French film actor Gerard Depardieu was caught short on a Paris to Dublin flight and chose not to bother going to the toilet before relieving himself, says airline CityJet.
“I will only confirm that he, in effect, urinated in the plane,” a spokeswoman for the Air France-KLM subsidiary said on Wednesday, confirming a report on Europe 1 radio, which interviewed a passenger who witnessed the incident.
According to the passenger, who was not named, the 62-year-old was visibly inebriated and tried to stand up before take-off, when passengers are asked to wear seatbelts, declaring: “I want to piss, I want to piss.”
When a stewardess asked him to sit and wait 15 minutes until the jet took off and reached cruising altitude, he said he could not wait. “And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor,” she told the French broadcaster.
“We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded,” she added. “No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned.”
Anderson Cooper could barely contain himself while talking about the incident.
For some odd reason, there is nothing as infectiously hilarious as watching someone try and fail to keep a straight face.
‘The Ridiculist‘ is the recurring segment on AC360 in which host Anderson Cooper reports on the sublimely absurd stories of the day.
It was just a few days ago that someone tried to take a photo of Jake Gyllenhaal while he was peeing in a bathroom and now Playgirl are offering $10,000 to anybody who can get a nude photo of Anderson Cooper.
Anderson apparently tops the list of “10 Guys We Want to See Naked” at the Playgirl office and I’m gonna guess they don’t have enough money to make him a direct offer so they are going to do the next best thing and ask everybody to stalk him in hopes that he gets naked in a public place so they can buy the photos.
Daniel Nardicio, the head man at Playgirl, says “he’s got this charisma that a lot of our readers are attracted to, plus now he’s all muscled, [so] he’s not only smart but also hot, both our male and female readers love Anderson.”
I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or be disgusted at this, it’s funny in the sense that you know there is going to be some creepers out there who will try do it but it’s disgusting that our culture is now to the point magazines are willing to pay out money for us to invade celebrities privacy so much. So which one of you is going to try get this money?
Anderson Cooper and his crew were attacked by supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo early Wednesday, according to the Huffington Post.
CNN Coverage Manager Steve Brusktweeted that Cooper was “was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration.”
Cooper was covering dueling demonstrations between pro-Mubarak supporters and those calling for the president to be removed from office when he and his crew came under attack.
No major injuries were reported, and the anchor spoke to CNN’s ‘American Morning’ early Wednesday about the attack. “My team were set upon by the crowd,” Cooper said via telephone from a Cairo hotel.
“There was no rhyme or reason to it — it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point and punching us.”
“They at first started going for the cameras; they didn’t want any pictures taken,” Cooper said. “The crowd kept growing, kept throwing punches, kicks … suddenly a young man would look at you and punch you in the face.”
CNN issued an update this morning indicating there were no serious injuries sustained during the attack.
Cooper and his crew had been trying to steer clear of the protesters by remaining in a neutral zone between the two groups. But as the size of the crowd increased, the situation became less stable, resulting in violence between the two factions in the increasingly unstable country.
In the latest ‘Saturday Night Live‘ digital short, seen on last night’s episode, binge-drinking Andy Samberg is a good, old-fashioned bad influence…on Pee-wee Herman!
After the two down shots in a rowdy bar, Samberg leads Pee-wee (Paul Reubens) into a full-fledged bender of furniture-breaking debauchery even the cops can’t stop.
Friends try to stage an intervention, but the new BFFs fail to see it through for more than a few super-serious, barely sober seconds.
And out of nowhere, Anderson Cooper pops up, brandishing his secret weapon: his likeable talent for making fun of the gravitas that has made him a media star (only NBC anchor Brian Williams rivals him in the self-deprecation department).
Don’t miss the moment when Pee-wee’s sweet friend Chairy tells Cooper to “Get the #@*% off me!”
The episode, hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow, was a mixed bag, but drunk Pee Wee was a highlight.
Anderson Cooper posted this picture on his Twitter with the little note:
From ac: in IA for story on ape communication. The apes asked me to dress as a rabbit. Weird, huh? http://twitpic.com/2xd7lq
Suffice it to say, the picture went viral. Cooper’s somewhat vague explanation, about apes asking him to dress as a rabbit, didn’t really help the matter.
So why was Cooper dressed like a rabbit?
Cooper is working on a series of reports about how animals think, which will air in November.
In his new movie, The Dilemma, Vince Vaughn uses the the phrase “that’s so gay” well this didn’t settle too well with Anderson Cooper because he has lashed out at Vince and the movie.
Anderson was on the Ellen DeGeneres show discussing homophobic bullying, which has seen a raise in teenagers committing suicide, when he talked about the the trailer for The Dilemma, he said…
“I was sitting in a movie theater over the weekend and there was a preview of [Vince Vaughn's new] movie, and in it, the actor said, ‘that’s so gay,’ and I was shocked that not only that they put it in the movie, but that they thought that it was okay to put that in a preview for the movie to get people to go and see it, “I just find those words, those terms – we’ve got to do something to make those words unacceptable ’cause those words are hurting kids. Someone else I talked to recently said that the words people use and the things people say about other kids online, it enters into their internal dialogue. When you’re a kid, it can change the way you see yourself and the way you think about yourself – the worth that you give to yourself. I think we really need to focus on what language we’re using and how we’re treating these kids.”
For once I actually agree with Anderson Cooper, I absolutely hate the phrase “that’s so gay,” whenever I hear people say it I jump down their throats and give them hell.
source: Anderson Cooper Slams Vince Vaughn’s Use Of ‘That’s So Gay’ [Just Jared]
The Church of Scientology has gotten aggressive with its campaign in the wake of Cooper’s week-long “Scientology: A History of Violence,” which aired at the end of March.
