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Lindsay Lohan surrendered to authorities at 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning at Los Angeles County’s Lynwood Jail and was released 84 minutes later at 11:54 a.m. Once again, overcrowding was cited for the early release. The jail time was a result of a high speed chase between Lindsay and her assistant and also for possession of a usable amount of cocaine.

I bet Lindsay is pissed. 84 minutes is 2 minutes longer than what Nicole Richie served. There’s no way that pregnant bitch Nicole is more famous than Lindsay. This is an injustice is what this is. This makes L.A seem like such a joke. Lindsay should have been released in 80 minutes or less. And they should have let her play with their guns because of how much they inconvenienced her. Maybe even let her loose in the evidence locker unsupervised. It’s the least they could have done.

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Despite all the hoopla that “In Touch” drummed up (and we repeated) about Zahara Jolie-Pitt’s adoption, Zahara isn’t going anywhere. To be fair, “In Touch” made it clear they didn’t think there was any way that Zahara’s birth mother could get her back. They just said that she was still alive, Zahara was not an AIDS orphan, and that the mother thought she’d be able to see Zahara again and was devastated that she couldn’t. Reading the article, your heart does go out to the birth mother. She was raped, became pregnant, and was dirt poor and unable to care for her child. The grandma who gave Zahara away is another story. Though she manages to come off like a victim too, she was a bit more duplicitous. She told the adoption agency that her daughter was dead after she ran away. It wasn’t really possible to tell from “In Touch’s” article if the grandmother really thought her daughter was dead, or just said that so Zahara could be adopted. But the grandmother produced three witnesses who also verified that her daughter was dead.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s 2005 adoption of daughter Zahara was “legal and irrevocable,” the head of adoption agency Wide Horizons for Children said Thursday, calling bunk claims that the girl’s birth family is seeking her return to Ethiopia. Tsegaye Berhe spoke out to clarify the legitimacy of Jolie and Pitt’s adoption in the wake of reports that members of two-year-old’s family, including her presumed-dead birth mother, want Zahara back.

Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, a 24-year-old Ethiopian native, made the challenge, claiming to In Touch Weekly she was Zahara’s birth mother. On the adoption papers filed two years ago, it indicated that Zahara’s birth mother had died of AIDS and that the identity of her birth father was not known. Both Lebiso and another woman claiming to be Zahara’s aunt also said they didn’t fully understand what it meant to put a child up for adoption and that they believed Jolie and Pitt would be bringing the child back for frequent family visits. Berhe said that even if their account were true, the stars would be under no obligation to keep in touch with the family.

“The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the document her grandmother wrote…saying her daughter, the mother of Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up… the grandmother brought three witnesses to court who testified that Zahara’s mother had died and that her father was unknown…The court also investigated the social status of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt before approving the adoption.”

[From E! News]

If nothing else, it sounds like Zahara’s birth mother had nothing to do with giving her up for adoption. It could be argued that by running away, she gave Zahara up. But you have to remember that she was a young woman who was (presumably) severely traumatized by a rape and a new baby. She was also dirt poor and struggling to feed her baby. Overwhelmed isn’t even the right word for how she must have felt. It really does seem like the mother has almost no legal recourse at this point, though I’m guessing she’s pretty upset at the grandmother for giving her daughter away. Hopefully she’ll get to meet Zahara someday, and they’ll both have good lives.

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Antonio does his best Sylvester Stallone impression.

At a press conference for his new heist movie, The Code, Antonio Banderas was asked who he’d like to swap places with for a day. His answer was that he’d like to try being a woman to better understand the “fairer” sex.

“But I don’t know which one. May be Mimi, just to understand what she is going through,” he joked, referring to The Code director Mimi Leder.

Helpful hint to Antonio Banderas. If you want to know what it’s like to be of the opposite sex, buy yourself an apron and a spatula and get to work because if sexism has taught me anything, it’s that the hardest part about being a woman is avoiding the splatter of grease from a frying pan and remembering to take the pill every day. Oh and of course, childbirth. But, if men can handle a hangnail once in a while, I think women should be able to handle a 8 pound baby tearing through their vagina.

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the last time Connor, Isabella, Tom and Katie were photographed together, 12/10/06.
Doesn’t it seem like Tom Cruise stopped pimping out his two older kids once Suri was old enough to start generating “aww, shucks” photo ops every few days? I was looking through the photo agencies trying to find pictures of Isabella, and the last time she was photographed out was when she died her hair blue while visiting her mom in Australia way back in May. Then we heard that 14 year-old Isabella and her 12 year-old brother, Connor, were busy being indoctrinated into the illogical and soul-sucking Scientology cult this summer, which may have explained why we haven’t seen them in a while.

