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

Oh, Les Moonves! Again.

Cybill Shepherd has revealed that she too had been propositioned by disgraced former CBS bigwig, serial sexual predator, Les Moonves. She says:

“He was, well, he was telling me his wife didn't turn him on, some mistress didn't turn him on, and ... he says, 'Well, you know, why don't you let me take you home?' I said, 'No, I've got a ride.' And I had my car outside with a good friend of mine who is an off-duty LAPD officer."

Cybil said ‘No,’ and "quite shortly afterward," her show, Cybill, which was rather popular, was abruptly canceled; the show ended with a cliffhanger and the words "To be continued..." 

I guess that’s now and I, for one, hope Les Moonves gets everything he deserves and more.

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How is it that I’ve never heard this story?

Courtney Love has just been granted a restraining order against her one-time manager Sam Lutfi.  Both she and Lufti are being sued by her daughter Francis Bean’s ex-husband Isaiah Silva who claims that Courtney, Sam, and some actor named Ross Butler, along with two others, conspired to break into his house, beat him up, sexually batter him, and eventually murder him in order to steal his guitar.

To be fair, this mob of ALLEGED miscreants were only able to complete part of their mission; they did not murder Silva, but now Courtney is coming for Lufti, claiming he has been “unrelentingly” harassing her and her family. She asked for a restraining to protect herself, her sister and her daughter, so Lutfi is not allowed within 100 yards of any them.

Apparently, this all stems from the criminal acts of Love and Lufti, with Lufti claiming Love never paid her for services—breaking, entering, battery, sexual assault—that he rendered; and so, he has been harassing her with emails, texts and phone calls … for payment for a crime they committed.

Seriously, I wanna see this one on Judge Judy.

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Blister Palin is back in the news, on reality TV again because she knows no other way to make some coins to pay for all those babies she’s having. And so, she’s been appearing on MTV’s Teen Mom, though, saddest of all, Blister is far from a teen, but hey, coins are coins, and this trailer ain’t gonna pay for itself; Blister is getting some $250,000 to sell herself and her kids.

But now Blister has taken issue with how she’s being portrayed on a TV show about teen moms and has taken to Instagram to whine like her mama about how she works hard, loves her kids, Democrats are bad, and her mama isn’t some drunken wannabe sitting on a porch in Alaska looking at Russia …or something:

“If I cared what people thought of me, I wouldn’t be here today - let’s be real. I’ve stood strong and held it down for my kids since day one. No matter how bad @teenmom tries to portray my “life” ..... my babies, my family, my close friends - they know the TRUTH. I’m a pretty great mom, work my ass off, show up, and hustle everyday to give my kids a pretty great life. @mtv doesn’t want to talk about faith, show work ethic, or juggling three kids alone, they don’t want to show the humble process of starting over after a divorce, building a career, or any real life issues. All they want with my little segment each week is some fake fill-in Farrah Abraham/Jerry Springer BS, and it’s simply not true. Don’t get me wrong - I’ve said some mean things and learned a lot the last several months - but the life I’ve built for my kids is NOT sitting around talking about baby daddy drama. Every week is a continued disappointment with their inaccuracies and false narratives. I hate getting all emo on you guys but I’ve kept quiet for too long about it. Don’t believe everything you see on TV.”

Sounds like a long rant for a woman who has made most of her coins by selling herself, and those kids, to any reality show that will have her, but says she doesn’t care what people think about her. Clearly, the idiot apple doesn’t fall far from the Dumbass Tree.

Seriously, Blister, if it’s all too much, get a job off TV and see if you can support your kids.

Failing that, simply STFU.

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Tara Reid, who is to acting what Blister Palin is to motherhood and reality TV, is suing the Sharknado franchise producers—Asylum Entertainment and SYFY Media Productions—for unlawfully using her image and she wants, wait for it, $100 million.

For her image … on the side of a slot machine.

Reid claims that in “Performer Engagement Agreement” for Sharknado 5—there were four more before that—there was a clause stating that “in no event shall Performer’s likeness be used for any merchandising in association with alcohol, tobacco, gambling, hygiene, or sexual products without Performer’s prior written approval.”

