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March 31, 2008: Obama Should Stick with Wii Bowling
Comments: 1 | Categories: Politics
Nice shoes! You probably heard that Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was on my turf last week. The Pennsylvania primary is the next big brawl for him and Hillary Clinton, so Obama was mingling with us common PA folk and partook in one of our favorite sports: bowling.

March 31, 2008: DEAR HULKY!
Comments: 8 | Categories: DEAR HULKY
Hulk, I need help. I'm trying to become pregnant but I don't ovulate much. I have to take my temperature first thing every morning to help the doctor figure out what's going wrong, but I can't! It takes me ages to become fully conscious in the morning, and I really have to do it FIRST...

March 31, 2008: Lara Flynn Boyle What What What?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Celebrities , Horror
According to numerous quasi-reputable sources, this is indeed a photo of Lara Flynn Boyle: In case you need your memory refreshed, this is what Lara Flynn Boyle used to look like:

March 31, 2008: Photo in Search of a Caption
Comments: 12 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Do you have something bigger? Heidi's boobs won't fit in here. UPDATE! Snoggings for Kim, of Parachuting Without a Net for the above caption. *snogs* (I don't think I actually know what snogging is, you guys, but it sounds fun, doesn't it?) Lauren Conrad and a cage.... have at it, betches. The winner will be...

March 31, 2008: We Covet: From Half Of The Brains That Brought You MamaPop
Comments: 0 | Categories: Internet
Mah new shopping/product review/style & design blog: let me show you it. Catherine and I are pleased to announce a new addition to the MamaPop family, We Covet, which we hope will help to guide you through the wilds of consumerism in the same way that MamaPop has held your hand through...

March 31, 2008: Brangelina (Non-)Wedding Update
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celebrities
Star has yet to officially fully retract their story about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's alleged nuptials, presumably since there hasn't yet been an official, "hell naw" from either the couple or their reps. They should probably stop holding their breath since I don't think Angelina has "officially" announced her pregnancy and, um, I'm pretty...

March 31, 2008: Mischa Barton Wears Short-Shorts
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celebrities
Memo to the world: women of all ages and body types get cellulite. It is not just the domain of the heavy-set or the old or the bearers of children or Britney Spears or those living in the Red states. It can be found upon the thighs and derrieres of twenty-somethings, of women who have...

March 31, 2008: Richie Sambora May Not Have Been DUI
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Several sources who were with Richie Sambora the night of his DUI arrest expect his blood alcohol to be under California's .08 limit. They told TMZ Richie simply didn't "drink much at all" before the cops stopped him What doesn't make sense to me is why didn't he just take the breathalyzer and be done...

March 31, 2008: Jessica Simpson: If Brangelina Can Do It...
Comments: 1 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch , Celebrities
... so can she. Get married, that is. What? You're not up on this weekend's trends? EVERYBODY got married, or pretended to, or let people believe that they did because, hellz, that's some good publicity right there. Brad and Angie did it, apparently, and what's good enough for Brad and Angie is good enough for...

March 29, 2008: Holy Crap! Mr. and Mrs. Brangelina!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrities
Holy crap, you guys. Star is reporting that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married today in New Orleans. Now, it is Star and apparently no other source is reporting this as of 10:18 p.m., so take this with a grain of salt. However, if it turns out to be true...squee! Watch this space for...

March 28, 2008: Britney Spears: the Choice of Kids & Stage Parents Everywhere
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celebrities
So just in case the thought of seeing Jack Black slimed in green goo is not enough to make you tune into Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards tomorrow night, how about an appearance by the legendary Miss Britney Spears? Rumors are swirling that since her two whole minutes of screen time on How I Met Your...

March 28, 2008: Why, George? WHY?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celebrities
Oh, George. We thought that you could do no wrong. We thought that when it came to masculine classiness and movie-idol-throwback cool, you could do no wrong. We thought you were the shiz, George, we really did. And then you went and put on that hat.

March 28, 2008: "The Internet is my BFF" Friday
Comments: 1 | Categories: Internet
Sweetney's post about hulu yesterday reminded me that there's some other stuff online you need to know and love. That Internet! I just want to give it a hug sometimes. First on the list: Muxtape, "a simple way to create and share mixtapes." Remember mix tapes? Those musical love notes you made to impress your...

March 28, 2008: Marrit's Couch/Random Film Festival: The Motel
Comments: 0 | Categories: Movies
Michael Kang's The Motel, 2005 I got deep into a beermosa and decided to host my own film festival on my couch, for myself. I the jury selected this debut feature from writer-director Michael Kang because it was the toast of Sundance and I could reach it easily from where I was collaring my kid...

March 28, 2008: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Comments: 24 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Whoops, saggy spine. Gotta botox that. Winning Caption Courtesy of the very smart, funny and perceptive Nicole!

March 28, 2008: Friday Eye Candy: The Jodi Edition
Comments: 6 | Categories: Friday Eye Candy
So, the final installment of FEC brings us some goodness from Jodi. Check out her obscure and amazing hot picks! Who doesn't love them some McDreamy?

March 28, 2008: Inquest Ordered into the Death of Corinne Bailey Rae's Husband
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes , RIP
A coroner opened the official inquest into the death of Jason Rae, the husband of Corinne Bailey Rae, on Thursday. The pathologist concluded the cause of death was a drug overdose, although results of a post mortem performed were inconclusive. A spokesperson for the West Yorkshire Police told PEOPLE there was no set time-frame for...

March 28, 2008: This Just In: Eliot Spitzer Likes Hookers
Comments: 6 | Categories: Politics
I thought that I should fill you in, just in case you were wondering, yanno? I know how you all consoled yourselves after the revelation of his dalliance with that one 4-digit hooker (which, no, sorry, does not refer to missing fingers - although, how HOTT would that be? - but, rather, to her hourly...

March 27, 2008: Gossip Rag Thursday
Comments: 2 | Categories: Gossip Rag Thursday
This week all the mags seem to be focusing in on the Jolie-Pitts and the Cruise Family. How much of this do we think is true? Well, I knew that Shiloh was about to become a big sister, but who knew that Suri was too! Did I miss some sort of announcement?

March 27, 2008: Heidi Montag Seeks Look-alikes, Is Feminist Hero (asl*(%#LKDF(@#$#!)
Comments: 14 | Categories: Celebrities
Not content to just continue to assault us with her "music," Us Magazine reports that Heidi Montag has put out a call for look-alikes to model her new clothing line, Heidiwood (no, seriously, that's what she's calling it and I'll bet you two bits that Spencer came up with that name because he's so totally...

March 27, 2008: Jeff Whitty, Rest of Internet Show Jay Leno Their Gayest Looks
Comments: 7 | Categories: Internet , TV
Jeff Whitty, the playwright who penned Avenue Q, has about had it with Jay Leno. He and approximately half the internet are striking back against homophobic humor in a very amusing way. Follow me, betches, for a full explanation and links galore, after the jump.

March 27, 2008: Hulu: Your Latest Timesuck And Obsessive-Compulsion Awaits
Comments: 7 | Categories: Internet , Movies , TV
By know you surely know that we here at MamaPop loves us the television viewing technology, even when it doesn't love us back. However, I for one had long imagined that a glorious post-Tivo and On Demand day would soon come -- a day when we'd all be able to watch TV shows and movies...

