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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have been seen fighting recently and the NY Post speculates that their marriage is in trouble:

. “There was a fight on New Year’s Eve,” said a source who saw Lopez that night. Another spy said, “There was a fight after she performed at the Super Bowl, and when she had an album-listening party in Miami two months ago, there was an issue.” According to this source, Lopez stood up and talked about her upcoming album and said, “This is my dream and Marc and I worked so hard on this album . . . Marc, would you like to say something?” - to which Anthony coldly said, “No,” and looked away. One of the issues is that Lopez is said to be putting off pregnancy - he has four kids with two other women - and Anthony is very interested in Scientology. But a friend of both said, “They fight, sure, but everyone fights.” A rep for Lopez said, “They’re fine.”

Given the track record of these two cheaters, I’m surprised their marriage lasted this long. This is Lopez’s third husband, and she burned through the other two in about a year each. She’s been with Anthony for two and a half years now, they married in June, 2004. Isn’t their time just about up?

Marc Anthony left his first wife and the mother of two of his children, former miss Universe Dayanara Torres, for Lopez. He had just obtained a quickie divorce when he turned around and married J.Lo. He coincidentally had a new album out that same week.

Rumor has it that Anthony is pressuring Lopez to join the Scientology cult to make more inroads with her acting career, but that she’s hesitating.

Here are pictures of Lopez and Marc Anthony performing at the Viva Romance concert in Miami on March 3rd. I published them earlier, but what the hell. Pictures [via]

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Parents are upset that their daughters, handpicked to receive a world-class private education financed by billionaire Oprah Winfrey, are being treated more like juvenile delinquents than promising young students.

Students at Oprah’s South African school for girls are only allowed to call their parents on the weekends, and all calls are strictly prohibited during the week. What’s more, parents can only visit once a month for a mere two hours! The visits have to be approved at least two weeks in advance by school officials, and only four people can come at a time.

Every aspect of the girl’s lives is controlled by the school, from what they eat to contact with the outside world. They are allowed no sweets like chocolate or junk food, and sneaking food can cause them to lose “points,” which serve as currency inside the school.

Some parents are saying that their 11-12 year-old daughters are miserable and they will be forced to remove them from the all-expenses paid school they once saw as an opportunity of a lifetime.

The rules at Oprah Winfrey’s upscale school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg are apparently so strict that even the parents are complaining.

That’s the word from upset parents, who say the school rules make it difficult for them to keep contact with their children. They would have aired their concerns during a satellite link-up with the Queen of Talk a week ago, but that was cancelled at short notice by the school’s management body.

The girls could receive visitors every fortnight, but parents can now only visit them once a month.

Frances Mans, foster mother of Gweneth Mulder, said last week she would take her daughter out of the school if the rules were not changed. “Surely this isn’t a prison?”

Cellphones and e-mail correspondence are out of bounds during the week, and girls are only allowed to phone their parents at weekends. The maximum number of visitors per pupil is four, and visits have to be approved by the school at least two weeks in advance. Mans said she had to wait at the security gate for half an hour to be signed in when she went to visit her daughter last Sunday. “It was a nightmare. We had only two hours to see my child. Surely this isn’t a prison or an institution?” The names of visitors must also match those on the security guard’s list before guests are allowed in.

Parents are not allowed to smuggle junk food in to the girls past the matrons. “Then the girls lose points,” says Mans.

The girls get points for “good behaviour”, which they can exchange at a school shop for clothes and caps. “The poor children are not even allowed to have any treats. Their diet is fruit, yoghurt and sandwiches. When they go on holiday for a month in April they’ll be stuffing themselves with sweets and chocolates in any case.”

The head of the school has confirmed that there can be only four visitors per girl per month. If she comes from a big family she won’t be able to see all her brothers and sisters in a single month, not to mention ailing family members or aunts or uncles.

School head John Samuels justified the extreme confinement of the students by saying “We have the security and well-being of the girls at heart… if there’s too much movement on the premises at the weekend, it disturbs the school spirit.”

While I would like to think that it’s not Oprah’s fault that her $40 million school is keeping girls aged 11-12 isolated from their families, I doubt she doesn’t manage things remotely down to the letter. She picked the attendees herself, made sure the facility was designed with luxurious features like a hair salon and even chose the color of the bricks used for the buildings.

She has been outspoken about her vision for empowering young women and giving them a new start in life. Oprah says she started the school to feel a connection to charity for once.

When I first started making a lot of money, I really became frustrated with the fact that all I did was write cheque after cheque to this or that charity without really feeling like it was a part of me,” she said in an interview with Newsweek magazine which went on sale on Monday.

“At a certain point, you want to feel that connection.”

Maybe Oprah thinks she’s their family now.

I’m not bashing Oprah’s generous charity, her purpose or her vision for the school. This latest news makes it seem like the school is sequestering young girls at the cost of their family relationships. To me it sounds like someone is valuing honorable intentions over the real needs of young girls.

Thanks to Hip Hop Crunch for some of these pictures and the story.

