Amanda Bynes NYC meltdown

Is Amanda Bynes having a breakdown? Some of the actress’s recent behavior while out and about in NYC has been raising eyebrows if not setting off alarm bells. Nothing major, just disturbingly erratic – like running out of hair salons without paying for her purchases,  or wearing a different wig every day. It’s the kind of behavior that has people wondering tactlessly exactly what is going on in her life right now.

Limelight Life

Life in the lime light can be a great strain. Amanda herself has admitted to some emotional health issues and image problems. She’s also tweeted about her eating disorder. it prevents her from ever thinking of herself as thin.

 What is the sound of one eye winking? *wink wink*

No word on exactly what Amanda’s problem might be but there are some rumors circulating around the grape vine that she’s gotten involved in a new, extreme form of yoga. Bynes’ enlightenment regime includes many strange exercises that have to be repeated frequently through out the day in order to focus the mind. For instance practitioners might have to blink 50 times, then wink their right eye 50 times, wink their left eye 50 times, and then blink 50 more times. Sometimes they will cross their eyes, followed by crossing each eye separately. Or they might have to suddenly do some loud vocal chanting, that can sound to passers by like barking, or arguing with yourself. The practitioner might have to do this whenever certain thoughts arise, or some one sends them negative energy. The worst part is that if a practitioner is interrupted while doing one of their rituals, then they have to start at the beginning and perform the whole thing over again. So if you’re caught by surprise doing one of these yoga exercises in public it can come off a little kooky – like the time Amanda was caught doing her yoga tongue extension exercise!

Amanda’s very proficient with her yoga and can do the above tongue flex 108 times in a row. That is unless she’s interrupted. Then she has to start over again from the beginning.

In other news Halle Berry 46 is pregnant by her French boyfriend Oliver Martinez. The actress is expecting a boy.

Halle ain’t the only one pregnant – word is that Heather Morris is knocked up too!

Does the thought of Chelsea Handler & Conan O Brien naked do anything for you??

So remember to keep checking the Trash – the blog that deliverers you your steady supply of super gossip:  the good, the bad, and late nite raw!

Shia LaBeouf Addresses Feud With Alec Baldwin

You might have heard that Shia LaBebouf and Alec Baldwin have had some kind of a spat. They both have strong personalities and are known for speaking their minds so when they recently worked together on stage things came to a head. As often happens with celebs the whole thing got brought uip on twitter with cryptic references to apologies.So when Shia appeared on David Lettermen, Big Dave took the opportunity to address the issue.

Basically Dave said that he would love to play peace maker and patch things up between the two quarreling actors. If Jimmy Carter could broker peace in the middle east then how hard can it be to sort out a disagreement between tow actors? Well Shia ain’t having any part of it. Though he went on the record with Dave as saying that Baldwin is “awesome”, he also said that he didn’t think that any sort of late nite detente was gonna be happening anytime soon. So you might have to wait to see Shia and Alec appearing together in front of the same TV camera to iron out their differences. Never mind Dave. That was kind of ambitious, and more of a job for Oprah Winfrey!

For a tactful guy Shia can rub some people the wrong way. However he still does have his supporters. The producer of the play he left after the Baldwin spat went on record and on twitter claiming that LaBeouf is an incredible actor. Some one else who thinks highly of Shia is an incredible actor himself. He’s Robert Redford and he recently had some kind words for the young actor.Here’s Bob to speak for himself.

When it comes to talented performers with strong personalities that rub some people the wrong way Chris Brown is near the top of the list. Chris got in many people’s bad books when he beat up his former current former girlfriend Rihanna. That  lead to a restraining order, and an outpouring of rage against Chris that was only matched by the out pouring of support for Rihanna. So everyone was shocked when the pair hooked up again.

Chris recently gave a radio interview in which he either implied, or left to be inferred, that he & Rihanna were no longer dating. It wasn’t really clear and Chris came out later saying that the interview had been reedited with some older clips so he was taken out of context. He & Rihanna were still fine. However even more recently he made another statement saying that he’s still loves his ex Karrueche Tran. She’s the girl he was seeing after while he was on the outs with Rihanna.

However once again Chris was vague. He says that he ‘has love’ for Tran, instead of saying that he’s still ‘in love’ with her. He goes on to say that “She was my friend through it all,” and. “It was a friendship more than a relationship. I still love her, but at the end of the day, it’s like I got love for her. She gone always be my homie!” .It sounds very platonic but Brown also says that he wouldn’t like her dating another musician because that would hit too close to home. So things sound very ambiguous. How complicated is this gonna get? Listen to Chris in the following clip and judge for yourself!

