And the disk drops...Scarlett Johansson does music

So, bombshell actress Scarlett Johansson did a music album. It might be good, it might suck. Either way, says ScarJo, it was a fun project and why's everybody snarking on about it?

She talked with NYLON mag about her experience in making the album, saying, "I guess this was the equivalent of making an independent film as opposed to a huge studio production."

She took to the road with producer Dave Sitek, driving through Texas. And that was cool. For like the first 10 hours. Then she realized that Texas is...Texas. Geographically speaking, there's a lotta leg room.

Here's how the road trip went, according to Scarlett: "I think I broke the sound barrier driving there. I think it took us about three days to get there. It felt pretty epic, about the time we hit Austin, I was like, 'Ugh! Texas! How can it be so big?' I felt like we should be in Iceland by the time we got there. "


On the plus side, she says, "...it was a great amount of time to bond with Dave -- you know, when you’re in a car with somebody for that period of time you just end up shooting the shit and telling your life stories and weird things you’re thinking about, and sharing a lot of music with each other."

Finally, says Scarlett, she just doesn't get the big controversy about her releasing an album. She started as an indie actress, so being an indie musician isn't all that much of a stretch, if you ask her.

Says Scarlett: "I don’t understand it. I know a lot of writers who take pictures, or makeup artists who paint, or sculptors who make jewelry, all kinds of stuff – so what’s so surprising about an actor who sings?"
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Hearsay...

Topless model Miranda Kerr looks like she's 12 - Pop Crunch
Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey cute at the beach - Faded Youth
Brangelina in France - Celebrity Nation
Christina Applegate's lover found dead - The Shallow End
Megan Fox not into her engagement - Bricks and Stones
Emmerdale actor Clive Hornby dies at 63 - Goss UK
Christie Brinkley ditches #4 - Docs of Pop Culture
Preggo Jessica Alba ties the knot - Barbie Martini

Passion kills: Supermodel falls to her death in apparent suicide

Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova, 20, was the modeling world's latest It Girl, but apparently her fairy-tale rise to fame brought her no happiness.

Ruslana, known for her smoldering Slavic beauty, long hair and soulful blue-green eyes, was killed in a fall yesterday (June 28, 2008) at 2:30 p.m., from the balcony of her ninth-floor condo; she fell nine stories and died on Water Street, in New York City.


The Russian beauty was discovered by modeling scout Debbie Jones of Models 1, and launched a hugely successful career in 2003.

"Everyone at Models 1 adores Ruslana," gushed Debbie in 2003, according to British Vogue. "I saw her by chance and she looked like something out of a fairytale! We had to find her and we searched high and low until we did! She's really incredible with feline features and timeless beauty."

The 20-year-old supermodel was so young, she's shown in some casual photos smiling broadly -- wearing braces.


Still, the enigmatic Russian was an instant fashion runway favorite, working with designers Jill Stuart, Betsey Johnson, Rosa Cha, Lela Rose and Libertine.

Ruslana was a cover girl for the European editions of Elle and Vogue. She was also in high demand for glossy fash ads, appearing in ads for DKNY, Vera Wang and Marc Jacobs. She regularly traveled between New York City and Paris, sending back money to her parents, who've remained in the former Soviet Union.


A suicide note wasn't found at the scene, but police sources say there was no sign of a struggle in the apartment; so far, the reason for her death is a mystery.

The New York Post spoke with an eyewitness at street level:

"I heard what sounded like a gunshot or a bomb or an explosion," said a Con Ed worker talking to a cop nearby right before Ruslana fell. "I looked down the street, and I say to the cop, 'Did that person just get hit by a car?'" said the worker, who identified himself only as Patrick, 32, of Brooklyn.

The two men ran over. "Her arms were crushed," Patrick said. "Her head was on the left side and blood was coming out in a pool."

"She's one of the sweetest, nicest people you'll ever meet," said a friend, who didn't want to be identified by name. "I'm still in shock. The world lost a great person."

He said that Ruslana was just back in town from a modeling gig in Paris and seemed to be "on top of the world."

"There were no signs," he said. "That's what's driving me crazy. I don't see one reason why she would do that."

Building doorman Mahmoud Nakeeb, who got to work at 4 p.m., only to see Ruslana's sheet-covered body lying in the middle of Water Street, remembered her as "very soft-spoken...She was beautiful, beautiful."

He said that Ruslana, who'd moved into the building two months ago, didn't seem to be unhappy.

Mahmoud told Newsday: "She's a very sweet girl. She was always smiling."


But some of her online posts told a different story. The Daily News reports that Ruslana made several heartfelt posts on her Web site and a handful of social networks, saying that love meant everything to her -- and detailing her anguish over being unable to find enduring love in her life.