But what about their sports games? Didn’t Tom and Katie show up at a soccer or football game constantly last fall? The Cruise kids are home-schooled and spoonfed cult nonsense, but at least they had the semblance of a normal life through involvement in sports. Isabella and Connor might still be playing sports this year, but if they are Tom and Katie aren’t showing up to cheer them on and embarrass them with well-documented PDA on the sidelines. They haven’t been photographed at a match since December, 2006.

So what’s up with Isabella and Connor? Are they even still around? Star Magazine says Isabella is at least home enough to swipe her stepmom Katie Holmes’ clothes, and that sounds like refreshingly normal behavior for a ninth grade girl. Of course her marathon-running stepmom is a bit too small to provide an endless supply of couture, but a lot of her shirts fit Isabella, and since Katie never wears anything twice she doesn’t seem to mind:

When Katie Holmes got back to L.A. from a recent visit to see hubby Tom Cruise in Germany, she discovered something amiss with her wardrobe. Her designer duds had been plundered – and the culprit was her stepdaughter Isabella!

“Bella has a wild streak in her that she expresses in the ay she dresses,” a friend of Katie tells Star. “She loves an eclectic look and gets that by mixing and matching her own clothes with designer pieces of Katie’s.”

The 14-year-old… is tired of the “conservative and old-fashioned” clothes her parents buy her, says the friend.

They get her things like Theory basics, “but she’d much rather go through Katie’s closet and find a Chloé shirt,” another insider reveals.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 19, 2007]

There are too many insiders for this story to be plausible, but it sounds likely. Maybe a writer at Star has a teenage daughter and is getting her stuff swiped too. I know I had a huge issue with my mom when I was that age because I was constantly wearing her shoes and rifling through her jewelry. Once you hit the age when you realize that there’s all this great stuff in your house you could be wearing there’s no stopping you. It doesn’t matter which family member it belongs too.

As it is, Isabella would have to be home to get Katie’s stuff, and she hasn’t been seen out with Tom, Katie, or Nicole in six months. Are Isabella and Conner children of convenience for Tom or are they so sucked up in the cult that they never see their parents anymore?

Header image is of Connor, Isabella, Tom and Katie on December 10, 2006, the last time they were all photographed together from what I can tell. That was when Tom got fat for like a month. If you have seen photos of them together or heard that they attended an event with any of their parents in the last six months let me know. Katie did go out shopping with Isabella way back in December of last year. And Connor and Isabella went to the Kids Choice Awards with Nicole in March of this year.

Isabella is also shown below with those blue streaks in her hair on 5/5/07 in Australia. You know that had to piss off the COS. Thanks to Splash News.

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Little Hayden Panettiere went to Japan last month in order to save some dolphins from getting slaughtered. Don’t get mad at me for calling her little, she looks like she’s twelve. It actually seemed like a surprisingly noble and brave thing to do, and considering what most celebrities do to get attention, I’d take saving a dolphin any day. Hayden joined the group Save the Whales and used a surfboard to paddle into a cove in southwestern Japan near Taiji. The dolphins were being corralled into the cove to be slaughtered and eaten. While the group did their best, they were blocked by a fishing boat and had to turn back. Hayden was videotaped crying pretty hard afterwards. I admire her bravery, not many 18-year-olds would do something like that. The group left Japan right away to avoid being arrested, but a warrant has been issued for Panettiere.

Hayden Panettiere’s heroic dolphin-saving mission last month wasn’t without its consequences. “I learned that they have an arrest warrant out for me in Japan,” the Heroes star told E! News exclusively Wednesday. “We just found out.” Panettiere, 18, was part of a convoy of activists from the U.S. and Australia who on Oct. 30 paddled out on surfboards to protest the annual slaughter of dolphins and whales by Japanese fisherman.

Her group attempted to reach a pod of dolphins before it was driven into a nearby cove and massacred, but they were blocked by a fishing boat before they could reach the sea creatures. “It was really frightening,” Panettiere said at the time. “But in the end, all we really worried about was the dolphins.” After returning to shore, the group headed directly to Osaka and left the country to avoid being arrested for trespassing by the Japanese national police.

Now it looks like the scare’s not quite over for the actress. When asked what the arrest warrant could mean, Panettiere replied, “Potentially jail, but I doubt it. I guess they could come here and get us, but probably not.” She said she was thrilled that the incident was receiving international attention, as it could result in educating others about the dolphins’ plight.

