Girlfriend is going to get whiplash if she keeps turning around this fast. A few weeks ago, Mariah Carey declared that she would feel “violated” if she became pregnant, but now says that she’d love to have a little bun in the oven:
The Hero singer said: “It’s (having children) part of the whole purpose of getting married.
“I’d just want our children to have the best childhood and upbringing they possibly could.”
The pair expressed their love for one another in the most modern of romantic gestures, by getting tattooed:
Speaking for the first time about their speedy marriage to American magazine People, Mariah revealed she had got a ‘Mrs Cannon’ tattoo before the nuptials, with Nick getting a simple ‘Mariah’ etching.
He proposed to her in a surprisingly fitting manner for her personality…by using a kiddie candy ring (which was actually kind of cute, imo):
Nick proposed to Mariah on April 26 on the roof of her Manhattan apartment as they watched a lighting display on the Empire State Building to celebrate the success of her new album E=MC2.
He surprised Mariah by presenting her with a kids’ ring pop candy ring, which had a £1.25million, 17 carat diamond ring hidden inside the plastic casing.
Nick said: “She ran away and got all shy.”
During a helicopter ride over the city later that night, Nick proposed again and Mariah finally accepted.
And by the way, those rumors that she didn’t have a prenup? Rubbish, according to her:
Mariah apparently told a mutual pal of ours: “Anyone who thinks we didn’t have a prenup is smoking something!”
Hmm. Quickie wedding, sudden u-turn on having kids? I think she’s in the club.
Don’t you just love that “Oh my goodness, how embarrassing to be caught out, let me put my hand with the enormous ring on it up to my face in an attempt to look properly shy” look she’s rocking in the photo? Nick just looks…shellshocked. He’s got to learn how to work it like Mimi if he’s gonna roll with her.
Placing bets on how long this lasts? Either way, Nick Cannon is set for life. (I still wonder if she lets him use the Hello Kitty bathroom!) I hope he gets used to catering to her every whim, however…there’s no way she’d ever let anyone upstage her.
How can you not love Haircut 100’s “Love Plus One”? I dare you to resist it’s infectious Caribbean riffs, sinuous sax line and buoyant good cheer. You can’t. Unless you have NO soul.
So here’s to a Happy Friday, may you find love, plus one.
A couple weeks ago I tried an experiment, it was a huge failure, and I am that much wiser for it. But not wanting to entirely ban the idea, I am opening Glosslip up for Saturday as a reader-generated content day in honor of the May 10 global protest from Anonymous. I know lots of people will be protesting, but some of us can’t, but we can still contribute in our own way.
It is open to anyone and can include photoshops, videos, poems, haikus, short stories or on-site news reports from in the field.
Essentially if it’s tasteful (not pornographic, hostile, violent or abusive) and could be considered a tolerant form of protesting, informing or sharing, we’d like to host it.
Unbelievable amount of lies being told in this video. Xenu is a mystery? Guess Tommy never managed to get that far in his auditing. Probably not even a “clear” yet.
Tommy Davis is Anne Archer’s son. She must be proud to have raised such a prevaricating charlatan for a son.
Here’s another view of Tommy Davis being himself, bull-baiting John Sweeney into losing his mind. Why wouldn’t anyone want to join Scientology, it’s such a transparent and “open” faith?
UPDATE: Some comments had me thinking my first impression of Tommy in this video was correct. The poor man seems beaten down and dejected. His eyes look sad and he seems bewildered. It’s cruel to watch these people be overworked and forced to defend the indefensible. Mr. Davis, it’s ok to leave. Please bring your mom with you, we’d love to have her back.
This Saturday will be the fourth global protest in a series of monthly protests staged and organized by the internet activist group called Anonymous.
From the beginning of this movement in January, I was intrigued and compelled to follow up on what has become an integral part of Glosslip. I spoke at a conference today on blogging and while I was there representing Blogcritics.org, many people seemed interested in the investigative and celebrity stories we do here on this site. Truly, the two subjects work well together simply because Scientology uses celebrities to provide a glamorous face to their corrupt organization and Hollywood is a tremendous component to our popular culture. We worship at the altar of Celebrities, and their causes (or fake religions) are part of mainstream America. Glosslip seeks to expose and confront false worship.
Like Anonymous, I have found myself drawn into a noble effort to expose the outrageous, cruel and pervasive abuses throughout Scientology. For too long, our apathy as a country has allowed this open sore on humanity to fester. Anonymous, like any activist movement before it, has created a cohesive and like-minded mass in which together these individuals are able to execute change in their world.
Understanding the corruption of Scientology is not easy. It is complicated, time-consuming and mind-boggling. Just when you think it can’t get any worse than brainwashing, illegal silencing of critics and perversion of our tax system, you discover forced abortions, labor law violations (including child labor), physical abuse of members and the mysterious deaths of those who’ve sought refuge in Scientology.
