Hollywood Chit Chat

Today (Friday September 12, 2008) Village People will receive 2,369th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Village People sang YMCA, Macho Man, In The Navy and other Dosco songs.

There is a rumor going on in the WWW (among younger generation folks).

The rumor says the Hip Hop (rap) artist Lil Wayne's daughter Reginae is killed in a car accident Sunday, August 10, 2008.

But everyone related to Reginae says she's alive and well.

This is becomeing a news right now.

1. Late Heath Ledger's movie The Dark Knight opened this morning 12am.  The movie is a smashing hit.  Heath Ledger is expected to win Oscar.

2. John Lenonn movie: A film based on the life of John Lennon has been awarded funding by the UK Film Council.

3. Warrant issued for Pete Doherty's arrest: A warrant for Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty's arrest has been issued after the singer/guitarist failed to show up to a court hearing in Yoevil.

4. Britney Spears give sole custody to Kevin Federline.

On April 24, 2008, Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7203.

Snipes failed to pay approximately $70,000 in local property taxes, interest and penalties on a home in Alpine, New Jersey, owned by his company, Kymberlyte Production Services International, Inc. In December 2007, the taxing authority of the borough of Alpine, New Jersey sold the tax lien on the home to a third party. Snipes has two years to redeem the property or risk foreclosure. In 2005, Snipes defaulted on California property taxes, owing over $171,000 in property taxes in that state.] As of February 2008, a home owned by Snipes in Florida is subject to delinquent property taxes of over $15,000

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This was a minor new and detail is sketchy.

A construction worker was found dead (hung) at Mel Gibson's property in Agoura Hills. The person who died later identified as a construction foreman who helped created movie sets for some major movies including one of the Matrix trilogy.

Mel Gibson never lived in the property.  Mel Gibson has a church in the property.  Mel's daughter was married in that church.

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Related topic - Remembering Johnny Grant  

After our beloved Johnny Grant's passing, Hollywood is looking for a new honorary mayor of Hollywood.  It's all good and normal.  What turns my stomach is that Hollywood is considering the billboard model Angelyne as one of the strong candidates.  There are better qualifying candidates such as Monty Hall (Let's Make a Deal).  He's a Canadian but I will take Monty over Angelyne anytime.

I have a feeling that Angelyne will not become the honorary mayor of Hollywood.  But, just the fact that she is being considered is an embarrassment to the world. Hollywood is losing it's class. I am very disappointed at this.

All the classy people in Hollywood are either dead or dying.  Pretty soon, the only people left will be the ones who flash their camel toes and shoot sex movies of themselves.  Disgusting... I'm going to puke.

Related topic - Remembering Johnny Grant

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Paris Hilton was ready to attend Academy Award ceremony.  She spent $3.8 million on her dress alone.  But the Academy banned Paris Hilton from Oscar Award and all affiliated after parties. 

Paris then wanted to attend Vanity Fair party, but Vanity Fair party was cancelled due to recent writers strike.   She ended up leaving town for her own party.

A few weeks ago, Paris Hilton's latest movie 'The Hottie and the Nottie' grossed about $9,000 in the opening weekend.  

This year's Academy Award had THE worst TV rating in Oscar History.  I am not surprised.  I don't find Jon Stewart remotely funny.  In fact, he is really annoying.  OK, I'll be honest, I hate that mofo.  Johnny Carson was the best.  Conan O'Brian was pretty good too.  I never watch Oscar award on TV.  It's a total waste of time. 

Also, this year, a lot of foreigners won major awards.  Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) gave his acceptance speech in Spanish.  I thought that was wrong.  Well, I guess it's good that Javier Bardem wasn't from Iraq. 

People obviously lose interest on Oscar because we have all the young bloods turning Hollywood into a freak show.   For example, Ryan Seacrest has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.  I rest my case. 

During the ceremony, they had a little segment where they showed all the past Oscar hosts.  From that video clip, they left out Whoopi Goldberg even though she had hosted 4 Oscars ceremonies.  They talked about it in The View (the morning show that Whoopi Hosts with three other ladies).  Whoopi was not angry about it.  Next day, the Academy apologized and everyone was happy.

Feb 20, 2008 police arrested 2 paparazzi waiting for Lindsay Lohan.  This is a big news in the industry.  Over 10 years after Princess Diana's death, most of us got sick of the word paparazzi.  Two photographers were arrested with misdemeanor charge (small case.  Book & release).  But there is a chance the law will get even tougher if they remain to be annoyances to the public.

Celebrities are human just like you and me.  Can you imagine a bunch of thugs muscling their way up to your face 24/7?  That's not helping already fragile young celebrities.  I hope celebrities would get some break.

HD DVD or High-Definition DVD was a high-density optical disc format designed for the storage of data and high-definition video.

HD DVD was designed to be the successor to the standard DVD format and is derived from the same underlying technologies. Since all variants except the 3x DVD employed a blue laser with a shorter wavelength, it can store about 3¼ times as much data per layer as its predecessor (maximum capacity: 15 GB per layer instead of 4.7 GB per layer).

As of February 12, 2008, 386 HD DVD titles have been released in the USA. As of February 19, 2008, 214 HD DVD titles have been released in Japan, with 44 titles pending to be released.

HD DVD was in a "format war" with rival format Blu-ray Disc to determine which of the two formats would become the leading carrier for high-definition content to consumers. On February 19, 2008, after major content manufacturers and key retailers began to withdraw their support of the format, Toshiba made an official announcement to no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, effectively ending the High definition optical disc format war.

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I received an email saying Paulina Rubio died in Spain.

Paulina Rubio is a Mexican super star, equivalent to Shakira.  She would be US equivalent to Beyonce or Madonna. 

But I couldn't confirm that news with any website out-there right now.  We shall find out.  This is confusing.

Update:
I think somebody was pulling my leg.  I have waited a whole day but there is no new on Paulina's death.   But, I received the news (of Paulina's death) from a Mexican entertainment website.  I bet there were a lot others who received that email.  Hm..

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I heard the news on Heath Ledger'd death as it happened.

When my co-worker informed me about Heath Ledger's death, I couldn't find any information online. It was the latest breaking news.

At that time, at work, there were my boss' wife and two little boys visiting. I was surfing the web to find Heath Ledger's death news.

Then I've decided to visit Wikipedia. I clicked for Heath Ledger on Wikipedia.

When the page opened, on top of the page, there was a large image of a penis. Somebody hacked into Heath Ledger's Wiki page and pasted a picture of a penis there. I freaked and closed the page. Two boys (visiting) were sitting somewhat close to me where they had a clear view of my 23" monitor. But I wasn't sure if they saw the weiner or if they were busy goofing off.

I ran to my co-worker (female coworker). She was there with another female coworker.  They were searching for the news on Heath Ledger's death.

I stopped them and said "Whatever you do, DON'T go to wiki. The page is hacked".

My coworker paused and asked "Wow, really? how?".

I explained about the giant penis.

As soon as I finished explain, she started to type in for wikipedia in 100 miles an hour. The other female coworker's eyes were lit up like Christmas tree as well.

"The page may have a virus or something, don't do it!" I yelled. But they have reached Heath Ledger's Wiki page in no time. Luckily the picture wasn't there anymore. And their page was temporarily locked for security reason. Yikes...

PS. Wikipedia is like a box of chocolate.  We never know what kind of Hack, Jokes, or Virus you are going to get.

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