Like so many others for whom the Hollywood dream has gone sour, Sable, Cody, and Angel probably started in the business with high hopes, but wound up mostly living hand to mouth, forced into wearing close to nothing and swinging on poles for other's amusement when they weren't being terrorized by a physically abusive svengali. But now comes happy news, as a lawsuit settlement has granted the three hard-luck showbiz vets :
Three Hollywood chimpanzees, said to have been punched and beaten to make them perform, will spend the rest of their lives in an animal sanctuary in an cruelty lawsuit settlement, an animal rights group said on Thursday.[...
] Sable, Cody and Angel, who have appeared in numerous TV shows, commercials and movies including "That '70s Show" and "The Craig Kilborn Show," were named in a federal lawsuit alleging cruelty by their California trainer Sid Yost, whose stage name is Ranger Rick.
The Brokeback to the Future guys have returned, and they've added lasers to Singin' in the Rain, proving that there's no dance scene that can't be improved with futuristic gunplay.
And thus begins the .
Unfortunately, Tom and Katie almost certainly won't qualify for next year's installment.
The officially today, the newest member of the burgeoning blogging empire. Stop by and welcome them to the neighborhood.
The dissolution of 's marriage to Bob " " Richie after just four months may have been the celebrity break-up that launched a million, "Go get her, !" wisecracks, but the internationally renowned may have had more of a direct hand in the snuffing of their white trash love than any of us could have guessed.
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" held a screening of 'Borat' at his house for a bunch of people, including Pam and Bob," says an Anderson pal. "It was the first time Bob had seen the movie, and, well, he didn't like it. [...] [Anderson's] friend tells Page Six, "Bob started screaming at Pam, saying she had humiliated herself and telling her, 'You're nothing but a whore!
You're a slut! How could you do that movie?' - in front of everyone.
It was very embarrassing. [..
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"Ever since that night, it has been icicles between them," the friend relates.
While her image in a 20-year-old Baywatch fanzine may have served to enhance the self-pleasuring fantasies of the movie's titular star and his naked, blubbery producing companion, Anderson's actual performance--mostly comprised of trying to outrun the wild-eyed, bride-trapping Eurasian--hardly qualified as either "whore" or "slut"-like.
Surely this couldn't have been the first time Rock betrayed his jealous side, but humiliating the provocative sex symbol among Hollywood's most powerful during a private screening of her hit movie must have simply been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's toe.
Reports :
Anderson, 39, and Rock, 35, both filed divorce petitions Monday, each citing irreconcilable differences, but they gave different dates of separation. Anderson's papers said they separated before Thanksgiving weekend, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, while Rock - who filed under his real name, Robert Ritchie - said they separated on Sunday, Nov.26. No reasons were given for the discrepancy. [.
..] Earlier this month, Anderson's rep confirmed that the actress had suffered a miscarriage while in Vancouver filming the movie Blonde and Blonder.
While neither side is offering an explanation as to what happened, certainly Anderson's time spent bonding with on the Blonde and Blonder set might have planted the seeds that could have set these irreconcilable wheels in motion, to the delight of heartsick, matrimonial-bag-wielding Kazakh bachelors everywhere.
In a Vancouver suburb shooting Blonde and Blonder (a movie co-starring , and described, for those of you too blonde and/or dumb to figure it out, as "Legally Blonde meets Dumb and Dumber"), former Charlie Sheen trampoline partner when she discovered two had managed to infiltrate the movie's closed set: "She grabbed their two laptops and threw them off a balcony," [Richmond RCMP spokesman Cpl. Peter Thiessen said], noting there appeared to be a history between Richards and the photographers.
Thiessen said the 80-year-old woman was one floor below Richards when she was hit but said she was not badly hurt and is not interested in laying charges.
While celebrities have every right to take up laptops and defend themselves against an increasingly emboldened paparazzi insurgency, this latest escalation--in which elderly, invalid civilians are now finding themselves the innocent maiming victims of a hail of tumbling, blunt-edged ThinkPads--makes us wonder if the senseless violence has finally gone too far. The last thing our hair-trigger culture needs is for some starlet to catch wind of this story about the deflective and pliable qualities of the aged and infirm, only to push the closest wheelchair-bound senior citizen into traffic in a misguided attempt at putting some space between themselves and their telephoto-equipped pursuers on their next .
I'm writing you today not so much about the horrific cruelty involved in the hunt, but about the impact of the government's indifference to such violence on Canada's image around the world.Once again, Anderson manages to bust stereotypes: Not only does she put the lie to the cliche of the boring Canadian, but she also proves that a large-breasted blonde is fully capable of understanding and signing the articulate and persuasive statements prepared by PETA on her behalf.As a proud Canadian who frequently travels abroad, I am alarmed that people are starting to see Canada as a country more beholden to a pack of greedy hunters and to the seal-skin "fashion" whims of a few countries than to the massive international outcry against the hunt. One of the biggest problems facing the U.S.
government is appearing aloof about its own hostile behaviour; I'd hate to see that happen north of the border too.
Genius idea of the day: .
