Text Harassment

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Happily married comes in all shapes and sizes. By conventional definition, both spouses are faithful, both spouses expect fidelity, and when all goes to plan, both spouses adhere to the gameplan…happily ever after.

There are however some couples who can make it work by a different playbook – typically called an Open Marriage when one or the other or both can explore outside the marital bed boundaries but remain committed spiritually, emotionally, and most importantly…financially.

Such is the case with Her and her Famous But-not-as-Famous Husband.

On the heels of a career rejuvenation of sorts, partners now both on and off screen, a true family at last, our A-list wife is experiencing a sexual awakening not entirely satisfied by her spouse. Instead, she has set her sights on a number of periphery players, most recently an employee of sorts – the only problem is that the employee is engaged and, truth be told so he says, isn’t really interested in stepping out on his bride-to-be with his Actress Boss…but isn’t that the definition of sexual harassment in the workplace?

Unfortunately, the Actress Boss isn’t taking no for an answer and much to his Fiancee’s horror, Actress Boss has taken to texting the object of her desire repeatedly – texts so explicit and so detailed and so full on horny and actually so really, really hot, regular readers of Hustler would have a hard time not blushing. And the worst part? The Fiancee, poor girl, found them. She read them, she hit the roof, she wants to call off the wedding but he keeps pleading innocence and harassment.

At the start of what might be a promising career, saying NO could jeopardize his future – at least that’s his excuse. Oh yeah – and he also says the Actress Boss could just be “method acting” – deliberately crossing the line to bring out a more authentic performance which sounds to me like a dude who wants to keep his job and his pecker inside his job.

Lame joke yes…but couldn’t resist. Please forgive?

And it’s not Anne Heche.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Update (10/12/10):
denial 1: Anne Heche
denial 2: Jennifer Lopez & Demi Moore
denial 3: Julia Roberts & Jada Pinkett Smith
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reveal 3

The bitchery of Courteney Cox continued
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Monday, February 19, 2007

PPS. Colin Farrell was not Drunk and Fired. Colin isn’t bloated anymore…D&F STILL is. And he has been for a while now. Shame really…for a while he was actually good enough for (in my opinion) the Best of the Best, legally and romantically. And now he’s working with bimbo blondes straight to DVD, poor sod.

Drunk & Fired
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Who’s rumoured to be thrown off his latest movie because he can’t stay sober? It wasn’t a starring role but those kinds of jobs are few and far between these days. Obviously being a dickhead has a lot to do with it…as does looking bloated most of the time. And unfortunately he doesn’t have Vince Vaughn’s charm. Or, for that matter, Vince’s more successful, more sought-after counterpart...which actually might be part of the problem.

Huge ego problem, not enough talent to back it up, using numbs the insecurity.

Always the same story.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Update (8/5/08):
Denial & Clue: Colin Farrell
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

PPS. The Wrong Gender is not Jennifer Aniston. Jennifer Aniston can’t afford anything but hetero. This girl on the other hand has already disappointed the MiniVan Majority before, though I’m still not clear who she was exactly at the time. There are, apparently, several of her.


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She might be single now – amid rampant speculation about why and who, but we’ve apparently all been sniffing at the wrong source. Wrong as in gender. Stepping out AND reverting and not with a dude?

Anything for promotion, right?

But behind the market push for ratings lies a Sapphic surprise. And word is – not just one. Very naughty…but also kinda hot, non?

Monday, February 12, 2007

Update (5/18/08):
clue 1
clue 2 & denial: Jennifer Aniston


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Country’s reigning princess won big last night. And as you can see, Carrie Underwood’s stayed close stylistically to her roots. The waves, the curls, the gold tacky dress… this is a girl who knows how to please her fanbase.

Well done.

Having said that, it’s apparently no secret – Carrie Underwood isn’t exactly a sweetheart. Rumour has it she’s a demanding, crusty, petty bitch…the kind of bitch with demands and shit, like don’t talk to me, like I want this and that, and do you know who I am? At least she was last year.

