Angelina Joliehas revealed that two of the tattoos she acquired for her latest film Wanted are a homage to Britain’s World War II leader.
The words in gothic script on her upper arms come from a speech Sir Winston made on the day he took office in 1940. In an interview for US television, Jolie said:
“We tried to focus the tattoos on themes related to this sense of justice, ‘We have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat’, I had ‘toil’ and ‘tears’.”
For Jolie, playing a trained killer called Fox in Wanted was a relief from the usual experience of having her extensive body art collection covered up.
“Instead of taking mine away, which we have to do in every film, we ended up leaving mine and adding more,” she said. “I have ’strength of will’ in one language, and we added it in four other languages on my arm. “‘Know Your Rights’ is printed in English on the back of my neck, and again in Latin as well.”
After the birth of her twins, she will have the map co-ordinates of their place of birth tattooed on her arm.
All I can say is Bizarre - yet strangely appealing.
This is one of those sex tapes you want to see. Even though I find Ryan Phillippe to be uptight and a bit of prude, he manages to prove me wrong. While on Jimmy Kimmel show he too fell victim to the video clip parody schtick that is becoming Kimmel’s moniker.
The sex tape shows Ryan and Jimmy’s older security guard engaging in foreplay. (She looks a bit like Rosario from Will and Grace.) With his new tattoos exposed it makes me wonder if this desperation bleeds into real life or if the mythical baby with Abbie Cornish is keeping him company.
Source: Ryan Phillippe gets it on with Veatrice [Masala]
The legion of lensmen has been infiltrated by L.A. gang members — Crips and Bloods, according to some photo-agency heads. They claim rival agencies are arming the thugs with cameras and sending them out to do battle with the dozens of paps who rubberneck around Hollywood’s favorite train wreck.
Veteran snapper Nick Stern, who quit the Splash agency this month, said: “I’ve heard stories of fights, of car tires being slashed, cars being blocked in.”
All of the agency heads we interviewed said they do not hire street toughs.
“They may dress like gang members with large pants and tattoos, but to say they’re gang members right now, well, real gang members are not into Britney Spears,” said Frank Navarre, a Frenchman who owns the X17 agency. “I think red carpet is worse. I used to do red carpet myself, and one guy broke my camera.”
“Britney Spears attracts huge numbers of photographers, and whoever muscles their way to the front gets the best picture. They’re not AP photographers wearing flak jackets, but that’s not to say they’re thugs, either,” said Chris Doherty, owner of the INF agency, which got the first photo of Spears after she was sprung from the UCLA Med Center psych unit Wednesday. “We got it because we didn’t follow the gang mentality.”
It gets hairy just being on the road with the “Mad Max“-style convoy of snappers who chase Spears.
Brad Elterman, who owns Buzz Foto, got out of Brit biz after his agency got the closeup of Spears strapped to a gurney.
“It’s too dangerous,” said Elterman, whose work will be featured in the show “Paparazzi as an Art Form” at L.A.’s Maryam Seyhoun Gallery. “She goes through a yellow light, you go through a red. People break laws. I tell my guys now, ‘Don’t speed, don’t chase, and stay away from Britney Spears.’”
Things may get safer now that the singer is under psychiatric care and Jamie Spears has had his daughter’s vehicles garaged. But no one can tow away the story.
“I cannot say she’s boring, no,” says Navarre. “I must say she’s been pretty good at renewing herself. She doesn’t accept any authority, any boundaries. To some people, that looks crazy. She’s stronger than you think.”
Still kissing her ass after all this time. Oops, did I say that?
What others said:
The Superficial says, “I want to say this whole Britney situation has officially reached new levels of insanity, but at least these guys are off the streets and earning an honest living. Capitalism does work! Hold on there’s someone at the door. Hey, sorry, folks but there’s a nice young man here by the name of Fuk-U-Up who wants to pistol whip me in the street for crediting some photos wrong.”
Jossip says, “Yeah, it would be so unlike X17 to violate whatever decency there is in the celeb-photo business.”
source: Paparazzi fear Britney Spears shoots [daily mail]
Playboy better watch out… there’s a new boobie mag in town. Instead of thousands of women going to Glamour Shots and being weeded through by Hef and Holly, the inebriated college girls of America are the new prey.
