At the Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas. Tommy Lee was there, of course, along with Hans Klok, the magician whose Vegas show she appeared in this summer.
And if she weren’t 40, I’d totally be all like, “Check out that baby bump.” But, you know, she’s 40, so this is just what her stomach looks like now. Which isn’t really the worst thing ever, but I probably would have chosen a different dress.
People who know me know that I very seldom take an interest in
1) Former prostitution ring runners
2) Laundry, or the opening of Laundry Mats.
However, when the two come together you can just look out.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is diversifying, (opening a laundry mat called) Dirty Laundry in Nevada. Dirty Laundry is a 24-hour, coin-operated laundry — 13 washers and 14 dryers — the one-time leader of a high-priced ring of call girls to the stars is opening at a shopping center in Pahrump, west of Las Vegas.
I have nothing but questions going forward. First off, why are all laundry mats coin operated? Are people without their own washer or dryer that much more likely to only have access to rolled quarters? Where are all the debit operated laundry mats? Also, why the one extra dryer? Do people just come in and want something dried? Or are washers 14/13th the size of dryers? Can this story get any better? (That’s a trick question because I know the answer.. which is yes.)
Also, Pahrump is a funny word. Pahrump. Pahrump.
Fleiss, who has become an avid collector of parrots and macaws since moving to Pahrump, said she decided to open the laundromat after the death of one of her pets, a macaw named Dalton.
Wait for it. Wait for it. Okay…. WHAT?? Dalton dying equals a laundry mat? Would a dog dying mean Fleiss was going to tackle Chinese takeout? I’ve also heard anecdotally that Macaws live forever, like longer than humans, so is there in chance that this parrot was…..(insert sinister music) MURDERED?
And not to be a jerk but I would have named the place “Dalton’s House o’ Murdered Macaws.” I think he would have liked that somehow.
Fleiss moved to Nye County in late 2005, after serving a jail term for running the prostitution ring, and announced plans to open “Heidi’s Stud Farm” in the town of Crystal, about 20 miles north of Pahrump. The 20-man operation would be Nevada’s first legal bordello catering exclusively to female customers.
Ah yes, the old “stud farm” concept. Who hasn’t thought of opening one of those? You get 20 guys willing to throw their meat around and the ladies line up around the block. The only question is where Charlie Sheen fits in to all of this.
Crikey, I forgot to mention the photo. That’s Heidi Fleiss dressed as some sort of Marmot. Enjoy!
Former Fugees singer and eight time Grammy winner Lauryn Hill gave a terrible performance in Oakland on Wednesday night. That normally wouldn’t be news here but it was so bad, and her demeanor so bizarre, that half the audience walked out before it was over. From 75-100 people left just 4 songs into her set, demanding refunds. She was two and a half hours late on stage and performed a mismatched jumble of old and new songs along with a 14 piece band. According to concert goers her voice was barely audible and most of her old hits like “To Zion” and “Ready or Not” were set to throbbing techno beats.
Wearing a long wool coat and long skirt, she looked and acted crazy, huffing and puffing on stage. At several points her voice cracked. She wiped her face with a black handkerchief that she clutched throughout. At one point she told the audience that if they were uncomfortable with her, it was too bad.
Both the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle had similar conclusions about her odd performance.
How bad was this concert? Well, calling it a fiasco would be an insult to fiascos everywhere. It was so bad that it sent 75 to 100 fans into the lobby only four songs into the set, all of them grumbling loudly and demanding refunds. Those were the smart ones - the rest of us remained in our seats and watched what amounted to a two-hour train wreck.
Aural audience response was divided between cheers and boos. Others sat and stood in silence, their mouths agape at what they were hearing and seeing.
Her hair in an unkempt rust-colored Afro, Hill wore a green-and-yellow plaid jacket that appeared to be made of wool and an ankle-length black skirt, looking not unlike a bag lady one might encounter at a taco truck on International Boulevard. She held a microphone in her right hand and a black handkerchief in her left, frequently wiping sweat from her face as she paced the stage…
Most of the music, including old favorites such as “Ready or Not” and “To Zion,” as well as newer material recorded locally last year but reportedly rejected by Columbia Records for being too uncommercial, was treated to highly syncopated arrangements drawing on Afro-pop and reggae elements. Few featured the backbeats with which fans of her older material are most comfortable, but rather a frenetically throbbing pulse driven by a three-man percussion section that included former Tony Toni Toné drummer Brian Collier. There’s nothing wrong in experimenting with new rhythms; the primary problem was in Hill’s slipshod presentation.
Some concertgoers who had paid as much as $89.50 for tickets were requesting refunds even before Hill hit the stage — two hours and 15 minutes after the concert’s scheduled 7:30 start and 80 minutes after the opening act, Jupiter Rising, had finished its set. This was an improvement, however, over club shows last summer in San Francisco and Santa Cruz at which her performances began more than two hours behind schedule. Other patrons started their exits during her first song, and the trickle turned to a flow after a speech late in the show during which the vocalist attempted to explain her new musical direction.
“When you’re young, gifted and black — and female — you have to have a lot of endurance,” she said, borrowing from the title of a song made famous by Nina Simone, a singer who’d had a somewhat similar meltdown more than three decades earlier.
