Sandra Bullock has donated a million dollars to relief funds for 9/11, the Indonesian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina and now she’s donated a million dollars to benefit victims of the recent earthquake in Japan. Yeah, if she wasn’t already the coolest, nicest chick in all of Hollywood, her four million dollars in charity donations should certainly secure her that spot. She’s making Angelina Jolie look like a selfish troll.
The American Red Cross has released a statement about Sandra’s donation, which I found on etonline.com:
“The American Red Cross is extremely grateful for this generous support from Sandra Bullock and her family. This contribution is vitally important as the Red Cross works to provide critical assistance and essential relief items in this time of urgent need for so many people in Japan.”
So I guess there’s really no excuse for me to not text REDCROSS to 90999 and give a measly $10 donation. I spent that much on pizza and cheap wine last night and now I feel like a total bag of dicks.
Have you done anything to help out the relief fund?
We love Britney Spears over here, but after watching the new promo for her March 29th Good Morning America appearance, I have to ask: What’s up with her these days?
I know that we’re never going to see the Britney that we knew back in ’99. She’s older, she’s a mom now, and she had a pretty rough couple of years there, but I feel like we’re ignoring the fact that she seems tired, sad all the way down to her eyeballs, and yo, if I’m not mistaken, even her speaking voice sounds different. If she was my grandmother, I’d be worried that she’d had a stroke and no one noticed.
It seems as though Britney wasn’t quite ready to get back to work yet, but as someone who’s been working like a dog since she was a pre-teen, she probably doesn’t really know any other way of life. I fear that if she keeps pushing herself, she’s going to wind up back where she was in 2008, and I’m sure that the people in her life can see that, too. Why else would she still be under conservatorship?
This is what I’m getting at: Let’s celebrate this new Britney record and be supportive of her television appearances, but keep in mind that this is a woman who, less than three years ago, was shaving her head and beating in car doors with an umbrella. There’s no way, regardless of how much we’ve willed it to be the case, that she’s on top of her game again. Let’s give our princess a little bit of breathing room while she continues to sort out her life, aight?
What a great month for violence against women in the media, right? It’s like we’re trippin’ over the stuff!
Mel Gibson plead no contest after he was charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly hitting at his ex-lady Oksana Grigorieva on March 11th, and yesterday he was in and out of the El Segundo Police Department in a half hour while he had his mugshot (above) and fingerprints taken. He was sentenced to three years probation and counseling, because apparently that’s the most punishment they can dish out to an anti-Semitic woman-beater who drinks too much and also happens to be famous these days.
I feel like I have to point out how ass-backwards it is that Lindsay Lohan has spent more time in the slammer for harm she’s caused only to herself than Mel and Charlie Sheen have spent ever. Both Mel and Charlie are repeat offenders who show a much greater threat to society than Lindsay, who seems to be a favor shoplifting a cocaine to physical abuse. Why are these guys repeatedly getting a slap on the wrist from the justice system (and in Sheen’s case, being glorified in the media as some Tiger Blood-drinking superhero,) while Lindsay MAYBE stole a dumb necklace and will probably serve a small sentence for it.
Perhaps it’s obvious to cry sexism here, but it’s not so obvious that anyone’s doing anything to change things.
“He’s so incredibly loving and sensitive, he really is. He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with on a movie. And he’s not saintly, and he’s got a big mouth, and he’ll do gross things your nephew would do. But I knew the minute I met him that I would love him the rest of my life. I know him in a very complex way. He’s a real person; he’s not a cardboard cutout. I know that he has troubles, and when you love somebody you don’t just walk away from them when they are struggling.”
Have you ever spoken with someone who’s been abused? Isn’t that kind of what Jodie sounds like, all “no, you just don’t know him like I do, he’s really a great guy, he’s just got some issues”? I think it’s important to stand by loved ones in tough times too, but there’s a difference between doing that and talking up a guy that likes to beat his girlfriend. I know you’re just trying to promote The Beaver, Jodie, but maybe try a different angle.
Because Casey Abrams, or as I affectionately refer to him, Budget Seth Rogen, is definitely going to win American Idol this season, and we need to just get that out there right now and accept him into our hearts as such.
Seriously, have you guys been watching? Did you watch last night when he gloriously plucked his bass and sang the fuck out of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” or that time that he declared that he was there “to prove that people like me can be sexy” (mission accomplished, Casey Abrams), or any other time that he’s ever graced your television? This man is a gift from God, and he’s only 20. I mean, he’s no Scotty “Baby, Lock Them Doors” McCreery (kidding, but how great is that kid?), but he’s something special.
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