August 27, 2007

Get Well Owen and Nick!


--Owen Wilson's parents and brothers were seen at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Sunday night amid reports Wilson was hospitalized. Santa Monica police issued a statement saying officers responded to a "medical assistance call" at a house on Wilson's street shortly after noon Sunday. A source confirmed the house was Wilson's. "The person was transported to a local hospital where they are being treated," the police statement said. According to media reports, it was Wilson who was transported. Later in the evening, Wilson's brothers Andrew and Luke, as well as his parents, were seen at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. (Early reports are that it may have been a suicide attempt).

--Britney Spears is hotly tipped to make her live music comeback by opening the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas next month. Sources close to the pop superstar have revealed there's a "very strong chance" the singer will perform a new song right at the start of the prizegiving. (Oh boy...can't wait to see that.)


--Singer-actress Willa Ford married longtime beau and Dallas Stars hockey player Mike Modano in Athens, Texas on Saturday, her manager said. The 26-year-old Ford, who competed in season three of Dancing with the Stars, exchanged vows with Modano, 37, in an early evening ceremony held at a private ranch in front of 75 guests. The bride wore a wedding gown she designed herself.

--Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took a night off parenting their four children to host a fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the Hamptons, New York on Saturday. The pair left Maddox, Pax Thien, Zahara and Shiloh Nouvel with nannies at the New York City hotel to fly upstate to the home of Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in Watermill. The fundraiser was promoting Pitt's Make It Right project, which aims to rebuild New Orleans, Louisiana's hurricane-ravaged Ninth Ward. During the evening, the couple socialized with Pitt's Ocean's Thirteen co-star Ellen Barkin, country singer Jimmy Buffet and supermodel Christie Brinkley.


--Director John Singleton accidentally struck a woman with his SUV who was jaywalking on a South Los Angeles street Thursday evening, according to police. The woman, Constance Russell, 57, of L.A., was taken to a local hospital but died later Friday morning. "Mr. Singleton stopped immediately and later identified himself to police," says Los Angeles police spokesman Jason Lee. "He was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He was cooperative, and was questioned and released." "This is being treated as an unfortunate accident," Officer Lee added. "There will be no criminal charges."

--Troubled star Amy Winehouse has denied she was savagely attacked by husband Blake Fielder-Civil after the couple were photographed covered in blood and scratches. Shots of the singer sporting several bandages on her arms and walking in blood-splattered shoes with a scratched Fielder-Civil by her side appeared in Friday's British newspaper The Sun. But the hitmaker denies she was involved in a fight with her husband-of-three-months, insisting he "saved my life" after he caught her taking drugs with a female sex worker. She tells showbiz blogger Perez Hilton, "Blake is the best man in the world. We would never ever harm each other. I was cutting myself after he found me in our room about to do drugs with a call girl and rightly said I wasn't good enough for him. I lost it and he saved my life. I'll be alright. I need to fight my man's corner for him though. For the last time he did not and never has hurt me. He deserves the truth, he is an amazing man who saved my life again and got cut badly for his troubles. All he get is horrible stories printed about him and he just keeps quiet, but this is too much." Winehouse recently collapsed following three days of hard partying and was admitted to a London hospital. Reports have since surfaced she allegedly suffered a drug overdose.


--Tim Burton has been told to tone down the gore in the screen version of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," starring Johnny Depp. The suits at Warner Bros. "became a tad squeamish when they viewed grisly footage of blood splashing across the set as Depp slits the throats of his customers," London's Daily Mail reports. In another scene that has the studio on edge, a 10-year-old boy feeds human body parts into a meat grinder to make meat pies. The movie, co-starring Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen, opens in December.

--A week ago, Barnes & Noble, Inc., announced it would not keep copies of the new edition of O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" in its stores, saying the book was not expected to sell well. Since then, the book has jumped into the top 50 on the superstore's online site, Barnes & Noble.com, and ranked No. 48 as of Sunday night. Barnes & Noble has not changed its mind. "We still have no plans to stock it in our stores," spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating told The Associated Press on Sunday. The book, coming out this fall, can be purchased through Barnes & Noble.com, or by special order at a Barnes & Noble store. Simpson's book was first scheduled for publication last November by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins, with an announced printing of 400,000. But "If I Did It" was dropped in response to widespread outrage, including from relatives of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The book is a ghostwritten, hypothetical description of how the killings might have happened. (While it's not a new feeling, America has disappointed me...)


