A research company in the UK questioned 2,000 consumers about 100 celebrities to learn which famous person was the most “buzzed” about. And guess what… it’s not Simon Cowell or David Beckham. The most powerful celebrity in the UK is Kylie Minogue!
Lady Gaga’s rider has been leaked and it turns out that Lady Gaga likes healthy and low-key. All she asks for is a hot roasted chicken; “non-smelly, non-sweaty” cheese with whole wheat bread and cracker; a half-gallon of low-fat milk; some salsa and guacamole; and no alcohol. For drinks, she requests bottled water, ginger ale and hot tea.
A recording engineer who did not like the way Jennifer Lopez treated him, has put on the internet J. Lo doing a horrible cover of Donna Summer’s and Barbra Streisand’s Enough Is Enough.
Jennifer Hudson has officially become the new spokeswoman for Weight Watchers. She claims that after she gave birth to her son, she wanted “a lifestyle change, not a diet.” Her ads will start appearing on Sunday.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
TV/Movies/Music
Apparently there is a lot of drama on the set of the upcoming Thor movie. It seems that Anthony Hopkins doesn’t think his co-star Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, cuts it as an actor. According to a “source,” Anthony has no problem telling Chris all the things he is doing wrong. Hopkins is also upset with the director because they are shooting too many scenes inside a studio and not on location.
So the reviews for The Last Song are coming in and it looks like Miley Cyrus might want to look into some acting lessons if she wants to focus on her acting. The New York Times, The NY Post, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald and Variety are reporting that the movie is good but Miley sucks and they were not nice at all about it. “She seems to be mugging for the camera, play-acting rather than exploring the motives and feelings of her character.” “Cyrus makes the most dubious ‘dramatic’ debut of any singer since Britney Spears.” “buff Liam Hemsworth looks like he is acting with an Andy Hardy-era Mickey Rooney in a wig.”
It is official! There will be a Lady Gaga episode on Glee! In May, the cast will sing songs like Bad Romance, Poker face and others.
The Peabody board, which awards excellence in radio and TV broadcasting, announced yesterday that Craig Ferguson, Modern Family and Glee received awards this year. For the full list of winners, click here.
Former Variety writer Nicole LaPorte is releasing a book about Steven Spielberg called The Man Who Would Be King. In it, she claims the director has major issues with secrecy and paranoia. So much so that he has a motorcycle parked outside his office in case he needs to escape.
Stephenie Meyer’s adult book, The Host, is going to be made into a movie starting next year. This could mean that both Breaking Dawn, the fourth Twilight book, and The Host will be coming out around the same time.
There is no actual date scheduled yet, but Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe is going to be hosting an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live.
The hit off-Broadway musical and cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch is going to take on Broadway with writer John Cameron reprising the role of Hedwig. “Hedwig is ageless. Unfortunately , I’m not and I’m almost 47, which means I’m at the gym every day, trying to get my old body back, my paunch down and my stamina up. I haven’t acted since I did the movie.
There is going to be a big fight at the box office this Halloween. Both Paranormal Activity 2 and Saw VII 3D are planning to be released on October 22nd.
Karl Penn may be working at the White House, but he isn’t giving up acting yet. The third installment of Harold & Kumar is in the works. It is supposedly a Christmas-themed movie and will be released for the 2011 holiday season. Rumor has it that it might even be in 3D.
Ashley Tisdale is prepping for a High School Musical spin-off centered around her character Sharpay Evans in the new Disney movie Broadway Bound.
Michael Bay announced that he is going to make a remake of Roman Polanski’s 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby.
It is also being reported that a remake of Private Benjamin is in the works. The 1980 movie was about a spoiled woman who joins the army after her husband dies during sex on their wedding night. The new version will be set in modern times and will star Anna Faris.
Paramount has hired Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka to write the screenplay for a movie adaptation of Baywatch. They want the movie to be like the Charlie’s Angel movie that had Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore.
Director Roland Emmerich is reportedly prepping for two sequels to the 1996 movie Independence Day. It is rumored that Will Smith is going to return but nothing official has been stated.
CKX, the company that owns Simon Fuller’s 19 Management, is close to being sold to JP Morgan Chase for over $500 million. The new owner would in turn acquire the rights to the American Idol franchise (including contestants’ careers and their music), So You Think You Can Dance, the rights to the name, image and likeness of Muhammad Ali, and Victoria Beckham’s fashion label.