PIstorius allowed to leave South Africa

The following Oscar Pistorius update sounds like it could be made up but is actually true. Oscar is the disabled gold medal Olympian who was charged with murder following the Valentine’s Day shooting of his girlfriend South African TV presenter Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar’s official story is that he though he heard burglars prowling around his home in the early hours of the morning. So he armed himself and proceeded to track them down. After believing her had cornered the intruder in the washroom he shot through the door three times, and then broke it open with a cricket bat. Inside He found his girlfriend fatal shot. Since there are claims of loud arguing on the evening preceding her death, and because there was no actual burglary, and also for numerous other details – South African authorities want Pistorius to officially explain himself under oath and in no uncertain terms.

Murder is a heavy beef. So people were a little surprised when Oscar’s attorney’s petitioned the court to allow Pistorius to travel overseas. OP’s attorney’s that they have good grounds. They insist that Oscar is not a flight risk. Also he would only travel for athletic competitions. Finally the cost of their legal defense is bankrupting him and he needs to compete in track meets to keep himself financial solvent.

Lawyer’s fees are stiff. However it’s not like Oscar is broke. He has some other fund raising options. For instance he’s considering selling off some of his valuable race horses. He also has some other assets that could be sold off. Assets like those Siberian white tigers he’s started collected. Then there are the numerous other possessions that might fetch some money, like his fast cars,  speed boats, and of course his extensive gun collection. Still when you’re fighting a murder charge every bit helps. So his lawyers say that he should be allowed to travel to earn an income.

Well as of a couple of days ago a South African judge ruled that Pistoriius may leave the country to race. Of course here are some restrictions. Pistorius must file travel plans with authorities at least one week before leaving the country. Also he must surrender his pass port with in 24 hours of returning to South Africa. This is in addition to the existing restrictions that Pistorius avoid his home, avoid talking to witnesses in the case, abstain from alcohol, and visit the police at least twice a week. His trial has been held over until June 4rth asnd he is currently free on 1 million rand (about $113,000) bond.

Punks

Lindsay Lohan is due in ‘lock down therapy’ on May 2nd. The rehab is part of her court mandated sentence, along with community service. That unhappy period is set to last about 90 days. So how is Lindz spending her last days of freedom? She’s hangin’ out with Kristen Stewart.

“They met through one of Lindsay’s friends who also knows Kristen,” the Post quotes a source as saying. “Lindsay was invited up to Kristen’s house last week, and they hung out with Robert Pattinson who was back from filming in Australia. Lindsay and Kristen discussed their careers, creative ideas and how they deal with living under the focus of the media and the paparazzi.”

No one is quit sure what brought Lindsay and Kristen together. Apart from some mutual friends the girls also share some negative publicity experiences. So they have that to bond over. However Lindsay has acquired a few high profile supporters over the years. In addition to Kristen Stewart and Charlie Sheen, Lindz has made the acquaintance of Lady Gaga, James Franco and The Wanted’s Max George.

Troubled young women stick together. Unless you’re Amanda Bynes, in which case people start keeping a safe distance. That’s because Bynes can get a little kooky. She got kicked out of her fitness club for acting like she was having a mental breakdown, there have been some legal issues, and she’s started making annoying tweets. So the signs are there.

Like recently Bynes tweeted that she wanted Drake to “murder my vagina“. Now no one can blame a young woman for having interest in sex. It’s just that in her case Amanda took it a little over the top. Now she’s added to her growing list of notable tweets with the following words of sage advice. Never mind that old “be true to your self” stuff that they tell kids. Amanda’s gives it to you straight – feel good guidance for the self esteem challenged.

 

Now that’s the kind of practical advice you can really use, and the kind guidance counselors don’t give you!

Justin Bieber’s mom claims that he’s completely out of control. Justin has had some high profiles problems of late like being accused of being a pot head –  and not to mention his “altercations“; once with a paparazzi in Brit, and another recently with a  neighbor whom the Bieb allegedly spat on. So what does mom think about this. Bieber’s mom admits that she doesn’t have any control over her son anymore. For one thing he’s 19 so the apron strings have no legal hold, unless she can get a conservator ship or something.

So what can she do? Well she admits that she prays a lot. She also tries to impart some guidance. Beyond that there’s nothing she can do. Interventions seemed to go out of style. Like reality TV they’re a bit too last decade.