March 27, 2008: Tyra, Leaving ANTM? Noooooooo.....!!!!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celebrities , Fashion , Reality TV , WTF?
TYRA BANKS LEAVING AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL? (*head explodes*) Seriously. How could such a thing even be possible? There is no ANTM without Tyra. There's no fierce, no smile with your eyes, no work it, no that's not very modelesque, no that's a little too hoochy mama, no I have in my hands six pictures,...

March 27, 2008: Robin Williams Divorcing Nanny, I Mean Second Wife
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch
One of the more interesting and long-lasting "I Left My Wife to Marry the Nanny" unions of our time is coming to an end after almost 19 years. Robin Williams' wife, Marsha Garces Williams, filed for divorce in California on March 21 citing her inability to tolerate his Truman Capote imitation any longer. I mean...

March 27, 2008: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Comments: 21 | Categories: Celebrities , Photo In Search Of A Caption
Have at him it. Best caption for this photo gets the shoutses outs, end o' day! WINNAH: Georgia, with "Testicles. Spectacles. Wallet. Watch." Just 'cause the word testicles? Gets me every time. (Honorable mentions to EVERYONE. I was laughing ALL DAY)

March 27, 2008: Richie Sambora Arrested for DUI With His Daughter in the Car
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Richie Sambora was arrested for DUI in Laguna Beach, California on March 25th. Police pulled him over for driving erratically, and he failed numerous road side sobriety tests. And, get this, his 10 year old daughter Ava was in the car along with his girlfriend and another minor. He refused a breathalyzer and took a...

March 27, 2008: Carly Smithson Pregnant?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Celebrities , Music
I know, it's like totally gossip rag stock-in-trade to post a picture of a celeb or semi-celeb or whomever in a loose-fitting outfit or with a hint of pooch and shout OMG SHE'S PREGNANT but still. If the tent-dress fits... So Carly Smithson - that chick who is SO being set up to win American...

March 26, 2008: "Drillbit Taylor" Review
Comments: 6 | Categories: Movies
So the other day I got to thinking about what movie I would be 'reviewing' for the week. I say 'reviewing' - with airquotes of course - because it's more like watching a movie and then regurgitating what I saw with some superfluous commentary while trying to be witty about it. Faux wittiness seems to...

March 26, 2008: If Hilary And Obama Had A Baby...
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celebrities , Politics
... the universe would implode. Also, that baby would - according to the New Republic - grow up to look like this: Which, incidentally, is exactly what the love child of Ellen Degeneres and Survivor "Favorite" Ozzy Lusth would look like, but that's beside the point. My apologies if this image gives you nightmares. All...

March 26, 2008: Heather Mills Will Not Go Gently Into that Good Night
Comments: 16 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes , Celebrities , News
The Daily Mail reports that Heather Mills hired forensic accountants to prove that ex-husband Paul McCartney is, in fact, worth over $1 billion, not the paltry $800 million that Paul claimed during their divorce. Of course, the more pressing question here is...what the hell is that mess that Heather is wearing in this picture?

March 26, 2008: Paris Hilton Respects Her Elders
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch , Celebrities
Oops, did I say elders? I meant alders. She respects alders - those small birch trees with the catkin flowers. She respects those. Because, like, they're like totally pretty and also isn't it, like, totally HOT to love trees? Elders, though? Elders can suck it. They're for carrying your luggage. Source

March 26, 2008: Photo in Search of a Caption
Comments: 23 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
No comment from little old me, but I'm sure you guys can think of a thing or four to say. Winning caption chosen by the end of the day, but really, aren't we all winners here? WINNER! Hey You of The Huckablog Ugly canvas bag $30 Enormous overpriced purse $2000 Realizing that the Paps were...

March 25, 2008: Reminder: American Idol Open Thread Tonight!
Comments: 4 | Categories: Open Threads
It can only get better, right? RIGHT? Join me tonight over in the American Idol Forum, and gufaw with me through all the probable musical horror(s) (sprinkled with one or two decent performances, just to get our hopes up a little so they can then be cruelly dashed on the hard, jagged rocks of incompetence),...

March 25, 2008: Britney Gets Vocal Help, an Amoeba Is the Only One Actually Surprised by this "News"
Comments: 5 | Categories: Britney Spears , Celebrities , Music
dlisted has a juicy little story about an interview that Henry Rollins gave to Sun Media recently in which he states that he's heard from some sound engineers that Britney Spears' vocals are mixed with those of someone who can actually sing. In other news, the sun came out this morning.

March 25, 2008: Never Gave You Up, Rick Astley
Comments: 8 |
I never, ever admitted this during my sub-Goth-slash-alternative years - and please don't tell any of my fellow Smiths-obsessed and Bauhaus-loving buddies - but I had a little crush on Rick Astley back in the day. Partly because there was some bluesy part of my soul - the part reared on the classic jazz record...

March 25, 2008: The Wire's Christopher Clanton IRL Stabbed in Baltimore
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb News , It's Not TV, It's HBO , TV
Christopher Clanton, better known as Barksdale crew member Savino on HBO's The Wire, was stabbed in Baltimore on Sunday (not at all far from Casa Angela, in fact). (Spoiler after the cut, proceed with caution.)

March 25, 2008: Priscilla Presley's Face Was Injected With Auto Lube
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes , Celeb News , Celebrities , Humor
Consider this post to be your PSA of the day, ladies: If one of your friends hosts an "injection party" where an unlicensed doctor from Argentina offers to pump your face with an illegal, non-FDA approved "miracle injection" he smuggled into the country for the bargain price of $500 a shot, claim you left your...

March 25, 2008: Miley Cyrus Dances For Jesus
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrities
If you are not a twelve-year old girl, or perhaps do not live on the planet Earth, you might have been missing out on what Miley Cyrus has been up to lately, other than changing her name to Miley Ray and posting skanky pictures of herself on MySpace and generally forging ahead with her plans...

March 25, 2008: Spring is Here, Screw the Birds: Mr. Big is Wearing Shorts!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celebrities
The weather in Los Angeles has been lovely enough for Sex and the City's Chris Noth (here with longtime girlfriend Tara Wilson) to show some leg. It's my new favorite sign of spring! Okay, maybe not everyone's into 54-year-old man gams, but Chris Noth is sexy and if you deny it I'll have to beat...

March 25, 2008: Photo in Search of a Caption
Comments: 19 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
This, as I'm sure you already know, is Perez Hilton. What's on his mind? What's on his dog's mind? Give me a caption, ladies and gentlemen, don't be shy -- winner will be linked with love at the end of the day. AND THE WINNER IS . . . IT'S A TIE! We have two...

March 25, 2008: Heidi Montag's New "Single" That Claims To Be "Music"
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celeb News , Celebrities , Music , Reality TV
Wait -- is it 1988 and not 2008? I ask only because if one were using Heidi Montag's latest musical abomination, "No More," as a means by which to gage one's location on the space-time continuum, I'm thinking the 80s might be a fine guess. And I say that cruelly, mockingly, and with visible disdain...

March 25, 2008: Hogans Sued for Nick's Crash
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
I know when Linda filed for divorce the theory was they were doing that to break up their assets for an impending law suit. Well, looks like that suit is here. The family of John Graziano, the man seriously injured in Nick Hogan's August 2007 street racing crash, has filed suit against Hulk, Linda and...

March 24, 2008: Reminder: The Bachelor Open Thread Tonight!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Open Threads
Last week we learned that biting holes out of beer cans does not turn men on. Who knows what this week has in store? Join us at 10 PM EST in the MamaPopTalk The Bachelor forum! See you then!

