Some Gossip
Okay, as I had a request for some gossip-here's all I've heard...
That Tom Cruise has Katie Holmes on a very tight leash and her Scientology minders go with her everywhere-how creepy is that? Speaking of Scientology (and I'm always happy to do that-I find them endlessly fascinating in a bizarre and scary way) here's a link to the story behind the recent dust-up between the BBC and Scientology. It reminds me of years ago when I read Premiere (back when it actually had information wasn't just sucking up to studio heads)-they had a big investigative piece on Scientology and it caused no end of problems for the magazine.
Here's the link- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/6655207.stm
In other news-I keep hearing that Brad and Angelina have broken up (but I just saw a picture of them at Cannes). Frankly, I do think it will happen just not quite yet. A second X-Files movie? Again? I keep hearing this, but frankly I won't believe it until it's actually in theaters. Does that make me the skeptic? And honestly, I don't care about the Hollywood starlets-Lindsay Lohan is a good actress when she isn't boozed and coked up (although why would I want to see her new movie? I like Jane Fonda, but a movie that makes light of sexual abuse? I'm not surprised as Garry Marshall directed it, the same man that took a movie about a hooker and turned it into Pretty Woman but the whoe thing just repulses me). Scarlett Johannsen is pretty-and occasionally she can act but lately it seems she just gets cast for being pretty. And don't get me started on Kirsten Dunst, who has taken a strong woman from the comic book Spiderman and turned Mary-Jane Watson into a wuss. It's infuriating and I can't decide if it's her fault or Sam Raimi's or the writer's but someone needs to take the fall for it.
And here's a link to fragments of a Gawker musical about Rupert Murdoch...but first a small Rupert Murdoch story of my own that you may find funny.
Many years ago, when I had just started working at my current job and my friend M, (who I was living with at the time) had just started working for the PR agency Fleishman-Hillard, he was working on the account that was doing the roll-out for the Fox talking heads show on Sunday morning-and the big party for the show was after work at the Capitol Grille. The food was wonderful and there was an open bar..and a huge salad bar-style spread of seafood. It was quite crowded, so I had to elbow my way to the fresh shrimp-it wasn't rude (I don't think) but imagine my surprise when I pushed pass someone, only to have him turn and look at me in surprise...and it was Rupert Murdoch. I have to say that I wasn't sorry about elbowing him at all and M thought it very funny. Also, the kid who played the son on Married with Children (a show I avoided at all costs) juts got busted for pot in New Smyrna Beach, right near the public beach. As this is where my parents spend every winter, I wonder if it's anywhere near their condo-that's pretty funny.
Anyway, here's the link to the Gawker musical and it's classic.
http://gawker.com/news/media-matinee/fragments-from-rupert-the-musical-260881.php
And if I hear anything good or have my own interpretation of events, I'll pass them on. I do have to say that after seeing the new Rhianna video, I don't think Jay-Z will ever marry Beyonce-geez, all you have to do is look at it and see that he produced it...it's pretty clear what he thinks as it's right up there on the screen.
That Tom Cruise has Katie Holmes on a very tight leash and her Scientology minders go with her everywhere-how creepy is that? Speaking of Scientology (and I'm always happy to do that-I find them endlessly fascinating in a bizarre and scary way) here's a link to the story behind the recent dust-up between the BBC and Scientology. It reminds me of years ago when I read Premiere (back when it actually had information wasn't just sucking up to studio heads)-they had a big investigative piece on Scientology and it caused no end of problems for the magazine.
Here's the link- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/6655207.stm
In other news-I keep hearing that Brad and Angelina have broken up (but I just saw a picture of them at Cannes). Frankly, I do think it will happen just not quite yet. A second X-Files movie? Again? I keep hearing this, but frankly I won't believe it until it's actually in theaters. Does that make me the skeptic? And honestly, I don't care about the Hollywood starlets-Lindsay Lohan is a good actress when she isn't boozed and coked up (although why would I want to see her new movie? I like Jane Fonda, but a movie that makes light of sexual abuse? I'm not surprised as Garry Marshall directed it, the same man that took a movie about a hooker and turned it into Pretty Woman but the whoe thing just repulses me). Scarlett Johannsen is pretty-and occasionally she can act but lately it seems she just gets cast for being pretty. And don't get me started on Kirsten Dunst, who has taken a strong woman from the comic book Spiderman and turned Mary-Jane Watson into a wuss. It's infuriating and I can't decide if it's her fault or Sam Raimi's or the writer's but someone needs to take the fall for it.
And here's a link to fragments of a Gawker musical about Rupert Murdoch...but first a small Rupert Murdoch story of my own that you may find funny.
Many years ago, when I had just started working at my current job and my friend M, (who I was living with at the time) had just started working for the PR agency Fleishman-Hillard, he was working on the account that was doing the roll-out for the Fox talking heads show on Sunday morning-and the big party for the show was after work at the Capitol Grille. The food was wonderful and there was an open bar..and a huge salad bar-style spread of seafood. It was quite crowded, so I had to elbow my way to the fresh shrimp-it wasn't rude (I don't think) but imagine my surprise when I pushed pass someone, only to have him turn and look at me in surprise...and it was Rupert Murdoch. I have to say that I wasn't sorry about elbowing him at all and M thought it very funny. Also, the kid who played the son on Married with Children (a show I avoided at all costs) juts got busted for pot in New Smyrna Beach, right near the public beach. As this is where my parents spend every winter, I wonder if it's anywhere near their condo-that's pretty funny.
Anyway, here's the link to the Gawker musical and it's classic.
http://gawker.com/news/media-matinee/fragments-from-rupert-the-musical-260881.php
And if I hear anything good or have my own interpretation of events, I'll pass them on. I do have to say that after seeing the new Rhianna video, I don't think Jay-Z will ever marry Beyonce-geez, all you have to do is look at it and see that he produced it...it's pretty clear what he thinks as it's right up there on the screen.
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