BTW an update on the Justin Bieber spitting incident. The alleged incident occurred in Bieber’s very exclusive gated community. Gated communities are where the rich hole up in high end bunkers, while security guards keep the rabble at bay and out beyond the electrified walls (It’s reverse prison). So this ain’t Sunnyvale Trailer Park, or the kind of place where you can casually stroll up to a resident and tell them to fuck off while you’re suckin’ on a blunt. This is an exclusive area and some of the Bieb’s neighbors are pretty high up the food chain. Folks like Jeff Schwartz for instance.

Schwartz has been described as an automobile mogul. At least that’s how TMZ describes him. He’s also a resident of Bieb’s gated compound community. More to the point he’s also the guy accusing Bieber of spitting on him and threatening him. Needless to say Schwartz ain’t too pleased with Biber’s youthful hi jinx. The battery charges speak to that. Schwartz’s wife Suzie is pissed off too, and she’s speaking for herself.

Suzie says that Bieber ain’t nothin’ but a punk. In fact he’s the worst kind of little punk – one with a feeling of invincibility! Invincibility is even worse than a sense of entitlement. Invincibility is the same thing that got into Adolph Hitler before he invaded Poland and set off World War 2. Current consensus is that it’s also what got into Oscar Pistorious when got tired of being an inspiration to millions & shot his lovely girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. When being booked into a Pretoria, South Africa police station Pistorius was told that he was going away for a long time, and allegedly replied “I’ll survive. I always win.” Pistorius’ family denies that he ever said that. The point being that feelings of invincibility are a huge character flaw and need attention when ever they’re found, even if they’re found in members of the Justice League of America!

Lest this get blown out of proportion this invincibility stuff is merely Suzie Schwartz’s opinion. Or to put it in her own words – “He’s a punk.  He thinks he’s invincible.  He can’t continue to have a bunch of enablers around him.”  FYI, there are reports Jeff said this, but it was Suzie. Suzie also tells TMZ, “Spitting on someone is unacceptable.  He can’t do this to people.”

Now Suzie may not be holding a small loud dog while shaking a fist and chasing neighbor hood children off of her lawn. Then again she might be. Who can say whether or not she’s a stick in the mud who can’t cope with youthful high spirits?  If you stop and imagine your won husband or wife being spat upon by a celebrity, you can see how the shame and humiliation involved might get you to blow things out of proportion. One group who are taking the ongoing Justin Bieber Meltdown Crisis seriously are the good people over at TMZ. Keep checking in with them and follow the latest developments in the Bieber saga, like such as

See also

• Justin Bieber — Restrained By Bodyguard In Neighbor Fight
• Justin Bieber Incident — Eyewitness Says Justin Spit
• Justin Bieber: Prosecutors Take Spitting Crimes Seriously

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger exclusive retirement photo

Annoying neighbors, swearing at the dog, and making crank complaints to TV networks – ex pontiff likes to keep busy!

It’s been a world wind couple of months for Joseph Ratzinger. Just a short time ago he was Pope Benedict the 16th – the most powerful Roman Catholic next to God Himself. Now he’s been stripped of his super powers, much like Superman in his krypton chamber – in which he had to get depowered before marrying Lois Lane and getting deflowered – you remember the old Chris Reeve flick.

Now Joseph Ratzinger is a mere retired cardinal and resident of Vatican City. So how is the ex pope settling into the quite life? Well if the pic below is any indication he’s as happy as a clam. Just have a peep at the ex pope yourself!

Cardinal Ratzinger keeps company with current best friend Fido. The corgi was a gift from Queen Elizabeth 2.

He tosses the Frisbee with the same little hand flourish that he used to bless the crowd at St. Peter’s with, but he also swears at the dog in German. The Italians are already complaining about the sound of his dog barking and loud German swearing. However what can they do?

On a more disturbing note the ex pontiff is also said to be watching a frightening amount of daytime TV. Insiders say that The View is one of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s favorites. The rumor is that Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who was finally slated to get the ax, was renewed through Cardinal Ratzinger’s  personal intercession. It’s not that he really has that level of influence anymore, but Babs Walters is angling for an exclusive interview, so she humored him by keeping Liz on (for one more year anyway).

So between the swearing, throwing stuff,  and meddling in daytime TV, there’s bound to be a little adjustment period. It’s worked out good for Hasselbeck though ’cause I hear that Angie Harmon as good as had her ass in that seat.

