Celebrities 2/10

This morning, Good Day New York anchorman Greg Kelly gets to return to his seat behind the desk after being cleared of all accusations of rape. Kelly was “very helpful through out the investigation and very appreciate to all those involved.” It does turn out that the girl didn’t want to admit to her boyfriend she cheated on him so made up the rape story.

Due to the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI just released an investigative report on Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs. The information was gathered when President George H.W. Bush expressed interest in giving him a presidential appointment. The report shows that Jobs did drugs in the 60s and 70s and the psych evaluation says that “Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.” LOL!

It appears that Halle Berry is officially going to marry Olivier Martinez (There has been a lot of back and forth). The only problem is her ex-husband Gabriel. She wants Nahla and herself away from Hollywood and wants to live in Martinez’s house in France. Gabriel doesn’t want that because then he can’t see her as much. So the couple is headed back into court to discuss the issue.

Spoiled brat Connor Cruise (Tom and Nicole’s 17 year old son) was upset at his publicist for tweeting after the Super Bowl “Sorry @TheConnorCruise maybe next year.” Connor when wrote some rude as text messages to the publicist and when Todd Krim even apologized he wouldn’t drop it. He then went “all homophobic on” Krim and Krim has decided to drop Connor as a client. “I do not associate with people who act that way, no matter what age.”

To prep for a role, Vanessa Hudgens went to the actually pregnant, homeless, teen shelter in Jersey that the film is about. She stayed there for two weeks with the teens and the kids. She wanted to do it because she wanted to have something to reference when doing the film. “I didn’t want to come off as fake or a poser. I wanted to feel those emotions that these ladies have to go through.”

TV/Movies/Music 2/10

NBC is treating Katharine McPhee's Idol days like a Cinderella-esque unwanted stepchild. The network refuses to acknowledge McPhee former days on American Idol, which has caused them a lot of flack. On her bio for the Smash site, it doesn't mention anything before her debut album in 2007, which was released almost immediately after Idol. NBC even goes as far as "Introducing" her in their ads as if no one has ever heard of her. (Which is funny because she was in the movie House Bunny so she isn’t really being “introduced.”)

Bruce Springsteen wants to keep it in the family. He has hired Clarence Clemon’s nephew Jake Clemons to play the saxophone when the group goes on tour. Jake plays the sax, piano and guitar and actually got to play at President Clinton’s inauguration in 1992.

President Obama has released his 2012 Campaign Playlist. You can log into iTunes now and download all the songs.

Adam Levine of Maroon 5 is launching his own record label called 222. He has announced that his first artist is Matthew Morrison of Glee. Morrison is planning a sophomore album but since his first one tanked his first record label dropped him.

Word is that there is a plan to make Spring Awakening a movie. Rumor also has it that they are talking to Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff to start in the movie.

Rita Wilson is apparently taking a break from acting to release her debut solo album, which will be called AM/FM. It will feature classic songs from the 60’s (the AM part) and the 70’s (the FM part). Chris Cornell, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill and Vince Gill will be featured.

Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise have signed on for the upcoming movie Oblivion. In the film, Cruise is the last man on Earth in a post-apocalyptic world who stays behind to kill all the aliens that have taken over. Not much is known about Freeman’s role.

For all of you that wanted to see the big budget adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost are out of luck. The product has been scrapped. Bradley Cooper says he is a little disappointed because he has always wanted to play Lucifer.

Haley Joel Osment is returning to the sci-fi genre in the movie I’ll Follow You Down. He is playing the son of a scientist that disappears. Osment’s character will discover his father’s whereabouts years later in a supposedly “super creepy fashion.”

The CW has given the green light for the Green Arrow pilot. It is already rumored that Stephen Amell is in talks to play the lead.

NBC’s newest news magazine Rock Center hasn’t exactly been doing well in the ratings. So NBC moved it from Monday night at 10pm to Wednesday night at 9pm. That was actually worse for the show! So you know it will be moved again.

Times are hard for Kodak. They have decided to stop making digital cameras. (Side Note: Did you know that Kodak actually produced the first digital camera in 1975! The problem was getting the photos off the camera since computers weren’t really big in the 70s. LOL!)

