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Making Up For Lost Time

I haven't been updating this blog very much recently, and for that I apologize. It's just too tough when you're hiding from the Beckhams. And by hiding I mean scouring the city for a sighting.

I would also like to issue an apology to my dear Lindsay Lohan for being rough on her in the past. The truth is, La Lohan is actually one of the kindest, most considerate people in the Business. Think about it...never to be one to steal the spotlight, she stepped aside and entered rehab to give others some time in the limelight. For a month we once again enjoyed Britney's crazy antics (disowning her mother, making up poor excuses for attacking cars with umbrellas, wearing mismatching underwear, etc.), Paris's jail behavior, Nicole getting knocked up, and the like.

But La Lohan has finally had enough. After turning 21 and leaving rehab (how anticlimactic for the party girl to be sober on her 21st...or was she?), girlfriend has been ALL over the tabs lately, including partying in Vegas, sporting her alcohol detection ankle bracelet (ya know, just to prove it's ACTUALLY water inside that water bottle), and most recently, turning herself in to the LAPD over her DUI a few months ago. I cannot WAIT for that mugshot! I'm saving a spot for it on my wall right between Paris and Nicole's.

And so, with a short break for us to be reminded just how much we love her, La Lohan has returned in full force. Thanks for being so considerate, Lindsay. You have no idea how much it means to me.

No no no!

Lance Bass is going to make his Broadway debut this fall as Corny Collins in Hairspray. In what has now become the battle of the boybanders, Hairspray currently features Ashley Parker-Angel of O-Town as Link Larkin. Funny how Lance Bass, former member of the hottest boyband of the 90's is taking a supporting role to a former member of O-TOWN! And hey, if those two can be on Broadway, why can't I???

Doesn't Lance realize that aerosol hairspray is bad for the environment? What kind of astronaut would endorse something that kills the ozone layer?

Perhaps a boybander who was desperate for media attention so he used wanting to go into space as a media ploy. Too bad it backfired and he failed! Hopefully he'll do better at the Neil Simon than he did at NASA!

Yay Yay Yay!

Or maybe it should be Boo Boo Boo! I just heard through the grapevine at the Pantages that Shoshana Bean is replacing Eden Espinosa as Elphaba in Wicked in LA. She's taking over in September, which means I won't be able to see it...she's a sweet girl. I can't for her to hit big in LA!

Isaiah Washington: Homophobe or Contradition Addict?

I'd say both.

Isaiah Washington recently did an interview with Larry King where he finally 'came clean' to America about what really happened on the set of Grey's Anatomy. If you ask me, his story only got dirtier.

The saddest thing about this whole ordeal is not that T.R. Knight was outed by the gossip surrounding the situation, but that he contradicted himself and his previous excuses/stories on MULTIPLE occasions during the interview.

By coming on Larry King and changing his story YET again, Washington is only fanning the fire of deception, scandal, and gossip surrounding his firing from the show, and his tarnished reputation as a homophobe with anger management issues!

Ok, check out these ridiculous highlights of the interview. Although he "loves Patrick Dempsey," Washington throws him under the bus on MULTIPLE occasions, blaming him for being late to the set and raising his voice at Washington and instigating their entire argument. Isaiah, the definition of professionalism and purity (because he didn't, you know, utter a homophobic slur not once but TWICE, no), claims that the first time he used the f-word he was referring to himself (and let me point out here that uttering "faggot" in a way that is not directed toward a homosexual is almost as bad), and is baffled as to how T.R. Knight came in to the picture at all. Apparently, in Isaiah's book, "faggot" does not refer to homosexuals negatively, but rather means someone who is weak and disrespected. Well, if that's the case, then I think he is one!

So he calls Dempsey unprofessional and Knight a liar, and he is the victim. And he didn't want to turn the situation into a race issue, but then refers to Chanda Rimes (creator) as an African American woman who fell into the trap of the studio execs. Um, how is that not a race issue?

I'll give this to the man: He had his side of the story down very clearly. But when King would throw a curve ball (the few that he ever does throw), Washington faltered and his true colors came through again. Referring to his stint in rehab and PSA for GLAAD as media stunts wished upon by Disney and ABC, and delivering vague answers to questions such as "Why is it acceptable to use the f-word at all, in any context?" only weaken his argument and his attempt to redeem his reputation.

He may be an amazing actor, and he may have been misrepresented and not entirely to blame for the way the situation turned out, but to place the blame on the blow-up on Patrick Dempsey, and to say that T.R. Knight should have been fired for his misrepresented behavior instead of him is just disgusting to me. And by attempting to clear his name and point fingers to other people involved, Washington is only dwelling on the subject and is not doing what he should be doing, which is lay low for a while and try to make a comeback in a few years. He and Mel Gibson should get together and talk things out. In a controlled environment. With no booze. And they should both be on time.

Real World: Reunited, Drama Still Intact

MTV is currently airing The Real World Reunited: Las Vegas. The entire cast has their antics taped as they spend two weeks back in the same suite where they were for 4 months. Hate to say it, but things are pretty much the same. Arissa's still a bitch. Frank is still stupid. Trishelle is still a drama queen glam girl. Alton & Irulan are still fighting. Steven is still inarticulate.