[From E! News]

I doubt the Japanese have nothing better to do than actually arrest Hayden Panettiere, but who the hell knows. Hayden’s a little mistaken in her worry that they “could come here and get us.” They could try to extradite her, but again I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t work out so well. I would think the arrest warrant being issued was more a formality and a response to her breaking the law. In Washington state animal rights activists have been protesting for years about the Native American Makah tribe’s annual whale hunt. Protesters have been arrested but generally not charged for trying to interfere with it. No matter what, it’s pretty cool that Hayden was willing to stick her neck out there and actually do something instead of just writing a check.

Source: theblemish.com

A warrant is out for Hayden Panettiere’s arrest in Japan after she and fellow surfers attempted to stop the annual dolphin slaughtering festival. The activists failed and quickly fled the country to avoid being arrested for trespassing.

When asked what the arrest warrant could mean, Panettiere replied, “Potentially jail, but I doubt it.”

Oh, I think the Japanese can come up with something a little more interesting than jail. This is a nation famous for tentacle rape, fetishist porn and that robot dog. Hayden’s going to have a rude awakening when police arrest her and instead of going to the station, they dress her up like a school girl and stick her in a cage to be poked in the face by hundreds of pixelated penises. If she’s lucky, they’ll spare her from the live eels.

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Sir Ian McKellen, best known for his portrayal of Gandalf in “Lord of the Rings,” is one saucy old cat. He is so deliciously gay and open about anything that is on his mind. His gay rights lobby group, Stonewall, fights for equality and has been a passion of his for years. But his current wish is to have Justin Timberlake portray him in a musical about his life.

“The ‘Lord of the Rings’ star is keen to see his eventful life played out on stage and thinks the pop heartthrob would be the perfect person to portray him.

‘Justin vaguely resembles people in my family, and I think he is really talented.’”

[Monsters and Critics]

While Ian is a Justin Timberlake fan, he is first and foremost fiercely protective of his sexuality. Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t make an impression on him while answering questions about “Brokeback Mountain” last year during an interview.

“I got very upset when one of the actors (Jake Gyllenhaal) said it was the most terrifying job he’d ever had because it involved him kissing another man. Imagine how rude that is. Suppose I’d said the most appalling thing I ever to do was kiss Helen Mirren!”

[From Female First]

This is just a prime example of his personal views on Hollywood and homosexuality. In his experience the industry encourages gay actors to keep their gender preference under wraps. At times he was even asked to deny any gay allegations.

“I think to myself, ‘Can people whose minds work like that make good films? And if at the heart of Hollywood there is that lie, how many other lies are there?’ And it’s the producers who have this problem – God knows what sort of people they are – who think that it’s impossible for you and me to fancy the same person. Well, what dull lives they must have.”

[Monsters and Critics]

It is no secret that his goal is to prove that who you love, despite their gender, should not be an obstacle in any career path. Ian has also lent advice to educate the young gay community is Britain. His thoughts, along with 19 other prominent homosexuals across the pond, have been printed in a booklet designed to educate, encourage and provide help for the target audience of gay adolescents.

He is such a talented actor. I am so glad that people like Ian are out there fighting for rights like a curmudgeon superhero.

Ian McKellan is shown at The Orange British Academy Film Awards on 2/12/07, thanks to Splash News.

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Isn’t it cute when celebs try to convince us that they’re just normal people too? Like Angelina Jolie goes to 7-11 at 4 a.m. because she really needs a Slurpee. Or at any moment, you might run into Tom Cruise in the deli section of your grocery store, because he’s just a normal guy out shopping! What the hell! Do they think we buy this crap? And why would they want us to? You have to admit, we’re not nearly as interested in the celebrities that seem “normal.” Well Eva Longoria would like us to believe that she whips up Tony Parker’s favorite dishes on a moment’s notice. Somehow I don’t see her waiting on him hand and foot. In the grand tradition of celebrities with nothing better to do, Eva has opened up a new restaurant call BESO, with celebrity chef Todd English.

Thanks to the writers strike, Eva Longoria has a little extra time on her hands. But don’t worry, the Desperate Housewives star is keeping busy, whipping up Thanksgiving dinner and finalizing plans for her Mexican-American restaurant, BESO. “I love to cook!” Longoria, 32, told PEOPLE while relaxing at the soon-to-open eatery during Samsung’s BlackJack II event Wednesday night. “I’m a big, big cooker in my family, so this is kind of an extension of my house. I feel like everybody’s going to be in my living room.”

