Oral Roberts Dies

The money lender in the temple?

house of prayer or den of thieves?

Oral Roberts was one of the original “1st generation” of TV evangelists. Think of him as a ‘shifty’ Billy Graham. They would be followed by even shiftier successors such as Jimmy Swaggart and Jim & Tammy Baker. While Roberts seemed content merely to bilk seniors out of pension checks, the next generation of televangelists would stop at nothing; including Christian themed amusements parks, tax fraud, political gambits, and sleazy liaisons with hookers.

blow dried sincerity

The highlight of his career was when he tried to ’emotionally blackmail’ his viewers by telling them God would ‘call me home’ unless they coughed up a million bucks for him. Shortly before the ‘deadline’ a Florida dog track owner cut Roberts a check for the required amount, which the evangelist was happy to accept. By this time the televangelists ‘born again’ movement was discredited and burned out from too much greed and too many scandals.

Professional Christians and professing golfers?

BTW – with fast women, drugs, and criminal probes; Tiger Woods seems to be taking pro golfing down the same path that Oral took professional Christianity. That’s what happens when you’re in it for the money. Golf, like religion, is a gentleman’s sport! Blogging (like religious fanaticism?) is still a crank’s pastime, but what we lack in blow dried credibility we more than make up for in sheer outlandishness!

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Tiger Woods – Doping Scandal?

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Looks like Tiger’s doc is in hot water too! Scandal, like fame, can be contagious. The good doctor is being repped by Brian Greenspan, brother of Canada’s top legal ace Eddie Greenspan. Eddie is the one who defended Conrad Black during his Chicago trial, and on his way to a Florida prison. Just imagine those conjugal visits with Barbara Amiel! At least Tiger can look on the bright side: he’s healthier than Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, & Heath Ledger. Score one more for Canadian vs American health care!

Recordings of Letterman Blackmailer

Chris Brown Quits Twitter

He is hot tempered, isn’t he

First Miley Cyrus and now Big Chris. Apparently it’s some sort of fuss over record sales or lack of respect or something. Maybe he just wants to make it perfectly clear that you can’t count on having him to kick around anymore. Tiger Woods is handling his situation better and he’s in such hot water that it’s boiling! The Internet will just have to muddle by without them.

Fuck Ups & Freak Outs

5150 is now part of the language!

With the recent revelations about Tiger Woods’ overactive sex life there has some good sport and a lot of just plain schadenfreude at his fall from grace. It’s important to remember that Tiger isn’t the only high profile personality to mess up. It’s a long list, and Tiger’s misdeeds are tame in comparison to some past celebrity fuck ups. For instance do you remember this moment in TV history?

Top Gun is still recovering from all that scenery chewing! It an outrageous scene but there would be more to follow. Celebrities can be such a temperamental group. Take Christian Bale for instance.

Chris had to lay low for awhile until that mess blew over. He’s just lucky that guy wasn’t with the Teamsters. You have to understand what it’s like to work with actors – it’s takes a lot of snotty immaturity to create! Take Lilly Thomlin for instance!

What a joy that film must’ve been to do. You know how exhilarating the creative process can be. So much so in fact that the slightest sip of Starbucks’ coffee is enough to turn Quentin Taratino into a raving psychopath!

Then again we have to cut QT some slack. He is so highly creative that he can go off even without the aid of caffeine. Take this ugly little incident for incidence:

I wonder if that lugee made EBay? It’s not just the flighty artistes that are liable to go off their head. Even our trusted and responsible pro journalist can have sudden and unexpected flip outs. Remember when the O Reilly factor spun out of control?

You have to admire a professional with that kind of passion for his craft (but seriously who said that bloggers are journalism’s lunatic fringe?).The behind the scenes people can be just as hot blooded when it comes to perfectionism.

Sounds like they had their own twister right there in the studio. Once again the lovely & talented Contessa Brewer finds herself in the middle of it too! Now I’m not gonna say that she’s MSNBC’s own Calamity Jane, I just wouldn’t want to be walking beside her in a thunder storm. Like Jessica Fletcher, bad stuff seems to happen when she’s around! Remember the time that she mixed up her activists?

Then there was that time she pulled the “cut the mic” move. They don’t even pull that on open line talk radio anymore!

Brewer got her start with Don Imus. He made a career out of pushing the limits but eventually fell into the abyss after get his foot caught in his mouth.

That was like a chorus of “We shall overcome” compared to Michael Kramer Richards’ Laughfactory meltdown!

