Rihanna’s new album comes out in less than a month, so it’s obviously time to start talking about domestic violence. Sigh. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad she’s talking, I just wish it didn’t have to have the stench of a PR stunt surrounding it.
Rihanna did an interview with Diane Sawyer, to air on Good Morning America on Thursday and Friday, and you better believe ABC is going to be leaking little quotes from it about every 12 hours up until that time.
“This happened to me … it can happen to anyone,” she told Diane in the interview. The 21-year-old also referred to Chris Brown as “definitely my first big love.”
I don’t even blame Rihanna for this — she is a very young girl dealing with some very big issues. She’s in no position to navigate these waters, and she’s depending on her team for guidance. I think it’s in really poor taste for her management to start dragging her around the talk show circuit using the fact that she was the victim of domestic violence to sell albums. Hopefully at least this publicity will help her send a positive message to women everywhere, and maybe help another woman to seek help if she’s in a similar situation.
Someone’s trying to suck up to our little gossip blog! Supermodel Karolina Kurkova gave birth last week to a healthy baby boy, whom she named Tobin Jack Drury. (The baby daddy is her fiance, producer Archie Drury.)
Ummm, Wendie’s last name is Tobin, and one her sons is named Jack. Coincidence? I think not. Obviously Karolina is hoping to be the first celebrity parent in years whose baby’s name isn’t mocked on this website. Very smart, Karolina. Very, very smart. Your evil plan has proven victorious. No mockery here. But her fiance (pictured above) totally looks like someone famous, and I can’t put my finger on who it is. Remind you guys of anyone?
I think execs over at Sony kind of screwed themselves by spending months acting like it would be impossible to get tickets to This Is It, the Michael Jackson concert flick. They were trying to create buzz, but it seems like fans really believed them, and didn’t even bother trying. The film brought in just $20.7 million over the Halloween weekend, much less than Sony expected. They’ve realized their mistake, and now they’re trying to make it clear to audiences that they can, in fact, get tickets — and that the flick will be airing in theaters for longer than the originally stated two weeks. It’ll be in theaters up through Thanksgiving — and probably longer, if you want my guess. Says the studio in a press release:
In just 5 days, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT has become the highest grossing concert film of all time and we are elated by the response to this special film by fans, critics and moviegoers from all over the world. With this kind of global response, it’s clear that the motion picture deserves an extended run and we are going to do everything we can to make the film available to everyone who wants to see Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT on the big screen.
It’s interesting to look at this from a marketing perspective. Obviously the goal was to drum up crazy buzz for the film by treating it like a very exclusive engagement. It doesn’t necessarily sound like a bad idea — and it’s a marketing strategy that’s worked many times before — but in this case it just totally backfired. Why? Thoughts?
I’m just saying. Really, Jodie, I’m rootin’ for you here, but take a step back, stay out of the spotlight and get a few years of sobriety under your belt before you run around the talk show circuit telling everyone about how you were Relapse City for the past few years but this time you are sober forever for realsies and you can prove it because you’ll have a whole year sober in December. Just slow it down, hon. People will still want to read about Stephanie Tanner smoking meth in five years. By that time, you can probably co-release your drug-addiction book with Mary-Kate Olsen’s.
Kate Hudson oils up for December’s issue of Elle mag and is finally talking a little bit about boyfriend Alex Rodriguez. Really, all she did was deny that the two are engaged which is good news in itself.
In other Kate news, the actress lost twenty pounds for an upcoming role in which she plays a terminally ill patient that falls in love with her doctor and she — Kate, not the terminally ill character, though that would be kinda funny — sends out props for Botox. “Everyone’s so obsessed with who gets Botox, but it’s great! Are you kidding? The fact that women can avoid going under the knife and get a little Botox treat and not have to worry about it? I’m glad it’s there for when it’s time.” Sure, Kate. It’s good to know that it’s there “for when it’s time.” Wink.
No, Jess didn’t finally reveal her real IQ, but she is coming clean about just how bad Melrose Place is. When her sister Ashlee was on the show, Jess would frequently Tweet about it, reminding fans to tune in, as any supportive sister would. Now that Ash got pink slipped, Jess is crediting her sis with all of MP’s success and she’s also getting real about the true caliber of MP and admitting to the world what we already knew: Melrose Place sucks, y’all.
Now that Mad Men only has one episode left of the season, and the Beautiful Life ended after two showings, what is left on television that’s any good? And don’t say “Glee.”
