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The Most Generous Celebrities

Parade magazine has released its Most Generous Stars list. Here are the top 10 (out of 30):

1. Oprah Winfrey — $50,200,000: The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and Oprah’s Angel Network - education, health care, and advocacy for women and children worldwide.

2. Herb Alpert — $13,000,000: The Herb Alpert Foundation - music education, including the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

3. Barbra Streisand — $11,000,000: The Streisand Foundation - the environment, women’s issues, civil rights, AIDS research and advocacy.

4. Paul Newman — $10,005,000: Scholarship for Kenyon College, his alma mater, in Gambier, Ohio.

5. Mel Gibson — $9,899,654: Holy Family Church in Malibu, Calif.

6. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — $8,400,000: The Jolie-Pitt Foundation - New Orleans reconstruction, refugee aid, cross-cultural understanding.

7. (tie) Lance Armstrong — $5,000,000: The Lance Armstrong Foundation - cancer research, education and advocacy.

7. (tie) Michael Jordan — $5,000,000: Hales Franciscan High School, a historically black all-boys school in Chicago.

7. (tie) Eric Lindros — $5,000,000: London Health Sciences Centre, a Canadian hospital where the former hockey player was treated.

10. Rush Limbaugh — $4,200,000: Financial assistance to the children of Marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

source: [examiner]

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Britney Spears & Mel Gibson Vacation Together

Britney Spears and Mel Gibson have packed their bags for a vacation together in Costa Rica. With all the pregnancy rumors swirling around Britney, I can’t help but wonder.

Britney Spears & Mel Gibson Vacation Together - Photo

ghw_quote1.jpgBritney arrived on time, about 5 minutes after Mel, and the plane departed at 9:05 a.m.

We spotted them leaving on a private plane to the Central American state early this morning. Sources tell us that Mel is taking Britney and her father JAMIE for a mini-vacation. We’ve learned they will be guests at Mel’s home in Costa Rica.

According to the terms of her custody Britney’s children cannot leave the country without special approval. There is no confirmation as to whether she sought approval and we’re told they are not joining her on the trip.

While the pop star and the actor may appear to be an unlikely duo, they used to live in the same Malibu community and were spotted having dinner together at Studio City’s Romanov restaurant in March.

source: Britney and Mel’s Weekend Vacay! [et online] image: [x17]

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Links To Hollywood - #108

The Story of Penny’s Rescue Will Melt Your Heart - Photo

The Story of Penny’s Rescue Will Melt Your Heart - City Rag

Bastardly Jailbait Alert - Evanna Lynch - The Bastardly

Mariah Carey is a Vision of Jugs - Celeb News Wire

Ryan Phillippe Will Not Be Voting for Hillary Clinton - Evil Beet Gossip

Kabbalah Party equals Hepatitis - Fatback Media

Valerie Bertinelli Was a Slut Too - Celebrity Smack

Mel Gibson is Such a Tease - Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Amy Winehouse Trashes Her Plush Hotel - Hot Momma Gossip

Rihanna Buys Some Art - Ninja Dude

Hayden Panettiere Has a Foot fetish - Drunken Stepfather

Publish Your Own Sex Tape in 3 Easy Steps - Gawker

Oh Mickey‘ Turns 26 - Popbytes

Ne-Yo, Bald and Busted - Pop On The Pop

Britney Spears at Age 36 and 46 Respectively - Allie is Wired

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Links To Hollywood - #76

Happy Halloween from Angelina Jolie - PIC

Angelina Jolie says Happy Halloween - Hollywood Rag

Kelly Osbourne’s Boobs Get Into Mischief - City Rag

Jennifer Lopez Sucks At Acting - Ninja Dude

Michael Jackson to Grace the Cover of Ebony Magazine - Dlisted

Danielle Lloyd in Her Best Skanky Costume - Celebrity Smack

Nip/Tuck, are You Going to Watch This Season? - Popbytes

Anna Friel is Pushing Nudity - Fatback and Collards

Mel Gibson Disses His Last Two Fans - Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Fergie Likes to Get it Doggy Style - Celeb News Wire

