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Poor Cuba Gooding Jr.

Last week he was in court to deal with an incident in which he ALLEGEDLY groped a woman at a nightclub., and the DA presented a new charge based on an ALLEGATION stemming from an earlier investigation.

Cuba was scheduled to be arraigned on that charge this week. But now there are more; five women are now accusing Cuba Gooding Jr. of sexual misconduct, the latest one from a woman with an ALLEGATION from October 2018.

Cuba’s lawyer, Mark Heller, a real peach of a guy, says that Gooding Jr. will plead not guilty, and implies that this new ALLEGATIONS is the result of a failed money grab. Heller says the new accuser never pressed charges following the incident, and only came forward after seeing Gooding Jr.’s arrest this year. He further claims her attorney tried to settle the case, but Cuba “declined to be shaken down.”

Victim blaming; and Cuba does his part, too, shaming her as being mentally ill—a charge which the judge instantly nixed—and joking … joking … about the ALLEGATION while out drinking and carousing.

But now, five allegations, and apparently even more on the horizon,  is not a joke, and not a scam and it looks like Cuba Gooding Jr. may not be skating away from these charges any time soon.

Too bad, so sad.

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Speaking of pigs … things are getting ugly in the custody battle between former movie star and current Jeep TV commercial singer Jeremy Renner and his ex-wife Sonni Pacheco.

Sonni is looking to get sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Ava, and wants Renner’s visits monitored because, she ALLEGES, that he keeps unlocked guns in his home, is a cokehead, and once fired a gun in their home while their daughter was asleep. For his part, Jeremy is also seeking sole custody because, he says, Sonni is a terrible mother who parties rather than parents.

Why can’t the child be given to two parents who might love her and care for her more than they hate one another?

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Call me cynical but I am giving major side-eye to Gina Rodriguez for this story.

It appears that Rodriguez is getting all kinds of attention today and not for doing anything nice, or being a good person, or helping anyone, but for being a moron.

Rodriguez posted an Instagram Story of herself singing along to The Fugees’ “Ready or Not” and uttered the N-word—which was part of the song but should never be sung and put on display—and then giggled after she said it.

It didn’t take long before the clip went viral, on Twitter after it was deleted on Instagram, and it didn’t take much longer before Rodriguez responded with a faux-pology:

“Hey, what’s up everybody–I just wanted to reach out and apologize. I am sorry. I am sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to The Fugees, to a song I love, that I grew up on. I love Lauryn Hill and I really am sorry if I offended you.”

Gina? The first rule of apologizing is to say, ‘I’m sorry’ and leave it at that; not ‘sorry if.’ That’s disingenuous and that’s what leads to my cynicism.

It seems that Gina’s little Instagram N-word moment was just that moment in the song; she chose just that moment to video herself saying the N-word. And then the tearful ‘woe is me sorry if  offended anyone’ faux-pology.

I can’t help but think this was planned to get Gina Rodriguez a little free press as the poor misunderstood girl who made a simple mistake.

Gina? Honey? Unless you’re a black person, howsabout never using the N-word, even if it is part of a song you claim to love so much. Just don’t say it, and then we won’t need to hear another bull shit faux-pology from you, m’kay?

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Elton John is a lot of things … singer, songwriter, entertainer, icon, LGBTQ Ally, AIDS activist, husband, father… but what I like best about Elton is that he spills the tea, a lot. He’s dished Madonna for years, and recently took on the Queen of England herself and now he’s getting dangerously close to riling the Beyhive by trashing a Beyoncé project and I am living for that.

Elton recently gave an interview British GQ to promote his new autobiography Me, and used the time to remind everyone that it was He who wrote the songs for the original The Lion King and how the recent live-action version mess disappointed Him:

“The new version of The Lion King was a huge disappointment to me, because I believe they messed the music up. Music was so much a part of the original and the music in the current film didn’t have the same impact. The magic and joy were lost.”

Elton continued to drag the new soundtrack, saying it didn’t have the same impact as His did 25 years ago; he threw more salt in the wound he opened by adding that at least the The Lion King stage musical got it right:

“The [new] soundtrack hasn’t had nearly the same impact in the charts that it had 25 years ago, when it was the bestselling album of the year. The new soundtrack fell out of the charts so quickly, despite the massive box-office success. I wish I’d been invited to the party more, but the creative vision for the film and its music was different this time around and I wasn’t really welcomed or treated with the same level of respect. That makes me extremely sad. I’m so happy that the right spirit for the music lives on with the Lion King stage musical.”

There is no evidence, though, that Elton has seen the porn version … The Loin King. I wonder what that soundtracks plays like?

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Last week Felicity Huffman began her White Privilege prison sentence and she had her people issue this statement:

“Felicity Huffman reported today for sentencing to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, CA. Ms. Huffman is prepared to serve the term of imprisonment Judge Talwani ordered as one part of the punishment she imposed for Ms. Huffman’s actions. She will begin serving the remainder of the sentence … –one year of supervised release, with conditions including 250 hours of community service–when she is released.”

Her prison term? I’ve had zits that lasted longer than her prison term.

Sorry, Felicity, don’t care about you and I’m not gonna start a GoFundMe to pay for your rehabilitation as you re-enter society in two effing weeks.

Oops, make that thirteen days; it appears she’s getting time off for good behavior? Maybe she ran lines from an old Desperate Housewives scene with Big Ethel from D Block.

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