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Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
 After a brief visit to the Los Angeles office of Kevin Federline’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, where she was scheduled to be give a deposition, Britney Spears left the building.
The singer, wearing a hot pink dress and heels, arrived Thursday morning for her deposition after numerous previous failures to show. Less than an hour later, she drove off in her white Mercedes without speaking to the press.
Spears, 26, was expected to be grilled about her past drug and alcohol use, her apparent failure to follow court orders and other matters that might pertain to her parenting skills.
“A deposition can be emotionally draining, because Kevin’s lawyer can ask very personal questions about her relationship with her kids – and she’ll be under oath,” says L.A. family lawyer Lynn Soodik, who’s not involved with the case.
On Wednesday, Spears’s legal team filed a request with a court asking that it be removed from the singer’s custody case, citing a “breakdown in communications” with Spears.
A hearing in that matter is set for Feb. 4. Until then, the firm of Trope & Trope still represents her.
Kaplan has already completed a number of depositions with Spears’s associates, including her longtime friend, Alli Sims, former manager Larry Rudolph and former bodyguard Daimon Shippen.
Kaplan will use evidence gathered from the depositions to try to persuade the court that Federline, 29, should be granted primary physical custody of their children, Preston, 2, and Jayden, 1, in any final ruling.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Vanessa Hudgens opens up about the nude photo of her that hit the internet back in September. In the latest issue of Seventeen magazine, Vanessa talks about the experience and what she learned, as reported by People:
On hearing the photo was leaked :
“I found out from my manager. We heard some story was going to break in the tabloids, and I was like, What?!? A few days later, the picture came out while I was on vacation in Australia. Thank God, I wasn't home – it would have sucked if I was at home. So I got to be away from L.A. for about a millisecond. But when I came back, it got kind of crazy."
On the lesson learned:
“You're not as safe as you think you are, and you have to be aware of the people you're around."
On her mom’s reaction:
“I was just open with her, and she was just so cute. She was like, 'Well, everyone can be naked if they want to.' "
So Vanessa Hudgens' mom is officially awesome: “Honey, you want to get naked for the boys, that’s A-okay with me.” Where was Vanessa’s mom when I was growing up? Nobody told their daughters to get naked for me. They just bought them pepper spray and self-defense classes. Which is why I spent most of high school being called “Pepperface McKick-in-the-balls.”
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Do you know any self-respecting cineaste who likes being called a "film buff"? A relative pulled that one on me over the holidays and I had to hold myself back from going medieval on him with a turkey leg. "Film buff" sounds patronizing and clammy and above all amateur, like those guys in junior high who collected Laurel and Hardy movies on Super-8 and who the rest of us obsessives kept as far away from as possible. Film geek, sure -- wonk, grindhouse junkie, mouth-breathing Godard maniac, call me what you want. But "buff"? Sorry, jack, I'm a professional.
That said, here's a little year end/year beginning reading for the devoted:
The Reeler has had enough of year-end top ten movie lists and has compiled a list of the ten worst ten best lists.
Wesley knocks heads with fellow critics Scott Foundas, Nathan Lee, and Dana Stevens in the annual Movie Club over at Slate -- it's a good, lively round-robin discussion that replicates what most people think movie reviewers sound like when they hang out together. And yay to Wes for defending "Zodiac," one of the two most misunderstood movies of the year (the other is "There Will Be Blood," and most people haven't even seen that one yet.)
Actually, how can "There Will Be Blood" be misunderstood when every critic is raving about it? The combined Village Voice/LA Weekly 2007 film critics' poll is up and the Paul Thomas Anderson film heads the list by a California country mile. Here's the full list, as well as the individual ballots of the critics who participated, yours truly included.
