I don't know if I love the boots or not. They are different!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Kristin Cavallari @ "Hollywood Christmas Celebration at The Grove" in Los Angeles, November 23, 2008!!
She has a pretty face.
Lauren CONRAD'S on the December 2008 cover of Cosmopolitan magazine in Serbia!!
We all know Lauren does NOT have breasts like that!
The COWARDLY attacks in Mumbai!
First, India, the world stands with you in this time of cowardly attacks on your countrymen and the world. Second, I hope you get the information you need out of this one remaining terrorist bastard that survived and I then hope you slowly and methodically torture him, pull his nails out one by one, break each of his bones one by one, burn him, pull his teeth out one by one, peel his skin off, he disgusts me.
God bless anyone that was murdered by these misguided and evil fools!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Kim Zolciak From The Real Housewives Of Atlanta has always been a HO, who would have guessed!
Zolciak, as it turns out, is no stranger to scandal. As a teenager in Windsor Locks, Conn., she had a high-profile affair with a police sergeant, John MacDougald.
According to the Hartford Courant, Zolciak was “16 or 17” when the romance began and allegedly a witness in a criminal investigation at the time.
McDougald, a 25-year veteran of the police department, copped to the affair-but insisted that the relationship started after the case was closed.
The scandal helped touch off an internal investigation in the Windsor Locks police department-where allegations of secret tapings, sexual-assault charges and cover-ups flew.
According to the Hartford Courant, Zolciak was “16 or 17” when the romance began and allegedly a witness in a criminal investigation at the time.
McDougald, a 25-year veteran of the police department, copped to the affair-but insisted that the relationship started after the case was closed.
The scandal helped touch off an internal investigation in the Windsor Locks police department-where allegations of secret tapings, sexual-assault charges and cover-ups flew.
Kim Zolciak still smoking even though she is releasing an ALBUM, YAH, OK!!
This bitch just bugs me, first, she is not 30, bitch looks 45! Her poor kids! Defax come get these kids!
Kim Zolciak From The Real Housewives Of Atlanta explains she has cancer or maybe she doesn't!
Kim Zolciak From The Real Housewives Of Atlanta
Kim Zolciak, from Real Housewives of Atlanta, came on the show Wednesday morning to clear up some unanswered questions about what aired on the reunion show on Bravo Tuesday night. Are all the women friends? Will there be a falling out between Lisa and Kim? Listen and find out.
Kim Part 1
Kim Part 2
Kim Part 3
I really wish someone would smack this bitch in the face, she's sleeping with married men, talking about having cancer and then saying she never had it, saying she can sing when she can't - this bitch is TRASH!! How disgusting that she has middle school aged kids and she makes a fool of herself on tv. How sad for her kids, you know other kids are picking on them over her bs.
Kim Zolciak, from Real Housewives of Atlanta, came on the show Wednesday morning to clear up some unanswered questions about what aired on the reunion show on Bravo Tuesday night. Are all the women friends? Will there be a falling out between Lisa and Kim? Listen and find out.
Kim Part 1
Kim Part 2
Kim Part 3
I really wish someone would smack this bitch in the face, she's sleeping with married men, talking about having cancer and then saying she never had it, saying she can sing when she can't - this bitch is TRASH!! How disgusting that she has middle school aged kids and she makes a fool of herself on tv. How sad for her kids, you know other kids are picking on them over her bs.
Black Friday: Are you shopping as much as last year?
So, after you stuff down your turkey and ham and pie, are you going to shop Friday?
Are you going to hit the Abercrombie and Fitch's and Saks or are you going to scale back and hit the Wet Seals and Walmarts?
Are you going to hit the Abercrombie and Fitch's and Saks or are you going to scale back and hit the Wet Seals and Walmarts?
Heidi and SPENCER are most likely NOT LEGALLY MARRIED!!
From Perez Hilton:
Are they or aren't they?
Did Us Weekly lie to us?
As we first mentioned yesterday, many people are now asking….
Is Speidi's marriage as valid as one of their candid photo-op?
In the greatest debate since the presidential campaign a mere month ago, the marriage may very well be "just an elaborate photo shoot."
The couple allegedly wed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on a whim November 20th after a couple margaritas on the beach.
We thought that only happened in Vegas!
The Us Weekly spread features photos of the couple throughout the ceremony, along with their handwritten cheeseball vows to each other.
But, what the magazine fails to mention is Mexico's marriage laws, which require a process of paperwork and blood tests that take more than a "whim" to complete in order for a marriage to be recognized internationally.
Just a minor detail, not even worth mentioning, right?
Shame on you, Us Weekly!
The mag was very well aware of the wedding laws in Mexico for foreigners and they failed to even report if Speidi obtained a marriage license or not.
All that Peter Grossman - who conducted the wedding interview for Us - will confirm is that "Heidi and Spencer are two people in love who had a beautiful wedding ceremony to celebrate that." That's the magazine's only comment.
Bullshiz!
Spencer & Heidi's clueless publicist, Rick Rhodes says, "I'm not privy to any of that information. If there was a wedding I wasn't invited …Sorry!"
And MTV said that the network "wishes Heidi and Spencer the best and can't wait to share their special moment with The Hills fans later this season."
We expect The Hills to be fake, but not Us Weekly!
Will the magazine Speidi lies and confusion make you question their credibility in the future????
Did Us Weekly lie to us?
As we first mentioned yesterday, many people are now asking….
Is Speidi's marriage as valid as one of their candid photo-op?
In the greatest debate since the presidential campaign a mere month ago, the marriage may very well be "just an elaborate photo shoot."
The couple allegedly wed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on a whim November 20th after a couple margaritas on the beach.
We thought that only happened in Vegas!
The Us Weekly spread features photos of the couple throughout the ceremony, along with their handwritten cheeseball vows to each other.
But, what the magazine fails to mention is Mexico's marriage laws, which require a process of paperwork and blood tests that take more than a "whim" to complete in order for a marriage to be recognized internationally.
Just a minor detail, not even worth mentioning, right?
Shame on you, Us Weekly!
The mag was very well aware of the wedding laws in Mexico for foreigners and they failed to even report if Speidi obtained a marriage license or not.
All that Peter Grossman - who conducted the wedding interview for Us - will confirm is that "Heidi and Spencer are two people in love who had a beautiful wedding ceremony to celebrate that." That's the magazine's only comment.
Bullshiz!
Spencer & Heidi's clueless publicist, Rick Rhodes says, "I'm not privy to any of that information. If there was a wedding I wasn't invited …Sorry!"
And MTV said that the network "wishes Heidi and Spencer the best and can't wait to share their special moment with The Hills fans later this season."
We expect The Hills to be fake, but not Us Weekly!
Will the magazine Speidi lies and confusion make you question their credibility in the future????
I don't believe Heidi and Spencer like each other let alone are in love so i think this is all publicity.
WHAT a SURPRISE - MTV CAPTURED Heidi and Spencers FAUXEDDING!
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's married life will play a prominent part on The Hills' upcoming fifth season, says executive producer Liz Gateley.
Gateley tells MTV News that cameras are still down in Mexico, where the two eloped last week, filming their honeymoon.
"MTV is currently filming Heidi and Spencer in Mexico, as we were expecting to capture them on vacation," Gateley says. "Fans will be able to see the exclusive footage from the ceremony in an upcoming episode, and we will continue to follow the newlyweds' relationship as it plays out in real life."
Can you spot Heidi Montag's abs?
Their Hills pals couldn't be more thrilled.
"I'm excited for Heidi and Spencer, and I hope they have a long and happy marriage," Audrina Patridge tells Usmagazine.com. "When you spend time with the two of them, it's obvious how much they love each other, and how committed they are. Their wedding sounds like it was very intimate and romantic."
See Heidi and Spencer's top 13 cheesiest moments.
Whitney Port tells Extra, "Congratulations to them. I think it's great if that's what they're ready to do. Good for them."
See baby photos of The Hills stars.
For all the details on Pratt and Montag's romantic wedding - including exclusive wedding photos - grab the newest issue of Us Weekly today!
