Saturday, January 5, 2008

Is the world just coming apart?

I just don't know anymore, all the crazy shit that is happening! This from the Daily Mail:

Star's fury over claims by Diana author Andrew Morton:

• Daughter by Katie Holmes "conceived like Rosemary's Baby"

• Nicole Kidman "feared blackmail" over sex tapes made with Scientologists

• Scientologists "planted meadown of flowers for Tom and Nicole to run through"

• Cruise's next mission is to recruit David Beckham

Tom Cruise has become the de-facto second in command of the Church of Scientology, according to a new biography - which makes an extraordinary attack on the star by comparing his 20-month-old daughter Suri to the Devil's child in the film Rosemary's Baby.

Andrew Morton's unauthorised biography claims Scientology has taken over the 45-year-old actor's life, with its officials selecting many of the staff at his Hollywood mansion.


The biographer of Princess Diana alleges Cruise is consulted by Scientology leader David Miscavige on "every aspect of planning and policy" and is tailoring his career to fit the aims of Scientology.

Miscavige is said in the book to have gone to extraordinary lengths to charm Cruise, even ordering his staff to plant a field full of wild flowers at a Scientology base in California after Cruise had told him of his fantasy to run through a wildflower meadow with his then newlywed wife Nicole Kidman.

The relationship between the two men is so close that, according to Morton's book, Miscavige even joined him on honeymoon in the Maldives after his wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006.

Cruise denies each of the claims vehemently, and Scientology lawyers are believed to be drawing up a lawsuit seeking £50million in compensation from Morton's publishers, St Martin's Press.

Cruise's lawyer and close confidante Bert Fields gave a rare interview to The Mail on Sunday to pour scorn on Morton's book, titled Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography.

He criticised a passage in which Morton claims some "fanatical" Scientologists believed Suri Cruise was actually the result of a sperm donation by Scientology's dead founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

Morton writes that Ms Holmes may feel she was in "the horror movie Rosemary's Baby, in which an unsuspecting young woman is impregnated with the Devil's child".

Mr Fields said: "It's not being published in England. The American publishers criticised the libel laws in Britain because they require an author to tell the truth. Well, thank God for the British libel laws."

Cruise will not be reading the book when it is published in the United States on January 15, Mr Fields said. "He has no intention of reading it. He's very, very busy with a lot of things right now.

"He has been told about it and naturally he knows there are a bunch of lies about him. You can imagine what it must be like to have someone compare your baby girl to Rosemary's Baby. Morton should be ashamed of himself.

"It's a boring, poorly researched book by a man who never talked to anyone involved in Tom Cruise's life or anyone close to him.

"There's no real independent research. He hasn't spoken to his mother, his sister, me, Paula Wagner [Cruise's film producing partner], his agent, his wives, David Beckham, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez or any of the famous directors he's worked with. Instead you've got this long, boring reference to people he knew 30 years ago."

Morton's book paints a picture of a talented actor who tasted enormous success at a young age and then gradually became consumed by Scientology.

He recounts how the actor was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in 1962 and moved around North America with his parents, living in Ottawa, Canada, until the age of 12, when his mother Mary Lee left his abusive father.

His involvement in Scientology began in 1986 when he was recruited by his first wife Mimi Rogers, a Scientologist who gave him some literature on the subject.

L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction writer, created Scientology in 1954. Its followers have fought hard to have the system of beliefs recognised as a religion, and its central teaching is that life's problems can be solved through a system of oneonone counselling called "auditing", measured by an "E-meter".

Courses can cost thousands, and critics make much of the doctrine of "Thetans" - alien spirits inhabiting human bodies who have to be flushed out.

Scientologists have also attracted criticism for the practice of "disconnect", where followers are encouraged to cut off friends and family members who do not follow Scientology.

Morton claims Scientologists pursued Cruise as part of a campaign to recruit celebrities.

Morton says David Miscavige sought to rebuild Scientology's reputation, battered by a fraud scandal in 1982.

He invited Cruise to his "desert lair" in 1989, a 500-acre resort in Hemet, 90 miles from Los Angeles, nicknamed "Gold Base".

