Archive for 'Fighting Words'
Adam Lambert Slams Gene Simmons In New ‘Rolling Stone’ Article
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
They looked awfully chummy during their performance on the American Idol finale last May, but Adam Lambert and KISS rocker Gene Simmons are anything but these days, as the self-christened glam rock star and the “Hardest Man In Rock n’ Roll” bicker over a remark Gene made about Adam’s sexuality earlier this year.
Glambert is disgusted over Simmons insistence that coming out as gay — to the surprise of absolutely no one, mind you — would ruin his burgeoning career. During an interview with Good Day Philadelphia last June, Simmons advised the Idol runner-up to “shut up” about his preference.
“Mostly he should shut up about his sexual preferences. We, America, the rest of the world, really don’t care,” Simmons said. “I mean, if the story becomes ‘I prefer farm animals to,’ you know, who cares?”
In an upcoming Rolling Stone article that has leaked online, Adam is quoted launching a scathing attack on Simmons: “Gene Simmons spouted something, that he thought I’d ruined my career by coming out. He’s obnoxious, and what a hypocrite – all he talks about is his sex life. He was being a dick – and he’s not the greatest singer.”
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Tracy Morgan Book “I Am The New Black” Bashes Fellow ‘SNL’ Alums
Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Tracy Morgan is bringing his no-holds barred approach to comedy to the pages of a new autobiography. In his tell-all book I Am the New Black, in stores Oct. 20, the Emmy-nominated 30 Rock star fires off at former Saturday Night Live co-stars Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri.
SNL’s “Dominican Lou” writes: “I had my finger on the pulse of urban comedy, but when I brought my act to SNL, those motherf***** just felt bad for me…..None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me. No, sir. All I have to say about that is, where’s Chris Kattan now? Where’s Cheri Oteri now? That bitch can’t even get arrested.”
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Kimberly Wyatt Member Of ‘Pussycat Doll’s’ Says Group Singer Nicole Scherzinger “Is No Friend Of Mine”
Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
The Pussycats have their claws out. Pussycat Doll Kimberley Wyatt says lead singer Nicole Scherzinger is no pal of hers.
According to Kim, she and Nicole get along purely for business purposes.
“I get on well with most of the band but not everyone. Look, at the end of the day it’s a job – we all have our own lives to lead and our own projects going on,” Kimberley said, “I think of Nicole as just a business associate not as a friend. You cannot simply group girls together and just expect them to get on, can you? Life doesn’t work like that.” The 27-year-old added, “If Nicole left tomorrow, we could still carry on. I can see this band going on forever.”
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Whoopi Goldberg Slams Suzanne Somers Over Her Statements “Chemo Killed Patrick Swayze”
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by CSS.
Whoopi Goldberg is firing back at Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers for comments the actress made alleging the chemotherapy Patrick Swayze used to treat his pancreatic cancer ultimately killed him.
The Dirty Dancing star died last week after a nearly two year battle with the disease. Shortly after, Somers came under fire for comments she made about Swayze in an interview with Toronto’s National Post.
“They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him,” Somers told National Post columnist Shinan Govani. “Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body?”
Somers – who used holistic methods to treat her breast cancer in 2001 – responded to incident on her website Monday.
“In a casual conversation at a private party (with someone who never identified himself as a reporter) at the Toronto Film Festival last week, I was asked about this beloved actor. It was never my intention to make an official statement about his passing,” Suzanne wrote. “I was not informed or aware I was being interviewed. I would never have been so insensitive as to offer a public statement so close to his untimely passing. I sincerely apologize if my comment has caused any additional pain to his family during this difficult time. I send my deepest condolences for their loss.”
The public rebuttal hasn’t stopped Whoopi from taking Suzanne to task over her remarks.
“In case she doesn’t know, Patrick did everything and went everywhere to try and stay healthy as long as he could,” The View co-host said of her Ghost co-star on Wednesday. “That he’s been gone a week and this statement came out is bad timing and bad taste and Suzanne, you know better,” Whoopi continued. “And I’m not sure that’s not what you meant to do, but you should have thought about it”
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Michael Bay’s ‘Transformers’ Crew Bashes Megan Fox In An Open Letter
Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by CSS.
Megan Fox’s mouth has caught up with her!
After the star publicly compared Transformers director Michael Bay to Adolf Hitler, the film’s crew members wrote a lengthy open letter to fans that called the 23-year-old actress “thankless, classless, graceless.”
The three anonymous crew members, who have worked with Bay for the past ten years, posted the scathing letter on the Transformers site to “set a few things straight.” (It has since been removed.) Below is the open letter that was posted:
This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.
Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.
Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses’ life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.
We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We’ve spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.
We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sourpants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.
Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such the grump of the set?
When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) — easily another 45 minutes in the chair!
So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.
Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he’s also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.
He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.
Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!
And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around. She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she’s absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.
Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!
Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there’s the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips’ daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice.”
The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, “I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!” I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.
So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It’s sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they’re really looking up to.
But ‘fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!
-Loyal Transformers Crew
Following the removal of the Crew’s open letter- Michael Bay posted his own comment:
I don’t condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don’t condone Megan’s outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3.