Gateley tells MTV News that cameras are still down in Mexico, where the two eloped last week, filming their honeymoon.
"MTV is currently filming Heidi and Spencer in Mexico, as we were expecting to capture them on vacation," Gateley says. "Fans will be able to see the exclusive footage from the ceremony in an upcoming episode, and we will continue to follow the newlyweds' relationship as it plays out in real life."
Can you spot Heidi Montag's abs?
Their Hills pals couldn't be more thrilled.
"I'm excited for Heidi and Spencer, and I hope they have a long and happy marriage," Audrina Patridge tells Usmagazine.com. "When you spend time with the two of them, it's obvious how much they love each other, and how committed they are. Their wedding sounds like it was very intimate and romantic."
See Heidi and Spencer's top 13 cheesiest moments.
Whitney Port tells Extra, "Congratulations to them. I think it's great if that's what they're ready to do. Good for them."
See baby photos of The Hills stars.
For all the details on Pratt and Montag's romantic wedding - including exclusive wedding photos - grab the newest issue of Us Weekly today!
Please don't tell me the Hills is going to become all Speidi with a splash of Lauren!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Hayden Panettiere jetted out of Los Angeles on Saturday (November 22) headed for a stop in Las Vegas, Nevada!!
Whoever did her makeup in the blue dress pics did a great job, she looks fabulous!!
Lauren CONRAD and LO Bosworth at Lucky STRIKE LANES!! (11/21/2008)
Seriously, who wears a high heel to the bowling alley?
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Brody JENNER approves of Kyle HOWARD!
While Brody Jenner and Lauren Conrad never managed to make it work on The Hills, they both seem to be doing just fine with their new love interests. Brody even gave L.C.'s new man, Kyle Howard, his stamp of approval.
"He's a very cool guy," Brody told me at the Fontainebleau Hotel grand reopening. "I like him a lot. I see him out in Malibu surfing all the time."
So will her new love interest be making an appearance on The Hills?
Not likely. "He’s an actor," Brody scoffed. "Actors don’t go on reality shows.”
As for whether his new girlfriend Jayde Nicole will be on the show, he said, "You never know."
The Playmate seems to be OK with L.C., at least. "I've met her a couple of times," she said. "She seems very, very sweet."
"He's a very cool guy," Brody told me at the Fontainebleau Hotel grand reopening. "I like him a lot. I see him out in Malibu surfing all the time."
So will her new love interest be making an appearance on The Hills?
Not likely. "He’s an actor," Brody scoffed. "Actors don’t go on reality shows.”
As for whether his new girlfriend Jayde Nicole will be on the show, he said, "You never know."
The Playmate seems to be OK with L.C., at least. "I've met her a couple of times," she said. "She seems very, very sweet."
Brody is just such a loser I really can't stand him! He's a bum.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Hayden Panettiere at the ALLURE party!
I really don't like her hair like that, its not flattering with her forehead!
A funny story I read on a message board!
I was in Target buying a large bag of Purina dog chow and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog........ Duh!
I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her no, I was starting ThePurina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care unit with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV's in both arms.
Her eyes about bugged out of her head. I went on and on with the bogus diet story and she was totally buying it.
I told her that it was an easy, inexpensive diet and that the way it works is to load your pockets or purse with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The package said the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in theline was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall guy behind her.
Horrified, she asked if something in the dog food had poisoned me and was that why I ended up in the hospital. I said no.....I'd been sitting in the street licking my butt when a car hit me. (told in first person) .
I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her no, I was starting ThePurina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care unit with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV's in both arms.
Her eyes about bugged out of her head. I went on and on with the bogus diet story and she was totally buying it.
I told her that it was an easy, inexpensive diet and that the way it works is to load your pockets or purse with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The package said the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in theline was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall guy behind her.
Horrified, she asked if something in the dog food had poisoned me and was that why I ended up in the hospital. I said no.....I'd been sitting in the street licking my butt when a car hit me. (told in first person) .
General MOTORS: Give em the money?
So I followed the hearings last night and it is comical to watch anyone with a brain say it is good to pay people 95% of their wages and benefits when they are not working and a plant is idled as Senator Dodd suggested.
Look, there is a reason General Motors makes money in Russia and most other emerging markets, the reason, they pay far less in labor costs in those markets. There is also a reason they do not make money here, they pay far too much in labor and benefits. Yes, the UAW is taking significant cuts in 2010 and beyond but GM still has far too many brands and too many employees making too much money to compete with Honda and Toyota factories in the US.
I think the auto industry is a great american industry but the reality is if we give them the money, the auto workers should immediately have their pay cut to the average of the foreign care companies operating in the US. Level the playing field. Dead weight brands should also be eliminated.
I really don't have a problem giving them the money with those conditions and the condition that when times slow you can layoff employees as needed and in good times the workers should get a bonus. Autos are highly cyclical and highly dependent on economic cycles. The workers should know that and plan accordingly, socking away the bonuses they receive in the good years to take care of themselves in the lean years.
Look, there is a reason General Motors makes money in Russia and most other emerging markets, the reason, they pay far less in labor costs in those markets. There is also a reason they do not make money here, they pay far too much in labor and benefits. Yes, the UAW is taking significant cuts in 2010 and beyond but GM still has far too many brands and too many employees making too much money to compete with Honda and Toyota factories in the US.
I think the auto industry is a great american industry but the reality is if we give them the money, the auto workers should immediately have their pay cut to the average of the foreign care companies operating in the US. Level the playing field. Dead weight brands should also be eliminated.
I really don't have a problem giving them the money with those conditions and the condition that when times slow you can layoff employees as needed and in good times the workers should get a bonus. Autos are highly cyclical and highly dependent on economic cycles. The workers should know that and plan accordingly, socking away the bonuses they receive in the good years to take care of themselves in the lean years.
LC'S fashion looks from the November 17, 2008 episode of the HILLS!
I really like the little hat and just the button down shirt, its simple and fun and thats LC at her best! And the little tank top and the hair in the poney is just casual, laid back and fun too! Well done Lauren!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Blake LIVELYat the CDFA/Vogue Fashion Fund (November 17)!!
The dress isn't horrible but usually I like what she wears better.
Audrina Patridge in Toronto, CANADA!!
Those scenes with Audrina and her sister are just painful to watch, they barely say anything and when they do its like two dimb bulbs talking to each other!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Tonight's HILLS preview!!
HERE - This will probably be the best minute and eighteen seconds of the whole show!
HILLS Season 5 gets the GREENLIGHT, Audrina spilled the BEANS!
Audrina Patridge has confirmed that season five of The Hills has been greenlit by MTV.
She tells People, “There is going to be a fifth season. We just found out. At one point, all of us were like, ‘No, we don’t want to do another season.’ I wanted to do more movies, and Whitney [Port] moved to New York and she’s doing her own spin-off. And Lauren Conrad]’s dating [My Boys actor] Kyle [Howard] but he can’t be on the show because he’s on another show, so that makes it hard.”
I'm really not excited about it, it's not real and there is no drama.
She tells People, “There is going to be a fifth season. We just found out. At one point, all of us were like, ‘No, we don’t want to do another season.’ I wanted to do more movies, and Whitney [Port] moved to New York and she’s doing her own spin-off. And Lauren Conrad]’s dating [My Boys actor] Kyle [Howard] but he can’t be on the show because he’s on another show, so that makes it hard.”
I'm really not excited about it, it's not real and there is no drama.
Kristin Cavallari @ 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!!
Some people don't love this dress but I actually think its different and fun!
What would Lauren CONRAD look like with brown or even red hair?
The pic on the left is her real hair color, the others are the magic of photo shop!
Lauren CONRAD out and about on November 14, 2008!!
The little booty shorts, the open top, Lauren seems to think she is Adriana Lima lately!
So this is what a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk looks like!
This is the gift Zac Efron gave Vanessa Hudgens. Thanks to the reader who provided the link.
Lauren CONRAD at LAX after returning from BOSTON!
