
The "reaction" to the "medication" that sent Amy Winehouse to the hospital? That would be "hallucinations" from "ecstasy" that someone spiked her drink with, says her dad Mitch. [Sun]

After being admitted to a London's University College hospital last night, singer and hair lice nest Amy Winehouse was released this morning amidst a swarm of paparazzi. Her spokesperson attributes to the hospital stay to an adverse reaction to medication. Is that what we're calling crack these days? [AP]
The most interesting thing about this clip of Grammy-winning maybe-emphysemic Amy Winehouse getting angry at a fan isn't that she tried to physically lash out at the audience member who was pissing her off, but that she is so frail the best she could muster was a half-hearted elbow and some shoving.
Below, one of our other favorite clips of a music act getting pissed at her audience. CONTINUED »

Or the the hottie we all lusted after in Alexander? [LARM]
Amy Winehouse’s recent hospitalization was evidently the best thing to ever happen to her, according to her father, Mitch. The troubled singer is reportedly not suffering from tuberculosis, but she has a host of other problems, including emphysema and looming death. Mitch breaks it down for us:

Depending on how you look at things, Amy Winehouse was either "loaded" by the $2 million cheque she received from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, to perform at the art gallery opening of 25-year-old girlfriend Dasha Zhukova, or she was "loaded" on drugs as she arrived in Moscow completely inebriated, so much so that organizers began scrambling to find another singer before deciding it was too late. Finally, Winehouse finally sipped enough Coca-Cola to lumber to the stage, though it was there she threw her lighter into the crowd and used non-verbal communication to share that she wasn't wearing underwear.
And while it would be perfectly reasonable for Abramovich to be bitter over Winehouse's antics after ponying up so much cash, the reason one hires a celebrity act to perform at an event is to generate press. And Ms. Winehouse certainly earned her fee in that regard.
To be fair, at least she wasn't scheduled to go on at 2:45 a.m., then kept everyone waiting until 4:25 a.m. before taking the stage like some self-entitled acts.

Amy Winehouse, who, when not delivering racist raps or disappearing into a crack den can earn $1 million for a single Louis Vuitton gig or $2 million for performing for Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, will earn $0 from the new James Bond movie. Last month, friend and producer Mark Ronson said Winehouse wasn't available to record the title track for the new Quantum of Solace and that he wouldn't be working with her. Now the honor goes to Leona Lewis, who in 2006 won the UK's The X Factor singing competition, and who does not walk around public streets in only a bra or sport visible track marks.

Daniel Craig is an expert at looking handsome in a tuxedo and stripping down to squarecuts on the beach. He should also be a life coach, because he seems to be the only one trying to reach out to Amy Winehouse to put a shirt on over her bra and get her act together to record the new James Bond theme song. And by "reaching out," we mean "delivering niceties in the press," like so: "It would be amazing if she could, she's got an amazing voice and would blend herself beautifully to this. But…we'll see." [BBC] At the very least, producers could bestow her with a clever, pun-y name, like "Beehive Urself." Or "Heroin Addict."

"Work on a possible James Bond film theme has been abandoned because singer Amy Winehouse is not ready to make music, producer Mark Ronson has said.
"The Brit award winner told Sky News that 'unless by some miracle of science it gets recorded and someone sings a vocal,' the song would not materialise." [BBC]
How ever could she not be ready to make music? Ronson's citing creative differences and Amy not yet finished recording her own music. We're citing this: CONTINUED »
IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY TO LOOK THIS CHEAP Tom from MySpace is No 8. on this list of rich people who look poor. That he did not beat the Olsen Twins (No. 6) or Amy Winehouse (No. 1) makes us give this list absolute credibility. [Nerve]

Were it not for her ability to actually sing, you might already mistake Amy Winehouse for Lindsay Lohan: the all-night partying, reports of coke use (abuse?), man troubles. Now, they're becoming virtually indistinguishable: Just like Lindsay papa Michael, Amy's dad Mitch is scouting for his 15 minutes.
He's talking to the BBC about how he cheated on his wife and Amy's mother, Janis, with a co-worker shortly after the birth of his daughter – he ended up marrying that co-worker, Jane – and how he's to blame for all of his daughter's troubles, going so far to claim her song "What It Is About Men" is about him. (Okay, it is.)
Mitch, who's gone to bat with the press for his daughter before, now gets bonus points for predicting the future: "She could die horribly," he says.
In exchange for being videotaped smoking crack, drawing blood from her husband during a fight, and making several attempts at cleaning herself up in rehab, multi-Grammy winner Amy Winehouse is being offered her own makeup and haircare line and $1 million from Louis Vuitton for a single performance. This pretty much disproves that whole "karma's a bitch" theory.

• Rachel Bilson can finally join the Facebook group, She Bangs, She Bangs.*
• Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson back together? Awkward …
• Amy Winehouse needs to get back to rehab if she thinks a make-up line is a smart business venture.
• J. Lo lets her babies know she loves them through purchased goods.
• Hugh Jackman is a jacked man.
*Not a real Facebook group.
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At last night's Brit Awards, host Sharon Osbourne swore, and the Arctic Monkeys were so drunk they had to be cut off during their obscenity-laced acceptance speech. We're not sure what criteria these awards are given out for, but it's clear why they're televised. [Daily Mail, Mollygood]

I don't think she should have won. I think it sends a bad message to our young people who are trying to get into this business, the ones who are trying to do it right and really trying to keep themselves together. … We have to stop rewarding bad behavior. … I'm sorry. I think the girl is talented, gifted, but it's not right for her to be able to have her cake and eat it too. She needs to get herself together.
-Natalie Cole starting a fight with Amy Winehouse through People.com
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