Justin Timberlake does his best Jessica Simpson impersonation as he stands in front of a cutout of the aspiring country singer onstage at the 2008 ESPY Awards held at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The singer earned raves as he alternated between self-depricating humor (at one point, he poked fun at his infamous 2004 Super Bowl performance with Janet Jackson, saying “I wanted to be the only guy at a football game to get to second base”) and playfully mocking audience members (he lowered his nose to one of David Beckham’s Tom Ford shoes and proclaimed, “Smells like $250 million to me!”). He also performed several big musical numbers.
“If I made the decisions, I’d ask Justin to be [our] entertainment every week,” Monday Night Football host Stuart Scott told reporters during the show. “After what he’s putting down tonight … Justin can come hang out with us on the set anytime.”
Seconded snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, who won best female action sport athlete: “Not only is he funny, but he obviously knows [the sports] he’s talking about. I was here two years ago when Lance Armstrong was hosting and he did a great job, but JT is ruling it.”
Even the athletes he poked fun at seemed impressed. “It’s all in good fun,” said Terrell Owens, whose emotional news conference after the Dallas Cowboys’ season ended was spoofed during the show at L.A.’s Nokia Theater. “He’s had some funny dialogue; his interaction with the crowd is good. He’s an entertainer, and he did a great job.”
Hayden Panettiere attended the Berlin Film Festival and amidst all of the chaos and flashing bulbs, she managed to drop a bottle of red nail polish on the red carpet.
Fortunately for us,… she picked it up.
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What others said:
Egotastic says, “She went from being elegant one second, to practically flashing her boobs the next. Which means it was a fun night for all!”
Celebslam says, “If those things were any saggier she’d be legally required to start eating dinner at 4 PM.”
A deal has been struck between the major media companies and the Writers Guild of America to end the writers’ strike, former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner revealed on CNBC.
“It’s over,” Eisner said. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general.”
Eisner, speaking live on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” seemed to hesitate initially about whether it was possible that the writers could still reject the agreement, but finally suggested the deal’s acceptance was inevitable.
“A deal has been made, and they’ll be back to work very soon,” Eisner said, adding, “I know a deal’s been made. I know it’s over.”
Eisner did not elaborate on terms of the agreement. He said he expects most of the media companies affected by the strike to have “small” write-downs as a result of the deal. Eisner said the deal was struck last Friday.
As a result of studio cutbacks, however, many of the writers who went on strike are unlikely to return to the same big-money contracts they’d had as individuals with the studios, Eisner said.
Shares of Walt Disney and CBS were both up in extended electronic trading Thursday.
It’s about damn time!
source: Deal Has Been Reached to End Writers’ Strike: Eisner [cnbc]
Celine Dion always makes me laugh, but it’s always of the unintentional comedy variety. Here’s her latest. Celine Dion wants to win an Oscar for portraying late opera singer Maria Callas. She’s even been having dreams of the acceptance speech.
“(In my dream) I am at the front row at the Academy Awards with my mother, husband and son and it’s announced I have won the Oscar for my role as opera star Maria Callas. First I thank the Academy in English, then I speak Maria’s language, Greek, then some French to thank the people at home. I look at the faces of mother, husband and son. Priceless.”
Wow, Celine. That one might remain only in your dreams.
Source: “Celine Dion Dreams of Winning Oscar” [Right Celebrity]
Rumer Willis, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, has been named Miss Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Miss Golden Globe is traditionally the daughter of a well-known celebrity. Among previous holders of the title are Lorraine Nicholson, Laura Dern and Melanie Griffith.
The 19-year-old Willis, who thinks she’s really, really famous. Hey, the only reason she’s famous at all, is because of the relentless heckling. See, there’s a lot of people out there that find a striking resemblance between her chin and Jay Leno’s. I know… completely rude!
Last night, Jewel attended the 41st Annual CMA Awards in Nashville with her man Ty Murray. And unfortunately either her dress or her boobs were acting a little strange. What’s going on here? Maybe the dress just isn’t holding things together quite right.
