Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Lindsay Lohan bares all

NEW YORK - Lindsay Lohan is following in the footsteps of the most famous blond bombshell of them all, Marilyn Monroe.
In the issue of New York magazine on sale Monday, the 21-year-old star of "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" poses nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of one of Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died.
Stern photographed Monroe in 1962 at the Hotel Bel-Air in California, six weeks before she was found dead of an overdose of barbiturates. Those images for Vogue magazine feature Monroe in next to nothing, posing nude with some scarves and jewelry as her accessories and sipping champagne.

Stern recreated those images with Lohan this month, at the same hotel, with Lohan wearing a blond wig and not much else.
In the essay accompanying the photos, Lohan, who admitted to a serious interest in Monroe, said deciding to do the photo shoot was easy.
"I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up? It's really an honour," she told the magazine.
Lohan described Monroe's suicide as "tragic" and said it, along with the Jan. 22 death of actor Heath Ledger from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, "are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone."
The actress, who has been in and out of rehab after two arrests last year on drunken driving and cocaine charges, said she did not know why the industry wreaked such havoc on some stars, adding, "I sure as hell wouldn't let it happen to me."
Stern said he found women like Lohan and her tabloid companions Paris Hilton and Britney Spears "interesting."
"They're girls that draw attention to their notoriety and their celebrity through their behaviour," he said Monday.
"I thought she was a natural, not at all squeamish," he said.


He noted that Monroe and Lohan had similar problems with alcohol but added that - in contrast to the sessions with Monroe - there was no alcohol on the set when he photographed Lohan.
He said he thought the photo shoot would be good for the young actress, giving her the chance to portray herself as a grown-up. He also lauded her for her willingness to do it in the nude.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Nicole Richie Transitions to MILF
Two Canadiens arrested in Tampa

Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - Montreal Canadiens defenseman Ryan O'Byrne and forward Tom Kostopoulos were arrested outside a Tampa nightclub early Monday morning, according to the Tampa Tribune.
The newspaper reported that both players were arrested at about 3 a.m. (et) outside a bar. Police said O'Byrne swiped a woman's purse and Kostopoulos resisted an officer.
O'Byrne told police the purse was his girlfriend's, but authorities said it belonged to another woman. When an officer "asked what her name was, (O'Byrne) could not give a name," the police report stated.
"Several associates, who were identified as National Hockey League players/members, crowded around the officers and police car," the report said. "They were told numerous times to get away from the police car and not to interfere."
O'Byrne was charged with grand theft, and Kostopoulos was charged with resisting an officer without violence. Both players were released on bail.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Harvard Offers Paris Hilton Celebutard Emeritus Status

It's truly been a week for healing and personal triumphs for Paris Hilton, who, fresh off her Late Show with David Letterman appearance, in which the talk show host publicly apologized for their last contentious meeting and offered the heiress full access to his Ed Sullivan Theater to plug her various, completely immaterial projects and ventures, was also crowned "woman of the year" yesterday by the Harvard Lampoon. It was an honor she showed up in person to accept, where she gave the Ivy League institution her trademarked, temperature-based papal blessing:

"Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine standing here on the steps of the Harvard Lampoon receiving the woman of the year award," she told the students gathered outside the castle-like, red-brick building that houses the Lampoon.
"You guys are so hot," she added. "Harvard's hot."
The 26-year-old star of the television reality show "The Simple Life" kept the crowd waiting for so long that the head of the student-run magazine had to reassure the students that the event was not a prank.

"All of you can stab me if she doesn't come," Lampoon president Chris Schleicher said wryly. "She's really coming."
To be sure, this award shouldn't be confused with the famous Hasty Pudding Theatricals "Woman of the Year Roast," a far more venerated Harvard tradition that today will celebrate the self-uglifying dramatic accomplishments of Charlize Theron. Rather, it's an entirely new honor, and one that should have those Yalies scrambling to keep up with their rival's visiting celebutard faculty, with calls being placed as we speak to Tara Reid's personal bookings manager to see if she might be interested in being the guest of honor at their 1st Annual Whiffenpoofs Women We Love Festival.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Brit released from hospital
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears was quietly released from a hospital Wednesday, in stark contrast to the way she came in.