Michael
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Meghan McCain Thinks Wanda Sykes Jokes Were Dis-Tasteful
Posted on 12. May, 2009 by CSS.
Conservative blogger Meghan McCain, the daughter of former Republican presidential nominee John McCain, says she’s offended by a joke told by Wanda Sykes during the comedian’s controversial set at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday.
“Sen. McCain gave you grief about the new helicopters you didn’t order. I think Mr. McCain was a little bitter because he wanted to be in the new helicopters. Mr. McCain, I’m sure if you ask nicely, your wife will buy you a new helicopter,” Sykes quipped alluding to the family wealth of heiress Cindy McCain.
“I didn’t like the joke about my mom,” Meghan McCain told NY Daily News Gatecrasher column after the dinner. “Why talk about her at all? I (didn’t mind the jokes) about my dad, but leave my mom out of it. It really wasn’t in good taste.”
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Britney Spears Playing Mediator For The Pussycat Dolls
Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Britney Spears is acting as mediator in a brewing feud between the members of sultry singing burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls.
The Dolls — who are performing as the opening act on the North American leg of Britney’s Circus Tour — are reportedly at one another throats over recent rumors that lead singer Nicole Scherzinger, 30, is set to go solo. Fellow members of the group are said to unhappy about recent singles, like “Jai Ho,” released as ”The Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger.”
On their European tour, Nicole performed PCD’s latest song “Hush Hush” on her own while the other girls are off stage.
”It’s like a modern version of the old Diana Ross and the Supremes thing,” a music industry insider told The Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday.
But Brit is determined not to let inter-tension between The Dolls negatively impact her show.
”Remember, business comes first. … You can hate each other off-stage, but make it work on stage,” Britney told the group during a recent lecture.
Nicole already tried to go solo right? And nobody showed interest in her album she was working on so it was shelved… or so I thought. This is kinda’ve expected from groups, there is always a member that outshines and becomes its on entity. However, in this case I think Nicole would be best served to stay on with the Pussycat Dolls- I wouldn’t expect to see a large fan base for her as a solo artist.
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Candy Spelling Keeps Fanning The Fire!
Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Just days after issuing a painful public plea to her daughter Tori, socialite Candy Spelling is changing her tune in the escalating war of words between the two women.
“It hurts a lot,” Candy says in the new issue of OK! “She’s always playing the victim, but at 36 years old, I think it’s time not to play the victim anymore.”
In her new book, Mommywood, on sale now, Tori describes her mother as “disastrous” and calls their lifelong strained relationship as “intense and destructive.”
One of Candy’s biggest qualms with her estranged daughter is that she feels Tori is exploiting her children for her career. Tori, her husband Dean, and the couple’s two children, Liam, 2, and Stella, 10 mos. are featured on the Oxygen reality series, Tori & Dean.
“I certainly never took one of my kids and made them objects,” Candy counters. “It’s always like they’ve got them when it’s convenient for the press. They are objects that are being used for her press persona… My kids — although she says differently — had a very normal life.”
Enough already Candy! Enough!
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Tori Spelling Denies Feud With Mother Candy Spelling
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Tori Spelling says her mother’s insistence of an on-going feud between the two has been greatly exaggerated.
“It’s not like we’re not talking, we just haven’t talked,” Tori revealed in an interview with PEOPLEon Monday. “I love my mother. I’ve always loved her [and] no doubt she loves me. There’s no feud. We simply never meshed.”
“My mother is who she is. I’ve become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn’t go together.”
In an interview with 20/20’s Elizabeth Vargas last month, socialite Candy Spelling claimed that her 35-year-old daughter refuses to speak with her, she has been cut off from her grandchildren, and that she has never met Tori’s youngest child, 10-month-old Stella.
Not true, says Tori.
“I, in no way, cut her off,” Tori counters. “She is welcome to make the effort if she wants to be present in their lives.” She adds that their last contact was an email exchange while she was pregnant with Stella. “She knows how to reach me, she knows where we live. If she would love to see her grandchildren, she should really make an effort to reach out and see them.”
Tori’s new book, Mommywood, will debut on Tuesday. Stories From Candyland, the memoir from Candy Spelling, is in stores now.
Again, I reiterate that I completely 200% believe Tori’s account of things. Especially having watched all of Tori’s episodes on Oxygen- the one episode where it is little Liam’s birthday and her mother doesn’t show, instead sends over a chauffeur with a bunch of presents- I believe if Candy wanted to be in those kids lives she would be, end of story.
Tori by the way does an excellent job stating the facts!
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Mickey Rourke Punches Jericho Out At WrestleMania 25!
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Mickey Rourke made it to WrestleMania after all. The Wrestler actor Mickey Rourke returned to the ring to take on WWE superstar Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25 on Sunday night–and the outcome was a TKO.
A feud has been brewing between the Oscar-nominated star and Jericho for weeks, with the wrestler calling out the actor’s friends, wrestling legends Ric Flair, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat, at previous WWE events.
Roddy, Rick and Ricky climbed into the ring joined by fellow WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka to defend Mickey, but they were defeated by Jericho before Mickey’s entrance.
The Golden Globe winner then removed his cowboy hat and entered the ring, punching out Jericho during the event at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas!
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