News stories that have me mildly obsessed…

because the movies I want to see aren’t in theaters yet, I’m becoming a gossip news junkie! For some odd reason, I’m consumed by the foibles and illegalities of the rich, famous and oh so pathetic that’s overpopulating the tabloids.

And since there is no real cure for the obsession, I’m going to give in to it. The list:

• Of course, Raffaelo Follieri’s shenanigans have me salivating. Using the Vatican to run scams and support a jetsetter lifestyle and relationship with Anne Hathaway. Delicious! Will he ask the Italian Consulate to spirit him back to Italy? Is he begging forgiveness from Anne? Asking for money from her? What could come next for this crafty con man? Time will only tell!

• Christie Brinkley is striking a blow for anyone who has ever been confronted with a cheating spouse. She asked for and was granted to have her divorce proceedings made public AND the first witness to be called will be her husband’s ex (formerly teenage) girlfriend. YOWZA! Can WE, Oxygen and Lifetime get together and air the testimony live? Please?

• Who burned down Fiddy’s house? His baby mama seems to believe he did it but I hope that he wouldn’t set a house on fire with his son in the HOUSE? That’s just crazy! Authorities are investigating but you know who I think did it? Answer here.

• Who were the miscreants that hacked the SOHH and AllHipHop websites?

• Those 17 girls in Gloucester, MA (see The Perfect Storm for context) who had the brilliant idea to get pregnant before they received their high school diplomas. I hope a responsible journalist will make sure to follow up with these fuckwits (yeah, I said fuckwits) in June 2009 to hear how well this genius idea worked out.

Week in Review…

Saw American Teen, a documentary about the year in the life of four high school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana. Think The Breakfast Club with animation (for real).

I’ve become a fan of lawn bocce!

George Clooney has been released back into the wild.

Desperately seeking the song of summer 08.

I can’t see 50 Cent setting a house on fire with his child sleeping in the house.

New York’s Governor rules that same sex marriages conducted in other states to be acknowledged by New York. Boo on all the people who would rather focus on gay marriage than the host of REAL PROBLEMS facing New York (ie. like cranes crashing into buildings and killing people!)

The Celebrity Baby Daddy List

Mr. Big Daddy

Because I need a break from this art project I’m doing, I decided to list famous baby daddies. I doubt I will include them all but I can try.

Chris Noth (aka Mr. Big from Sex and The City and Mike Logan from Law & Order), a son with Tara Wilson

Sean Combs (fashion & entertainment mogul), two sons, three daughters and probably by the time you finish this post he will have impregnated two other women. Sean’s known baby mamas are Misa Hylton-Brim, Kim Porter and Sarah Chapman.

50 Cent (rapper), one son with Shaniqua Tompkins

Robert De Niro (actor, entrepreneur), two sons via surrogate with Toukie Smith

Brad Pitt (actor, producer), two boys, two girls and another on the way with Angelina Jolie

Tom Brady (New England Patriots quarterback and Giselle Bundchen’s purse holder), a son with Bridget Moynahan

Joel Madden (Good Charlotte), a daughter with Nicole Richie

Liev Shreiber, (actor, director), a son with Naomi Watts

Johnny Depp, (actor), a son and daughter with Vanessa Paradis

Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets), a son with LaLa Vazquez

Eddie Murphy, (actor), a daughter with Melanie Brown

Andre Benjamin (actor, musician), a son with Erykah Badu

Paul Pierce (Boston Celtics), a daughter with Julie Landrum

Paul W.S. Anderson (director), a daughter with Milla Jovovich

Brian Austin Greene (actor), a son with Vanessa Marcil

Sasha Baron Cohen (actor), a daughter with Isla Fischer

Clint Eastwood (actor, director), a daughter with Frances Fischer

Mick Jagger (musician), a daughter with Marsha Hunt (rumored to be the inspiration for Brown Sugar) and a son with Luciana Morad 

Big Boi (Outkast) and ballet — together.

Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham meet Big Boi.

The Atlanta Ballet will debut their collaboration with Big Boi, “big”, on April 13th in Atlanta. According to AP, the performance will feature dozens of dancers, music from the Outkast catalog and choreography by Lauri Stallings.

A year in the making, “big” features music from Outkast’s catalog — including “Bombs Over Baghdad” from “Stankonia,” “Morris Brown” from the “Idlewild” movie soundtrack and “Kryptonite” from “Big Boi Presents … Got Purp? Vol. 2.” The production also showcases such artists as Sleepy Brown and Janelle Monae, who are on Patton’s label.

“big” tells the story of Little Big, a younger, more naive Patton, who goes through different encounters in various scenes to learn more about the world around him.

Artistically, the focus is on contrasts: beauty and ugliness, male and female, slow and fast, smooth and rough. The movement is more modern dance in movement and expression.

“It’s very physical, very visceral and it’s what’s happening today in the world,” says Stallings, who scrolled through Patton’s iPod with him to choose the music to accompany what she later choreographed. “We are all classical artists but we need to move forward.”

I love the melding of hip hop and ballet … I was a big fan of Prince’s collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet and Griot New York, jazz composer Wynton Marsalis collaboration with Garth Fagan Dance. I wonder if the Atlanta Ballet will tour with the performance? Also which rapper will marry their catalog to dance next? 50 Cent? Rick Ross? Too Short?

The possibilities are endless!

Source.

Fiddy tells Paris to sit down!

Page Six reports that Fiddy had security ask the reformed heiress to get off the stage during his performance at a pre-Super Bowl party Hilton was hosting for some magazine that doesn’t matter.

And that’s when the waterworks started accompanied with a dose of ‘But it’s my party’ whining.  Gah!

I believe that every time Paris Hilton cries, an angel gets its wings. Thank you Fiddy for being on the side of the angels for once!