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Justin Bieber Spits on Neighbor – Battery Charges Filed!

whipper snapper allegedly runs amok

Justin Bieber is developing one hell of an attitude these days, or a case of Tourette’s Syndrome, and it’s lead to battery charges getting filed against it. It all happened innocently enough when the Biebs was tearing around his neighborhood in one of his souped up vehicles. The neighbor, who has small children, got a little nervous with all the extra vehicular activity. So told Bieber to cool it. That’s when he got into a ‘spat’.

It’s slobberin’ time

Remember to add “allegedly” after every third word in the following and we can begin. Bieb then went barking mad and  let loose with a stream of fucks, and then told the man he would kill him, or words to that effect. Then, to emphasize the point, Denis the Menace let Mr. Wilson have it right in the face with a big wad of spit. We’re not sure exactly what the man took offense to, whether the spitting, the swearing or the spitting – but the guy wound up pressing assault and battery charges against Justy.

Sometimes life is like a long walk on a short pier, but at the rate this kid is burning his bridges he’ll soon run out of runway. Now you know what comes of raising young-ins with out liberal doses of corporal punishment!

Hollywood Who Done Its

There are many mysteries in the Land of Dreams. Here now are some theories about a few of the more famous ones.

Marylin Monroe was a Hollywood Powergirl

Late President John  F Kennedy was a man that became a myth. For years people looked on him like Arthur reigning over Camelot. The myth was so powerful that his detractors could do little against it. Oddly it was the rumor and gossip around him that did more to tarnish the Kennedy mystique more than anything else. For one thing Kennedy liked beautiful young women, and spent much of his time pursuing them. One of his most famous conquests was Marilyin Monroe. When Monroe sang happy birthday to the President at his gala celebration no one suspected that there was more to the story than a song and a dance. The story of their love affair would have to wait a whole to come out, and when it did it brought some conspiracy theories with it. Those conspiracy theories would cast the actress’s tragic death in a new light.

Monroe died of an overdose in an apparent suicide. According to the rumor mill Kennedy family operatives like Peter Lawford were quick to arrive on the scene and take charge. Some even say that Bobby Kennedy himself showed up to scour the place for any incriminating connections to either his brother or himself (they were both sleeping with Marylin).

Details of Marilyn’s autopsy further raised suspicions. Some said there weren’t enough drugs found in her stomach. Some said there were signs that she’d received the drugs by enema and so must’ve already been unconscious when she was given them. That suggested foul play (to anyone except a resident of Hollywood where drugs and enemas might be part of an evenings entertainment).

When the autopsy irregularities were put together with the Presidential connection everyone assumed that the Kennedy’s had her bumped off. The theory goes that Jack blabbed important state secrets to Marilyn. Seymour Hircsh in his excellent The Dark Side of Camelot writes that Jack did from time to time hide girls in the closet whole meeting with Bobby and other government officials. It was a fun came plus left the girls conveniently located when hew as ready to get back to them. You don’t get to be a Kennedy without learning how to cover the angles.

Marilyn was well known to be mentally unstable. Her mother was a schizophrenic who died in a mental hospital. Marilyn had ongoing professional relationships with shrinks and analysts through her adult life. She also took a lot of pills. So the theory goes that when Marylin started getting demanding, and possibly making threats, Jack started to worry about all that stuff he might have told her and then did what Kennedy’s do – play for keeps. However there is another more reasonable theory.

Marilyn was a prescription pills frequent flyer. She was dependent on sleeping pills for one thing. Sleeping pills came in handy for other reasons too. People who knew marlin claims that she had this “game” that she’d play in relationships. When ever things weren’t working out she’d down about 12 sleeping pills. Marylin had a tolerance so they weren’t enough to kill her but just enough to make her seriously drowsy. Then she’d phone her current boyfriend and tell him she was committing suicide, perhaps over him. He would of course rush to the rescue in time to call the ambulance. Since Munroe was a canny girl she knew what she was doing, and was in no danger; but she would have emotional blackmail leverage of the guy for awhile.

About 2 weeks or so before her death her sleeping pill prescription was changed. Now the thing about pills is that you can develop a tolerance to them fast, but only to the specific pills that you’ve been taking. Switch prescriptions to something with a different chemical make up and you have no immunity. So some speculate that Marilyn played the same trick at the time of her death. She took her usual dozen pills and prepared to swing into action. Only problem was that she’d miscalculated. Since this was a new prescription and she hadn’t developed drug resistance, they hit her hard and fast. Instead of getting good and groggy she died of an overdose. The fact that she was found with the telephone in her hand seems to confirm this theory.

