The real question is: How long until Adnan Ghalib totally sells Brit up the river with either photos or a tell-all? I give it a month.

She's getting more Anna Nicole by the day.

I'm starting to think more and more than a person's sanity is solely defined by the number and quality of friends they have. The fewer your friends, or the less compassionate, and you end up a total nut job.

Britney: meet Anna Nicole Smith (dead) and Ted Kazinski (imprisoned).

Yesterday I was joking with a political wonk friend that bureacracy procreates faster than the Spears' sisters. I was just kidding, I swear. Can she be forced to get her tubes tied

As for Eddie, I think he realized how much he would have to pay her when she dumped his butt in her next "career" move so opted out of a legal marriage.

Brit and Adnan are the new Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern without clown make up.

Tom Weirdo Cruise scares the heebie-jeebies out of me. I hope he's nowhere near when/if I have a car accident.

Let's see how Tom likes it when he needs medical attention and can't get it due to scientology. Would he be in a pickle then.

Criminy, I voted for Britney, but it was a real close call between her antics and Tom Cruise. Dude is p-s-y-c-h-o-t-i-c. Religious nutjobs scare me under any circumstances, but they scare me even more when they have millions of dollars and willing cameramen at their disposal.

Anon, don't you know? Rich scientologists can buy whatever medical care they want because, well, they're rich.

Brit's a loon and Eddie's a jackass, so I give the creep award to Tom by a nose. Shame to, being that he's the only one of them with any kind of talent left.

"Religious nutjobs scare me under any circumstances, but they scare me even more when they have millions of dollars and" have won at least one primary.

I agree w/ASinMoCo about the relative scariness of religious nutjobs. This is one reason I can no longer watch anything Mel Gibson is in or directs.

Hey, maybe Scientology can 'fix' Brit. Since the general consensus seems to be that she's suffering from bi-polar disorder & they are the experts on the mind, it might just kill two birds w/one stone (so to speak).

tom cruise is the scariest of the three. britney is just living to her expectation level and eddie's living off the past. cruise reminds me of 'the brain' in pinky and the brain, set on total world domination.
liz kelly, genius at posting the kaa hypnotising mowgli video from the jungle book--in norwegian? harharhar!

I envision Travolta as Pinky and Cruise as the Brain in the live-action film.

Pinky: What will we do tomorrow, Brain?
The Brain: The same thing we do every day - try to take over the world!

Who was Tom Cruise talking to (besides himself?) I tried to watch it but he rambled on so much that I couldn't follow and kept tuning out, jolted back every so often by his manic laughter.

An aside comment: am I the only one who finds needless shorthand annoying? Tom's "KSW" (Keep Scientology Working), Rachael Ray's "EVOO" (Extra-Virgin Olive Oil) and "GB" (Garbage Bowl)... I'm sure there are other examples.

"Religious nutjobs scare me under any circumstances, but they scare me even more when they have millions of dollars and" have won at least one primary.

Posted by: byoolin | January 17, 2008 11:27 AM

Outstanding.

I think Britney has been carrying on like this for so long now that nothing about what she is doing creeps me out...I think it has just turned to worry that she may be the next Anna Nicole or Marilyn...

Tom Cruise, however...Yikes!
I am all for having your right to believe in whatever you want, but some of the claims just weird me out...Scientology is SOOOO not for me...

I just don't get it...

"Religious nutjobs scare me under any circumstances, but they scare me even more when they have millions of dollars and" have won at least one primary.

Posted by: byoolin | January 17, 2008 11:27 AM

...or the presidency...twice

Tom should have visited Brit in the hospital, not Dr. Phil!
If only Tom could get within ten feet of her with his turkey baster, think of the possibilities! That girl is so unfortunately fertile. They could grow a Scientologist choir to rival the Mormon Tabernacle's.

