December 19, 2005
Mariah Carey made an embarrassing gaffe during a recent visit to a French restaurant.
A prankster pal told the singer that the French phrase, "Ce repas était si excitant que je me suis fait dessus" meant, "That meal was wonderful, I'll have to come here again."
Unfortunately when Mariah used her new-found French vocabulary to thank some waiters, she was really telling them, "That meal was so thrilling, I've just wet myself."
A source told the Daily Star, "Mariah wanted to impress the waiters by speaking their language. But she couldn't understand why they looked so shocked whenever she spoke to them."
Source: Digital Spy
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Tom Hanks is convinced his movie career is about to end, because he has survived too long on luck alone.
The Forest Gump star has sustained a successful and prolific movie career for more than two decades now, while many co-stars and contemporaries have fallen on the Tinseltown scrapheap.
But the double Oscar winner fears his luck could soon run out. Hanks says, "I look around and know that I am going to pay for it, big time." "The knives will be out one day. There are quite a few people no longer getting hired who were big stars as recently as 10 years ago."
"So I've already overstayed my welcome. Someone is going to turn round and say, 'See - you are not such a smarty-pants after all, are you?' And although I know that many actors say they've had luck, I've had more than my share. I've had it by the bucketload."
--It's a sad day when morons like Johnny Knoxville are getting parts, and true actors like Hanks are not.
Source: Teen Hollywood
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Rachel McAdams looks stunning at the Guggenheim Artist Ball. Nice followup from the nip slip dress she wore to her movie premiere.
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Hollywood stars Orlando Bloom and Kate Bosworth have sparked rumors they have become engaged to be married, after perusing London's top jewelers this weekend.
The Kingdom Of Heaven actor, 28, has enjoyed an on/off relationship with the 22-year-old beauty since January 2003, after they met filming an advertisement for clothing giant Gap.
An onlooker tells British newspaper The Sun, "They were picking out engagement rings and she was trying them on. They popped into lots of flash jewelers on New Bond Street. But they were in Bulgari and Van Cleef & Arpels for the longest period. They had huge smiles on their faces and were kissing and cuddling."
In September Bloom denied engagement rumors but hinted he would soon be ready for marriage, saying: "None of that stuff is ever true. But that doesn't mean I don't love someone and that I'm not going to get engaged one day."
Source: IMDB
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Time magazine has named Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono its "Persons of the Year," citing their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.
The magazine said 2005 was a year of extraordinary charity in which people donated record amounts in response to extreme natural disasters, from the tsunami in South Asia to Hurricane Katrina.
"Natural disasters are terrible things, but there is a different kind of ongoing calamity in poverty and nobody is doing a better job in addressing it in different ways than Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono," said Jim Kelly, Time's managing editor. The 2005 "Person of the Year" package hits newsstands today.
"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year," the magazine said.
Source: AP
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Hollywood beauty Halle Berry once fell into a coma for seven days.
The star, 39, fell seriously ill on the set of TV show Living Dolls in 1989, and it was only after she regained consciousness, she was diagnosed with diabetes.
Berry recalls, "I felt tired but couldn't take a breather. I felt I needed energy but I didn't even have a minute to pop out and get a chocolate bar. "I felt more and more tired and one day I passed out and I didn't wake up for seven days which is obviously very serious. "They told me I might lose my eyesight, or I could lose my legs. I was scared to death, I thought I was going to die."
The Oscar-winning actress is now forced to test her blood sugar levels twice a day and injects herself with insulin. She explains, "Because no one expects you to be doing it, no one really notices."
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Christina Aguilera and her new husband Jordan Bratman got into the holiday spirit early while on their honeymoon - they exchanged gifts and decorated a Christmas tree in their hotel room.
The singer exchanged nuptials with Bratman on November 19 and the newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Bali and Japan. And while in Japan, they decided to celebrate the holiday season a month early.
Aguilera says, "It was amazing! "I got him some sweaters, but he totally outdid me. He made a scrapbook of our pictures from Bali... We drank hot cocoa and cuddled and had the best time that night!"