For $9.99 you may be able to pick up your Girls Gone Wild magazine featuring drunken girls showing you their butterfly tattoos and lady bits. The Curtis Circulation Company confirms it will be a distribution that will feature editorials and pictorials of “the Girls Gone Wild girls.” Kinda like a slutty version of a Hooters server telling you about the new Audi her dad just bought her.
The smut hit’s the stands on April 15. I am sure it is only a matter of time before the naked co-eds are replaced by the now legal former stars of the Disney channel.
It seems like all the celebrities are getting tattoos these days, and Eva Longoria is no different. She got the date of her wedding to Tony Parker tattooed on the inside of her wrist.
Eva and Tony were married on the lucky 7-7-07, but the tattoo is in Roman Numerals, reading, VII VII MMVII. The whole Roman numerals thing seems a little excessive, but otherwise I think it’s sweet.
Now she’s just like David and Victoria Beckham and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - how cute.
Source: “Eva Longoria gets her Wedding Date Tattooed on her Wrist” [Style Ikon]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
In an extraordinary, but not unfamiliar move, rock legend Prince is using an army of lawyers to launch attacks on his own fans.
[Let's see how he likes that picture]
Several of the largest web communities dedicated to the artist have received notices to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince’s likeness.
It is our opinion that these threats are not made in an attempt to enforce valid copyright as Prince alleges in his threats, rather we believe they are attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince. We strongly believe that such actions are in violation of the freedom of speech and should not be allowed. Prince claims that fansites are not allowed to present any artwork with Prince’s likeness, to the extreme that he has demanded removal of fan’s own photographs of their Prince inspired tattoos and their vehicles displaying Prince inspired license plates.
Prince’s representatives have requested that the fansites provide them with “substantive details of the means by which you [the fansites] propose to compensate our clients [Paisley Park Enterprises, NPG Records and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)] for damages…”
The owners of the three largest fansites involved:
Charlie Sheen has a collection of some great skin art that finacee Brooke Mueller hates. So much so, Sheen is now getting them lasered off at Brooke’s request.
He has already removed the “Denise” which was dedicated to his ex-wife Denise Richards and now has thirteen more to go, including a dragon with glasses and a stingray on his left ankle. He also has a design of a wooden sign nailed to his chest above his heart that reads, “Back in 15 minutes”. Charlie said, “That one was meant to be an ashtray but went horribly wrong. I can’t even remember the year I got it.”
I bet when Charlie was drunk and high that dragon and stingray looked cool. Now, not so much.
At last nights MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears wasn’t the only one making an ass out of herself. Kid Rock and Tommy Lee got into it after Kid Rock reportedly punched Tommy Lee in the face. Kid Rock says that Tommy Lee instigated the fight by taunting him, saying “I never hit nobody for nothing before. I told him to shut the f–k up.”
As MTV VJ Sway reported during the post-show telecast:
“Tommy Lee was sitting by Diddy. [Kid Rock] just walked up and decked him!”
According to an onlooker in the audience, “They had each other at the necks, they were practically strangling each other.” Another eyewitness saw Tommy Lee escorted out, “screaming the f-word over and over again.” He was taken out into main casino in front of thousands of fans.
Jamie Foxx added his two cents while presenting the Best New Artist award with Jennifer Garner. “Stop all of this white-on-white crime. Tommy Lee and Kid Rock fighting like black folks – it’s hilarious.” Foxx, added, “Who won? I was in the bathroom. Pamela Anderson has got a hard choice to make.”
Diddy wanted to get in on the fun too, and while he introduced the final performance he said, “I was supposed to be doing this with Kid Rock, but you know, we got to stop the violence. It’s not just hip-hop artists that fight.”
The police eventually came to Kid Rock’s hotel room and cited him for misdemeanor battery.
Seriously, Kid Rock? You choose the VMAs to punch Tommy Lee? It just kind of takes the hardcore out of the fight when you’re doing it in front of preteen fans who vote on Moon Men winners. I’m just sayin’.