Something similar was believed to have happened to Heath Ledger. Ledger seemed to be suffering from an anxiety disorder. He complained about his “racing mind”. He had terrible trouble sleeping. He was often awake early in the morning and seen jogging through his NYC neighborhood. On his way home he’d stop off at the park for several games of chess. Though he was a good player he might not have been a devotee of the game. Rather it may have been an attempt to keep his restless mind occupied.

By his own admission he could take an Ambien, sleep for 2 1/2 hours, and then wake up as restless as ever. Rumours were that he was ‘double doctoring’, that is getting multiple prescriptions from different doctors. As in the case of Marylin Munroe, Ledger’s prescription was changed shortly before his death. So according to some conjecture on the day of his death he’d gone for a massage to unwind. Then popped some pills. Assume he was resistant he may have swallowed them like Ambien. Since these were new pills they may have hit him harder than he expected.

Not all Hollywood mysteries involve drugs. In the case of George Superman Reeve it involves a gun. George was a big personable and attractive man. So he had no trouble making friends. When he was found dead in his bedroom of a gun shot wound to the head some started wondering which one of his friends might have wanted him dead. George had a lot of girlfriends. At the time of his death he’d just broken off a relationship with a studio exce’s wife. So the theory goes that some one had snuck in and killed him.

Part of that stems from the fact that the bullet casing were found in odd places. George would’ve had to have held the gun in some weird unhand position of have fired it. So inquiring minds speculate, might not some one else have been holding the gun, perhaps standing behind Reeve, and killed him? There is another theory.

Reeve was shot with a  German WW2 Luger that he kept. Friends say that from time to time he would like to shock his friends by pulling it out, pointing it to his head, and exclaiming “I can’t take it anymore“. Then he’d pull the trigger. Since the gun wasn’t loaded nothing would happen except for the loud click the firing pin would make in the empty chamber. George would then laugh uproariously at his shocked spectators.

So some people think that George may have pulled this same stunt at his death. Only this time the gun went off. There was no foul play but only a stunt gone wrong. However there is a variation on this theory. According tot his some one who wanted to get rid of George, and who’d seen him play this prank found out where he kept the gun. Gaining access to his bedroom they then loaded the gun with one live round in the chamber. Eventually George would pull the stunt again only this time with fatal results. Since there was no way to tie the person responsible to Reeve’s death they’d get away with murder. However no one really knows (that we know of).

Hollywood movie stars seem larger than life. Their high flying careers defy gravity and other laws of nature. Like Icarus in the myth this sometimes leads to tragedy. It also creates the stories that get woven into the fabric of Hollywood mythology. Like any mythology it has it’s share of cautionary tales. In this case the moral of the story might be “don’t play dead unless you mean it“

Ashton Kutcher’s beautiful mind

Ashton Kutcher is ‘pretty smart’ & looks on the ‘bright’ side

Ashton Kutcher is more than just a pretty face. To hear him tell it he never ever gets credit for his mind.Part of the reason is because he played a cute but dim witted hunk on That 70’s Show. At least that’s the Kutch’s explanation. Or as he told the good people over @ Elle magazine, where he recently was interviewed – “People fill in the blanks really fast. They go, ‘Oh my God, he’s on a show and [plays] stupid, so he must be stupid,'” he says about his image. “I can’t control that, nor do I try to, nor do I want to.“

Indeed why should he when there are so many advantages to playing dumb.First and foremost perhaps is the advantage of having people think that you really are dumb. Let the Kutch explain – “There’s something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you,” he explains. “They assume you don’t know what you’re talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn’t normally have.“

Now let me put the above in layman’s terms. You remember that old show Colombo, where the detective acted addled and confused? Then after he’d got on the suspect’s last nerve and was pretending to leave he’d suddenly turn around – insofar as they weren’t expecting that! – and ask them a sharp question that they weren’t prepared for? It was usually one of those “One more thing” type questions. Then Colombo’s advantageously underestimated intellect got information that normally would’ve stayed withheld. Well that’s just the way the Kutch – is be warned if you’re inviting him over for any dinner parties, unless you have a mystery that you want solved. BTW the Kutch is currently playing Steve Jobs, hence the Elle interview.

Now that might have come off as disillusioning for some of you but look on the bright side – at least he didn’t also admit to not being Batman, and Donna consequently not being Wonder Woman! So until anyone tells me otherwise I’ll continue to believe it, no matter how many blanks I have to fill in.

