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November 24, 2009

Angelina Jolie hates President Barack Obama

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Apparently it's a big deal today that Angelina Jolie doesn't like President Barack Obama, according to an item in Us Weekly. Just wait, because all those people who said they don't care what celebrities think about politics will be changing their tune right about ... now.

"She hates him," a source told the mag. "She's into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise. ... Angie isn't Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors."

Well, it's a good thing Angie doesn't spend a lot of time in countries like France and England, lest she get a firsthand view of what this person says she's talking about. And of course, this is news only to the folks who didn't notice Brad Pitt went to Obama's election party by himself, for whatever reason.

"They get in nasty arguments all the time about it," the source says. "She doesn't respect Brad when it comes to politics, but, in the end, this won't tear them apart." No, not when there are apparently 500 other resons they break up every day in the tabloids. We think the reason today was overscrambling eggs at breakfast.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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Tyler Perry will give NAACP $1 million

Tbd-tylerperry112509 Tyler Perry must have heard about Brangelina's $6.4 million in charity giveaways last year, because the writer/director/actor/producer/scientist/rock/star/race car driver/ lawyer/detective/fashionista has promised to give $1 million to the NAACP, People reports. Shoot, we could pledge to give eleventy billion dollars; Difference is, Tyler's good for it.

"I feel so honored and blessed to be in a position where I can give," Perry said. "Had it not been for the perseverance and vision of the thousands who came before me in the 100 years of this legendary organization, I would not be in the position I am in today."

The gift will be distributed over the next four years for advocacy programs on eceonomic equality education, health care and criminal justice, the mag says. And don't be surprised if the organization changes its name to Tyler Perry's NAACP.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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Adam Lambert gets kicked off Good Morning America

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If you thought Adam Lambert's groin-grabbing, boy-kissing, fellatio-simulating act at the American Music Awards would cause him some problems, you're right. He's already been dropped from a scheduled performance Wednesday morning on ABC's Good Morning America. Who knew he made the network mad?

“Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning," and ABC spokewoman told the New York Times. Yeah, that kind of thing can only happen if he's performing after 11 p.m.

Don't you worry about Adam, though; He's already been picked up by CBS to do an appearance on The Early Show. They don't think 8 a.m. is too early for slapping dancers on the ass.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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Ohio police chief guilty in Sarah Jessica Parker-Matthew Broderick surrogate case

The small-town Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of the surrogate mom who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick has been found guilty of three felonies, the AP reports.

Martins Ferry Chief Barry Carpenter was acquitted on burglary charges, however, since the jury apparently believed the door to Michelle Ross' house was just swinging wide open like he says. Carpenter was found guilty of receiving stolen property, theft in office and tampering with evidence. He also was acquitted on a charge of unauthorized use of property or services.

"The bottom line is that there is a victim in this case whose privacy was so gravely intruded upon," Ohio Assistant Attorney General Emily Laube said. "If you can't trust the police, who can you trust?

But he says he only took photos of a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and of a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach but did not remove anything from the home. Showing them to the paparazzi and a few other folks was the worst thing he did. It's not like he tried to sell them or anything, his lawyers argued.

Police Chief Chad Dojack of nearby Bridgeport is now facing charges that he was actually trying to sell the items at Carpenter's behest.Carpenter, meanwhile, faces up to 10 years in prison when he will be sentenced on Dec. 30. Chad better hope he doesn't get busted for complicity to burglary and receiving stolen property.

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Britney Spears wants to marry boyfriend Jason Trawick

Tbd-britneyspears112509 We haven't invaded Britney Spears' privacy for quite some time, so why not check in with her with a rumor that she's ready to get married again? That's what OK! is saying, claiming on its latest cover story that she wants to marry boyfriend Jason Trawick. Third time's the charm, right?

“Britney said she does not have a doubt in her mind that she wants to spend the rest of her life with Jason,” a source tells the mag, saying they are just waiting for the right time. “She has already discussed marriage with him, and they are both excited about a romantic wedding.”

What OK! doesn't know is that the U.K's Daily Telegraph is pretty sure she already proposed while on tour in Australia. They say the 27-year-old dropped to one knee last Friday, but Trawick said no, prompting an unscheduled address to her Sydney audience about the fickle nature of love.

"She is in love with the idea of marriage," a source said. "She has been married only twice, but has proposed to many more."

Never mind the fact that they also say she's been dating Trawick for three years, which is unlikely, given that the rumors they were dating didn't even start until the Circus Tour. She was dating that one guy Adnan Ghalib until early 2008. He as 37, too, just like Trawick; That must be a magic number for her. Where were we going with this? Oh yeah, the media lies to you.