Liz Kelly, I think it should be December 2007 in the Murphy 'graph.

byoolin, that casting would be perfect because all travolta would have to do is revive the voice he used on 'welcome back kotter'. he already stands about a foot taller than cruise.

just watched the Tom Cruise video...truly frightening. Especially when you realize that he, Travolta and Will Smith have been doing movies which are part of the scientology doctrine: War of the World, Battle for Planet Earth and I Am Legend. Billions of people see these films. Silly stories or vehicles for propaganda? After watching that video, I find it hard to believe that Tom Cruise would make any career choices that would not support Scientology. the fact that he's one of the top celebs in the world in a super-secretive alien-based cult sounds like it's own crazy movie plot...it make National Treasure look believable.

"...it make[s] National Treasure look believable."

And relatively well-acted, too.

Truly tough to choose on this, but I'm going to give the nod to Tom. He seems to have more clout than the other two. Crazy with clout is always scarier than plain ol' crazy (ref: US govt, 2000-2008).

'Scuse me, why is the Celebritology chat cancelled? I just saw that on the front page of the site.

I WANT MY DELIRIOUS ERA EDDIE MURPHY BACK!!

Can't you hear him saying this in his best "white guy voice?"

"After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further."

Whenever I hear about Eddie relationship troubles I always think about the Oomfoofoo bit from Raw.

"She whined, "What have you done for me *lately*, Eddie?" I was like..."*B%#$h*! You was butt-naked on a zebra last month!"

Posted under the Cruise vid on Gawker.com:

"I'm so happy, I thetaned in my pants a little."

lol

Celebritology Live for today at 2pm has been cancelled? Oh noes.

Hey, look. My doppelganger is back.

Forgive me if someone has posted this before. I think that Adnan is currently selling Brit out. Sadly, she's too far out there to care.

As for Eddie, he has done a 180 from giving the jokes to be the joke. When I think of the marathons my friends would have of his movies and stand-up, looking at him now is just kinda sad.

Oh noes, indeed -- did Liz get swept up in the great Scientologist web purge?

I hope all is well w/Liz Kelly, we SPs must stick together.

Could be the inch or two of snow we're getting in the DC region. We really can't cope.

You know, a clever terrorist would bypass bombs and just go for the wintry mix in order to bring DC to its knees.

Neither 1:08PM nor 1:10PM was me. It looks like my poseur is having fun.

you mean no.virginians and DCers can't handle the snow either? back in the day when i lived there and we used to get a foot of snow, we walked to school.
we had the 'winter storm' yesterday (i'm in ATL.) we got about 1/2 inch of snow the rest was rain w/small amounts of freezing rain. nothing too bad. hope you guys survive.

Let me know who the perp is, Byool', and I'll pay him a visit with a bag of dog crap and pack of matches.

Maybe we can just do the chat right here...

My question is who the heck is this Sam Lufti guy? When did he enter the picture? He looks kind of shifty...

Now I'm worried, here in Austin we don't get snow(even the threat of winter weather shuts down the city), but I am coming to DC tomorrow and I don't like how the weather sounds.

I picked Eddie. He's got seven children, including the one he had with Melanie. I hope his current...er...special friend has super duper birth control.

Tom is a blow hard and he's doing more to undermine the credibility of Scientology. Frankly, if I had to pick a science fiction writer to worship, it wouldn't be L.Ron Hubbard. I much prefer Harlan Ellison... but I digress...

Britney no longer surprises. I suppose it's amusing that she finds time between nervous breakdowns and canoodling with her cameraman to play little pranks on the paparazzi. Dr. Drew Pinsky theorized that she probably won't hit bottom until she wakes up from a coma in a hospital and realizes she could have died. If then.

Spears unsettles me the most because there is another potential human in this mix.

If I were as hounded by the papparazzi as she is, I'd be tempted to play a joke on them. But with all her other bizarre behavior, I don't think she's capable of joking with them. I really don't.

I don't understand why someone can't commit Britney and get her some help. She is so out of control.

Then again, if Katy was my daughter and Suri was my grandkid, I would try to save them too.

where have you been irish girl?

most legal documents refer to an individual as "mens sana in corpore sano...", brit-brit begins with "non compos mentis..."

"brit-brit begins with 'non compos mentis...'"