Legal Issue and Politics 2/10

After being detained by the Secret Service, a Colorado student faces several charges for glitter-bombing Mitt Romney. Smith faces up to six months in jail. (Okay, please let this be the last of this glitter-bombing crap. Seriously, it is a stupid trend)

A Florida man was apprehended by the police on a domestic abuse charge this week after he got into a heated argument with his wife. Turns out, the guy forgot his wife’s birthday and things just boiled over from there. When he was in front of the judge to be sentenced, the judge didn’t give him jail time. Instead he was ordered to buy his wife flowers, a card, a dinner at Red Lobsters, and a game or two of bowling.

Australia is taking an interesting step in protecting children. They are debating a bill that would strip tax breaks from parents who don’t vaccinate their children. The sponsors of the bill say that while vaccines might not be perfect exposing children and society to measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, etc. is just not safe.

In last year’s election, Spain voted in a bunch of Popular Party members to both houses. Politicians are already making plans to overturn a lot of the Socialists party’s reforms and return the country to the way things were in 1985. They plan to repeal marriage equality, abortion laws, religion in schools, and racial protections. The Popular Party’s new dominance pretty much means that it can institute any changes it wants without interference.

It is a common practice in politics to sink unwanted bills with crazy amendments. Both Democrats and Republicans do it all the time. I think this is my all-time favorite… Oklahoma State Rep. Constance Johnson (D) tried to sink an anti-abortion bill by presenting this amendment “However, any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child.” HAHAHAHAHA! The amendment didn’t pass but it sure made me giggle.

Celebrities 2/9

When Facebook goes public, Mark Zuckerberg will be a billionaire. But due to the fact that stock options are heavily taxed, the government will come down on Zuckerberg hard. Accounting experts have said that if Zuckerberg sells his part off (which is rumored) he could owe the US and California government about $1.5 billion is taxes! LOL!! Well, if he decides to sell, the money will great help the government. LOL!

Russell Brand’s lawyers have filed their “demands” for the divorce. And since there is no pre-nup, Brand could walk away with $20 million. However, Brand doesn’t want it. He didn’t ask for any money. All he asked for was one of the properties they own.

Everyone has been whining about Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad saying it was a political ad endorsing Obama. If you remember the ad, it talks about Detroit and how things were bad but they are looking up. And of course because it says something positive about America, it must be about Obama. LOL! Anyways, Clint Eastwood has donated all the money he made from the ad to charity.

Snooki has officially come out and announced that she is bisexual. She says that it should be pretty obvious since she makes out with Denna on the show. So, there you go.

Former Bachelor Jake Pavelka is following the footsteps of former 98 Degrees singer Jeff Timmons and Ronnie from Jersey Shore as the new celebrity emcee of Chippendales at the Rio in Las Vegas. He starts February 23^rd but he wants you to know he will not be taking off his clothes.

Wang Yujuan from the town of Xinxiang in the Henan province of China gave birth to a 15.5 pound baby! The not-so-little boy is named Chun Chun. The father is very happy. The mother is healthy but has to stay at the hospital because her uterine walls aren’t contracting. (DUH! They got stretched pretty far with a 15.5 pound baby!)

TV/Movies/Music 2/9

CNN has suspended political commentator Roland Martin after GLAAD and other groups denounced his Super Bowl tweets which call for people to beat and kill men who liked the David Beckham underwear ad and for a New England Patriot fan clad in a pink suit. CNN’s statement: “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being.”

Vampire Diaries fans… the Ian, Paul and Nina are gracing the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week and they are looking pretty hot. They are doing that stupid three different “collector covers” thing but I recommend the one with all three of them on the cover. LOL!

It looks like HBO’s new show Luck will not get the “No animals were harmed during the filming of this program” stamp. During the filming of short race scenes, two horses have died on separate occasions. PETA is upset because HBO kind of dismissed them during pre-production about safety protocol for horse. HBO has realized there is an issue but are going to work with the American Humane Association and racing industry experts to make sure future horses are not harmed.

SNL announced that Maya Rudolph will be returning to SNL on February 18^th as host! Indie band Sleigh Bells will be her musical guest.

After just four episodes, SyFy has announced it is renewing Being Human for a third season.

Universal Pictures has announced that Bridesmaids has become the number one most ordered onDemand title of all time with over 4.8 million rentals in just four months.