Every single day, EVERY DAY, I get emails from former members who are finally speaking out, or from those who’ve lost loved ones to the cult, or those who’ve lost years of their lives working towards what they thought was a noble effort to help mankind, only to find they’d been deeply misled and taken advantage of.
Yes, she’s at it again…Denise Richards is once again flapping her yapper about her new reality show and defending her decision to whore out her kids in it:
“If I have my kids on my show, I’m exploiting them,” she tells Redbook. Yep. “If I don’t, people will think I’m not a hands-on mom.” Not so much, actually. But “that’s why it’s very important to me that the girls are part of it.” Also, who really cares about Denise Richards by herself anyway?
No joke. I feel about this woman like Dawn feels about the Church of Scientology.
Here’s her non-answer to a question about her children and their role in her reality show:
Do you think that Charlie and the people who say you’re exploiting your children are just trying to protect them? If Charlie and I had decided together to keep our kids away from the media, I would understand where he’s coming from now. But we made the decision as a couple not to shield our children.
And her classy answer about the father of her daughters:
What’s Charlie’s involvement with the kids now? He has visitation rights, but I’m raising them. This is their home. Charlie and I are so conflicted, I know it has to confuse the girls. I threw a birthday party for Sam a few weeks ago and sent their dad an invitation, and he didn’t show up. Then at the last minute, he decided to throw her a birthday party the day before at his house. I emailed him asking if he wanted me to help get a list of her friends together, but he didn’t invite one of them, just kids of people he knows.
Don’t get me wrong…I think Charlie Sheen is a bit of a jerk himself, and he definitely has problems and issues of his own. This guy is no saint…but at least he doesn’t have a reality show. Frankly, both Charlie and Denise need to shut up talking aout this stuff in public. For both of them to be discussing these issues about their daughters…well, one day these girls will be old enough to Google. All these two parents are doing is ensuring their daughters’ future…may as well rename them Lindsay and Paris now and save time.
Like I’ve said over and over, her decision to whore out her children for the sake of her own pocketbook has to be one of the nastiest, skankiest decisions I’ve seen in entertainment for a while now. I’m of the opinion that if one absolutely must have a reality show, then keep kids out of it. Maybe if they are teenagers and old enough to understand the way a reality show can warp and screw with their lives…but that’s a huge maybe. I’d say anyone under eighteen has no business on reality TV, and definitely not toddlers who absolutely under no circumstances can make any sort of informed decision about the matter.
I’m still calling for a boycott of her show and of E! network for airing it:
E! Entertainment Television
5750 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323-954-2400
Fax: 323-954-2661
Be respectful, literate, and decent, but let them know in no uncertain terms that a reality show with toddlers crosses the line.
Was it as far back as January that the infamous Crack Amy video was released? It seems that the authorities in the UK have been laboriously poring over the footage since then, desperately searching for any clues which might show that Amy was doing drugs, and they found enough tenuous evidence to bring her in on charges. She had an appointment at a police station where she was arrested:
The arrest is a result of a video of the 24-yearold star that became public in January.
In the 19-minute film she is seen smoking crack cocaine and talking about taking Valium while appearing dazed and disorientated.
The star was originally questioned under caution in February and was due to return for further interview in June.
That date was then brought forward and she was asked to go to Limehouse police station in East London yesterday.
This is the latest in a series of incidents between Miss Winehouse and the police.
The Grammy Award winner went voluntarily to Holborn police station just ten days ago to answer charges of common assault.
She was arrested for allegedly attacking a man while on a drunken night out in Camden.
So let’s see…in the past ten days, she’s been arrested twice, once for assault and once for Class A drugs, and they let her out on bail? While in the meantime her husband rots away in jail (where he’s been since November) for beating up a guy who was going to testify against him and then trying to pay him off? He’s a notorious druggie and they didn’t even bust him on drugs charges!
The nineteen-minute vid, which showed Amy Winehouse lighting up and talking about drugs, was on a memory stick on which there had been a deleted video of Peaches Geldof buying drugs. Police were able to use a program to recover the deleted information. (Welcome to the twentieth century, guys…I’ve used a program that I found for free which does the same thing.)
The police released her on bail and she was out again last night, with the beehive on and a scarf with a “Blake” pin attached to it wrapped around her head. Of course, it was just a couple of days ago that she had that same scarf wrapped around her breasts in a makeshift bikini top. But hey, what’s a little boob sweat between friends? She was talking to the paps and discussing getting a new tattoo. Because that’s just what she needs…more body ink. I say this time she gets a tramp stamp with an arrow that says, “If found, please return to owner.”
