Sunday, February 25, 2007

Topless Jennifer Aniston's Photo Haunts Celeb Blogger

Gossip blogger Perez Hilton sued over a reportedly stolen topless photograph of Jennifer Aniston he posted on the Internet.

Hollywood movie studio sues celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton over a reportedly stolen topless photograph of Jennifer Aniston he posted on the Internet.
Universal City Studios Productions LLLP filed a suit in U.S. District Court claiming the topless photo had been "misappropriated and illegally copied" (read: stolen) during production or post-production of the 2006 romantic comedy "The Break Up" and posted on PerezHilton.com by Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton.
Universal claims copyright infringement and seeks an injunction barring further distribution of the picture and a court order authorizing the seizure of all Hilton's material from the film.
It's not the first time Jennifer Aniston has been at the center of a topless paparazzi shots. Last September the actress settled a lawsuit regarding semi-nude photos that paparazzo Peter Brandt shot in 2005.

Via FashionMonitor

Angelina Jolie is the sexiest Celebrity



Actress Angelina Jolie has been voted the sexiest celebrity of all time.
The 31-year-old Hollywood mum comes four places above her man, Brad Pitt, 43, who landed in fifth place.
Some of the world's most famous sex symbols, from Steve McQueen to Sophia Loren missed the number one spot to settle for a place in the top 100.
Elvis Presley came second in the poll, almost 30 years after his death.
Marilyn Monroe is third, followed by Crazy in Love singer Beyonce.
Videogame character Lara Croft - brought to life by Jolie in the Tomb Raider movies - came in sixth place, while George Clooney, 45, landed seventh place. Pop princess Kylie Minogue, 38, is eighth.
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, 43, makes ninth place, and Scarlett Johansson, 22, is tenth.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Britney Spears RehabWatch: Cops Crack Down On Paps, Let Celeb Fugitive Escape

A brave Defamer operative in WeHo relates her near-brush with potentially dangerous rehab fugitive Britney Spears, who a little while ago mesmerized some law enforcement officers into assisting her escape from the swarming paparazzi looking to collect the bounty on her bald head:
So, we just experienced Britney blond wig craziness in person, out the window of our office building on Sunset Strip. She was in the passenger seat of a Mercedes wearing her ridiculous blond wig and sunglasses, and there were about 8-9 paparazzi literally jumping on her car taking pictures. There were so many cars, it almost caused an accident here at Sunset and Holloway; probably around 25 on the small side street. There were also about 5 cop cars, with one of them basically pretending to run over the paparazzi to get them out of the street and off her car. They then proceeded to arrest a couple of them. It was pretty insane I must say. The President gets less attention I'm pretty sure. We assume that the police will now be prepared to take the appropriate countermeasures to resist whatever mind-clouding trickery the pop star used to enlist their help in prolonging her ongoing flight from sober justice; the next time they cross paths with Spears, they'll be ready to subdue their clean-shaven quarry and return her to the celebrity lockdown at Promises Malibu so she can serve the entirety of her sentence.

Scarlett Johansson Is Favourite For Playboy!

Playboy magazine have chosen Scarlett Johansson as their sexiest celebrity, putting her ahead of the likes of Beyonce and Angelina Jolie.
Though there seem to be ‘Sexiest Celebrity’ polls every week, this one was conducted through Playboy reader’s votes.
A spokesperson for the magazine said: “Scarlett Johansson is the apex of beauty and sensuality - from her porcelain skin to her fully feminine figure to her mysterious charisma, which is at once palpable and indefinable."
Scarlett came top of the list of 25, which also included such names as Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez and Jim Carrey’s current girlfriend Jenny McCarthy.
Could a centrefold be on the cards? Yeah right.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Andrew Niccol Signs Up Al Pacino for 'Dali & I'

Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actor "Al" Pacino, real name Alfredo James Pacino, is all set to star as surreal artist Salvador Dali in 'Dali & I: The Surreal story'. Directed by Andrew Niccol, the film will highlight Dali's later life when the artist began to focus more on surreal work.
The script is an adaptation of the Stan Lauryssen book called 'Dali and I' and filming will begin in June in New York and Spain. Niccol is rewriting the script they acquired as a spec written by John Salvati.
The movie will span the 1960s-80s, a time when most of Dali's great work was behind him and he became more flamboyant. The story also will focus on a mentor-protege relationship between Dali and Stan Lauryssens, a young art dealer, reports Reuters.
The film will be produced by Room 9 Entertainment partners David O. Sacks, Daniel Brunt and Michael R. Newman, who also produced the hit satirical film, "Thank You for Smoking," reports Variety.
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known popularly as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century, notes Wikipedia. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work.
Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork.

