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

Don't piss off Joni Mitchell.
During a recent interview, a reporter made the huge mistake of comparing his subject, Joni Mitchell, to Bob Dylan. He began talking about folk music, and said: "The folk scene you came out of had fun creating personas. You were born Roberta Joan Anderson, and someone named Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan."
Mitchell was not amused, and responded: "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I."
Ouch. The, um, alleged plagiarist has yet to respond, though some say if he did, we might not be able to decipher it.

Show of hands please; who thinks Demi Moore's film career is officially tanked?
I mean, Demi used to be big. A big old strippin' GI Jane who sexually harassed one of her employess and rolled around on a wad of money for Woody Harrelson.
Now? Meh.
Demi made a new movie with David Duchovny that opened a couple of weeks ago and has, so far, managed to rake in less than a million bucks.
Which is roughly what Demi spends to keep her plastic surgeon on retainer and her boy-toy husband on his short leash.
Demi, who Tweets just about every inane thought she has, has been Tweetless on this subject.

Once again a non-actor/actress comes to the rescue of the Hollywood sign.
Thanks to Hugh Hefner--of all people--and some other donors, the land that surrounds the iconic signage has been bought out from under an impending developers backhoe. Hef donated about a million bucks, of the $12.5 million needed, to buy the 138 acres around the sign.
"My childhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies, and the images created in Hollywood had a major influence on my life and Playboy."
See? He's not just an aging horndog.

Poor Whit.
Houston, that is.
Yet another concert disaster on her Nothing But Love tour in London.
Once again the high noted were too high and the low notes sounded like a long stretch of rough road. She keeps trying I Will Always Love you and she keeps falling short. And, coming up with a new excuse for her lack of vocal power.
First it was asthma....then it was allergies....now it's air conditioning. Looks like Whit is working her way through the Alphabet Of Excuses starting with a trio of A's; wonder when she'll get to the C's and mention the Crack excuse.
Whitney, sadly, said in a concert as she tried, and once again failed, to sing: "She don't want to come, my soprano friend. Sometimes the old girl sings, but not tonight. I want to do it, but she doesn't want to… She's getting a little… temperamental, even. Turn the air-con off, I can feel it, it takes away my soprano."
Honey? It ain't the AC. It's years of drug use, and ALLEGED continuing drug use.
Once again, sadness over the voice that once sang so beautifully.

Oh Lindsay.
Skipping depositions. Having your wacknut mother talk to the press about your money troubles; having your wackier daddy show up at your door to stage an intervention.
What now?
Well, getting booted from a film before it even begins shooting is a nice trick
Lindsay Lohan has been dropped from her latest film, The Other Side because sources say that the producers of the film, which stars Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews and Alanis Morissette, feel she is no longer "bankable."
The director, David Michaels, tried to be nice by saying: "Our team simply chose to move on from Lindsay and we'll soon be announcing a replacement."
Lindsay's last film was the 2007 smash, er, bomb, I Know Who Killed Me.
Not a good week for La Lohan. Monday she was accused of owing over $600,000 in credit card debt, and then came the stories that she was a suspect in the theft of a $35,000 Rolex watch.
Huh. Maybe Demi Moore's career doesn't look so bad after all.

Those wacky Jacksons!
Grandmother Katherine has ALLEGEDLY had enough, and has asked her twice-ex-daughter-in-law Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza and her four children to vacate the premises by next week. Oaziaza's relationship with the Jackson clan began when she had an affair with Randy Jackson while he was married to Eliza Shaffe; that dalliance produced a daughter, Genevieve. Then Randy divorced Shaffe, but continued dating Oaziaza, who then gave birth to their son, Randy Jr. Their relationship ended in 1994, and soon after Alejandra married Randy's older brother Jermaine, and had two sons, Jaafar and Jermajesty.
Following? Me neither.
Katherine's change of heart about running a hotel for her children and their offspring, and ex-wives and ex-girlfriends, was due to last month's stun gun incident, when Jaafar ALLEGEDLY threatened Michael's wallets, er, children.
Katherine isn't entirely heartless, Aejandra Oaziaza and her four children are moving to a condo in the San Fernando Valley that is owned by the estate.
The remaining grandkids, Money, More Money, and Lotsa Money, AKA Paris, Prince and Blanket will remain at the mansion.

When you wanna Talk about plastic surgery, you go to the source.
Joan Rivers.
Joan recently talked about Heid Montag and her, what was it, 231 procedures she had in one day, by saying: "I think she should have started sooner! I think she should have started when she was 13. She looks fine now, but she could have done it in stages."
But then, when Joan was asked who was in most desperate need of going under the knife, she said: "Kate Gosselin. They should sew up that uterus!"
Ya gotta love Joanie!

It's gonna be a Betty White Saturday Night on May 8th!

Though the most golden of girls will be joined by Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Molly Shannon, Betty is boss, and was given the right to veto any sketch she didn't like.

She has repeatedly said she won't do nudity, no matter how much we may beg, but there is one topic she won't turn comic:

"I won't do dope jokes. I don't think dope is a joke. That is about the only no."
You go, Betty!

Coco talks Chin.

Conan O'Brien talked to 60 Minutes about the whole NBC fiasco, saying he would have left the Peacock rather than do what Leno did.

“He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know– I know me, I wouldn't have done that....If I had surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well– and then…six months later. But that's me, you know. Everyone's got their own, you know, way of doing things.”

Some people are bigger men than others, too.

Team Coco!!