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I know this will come as a shock to you but it doesn’t look like Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey’s marriage is going to make it. In fact, they’ve apparently filed for divorce.
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey look like they’re on their way to a speedy divorce, according to legal papers filed in L.A. County Superior Court.
The documents, signed by both Lachey and Simpson, request that retired Superior Court Judge Dana Senit Henry be appointed “for the sole purpose of” ending the couple’s marriage.
The former Newlyweds are asking the judge to “bifurcate” the case, meaning to make the divorce official without settling all the financial details of the split. The decision should come within a month’s time.
In fact, money has been a sticking point between the couple since their split last November. Soon after Simpson filed for divorce on December 16, Lachey specified that he reserved the right to ask for spousal support, though in a published interview he denied that he planned to ask for alimony.
Professionally, Simpson has been causing quite a buzz with her new video for her single “Public Affair.” Simpson costars in it with Eva Longoria, Christina Applegate and Ryan Seacrest among others, and shot it recently at a Los Angeles roller rink.
And they seemed so right for one another, too.
ASL observes: “Get ready for a fierce battle over the millions that Jessica Simpson earned while the couple was married. Under California law, all earnings and most other assets acquired during their marriage are divided 50/50. She has offered Nick considerably less than 50%.” She also provides several photographs demonstrating why Simpson commands so much money.
UPDATE: The divorce is already final:
Famous “Newlyweds” Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey are single again. Papers filed Friday in Superior Court show the pop stars “are restored to the status of single, unmarried persons.”
That was fast.
Egotastic’s Phil has uncovered a major scoop: Courtney Cox has nipples!
He apparently enlisted her child as an accomplice. Thumbnailed below is the photo montage.
  
Notice how the child grabs the bikini strap, then yanks down to reveal the nipple and surrounding breast tissue. In the subsequent photo, the bikini is back in place, covering said nipples and breasts as is customary in public places.
(If you’re only interested in Courtney’s nipples and not the art of the exposure, just click the second photo.)
Harrison Ford is going to marry Calista Flockhart, an anorexic woman young enough to be his daughter, according to the tabloids.
 Harrison Ford will finally marry long-term girlfriend Calista Flockhart, according to a US report.
It is believed thought the pair - who have been dating for four years - will tie the knot later this year.
According to America’s National Enquirer magazine, Calista - who is 22 years younger than 63-year-old Harrison - is thrilled the pair are finally going to exchange vows.
The magazine also claims the ‘Indiana Jones’ actor has agreed to adopt a baby with Calista, who already has an adopted son, four-year-old Liam.
A source said: “They celebrated their fourth anniversary as lovers recently, and he gifted her with a stunning diamond bracelet from Tiffany’s after a romantic dinner. Yet, as good as their relationship is, Harrison has always been marriage-shy. SOURCE
Frankly, while the age difference is substantial, Ford is a very young 63 owing to his fitness level and age differences matter much less as people get older. A 33-year-old dating an 11-year-old would be criminal and a 44-year-old dating a 21-year-old would be an emotional mismatch; it’s probably no big deal at 53/31, much less 63/41. At that point, both have reached full maturity.
Surely, FemaleFirst could have found a better photo of Ford. He sure doesn’t look happy about his impending marriage!
The original “Laura” will be returning to “General Hospital” to commemorate the 25th anniversary of her fictional wedding to Luke Spencer.
“General Hospital” is giving fans much to talk about: the reunion of Luke and Laura Spencer, the ABC soap opera’s most popular couple.
Genie Francis, who originated the role of Laura nearly 30 years ago, will return to the show — and to the fictional town of Port Charles — to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Luke and Laura’s wedding, which was seen by 30 million viewers on Nov. 16, 1981, ABC announced Tuesday.
Francis, 44, will appear in a series of episodes beginning in the middle of October, the network said.
“I’m very happy to be returning to my `General Hospital’ family and look forward to portraying a role that means a lot to me as well as the fans who have supported the character throughout the years,” Francis said in a statement.
I’m not exactly a soap opera fan but do recall the huge buzz this “wedding” generated back then. Yes, I’m almost surely older than you.
Tom Hanks has been inducted into the Army Ranger Hall of Fame.
Actor Tom Hanks was inducted Thursday as an honorary member of the U.S. Army’s Ranger Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a World War II Army Ranger company commander in the movie “Saving Private Ryan” and for his continued commitment to honoring those who served in the war.
