Last night's TRL finale wasn't quite the circus it proved to be back in its heyday, mainly because the show has been trying way too hard since before Britney Spears took her tumble. Regardless, some of the show's most successful graduates showed up to pay tribute to arguably the best thing MTV ever produced. Tons of photos after the jump. CONTINUED »
ANNOYING D-BAGS DOING GOOD THINGS "With a little help from his friends, Justin Timberlake put [$1 million] in the pockets of Shriners' Hospitals for Children, an organization that provides medical care for kids in need. And what good friends: the Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, 50 Cent, Leona Lewis, Adam Levine, Lionel Richie and Boyz II Men joined the "Sexy Back" star in Las Vegas, where Timberlake, 27, hosted a weeklong pro-celeb golf tournament, capped off by a charity concert and afterparty."
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• We need to print this drunken celebrity collage so we can frame it to hang in the living room. [CityRag]
• The cast of Grey's Anatomy is back to filming. That includes Katherine Heigl, unfortunately. [PS]
• The models who hand out the Emmy Awards will be clothed in Lauren Conrad's line. This has officially gotten out of hand. [INO]
• Two girls kissing has lost its shock value thanks to Madonna and Britney (not to mention drunken college girls), but we give Aubrey O'Day an A for effort. [DListed]
• 50 Cent got his son back with a minimum amount of drama. [ICYDK]
• The Brangelina Wonder Twins were not conceived via in vitro fertilization. Thank goodness that was cleared up. [Yeeeah]
• It's safe to say Sears has officially given up on trying to sell clothes. [INO]
• Ashlee Simpson's belly seemingly grew 10 sizes overnight. [PS]
• Sienna Miller gets "digitally enhanced." (NSFW) [Yeeeah]
• Jessica Simpson and her dog Daisy have arrived in NYC. Where is Tony Romo? Isn't he supposed to be carrying Daisy around? [HT]
• Angelina Jolie got pregnant by in vitro fertilization. Also, the sky is blue. [DListed]
• 50 Cent has moved on from his feud with Kanye West to take on Taco Bell. [ICYDK]
At his show at New York's Nokia Theater on Tuesday night, 50 Cent, the marble-mouthed rapper once suspected of burning down his ex-wife's home, donned a US marine uniform – complete with cockeyed cap – for part of his set. 'Twas an odd choice for a wartime concert, especially considering the fact that the getup was probably used to enhance Fiddy's performance of "My Toy Soldier," the less than patriotic lyrics of which are as follows:
Shoot, stab, kill, muthafucka
You aint bout it, I dont want you around, cocksucka
My morning got off to a terrifying start over at Stereohyped, where Lauren posted some of the most disturbing pictures I have ever seen. After discovering a UK Web site that shows what you would look like with a different age, race or sex, morphed pictures of Beyonce and 50 Cent surfaced. I joined in on the fun and discovered a lesson I will carry with me forever: If I had been born a man, I would have looked like Perez Hilton's brother. Shudder.
So now it's your turn: Instead of working or being productive today, feel free to wander over to the site (link here) and discover what you or your favorite celebrity would look like as a man, woman, baby, East Asian or any of the other possibilities. Then e-mail them to me at whitney@mollygood.com — attach the images, send me links, whatever your heart desires. Tomorrow I'll post the most disturbing of the bunch. Happy procrastinating.
Shooting victim, ex-con and rap mogul 50 Cent recently told Vibe magazine that he's out of the groupie game. The "Wankster" mastermind says that every time a naked female fan hides out in his hotel room and tries to get a glimpse of his magic stick (this has happened more than once?), he summarily shows them the door.
I've been in hotel rooms, and girls were already there in the closet - naked. … Hell, no! Are you kidding me? That's like Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun for some people, but I don't want no [bleep] that costs $50. There's too many people that got $50.
God, we love the irony of a high-minded grandee using an unpublishable euphemism when describing his standards for women.
Now let's play a fun game of Guess That Offensive Slang Term. Participation is simple: Just guess what you think an ascetic, classy chap like 50 Cent calls good good when speaking with people who will publish his words for millions to read.
Early this morning, a house in Dix Hills, NY, owned by 50 Cent — the house, in case you were wondering, that 50 Cent is trying to kick the mother of his child out of, prompting her to sue him — burned down. Shaniqua Thompkins, their son Marquise, and four other people were in the house when it caught fire. They were all transported to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. Something about the “intensity” of the fire aroused suspicion among fire officials, who said some sort of chemical might have been used to start the fire.
