Paris the heiress may be headed back to the clink. Thought she had cleaned up her act but Paris was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by the Vegas police after cops sniffed the smell of pot in the air.
The driver was arrested for drug possession
and the police discovered that Paris was allegedly carrying some coke.
Hilton was detained at the Clark County Detention Center and released at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. For more CLICK HERE
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]]>While Borgnine’s work ethic is admirable — he has three films due out this year — his personal politics are less than laudable. Four years ago, he waded into the discussion about the merits of the movie “Brokeback Mountain,” the first film to feature A-list talent in a gay love story. As Borgnine told Entertainment Weekly, “I didn’t see it and I don’t care to see it. I know they say it’s a good picture, but I don’t care to see it.” Then he added, “If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!” – - click here for more
Trade groups have been lobbying Congress to pass laws that make Internet providers crack down on customers who are suspected of piracy. This is because, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an Internet service provider is generally not liable for copyright infringement if the provider is only acting as a conduit for content created by another.
The dynamic has set up a feud between Northern California technology companies and Southern California entertainment firms.
While many argue that copyright infringement should be dealt with via civil law, i.e., settling matters between private parties, the Justice Department is assisting in making Hollywood dreams come true by emphasizing copyright enforcement under the federal criminal law umbrella.
The same Eric Holder-led Justice Department that selectively dropped certain election intimidation cases, neglected missing persons and identity theft cases, and went about conjuring up ways to challenge Arizona’s immigration law is making Internet piracy a top priority.
Joe Biden hosted a “piracy summit” back in December 2009…. excerpt for CLICK HERE
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Reality television now dominates primetime programming on the broadcast networks and is increasingly taking over cable as well.
The high ratings and low cost of these shows insures that this type of entertainment, and I use the term loosely, is here to stay.
The reality show genre has not remained static. New boundary-pushing shows have emerged as networks try to outdo each other.
In an unsettling sign of the times, it seems that we have rapidly mushroomed into a reality show culture, with all of the attendant celebrities such as Kate Gosselin, Kim Kardashian and the cast of “Jersey Shore,” who for no justification are outrageously overpaid and for no reason are ridiculously famous.
In many instances, young people now respond to the question of what career they would most like to pursue with the mind-numbing aspiration of “reality star.”
Of course, reality shows are anything but real. If audiences actually got to witness the makeup, lighting, staged setting, coaching, editing, etc., they would quickly realize to what terrible lengths they were being duped.
Interestingly, the last presidential election had many of the same elements that we see in reality show programming.
As a matter of fact, President Obama was swept into office thanks, in large part, to reality style wardrobe, makeup, lighting, scripting of lines, staging of events and mainstream media editing.
For over a year and a half, to the dismay of many who are still waiting for him to govern, the president has acted as if he is starring in his own reality show.
Perhaps he harbors a secret desire to one day be a cast member of “Jersey Shore,” the reality show of which he previously joked but later claimed he had no Snooki knowledge of.
Just our luck! A throwback flick arrives this week, and it captures the excitement of the 1980s action movies. It’s called “The Expendables,” a film co-written and directed by Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone.
Stallone has been able to gather together a group of action movie veterans to join him in the tribute to the genre. The cast includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke and Jet Li, as well as some additional action-flick leads like Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, and Steve Austin.
Stallone recently had some choice comments about his fellow actors. “I thought we had the ugliest group of guys on the planet in one movie…” READ MORE
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The vilification of oil companies has been so effective that actress Sandra Bullock has pulled out of a campaign to promote awareness of the damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The reason Bullock pulled out, according to a statement she issued, is that some oil companies, including the Democrats favorite target, BP, helped to fund the effort.
The Oscar winning actress appears in a star-studded video called “Be the One,” which was filmed in New Orleans and other locations and features Lenny Kravitz, Dave Matthews, James Carville, Alfre Woodard, Harry Shearer, chef Emeril Lagasse, Bryan Batt, John Goodman and Dr. John.
The video indicates that it is presented by two groups, Women of the Storm and Restore the Gulf. Another group, American’s Wetland Foundation, is credited as a partner of the campaign.
