What do you get when you cross a fear of flying with too many Xanax? Winona Ryder on a gurney! The actress was rushed off a plane in London after collapsing twice on the flight — and the Daily Mail says it was because she took too many Xanax.
Ryder has a known fear of flying and was seen at LAX before departing on her London flight looking “distinctly ill,” according to the British paper.
But Ryder’s rep Mara Buxbaum said: “She did fall ill on a plane and as a precautionary measure they took her to hospital. She was there for an hour. She’s in good health. There’s no drama.”
Tacky former 70’s star Wilmer Valderrama is going to spill the beans about his ex’s Lindsay Lohan and Mandy Moore. Wilmer has signed on with MTV to produce a new scripted comedy entitled, Baby Dolls.
“Basically, it’s the life of Young Hollywood told through the eyes of a celebrity female assistant,” Valderrama said yesterday, during a recording session for the final season of his animated Disney Channel kid’s show, Handy Manny. “We’re going to make it a single-camera, badass half-hour. I am really going to get a chance to talk about some of the cheesy bulls–t that I see.
Whitney Houston
’s rep responded to the allegations Bobby Brown made in his autobiography saying:Bobby needs to make a living, which is the reason he wrote the book. Bobby and Whitney probably still have feelings for each other, but they’re not safe alone in the same room together with a lighter, a pipe, and a crack rock.
The half-vampire, half-human with a hatred for vampires and a protective attitude for humans has finally come of age. Wesley Snipes has truly a come a long way since his debut film wildcats opposite Goldie Hawn in 1986. Born in on 31 July 1962 Orlando, FL Snipes grew up in the Bronx and holds a 5th degree black belt in Martial Arts. From a young age, he had developed an interest in acting and went ahead to attend the Manhattan High School for Performing Arts.
After being noticed by an agent during a performance in a competition, he landed a role in Wildcats (1986). He appeared in some more movies in the 1980s, but what made head turn was his appearance in the Martin Scorsese-directed video for Michael Jackson’s Bad. Director Lee soon spotted his talent and impressed with his performance cast him in his 1990 Movie Better Blues. He played the role of a flamboyant saxophonist opposite Denzel Washington. He was seen again in Lee’s next film Jungle Fever in 1991 where Snipes won critical praise and his career actually took off from here.
That same year Snipes demonstrated his ability to work in different roles like in New Jack City, where he was portrayed as a drug lord. He was in The Waterdance as a wild man repenting for his ways in a hospital’s paraplegic ward. Both his performances were strong and full of conviction and earned him rave reviews. Then came his first big break in an action flick called Passenger 57. Like most Hollywood super heroes, he was portrayed as an ex-cop with an attitude. The movie was a huge success. Snipes followed it up with some more movies the same year including the comedy White Men Can’t Jump. In 1991, People magazine chose him as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
A few more action films followed like the Rising Sun (1993) with Sean Connery. After this, Snipes changed his direction and featured in an un-credited role in Waiting to Exhale (1995). The same year he went all the way out with his macho persona portraying a flamboyant drag queen in To Wong Foo’s Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. He became more of the all round action hero types and kept focusing on similar movie plots. In 1996, he starred in a less macho movie The Fan opposite De Niro and as a baseball player. His portrayal of an adulterous director in Mike Figgis’ One Night Stand (1997) won him the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival. He also produced the Down in the Delta in 1998 starring Mark Wahlberg and it was nominated in multiple categories for the Acapulco Black Film Festival.
In 1998, Snipes acted as a vampire slayer in Blade. It grossed over $150 million worldwide. Soon after, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1991, Snipes formed his independent production company called Amen Ra Films. Amen Ra Films had co-produced the Blade & Blade II and in 2004, Snipes starred in his third Blade movie called Blade Trinity.