Interestingly, sources tell TMZ that earlier this week, a meeting between the two parties got so heated that a member of 50 Cent’s entourage “went nuts” and trashed the office. A police report was later filed.
Apparently, even in Africa, rap shows are powder kegs constantly on the verge of mass hysteria.
Watch this video to see a man with giant balls jump onstage at a 50 Cent concert in Angola, Africa, snatch Fiddy's iced-out chain and then make a break for it. And then watch as all hell breaks loose and thousands of hip hop fans give Bill O'Reilly et al more fuel for their anti-rap fire.
The robbery begins at about 1'35" in. Enjoy.
We thought Paris Hilton and 50 Cent were friends, possibly the kind that hump. But last night at a pre-Super Bowl party hosted by Hilton in Scottsdale, the rapper certainly didn't seem like her pal.
Page Six reports that after Fiddy gave Hilton a shout out during his performance, the heiress left her front-row seat to get onstage and dance. At this, Fiddy shouted, "Get the fuck off the stage!" Hilton scurried off, where witnesses say she then proclaimed, "But it's my party!" and burst into tears. Hilton will turn 27 later this month.
• 50 Cent is going to interview Paris Hilton for some MySpace commercial disguised as journalism. Let's hope the notorious racist doesn't call him a nigger to his face. And if she does, let's hope he cares. [SH]
• Pretty sure Gwyneth Paltrow is seen here wearing what the kids call locs. Awesome! [DListed]
• Rachel Bilson's passport photo shoot finds her looking better than ever. At least she looks like a woman and not a victim. [HT]
• Go ahead and dress lie Catherine Zeta-Jones; just promise not to also be a calloused snake like her. [INO]
• Johnny Depp would like to be considered for the lead in Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland. Yes: Alice. Shark jumped. [ICYDK]
• New day, new Britney Spears diagnosis. [Yeeeah]
• She's finally given up, then? We thought she would never learn. [EBG]
• Margaret Cho won't cross the picket lines for BFF Ellen DeGeneres. Yay, principles! [Queerty]
TOO POSH TO PUSH "Singer Christina Aguilera has opted to avoid the pain of a natural child birth an scheduled a Caesarean section for early January, it has been claimed."
After soundly losing a silly record sales competition with Kanye West, 50 Cent has initiated a book sales competition, guaranteeing his new book will outsell that of outed boy-bander Lance Bass. But despite 50's huge fan base, Bass likes his chances.
"50's going down, that's all I have to say," [Bass] said…
"…I don't want to playa-hate, but there's a lot that my book has" that his doesn't.
For example?
"I'm pretty sure he doesn't have any relationships with guys in that book."
Safe bet! The man knows his audience.
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This is a counterpoint to a piece titled "Am I A Jerk For Downloading The New Radiohead Album For Free?" by Jossip editor Rebecca Aronauer.
Yes, you are a jerk for downloading the new Radiohead album for free. (In case anyone reading this is unaware of what I speak, the gist of it is that Radiohead is distributing their new album, In Rainbows, only through their website, and they have allowed people buying it to pay whatever price they feel is appropriate—zero dollars is an option.) The reason you are a jerk is because the business model Radiohead created is innovative, smart and important, and you should support that, no matter how little you can give.
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Kanye West's latest album Graduation beat out 50 Cent's Curtis by more than a quarter of a million records, thus ending their weeks long feud concering hip hop superiority. As per the agreed upon consequences, 50 will commit seppuku on 106 & Park.
Why is it that guys with big tits also are big tits and love seeing big tits? When is enough enough?
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Nowadays, with the lines between the music world and the acting world and the fashion world blurring into practical nonexistence, I suppose it's not completely unbelievable that Dustin Hoffman would make a cameo in a 50 Cent video. What does seem improbable is that 50 Cent saw Stranger Than Fiction and decided that he'd like Hoffman to reprise his role for a rap video about romancing ladies. Sorry, but I've a hard time believing that the man behind these lyrics: "I call a square a square and a circle a circle, so if you act like a bitch, I'll call you a bitch and hang up…" is also a man with existential crisis films on his Netflix queue.
Rapper/actor/shooting gallery 50 Cent will reportedly stop bestowing generous monetary gifts onto his entourage after deciding that it is financially unsound to continue giving his friends enormous largesses that, at present, have made him more than $8 million poorer.
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