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Old school meets new school in 'Let's Talk About Sext'

Things were so much simpler in Salt N Pepa's day. When you wanted to send a dirty picture, you had to go to the Fotomat.

November 23, 2009

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart are sooo hooking up

Tbd-kristenstewart112409 Speaking of celebs who aren't supposed to be together but were, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were spied still hanging out together in New York, despite ending their promo tour for New Moon, People says. All you fangirls hating on The Juice* for saying they're together can send your nasty e-mails to the address listed above.

It's no coincidence these two were in New York, as they were also at The Box on Thursday, just like Jude and Sienna. But that's not the only lounge they were spotted at. They started their night at Soho House, where they chatted up Joan Jett.

On Saturday they went to Dive Bar, and on Sunday they were seen having dinner together at Megu in Tribeca (he had Kobe beef skewers and asparagus, she had a sashimi platter and king crab, for the record).

"They were with two friends and looked very cozy," a source tells the mag. "Both were having a great time."

Man, these moony-eyed relationship recountings are about as exciting as watching paint dry, especially when it comes to these two. That's why we're starting the rumor that Stewart is off Eclipse because Pattz got her pregnant a movie early. Hey, why not make up something like that? It's more engaging than a book report on their Sunday dinner menu.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie gave away more than $6 million last year

Tbd-angelinajolie112409 Here's another feel-good item from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: The power couple gave away $6.4 million to charity in 2008, according to Showbiz411.com. All this good news lately ... who do they think they are, Johnny Depp?

Tax returns show Brangie more than doubled what they gave away in 2007, putting about $13 million in their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, giving away about half of it. The biggest recipients were Global Health at $2 million; Human Rights Watch with $1 million; and Pitt's Make It Right Foundation receiving $1 million. The Armed Service YMCA of the U.S. Army got $500,000, while Springfield Public Schools in Brad's hometown got $50,000. And don't forget the country of Cambodia, Pax's native country: They got about a cool million for various projects.

The couple split the amount of 2008 foundation funds at about $6 million each. Even their lawyer, Robert Offer, ponied up $10,000, which is more than the pocket change we dig up for the Salvation Army. What will The Juice* do if there's nothing scandalous to write about? We may have to (gasp!) bring back Paris Hilton. No wonder Jon and Kate Gosselin are so popular with the liberal media.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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Paula Deen gets smacked in the face with ham

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Savannah, Ga., celebrity chef Paula Deen was in Atlanta on Monday to help pass out 25,000 pounds of food she and Smithfield Food donated for the Hosea Feed The Hungry program, but she got a faceful of pork when an 8-pound ham being tossed to her hit her in the face. There's a swine flu joke in there somewhere, we just know it.

Some overzealous yahoo decided to toss the meat to Deen instead of handing it over, which is not the best idea: "He raised the ham up and I thought he was going to pass it down the line and I turned around to take another ham off the truck and turned around and all of a sudden this ham that weighed 200 pounds hit me full long in the face and 'bout knocked me cuckoo, but I'm fine," she told WMAZ with a laugh (watch video of it here).

The Juice* used to live in Savannah, so we dig Paula, even if we can no longer get into Lady & Sons when we go back to visit and she turned our favorite bar into a gift shop. But we know that she likely had her sons find the guy who did this and break his kneecaps, though you won't read about that anywhere. Just letting you know.

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Jude Law, Sienna Miller hit the town together

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We all know Jude Law and Sienna Miller have long since split up, but the New York Daily News said they looked pretty together late last week at The Box lounge on the Lower East Side. Hey, where else would you go after your Broadway performances are over?

"They came in together and got a table with a few friends around 1 a.m.," a source told the paper, noting they hung around until 3:30 a.m. "At one point, Jude ordered shots for the two of them, and he was egging her on to take one. They were laughing a lot and whispering to each other -- it looked like they were genuinely having a good time."

Law is starring in Hamlet and Sienna is in After Miss Julie, so it should be no surprise both are in town. What is a surprise is they seemed so close despite insisting they're just friends.

"(Law) had a ton of people coming up to say hi to him, many of them female, but he really only seemed interested in Sienna."

Perhaps he was looking for some form of payment, since their rocky relationship basically launched Miller's Hollywood career.

