Hi y’all! I know I was MIA last week — I took a much-needed vacation, and I can’t thank Wendie and Kelly enough for doing such an incredible job in my absence. I’d be lost without those two. But I’m back now, and I have a lot to say about a lot of the things that have been going on, but up first: Alanis Morrissette.
Apparently Alanis figures that if Scarlett Johansson can step in on her ex-fiance and release an album, the least she can do is invade one part of Scarlett’s world: acting. Alanis is already slated for a role in the upcoming Lindsay Lohan oeuvre, The Other Side, and now it looks like she landed a guest spot on Weeds, too. Starting July 20, she’ll be playing Nancy’s no-nonsense clinic obstetrician Dr. Audra Kitson for a seven-episode arc. A pic of her in the role is above.
This weekend Kelly gave us all the details of an interview Michael Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe granted to News of the World. Well, NOTWis confused or doesn’t know what to do when they aren’t writing about Amy Winehouse because, according to Debbie Rowe, this one-on-one chit-chat never happened.
To recap: Debbie didn’t say that Michael wasn’t the biological father of their kids, she didn’t say that she didn’t want custody of the kids, and she didn’t say that the two never had sex. As a matter of fact, it’s like the article never even happened since NOTW has pulled it from their site.
This sounds like a “Shut your mouth, stop talking about our son to the media, and we’ll make sure you get some more money” type of retraction.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had a huge opening — huge. Over five days, it pulled in $387.3M worldwide and $201M domestically. It has now clinched second place of best movie five-day gross tally, only eclipsed by Dark Knight.
Over the weekend, Transformers pulled in $112M with The Proposal and The Hangover rounding out the top three movies earning $18M and $17M, respectively.
The only other movie that opened this weekend, and how unfortunate to have to open up against any testosterone flick like Transformers, was the ever-depressing My Sister’s Keeper which earned $12M.
Let’s celebrate some happynews! This weekend, Eddie Van Halen put on his best flip-flops and married his girlfriend of three years, Janie Liszewski.
The couple served non-alcoholic drinks as a nod to Eddie’s 18 months of sobriety and also had offerings such as mini-corn dogs and wax lips on the menu. Wax Lips on the Menu — if that isn’t a song title, I don’t know what is.
One hundred guests attended, including Van Halen’s ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli and their son Wolfgang who served as best man.
Many of you didn’t appreciate my Heeeeeeerrrrreeeee’s Heaven!post about Ed McMahon — and I maintain that it was a stroke of comedic whimsy — but at least I didn’t slap on some Jheri curl, dress up like Michael Jackson, and moonwalk onto stage the way Jamie Foxx did on the BET Awards last night. Tacky and disrespectful, right?
Also, in a time where we are trying to all come together, Jamie Foxx speaks of MJ as someone who belonged to “us” — the African American community — and that they decided to share him with everyone else. Glad to see racism is alive and well in America.
You just can’t judge how people deal with their grief, I guess. Joe Jackson, father of Michael, appeared at the BET Awards last night and was happy to let everyone know that the Jackson family is doing fine — great, actually. This CNN interview reminded me of one of those old SNL skits.
My modern-day re-write:
CNN: “Joe, I know the past few days have been tough.”
Joe: “Uh? Tough. Yeah, tough. That’s the ticket!”
CNN: “The circumstances surrounding Michael’s death have been tragic.”
Joe: “Tragic? But I have a new production company! (Lawyer whispers in his ear) Oh, yes, it’s very tragic. But we’re all doin’ great!”
At the three-minute mark, Joe gets across the message that seems to be closest to his heart. He announces hisnew record label, Ranch Records — distributed with Blu-Ray technology, guys! — and takes time to mention that his recent wedding anniversary is the first that Michael ever showed up for.
After the jump, Janet’s short but decidedly more heartfelt tribute to her brother.
I had never heard of her until SNL. I looked up her original name of Lizzie Grant and listened to some of her music, she is just not a good singer. She probably should get into another line of work.
If rihhana has dicided to forgive brown and go back to him,i see no big deal in it.if love is still involve,then they should be together coz they both av every reasons to be happy.
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