Baby Boy for RENT Stars

PEOPLE magazine is reporting that Tony Award winner Idina Menzel and hubby Taye Diggs welcomed their first child - son Walker Diggs - to the world today. Massive love and congratulations to them both!

The two met during the Original Broadway Production of RENT in 1996, where Idina played the tempestuous Maureen and Taye was the loathsome Benny. They were married in 2003, and both reprised their roles in the movie version of RENT. Idina went on to become one of the most sought after performers on Broadway, winning a Tony award in 2004 for her portrayal of Elphaba in Wicked.

Taye has also gone on to much success on the small screen and is currently starring on ABC's Private Practice.

Here is a clip of the 2008 Tony Awards. Not super focused on Idina and Taye, but is super cute. Love love love RENT. Saw it on it's last week on Broadway last year. Literally cried like a baby from start to finish. Was kinda embarrassing, but that is how much this show moved me.

These are two clips that show Idina's amazing voice. First is a scene from Rent and second is from the 2004 Tony Awards where she sings Defying Gravity from Wicked. She was apparently under the weather during this performance so her voice is not as amazing as it can be. Still sh*ts on anything most people could do, but thought you should be aware.

Again, much love to Idina and Taye. Wishing them all the best as they settle into parenthood.

XO

Where's Charlotte?

I see Carrie, Samantha and Miranda..... but where oh where is Charlotte - the WASP, turned Jewish wife, turned mother to an adopted Chinese baby? Where is she? Out of all the characters on SATC, Charlotte York made me laugh the most. I loved Kristen Davis in that role. She was amazing. Her eternal search for a husband. Her joy at finding her knight in shining armour in Trey McDougall. Her dogged determination that in spite of all the evidence to the contrary (cough... limp dick....cough), her marriage would work. Her belief in love and that she and all her friends would find their soulmates. Her clothes and shoes (and the shoe fetish guy). All the toads she had to f*ck to get to Harry. The amazing wonderful Harry. All of it. Loved her.

In the movie when she yells at Big on the wedding day that wasn't...... kills me. The look in her eyes. Crushes me every time I watch it. That is hands down my absolute favourite scene in the whole movie. Hated the whole "poughkeepsie in her pants" bullsh*t though. Cheap and simply going for the laugh, something SATC had never really done before. I also wish her adorable Chinese daughter had spoken in the film. Did she say a word? Maybe in the new one she will get a line or two?

Anyways, Kim Cattrell and Cynthia Nixon filmed their first scenes on the streets of NYC today. And there are also a few shots of SJP from yesterday where she seems to be in total 80's garb. I am thinking.....flashback. How the girls met? How they became friends? Cause where the f*ck else is this movie gonna go? Ugh. I am going to try and be positive and give Darren Star the benefit of the doubt, but I am frankly a little worried........

We shall see my friends..... we shall see. I wonder if they will still be filming when I am there in October? Oohhhh that would be so beyond awesome and amazing.

XO

Hilary Duff on Gossip Girl

In honour of the WB releasing the first official image of Hilary Duff in her role as movie star turned college girl Olivia Wilde on Gossip Girl, I have culled back through some recent days of shots and picked a few for your viewing pleasure. Well, there are lots of Ed Westwick, so that is probably more for my pleasure right? Or have some of you now come over to the dark shameful side?

Oh Chuck Bass. Le sigh. The suits, the shoes, the vests, even the flower in your lapel. As Chuck Bass you are fabulous. As Chuck Bass, few women could resist you. But honey child, those rolled up jeans have gotta go. Seriously, I recognise that you are from the UK and that kinda sorta makes you European-adjacent. But the only person I have seen who can pull this look off without looking totally ridiculous is Alexander Skarsgard.... sigh. Did you see those much talked about photos from early August where he was at LAX? They are below, cause you can never have to many shots of my Alexander.....And even with Alex, I am not super thrilled. But he is Dirrty Eric on True Blood, so he can pretty much do whatever the hell he likes and I am on board. Swoon.

The rest of the pics are kinda meh. Taylor Momsen seriously still needs to eat about 10 Big Macs, while the stylists on the show still need to double check Blake Lively's size. Don't get me wrong, she looks amazing and I wish all the chicks on the show took their cues from her instead of the Olsen Twins, but Serena is always in clothes that are about 2 sizes to small for her. Damn though, she has amazing breasts. I remember when mine were that perky. Not anymore. Now I don't even like to think where they are if I am braless. I can't quite tuck them into my pants, but they are definitely heading south. I am also thrilled that Penn Badgley has a hat on as it is hiding his crazy mop of hair. Pity about the mutton chop sideburns though right? Maybe it is a bet or something? Something super important to his character? Probably not.

Seems like there is a 1920's zoot suit/flapper party going on. Which is exactly what we did in University. Oh wait no, we spent our evenings trying to avoid being thrown in with the syphilis infested ducks in the lake on campus (sadly, I am not even joking about this - I went to a super classy school). The guys that lived below us also had a passion for stealing traffic lights and leaving them on our stoop... oh and they also had a drunken college girls gone wild themed photo montage going up the staircase to their rooms. Photos they had actually taken - and this is before digital camera's people. Like I said - super classy!

The story on Ms Hilary's character is that she is the star of a vampire movie franchise (of course she is) who is rooms with Jessica Szohr's Vanessa. She meets Dan (Penn) who obviously has no idea who she is as he is far to intellectual and angsty to watch a teen-vampire movie. Hilarity (and dramarama) ensues. Hilary's first episode is October 5th.

Gossip Girl returns September 14th. You know you love it. Admit it.