While that was some time ago, a few months is apparently the amount of time it takes to create the very unusual 95-page glossy publication Freedom magazine handed out on the street Monday morning in front of the CNN offices in Manhattan.
Freedom, “published by the Church of Scientology since 1968,” devoted the entire issue — and accompanying 30 minute DVD — to attempt the takedown of the CNN anchor, the “AC360″ crew, and the interview subjects featured in the series. (Please do yourself a favor and check out Cooper’s “statement” at 11:30 in this incredible video.)
As noted in their video, the Church of Scientology now owns its own printing facilities to manufacture publications like these. And Cooper is not the only journalist to be targeted by the group. In 2009, Freedom went “inside the St. Petersburg Times” and in 2007 “exposed” the BBC program “Panorama.”
source: Scientology’s Wacky Indictment of Anderson Cooper [gawker]
Anderson Cooper is launching a weeklong series about Scientology starting Monday, covering many of the allegations against the controversial religion.
Anderson Cooper 360, the CNN anchor’s nightly news show, is looking at Scientology’s “history of violence,†especially allegations that leader – and Tom Cruise best friend – David Miscavige has personally physically abused his followers.
Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis, son of actress Anne Archer, is interviewed by Cooper and claims that while there has been violence committed against members in the elite Sea Organization, the guilty offenders are those very people now making allegations against Miscavige.
Scientology is increasingly coming under attack by top-ranking members who’ve left the organization. Interestingly, none of the top Hollywood stars who support Scientology, including Cruise, John Travolta, Jenna Elfman and Kirstie Alley, have commented.
What do you think of Scientology and will you be watching the Anderson Cooper weeklong series? It’s sure to enlighten us a little more into what exactly is happening in Scientology right now.
source: Anderson Cooper Tackles Scientology [radar online]
Usually trapped behind a public veil of un-acknowledgment and elephants in rooms, Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend Benjamin Maisani made his big debut at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party.
But miraculously, his name managed to escape the photo agency’s captions.
The Getty-owned WireImage agency took this picture of Cooper, the Seinfelds, and the back of what appears to be Maisani’s head in what is the closest thing to visual confirmation of the pair attending together.
The arrival of the CNN newsman and the East Village gay bar owner together is a milestone because the party was a “very public event,” notes Brian Moylan.
Which is true, in a sense: All eyes are on the party, and there’s a massive photo dump going on in real-time as photographers snap away at guest arrivals and such, uploading pictures to WireImage’s servers before offloading them to People.com and other high bidders.
Why so serious Anderson?
source: Anderson Cooper Let His Boyfriend See Daylight at the Oscars [queerty]
The National Enquirer says Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend will adopt a Haitian baby. Even crazier than that, the National Enquirer is talking about Cooper’s boyfriend on the front page.
Unlike when Page Six made a veiled reference to his relationship with Benjamin Maisani, this story is putting it out there in every supermarket checkout and news stand in America.
After saving one on national television, Anderson is said to be bringing home a Haitian orphan of his own and will raise it with Maisani.
You know, the whole “adopting a baby” thing is just a front, so the Enquirer has a reason to talk about his personal life.
source: Anderson Cooper’s Casually Outed in Haitian Adoption Tale [gawker]
“We were covering another story when we heard shots being fired. We ran toward the sound and found a store being looted. Two Haitian police officers were occasionally firing into the air to try to keep order, but that only worked for a few moments, then the looting would begin again.
They were stealing boxes of candles. An American businessman named Tony who owns two stores nearby barricaded one street to keep looters away. He had armed the two Haitian police with automatic weapons, and they were assisting him, but they were not able to control anything beyond their barricade.
It quickly became a free-for-all. Young men began fighting one another for the stolen items. A number of young men had knives, and planks of wood, screwdrivers and rocks. They were using their improvised weapons to threaten and injure others who had stolen items from the store. The robbers were now being robbed. One group of looters whipped another man with a leather belt. They punched him as well, and they stole the sack of goods he’d just stolen.
I was in the midst of the melee with Charlie Moore, my producer, Neil Hallsworth my cameraman, Vlad Duthiers, my translator, and there was a still photographer from Getty Images with us, photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik. As things got really out of control, I saw a looter on the roof of the store they’d broken into throw what I think was part of a concrete block into the crowd. It hit a small boy in the head.
I saw him collapse. More chunks of concrete were being thrown at the looters on the roof. The injured boy couldn’t get up. He’d try and then collapse again. Blood was pouring from his head. He was conscious but had no control over his body. I was afraid someone on the roof would see him lying there and throw another cinder block piece onto him. I was afraid he’d get killed. No one seemed to be helping him.
I ran to where he was struggling, and picked him up off the ground. I brought him to a spot about a hundred feet away. I could feel his warm blood on my arms. I stood him up, but he was clearly unable to walk. He wiped his bloody face, and I tried to reassure him. He had no idea where he was, and he clearly couldn’t walk, so I picked him up again and handed him over to someone behind that makeshift barricade. Tony, the American businessman, gave the boy a wet towel. He was then taken away by someone else. We don’t know what happened to him.
I hope he’s ok.”
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The response to Anderson Cooper’s brave and unselfish act has been overwhelming. It’s best described by the comment below:
Anderson Cooper as a Haitian – American you are a God Sent, you are Truly an angel on earth… Thank you so much for Being there for my people. That little boy could of died…(crying), but you risked your life to save him… Haiti will be rebuild and you will always be remembered for your Heroic effort.
While I know it crosses the line between being part of the news and or covering it, you and Sanjay are certainly stepping up. How could you not be involved, really. Be careful.
