hard to believe she really was once just an attorney

from defamer.com:

Before They Were Unbearable Fame Whores: Starlet Jones, Attorney-At-Law

It's easy to forget, in all the controversy surrounding her recent dismissal from The View, that the almost impossibly glamorous Star Jones was once Starlet Jones, a highly principled and sober assistant D.A from Brooklyn. Delivering trenchant legal analysis to CourtTV audiences in a wardrobe limited to sensible leprechaunwear, the Starlet in this unearthed 1991 video seems worlds away from the rampaging couch diva and insufferable red carpet celebrity suck-ass we've come to know and loathe over the years. We'd go on about how this is a cautionary tale of what becomes a high moral character when egos and greed are driven to excess, but damn it if she doesn't look a zillion times better after she spent some of her millions on stomach removal surgery, a breast lift, and some chi chi designer duds.

Celebrity 1, Integrity 0.

Star Jones: A View Before 'The View' [CourtTV.com]

BLOW IT UP!!!

from defamer.com:

We've received a couple of reports from operatives who were briefly inconvenienced by a bomb scare at the Scientology Celebrity Centre last night, which managed to snarl traffic on the streets around L. Ron Hubbard's Hollywood mothership while the threat was contained. Luckily for all in the vicinity, Celebrity Centre personnel allowed the proper authorities to handle the situation, avoiding the potentially catastrophic mistake of dispatching on-call OTR-III Explosives Tech Jenna Elfman to shout accusations of baby rape at the possible bomb until it was shamed into defusing itself and enrolling in a pricey self-actualization course, and disaster was averted. The first report:

Last night at approximately 8pm I was on my way to my girlfriend's apartment [in a ] building across Bronson from the somewhat terrifying Scientology Celebrity Centre. Coming down Franklin, I was dismayed to be re-directed into a clusterfuck of traffic as police had sealed off the entire block surrounding the Centre. I called my girlfriend, who then tried to exit her building. The police would not let her leave her apartment building, saying that there was a bomb about 120 feet from where she was standing. Eventually some bomb squad SUVs came, did their thing, and left... at which point she was able to leave and I was able to walk the street. The thing I find oddest about it all is that even though there where dozens of people milling about (it seemed that Birds, Bourgeois Pig, etc where all evacuated), I have yet to see even the slightest mention of this anywhere...

The second report, with bonus non-Scientologist celebrity reaction to the scare, follows after the jump:

Got stuck in traffic due to a bomb scare at the Scientology Centre yesterday (insert Battlefield Earth / War of the Worlds joke here), trying to zig-zag on side streets with every other Hollywood-living Los Angeleno... including Bradley Whitford. As we passed one another in our desperate search for a path home that would take less than two hours, we exchanged bewildered looks: Him (in Aaron Sorkin scripted-trademark form): "Dude? What the hell?"; Us: "Hey man! You're awesome in the new STUDIO 60 series! Can't wait for the fall premiere!" And then, as all things do, we passed each other and were swept into the angry honks and beeps of another joyous L.A. commute home. Glad he's keeping it real in a Honda.

Previously: Jenna Elfman Attacks Man In Glib T-Shirt [Defamer]

Greatly Sorry

I've been a little neglectful recently and I'm sorry!

This should be good for a giggle...

watch out hookers! you could be legal soon! and that means TAXES!!!

check out the link in the headline.

This isn't a surprise

from ONTD:

TMZ has learned that Candy Spelling, Aaron’s widow, has quietly put the Spellings’ legendary mansion on the market for $150 million.

Sources in the real estate industry say Westside Estate Agency (WEA) has a pocket listing on the 56,000 square foot estate, meaning it is is quietly being shopped among realtors and select buyers. The mansion, located in the exclusive Holmby Hills area of L.A., was completed in 1991 for around $47 million, which includes $10 million for the land.

One real estate source says Candy Spelling has let a lot of people on the staff go and that the buzz is that she is going to shut the house down so it can be shown by realtors. Aaron Spelling died on June 23

source:http://icydk.com/

Oh, who the hell cares anymore?

I don't. But for the five of you left who do, here:

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from ONTD:

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are planning a secret wedding after the actor proposed to the former Friends star in Paris, according to reports.

Friends claim Aniston has invited her former mother-in-law, Brad Pitt’s mom Jane, to the nuptials and Vaughn is going to great lengths to shape-up for the big day.

A Pitt family source tells Life & Style that Aniston has told her former sister-in-law Julie, who has also been invited to the wedding, that although a date has not been set, the actress would like it “sooner rather than later.”

Vaughn reportedly went down on one knee while the couple was in Europe promoting the film that brought them together, The Break-Up.
And Life & Style reports that Vaughn is so serious about looking his best when he weds Aniston, he has started the Zone diet, which Aniston has been a long-time fan of.

According to the publication, Aniston told a friend, “He’s started the Zone diet, and he’s working out. He looks great.”

Aniston is reportedly waiting for the fuss about her ex-husband’s new baby with Angelina Jolie to die down before exchanging vows with her reported new fiancé.

But an insider insists Aniston is getting serious about her wedding plans: “Jen’s already asked Courteney Cox to be her matron of honor.”

For all the Texans that this affected....

Ken Lay has died. Wow. I guess stress can do that.

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from MSNBC.com:

Enron founder Ken Lay dead of heart attack

• Enron founder deadJuly 5: CNBC reports Kenneth Lay has died of a massive heart attack at his vacation home.

BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 4 minutes ago

HOUSTON - Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, has died of a heart attack in Colorado. He was 64.

A secretary at his church and another secretary for his lead criminal lawyer, Michael Ramsey, both confirmed the death. Lay, who lived in Houston, frequently vacationed in Colorado.
Lay, who faced life in prison, was scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 23.

