Chinese Idol Sounds Boring

In China, the competition we know as American Idol, is called "Happy Boys Voice" - and there will be no vulgarity!!

"No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste," the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Friday in a notice to the producers of "Happy Boys Voice," according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

The show is due to start on May 1 and is a sequel to "Super Girls Voices", which was wildly popular in China and had more then 400 million viewers. That makes our 30 million viewers an episode for Idol pale in comparison!

The show is not allowed to broadcast screaming fans, tears of contestants, and no humiliation of contestants. What? Fox needs to send some reality TV missionaries to China to show them how to do it! What's the point if it's all happy, happy, happy? Sounds boring as batshit to me!

(source: Washington Post)

Martha Stewart and Her New Friend

This is Martha Stewart with her new Kazakhstani best friend, on Saturday. Stewart was in Kazakhstand to bid farewell to her other friend Charles Simonyi, who let the Russians blast him off to the international space station for a vacation.

Bunny!!

Worst Idea Ever

Lindsay Lohan is telling In Touch Weekly that she would like to play Princess Diana in a movie.

"It would be fantastic to play her. She gave back a lot and was such an amazing woman."

Apparently Lindsay is a fan of the late Princess's and fancies herself having some of the same problems with the paparazzi. Lindsay is even thinking about doing some lame charity work in Japan.

What a bloody joke. I will have a complete fit if Lindsay Lohan ever gets to play Princess Diana. Last time I checked Princess Diana had not been to rehab at the age of 20 and did not have reputation for being a complete ho. And Lindsay is far from being the most photographed woman in the world! Lindsay should think herself lucky to be able to watch a movie about Princess Diana, let alone play her in one.

Fashion Emergency!

Help!! Someone get Uma Thurman a new top!! Please! Her girls are about to escape!!

Tabloids Attack Angie

Apparently Angie and Brad are angering the tabloids beyond belief, so much so that the mags have turned on them and are not being very nice. People magazine's exclusive access to Jolie, Pitt and kids is not fair and other mags should be getting a chance at exclusive access. Page Six reports:

Sources say Us Weekly, Star and other celebrity weeklies are so fed up with
getting scooped by People, they've turned on Jolie and Brad Pitt with a vengeance.

So the mags think that Angie should share the love? Why? People is willing to pay her millions and let her control the stories. Why would she do anything different? This is not like the networks sharing the pool coverage at the White House!

Angie, if you want to take a different path, email us here. Mia has a fantastic camera and we'd love to cover your next adoption! Call us!!

Beautiful People

Because it's a slow news day/week/month, here's some beautiful people to look at:

Brooke Shields with her husband Chris Henchy at a Lakers game.

Naomi Watts and her baby bump in NY

Halle Berry gets a Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood this week

Gina is Gone!!

I was really surprised that Gina Glocksen was eliminated on American Idol last night! I thought for sure that Phil was a gonner. Poor Gina, she cried on Ryan Seacrest's shoulder while they were showing her farewell video. I feel bad for her. She definitely wasn't at the bottom of the pack as far as I was concerned. Haley Scarnato was wearing another pair of hotpants, that made her legs look really long. Haley managed to squeeze out a few crocodile tears for Gina when she found out she was safe.

Apparently Tony Bennett couldn't stomach another evening on Idol, so he called in sick and Fox managed to talk Michael Buble into a "surprise" appearance, which by the way, was announced to all Michael Buble fans by email a couple of hours before the show.

In another astounding twist, Randy was wearing a shirt made from his grandmothers tablecloth and Paula was wearing the matching lace curtains. Simon didn't stray from his tight t-shirt wardrobe.

So, another week of Sanjaya hair, Sanjaya news, Sanjaya propaganda and Sanjaya lame singing. Sigh.

Director of Best Movie Ever, Dies in Car Accident

Bob Clark, Director of "A Christmas Story" , was killed today in a head on collision on the Pacific Coast Highway. His son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, was also killed in the accident.

TMZ reports that "police arrested 24-year-old Hector Velazquez-Nava, the driver of the SUV, on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter, and that Velazquez-Nava will be booked once he is released from the hospital. We're told that Velazques-Nava had a female passenger whose status is unknown at this time".

That's really sad. I love "A Christmas Story". Even though Clark won a couple of Razzies,(according to IMDB.com), he was good enough to direct one of the best movies ever made!

Upadate: Driver Charged! Click here

McDreamy Gets Some Exercise

Here's some McDreamy to keep you going until ABC puts on a new episode of Grey's Anatomy - which I hope will be next week!