No beer cans, no tampons, no dildoes, no slot machines! Ever!

As to why she’s suing for $100 million, Reid’s lawyers at Jacoby & Meyers explain:

“As such, the actions of the Defendants were malicious and oppressive and justify an award of punitive and exemplary damages in an amount sufficiently large to set a public example of deterrence, and in an amount no less than 100 million.”

Reid must be loopy as hell to think her likeness on anything is worth $100,000,000.

That’s a lot of zeroes for a zero.

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Former NBC News hack Megyn Kelly is still haggling with the network over how the rest of her contract, meaning her coins, is going to play out.

Kelly wants the money now, all of it, while NBC News wants to cash her out in installments so she won’t violate any nondisclosure agreements.

Really? What could Kelly possibly say? That NBC hires pseudo-racist, or at least racially insensitive news hosts? Or hosts who like to sexually harass women?

We already know that! But here’s the best part: Kelly says she wants all the coins now because “her phone is blowing up” and she is still deciding which network/hosting job to do following her departure from NBC.

Perhaps she’ll go back to Fox where she’ll fit in nicely.

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Now, let’s end with a good story … one of my favorite actors, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

As you may know, last year Louis-Dreyfus announced she had cancer, and her treatments were far worse than she ever let on. And, as is the state of journalism these days, the paparazzi were clamoring to get a photograph of Cancer Julia looking sick and haggard because, well, pigs, but Julia outsmarted them and really took back the power and control by posting her own pictures to social media:

“There were people with long lenses trying to get pictures of me looking ill, and I think I kind of burst the bubble on a lot of it because of my social-media presence.”

And not one of them made any coins on those pictures, which makes me love the story, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, even more.

She’s real, and she’s spectacular.

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I Ain't One To Gossip But ...

Good news! Lindsay Lohan has left America for London recently, so the streets are safe from Lohan, the nightclubs are safe from Lohan; your TV is safe from Lohan. And the better news? She may stay there!

A friend — Hey Dina! — says Lindsay prefers the way people in London treat her like a … forgive me a slight giggle break … big star as opposed to trashy party girl. And Lindsay knows that for some reason, while she is basically unemployable as an actress, there are clubs and events in England that will hire her to show up and stumble about.

All I can say is, London, she’s your problem now.

I missed this somehow, but batshit crazy, religious wingnut, semi-literate Sherri Shepherd and her husband of not quite three years, Lamar Sally, are divorcing.

And it’s gonna get u-g-l-y.

Sally filed for the separation first and then he filed a new petition asking the court for custody of the child he and Shepherd conceived via surrogate … a child that isn’t even born yet!

According to Lamar’s legal papers, he wants full legal and physical custody of the unborn child, and asks that Shepherd be granted only visitation rights. He also wants spousal support and stated that their signed prenup should be invalidated because of fraud—though he failed to clarify what kind of fraud.

Sherri, for her part, wasn’t talking, seemingly taking the high road until ... probably Barbara's last day on The View.

I never knew my boyfriend Bradley Cooper was ever married, but apparently he was, from December 2006 to May 2007, a lifetime commitment in Hollywood.

His ex-wife was a kind of JLo-lite, Jennifer Esposito who watched their marriage end as Bradley’s star rose to Oscar nominee and she fell from being a serial guest-star on police procedurals to a semi-regular on CBS’ Blue Bloods until, she was let go from that show.

So what’s Esposito to do now? Well, trash her ex-husband whom she probably hasn’t seen in seven or eight years, that’s what.

Jennifer’s putting out her memoirs because she needs the coins and will be dishing on Coop, though she won’t mention him by name in the book, choosing to refer to him as a “funny, smart and cocky … master manipulator” who only cared about himself and dropped her ass out of nowhere.

And to prove she’s just delusional she actually says she didn’t “necessarily find him that attractive” though they quickly became a couple and married.  Esposito claims the relationship was an unhealthy one, focused primarily on his needs and nothing else and that she was “a nonissue.”

Yeah? So? I mean, ask the folks at Blue Bloods about your being a nonissue.

And then sit down.

I get a case of the itches just reading, and writing, this one.