Maybe she’s turned a new leaf?

From the sounds of it last night… not likely. Am told she allegedly had no time for most other female artists especially newcomer Taylor Swift and Kellie Pickler. Supposedly she feels threatened and was not terribly kind or gracious to Taylor, apparently visibly irritated when Taylor showed up in a similarly shaded prom dress.

As for Kellie – she had a meltdown on stage and now some are claiming Carrie was laughing about it all night, openly deriding the girl for being so “embarrassing”. Sources say Carrie that while Carrie is an industry phenom and undoubtedly talented, her ego is growing out of control, to the point that she is not winning any friends among Nashville’s established.

But look at her. She looks so sweet. Like wholesome country corn. A girl like this can’t be a bitch, right?

Thursday, November 08, 2007


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It’s George!

Looking kinda sleepy on the set of Leatherheads in South Carolina. George is pulling double duty starring and directing. Hope he’s finding opportunities to relax?

Friday, March 16, 2007


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There have always been rumblings about his sexual orientation…never anything concrete. Just that, as we all know, any time you’re single for a protracted time in Hollywood and you happen to be as fine and distinguished as he is, people start to whisper. And while I do know for sure that he does enjoy women, even hiring them on occasion, this is the first legitimate hint of the gaygay – for me anyway – that I can report.

Or maybe not. Maybe it means nothing. After all, there can be a THOUSAND explanations behind it, right?

So he’s shooting on location. Co-star flirtation will undoubtedly start swirling…as usual… especially since they’ve supposedly had a past. Anyway, during down time, he heads to the local spa for a massage. Very normal. Except he books a Couples Massage. Also very normal. But is it normal that his partner was his stylist? His male stylist?

Well… since I think he’s totally, totally straight – to me, he’s just a dude with a tight sched. Sometimes you have to take a meeting in the unlikeliest of places. Others in our conservative location town however found it a little unusual though I should clarify – there were no Travolta-like masseur-inspired c*ckstands, thank Goddess.

Oh and one more thing – this male stylist goes everywhere habit? It’s apparently, like, totally a habit. Every location, everywhere, a shadow. I hear this wasn’t the first couples massage. And it won’t be the last.

But again – call me Cruise, as is the case with Jake Gyllenhaal, to me this superstar is 100% into chicks.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Update (7/11/08):
reveal

Other blinds about the wonderful life of George Clooney
Mr. Popular Likes Pretty Woman?
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So the Gay Midget Dwarf is scheduled to hit NYC on April 19th for a fundraiser – apparently the Church has found the magic solution to those suffering from toxin exposure during 9/11. The Scientological program has been the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the city and although some claim to have been cured by the GMD’s method, it has not been officially endorsed by the Fire or Police departments and has even been labeled “medical mumbo jumbo” by some specialists in the field, going so far as to call the procedures potentially “dangerous”. The process includes:

“high doses of niacin to release fatty acids into the bloodstream, ingesting cold-pressed oil and sweating off "toxins" in a sauna set at 140 to 180 degrees for 2 and a 1/2 to five hours a day, with frequent showers.”

Remember of course that the regimen is based on the doctrine of Church founder L Ron Hubbard – praise Thetan Ah-Xenu.

But still…Detoxing with the GMD, like, so totally works, right?

Monday, April 09, 2007


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PPS. Girl on the Verge – remember her? Good news is she’s managed to avoid rock bottom…for now. Dried out for a week though a new setback is causing much distress. Seems she’s been professionally replaced, the mentor has moved on. Which in the long run is a good thing. In the short term however, it’s more rejection and for someone so fragile, it could mean disaster. Let’s hope she stays strong. Will keep you posted.