On that day, she had an extensive escort of more than a dozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters, with paparazzi in tow. Her incognito getaway from UCLA Medical Center required no police, said Capt. Sharyn Buck, commander of the North Hollywood police station, which covers the area where Spears' home is located.
"There was no media, no paparazzi, and no need for public safety protection," Buck said.
It apparently didn't take long for the cameras to find her. By late afternoon, a live television feed from a helicopter showed what looked like Spears and at least one other person in a black, late-model Mercedes-Benz coupe as they drove around Los Angeles, trying to evade the paparazzi giving chase.

The troubled singer was hospitalized Jan. 31 and held for a 72-hour evaluation that was originally set to expire Sunday. Her stay was then extended for two weeks, a person close to the pop star told The Associated Press, which may explain why she was able to avoid attention on her way out.
Until Feb. 14, Spears remains under the conservatorship of her father, an arrangement created after a judge determines a person can no longer care for themselves or their personal affairs. James Spears was named her conservator Monday, and he and lawyer Andrew Wallet were made co-conservators of the estate.
As her conservator, Spears' father has been granted access to all of her medical records and authority to determine where Spears lives and who she sees.
Spears, who is in a child custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline, was also briefly hospitalized earlier in January after police were called to her home when she refused to return her sons to a Federline bodyguard after a visit. That trip to the hospital occurred amid a swarm of paparazzi.
Spears has since lost all visitation rights to her sons, one-year-old Jayden James and two-year-old Sean Preston.
On Tuesday, a court issued a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, who's been at Spears' side in recent months after the singer's mother declared that he held her daughter hostage in her own home, drugged her, took over her finances and controlled the paparazzi. Lutfi was ordered to stay away from Spears, her homes and her parents' and siblings' homes.
The singer has been in a spiral of increasingly bizarre behaviour since November 2006, when she filed for divorce from Federline.

On that day, she had an extensive escort of more than a dozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters, with paparazzi in tow. Her incognito getaway from UCLA Medical Center required no police, said Capt. Sharyn Buck, commander of the North Hollywood police station, which covers the area where Spears' home is located.
"There was no media, no paparazzi, and no need for public safety protection," Buck said.
It apparently didn't take long for the cameras to find her. By late afternoon, a live television feed from a helicopter showed what looked like Spears and at least one other person in a black, late-model Mercedes-Benz coupe as they drove around Los Angeles, trying to evade the paparazzi giving chase.

The troubled singer was hospitalized Jan. 31 and held for a 72-hour evaluation that was originally set to expire Sunday. Her stay was then extended for two weeks, a person close to the pop star told The Associated Press, which may explain why she was able to avoid attention on her way out.
Until Feb. 14, Spears remains under the conservatorship of her father, an arrangement created after a judge determines a person can no longer care for themselves or their personal affairs. James Spears was named her conservator Monday, and he and lawyer Andrew Wallet were made co-conservators of the estate.
As her conservator, Spears' father has been granted access to all of her medical records and authority to determine where Spears lives and who she sees.
Spears, who is in a child custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline, was also briefly hospitalized earlier in January after police were called to her home when she refused to return her sons to a Federline bodyguard after a visit. That trip to the hospital occurred amid a swarm of paparazzi.
Spears has since lost all visitation rights to her sons, one-year-old Jayden James and two-year-old Sean Preston.
On Tuesday, a court issued a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, who's been at Spears' side in recent months after the singer's mother declared that he held her daughter hostage in her own home, drugged her, took over her finances and controlled the paparazzi. Lutfi was ordered to stay away from Spears, her homes and her parents' and siblings' homes.
The singer has been in a spiral of increasingly bizarre behaviour since November 2006, when she filed for divorce from Federline.
Britney Spears ‘drugged by her overpowering manager’ Sam Lutfi

