Howard Stern had a pretty brutal take on it earlier this week, calling her “the most enormous fat black chick I’ve ever seen" and accusing Oprah of lying when she told “this enormous woman the size of a planet that she’s going to have a career.” (The audio is above.)
I agree with a lot of what Howard says in terms of Gabourey needing to lose weight. No one can tell that girl that she's absolutely fine and healthy just the way she is. I'm sure she's a beautiful spirit, and she's obviously a brilliant actress, but she's not going to be a brilliant actress for much longer if she doesn't change her diet and exercise regime.
That said, a look at Gabourey's IMDB page indicates that she's starring in an upcoming flick called Yelling to the Sky, and this week it was announced she'll have a recurring role opposite Laura Linney in a television show called The Big C, about a suburban mom attempting to find humor in her battle with cancer. So she's working, which is more than most skinny, beautiful actresses in Hollywood can say for themselves.
The interesting thing about someone like Gabourey Sidibe being nominated for the best actress role, and for Oprah to so publicly endorse her, is that now you're going to see roles written for Gabourey Sidibe. You're going to see studios pushing for films that use actresses like Gabourey Sidibe and characters like Precious. You're going to see those films mass-marketed, rather than tucked away at indie film festivals or marketed exclusively to the black community. What I find most interesting and potentially inspiring about Gabourey Sidibe is not that she's black or female or overweight, but she's really not pretty. (Your haterade goes in the comments. But it's true.) And we never see that in Hollywood. When you look at the larger women on the Hollywood scene -- black or white -- you'll notice that they all have very beautiful faces. Mo'Nique, Oprah, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Kirstie Alley, Jessica Simpson. They all have strikingly beautiful faces. We do not put this constraint on overweight men in Hollywood. So I love that this is an opportunity for Hollywood to start putting more women who look like Gabourey on camera, because the average woman -- even the average overweight or obese woman -- does not have Mo'Nique's perfect face.
I think you're incredibly brave and awesome, Gaby, and best of luck to you, kiddo. />
Howard Stern had a pretty brutal take on it earlier this week, calling her “the most enormous fat black chick I’ve ever seen" and accusing Oprah of lying when she told “this enormous woman the size of a planet that she’s going to have a career.” (The audio is above.)
I agree with a lot of what Howard says in terms of Gabourey needing to lose weight. No one can tell that girl that she's absolutely fine and healthy just the way she is. I'm sure she's a beautiful spirit, and she's ...
OK, this pretty much epitomizes the self-centered celebrity image.
Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade over that Super Bowl ad where the babies are talking about stock trading and that one baby calls another baby named Lindsay a "milkaholic" and OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ABOUT LINDSAY LOHAN.
For realz, you guys. She's suing for $100M -- that's $50 million in compensatory damages and $50 million of exemplary damages. The lawsuit also demanded that E-Trade stop running the ad and turn over all copies to her.
The suit claims the character of baby Lindsay improperly invoked her "likeness, name, characterization and personality" without permission, violating her right of privacy.
Lohan's lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, tells the New York Post: "Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit. They used the name Lindsay. They're using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn't they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody's talking about it and saying it's Lindsay Lohan."
Jesus Christ. IT'S NOT LIKE THEY NAMED THE BABY OMAROSA.
Chris Brown, a spokesman for Grey Group, which produced the spot, says it "just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team."
WOAH. Either it's already April 1st or E-Trade has already paid Lindsay Lohan for the publicity this lawsuit is going to create for them, because this is complete and total madness. It's like my entire job to keep an eye on what people are saying and thinking about Lindsay Lohan, and this is the very first I've heard of this. THIS IS RIDICULOUS, LINDSAY. YOU'RE NOT EVEN THAT RELEVANT ANYMORE.
Get a fucking job.
In other, sort of stranger news -- and let me be clear that I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH A BABY -- but I'm kind of turned on by the voice of the douchebag behind the trader baby. Even though I know he's a douchebag who's going to cheat on me and pretend that he can fix it by buying me a nice purse and taking me to a fancy dinner where he'll wear an overpriced douchebag suit and talk about the stock market and check his cell phone for text messages every ten minutes until he finally just takes it out of his pocket and sets it on the table and interrupts me to answer it and talk with a client about the football game last night and even the gay waiter kind of rolls his eyes and glances at me like "You're really gonna put up with this bullshit?" and then I will go home with him that night and have sex with him even though I will spend most of that experience with my head turned aside, rolling my eyes and wishing I could be texting during this bullshit, and he will ask me in the morning if I'll make him a bowl of cereal and I will do that and when I bring it to him he will be on his cell phone talking about the stock market. I WANT THAT.
Why are women so stupid? It's probably because we all have to share a chromosome with Lindsay Lohan. />
OK, this pretty much epitomizes the self-centered celebrity image.
Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade over that Super Bowl ad where the babies are talking about stock trading and that one baby calls another baby named Lindsay a "milkaholic" and OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ABOUT LINDSAY LOHAN.
For realz, you guys. She's suing for $100M -- that's $50 million in compensatory damages and $50 million of exemplary damages. The lawsuit also demanded that E-Trade stop running the ad and turn over all copies...
Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier, who was banned from the Oscars ceremony for "aggressive campaigning" -- he emailed Academy voters and urged them to vote for his tiny indie flick rather than the “$500M film” James Cameron made -- watched the ceremony at a small party in a tent in Malibu. When his film won, he gave a long, long heavily accented speech. You can watch it above.
I do wish that all award winners were given a little more time to accept their awards. Nothing pains me more than seeing, like, three dudes win for best sound mixing, and two of them get to thank their wives and children and the directors and producers and then the other one is just left standing there, his crowning life achievement cut short, while the band plays him off. I was especially annoyed last night when the rich and famous people got up on stage and helped the other rich and famous people -- aka Best Actor and Best Actress nominees -- masturbate for half an hour. WTF did we need to do that for? The poor sound mixer guys could have all thanked their wives like 800 times in the space it took for yet another person to tell Meryl Streep that she's brilliant. Even Meryl Streep was annoyed, I think.
I love you more than rainbows, you guys. />
Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier, who was banned from the Oscars ceremony for "aggressive campaigning" -- he emailed Academy voters and urged them to vote for his tiny indie flick rather than the “$500M film” James Cameron made -- watched the ceremony at a small party in a tent in Malibu. When his film won, he gave a long, long heavily accented speech. You can watch it above.
I do wish that all award winners were given a little more time to accept their awards. Nothing pains me ...
But it's actually 18 bottles of blond hair dye and three cartons of cigarettes.
From the bottom of my heart, Katherine, I want to thank you. Thank you for leaving Grey's Anatomy alone so that it can be a show I enjoy again. I stopped watching for a couple of years, but I'm once again fully invested in the plotline and in all the new characters, thanks to the fact that none of them is you. I eagerly await the day that Alex gets the telegram (email?) informing him that Izzie is dead foreve...
Charlie Sheen -- who's been in rehab for the past two weeks for alcoholism and cocaine use -- will be leaving March 19 to resume taping Two and a Half Men. I know we're supposed to be all up in arms about this, like, "HE NEEDS TO STAY IN REHAB LONGER!!" but, by March 19, he'll have done nearly the standard 30 days, which is more than I can say for his wife. Brooke Mueller left two separate rehab facilities to be "treated" for her alcoholism at home. Because clinging to the belief that you're different and better than everyone else is a surefire sign that you'r...
SUPER CUTE! Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves arrived at LAX last night with their two kiddos, son Levi (almost 2 years old now!) and baby daughter Vida, who was born January 3. The former shirtless wonder is such a family man now!
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It's a television show on Bravo that follows the life and work of self-proclaimed "power girl" Kelly Cutrone. She runs a fashion PR firm where associates and partners and junior associates run around screaming at each other and then Kelly screams louder. She's co-authoring a book called If You Have to Cry, Go Outside. She's got this mentality that the most important thing in this world is to have power, and that to have power you absolutely must treat everyone else as though their feelings don't exis...
That's a trick question, y'all, like "How many licks does it take to get the center of a Tootsie Pop?" NOBODY KNOWS because that goddamn owl keeps fucking everything up.
I have no idea where I'm trying to go with this post.
Lindsay Lohan -- who is definitely not designing for Ungaro anymore, and they want to make damn sure you know that -- spent yet another day trolling around Paris in godawful clothes. Several different sets of godawful clothes. Enjoy them all in the gallery below.
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THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
BabyCenter.com surveyed 5,000 moms about their favorite and least favorite baby names of 2009, so that these kids can Google themselves in twelve years and be all like "See, Mom? You set me up for failure! Everyone hated me from the start!" And then they'll run off and smoke a bunch of crack and get a DUI and go to rehab and it'll be a great big huge news story and then I WILL MAKE MONEY. So thank you, BabyCenter.com
The favorite baby name of 2009: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s now-5-month-old baby girl, Charlotte Grace, who earned 49%. Jennifer Garner and...
Up now: Amanda Seyfried, Angie Harmon (loooove the dress!), Anna Kendrick (new dress, still sucks), Diane Kruger and Josh Jackson, Dianna Agron from Glee (love the girl but the dress is the wrong color for her skin), Elizabeth Banks (new dress, like it much better), Gabourey Sidibe, more Hilary Swank (because I'm obsessed with her dress and am going to get a breast reduction so I can wear it), Jodie Foster (who looks exactly how a lesbian at an Oscars party is supposed to look), Diane von Furstenb...
In this edition: Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron (still together! Can you believe that shit???), a newly single Abbie Cornish, Katy Perry and Russell Brand, Jeff Bridges and wife Susan, Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison, Taylor Lautner, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, the Jonas Brothers, Victoria Beckham, Hilary Swank, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, Amy Adams, Kate Bosworth, Natalie Portman, Patricia Clarkson, Heidi Klum and Bar Rafaeli.
And we are only a fracti...
All's quiet on the Hollywood front this morning, as actors and actresses and their respective publicists nurse their hangovers, and entertainment journalists are left to dissect last night's results. Was anyone surprised by anything last night? I was kind of surprised that I thought Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were really funny. And I thought Inglorious Basterds should have taken home the screenplay award. But other than that, absolutely nothing surprised me. Oh wait. Except for that incre...