March 24, 2008: RIP: Jason Rae, Husband of Singer Corinne Bailey Rae
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celebrities , Music , News , RIP
Very sad news out of England: People reports that saxophonist Jason Rae, the husband of soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae, was found dead in an apartment in Leeds on Saturday afternoon. He was 31.

March 24, 2008: DEAR HULKY!
Comments: 17 | Categories: DEAR HULKY
Dear Hulk, What skills, exactly, does it take to become a $5,500 an hour hooker? Please explain. Nicole HULK KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE! NICOLE CANNOT STUMP THE HULK! HULK ONCE VERY POOR, TRY TO CONVINCE RICH PERSON HULK DESERVE $5,500 AN HOUR. RICH PERSON TRY TO EXPLOIT HULK'S SEXUALITY, HULK GET VERY ANGRY!...

March 24, 2008: Jennifer Lopez Is Training For a Triathalon To Earn Her Newborns' Love
Comments: 15 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
You know, I try very hard to keep my gossip-y posts from veering too much to the dark side of "let's rip this person to shreds! come on, it's fun!" Particularly when it comes to celebrity parenting, because you know, I can bribe my toddler with Cheetos like the best of 'em. I'm not even...

March 24, 2008: Photo In Search of A Caption
Comments: 11 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Here we have the cast of the recently canceled Jericho. These guys need jobs, sure, but first they need a caption. The winner will be linked and showered with praise and puppies.* Winning caption courtesy of jessalogic: Dude - where the hell is that bus? Thanks, Jessa!

March 24, 2008: Dear Ethan Hawke: Reality Bites
Comments: 13 | Categories: Celebrities
I've never liked Ethan Hawke. He has the scruffy, watery-eyed look of a guy who doesn't think that women deserve the courtesy of his cleanliness because, you know, he's an artist and he's special and, hey, so what if he doesn't shower or keep his hands off other women? His artistic soul, it yearns to...

March 24, 2008: First Signs Of Spring, Or Harbingers Of Mutant Evil?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch , Celebrities , Photo Op , WTF?
Up here in the wild, frozen north, we Canadians look to the emergence of certain wildlife, as these take their first, tentative steps out from their winter hideaways to frolic and procreate in the melting snow, for evidence of spring. Are the snows behind us? Are the vast ice caps of downtown Toronto receding? Can...

March 24, 2008: Rick Salomon Also Claims Fraud in Pam Anderson Marriage
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
First, Pamela Anderson files for divorce, two months after marrying Rick Salomon, then she changes her mind and withdraws. Two months later, she files for an annulment citing fraud. Not to be outdone, a month later, Rick Salomon does the same thing. Neither has explained why the fraud allegation is being made, nor is either...

March 21, 2008: Steve-O Blogs From Rehab; Amy Stunned To Actually Really Care About Him All of a Sudden
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb News
Steve-O, the Jackass star who needs Dr. Drew like...uh, Amy Winehouse needs Dr. Drew, has entered a rehab program, according to a blog post on his MySpace. He was already involuntarily committed to Cedars-Sinai for "suicidal behavior" last week, but now appears to be fully ready to face his scores and scores of other problems,...

March 21, 2008: Friday Time Suck, Courtesy of YouTube!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Animation , Art , Awards Shows , Humor , Internet , Pop Culture , Timesuckers , Video , Web Junk
You definitely want to go over to check out the 2007 YouTube Video Award winners. There are only twelve categories and it's Friday so you can probably blow off your last hour of work for some classic Web diversion -- that is, it will take an hour only if you don't watch all the runners-up....

March 21, 2008: J-Lo's Baby Pics, Now With More Art School Drop-Out Goodness
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
Having already indulged my rant about stories concerning her weight loss, I can now devote my attention to the more obviously news-worthy J-Lo story of the day: J-Lo's Babies Revealed To The World! You saw the cover yesterday; now see those babeez in all their binkylicious gloriousness! (Note that, because these baby photos are worth...

March 21, 2008: Autism: The Musical
Comments: 3 | Categories: It's Not TV, It's HBO
I'm intrigued by Autism: The Musical, which premieres Tuesday on HBO. Because it's HBO, you can already pre-order the DVD if you're like me and you don't have cable even though you want HBO so bad you get a slight metallic taste in your mouth just thinking about it. Or you can watch it at...

March 21, 2008: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Comments: 17 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse was photographed instead of drawn for the the newest installment of the Stick Figure Gallery series, Sticks of Rock. Winning caption courtesy of J3n, who totally rocked it. Thanks for the laff! Best caption winnah announced with much love, gratitude, admiration, and fanfare at the end of the day!

March 21, 2008: J-Lo Drops Baby Weight In 3 Weeks; Catherine's Head Explodes
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celebrities , Celebrity Babies , WTF?
I know. I'm starting to sound like a ranty broken record on the issue of celebrities and their facking baby-weight issues (weight not lost within one month? it's an issue!), but still. Stories like this one keep feeding my frenzy: (From the National Ledger, yesterday) "Jennifer Lopez's little babies make their million dollar debut today...

March 21, 2008: Friday Eye Candy: The Marrit Edition
Comments: 10 | Categories: Friday Eye Candy
Marrit's got some great pics, and with them we start to wind down on our Mamapop Betches editions of Eye Candy. Think you can come up with a better list? E-mail your pics to me, and you just might see them in the next few weeks! This is Jonny Greenwood. He is Marrit's baby-daddy. Don't...

March 21, 2008: Sounds More Like the Big Take: Oprah Winfrey Sued Over New Show
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Darlene Tracy, a mother of four with no experience in TV producing, claims that, way back in February 2005, she hatched the concept for a reality show called "The Philanthropist," in which contestants are challenged to help the needy. Tracy claims she sent her pitch to Ellen Rakieten, executive producer of Winfrey's talk show, and...

March 20, 2008: Kristin Davis goes both Up and Downtown.
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celebrities
There are at least 20 Kristin Davis photos making the rounds and TMZ is reporting that there is in fact no sex tape, just racy pics which were taken in 1992 by a dinkus ex-boyfriend who sold them for some serious dollars. The photos have now found themselves in the hands of a third party...

March 20, 2008: Gossip Rag Thursday
Comments: 6 | Categories: Gossip Rag Thursday
We're back with Gossip Rag Thursday, long missed but not forgotten. And to start the weekend in gossip mags off right, we've got Jennifer Lopez and her "adorable" twins. That's right, i put it in quotes. They look like their heads are smooshed! Hopefully it's just the picture, and not really their heads.

March 20, 2008: Ashley Dupre Is a Girls Gone Wild Alum
Comments: 8 | Categories: Celebrities , Horror , News
Just when you think the Eliot Spitzer/Ashley Dupre scandal couldn't get any sleazier, Joe Francis gets involved.

March 20, 2008: Bryan Adams is Joining the "Straighten Up, Amy" Choir.
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celebrities
What an unlikely pairing; I didn't realize these two were all BFF, did you?

March 20, 2008: Winona Ryder's Been Caught Stealin'. AGAIN.
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Hey, remember back in the day ("back in the day" = about 6 years ago) when Winona Ryder was caught stealing from the Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills? Because, like, her film career tanked so hard she didn't have enough money to actually BUY her clothes, like normal people? (OMFSNORT!) Well, it appears that...