Courtney Love, who is taking her Hole on tour again — these things practically write themselves — is saying that fellow literal dirt-bad Russell Brand once tried to get into her crusty granny pants but she turned him down flat because he smelled “too musky.”

Imagine the smells coming off that coupling and then go outside and garb a lung-full of clean air.

Well, after a hearing last week Chris Brown was ordered to 131 more days in jail, which sounds good until you learn he got the Lindsay Lohan Sentence, and may be out by the time you read this due to prison over-crowding … or having a high-powered attorney.

He was back in court for a probation violation hearing after he punched a guy in DC  who got too close, which is a violation of the probation he’s still on for punching Rihanna because she got too close.

The judge sentenced him to a year in jail but that will be whittled down to just a few days because Chrissy will get credit for the 59 days he’s been in jail and the 116 days in rehab. And for every day he’s served in jail, he gets credit for two days, so, yeah, he’s probably already out and looking for someone to punch.

If we could just get him to London and in a room with Lohan we might be able to arrest two criminals with one punch.

Last March Gwyneth Paltrow came down from her high horse to give an interview in which she said that 9-to-5 working moms have it so much easier than her, because they get to go home to their kids at night while she has to be on-set making millions and millions.

She actually said she has it harder being a mom than any other moms on the planet. Now, though, Goop is saying that her words were taken out of context and, well, let’s let her dig her own grave:

“A few weeks ago during an interview, I was asked why I have only worked on one film a year since having children. My answer was this: Film work takes one away from home and requires 12-14 hours a day, making it difficult to be the one to make the kids their lunch, drive them to school, and put them to bed. So I have found it easier on my family life to make a film the exception, and my 9-5 job the rule.

This somehow was taken to mean I had said a 9-5 job is easier, and a lot of heat was thrown my way, especially by other working mothers who somehow used my out-of-context quote as an opportunity to express feelings (perhaps projected) on the subject. As the mommy wars rage on, I am constantly perplexed and amazed by how little slack we cut each other as women. We see disapproval in the eyes of other mothers when we say how long we breastfed (Too long? Not long enough?), or whether we have decided to go back to work versus stay home. Is it not hard enough to attempt to raise children thoughtfully, while contributing something, or bringing home some (or more) of the bacon?”

And stop. A dig at Chris Martin because she brought home some, or more, of the bacon? Now it's clear why she decided to talk about this after eight weeks, she got to diss her soon-to-be consciously uncoupled hubby.

Seriously, she needs to take a seat alongside Esposito and just stop.

Meanwhile, back at Lohan.

Remember how Lindsay dropped the miscarriage bombshell in the last episode of her reality show docu-series to explain why she’s a flake who can’t show up on time, if at all?

Well, Lindsay doesn’t like that you, or me, or anyone for that matter, thinks she’s an unrepentant liar and so she swore to the miscarriage under oath while testifying for a lawsuit over her clothing line 6126. The suit was delayed because last time she was sued she was in rehab.

But she better be telling the truth, or she could land in jail. Again.

Maybe not, though because now, although she said the word “miscarriage” in her deposition, and said the word “miscarriage” on TV, she doesn’t want to mention it again, especially in court because she wants her privacy respected.

Seriously.

Now, Jay-Z/Solange/Beyoncé.

I’m sure you’ve all seen the video of Solange going bat-shit on Jay-Z in the elevator while it appeared Beyoncé stood off to the side doing her nails, so let’s dissect …

It’s clear, now, that Beyoncé did try to act as a buffer between the Dueling Divas, though she also didn’t seem to be looking at either of them; and it’s clear that every chance Solange got she tried to scratch, claw, kick, bite and shriek at her sister’s husband. It’s also clear that, after the bodyguard stopped the elevator for a Solange time-out, once the trio reached the main floor, Jay-Z looked whipped, Solange looked pissed, and Beyoncé wore a sly smile.

No one commented, though Beyoncé posted a prayer on her Instagram account asking for God to help her family, while Solange went through her Instagram files and deleted every single picture of Beyoncé. That’s saying something, y’all.