Boyz II Men is going on a North America tour starting off tonight at Carnegie Hall in NYC. The tour is promoting their new album Twenty which is their first album is 2002.

It was announced that Tom Felton (aka Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter) will be starring with Glenn Close and Elizabeth Olsen in the movie Therese Raquin. Felton will play a sick man murdered by his wife so she can marry her true love. However, he comes back to haunt her and her life gets messed up.

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are reuniting again for the movie Interns. The movie is being written by Vince Vaughn and follows “two forty-somethings who get laid off, but decided to completely restart their careers as interns.”

Jumping on the Battleship bandwagon, Activision is working with Hasbro to cerate a video game based on the upcoming movie. (Why I have no idea because the movie looks bad)

Speaking of video games, Playstation is coming out with the 90s version of the Simpsons arcade game. Complete with pixelated graphics and all. LOL!

Apparently there are no economy issues in Manhattan as rents have surged back to an all-time high! The average rent in Manhattan is $3,394/month. (The average rent for a three-bedroom is $5,026/month!)

Legal Issues and Politics 2/9

Anyone who reads my stuff knows I’m not a fan of the National Organization for Marriage. The #1 reason is the bold-face lies they tell their followers (#2 being the fact they break the law and say it is fine because they are holier than the law.) In an email to their followers, NOM says the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared marriage itself unconstitutional and if we don’t give them a ton of money to help defend it at the Supreme Court, everyone’s marriages will be dissolved and no one will be married. WHAT? That must be the conclusion you get when you read the opinion backwards when you are high on meth.

Yesterday, Movietickets.com joined a lawsuit against AMC, which was recently filed in Florida by National Amusements and Hollywood Media Corp. According to the suit, AMC “breached its contract by not selling tickets exclusively through movietickets.com.” To add insult to injury, AMC announced that they’ll be adding 3,000 screens to their partnership with Fandango online ticketing service.

The Washington State House passed the marriage equality bill with a 55-43 vote. The bill is on its way to Gov. Gregoire’s desk where she has promised to sign it into law!

Illinois legislators introduced a marriage equality bill yesterday. Illinois has a civil unions law but same-sex couples have stated that they still have issues at banks, hospitals, and other institutions when trying to explain their relationship.

The governor has vowed to veto it, polls show the public is against it, and the local GOP doesn’t seem to even want it on their schedule… but that didn’t stop Christian hate groups from rallying yesterday in New Hampshire to try to repeal marriage equality in the state. “We must vote to back marriage for our children.” LOL!!!

Cardinal Edward Egan wants you to know that he withdraws his 2002 apology for the child molestation scandals that were exposed when he was the Archbishop of New York. “I never should have said I’m sorry. I don’t think we did anything wrong.”

Yesterday, Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg approved a bill that will “impose fines up to $16,700 for the promotion of homosexuality.” The bill bans all TV shows, radio shows, books, posters and speech that shows the GLBT community in a favorable light. Wow, sounds like a fun place to live.

In Puerto Rico, there are literally more iguanas than people. And with iguanas getting to be 6 feet long and live up to 20 years, it is a problem. They occupy airport runways, burrow under buildings (ruining the foundation) and cause blackouts after building their nests near the warmth of electric plants. So they plan to hunt the iguanas and export their meat. Many government high ups in Puerto Rico believe this will not only thin out the population, it will bring in much needed money to the country, currently in a recession.

The group Truth Wins Out has placed a full-page ad in today’s edition of Roll Call in Washington DC. It points out Newt Gingrich is a hypocrite talking about how he is the “definer of civilization” when he is really full of crap. Press Release about the ad: http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2012/02/22018/

Chuck Colson says the day may be here for Christians to revolt against the federal government in acts of civil disobedience. Colson, a convicted Watergate felon, is the co-author of the Manhattan Declaration, which calls for Christians to disobey any laws granting gays and lesbians protection.

The American Family Association is claiming that JCPenny’s is going to give women cancer. Here is their reasoning: Women will see Ellen, become lesbians, apparently all lesbians have increased levels of depression which means all lesbians get breast cancer. Because lesbians also have substance abuse issues, the chemo doesn’t work so they die. There you go, if you are a woman, by having a lesbian become a spokesperson, you will die of breast cancer.