[Photo: The couple in 2004; There are reasons why their engagement didn't work out. Getty Images]

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Adam Lambert not sorry about simulating oral sex, kissing guy at American Music Awards

Tbd-adamlambert2112409 As you could see, The Juice* pretty much ignored the American Music Awards Sunday night, since it's historically been the Grammys Lite of the entertainment world, but we still saw Adam Lambert's raucous performance to close the show. And according to the ratings, so did 14.2 million others. Just don't ask him to apologize for it.

The 27-year-old's rendition of his For Your Entertainment featured Adam grinding a male dancer's head into his crotch to simulate oral sex, a lot of groin-grabbing and a moment to smooch keyboardist Tommy Ratliff (watch it on video above, if ABC hasn't taken it down yet). And while lots of critics freaked out as he flipped off the audience -- it was edited in the West Coast feed of the show -- Lambert said y'all just need to deal.

Tbd-adamlambert112409 "I believe in artistic freedom and expression, I believe in honoring the lyrics of a song, and those lyrics aren't really for everybody either," he told Access Hollywood, saying he thought editing his performance discrimination. "There's a big double standard, female pop artists have been doing things provocative like that for years, and the fact that I'm a male, and I'll be edited and discriminated against could be a problem."

In fact, he added, his being gay and acting like it just points out there's something wrong with everyone else.

"People are scared and it's really sad," he said. "I just wish people could open their minds up and enjoy things, it's all for a laugh, it's really not that big of a deal."

He did add to Rolling Stone that the kiss with Ratliff wasn't clear, but just one of those heat-of-the moment things. ABC said it had received about 1,500 calls from viewers to complain about the performance, a response the network called "moderate." 

It was still way more interesting than the supposed other big moments of the night, like Lady Gaga playing a piano that was on fire and Jennifer Lopez's supposed big stage slip, which was barely noticeable in a rather ho-hum performance. Maybe more entertainers need to blow the fact that they're gay way out of proportion.

[Photos: Getty Images]

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It's Music Monday!: Real Estate, 'Beach Comber'

It's Thanksgiving week, and while we're happy to see the rest of the extended Juice* clan, we're steeling ourselves for some family fatigue. Luckily someone has provided us with a little pick me up to get through Thursday. Friday, however, we're all on our own.

November 20, 2009

Police chief says he didn't try to sell Parker-Broderick stuff

From the AP: An eastern Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of the surrogate mom for Sarah Jessica Parker's and Matthew Broderick's twins says he never discussed selling items from the home.

Suspended Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter testified Friday at his trial on burglary and other charges, saying he went into the woman's home after he saw a basement door open while on routine patrol.

He says he took a photo of a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and of a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach. He says he showed the photo of the cast to paparazzi and to several other people; The police chief of a neighboring town allegedly called the photogs.

How is that a defense of showing private property to paparazzi? Convicted or not, he should get a sentence of having people come to his house and rummage through his things.

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Wesley Snipes appeals his 3 tax convictions

Tbd-wesleysnipes112309 From the AP: Wesley Snipes' attorneys asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday to review an "unreasonable" three-year prison sentence for the film star, who was convicted a year ago for owing $2.7 million in back taxes.

His attorneys also argued the actor should have been granted a hearing to decide whether his trial should have been in New York instead of Florida. Because we all know how unfair the Florida courts are.

Prosecutors countered that Snipes, 47, had plenty of time to appeal to move the case to New York in a timely manner before he was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax returns. Besides, they contended, housing records showed he lived in Florida as well as New York, just like most of the Yankees.

The three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued no immediate decision, possibly because they were wondering why it took Snipes this long to ask for a change of venue.

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Oprah Winfrey says talk show will end in 2011

We don't want to say we told you so, but way back on two weeks ago we said Oprah Winfrey's talk show may be shutting down as the most influential female entertainer in the universe focused on her new network. So Juice*heads shouldn't have been surprised when she announced Friday that her last episode would end on Sept. 9, 2011, the AP now says. That's just in time for the 25th anniversary!

"Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit," she said, noting prayer and careful thought led to her decision."... I certainly never could have imagined the yellow brick road of blessings that have led me to this moment."

Winfrey didn't offer any specifics on what would happen once she moved over to the Oprah Winfrey Network, but we're willing to bet she'll have some other kind of show. You think she makes money by doing nothing? Meanwhile, the rest of the show's lifespan won't disappoint, she promises.

"Over this holiday break, my team and I will be brainstorming new ways that we can entertain you and inform you and uplift you when we return here in January," she said. "And then, season 25 -- we are going to knock your socks off."

That can only mean one thing: Eating contests, monster truck rallies, fireworks and nonstop NASCAR!