“I can’t fit into a stereotype that makes me comfortable for you,” she added. “If that makes me feel uncomfortable to you, I need to find some new company.”
Hill took a tumble and fell on her back at one point, blaming her high heels. She also assured the audience that she was sober.
Here’s a recent clip of Hill performing in Rio. You can hear the odd beats in the one song and she is holding that black towel that was mentioned in the SFGate article:
Hill is not known for being a team player. At a December, 2003 Christmas benefit concert at the Vatican, she gave a scathing speech about the Catholic Church’s implicit role in the child sexual abuse scandal, saying at the end that “Holy God is a witness to the corruption of your leadership, of the exploitation and abuses which are the minimum that can be said for the clergy. There is no acceptable excuse to defend the church.” (I agree with her and was rather inspired to hear that she was so outspoken about it.) [From Wikipedia]
The Fugees had a brief reunion tour in 2004 and 2005 playing at Dave Chappelle’s Block Party in September, 2004 in Brooklyn, and at the BET Awards in 2005. They toured Europe in December, 2005. A planned Fugees album to be released this year was scrapped and member Pras said that Hill had “some issues she needs to deal with.”
The 32 year-old mother of four has not had a studio album out since her critically acclaimed release “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” in 1998. She did release some acoustic songs on the 2002 album “MTV Unplugged No. 2.0.”
Hill took a hiatus after “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” and was quoted as complaining about the way that the studio tried to pigeonhole her for commercial gain. Maybe that’s what she’s rebelling against, or maybe she just needs to go to rehab like so many other celebrities who have fallen from grace.
As with most siblings, Haylie and Hilary Duff fought a lot when they were kids.
Hilary recently told Top Of The Pops magazine: "If Haylie had friends over to stay when we were little and they left me out I’d freeze their underwear! I’d wet the knickers, put them in the freezer and snap them to ruin them."
Did she really say ‘knickers’? Hilary isn’t British! Source
Criss Angel’s estranged wife is suing for divorce.
She claims that he had an affair with Cameron Diaz, that she was kept a ’secret‘ to further his career, and that Angel hasn’t given her any of his millions.
Joanne Sarantakos of Long Island, N.Y., is accusing Angel, her husband of 5-years, and friend of 15-years, of mental cruelty and abandonment.
According to Sarantakos attorney, Cameron Diaz has been named as Angel’s ‘lover’ and will be subpoenaed when she
comes back to New York.
Angel’s lawyer denied the allegations and added "the notion that she’s not being supported is simply not accurate." Obviously avoiding the infidelity issues.
At the hearing, Angel touched his wife’s shoulder and tried to shake her
father’s hand, but he was rebuffed.
The paper also reported that Angel joked with reporters outside
the courtroom. Gesturing toward his wife’s lawyer, he said, "I can make
him disappear," while Barbara laughed and replied, "I’m going to rip
his heart out."
First it was Rosie O’ Donnell photographing her daughter Vivian dressed as a soldier, but most recently it’s Elizabeth Hurley who is causing a stir.
Hurley dressed her 5-year oldson in a pink bikini during a photo shoot for her new children’s swimwear line.The bikini incident comes after Liz’s leopardskin range was labeled by politicians as being too sexy for children.
"I’m kind of a germo-freak so I had gloves on the whole time. On camera it looks fine but mentally I never got a hold." -Adam Sandler on fondling Jessica Biel in ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.’
Maybe jail did change her and she is a little more humble. Oh wait I forgot the pictures I posted of Paris Hilton yesterday in a barely there bikini. She probably got her time of the month and that explains why she is wearing such an ugly bathing suit with shorts don’t match. I mean doesn’t that bathing suit has the same pattern like old school PJs and the shorts look like they were made out of doilies.
Side note for someone who says that they hate being alone and that is why she hated jail, she is spending a lot alone in Hawaii?
Pete Doherty and Kate Moss had a big fight and Pete got back at her by cheating on her according to Sunday Mirror. Sources says that Pete went out to a club in London and met a girl who looked Kate Moss, but more tan and that the two left together kissing and holding hands.
A club-goer said: "When he first arrived Pete was showing off, standing on his chair and dancing like a loon.
"Then he wandered about and ended up talking to this girl in a revealing tight white dress.
"She was wearing a choker around her neck and was very well groomed. She had the same pointy features of Kate Moss and well-defined cheek bones. You couldn’t help but see a similarity. Although this girl was a lot more tanned.
"They went up on the street for a while then came back inside, where they had an intense chat for ages. There was lots of flirting and laughing.
"Then we saw four of them get into a cab and head off."
A friend described what pushed Pete into cheating on Kate:
A friend said: "Pete and Kate had a serious argument during the week and he just decided to go on a bender.
"Kate was calling around to see if anyone knew where he was but everyone rallied around him to keep her in the dark.
"She is very jealous about other women. She used to hate other girls staying at his flat before he moved in with her.
"Hearing about him spending the night with another girl will eat her up. They have a tempestuous relationship at the best of times."
‘Kate’s so jealous.. she’ll be eaten up’
I wonder if this will be the end of the two, but you know she will be taking him back again because these two are soul mates. What else can explain why she is still with him?