So, this is… um… scary.
I do love that it has people like Loretta Swit on there, though.
I also noted that a couple of my man-crushes (Brad Pitt and Kiefer Sutherland) share an address. No doubt an agent’s office.
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I’ve always thought Vinnie Gallo was an odd duck. Consider this bit of drama surrounding his film The Brown Bunny:
Roger Ebert called the film “the worst in the history of Cannes” to which Vincent Gallo responded that Ebert was a “fat pig with the physique of a slave trader”. Ebert paraphrased a remark of Winston Churchill and responded that “although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of ‘Brown Bunny’”. Gallo then put a “hex” on Ebert’s colon, to which Ebert responded that “even my colonoscopy was more entertaining than his film”.
That’s kooky.
Then I saw this: Vincent Gallo’s Sperm $1 Million
If the purchaser of the sperm chooses the option of natural insemination, there is an additional charge of $500,000. However, if after being presented detailed photographs of the purchaser, Mr. Gallo may be willing to waive the natural insemination fee and charge only for the sperm itself.
Good to know Vincent has “no cripples” in his family history.
Bluesman R.L. Burnside dies at 78
R.L. Burnside, one of the last, great Mississippi bluesmen, whose raw, country blues was discovered late in his life, has died. He was 78.
Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis Hospital in Memphis His health had been declining for some time, said Matthew Johnson, owner of Burnside’s record label, Fat Possum.
I found R.L. by way of the Jon Spenser Blues Explosion. I now have three Burnside discs (A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Mr. Wizard, and Come on In) — all of which I enjoy, though I can imagine they would be for everyone. Of the three, Mr. Wizard would probably be my pick.
Carrot Top scares the living shit outta me.
Bacall: Cruise is sick [How very tabloid.]
‘It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. I think it’s kind of a sickness.’
Miss Bacall, who was married to Humphrey Bogart and appeared with him in several films, added insult to injury by saying 42-year-old Cruise was not much of an actor.
God, that’s good. Lauren Bacall is one tough lady, and she has never pulled her punches. Gotta love it.
Salon is doing a “four-part series chronicling the suddenly higher profile of the Church of Scientology”, and of course the first installment highlights none other than Mr. Crazy Cruise:
Missionary man (Get a day pass, it’s worth it.)
Regarding the romance — who can explain love? It’s a mystery, particularly in Hollywood, and we’re unlikely to ever get the particulars about Cruise and Holmes. But the buzz in some Scientology circles is that Cruise may have reached one of the highest echelons of the Church of Scientology. While not a lot is known about this level, known cryptically as OT-VII, Scientology observers say that attaining it could explain Cruise’s behavior in recent months.
I’m still boggled by the fact that Scientology is actually considered a genuine “religion”. I mean, read this and tell me if that’s the sort of thing sane people base their lives on:
According to experts and the church’s own literature, OT-VII (”OT” stands for Operating Thetan, “thetan” being the Scientology term for soul) is the penultimate tier in the church’s spiritual hierarchy — the exact details of which are fiercely guarded and forbidden to be discussed even among top members. It is where a Scientologist learns how to become free of the mortal confines of the body and is let into the last of the mysteries of the cosmology developed by the church’s longtime leader, science fiction novelist and “Dianetics” author L. Ron Hubbard. This cosmology also famously holds that humans bear the noxious traces of an annihilated alien civilization that was brought to Earth by an intergalactic warlord millions of years ago.
That’s Heaven’s Gate material, if you ask me. Not the foundation of a culturally powerful religion. At least Germany still agrees:
Germany refuses to recognise Scientology as a legitimate church, claiming it is a fake religion based on making money from its followers.
While you’re in the mood, check out CultNews.com for more (from an obviously biased source). If you really want to dig into Scientology, be sure not to miss Operation Clambake. Wow.
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