She wrote passionately that love "blinds," "sets souls afire," and "is always the answer" in several passages posted on a social networking site.

Ruslana alternated between Russian and English in her prose, but love was always the motif. "Do not confuse love and desire," she wrote in Russian in her last posting on May 30, 2008. "Love is the sun, desire -- only [a] flash. Desire dazzles, [but] the sun gives life."

Her volatile posts were a complex mixture of emotions, veering from deeply passionate and spiritual, to brokenhearted and stormy.


She confesses, for example, in a Jan. 2008 post, that she's experienced some love trouble, saying, "It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out."

Then, in a Mar. 11, 2008 post: "I'm a bitch. I'm a witch. I don't care what you say!!!".


In her May 30 post, though, she seems more despairing, saying, "Love does not take away from one in order to give to another," and "I'm so lost."

But she also left behind a final poem for readers, a personal credo which was a bittersweet mix of all her feelings. She wrote: "Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile."

Rest in peace: Ruslana Korshunova, July 2, 1987- June 28, 2008

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Report: Madonna is done with her Guy

Here comes the seven-year ditch. British newspapers are reporting that singer Madonna is set to divorce filmmaker Guy Ritchie.

Guy, 39, and Madonna, 49, married in December 2000, and divorce rumors plagued the couple from the beginning, basically because Guy's this unassuming British dude and Madge is a total pain in the pants.

He even made one of the most ghastly movies ever made, Swept Away, for his wife. She starred in it. The movie sucked. Coincidence?

The story features Madonna stranded on a desert island; that concept is fab. But, see, then she comes back.

It might've been an okay film if Madonna had played, for example, a palm tree. But she didn't. Alas for Guy. Then he stopped making movies, Madge went on an adoption spree and joined a cult, blah, blah, divorce.

Anyway, apparently Madonna's been chatting with Fiona Shackelton. Fiona repped singer Paul McCartney in his recent divorce saga with Heather "Evil Eye" Mills.

Fiona did such a kick-ass job in court, that Paul held onto nearly all of his £825 million fortune ($1.6 billion) -- he only had to cough up £24.3 million ($48.9 mill) to his ex. At the time of the settlement, Paul was 65 and Heather was 40. They have one child, Beatrice.

Fiona also repped Prince Charles in his divorce from the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

So, why Fiona? Well, Madge and Guy (shown above) reportedly didn't sign a pre-nup. Fab! No pre-nup means...drama!

Madonna's rep, meanwhile, says bollocks to the whole thing, it's all just lies, lies! But of course, that's what she'd paid to do.

Madonna's worth £300 million ($600 million), just in case you're curious. So, the Material Girl's just trying to protect her assets.
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Glenn Close would like you to know...

"That movie struck a very, very raw nerve. Men still come up to me and say, 'You scared the shit out of me.' Sometimes they say, 'You saved my marriage.'"

- Actress Glenn Close on her "bunny boiler" role in Fatal Attraction
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Fash icon Vivienne Westood: "Sex" is boring

If you're going out to check out Sex and the City: The Movie, just know that fash icon/Aries chick Vivienne Westwood isn't going with you.

The firebrand designer, 67, is name-checked in the film, and she created the dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie, in a wedding scene in the flick.

But that doesn't mean she had to enjoy the film. In fact, says Vivienne, someone ought to slap the stylist, Patricia Field.

Okay, she didn't say that. She just thought that maybe the fashions would be a little more...fashionable. Or at least like maybe something she might like. Not just bleh. Or even, in fact, anything like this:

Says Vivienne: "I thought Sex And The City was supposed to be about cutting-edge fashion and there was nothing remotely memorable or interesting about what I saw. I went to the premiere and left after ten minutes."

No word on whether or not she was knickerless at the time, but she's got kind of a knack for that. Those fire girls have no time to waste, hopping into underwear. Lord knows, if she wasted 30 seconds on something that mundane, well, she might miss somethin' interesting!

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Britney Spears' baby sister pops out a sprog

The world can look forward to a mini-Britney Spears for the next generation. Or not.

Singer Britney Spears and her kin are "thrilled" with the arrival of little sister Jamie Lynn's new baby girl, according to Britney's dad Jamie.

The 17-year-old Jamie Lynn gave birth to Maddie Briann, her first child with fiance Casey Aldridge, at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in MCComb, Mississippi on Thursday, June 19 ('08).

Jamie shocked her family when she announced her pregnancy last year ('07), at the age of 16.
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Lily Allen would like you to know...

"Kids, drink responsibly or you'll end up looking like this, not pretty! Was quite fun though, from what I can remember."

- Mockney singer Lily Allen, on being so smashed at the Glamour awards, she had to be carried out.
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Hearsay...

