Vince Vaughn fired both his manager Eric Gold and agency United Talent. He did it by cell phone. Which is 10X more polite than email, and 250X more polite than text message. [DHD]
• This year's ball drop in Times Square is the most promoted ever.
• We're having trouble remembering why Vince Vaughn is famous.
• Bed bugs: Still gross.
• They'll charge for anything: A stripper tax might come to New York.
• Mike Hucabee will be the first guest on the Tonight Show. Scab.
• Sucka! Hannah Montana fans were tricked into listening to interesting and complex music.
One year ago, the New York Observer was boldy proclaiming "man flab is fab." But new evidence suggests the tides are changing!
THEN:
One by one, from Hollywood to the Hamptons, men have liberated themselves from the flat-stomached emo-boy reign of terror…Our men are carrying an extra 10—hell, maybe 15—pounds in the midriff, haven’t even thought about the gym in months, and they are unashamed. Why should they be? The Hollywood box-office draws have stopped looking like the lithe and graceful Orlando Blooms of the world, delicate and emotive and who might possibly weigh less than an average female fan… [NYO]
NOW:
Tired of hating yourself and your boyfriend for not hating himself? Help is on the way! Just one week after it was revealed that Ryan Gosling’s chunky physique may have contributed to his dismissal from a film role, directer Ridley Scott has reported that he demanded from the stocky Russell Crowe a 30 pound weight loss before filming began on their newest project, Body of Lies. Finally, everyone can be afraid of looking in the mirror. [Mollygood]
Apparently man flab just became a little less fab and a little more problematic. Now, are you going to break the bad news to Val Kilmer or should we?
• Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony splitting? So soon after she referred to her husband by both first and last name on American Idol? Well, the item IS from OK!, so let's not start doing something crazy like buying her new Spanish album.
• Naomi Campbell manages to show up for community service, but not her own reality show.
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Austin Nichols should just move in together already.
• Lindsay Lohan's mother is every bit as irresponsible as you've come to expect her to be.
• Post-Jennifer, Vince Vaughn isn't doing so well.
• Kelis is pissing off the gays. And NOBODY pisses off the gays.
• Beyonce and Jay-Z table hopped at Waverly Inn so they won't be oogled at. At the Waverly. WHERE YOU GO TO BE OOGLED.
• Haikus about Larry Birkhead? Start counting your syllables.
Vince Vaughn wasn't arrested for drunk in disorderly conduct the other night, but fellow diners at Katsu-ya say he was a loud, boozy mess. Vince reportedly had the indecency to show up for dinner puffy and inebriated, and then proceeded to throw back saki and have an intrusive emotional breakdown. Reports the Enquirer:
Vince was talking so loudly about how terrible everything is, how disappointing women are, and how crazy the movie business is,” a fellow diner at Katsu-ya in Studio City, Calif., revealed to The Enquirer.
“He was talking about 120 miles an hour, and it was complaint, complaint, complaint.
“Vince looked horrible too, as if he hadn’t slept in days. His eyes were puffy, and he looked unkempt. He kept throwing his hands in the air, like he wanted to hit someone.”
• While Nicole Richie is totally okay with licking a plate of cocaine on camera, she'd rather be hospitalized for dehydration than be filmed eating.
• Does Josh Hartnett enjoy bar brawls as much as he enjoys bar bathroom blow jobs?
• Note to Vince Vaughn: When you flirt with Paris Hilton, you're flirting with danger the possibility of contracting venereal diseases.
• Meanwhile, Paris and Nicole know they're in trouble when Courtney Love calls their professional qualifications into question.
• In more proof the world doesn't make sense, Kimora Lee Simmons is "dating" Djimon Hounsou and the best Cameron Diaz can do is PDA's with Tyrese.
• If Star Jones Reynolds is reprising her role as a lawyer, does that means Tracy Morgan gets to reprise his role as Tranny Star Jones?
• The King of Page Six, Richard Johnson, attributes his gossip super-stardom to marrying a hottie and punching Village Voice columnists in the face.
• The obligatory Anna Nicole Smith update includes the number of meds in her system at the time of death (ten) and reports that her mom abhors Howard K. Stern.
• Vince shows up for Jen's bday bash. Must mean they're doing it again. Or else he wanted to see her new nose.
• Lindsay Lohan proves she's serious about turning her life around by buying the former pad of suicidal pin-up girl Marilyn Monroe.
• Sarah Jessica Parker may not still have her original nose but she definitely hasn't surgically altered those catcher's mitts hands of hers.
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• Vince Vaughn quietly drops his libel suit against the tabs, despite being repeatedly assured by friends that he's "money."