Sneak peek at new Justice League cast picture finally revealed

For the record Kutcher is no dumb punk. He was a biochemical engineering major at university of Iowa before dropping out to pursue modelling. After winning a Fresh Faces of Iowa (& does Iowa have any other kind of faces?), he moved on to New York. In NYC he competed in the International Modelling and Talent Association competition, where he placed second to Josh Duhamel (back in 1998).

John Mayer announces Born and Raised tour dates

John Mayer is gearing up for another tour. That had originally been planned for 2012 but health issues got in the way. In this case the health issue was a granuloma. Now before you jump to any conclusions and think John  got on one of those high fiber diets – maybe picked up from Gwyneth Paltrow or somebody, let me set you straight. Granola is a natural fiber food that used to be popular among health nuts before they went on to discover newer, trendier fibers. Personal growth is an on going journey of discovery. Granuloma is a small growth that develops on the vocals chords. The 1st is good news if you’re constipated, but the second is bad news of you’re a singer.

In this case the granuloma lead to a brief hiatus, as Ashton Kutcher might call it. The rest of us would say that he took a break. John says – “granuloma forms and continues to snowball because it’s in a spot where the vocal cords hit together and there’s no way to really give it a chance to heal without a good stretch of time and some pretty intensive treatment. I spent so long being terrorized, I had all but shut down the fantasy of playing music again — just so I could, you know, survive.“

The good news is that John bounced back and is now once again confident enough to continue with his career. Not only is the tour officially a go but the tour dates have been announced. 

John Mayer Born and Raised tour

April 25 — Tuscaloosa, AL (Tuscaloosa Amphitheater)
April 26 — New Orleans, LA (JazzFest)
July 6 — Milwaukee, WI (Summerfest- Marcus Amphitheater)
July 7 — Maryland Heights/St. Louis, MO (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
July 9 — Cincinnati, OH (Riverbend Music Center)
July 10 — Bonner Springs, KS (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)
July 12 — Woodlands, TX (The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
July 13 — Dallas, TX (Gexa Energy Pavilion)
July 16 — Morrison, CO (Red Rocks Amphitheatre)
July 19 — Ridgefield, WA (Sleep Country Amphitheater)
July 20 — George, WA (The Gorge)
July 22 — Paso Robles, CA (California Mid State Fair)
July 24 — Wheatland, CA (Sleep Train Amphitheatre at Sacramento)
July 26 — Mountain View, CA (Shoreline Amphitheatre)
July 27 — Irvine, CA (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irvine)
Aug. 6 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH (Blossom Music Center)
Aug. 7 — Clarkston, MI (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
Aug. 9 — Tinley Park, IL (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
Aug. 10 — Noblesville, IN (Klipsch Music Center)
Aug. 11 — Springfield, IL (Illinois State Fair)
Aug. 13 — Darien, NY (Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 14 — Toronto, ON (Molson Canadian Amphitheatre)
Aug. 16 — Hartford, CT (Comcast Theatre)
Aug. 17 — Mansfield, MA (Comcast Center)
Aug. 20 — Bethel, NY (Bethel Woods Center for the Arts)
Aug. 21 — Holmdel, NJ (PNC Bank Arts Center)
Aug. 23 — Camden, NJ (Susquehanna Bank Center)
Aug. 24 — Virginia Beach, VA (Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach)
Aug. 25 — Burgettstown, PA (First Niagara Pavilion)
Aug. 27 — Allentown, PA (The Great Allentown Fair)
Aug. 28 — Wantagh, NY (Nikon at Jones Beach Theater)
Aug. 30 — Saratoga Springs, NY (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 31 — Bristow, VA (Jiffy Lube Live)
Sept. 1 — Atlantic City, NJ (Borgata Resort Spa and Casino Event Center)
Sept. 4 — Charlotte, NC (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte)
Sept. 5 — Raleigh, NC (Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek)
Sept. 7 — Tampa, FL (Live Nation Amphitheater at the Florida State Fairgrounds)
Sept. 8 — West Palm Beach, FL (Cruzan Amphitheatre)
Sept. 17 — Buenos Aires, Argentina (Luna Park)
Sept. 21 — Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Rock in Rio)
Sept. 27 — Atlanta, GA (Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood)
Oct. 1 — Albuquerque, NM (Isleta Amphitheater)
Oct. 2 — Phoenix, AZ (Desert Sky Pavilion)
Oct. 4 — San Diego, CA (Sleep Train Amphitheatre)
Oct. 5 — Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Bowl)

Amanda Bynes is the scene of the crime

Now for our wondertrash celebrity tweet of the day. No for those of you who follow celeb gossip you know that celebs love twitter. For those of you who follow twitter you know that sometimes stuff gets posted that really shouldn’t have been. Now when you put together celebrities and twitter things can get outrageous. Outrageous is where Amanda Bynes comes in. Amanda took to the tweet lately to reveal that she’s got murder in her heart. Well maybe it’s a little lower below the belt. Here’s Amanda’s tweet so you can judge for yourselves.

