Despite the fact that Beyonce looks like she just emerged from a lengthy stay in a sun-deprivation chamber in her new L’Oreal Feria ad, reps from the beauty company deny that they lightened her skin color in any way.
Dear L'oreal: We didn't know you marketed a skin whitening cream in the United States. Could you send us a sample? xo (Click for larger image) [SH]
Being a celebrity means losing a valuable portion of the privacy afforded to normal people. It’s the price they pay for being rich, famous, and adored by millions. But in some arenas, say, hospitals or the U.S. State Department, celebs should be under the same protections as common folk. It’s not always the case. Hospital records get leaked all the time and really bored government drones get all up in celebrity passport files. The State Department’s Inspector General issued a report last week revealing that nine high profile passport files were accessed more than a hundred times over a six year period. Beyonce’s file was one of the most frequently accessed.
Oh for the love of all that is holy, we can finally put this "speculation" about whether Jay-Z and Beyonce actually got married to rest. The duo filed their signed marriage license in Scarsdale on Friday. The news arrives today, just as most of the tabloids are shipping to the printer. No worries though; they didn't much care for these nuptials anyhow.
Kudos to Us Weekly for being the only tabloid wise enough to realize Americans might be just as interested in Beyonce and Jay-Z's (maybe) wedding as, say, a white girl like Katherine Heigl's.
Janice Min might be the only celeb weekly editor who understands the newsstand lure of black celebs; her magazine's Janet Jackson "How I Lost 40 Pounds" issue was among its best selling ever (though it's said that Min was on leave, and didn't have much to do with it).
While the paparazzi hounded the Tribeca apartment building where Jay-Z and Beyonce supposedly got married, and the local television news had a field day guessing why everyone was wearing white, OK!, In Touch, Star, and Life & Style all ignored the week's biggest story on their covers.
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Casting biopics is hard enough, I’m sure. But it’s particularly hard when they biopic is about contemporary people who are (mostly ) still alive. For example, Oliver Stone has been busy casting his George W. Bush film, W — it looks like Thandie Newton will be playing Condi Rice. And look at all the trouble producers went through to find the perfect Biggie (Jamal Woolard) for the new film, Notorious, for which they also had to cast a pre-op Lil Kim (Naturi Naughton), Puff Daddy before he was Diddy (Derek Luke), and Voletta Wallace (Angela Bassett).
So it got me thinking about today’s celebs and who would star in a movie about their lives if it was made today. Of course, my mind naturally swayed to Jay-Z (it would be a natural spin-off of Notorious) and Beyonce’s saga.
The Daily Mirror’s 3am Girls, from all the way in the UK, have somehow managed to snag intimate details of the Knowles-Carter wedding from a source who apparently says “mum” and automatically converts dollars to pounds in his or her head. It makes the story totally believable.
Lest you were beginning to think that Grammys had no news value, a controversy has ensued. Aretha Franklin is pissed that Beyonce referred to Tina Turner as "The Queen," when everyone knows that Franklin is the Queen of Soul:
I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyoncé, however I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy.
Yes, it was a cheap shot for controversy. Way not to fall into that trap, Aretha.
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• Cher continues to inspire drag queens everywhere with her wigs.
• With Heroes on hiatus, Hayden Panettiere is devoting herself full-time to looking like a 30-year-old.
• "Grammy fashion" continues to need quote marks …
• … Particularly, Beyonce's camel toe-inducing underwear.
• Good news for your dwindling faith in humanity: The Hottie and The Nottie bombed at the box office.
• What gives? Matthew McConaughey has been wearing shirts lately.
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Look, the WGA is just a union, they can't cancel every awards show ever. We wish they could, but they can't. Life isn't always fair. So the Grammys go on. We can console ourselves with the fact that the ratings will be low and we'll be able to mock the outfits afterward.
In less gloomy Grammy news, Tina Turner might perform with Beyonce. Tina's too old for this to end All About Eve style, right?
• Suri Cruise has already grown disillusioned with fame. So precocious!
• That Vivica A. Fox sex tape is fake, because you know Vivica would be getting a cut if that shit were real.
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Over New Year's, Beyonce beat Kanye West nine (!) times in a row in Connect Four. Jay-Z found a real winner with her.
• Dave Letterman wins approval from the writers, still working on the approval of the viewers.
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RUMORS ON THE INTERNET Beyonce and Jay-Z got married in Paris? What? Not true according to reps for both parties. The two have been battling marriage, fidelity and co-habitation rumors from the beginning, so until Beyonce and Jay-Z do a wedding spread for Vanity Fair, we're not even going to speculate. [Stereohyped]
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