March 20, 2008: Photo In Search Of A Caption: Where's The LeBeouf?
Comments: 10 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Is it wrong that I think that young Shia LeBeouf is hot? I mean, he's like fifteen* or something, right? Still, that doesn't mean that I might not allow myself to, you know, make a few a double entendres about his name. That is, if I weren't going to ask you to do it. Best...

March 20, 2008: Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Date Jerks Who Make Cellphone Porn
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celeb News
UPDATE: It's not Lohan in the video. Recently photographed wearing a ring with cute girlfriend Samantha Ronson's initials on it, Lindsay Lohan is panicked, as any reasonable former blackout drinker would be, about a video that's finally surfaced of her possibly blowing some dude. Well, if you squint it looks like LiLo, but if it's...

March 20, 2008: Brangelina: Expecting One Of Each
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celebrities , Celebrity Babies
So, Brad and Angie haven't even announced the pregnancy yet, let alone confirmed the rumors of twins - not that there's any doubt, what with the unusually flowy maternity wear and all - but the gossipnets have already moved on to the genders of the Brangefetuses. Word is, it's a boy! AND, also! It's a...

March 20, 2008: Shia LaBeouf's Attorney Manages to Show Up for Court
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
A $1,000 bench warrant issued on Tuesday for Shia LaBeouf was quashed on Wednesday when his attorney showed up a day late and a dollar short. Shia was not in the courtroom when his attorney entered a plea of not guilty. He was cited last month for unlawful smoking. He was allegedly smoking on the...

March 19, 2008: Reminder: Top Chef Open Thread Tonight!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Open Threads
Don't forget to join us over at MamaPopTalk's Top Chef forum tonight, 10 pm ET -- now that the token deep dish pizza challenge is behind us, how WILL the show assert its Chicagonicity? Dun dun duuuun! See you then!

March 19, 2008: "Horton Hears a Who" Review
Comments: 7 | Categories: Movies
I asked a seven year old what she thought of Horton Hears a Who. She gave a rather succint: "It was good. I liked it. Can I have more gummi bears?" Thrilled to have her help, I obliged. My thoughts will be succint as well because everyone should know the story of Horton. It is...

March 19, 2008: Memo To Daily Mail: You Suck
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celebrities
The UK's Daily Mail has - and I am shocked that this was even possible - sunk even lower into the morass of shit-sucking misogynist bottom-feeders than did those asshats who made fun of Jennifer Love Hewitt's non-size-zero body not too long ago, by mocking pictures of Britney Spears' legs and expressing disgust over the...

March 19, 2008: Mariah Carey: Kind of the Bomb
Comments: 9 | Categories: Celebrities , Music , Video
Mariah Carey's upcoming album, the awesomely-Einsteiny-titled E=MC2, won't drop until April 15th. But the first single, "Touch My Body," will most likely become her 18th #1 single. Hmm, who else had 18 #1 singles? Let me think.... Oh! That would be the freaking BEATLES!

March 19, 2008: Ooooh, you're in trooooouuubllllllllllllle.
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The law's on the trail this morning of Shia LaBeouf, whose last name it always takes me thirty-seven tries to spell correctly, possibly because I'm distracted because he's really, really cute. What did this delectable hottie (my inner monologue is broken again, isn't it?) do to become a fugitive?

March 19, 2008: Halle Names Her Baby
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch , Celeb News , Celebrities , Celebrity Babies
Introducing... Nahla Ariela Aubry! As celebrity baby names go, it's pretty straightforward. 'Nahla', apparently, means 'drink of water' in Arabic, which is a little more poetic that 'Pilot Inspektor,' which means 'My Dad Watched Too Many Cartoons In The Seventies' in American English, or 'Moxie Crimefighter,' which means exactly the same thing, but in Canadian....

March 19, 2008: YOU NEED ADVICE FROM HULK!
Comments: 7 | Categories: DEAR HULKY
HULK NOW WRITING ADVICE COLUMN FOR MAMAPOP! OVERLORDS DECREE MONDAY TO BE "DEAR HULKY" DAY! YOU SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS! HULK TALK KNOWLEDGEABLY ABOUT LOVE, SEX, ETHICAL DILEMMAS. SEE HULK IN PHOTO, LISTENING TO BETTY? HULK GOOD LISTENER. NO PROBLEM! YOU ASK HULK! SEND MAIL TO HULK@MAMAPOP.COM. ALL MAIL BECOMES PROPERTY OF MAMAPOP.COM, SO USE...

March 19, 2008: Photo In Search of a Caption
Comments: 10 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Gabrielle Union on the cover of...um...something. Doing...something. You guys take a crack at this one, I think it's time for my monthly breast exam. WINNER! Miss Britt: In case of wardrobe malfunction... grope. It's funny because it's WISE!

March 18, 2008: Adam Carolla: Same Jackass, New Outfit
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrities , TV
On last night's Dancing With the Stars, Adam Carolla called Carrie Ann Inaba a bitch for giving him the low score of 5 after he butchered the foxtrot. Now, I'm not going to get all sensitive and whiny PC feminist because he did seem to be joking and I know any kind of female indignation...

March 18, 2008: Amy Winehouse: Living Undead Among Us?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Celebrities
Okay. So. I just read this weird story about Amy Winehouse buying a sunbed. Which, you know, that's odd. Like, WHY? Isn't tanning sort of contrary to her pasty-white working class British 60s girl group member shtick? Or at least a little out of character? Yeah, I thought so too. But that's not what this...

March 18, 2008: Director Anthony Minghella Dead at 54
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb News , Movies
Sad news today. Anthony Minghella, director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain, has died at the age of 54 following a routine neck surgery.

March 18, 2008: Attention Ladies of the World: Please Stay Away from Adnan Ghalib
Comments: 10 | Categories: Celebrities
I have yet to hear a single compelling reason why paparazzo/professional hanger-on/boner-pill aficionado Adnan Ghalib is able to get so much tail, but yet another one of his conquests has come forward to talk about how he broke her heart (and oh yeah, to peddle his relationship with Britney Spears) and once again, it's all...

March 18, 2008: Is That Couture Maternity?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Celebrities , Celebrity Babies , Fashion
Angelina Jolie, never one to shirk with the grooming, apparently grabbed one of her rejected Oscars gowns out of the closet on the way out to take the kids to 7-11 for Icees and Doritos. Maddox, Zaharia, and Shlioh probably aren't allowed to spend all their pocket money on M&Ms the way I did, but...

March 18, 2008: Is Madonna Is Or Is She Ain't Divorcing Guy Ritchie?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch , Celebrities , Music
Sometimes the gossip gods move too quickly for me. I had just wrapped my around the story that Madonna was preparing divorce proceedings against Guy Ritchie, to take effect 18 months hence (which, okay, not in itself confounding, but that 18 month proviso? Weird), when, bam, the word is out that no way are they...

March 18, 2008: Photo In Search of a Caption
Comments: 33 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Uh . . . . . . help? The winner will be chosen at the end of the day, and will receive my undying gratitude for making sense of this photo. Thank you. AND THE WINNER IS: "Having completed the breast exam portion of her Do-it-Yourself Annual Exam, Christina realized she had left the speculum...

March 18, 2008: Heather Mills Awarded $48.6M From Paul McCartney
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
A British Family Court Judge awarded Heather Mills a lump sum of $33 million plus the assets she currently holds worth $15.6 million. For those of us who are arithmetically challenged, that is close to 50 million dollars. Ironically, Paul reportedly offered $50 mil to settle, so litigating the divorce actually left Heather with less...