Source: Teen Hollywood
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A Hoosier Will Be at the Helm of Burberry:
Angela Ahrendts, a 45-year old from New Palestine, will leave for London next week to begin her stint as CEO of the luxury label company Burberry Group PLC. She will rely on the savvy and aggressive retail style that carried her to the top of the industry's most successful companies, including president of Donna Karan and, most recently, executive vice president of Liz Claiborne.
Ahrendts' salary package at Burberry is worth as much as $27.4 million over three years, including $8 million in cash and restricted stock not linked to her performance. Even so, leaving the job she was "in love with" at Liz Claiborne wasn't easy. She almost turned Burberry's offers down and said this was one of the toughest decisions emotionally that she has had to make in her career.
"One night a little voice in my head said, 'If you don't do this, will it ever come along again?' " Ahrendts said from her home in the Tribeca area of New York City. "There are not a lot of CEO opportunities for women in the world."
She and her husband were high school sweethearts at New Palestine. She left Ball State one class short of a degree to pursue her fashion career in New York City. She later was given an honorary degree.
Source: IndyStar
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December 17, 2005
Jessica Simpson has filed for divorce from Nick Lachey in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The singer cited "irreconcilable differences" and requested that her last name be officially changed back to Simpson.
She also asked that the court not award spousal support.
Source: People
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December 16, 2005
John Spencer, who played vice presidential candidate Leo McGarry on NBC's "The West Wing," died of a heart attack Friday, his publicist said.
Spencer, 58, died at a Los Angeles hospital, said publicist Ron Hofmann. Hofmann released no other immediate details.
Spencer's work on the show earned him an Emmy Award for supporting actor in a drama series in 2002, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.
Source: FoxNews.com
--I loved him as Tommy on "L.A. Law." Very sad.
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Being Bobby Brown will be back, but only for a half-hour holiday special. On Dec. 21, Bravo will air a half-hour episode titled “Christmas with the Browns,” which hopefully has nothing to do with Whitney pooping.
In a statement, Bravo’s president explained why they’re bringing back the show for a half-hour, besides, you know, ratings-whoring: “Bravo couldn’t let 2005 come to an end without indulging viewers with another helping of ‘Being Bobby Brown’. This holiday special will take a look at how this very public family spends their private holiday time together.”
Judging by the press release’s headline, which includes the phrase “Bobby Claus,” that has something to do with Bobby Brown dressing up as Santa.
Source: Reality Blurred
--I wonder if there will be "snow" and mistletoe.
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Eva Longoria and Mario Lopez tote their new purchases – a set of iPods – at the Grove shopping center Tuesday in Los Angeles.
--I doubt she'd dump Tony Parker for this clown. I'm guessing they're just friends.
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Stavros Niarchos never paid a homeless man $100 to pour a cup of soda over his head just for laughs. That's what Us Weekly reported a few weeks ago.
The Greek shipping heir, boyfriend of Paris Hilton, actually offered $100 to a passer-by if he'd drench a nearby paparazzo who was videotaping him. After screening the footage, Page Six reports that Niarchos, in an SUV with his head largely hidden under a hood, started off offering just $10.
"Do it now. You have nothing to lose. I swear to you on my life," he pleads. When the man hesitates, Niarchos say, "I'll give you $100. Don't be a p - - - y . . . You have 5 seconds." As Niarchos counts down, the man hurls the drink at the cameraman.
Source: New York Post
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Madonna’s fashion sense has come under fire — from her nine-year-old daughter Lourdes.
The singer, 47, admits Lourdes sometimes gets embarrassed by what she wears and wants her “to be a normal mum”. She said: “My daughter is critical. Sometimes she totally disapproves of what I wear. She doesn’t want me to look too strange. “If I pick her up from school she instructs me to dress normally. She goes, ‘No tracksuits please’.
“My daughter has a new routine too ... she goes, ‘Why can’t you just be like normal mothers’?”
The singer’s son Rocco, five, does praise his mom's dress sense. Madonna said: “He tells me I look beautiful no matter what.”
Madonna — who criticized the Iraq war while on tour — told Radio 1’s Jo Whiley: “I’m getting Rocco weapons of mass destruction for Christmas. He’s a fan of guns, unfortunately.”