--Madonna might need more evolution. At Thursday's "Pop Rocks" party at Club 13, the deejay excitedly announced he had an advance copy of the new Madonna song produced by Pharrell Williams for her next album. "Everyone cheered and was excited, but when it started playing, few were dancing," said our source. "The song sounds almost exactly like Britney's 'Slave to You,' which Pharrell also produced. The response was tepid at best. They need to go back to the drawing board with that one."


--Hulk Hogan's son Nick Bollea was seriously injured Sunday night after his car careened off the road and struck a palm tree. Bollea, who was featured with the rest of his family on the pro wrestler's VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best, was driving his yellow Toyota Supra down a four-lane highway in downtown Clearwater, Fla., when the car's rear tires hit the raised median, police said. After fishtailing for several seconds, the car slammed into a 25-foot tall palm tree. "His car inexplicably left the road," Clearwater Police spokesman Wayne Shelor said, "and it was totally destroyed upon impact." The cause of the crash is unknown, although police believe the car was traveling at a high rate of speed. "We don't know exactly what happened," says Shelor, "but we are investigating." Bollea, 17, and his male passenger had to be extracted from the vehicle using the "jaws of life." They were placed on a Medivac helicopter where they were flown seven minutes to nearby Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg. Bollea is in serious condition, while his passenger has been listed in critical condition. Police alerted Hulk Hogan to the accident. According to a hospital source, the wrestler and his family are in a private waiting room as Bollea is being treated for "very serious, life-threatening" injuries. Hogan declined to address the media through a hospital spokesperson on Sunday evening, but plans to make a statement on Monday morning. (That's really sad. I hope he's ok. I'll admit, I occasionally watch that show, and Hogan and his wife are very caring, involved, good parents).

Random Thought of the Day:
I was in the mall this weekend, and this mall happened to have a Pink store. You know, that brand of lounge-y type stuff by Victoria's Secret. I'm a big fan of stuff like that on the weekends/evenings before I got to bed, and I usually pick up most of that stuff at Gap Body. But, this was new, so I went in. There were several things I thought were cute and comfortable (and warm--I'm always freezing), but I just couldn't bring myself to buy anything. I was the oldest person in there by AT LEAST 10 years (I'm 29). I stood there, and thought, "Wow. You're too old for this place." Ugh. Am I really? Can't I wear cute bum around stuff from there? Be honest, folks.

Posted by: Lawrenkm at 05:56 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment
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1 I believe that you are 28.

Posted by: LKM at August 27, 2007 06:20 AM (GJK5m)

2 Well, yeah...but I was rounding up, since it's only a month and a half away. Didn't want to seem like I was clinging to a lower number just so it wouldn't sound as bad! Thanks for pointing that out though, Mom.

Posted by: at August 27, 2007 06:51 AM (YMTtc)

3 That was me above. Oops!

Posted by: Lawren at August 27, 2007 06:52 AM (YMTtc)

4 My first comment was, "Umm, aren't you 28? Coming from the girl who always denies taht she's closing in on 30, this is shocking!" I watched 5 episodes of Hogans Knows Best this weekend. I love that show. And now I'm also addicted to Brett Michaels: Rock of Love. what is wrong with me? I want the DVDs of all of these ...

Posted by: Iceman at August 27, 2007 07:31 AM (JHKKE)

5 -Owen's trip is definitely being reported as a suicide attempt although it doesn't sound like he was too serious about it. Who would have thought? -I think you can wear whatever you want around home. Now, my 17-year-old will sometimes run into the convenience store or walk her little sister to school wearing a t-shirt and cute lounge pants. I think 18-19 is about the limit for that but at home? Whatever.

Posted by: nanc' at August 27, 2007 07:37 AM (x7An7)

6 "Katrina was a man-made disaster. The misconception was that it was nature. But this was man-made," said Brad Pitt. Uh, yeah right...you're a genius, Brad. Ugh. P.S. Don't sell your age short, Lawren. If you're only 28, claim it with pride...and enjoy every last minute of it.

Posted by: aeh at August 27, 2007 08:13 AM (V031o)

7 I find Pitt's comments especially hilarious in view of his going to the fundraiser by helicopter. Re Nick Bollea - I think the takehome lesson is that 17 year olds and sports cars (especially, as here, ones modified to push 600-700 hp) don't mix.

Posted by: Tony at August 27, 2007 12:00 PM (cmCmx)

8 You'll always be young and fashionable to me. Unless you're last name is Andretti or Gordon no teenager should ever drive a car with over 250 horsepower. They just don't have the skills. Heck most adults can't drive well at all.

Posted by: Brian D. at August 27, 2007 02:18 PM (ZDfO7)

9 you can totally wear that!! Go buy that ridiculously overpriced pair of pants... right noW

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