I Ain't One To Gossip, But.....

Oops, Gaga gets sued for being a monster employer.
Jennifer O’Neill, Lady Gaga’s former personal assistant has filed suit against Monster Mother ALLEGING that she was overworked and underpaid.
O'Neill, 41, worked for Lady Gaga for just thirteen months, even going on tour with her, and is now saying she put in 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime and is owed more than $380,000 for catering to Gaga’s eccentric demands around the clock. She is upset because she had to ensure "the promptness of a towel following a shower” and act as a “personal alarm clock to keep [Gaga] on schedule.”
Hmmm, you had to make sure there were towels in the bathroom and get Gaga where she needed to be, on time? Um, Jenny? Honey? Isn't that's what a personal assistant does, hon?
And for that she was paid $75,000 a year, and took it happily, though now she's saying she got no meal breaks or any sleep--for a year!??!--had to make sure Gaga had ‘the availability of chosen outfits’.
Poor dear. She got 75K to travel the world with a superstar, pick out towels, tell someone nap-time is over, and pick out Gaga's clothes. My.Heart.Bleeds.

Oh, this makes me sad. Not.

Mel Gibson, devout Catholic and adulterer, and Robyn Gibson’s divorce is finally final. They'd been married for 30 years, and she stuck by him through his cheating, drunkenness, anti-Semitic rants, arrests and affairs. So, why did it take so long to finalize this divorce?
Big money. see, Mel and Robyn didn’t have a prenuptial agreement, so she was legally entitled to half of everything he earned during their marriage. Some $800 million.
Robyn, the mother of seven Mel's eight, maybe nine, children, is walking away with half his fortune in what is considered the biggest divorce payout in Hollywood history.
And it seems like some of his wealth has already been transferred to Robyn, since she has recently taken sole ownership in two Malibu homes worth a combined $22.5 million. As for film residuals, Robyn is entitled to half of every future check Gibson receives for the rest of his life.
Four-hundred-million to spend thirty years with alcoholic, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, asshat Mel Gibson?

It should'a been more.

It looks like Sinead O’Connor wanted to outdo Kim Kardashian in the marriage sweepstakes, and she pulled it off. She stayed married to Barry Herridge for a whopping sixteen days.
Sadly, though, the marriage ended when Sinead went prowling the streets looking for drugs and new hubby Barry, who is a drug counselor, got a wee bit pissed off.
Sinead claims the marriage was sabotaged early on by the “interference of certain people” but then admitted Herridge had been left “frightened” by her mad search for cannabis on the night they got married: “We ended up in a cab in some place that was quite dangerous. I wasn’t scared--but he’s a drugs counsellor. What was I thinking?....Then I was handed a load of crack. Barry was very frightened--that kind of messed everything up a bit really.”
Ya think?


Lots of rumors going around that newly good girl--at least according to her probation report--Lindsay Lohan would be hosting a New Year's Eve party.
Cracky say what?
But then media-whore-mama Dina called all her gossip sites and said the truth was that Lindsay was turning down all sorts of offers to whore herself out as a party hostess because she's so newly clean and sober and wants to stay that way.
Uh-huh.
So, of course, it turns out Lindsay actually is hosting a New Year’s boat party in Dubai, alongside other A-list.....A-list, now that's funny...stars like Pamela Anderson and former cricket player Allan Lamb.
Sounds fun, eh? Lindsay, drunk and high off her ass on a boat?

I Didn't Say It

Sinead O'Connor, on the Pope and the epidemic of Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandals:
"There should be a full criminal investigation of the Catholic hierarchy of any country in which this has been an issue. There should be a full criminal investigation of the Vatican. There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope. The pope should stand down for the fact that he did not act in a Christian fashion to protect children, and for the fact that his organization acted to preserve their business interests decade after decade rather than be concerned about the interests of children, and for showing so much disrespect for Christ, God, the victims, the rest of us, their own clergy. . . . The Vatican and the pope need to get on their knees and confess the full truth in the same language they make us use in Mass. . . . They need to get on their knees, open everything up, be transparent, tell the truth, ask the people for forgiveness and prayers."

James Cameron on Glenn Beck:
"Glenn Beck is a fucking asshole. I've met him. He called me the anti-Christ and not about 'Avatar.' He hadn't even seen 'Avatar' yet. I don't know if he has seen it...I think, you know what, he may or may not be an asshole, but he certainly is dangerous, and I'd love to have a dialogue with him...He's dangerous because his ideas are poisonous. I couldn't believe when he was on CNN. I thought, what happened to CNN? Who is this guy? Who is this madman? And then of course he wound up on Fox News, which is where he belongs, I guess...[The right wing are] just people ranting away, lost in their little bubbles of reality, steeped in their own hatred, their own fear and hatred. That's where it all comes from. Let's just call it out. Let's have a public discussion. That's what movies are supposed to do, you know, you can have a mindless entertainment film that doesn't affect anybody. I wasn't interested in that...Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their ass I'm not sure they could hear me."

