This is one of those stories that is very sad in such a strange way, that you’re not sure whether to laugh or 
cry or make inappropriate jokes. I usually do all three just to be sure. But it’s hard, because I think we’ve all been through an obsessive teenage stage where we fantasized about developing a close friendship (or more) with a celebrity. Can we really judge Paula Goodspeed?
I’m not sure if her shared first name with Paula Abdul is just a bizarre coincidence, but what we do know is that she’s been obsessed with the pop star/American Idol judge for years. She appeared on Season 5 of the show, and her audition tape has been circulating on the Internet. Most people say you can tell she’s unabalanced, and yeah…you can. Read more…
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You can go ahead and scratch that question mark, assuming that these recent reports are true. There’s no way to be sure, but I believe it, because there are a lot of crazy people in the world, and it makes sense that a surprisingly high proportion of celebrities would be crazy. These are people who enjoy being famous, after 
all.
Madonna has established a pretty good reputation for herself, and a lot of it hinges on her being, well, unhinged. She practices Kabbalah, a religion that seems to attract solely unhinged celebrities (it’s the next Scientology!) and every few months a few disturbing fact surfaces. This is the latest, and it’s really, really…unhinged.
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The day of aggressive weirdness continues unabated as I read today that some random stranger in Korea ran out of a pet store one afternoon and gave Paris Hilton a dog.
Why? Who knows! Even SHE doesn’t!
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The housing market is tough. People have mortgages they can’t afford, and they’re not sure who they’re making payments to anymore. Those seeking to buy a first home are having unprecedented trouble 
qualifying for a mortgage, and people who work as real estate agents are quickly losing their commission-based income. I suppose it’s not quite as bad as it could be - we’re not all living in straw huts just yet - but, basically, it’s a good time in history to have no investments and no immediate plans to buy any property. So I’m doing pretty well.
And, you’d imagine, celebrities are pretty safe too. They typically have a fair amount of liquid assets. (And I mean that literally, any self-respecting actor under 35 keeps at least ten cases of Everclear in their pool house.) Most celebrities own the kind of houses that will never lose their value, because they have like 43 bedrooms and look out over the nearest body of water. Also, if they’re really classy, they have one of those pools that pours over the edge and makes it look like the pool just goes on forever. I love those.
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A lot of a discussion around Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last week focused on how he looked. He looked happy, at first. Later, when waving for the camera with his family, he had a serious, pensive 
look about him. Why, some people wondered, didn’t he keep that smile going? After all, it was a joyful time. He had made history.
Was he just tired, or did he not realize the cameras would be following him so closely? Or was his heart heavy with the knowledge that, all too soon, he’d actually have to start being president?
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2008 has claimed its latest victim: writer Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and creator of the hit series ER, died on November 5th at the age of 66. His death was “unexpected,” according to friends and 
family, although he had been battling cancer for some time.
Since the ’70s, Crichton had a longtime working relationship with Steven Spielberg. The director remembers: Read more…
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So the trial of Matthew McConaughey’s roughneck surfer buddies has started, and naturally, they’ve pled not guilty.
Did anyone really expect them to plead otherwise? No? Yeah, didn’t think so.
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Presumably he meant it to be “Good Bye!,” but I think it’s quite clear that things got mixed up somehow. Which is, pretty much, the story of his life.
Given that he hasn’t accomplished much in his last five years of acting, aside from Walk the Line, I don’t think many people will be surprised by Joaquin Phoenix’s revelation that he is done with the business. He’s been in movies ever since he was a kid who went by the much-easier-to-pronounce nickname Leaf, and he managed to push forward with his career even after the tragic death of his brother, River.
Famous for roles fraught with darkness and complexity, Phoenix found his breakthrough in Ridley Scott’s epic “Gladiator.” As the scheming, traitorous Emperor Commodus, he impressed audiences all over the world with his natural sneer (the result of a birth defect that left a scar on his upper lip). He also has a slightly out-of-joint shoulder since birth, a trait he shares with veteran actor Martin Sheen. But in spite of these deformities, women still found him beautiful.
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And we’re all waking up in a new world. Another president has been elected, and another set of conclusions has been drawn, with a fresh set waiting to go.
Like it or don’t, Barack Obama is the new president of the United States, and everyone’s scrambling to weigh in one way or the other. There are a lot of similar terms being bandied around, stuff like “history” and “destiny” and there’s enough gravitas being flung around to make the whole moment just as weighty as possible.
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One from the “Enough already!” folder comes our way in the form of canned fish industry sweetheart Jessica Simpson, who apparently not only can’t tell the difference between chicken and tuna at three paces but also can’t tell a good movie script from some garbage some idiot managed to punch out of his laptop to pay his rent that month.
Indeed, Simpson’s newest movie, Major Movie Star, seems to provide conclusive evidence that she’s anything but. It’s about a blonde washed-up actress (wow, nothing like acting what you know, eh Jess?! Would you actually have to sell coke before you could play Tony Montana?) who joins the army to pay her bills.
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