Thursday, April 10, 2007


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Depressed and directionless and bitterly disappointed over recent professional failures and feeling stifled by a ruthless mentor, she is apparently on the verge – like a Britney verge. Except in her case, she’s lucky the pappies don’t have so much access.

Wild, wild partying and an endless cocktail of serious drugs supplied by an unsavoury group of new friends who are as degenerate as they come, relentlessly pushing their poisons into her body. And apparently she’s too messed up to stand up and walk out. Word is she’s either “out of it” half the time or so wild on tilt with insatiable chemical appetite that even her people can barely control her. She has been late or absent from a few recent engagements and while she was fortunate enough to have her team make new arrangements on the fly, her reputation is beginning to suffer…though that’s not the biggest problem.

The old friends fear the new friends are taking her down a dangerous path. Recent night out – by the end of the evening she was limp and lifeless and supposedly serviced by two different men and also at one point full on making out with another woman. She’s also been known to go missing, totally unreachable for hours at a time, and when she resurfaces, she’s a frightful mess.

Of course there are those trying to help her. And some days, she knows and she tries. But when the night comes and that crowd is calling, it’s trouble all over again.

Not Lindsay.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Update (7/11/08):
denial 1: Lindsay Lohan
clue 1
reveal 1
reveal 2
reveal 3
reveal 4

More Sienna stupidity
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

PS. The New Bitch is not Katie Couric, not Meredith Vieira. MUCH younger, entirely different industry.


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Gotta pay your dues in any industry…but especially in hers. However, it seems like the New Bitch doesn’t care for respecting the veterans in her business and so she is making enemies of almost everyone she works with and everyone who works with everyone she works with. For such a close knit community, this certainly doesn’t bode well, especially when the freshman glow starts to recede.

But such foresight has escaped her and she’s burning bridges left right and centre, issuing demands normally reserved for bonafide legends in the business and treating the “workers” like they were born to serve her. During a recent tantrum, when she was given some professional advice, and instead of taking the criticism and learning from it, she waved her finger around, humiliating the person trying to help her, and tore him a new asshole: “I don’t need you to tell me what to do. I AM (this business) and I saved it too!” and then of course sulked for an hour and refused to work.

And then there’s the insecurity. The minute another big name female gets brought up, the backstabbing begins. “Oh please… she is so fat next to me, she should just go home” or “Girl is gettin’ OLD! She should stop worrying about what I’m doing – it’s stressin’ her out!”

Now as women…let’s face it… we are ALL catty. But the smart ones do it in a safe environment, with our girls, with those we trust. But the New Bitch’s ego is so out of control, she drops her insults everywhere, all the time, and she thinks she’s above repercussion.

Dead Wrong.

With the exception of her own team – and they’re milking her dry anyway – most people in the industry hate her with a passion. And while they would never intentionally bring her down, they will certainly make her feel unwelcome. So one day when she needs a friend, she may not have anyone to help. Hospitality is not an eternal river.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Update (3/29/08):
clue
denial: Katie Couric & Meredith Vieira
reveal 1
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One of my closest friends Julie – love her – she quit smoking years ago, is one of those ex smokers who is, like, evangelical about cigarettes: it’s filthy, it’s going to kill you, don’t do it, stop doing it, why are you doing it, you really shouldn’t do it…

I, on the other hand, I’m the other kind of ex smoker. Though I stopped over a month ago, I know that I will always love smoking. Smoking for me will be like that bad boy who keeps breaking your heart and taking your money, the one you can’t even talk on the phone with, because a phone call will most certainly lead to a booty call. The point is, I get it. I get how hard it is to quit. I get that smoking is sometimes that one vice some might never leave.

But what of the superstar who claims no vices? Who claims transcendence over addiction thanks to studied enlightenment and almost supernatural self control?

Husband, hero, healer…What would his followers think of his other closeted habit? Methol ciggies alledgedly sucked back like a fiend behind closed doors - yet another secret on top of all the others. Or is it that the one super suppressed secret is spawning the others? Is it the keeping of the Big Secret that compels him to cope by secretly smoking?

