Troubled Hollywood

How is it halfway through May already? It seems just last month I was complaining about snow and cold. Oh wait. It was last month. I just can’t believe the kids only have a few weeks left of school, meaning I only have a few weeks left of sanity. Yet, good celebrity gossip doesn’t seem to care what time of year it is. So, let’s get going and dish a little.

Are Paul McCartney and Heather Mills having the longest divorce ever or what? How can it still not be over yet? We settled their finances a few months ago, and now today a judge is granting them a “preliminary” divorce? Preliminary? If at the end of six weeks no one objects, the divorce will be granted. Just who is going to object? Certainly not Paul or Heather, and most certainly not the legions of Beatles fans out there.

Someone else who keeps reliving her divorce is Carly Simon. In the best-seller Girls Like Us, it combines the stories of Carly, along with her counterparts Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Carly was the only one offo the three to actually interview with the author, Sheila Weller, as most of the stories included in the book are from family and friends. That alone was hard on Carly, as the time in her life that was being retold was that of her failed marriage to James Taylor. I think he’s probably the one that was “so vain.”

While we’ve always been taught you don’t have to grow up in Neverland, apparently you do still have to take care of your debts. Michael Jackson owes $24.5 million on his Neverland Ranch, forcing it into default when he couldn’t pay up after being acquitted of child molestation. The ranch was due to go into auction on Wednesday, but an investment company ended up buying out the loan. That’s too bad. I feel sorry for him.

Nah, not really.

Just in case you can’t get much more weird that Jacko, a biologist is naming a newly discovered spider species after Neil Young. Apparently the biologist, Jason Bond, has also named spider species after Nelson Mandela (Stasimopus mendelai) and his wife, Kristen (Apomastus Kristenae.) I don’t care what their names are, I don’t want any of them, including the newly crowned and discovered Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.

Off to kill a few spiders and to see if I can afford a new ranch.

Photos courtesy of virginmedia.com and rollingstone.com.

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