Zsa Zsa Gabor The First Paris Hilton

Zsa Zsa Gabor became famous for her notoriety long before there was Paris Hilton.  Gabor, just like Hilton, was food for the Hollywood gossip grist mills before she had any accomplishments, or what would be considered accomplishments based on any real definition of the word. Gabor was always sexy and risqué by innuendo unlike Hilton who is just blatantly out there.  And, interestingly, Gabor is Hilton’s great-aunt, having married Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotels chain and Paris Hilton’s great-uncle.  Although Zsa Zsa and Paris aren’t blood relatives they are certainly birds of a feather.
Zsa Zsa established herself as a C-list actress but her real claim to fame was her serial marriages.  She was married nine times, Conrad Hilton being her second husband.  Her first was Burhan Asaf Belge (1937-1941) then Hilton (1942-1947) followed by actor George Sanders (1949-1954), Herbert Hutner (1962-March 3, 1966), Joshua S. Cosden, Jr. (March 6, 1966-October, 1967), Jack Ryan, a designer who created the image of the Barbie doll (January 1976-August 24, 1976), Michael O’Hara, her attorney in her divorce from Ryan, (August 27, 1976-sometime in 1983) Felipe de Alba (April 13, 1983-April 14, 1983 marriage annulled because divorce from O’Hara not final) and last Frederic Prinz von Anhalt (August 14, 1986-Present).  von Anhalt was 38 and Gabor 69 at the time of their marriage.
After living a life of marriage, divorce, run-ins with the law (slapped a cop who pulled her over in 1989; sued for libel by actress Elke Sommer in 1993) Gabor was seriously injured in a 2002 auto accident and suffered a stroke in 2003.  At the age of 92,  she and von Anhalt are still married and living in Beverly Hills. 
If Paris Hilton lives to that ripe old age I wonder what her biography will read like.

Add To:

Hide Sites

Hugh Jackman in wax

Is this the real Hugh Jackman?  Nope.  It’s a wax figure which was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to stir up interest in the X-Men Origins:  Wolverine DVD and Blueray Disc coming out on September 15th.  The figure will make a five-city tour here in the US.  Its first stop will be in Washington D. C. (Aug.31-Sept1), then Philadelphia (Sept 2), New York (Sept 3-7) Dallas (Sept 10-11) and, finally, Los Angeles, (Sept 14-15).  Hopefully, it will be travelling in a refrigerated vehicle or by the time it arrives in Los Angeles it will be a mere puddle of itself.
One of “Wolverine’s” powers is the ability to rapidly heal himself (itself?) from any wound, disease or toxin.  I’m doubtful this particular rendering of the Wolverine would be able to recover from a lighted match. 
By the way, did you know that real wolverines are of the weasel family and have a heavyset body, short legs, dark fur, and a bushy tail and are also called a skunk bear. A far cry from the X-Men version.  I think Grizzly Adams would have been better suited for the part.
You fans of the X-Men Origins:  Wolverine are going to have to wait until sometime in 2011 for the sequel.  But all you Hugh Jackman fans will be ecstatic to know he is scheduled to appear in a film co-starring..da da dada..Robert Pattinson.  How sexy is that combination?!  The film, which is in pre-production, is called Unbound Captives and it is, of all things, a western.  Very interesting.  A Brit and an Aussie doing an American western.  And, for anyone living in, or visiting,  New York City Jackman and the newest “James Bond”,  Daniel Craig, will be appearing on Broadway in a two man play titled  A Steady Rain,  with an opening date of September 29th and running through December 6th.
Well, I  don’t want to leave you with a waxen Hugh Jackman so feast you eyes below.

Hugh Jackman shirtless

Add To:

Hide Sites

DJ AM

DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, was one of six passengers on board a private jet plane that crashed in South Carolina on September 20, 2008. Goldstein and drummer Travis Baker were the only two to survive the crash, although both were badly burned.
Goldstein was found, dead,  alone in his apartment in New York City on Friday, August 28th.  There were no signs of foul play, but drug paraphernalia was found.  It has been rumored his death may have been the result of a drug overdose.