So our moral for today might be that discretion is the better part of candor!

Entertainment Letdowns

private dancers

There’s more to the Bolshoi Ballet then pirouette’s tutus. and grim competitions to establish excellence. The ballet, like every other form of entertainment, has it’s dark side. Ballet’s dark side is high end prostitution. At least according to former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova is does.

backing the Bolshoi to the hilt

According to Voolchkova part of the problem comes from he fact that the Ballet has individual sponsors. Some of them are rich Russian types who expect a little extra with their donations in support of the arts. So good looking young ballerinas like Anastasia are encouraged to get friendly with some of the more enthusiastic sponsors. Now get friendly can including anything by running the gamut from hanging out and having drinks at parties, to drop you tutu and bend over for a ream job. When you get that frenziedly friendly then you can have some problems flitting delicately across the stage for a few nights!

membership has it privileges, but it’s gonna cost you

Everyone goes along with the arrangement because there is an unwritten rule about patrons getting special privileges with the dancers. If you don’t go along with the program then you can get demoted and even fired from the world famous ballet company. Membership in the Boshoi is something many of those dancers have trained and prepared for over most of their young lives. However Anastasia was brave enough to buck the system. When she stopped sleeping with a billionaire who was also a major Bolshoi backer, Volochkova says she was canned.

professional entertainment disillusionment

Ballet can join the world of pro sports in entertainment disillusionment. Once upon a time pro athletes were looked upon as minor gods who could do no wrong. That’s because people took inspiration from their achievements. Few were as inspiring as Lance Armstrong. Lance became the 1st American ever to win the Tour De France. Then he overcame the personal tragedy of cancer to win the Tour several more times. Before he hung up the bike he’d bagged about 7 TdF yellow championship jerseys.

When Lance was likable

With that level of achievement comes criticism. Some folks said that Lance’s performance was too good to be true. They believed – often loudly – that Armstrong was winning with more than training and determination. They speculated that Armstrong was juicin’, or taking steroids. Lance always flatly denied the accusation, then went off and did something more important like support cancer survivors through his Livestrong organization. That showed a lot of class, so people wanted to believe him. He had credibility.

catching up on the bromance

Some of the people who wanted to believe in Lance were famous themselves, like actor Matthew McConaughey.  Matt & Lance used to hang out quite a bit together, back in the days of their bromance. They were often seen out jogging together around the Austin, Texas area, when Lance wasn’t antagonizing fellow Texan Alex Jones (Lance has described Jones as a kook, or something, which Alex hasn’t not forgotten and refers to on air when the subject of Armstrong comes up). So the two were pretty good buddies for awhile.

That son of a bitch is no liar – he just tells lies

Matt says that he was blindsided when Armstrong made his cheating admission. However he’s put it in perspective. “He told a lie, he’s not a liar… When it came out, I took it personally, but then I realized it ain’t personal to him,” he told Details magazine. “I was going, ‘That son of a bitch!’ but then I thought, ‘Well, what was he supposed to do? Call me to the side and go, Hey, I did this?‘” Matt goes on  “…I’m happy for him now, because despite all this outside conflict, he doesn’t have this inner conflict anymore.”

So remember to keep reading Wondertrash. When professional celebrities disappoint you, it’s the blog that helps by putting things in a humorous context.

Journey’s Neal Schonn sues ex mother in law over blog comments

feuding over funding

When former Journey guitarist Neal Schonn decided to get serious with reality TV star Michaele Salahi it made his former mother in law Judy Kozan angry. So she took to her blog and accused him of being a dead beat who left his ex wife Amber penniless, and their two starving daughters sleeping in the family car. All this just so he could slap a million dollar engagement ring on the finger of his little reality TV tramp. Naturally that got picked up by the tabs because it was such a good story. It had all the right elements – a rock star, a reality TV performer, an angry mother in law & blogs! It was only short a Kardashian sister.  If only she’d done a YouTube video rant then it might have gone viral – better luck next time Judy. As it is she had to settle for getting picked up by the Daily Mail. They liked it well enough to repost it with all kinds of commentary about how she was feuding with Neal over his new girl friend. Only trouble is that Judy says it never happened – or not like that anyway.