See, jeans, a tee, cute boots - its not hard to be comfortable and look decent when you fly!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
More on VANESSA HUDGEN'S new HOUSE!!
BUYER: Vanessa Hudgens
LOCATION: Studio City, CA
PRICE: $2,750,000SIZE: 5,200 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Spectacular old-world Tuscan, architectural manor with Moroccan influences & city light views. Engineer w/ caissons into bedrock, amazing custom stacked stone, saline Pebble-Tech pool/spa, waterfalls, cabana, bbq island, hardwood & stone floors, the ultimate gourmet kitchen, Thermador appliances, windows, copper sinks, Arte de Mexico wrought iron & glass doors wine cellar.
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama has long heard whispers and rumors that 19 year old High School Musical ack-tress/wannabe pop star Vanessa Hudgens was looking to buy herself a house in the Hills of Hollywood. The paps frequently photographed the dark haired gossip glossy favorite touring multi-million dollar properties and several reports came out that she bought this house. But, according to our sources, she did not buy that house.In early August of 2008 while strutting her starlet stuff in borrowed clothes at the Teen Choice Awards, young Miss Hudgens rather brazenly announced to E! Entertainment's super slim red carpet reporter Juliana Rancic that she was in the process of purchasing her first house. Not long after that, Your Mama received a secret communique from a gal we'll call Charity Chitchatter who whispered in Your Mama's big ear that she'd recently heard from someone who would know that Miss Hudgens had closed on her new house.So Your Mama quickly got on the horn and contacted a few folks we thought might know what is what regarding Miss Hudgen's real estate doings and sho enuf we soon heard back from our wickedly well informed source Lucy Spillerguts who told us that the teen aged millionaire recently dumped $2,750,000 on a big house in Studio City, CA.Property records show that in early September, young Miss Hudgens completed the transaction for an approximately 5,200 square foot house in the hills above Studio City that listing information reveals includes 6 bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. Children, what in the world does an 19 year old gurl need with a 5,000+ square foot house with half a dozen bedrooms and 6.5 damn bathrooms?Listing information also shows that in addition to all the bedrooms, Miss Hudgen's new abode includes a large entrance hall with a curving staircase where she can practice for her Norma Desmond years, living and dining rooms, a home office, a large gore-may kitchen that looks to Your Mama like it could be in just about any upscale tract house anywhere, a family room that opens to the rear terrace and pool deck, and a wine cellar which young Miss Hudgens will not be able to use for quite some time as she's not even old enough to buy liquor.Other amenities of the teenager's three story abode include hardwood and stone floors, glittery views over the San Fernando Valley, three fireplaces, a three car garage where she can park her pricey Audi convertible, multiple terraces overlooking the back yard and all sorts of wrought iron detailing Your Mama assumes is an attempt to give the house a neo-Tuscan/faux Mediterranean/Moroccan mish-mash sort of vibe. Ack! Listen people, you can't just slap a tile roof on a house an fill it with wrought iron railings and call it Tuscan because we have been to Tuscany and we are certain there are not many (if any) houses in Tuscany that look quite like this. But then again, Miss Hudgens is just a bizzy teen aged ack-tress giddy and flush with fame and while she may well know a Louboutin from a Blahnik and True Religion from Rock and Republic, what does the gurl know about architecture? Seriously. We imagine her real estate agent could have told her this was High Gothic Georgian-style Center Hall Colonial Revival and what would she know, right?Anyhoo, Miss Hudgen's terraced back yard features a beautifully blue saline swimming pool and spa where she can skinny dip in private after spending the afternoon slapping down the credit card at Fred Segal, a barbecue island, whatever that is, and a cabana where she and boy beau Zac Efron can quietly comb each other's hair and paint each other's toe nails in the shade.If anyone were to ask Your Mama, which of course no one did, we think it might have been more financially prudent for young Miss Hudgens to purchase something a bit more modest in price and size. Certainly she could have found a cute three bedroom cottage in a solid Studio City neighborhood for 1.5 million, right? Afterall, the Disney people will eventually stop making High School Musical movies and then what is young Miss Hudgens going to do to make her mortgage? Sing? Pleeze.Previous to scooping up her own celebrity style spread, young Miss Hudgens shacked up with her parents in the 2,385 square foot North Hollywood house prop records indicate they purchased in September of 2005 for $865,000. It must be kinda surreal to have your teen aged daughter buy a house worth more than three times the value of your own house. Not bad, just strange. Right?Whatevs.
P.S. Thanks to one of Your Mama's children we stand corrected. Miss Hudgens is 19 going on 20 and not the 18 years old that we first thought (and reported). We used our fingers rather than our bejeweled abacus and we counted incorrectly. But whatever. She's still 19 damn years old, which is awfully young to be buying a 6 bedroom house. Imagine what it's going to be like for her roaming and rattling around in there all alone as the house creaks and groans as it settles on its caissons. It makes Your Mama lonely just to think about it.
Hayden Panettiere's NEW house!!
BUYER: Hayden Panettiere
LOCATION: Curson Terrace, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,635,000SIZE: 3,120 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: ...Floor-to-ceiling windows in most rooms looking out to unobstructed 180-degree views of the city from downtown to the ocean. 3Br/3Ba including large master suite. Open floor plan w/ lots of natural light. Large living room and family room w/ fireplaces. Office, laundry room & recently upgraded kitchen w/ high end appliances. Pool and expansive deck areas w/ huge city views.
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to the ever intrepid gentleman who compiles the extensive and impressive Celebrity Address Aerial database, we have learned that very bizzy teenage ack-turuss Hayden Panettiere recently forked over $2,635,000 for a very grown up mid-century modern style house in the foothills above Hollywood.Although we've never paid much attention to Young Miss Panettiere, a quick search of the internets reveals that the 19 year old child has a long and varied resume that shows she worked on several soap operas before graduating to roles in films like Remember the Titans with Denzel W. and a starring role as a supernaturally empowered cheerleader on a boob-toob program called Heroes. Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter don't go for the sci-fi stuff so we've never set eyes on that particular program, but according to our research, it's very popular.Other personal and professional tidbits the children might like to know about young Miss Panetierre include being nominated for a Grammy for singing a song in the animated blockbuster A Bug's Life, shamelessly shilling for corporations such as Neutrogena and Candie's (the shoo maker who fashioned those crazy clackety high heels favored by popular and kinda slutty high school gurls in the 1970s), recording a pop album to be released sometime in 2009, dating her much older Heroes co-star Milo Ventimiglia, speaking out about her lefty leaning political point of view and showboating as a globe trotting and dedicated animal rights activist. Good grief children, this gurl makes Your Mama feel like an indolent slab of beef jerky. It's a wonder Miss Missy has time to film her tee-vee program.Anyhoo, property records indicate that back in February of 2008, young Miss Panettiere purchased a 3,120 square foot house in Los Angeles which sits down a long private driveway and happens to be di-reck-ly across the street from Tinseltown power chick Drew Barrymore's long time residence on Curson Terrace.Listing information provided by one of our more generous tipsters indicates that the two story glass and wood box of a house was erected in 1962, sits on a sloping half acre lot and includes three bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. The loft like floor plan includes a large living and dining room with gleaming wood floors that look a little slick for dragging around in high heels, a fireplace and floor to ceiling windows that draw the eyeballs out towards the glittering carpet of lights below. Your Mama just hopes those windows have hidden and electronic shades hiding up in that itty bitty valance because those windows face due west and children, listen to Your Mama when we tell you, that the afternoon sun in Los Angeles can be a scorching nightmare that heats up your house like a damn oven.The kitchen has been freshly renovated in a crisp modern style that won't win any dee-zine awards, but looks far better than many–if not most–of the colossally catastrophic and seizure inducing kitchens we run across. The children will please note that whomever planned this kitchen was wise enough to provide a cubby for the microwave so that it does not sit on the counter top like this is some college flop house. We can understand needing to plop the microwave down on the counter in an unrenovated kitchen, but there is zero reason in a $50,000 cooking room to have that thing competing for counter space.A family room is adjacent and open to the family room which features a rather large skylight, a stone faced fireplace and another wall of floor to ceiling windows that gives out to a large deck that includes built in seating and stretches the entire length of the back of the house. A small, oddly shaped swimming pool sits at the other end of the property where, should they choose, Miss Panettiere and the much older Mister Ventimiglia can sun their bare buns in perfect privacy.Upstairs, the master bedroom offers a wall of spine tingling and vertigo inducing floor to ceiling windows and an oddly placed and too small Fortuny chandelier. We recommend Miss Panettiere ring an electrician and a nice gay decorator to work out the kinks with that illumination issue.Now children, the furniture shown in the photos is not that of Miss Panettiere, so don't any of you people start running at the mouth about how you don't cotton to her taste in Heywood Wakefield dining room tables, Eames molded plywood lounge chairs or Chinese cabinets for hiding the boob toob. She didn't buy that stuff, she bought the house. For what it's worth (and it ain't worth nuthin'), we are rather impressed with Miss Panettiere's real estate selection abilities. Not only is the house modest in scale and of an interesting (if not ground breaking) architectural design, it's also walking distance to Runyan Canyon were our long bodied bitches Linda and Beverly like to hike, frolic and poop among the rich and famous. We're sure some of you will skewer us for saying this, but truth be told, if something was done to make those slippery looking floors less lethal, Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter would be more than happy to move right into young Miss Panettiere's new crib.We wish Miss Panettiere a happy home and we recommend that she slow down a little bit or she's gonna wear herself down and need to be pumping that crazy Botox crap into her face before she's 25.