Sam Lutfi is accused of abusing the pop singer after moving into her house
A restraining order was issued against Britney Spears’ manager after he was accused of drugging her, parading her in front of the paparazzi and cutting her phone lines.
Osama Lutfi, 33, the pop star's sometime companion, guru and manager has been at Spears’s side throughout much of her well-documented public breakdown.
The singer was physically removed from her Los Angeles home last week and detained for psychiatric evaluation for the second time in a month after a series of hysterical episodes.
It emerged last night that Lynne Spears, the singer’s mother, told a Los Angeles court that Mr Lutfi “drugged Britney, he has cut Britney’s home phone lines and removed her cell phone chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything - Britney’s business manager, her attorneys and the security guards at the gate.”
After hearing her testimony, the Los Angeles Superior Court ordered Mr Lutfi, who is known as Sam, to cease all contact with the singer and her family. He must remain 250 yards away from the medical centre where Spears is being held, her home and the homes of her parents, siblings and children.
Today Mr Lufti gave an interview to Us magazine admitting he gave Spears medication, but he insisted it was to help her sleep. He described the pills as "magic" and said Spears agreed that they helped her.
He went on to claim Spears had been suffering from bipolar disorder for approximately five years.
"In the depressive episodes, it's all crying. But in the manic episode, there's very little crying or sympathy or compassion. She becomes another person. She becomes somebody that just doesn't care about anybody or anything," he said.
Spears's gradual demise has been closely followed by the world's media and by judges, who awarded custody of her two children to Kevin Federline, her ex-husband, last year.

Lynne Spears, who has had a strained relationship with her daughter, said that in October last year Mr Lutfi had “essentially moved into Britney’s home and has purported to take control of her life, home and finances”.
She described to the court a long chaotic night inside her daughter’s Beverley Hills home in the days before she was put on “mental health evaluation hold”.
Lynne Spears said there were a string of disagreements between her daughter and Mr Lutfi. “Sam had told Britney she was an unfit mother, a piece of trash and a whore, that she cares more about Adnan (Ghalib), her current boyfriend than she cares about her kids and that she does not deserve her kids,” she said.
To keep Britney quiet Mrs Spears claimed that her manager said he ground up drugs and put them in her food. “He told us that the doctor who is treating her now is trying to get her into a sleep-induced coma so that they could then give her drugs to heal her brain.”
Late that same evening, she said Britney decided she needed to go shopping for lipstick. Before they left the house, she said Mr Lutfi took Britney upstairs and gave her something “to make her more lighthearted, happy and fun.”
Throughout the evening Britney’s mother claims that paparazzi were present in the house and that they were being corralled by Mr Lutfi.
“The paparazzi reported to Sam and addressed him with great respect,” she said. “They treated him like a general.”
The graphic depiction of life inside Spears’ home will be amplified by a disturbing description of the Louisiana-born musician’s mental state in the next edition of an American music magazine.
Rolling Stone will publish an account of the singer verbally abusing a fan and breaking down in a shopping centre.
When her credit card failed to go through she is reported to have reacted furiously. “A wail emerges from the cubby — guttural, vile, the kind of base animalistic shriek only heard at a family member's deathbed. ‘F*** these bitches,’ screams Britney, each word ringing out between sobs. ‘These idiots can't do anything right!’” according to an excerpt from the forthcoming article.
Vanessa Grigoriadis wrote for Rolling Stone that after a crowd had gathered Spears was approached by a fan for a photograph: “’I don't want her talking to me!’ she screams. She whirls around and stares the girl deep in the eyes, her lips almost vibrating with anger. ‘I don't know who you think I am, bitch," she snarls, ‘but I'm not that person’”.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Lawyer Says Brit Worth $40 Million

Montreal Escorts is in the courtroom where attorney Adam Streisand just asked the court commissioner to 86 Jamie Spears as conservator of Brit's estate.
Streisand said Brit's estate is worth $40 million. He also said Brit is in the middle of a $17 million IRS audit with her record label Jive Records and she has 15 different businesses.
Streisand asked that the Commissioner name Northern Trust Bank and Howard Grossman, Brit's business manager, as conservators.
Here's the rub-- the Commish wasn't convinced that Streisand, the second cousin of Babs, was properly retained by Britney. So far, no decisions have been made.