Megan Fox won't stop talking - Docs of Pop Culture
Tori Spelling thinks she's a gay icon - Gallery of the Absurd
Charlie Sheen marries another sucker - Heckler Spray
Candace Bushnell wore this on purpose. - Go Fug Yourself
Anne Hathaway channels her inner...orange - Faded Youth
Etch-a-Sketch porn not for the impatient - Boinkology
Someone's gonna regret this tattoo - OMG
Celine Dion's son is cute. How'd that happen? - Maple Juice
Keeley Hazell can't keep her clothes on - I Don't Like You...

Flying penis interrupts political speech, or, Men: A world problem

Alas for the Russian space program -- all these engineers with nothing to do. So they're outfitting flying penises to interrupt boring political speeches, now.

No, wait, that might be a brilliant use of pertinent skills. All is not lost.

Anyway, what happened was that chess grandmaster/political activist Garry Kasparov (shown above) was running for something, or supporting some party, who cares.

But as he's making this political speech, well, someone, somewhere evidently didn't give a flying f*ck about all this political stuff, and gave the bored reporters (and everyone else) something to talk about. Something a little...well, exactly, like this:



It might have been a reference to a sim incident during a press interview with virtual world design millionaire Anshe Chung (details here), but more probably it just seemed like a good idea at the time...

The prank was staged by "a couple of pro-Kremlin Young Russia activists," according to th Moscow Times.

Kasparov laughed off the incident, just quipping that the ridiculous prank was "below the belt."

The dialogue and sequence of action in the YouTube clips reportedly goes something like this, just keep in mind that the "reportedly" part means a poster here dropped this info in the comments section, it was related and interesting enough to post.

So, maybe it went down this way, or maybe not, but if so...Kasparov's not only sharp, he's got a good sense of humor:

"After the security guard swatted it to the ground, Kasparov says, 'I think we have to be thankful for the opposition's demonstration of the level of discourse we need to anticipate. Also, apparently most of their arguments are located beneath the belt.'

Someone in the audience shouts, 'Finally the political power shows its face!' Kasparov quickly replies, 'Well, if that's its face...' to laughter from the audience."

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Dead moose the latest hot thing on Craigslist

So, this 300-pound moose stumbled in Anchorage, Alaska dropped dead in someone's front yard, the guy called the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to haul the carcass away, and they told him too bad, he was on his own.

Calvin Hay gave it half a thought, then did the only sensible thing, and buzzed over to Craigslist to offer a dead moose to the first taker.

His post includes a few helpful serving suggestions: "You could use it for dog food, or stuff it and put it (in) your front yard, bear bait, whatever. If you live in the Lower 48, this might be your best opportunity to get a free Alaska moose. I don’t really care; I just want it out of my yard."

He got at least 50 responses just minutes after posting the moose deal, including one potential moose gourmet who wasn't into hauling away 300 pounds of moose, saying: "I want it. But I can only take a haunch. I got only a small knife and a bicycle."

Okay, a dead moose on Craigslist, not that weird. It's just weird that this isn't the first person to do it. See?

But how else are you gonna shift a dead moose? A puzzler. As wildlife biologist for the Fish and Game Department Rick Sinnott admits, "...we just leave it up to the homeowner to deal with because we’re not equipped to move 20 dead moose a year out of yards."

Note: The header photo doesn't depict any of those trendy dead Alaskan moose. The picture is of a New Hampshire moose. They don't cause as much trouble, see, 'cause evidently they can read.

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Peer pressure! Jessica Alba gets hitched, too

There's been a rash of celeb weddings recently, like a crime spree. The latest perpetrator of marriage is actress Jessica Alba, 27, who just married boyfriend Cash Warren.

She's already knocked up with Cash's, er, contribution, so they were running out of time for a shotgun wedding. They tied the knot in a private ceremony on Monday (May 15).

Jessica kept the ceremony at a Beverly Hills courthouse so low-key that when US Weekly rang her brother, Josh Alba, for a quote, he didn't even know his sister was married, saying, "My sister!? I'm going to have to call her!"

Jessica, 27, and Cash, 31, reportedly broke up last summer, but got back together and presto; they're expecting a baby girl. Jessica says it was an unplanned pregnancy but is "excited."

Jessica met Cash on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004. She became a household name as the star of the TV series Dark Angel.
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Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz do the deed

Sometime singer Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz got married Saturday night (May 17), in case you care. Mariah Carey did it the other day. Marriage is like the new divorce, in Hollywood.

Ashlee and Pete (shown below) started dating in late 2006, but kept the relationship secret, not confirming it until mid-2007, when Pete gushed to In Touch magazine that, "I have never met somebody who makes me feel the way she makes me feel."

Ashlee, 23, and Pete, 28, exchanged vows in front of 150 people at her parent's digs in Encino, California.

Ashlee's father, Joe Simpson, performed the non-denominational ceremony, while her sister, sometime actress Jessica Simpson, was the maid of honor.