LUV her house, I think I like it better than Lauren's.
Vanessa HUDGEN'S new house and a GIFT from ZAC!
It looks like his big paychecks are starting to come in handy, and Zac Efron made sure to make a statement with his recent housewarming gift for girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens.
The “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” stud reportedly shelled out $50,000 on a swanky vintage Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to go with his sweetie’s new $3 million house.
A source close to the couple told press, “Vanessa loves Louis Vuitton, but she wouldn’t spend the money for it.” But thanks to her hunky boyfriend, she didn’t have to drop a dime.
The source also explained that, to Miss Hudgens, it’s way more than just an old piece of furniture. “To her, it’s a piece of art.”
What's a steamer trunk?
Thanks OBAMA, Stock Market is down almost 2,000 points since you were ELECTED!
I believe its quite obviously tied to his distaste for capitalism and what will be a less favorable environment for the business community. You throw in his plan to raise capital gains taxes to 28% from 15% and you have a nervous market and more lost wealth for the average american.
FROM Brody Jenner's BLOG:
Hey Guys,I had the greatest week, me and my girlfriend Jayde went to Kauai, we just got back. You may recognize Jayde, she's Playboy's Playmate of the Year. She's so amazing, beautiful on the inside and out, I couldn't be happier right now. We got to Kauai on Tuesday and checked out our awesome room which had a beautiful view of the beach. First thing we did was strip down and hit the beach. Hawaii is really my type of place, really laid back, great food, big waves, it reminds me alot of Malibu. We stayed at the Sheraton in Kauai on Poipu Beach and had an utterly amazing vacation together, I can't wait for the next one babe!I hope you're enjoying the site, feel free to leave any questions you have for me in the comments and I'll be answering them here. Aloha.
Brody is probably running outta cash so I see a sex tape in the near future!
Lauren CONRAD and HOLLY Montag - BFF?
Warning: If ya don't want to know what happens next on The Hills, stop reading right now!
Did Heidi Montag actually kick her own sister, Holly, to the curb?
In next week's episode of MTV's hit pseudo-reality show, Holly moves in with—drumroll, please—Lauren Conrad.
Referring to L.C. as her "new roomie," Holly revealed at last night's launch party for the new Shaun White Snowboarding video game that she's living with her sister's one-time nemesis "for a little bit."
Of course, the move did not come without some drama. Holly was tight-lipped when asked for the juicy details, so we did some diggin'.
A source says highlights of the episode include Montag complaining to Conrad that her own sibling gave her the boot from her and Spencer Pratt's apartment.
"Heidi practically booted me out herself," Holly tells Lauren in the episode. "I thought it was just Spencer."
Cut to Heidi telling Pratt, "Am I going to never talk to my sister again? Are we not going to be friends?"
Still no word on how long the Holly and Lauren slumber party is expected to last.
Did Heidi Montag actually kick her own sister, Holly, to the curb?
In next week's episode of MTV's hit pseudo-reality show, Holly moves in with—drumroll, please—Lauren Conrad.
Referring to L.C. as her "new roomie," Holly revealed at last night's launch party for the new Shaun White Snowboarding video game that she's living with her sister's one-time nemesis "for a little bit."
Of course, the move did not come without some drama. Holly was tight-lipped when asked for the juicy details, so we did some diggin'.
A source says highlights of the episode include Montag complaining to Conrad that her own sibling gave her the boot from her and Spencer Pratt's apartment.
"Heidi practically booted me out herself," Holly tells Lauren in the episode. "I thought it was just Spencer."
Cut to Heidi telling Pratt, "Am I going to never talk to my sister again? Are we not going to be friends?"
Still no word on how long the Holly and Lauren slumber party is expected to last.
Holly seems like as big a golddigger as Heidi!
What's Joran VAN DER SLOOT up to these DAYS? Sex Trafficking!!
A suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba is involved in selling Thai women into prostitution, a Dutch TV reporter claims.
Reporter Peter De Vries has made a second hidden-camera expose on Dutch student Joran Van der Sloot, who was believed to be with Natalee Holloway when she vanished while on a senior trip to Aruba. De Vries won an Emmy this year for another report on Van Der Sloot, 21, in which the student admits to dumping Holloway’s body after she suddenly began shaking and died as they were kissing.
Click here for photos from the case.
De Vries’ latest report, which was shown Sunday night on Dutch television, shows Van der Sloot telling someone posing as a sex-industry boss that he can get passports for Thai women and girls who think they are going to the Netherlands to work as dancers, DutchNews.nl reported.
Van der Sloot makes about $13,000 for every woman sold into prostitution in the Netherlands, De Vries claims.
“The pictures show how little respect this 21-year-old has for the lives of others,” De Vries told a Dutch newspaper. “The fact that he goes into the trafficking of women after the disappearance of Natalee is typical of him.”
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In February, judges rejected an attempt to arrest Van der Sloot for a third time in her disappearance. He was released due to insufficient evidence the first two times he was arrested.
Aruban prosecutors had sought to detain him based on hidden-camera recordings captured by a Dutch TV crime show. In the video, Van der Sloot said Holloway collapsed on the beach after they left the bar and he called a friend to dump her body at sea.
Joseph Tacopina, a lawyer for student Van der Sloot, said in February that his client was not responsible for the Alabama teen's death and that the tapes did not amount to a confession.
"There was no confession, no admission of a crime by Joran on any of these tapes, which is very telling," Tacopina said on ABC's "Good Morning America.
I hope this pig gets run over by a bus!
Hayden Panettiere hits the DELI for LUNCH!
She looks cute, she really wears little makeup, the dress I don't love.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
This can HAPPEN in the United States all of you disciples of Barack OBAMA!
Our subject today is not Barack Obama's "change" plan to "share the wealth." But readers who want to know what happens to a nation that legalizes plunder -- as the 19th century French economist termed the taking of private property for socialist ends -- will want to pay attention just the same.
Argentina is a constitutional republic with many historical similarities to the U.S. It has a rich immigrant heritage and an abundance of natural resources. But the U.S. is a rich, advanced country and Argentina is poor.
How did the breadbasket of South America fall so far behind? One explanation goes back some 90 years, when the Argentine Supreme Court began chipping away at property rights as a way of addressing economic inequality. Argentine politicians quickly learned that lawful plunder was their path to power.
This history is still being written, and the latest chapter ought to frighten Americans.
Buenos Aires as an example of "sharing the wealth." (Nov. 3)
After seven straight years of driving up government spending and hammering every capitalist in sight, the Argentine government, which went bust in 2001, is running out of money -- again.
