A little thing like rehab is not going to stop Lindsay Lohan from partying!
Despite her recent DUI arrest and impending court date, the addict and actress has every intention of still celebration her 21st birthday Vegas style.
Just days after she is released from the Promises treatment facility, Lohan will head to Sin City to party at Pure on July 2nd.
“There is a birthday party scheduled that she is contracted to do at Pure. It’s scheduled for July 2. That hasn’t changed. Nothing has been cancelled as of now,” says Lohan’s lawyer, Mike Heller.
A friend who has spoken to the troubled actress after she entered rehab says, “Lindsay said she’s doing the party in Vegas, no matter what.”
Adds her lawyer, “Just because you’re sober doesn’t mean you can’t go out and have fun. Part of sobriety is that you can go out into normal society and just go out. Who say’s you can’t move your booty on the dance floor?”
She may look a shell of her former self, but Tammy Faye Baker-Messner is still full of spirit.
The evangelist and Surreal Life alum recently ended her cancer treatments, and in a two-part interview set to air Thursday and Friday on Entertainment Tonight, she says, “When they [the doctors] said there’s nothing more we can do, for just about a minute I felt sorry for myself, had my little pity party. Then I said, ‘I’ve got somebody bigger than the doctors, I know the Lord, Jesus Christ, and he can do something for it.’ He’s the only one that can, and so I just trust Him every day.”
With the help of her daughter, Tammy Faye is being cared for in her North Carolina home, though she’s faded down to just over 60 lbs and says she’s in constant pain.
“I have really wonderful days, and I have really bad days,” says Baker-Messner. “I would say I’m in pain almost 100 percent of the time. My back hurts, so I had to go to a wheelchair. And I have a very bad tummy all the time.”
Earlier this month, Erik Davis alerted us to the anger over at Warner Bros. concerning movie piracy in Canada. According to the anti-piracy division of the company, "Canada is the No. 1 priority in terms of anti-camcording legislation." To try and curb this supposedly rampant recording in movie theaters, the company is stopping pre-screenings north of the border, starting with Ocean's Thirteen and continuing with Harry Potter. But go figure -- both are being released or screened internationally before they hit stateside. To me, that seems like a flaw in the rationale, but that's right, there's that 70% number that Warners is throwing around.
Now this past Wednesday, as part of his visit to Canada, the Terminator politician Arnold Schwarzenegger met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Although Arnie is traveling around to discuss climate change, the PM brought up the movie issue and announced that he was going to crack down on Canadian movie piracy by strengthening the laws dealing with using camcorders in cinemas -- making it illegal to tape in theaters. One American official is quoted as saying: "We think it's a good first step." Only the first though, because you have to leave room for the movie criminals to be shipped to big companies and clean the dirty floors with their tongues.
And what about China? I guess "Blame China" doesn't have the same ring that "Blame Canada" does. If this country is to blame for so much of the Hollywood's struggles with fiendish movie pirates, I want to know why they're letting Chinese bootlegs and pirated copies float around. Doesn't big business (in this case, the rampant pirate state of Canada) always tromp the little guy (this case, Chinese pirate imports)? It's just silly. I think Erik had it right when he said: "While Canada certainly needs to step up and join the fight against piracy, I also think we need to evaluate these ridiculous trickling release schedules." Shouldn't you tighten and strengthen your ship before attacking the pirates?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Ladies and gentlemen, start your digital video cameras. The Brattle has announced the 2007 Trailer Smackdown, a contest in which you create a two-minute coming attraction for a fictional film called "Miranda" and toss it in the piranha tank with other competitors to see who survives. Entries will be judged according to "how much they make us want to see 'Miranda'," and there are additional elements -- location, character types -- that need to be incorporated.
That's right, it's the Dogme version of "Project Greenlight." Those smartypants at the Brattle have covered all the bases -- but where's the entry form that lists the additional elements? Not up yet, I guess.