Is smoking a big deal? Of course not. But for someone whose image is largely based on selling perfection, whose status supposedly is said to render him immune to addiction, who can apparently assist in overcoming it – smoking is indeed a bit hypocritical, though by comparison to his other fraud, I suppose it’s all relative.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Update (7/18/08):
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Friday, November 16, 2007

PPS. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Oscar winner. No Mute Stones for her.


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Physically I’m not attracted to him. He’s a bit too…… hirsute for my tastes. But in person? When he speaks? Adrian Grenier is The Hotness.

First of all, he’s tall. Tall for a celebrity. I’d say just over 5 ft 10, maybe an inch more. And he’s serious. He’s not at all Vincent Chase. Serious in the sense that he’s not loose, not a joker, not like George Clooney who can ham it up and is the centre of attention everywhere. Adrian is really low key and, well, almost introverted I’d say.

Every answer is measured and deliberate, there’s nothing facetious about him, not that there’s no sense of humour but he’s just not a frivolous guy, you know what I mean?

But it’s the way he speaks that makes the difference. Articulate is sexy, non? And Adrian Grenier is very articulate. He uses proper sentences, he uses appropriate words in appropriate contexts, he used the word “normalcy” as opposed to normality – normality is what I consider a cop out, and I like to think he wouldn’t say “utilise” either…words created for the sound of their own self importance.

No, no. Adrian Grenier is better than Utilise.

And he has the most beautiful, beautiful eyes. And apparently he’s part of a Book Club. Asked him about it today, he said they discussed the Jeffrey Sachs book, then did a Book Club fundraiser and ended up donating $11,000.

Love, love, love.

And Adrien Grenier is now fighting for a spot on the Freebie Five.
Here he is today on the Croisette. Yes, he is that thin.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007


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What’s worse than Rossum? What’s worse than Rossum is a CHEAP celebrity. What’s worse than a CHEAP celebrity are two CHEAP celebrities.

Both successful, both earning millions, both with new projects on the go…both in Toronto last weekend treated to a complimentary dinner at a posh supper club. And leaving only a six dollar tip.

SIX DOLLARS.

Of course the teenage fan defence will be that stars don’t carry cash. Fair enough. But if you don’t have cash, do whatever it takes – call your farking manager, call your assistant, call your band if you have to, get a few bills and tip the hard working server who has to make your punk asses happy for 2 hours, would you?

As of Thursday, no follow up visit has been made for more generous gratuity.

Un. Forgivable.

But then again, not that surprising. She’s always been a twat anyway. And he’s a twat for loving her.

Friday, June 22, 2007

Update (7/15/08):
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Other Punk Ass incidents
Which little Punk Ass...



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It’s one of the few downsides of the job and while the snark is occasionally balanced by super love and adoration, when your fantasies about someone turn out to be just that – just fantasies – it absolutely crushes you.

Such is the case with Joaquin Phoenix. I am sad.

I loved him after Walk the Line. It was mild obsession. Read every article, watched every interview, make believe scenarios replayed in my mind – we would meet, he would pursue me, he would invite Colin Firth to our house. Happily ever after, the end.

Unfortunately … not happy. And as for the end – I certainly hope he puts an end to whatever he’s doing to himself.

He is, of course, a brilliant actor. Brilliant. One of the best. And he has brought a new film to TIFF called Reservation Road co-starring the equally brilliant Mark Ruffalo – more on him later. In a word, Mark is DELIGHTFUL.

Back to Joaquin: I saw him yesterday at the Intercon goofing around with his cast members. Seemed very animated but not alarmingly so. However, word from the Sutton Place the same afternoon is that he was completely jacked – bright eyes, a close talker, speaking very quickly, eyes darting this way and that, a little bit paranoid, and looked like he’d barely showered.