March 18, 2008: Punky Brewster Pops Another One
Comments: 1 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
Soleil Moon Frye - aka Punky Brewster - and husband Jason Goldberg welcomed another baby girl to their brood late yesterday. Jagger Joseph Blue Goldberg was born Monday in Los Angeles and weighed 8 lbs, 6 oz. The couple also have a two-year old daughter, Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg. (Yes, Jagger Joseph is a girl....

March 17, 2008: Reminder: Dancing With The Stars *AND* The Bachelor Season Premiere Open Threads TONIGHT!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Open Threads
Oh, you know you're going to be watching anyway. So why not meet up with us for some group snarking while you're at it, hmm? Join us tonight over in the MamaPopTalk forums for the open threading of two back to back premieres: DWTS starting at 8pm ET, followed by The Bachelor at 9:30pm ET!...

March 17, 2008: Britney Noshes with Mel Gibson
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celebrities
"Nom nom nom." Well, it's not quite as random as it sounds, but Celebitchy reports that Britney and Mr. Sugartits were members of a group dinner at a Russian restaurant in Studio City on Saturday night.

March 17, 2008: Oh, DAMN.
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When this dude right here is telling you to get your shit together, AMY WINEHOUSE, it might be time for you to, you know, get your shit together.

March 17, 2008: HULK NOT HAPPY ABOUT REPORT FROM PAGE SIX
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb News , Celebrities , Film , Merciless Killing Machines , Movies
HULK NOT HAPPY ABOUT REPORT FROM NEW YORK POST GOSSIP COLUMN SAYING EDWARD NORTON BEING DIFFICULT CONTROL FREAK DURING POST-PRODUCTION OF NEW HULK MOVIE! UH-OH, NORTON TRYING TO HYPNOTIZE YOU! DUCK!! HULK PREVIOUSLY SUPPORT NORTON AS EXCELLENT CHOICE TO PLAY BRUCE BANNER IN UPCOMING SUMMER HULK BLOCKBUSTER. NORTON WRITE, PRODUCE, AND ACT IN MOVIE. THAT...

March 17, 2008: Area Hooker Makes Good on MySpace, Plans to Upgrade to Solid Gold Heart
Comments: 2 | Categories: Horror , Music , Politics
(And oh yeah, BREAKING NEWS! As of RIGHT NOW, Spitzer has officially stepped down and Paterson has been sworn in as New York's new governor. But that angle of the story has fewer prostitutes involved, so eff it.) According to the New York Post, Kristen Ashley Youmans Ashley Alexandra Dupre has possibly made over $200,000...

March 17, 2008: Halle Berry's Baby-Daddy To Be A Hubby? (Say That Fast Five Times)
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
So, hey! Halle Berry finally had her baby, which is, you know, all kinds of awesome. I hope that you've all sent off your cards and letters of congratulations and any hand-knitted baby booties that you were working on. J-Lo doesn't need them, what with all that diamond-encrusted cashmere layette shiz and all, so you...

March 17, 2008: Hospital Workers Fired for Snooping in Britney Spears' Records
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
UCLA Medical Center is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and has suspended at least six others for snooping in the confidential medical records of Britney Spears. An additional six physicians also face discipline for peeking at her computerized records. This is a violation of HIPAA, which even though it is an incredibly...

March 17, 2008: Photo in Search of a Caption
Comments: 12 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Did you hear that? I can totally still fart the alphabet! UPDATE: We have a winner! Congratulations and loving smooches to Missie for the bit of hilarity above. Get yer snarkin' caps on, betches. The best caption will be applied to the photo at the end of today, and we will e-love all over the...

March 17, 2008: More Signs Of The Coming Apocalypse: 90210 Returns, Tori Spelling Asks For Role As MILF
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celebrities , Reality TV , TV
I don't mind so much that they're doing a spin-off of Beverly Hills 90210, even if it is (perhaps because it is) destined to be entirely craptastic in every way. It's just, you know, you can't go back with these things. 90210 was brilliant in its time (OMG is there any North American woman out...

March 17, 2008: John Ritter's Family Loses Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Comments: 1 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
A jury cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist on Friday of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of actor John Ritter, who died of a torn aorta in 2003. Jurors found that the radiologist advised Ritter to follow up with treatment by a physician after a body scan two years before his death. Ritter did...

March 16, 2008: Halle Berry Pops!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
Hollywood has produced yet another bundle of incredibly privileged genetically superior joy! Hot fortysomething mama Halle Berry finally gave birth this morning at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles to 7 pound 4 ounce baby girl. Both mother and baby are healthy, happy, and resting comfortably. This is the first child for Halle and her drooltastic...

March 16, 2008: Complete Recap of LOST Season 1 in LOLspeek
Comments: 5 | Categories: Humor , Internet , TV
Season 1 funneh: let me show you it. ROFL!

March 15, 2008: Something Funny For your Saturday-Tom Cruise Celebrates His Own Greatness
Comments: 8 | Categories: Web Junk
This cracked me up! Tom Cruise celebrating his birthday on a cruise ship. I wonder, could this man be more full of himself? And where, oh where, is Katie?

March 15, 2008: Heather Mills Cashes In
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Well the preliminary figures are in, and reports suggest that Heather Mills's divorce settlement from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney will work out to a mammoth £46 million, with an immediate lump sum payment of £25 million, and maintenance fees of up to £1.5 million per year for their daughter Beatrice, until she turns 18. WOAH. That's,...

March 14, 2008: Madonna's "Hard Candy": She's Gonna Pound You And You're Gonna Like It
Comments: 10 | Categories: Music
Madonna frightens me a little. I'm sure she'd be happy to hear that. ANYWAY, behold the cover for Madonna's next album Hard Candy, due April 29. Wrasslin', anyone? The record, sure to be chock full o' radio friendly unit shifters, features production by Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Nate “Danja” Hills, plus an appearance by Justin...

March 14, 2008: Is Minnie Driver Gestating Criss Angel's Lovechild?
Comments: 14 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
On Jay Leno last night Minnie Driver admitted that she is pregnant. There is vast speculation that it might be Criss Angel's baby (eww!). I am not the only one that thinks he is kind of a douchebag right? Last we heard on Driver's love life she was still getting over Josh Brolin, but that...

March 14, 2008: Chris Rock: Cheaty McCheaterpants
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Normally I like Chris Rock. I paid good money to see him work on some new material last week at a gross casino in the middle of nowhere and he was very funny, except for the "Hillary should just go bake a cake" misogynistic portion of the act that cooled the love of half the...

March 14, 2008: The Harry Potter Film Franchise Wants Your Money, Is Gonna Get It Too
Comments: 8 | Categories: Film , Kids , Movies , Pop Culture , Print
So only two books in the Harry Potter series (I dunno, maybe you've heard of it?) remain un-movie-fied: Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. But now Warner Bros. has announced plans to split Deathly Hallows into TWO movies. We will officially be released from Voldemort's clutches (OMG SPOILER!) sometime in 2011.

March 14, 2008: Michelle Williams Photos in British Vogue
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrities , Fashion
God, she looks so pretty. Taken just days before Heath Ledger died. Although the dress is a little too Laura Ingalls Wilder Now Works At A Whorehouse for me. Six more pictures after the jump!

March 14, 2008: Crouching Woman, Hidden Agenda
Comments: 5 | Categories: Advertising
Can someone please explain why That Headless Woman is back again, trying to induce me to click for a MacBook® Air? I guess the MacBook® Air is a vagina magnet, causing women to sit in awkward and gynecologically expedient positions. Okay, but... I see a woman crouching next to the words "amazingly thin" with her...