Spears to stay in hospital 14 more days

Spears was to be released from UCLA Medical Centre's psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles today, but doctors and a medical officer at the ward determined that she should remain, someone close to the pop star told The Associated Press, requesting anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the matter.
Spears was committed on Thursday for a 72-hour hold for evaluation.
Paramedics, flanked by a police escort of about a dozen officers on motorcycles, in cars and a helicopter, took Spears from her home to the psychiatric hospital before dawn.
In extending her hospital stay, hospital staff members cited a section in the California legal code that allows patients to be retained for medical treatment if they are found to be gravely disabled or a danger to themselves or others, the person said.
Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled the day after Spears was hospitalised - and following a year of increasingly bizarre public behaviour - that someone should take over the singer's personal and financial affairs.

She named Spears' father, James Spears, as his daughter's conservator and made Spears' father and lawyer Andrew Wallet conservators of the pop star's estate.
Goetz granted the conservator access to all Spears' medical records, as well as the right to restrict her visitors and to provide her with around-the-clock security.
A court creates a conservatorship when it concludes a person no longer can care for themselves or their personal and financial affairs.
Goetz also issued a restraining order, keeping Sam Lutfi, the pop star's friend and sometime manager, away from her.
She ordered a hearing tomorrow to review the matter.
Spears' current hospitalisation is the second this year for the 26-year-old singer, who has been in spiral of bizarre behaviour since November 2006, when she filed for divorce from Kevin Federline, the father of her sons, one-year-old Jayden James and two-year-old Sean Preston.
Since her breakup with Federline, Spears has been seen at public events in short skirts and without underwear, has shaved her head bald, run over a photographer's foot with her car, left the scene of a fender bender, flogged another car with an umbrella and abandoned a car in traffic when it had a flat tyre.
Recently, she was seen sitting on a footpath, holding her pet dog and rying.
Spears was hospitalised on January 3 after police were called to her home when she refused to return her children to Federline following a visit. That episode resulted in her losing custody of her sons.
Spears' father takes over estate

Spears faces an ongoing custody battle for her sons
Singer Britney Spears has had control of her estate and her own welfare taken from her, under order of a court.
The pop star and her assets have been placed under the "conservatorship" of her father, James Spears.
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She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital on Thursday, after a highly publicised descent into drink, drugs and personal problems.
A court creates a conservatorship when a person cannot care for himself or herself or handle their own affairs.
Court commissioner Reva Goetz said Spears would be under conservatorship until 4 February, when another hearing will be held.
Restraining order
The conservators will have power over the 26-year-old singer's liquid assets and can bar people from visiting her, officials said.
The Los Angeles court also placed a restraining order on Spears' manager Sam Lutfi, and gave permission to change the locks on her estate and remove anyone who was there.
Spears has been receiving treatment in the UCLA medical centre, where she was taken on Thursday for a psychiatric evaluation.
It was the second time she had been taken to hospital in less than a month.
In January, Spears was admitted to Cedar-Sinai medical centre after refusing to surrender custody of her two sons in a police stand-off.
Following the incident, sole custody of Sean Preston, aged two, and Jayden James, who is one, was awarded to ex-husband Kevin Federline.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Brooke Hogan

Brooke Hogan
Birth name Brooke Ellen Bollea
Born May 5, 1988 (1988-05-05) (age 19)
Origin Tampa, Florida, United States
Genre(s) Pop, R&B
Years active 2004 - present
Brooke Ellen Bollea (born May 5, 1988[1]), better known by her stage name Brooke Hogan, is an American recording artist and television personality.
She was born in Tampa, Florida, the oldest child of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (Terrence Gene “Terry” Bollea) and his wife Linda Bollea, and older sister of Nick Bollea. She appeared on the reality-television series Hogan Knows Best, which focused on her family, and which premiered on July 10, 2005 on VH1 and MTV.