Double the Pleasure with The Veronicas - The Bastardly

Ashlee Simpson, Now 23 Years of Being Untalented - Mollygood

Man Yells at Jay Leno Crowd That He Is Anarchy - Best Week Ever

Another Sienna Miller Nipple Slip - Egotastic

Mary Carey Dresses as Herself for Halloween - Hollywood Tuna

Christina Aguilera Might Be Having Twins - I Don’t Like You in That Way

Daniel Smith’s Inquest Delayed - Splash News Online

Paris Hilton Will Still ‘Cut a Bitch’ Over One Night in Paris - Pop On The Pop

Today’s Hottest Celebrities Channeling Old-Hollywood Glamor - Allie is Wired

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Halle Berry Offends the Jewish Community

Halle Berry was apologizing last night after she’d made an apparent anti-Semitic joke while taping “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Friday afternoon. [see video below]

Halle Berry Offends the Jewish Community - PIC

Reports Page Six,

quote3.jpgThe Oscar-winning star, on the show to promote her movie “Things We Lost in the Fire,” was showing Leno and his audience images of herself on her computer using the Mac program Photo Booth, which distorts images like a carnival fun-house mirror.

According to one audience member, “She introduced the first photo by saying, ‘Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!’ - it was a picture of her with a huge, distorted nose. No one laughed, and Jay nervously said, ‘I’m glad you said that and not me.’ When the show aired, they cut out her ‘Jewish’ comment and added a laugh track to the bit.”

Another guest in the audience told us, “If you watch the clip, you can see Halle saying the word ‘Jewish,’ though obviously there is no audio. NBC covered her a - -. Ms. Berry should know how unbelievably inappropriate her comment was . . . She should be ashamed of herself.”

I’m sure she didn’t mean to offend anyone, she seems like such a nice gal… but you never know when you might offend someone by your comments. If you ‘think’ it might offend someone, just don’t say it.

What other’s said:

  • The Superficial says, “So Halle Berry makes an anti-Semitic joke and who does she blame? The Jews. I believe it’s time to hire a new publicist. You know, one that isn’t Hitler. In the meantime, somewhere, somehow, Mel Gibson has a giant boner.”
  • The Evil Beet says, “Anyway, I think she’s genuinely sorry, and, you know what, Jewish noses are funny sometimes. If Jerry Seinfeld had made that call, you would have laughed.”

source: Berry Nose Better Than That [ny page six]

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Mel Gibson, That is NOT the Face of a Sober Man!

Mel Gibson, That is NOT the Face of a Sober Man - PIC

Mel Gibson was spotted getting snookered in Bali last week. Oh Mel… you damn lush! The picture alone, makes this story funny… but there’s more.

quote8.jpg“He was in Bali and he was not drinking alcohol. He was drinking those non-alcoholic virgin cocktails that are made in those island resorts. People should not be so quick to assume things. Unless he is there drinking water, coffee, tea or soft drinks, they’re hawking misleading photos.”

I think they’d be better off saying something like, “I don’t comment on Mr. Gibson’s personal life, thank you..” It leaves them speechless, knowing that any other question is just a waste of time, but noooooo!

What other’s said:

  • Celebslam says, “I bet you fifty bucks Gibson’s rep knew he was going to Bali so she recorded that message on her answering machine a few days before he left just to cover her ass. ‘Hi, you’ve reached Lisa, you know what to do after the beep . . . If you’re calling about Mel Gibson, he was in Bali and he was not drinking alcohol. He was drinking those non-alcoholic virgin cocktails that are made in those island resorts. People should not be so quick to assume things. Unless he is there drinking water, coffee, tea or soft drinks, they’re hawking misleading photos.’”

source: Mel Gibson had fun [celebslam]

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Jerry Lewis Shows His Ignorant Side

Jerry Lewis Shows His Ignorant Side - PIC

It was Labor Day weekend, and we know what that means … another Jerry Lewis Telethon! And this year, Jerry Lewis decided to make it extra special and, after 18 hours of fundraising, called someone an “illiterate faggot”.

The telethon raised a record $63 million for muscular dystrophy despite the slur.

Check out the video here

What others are saying:

  • Best Week Ever says, “That didn’t stop the telethon from raising a record $63 million after enormous last-minute contributions from Isaiah Washington, Ozzie Guillen, and Mel Gibson.”
  • dlisted says, “Put this old, grouchy bitch in a home already! First, Jerry Lewis said that Merv Griffin “deserved” to die and now this?!”