Besides his role in “Saving Private Ryan,” Hanks was cited for serving as the national spokesman for the World War II Memorial Campaign, for being the honorary chairman of the D-Day Museum Capital Campaign, and for his role in writing and helping to produce the Emmy Award-winning miniseries, “Band of Brothers.”
Hanks, who was unable to attend the induction ceremony, becomes the first actor to receive such an honor.
Certainly, a well-deserved honor given Hanks’ contributions to raising awareness of the heroism of WWII soldiers. Still, I’d have waited to induct him for an occasion when he could fit it into his schedule.
The honor is not totally unprecedented. George M. Cohan, who wrote a series of patriotic songs that inspired the WWI and WWII generations, including “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, “Over There,” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal (not, as popularly believed owing to the film “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” the Medal of Honor) by FDR.
Marc Cherry, the creator of Desperate Housewives, has come out of the closet.
No, not as a gay man. He is openly gay but that’s not exactly a big story in Hollywood. He’s a Republican.
Michael Demmons has photos and video from the first day of the Log Cabin Republican convention, including pictures of himself with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver. But the big news is that Marc Cherry was there as the keynote speaker. Here he is with Michael:
Michael has a video of the festivities, including Cherry’s speech.
 Actor George Hamilton helps measure the World’s Largest Beach Towel on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 on Hermosa Beach, Calif. The enormous towel measured 131 feet by 78 feet and weighed over 1,000 lbs.
This is utter insanity. Cause you know when you need to measure something the first guy you think about is George Hamilton. I’m sure they really needed his expertise.
 
 A New Jersey man who was arrested after he and an accomplice tried to sell the couple’s stolen wedding video back to them for $1 million pleaded guilty Thursday, June 29, 2006, in New York to attempted grand larceny.
What a fool.
 Writer Stephen King raises his fist as Pedro Martinez is announced as the starting pitcher for the New York Mets at the start of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday, June 28, 2006.
He’s weird, look at him. He’s just weird. I love The Shining, I love Stand By Me, and I love his work in general, but dude, come on, throw away that shirt! It’s gross. It’s not like he can’t afford a nicer shirt. Even one from the gift shop would do.
At least he’s not as bad as Dean Koontz, remember that post? Why do writers have zero style?
 
The legendary guitarist Johnny Jenkins died Monday at 67.
Johnny Jenkins, a guitarist who worked with Otis Redding in the early 1960s and influenced Jimi Hendrix through his acrobatic playing style, has died. He was 67. Jenkins died Monday night at a hospital in Macon, according to Jones Brothers Eastlawn Chapel.
Jenkins was touring around the South, playing fraternity parties and other venues with his band, the Pinetoppers, when he met up with Redding. “So I went up to him, and I said, ‘Do you mind if I play behind you? … I can make you sound good,”‘ Jenkins recalled in the book “Sweet Soul Music” by Peter Guralnick. “Well, he sounded great with me playing behind him — and he knowed it.”
That he did.
AOL Music has an excellent bio:
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny Jenkins may have had a long pause between records, but his heart, ears and mind were always close to blues music. Jenkins never wanted to be a professional musician, and always worked day jobs, including digging wells, logging and mechanic work. Jenkins’ style is at times reminiscent of Elmore James, and at other times, one can hear echoes of Jimi Hendrix in Jenkins’ guitar playing — probably because Jenkins was a seminal influence on Hendrix.
Jenkins, born in Macon, Georgia in 1939, grew up in a rural area called Swift Creek. He listened to a battery-powered radio and first heard the sounds of blues and classic R&B, artists like Bill Doggett, Bullmoose Jackson and others. Jenkins built his first guitar out of a cigar box and rubber bands when he was nine, and began playing at a gas station for tips. He played it left-handed and upside down, and this practice continued after his older sister bought him a real guitar a couple of years later.
Capricorn Records founder Phil Walden first heard Jenkins on a local radio talent show in 1959. Walden began to book Jenkins’ band, the Pinetoppers, which included Otis Redding on lead vocals. Redding got his first big break in 1962 when he drove Jenkins to the Stax Studios in Memphis to record a follow-up to Jenkins’ regional hit, “Love Twist.” The producer encouraged the young Redding to take a turn at singing in the studio, and he recorded “These Arms Of Mine” with some extra studio time. Redding’s career began to take off and Jenkins was asked to become part of his band, but Jenkins refused, ironically because of his fear of airline travel.
