The consensus these days seems to be that Lindsay's at the Cirque Lodge in Sundance, Utah. It's a high-end rehab facility popular with celebs and the very rich. It only accommodates 16 patients at a time, so you better believe Lindsay skipped to the top of a long waiting list. According to Radar, the rehab comes complete with its own helicopter, and is nestled in the beautiful Rockies. But Radar also notes that, when it comes to drugs, nearby Park City may not be so different from LA:
While th...
Geri Halliwell looks damn good in a bikini. [Celebslam] Chris Rock would like you to know, for once and for all, that he did not father (this particular) child out of wedlock. [Bossip] Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy finally admits that there is some accuracy to scientific paternity testing. [Cele|bitchy] Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards are back to hating each other. Phew. That was weird for awhile. [Yeeeah!] "Flava Flav is responsible for more homeless black children than Hurricane Katrina." [SOW] Let the Beckham Backlash begin. [Agent Bedhead] When the title of a film review is "I Hate My Life," you sort of already know how the rest of it's gonna read. [Pajiba] Michelle Pfeiffer gets that elusive star on the Boulevard, so Lohan et al can trample over her name on the way to another DUI. [popbytes]
The MTV Video Music Awards are fast approaching, and the nominees have been released.
The best group category proves once again how tragically out-of-touch with the under-24 culture I am becoming. I guess I recognize most of these names, but, with the exception of Fall Out Boy, I can't name a single one of their songs. I just want to curl up in my room and listen to August and Everything After. Is that so wrong? Is it? Anyway, the nominees are:
Fall Out Boy
Gym Class Heroes
Linkin Park
Maroon 5
The White Stripes
The best new artist category confuses me, because most of these people aren't new artists. I mean, Carrie Underwood won American Idol in 1994, right? Amy Winehouse had an album go platinum in the U.K. in 2003. How exactly are we defining "new" in this context? And can someone please tell me what song Gym Class Heroes and Peter Bjorn & John gets played on the radio? I even Googled them and I couldn't figure it out.
Lily Allen
Gym Class Heroes
Peter Bjorn & John
Carrie Underwood
Amy Winehouse
The best female artist nominees don't matter, because Rihanna's going to win and Beyonce's going to be sooo pissed about it.
Beyonce
Fergie
Nelly Furtado
Rihanna
Amy Winehouse
And I don't know any of the songs by anyone in the best male artist category, either, except for JT. Oh, Akon does "Smack That," which, if I recall correctly, was already awarded Song of the Year by Ms. magazine, so I don't know that it really needs this accolade as well. Let someone else have a chance. The noms:
Akon
Robin Thicke
T.I.
Justin Timberlake
Kanye West
The VMAs will air on September 9th on MTV. />The MTV Video Music Awards are fast approaching, and the nominees have been released.
The best group category proves once again how tragically out-of-touch with the under-24 culture I am becoming. I guess I recognize most of these names, but, with the exception of Fall Out Boy, I can't name a single one of their songs. I just want to curl up in my room and listen to August and Everything After. Is that so wrong? Is it? Anyway, the nominees are:
Fall Out Boy
Gym Class Heroes
Linkin Park
M...
As we just ran a Backstreet Boys post I'm morally obligated to throw in a video of a song I heard (and liked) yesterday. I think this fellow, Jaime T, is big among our European audiences but us Yanks haven't discovered him yet... unless I'm more out of touch than I thought.
Anywhoo, here's Jaime T with "Stella"
/>As we just ran a Backstreet Boys post I'm morally obligated to throw in a video of a song I heard (and liked) yesterday. I think this fellow, Jaime T, is big among our European audiences but us Yanks haven't discovered him yet... unless I'm more out of touch than I thought.