So the reviews for The Last Song are coming in and it looks like Miley Cyrus might want to look into some acting lessons if she wants to focus on her acting. The New York Times, The NY Post, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald and Variety are reporting that the movie is good but Miley sucks and they were not nice at all about it. “She seems to be mugging for the camera, play-acting rather than exploring the motives and feelings of her character.” “Cyrus makes the most dubious ‘dramatic’ debut of any singer since Britney Spears.” “buff Liam Hemsworth looks like he is acting with an Andy Hardy-era Mickey Rooney in a wig.”
It is official! There will be a Lady Gaga episode on Glee! In May, the cast will sing songs like Bad Romance, Poker face and others.
The Peabody board, which awards excellence in radio and TV broadcasting, announced yesterday that Craig Ferguson, Modern Family and Glee received awards this year. For the full list of winners, click here.
Former Variety writer Nicole LaPorte is releasing a book about Steven Spielberg called The Man Who Would Be King. In it, she claims the director has major issues with secrecy and paranoia. So much so that he has a motorcycle parked outside his office in case he needs to escape.
Stephenie Meyer’s adult book, The Host, is going to be made into a movie starting next year. This could mean that both Breaking Dawn, the fourth Twilight book, and The Host will be coming out around the same time.
There is no actual date scheduled yet, but Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe is going to be hosting an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live.
The hit off-Broadway musical and cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch is going to take on Broadway with writer John Cameron reprising the role of Hedwig. “Hedwig is ageless. Unfortunately , I’m not and I’m almost 47, which means I’m at the gym every day, trying to get my old body back, my paunch down and my stamina up. I haven’t acted since I did the movie.
There is going to be a big fight at the box office this Halloween. Both Paranormal Activity 2 and Saw VII 3D are planning to be released on October 22nd.
Karl Penn may be working at the White House, but he isn’t giving up acting yet. The third installment of Harold & Kumar is in the works. It is supposedly a Christmas-themed movie and will be released for the 2011 holiday season. Rumor has it that it might even be in 3D.
Ashley Tisdale is prepping for a High School Musical spin-off centered around her character Sharpay Evans in the new Disney movie Broadway Bound.
Michael Bay announced that he is going to make a remake of Roman Polanski’s 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby.
It is also being reported that a remake of Private Benjamin is in the works. The 1980 movie was about a spoiled woman who joins the army after her husband dies during sex on their wedding night. The new version will be set in modern times and will star Anna Faris.
Paramount has hired Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka to write the screenplay for a movie adaptation of Baywatch. They want the movie to be like the Charlie’s Angel movie that had Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore.
Director Roland Emmerich is reportedly prepping for two sequels to the 1996 movie Independence Day. It is rumored that Will Smith is going to return but nothing official has been stated.
CKX, the company that owns Simon Fuller’s 19 Management, is close to being sold to JP Morgan Chase for over $500 million. The new owner would in turn acquire the rights to the American Idol franchise (including contestants’ careers and their music), So You Think You Can Dance, the rights to the name, image and likeness of Muhammad Ali, and Victoria Beckham’s fashion label.
Is Ronald McDonald Retiring?
A group of parents, health professionals and corporate advocates had a retirement party for Ronald McDonald in Chicago yesterday hoping that McDonald’s will take a hint.
They were all part of the Coporate Accountability International group and they are asking to have Ronald step down in an effort to stop his influence on children and childhood obesity.
They were all part of the Coporate Accountability International group and they are asking to have Ronald step down in an effort to stop his influence on children and childhood obesity.
Legal Issues and Politics
Keith Kimmel made national news earlier this year when he sued the Oklahoma Tax Commission for denying him the license plate “IM GAY” because it was offensive. On Monday he filed a complaint against the Tulsa Police for beating him up while attempting to make an arrest at a club in Tulsa on Friday. Well, yesterday he was found dead. The Norman Police Department will be performing the investigation to see how and why he died.
A new Newsweek article, talks about how countries with more progressive attitudes about homosexuality are happier and healthier. To read more, click here.
A Floridian woman with leukemia decided to try and rob a bank so that she could cross it off her bucket list! WTF! The dumbest part is that her cancer is in the very early stages so it isn’t terminal. So she can’t even play the sympathy card and will must likely end up in jail.