Early life
In high school, she took dance classes, voice lessons, gymnastics, and cheerleading. She joined the squad of her Clearwater, FL school, Clearwater Central Catholic, in her freshman year. Hogan graduated from high school at the age of sixteen.[2]

Hogan was signed to Trans Continental Records in 2002. Her first song in the United States singles charts was "Everything to Me". Produced by Sheppard and Kenny Gioia in 2004 as part of her album This Voice, the single was released July 27, 2004. It appeared at #97 on the Billboard Hot 100, but dropped off the chart in a few weeks. The album was planned for release September 24, 2004, but this never happened.
Brooke next appeared with her father in an hour-long profile on VH1, (Inside) Out: Hulk Hogan, Stage Dad. The success of this special spawned an entire series. Hogan Knows Best debuted in July 2005 and was the highest-rated series premiere in VH1's network history. The series, which helped her become a household name, was according to Hulk Hogan intended in part to promote Brooke's music career.

In 2006, Hogan changed record labels and became the first artist signed to Scott Storch's label, initially called Storchaveli Records but later named Storch Music Company. Hogan's first single About Us premiered on season two finale of Hogan Knows Best. The album, Undiscovered, was releaed October 24, 2006.
Hogan appeared in the November 2006 edition of FHM, becoming the first FHM Cover Model under twenty-one. As a result, the November issue had no liquor advertising: "In the very rare instance that you might have a cover star under the age of 21, they don't want to be in the position of seeming to market to anyone under age".
Personal life
Her father is extremely strict on dating. He enjoys enforcing stringent restrictions on prospective suitors, as seen on Hogan Knows Best. According to an interview with Hulk Hogan in Maxim magazine, he literally threw Aaron Carter out of his house after less than an hour after finding Carter to be arrogant and disrespectful. On Hogan Knows Best, Hulk placed a GPS tracker on her vehicle that enables him to track her whereabouts and can even remotely shut down the engine of Brooke's car if he feels the need to do so. However, in a later interview, she reveals, among other things, that her father has loosened up a bit upon her eighteenth birthday.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Guy Lafleur turns himself in, returns to court Feb. 7

MONTREAL - Hockey legend Guy Lafleur was arrested Thursday afternoon, ducking into a police station a day earlier than previously planned to answer a charge of giving contradictory evidence in his son Mark Lafleur's court case.
Lafleur, 56, surrendered to Montreal police at about 3:30 p.m.
He was released without conditions and is to appear at the Montreal courthouse on February 7, his lawyer, Jean-Pierre Rancourt said.
Guy called me about noon and asked if we could arrange to do this sooner because all the media was talking about is that there is an arrest warrant for Guy Lafleur."
The former right-winger for the Habs was not fingerprinted, and his mug shot was not taken, Rancourt said.
"I asked them not to because my client (Guy Lafleur) will be travelling to the United States and I didn't want that to compromise his career."
Lafleur, a five-time Stanley Cup champion, may yet be fingerprinted and photographed, however. The procedure is standard when criminal charges are brought; but it is not always carried out upon arrest.

Rancourt maintained Lafleur is not guilty of the charge. And he said the fact they let Lafleur go without conditions proves they could have simply mailed Lafleur a summons, avoiding a media frenzy since the arrest warrant was issued Wednesday.
Providing contradictory evidence carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
The warrant stated Lafleur testified in September that his son came back to the family's Montreal-area home every night in August while the younger Lafleur was under a court-ordered 12:30 a.m. curfew.
But in testimony he gave in October, Lafleur said his son actually spent two nights at a hotel.
Mark Lafleur, 23, was first arrested last January. He faces 22 charges that include uttering death threats and sexual assault of a 17-year-old.
Mark Lafleur is also accused of kidnapping, forcible confinement, mischief, theft, possession of crack cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana, threatening to kill a Montreal bus driver, dangerous driving causing bodily harm and damaging a bus.
His preliminary hearing is set for March.
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