No surprise there. For more than a few years, analysts have warned that inflation, trade protectionism, disregard for contracts and confiscatory tax rates were having a deleterious effect on capital flows.
Suboptimal investment rates, the same analysts warned, would mean economic trouble when global growth began to slow and the commodity boom came to an end. But former President Nestór Kirchner (2003-2007) and his wife, current President Cristina Kirchner, had promised to bring change to Argentina and didn't want to hear it. They thought they saw better returns to their own bottom lines by stoking class warfare while increasing government spending.
That revenues would, at some point, fail to meet the rising expenses of the welfare state was predictable. The only mystery was when the wall would be hit and how the further plunder to make up the difference would be carried out.
On Oct. 21, Mrs. Kirchner ended the suspense by announcing that the nation's private pension system -- with a stock of $30 billion and a flow of $5 billion annually -- would become government property. To put that in words that Americans can more clearly comprehend, it would be as if the assets of all 401(k)s were suddenly swept out of owners' accounts and into a single government account.
Mrs. Kirchner defended her decision to seize the pension assets by asserting that the market is too risky for retirement savings, and that the returns earned by private-sector fund managers are not adequate.
That's quite a claim considering that the average annual return of Argentina's private-sector pension managers over the past 14 years is 13.9%. But it is even more absurd if one compares the private-sector returns to those of the government's pay-as-you-go social security system over four decades.
Last week La Nacion columnist Adrián Ventura reminded his compatriots of this "history of state fraud." In the 1960s, "the law guaranteed retirees 82% of their salaries," Mr. Ventura writes. But, he says, "it became impossible to calculate." How come? Because the government did not publish the true rates of inflation and, more broadly, because politicians had zero interest in protecting the assets. "The government did little to maintain its promise to pay good pensions to workers," Mr. Ventura explains, "and it did a lot to make use, for itself, of their savings."
The columnist was not just teaching a history lesson. He was reminding change advocates that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Today, the Argentine central bank stands accused of manipulating official inflation data and, because politicians have been spending like mad, between now and the end of 2009 the government will encounter a $10 billion financing gap.
By law half of the privately managed pension assets are already allocated to government debt. But it is not unreasonable to suspect -- as more than 70% of respondents in a Buenos Aires poll said last week -- that Mrs. Kirchner is acting not to achieve better returns, but to get her hands on the rest of the money ahead of midterm elections next year.
Mr. Ventura echoes the fears of many when he writes that her legislation "puts almost no limits on how the money can be used, and if it did, nothing would stop the government from modifying it or ignoring it."
Long-suffering Argentines know well that once converted into "an instrument of plunder" there is no limit to the pain the law can inflict. Americans might note that even when government is already highly interventionist, things can get worse.
By the way, this article is from the Wall Street Journal. All of you Obama fans, imagine tomorrow if he seized your parents 401k's and pensions. How does your life look then?
Argentina is a constitutional republic with many historical similarities to the U.S. It has a rich immigrant heritage and an abundance of natural resources. But the U.S. is a rich, advanced country and Argentina is poor.
How did the breadbasket of South America fall so far behind? One explanation goes back some 90 years, when the Argentine Supreme Court began chipping away at property rights as a way of addressing economic inequality. Argentine politicians quickly learned that lawful plunder was their path to power.
This history is still being written, and the latest chapter ought to frighten Americans.
Buenos Aires as an example of "sharing the wealth." (Nov. 3)
After seven straight years of driving up government spending and hammering every capitalist in sight, the Argentine government, which went bust in 2001, is running out of money -- again.
No surprise there. For more than a few years, analysts have warned that inflation, trade protectionism, disregard for contracts and confiscatory tax rates were having a deleterious effect on capital flows.
Suboptimal investment rates, the same analysts warned, would mean economic trouble when global growth began to slow and the commodity boom came to an end. But former President Nestór Kirchner (2003-2007) and his wife, current President Cristina Kirchner, had promised to bring change to Argentina and didn't want to hear it. They thought they saw better returns to their own bottom lines by stoking class warfare while increasing government spending.
That revenues would, at some point, fail to meet the rising expenses of the welfare state was predictable. The only mystery was when the wall would be hit and how the further plunder to make up the difference would be carried out.
On Oct. 21, Mrs. Kirchner ended the suspense by announcing that the nation's private pension system -- with a stock of $30 billion and a flow of $5 billion annually -- would become government property. To put that in words that Americans can more clearly comprehend, it would be as if the assets of all 401(k)s were suddenly swept out of owners' accounts and into a single government account.
Mrs. Kirchner defended her decision to seize the pension assets by asserting that the market is too risky for retirement savings, and that the returns earned by private-sector fund managers are not adequate.
That's quite a claim considering that the average annual return of Argentina's private-sector pension managers over the past 14 years is 13.9%. But it is even more absurd if one compares the private-sector returns to those of the government's pay-as-you-go social security system over four decades.
Last week La Nacion columnist Adrián Ventura reminded his compatriots of this "history of state fraud." In the 1960s, "the law guaranteed retirees 82% of their salaries," Mr. Ventura writes. But, he says, "it became impossible to calculate." How come? Because the government did not publish the true rates of inflation and, more broadly, because politicians had zero interest in protecting the assets. "The government did little to maintain its promise to pay good pensions to workers," Mr. Ventura explains, "and it did a lot to make use, for itself, of their savings."
The columnist was not just teaching a history lesson. He was reminding change advocates that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Today, the Argentine central bank stands accused of manipulating official inflation data and, because politicians have been spending like mad, between now and the end of 2009 the government will encounter a $10 billion financing gap.
By law half of the privately managed pension assets are already allocated to government debt. But it is not unreasonable to suspect -- as more than 70% of respondents in a Buenos Aires poll said last week -- that Mrs. Kirchner is acting not to achieve better returns, but to get her hands on the rest of the money ahead of midterm elections next year.
Mr. Ventura echoes the fears of many when he writes that her legislation "puts almost no limits on how the money can be used, and if it did, nothing would stop the government from modifying it or ignoring it."
Long-suffering Argentines know well that once converted into "an instrument of plunder" there is no limit to the pain the law can inflict. Americans might note that even when government is already highly interventionist, things can get worse.
By the way, this article is from the Wall Street Journal. All of you Obama fans, imagine tomorrow if he seized your parents 401k's and pensions. How does your life look then?
These are the PEOPLE you SUPPORT!
A gay rights group is claiming responsibility for a protest Sunday at Mount Hope Church in Delta Township.
Protesters who entered the Creyts Road church along with worshippers surprised the congregation when they stood up during the service, threw fliers at churchgoers and shouted slogans such as "It's OK to be gay," and "Jesus was a homo," according to David Williams, communications director at the church. His father, Dave Williams, is the church's longtime pastor. He was not preaching at the church Sunday.
Another group of protesters demonstrated outside the church at the same time as the indoor protest.
The Eaton County Sheriff's Department responded to the scene Sunday but no arrests were made.
In a released statement, David Williams said churchgoers were unclear as to the purpose of the demonstration.
A Lansing group affiliated with a radical gay organization known as Bash Back, formed to protest the Republican and Democratic national conventions earlier this year, put out a call on the Internet on Oct. 7 for activists to come to a "radical queer convergence" in Lansing on Nov. 7-9.
A posting on its MySpace page declared the convergence a "fierce success."
Fire alarm pulled
According to a report on the Bash Back group's news site, protesters inside the church pulled a fire alarm, unfurled a banner from the church balcony, shouted and threw fliers to the worshippers.
Outside the church, protesters carried picket signs and an upside-down, pink cross.
The conservative RightMichigan Web site posted an account of the incident Monday, and a number of conservative bloggers had picked up on the item by Tuesday.
Williams said the church had received 80 to 85 e-mails and phone calls by Tuesday, "from churches and individuals around the country to express their concern and general disgust for what happened on Sunday."
Nick De Leeuw of RightMichigan said he got his account of the incident from a church member who was there.