March 14, 2008: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Comments: 26 | Categories: Photo In Search Of A Caption
Must. Keep. Up. With. Paycheck. . . . . . *WE HAVE A WINNAH!* A snarky dig on Dina Lohan: "Must. Keep. Up. With. Paycheck." (Which made me snort-laff when I read it), courtesy of mom2tbet! Thanks mom2tbet, you are our Extra Speshal Funny-Ass Betch Of The Day! mom2tbet FTW! WOOT! (Click photo to embiggen)...

March 14, 2008: Eddie Murphy: Beverly Hills Skeezbag
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celebrities , Celebrity Babies
This, I think, is the very nadir of masculine asshattery: Eddie Murphy says that he'll continue to refuse to see the daughter that he conceived with Spice Girl Mel B because - get this - she tricked him into making that baby. I'm sorry - whose penis was it that found its way into that...

March 14, 2008: Friday Eye Candy: The Fussy Edition (part 2)
Comments: 9 | Categories: Friday Eye Candy
Okay, so here's the rest of those Fussy picks (man that girl picked a lot!) Paul Rudd looks good in the setting sun.

March 13, 2008: Steve-O In Psych Ward, Is Cokehead (DUH)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Freakish masochist and all-around pathetic douchebag Steve-O was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Hospital's Thalians Mental Health Center last Sunday -- and charged with felony cocaine possession, BONUS! -- after vandalizing a neighbor's property. Because he's just that filled with awesome. According to TMZ: ...Steve-O was, according to a source, breaking holes in the walls of his...

March 13, 2008: I Think There's a Metaphor for My Life in This Video
Comments: 1 | Categories: Internet , Video , Web Junk

March 13, 2008: I Am Writing This Through Tears of Horror and Outrage
Comments: 11 | Categories: Celeb News , Celebrities , Horror , Print , Reality TV
I am seriously outraged in a very non-faux way, y'all. Most appalling news ever after the jump.

March 13, 2008: Spitzer's Hooker: Future American Idol?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb News , Music , Politics , Reality TV
So, as the entire world knows by now, NY Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned his post yesterday over the controversy ensuing from his dalliance with a twenty-two year old hooker (pseudo-)named 'Kristen.' As most of the world knows, too - or at least, that part of it that obsessively Googles 'spitzer hooker' (say that ten times...

March 13, 2008: Pixar's WALL-E: The Next Great Drain On Parent's Pocketbooks Everywhere
Comments: 6 | Categories: Animation , Movies
Parents, prepare yourselves for Pixar's newest offering -- WALL-E -- coming in June to delight your children and drain dry your financial resources with its many related products and by-products. The film's stilted official plot synopsis, for your synopsisizing enjoyablementation, follows: The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was...

March 13, 2008: Aw, Matzah!
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celebrities
Adam Sandler pulled his English bulldog, Matzah Ball, out of the surf yesterday during the filming of something or other on the beach in Santa Monica. Matz! Don't you know bulldogs sink?! Fortunately, Sandler averted tragedy and snatched his sidekick from the briney depths. Hooray! And just in case you never saw it, after the...

March 13, 2008: Tyra Reveals To The World That Models Really Are Just Pretty Hunks Of Meat
Comments: 12 | Categories: Celebrities , Reality TV
I would like to thank the latest episode of America's Next Top Model for introducing me - in the middle of a disturbing segment in which the models dressed themselves in sides of beef and brandished meat hooks - to the phrase BEEF PANTIES. If I weren't already pretty close to completely vegetarian, I would...

March 13, 2008: I'm Not Sure What This Does for the Mary Ann vs. Ginger Debate
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving. Under a plea agreement, three misdemeanor...

March 12, 2008: The Return of Project America's Next Top Chef!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Reality TV
Oh Top Chef, it feels like your last season ended 10 whole minutes ago. And yet you return! Again! Tonight! Hopefully with some really batshit cheftestants who like to abuse foam and foie gras. Judging from their bios, most of them are currently working as excecutive chefs and most of them do have formal culinary...

March 12, 2008: Ashton Kutcher Robs The Dead
Comments: 1 | Categories: Celeb News
Well this is interesting: that new show of Ashton Kutcher's -- Pop Fiction -- that we've covered a couple of times in the past week? Yeah, well apparently that show is suspiciously similar to something Anna Nicole Smith pitched to E! back in 2004, and now Howard K. Stern is on the warpath, threatening legal...

March 12, 2008: Patricia Heaton Freaks Me Out
Comments: 21 | Categories: Celebrities
The always tasteful TMZ posted these pictures of former Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton displaying her apparent lack of a bellybutton.

March 12, 2008: Another Lunatic Arrested After Stalking Jodie Foster
Comments: 10 | Categories: Celeb News
A man who sent threatening letters to Jodie Foster over several years was arrested yesterday for threatening to bomb the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.

March 12, 2008: Xtina: Skinny With Tits, To Go
Comments: 15 | Categories: Boobs , Celebrities , Celebrity Babies , WTF?
Okay, so. First: I think that it's great that Christina Aguilera is breastfeeding. GREAT. Awesome. And I also think that it's great that she's plugging breastfeeding, talking it up and really being all pro-titty about the whole thing. Because, you know, the cause of titties serving their natural purpose is one that everyone should totally...

March 12, 2008: "Vantage Point" Review
Comments: 2 | Categories: Movies
Let's say I asked for ten dollars. You said, fine, sure but then questioned why I wanted that ten dollars. And I casually said "Oh, well that ten dollars is the payment for having your soul sucked for two solid hours". I am assuming that then you'd kick me in the shins, grab your ten...

March 11, 2008: Reminder: American Idol *The Dudes Night* Open Thread Tonight!
Comments: 3 | Categories: Open Threads
Join us tonight at 8pm over at the ye olde MamaPopTalk American Idol forum for more of The Dudes, including that nice hippie guy who looks a bit like John Travolta's character in "Battlefield Earth": Heh. See all you betches then!

March 11, 2008: What I Watched, 3/11
Comments: 4 | Categories: Movies
I'm going to combine two weekends' worth of movie-viewing into this little recap, since I didn't watch a ton this past weekend. Onward...

March 11, 2008: Playing "Rock Band" Does Not Equal Being In A Rock Band
Comments: 0 | Categories: Video Games
And that seems to be stating the obvious, right? Well, apparently not. Three dudes in Washington DC (holla, homies!) recently decided to take their virtual jamming to the streets of our nation's capital, documenting it all on video to hilarious effect: Umm... Freebird? (tentatively raises lighter) Their "Rock Band" band also has a website. Because...

March 11, 2008: Real Housewives of NYC Tonight!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Reality TV
This week, Ramona gets jealous when someone hits on her husband at a party, Bethenny reveals the status of her love life, and Jill doesn't get invited to a girls get-together. Preview clip after the jump.

March 11, 2008: Courtney Love Hits the Britney Point
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celeb News
(The Britney Point being, of course, that moment in celebrity trainwreckage where it is no longer funny and everybody starts politely staring at their shoes instead.) So Courtney Love is...you know, I'm not even sure what's going on. She's claiming that identity thieves used Kurt Cobain's social security number to steal $69 million from her...