1 dead in Miley Cyrus tour bus crash

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One person was killed Friday when a tour bus belonging to entertainer Miley Cyrus overturned, but the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star wasn't on board, Virginia State Police said.

Sgt. Thomas Molnar said the bus ran off the left side of Interstate 85, struck an embankment and overturned. The accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. in Dinwiddie County, about 40 miles south of Richmond. Speed and weather weren't considered factors, although TMZ says the roads were wet from rain.

Molnar said the person who died at the scene was male, but didn't identify him pending notification of family members. One of the other nine people on the bus suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital. Police wouldn't identify those aboard.

TMZ says officials were investigating whether the driver died before or after the accident, which may explain why it drifted off the road and skidded several hundred feet into a ditch.

Molnar said the bus was one of four traveling together after the singer's two-show stint Wednesday and Thursday in Long Island, N.Y. The group was heading to Greensboro, N.C., where she was scheduled to perform Sunday.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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Chris Brown is having trouble selling tickets

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Who would have guessed Chris Brown would have trouble selling tickets to his "Fan Appreciation" tour? Well, besides everyone with a pulse, that is?

It seems Chris' show in Hollywood at the smallish Avalon earlier this week was so undersold, scalpers were hawking tickets at less than face value, but no one was biting, the New York Daily News says. They're also quick to note that the show was less than two miles from where he beat Rihanna back in February.

"The Avalon is small and I expected it to sell out the first day, but it didn't. I'm not much of a fan, but I bought these tickets for my girlfriend," some 18-year-old named Danny McElroy told the paper. "I've had trouble selling (them). I'm just trying to get back what I paid for them."

You should have paid zero for 'em, ya nitwit; Then it's easy to get a return on your investment. Brown will be at the House of Blues in Orlando on Dec. 1. We'll be sure to not be there.

[Photo: He tried so hard on Wednesday. Getty Images]

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Eric Cartman, Christopher Walken and Lady Gaga sing Poker Face

That pretty much explains it, I think.

November 19, 2009

Mariah Carey can't have 20 white kittens or 100 white doves

Tbd-mariahcarey112009 Not to be outdone by tales of Beyonce renting an entire Liverpool hotel room just for her baggage, Mariah Carey is probably off pouting because British health and safety officials refused to let her be surrounded by 20 white kittens and 100 white doves as she turned on a shopping center's Christmas lights in London. No wonder the world hates America.

It's not like organizers of the complex's celebration could find them anyway: 'We did manage to source the doves that we were going to release into the sky, but the kittens proved terribly difficult," a source told the Daily Mail. "In the end, it was made clear that due to health and safety, there was no way we could have the animals at Westfield. We do not allow pets into Westfield -- that rule would apply for everyone."

The menagerie was among a list of demands the 39-year-old diva had for the Thursday event. She also wanted 80 security guards; pink, butterfly-shaped confetti to be thrown into the air; a pink carpet; a wand to "wave" on the lights; consideration for an entourage of 15 recording execs and PR people and a Rolls Royce to drive her to the place.

"We have worked extremely hard to make sure that Mariah's event is fantastic," the source said. "Even the model of car had to be changed six times to one that her people liked."

Oh, we remember Mimi back during her Vision of Love days, when marrying the head of Columbia Records was the most dastardly thing she could do.

[Photo: These kids were probably wondering who the crazy lady was. Getty Images]

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Pamela Anderson had to tell her kids about Tommy Lee sex tape

Tbd-pamelaanderson112009 The grandmammy of all sex-tape mistresses finally has to pay what she owes, as Pamela Anderson confesses she had to tell her two kids about her celluloid shenanigans with then-husband Tommy Lee. Gee, mom, we'd rather talk about menopause than to hear about this, they said.

Anderson said during an interview with British talk show host Jeremy Kyle that her boys Brandon, 12, and Dylan, 11, are finally of the age where things like her background in videography are coming into play, the New York Daily News reports, especially since it was mention in 2006's Borat.

"I knew kids were going to watch the film and there was a reference to the tape in the movie and they're that age and, you know, people are going start saying things," the 47-year-old said. "I just said, 'Look, Mummy and Daddy were massively in love, we videotaped everything, everything was videotaped, and you're probably going hear about something at school.' "

Since all the kids have iPhones these days, we doubt they'll just hear about it. Although, it's been a long time since 1998, so maybe 12-year-old boys aren't as into porn as they used to be. Oh, who are we kidding?

[Photo: When your mom looks like this, you're probably not surprised by much. Getty Images]

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