Weird Al Yankovic was just involved in a three-car fender-bender in Hollywood. It was a simple chain reaction as a taxi cab rear-ended a car that rear-ended the comedic singer. It was also said that everyone was fine, no one was hurt or sustained any injuries and the people involved even exchanged information before going on their separate ways. A witness on the scene also said that Al was especially cool, calm and collected after the crash and was even waving to fans. It wasn’t a big accident anyway. Everyone in California turns into a crappy driver when it starts to rain anyway.
Madonna babysat went to dinner with her rumored-to-be boy-toy, Jesus Luz, last night in Los Angeles.
Sources tell me that the 50-year-old mother of three and the 22-year-old smokin’ hot Brazilian model hit the Grey Goose party at the new West Hollywood outpost of London’s famed Italian brasserie Cecconi’s. They arrived at about 9:30 pm and stayed for close to three hours at a table with two other people.
Whether or not the two are an actual romantic couple is still a question. Sources down in Brazil tell me they are just friends. And crafty staffers at the restaurant managed to arrange for Madge and Jesus to come and go without the paparazzi getting so much as a single shot.
Also at the eatery was Marisa Tomei, who was hosting a dinner to celebrate her Oscar nomination for her work in The Wrestler. By her side was her smokin’ hot actor beau, Logan Marshall-Green, who at 34 is 10 years younger than Tomei.
That’s not all I have for you. Read on to find out which British starlet caused some laughs and snickers with her wobbly ways…
Sienna Miller was having such a good time she apparently had trouble telling the difference between people and…a table?
An onlooker laughed, “She walked right into an empty table and without missing a beat looked right at it and said, ‘Oh, excuse me. I’m sorry.’ ”
No word if she also bumped into Matthew Rhys, whom she dated before she infamously hooked up with his Brothers & Sisters costar Balthazar Getty. The actor was there with a gaggle of pals.
Also stopping by for dinner or drinks were Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, Elton John and hubby David Furnish, Eva Longoria Parker, Ginnifer Goodwin, Juliette Lewis, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Stratham, Josh Hartnett, Peter Berg, Elizabeth Reaser, Ryan Phillippe, Harvey Weinstein, Oliver Stone and Rachel Zoe.
A graduate student from China named Xin Yang was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student named Haiyang Zhu. Police said Zhu knew the victim. Read more on the Virginia Tech murder below.
Xin Yang, 22, was murdered on Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on January 8 to study accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum stated.
Yang’s accused attacker, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China, knew her but police have yet to discover the motive for the murder. Police said that Haiyang was listed as one of Xin Yang’s emergency contacts.
Haiyang has been charged with first-degree murder and being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail.
Haiyang Zhu and Xin Yang reportedly were having coffee at a campus cafe where Xin was living. Others at the cafe said they had not noticed any arguing before the attack happened.
Police received two 911 calls and were on the scene very quickly to arrest Haiyang.
University officials said Haiyang began attending last fall and was a PhD student in agricultural and applied economics.
The stabbing was the first killing on campus since a mass killing on campus in 2007, when a student gunman shot 32 people and then took his own life.
“An act of violence like this brings back memories of April 16,” university President Charles Steger said. “I have no doubt that many of us feel especially distraught.”
Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine offered condolences to the campus.
“My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of Xin Yang today – and with the broader Virginia Tech community,” he said in a statement.
“The tragic attack on campus this week has no doubt revived terrible memories for countless members of the Hokie family.”
So what provoked Haiyang Zhu to decapitate Xin Yang? Do you believe it was a crime of passion?
Has Vince Vaughn seen Vanessa Williams nude?
No, we’re not referring to the former Playboy spread of this actress. We mean live and in person.
Reports are coming in that the Wedding Crashers star and the Ugly Betty actress are dating. Sources say they’ve been sneaking around Los Angeles together, trying to keep the new romance a secret.
“Vanessa’s really trying to keep this a secret,” claimed an insider. “She feels that the press helped ruin her relationship with Rick Fox, so she’s trying to keep what she has with Vince private.”
Sorry, Vanessa. But you can’t get anything past The Hollywood Gossip!
Just ask Sandro Oh and Andrew Featherston.