However, he said, the photo along with his report - of protesters dressed in black with their faces covered by pink, Middle-Eastern style headcoverings - was not from the protest at the church but from an earlier Bash Back protest elsewhere.
No arrests made
Mount Hope Church, affiliated with the Assemblies of God denomination, teaches followers that homosexuality is a sin.
However, "Mount Hope Church strives to follow Jesus' example of loving the sinner but not the sin," Williams said.
The Eaton County Sheriff's Department got a call regarding the protest at about noon Sunday, said Lt. Jeff Warder.
Warder said protesters outside the church left peacefully when someone from the team of pastors came outside and told them they were not welcome on church property.
Warder said deputies did not handle the protest inside the building.
No arrests were made.
In New York City on Tuesday, the conservative Catholic League said it would ask Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to investigate the protest.
Typically, the sheriff's investigation would be turned over to the county prosecutor if the sheriff felt charges were warranted, said Matt Frendewey, spokesman for the attorney general's office. He said it would be rare for the attorney general's office to get involved in such a case.
Classy, and they and some of you wonder why I don't support their cause!
Protesters who entered the Creyts Road church along with worshippers surprised the congregation when they stood up during the service, threw fliers at churchgoers and shouted slogans such as "It's OK to be gay," and "Jesus was a homo," according to David Williams, communications director at the church. His father, Dave Williams, is the church's longtime pastor. He was not preaching at the church Sunday.
Another group of protesters demonstrated outside the church at the same time as the indoor protest.
The Eaton County Sheriff's Department responded to the scene Sunday but no arrests were made.
In a released statement, David Williams said churchgoers were unclear as to the purpose of the demonstration.
A Lansing group affiliated with a radical gay organization known as Bash Back, formed to protest the Republican and Democratic national conventions earlier this year, put out a call on the Internet on Oct. 7 for activists to come to a "radical queer convergence" in Lansing on Nov. 7-9.
A posting on its MySpace page declared the convergence a "fierce success."
Fire alarm pulled
According to a report on the Bash Back group's news site, protesters inside the church pulled a fire alarm, unfurled a banner from the church balcony, shouted and threw fliers to the worshippers.
Outside the church, protesters carried picket signs and an upside-down, pink cross.
The conservative RightMichigan Web site posted an account of the incident Monday, and a number of conservative bloggers had picked up on the item by Tuesday.
Williams said the church had received 80 to 85 e-mails and phone calls by Tuesday, "from churches and individuals around the country to express their concern and general disgust for what happened on Sunday."
Nick De Leeuw of RightMichigan said he got his account of the incident from a church member who was there.
However, he said, the photo along with his report - of protesters dressed in black with their faces covered by pink, Middle-Eastern style headcoverings - was not from the protest at the church but from an earlier Bash Back protest elsewhere.
No arrests made
Mount Hope Church, affiliated with the Assemblies of God denomination, teaches followers that homosexuality is a sin.
However, "Mount Hope Church strives to follow Jesus' example of loving the sinner but not the sin," Williams said.
The Eaton County Sheriff's Department got a call regarding the protest at about noon Sunday, said Lt. Jeff Warder.
Warder said protesters outside the church left peacefully when someone from the team of pastors came outside and told them they were not welcome on church property.
Warder said deputies did not handle the protest inside the building.
No arrests were made.
In New York City on Tuesday, the conservative Catholic League said it would ask Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to investigate the protest.
Typically, the sheriff's investigation would be turned over to the county prosecutor if the sheriff felt charges were warranted, said Matt Frendewey, spokesman for the attorney general's office. He said it would be rare for the attorney general's office to get involved in such a case.
Classy, and they and some of you wonder why I don't support their cause!
Vanessa Hudgens at the HSM 3 Premiere in Melbourne!!
Readers requested Vanessa Hudgens and your request is fufilled!!
Hayden Panettiere out in West Hollywood on November 11, 2008!
Kind of clunky but I actually like it.
Audrina Patridge got in touch with her inner-gamer at the “Shaun White Snowboarding” launch party!
Good ole ceiling eyes in pic 2!
Lauren CONRAD visits the Roosevelt Hotel!!
Desperate, thats Lauren! Damn she unbuttons her shirt seven buttons to show her boobies off, ever hear of a bra sweety?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Blake Lively article from W Magazine!
Blake Lively is a starving artist. “I’m hungry. You hungry? Let’s meet at Sant Ambroeus,” she says, by way of cell phone introduction. Within minutes she’s stepping out of a taxi, an endless stream of legs and golden hair. The pint-size ristorante in New York’s West Village is, on a Saturday afternoon, predictably packed with the type of diners who are too cool to freak out about the numero uno Gossip Girl but not so jaded that they don’t notice her. Over the course of the next hour and a half, only a mother and her trembling tween daughter openly fawn over Lively. Sure, a guy at the next table chats her up, but that’s only because he really, really needs to know if he should order the eggplant appetizer that the gorgeous 21-year-old is digging into with gusto.Considering the week she’s had, it’s easy to understand Lively’s need for a little comfort food. Five days earlier her father, actor Ernie Lively, was in a major car crash, and Lively rushed home to Los Angeles to be with him. A cascade of scheduling changes was set off by her departure: Television scenes, a magazine interview and a cozy dinner party she was planning to host in her downtown Manhattan apartment all had to be postponed. After winging back to Gotham on the red-eye, she went directly to the set at 5 a.m. Thursday and worked 16 hours. Friday was another long day of portraying perhaps the hottest senior ever to roam the hallways of the fictional Constance Billard School for Girls. Saturday kicked off with a crack-of-dawn photo shoot, and now lunch with a reporter. Still, Lively is in high spirits for the simple reason that Dad’s okay. “He’s doing great, all things considered,” she says. “It was very serious. And it’s hard to be on the other side of the country from him. I’m so used to being within 10 minutes of my family.”A tight-knit bunch, the Lively clan also includes a talent manager mom, two older sisters and two older brothers—all of whom are connected to the entertainment industry in some manner. “My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class,” Lively recalls. “And I’m a naturally shy person, so it really helped. I would’ve just been hiding under the table, pulling on my mother’s dress if I hadn’t been in their classes. It forced me out of my shell.” And out she stayed—Lively is warm and ultrachatty, dispensing the type of cheerful anecdotes that make clear she leads a charmed existence.Growing up, however, she wasn’t convinced that showbiz was for her. Actually, to hear Lively tell it, her brother Eric, 27, practically forced her into her current vocation. An actor who recently had a recurring role on The L Word, he yanked his little sister out of school for two months when she was 15 and took her on a low-budget grand tour of Europe. Somewhere between Cambridge and Cologne, he told her that she should really start thinking seriously about an acting career. “He was trying to get me to make life decisions at 15!” she says with a laugh. An AP student who was also a cheerleader, class president and a member of “show choir” (a mash-up of singing and dancing in which Bon Jovi tunes figured prominently), she told him she was more interested in attending Stanford University than movie premieres. But a year later Eric secretly contacted his agent about her anyway. “I was really busy at school,” she says, “and I would have these agents calling and saying, ‘We have an appointment for you.’ It was really hard to say no, because I didn’t want to make my brother upset.”After just a few months of auditions, she nabbed the part of Bridget in 2005’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, which she filmed between her junior and senior years at Burbank High, and decided that maybe acting wasn’t a bad way to spend her days. Since graduation she’s been working nonstop, appearing in a couple of small, largely forgettable movies before being cast as Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl last year. “I’ve been learning as I’m going along,” she says of her ad hoc career strategy. “I thought, Okay, I’ll try a movie. And I was loving films, so I thought, No, I don’t want to try TV. But now I’m loving being on the show more than I ever could have imagined. It has been just the most amazing experience anybody could ever ask for. It’s such a blessing.”Stanford, clearly, is not in her immediate future—she’s committed to at least six seasons of the series—but Lively says she hasn’t altogether shelved the idea of getting a college education. She claims, in fact, that the possibility of attending Columbia University one day a week was a motivating factor behind accepting the role on the show, which is shot in New York. So far, however, she hasn’t enrolled in any classes, and Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage maintain that, while the subject of college did come up during their initial conversations with Lively, the young actress also had less cerebral reasons for wanting to play the über glamorous Serena. “I think the real carrot for Blake was the opportunity for clothing,” Schwartz says, chuckling. “I remember talking to her about that. She was like, ‘Wait, so you’re asking me to move to New York and wear the most incredible clothes, some of which you might actually let me keep?’ So I think the wardrobe-reinvention carrot was stronger than the college-degree carrot.”He might be on to something. Lively doesn’t even attempt to hide her glee at all the freebies foisted upon her, from designer dresses and diamond bangles to an utterly insane number of pricey purses. “I probably have, like, 60 gorgeous bags,” she says. “I have a closet with my really sharp, fancy, nice ones—the ones that go with my Valentino pumps, for example. And then I have a closet with the ones that are a little more rugged-feeling, the kind that go with my Belstaff motorcycle boots.”And besides, Lively did recently get to visit Columbia—albeit to shoot an episode of the show. The university (thinly disguised as Yale) was the setting for a brutal smack-down between Serena and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), the arch-frenemy with whom she rules the Gossip Girl roost. To prep for the slapfest, Schwartz and Savage had the actresses watch the catfight between Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft in the 1977 film The Turning Point. “That’s what they wanted our fight to be like,” Lively says. “Beating each other with handbags.”Over-the-top scenes like these are part of what has made Gossip Girl both a guilty pleasure for old geezers and must-see TV for the under-25 set. Based on a young-adult book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, the show provides a fly-on-the-wall peek into the debauched lives of moneyed Upper East Side private school kids. It’s fast-paced, wildly inappropriate (think drug overdoses and back-of-limo deflowerings) and frequently hilarious. And after just a season and a half, every major cast member—in addition to Lively and Meester, there are Taylor Momsen, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Penn Badgley—has become tabloid fodder.The real-life romance between Lively and Badgley, who plays her ex-boyfriend Dan Humphrey on the show, generates the most chatter—all of which Lively categorically refuses to address. But there are also plenty of gossip-rag mentions of tension between the show’s two queen bees, which Lively very much denies. “I’ve never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation,” she insists when asked about her allegedly contentious dealings with Meester. “The media is always trying to pit us against each other, I guess because it’s just not interesting to say, ‘Everyone gets along; everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep.’ That’s not fun to read, I guess.”If a recent visit to the Gossip Girl set is any indication, Lively is telling the truth. The comely costars seem to get along just fine, chatting politely between takes about the best way to stage their scene. Serena is meant to be lounging on Blair’s bed while Blair marches out of her massive walk-in closet carrying a pile of shoes. As Blair decides on the perfect footwear to go with her gazillion-dollar outfit, the discussion centers on why Serena hasn’t “done it” yet with her new, post-Dan boyfriend. His name is Aaron, and he’s both kind and, to use Gossip Girl parlance, “doable,” much like Dan.Prior to the first run-through, Lively is locked in a nose-to-nose nuzzle with Penny, her sweater-clad Maltipoo, which she regularly brings to work. Propped on a mountain of satin pillows, she uses the setting to her full advantage, tucking her iPhone under the duvet so she can check it between takes. Her script, which she scans until the last possible nanosecond, hides there too once the cameras get rolling.Lively and Meester hammer out a few crucial details before the director cues the action, including the precise moment when Serena should look up from painting her nails and cop to the shame of not sleeping with a guy she barely knows. Should it happen after “exactly” but before “like”? Or would the drama be heightened if it happened after “like”? The whole thing sounds ridiculously frothy, and it is. But it’s also a lot of work for a scene that runs two minutes, tops. According to Savage, the cast is expected to chew through a 55-page script every eight days. Luckily Lively is a quick study. She has to be, considering she doesn’t get her lines until the night before shooting. “You get used to it,” she says. “I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It’s a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming. We’re flying by the seat of our pants a lot of times, which is why I enjoy doing films. It’s a change of pace. It sounds cheesy, but with a film, you get to let each scene marinate.”In addition to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, which was released this past August (and by late October had grossed $44 million, already outpacing Pants 1), Lively has two indies in the can. There’s Elvis and Anabelle, in which she plays a bulimic Texas beauty queen alongside Max Minghella, Keith Carradine, Mary Steenburgen and Joe Mantegna. And in June she wrapped The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, written and directed by Rebecca Miller. Lively plays young Pippa—a drug user–turned–stay-at-home mom—while Robin Wright Penn tackles the middle-aged version opposite Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder. The movie will be showing on the festival circuit starting early next year.Along with braving a hideous spray tan and scary pageant hair, Lively shed serious weight from her “five nine and three-quarters” frame for Elvis and Anabelle. “I play a beauty queen who died of bulimia,” she says. “But beauty queens are still very toned. So I lost weight, but I got toned. It was the healthiest I’ve ever been. I just made chicken breasts from Whole Foods on a George Foreman Grill, with asparagus and broccoli.” Not an easy task for someone who describes food as “the No. 1 love of my life.”Of the main Gossip Girl cast, many of whom have been dabbling in film when the show is on hiatus, Lively seems to be winning the high-profile movie-role race. (While both Badgley and Crawford have new movies this year—the rugby flick Forever Strong and the horrorfest The Haunting of Molly Hartley, respectively—neither boasts a starry cast or a heavyweight director.) And Lively’s smart enough, and gracious enough, to publicly pinch herself for her good fortune. She even sounds a little starstruck, as when she describes Moore as “one of the kindest human beings” she’s ever met or when she rhapsodizes over Wright Penn’s effortless ability to slip into character. “Getting to work alongside that caliber of talent was just mind-blowing,” she says of the Pippa ensemble. So much so that Lively says she felt, at times, like an impostor. “I thought that one day Rebecca was just going to catch on.”In Miller’s opinion, Lively needn’t have worried. “She is brilliant in the film,” says the writer-director. “Blake could be a real star in the making, the way Jessica Lange has been. She has depth, and she is disarmingly lovely.”And in an era of starlets gone wild, Lively is even borderline geeky. At certain points, like when she’s recounting an elaborate Twenties-theme fete she threw for her last birthday (“Michael Bublé came!” she enthuses, referring to the young Sinatra manqué beloved by baby boomers), Lively can sound like a 50-year-old woman trapped in a hot young body. “I don’t really like to go out,” she says. “I’ll go listen to live jazz, but the club scene isn’t so fun for me.” Instead, her idea of a good time is scouring Williams-Sonoma for acorn-shaped tart pans and crème brûlée torches—both of which may be put to use in preparing for the aforementioned dinner party, now scheduled for tomorrow night. It’s a far cry from the boozy party girl she plays on TV. Ever diligent, Lively plans to get cooking directly after her interview. “I’m exhausted,” she admits with a yawn. “But I have to go home and bake.”
Lauren CONRAD at LAX on 11/9/2008!!
I really hate these grungy, plaid shirts she wears all the time now!
Lauren CONRAD trys to wear glasses to look SMARTER if she can't BE smarter!
Someone needs to help Lauren pick her jeans.
Lauren CONRAD'S response to the PAGE SIX story about her AIRPORT TANTRUM!
Hey Guys!! So, I don't normally read or even care about things like this, but a friend just showed me a "Page Six" story. Apparently they are reporting that someone watched me throw a fit and start crying because they called my name over the speaker at JFK... Really? While it is a very entertaining story, I just don't think that highly of myself. Anyway... Happy Monday!! Hope you all like tonights episode!!
Monday, November 10, 2008
No ONE at the airport could give two FLIPS about Lauren CONRAD!!
What if a sublebrity's name got called in an airport -– and nobody cared?
Such was Lauren Conrad's conundrum the other day at JFK, when an airline attendant called out her name to direct her to a counter ... for a standby ticket. LC was none too pleased: She "pitched a fit," a spy tells the New York Post, "and was almost driven to tears because she thought people would start talking to her and bother her."Ah, but: "No one even cared." The end.
Sounds like she is getting a little full of herself!