• Matt Lauer gives Katic Couric a thumbs-up, admits to watching her "sometimes."
• A man returns a library book that's 47 years overdue, saying, "57 years would have been ridiculous (Seriously).
• Everyone's dying to figure out the identity of this mysterious Conde Nast fashionista.
• Congratulations to Daily News gossip Ben Widdicombe, who capped off his birthday week with the premiere of his now-daily Gatecrasher column.
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• Courtney Love remains sober-ish.
• Someone tries, fails to take down Janice Dickinson.
• Very wealthy families with names you know as the people who run this town.
• Everybody Loves Raymond's Peter Boyle dead at 71.
• Angelina Jolie may not have a publicist, but she sure knows how to make sure she's taken care of.
• The girl Vince Vaughn banged is now upset everyone knows Vince Vaughn banged her.
If the word "Vaughniston" paired with "break up," "split," or "ended their relationship" haven't caused you to pull a Margherita Missoni and spew your innards on a bathroom floor, Star is making one more attempt to get you to exercise your esophagus: A play by play on how Vince's dalliances with 20-year-old college student Laura Mallory Lane caused Jen and Vince's reps to confirm the twosome split. It really helps to have all the photo evidence of how the story broke in order to follow along at home. And when you're sitting around the tree on Christmas morning, already bored of Trivial Pursuit: 80s Edition, you'll be able to tear open the Vaughniston cards.
• Britney Spears blogs her defense for flashing snatch.
• TomKat throwing a wedding bash in Beverly Hills for friends who couldn't attend the Italian wedding. Oprah still not invited.
• Jennifer Aniston's rep Stephen Huvane wishes Perez Hilton and the rest of the celebrity blogs would leave his clients alone.
• Turns out Amy Sacco isn't selling Bungalow 8; Spencer Morgan just embellished a little.
• That Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were never even engaged will surely quiet down the gossip about their split.
• Joe Simpson tried insisting CBS use daughter Jessica's mistake-laden Dolly Parton send up for the TV broadcast, but producers weren't having it.
• VP offspring Mary Cheney is with child.
• Scientologists might have J. Lo in their traps.
• In the face of Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson acts humble.
It helps that Star made a handy graphic out of the email from Laura Mallory Lane, the 20-year-old Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas who slept with Vince Vaughn and went on to tell all her friends about it. It's supposedly the email that finally forced Jen's reps to confirm she and Vince ended things – which Life & Style would like to remind you that they had the story first, along with a handful of backpeddling competitors – which lets Star slap "The Real Story" on their headline and let women everywhere continue to think Vince is a gentleman.
Here's hoping Laura enjoys being this week's Samantha Cole!
It's 10am, do you know where your Jennifer-Vince story is? After Page Six supposedly broke the news yesterday, all the tabloids are rushing to play catch up. Well, some are still sleeping.
• People chimes in with an "exclusive" confirmation from flacks Stephen Huvane and John Pisani.
• Us Weekly has nothing for you.
• Star recycles the news you read elsewhere.
• The National Enquirer hasn't yet caught on.
• Neither has Life & Style.
• Same goes for In Touch.
Not that Us Weekly and Star haven't spent the past few months going back and forth on whether Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are dating, breaking up, getting married, or having a baby, but now Page Six weighs in on what they (and we) hope will be the final say in the matter: the relationship is off. In an unlikely move yesterday, the Sixers updated their online version of the print column to include the additional "breaking" story. Today we've got a full item from the column's Paula Froelich.
It's true - Vince Vaughn is now just another "Friend."
Sexy girl-next-door Jennifer Aniston is "no longer romantically involved with Vince Vaughn," a pal of the couple confirmed yesterday.
But the famous pair, who dated for more than a year, remain "fast friends and still keep in touch," the source insisted.
Though how many "pals" and "inside sources" have confirmed or denied a breakup to any number of tabloids? It's nice to see the Post play catch up, but we grew tired of counting the confirmations and denials when we had to get all the way to "4" in the number of Pamela and Kid Rock marriages.
