Girls Season 4 Episode 9 recap

How could you feel sympathy for Jessa? You can’t! It’s glorious! In fact, maybe it’s a brilliant ploy on behalf of Dunham and Co. to make you see that you have to hate Adam – even though he was with Mimi-Rose who was weirdly unobjectionab…      

A lot of people have been watching HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. The documentary/investigative series is directed by Andrew Jarecki, director of the acclaimed documentary Capturing the Friedmans and the feature film All Good Things (which seems like a barely fictional version of Robert Durst’s life). It was Jarecki’s idea for a high-quality documentary series investigating how a wealthy New York scion, Robert Durst, has basically gotten away with murdering several people over the course of decades. It’s like True Detective, only this really happened. I haven’t been watching the show, but I have been following the developments in the past few weeks, especially because the documentary series has turned up legitimate new evidence (which they turned over to police).

Durst is now 71 years old. When the new evidence was uncovered – in Durst’s alleged murder of writer Susan Berman in LA in 2000 – Durst did what he always does, he got the hell out of Dodge. He was arrested in New Orleans yesterday, having checked into a hotel under an assumed name. The NOPD arrested him at the behest of the LAPD, and LA County is looking to extradite Durst. He says he won’t fight the extradition. His arrest came down just hours before HBO aired Durst’s final interview for The Jinx. Durst – perhaps not realizing that his mic was still live – admitted that he “killed them all.”

It almost sounded like a confession. At the end of Robert Durst’s final interview for the HBO docuseries The Jinx, he heads into the bathroom while fully miked. Seemingly unaware that he was being recorded, he talked to himself. “You’re caught,” he mumbled. “You’re right, of course. But, you can’t imagine. Arrest him.”

“What the hell did I do?” he continued. “Killed them all, of course.”

It’s unclear whether this was a confession, but the FBI did arrest Durst on Saturday afternoon in New Orleans. (The FBI had been investigating Durst apart from the documentary and there’s no evidence that they arrested him because of his confession on Sunday’s episode.)

The arrest may have come at the right time. Durst seemingly had all the tools for a clean getaway. According to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation, Durst had checked into a Mariott in New Orleans under a false name. In his possession, according to the source: a fake passport, other falsified documents, and a large amount of cash.

“It was obvious that he planned to get the hell out of Dodge,” says the law enforcement source, noting that Durst was arrested on a capital murder warrant. “It was the first day that the New Orleans airport was offering flights to Cuba, so that’s where we think he was going.”

Durst, 71, is accused of killing his friend Susan Berman, who was found shot execution-style in her California home in 2000. It’s not Durst’s only brush with the law. He has widely been suspected in the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen Durst. In 2001, he was arrested for the murder and dismemberment of neighbor Morris Black. He was later acquitted.

[From People]

This is sort of amazing, right? That an in-depth investigative docu-series turned up new evidence AND a confession/admission? That the evidence is being used to arrest an alleged murderer three times over?

The LA Times has a longer breakdown of the murder of Susan Berman and the case against Durst – go here to read. Do I think Durst will finally have to pay for his crimes? Eh. Maybe. The Jinx has been really damaging, I’ll say that.

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The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 14 recap.

So Alexandria proves too good to be true because it’s populated almost entirely by ASSHOLES and COWARDS. These people don’t have a f*cking clue what they’re doing. Deanna isn’t stupid, but as I mentioned last week, she&rsquo…      

This ^^ is a photo of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, also known as Dolce & Gabbana, the fashion designing team. They are both gay. And Dolce & Gabbana just gave an interview in which they seemed to come out against gay marriage, gay adoptions and gay couples using surrogates. It’s a gay-on-gay hate crime! So, obviously, the godfather of all things LGBTQ, Elton John, has something to say about it: boycott Dolce & Gabbana for being anti-gay-family.

Elton John, who shares two children with his husband, is fuming mad at Dolce & Gabbana’s Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana over comments they made about same-sex parents and babies conceived via artificial insemination. The top designers, who are also gay and were once a couple, had made their remarks to Italian magazine Panorama in an interview published last week.

“You are born to a mother and a father. Or at least that’s how it should be,” Dolce said. “I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented wombs, semen chosen from a catalog.”

“How dare you refer to my beautiful children as ‘synthetic,’” John wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. “And shame on you for wagging your judgmental little fingers at IVF – a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children…Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again. #BoycottDolceGabbana.”

“I’m gay, I can not have a child,” Dolce told Panorama. “Life has its natural course, there are things that must not be changed. And one of these is the family.” Gabbana added that “the family is not a fad. In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging,” according to the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph.