Miscavige lives there with Scientology's most devoted followers called Sea Organisation or Sea Org.


and in WGA strike news:

from Nikki Finke's:

SATURDAY UPDATE: I've just been told that the Hollywood/Big Media CEOs who belong to the AMPTP are furious at MGM chairman Harry Sloan for "allowing" this WGA-United Artists deal to go through.

FRIDAY NIGHT: This is big. This is BIG! Because WGA sources just told me that the guild has clinched an "Independent Agreement" with Tom Cruise's and Paula Wagner's re-started United Artists. This now means that small and struggling UA has a leg up on every other Hollywood studio because it will be able to hire the striking writers. wga.bmpThis is to date the first so-called side deal cut by the WGA with a movie studio since the strike began on November 3rd as part of the guild's newly articulated "divide and conquer" strategy. The WGA's first side deal with a production company was an "interim agreement" with David Letterman's Worldwide Pants which owns both The Late Show and the Late Late Show airing on CBS. Granted, given how tiny UA is -- only six executives -- and how limited their movie development can be, this is more of a symbolic than a significant development in the ongoing WGA strike.

uasmaller.jpgI'm told that, like Letterman's company, UA has accepted the very same proposals that the WGA presented to the media conglomerates when the Alliance Of Motion Picture & Television Producers walked out of contract negotiations back on December 7th. "It's the same kind of agreement that the guild made with [David Letterman's] Worldwide Pants. But 'interim agreement' is not the right word," a WGA insider explained to me. "At the end of the day, once an overall agreement is done between the WGA and AMPTP, if the terms and conditions of that agreement are more favorable to UA, they will be able to enjoy that. This essentially means that UA has the ability to be in business with the WGA."

oh yeah....The Golden Globes broadcast owes the ratings success of its telecasts to this: the presence of stars, stars and more stars, and all the spontanity that goes with them. So I have to ask: without the actors, just who will be on stage -- a bunch of studio moguls who are hardly household names? It's absurd that an NBC spokesperson just told me, "We are prepared to move forward with the Golden Globe telecast on January 13th." Even after SAG President Alan Rosenberg announced today there is "unanimous agreement" that the actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters. This includes the more than 70 actors nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Immediately, the striking writers issued a statement of gratitude. Their union also is keeping at arms length any side agreement with Globes producer Dick Clark Productions because, as everyone knows, the awards show is really nothing more than a black-tie worldwide marketing tool for studio and network product.



The very latest on Britgate....

And I might not post about her again unless it's really huge (I realize how that sounds & it sounds bad but it's not meant that way).....just because it's all so surreal and crazy. I mean, it's not like Brit's the only big star in the universe, others have learned how to cope and not go insane (that we know of)....she could learn some lessons on how to get along (and I'm not saying i'm fans of these other celebs but clearly they deal with celebrity far better than Brit): the Osmonds....they feed the public doses of what they want to be seen; team Cruise, not fond of him but he does manage his celebrity or rather the C of $ manages it for him(no, i'm not saying she should sign up for C of $...don't be silly); Madonna...c'mon, she has been absolutly HUGE and has a good team of security to help her deal; Brangelina....Gwen stefani....Xtina.....there are so many who do better. It's just hard to feel sympathy for Brit when she could clearly have better security and peace of mind and for some reason refuses to use the resources. Anyway, here's what's up from C-PWN & PageSix:

After returning home from the hospital earlier this morning, Britney Spears is back on the road.

Just eight minutes ago, the brokendown pop wreck left her Beverly Hills mansion in her white Mercedes, saw photographers and turned in the other direction.

Currently, she's driving aimlessly near her house.

Meanwhile, media eyes spotted her father Jamie Spears leaving his daughter's gated community shortly after she left. Kevin Federline hasn't left his house all day and is still holed up with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Stay tuned...