Nicknamed “Kenny Boy” by President Bush, Lay led Enron’s meteoric rise from a staid natural gas pipeline company formed by a 1985 merger to an energy and trading conglomerate that reached No. 7 on the Fortune 500 in 2000 and claimed $101 billion in annual revenues.
He was convicted May 25 along with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling of defrauding investors and employees by repeatedly lying about Enron’s financial strength in the months before the company plummeted into bankruptcy protection in December 2001. Lay was also convicted in a separate non-jury trial of bank fraud and making false statements to banks, charges related to his personal finances.

Lay had built Enron into a high-profile, widely admired company, the seventh-largest publicly traded in the country. But Enron collapsed after it was revealed the company’s finances were based on a web of fraudulent partnerships and schemes, not the profits that it reported to investors and the public.

When Lay and Skilling went on trial in U.S. District Court Jan. 30, it had been expected that Lay, who enjoyed great popularity throughout Houston as chairman of the energy company, might be able to charm the jury. But during his testimony, Lay ended up coming across as irritable and combative.

He also sounded arrogant, defending his extravagant lifestyle, including a $200,000 yacht for wife Linda’s birthday party, despite $100 million in personal debt and saying “it was difficult to turn off that lifestyle like a spigot.”

Both he and Skilling maintained that there had been no wrongdoing at Enron, and that the company had been brought down by negative publicity that undermined investors’ confidence.
His defense didn’t help his case with jurors.

“I wanted very badly to believe what they were saying,” juror Wendy Vaughan said after the verdicts were announced. “There were places in the testimony I felt their character was questionable.”

Lay was born in Tyrone, Mo. and spent his childhood helping his family make ends meet. His father ran a general store and sold stoves until he became a minister. Lay delivered newspapers and mowed lawns to pitch in. He attended the University of Missouri, found his calling in economics, and went to work at Exxon Mobil Corp. predecessor Humble Oil & Refining upon graduation.

He joined the Navy, served his time at the Pentagon, and then served as undersecretary for the Department of the Interior before he returned to business. He became an executive at Florida Gas, then Transco Energy in Houston, and later became CEO of Houston Natural Gas. In 1985, HNG merged with InterNorth in Omaha, Neb. to form Enron, and Lay became chairman and CEO of the combined company the next year.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

EW, ick, gross, nasty and barf

the thought of Paris Hilton having babies really sickens me. The spoiled begatting the next generation of spoileds. Maybe she'll be curesd with something like twins or triplets. But then the bitch still wouldn't have to worry, she'd have a team of nannies to do the dirty work 24/7. This cow just wants babies because all the "cool hollywood kids" are spitting them out all over right now. Imagine her wonky-eyes brats running about. Ick.

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from MSNBC.com:


By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC

Paris Hilton wants to reproduce. Soon.

The partying heiress insists she’d be a “great mother” — but the 25-year-old she doesn’t want to wait long because she doesn’t want to be an “old mom.”

“I know in my heart of hearts I would be a great mother,” Hilton told the London Mirror. “I have a lot of beautiful animals that I look after and I feel that I would have a lot to give to my children. . . . And I don’t want to be an old mom — hopefully it’ll happen soon, within the next five years.”

And, despite her reputation for being a skimpily clad man-killer, Hilton insists she’s cautious when it comes to her love life.

“One-night stands are not for me,” she said. “I think it’s gross when you just give it up. Guys want you more if you don’t just hand it to them on a platter. If they want you, then they will wait. You have to make them work for it.”

Hilton also had harsh words for her former best friend and “Simple Life” co-star, Nicole Richie. “I only want friends who are there for me just like I’m there for them. Otherwise it’s too painful,” she said. “I brought Nicole on to ‘The Simple Life,’ and all of a sudden she became this different person. She dropped her old friends and she’s someone else.”

Either Nicole will feel forced to leave or....

She'll start using herself. Have to wait and see.

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from ONTD:

Keith Urban: I Can't Say I've Beaten Drugs Quote:2006-07-01

Country music star KEITH URBAN is refusing to claim he's beaten drugs - despite being clean for eight years.

NICOLE KIDMAN's new husband, who checked himself into rehab in 1998, is wary of saying he's overcome his addiction for good because he understands how hard it is to break the drug habit.

Explaining how his cocaine problem began, the MAKING MEMORIES OF US crooner says, "I could only take so much rejection. Especially when you've paid your dues back home. You come here (to America) and you're no one."I had this cheap, run-down place in Nashville where I used to do drugs I remember one night crawling around on my hands and knees, looking for these little rocks at five in the morning, drenched in sweat. It was the worst."I'm sure a lot of people wrote me off. Cocaine kills everything you need: belief and self-esteem. I was fortunate that I still had music."

As any addict will tell you - even after quitting for ten years - you never make the claim that you've beaten it."

source: http://femalefirst.co.uk/entertainme...s+.-19878.html

Lindsey Blohan didn't go outside the States for her birthday!

I figured she was full of shit when she said she was going to those islands...who advertises a "private" b-day party? Oh yeah and nice Nicole Kidman touch with the beer.

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from ONTD:

Ms. Lohan celebrated her 20th birthday at the Osbourne clan's Malibu pad . It looks like the door at Hyde or Privilege last night with all the cool Hollywood kids in attendence and some others like Ivanka Trump (why?), Nicole Richie (of course), and Jamie Lynn Sigler (who cares).

As the night wore on, Lindsay sent out some beer for the photographers. Someone must have brought the brews into the party not realizing the girl's only 20 and can't consume alcoholic beverages!

She must have decided that rather than throw it out, she's put it to good use. Don't worry Lindsay, only one more year and you'll taste the forbidden fruit! And check out that ugly gift bag!

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