Britney Spears and her boyfriend, Charlie Ebersol, stepped out hand-in-hand yesterday for her son’s soccer game. They started dating in the fall. So we’re about 6 months in now. And she seems as happy, healthy, and relaxed as we’ve ever seen her since having kids.
These are photos of Shailene Woodley and Theo James at the Berlin premiere of Insurgent. Shailene is wearing an Emilia Wickstead dress and looks awesome. I didn’t like her Ralph Lauren in London because the dress was so subdued, unlike her personality. This is a nice change and very modern. The bright yellow pop of the skirt feels fresh, and the keyhole detail of the top works surprisingly well.
Shai’s given several interviews lately. She told Cosmo that she had “no idea” who Kylie Jenner is. She also couldn’t name any member of One Direction, which scores some instant points. She admitted to Belfast Telegraph that living in the Divergent world would mean she’d be Factionless. Of course. She’s an eternal couch jumper. Shailene spoke with the Guardian for a large interview. The journo notes that she have him a ginormous hug upon meeting. Here are a few excerpts.
She makes her own medicine: “Yeah, absolutely. I’m a fan of western medicine as well, because if you have something that could be life-threatening, antibiotics save lives every day. But the thing with medicine nowadays is there’s this lack of understanding of our bodies on a deep personal level. If you have a headache or insomnia, it’s so much easier to take a pill for that than to deal with the core problem, which could be a very simple fix. I haven’t taken Advil since I was a kid. It’s probably been close to 10 years.”
Her toothpaste ingredients: “It depends on your needs. I like to have clay in there, because it helps detoxify or rid our bodies of heavy metals and radioactive isotopes. It just feels good for my body. Also, I think it’s part of our responsibility to ensure our descendants have water to drink and food to eat from soil that’s been preserved by our caretaking.”
Her transition to fame: “The fear was loss of anonymity in a way, but I really haven’t lost much of my anonymity. I can still live the life I’ve been living. I’m busier, but I would love to continue exploring and living this nomadic lifestyle.”
More on cellphones: “I didn’t have a cellphone after I filmed Divergent. I just realised that a phone wasn’t necessary in my life at that time, so I didn’t have one for a bit. I feel like we place too much importance on ourselves and on people needing to get hold of us. There is a responsibility that you have no matter what job you do to show up for people and to not let people down. But the ways you get from A to B can all be different and varying.”
Learning life skills from pole dancing: “I am learning really useful life skills, actually. I’m not being facetious. It’s part of the beauty of being an actor. [Pole dancing] is athleticism.”
[From The Guardian]
Shailene talks more about Edward Snowdon’s status as a “hero.” (That belief enticed her to play an exotic dancer in the upcoming biopic.) She rambles on about stepping away from acting after the Divergent movies end, but they all say that. It won’t happen. I’m still somewhat fascinated by her approach to diet, medicine, and home cures. Shailene’s given some gross details about swallowing clay and thinks she’s discovered every home-cooked recipe. If she’s serious about not needing Advil for a decade, maybe there’s something to her homespun madness.
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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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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?
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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.
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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.
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