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TV eviction welcomed in racism row

British media on Saturday welcomed the eviction of a reality TV show contestant accused of racism and bullying, but criticized the television channel over a show that has whipped up an international storm.
"Celebrity Big Brother" has dominated headlines in Britain and India this week after former dental nurse Jade Goody and other contestants ganged up on Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, calling her "the Indian" and "Poppadom" and saying "She should f... off home."
Britain's media watchdog received around 40,000 complaints from viewers, top politicians weighed into the row and a major sponsor of the program withdrew its backing.
Internet chatrooms have been abuzz with debate about whether what was said on the show constituted racism, and to what extent Goody and her allies reflected prejudices in society at large. Many people felt the story was exaggerated by the media.
The show's producers said 82 percent of voters had chosen Londoner Goody for eviction over the other nominee, Shetty, in what may be seen as a stand against racial intolerance.
A contrite Goody, 25, denied she was a racist or a bully in her post-eviction interview late on Friday, when the extent of the controversy was revealed to her for the first time.
Contestants are sealed off from the outside world in a house where cameras follow their every move 24 hours a day.
"I can't dignify myself because that video footage of myself is nasty," she said. "I'm not going to sit here and try and justify myself. Yes, I said those things and they were nasty.
"I am not a racist and I sincerely ... apologise to anybody I've offended out there."
Goody rose to fame after taking part in a non-celebrity version of "Big Brother" in 2002, and suggested even before leaving the house that she would pay a price for her behavior.
"It was the beginning of my career and it's the end of my career," she said.

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Monday, January 15, 2007

O.J. calls chapter of book fictional

Former football star O.J. Simpson says a chapter from his unpublished book, "If I Did It," that hypothesizes how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend was created mostly from a ghostwriter's research and is not a confession.
"I'm saying it's a fictional creation," Simpson said Sunday in a telephone interview. "It has so many [factual] holes in it that anybody who knew anything about it would know that I didn't write it."
His comments came as Newsweek magazine published an article for its current issue paraphrasing the chapter, called "The Night in Question," which the magazine said it had obtained from an anonymous source.
Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Lyle Goldman after a yearlong trial. A civil jury later held him liable for the killings. On Sunday, Simpson again denied killing the pair.
Simpson declined to provide a copy of the chapter to the Associated Press.
"I don't have it," he said. "I shredded everything I had about it, and I thought I shredded it from my memory."
Newsweek's account of the chapter describes Simpson as becoming angry with his ex-wife at their daughter's dance recital. He later went to her condominium to scare her, entering through a back gate with a broken latch, the account states.
Simpson, holding a knife, encountered Goldman and accused him of planning a sexual encounter with Nicole. He became enraged when Nicole's dog appeared to recognize Goldman as a familiar visitor, the account states.
Nicole rushed at Simpson and fell, hitting her head on the ground, according to the account. Goldman then took a karate stance, further angering Simpson, who dared Goldman to fight before pulling back.
"Then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can't tell you exactly how," Newsweek quoted Simpson as writing.
The account contains no descriptions of the killings but says Simpson was drenched in blood and holding a bloody knife when he regained control of himself. His ex-wife and Goldman were dead.
Simpson said he saw a number of factual flaws while proofreading the chapter but did not correct them because he thought that would prove that he did not write it.
The book was to be published on Nov. 30 by News Corp.-owned HarperCollins. News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch called off the project 10 days before, apologizing for any pain it had caused the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.
"Was it tacky?" Simpson said. "Yes, it was tacky."

Via LATimes