Then, at a Brooklyn Nets playoff game later in the week, Beyoncé and Jay appeared courtside for the cameras acting all lovey-dovey and smiling while Solange probably was kept waiting in the car … trunk.

Now, for speculation:

Solange was just on a tear that night, ALLEGEDLY shrieking at her designer friend Rachel Roy and others earlier in the evening. Beyoncé was said to have broken up that fight, however.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who arrived on the red carpet at the Met Ball together — where Jay-Z made a great show on dropping to one knee and putting a ring Bey had dropped back on her finger — hardly spent any time together at the party; Beyoncé and Solange partied together, alone.

Solange ALLEGEDLY attacked her brother-in-law because after the Met Gala he wanted to go to Rihanna’s after-party alone and maybe Solange doesn’t like Jay-Z and RiRi together.

Jay-Z had reprimanded Solange earlier in the night after some of her non-famous friends used his name to get into the Met Gala.

Lots of speculation, but I keep going to back to that after-elevator picture and Beyoncé’s smile; that smile says, Eff with me again and my sister will come at you harder!

But then Jay and Bey and Sol released a joint statement about the incident days after it was caught on film which says everything and nothing:

 “As a result of the public release of the elevator security footage from Monday, May 5th, there has been a great deal of speculation about what triggered the unfortunate incident. But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it.

“Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred. They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family.”

“The reports of Solange being intoxicated or displaying erratic behavior throughout that evening are simply false,” the statement continued. “At the end of the day families have problems and we’re no different. We love each other and above all we are family. We’ve put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same.”

Uh huh. Jay and Solange are at fault because while they were cursing and kicking and fighting, Beyoncé was checking the net for pictures of herself and looking at the full–length mirror in the elevator.

It’s just family, y’all, cat-fighting in evening gowns and tuxedos in an elevator. And it's all bettah now because Bey and Sol are posting pictures of themselves on Instagram again.

Uh huh. The universe has righted itself.

After being called an idiot by Jon Hamm and a piece of sh*t by Seth Rogen, Justin Bieber also took to the basketball courts to make a statement.

Only Little Justin didn’t get a Bey/Jay response.

He took his mommy Patti Mallette to an LA Angeles Clippers game on Mother’s Day, putting on the Good Son Show for photographers who had open access to the little tyke when …

A cameraman put Justin and his mom on the jumbotron and everyone inside the Staples Center booed.

It must have reminded Little Jussy about last month’s Juno Awards, where just the mention of the name Bieber sent the audience into booing spasms.

I’m thinking he should just get ready for more boos and more boos, and then jail time because you just know he’s gonna be arrested again.

He’s Junior League Lohan.

And speaking of Lohan …

Rumor has it that the big star — at least in London — is fast becoming the hard partying girl in London, too.

A source close to Lohan — Hey Dina! When did you cross the pond? — says Lohan is still using the drugs Ecstasy and Molly despite her sixth or seventh most recent stay in rehab.

“Lindsay is of course still partying. She never won’t use drugs and drink,” the source, who set down her chardonnay long enough to speak in anonymity. “Right now she is doing a lot of Ecstasy and Molly because with the psych meds she is on, if she is tested it will only show up as amphetamine, which is prescribed to her so it’s ‘safe.’”

Lohan is ALLEGEDLY taking the prescription medications Dilaudid, Ambien, Adderall — funny, though, on her reality-show docu-series she said she was off Addy — Zoloft, Trazodone and Nexium to treat psychiatric problems.

And given Lohan’s history with drugs and lying, it’s not out of the realm that she’s still using.

But this time she won’t get another Oprah A Ha moment.

I Didn't Say It ...

Charles Cooper, the attorney who argued for 'Protect Marriage' in the Prop H8 case, has changed his mind on marriage equality because his gay step-daughter wants to get married:

"My views evolve on issues of this kind the same way as other people's do, and how I view this down the road may not be the way I view it now, or how I viewed it ten years ago."

Perhaps his step-daughter’s coming out changed his mind, helped him evolve. Just another reason why I think every LGBT person needs to come out to everyone.

Think of the shockwave of change that could produce.

