Troubled Hollywood

See what happens when I take some time off? All hell breaks loose in the world of celebrities. While I sometimes have to go looking for dirt, I certainly didn’t need to this time. Let’s not waste any time and just get down to it. Let’s dish a little.

Here’s the real reason Rod Stewart keeps marrying different women and has kids with each of them. He’s apparently the new candidate for the Got Milk ad. TMZ caught him suckling up to wife Penny Lancaster. If you have the stomach for it, look for yourself on TMZ.

Paris Hilton is denying she was trying to borrow a puppy solely to accessorize herself for a photo shoot. Reports had her asking a pet store for a loan of the Yorkie and going “ballistic” when she was denied. Instead, she speaks of how she has plenty of pets and loves
them like her children. Say what you want about her, but I’m inclined to believe her.

After watching the way Michael Jackson has cut and resewn up his face, would you want him to design an outfit you? Me either, so I’m curious to how successful he’ll be in his new career as fashion designer.

Heather Locklear is having some difficulties apparently. She’s checked herself into an Arizona treatment facility complaining of anxiety and depression. Her rep isn’t willing to make any more statements on the matter, but it does make you wonder a little. It could be because the picture of her they have posted at Wikipedia is the most unflattering ever, or maybe it’s because she, too, can’t get over it that Tommy Lee is back together with Pamela Anderson. Or maybe she’s still struggling with Sambora ending their marriage for Denise Richards. She has enough to be upset about, I guess.

Also struggling is Larry King’s wife, Shawn Southwick King. She’s entering rehab for an addiction to painkillers. Her father is blaming it on her migraines, but honestly, looking at the two of them together … Why? It reminds me of the Sesame Street song, one of these things is not like the other …

Amy Winehouse reportedly does not have emphysema, yet has a scarring on her lungs that could add to it. She’s been told to stay healthy, she just needs to do the right things. So what did she do when she was let out of the hospital for a few hours for a rehearsal for Nelson Mandela’s birthday party? No butts about it, she had a cigarette. Anyone else think there’s just no way to stop that downward spiral of hers?

George Carlin is being remembered by his old colleagues, with Tom Arnold saying Carlin was one to help remember his own addiction problems of the past, and would call up young comedians with known substance abuse problems and offer his services to attend a meeting with them or just get together and talk. I guess he was helping them with their stuff.

While a couple weeks back Tim Russet’s death left me dumbfounded, this one just leaves me sad. My first instinct was to reel off and shout out the Seven Words You Can’t Say On TV, but by the time I got past the F bomb, I lost the anger, but kept the bad mood. I figured the Hippie Dippy Weatherman would be saying that tonight’s forecast is dark … very, very dark, and I’m not sure if there will ever be light again.

Let me explain. I have always been a lover of words, and I grew up listening to this man talk about words and their idiosyncrasies. I learned what an oxymoron was from him with his jumbo shrimp bit.

It just seems so crazy lately, everyone seems to be dying. We’ve lost not only Russert, but also Dick Martin and Harvey Korman. What a radical thought it is that as I get older, I’m going to outlive these people that were adults when I was a child. It’s the downside of being at the wrong end of the baby boom era, watching everyone else pass away.

George Carlin left behind a legacy of words. He probably also left his stuff. One of his most famous bits is on our stuff that we have in our house, and how we pack a small portion of it to go on vacation. I actually think about this every time I pack a suitcase, that I’m packing a smaller version of my house.

They may not be allowed on TV, but they will always be allowed on my blog.

There’s something wrong when on the first whole day of Summer Vacation, it’s 60 degrees, overcast, and just overall yuck outside. I’m just sayin’. With the outside world not looking very interesting, let’s dish a little.

There’s also something wrong with a favorite Hollywood sidekick being kicked to the streets. 85-year-old Ed McMahon’s mansion in Beverly Hills is under foreclosure, due to him being laid up with a broken neck, making him unable to work. He’s 85 people, 20 years past normal retirement? Yet, the guy that travels around telling people they’ve won loads of cash doesn’t have enough of his own to keep a roof over his head. In addition, he lives by Britney Spears, and the paparazzi she attracts is scaring potential buyers off. Isn’t there an old Hollywood sidekick home this guy could go to?

Somebody find Benjamin Linus - Sawyer robbed in his home. Josh Holloway
and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their Honolulu home. According to a judge, the young man was responsible for “a tidal wave of crime” with four robberies in 2005. After obtaining their wallets, he drove off in their Mercedes. Fans of Lost just can’t help but wonder if Widmore is somehow behind this. Read more »

Hear that? It’s me celebrating the end of the school year. As sad as I am somewhat to see the end of my kids’ elementary school years, it also means the end of ten years of car pooling every day. With a little more time on my hands, let’s dish a little.

Sometimes people need to learn to be a little more grateful. David Archuleta’s mom, Lupe, is p.o.’ed that her son didn’t win the title of American Idol Season 7. According to “an insider,” she claimed the show was fixed so that David Cook would win. She also complained about the green Ford Escape hybrid SUV David won, saying he wouldn’t be able to drive that around town, as everyone would recognize him. Right, and walking around down the streets of Utah, he wouldn’t be. If it pleases the court, let’s let this child become an emancipated minor immediately. If he’s held back in the music business, it will be because of his parents’ behavior and big mouths. Read more »