March 11, 2008: I May Be Frank
Comments: 7 | Categories: Film , Movies
Frank Ferrante is a 290-pound, 54-year-old guy from Brooklyn, NY, with hepatitis C. He drinks ten espressos a day to stay awake, he's a drug addict, his kids don't like him, and what, I need to go on? Then one day he walks into a vegan restaurant in San Francisco and starts talking to the...

March 11, 2008: O Hai, Dey Cant Haz Cheezburger: Dey R LOLModdles
Comments: 7 | Categories: Advertising , Fashion , Humor
Thanks to the geniuses over at Jezebel, I will never read Vogue in the same way again. Also, I will from this point forward be combing the interwebs for screenshots from ANTM and LOLing them to within an inch of their lives. Tyra sez: oh, hai, tuch mah bootie. Because it is necessary. More LOLVogue...

March 11, 2008: Lisa Marie Presley Sueing Tabloid that Called her Fat
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes , Celebrity Babies
The British tabloid Daily Mail published an article last week suggesting that Lisa Marie Presley had developed an "unhealthy appetite," was "piling on the pounds, and "has gained weight like her father Elvis." Turned out she's pregnant. Whoops! "I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack...

March 10, 2008: This Dark Corner of the American Experiment
Comments: 3 | Categories: It's Not TV, It's HBO , TV
Last night, the fifth and final season of HBO's The Wire concluded. Is it just me or does the world seem a little drearier today? (No spoilers ahead. Read away...)

March 10, 2008: Punk'd Amongst Us
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celebrities
That little post I did Thursday that I thought was so clever, about Paris Hilton's new fake guru? I got it half right (the guy was a fake), but I still got punked. Ms. Hilton was in put up to the whole thing by Ashton "Chicken Legs" Kutcher. Kutcher's new series, Pop Fiction, is a...

March 10, 2008: The Unholy Alliance Report for Monday
Comments: 7 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch
Betches, it seems like every time I turn around, people who should not be associating with each other are associating with each other anyway. Doesn't anyone listen to me? Take a look at that there... thing... on Paris Hilton's finger. What's your guess as to what "BM" stands for?

March 10, 2008: Photo In Search of a Caption: LOLWinehouse
Comments: 17 | Categories: Celebrities
Not sure we can top Mary-Kate and her Optimism Goggles (Victoria FTW!), but this photo of Amy Winehouse is cuter than a bukkit o' lolcats, so let's all do our best, okay? Bonus Added Difficulty: No cheezburgers.

March 10, 2008: Another Bourne Baby
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celebrities , Celebrity Babies
Matt Damon and his wife have confirmed, through Damon's representative, that they are expecting their second child together. According to the rep, the couple are - wait for it - "so excited!" Also! "They couldn't be happier!"

March 10, 2008: Heath Ledger's Will Revealed
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
In another lesson to keep your will up to date, Heath Ledger wrote a will leaving everything he owned to his parents and sister. The will was written in April 2003, prior to his relationship with Michelle Williams and the birth of their daughter, Matilda. A series of documents filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court revealed...

March 7, 2008: MamaPop Nominated For Logo Design Award, Soon To Rule World
Comments: 0 | Categories: Site Bizness
We promise to be nice supreme overlords, though. We'll have a bingo night and everything! BYO Ink Dotter! Okay, so how fabulous is this: MamaPop has been nominated for Best Entertainment Blog Logo in the Logo Design Love Awards! I KNOW! Little ol' us! Baby's all grownz up! Now would be the appropriate time to...

March 7, 2008: Xtina Makes Peanuts Drrty
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celebrities
I don't know about you, but I look at this picture - an outtake from Christina Aguilera's Marie Claire photo shoot last fall - and all I see is a naked, platinum-wigged Lucy Van Pelt doing some sort of Peanut burlesque on Schroeder's piano.

March 7, 2008: Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt On The Outs?!? PLEASE?!?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Celeb Couple Watch
(And yes, that DID require that level of excessive punctuation.) Oh please let this be true! Oh please oh please oh please...

March 7, 2008: "Your Mother's Very Partial to Cucumber"
Comments: 2 | Categories: Advertising
Oh, you frisky citizens of the United Kingdom Someday, perhaps even in my lifetime, it will dawn on the advertisers and citizens of the United States that (a) a woman's orgasm is just as ridiculously achieved as a man's, (b) masturbation is a fine and honorable tradition, even (or perhaps especially) within monogamous relationships, and...

March 7, 2008: Not-So Horrible People
Comments: 0 | Categories: Internet , TV
I think I like Horrible People, the soap opera parody show on My Damn Channel, the Web joint of MTV, VH1, and CBS exec Rob Barnett, who is not to be confused with Worldwide Pants guy Rob Burnett. (Next on my agenda is the intriguing Cookin with Coolio, no apostrophe.) But I'm not sure. On...

March 7, 2008: Shh, Don't Look Now, But I Believe Nicole Kidman May Be Growing Something In Her Uterus
Comments: 8 | Categories: Celebrity Babies
If I'm doing the math right (and by "math" I of course mean "taking Page Six's word for it"), Nicole is about five months pregnant. And she still appears to be gestating her child somewhere in between the lumbar vertabrae of her spine.

March 7, 2008: Friday Eye Candy: The Fussy Edition
Comments: 11 | Categories: Friday Eye Candy
Gotta love Fussy's pics ... Sam Rockwell

March 7, 2008: Britney's Spears' Father Remains Conservator
Comments: 2 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
It's been far too long without a Britney Spears legal post. The conservatorship that began in January has been extended until July. "I can confirm that the order was issued this afternoon, but I don't know the attorneys' motives," Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini told PEOPLE, on Wednesday. A source close to Britney says she's...

March 6, 2008: Like My Movie?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Celebrities , Movies
Lordy, two Anna Nicole posts in one day? What is this? 2007? Jezebel posted the trailer for the new movie about Anna Nicole Smith titled, shockingly, Anna Nicole. I smell Oscar, baby.

March 6, 2008: Okay, So There Are No Celebrities In This Post.
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kids
However, the following story is awesome and gives me a chance to use this picture that my good buddy Mr. Bunny shared on Google Reader today. With that out of the way, I bring you the following cuteness from Arizona...

March 6, 2008: "Is Bravo High?"
Comments: 1 | Categories: Celebrities , Reality TV , TV
I couldn't think of a better byline, so I cribbed it from my encyclopedia to all things celebrities, tmz.com. I have to admit that "Showgirls" is one of my guilty pleasures. Hilarious dance numbers, tacky costumes, Kyle MacLachlan and icy nipples. Whats not to like? But who'da thought that Elizabeth Berkley would have her own...

March 6, 2008: Completely Awesome Advertising
Comments: 7 | Categories: Advertising
Okay, let me first say that I concede that I'm a total dupe of the marketing geniuses behind this Verizon FIOS campaign, and that in posting this video I'm essentially playing into their money-grubbing meathook hands. I fully and freely admit that I am a lemming, a pawn, a tool of our evil capitalist overlords....

March 6, 2008: Holy!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrities
Paris Hilton purchased her own personal guru over the weekend! The two were spotted in Los Angeles browsing for trinkets and enlightenment at the venerable Bodhi Tree bookstore before moving on to the Urth Cafe for tea and shaktipat. Fortunately for the balance of the universe this is sort of a hoax? I hope. Because...

