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No Jeremy Piven Decision Yet; Why No Malden Congressional Moment?
Jeremy Piven, looking healthy on the red carpet at this year's Golden Globes. (AP) Liz, what ever happened to Jeremy Piven as a result of sushi-gate/his mercury poisoning/actor court trial? -- Submitted to last week's Celebritology Live chat Ah yes, Jeremy Piven and the mysterious case of the sushi overdose. We are about due for an update, eh? To fill in anyone not familiar with the case, the "Entourage" star cited high levels of mercury in his system after he abruptly quit the Broadway production of "Speed the Plow" last December -- throwing the production into disarray, incurring the wrath of (and a slight bit of relief from) his co-stars and prompting "Plow" playwright David Mamet to comment that Piven was "leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." A suspicious Actors Equity union filed charges against Piven, claiming the supposedly sick Piven had been spotted out...
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July 6, 2009; 11:02 AM ET |
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Jacko Overload?
I'm Liz and I'm a Jacko-holic. I'm as wary as the next celebrity news blogger about over-covering the Michael Jackson story, but the crowning of Jacko as the King of Celebrity Deaths (his funeral is expected to dwarf Princess Diana's) and wall-to-wall coverage has slowed our usual diet of celeb news to a trickle. The week after a triumvirate of celeb deaths (let's not forget we lost Farrah and Ed last week, too) even pix of Sarah Jessica Parker's new twins and the latest Jon and Kate update seem ho-hum. So I'll admit it. The crush of Jackson details (I'm somewhat of a bizarro news aficionado, which will come as no surprise to long-time Celebritology readers who shudder at the memory of the now-retired "Britney Watch" and my abiding taste for stuff like this and this) has distracted me to the point of uselessness for all non-Jacko-related stories. I've had...
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June 30, 2009; 10:42 AM ET |
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Jennifer Aniston an Unfair Target?
I rarely find myself disagreeing with your trenchant commentary, but was really bothered by the blog posting on the Pet Sitters Award this morning. It does not appear that [Jennifer] Aniston sought the award, nor does she appear to be trying to make a PR coup out of it. Yet, it was used as an opportunity to take potshots at her for not being Angelina Jolie (who despite the other polls cited is not everyone's idea of female perfection incarnate). -- Submitted to last week's Celebritology Live discussion If that's the impression you had after reading the piece, then I can only conclude I did a bad job of expressing myself. In the interest of full disclosure I'm on team Brangelina, but I didn't intend (in that instance) to take potshots at Aniston. What I was trying to get at is that Aniston's string of disappointments -- the Brad...
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June 15, 2009; 11:59 AM ET |
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Where in the World is Kal Penn? (Not D.C.)
Kal Penn speaks during the We Are One: Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan 18. (Reuters) Kal Penn: Still not on the job in D.C. Think the administration is having second thoughts about him? Or maybe he is having second thoughts about them? -- Submitted to last week's Celebritology Live discussion Despite rumors that Penn has backed out of his plans to join the White House's Office of Public Engagement as a liaison to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities or that the Obama administration has chilled toward the actor, his rep insists to TVGuide.com that Penn is still headed to D.C. A White House representative was less forthcoming, telling The Wrap only that Penn has no official start date. Penn's spokesperson told TVGuide.com that the actor is currently in India filming "Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain" (about a 1984 chemical spill that killed thousands) with Martin...
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June 8, 2009; 12:30 PM ET |
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Miss California's Battling Demons -- Her Own
Update: Donald Trump says Carrie Prejean will retain the title of Miss California and remain the first-runner up in the Miss USA pageant. -- 11:17 a.m. ET --- The self-possessed Carrie Prejean. (AP) This morning we'll learn whether or not Carrie Prejean, aka Miss California, will be able to retain the title of Miss California. And, just in time, we've learned that Satan could be at the bottom of the kerfuffle. For those who may have been paying attention to other news for the past week or so, Prejean is the Miss USA runner-up who told pageant judge and blogger Perez Hilton that she is against same-sex marriage. Her 15 minutes have been stretched a bit, though, by aftershocks including a possibly prohibited affiliation with the National Organization for Marriage, a boob job paid for by the pageant organization and nude pictures that surfaced online last week (and today). This...
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May 12, 2009; 10:39 AM ET |
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Boob Job Doesn't Sink Miss California's Platform, Says Anti-Gay Marriage Group
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May 5, 2009; 11:15 AM ET |
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