Looks like Pete and the pops have made up since last year; in December '07, Joe banned Pete from coming to Christmas dinner with the family, after Pete admitted in a mag that he's kissed men in the past and would probably be bisexual, except for the whole penis thing.

Anyway, now they're all one big dysfunctional fam, so back to the wedding.

Pete and Ashlee had an Alice in Wonderland-themed reception, featuring a wedding cake piled high with a top hat, tea pot, stop watch and a pot of flowers on top. Which, admittedly, is actually kinda goofy and cute.
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Amy Winehouse hooks up with Pete Doherty, chaos ensues

Singer Amy Winehouse already has a ticket for her downward spiral, and that's leaving in like...any minute now.

So, of course, the one person in the world she needs to be hanging out with right now is Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty. There's nothing like hanging out with a guy who shoots syringes of blood at cameramen to offset someone's mental slide.

Anyway, the two of them were hanging around at Pete's house in Wiltshire and decided to make a little YouTube viddy. Not that kind of viddy. It wasn't a sex tape, it was a...well, it was called Winemouse.

The two of them are shown sitting around talking to a litter of baby mice. As of course you do. The clips lasts for two minutes, and features nothing much, just Amy and Pete picking out the tiny rodents and making them "talk" for the camera.



Amy, dressed in a black bra and shorts, used one mouse to make an appeal to her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who's currently cooling his heels in prison.

Holding up one of the mice to the camera, Amy squeaks: "This one's got a message for Blake. Blake? Please don't divorce mummy, she loves you ever so. Oh, wait, wait, my big brother wants to say something."

Pete, 29, then holds up another baby mouse and Amy continues: "If you divorce her you'll have me to deal with. I'm only a day old. I don't know what I'm doing, but I know what love is."

Troubling? Says who? It's Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse, a stereo symphony of lunacy. All this fuss -- it's not like they ate the live baby mice. Or like Pete sent a dead rat brooch round to an ex-lover, or anything.

Animal activists, meanwhile, have lost their rag over the whole thing, howling in a storm of protest about how the mice are clearly the ones in need of help. Well...that's one point of view.

Inevitably, someone's already made a mashup:


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America's next top model is...

...really cute, and -- shock! -- not a size zero.

The winner of the latest season of America's Next Top Model, Whitney Thompson (shown above, below) is a curvy size 12 (US).

As the winner of Top Model, Whitney, 20, whose curves are reminiscent of classic glamour girls Marilyn Monroe or Jean Harlow, will shoot a fashion spread for Seventeen; she just signed with high-profile modeling agency, Elite.


Says Whitney of her win: "People always say you have to be stick-skinny, emaciated and unhealthy and I've kind of stood up for [being curvy] my whole life."

She added that she wishes more women had the confidence to stop starving themselves and just be comfortable with their natural figures "rather than skin-and-bones, which is disgusting and sends a bad message to people everywhere."
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Posh gets confused when she's not wearing heels

Fashion victim Posh, 34, won't let herself be photographed in public anywhere if she's not wearing staggeringly high stiletto heels.

She also she starves herself instead of going to the gym because, she says, she just can't concentrate when she's wearing something as sensible as flat-heeled shoes.

The former Spice Girl said in an interview with GMTV today that she'd gladly go to the gym...if she could wear heels.

Says Posh: "I just can't concentrate in flats, I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear."

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Woody Harrelson would like you to know...

"She's not like a delicate girl. She's like a classic broad, in terms of being a beautiful woman, incredibly talented and also able to tell more vulgar jokes than you and drink you under the table."
- Actor Woody Harrelson, on actress buddy Charlize Theron
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Bon dits: Sarah Brightman

"...I think I am in love with Sarah Brightman. I mean, look at her: She is crazy. And awesome...How can you not love a woman who attends a classical music awards event covered in multiple pelts...and thigh high leather dominatrix boots? I'm not being sarcastic. That coat is fabulously over the top even without the boots, but this combo makes her look CRAZY and RAD. I don't know what movie she thinks she's starring in, but I want to see it."

The target: Phantom of the Opera singer Sarah Brightman
Who said it: Go Fug Yourself
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Hearsay...

Angelina Jolie draws crowd at drive-through - I'm Not Obsessed
Gospel singer Rambo dies in crash - Bitten and Bound
Beauty queens are bigger in Britain - Celeb Sugar
Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't wanna work anymore - Daily Stab
Lily Allen takes her bosom for a walk - Ninja Dude

But also...
Liv Tyler out and about in NYC - Celeb Warship
Danish royals visit another cold country - Merry Royals
Lindsay Lohan booted from Manson film - Bricks and Stones
Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson engagement rumors - The Shallow End
Amy Winehouse shows off her undies - The Skinny