Barney Frank on the anti-gay slurs used by Teabaggers during the health care debate:
"There was a great deal of shouting, you know, waving of fists and signs, and sort of people getting very close and yelling. And a number of the comments were homophobic.... What occurs to me is, there are kids all over the country watching this, not as a game but as real life. And watching so-called respectable politicians cheering them on. And that was just discouraging, that at this point in our history, we couldn't have a rational debate with these kind of thug tactics that were being used.''

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on DADT and ENDA:
"Certainly there are members of Congress who are nervous because of the economy, the rate of joblessness. Across the country, people are agitated. On the other hand, my constituents want to see bolder and quicker change, and so I actually see positive signs to follow through [on DADT and ENDA]."






Carmen Electra, on her breast implants:
"I had breast surgery over 10 years ago…which took a bit of time to get used to. I didn't want to go as big as that. It's nice that I don't have to wear a push-up bra any more, but I could have left myself alone."









Magician James Randi, known as 'The Amazing Randi', coming out of the closet:
"Well, here goes. I really resent the term, but I use it because it’s recognized and accepted. I’m gay. From some seventy years of personal experience, I can tell you that there’s not much “gay” about being homosexual. For the first twenty years of my life, I had to live in the shadows, in a culture that was--at least outwardly--totally hostile to any hint of that variation of life-style....Gradually, the general attitude that I’d perceived around me began to change, and presently I find that there has emerged a distinctly healthy acceptance of different social styles of living--except, of course, in cultures that live in constant and abject fear of divine retribution for infractions found in the various Holy Books...In another two decades, I’m confident that young people will find themselves in a vastly improved atmosphere of acceptance....I'm in excellent company: Barney Frank, Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachel Maddow, are just a few of those who were in my thoughts as I pressed the key that placed this on Swift and before the whole world…"


Drag Queen Joan Collins on real men in Hollywood:
"There's a big difference between the male stars of bygone years and today's slightly metrosexual-looking actors. Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio and Sean Penn are all wonderful actors, but they are chameleon-like when it comes to their place on the masculinity meter. As for today's TV stars, to me they seem just like ordinary, faceless men cut from the same male cookie-cutter. I don't recognise most of them, and in any case their star doesn't burn brightly for very long on TV nowadays. Viewers are fickle and shows are cast off the networks faster than old bait."

Former Australian High Court Justice, and out gay man, Michael Kirby, from a book of essays about justice issues:
"Openness about sexuality helps to destroy the foundation for prejudice and discrimination. One day there will be a big parliamentary apology to gay people for the oppression that was forced on them and the inequalities that were maintained in the law well beyond their use-by date. Just like the delayed 2008 apology to the Aboriginal people of our country.
"I also do not doubt that, in a comparatively short time, Australia will move towards same-sex civil unions and gay marriage. No one has satisfactorily explained how my 40-year loving relationship with my partner Johan in any way affects (still less undermines) heterosexual marriage. If Australians are now more homophobic than racist, as some recent public opinion polls suggest, this is because Australians have lacked good leadership on this issue."

Lt. Dan Choi on his arrest for chaining himself to a White House fence:
"There was no freer moment than being in that prison. It was freeing for me, and I thought of all of the other people that were still trapped - that were still handcuffed and fettered in their hearts. And we might have been caged up physically, but the message was very clear to all of the people who think that equality can be purchased with a donation, or with a cocktail party, or with tokens, that are serving in a public role. We are worth more than tokens. We have absolute value. And when the person who is oppressed by his own country wants to find out how to get that dignity back - being chained up and being arrested - that's how you get your dignity conferred back upon you. And so I think that by actions, my call is to every leader - not just talking gay leaders - I'm talking any leader who believes in America, and the promises of America can be manifest. We're gonna do it again. And we're going to keep doing it until the promises are manifest. And we will not stop. This is a very clear message to President Obama and any other leader who supposes to talk for the American promise and the American people. We will not go away."

Huffington Post blogger and military veteran Rob Smith, on Dan Choi's protest:
"Dan Choi will always be that rock star activist that handcuffed himself to the gates of The White House. Of course Dan Choi jumped the shark, and he did it in his military uniform for all the cameras to see. You know what, though? I think what we needed was to see something like this to light a fire under each and every one of us that cares as deeply as he does about Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, and about full equality in general. This movement needs him as much as it needs me, or Jarrod Chlapowski, or Lt. Col Victor Fehrenbach, or any of the other gay veterans who share our past of silent service knowing that it reflects the present of thousands of gay soldiers currently serving. Maybe it's time to act up all over again. Maybe the rumblings of this being a part of a more coordinated activist effort are true. Maybe it is time to Get Equal."People keep wondering who's going to be the Martin Luther King of the gay rights movement, and that I still don't know, but I think yesterday's actions may have put us one step closer to finding our Malcolm X."