As a side note, I learned today that CMA stands for Country Music Association, not Country Music Awards. Every time I saw a commercial promoting the “CMA Awards” I was like, “no, that’s redundant – it’s like your saying ATM Machine.” But apparently I was wrong, and for that Country Music Association, I apologize. I won’t yell at your commercials anymore.
After all that bitching and moaning that Kanye West did about not winning at the MTV Awards in Europe, and not winning at the VMA’s, and not performing on the VMA mainstage, it turns out he didn’t want those awards after all. Last night at BET’s Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta, Kanye West won “Best Hip-Hop Video”, and then he tried to give it away!
After accepting the award for his video “Stronger”, he tried to give it to UGK and OutKast, competing in the same category with “International Players”. He said they were more deserving. OutKast’s Big Boi declined the award.
What the hell, Kanye? Make up your damn mind. Do you want awards or not? Or was it just that at the VMA’s you lost to Justin Timberlake?
Source: “Kanye: No YOU Take the Award!” [TMZ]
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Even Ryan Seacrest dressed like that couldn’t get people to watch the Emmys this year. The broadcast may have been the least-watched in history.
Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research put the audience for Sunday’s show, aired on Fox, at 13.1 million viewers. That’s three million fewer than for last year’s telecast, on NBC, and less than the record low 13.8 million three years ago on ABC.
What were people watching? About 13.3 million viewers chose to watch the New England Patriots play the San Diego Chargers instead. Which is sad since the Patriots won 38-14 and it wasn’t even a game after the first quarter.
The best part of the whole broadcast was Katherine Heigl correcting the announcer who mispronounced her name. Other than that, there were no real surprises. But if you’re interested, you can see all the winners after the jump
When Sally Field won an Emmy last night for her role on “Brothers and Sisters”, she got so excited and dedicated it to all the mothers out there. And then she continued on, saying “if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned war.” Unfortunately, we don’t know what else she was going to say, because the Emmys stopped airing the speech as soon as she said the “g” in “goddamned”. That booth guy is quick on the draw.
Source: “Sally Field’s War Speech Gets Bleeped” [I'm Not Obsessed]
What better way to pay off your gambling debt than marriage? Reportedly, that’s what Pamela Anderson thinks when it comes to Rick Solomon. The Rick Solomon of Paris Hilton sex tape fame. The guy made $6 million from selling the tape and then became a professional poker player.
‘It’s so romantic. It’s romance. I was playing poker one night in my room and I was down about $250,000. He said if I made out with him I could clear the … thing.’
‘And I ended up paying off my poker debt. And then I fell in love and now we’re engaged.’
Pam’s been married to a couple winners in her life, so why not Rick? Two of her exes, Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, have been offered a $1 million prize to settle their VMA feud in a boxing ring grudge match by Las Vegas nightclub boss Jeff Beacher.
But it sounds like Pam and Rock should be the ones getting in the ring after Kid said he never loved her and divorcing her was the best thing he ever did:
“I went through what I went through, and there’s no doubt it wasn’t love – we went through all these things, but then coming out of it pretty much unscathed, after uprooting my son and a lot of things, it’s like, ‘Thank god I’m out of this.”
“It’s over,” Eisner said. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general.”
“(In my dream) I am at the front row at the Academy Awards with my mother, husband and son and it’s announced I have won the Oscar for my role as opera star Maria Callas. First I thank the Academy in English, then I speak Maria’s language, Greek, then some French to thank the people at home. I look at the faces of mother, husband and son. Priceless.”
Miss Golden Globe is traditionally the daughter of a well-known celebrity. Among previous holders of the title are Lorraine Nicholson, Laura Dern and Melanie Griffith.
Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research put the audience for Sunday’s show, aired on Fox, at 13.1 million viewers. That’s three million fewer than for last year’s telecast, on NBC, and less than the record low 13.8 million three years ago on ABC.