Such was Lauren Conrad's conundrum the other day at JFK, when an airline attendant called out her name to direct her to a counter ... for a standby ticket. LC was none too pleased: She "pitched a fit," a spy tells the New York Post, "and was almost driven to tears because she thought people would start talking to her and bother her."Ah, but: "No one even cared." The end.
Sounds like she is getting a little full of herself!
Friday, November 7, 2008
It's not the BEST idea to take on a 41 ft. WAVE!
A daredevil surfer is pictured tackling a giant 41 foot wave in a bid to win himself a prestigious award.
Kerby Brown took on the monster during a session at a top secret reef, and nearly didn't live to tell the tale.
Moments after these pictures were taken, he suffered a devastating wipeout which nearly killed him.
The big one: Kerby Brown starts his run with his brother Courtney looking on from his jetski as the wave gathers momentum
He said: 'Usually the wave never steps out or goes evil like that one, but it just went dry - the hardest wave I've ever had to surf.
'I went straight over the lip and did about 10 backflips and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder.
'It felt like I ripped my arm out of its socket, my leggie snapped and then I felt like I was the deepest I'd ever been.'
The unbelievable pictures have been entered into the prestigious Oakley Surfing Life Big Wave Awards, which rewards the riders of the biggest waves in Australasian waters.
Wipeout: The massive wave begins to break and Kerby is seconds away from his biggest ever wipeout which left him with torn shoulder muscles.
Kerby Brown took on the monster during a session at a top secret reef, and nearly didn't live to tell the tale.
Moments after these pictures were taken, he suffered a devastating wipeout which nearly killed him.
The big one: Kerby Brown starts his run with his brother Courtney looking on from his jetski as the wave gathers momentum
He said: 'Usually the wave never steps out or goes evil like that one, but it just went dry - the hardest wave I've ever had to surf.
'I went straight over the lip and did about 10 backflips and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder.
'It felt like I ripped my arm out of its socket, my leggie snapped and then I felt like I was the deepest I'd ever been.'
The unbelievable pictures have been entered into the prestigious Oakley Surfing Life Big Wave Awards, which rewards the riders of the biggest waves in Australasian waters.
Wipeout: The massive wave begins to break and Kerby is seconds away from his biggest ever wipeout which left him with torn shoulder muscles.
The pictures are beautiful, nature is gorgeous.
Any Given Thursday Afternoon, Audrina PATRIDGE, shows off her BOOBIES!
Audrina, we all know you have a big, fake rack, put em away once in awhile!a
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Time for some REAL TALK on GAY MARRIAGE!!
So Ellen Degeneres and Melissa Carter of the Bert Show in Atlanta are two examples of lesbians all up in arms because of the continued denial by the american people of gay marriage in the United States.
Here's the real deal, many people like myself have no problem with gay people and what they choose to do and how they choose to do it behind closed doors. The problem is in the fact that people like myself believe marriage is special and is reserved for a man and a woman.
The gays would be smart to stop trying to throw their gayness and what has become an obcession with these people to get gay marriage approved in our faces. Sorry, its not going to happen anytime soon. The gays would be smart to lay off the issue and let people come to terms with the more openness of the gay community in America. It's going to take some time. At some point myself and others may come around, I doubt it, but we may, but the more the gays push, the more we(the majority) will push back.
Maybe civil unions might be acceptable but marriage is for a man and a woman.
Gays, you have the same rights as me, you choose to be gay and gays can not marry. Blacks do not choose the color of their skin. Gays choose to lead that lifestyle.
And don't be mistaken, gay marriage has been denied by the huge majority of people, in most states 90% of the people did not want gay marriage.
Sorry but thats real talk.
Here's the real deal, many people like myself have no problem with gay people and what they choose to do and how they choose to do it behind closed doors. The problem is in the fact that people like myself believe marriage is special and is reserved for a man and a woman.
The gays would be smart to stop trying to throw their gayness and what has become an obcession with these people to get gay marriage approved in our faces. Sorry, its not going to happen anytime soon. The gays would be smart to lay off the issue and let people come to terms with the more openness of the gay community in America. It's going to take some time. At some point myself and others may come around, I doubt it, but we may, but the more the gays push, the more we(the majority) will push back.
Maybe civil unions might be acceptable but marriage is for a man and a woman.
Gays, you have the same rights as me, you choose to be gay and gays can not marry. Blacks do not choose the color of their skin. Gays choose to lead that lifestyle.
And don't be mistaken, gay marriage has been denied by the huge majority of people, in most states 90% of the people did not want gay marriage.
Sorry but thats real talk.
Look WHO partayed down with LAUREN CONRAD on HALLOWEEN 2008......Holly MONTAG!
Oh Lauren, you poor dumb girl, stay away from the MONTAGS!
Whitney PORT out in the NYC!!
Her style is bad, the top - bad, the jeans - ugg, the boots with the outfit - bad! Jeez!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
JCREW sale....
Use EXTRA30 at the checkout online or in store. Not sure how long the sale goes for but JCrew is always good for the basics.
Now, somehow telling you all this is part of my evil plan to destroy LC because if you shop at JCREW than you won't buy Lauren's line!!
Now, somehow telling you all this is part of my evil plan to destroy LC because if you shop at JCREW than you won't buy Lauren's line!!
Jordan EUBANKS not a big SPEIDI fan!!
Heidi Montag's former boyfriend, season 1 Hills star Jordan Eubanks, says that Heidi's changed so much since she started Spender Pratt - and it's not just her tits he's talking about!
"I'm telling you, she's completely different. She's done a total 180, and I think it's so sad," he says.
Pal Brian Drolet, another season 1 castoff, adds, "Spencer has done a great job of exploiting Heidi. If I ever see them out, I might hit 'em with something. They are just ridiculous."
We can only imagine the big crocodile tears Spencer would cry if he got hit - as long as it was on camera!
While the friends are strictly on fighting terms with Heidi and Spencer, they are still good friends with LC and deny that Conrad and Montag will ever be friends again, despite photo opportunities and publicity stunts.
"I'm telling you, she's completely different. She's done a total 180, and I think it's so sad," he says.
Pal Brian Drolet, another season 1 castoff, adds, "Spencer has done a great job of exploiting Heidi. If I ever see them out, I might hit 'em with something. They are just ridiculous."
We can only imagine the big crocodile tears Spencer would cry if he got hit - as long as it was on camera!
While the friends are strictly on fighting terms with Heidi and Spencer, they are still good friends with LC and deny that Conrad and Montag will ever be friends again, despite photo opportunities and publicity stunts.
OLD Lauren CONRAD was a REAL DRUNK MESS on HALLOWEEN 2008!
She really needs to learn to say enough is enough with her drinking! She is 23 now, she knows how much she can drink! Time to grow up Lauren!
What else do you alll want to read about?
There are a lot of slow days with Lauren. What else do you all want to read about? I posts Blake Lively stuff sometimes, general entertainment sometimes, what else do you all like?
Lauren CONRAD is TRUE BLUE DEMOCRAT!
I don't think its an accident she wore democrat blue last night!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
If your ELECTIONED out.....
The CW has new episodes tonight of 90210 and Privledged starting at 8:00 PM EST. Thank goodness!!
Kristin Cavallari leaves the Hair SALON!!
Cute again. I know one of you loyal readers doesn't like the extensions on Kristin but I think she looks good.
Monday, November 3, 2008
NATALIE MAINES of the Dixie CHICKS is a REAL WORTHLESS BITCH!
On Howard Stern today, she wondered aloud if John McCain could wipe himself. YOUR A DISGUSTING BITCH YOU WHORE! John McCain served this country and his captors beat him so badly and his hand was broken so badly it hardly works now. You damn dirty whore what the hell have you ever done for this country? NOT A DAMN THING!
Lauren CONRAD on HALLOWEEN 2008!!
Based on that bruise on her thigh - looks like Kyle is getting a little rough in the bed! Don't love the costume either!
Lauren CONRAD returns to LA after being in ATLANTA!
She was doing a college tour. Her outfit is not good!
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