What others are saying:
Mollygood says, “Still no word as to why the security team didn’t let the idiots kill each other.”
In Touch says, “Pamela Anderson’s two ex-husbands really don’t like each other.”
Celebrity Smack says, “And he didn’t open handed bitch slap him either, according to a witness, ‘Tommy got it pretty bad.’ Well yeah! Tommy Lee is a little scrawny dude and was probably wasted. That would be like kicking Keith Richards ass. It wouldn’t take much.”
celebitchy says, “Maybe that’s why tensions were high when Rock ran into Lee. Even if Lee hasn’t rekindled his relationship with the mother of his children, he still gets to see her often enough and I doubt she has much to do with Rock.”
Glitterati says, “How much do you want to bet they planned that to get a little attention for both of them? I mean, it’s not like you get into a relationship with Pam Anderson thinking you’ve got her attention always and forever, or that she’s never had a man before you.”
dlisted says, “Why didn’t MTV show this shit?! It would’ve been better than the crap they put onstage! Nothing says entertainment like two old has-beens duking it out.”
Best Week Ever says, “Kid Rock and Tommy Lee got kicked out of last night’s VMA Awards after getting into a fistfight over which one of them was the most irrelevant aging rocker in the room. Thank god Axl Rose wasn’t on hand, because there would have been an all-out riot.”
A Socialite’s Life says, “If Tommy Lee pressed those charges after starting shit, he is a sissy man. Tattoos and piercings and previous overdoses don’t make you a badass. Rednecks will school you. They will put down their can of Bud and their corncob pipe, whoop your ass, and then sit back down and resume listening to Toby Keith. Respect.”
Source: “Tommy Lee, Kid Rock Brawl at VMAs” [People]; “Rock Cited for Battery after Tommy Tussle” [TMZ]
Yeah!! …..here I am minding my own biz having a great time with my friend Criss Angel (magician) and watching the MTV awards in the front row saying hello to all my friends……Pamela comes and sits on my lap who I love and adore….and also say hello to my friend Travis Barker and his wife!…..and i get a text from another friend P. Diddy and he says come sit with me…..and he’s sitting with Miss HOT Megan FOX so I go over and sit with P! Not a minute later and Alicia Keys starts her amazing performance….(”I apologize sweetie…..I had nothing to do with the timing and disrespect”)……back to the stupid-ness!!….so….. I get a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble…I stand up and embrace him with a semi hug and say “Hey dude…What up”?? He punches me in the face…..well if ya wanna call it that!?….more like a bitch slap!…….Wuss!! Anyway….i go to knock this jealous country bumpkin the f$%k OUT….and before I can have a meeting with my fist and his ugly ass mug ….security guards… grab me and haul my ass outta the award show! So I’m fine and of course leave to my room with police and owner of the Palm’s George Maloof……the rest is paper work and bullshit!… Anyway…… I would like to apologize to Alicia and George and MTV for the disrespectful bullshit caused by a piece of shit called Kid Pebble!!
“Instead of taking mine away, which we have to do in every film, we ended up leaving mine and adding more,” she said. “I have ’strength of will’ in one language, and we added it in four other languages on my arm. “‘Know Your Rights’ is printed in English on the back of my neck, and again in Latin as well.”
The legion of lensmen has been infiltrated by L.A. gang members — Crips and Bloods, according to some photo-agency heads. They claim rival agencies are arming the thugs with cameras and sending them out to do battle with the dozens of paps who rubberneck around Hollywood’s favorite train wreck.
It is our opinion that these threats are not made in an attempt to enforce valid copyright as Prince alleges in his threats, rather we believe they are attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince. We strongly believe that such actions are in violation of the freedom of speech and should not be allowed. Prince claims that fansites are not allowed to present any artwork with Prince’s likeness, to the extreme that he has demanded removal of fan’s own photographs of their Prince inspired tattoos and their vehicles displaying Prince inspired license plates.
“Tommy Lee was sitting by Diddy. [Kid Rock] just walked up and decked him!”
