May 23, 2005
Britney Spears' morning sickness is reaching new levels - after she was seen vomiting in a swanky hotel pool.
The five-months pregnant singer was swimming and talking to fellow guests at California's plush Ritz Carlton Hotel when she suddenly felt unwell. Not being able to make the bathroom in time, she was forced to be sick at the side of the pool.
According to eyewitnesses, the embarrassed singer then fled to her hotel room, leaving pool attendants to mop up.
A fellow guest revealed: "She did apologize and she is pregnant so it couldn't be helped."
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You thought you'd never see them again, but you were wrong. Now it is decided that the Spice Girls are to make a comeback. The girls are going to head out on a world tour with all the original members, including Ginger Spice, Geri Halliwell.
Scary Spice, Melanie Brown, gave the news to GMTV. In addition to the tour, Spice Girls are to release a ‘Best of' album. The tour is also said to ensure the girls a large paycheck.
--Um, not sure what I think about this.
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"I have good karma...I am a good person, so God made things happen for me."
--Paris Hilton in Us Weekly.
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How awesome was the Housewives finale last night? We now know all about the secrets Mary-Alice "died to protect."
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Mario Batali's seafood restaurant Esca, Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen's favorite restaurant Butter, tourist haunt Tavern on the Green, and thriving Whole Foods Market are among the dozens of Manhattan eateries that have joined the boycott of Canadian snow crabs.
The Humane Society is spearheading the boycott aimed at Canadian government-subsidized seal hunts in Newfoundland. Environmental activist and Humane Society consultant Danny Seo explains, "The reason we are calling for a snow crab boycott is that most seal clubbers are actually snow crabbers, too. Snow crabs are a $3 billion export for Canada, and seal pelts are only about $12 million. We feel we can stop them from clubbing seals because they want to make more money with the crabs."
While selling seal pelts is illegal in the United States, their luxurious coats are used in couture creations by Louis Vuitton, Prada, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana for sale in Europe. "Most people in America think the seal hunt is over, but it's not," Seo said.
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David Beckham dreams of becoming a space man when he quits soccer.
The England captain admitted his fascination with space travel and said his ambition was to do a “Neil Armstrong” and go to the Moon. Becks, 30, told a Spanish radio station: “It would be great to have the opportunity to go to the Moon when I retire. It would be a real experience.
“A lot of players go into coaching — but I’ve already decided it is not for me.”
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Belgian movie L'Enfant beat 20 other films to win the coveted Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday.
L'Enfant was directed by brothers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and follows a young couple struggling to survive in France's urban jungle. This year's festival marked the second time the Dardenne brothers have picked up the prestigious Palme D'Or - they previously won it in 1999 for Rosetta.
Elsewhere, Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Actor award for his role as Pete Perkins in western The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, which he also directed. Jones' film also won Best Screenplay for its writer Guillermo Arriaga. Israeli Hanna Laslo picked up the Best Actress prize for her role in Free Zone, about a borderless Middle East. She dedicated her award to her mother, who died in the Holocaust.
American director Jim Jarmusch won the Grand Prix award for his film Broken Flowers, which stars Bill Murray, Sharon Stone and Jessica Lange. Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai won the Special Jury Prize for Shanghai Dreams. Michael Haneke won the Best Director award for French film Hidden, while Best Short Film went to Wayfarers by Ukraine moviemaker Igor Strembitskyy.
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Warren Beatty says he isn't ruling out running for governor of California, and thinks he could do a better job than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"I don't think anyone should ever rule public service out," Beatty said. "It's a way of saying, 'Take me out of the mix and don't listen to me any more.'."
The actor made the remark after giving a commencement address to graduates of University of California Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Beatty, who has been involved in politics for years, played a senator in the 1998 movie "Bulworth" and entertained the idea of running for the presidency six years ago.
Beatty, 68, said he has "a real soft spot for actors even if they are right wing," and has always liked Schwarzenegger. But the former action star is a politician who should "rise to the higher level of that calling," Beatty said, and not denigrate fellow politicians by mocking them as "girlie men," as the governor did of Democratic lawmakers last summer. "Can't we accept that devotion to the building of the body politic is more complex and a little more sensitive than devotion to body building?" Beatty asked.
Schwarzenegger deputy press secretary Vince Sollitto said of the criticism: "I'm sure it's nothing personal. Warren's just mad at Republicans because he's afraid they're cutting off his Social Security."
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"Rescue Me" star Denis Leary didn't give a typical graduation speech at the Emerson College ceremony where he copped an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, reports the Boston Herald.
"I didn't prepare a bunch of stuff to say to you guys because I know you want to get out of here and get drunk," the 1979 grad and former writing instructor said. In his expletive-laden speech, Leary man aged to avoid most of the clichés that mar such occasions, especially that old "these- are-the-best-days-of-your-lives" chestnut. "That's bull [bleep]," Leary said.
"These are not the best days of your lives," he told the grads, adding that the students will leave school, get married, have kids, stop having sex, get colonoscopies and go through menopause. Lastly, Leary thanked Emerson for his Ph.D. degree "because I'm going to hold it over every one who works for me."
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Could it be that we haven't seen the last of Central Perk and those six New Yorkers who call themselves Friends? There's chat that they may reunite for one last project .
According to the Sunday Express, the six stars of the hit TV series are in negotiations to get together again to make a movie. It seems that our penchant for watching repeats of the show has prompted movie bosses to believe there is still plenty of mileage in the characters - even though the series ended in 2004 after a ten year run.
The paper quotes an insider as saying: "Although the cast have gone their different ways, none of them has quite repeated the success they had with Friends. "And while Friends may be over as a television entity there are many who have believed for some time that people had not quite had enough of them just yet. "David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston are the first to make positive noises regarding the film and it is thought once they are on board the others will follow suit."