I Didn't Say It

So, I got a rather large chuckle out of Lindsay Lohan's $100 million lawsuit against E-Trade yesterday. You remember, the one where she believes a milk-a-holic baby named Lindsay was based on her, because when you hear the name Lindsay you only think one thing. But funnier than Lindsay's lawsuit, is Lindsay's crazy mama and what she had to say:
"They're little babies doing this, mocking another child who's just trying to survive Hollywood, basically. I'm just basically glad I took a stand. I'm not going to let them do this to us anymore. Everyone knows Lindsay, like Cher or Madonna."
Lindsai.Is.A.Child?
Um, Mama? After a few arrests, and a few stints at rehab, and all those nights stumbling out of clubs drunk off your ass, not to mention the super-hip Lesbian affair, Lindsay is no longer a child.
Like you, she is simply childish.

Johnny Weir on Kate Gosselin, and her upcoming run on Dancing With The Stars:
"She was a terror. She was rude to everyone at this charity show, and showed up very late. She's not a film star. She's not a singer. And it's not really acceptable in those cases either, to be a nasty person."
Yes, ABC. If you're gonna call it Dancing With The STARS shouldn't they use stars?

Mariah Carey and her ample bosoms, on how much she wants to work with Woody Allen:
"I've never met him, but Bullets Over Broadway is one of my favorite movies ever. I can quote every word. I think it's amazing."
Big breasts, empty head.

Cynthia Nixon on Fight Back New York:
"I am a lifelong New Yorker but I don't have the rights that most of my friends and neighbors do. I'm engaged to the woman I love, but on December 2, the New York State Senate voted against my right to marry her. Last year prior to the vote, so many of us went up to Albany to speak with our state senators about why marriage equality is so important to us and to our families. They didn't get the message. They still think that it's okay to treat me and hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers like second-class citizens. I'm not okay with that. That's why I've decided to fight back. I'm supporting Fight Back New York so that we can finally show these anti-equality state senators that there are consequences to their actions - that they can lose their seats for voting against our rights. Fight Back New York is a smart, strategic political action committee, with the sole purpose of defeating senators who voted 'no' on equality...We've tried the carrot, now it's time for the stick. It's time for anyone who believes in equality to fight back."
Amen, sister!

Sean Holihan, President of the Virginia Young Democrats, on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's prejudice against gays.
"There are so many things wrong with this, so many reasons to be angry. You might be angry that while our Universities' budgets have been gutted, Ken Cuccinelli is now trying to meddle in their hiring and admission processes. Perhaps you are angry because you don't care who your college professor loves, you just want a good education. Or perhaps you're outraged because you don't think your sexual orientation should ever come into account when you're applying for admission to the College of William and Mary, UVA, or Virginia Tech. Whatever the reason, we are outraged with you. We are outraged by the decision to put personal prejudice ahead of good policy."

And here's William & Mary president Taylor Reveley stating his disobedience to Cuchinelli's edict that state schools should not protect LGBT employees from job discrimination:
"Let’s be clear that William & Mary neither discriminates against people nor tolerates discrimination on our campus. Those of us at W&M insist that members of our campus community be people of integrity who have both the capacity to meet their responsibilities to the university and the willingness to engage others with civility and respect.
We do not insist, however, that members of our community possess any other particular characteristics, whether denominated in race, religion, nationality, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other of the myriad personal characteristics that differentiate human beings. We certainly do not discriminate against people on such grounds, or tolerate discrimination against them. This is the way we live our lives together at William & Mary, because we believe this is the way we should live our lives together. This is not going to change."

And now, time for another Sarah Palin wingnut quote, when she compared herself to God for having notes on her palm:
"If what was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us...In that passage he says, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you.' And I'm like okay, I'm in good company."

Sinead O'Connor, responding to the Ireland Catholic Church's request for local parishioners to repay the church for the massive settlements paid to the victims of pedophile priests:
"A true Christian is someone who, in any given situation, is supposed to ask themselves what would Jesus do, then try to do that. How an organisation which has acted, decade after decade, only to protect its business interests above the interests of children can feel it has the right to dictate to us what Christians should do is beyond belief. From the Pope on down, through the Vatican and therefore through the lower echelons, the whole organisation, in my belief, is utterly anti-Christian and evil, as proven by centuries of torture, bloodshed, burnings, terrorism, and coverings-up of 'the worst crime' known to man. And if Jesus Christ is to be seen in the vulnerable of this world, then all the church has done is crucify the man over and over and over again. If Christ was here, he would be burning down the Vatican. And I for one would be helping him."