My favorite bit of boilerplate: "The films may contain violence or nudity, but we cannot allow anything that would be deemed pornography. You may not harm real animals or unwilling people in the making of your video." Got that, everybody? Get signed releases. It worked for Sacha Baron Cohen, it'll work for you.
All entries are due by July 1, with finalists to be screened at the theater July 19. There'll be an audience award and some kind of cash prize, but they're being coy about that for the time being.
Before he was judgmental in The Devil Wears Prada and farting around with his Entourage, Adrian Grenier decided to film his quest to find his father, and step into the world of documentaries. Really, this guy has been all over the place professionally. After a starring stint as Sebastian Cole, he was oh, so lucky enough to be Melissa Joan Hart's love interest in Drive Me Crazy and then did almost every drug known to man as a guerrilla movie buff in John Waters' Cecil B Demented. Still, Shot in the Dark broke new territory for the actor -- as both his step into documentary work and the challenge to put that much of your real self and story on-screen.
It all happened in 1999 when, after a series of phone calls with his father, Grenier filmed his road trip from New York to Ohio to see him face-to-face. It contains interviews with both strangers and relatives about what fatherhood means, and how parents affect their children's sense of self. You can see a trailer for a little more background over at The Documentary Blog before it airs after Adrian's hit show Entourage, on Sunday, June 3 at 10:30 p.m. Considering all the actors-turned-filmmakers out there these days, and those who think the idea is completely ridiculous, like Alex Cox, I think it's pretty ballsy to reveal yourself when trying other cinematic hats. I mean, much of the movie business is preying on those real-life stories that can be adapted into big-budget phenomenons, but how many of those who portray real-life people would turn the same lens on themselves? According to IMDb, the film screened at Tribeca in 2002 and TIFF last year, so if you've seen it, what did you think?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
We’ve gotten our hands on the now instantly legendary audio recording of Paula Abdul having a nuclear meltdown.
Why? Because she doesn’t like her old publicist, Howard Bragman, whom she claims called her too old to get covers and failed to accompany her to a taping of the Jimmy Kimmel show.
That would certainly drive us to to tears, if we were batshit crazy and on a lot of drugs and medication!!!!!
It’s such an amazing recording, and whomever managed to capture it deserves our applause and some of Paula’s pills.
Just listen to the silence and uncomfortableness from those new publicists Abdul is ranting on the phone to. They don’t know how to deal with her crazy!
Paula also claims that she’s been recently diagnosed with Addison’s, an adrenal disease, and that time’s have been tough lately.
Cry me a river!
You’ll wanna listen to this more than once. It’s that good.
Now that Lindsay Lohan is undergoing a much-needed 30-day vacation treatment process in one of them star-studded rehab joints on the west coast ( I wonder if each addict has their own personal masseuse?), everyone round these parts has been wondering whether La Lohan will remain attached to the flick Poor Things, even though production was supposed to begin this month. In a statement released by Poor Things producers Shirley MacLaine and Rob Hickman, it appears her role will be put on hold while the problem child gets this little publicity rehab stint out of the way.
The statement goes as follows: "In the spirit of helping Lindsay Lohan and her rehabilitation, we have been asked by Lindsay to comply with her wishes to continue working on Poor Things. We are trying to rearrange the shooting schedule to facilitate her working at the end of the shoot to coincide with the completion of her rehabilitation. We wish her love and the blending of mind, body and spirit." I think it's wonderful that she's getting support, but if Lindsay doesn't know or think she has a problem, and doesn't want or think she needs treatment (other than the fact that it will look good for her "image") then what's the point? See, I tend to think the only way to deal with this wild child is to yank this film right from her. Show her that she can't just do whatever the hell she wants without consequence. Actually, come to think of it, they should make her come live with me for a week; show her much life could really suck. "Oh, you're watching another bootlegged Wonder Years episode, Erik? Should I shoot myself now or wait until you heat up those four day-old Chinese food leftovers?"
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