Prince, with his frilly silk shirts and high heel everything, has long been the victim of rumors about his sexuality, and his libido-infused party jams have helped acquire the Minnesota-born musician a devoted gay fan base. So you can imagine our surprise upon learning that the Purple One, who has for several years been an outspoken Jehovah's Witness, went on a homophobic rant during a recent interview with the New Yorker, saying that, in the past, God came down and wiped out homosexual activity.
New research calls into question a study suggesting circumcision halves a man's chances of contracting HIV, a claim detailed at length in 2006 in this former "Most E-Mailed" New York Times article. According to one expert, the latest data shows the 2006 findings to be "spurious and unsupported" and more related to behavior than physicality. Whoops.
Sorry you got such a bad rap, hooded friends. To make you feel more included, after the jump, we've made a list of all your ALLEGEDLY uncircumcised brethren in Hollywood.
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Oh, Cassie and Kim. You’ve chosen the wrong man. A rich man, but the wrong man. Because a week is not a week without a Diddy relationship rumor, here’s a first-hand account from the New York Daily News' Rush & Molloy about catching Cameron Diaz and Diddy in a near lip lock at Prince’s party last Friday.
We're really not all that upset about missing this year's Coachella. We can't overstate our disgust with Jack Johnson's marquee placement and, please: Vampire Weekend? Thhbbbbbbbb!
That said, being there to see Prince perform a cover of Radiohead would probably have been a delightful experience. If only one didn't have to wade through Paris Hilton et al to have had it.
You going to Coachella this year? We aren't. It's a rule of ours to not attend events that give Jack Johnson equal billing to motherfucking Prince. You know who else isn't going? Hippies. But they're staying away for an entirely different reason: because they've been banished by law! Don't believe us? After the jump, check out the anti-hippie laws this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has enacted, and consider what a tease it is to have such harsh rules at a Jack Johnson show. (emphasis ours on the really bigoted ones)
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Prince's fine-ass hips are in trouble! After decades spent touring and humping and touring some more, the 49-year-old musical genius' body has finally succumbed to too much crotch gyration and too little support from assless pants, and he's going to need surgery to remedy the problem.
"He is totally crushed because he knows he will never be the same again."
The surgery will involve removing the ball and socket of Prince's damaged hip and replacing it with a titanium joint.
The Purple Rain singer is allegedly booking into a private hospital and aides have reportedly cleared two months from his diary to allow him time to recover from the operation.
While Prince will indeed recover from the operation, his reputation as a sex machine is now forever dead. Bury it right next to Gene Simmons'.
Until today, we've never had a feeling comparable to the surge of sadness that filled our chest when our brother told us Santa wasn't real while our Mom was in the bank. What jarring secret's exposure could similarly shatter us? Prince is a proactive jerk!
Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.
Twenty eight people, mostly friends and family, had viewed the YouTube video by June, when mom Stephanie Lenz said she received an e-mail from YouTube informing her that her video had been removed from the site at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, the recording industry's largest label, and warning her that future copyright infringements on her part could force the Web site to cancel her account.
According to a recent article, here's the lowdown on Prince:
• He has "insisted his penthouse at the swanky Dorchester Hotel is decorated completely in black…even down to the frames on pictures of himself and the mirrors."
• He has insisted that his penthouse be outfitted with a machine that dispenses black M&Ms.
• He has insisted that his penthouse be outfitted with an oxygen bar manned by three attractive women.
• He occasionally requests that you not look him in the eye.
• He's dating identical Caribbean twins.
Note that this list is why men who are scarcely 5' 3" learn how to play guitar.