Source: “Jerry Lewis Drops F-Bomb During Telethon” [TMZ]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood

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Top 25 Celebrity Quotes of All Time

Top 25 Celebrity Quotes of All Time - PIC

  • #25 - “You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. Everybody else you tell the truth to.”

    Jack Nicholson in the April 1994 issue of Vanity Fair.

  • #24 - “These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids — $500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.”

    Bill Cosby, addressing a Washington, D.C., crowd in 2004.

  • #23 - “The virginity issue. There are so many emotions involved that I would like to be able to wait until I know I’m with the right person and I’m married.”

    Britney Spears in a 2002 interview with Britain’s Daily Star.

  • #22 - “I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.”

    Mariah Carey on MTV’s TRL in 2001, before entering rehab for exhaustion.

  • #21 - The jury “was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.”

    Zsa Zsa Gabor to People in October 1989, after a jury found her guilty of slapping a Beverly Hills cop.

  • #20 - “That’s hot.”

    Paris Hilton’s trademark, dating back at least to the first season of The Simple Life in 2003. She eventually had the expression copyrighted.

  • #19 - “What are you looking at, sugar-tits?”

    Mel Gibson, to female deputy last summer after being pulled over for speeding and drunken driving.

  • #18 - “And if they want to hear that I’m dead, sorry, folks. I’m not. And I don’t plan on it.”

    Elizabeth Taylor on Larry King Live, May 30, 2006.

  • #17 - “I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime of the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable.”

    Justin Timberlake, in a statement after the 2004 Super Bowl spectacle with Janet Jackson.

  • #16 - “I’m in shock. And I’m so in love with my brother right now.”

    Angelina Jolie, thanking brother James Haven while accepting the supporting actress Oscar for 1999’s Girl, Interrupted.

  • #15 - “For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can’t part with you, which is why I won’t exclude you from this stage in my life.”

    Charlton Heston on Aug. 9, 2002, revealing he has Alzheimer’s.

  • #14 - “Psychiatry is a pseudoscience. … You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do. … Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don’t even — you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is.”

    Tom Cruise to Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today, June 24, 2005.

  • #13 - “I’m too much of an erratic moody baby! I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

    Kurt Cobain’s suicide note from April 5, 1994.

  • #12 - “Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left.”

    George Burns, at his 90th birthday tribute, George Burns 90th Birthday Special, taped Jan. 11, 1986.

  • #11 “Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.”

    Whitney Houston in 2002 on ABC’s Primetime.

Seriously, “What are you looking at, sugar-tits?” for the win!!


Top 10 Celebrity Quotes After the Jump!

 

Mel Gibson Still Enjoys the Ladies, Probably the Alcohol

Mel Gibson in Costa Rica

Was AA part of the Mel Gibson punishment after his DUI in L.A.? If so, he may not be doing so well. Mel was spotted with that look of “I love booze” at a bar in Costa Rica where he recently purchased a multi-million dollar home.

Source: Maple Juice

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Vivica A. Fox Calls Cop ‘Racist’ at DUI Arrest

Vivica A. Fox apparently thinks only white people should be arrested for drunk driving.

Vivica A. Fox Calls Cop ‘Racist’ at DUI Arrest Actress Vivica A. Fox arrives at the 7th annual BET Awards Tuesday, June 26, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg) quote-picVivica A. Fox called a state patrol officer a “racist white cop” during her drunken

The 42-year-old actress, who is black, was pulled over in March after passing a California Highway Patrol officer who said her Cadillac was doing 80 mph and weaving in its lane on the Hollywood Freeway.

The officer noticed that Fox’s eyes were red and watery and that she had a “strong odor” of alcohol, according to the report. After she failed sobriety tests, he arrested Fox for investigation of driving under the influence.

“Fox began to walk away, yelling at my partner, ‘Brother, help a sister, are you going to let this racist white cop do this. … Well, are you?’” according to the report.

Somehow, I don’t think this will get as much attention as Mel Gibson’s drunken rant about Jews.

Source: CHP report: Fox called cop a ‘racist’ (AP-YahooNews)

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