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Being a UN Ambassador isn’t as glamorous as Angelina Jolie makes it out to be. Her travels to dangerous countries has caused Brad Pitt to fear for her safety. At one point, there was even a plot to kidnap and hold Angelina for ransom.

“It was in a small village,” she says. “I won’t say where, or with whom, but some gangsters planned to kidnap me and extort a massive ransom. I was warned at the last minute, and managed to escape, luckily.”

Thankfully, this has not deterred Angelina from working with orphanages or managing her overseas charities. I’d assume it’s ridiculously hard to kidnap this girl. Especially in a third world country. Unless the whole village was in on it, all the authorities would have to do is ask where the pretty white woman went. Someone would eventually point to a hut. They could also just as easily follow the loud swooning or look for the blinding white light emanating from Angelina’s body.

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According to a new article in The National Enquirer, Britney has battled with the eating disorder bulimia all of her adult life. This is said to have come to light when she was caught making herself puke at the high end rehab, Promises, where she’s reluctantly staying at the insistence of her concerned family.

Britney is also said to be suffering from paranoid delusions, including the belief that she is being watched and recorded. The article claims she checks her room at rehab for listening devices and hidden cameras. Given how famous she is, I wouldn’t say this is just mental illness talking.

There was an earlier story in the Enquirer that Britney’s family was about to put her in a mental institution if she dropped out or wasn’t able to complete rehab, and they repeat those claims this week. They say Britney hasn’t come to terms with her problems and that she’s not ready to admit she’s an addict.

She was caught making herself throw up by one of the staff members and is said to confessed to having bulimia since she was 16. It’s also supposedly true that she wrote 666 on her head and tried to hang herself, which may have been due to not getting the bipolar medication she’s been taking. Oh and she does want K-Fed back:

“Britney has bulimia. She said she’s been throwing up her food since she was 16,” a source told the Enquirer.

“She’d pig out on junk food - chips, candy, Cokes, cookies and ice cream - and then feel so guilty that she’d make herself throw it up…

“The only thing that stopped her from throwing up her food was when she got pregnant the first time. But as soon as she delivered her son Sean Preston, she was back throwing up again to lose the baby weight.”

Britney’s bulimia continues after she checked into the rehab center Promises for a second time on Feb. 21, says the source, who adds that doctors there also diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and postpartum depression.

“Britney is on medication for bipolar disorder, but she’s been making herself throw up and the medication is not staying in her system like it needs to,” added an insider.

“As a result, Britney lose it entirely and tried to hang herself with her bed sheets.

“She’d written ‘666′ on her forehead because she thought she was posessed by the devil. Then she went into a group therapy session without a hat or wig… and sat down.”

“When the woman sitting next to her asked why she’d written ‘666′ on her forehead, Britney told her that she didn’t want to live anymore.

“Then she started screaming and ran back to her room, where she pulled the sheets off the bed. She was trying to tie a noose around her neck when staff members came into the room.

“She told them she wanted to kill herself.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, March 19, 2007]

I didn’t believe that 666 suicide attempt story as it originated in a British gossip rag and seemed to be pure fabrication to me at the time. It could be true as there were ambulances seen outside of Promises that weekend according to the paparazzi that were crouched nearby waiting to catch Britney on a smoke break. This story makes it seem more likely, although it’s possible the Enquirer is just using that earlier report for the information and putting their own spin on it.

Indeed, a British paper has now picked up this Britney’s bulimic tale and added some dubious insider quotes to it.

Britney is also said to have called a psychic hotline for advice over her failed marriage to K-Fed. The psychic told her they would get back together.

Get well Britney. Bulimia is pretty serious, although you’ve got to cut the bullshit and get humble if you want sobriety.

Britney was seen skipping out early on an AA meeting (no permalink available) outside of rehab to hang out in her SUV and smoke cigarettes.

Here are pictures of pregnant Britney getting ice cream in early September of last year. Thanks to JustJared.

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Catholic school graduate and college dropout Antonella Barba says she’s going to stay in LA for “a week or two” to see if she can quickly carve some sort of respectable career out of her failed American Idol bid. Barba should have realized that dirty personal pictures can work to your advantage if you’re careful about it, as is evidenced by Paris’ delicate balance between massive overexposure and do-nothing fame.

She claims she’s not going to take advantage of two very lucrative offers from different adult film companies. SugarDVD, which is like Netflix for porn, has offered her half a million to be their poster girl while Girls Gone Wild wants to pay a quarter million to have her host one of their drunken boob faux-lesbian makeout fests. She’s also not going to pose nude, despite the fact that we’ve already seen most of her.

It seems like she would be a natural to me, and who can turn down that kind of money for nothing? Barba can, and she wants you to know about it. That Catholic school guilt runs deep, but only deep enough to want to protect her public image, not the one all her friends and boyfriends know about.

Barba, 20, attended Roman Catholic grammar school in neighboring Point Pleasant Beach, and went to a Catholic high school in nearby Red Bank before enrolling in Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where she studied architecture.