[From E! News]

If you go and read the E! News link, there’s further background about Dolce & Gabbana’s history of saying stuff about how they don’t believe children should have two gay parents, especially (it seems?) if we’re talking about two gay men, because they respect motherhood too much or something. It’s all sort of convoluted reasoning, like most bigotry against LGBT parents.

Here’s the thing: I can sort of understand why someone old-fashioned, old-world would have an opinion on gay couples becoming parents. Don’t get me wrong, I still think Dolce & Gabbana are jackasses, but I understand how a person could have that mentality. What I don’t understand is the slam against the “synthetic children.” Do people really think that children conceived via IVF or surrogacy are “different” than naturally-conceived children? And what about the heterosexual couples that use IVF or surrogacy? Are those children “synthetic” as well?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Melanie! Not low classy, not low classy at all. Of course you’re important. And I’m still mad at Lindsay for Hockey > Gossip!      

These are photos of Keanu Reeves with four of his custom superbikes, built by the company he co-founded, the Arch Motorcycle Company. Keanu was displaying the high end bikes at a Malibu classic car and bike show called “Cars and Coffee”. The Daily Mail has some details about the KRGT-1 bike, which starts at $78,000 and is described as a mix of classic design and the latest technology. It has an impressive 121 maximum horsepower and can go up to 138 mph. (Here’s a link to the specs for the bike. In comparison, the Harley Davidson V-Rod, manufactured in a partnership with Porsche, is one of the highest horsepower Harleys at 122 HP and a top speed of 140.)

Keanu started the company last year with bike mechanic and builder Gard Hollinger of LA County Choprods. The two developed a friendship after Keanu went in to customize a bike. The LA Times has an overview of the business, which has five employees who take hundreds of hours to hand make each bike. They plan to build up to 100 bikes a year and to eventually offer more models. It takes about 90 days from order to delivery. Keanu’s partner has said that while the bikes are expensive, there’s a call for them. “There’s a general attitude that no motorcycle should ever cost $78,000, but that’s the kind of person who’s never going to buy a Roll Royce. We never set out to make something affordable.” I guess that’s why Keanu is showing them off, he’s got to get the word out.

You can tell that Keanu loves to ride and that his new business is a passion project. I love these pictures of him talking to fellow enthusiasts. He looks so good on that bike too, although I think he needs more gear. I always think that when I see people with those half helmets.

Keanu has three movies coming out this year, including thriller Knock Knock, by director Eli Roth, and The Whole Truth, with Renée Zellweger and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

photo credit: FameFlynet

Dear Gossips,

The JUNO Awards happened last night in Hamilton, ON. We celebrated Canadian music in 2014. And the career of Alanis Morissette, on the 20th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, who was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame and closed the show with a medley that included Un…      

I was just thinking about Heather Mills a few weeks ago. It occurred to me that we hadn’t really heard anything from her in a while. Granted, I try to avoid covering her and it’s not like I’m looking for news about her. But for a while there, she was a big disaster. That was immediately following her split with Paul McCartney, and their subsequent nasty divorce. It took two years to work out the financial and custodial settlement, and Heather ended up getting $48.6 million of Paul’s fortune (she originally wanted $250 million). That was 2008. Since then, it’s been said that Heather has blown through most, if not ALL of that money. And in the years since, Paul has remarried – he and Nancy Shevell married in 2011, and I think Paul pretty much considers New York his homebase now?

In any case, Heather decided she wanted some attention. She sat down for an interview with Ireland’s The Late Late Show. Even though she claims she was there to talk about how she “owns the biggest vegan company in the world” (????) she ended up taking several swipes at Paul. Because that’s who she is, people. Some assorted quotes:

Why she doesn’t want to talk about Paul: “That umbilical cord was broken. He’s married someone else and I agreed to come on the show so it wasn’t all about Paul. It’s so boring… If you want me to fall asleep…If you had a pan of soup, I’d put my head into it.”

The kids don’t know Paul McCartney: “If I go down the street, all I get is kids coming up to me. Half of them don’t even know who he is. That’s why he’s got to do songs with Rihanna and Kanye West, so people remember… When I go down the street, it’s ‘Oh my god, you’re a ski-racer’ or ‘You help the animals.’ You know, I own the biggest vegan company in the world…”

How she views her marriage to Paul: “This is just someone I fell in love with who to me was a normal guy that happened to write a few cool songs in the 60?s and a few in 70?s. Like everyone that’s a partner, you fall in love, you get married, you sometimes go ‘Oh my god, this is completely wrong’ and you wake up and move on. I once divorced somebody that I once loved and then I was abused for it.”