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Britney has already been released from the hospital on Saturday morning. According to TMZ she was throwing a tantrum on the 7th floor demanding to be released. She was reportedly screaming at staff and would not stay still even pulling her IV out. There is a rumor that the troubled star suffers from bipolar disorder

Remember TC and his bridebot?

yeah, now all of a sudden pregnancy's a problem. Makes me think Suri really was adopted secretly or somebody else is the father, especially when Mimi Rogers, the first wife, said that cruise couldn't make her pregnant. From digital spy:

Cruise, Holmes consult fertility expert
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are rumoured to be consulting a fertility expert to help them have another baby.

The couple are believed to be struggling to conceive a sibling for 20-month-old daughter Suri and plan to visit LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre later this month for advice.

Now quotes a source as saying: "Katie is so upset. They both really want another child but it just doesn't seem to be happening. She says they have been trying since last summer. Tom and Katie have decided to go and see a specialist."

Cruise also has two adopted children - Connor, 12, and 14-year-old Isabella - with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, but reportedly wants another son to add to the family.

Holmes was rumoured to be pregnant last June and July, but recently said she was in "no particular rush" to have another child.

And in other Spears news...

from the Daily Mail:

Jamie Lynn Spears' TV show 'cancelled' after teen pregnancy

Britney Spears's pregnant sister Jamie Lynn Spears' hit TV show Zoey 101 has reportedly been cancelled.

The Nickelodeon show is set to broadcast its final episode of the third season in the U.S. on Friday and has already completed filming on the fourth.

News of the programme's demise comes two weeks after 16-year-old Jamie Lynn revealed she was pregnant with her first child.

Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge

Teenage parents: Jamie Lynn and Casey Aldridge will become parents in the summer

While Nickelodeon are yet to release a follow-up statement regarding the future of the show, sources told The Sun the end is nigh.

An insider says, "Nickelodeon bosses are still undecided whether to air season four or not.

"For now it looks like it has been canned."


Friday, January 4, 2008

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

To Celebrate Diamond Dave being outed....

Here's "Jump".....how did we not catch it before? The Farrah Fawcett hair, the lipgloss, the eyeliner......sooooooooooo gay! I think the gadar pinged for a few of us, but the rest...well, we must have ignored it! Can you imagine what it must have been like sharing the tour bus with him? Sucking off a guy in the back of the bus while everyone else is like, "dude...really!" no wonder micheal anthony....anthony micheal....the bassist didn't want to tour with them again!


Monday, December 31, 2007

ONTD Blind Item for your new year!



What teen heartthrob recently walked into his New York City hotel room, only to find his girlfriend giving his brother a blow job. Our heartthrob proceeded to call his girlfriend a slut, which only lead to her screaming and throwing a bracelet he gave her at the wall. Seems like these boys really are getting around. Rumor has it that several hotel employees have caught the boys shuffling girls in and out of their hotel room. Now tell me, if you have oral sex, are you still considered pure???


*Spin's guess & the consensus is the Jonas brothers & Miley Cyrus!*

Happy New YEAR!!!


For all my readers (who are the greatest readers), I hope you have a prosperous New Year!

From the Panache Report:

SKY VILLA PRESENTS:

BLIND ITEM: (PEDOPHILIA & DOWNLOW CRAZE IN BLACK HOLLYWOOD)

There is currently a secretive network of men in black Hollywood who congregate discreetly for pedophilia events.

There have always been rumors surrounding a black male star. Allegedly, an up and coming star (teenager) at the time idolized him. When a meeting was arranged and they were left alone, allegedly, the teenager was sexually molested by this man.

Afterwards, he stopped referring to him as his idol.

*Spin's guess: Usher & MJ maybe?*

Rumors have always persisted that a former NFL star (you don't have to follow football to know who he is) is a major pedophile. He even belongs to pedophile chat groups and he operates online with an untraceable offshore IP.

*Spin's heard Deion Sanders but why does O.J spring to mind? Lynn Swann maybe?*

The men who belong to this rich and famous network are protected by other powerbrokers involved in this organization. Mainly, powerful lawyers, judges, etc. They look after their own and have the power to have a case drag out or disappear altogether because they don't want the defendant to take a plea deal and reveal their identities. Many of the men are powerful millionaires.

*Spin has no idea, NAMBLA?*

A former basketball star had to pay off the family of a underage girl because they threatened to go public when they found out about the relationship. The girl was 15, the basketball star at the time, was in his 30's.