Last night he apparently raged super hard. I was at the Park Hyatt, he had an area secured for him off to the side, but he came up, saw how packed it was, got freaked out, and decided to go somewhere else. Wherever he went, he was feeling the effects of it all day.

His junket was this morning. Everyone EVERYONE was talking about how rough he looked. Walked down the hall totally hunched over covering his head, couldn’t believe he could stand up straight. Luckily I was in the early rotation. He was in a foul mood. And looking at him face to face put me in a foul mood. Most disappointing is that you know the hotness is in there, hidden under layers and layers of hurt and trauma and whatever else it is that Joaquin Phoenix is escaping.

And you know what? We didn’t have a bad time. Famous for being surly and difficult with reporters, he actually didn’t mind my questions. And with Joaquin you know when he minds your questions because he will not hesitate to either throw you out of his room or walk out on you himself. It happens all the time. It happened to a journalist just today.

Towards the end though, it was like a switch went off. He went from being rather articulate to no longer being in the mood to talk. And to be honest, when you’re face to face with someone in such bad shape, the only thing you want to do is to get out of the room anyway.

So I wrapped, he thanked me, we shook hands, said he appreciated the time, and then stood up, grabbed his smokes and hustled over to the bathroom. Twenty minutes later, having finished two or three more, he walked off the entire junket. No more interviews. He couldn’t get through.

To me, this was no simple hangover. It is beyond hangover. This is a problem. A very serious problem. Looking at him, all I was reminded of were the kids we work with at Covenant House Vancouver covenanthousebc.org. They are in such turmoil, in such need of escape, so deeply damaged that their hurt becomes contagious. And while many other actors who may have behaved in the same fashion may just be assholes, period, with Joaquin, given how truly beloved he is by all of those around him and everyone who has worked with him, given how gentle he is even when he’s acting like a dickhead, you really do get the sense that this is someone who is in an enormous amount of pain and who is dealing with it in the unhealthiest of ways.

But it’s not over. Only 2 hours later, Joaquin had apparently recovered. He was still at the Intercon having lunch on the patio with his co-stars. He still wasn’t all that steady on his feet, walking wasn’t too easy, but the attitude appeared to have been adjusted. WAY in the opposite direction. Shouting and laughing and whooping it up loudly, and then proceeded to get down on his knees and started singing at the top of his lungs. Then he took his sunglasses off, whipped them at Mark Ruffalo, and continued his song.

You will note this was not a private area. There were other diners, many of them journalists, also eating on the patio. And all of them were buzzing – Joaquin Phoenix is out of control. Joaquin Phoenix is sad smut.

Thursday, September 13, 2007


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Monday, July 23, 2007

PS. The Vice is not Ben Affleck. Though I’m sure Ben has considerable talents, acting is clearly not one of them. Also not Jonathan Rhys Meyers – Vice is much less androgynous and played a different legend.


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He is super talented. Undeniably so. But like many of the most brilliant, he is also very troubled, though it was thought that he had been able to gain control of his demons with professional assistance. Thing is, he went in last time for booze…at least that’s what was “revealed” at the time… but it turns out, since he’s certainly not abstaining these days, the truth is alcohol was never his vice. His vice was actually hard core smack.

Which is why he’s been brazen about drinking in public these days - carousing and cavorting with friends and family who up to this point haven’t seemed concerned, seeing as vodka wasn’t his toxic muse. Past tense.

Word is he’s been hitting the bottle hard to the point of oblivion, to the point where the studio behind his new projects and the suits who manage the marketing are getting worried about whether or not he’ll be able to deliver on his commitments and are now trying to impose behaviourial conditions on his promotional appearances as a pre-emptive move to get him to clean up - something has not taken kindly to.

Jury is still out on whether or not he can pull it together but everyone is pulling for him. In spite of his issues, everyone loves him. He’s a sweet endearing guy with a terrible terrible problem.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Update (7/18/08):
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denial: Ben Affleck & Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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