LL Cool J is going after Sarah Palin after her new show used an old video of him in its promotion. “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else and are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin’s show.”
James van der Beek has been ordered to pay his ex-wife Heather McComb almost $8,000 a month in spousal support so that she can live in the lifestyle she has grown accustomed to. (I wish I could make $96K a year doing nothing.)
A new Newsweek article, talks about how countries with more progressive attitudes about homosexuality are happier and healthier. To read more, click here.
A Floridian woman with leukemia decided to try and rob a bank so that she could cross it off her bucket list! WTF! The dumbest part is that her cancer is in the very early stages so it isn’t terminal. So she can’t even play the sympathy card and will must likely end up in jail.
LL Cool J is going after Sarah Palin after her new show used an old video of him in its promotion. “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else and are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin’s show.”
James van der Beek has been ordered to pay his ex-wife Heather McComb almost $8,000 a month in spousal support so that she can live in the lifestyle she has grown accustomed to. (I wish I could make $96K a year doing nothing.)
Testimonial From An Actual Service Member #10
As a gay member of the military medical community, I have seen firsthand the negative mental, physical and social effects of the ban on gays in the military. These effects directly harm unit cohesion and readiness.
It becomes impossible to uphold the legal and ethical responsibilities of being both a medical provider and an officer under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). One is forced to either provide substandard patient care or break military law. I have seen firsthand how patients and providers become too afraid to delve into important health matters for fear of having to break confidentiality. Additionally, they make the conscious decision that they must break from military policy in order to provide adequate care. Either route creates a worrisome atmosphere in which a patient’s mental and physical health is put at risk and a command climate in which we must choose only one side of our professional responsibilities.
There is also the emotional trauma inflicted on service members due to the effects of DADT on their loved ones. How do you look at your best friend in the eyes and deny who they are? How do you survive months of deployment in battle zones not being able to speak or write to your loved one for fear of being discharged?
In our current global battles, our war-fighters undergo extreme hardships. The additional emotional and ethical burden imposed by this policy damages the ability of our military members to function according to the high ethical standards demanded in the military. It exponentially increases the strain of deployment on the service member, creating unnecessary emotional hardships in an already difficult situation. This increases the risk of emotional breakdown, suicide or any number of health problems for even the most experienced, hard working and stable people. This poses a much greater threat to the mission and the unit. The typical GI is concerned with the happiness and well being of his battle buddy far more than the gender of who makes him happy and keeps him sane.
We join the military because of our sense of duty and a desire to serve our great country. We know from the start that this will require great sacrifice, potentially of our own lives. Why must we, a broad subset of the military that spans every age, rank, gender and race, be forced into a position of being overburdened and put at greater risk for medical and psychological damage than our counterparts? Simply allowing us to live honestly enables us to continue to serve our country proudly, effectively and safely.
It becomes impossible to uphold the legal and ethical responsibilities of being both a medical provider and an officer under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). One is forced to either provide substandard patient care or break military law. I have seen firsthand how patients and providers become too afraid to delve into important health matters for fear of having to break confidentiality. Additionally, they make the conscious decision that they must break from military policy in order to provide adequate care. Either route creates a worrisome atmosphere in which a patient’s mental and physical health is put at risk and a command climate in which we must choose only one side of our professional responsibilities.
There is also the emotional trauma inflicted on service members due to the effects of DADT on their loved ones. How do you look at your best friend in the eyes and deny who they are? How do you survive months of deployment in battle zones not being able to speak or write to your loved one for fear of being discharged?
In our current global battles, our war-fighters undergo extreme hardships. The additional emotional and ethical burden imposed by this policy damages the ability of our military members to function according to the high ethical standards demanded in the military. It exponentially increases the strain of deployment on the service member, creating unnecessary emotional hardships in an already difficult situation. This increases the risk of emotional breakdown, suicide or any number of health problems for even the most experienced, hard working and stable people. This poses a much greater threat to the mission and the unit. The typical GI is concerned with the happiness and well being of his battle buddy far more than the gender of who makes him happy and keeps him sane.
We join the military because of our sense of duty and a desire to serve our great country. We know from the start that this will require great sacrifice, potentially of our own lives. Why must we, a broad subset of the military that spans every age, rank, gender and race, be forced into a position of being overburdened and put at greater risk for medical and psychological damage than our counterparts? Simply allowing us to live honestly enables us to continue to serve our country proudly, effectively and safely.
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