March 6, 2008: K-Fed: Get A Better Stylist
Comments: 36 | Categories: Celebrities
Update: First, I removed the reference to his gut, and - as I said in comments below - am very sorry if that reference offended anybody. Second - because everybody asked if this is really him - both K-Fed's rep and ex-partner Shar Jackson have confirmed that it is, indeed, him, and that that is...

March 6, 2008: Dannielynn Officially Named Anna Nicole Smith's Sole Heir
Comments: 6 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
I hemmed and hawed about writing this, because really, I think we should just leave this poor little girl alone. But really, it was the most interesting of the celebrity legal news of late. But I draw the line with pictures of her. A petition to have Anna Nicole Smith's 18-month-old daughter Dannielynnn declared the...

March 5, 2008: Wednesday Afternoon Timesuck
Comments: 5 | Categories: Timesuckers
So I'm guessing that everybody either 1) completed every level of Cubiz!2 by now, or 2) punted their computer out the window in wobbly-box-related frustration. Either way, you're ready for a new game, right? Ta-daaaa! Filler. The object of the game is to fill up two-thirds of the screen with filler balls, which are created...

March 5, 2008: Patrick Swayze Dying, Has Five Weeks To Live Has Cancer, Will Be OK
Comments: 15 | Categories: Celeb News
UPDATE: Effing National Enquirer. Okay, so apparently Patrick Swayze does indeed have cancer, but it isn't quite the dire, deathbed scene the National Enquirer would have us believe. According to People, Swayze's Doctor says: "Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far," Dr. Patrick...

March 5, 2008: Prayer: Lord Jesus, Please Stop the Lohans
Comments: 8 | Categories: Celebrities , Reality TV
Us Magazine reports that Dina Lohan and her 14-year-old daughter, Ali, will star in a reality show on E! called "Living Lohan." The show will serve as a platform to jump start Ali's career...because the post-reality-show success of so many entertainers is well-documented. But, financially, it's probably a smart move.

March 5, 2008: Whitney's Big Payday
Comments: 4 | Categories: Music
Well, this is quite a comeback! Guess how much Whitney's getting for an hour-long performance these days?

March 5, 2008: Heidi Klum: What Can I Say?
Comments: 5 | Categories: Celebrities
Why, Heidi? Why do you do this? I mean, it's one thing when you deep-throat hoagies on the ski slopes or when you fondle your tits on live television, but do you really have to adopt these postures when you're with your kids? Because, damn. There are just SO MANY GOOD POSSIBLE LINES about the...

March 5, 2008: "The Other Boleyn Girl" Review
Comments: 16 | Categories: Movies
Oh love and power. Individually both have been known to produce some mildly psychotic behavior in those affected but when combined they manifest as some seriously egregious, completely effed up, utterly batshit insane behavior. I am assuming that in real life none of this would have been all that entertaining but since much of this...

March 4, 2008: Lou Pearlman Cut One...a Deal, That Is
Comments: 3 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes , Celebrities
TMZ.com reports that the "genius" behind the Backstreet Boys and N*Sync cut a deal with prosecutors and will help to recover the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS that he stole from investors and defrauding banks. However, Pearlman is also being sued by Jabba the Hutt's morning bowel movement for impersonating it in both likeness and...

March 4, 2008: Weeping Pit Bulls, South Central Starbucks, and OG Homies
Comments: 14 | Categories: Books
"Hi, I'm Peggy Seltzer, a South Central gangster, and I'd like to tell you my story."

March 4, 2008: Reminder: American Idol *The Dudes Night* Open Thread Tonight!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Open Threads
(What does it say about me that every time I type "The Dudes" I think of The Big Lebowski? Is that good? Bad? Indifferent? Wha?) SO! Join us tonight over at the ye olde MamaPopTalk American Idol forum for all the hot young gay boy ackshon (eww, somehow that came out sounding all wrong... but...

March 4, 2008: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Comments: 6 | Categories: Horror , Music
*cries*

March 4, 2008: Now You Too Can Look as Ridiculous as Chloe Sevigny!
Comments: 21 | Categories: Fashion
The Look Book for Chloe Sevigny's new fashion line is available online today. Oh, you didn't know she was designing a fashion line? Sorry. I'll wait here while you go write that one down in your Countdown to the Apocalypse scrapbook. I have to admit that a number of pieces actually border on pretty cute...

March 4, 2008: “Please God, I Have So Little: Don’t Take Scrabulous Too.”
Comments: 3 | Categories: Internet , Technology , Timesuckers , Web Junk
The New York Times, normally a good two years behind when it comes to trend spotting, hit a bullseye this Sunday when they printed a front-page article that can explain to my family where I've been the last two months: playing Scrabble online. (Registration required to view the story.) As someone who currently has nine...

March 4, 2008: Somebody Luvses The Target
Comments: 10 | Categories: Celebrities
Guess who this is, shopping at Target and looking so unexpectedly soccer mom? No, seriously. Guess!

March 4, 2008: Kid Rock Pleads Not Guilty
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Robert James Ritchie, aka Kid Rock, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of battery stemming from a fight at a Waffle House in Atlanta, according to The Washington Post. You know, I totally forgot about the incident and now I'm giggling like it's the first time I heard it. "I'll take the nutty waffle...

March 3, 2008: Smart People Trailer Online!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Movies
Last year, my school was the set for a movie. I never did get used to walking to the bathroom and running into Dennis Quaid and Thomas Hayden Church. Smart People will be released in April and already received positive reviews at Sundance. The trailer looks pretty promising, don't you think? Plus, since wunderkind Ellen...

March 3, 2008: Best Actress Denies 9/11, Models Tinfoil Hat
Comments: 12 | Categories: Celeb News , WTF?
Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard revealed herself to be a conspiracy theory-spouting wing-nut in an interview from 2007 that was rebroadcast over the weekend. The interview was largely ignored when it first came out, but now that she's winning awards people are very interested in the fact that she thinks the collapse of the World Trade...

March 3, 2008: Kenickie Finds Xenu
Comments: 10 |
I'm not sure I've gone on the record with this, but I am a huge fan of VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. Yooge! I'm not even going to justify myself or enumerate the many reasons why this show is so very awesome, because...come on. You feel me, betches. Right? Admit it. ANYWAY. Mr. This...

March 3, 2008: Bargain Basement Bossy: The Project Runway Finale Countdown.
Comments: 15 | Categories: TV
Only Christian, Jillian, and Rami remain. Any predictions?

March 3, 2008: Real Housewives of New York City Premiere!
Comments: 7 | Categories: Reality TV
Bravo is taking us and our guilty pleasure-indulging selves to cross-country to to love-hate a new bunch of "Real Housewives" in NYC, starting tomorrow at 11 p.m. EST. (The show's regular timeslot will be at 10 on Tuesdays.) I hadn't planned on staying up quite that late tomorrow, but the preview (which you can see...

March 3, 2008: Hugh Jackman: O, Hai, I Needz Bifocals
Comments: 4 | Categories: Celebrities
Hugh Jackman, here, looks pretty much exactly what my neighbor's Black Lab/Border Collie cross would look like if he donned glasses and took to studying the English Literature. (Which, if he did, I would recommend starting with a little Dickens - probably one of the lesser works, like The Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit...

March 3, 2008: Amy Winehouse Cleared of Charges
Comments: 0 | Categories: Celeb Legal Woes
Authorities have decided not to take further action in connection with the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to pervert justice. In December, Winehouse was arrested, and later released, in connection with an alleged plan to derail a criminal case against her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. Last week, Fielder-Civil plead not guilty to charges stemming from...