It remains to be seen whether they can make these charges against Amy stick. You know, since they have such a lack of real evidence that she even does drugs. I’ll bet this all turns out to be a big misunderstanding…she drank too much Mountain Dew, she was on a sugar rush and caffeine high, they’ll all have a big laugh about it, and everyone will walk away happy.
The Church of Scientology is working overtime to try and cover up their blatant and irresponsible actions of exposing members, including their famous celeb clientele, to blue asbestos for the last 20 years.
The Church owned cruise liner, The Freewinds, is currently dry-docked in Curacao for extensive repair work, which now includes their attempts to remove the dangerous chemical from the ship. It was during scheduled renovation work when local authorities doing inspection of the ship discovered the toxic blue asbestos, which many older ships used as a fire retardant. From an article on Lawyersandsettlements.com:
The Church of Scientology’s members were attending Scientology courses, training services and functions aboard the ship. According to the Daily Herald, a local newspaper, the blue asbestos was released from the ship’s structure during refurbishing and reparatory work.
This is not the first time the MV Freewinds has been investigated for blue asbestos. In 2001, a former Scientology member, architect Lawrence Woodcraft, submitted a sworn affidavit stating that he was exposed to blue asbestos while working on the Freewinds in 1987. As well, a statement from the ship’s captain claimed that there were previous incidents where blue asbestos was released into the ship’s ventilation system. But the Church of Scientology denied Woodcraft’s claim and in so doing, the Church knowingly exposed its passengers and members to this most deadliest form of asbestos for the past 21 years!
The fibers of blue asbestos, like all asbestos fibers, can be inhaled in the lungs where they lie dormant for years until their carcinogenic toxicity begins to cause tumors to grow in the lungs, causing the disease mesothelioma, which is virtually untreatable. The result of this disease is a certain and painful death.
The Church has known about the blue asbestos in an official capacity for at least seven years when architect and former Sea Org member, Lawrence Woodcraft, gave an official affidavit on the matter warning of the dangers. During Mr. Woodcraft’s tenure with the Church he was brought in to help do restoration of the Freewinds and it was during this time he discovered the deadly toxin throughout the ship. Glosslip discussed his concerns during our radio inteview with he and his daughter Astra during our show on Monday. Lawrence was very concerned about his level of exposure to the asbestos and said he was concerned for the many others who’ve been unwittingly exposed for years due to Scientology executive’s negligence and indifference.
Radar Online did a follow-up on their story on this subject, focusing on the Church’s official spokesperson, Karin Pouw, denying any suggested contamination, during which she also stated all scheduled Freewind’s events would be going on as planned (one is set for today). Also of note, is a new story out of the Caribbean stating there are special teams from the U.S., being overseen by local authorities on the matter, who are doing round the clock clean up. From Radar:
A special team from the United States, supervised by an independent bureau from the Netherlands, has arrived on the Caribbean island of Curacao to remove asbestos from Scientology Cruise ship Freewinds, according to Amigoe, the longest running daily paper in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The Freewinds is still reportedly sitting high and dry at a Curacao facility owned by docking company CDM.
The company managing the cleanup is Ft. Lauderdale-based “woman owned” AirQuest Inc. A staffer answering phones at the company said the entire staff was on the job and “incommunicado.” Neither CDM’s director, a spokesperson for the company, nor Tico Ras of Curacao’s Environmental Service bureau were available. In the Amigoe article, Ras says the seriousness of the asbestos threat is “a matter of interpretation.” So, for instance, if you breathed in blue asbestos on the ship, you might die. Or you could get lucky, dodge any potentially cancer-causing particles, and live out a life of religious fulfillment.
Freewinds was supposed to give a declaration about its condition last week but didn’t, Amigoe reports. And CDM director Frank Esser tells the paper that the ship has failed to follow rules regarding asbestos handling, assuming past sworn statements by the ship’s architect are true and there is still blue asbestos, the deadliest kind, on board.
At 4 p.m. EST, Radar called and e-mailed a Scientology spokesperson who had previously claimed the boat was completely up to snuff and on schedule for renovations—the Church was advertising a cruise departing May 7 (tomorrow). about the looming asbestos issue at about 4 p.m. EST. We did not immediately hear back.
Class-action suits a term I’ve heard thrown around when talking about the Church of Scientology. The applications are numerous. We’ve already highlighted a long history of physical, mental and psychological abuse against members within the Church, as well as a collusive nature to obstruct the truth, forcibly keep members hostage and imprisoned, and now, we have direct evidence of thousands of adherents to the faith being knowingly exposed to an extremely toxic and banned substance for at least 21 years.
* Chick Corea did the Route to Infinity course and OT VIII in the early 90s.
* Lisa Marie Presley did the Whole Track course in 1989 (as Lisa M. Presley Keough).
