Cameron Diaz is looking to add “author” to her list of credits, with a nutrition guide aimed at teen girls. Diaz says the book will encourage girls to focus on health over being slim. While she does not yet have a formal publishing deal, Diaz has a literary agent and hopes to speak in schools about the importance of nutrition—not necessarily to have a movie-ready body, but to have the vitamins you need to be healthy and full of energy. Spokespeople for the actress say one of her influences to “give back” in this way is Gwyneth Paltrow. You lost me there, Cam.
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“Jesus Take The Wheel” singer Carrie Underwood is speaking up on marriage equality, citing her own marriage as an influence in her decision to speak openly in favor of marriage rights for all citizens.
“As a married person myself, I don’t know what it’s like to be told I can’t marry somebody I love and want to marry,” Underwood told the Independent. “I can’t imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.”
It’s really fantastic that a country singer with the reach Underwood has is speaking out on this issue, with a fan base that is largely intolerant of same-sex unions and homosexuality in general, so I gotta give big props to Carrie for using her celebrity to take a stand on the side of equality.
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So, Rihanna and Chris Brown keep “running into each other” at various clubs and hangouts where they just happen to both be partying, but aren’t really appearing together publicly, officially. However, Page Six reports they are totally close with each other behind closed doors, and her people are deeply divided about it (not because they fear for her well-being so much as how it might affect her album sales), and I just…whatever, she’s a big girl, let her do what she wants. But, for the record: I’ve got nothing but PERMANENT SIDE EYE for Chris Brown.
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After more than three decades, the parents in the now immortal “a dingo ate my baby” case have been vindicated in a fourth inquest. An Australian coroner ruled that a dingo had indeed snatched Azaria Chamberlain from her parents Lindy and Michael. Lindy served three years in prison after being convicted of killing her baby, before the third inquest left the cause of death unopened and resulted in overturning her conviction. The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain in 1981 has been immortalized both in a film starring Meryl Streep and a Seinfeld bit.
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The Biebs is doing dubstep now? He released two tracks of his new album, one of which (“As Long As You Love Me”) sounds like Skrillex wiped his butt all over it. I have never been more grateful than I am on this day to not be the mother of preteen girls. Thanks for the birth control, Planned Parenthood!
Bieber also played to a sold-out crowed in Mexico City yesterday, where the city was sure to commit all its security resources to quelling the mob of Beliebers, because it’s not like the city has a huge crime problem or anything.
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You know what it would take to make me interested in this 50 Shades of Mommy Porn business? If you mashed that shit up with the mind behind American Psycho. Well, clap if you believe in fairies, because the writer who brough you Patrick Bateman, Bret Easton Ellis, wants to helm the screen adaptation of America’s Best-Selling Fan Fiction Erotica Novel, according to his Twitter. Ellis assured his fans he was completely serious about this and would want David Cronenberg to direct and possible Alexander Skarsgaard to play Christian Grey. Uh…I WANT TO GO TO THERE.
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We still don’t know who will play Finnick in the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, but there is still casting news to be reported! Apparently, the part of Plutarch Heavensbee (Seneca Crane’s replacement as Gamemaker for those of you who aren’t obsessed with a dystopian YA series) will reportedly be played by Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
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