet on November 4, 2009
THE BECKHAMS HAVE TWO NEW FAMILY MEMBERS
Filed Under: Beckhams > David Beckham > Pigs > Victoria Beckham
Photo Credit: Splash News
These little mini-pigs are becoming VERY popular and Victoria and David Beckham love to jump on the trend bandwagon early. The Beckhams paid around $2000 for a pair of the piglets (considerably less money than one of Victoria’s handbags costs.) The adorable pigs only weigh around 9 ounces at birth and grow to be about 14 inches tall and up to 65 pounds. The pigs can be housebroken, and will have a comfortable home at the Beckhams sprawling compound outside London. We only hope they’re not forgotten when they grow up.
Posted by Janet on November 4, 2009
MADONNA WANTS JESUS TO BE AS AMBITIOUS AS SHE IS
Filed Under: Jesus Luz > Madonna > Money
Photo Credit: Splash News
Madonna is a tornado of ambition and she wants her boyfriend Jesus Luz to be the same way. (He’s always been entirely too fond of lying on the beach.) She’s been making connections for him to get modeling jobs – but that’s not enough. She also wants him moonlighting as a DJ. It’s rumored that she spent $30,000 on DJ equipment for him this summer and now she’s getting him booked at celebrity parties in New York. If SHE’S at the party, Jesus doesn’t play her music because he says she hears it enough at home.
Posted by Janet on November 4, 2009
WILL KIRSTIE ALLEY REVISIT HOUSE OF PIES ON HER NEW REALITY SHOW?
Filed Under: House of Pies > Kirstie Alley > Reality Shows > Weight
The reality show that Kirstie Alley has been shopping around found a home at the A&E network. Shooting starts this month and supposedly the show will feature Kirstie’s battle to lose weight, raise her kids, produce a movie, and hunt for a boyfriend. (We can already imagine her on the Plenty of Fish dating site posting an old photo.) We wonder if any of Kirstie’s SECRET activities will be featured on the show. Last July we wrote the following item about Kirstie and it would have made great TV:
“Taco Bell isn’t Kirstie Alley’s only diet enemy. It seems she also has a weakness for House of Pies. Employees at a nearby business have seen Kirstie eating pie in her car in the parking lot of the House of Pies on Vermont. And it’s happened more than once. She bought two or three pies to go, and brought them out to her car and devoured most of them right then and there.“
Posted by Janet on November 3, 2009
MARK WAHLBERG MUST BE HAPPIER THAN HE LOOKS
Filed Under: Baby Talk > Expecting > Mark Wahlberg > Rhea Durham
Photo Credit: Splash News
Mark Wahlberg always has that scowl on his face, but he’s GOT to be more fun than he looks. He’s filming in NYC and speaking freely about the 4th baby that his new wife Rhea Durham is expecting. They’re having another girl so the family is balanced with two girls and two boys. And despite multiple births, Rhea still looks like a supermodel. Although Mark came from a family of 9, he says 4 are enough, because he wants each of his kids to have plenty of attention.
Posted by Janet on November 3, 2009
SEAN PENN HAS HIS OWN EVE CARRINGTON: IT’S BEN FOSTER
Filed Under: "The Messenger" > Ben Foster > Movies > Sean Penn
Photo Credit: Splash News
Ben Foster (the crazy killer in “3:10 to Yuma”) nervously paced outside, as the movie destined to make him a major player was screened in Beverly Hills. “The Messenger” is a very intense and exceedingly well done film about the military guys who have the difficult job of notifying families when a soldier is killed. Ben’s performance immediately brought to mind the fact that if Sean Penn were twenty-five years younger, he would have had the part. It was just his kind of role – a cocky character with hidden sensitivity. One can’t help but compare the two actors. Ironically, or maybe not, Sean showed up for the screening.
Posted by Janet on November 3, 2009
WIN A DATE WITH “TWILIGHT” STAR ROB PATTINSON
Filed Under: Robert Pattinson > Twilight > Vanity Fair
Ha Ha, Sorry, just kidding about the date. Do we really need an excuse to publish a gorgeous Bruce Weber photo of Rob Pattinson? The December issue of Vanity Fair is high on our list of must-haves because it’s ALL ABOUT ROB. If he’s not the new James Dean, we don’t know who is. He’s got that pigment.
Posted by Janet on November 3, 2009
NICK CANNON TAKES GOOD CARE OF HIS PRECIOUS GIRL
Filed Under: "Precious" > Mariah Carey > Nick Cannon
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
Mariah Carey doesn’t have to watch her step as she navigates the stairs at Chateau Marmont because Nick Cannon is watching her step FOR her! She doesn’t have to worry about a thing! They were at the party for Mariah’s movie “Precious” which has completely rejuvenated Mariah’s acting career – she might even be nominated for an Oscar. That must be why she looks so happy.
Posted by Janet on November 2, 2009
ANDREA CASIRAGHI AND GIRLFRIEND TATIANA: NOT EXACTLY AN AVERAGE COUPLE
Filed Under: Prince Andrea Casiraghi > Royalty > Tatiana Santo Domingo
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
They look like average New Yorkers but these two are among the wealthiest people in the world. It’s Prince Andrea Casiraghi, the son of Princess Caroline of Monaco, and his girlfriend Tatiana Santo Domingo, an heiress from Colombia whose father is one of the richest men in South America. They met at a fancy school in Paris and have been together since 2004. Now they’re a jet setting couple who live in the West Village and may or may not be taking classes in New York.
Posted by Janet on November 2, 2009
CHER TURNS BACK TIME AT THE AIRPORT
Filed Under: Boyfriend > Cher > Fashion
Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin
Apparently she doesn’t mind being looked at, because this is how Cher struts through the airport – in a white cowgirl hat and boyfriend jeans. It’s not one of our favorite fashion moments, but Cher herself looks great – even if her face is tanner than her feet. Speaking of boyfriends, she WAS seen this summer in Malibu with her 24 years younger biker boyfriend Tim Medved. – so THAT might still be happening. Good for her.
Posted by Janet on November 2, 2009
CHRIS ROBINSON IS GOING ON WITH HIS LIFE
Filed Under: Chris Robinson > Expecting > Kate Hudson > Kids
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes doesn’t care WHO his ex-wife Kate Hudson is dating – he’s starting a new family of his own. He and Kate have a son together, Ryder, 5, and Chris’s girlfriend of two years, Allison Bridges, is expecting a baby in January.
Posted by Janet on November 2, 2009
ROB PATTINSON HAS LEFT THE CITY
Filed Under: Robert Pattinson > Twilight
Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin
We felt a twinge of regret when Rob Pattinson left Los Angeles on Halloween- only days after he arrived from Canada. We secretly hoped he’d stick around for awhile and we’d bump into him somewhere. (Anything can happen in this town.) Now that possibility is shattered since he he’s flown away to start publicizing his “New Moon” movie. Sigh.
Posted by Janet on November 1, 2009
BRAD AND ANGELINA SCARE THE NEIGHBORS
Filed Under: Angelina Jolie > Brad Pitt > Halloween > Kids
Photos: GETTY
Brad and Angelina didn’t miss Halloween with their kids. The four oldest children dressed up and went trick or treating with their parents in their LA neighborhood – and they didn’t need a lot of bodyguards. Brad dressed up as the kids’ favorite TV character – DJ Lance Rock from Nick Jr’s Yo Gabba Gabba show. Angelina splattered some blood on herself and dusted white powder in her hair, Zahara was Batman, Shiloh and Maddox were in camouflage army clothes, but we don’t know about Pax. The beads in Brad’s beard are slightly unsettling.
Posted by Janet on November 1, 2009