Following Redding’s untimely demise in an airplane crash, Jenkins stayed close to home, playing regionally and working day jobs to support his family. His unorthodox guitar style left lasting marks on the young, impressionable Jimi Hendrix, who came out to see Jenkins play while visiting relatives in the Macon area. Later, in 1969, Jenkins and Hendrix teamed up to play together at The Scene, a club owned by Steve Paul in New York. In 1970, Walden put Jenkins into the studio with several members of the Allman Brothers Band to record his debut album, Ton Ton Macoute, one of the fledgling Capricorn label’s first releases. Although Ton Ton Macoute was finally released to high critical praise in 1972, the then-small label had other priorities to deal with, including the newly successful Allman Brothers.
Lots of links at the original providing background on most of the proper names.
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Andreia Schwartz gives new meaning to the phrase “high priced call girl.”
The Brazilian bombshell accused of running a million-dollar call girl ring out of her midtown condo told cops her two biggest sugar daddies paid her a total $250,000 for sex, it was revealed yesterday.
But money aside, Andreia Schwartz said she’d rather sleep with women than her newly revealed benefactor Robert Voccola, a 68-year-old money manager, or her other supposed paramour, Time Warner Chief Financial Officer Wayne Pace. “I wouldn’t have kept having sex with [Pace] or any of these guys if they weren’t paying me,” Schwartz said in a statement unveiled yesterday during her arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court. “I don’t do guys for money anymore,” she told cops. “I only do girls.”
Schwartz, 31, who pleaded not guilty to prostitution, selling drugs and money laundering, told cops shortly after her arrest that Pace and Voccola were helping pay her bills. “I got up to $200,000 … from just one guy, who worked for AOL, in cash, mortgage payments, checks and other things,” Schwartz said in an apparent reference to Pace.
Life wasn’t quite as lucrative with Voccola, the chief investment officer of Barrett Associates, Schwartz said. “We have sex once or twice a week over the past year and a half,” she said. “He’s given me about $50,000 a year in cash, mortgage payments, checks and other things. He also gave me a credit card and financial advice, telling me where to invest.”
Prosecutors also revealed that U.S. Customs was probing Schwartz after they caught her bringing wads of cash into the country. “She has grossly underreported her income,” Assistant District Attorney John (Artie) McConnell said. “She should expect additional charges.”
One would hope. It’s bad enough to overcharge guys for sex without then demeaning them in public. She’s an attractive woman and all that but, geez, a quarter mil?
Sadly, these smallish non-nude photos are all I could dig up:
Kate Hudson has installed a strip club style pole in her home. For fitness, don’t you know?
Years ago, Morris dancing was enough to keep folk happy - my, how things have changed. These days, the trend is to erect a pole in the home, strip off and dance around it… and we’re not talking May poles.
We all knew Zoe Ball liked to wind her way around a bit of steel, but Hollywood elite Kate Hudson also likes to perform on a pole, to liven up her love life. The star of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, who’s married to Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson, has been revealing (almost) all to the Daily Mirror. “I don’t want to do it too often. It’s one of those things that happens - if it’s his lucky night,” she said.
But it’s not all about lust. Honest. Kate insists pole dancing is a tremendous way to keep fit. “It’s a very gruelling exercise,” she said. SOURCE
Intriguing. Well, it seems to be working in Kate’s case; she’s obviously quite fit.
     
It gets better. She reveals to MTV that she enjoys walking around naked.
Kate Hudson is cover-girl gorgeous, has an infectious laugh, loves to play poker and enjoys cleaning up after her man. It’s no surprise, then, that Matt Dillon and Owen Wilson developed huge crushes on her during the filming of July 14’s uninvited-guest comedy “You, Me and Dupree.” We caught up with the radiant Oscar nominee recently to discuss her co-stars’ blush-inducing affection; Hudson’s love for her mom, Goldie Hawn; and one last quality that could also win over a few men: her tendency to walk around in the nude.
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MTV: Explain the dream sequence, for those who haven’t seen the film yet.
Hudson: Well, there’s such a buildup to that scene, because Owen’s character, Dupree, comes and moves into our house and everything sort of goes awry. Matt’s character, who’s my husband, is having a really horrible time at work, and my father is his boss. Basically, what ends up happening is Owen and I form a relationship, and at the dinner [we see] Matt’s mind as it gets away from him. He goes into this daydream sequence of us on this boat. I’m in a tiny little bathing suit, with my hair done up … and Lance Armstrong’s there.
MTV: And Lance is sitting in a chair watching you seduce Owen.
Hudson: [She laughs.] Lance is sitting right behind me, and I’m sitting up on this thing with Owen, and I had to straddle Owen. So all Lance saw was my butt! That was it. That was all he saw.