& bull; This guy tries to nab the FOX News mic instead of the absurdly coveted iPhone. People are calling him stupid and I think that's more than obvious. What's not obvious is why they didn't give him the mic. Normally, FOX lets every dunce with an opinion get their hands on one. [BWE]
• Britney getting angry! You know Britney not like getting angry! When Britney get angry, things get bald! [DListed]
• But their money's worth twice as much. Why do they get the free ones? [Glitterati]
• More of Paris dressed like a scarecrow. [HT]
• Technically it's Nick and Vanessa skinny dipping, but it's actually more like censor-dip. Get it? [ICYDK]
• Katie Holmes taking flack for looking dowdy. [Yeeeah]
• While Kathy Griffin isn't particularly funny, I like that she's set her sights on Ann Coulter. [CityRag]
• Dude, she just wanted your extra time and your kiss. [DListed]
• Bruce Willis confusing "putting a price on someone's head" with "metaphor." [StarPulse]
• That's why you're not supposed to bring Dogs on flights. [Glitterati]
• Akon's mock sex partner lied, people thought it was acceptable to dry hump her. [Yeeeah]
• A literally corny Paris Hilton story. [CityRag]
• No more secrets. [ICYDK]
• Martha Stewart giving Lohan the judgmental third degree you'd expect from a matronly, bitchy ex-con. [Gawker]
• Fergie getting celebrity fit. No club. [HT]
• Prince has insoles higher than those fucking heels, Eva. [DListed]
• Kim K before rumors of a golden shower helped decimate a reputation she never even had. [DS]
• Should've left the mullet. [Egotastic]
• Ray Liotta pulls a Mel, save the anti-Semitic rage. [ASL]
• Trio of drinking cougars. Careful, fellas. [ICYDK]
• How much is that doggy in the window? The one that actress is hanging all over? [PopSugar]
• A Mandy Moore makeover? Just ask the prettiest librarian you know what she wears, then copy her. That's that. [CityRag]
• Famous body parts quiz. Think you can guess why you should immediately eliminate "Halle Berry" and "Beyonce Knowles" as options for this butt? [Movies.com]
• Prince proving that he's still awesome in a little package. [CityRag]
• Chris Tucker is getting $25 million for Rush Hour 3 and being difficult on set. That's right: Chris Tucker, two-five. [NYP]
• Vince Vaughn wants Aniston back. Her deviated septum is what drove them apart. [Glitterati]
• F.T. [WWTDD]
• J Lo's being a diva and requesting special light bulbs. [HR]
• Are you a creep with lots of money (I'm looking at you Joe Francis)? Go buy Katherine Heigl's bras on eBay. [eBay]
• Jared Leto blacking-out all your Jordan Catalano fantasies with too much eyeliner. [INO]
• Prince may be short, but he's still cooler than Danny Masterson. [TMZ]
• In rehab, wearing the underwear on the outside of the leggings is the new thing. It's different in there. [Jossip]
• ¿Como se dice "You shouldn't get so close to Cruise, dude," en español? [AP]
• Britney Jive talking. [PopSugar]
• Borat's done. Kazakhstan breathes sigh of relief. [Popaholic]
• A documentary about bestiality is premiering at Sundance. I heard it's really baa-d. ZING! [ASL]
In an upcoming Newsweek article, Brad Pitt reveals that one of his first jobs in Hollywood was driving and escorting strippers to functions. Ultimately, he says that that job changed his life's trajectory.
“I had a job driving strippers around,” he told the mag. “Yeah, my job was to drive them to bachelor parties and things. I'd pick them up, and at the gig I'd collect the money, play the bad Prince tapes and catch the girls' clothes. It was not a wholesome atmosphere, and it got very depressing.”
However, the job ended up making Pitt’s career.
“After two months I went in to quit, and the guy said, 'Listen, I've got this one last gig tonight.' So I did it, and this girl—I'd never met her before—was in an acting class taught by a man named Roy London [a famous acting coach]. I went and checked it out, and it really set me on the path to where I am now.”
He added: “Strippers changed my life.”
I could only find one inaccuracy in Brad's rags-to-riches story: no Prince tape is a bad Prince tape (what's up with all the Prince bashing as of late?).