* Catherine Bell did the Route to Infinity and Ability Congress courses in 1990 and 2000 respectively.
* Kate Ceberano did the Route to Infinity course in 2001.
* Juliette Lewis did the Route to Infinity and State of Man Congress courses in 1999.
* Amanda Ambrose did the Route to Infinity course in 1989.
Here’s a list of Celebs who AREN’T listed, but may very well have been there for other events, as we know Tom Cruise was for his 40th birthday based on numerous news reports and video footage:
* John Travolta
* Tom Cruise
* Kirstie Alley
* Jenna Elfman
* Nancy Cartwright
* Kelly Preston
* Nicole Kidman
* Giovanni Ribisi
* Chaka Khan
* Isaac Hayes
* Karen Black
* Mario Fenninger
It was recommended by an industry insider who’s familiar with lawsuits and mesothelioma, that those who are concerned or exhibiting symptoms (sometimes resembling viral pneumonia, pleural mesothelioma patients may present with shortness of breath, chest pain and/or persistent cough; some patients show no symptoms at all) should see their doctor FIRST, before contacting a lawyer. Hopefully as more light is shed on this story, a better sense of how much exposure people were subjected to will come to light. Worrying about becoming sick is a terrible burden.
Can’t the UK get anything right concerning these stars and their drug habits?
Serial druggie Pete Doherty was released from prison after serving a pittance of his original sentence, waving a piece of paper saying that he passed his drug test while locked up:
But Pete Doherty’s precious piece of paper proved only that he had passed a drugs test while in prison.
He seemed delighted to have it as he left just 29 days into a 14-week sentence, declaring he wanted to “keep it together and work on my music”.
The 29-year-old singer, who has been repeatedly arrested in possession of crack cocaine and heroin, was finally jailed last month for breaching his probation.
But yet again the law smiled on Doherty by setting him free early.
He emerged from Wormwood Scrubs in West London at 7.10am yesterday in a suit, tie, what appeared to be rosary beads and surprisingly shiny shoes.
Smoking a cigarette, he said he was looking forward to having a drink and seeing his pet cats.
Don’t let him near those animals…he gives them drugs!
So let’s get this right…he was supposed to serve over three months, and he ended up being in for fourteen days? Who does this guy know?
Seriously…what is up with the courts over there in the Old Country? Every time I turn around, people like Pete and Amy Winehouse are committing crimes like buying and taking drugs and headbutting people, yet they get let off with a slap on the wrist and a finger-waggle and a “No no no” from the authorities. This guy has been arrested multiple times for drugs, yet they keep letting him go. Even after he promises that he’s going to do better and get clean, he still relapses and they still slap him on the wrist and they still let him go.
He and Amy both need to go away for about a year and get totally clean and sober. Of course, with the leniency of the court system over there, what’s the motivation? They know they aren’t really going to be punished, so why bother?
Yet…Blake Incarcerated-Druggie beats up a guy and is STILL in jail, where he has been since November. Yes, he deserves to be punished…yes, he threatened a guy with more beatdowns…yes, he offered the guy money if he’d shut up and go away…yes, Blake is a drug addict. But is he any worse of a drug addict than Pete? Is what he’s done that much worse than Pete continually flaunting the legal system in Britain by constantly and flagrantly taking drugs and violating his probation?
I’m definitely no fan of Blake, but the hypocrisy of the UK court system is astonishing. Pete will probably put his certificate in a nice glass frame and then hoover up a line off it.
Look, I’m a woman, and I know what Lindsay’s doing with her eyes. That is one intense look and it has nothing to do with Cinco de Mayo or Hold The Mayo or Pass The Miracle Whip (okay, maybe the last one, a little bit, as long as you aren’t out in the sun):
Lauren [Conrad] and Lo looked particularly sloppy and Lindsay, well….rumor is that she was trying to cozy up to Joel [Madden], despite having her weird non-girlfriend Samantha Ronson by her side.
Good night. Is there anything walking with a penis that Lindsay won’t try to bonk? Never mind that Joel is supposedly in a committed relationship with Nicole Ritchie and that he has a new baby at home…this girl is honing in on her prey. I just hope he’s got some Germ-X in his pocket before he takes something home to Harlow. Don’t let Nicole see this pic…she’ll kick his butt and then not eat for a month. (No, I’m not trying to be mean.)
And shame all over Joel for ever allowing himself to get in that situation to start with. He should know better than that. Of course, it is Lindsay…I guess the alluring, musky scent of fake tanner and cigarettes is just too much for any red-blooded male to overcome. So can he really be blamed for that goofy look on his face? He’s just a man. Just a mortal man.
I’ll bet “Top Mom“ Dina is so proud right now. Happy Mother’s Day!