MTV: Did you ever think you’d someday film a seduction scene as an Olympic cyclist stared at you and rubbed …
Hudson: … a thing of butter? [She laughs.] I know, that sounds so horrible! But no, I never thought I’d be there.
MTV: It must have felt like you were making some celebrity porno video that could be leaked on the Internet.
Hudson: Yeah, right! [She laughs.] “Anybody seen the tape with Kate, Owen and Lance Armstrong?” [She laughs.] Um, yeah.
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MTV: If one of your fans were to let you crash on their couch, what Dupree-esque qualities might they be appalled by?
Hudson: Similar to Dupree, it would probably have something to do with nudity. [She laughs.] Well, I don’t know if they’d be so upset with that. I am female. I’ve never been one to be too shy with that.
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Hudson: That’s great. Now I’m blushing. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’m half-naked for half this movie. [She laughs.] It could have something to do with me being in my underwear for a lot of this movie.
MTV: That’s true, but some of those scenes were shot from the neck down. Tell us the truth: Was there ever a butt double?
Hudson: [She fakes indignation.] For me? No! I don’t need a butt double. It’s all me. I’ll stick with my own body, thank you.
MTV: I think the fans appreciate that.
Hudson: I’ve always been very open with my body in films, even if it’s “Skeleton Key” when I was 30 pounds overweight. I have no qualms about being open with my body. I mean, it’s part of what I do, so I’m OK with it. [She laughs.] As long as it’s not exploitative — like me riding Matt with my top off! I mean, that will probably not happen.
A great loss to the arts, that.
Lost actess Emilie de Ravin has married someone I’ve never heard of.
 Emilie de Ravin, 24, who plays Claire Littleton on the ABC hit series Lost, wed actor Josh Janowicz on June 19 in a small, private ceremony in Melbourne, Australia, with family and friends on hand. The groom wore Hugo Boss. For her walk down the aisle, de Ravin selected an ivory Monique Lhuillier Chantilly lace scoop neck top with cap sleeves, paired with a satin paneled trumpet skirt and accented with a cameo ribbon sash.
The couple dated for three years before becoming engaged on January 1, 2005, while visiting de Ravin’s family in Australia for the holidays.
Though Lost is filmed in Hawaii, the couple reside in Los Angeles, California, with their pet dog, Bella. De Ravin recently starred in the thriller The Hills Have Eyes. Janowicz, 24, has appeared in the film The Chumscrubber and will next be seen in the film On the Doll.
Via US Weekly blog, where the readers have apparently not heard of de Ravin, either, and are mad that anyone is posting about it. Consider this my stance in solidarity with US Weekly and Z-list stars, everywhere.
Britney Spears is pregnant and no longer at her physical peak. What better time to do some naked photos for Harper’s Bazaar?
    
The hot celebrity chick posing naked while pregnant stunt was novel when Demi Moore did it. It’s been copied so many times in the intervening years, though, that it’s rather mundane. And, when Britney Spears does it, a trend has officially jumped the shark.
Still, I find the photos strangely compelling. She’s a strange woman with some severe trailer trash tendencies, yet often quite beautiful and much smarter and more talented than she’s usually given credit for.
On the other hand, CelebGuru, Celebrity Blog, and others are right to point out that she can’t whine about lack of privacy when she’s posing naked with her son while showing off her child-laden belly.
UPDATE: Mandy and I were composing posts on this one simultaneously. Ordinarily, since she got hers up first, I’d take mine down and post it as an update to hers. Since I’ve sent trackbacks to two other sites, though, I’m moving her comments here, instead:
Britney bares all (or most) for Harper’s Bazaar By Hi-Heeled Hotties
Aaaaaaa!! Say it ain’t so! A black-haired Britney Spears bares it all (with v. strategically placed body parts covering what can’t be shown) on the cover of the August 2006 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
Egads! I just don’t know what to say.
UPDATE (James): Interestingly, Danny at BritneySpy, whose URL is stamped on most of these pictures even though I couldn’t find them on the site when I went to look, now has a note up saying, “This will probably never be released. I am informed that Britney decided to scrap the photoshoot, so unfortunately you won’t get the chance to buy this magazine.” Well, obviously, she didn’t scrap the photoshoot. I don’t know what the terms of her release agreement with Harper’s is, though.
Poor kids. They thought they had it all planned out. But the paparazzi has been with them the whole time. LOL.
pics: People
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