Add To:

Hide Sites

Senator Ted Kennedy

Massachusetts Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy, known as the  “Lion of the Senate”,  will be laid to rest this evening at Arlington National Cemetery near both of his slain brothers, Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy.  His flag draped coffin was first taken to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library where an estimated 45,000 people filed past.  Many of Senator Kennedy’s friends, colleagues and family members spoke of their memories and affection for him.
Kennedy was a champion of the people and fought hard in matters of civil rights, equal rights and dignity for all people.  Sen. Chris Dodd, one of Kennedy’s close friends and colleagues summed the man up in this way:  “The issue was people in the shadows, people who don’t have lawyers and lobbyists, people who don’t have advocates”.  Dodd said “you could never have a better advocate than Ted Kennedy”.  He said, “When he was in your corner, he was in it forever”.
With the death of his two older brothers Ted Kennedy became the family patriarch and was there for the entire family in times of happiness and in time of sorrow.  His nephew, former US. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II told of the advice his uncle gave him.  “He was telling me, never, ever, ever, ever, give up.  You stay in the race.  And if people don’t have health care, you stay in the race.  If people don’t have adequate housing, you stay in the race.  If people aren’t being treated properly, you stay in the race”.  And that is exactly what Senator Ted Kennedy did.  His place in the senate and in the lives of Americans will be very hard to fill.  He was one of the last of a dying breed of politicians who truly cared about his country and the people in it.
Senator Kennedy’s funeral Mass will be at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help beginning at 10:30 a.m.  President Obama will deliver the eulogy.  Following the Mass he will be taken to his final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery.
Yes, the Lion sleeps tonight and millions mourn his passing.

Add To:

Hide Sites

Dr. Conrad Murray

Well, the facts are in.  Michael Jackson’s death has been declared a homicide.
By his own admission, Dr. Conrad Murray gave Jackson enough drugs, over a nine hour period on the morning Jackson died, to put a good sized elephant to sleep.  The fact that they didn’t would indicate Jackson had built a high tolerance for these and other drugs.  So, Murray is most likely not the only doctor to over-prescribe controlled medications to Jackson.
Maybe, at the time, Jackson couldn’t foresee the consequences of his demands for more and stronger drugs  but that doesn’t relieve him of all responsibility.  You ultimately make your own decisions and his was to take more and more narcotic drugs and an anesthetic, propofol, which others had told him was very dangerous.
Conrad Murray gave Jackson the drugs that, in accumulation, killed him.  So he will inevitably be charged with the crime.  What the exact charge will be hasn’t been reported yet.
The responsibility for Jackson’s death certainly falls on Murray and all the other doctors who over prescribed addicting medications.  The responsibility for Jackson’s death also falls on Jackson, himself.  And, it is hard to believe that in a family the size of the Jackson family no one, not one of them, could see the road Jackson was on and where, without stopping him, that road would lead.

Add To:

Hide Sites

Sandra Bullock

This is so wrong from the hair to the black booties.  Sandra Bullock is one of my favorites and I’ve seen her dressed beautifully in the past.  But this.  The hair says “Just finished with my daily workout”.  The dress?  Oh my! Whoever designed it must have had some left over pieces of fabric and thought:  “To hell with it,  I’m not throwing this stuff away.  I’ll just throw it together and see what happens”.  Well, this is what happened.  As far as the bootlettes are concerned, bare feet would look better.
That far off, vacant stare makes me think she was abducted by aliens and they dressed her in this getup and beamed her to the red carpet.

Add To:

Hide Sites

Too Short

Todd Shaw, known as rapper Too Short, was pulled over by Las Vegas police Thursday morning at approximately 4:00 AM.  He was arrested for DUI, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and….burning rubber.  This is his second arrest in Las Vegas in three months.
Too Short seems to be Too Dumb to know it’s not a good idea to speed and burn rubber when you are Too Drunk to drive or in any other way impaired.  Like maybe your brain is Too Small.