she says she said that it’s only hypothetical – except for the money

Judy now says that she never ever mentioned Neal Schonn & her daughter Amber in her now infamous blog rant. She was talking about an anonymous woman with a perhaps hypothetical ex and possibly some make believe children. She didn’t say that Neal was driving her daughter out of her home and into the family car. In fact she admits that Neal Schonn pays his alimony and child support “religiously” – her word.

 just sayin’

She was just saying that if the hypothetical ex husband in her scenario didn’t pay his anonymous ex wife then she she might wind up living out of her car. I assume that the car is hypothetical too, and might possibly even be some kind of mini van. That would be much more comfortable than a standard car. Plus you’ve got more room and some electrical outlets to work with. Of course a standard car is once again much more of a comfortable sleeping arrangement than say a compact, or a foreign sports coup with bucket seats. It couldn’t be a mobile home because though a RV is a vehicle, you can’t really call it a car – unless you’re really stretching it (and if you stretch a car that far then it might as well be one of Neal’s old Journey limo’s with the bar, jacuzzi, and small recording studio built in)!. The experience of living in a nice RV with a little kitchen and a bathroom is just so much different from sleeping doubled up on a back seat of an old car while huddled under a sleeping bag, that calling an RV a car is creating the wrong impression. Context creates a lot! For instance had Amber been sleeping in a Dodge Journey it would’ve been ironic. So perhaps that’s why her ex son in law is taking her into Minneapolis court under a law suit he’s filed. He wants to clear the air.

coincidental persons

Schonn filed suit on Monday. He claims that his mother in law’s internet rants were far from hypothetical but aimed straight at him. He maintains further that she knew her rant might get picked up in the tabs and construed to mean him, even if Judy didn’t file in all the details. She, as a former Waseca mayor, should’ve known how people would construe that, & that makes her liable for libel! She might have at least added one of those “Any resemblance to actual persons is coincidence and not the responsibility of the author” disclaimers.

granny goes to court

So why drag granny into court? Well for one thing there’s some misinformation that needs clearing up. For instance Neal Schonn didn’t leave his ex wife destitute. He was order by the court to pay her $1.3 million and court records show that he has in fact exceeded those payments over the past 5 years! So an even better question might be why was Amber dragging him back into court claiming he reneged on spousal support payments?

 mama goes to school

Part of that stems from Amber’s attempts to continue her education. After the divorce Amber wanted to go back to college and eventually get her teaching ticket. That way she could have a career and eventually even become a self supporting person. That’s a noble aspiration. Amber eventually got her BA and ran up only 5 to 8 courses short of her teaching ticket. Amber claims that she ran out of money and if only ex Neal could throw more her way then she could finish up.

Is vaginal rejuvenation a dubious expense?

Neal claims that not his problem. Amber had more than enough of his money to complete her education and live well. Her problem is that she spent too much on flaky bullshit. The flaky bullshit got documented during one of their hearings and some items from the list include monthly living expenses of $11,622. The court noted that the expenses include $4,094 to maintain the home and $5,617 in personal expenses. The latter includes annual expenses of $9,600 for eyeglasses, $9,600 for birthday parties, $7,200 for clothing, $6,000 for a car, $5,760 for a storage locker and $2,400 for postage. Postage is where she lost her creditability. She spend almost half as much on it as her car and almost 1/3 as much as her eyeglasses. Who sends letters anymore? On the up side at least there’s no listing for vaginal rejuvenation (the going rate for that is $25 000 or something, if Brandi Glamville is to be believed, & she likes to keep her chappies happy with something snappy!). Point is Neal says it’s not his fault if the ex cant’ handle money responsibly. Judge Mary Vasaly agreed and on Jan 23 denied Amber Kozan’s petition. It’s good she did too – by failing to value and complete an education, Amber is setting a terrible example for her daughters.

seeking damages

So naturally Schonn wants this whole ugly mess cleared up. That’s why he’s taken his former mother in law into court. Schonn’s claim is that she maligned his could name, and didn’t help Malahi’s reputation much either. When she wrote on her blog about an anonymous man who has taken actions that will leave his two daughters homeless and “has put his ex in a situation where she literally has no money for food, gas for the car, bills, nothing.” he believes that she meant him and intended other people to believe that. He also believes that she acted with the malicious intention that her blog postings would be picked up and distributed by the tabloids.So he’s accused her libel, and also of invading his privacy. He would like the court to ban Kazon from making disparaging and derogatory comments about himself and Michaele Salahi, and is seeking over $75 000 in damages.

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