Seriously, today is officially Carrie Fisher day, because no one will shut the hell up about her new one woman show based on her memoirs, Wishful Drinking. She should just get married to Rod Blago and they could be King and Queen of the Dec. 10th ball!
But in case you missed her on NPR, having excerpts posted in every major newspaper outlet, and being commented on in every blog (did you know she was only 19 in Star Wars? Did you know she smoked weeeeeeed with Harrison Ford? Did you know her mom was Debbie Reynblahblah blah?), here's a video of her talking on The Today Show with Matt Lauer about her gay husband baby daddy, drug addiction, and weight problems. All ripe subjects for parody, natch. She's like a crazy, straight David Sedaris.
First we told you that Guy Ritchie stood to make $100 million plus from his divorce with Madonna. Then came word that, no, Ritchie wants "not one penny" of Madge's fortune. But if that's true, then why has Madonna acquired the services of Fiona Shackleton, Britain's shrewdest divorce attorney?
Today, new information about the still unfolding drama says that not only is Ritchie going after Madge's millions, under British law, he stands to see about 250 of them.
Were Ritchie to walk away from his marriage with a quarter of a billion dollars, it would be the most expensive celebrity divorce in recent history.
After the jump, more ungodly settlements.
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Harrison Ford has a new little movie out that he's been busy promoting. But he's also been busy promoting Mother Earth! Here he is in a spot for Conservation International, fighting against deforestation, the nasty habit that releases all that harmful carbon into the atmosphere.
By getting his chest hair ripped out with hot wax, he's demonstrating how the uprooting of innocent trees in other parts of the world hurts us at home.
So, think global, act local? That goes against everything we were raised on.
From Ben Widdicombe's Gatecrasher column on Saturday:
Having Harrison Ford as a customer is a problem any young fashion line would love to have. But when your clothing is aimed at gay men, how do you publicize it?
Ford walked into a Chelsea men's wear store recently and liked the 429 T-shirts so much, he bought one in each color ("Green, brown and eggplant," according to a spy). He probably didn't realize that 429 is so named because it spells G-A-Y on a telephone keypad.
Harrison Ford making an unitentional play for the gay community? Eh, not really our thing. But the New York Daily News mentioning covering something gay that isn't Brokeback Mountain? It's reason to celebrate.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream for racial equality. Our hope for change is a little more simple.
Ford wears quite a number [Gatecrasher]
• Matt Damon and Lucianne Bozan are expecting — and it's a girl. If Angelina Jolie has a boy, then the two can grow up to carry on the hot spawn of Hollywood into the future. [The Scoop]
• A bunch of hot celebrities are getting in the way of Lloyd Grove's vodka tonics. He does make time for Kevin Bacon, but then realizes that Kev is actually not gay … maybe the bartender is? [Lowdown]
• Kate Moss was seen partying with dirty punks, one of which looked like he could maybe have possibly been Pete Doherty. [Page Six]
• Even on her deathbed, Shelly Winters lies about her age. Times like these make us long for the old days of classy Hollywood movie stars. Actually, every day filled with Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson make us long for those days — they just don't make em like Shelly anymore. [NYT]
• Need a good laugh? Take a look at Howard Kurtz's explanation of journalism, and why it sometimes requires reading. [Romenesko]
• Courtney Love is selling her real house…and buying a crack house. [Curbed]
• Monday nights are about to get a lot more interesting. You can watch Heather Graham's fake Sex and the City Show then catch "Roller Girls" crash the shit into each other. Or, you can just watch Boogie Nights. [Slate, ABC]
• Note to the Guardian: celebs may not be supporting our troops, but fake celebs are. [MSNBC]
• Truly breaking news of the day: Tom Brokaw and Harrison Ford are old. [Rush & Molloy]