That was almost as shocking as the revelation that David Letterman has had sex! That stunt killed the Seinfeld syndication deals! Jerry was counting on those residuals to keep expanding his fleet of Porsches! BTW speaking of Letterman:

The point behind all this buffoonery is that compared to some of these meltdowns, Tiger’s behavior is like skipping Sunday School. There have been plenty more of these meltdowns that I didn’t even get around to mentioning – Kanye West‘s VMA outburst, Chris Brown‘s violent outburst, Denise Richards’ skanky betrayal of her best friend and sleazy accusations against her ex, Eric Dane’s drab sex tape, Angelina Jolie’s general phoniness – “I like to fly my own plane while cutting myself with knives. It’s helps raise my awareness of the global situation!”, etc. Besides, who knows which celebrity will be the next one to make an asshole of themselves? So while we’re all enjoying the heaping helping of schadenfreude, perhaps we should leaven it with a measure of grace & gentle good humour. To err is human.

Courtney Love loses daughter

Just when you thought that the gossip couldn’t get any dicier!

Doped out incoherent skank Courtney Love has lost legal guardianship of her daughter Francis Bean. A Los Angeles superior court award legal guardianship of Francis Bean to the mother – Wendy O’Connor – and sister – Kimberly Dawn Cobain – of her father, Nirvana front man the late Kurt Cobain.

Is the bitch slowly losing her mind?

No official statement was made as to why guardianship was awarded to Cobain`s family. However Love has been going off the rails for awhile now. She’s made a bunch of nearly incomprehensible twitter & blog postings. One of these even resulted in a law suit when a LA fashion designer who was the subject of a posting found it libelous. Other postings claimed that most of Cobain’s money had disappeared in insurance & mortgage frauds. Then there are those persistent nasty rumours that Kurt Cobain had a little help checking out from his ‘better half’. Supposedly he was on the verge of divorcing the Hole singer when he met his untimely demise. Since being Mrs. Kurt Cobain was her livelihood, that would left her with only her talent & charisma to fall back on. That might’ve been a hard fall.

to be continued?

Francis Bean is currently 17, and so rapidly approaching the age of majority. At that point Love is legally out of the picture as regard to her daughter’s legal & financial affairs. This one could get interesting! Congratulations Tiger – the heat is off!

BTW this topic is currently being hotly debated over at the Internet #1 entertainment gossip forum Gossiprocks.

Santa’s Naughty DWI

Looks like Santa better stick to the sleigh and reindeer!

Tiger – the benefit of the doubt

A lot of fun has been had at the expense of Tiger Woods recently. It seemed that more women were coming out of the woodwork by the hour (so far the skank count is 10 & rising). The angle is that Tiger is a tragic hero brought down by a fatal flaw; or a man we never knew as well as we thought we did. There is another possibility that hasn’t been mentioned yet.

In one of his now infamous texts to one of his many mistresses Tiger refers to his insomnia. In fact he says he’s never been able to sleep. He takes Ambien (Zolpidem) for the condition. Now Ambien is a sleeping medication that has a strange side effect. It can drastically increase sex drive in some people. This is more common in women than in men. I heard of one case of a UK housewife who took the drug. She went from being a fairly normal married woman to by her own admission sleeping with as many as 20 men a day.

Doctors aren’t always aware of the side effects of the drugs they prescribe. It’s hard to work 12 – 15 hour days and also keep abreast of every detail of every new drug that hits the market. So they rely on the drug company reps to give them the details.

Drug company reps are basically salesmen. So they want to put the best possible spin on their product. They may tell a doctor that Ambien is the best, safest, and most effective sleeping med on the market. They may not tell them that in 1 out of 5000 cases it can turn the person into a sex fiend. So a lot of stuff gets prescribed without full awareness of the consequences.

Now I’m not saying that Tiger should get a pass for his behavior (Here at Wondertrash we’ve had as much fun at his expense as anyone). However should this be a prescription medication issue then Tiger might be getting the dirty end of the stick. It might be wise & compassionate to look at all the possibilities in the Tiger Woods case before we throw anymore coals into the fire. In every other aspect of his life he’s always conducted himself with decency and humility (& even now). So there may be an explanation for this out of character behavior.

More mischief with Ambien

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Woods’ Women – another one comes out of the woodwork!

More mistress distress

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!

I’d say Woods was as busy as a beaver except it’s more like he was busy with the beaver. It’s surprising that he had the energy to play golf! On the bright side I hear that Tiger may pick up one new sponsor. Red Bull energy drink is very interested in having him represent them!

If even half of the stories are true then Tiger has screwed everyone except Erin Esurance!

Tiger Loses Endorsements

The rats weren’t long leaving the sinking ship!

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Is Tiger the new Tom Cruise?

Meanwhile the PGA is fully supporting Woods’ decision to take a break. Now the PGA & Tiger have had a mutually profitable relationship for about ten years, so it’s only natural that they’d want to be supportive. However kidding aside they really mean “Don’t call us, we’ll call you – eventually”. Looks like Tiger is getting some time in the penalty box for ‘high sticking’.