The much maligned Hollywood hothead Mel Gibson has signed on to make an appearance with Zack Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and the gang for The Hangover 2. Mel will be playing a tattoo artist and it will be interesting to see if they pull and punches related to his resent baby mama audio tapes release. Filming is taking place in LA as of now but will move to Thailand in the next few weeks. We can only hope for a Tyson/Gibson hot tub scene…..
Kayne West Album Art
Kanye West is speaking out – again. The notoriously outspoken rapper took his furor to Twitter Sunday night, expressing displeasure that the original artwork for his new album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” was “banned in the USA!!!” “They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!” he wrote, alongside a photo of the intended artwork – a painting of an armless, winged nude woman with a polka-dotted tail straddling a man.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the cover art wasn’t exactly banned, as West put it. A source close to the artist reportedly said West was strongly urged to forgo his choice of cover art, but that his label, Universal Music Group’s Island Def Jam, was willing to stand behind whatever he decided to do.
The rapper, 33, continued to tweet about the hypocrisy of the nation’s conservative mentality and the stifling of his “true creativity.” “In the 70s album covers had actual nudity… It’s so funny that people forget that…” he wrote. “Everything has been so commercialized now.
“So Nirvana can have a naked human being on they cover but I can’t have a PAINTING of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings.” West said
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Blowing stuff up never gets old in movies, as the death-defying pranksters from MTV’s reality series “Jackass” proved at the North American box office on Sunday.
“Jackass 3D,” the third installment in a feature series about a crew of thrill junkies, crushed forecasts by selling an estimated $50 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada, distributor Paramount Pictures said.
If projections hold up when final data are issued on Monday, the film will beat 2003’s “Scary Movie 3” ($48.1 million) to rank as the biggest October opening of all time.
Pundits had forecast “Jackass 3” would open in the $30 million range. The actual result ranks as the best opening since the Leonardo DiCaprio thriller “Inception” kicked off with $63 million three months ago.
Darryl McCauley, the half-brother of Dane Cook on his mother’s side, was sentenced by a Massachusetts judge Wednesday to between five and six years behind bars for embezzling millions from the actor/stand-up comedian. McCauley, 45, must also serve 10 years of probation and make restitution to Cook, 38.
According to People Magazine, McCauley, who was Cook’s business manager from the early 1990s to late 2008, pleaded guilty to 27 counts of larceny, three counts of forgery, and other charges. He even paid himself $3 million straight out of Cook’s account.
News broke of McCauley stealing money from his brother in 2008, less than a year after Cook’s father died of cancer. Cook’s mother had also died of cancer six months before that in 2006. This string of events caused Cook’s comedy routine to take a darker and more personal turn when he returned to the stage in 2009 for his “Isolated Incident” performance. Although Cook discussed his parents’ deaths in his act, as well as the various criticisms and “haters” he has dealt with over the years, he refused to go into depth about his brother.
Cook also has five sisters, whom he has previously mentioned in his comedy routines.
Police got unexpected help talking a suicidal man down from an Atlanta skyscraper on Wednesday when rapper T.I. showed up. Officer James Polite says the hip-hop star joined the crowd outside the 22-story office building in midtown Wednesday and told officers he wanted to help. Police said the man agreed to come down in exchange for a few minutes face-to-face with T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris.
“I told him it ain’t that bad. It’ll get better, to put the time and effort into making it better,” T.I. said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “I just reminded him know that I know. It looks bad right now, but it can turn around.” T.I. said he heard about the situation on the radio and drove to the building to help. He recorded a video of himself on a cell phone and rescue workers took it to the man to prove the rapper was really there. The Atlanta native said the man seemed to be “beat up by life.”
The suicidal man, whose name wasn’t released, was taken to a hospital.
50 CENT, the 35-year-old multi-award winning rapper, has the chance of adopting a rhino who recently survived a poaching attempt. The rhino, currently named ‘Phila’, was shot nine times in two separate incidents in South Africa, the same amount of times that the hip hop artist has been shot, reports the Epoch Times.
50 CENT was shot during an incident in 2000, as he was beginning to leave the streets of New York to begin his music career, and now a spokesperson for the crime fighting organisation eBlockwatch says they want the rapper to become a ‘godfather’ to the animal, saying, “We want to ask him if he wants to become the godfather of our rhino so that he can create awareness worldwide about rhino poaching”. Rhino poaching is becoming more of a problem in South Africa, with 227 confirmed deaths this year, compared to only 122 in 2009. ‘Phila’ survived an initial shooting, which encouraged the poachers to remove the rhino’s horn, however she then survived a second shooting.
Watch this hilarious interview from ‘Funny or Die’ with Zach “That Guy from The Hangover” Galifinakis and Steve Carell.
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino took his final blow on Dancing with the Stars. No amount of GTL could save team Guido from elimination as he was cast off. The final vote came down to Sitch and Bristol Palin. Alaska’s favorite teen mom eventually got the nod, sending The Situation packing.
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