If that stuff is hot-tub safe, this guy's going to be a millionaire by the end of the week. [via ]
, how can you not know that he's going to paint the joint purple and trick it all out with all sorts of crazy shit? Carlos Boozer is lucky that the little guy didn't attach rockets to the house and launch it into space.
has spent the last twenty-five years of her life trying to master conversational English, so imagine her frustration at the billionaire in her life .
Funny ha-ha or nightmare for his agent? Jon "Napoleon Dynamite" Heder : "It's funny, but if you don't have a television and haven't seen me on a talk show or hosting "Saturday Night Live," I don't see why you wouldn't believe that I'm mentally disabled.
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We're sorry, but even on the slowest imaginable day, in Vegas is not news--at least not unless she blew it and leaked the videotape on the internet.
Her New Year's Eve party may have been a , but spunky Stacked star has picked herself up, wrung out her gigantic fake melons, and jumped right into 2006 with abandon.
Her first big project: Hopping the , and in doing so rendering our heads dizzy with a seemingly infinite combination of bust, breast and spork jokes:
The actress called the Kentucky native's likeness "a monument to cruelty" to chickens in a statement issued by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group. [..
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In a letter to Fletcher, Anderson detailed alleged abuses of chickens by KFC suppliers. Among her claims, she said workers in a slaughterhouse in West Virginia have been filmed tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco in their eyes, spray-painting their faces and slamming them on the ground.
KFC has responded with their own counter-protest letter, in which they detail abuses heaped by Anderson onto herself, including eyewitness accounts of gigantic silicone orbs being shoved into her sliced open chest, spray tanning her body a most unnatural shade of bronze, and spitting on and/or slamming chicken-limbed companions Tommy Lee, Kid Rock, and Stephen Dorff to the ground.
Stuck in town and still not sure about your New Year's Eve plans?
has just turned that issue into a no-brainer: Simply join her and a few thousand of her closest recreational investors friends on the lot for the !
On Paramount's studio lots designed to look like the Big Apple, Angelinos can ring in 2006 with ex-"Baywatch" babe Pamela Anderson and gyrate to the music of the red-hot Pussycat Dolls. Organizers say they hope to make the party the answer to New York's famous Times Square street party.
"L.A. has never had an event or a place to be on New Year's Eve.This is the first," says Matthew Gavin of Hardball Productions, which is putting on the Anderson-hosted bash called "Gridlock."
The big difference, besides warmer temps, is that this party is not free: Tickets, available at gridlockla.com, cost anywhere from $150 to $1,000 depending on the level of VIP access.There will be four sound stages with different acts and, definitely unlike Times Square, there will be an open Dom Perignon bar.
Gavin expects 4,000 revelers to show up at the Flaunt magazine-sponsored bash, including celebs , Val Kilmer and Eric (sic) Paladino of NBC's "ER."
We think the VIP payment-levels program is an inspired system.
Merely being able to afford the $1000 access denotes that you a more interesting, charismatic, and ultimately desirable party guest, and thus the perfect accompaniment to like Jessica Alba. And for those workaday monkeys who can only afford $150 tickets? Well, at the very least you can call your even broker friends stuck at home watching and yell, "That's right, bitches!
I'm standing right next to Erik Paladino! That's how I roll!" before triumphantly snapping your cell phone shut.
There is perhaps no better way to mourn Tookie Williams' execution than by starting your own gang.
The LAT lets us know to be awake at 4 a.
m. and present for the Golden Globes nominations announcement. Sounds scary, so we're glad we were still safely asleep.
" , is that Rachel is like, you know, so out there with her sexualness and stuff. Whereas I am classy-sexy and understated. You think she's gonna totally pull out my hair when she reads this?
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And as long as we're on the subject of voluptuousness and overt sexuality, scared NBC censors shitless.
No, it's . Why do you ask?
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"Schuth has said he fantasized about being married to 'Alias' star . At his sentencing, he said: 'I apologize to Jennifer Garner and her pool boy for involving them in my fantasies.'" Amazingly, this is .
Michael Eisner showed his impeccable instincts by hating 's soused, Keith Richards-flavored performance in Pirates of the Caribbean . As it turns out, Eisner's fears were unfounded, and .
Wanna see a turntable covered in blow?
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is shocked--shocked!--that the producers of Stacked, a sitcom with a title that puns on her prodigious, man-made rack, would that showcase said factory-installed mams.
Shocked!
, sans Lachey-unit, but with some other guy at a movie. These are all signs of a completely healthy, not at all maintained-solely-for-appearances union.
On any other day, i.e. one without Tom Cruise's fake baby, Lindsay Lohan's accident, and the Simpson-Lachey fiasco, might get more traction.
Today? Meh.
Back in May, Conan's "If They Mated" bit for the Cruise-Holmes union.
Click at your own risk.
of possible baby names. We think Francis Ford "The Hulk" Cage has a nice ring to it.
On a day without the Cruise-Holmes Miracle Baby, Lindsay Lohan's fender-bender, and Nick N' Jessica's on-again, off-again separation, might get some more play. Today? Next!
Like most convicted stalkers, 's alleged stalker .
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