She withdrew earlier this year to focus on the “Idol” competition, and has no plans to go back anytime soon.

“Right now, I’m going to stay in L.A. for a week or two,” she said. “I want to see what I can do with this for a career. I want to strike while the iron is hot.”

Barba, who played the violin as a youth and gave lessons to neighborhood children, said she would consider acting or modeling, but still wants a career in music above all else.

She said she will reject any prurient career offers that come her way. Nor, she added, would she pose nude, or in partial clothing, for any reason.

“That is not the way I want to present myself,” she said. “I keep getting told no publicity is bad publicity. Yes, it’s true my name is more well-known because of it. But I’m not known for the things I want to be known for. I’d rather present myself in a more classy way.”

Residents in Point Pleasant, a Jersey shore town of 18,000 about 60 miles north of Atlantic City, supported Barba when news of the photos threatened to overshadow her appearances on the show.

Signs sprouted around town wishing her well. By Friday morning, however, they were gone, replaced with messages advertising youth baseball sign-ups, and even the imminent arrival of spring.

She’s not going to be able to extend her fifteen minutes much longer. These “scandals” have a shelf life of up to two weeks, and hers is already getting sour. Maybe if she upped the ante a little bit by posing nude she could wheedle her way into the public’s long-term memory, but she’s already ruled that out.

Here are some pictures of Antonella I haven’t seen yet, from Gambling911.com.

And here are the pictures that kept Antonella on Idol too long:

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300 took first place at the box office this weekend. The movie adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel sold $70 million worth of tickets. All the more impressive was how this rated R movie bested the previous record holder for the month, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (PG), by $2 million. Not only that, 300 is now the third highest R rated movie behind The Matrix Reloaded and The Passion of the Christ. As for the other movies, Wild Hogs held the number two spot with only $28 million in sales and Bridge to Teribithia took in $6.9 million.

Warner Bros. has begun salivating over future films in this genre. In fact, rumors are flying that even Dreamworks plans to release a CGI spectacle that will break barriers in family oriented homoeroticism. Somewhere out there, Jake Gyllenhaal nods in approval.

A bunch of stills from 300 after the jump.

Extra
Pajiba reviews 300

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Hilary Duff performed at G-A-Y The Astoria in London. When did baby zebras start wearing dumb hats and fishnets. God, I’ve always known they were the sluts of the animal kingdom. Where’s a lion when you need one?

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Tom Cruise tried to persuade Larry King to join his cult of Scientology. Cruise took Larry on a personal tour of Scientology’s Hollywood museum ominously called Psychiatry: An Industry of Death. It’s an exhibit exposing the evils of psychiatry for those that don’t quite get it. King has never shied away from talking about his battle with depression or his use of anti-depressants. So what does he think of the trendy religion?

“I like Tom a lot,” King told the Palm Beach Post in discussing the tour, but adds he disagrees with the actor’s and Scientology’s position on anti-depressants and psychiatry. The church blames the latter on everything from patients’ suicides to the Holocaust. “Their attack on psychiatry is incredible. They hate psychiatry.”

Scientology is going downhill. They used to woo hot young stars like Will Smith and Jennifer Lopez. Now they’re going for the easily deceived elderly. The only problem is even they know Scientology is a sham. You could print out a bill on binder paper, mail it to some old person and nine times out of ten, they’d pay it. But take them on a tour of this exhibit and they’d twirl their finger around their ear and go “Cuuuuckooo Cuuuuckoo.” Then they’d forget where they were and probably break their hip.

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Warner Music has told everybody but Paris Hilton that they are not interested in working on a second album with her and she is to be dropped from the label real soon. Warner feels Paris won’t care as she is content to get “fucked in the butt for coke” rather than pursue a music career. Their words, not mine.

You have to give Paris some credit. Despite having severe ADD and failing at life, she single-handedly redefined what retards are capable of. It used to be they’d just run marathons in mock Olympics or accidentally break the neck of some small furry animal. These days they can cut a record, attempt to model, star in their own pornos and be rich coke whores. They’ve come so far.

Here’s some pictures of El Gigante shopping with Elisha Cuthbert over the weekend. The third picture is awesome. It looks like some freak show.

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Pictures of Britney Spears swapping clothes with dancers at New York’s nightclub One on February 12 has sparked a bidding war among paparazzi agencies. The photos are currently valued at $150,000. Seeing an over the hill naked Britney is all well and good, but even more damaging is a video that could be used to take her kids away.

Britney’s dancer buddies are telling friends that the club let them go when management discovered a security video of them doing some serious partying with the mother of two. “The manager said there was a tape of them. Both the girls cried about it when they got fired, but they didn’t deny it.”

Cocaine or a threesome? This is a question to be answered by those sexy ladies out there. Call my assistant and she’ll set up a day and time we can meet. We can even talk about it over dinner. I have to warn you though. Many have fallen prey to my devilish smile and dashing good looks. It’s more of a curse really.