Finally, Movie City News puts it all together for movie-crazed statisticians on their 2007 Top Ten scorecard, a criticial concatenation and masterwork of anal-retentive HTML layout far beyond the capabilities of your average movie buff.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Everyone’s favorite bi-sexual (but not really) midget stripper Tila Tequila is returning for a second season. Tila and MTV announced she’ll pretend to like chicks again for the ratings juggernaut A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. She claims on her MySpace page that season one winner Bobby Banhart broke up with her and couldn’t handle her schedule. But Bobby says they never even dated, according to the Associated Press:
However, Banhart said in a Dec. 30 message posted on MySpace that "she never called me after the last show and no one would give me her number."
Poor Bobby never really had a “shot” to begin with as casting for the second season had already started in November before the finale even aired:
"This time I wanna find love for real," Tequila said during "Tila Tequila's New Year's Eve Masquerade 2008.".
I’d prefer if A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila was literally a shot at Tila Tequila with a bullet. Fired from a gun – by me. Though I bet she’d be hard to hit because of her little people powers. She’d keep escaping into a “poof” of rainbows and stripper poles.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
 The end may still be in sight for Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon, who married in October.
After Anderson filed for divorce in mid-December, and then days later said they were “working things out,” her attorney filed a proof of service of summons in Los Angeles Superior Court, reports CelebTV.com.
The document, filed on Dec. 28, shows that Salomon was served with divorce papers on Dec. 15. He has 30 days to file a response to her divorce claim.
“I would think this means the divorce is going ahead,” says L.A. family law attorney Lynn Soodik, who’s not involved with the case. “But this filing is just a procedural thing.”
On New Year’s Eve, Anderson, 40, acknowledged that her struggles were continuing but that she was moving on.
“Oh there’s plenty,” of problems, she said en route to Las Vegas to ring in 2008. “What can you do? We’re all human. We’re all trying.”
In a posting on her Web site Thursday, Anderson says she is enjoying some family time, but does not mention Salomon. “My kids and I had a great new years in Vegas! They loved the fireworks and hot chocolate at midnight. Mommy made it home by 1:30am. Nice! Now on family vacation in the snow. We are doing great. Getting rest and planning new year.”
Calls to Anderson’s lawyer were not immediately returned.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Lindsay Lohan is low on cash these days and has resorted to openly asking friends for spending money. Lindsay is trying to stay afloat and is promoting products for whatever cash she can get. Unfortunately for her, she does a shitty job at it, according to NY Daily News:
A separate source tell us Ariva - the quit-smoking tobacco lozenge she has been unofficially promoting - paid her a sum in the mid-five figures this week.
Officially, Ariva reps have denied it is paying Lohan - possibly because of all the recent paparazzi pics of her smoking.
Okay, who was stupid enough to hire Lindsay Lohan to promote a quit-smoking lozenge? That’s almost as bad as making her the spokesperson for Vick’s Anti-Whore pills. Lindsay should get behind a product she actually uses. Like Kotex Flame-Proof feminine pads: Now with more oven mitt!
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Filed under: Awards, Cannes, Celebrities and Controversy  Between upcoming high-profile work as an actor (including a role as Harvey Milk and his voice work for the English dub of Persepolis), and the honors, acclaim and awards nominations for Into the Wild, it's been a great year for Sean Penn professionally. And now it seems 2008 is going to be just as interesting for the writer-actor-director, as Variety brings news that Penn will serve as the head of the Cannes jury for the 2008 edition of the international event. Penn's quote about the honor suggests he's facing his duties with enthusiasm: " In the last few years it seems there has been a rejuvenation of cinema building worldwide; increasingly thoughtful, provocative, moving, and imaginative films by talented filmmakers: that a new generation of filmmaking may have begun." The Cannes jury is comprised of nine people; jury presidents of the recent past at Cannes have included Stephen Frears, Wong Kar-Wai and Quentin Tarantino. As Variety notes, this isn't he first time Penn's been honored by Cannes; he received a prize for best Male Performance in 1997 from that year's jury (headed by Isabelle Adjani) for his work in Nick Casavettes's She's So Lovely. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
The ladies of Estonia rinse off in plastic kiddie pools to George Michael. Runtime: 46 sec
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