Derrick Gordon, recently out NCAA basketball player, apparently agreeing with me about coming out:

"Don't wait. Take advantage of everything that you have in front of you. Don’t wait because you’re scared. Don’t wait until you’re 35 or 40-years-old and done playing the sport that you love. Because it’s stressful to live that way. I cried most of the nights when I was in the closet just because it starts to take a toll on you just because you’re worried about how people are going to think about you and what they’re going to say about you. Take advantage of it now. It’s going to make your life so much easier."

It does lift that burden of the closet; it does make you breathe easier; it does make you relax a little; it does make you happy; it does get better.

Jon Hamm, on people talking about his junk:

“Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d**k…? I can’t believe I’m still talking about this… The fact that I’m painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It’s become a meme…Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I’ll look like a douchebag. But it’s silly.”

Don’t worry about it, Jon, just keep walking around commando in snug pants.

You don’t hear me complaining …

Daniel Franzese, who played sassy gay Damien in Mean Girls, and who just came out as gay in real life, on how he landed the role:

"I sat in the waiting room in character as Damian, commenting on anything and everything I could. Amanda Seyfried had come in for her test and she was wondering aloud, ‘Should I wear this beige shirt or should I wear this maroon shirt?’ Mark [Waters, the director] and Tina [Fey] had their backs to me, and I said, ‘I’d go with the merlot.’ I don’t even know where that line came from, but they both whipped around and started laughing. They went on with the audition with Amanda and then the casting assistant said, ‘Hey, it’s your turn next.’ I walked into the room, and Mark and Tina were like, ‘You?! We thought you worked here; we didn’t know you were auditioning. Now we’re excited — we like you!’ It was a really great way to come in and [get noticed]. But then, according to the E! True Hollywood Story, Mark said my audition wasn’t very good but that they just really liked me anyway.”

Perhaps he wasn’t really channeling the character but was just being himself? At any rate, he got the part … just shows to go ya, that you gotta be yourself.

Courtney Love, on how she came into her style and why she's a gay icon:

“When I was a kid I was definitely what you would call a fag hag because that's how I learned to dress and be extrovert and walk into a room… I would say my freshman year of learning how to be a rock star was just hanging around drag queens…I think it's surviving. It has to be. Surviving, and also the ability to do drag, to clean up nice. I might look like shit this morning, but you know, I clean up nice.”

I’ll give her props for saying this, but most drag queens wouldn’t be caught dead dressed as Courtney Love.

Matt Bomer, openly gay star of the upcoming version of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, and husband-in-my-head, on how the role affected him:

"I wouldn't have a lot of the rights I have today if it wasn't for people like Larry [Kramer]. I just wanted to be involved with the project in some capacity. I didn't care what my part was. … It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc; it's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically. And then to have a role that changes you? I think that's the best you could hope for in this profession, and that was certainly the case here. I don't think I'll ever be the same as I was when I started the job."

Matt also revealed that he and his partner Simon Hall — who have three children together, 6-year-old twins and an 8-year-old — were married in 2011.

Still, he can always play the role of husband-in-my-head.

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

Wow. Lindsay Lohan's probation report was 'glowing'. And by glowing, I don't mean all lit up, like it was high. There was no drama, no bad marks, to typical Lohan self-denial. It was all good. Does mean our little Mean girl is growing up?
Hardly. She's still full of the crack drama, only it's just recycled crack drama.
See, a few days back, the wacktress decided she needed a vacation--working with dead people, posing nekkid and puffing up her lips--is hard work, so Lohan winged her way to Hawaii. Not to worry, though, ALLEGEDLY her probation officer said it was okay even though Lohan had that court date this week.
And while in Hawaii, knowing she needed to be back in California soon, the cracktress left her Chanel purse unattended and it was stolen. With her ID and ALLEGEDLY $10,000 in it.
How very 2010 Cannes Film Festival of her. You remember, when she was supposed to return to California and her passport was "stolen" and then there were pictures of Lindsay with the White Powder.
She just rehashes her drama. For the sake of drama, because no sooner than you could say 'Book 'em, Dano,' the purse and ID were returned, but the $10,000 was missing.
Her dealer ain't gonna be happy about that missing payment.ALLEGEDLY.