Reportedly, America’s Wetland Foundation has received funding from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citgo and Chevron.
Bullock evidently did not want to be tainted by oil company cash.
Her publicist released a statement that read: “At no time was she made aware that any organization, oil company or otherwise had influence over Women of the Storm or its message. We have immediately asked for her participation in the P.S.A. be removed until the facts can be determined.”
Officials for America’s Wetland Foundation have released a statement indicating that the contributions it received from the oil companies were for scientific and ecological research.
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In predictable fashion, Hollywood has already pointed its campaign cash compass toward Democrat Jerry Brown in his California gubernatorial bid against Republican Meg Whitman.
Brown has received endorsements from the titanic triplets of election treasure, DreamWorks’ Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The man formerly known as “Moonbeam” has also been given contributions to his campaign from the head of Disney, Bob Iger, former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, Ben Silverman, and high-powered Hollywood lawyer, Ken Ziffren.
Meanwhile, along with GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman is being portrayed as a “rich woman,” with lots of mainstream media coverage in the form of hand-wringing over the fact that the $71-million she spent during the primary was her own money…
Excerpt: for more CLICK HERE
]]>Not only did Rush Limbaugh get married this past weekend in a semi-secret ceremony, the reception entertainment was provided by the ideologically challenged British rocker Elton John.
Sir Elton is no devoted dittohead, but he was paid a million bucks for the performance.
Hopefully, Rush and Elton will influence each other for the better. John could use some of that patented conservative soul that Rush exudes. And Rush could use a pair of oversized sunglasses.
Rush married longtime girlfriend Kathryn Rogers at The Breakers. Karl Rove, Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity were among the gathering of friends and relatives.
In reporting on the story, the mainstream media have been their usual snarky selves. Rush’s previous marriages have saturated the coverage, and so, too, have predictions of a dire future for the newlyweds.
What is hardly ever mentioned in the press, though, is that before Rush was let go from his gig back in the 1970s as a Pittsburgh radio station DJ, he was reportedly told by management that he would never make it as an on-air talent and should consider going into sales.
He proved prognosticators laughably wrong then and will no doubt prove the elites seriously wrong again.
Congrats and best wishes to Rush and Kathryn!
Something undeserving of celebration is the planned biopic on Rush by Hollywood screenwriter and producer James Sclafani.
The writer’s model for the film is Oliver Stone’s celluloid hit piece on George Bush called “W.”
The only plausible reasoning for Sclafani to be using “W” as his template has to be ideological.
“W” was an uneven movie with a mediocre script. On top of that, the thing was unimpressive at the box-office.
According to Sclafani, the docudrama will include the usual attack points on Rush’s life, i.e., issues of military service, prescription drugs, and the like, stale material that would draw yawns from all but the most die-hard anti-dittoheads.
Unfortunately, this type of agenda driven movie is similar to a lot of the flicks that get green-lighted in Hollywood these days.
Sclafani had optioned an authorized biography, “The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God,” written by Paul Colford, who runs the media relations division of the Associated Press, a place not exactly known for having lots of Limbaugh fans.
Sclafani’s script is making the Hollywood rounds in the financing circles.
Look forward to the film bombing soon at a theater near you.
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Joni Mitchell has a couple of things in common with Bob Dylan.
Both are folk rock icons. Both, too, have stage names. Mitchell used to be known as Roberta Joan Anderson, while Dylan’s given name was Robert Zimmerman.
Interestingly, Joni was being interviewed by the Los Angeles Times when the name change comparison was brought up. She responded by labeling Dylan a “fake” and a “plagiarist.”
“Bob is not authentic at all,” Mitchell said. “He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.”
She insists that she is nothing like the minstrel of Malibu. “We are like night and day, he and I,” Joni said.
She chalked up the difference between her original surname and the stage version to her marriage.
“As for my name, my parents wanted a boy, so they called me Robert John; when I came out a girl, they just added two letter ‘A’s to that. Then I married Chuck Mitchell; I wanted to keep my maiden name – I had a bit of a following as Joni Anderson – but he wouldn’t let me,” Mitchell said.
Wasn’t there another famous person whose original name was Barry Soetoro?