Archive for August 11th, 2008

Anne Hathaway Speaks Out on Split with Conman Raffaelo Follieri

August 11th, 2008

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“The worst thing that happens to you can be the best thing for you, if you don’t let it get the best of you,” Hathaway, 25, says - quoting humorist Will Rogers - in Britain’s The Independent.

The break up didn’t turn her off from marriage.

“I’ve always wanted a family,” she explains. “I’m not one of those people who says, ‘What’s the point of marriage?’”

Her goal?

To “find someone you can be yourself around, who makes you laugh, who challenges you in a good way, and where you just speak off each other,” she says.

“My parents have been married more than 25 years, with all the glory and all the pain you can imagine, but they’ve stayed together. I want a strong marriage like that.

The Get Smart star may be ready to date again — but don’t expect to see her with a co-star.

“I try not to date where I work,” she says. “It makes life easier. Besides, the possibility has never really arisen.”

But she’s keeping her options open.

“I don’t say no to anybody,” she says, “because I’d hope that people wouldn’t say no to me because I’m an actor - but they’d have to be a pretty extraordinary.”

For now, Hathaway says she’s “just a person living my life.

I don’t take myself too seriously, to be honest. It just seems silly, because if I thought about it too much, all I could say is, ‘Why me?’”

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John Edwards Affair with Rielle Hunter, No DNA Test Necessary

August 11th, 2008

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Former Presidential candidate John Edwards consistently lied, denying he had a sexual relationship with Rielle Hunter, a video producer. But the truf came out, baby! John finally admitted to the affair on Friday.

Rielle would call John “love lips,” and they reportedly had a relationship for a year, traveling for four months at one point. Although John was trying to keep the affair from the public because it could be devastating to his political career, it seems that he’s been telling the truth when he says he ain’t da baby daddy.

Edwards’ love on the side, Rielle Hunter, is not going to ask for a paternity test to prove whether or not her 5-month-old daughter is John’s.

Both Rielle and Edwards claim that due to timing, the baby couldn’t be his. According to the NY Post, there’s no father listed on birth certificate and Rielle wants to “maintain her privacy and her daughter’s privacy.”

Rielle reportedly told a Newsweek reporter that John’s wife Elizabeth Edwards didn’t “give off good energy” and that she “didn’t make eye contact with me” - Ya gotta love a heartless homewrecker bitch. Gawd.

Poor Elizabeth.

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Hayden Panettiere’s Dad Arrested for Domestic Dispute with Wife

August 11th, 2008

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TMZ reports,

Alan and Lesley Panettiere were at a party earlier in the evening. We’re told Alan was upset because Lesley was “hanging” with someone at the shindig and he felt she was “disrespecting” him.

Sources say, according to Lesley’s statement to Sheriffs, the couple went home, began arguing and he struck her in the cheek. We’re told cops took pictures and there are visible marks.

Paramedics advised her she should go to the hospital but she refused. Alan did not give a statement to the police. It’s unclear if any of their kids were at the house at the time of the incident.

Hayden’s parents have been together for how long, and her dad trips out if his wife’s “disrespecting” him by being friendly with other peeps? Strange.

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Bernie Mac Dies at 50

August 11th, 2008

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Bernie Mac, who for the past 30 years made the public laugh with an over-sized comic persona in film, television and comedy clubs, has died of pneumonia. He was 50.

George Clooney:

“The world just got a little less funny. He will be missed dearly.”

Brad Pitt:

“I lament the loss of a ferociously funny and hardcore family man. My thoughts are with Rhonda and their family. Bernie Mac, you are already missed.”

Samuel L. Jackson:

“He was also an attentive husband, a great father and loving grandfather. I feel blessed to have shared years of friendship with Bernie Mac, and I’m honored to have finally co-starred with him in what I consider to be his finest cinematic acting achievement.

“My sincere prayer is that his family will be comforted by the warmth of love from all of us who knew and respected this man.”

George Lopez:

“Bernie fell into that category of people who were inherently different like when you saw them, you knew they were different and when they spoke, you knew they were different. As comics, we’re all brothers. and I’ll miss him a lot. He was a good friend of mine.”

Luke Wilson:

“He couldn’t have been a nicer guy. He just seemed like a real family man and just a nice guy on the set, just very kind of normal guy.”

Mac began his career performing stand-up comedy for spare change in Chicago subways. His first break came when he won a citywide talent contest in 1990.

By 1994 he had established himself as a headliner in his own right, touring the U.S. with his comedy-music-dance extravaganza, the “Who Ya Wit Tour.” Meanwhile, TV guest spots on HBO’s “Rosie Perez Presents Society’s Ride” (1993) and Russell Simmons’ “Def Comedy Jam” (1994) led to his own HBO series, Midnight Mac (1995), and a recurring guest spot on TV’s Moesha.

He also appeared in films such as Mo’ Money (1992), Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus (1996), and Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and Ocean’s Twelve (2004). He performed on the “Kings of Comedy” tour with fellow stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, and Cedric the Entertainer. In 2001 he launched his hit Fox TV series, The Bernie Mac Show.

Thanks for the laughs. R.I.P. Mr. Mac.

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Grammy Winner and South Park Chef (voice-over) Isaac Hayes Dies at 65

August 11th, 2008

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Isaac Hayes died Sunday in Memphis, where he lived. He was 65.

A releative discovered an unresponsive Hayes near an exercise machine in their home at midday, and Hayes was pronounced dead at 2:10 p.m. when he arrived at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis.

“Family members had gone to the grocery store and left him home. When the family came home around 1, his wife’s cousin found him lying on the floor in the basement near a treadmill. The treadmill was running, so it is believed that he had been working out.”

Although the hospital is still determining the cause of death, Shular says Hayes most likely died of natural causes.

With his distinct basso profundo (his voice seemed emanate in his feet), from 1997 to 2006, Hayes voiced the role of South Park’s school-cafeteria sage, Chef. However, he abruptly quit over what he considered the show’s disrespect for religion.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone speculated that Hayes was offended by the show’s treatment of his faith, Scientology.

Born in Covington, Tenn., Hayes was a self-taught musician. At age 22, he was hired by Stax Records of Memphis to play backup for piano and sax for Otis Redding and others. In the ’60s, with David Porter, he wrote soul hits for Sam and Dave (”Hold On, I’m Coming” and “Soul Man”

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