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The Keys to Your Heart |
You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. |
In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you. |
You'd like to your lover to think you are optimistic and happy. |
You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. |
Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. |
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. |
You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. |
In this moment, you think of love as something you can get or discard anytime. You're feeling self centered. |
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What kind of shows to expect on TV next season? Anything dealing with the supernatural.
CBS is introducing a two-hour block on Friday nights, with Jennifer Love Hewitt talking to dead people in one, and the government massing against an alien invasion in another. ABC's "Invasion" takes another form: The aliens inhabit dead bodies. NBC's new "Fathom" is about a terrifying new form of life found in the ocean's depths. The WB's "Supernatural" traces two young, good-looking brothers who fight evil ghosts.
As always, the glut comes from network executives seeing what's been successful lately and trying to duplicate it. In this case, it's NBC's "Medium," the USA Network's "The 4400" and especially ABC's "Lost," with that malevolent monster out there somewhere.
--Looks like I won't be watching much TV next season.
--Thanks for the tip, Brian.
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Harper Lee, who has been dodging publicity for decades since she published her only book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," made a rare step into the limelight to be honored by the Los Angeles Public Library.
Lee, 79, stopped giving interviews a few years after she won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1960 coming-of-age book exploring racial prejudice in the South. She has turned down most request for appearances. But she couldn't refuse an invitation from Veronique Peck, the widow of actor Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar for his starring role as lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 film version of the book and became a lifelong friend with Lee.
"Mockingbird" co-star Brock Peters, who played the black man falsely accused of rape in the film, presented the award to Lee.
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The singer, who was raised a Baptist and was recently introduced to the teachings of the Kabbalah by pal Madonna, is currently overseeing construction work on the Malibu, California, home she shares with her husband Kevin Federline. And Spears is making sure that her spiritual - and baby's - needs are provided for when her home is complete.
She writes on her website: "My mom and I are going to start talking about ideas this week for the baby's room. She is so gifted in decorating and interior design and I'm grateful to have her help. "I've also been thinking of different ideas for the prayer and meditation room. Everything is going so well lately - it literally brings me to my knees."
--Because spending money gets you closer to God, right?
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In one of the most unusual summer-tour pairings in recent memory, the Ozzfest Web site announced Monday night that there will be one final act added to this year's second-stage lineup: actress Jada Pinkett Smith's rock group, Wicked Wisdom.
The addition of the Christian-leaning rock-and-soul hybrid to a summer touring package that boasts ferocious metal merchants like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Shadows Fall, Mudvayne, In Flames and the Black Dahlia Murder is unexpected, to say the least.
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Tom Cruise is smitten with the charms of Katie Holmes. "I love this woman," Cruise says in an interview to air Monday on "Access Hollywood." "She's magnificent."
When asked why he appears to be less inhibited about showing his affection for Holmes in public than in his past relationships, Cruise tells "Access Hollywood" co-anchor Billy Bush: "I am so happy and I am not going to pretend or hide it or be shy. This woman is magnificent."
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Naomi Campbell's public relations company, N.C. Connect, threw a lunch at the VIP Club in Cannes, where the annual film festival is in full swing, as a benefit for the Nelson Mandela Children's Foundation. Campbell is Mandela's honorary granddaughter. More than 50 well-heeled guests arrived, ready to eat and ready to bid on jewelry, vacations and luxury merchandise that had been donated for the live auction. But they didn't get to do either.
After waiting two hours with nothing but bread, water and champagne, such grumpy guests as male supermodel Tyson Beckford, publisher Massimo Gargia, Denise Rich, Marta Marzotto (whose family owns the Valentino fashion house), Fawaz Gruosi (owner of de Grisogono jewelers) and his wife, Caroline Scheufele (whose family owns Chopard), left lunchless. "The tables were set for lunch, but the management was waiting for Naomi before they'd serve it," said one source.
In one of the most inventive explanations ever devised, the dusky diva's publicist, Rob Shuter, informed Page Six via BlackBerry: "Naomi's stylist disappeared with all her clothes. Naomi has only her underwear. She sat on a boat waiting for two hours for new clothes to arrive. In the end, she borrowed a dress from a girlfriend."
Campbell was said to be staying on the yacht of her old boyfriend, Formula One racing mogul Flavio Briatore, the play- boy who fathered Heidi Klum's first child.
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Could silver-screen sweetheart Alicia Silverstone and her longtime love, Chris Jarecki, have wedding bells in their near future?
A pal close to the couple says that the duo will head down the aisle sometime this summer. They've apparently been ordering up vegan cuisine fit for a reception, including a vegan wedding cake. "It's one healthy wedding," a source reveals.
A dog lover and owner of many, Silverstone is even said to be considering a dress designed by fellow animal rights activist Stella McCartney.
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At at least one store in the United States and throughout Germany, Wal-Mart stores are hosting weekly singles nights, where shoppers looking for romance tie a red ribbon to their carts as they browse for laundry detergent, loofahs and, yes, love.
And Home Depot stores have become such a well-known place for single women on the prowl for handy men that it's become a running joke on radio talk shows.
Shoppers agree that the new hot spot for finding love is the local megamart. "A few years ago, when my friend was going through her divorce, I said to her: 'If you want to meet guys, I don't recommend a bar. But I do frequent Home Depot,'" Lawrence, N.Y., relationship expert Debbie Mandel said. "And then before you knew it, people would come over and talk to you. You're looking at tiles, they're looking at tiles; you're looking at silicon, they're looking at silicon; you learn the best way to grout and put tile down, and when we went over to the garden center, there were a lot of men working.
--Ummmm....
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