• If a guy with Windows Movie Maker and access to Google Images can lay down funnier lines than Best Week Ever, maybe that United Talent Agency web initiative has some feet. [Jackson Blue]
• Celeb press corp tires of Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn relationship charades. This blog tires of (but will continue reporting on) meta coverage thereof. [Radar]
• Porn empresario Michael Lucas throws down with New York magazine. [Queerty]
• Comely Whipple's World host George Whipple lets his pocket protector come loose on Friday nights. [Radar]
• Ken Sunshine pours the haterade on bloggers. That's "bloggers," code word for "anyone who hates on my clients." [FBNY]
• New Republic associate editor Spencer Ackerman becomes the first person fired from the title since Stephen Glass, in '98. Spencer's crime? Hating on TNR on a blog. Kids these days. [NYO]
• Former Sarah Gray Miller Budget Living cohort Alex Bhattacharji becomes Daniel Peres' newest bottom at Details. [NYO]
One of our favorite games to play is Anatomy of a Page Six Retraction, and today's "For The Record" item in Richard Johnson's column gives us some great footing. It takes quite a bit to get RJ & Co. to back off from their "heavily" vetted items, so what brought this?:
JENNIFER Aniston went on "Oprah" to tell the world she and Vince Vaughn are still together. We apologize to Vaughn for reporting on Oct. 11 that the "The Wedding Crashers" star had been photographed "making out" with a "mystery blonde" at a party in London. The item, first reported in the London Sun, was incorrect. We're advised Vaughn was merely greeting a friend at the event and not kissing her "passionately." Any suggestion that the actor was being unfaithful to Aniston is totally false.
From what we understand, the New York Post received a well-versed letter from the offices of Hollywood power firm Lavely & Singer, which reps Vaughinston's interests. After several conversations between News Corp.'s legal team and editor Col Allan, a decision was handed down to Johnson: Apologize for the original item, or the Vaughn will very likely make good on his threats to sue. (Britain's Daily Mail and The Sun remain on the list of remaining targets.) And just when you thought all the angles for items on Page Six were exhausted this month.
FOR THE RECORD [Page Six]
It's not whether Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are actually a couple that we care about. Rather, we're more focused on seeing how the story is played out in the tabloids: Which rag claims they're together and engaged, or broken up because one or both parties cheated on each other. Is Jennifer going to whine to People this week, or Oprah? But by far the most entertaining development in the saga that is Vaughinston is the announcement of Vince filing a lawsuit against a trifecta of tabloids – the New York Post, and Britain's Daily Mirror and The Sun – for claiming he was kissing a "mystery blonde" on Oct. 8 (as per photos printed in In Touch), and thereafter ended his relationship with his Break Up co-star. It was only last week we learned Aniston told Oprah (during a taped segment; the episode aired Monday) that she and Vince were still together. But, wait, what's that you're gesturing at us? You're right! These two have been playing the relationship PR game since rumors of their romance first started. So are we keen to believe them this time around? Actually, yes — since in the game of eeny-meeny-miny-moe we just played with the tabloid covers forced us to.
Vince Vaughn Files Complaint Over Reports of Split With Aniston [AP]
• Hey, David Letterman. There is such a thing as too soon. Eh, who are we kidding? You, Letterman, made it already funny. [ETP]
• Here's your Mel Gibson sneak preview. We'll sum it up for ya'. Diane Sawyer: "But, you're a racist." Mel Gibson: "No, I'm a drunk." Diane Sawyer: "But you hate Jews." Mel Gibson: "No, I just really love the sauce." (Plus, the lotto numbers!) [FBNY]
• Ok, just breathe. Calm down. Jennifer Aniston that her and Vince Vaughn are not broken up. No word as to how she feels about Page Six sighting him with blondie the other day, but … she's obviously pretty desperate. [People]
• Someone replaced someone at the New York Times. What? They don't have a TimesSelect column. Nobody actually cares about their names. [E&P]
• See, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson know how to settle things. Well, er, Mollygood will settle it for them. [Mollygood]
• Tara Reid tells Us Weekly she will "never be perfect again." There are so many things wrong with that statement we don't even know where to begin. [Us]
• When Eliot Mintz was just a boy, do you think he dreamed of the shit show that is now his life? Eh, probably. [Mollygood]
• Mel Gibson has not gone out and tagged swastikas all over LA in 65 whole days. [AP]
• We always knew Vince Vaughn wasn't cut out for "relationships." He's already been spotted rebounding with a bottle of peroxide. [Page Six]
• Jon Friedman discovers Jon Stewart. He's funny! He has this really great comic timing! We're so grateful we have Friedman to point these things out for us. We would've never known there was just a funny, funny man out there. [Market Watch]
• Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion. They're going to have to pay at least double that to get their hands on PornoTube. [AP]
• Vince Vaughn should have never called it quits with Jennifer Aniston. Seriously, there is like nobody to wash his clothes for him now. [Mollygood]
• Once again, Vanity Fair likes to keep its story subjects "in the family." [Gawker]
• Omigod, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie might actually be BFFs again! That is so. Freakin'. Fab. [TMZ]
• Or then there's the chance that Nicole is just using her for her schwag. Elliot Mintz is seriously trying to hang himself right now. [Daily Mail]
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