Source: The Sun
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Continuously Cruisazy:
Tom Cruise, actor and Scientology devotee has urged New York City firefighters injured in the September 11 terrorism attacks to quit using their medication and inhalers - and start drinking cooking oil!
"More than 500 individuals have recovered health and job fitness through this." The so-called purification program also advises them to take large doses of niacin and indulge in plenty of sauna sessions. Not surprisingly, the unorthodox program has been slammed as ridiculous and potentially harmful by members of the medical profession.
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Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire is reportedly planning to propose to his girlfriend of two years, Jennifer Meyer.
According to friends of the 30-year-old actor, the decision to pop the big question came when he learned that his best pal Leonardo DiCaprio's romance with Gisele Bundchen had fizzled out.
A source says, "Leo is still down about losing Gisele, and he told Tobey that if he really loves Jen, he should step up to the table and not twiddle his thumbs about marriage. He told me he absolutely wants to marry Jennifer in the coming year. He doesn't want to lose her! I think she'd marry Tobey in a second!" Meyer, 28, is the daughter of Universal Studios president Ron Meyer.
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Of all the people who've had their say on the Aniston-Pitt-Jolie love triangle, who would have thought Madame Tussauds would get involved?
But so they have, with an indication of how they feel in their Christmas celebrity display. The London tourist attraction displayed out a group of celebs in a festive and humorous display for their visitors' amusement. But it also reveals that they are firmly in the Aniston camp.
Jen has been made over as the innocent Snow White, whilst Angelina Jolie is the Wicked Stepmother.
And what is Brad Pitt's role in it all? Why, Prince Charming of course.
Source: Sky
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A new reality series featuring Michael Jackson's brothers Tito and Jermaine as well as sister LaToya is being pitched to several cable networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Music producer Cory Rooney is shopping the proposed pilot that would revolve around Tito's sons seeking success in the music industry while trying to overcome such obstacles as the notoriety their uncle Michael faced during his recent trial. It has yet to be determined if Michael himself will participate in the project.
Source: ET
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Morgan Freeman says the concept of a month dedicated to black history is "ridiculous." "You're going to relegate my history to a month?" the 68-year-old actor says in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST). "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."
Black History Month has roots in historian Carter G. Woodson's Negro History Week, which he designated in 1926 as the second week in February to mark the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Woodson said he hoped the week could one day be eliminated - when black history would become fundamental to American history.
Freeman notes there is no "white history month," and says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it." The actor says he believes the labels "black" and "white" are an obstacle to beating racism. "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man," Freeman says.
Source: New York Daily News
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Their phones aren't the only things vibrating:
The buzz on Japan's streets nowadays is that just about any young woman is carrying around her own vibrator, according to Shukan Post.
Instead of the old days when aids were referred to as "adult toys" and carried a sleazy image, sex aids are now called "adult goods." It's apparently become so common that it's almost as though there's a vibrator in every handbag.
"In the past, nearly all our customers used to ask us to disguise the labeling on our packages so they looked like they were cosmetics or something, but now we get much fewer of those type of requests," Norie Oda, operator of the Happy Woman adult aid shop, tells Shukan Post. "I suppose people just don't see them as such a big thing anymore."
Eiko Yamada, proprietor of Shesta, another adult good shop targeting women, says there's more good vibrations around than a Beach Boys album, with the number of adult aid users skyrocketing, particularly among women in their late 20s to early 30s. "Our sales are almost 200 percent what they were last year," Yamada tells Shukan Post.
Sanae Takahashi, CEO of Merci, another company in the same line of business, explains what has brought about the change. "Before, there only used to be seedy stores that existed only for guys. But, over the past few years, (ubiquitous) discount store chains like Don Quijote have started selling sex aids over the counter and online sales are doing well, too," Takahashi says. "There has been a really rapid increase in the number of our single women customers, and those who come to the store as a couple. We did some marketing and monitoring and made sure we stocked cute shapes and colors that would appeal to women."
Source: Mainichi Daily News
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