*Could be anybody, Jason Kidd?*

Some of these men hide away children they purchase in overseas countries. They bring them over here for sex slave activity.

A prominent lawyer was busted some years ago when it was discovered he had purchased two underage boys overseas on the pipeline (black market) and smuggled them back into the U.S. His co-workers were not even aware that the young boys lived with him. One of the boys escaped his home while he was at work and notified the cops.

*Spin's guess: Johnny Cochran?*

It was once featured on AMW that a young black man appeared on his sister's doorstep, asking for help, he had just got laid off. Unbeknownst to her, he was a member of NAMBLA (North American Man Love Boy Association). While she was at work, he was pimping out her 12-year-old son (his nephew) to other NAMBLA pedophiles who lived in the area for quick cash.

*Don't know, R. Kelly?*

In regards to pedophiles in the music industry, record companies have so much invested in their talent that they look the other way and a few media outlets have been known to accept under the table payment "not" to report on their sickness or to spin it when the truth leaks out.

*Spin's guess: R. Kelly*

A black powerbroker music mogul was never a hit with the models and call girls in the sack. Word got back to him and he decided to act on his gay tendencies. After we reported on his love shack in L.A., he sold the property and does business from New York. He is the ringleader for the downlow events among black entertainers, he organizes all of the events and functions. He also loves to sleep with young muscular men.

*Spin has heard Dr Dre*

Sunday, December 30, 2007

New Radicals

One of my all time favorite songs.....enjoy! and Sunny.....wherever you are, this one is for you, you got the music in you, don't let go, don't give up, you're gonna pull through....it's not all bad.

I miss being a mall rat!!!




HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

From ONTD:

***I've always liked Angelina regardless of what other ppl thought, now I have one more reason!***

It is cause for billions of people to rejoice. But not these celebrity Grinches - sorry, atheists.

They are the stars who do not believe three wise men followed a star to a baby in a manger more than 2000 years ago.

Some seem to have given no thought to the concept of a higher being.

Take Angelina Jolie.

In the September 6, 2000 edition of The Onion A.V. Club titled "Is There A God?", celebrities were asked the question. Jolie was among those asked.

She reportedly replied: "Hmm... For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either."


Then there are those who seem to have thought about it a little too much.

Aussie actress Rachel Griffiths is arguably a case in point.

When asked by Madison magazine in 2000 if she was religious, Griffiths answered: "Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning.

"I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality ... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality.

"And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian/Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light."

Find out the identities of other stars, including Keanu Reeves, who've shunned Santas and the saints in our Celebrity atheists gallery.

And a merry Christmas to all those who believe. To those who don't, merry Tuesday.

Bob Geldof ... as long as Michael Hutchence isn't in heaven he's probably not
bothered. And Michael probably doesn't want to be there.

Bill Gates ... isn't he God?

Marlon Brando ... now he could well be God if Gates isn't.

Bjork ... if Santa's north pole setup was real she'd have seen him from nearby
Iceland.

Ani DiFranco ... no prospect of a Christmas album from her either.

Katharine Hepburn ... her advice is just to be nice.

Bruce Lee ... sleep beats traditional notions of spirituality.

Jodie Foster ... doesn't pray in the panic room.

THE FIVE CELEBRITY ATHEISTS I WAS TOO LAZY TO EMBED INTO THIS POST ARE:
1. Richard Branson
2. Rachel Griffiths
3. Ricky Gervais
4. John Malkovich
5. Billy Joel

and for more click here: http://www.celebatheists.com

So she's just fat?


from IDLYITW.com:

Jennifer Aniston hasn't been in the news lately, so her publicist made up a story that Aniston was pregnant, let people talk about it for a few days, then released a statement saying Aniston is not pregnant. See how that works? Us Magazine says:

The National Enquirer reported that Aniston, 38, is expecting and speculated that the father could be either Vince Vaughn, Paul Sculfor or Sex and the City hunk Jason Lewis. But her rep tells Usmagazine.com: "She is not pregnant."...The star "is in a great mood," a source told Us, despite the fact that she didn't have a date and "left alone" after the Christmas Eve dinner. "There's no drama, and that's why she's happy!"