Longoria swears she’s hands-on when it comes to BESO, which is located in Hollywood and is in partnership with celebrity chef Todd English. “I’m so involved, I picked the uniforms,” she said. “A lot of these are my recipes. We’ve developed a really fun menu.” One person who’s already a devoted fan of Longoria’s culinary creations: husband Tony Parker. (The two wed in France at an over-the-top wedding this past July.) “I cook anything he wants to eat,” she said. “Everything. I mean, every day it’s a different date.”

[From People]

If there is any truth to that at all, I’m going to marry Eva Longoria next. I love the way celebs become their own little PR reps. Eva can fire whatever agency uses; she’s so good at giving little soundbites. I really believe that you’re the cook in your family, and that many of the recipes at your fancy new restaurant with a fancy chef aren’t his, but yours! Totally buying it. In other Desperate Housewives news, the cast got together and bought each of the 300 crew members a turkey for Thanksgiving. The actors make like, what, maybe $250000 an episode when you average it out? I’m sure the crew is sitting there thinking, “Wow, thanks so much for our $17 frozen turkeys.” I’m sure Eva Longoria can sweeten the deal with a copy of her own stuffing recipe or something. That she stole from Todd English.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Eva at the Samsung BlackJack II Launch Party at BESO last night. Images thanks to PR Photos.

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Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen showed up at the premiere of their new thriller, Awake, yesterday where they stood there and had their pictures taken. Being a celebrity is hard work. If you’re dying to know what Awake is about, then look no further. I have taken this excerpt from IMDB in an effort to save you time. You may repay me with cookies or ice cream or cookies crumbled on top of ice cream, but don’t even think about giving me a cookie with ice cream on top. That’s gross.

The story focuses on a man (Christensen) who suffers “Anesthetic Awareness” (An occurrence where during surgery where not enough anesthetic medication for the patient’s body weight), and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His wife (Alba) must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them

I hope “wrestling with her own demons” means nude pudding wrestling. If that’s the case, Hayden Christensen could be punching me in the nuts the entire length of the film and I would still walk out of the theater with a bruised boner proclaiming this to be the greatest movie since Citizen Kane. You may think I say this about every movie that gives me an erection, but that’s just not true. I thought Garfield sucked.

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I really can’t stand Rachael Ray, so I’m going to be upfront and let you know that this entire article will be tinged with my bias. It’s not like she’s a bad person or anything – in fact she seems genuinely nice. But she takes perky beyond the point of self-control and gets all-out annoying with her peppiness. A friend of mine pointed out what a freakishly large head she has in proportion to her body. And that wouldn’t be so bothersome, except that you see the freakishly large head plastered onto every bus and subway station from New York to San Francisco. I’m surprised they could even fit her it on the side of a bus – I doubt the real thing could fit in there.

Rachael Ray’s marriage has been plagued by rumors of trouble pretty much since day one. Unsettling, no? Well generally you’d think “Oh, The National Enquirer just picks on her.” But it turns out they had some pretty good evidence – Rachael’s husband, John Cusimano, reportedly has a major foot fetish. Just click the link; I don’t want to write about that stuff again. I’m not judging, I swear. Just don’t make me think about it. Apparently Ray freaked out a bit during a taping of her show and started telling the audience that her marriage was fine, and she was sick of people gossiping about it.

During a taping of her talk show Wednesday, the normally bubbly cook said that constant reports about the state of her marriage to John Cusimano are starting to upset her, an observer tells PEOPLE. “Everybody gossips … but this stuff is hurting people’s feelings who are in our families and friends of ours,” Ray told the audience on the show, set to air Friday. “They worry about us… there’s always someone that’s going to be telling stories behind your back, but this is too much… the tabloids won’t stop printing this junk until people stop buying it.”

A spokesperson for Ray confirms to PEOPLE that she spoke about the tabloid rumors, and adds, “Rachael and John have never been happier.” According to another source, during a recent appearance in New York to promote her newly released cookbook Just in Time, Ray was asked multiple times by fans if her marriage was in trouble. “John actually showed up at the book signing and they looked very much in love,” says the source. “I bet she finally decided she needed to let her fans know she was alright and that the lies being written about her were just that, lies.”

[From People]

You know I hate to point this out, but just because John has a foot fetish doesn’t mean there’s trouble in their marriage. Rachael could be totally fine with it. For all we know, she could be into it too. Ew. There’s something about her that’s just so wholesome that it feels really inappropriate to talk about that. But it seems like all of the rumors of trouble are based on the foot love, and if that’s all there is, they could be totally fine. A little disgusting, but fine.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Rachael and John at City Harvest’s ‘Bid Against Hunger’ in New York on October 23, 2007 Images thanks to PR Photos.