[From E! News]

I’m including the video below, and you can see that the interviewer really doesn’t give a crap about what she has to say about anything else beyond Paul McCartney. And if you didn’t know by now: Heather Mills is a bitch. She always was, and she always will be. Paul is not just some “normal guy” who wrote “a few cool songs in the 60?s and a few in 70?s.” He’s one of the most iconic artists of all time, you know? And he had more than “a few” hits. As for her shade-throwing about why Paul collaborated with Kanye and Rihanna… I think Paul did it because he wanted to, because he likes working with younger people, not because he’s desperate for relevancy or whatever. He has more money than God and he already has all the accolades and respect he could ever want, so maybe he just still makes music because he wants to, because he enjoys it, right? What bothered me about Paul working with Kanye and Rihanna is that Kanye acted like “the kids” had no idea who Paul was or is. And I hope that’s false.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

The last we heard, Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence were still sort of seeing each other. And last we heard, Kate Hudson had dropped Matt Bellamy like a hot potato and started up a flirtatious fling with Derek Hough. But why would Kate Hudson ever settle for a dancer when she could get a guy in a band? Because that’s her great love: boys in bands. She is the Forever Groupie. She’s still going to be bangin’ guys in bands when she’s 60 years old.

So, these are photos of Chris Martin and Kate Hudson hanging out together in Malibu over the weekend. They seemed to be with their kids, or at least… I can see Moses Martin and I can definitely see Bingham, her youngest boy, and maybe Ryder is somewhere in that group too. I don’t see Apple Martin but many of these damp children all look alike to me. You can see more photos here.

So, is this a beach playdate with the kids? Or is it something more? If it was Chris Martin with just another mom, some friend of Gwyneth’s, I would say it’s probably nothing. But by now, we know how Kate Hudson rolls. Chris Martin is in a band. One of the biggest bands of the past 15 years. Of course she’s trying to hit that. I always believed the story that Kate tried and failed to land Radiohead’s Thom Yorke too (he wasn’t into Forever Groupie). But Chris Martin? Currently consciously uncoupled and maybe in the midst of a faded relationship with J-Law? That’s an easy score for Kate Hudson. She circles her prey like a vulture, tossing her blonde hair back and laughing happily. So easy, so uncomplicated, maybe drop some hints about how he should write a song right then and there.

The somewhat complicated part is that Kate Hudson and Gwyneth are friends or at the very least, friendly acquaintances. Does that make it more difficult? Eh. If I had Goop’s Machiavellian mind, I would think Kate Hudson was a better choice than Jennifer Lawrence, you know? At least Goop can still look down her nose at Kate Hudson because Hudson has never won an Oscar. Plus, Gwyneth can see that much like J-Law, Kate will probably get tired of Chris’s personality sooner rather than later.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

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Tyga just confirmed his relationship with Kylie Jenner in the most adorable way possible http://t.co/6Y3G4RXbox pic.twitter.com/TGyCoaXud0

— People magazine (@people) March 14, 2015

This is a tweet from People magazine, which links to its latest story about Kylie Jenner and Tyga’s alleged romance. He’s still 25, and she’s still 17. There are rumors that Kylie used to babysit Tyga’s toddler, which makes the dynamic feel even skeevier. Last month, Tyga insisted that he and Kylie weren’t “smashing,” but he backtracked by saying, “It doesn’t matter what the world thinks.” Last we heard, things they were discussing marriage as a possibility. Now People points towards Tyga’s “sweet” Instagram post about Kylie, where he says, “Certain things catch your eye, but only few capture the heart.”

Certain things catch your eye, but only few capture the heart.

A photo posted by Tyga / T-Raww (@kinggoldchains) on Mar 13, 2015 at 2:03pm PDT

This is quite a departure from Tyga’s previously deleted post that read “I hit that everyday.” Is it sweet and adorable? No way. But it’s official confirmation of a romance. We already knew (from Kanye and Chris Brown) that these two were together, and Tyga’s chosen to flaunt the relationship. He doesn’t care that California law places her under the age of consent. That’s why they’re careful in public. You don’t even see them holding hands when they hit the movies. They won’t do so until she turns 18, if they make it that long.

Here are photos of Kylie in London to promote her latest ambassador gig. She’s the new spokesperson for Nip & Fab, which specializes in anti-aging products. Kylie says the “Viper Venom Wrinkle Fix” is an indespensible part of her daily routine. This family, I swear.

Photos courtesy of Tyga on Instagram, Fame/Flynet & WENN