Anywhoo, here's Jaime T with "Stella"
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It seems like just yesterday that we crowned ... someone? ... the new American Idol winner. (In my defense, it's 1:30 am, but I honestly had to Google it to remember that it was Jordan Sparks ... and I was live-blogging every episode. Each season of that show just blurs with the last.) But it's time to start up the insanity again, and it's kicking off this year in Dallas, Texas. It's the standard story: lines stretched forever, it was way fucking hot, contestants only get 15 seconds to sing, Ryan Seacrest is getting head from androgynous characters in a bathroom stall between takes, etc. Maybe this is why nothing exceptional ever happens to me, but I just don't understand why anyone would want to do that, even if they are a good singer. Like, there's a tiny voice in my head that would say, like, "Hey, Beet, this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a superstar! Sure, the odds are slim, but you've gotta go for it! You'll only achieve success if you pursue your dreams at all costs!" And then a huge, bellowing voice in my head responds, "It's hot," and then I'd stay in and watch Gilmore Girls reruns instead and hope someone discovers me in a mall.
In coming weeks, auditions will be held in Omaha, Atlanta, Charleston, Miami and Philadelphia. Can we please talk about these Omaha auditions? If Adam Duritz hadn't thought to write a whole song about it, I'd never have known Omaha existed. (I just have to note here that my friend Palimo -- a musical prodigy -- once devoted his considerable talent to making up new words to "Omaha," and it started like this: "Boned your ma, somewhere in a Little America," and then it went on but I forget how but Palimo, if you ever read this blog, kindly leave them in the comments). Anyway, Omaha's in the middle of fucking nowhere, a few hours out of Des Moines and about a day's drive from Chicago, but I truly cannot wait to see the midwestern farm stories they manage to pull out of the Omaha auditions. />It seems like just yesterday that we crowned ... someone? ... the new American Idol winner. (In my defense, it's 1:30 am, but I honestly had to Google it to remember that it was Jordan Sparks ... and I was live-blogging every episode. Each season of that show just blurs with the last.) But it's time to start up the insanity again, and it's kicking off this year in Dallas, Texas. It's the standard story: lines stretched forever, it was way fucking hot, contestants only get 15 seconds to sing, Ryan Sea...
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In a recent interview, the singer/designer admitted that she still breastfeeds her son, Kingston, who was born in May 2006. "I don't know when I'm going to stop breast-feeding," she says. "I'll just keep going while I can - like, he's getting his teeth, so it is a little bit scary. He's bitten me a few times."
I don't know anything about raising kids, but aren't you supposed to stop breast-feeding after a year or so? Especially when the kid's biting your tits? I wonder how Gavin feels abou...
Fergie and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas crew arrived in Japan today for a show out there. Normally I think she looks just awful, but she's almost -- almost -- bordering on pretty here. Not, like, deserving-of-Josh-Duhamel pretty, but she at least looks presentable. ...
Because all of their solo careers have gone so very well, the Backstreet Boys have teamed up to release yet another single, called "Inconsolable." Missing from the new four-member crew is Kevin Richardson, who left the band back in 2006, saying that the departure was "necessary in order to move on with the next chapter of my life." He and his wife had a baby boy named Mason in July. Did somebody say Yoko Ono?
You can listen to a sample of the new song, which debuted on New York's Z100 today...
So we're not going to reprint any of the things that Spencer Pratt has said about Lauren Conrad recently. Not because we have standards or anything, but because I like LC and I hate Spencer and I just don't want his nonsense on my blog. But, if you must know, you can read his recent (scathing) blog post here or listen to him and Heidi spew their anti-Lauren venom on the radio here. (By the way, all the talk of a wedding -- it's so not happening. This engagement is such a fraud. Note how wheneve...
I guess she's in this new Adam Sandler movie, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, which has been filming all over NYC for the past few weeks. I thought that, after leaving LA for NYC, I'd be free of assorted film crews for awhile, but honestly on my very first night here I was at a burlesque club (they're like strippers but fat) on the Lower East Side, and they were filming this movie right outside the club all night. I think I attract film crews. Someone should make me a star already.
Anyway, ...
Manager Jeff Kwatinez may have been frustrated by Kelly Clarkson's refusal to listen to the advice of Clive Davis, but at least Kelly doesn't have a reputation for cleaning up her dog's poop with Chanel dresses, urinating on-set with the bathroom door open, flaking out on her commitments, and, you know, doing cocaine all the time.
But, for whatever reason, Mr. Kwatinez, who was fired by Kelly last month, feels he's prepared to take on Britney Spears, and has recently agreed to sign on as her m...