Universe of Sanjaya

Last nights Idol manged to reach whole new levels of boring. Tony Bennett was the guest "mentor" and all the Idols pretended to flip out meeting him, but I'm sure half of them had never heard of Tony.

Blake Lewis kicked off the night with his rendition of "Mack the Knife" and he was his usual irritating self. I don't know what it is about Blake, but everything he does irritates me and I don't know why the judges like him so much. He's trying too hard to be unique, but it just doesn't come naturally.

Melinda Doolittle delivered another great vocal performance, but I can't even remember what she sung. Her perfection is becoming boring, although I really like her.

Gina Glocksen is most improved every week. The judges didn't really like her vocals on "Smile", but I thought that she was good, and definitely has her own style.

Everyone else was blah! Even Lakisha, who insists on disregarding the excellent advice of the mentors, every single week. You can't tell me she knows more than Tony Bennett!!

And then of course we have Mr Sanjaya Malakar, dazzling in his ice cream white suit and slicked back hair, underwhelming us with "Cheek to Cheek". Dude cannot sing. At all. The judges have completely given up on even critiquing Sanjaya's singing. And when Simon said "Let's take a different tactic this week... incredible...", Sanjaya screamed out "Welcome to the Universe of Sanjaya". Is Sanjaya believing his own publicity? I doubt he will be gone this week. He'll probably make it to the final four at this stage.

If you are a huge Sanjaya fan check out the Sanjaya Fan Network . They have some great discussion boards going on everything Sanjaya, including his sister!! It's definitely worth a look if you are intersted in keeping Sanjaya on American Idol.

DialIdol.com is predicting that only Melinda Doolittle is safe and Haley Scarnato has the lowest number of votes!!

(www.SanjayaFanNetwork.com).

Give Up, Vergie

Vergie Arthur has filed papers in the Bahamas, trying to become Dannielynn's guardian ad litem. What??? Give up Vergie, the only way that you even have a small chance of becoming Dannielynn's guardian is if the paternity test reveals that Dannielynn's father is neither Birkhead, Stern or Prince Von Zsa Zsa. (source)

This action better not hold up the paternity results being released!!!!!

Anderson & Jodie Outed?

This is the cover of the new issue of Out magazine. In it, they have their first every 'Gay Power List'. And right there on the cover, by way of two models holding masks of their faces, are two A-listers who have never publicly admitted to being gay, although they have never denied it either.

"It's a bit of chutzpah on our part," says the Out editor in chief. "The A-list and even B-list gays are mostly in the closet still, and those are the kinds of people we need to have on our cover. This is a way of addressing that."

He goes on to say that it is ok that he put Anderson and Foster on the cover because they are in a 'glass closet'.

"The Anderson Coopers and Jodie Fosters of the world don't go to any great lengths, if any at all, to pretend they have partners of the opposite sex."

What? This makes no sense to me. They haven't publicly admitted to being gay maybe because they prefer to keep their personal business personal. I really don't think it's fair of a magazine to make that decision for them. This is sure to stir up a bit of controversy I'm sure.

Dannielynn Paternity Update

Court TV is reporting that the hearing in the Bahamas has ended for the day, and the paternity results were not read out in court. The hearing is set to resume next Tuesday.

Larry Birkhead must be getting frantic!! Each day this goes on is another day Dannielynn is locked in the house with Howard K Stern!!

Britney's New Tatoo

What do you think about Britney's new wrist tatoo? It's the one she got on the night she went mental and shaved her head. I think it looks like an enormous love bite!!

American Idol News Round Up

Tonight on American Idol is "Tony Bennett - American Classics". Not only do I predict this to be boring, but everyone except Melinda, Lakisha and Jordin are going to murder all the songs and make horrible song choices.

Speaking of Jordin, Ryan Seacrest is tipping that Jordin Sparks is going to be the next American Idol. Ryan says: "She's non-threatening, cute and attractive. Plus, she has this sincere likeability that is rare and genuine." I have to agree with him. Although Melinda Doolittle is a fantastic singer, her personality isn't really that sparky and I'm sure that people are going to get very tired with her "aw shucks" attitude, or just not vote for Melinda because they think she is safe.

We can all breathe a sigh of relief as the Sanjaya hunger strike person has decided to eat again and is just going to concentrate on getting Sanjaya voted off. Good Decision. He's not worth dying for.

Is Sanjaya the most hated American Idol contestant ever?. Probably. Unless you are a weeping 10 year old girl. I think that Votefortheworst.com is definitely ruining this season of Idol, although most of the contestants are managing to do that for the viewing public without any outside help.

