What can we say about the Jennifer Hudson tragedy that hasn't already been written? Our thoughts are with the surviving family members, who seem to be getting more and more terrible news, the latest involving the discovery of a body believed to be Jennifer's 7-year-old nephew. Losing a mother, brother and nephew in such a violent and inexcusable act is unfathomable to most of us, so all we can hope is that justice will eventually be served.
After the jump are two videos: One featuring Jennifer talking about her family ties, complete with a clip of her mother standing by her side after her Oscar win in 2007 (starting around the 1:00 mark); the other showing her family at home in Chicago during her Oscar win. We'll keep you updated on any new developments, but until then, keep Jennifer's family in your thoughts. CONTINUED »
In an effort to bolster the ever-assailed decorum of the Internet, Mollygood looks to poetry with Someone Haiku. Each day – using 17 syllables or less – you’re given the opportunity to wax poetic about some piece of flotsam or jetsam that’s washed up on the shores of Mollygood. Hopefully this Zen practice will not only bathe you in self-discovery, but also bring a touch of Eastern class to a global network of information that’s devolved into nothing more than tit websites and provocative MySpace pictures.
Today's Someone Haiku winner is Mags:
Shopworn and maudlin
Hands up a whores bitty dress
our dreams Leach away
Best ever? Perhaps.
New one beyond this jump.
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Save for a charity ball here and there, glassy-eyed barely-was Sharon Stone rarely seems to accomplish anything of great import these days. And perhaps this is why: "Insiders say she pulls $175,000 for a mere 30 minutes of face time at noncharitable events."
Why work when you can stand around for about $97 per second!
Star Jones and her infernal racket continue to ruin lives, this time those of a group of young women who came together at the Detroit non-profit Full and Fabulous to better deal with their weight problems. Jones was supposed to come speak to to the ladies about being fabulous while also being full, and she was supposed to be paid $25,000 to do so, but the NPO could only come up with 17 grand and that's when things got less than fabulous.
…Jones took their $17,000 deposit, two air tickets she upgraded to first class on their dime, and a suite in a five-star hotel - but never showed up for the event at Detroit's Martin Luther King Jr. High School when Full and Fabulous couldn't come up with the rest of the cash. Instead, she went to the Super Bowl (which was being held in Detroit) and a fashion show, and arranged her own book-signing at a Borders.
Who knew Detroit was so luxurious? Certainly not its residents!
A judge has ruled Jones needs to repay the organization $20,000, but we doubt that will pan out. Keep you posted, though. Until then, what have the members of Full and Fabulous learned: "Never expect a celebrity who thinks they have arrived to remember where they came from, and most certainly, don't expect them to give back." And don't you forget it.
According to court documents detailing Britney Spears' spending habits, she spends about $102,000 a month on fucking "entertainment." Every month she also spends about 16 grand on clothes. Go ahead, it's OK to cry.
As the world prepares its collective hands for a Monday full of high-fiving, Paris Hilton, set to begin her 23 day jail sentence on Monday, is readying her aesthetic troops for an full-scale assault on her head.
Sources say the jail-bound heiress has ordered a hair and makeup team to meet her at her Hollywood Hills home at 9 a.m. Monday.
It's understood that the glamorous inmate-to-be plans to turn the perp walk into a catwalk, and she wants the media to see her looking her best.
"The timing is to make sure she makes all the celebrity weeklies," an insider says.
"Paris is a genius at marketing herself. She managed to turn having a sex tape to her benefit, and she's going to do the same out of going to prison."
But the pal observes: "It's not just about marketing, it's about making money. If she can set up her entry into jail in a very grand way, the payoff will be greater."
Hilton is also said to have decided to write a prison diary during her 23-day sentence, for publication upon release.
She's been proven a porn star, an STD patient, a racist anti-Semite, a drunk driver and now an inmate. Were almost anyone else the perpetrator of such a laundry list of offenses, they would have been excommunicated from polite society months ago. And yet, Paris Hilton not only survives, she thrives. She makes profit from hopeless situations. She is a modern alchemist and she is a human cockroach. In the event of nuclear winter, when the corpses and rubble are all covered in ash, and any semblance of authority is long gone, Paris Hilton, completely clean and wearing heels, will click-clack down the barren streets of Rodeo Drive, salvaging whatever Chanel handbags she can. She will go on without us. It's officially impossible to stop her. Submit.
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