Add To:

Hide Sites

Mariska Hargitay

Justine Faeth, fanatic “Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit” fan, used sleuthing skills she learned from watching her favorite character “Detective Oliva Benson”, played by Mariska Hargitay, to help police catch a suspected serial robber in New York.
Faeth was interviewed by Matt Lauer and Ann Curry of the “Today” show and told them what happened.  Evidently, a man entered the office of City Lights Media where Faeth worked and told her he had an idea for a show.  Faeth told him he needed an appointment and gave him some e-mail addresses he could use to set one up in the interest of getting rid of him. In an effort to stall, the intruder said he felt sick and needed a glass of water.  Faeth sent him to the kitchen to get his own water and, when he finally departed he left a tissue and the cup he used on Faeth’s desk.
It wasn’t long before Faeth discovered there were items missing from a co-worker’s purse.  Thinking it was the stranger who had come to the office who took rifled the purse, she saved the cup and tissue and called the cops.  They said that DNA was mainly used in major crimes such as rape and murder and didn’t take Faeth’s “evidence”.  However, after the police looked at a surveillance tape they returned to collect the cup and tissue which, fortunately, Faeth had kept.  Her quick thinking led to the arrest of Kevin Moore, a career criminal.
During the interview with Lauer and Curry, Faeth received an on-air call from her “Law & Order” favorite, Mariska Hargitay congratulating her for her role in helping to catch Moore.  Hargitay told Faeth:  “I am impressed! I better watch out for my job!”.

Add To:

Hide Sites

First Michael Jackson was to be buried on August 29th which would have been his 51st birthday.  The burial was to be at Forest Lawn Cemetery, or it wasn’t.  The casket is being held at Forest Lawn in a crypt owned (but not presently being used) by Barry Gordy, or not.  The burial is scheduled for Saturday, September 3rd at a cost of approximately $50,000 which will be needed to pay cops to keep traffic moving and uninvited guest away. Far away!  No, that’s not right.  It has been changed to Thursday, September 10th and if they stick to that date it will cost the Jackson family “at least triple the price”  to hire cops for a weekday burial.
Because the burial service is being limited to the Jackson family and “close friends” it seems it will take a ton of cops to keep the order. There will be cops patrolling from the ground and at least one police helicopter patrolling from the air.  Sergeant Tom Lorenz, of the Glendale Police Department, said in a statement directed towards Jackson fans, “Don’t even try and come, because you won’t even be able to see the green of the Forest Lawn”.  Sounds like he’s really serious, and I think I detect a note of final exasperation.
So, the Jackson’s will be asked to fork over at least $150,000 to bury Michael Jackson on a Thursday rather than $50,000 to bury him on a Saturday.  They could still change their minds, in the interest of saving $100,000, and bury him on Saturday September 12th.   At this point, I would be willing to chip in just to have this over and done with.  How about you?

Add To:

Hide Sites

Cristiano Ronaldo

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is this shirtless, almost naked picture of Cristiano Ronaldo worth?  And speaking of Cristiano Ronaldo and his worth, Real Madrid paid approximately $130 million just to get him on their team and gave him a six year contract at $12.3 million for the first season with a 25% raise for each of the next 5 seasons.
However, it seems Ronaldo had a less than stellar performance in a pre-season match, which may not be a very good omen of things to come.  Not to worry, though, because  Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini says Ronaldo just “needs a little time to adjust” to his new surroundings.  And Ronaldo, evidently not a humble man, says he is worth every penny.  $130 million plus $12.3 million plus a 25% yearly increase adds up to a lot of pennies.
Is Renaldo worth all those pennies? Well, maybe so. Hard to imagine anyone is worth that kind of money.

Add To:

Hide Sites