****yeah, remember the testosterone shot thing? I guess she did put on a few pounds after stopping the shots! Pics are from Xmas eve, according to IDLYITW

Party's over.....


This comes from Daily News

Smoking ban to hit French cafes

Sunday, December 30th 2007, 4:00 AM

PARIS - At Le Cerceau, a café in the heart of the garment district here, the coffee's strong, the cigarette smoke's thick - and the customers wouldn't have it any other way.

"It's a tradition," said Giorgio Marciano, 47, enjoying a midday smoke.

But Marciano and the 14 million other smokers in France will have to make do without their cherished clopes after Tuesday. That's when France becomes the latest country to ban smoking in restaurants, bars, nightclubs and the most hallowed spot of all - the café.

"It's the end of the French café, the end of the French bistro," said bartender Cyrille L'Hernete, who called the ban a good thing even though 80% of Le Cerceau's customers smoke.

"I have the right to have a coffee and smoke!" retorted an angry customer, who declined to give his name.

In an unexpected move in a country where lighting up is something of a national sport, most Paris restaurant and café owners are lining up behind the smoking ban, with some 800 establishments already smoke-free.

"More people will go to cafés because there's no smoke, no odor," said Philippe Rabes, manager of Le Nemours, a café across from the Louvre. He said he hasn't lost business since banning smoking 10 months ago.

His prediction is not echoed by industry groups, which contend it will drive bar tabac owners out of business. Some 10,000 tobacco sellers marched through Paris in November demanding exceptions to the law. They lost.

Authorities in France promise to "gradually" enforce the law, which will slap errant smokers with a $99 penalty and fine owners $197 per offense.

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and this is from http://www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com/General/FAQ.html

Is cannabis legal in Holland?

Strictly speaking, no. Possession of small quantities is decriminalised, meaning it's a non-criminal offence like a parking ticket. In practice, even the law against selling cannabis is not enforced in Amsterdam.

What about this new law banning smoking in public places?

The Netherlands is following New York (formerly New Amsterdam, of course) in banning smoking in all places of work, including bars, restaurants and coffeeshops. The law is designed to protect workers from the effects of second-hand smoke and was not particularly aimed at coffeeshops but could have a drastic effect on them nevertheless.

From January 2004 it will be illegal to smoke cigarettes or joints in any enclosed public space, forcing smokers to indulge outside. Bars have negotiated an extension until 2005 but, after that time, although coffeeshops will still be able to sell cannabis, patrons will have to go outside to smoke it.

The Dutch are keen cigarette smokers and smoke everywhere. There are smoking areas on trains, for instance (there is, of course, a powerful anti-smoking lobby too). Smokers and bar owners tend to view the idea of a smoking ban as a bit of a joke. They don't believe it would be enforced but the law makers still seem determined and the current Dutch government would appreciate the side-effect on coffeeshops as a way of appeasing the French and American governments.

The latest situation is that no general smoking ban will be imposed on bars, cafes or restaurants until 2009. It is still not clear, however, whether the ban will apply to coffeeshops then or indeed whether it already applies to them, at least in principle, because they are not considered to be catering establishments. The good news is that, for the time being, you can still smoke in most coffeeshops in most cities.

Can one smoke anywhere in Amsterdam?

No. It's not that you're likely to get arrested, it's simply a matter of good manners. Some bars and hotels don't mind smoking pot but others detest it. If you want to know whether it's cool to smoke in a place, just ask politely.

Are all drugs acceptable?

The Netherlands is not the Wild West. On the contrary, it's exceptionally civilised with a sensible and constructive attitude to drugs. The use of cannabis is tolerated. The likes of cocaine and heroin are not. Having said that, ecstasy and even cocaine testing kits are available in the smartshops.

Never buy any drugs on the street. You *will* get ripped off. Stick to the coffeeshops and smartshops.

What is the minimum age to enter a coffeeshop?

The age limit for smoking and drinking is 18. If you look under 18 be sure to carry some ID as checks are common.