The only change is that Brynn, that cute 20 year old go-go dancer, is now married with two kids. She looks good, her hubby looks even better, and her kids are the cutest things in the world. But where's the drama?? She breast feeds and burps. Boring.

Seriously though, I can't stand these people. I couldn't stand them then, can't stand them now. Frank is looking to make up for lost time in Vegas and get blacked out drunk and sleep with a different girl every night. These words actually came out of his mouth on the last episode:

• "That's what you do--get drunk in a bar, make out with an ugly girl and forget her name the next day."
• "If we never see each other again, you have a great ass."

Hard to believe half these people went to grad school. Check out the before and after:

DO any of them look that different??

A New Paris? Je ne pense pas.

Finally got around to watching Paris Hilton's interview with Larry King. It was so ridiculous. I actually went so far as to think she didn't look terrible when she was released from jail last week, but I'm guessing someone hit her with a baseball bat before she went on air because she looked awful...it was like she tried to make up for 3 weeks worth of botox and lip collagen implants because she was all puffy.

Poor Larry King. He's old enough, he shouldn't have had to deal with dragging a full sentence out of Paris's mouth like he did. I'm pretty sure he needed his heart re-booted after that interview.

After spending 3.5 weeks behind bars for multiple parole violations, it still doesn't seem as though Paris is clear as to what she did wrong. In describing her situation, she said she thought it was ok for her to drive because her lawyer told her her liscence was suspended for 30 days, and then she could only drive back and forth to work for another 90 days. Then she talked about the second time she was pulled over for driving on a suspended liscence, how she was going to In & Out Burger. How does that constitute driving to work?

Paris looked at her time in jail to focus on herself and think about who she is and what she wants to do...like it was a stint in rehab or attending a self-help seminar...not a punishment for committing multiple offenses.

She claimed she was treated just like any other inmate--no better, no worse--yet she still insinuates she was treated unfairly, citing others who go to jail for the same offense she did only spend 10% of their sentence behind bars, and she served 50%, and the sentence didn't fit the crime. Hmm, she may actually have a point there.

Some memorable quotes:

• "It's prison food. It's not supposed to be good."
• "I didn't want to cause a media circus...going in."
• "I'm an Aquarius, we're social people" (yes, she actually said this on Larry King Live)
• Larry (throwing out names she has been associated with to get a comment): "Britney Spears." Paris: "Mmhmm." [pause] Larry: "What about her."

What's the celebutante up to now? Vacationing on Maui, trying to blend in wearing HUGE sunglasses, OVERSIZED sun hats, and godawful wigs. Welcome back, Paris!

D-Day has arrived

And I thought it was bad when Paris Hilton was released from jail. The TRUE D-Day has arrived. Today, June 2, 2007, marks Lindsay Lohan's 21st birthday. And how is she spending it? In rehab. Well, not really. She had a birthday party in Malibu. But then she went back to Promises.

Wait, scratch that whole D-Day thing. It's really just like any other day...not being legal has never stopped her before!

Thank You For Loitering. Please Come Again.

As a marketing ploy, twelve 7-Eleven locations have transformed their store into Quik-E-Marts, in anticipation of The Simpsons Movie. Seriously.

Complete with Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees, 7-Eleven is bearing all the costs for the stunt. Greenfield has nothing to lose.

Audra McDonald's medical issues

Audra McDonald has replaced Merrin Dungey in Kate Walsh's Grey's Anatomy spinoff, Private Practice. I have mixed feelings about this because while I am in LOVE with Audra, Merrin Dungey is so fun and amazing. I loved her in Alias, and yes I will admit it, Summerland. Hopefully she backed out because she got a better offer...they should have canned Chris Lowell as the 'hot' secretary who surfs on his lunch breaks (upon second look, not that hot). I guess now I will actually have to watch this show. I have to support every theater star who gets a gig on TV (even if it means watching an awful FOX fake sitcom starring Parker Posey and Michael Arden...as a straight man. I'm not kidding).

That monster is HUGE!

Young Frankenstein is opening at the Hilton Theater this fall, and they are already hyping themselves up for one MONSTER of a show! The production has yet to begin its pre-Broadway run in Seattle, but it is already hitting the headlines in New York.

Last week, it was announced that the top ticket price for the show will set a new record for the most expensive ticket in Broadway history!

Premier seats (in the front orchestra on Friday and Saturday evenings) will run $450, the most expensive regular-priced seat EVER on Broadway! Other tickets will go for $375, $120, $80, and $60 for the back-balcony (which, at the Hilton Theater, is like watching a show across a football field!). But don't start freaking out yet, on other lower-demand evenings, the top two ticket prices will be a full $100 less. 'Cause that's still not astronomically high for a largely un-original piece of musical theater (can you tell I'm really not a big Mel Brooks musical fan?). $25 tickets will also be available in some sort of raffle/rush form for each performance.