Which translates to "individual without breath mints".

Hang on -- sorry, that's "non compos mentos". My mistake.

Michael, I've been here almost 3 years after moving here from Austin. Today's weather would qualify as a blizzard there. Tomorrow, however, should be fine. Just remember, no one knows how to drive here either. Unfortunately, they persist in driving just the way they normally do even in bad weather. Dress warmly (ignore the stares of the natives at you in your parka) and it will all be good.

"most legal documents refer to an individual as "mens sana in corpore sano...", brit-brit begins with "non compos mentis..."

Posted by: [not really] byoolin | January 17, 2008 02:35 PM

A weird coincidence: the motto of my high school was (is) "Mens quarens in corpore sano" - "an inquiring mind in a sound body."

Thanks for the advice ep.

Omigod- just got through looking at the Cruise video. My initial vote went to Brit, but that footage is some of the craziest sounding sh** I've ever heard. The Scientologists can't seriously be using this as a recruiting tool. Cruise's smug, nonsensical "message" interspersed with that maniacal laugh while the over the top "mission impossible" theme plays in the background, seems like a self parody that should be on a SNL skit. If this truly the church's and Cruise's idea of a serious message, then he gets my vote for Hollyweirdest.

Tom gets my vote for Hollyweirdest. When I first watched it, I thought that maybe he was just acting the part of a crazy, brainwashed religious fanatic (being that he is an actor and all), but no, he's the real deal...he's just not that good an actor!

e--you gave me flashbacks to living in DC, we always said the same thing: why bother with bombs when a mere half inch of snow shuts down the entire government?

My understanding of the Cruise video is it's from '04, when he was given the "Freedom Medal of Valor" by the church (and can someone tell me WHAT THE aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks "freedom" and "valor" have to do with each other?) and that it wasn't for "recruitment" -- which is a good thing from the church point of view since I couldn't understand 90% of what he was saying between manaical laughter. Nonsensical ramblings of an unbalanced mind.

Damn. No chat.

I think Tom is talking to himself. You don't hear anyone else laughing when he laughs. But, then again, he isn't being funny.

but the statement released by Eddie / Eddie's people doesn't say they broke up- just that they weren't legally getting married. are they still living together? probably has to do with Eddies $ already tied up with the previous marriage. Did they say that they weren't together anymore? It seem like- "we're not signing legal docs, but we are "married' in spirit" or something of that ilk

only Scientologists can help people in car accidents? I am truely frightened.

Britney clearly has a mental health issue of some kind, and being followed everywhere she goes doesn't help. (It's like that old saying: "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean the little men aren't following me.") Please don't say she brings the harassment on herself; she is beyond that point now. Whether or not she (or her mom) set it in motion years back, it has reached ridiculous proportions that she has no way of controlling now, especially considering her mental state.

My point is that publishing news about her every move, her every twitch, keeps the paparazzi employed and keeps this cruelty going. (Yes, I think it's cruel what they do.) So, Liz, I would like you to consider withdrawing your support of the little cottage industry that is the Britney Spears Insanity Watch. Don't publish any more stuff about her. Every little action helps, y'know? Why not try it? I mean, doesn't it depress you to keep after her this way? Kinda? You know what I mean about contributing to the mess; if no one is interested in the pictures, then the paparazzi don't have a reason to (further) drive her insane.

My position is that everyone who is egging them on is, in part, responsible for tearing this woman to shreds. I'm not saying she's a saint, but geez. She's ill. Will you try it, Liz?

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Call me as crazy as you think Tom Cruise is, but I don't see this video in the same way as you all. It's a positive message of engaging yourself in the world and trying to make it better. Are you all so jaded that even that prompts ridicule and contempt? I am not particularly religious, and we need to check that in the born again delusion of our current commander in chief, but I just don't see what Cruise's point about his personal responsiblity to make this a better world is so outrageous. Maybe it is in this current society of *me, me, me, I can't possibly make a difference and in fact, I don't even want to try.*

For shame. Shouldn't we all feel it's our personal responsibility?