Click here to see TMZ's video of the Idols eating lunch

Opri Tries To Blind Us With Lawyer Talk

Debra Opri has lashed out at the media and whoever leaked the information about Larry Birkhead's legal bills with this:

"One can only imagine from whom and for what purposes these stories were started. I cannot comment on unauthenticated documents which were disseminated to the media under suspicious circumstances, and which are covered by the attorney-client privilege. I can assure you, however, that all of the fees and expenses incurred on behalf of Mr. Birkhead were reasonable, necessary, and appropriate, given the complexity and magnitude of this very high profile case that was litigated in two different states and a foreign country. Out of respect for Mr. Birkhead, I cannot comment further at this time."

Whatever, Debra!! In other words, the whole story is true. Opri, you can't get out of this one, the cat's out of the bag.

And in other fantastic legal news, Howard K Sterns pathetic attempt to stop the Dannielynn paternity hearing by filing an appeal has totally failed. Stern now has to pay $10,000 in legal fees to the Bahamas Courts and to Birkhead's Bahamian lawyers, basically as a slap on the hand for filing a frivolous appeal. This means that we could find out as early as tomorrow who the father of Dannielynn is, when the hearing continues in the Bahamas. (source).

Howard K Stern is in serious need of a job.

Want to Look Like Angelina Without the Pain?

You to can have Angelina's tattoos without the pain and frustration of actually getting inked! And they are machine washable!. Kitson has a t-shirt emblazoned with Angelina's tattoos!!

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And for the men - get David Beckhams tats!!.

Birkhead Gets the Bill!!

Incredibly, Debra Opri is charging Larry Birkhead $620,492.84. Opri billed Larry $475 an hour for legal services and a slew of other miscellaneous charges including two dinners that Birkhead didn't even attend and some laundry charges for Opri's husband. TMZ has a longer list here.

I can't really believe she billed the poor guy that much. Look at the international exposure the Debra Opri has received by representing Larry Birkhead! The least she could have done is cut her normal rate in half and not billed him the bogus expenses. My favorite one is this:

On February 24, 2007, while Opri and Birkhead stayed at a private residence in Ft. Lauderdale during the Florida hearing, Opri billed $600 for Seafood World. We're told she brought four trays of lobster to the house. The bill says, "Dinner gift/Ft. Lauderdale house stay." But it was no gift to Larry. That same day, she billed $211 for items at Publix grocery store.

In other Larry news, last week we reported that Larry Birkhead had filed a trademark on the phrase "Goodnight My Sweet Anna Baby". Apparently this is not the case. Larry has written this on his own website LarryBirkhead.net

TRADEMARKS: I have never requested a trademark, signed or filled out any paperwork on a trademark relating to Anna Nicole Smith, and the saying "Goodnight My Sweet Anna Baby." The form was filled out by another individual on my behalf. The form was not reviewed or approved by me. The media is reporting that they have seen a copy of the form, please send me one as I have asked for a copy and never have received it. It does not have my signature or authorization, I am far too busy working on my fight for my daughter Dannielynn, to worry about things like trademarking sayings for use in movies, etc. **In other words, I will seek to have this trademark withdrawn or cancelled on the grounds it was not approved by me.**

The rest of his last post also makes for some interesting reading!! Click here

And in even more news, TMZ is reporting that most of the drugs that were given to Anna Nicole were prescribed to Howard K Stern!!!!!!!

The paternity hearing in the Bahamas is due to resume tomorrow - pending of course all the appeals that Mr Howard K Stern has filed. And I can only presume that he is filing these appeals as he doesn't want the truth to set him free!!

MC Rove is Mean to Critters

Move over Olsen twins, PETA is now after Karl Rove! Rove made the folks over at PETA pretty angry with his wacky rap routine at the Washington Radio and TV Correspondents' dinner the other night. In part, he.....eh, rapped,

"Listen up suckas, don't get the jitters but MC Rove tears the heads off critters."

He followed that by saying he enjoys "ripping the tops off of animals". Yikes. Bad move Rove.

“We saw your bizarre routine. . . and our first thought was, ‘Don’t give up your day job,’” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk wrote in a letter to Rove at the White House. “On second thought, we do wish you’d give up your day job. . . . You have a severe compassion deficit and, sadly, you have the president’s ear, and the last thing this country needs is someone whispering something violent into it.”

MSNBC's The Scoop asked PETA if they thought maybe MC Rove was just kidding around.

"He hunts Doves! They're four-ounce symbols of Peace!"

Can't wait to see where this one goes.