Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | Posted in celeb news, fun
My favourite singer, Mariah Carey, arrived at Mayfair at 2.30am this morning and greeted a large crowd of adoring fans.
The eccentric diva was wearing just a black bin liner under her jacket, and clutched a copy of the Big Issue magazine, which she’d purchased from a homeless man outside Selfridges.
When asked about her unusual outfit, she told reporters:
“Looks aren’t important, it’s what’s inside that counts. My job is to sing, not to be a sex object. The music business is so superficial, and I’m using my position to take a stand against it.”
Pregnancy seems to be an infectious condition in Hollywood right now. Half the women on the Academy Awards’ red carpet seemed to be sporting those fashionable bumps. Here are some celebrities who are either currently up the duff or have recently given birth to their babes. Pregnancy definitely seems to suit these women… (more…)
I never was a fan of the Spice Girls in the late 90s or early 00s – as an aspiring musician at the time they represented all that was foul and impure about the pop music industry. Aside from their musical talents, I’ve always been interested in their phenomenon, and their individual solo careers. I’ve read Geri and Mel B’s autobiographies, and watched Victoria and Mel B struggle as solo artists.
Thinking about it with some hindsight, I can now admit that Geri Halliwell is my favourite Spice Girl. She was the first to leave the group in 1998, and the first to start her solo career (despite her obvious lack of vocal prowess) and secured several UK #1 singles.
Even more importantly, she handled the scandal about her pre-Spice topless pics with the nonchalance that it deserved. If you’re hoping to be a successful performer and someone asks you to pose topless or naked, do it if you want, but remember that it’s bound to appear at a later date when you’d rather not have the world looking at your bits. And the likelihood of that happening is almost a certainty in this age of the internet, digital cameras and camera phones. So if you’ve posed nude, and have subsequently become famous, don’t sweat it, move on.
Anyway, here’s one of my favourite vids by Ms H: Bag It Up.
And some interesting quotes of hers:
I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m damn well gonna do it!
I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don’t all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.
Competition is for dogs and horses.
In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.
Who knows just where I’m going? … Does tomorrow belong to me?
I couldn’t believe it when my friend told me the news. I initially thought it was a hoax.
I was already looking forward to seeing Heath in the Dark Knight, but knowing it was his last completed movie will give it added poignancy for me. He was a very talented actor, and the whole situation is so sad.
During a recent interview promoting his new film, I am Legend, Will Smith expanded on a comment he had made about his belief that the human mind is inherently good, by saying:
Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’
Anyone with a modicum of common sense would not think that he was condoning Hitler’s actions or beliefs in this statement, but merely attempting to explain how someone could choose to commit diabolically evil acts in the belief that they are doing good work. Perhaps Will could have chosen his words more carefully and/or spoken about dictators in general, but I think his intention and meaning was clear.
As a result of that comment, there have been calls to boycott Smith’s films. He responded to those threats with the following statement:
It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation. Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.
Well said.
I’m not saying that Smith is perfect though, after all he is mates with Tom Cruise…
