Apparently Michael Jackson lives in fear that his nose will fall off. He has been diagnosed with some skin cancers on his nose, as well as his chest and arm.
I’m more inclined to put it down to the excessive and bad plastic surgery. You be the judge.
Mel Gibson’s new girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.
Gibson stands to lose half of his estimated $1 billion fortune in the divorce which his wife Robyn has filed for. According to reports, the Gibsons have been secretly separated for a couple of years, but she filed for divorce after reports that Oksana is pregnant by him. I guess that would tend to piss a wife off.
We’ve had the $6m man, Steve Austin, and the bionic woman, Jamie Summers, now the $500m woman … just what amazing powers does she have?
Hope she’s worth it, Mel.
I got talked into seeing the Zac Efron movie “17 Again” yesterday. My daughter wanted to see it, I was not so keen, being a bit “hmm, Zac Efron, ok this will be like High School Musical”. Waiting in the cinema for the movie to start didn’t do anything to change my perceptions – about 80% of the audience must have been teenage girls.
However, that said, I did enjoy the movie, it was quite decent, and funny. I will concede Zac Efron does actually have some talent, but the character I liked best was Ned, played by Thomas Lennon.
That comment applies to both the forthcoming movie “Free Willy 4”, and to the promotion of Bindi Irwin.
If you believe the publicity, Bindi is apparently a great actor already. According to her manager, who is also one of the film’s producers by the way,while Bindi had been nervous about remembering her lines, she had mastered the craft. He said:
"She shines, the camera loves her and she’s just got that sparkle in her eyes,"
Aww, ain’t it cute?
If there was ever an Oscar that was a certainty, money in the bank if you bet on it, it was the best supporting actor award that Heath Ledger won today. I mean, he was very good in the part, and most likely would have won on his own merits, but dying between making the movie and the Academy Awards, turned him from a good chance to an absolute certainty.
I read that INXS singer JD Fortune has been sacked from the band, apparently due to his drug use.
Fortune won his place in the band in a TV contest. That says it all, I think.
INXS should have quit when Michael Hutchence died. Their continued attempts at existence beyond that point have been simply sad and pathetic.
Those of you who have read my blog for a while will know I’m a huge fan of Neko Case, the American alt-country singer. She has a new record coming out in March which I’m looking forward too. “Middle Cyclone” is her follow up to the wonderful “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”.
I recommend having a listen to her song “People Gotta Lot of Nerve” which is from her forthcoming record.
But not only that, if you download the song and blog about it, Neko and her record label, Anti, will donate $5 to the animal welfare organisation, Best Friends.
Great idea, I think. So if you like cute furry animals, and great music, here’s a chance to help the animals, and yourself to some good music.
Thanks to Snarkydork, who I found this via.
These are often cited as the reason a band breaks up, but a band in Italy called Soul Cry took theirs to extreme lengths.
THE singer in an Italian teen gothic metal band and her brother allegedly stabbed the band’s guitarist dozens of times because he did not play well enough. The 18-year-old singer, Cristina Balzano, and her 16-year-old brother, the band’s bass player, were arrested on charges of premeditated attempted murder. Police in Genoa, on Italy’s northwestern coast, said the 16-year-old victim remained in hospital, but his life was not in danger.
In a further show of band harmony, the victim accused both the others of stabbing him, Ms Balzano initially said she was trying to stop the victim from committing suicide and her brother has accused her of being the sole attacker.
I’ve been a bit scarce here lately, Holidays a couple of weeks ago, then a week travelling for work to Sydney and Melbourne.
One thing I did do outside of work in Sydney was go to see The New Pornographers at the Annandale Hotel. Enjoyed it very much, even without Neko Case being with them. From “My Rights vs Yours” through to “My Slow Descent into Alcoholism” there wasn’t one dud song – the only bummer in it was that I’ve now seen The New Pornographers twice and have yet to get “Letter from an Occupant”. Oh well, maybe next time.
I also quite liked An Horse – the support band.
Pamela Anderson was accompanied to a fashion show in London this week by a man in a white mask and gloves. Speculation was rife that it was Michael Jackson. Personally I doubt this – wrong sex and too old.
Leaving aside the possibility of it being Michael Jackson, I ask you, which one of these two has the highest plastic content?
(Of course if it is Jackson its a no-brainer).