Y'all remember that a week or so ago, Brooke Mueller was arrested and charged with assault and possession in Aspen? And she went to jail overnight? And Crazy Charlie Sheen bailed her out?
Well, now her spokesdealer, Steve Honig--ironically, the same guy that speaks for that other cracktress, Lindsay Lohan--says Brooke is just misunderstood and that the charges are bogus and everything is fine. 
But Brooke’s family says she isn't fine--she's a coughcrackwhorecough--and they have tried to force her into rehab. But Brooke kept on partying and partying, and then said she would try rehab [again] only this time as an outpatient--like Charlie did, when he “rehabbed” at his own home. 
Well, Brooke’s family isn’t happy about that, and the Aspen DA also chimed in, saying that there wasn’t going to be any deal, and the charges would not be dropped. Ruh-roh, Brooke.
With everyone is lining up against her and making it clear that her crack-nanigans are not going to be overlooked anymore, Brooke changed her mind [again] and did what all crackmonsters do--with the exception of Lohan whose MO is deny deny deny--and decided to go full bore into rehab.
Hopefully, this time the rehab takes. Those kids surely didn't ask for two crazy drug-addicted parents with wads of cash to waste on coke and crack.

Since she dumped her last K after several minutes of marriage, does it come as any real surprise that Kash Kow Kardashian is trying to land another K.
As in Kanye.
New York papers are claiming that Kim and Kanye are hittin’ it again. See, there were all sorts of rumors of Kash and Kanye doing the nasty up until she married that other K. So, it seems like Kanye is Kash Kow's rebound, um, dong. 
According to a report in The New York Daily News, Kanye was ‘all over Kim’ following his Watch The Throne concert in LA.
A source--and by source we all know I mean Kris Jenner who never had a child she didn't want to peddle--says, "Kanye was eating Kim up like she was a piece of cake." A fat-assed piece of cake who will use you for publicity and money and then dump you for publicity and money, but I digress.
"He was all over her--caressing her head, touching her waist. I think he was dying to kiss her, but there were too many people in the room." And Kash Kow seemed to like the attention, even Tweeting: "Last night was KRAY."
What's, um, Kray is that Kash Kow cannot spell, but she can f**k her way through the phone book.....under the K's. 
Famewhore meet famewhore.

I guess when you look the part, you get the part.
And since she often looks like a crazy homeless lady, it seems that Courtney Love is actually about to become a real homeless lady.
Her landlord is evicting her from the $27,000 a month Greenwich Village townhouse she's been living in since February because, ALLEGEDLY she tried to burn the place down. Not quite a shock, considering this is  Courtney Love. I wouldn't rent her a refrigerator carton for fear of what she'd do it, much less allow her to move into my multi-million dollar New York townhouse.
Donna Lyon, the owner of the house, says Courtney ruined the interiors by painting over walls and installing wallpaper. Also, a candle--okay, we'll go with 'candle'--set a curtain on fire earlier this year. Bad enough, but little Miss Love is also $54,000 behind on the rent.
Seriously, Donna, you seem like a nice lady, but you need to be a little bit better about picking tenants. An actual homeless person would treat the place better.

It's nice when you go to one of those fancy Hollywood functions and you get one of those fancy Hollywood gift bags on the way out. And, apparently, it's started a trend.
It seems that when Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly broke up, it was assumed that Jeter would just start banging random women at will because, well, that's kinda what he does, and he's a famous athlete and all. And, while he has been bagging babes left and right, he is also adding a little something
Gift bags on their way out.
Jeter has the girls stay the night with him at his New York apartment, and in the morning he has a car waiting to whisk them back to from whence they came. But, inside the car is a gift basket containing signed Jeter memorabilia, usually a signed baseball.
♪♫Isn't it romantic?♫♪
Jeter's wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am-have-a-signed-baseball kiss-offs came to light when he mistakenly pulled the stunt twice on the same woman--forgetting she had been an earlier conquest.Gift bags. For getting f**ked by Derek Jeter.
Would you do it? For the baseball? Or for a Hickory Farms gift basket? I mean, if you already had the Jeter kielbasa, wouldn't a real kielbasa be a nice parting gift?