The really great thing about this piece is that, in a world that now offers daughters of hotel magnates absurd amounts of money to appear at awful nightclubs, there are still famous people who didn't get handouts and had to do some of the crappiest jobs in the world to get where they are now.
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Following her Best Actress and Best Song losses at the Golden Globes, Beyonce's famously kind Father told a bunch of reporters that he thinks the awards are racist. Of course, his daughter did lose to two of the most legendary artists in their fields–Meryl Streep and Prince–but he wasn't having any of that "logic."
Knowles told reporters back stage at the Beverly Hills Hilton right after the Golden Globes show ended that his daughter was outcasted and overlooked by a bureaucratic good old boy system that is still alive in 2007 as it was in 1967. "Today is MLK's birthday and it saddens me to say that things have not changed for blacks. Working class blacks and blacks in Hollywood are still being discriminated against. We still have a long way to go," he said."
Hmmmm. Maybe his back was turned when Jennifer Hudson and Prince were winning their Golden Globes and holding them in their black hands. Then, maybe his daughter's retina-singeing, gold dress caught the spotlight and blinded him while Eddie Murphy and Forest Whitaker were winning their Golden Globes. Then maybe he forgot that his daughter isn't that great in her old age. Oh, and by the way, since when has Beyonce been "working class?"
• Sienna Miller's elfness is all in her posture, her shoes and her sneaky ways. [JustJared]
• Nicole Richie is unimpressed by LC's passive aggressive attempts at greeting. [PopSugar]
• Pete Doherty keeps things interesting without the help of drugs (…maybe…) by beating down a photographer. For love, I assume. [DListed]
• Are the Law & Order folks trying to send Elizabeth Hasselbeck a not-so-subtle message? [BWE]
• Lindsay Lohan has so much love to give, she just needs some more willing takers who don't flee when they realize she's an handful. [A Socialite's Life]
• Prince hating on strippers? Prince loves strippers! [CityRag]
• Check out the finalists for celebrity cover of the year, though they somehow missed Brooke Hogan on FHM. [Faded Youth]
• 24 is coming! 24 is coming! [I'm Not Obsessed]
• Gwen Stefani is dropping a new album December 5 and a new single this week. Kingston, however, is yet to be dropped. Wheee. [Gabsmash]
• I'm still taking Halloween Costume challenges. Sadism welcome.
I am not a vegetarian, but I am an avid supportor of online polls. No matter what they are for, I will participate, which is why I am slightly disappointed by the winners of this year's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" awards from PETA: Kristen Bell and Prince.
Both of this year's winners are more than just sexy vegetarians—they're also active animal lovers. Going vegetarian was an easy choice for brainy beauty Kristin Bell, who says, "I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with—dogs and cats, for example—from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts!" Speaking of cuddling with companion animals, Kristen is crazy about her dogs, Shakey, Lola, and Sadie, explaining, "Lola and Shakey come from the East Valley pound in L.A. Sadie is a Hurricane Katrina dog. … Sadie stole my heart. She is 12 years old and just wants a comfy home to rest in. She is a wonderful addition to our family!"
A symbol of humanity and an artist of compassion, Prince is a "prince" of a guy to animals, and he won't eat "anything with parents" because "Thou shalt not kill means just that!" The strict vegan—whose critically acclaimed new album, 3121, just debuted at No. 1—was praised by animal lovers everywhere for giving fans the lowdown on wool in the liner notes of his CD Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. Photographed looking fabulous in faux wool, he closed the CD with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: "2 my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Now, I have no problems with Kristen Bell and Prince (and I quite like the pairing as it makes no sense and makes me wonder who exactly was voting on this, you know, other than me) they are just not who I voted for. I get fairly upset when people I vote for don't win (ex. American Idol, The Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004) so this Veggie award was a bit of a let down. Congratulations Kristen Bell and Prince, but Fiona Apple and Keith Murray from We Are Scientists, you're winners in my heart.
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