XO

Larry King versus Chris Brown

Did you watch? Did you see him sit there in his fu*king powder blue sweater and bow-tie & take NO responsibility for what he did? Did you see him question the authenticity of that photo? Did you see him claim no knowledge of the previous violent encounters? Did you see him be more concerned about his career than what he did? Did you see him hide behind "protecting Rhianna's privacy" so he didn't have to answer any of the questions lobbed at him by Larry King? Did you hear him say that his "faux-pology" was from the heart and was written by him?

Or like me, did you spend the hour drinking wine and yelling BULLS*IT at the television. At least I didn't throw anything at it right? I went in with a somewhat open mind. I was willing to listen to what he had to say.....

But that whole hour was BULLS*IT. Am I surprised? Not so much. It would have been nice if he had said something, anything worth repeating. He said nothing redeeming. NOTHING that makes me think he is in anyway sorry for what he did.

The only plus side to this useless hour of television is that I have found my dream lawyer. Mark Geragos is f*cking awesome. He is a total douche, but he is an outstanding attorney. If I ever need one, please put together a collection so I can hire Mark Geragos. Cause he is one slick son of a bitch.

Some of the key things that were said in this "interview"

When Chris saw the horrific photo of Rhianna, he did not think about what an f*cking c*nt he was for doing that to her. He wondered if the image was doctored by TMZ. Srsly.

When he was riding around on a jet-ski at Diddy's only a week or so after he beat the crap out of his girlfriend, we should have left him alone to "re-bond" with the person he beat the crap out of and not been all judgy. Shut the F*ck up little boy.

When given his sentence of hard labour, Chris wondered why he wasn't able to use his celebrity status to truly make a difference in people's lives. Sigh. Chris honey, if you wanted to do that, you would give an honest explanation for what happened and take some f*cking responsibility for what you did.

Chris is not focusing on girls right now, he is focusing on his career. Hmmm maybe you should focus on the fact that you beat the crap out of your girlfriend instead of your career? Maybe you should lay low and try and figure out why you beat the crap out of your girlfriend?

Apparently I am not entitled to have opinion on what he did or him in general. I guess I would be considered a "hater" and according to Chris I should just not buy his music, rather than have an opinion. Umm, you know that free speech thing people in America love talking about. I think it is an amendment or something. Suck it little boy, until you do something that does not deserve my derision, I will continue to say whatever the f*ck I want. Do something good or repentant and I will mention that also.

Chris has never ever been a violent person? I'm sorry, but how does that change what happened or what you did? I am pretty sure that Scott Peterson wasn't violent until he killed his wife and unborn child.

And my personal favourite - that no one taught Chris and Rhianna how to love. I actually have no comeback for this. I think it's stupidity speaks for itself.

I will say again, I hope that he never lays a finger on a woman again. I really hope he can change and be a better person. But this interview was bullsh*t. It was a complete waste of everyone's time. He did nothing to redeem himself in my eyes. I will say this though, Larry did better than I thought. He at least asked a few tough questions. It is just a shame that Chris Brown didn't have the balls to answer them.

XO

PS: This is a wine clouded post..... lots of curse words I know. I even pulled out the c-word. Meh. Some things are deserving of the word c*nt.

Twi-hards have a new rallying cry

I think we all know that fans of the Twilight franchise are an imaginative bunch. They have their petitions, the fantastically smutty fan-fiction, their conventions, their teams (Edward, Jacob and Switzerland), and their uncanny ability to know more about the filming schedule than some of the crew...... But this, this is something the likes of which I have never seen before.

I will let this speak, or sing, for itself. Total and complete credit for this goes to the good (and some may say batty) folks at "Letters to Rob". hey alone deserve full credit for this gem, which doesn't quite rival the tattoos, but is honestly one of the most special things I have seen regarding Twilight. Now I know that this is a joke, well I hope like heck it is a joke, but it is definitely worth sharing with y'all.

Remember that song "We are the World".... well sing out loud and strong my friends......

We are the Rob

There comes a time when we feel the Twilight call
When the Fandom must come together as one
There are fangirls crying
Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand to Rob
The greatest Vampire of all

We can’t go on fighting day by day
Hoping Robsten and Nonsten will soon make a change
We’re all a part of Steph’s great Twi family
And the truth
You know Rob is all we need

( CHORUS #1 )
We are the Rob, we are the fandom
We are the fans who make a plaid-er day so let’s keep Tweeting
There are pics to post now, we’re saving in our files
There’s a Twicon comin’ to town, so why dont we meet?

We’ll, send’em some beer so they know the fandom cares
And their Tweets will be drunker and free
As Rob has shown us, by getting trashed at night
and so the dumpster is where we shall meet

( CHORUS #2 )
We live for Rob, we want to lick him
We are the ones who quote his words with grace, so shut-up-in-yo-face
Rob’s a force we’re fighting, sometimes we get hormonal
but we keep on lovin’ his face cause “that’s normal”

When your clothes are dirty, and you have nothing clean at all
you can do just like Rob, and on your friends you can call
Well, well, well, when you realize that you can borrow the “Patty Pants”
They’re elastic: we can wear them together as one

(REPEAT CHORUSES AND FADE)

OMFG is this not the most amazing thing you have heard all week? And I think they have a plan to make their own music video for this song. Love it.

Awesomeness thy name is Letters to Rob. I bow down to your awesomeness.

XO

Carrie Bradshaw is back!

And we barely had a chance to miss her.

Capitalising on the success of last years smash hit, production began today in NYC for Sex & The City 2.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth were snapped on the streets of New York, reprising their roles as the fabulous Carrie Bradshaw and her new husband, the dreamy Mr Big. Apparently the rest of the girls have not began filming yet. Love Carries outfit. Her hands are kinda scary though...... I don't wanna say Madonna like, but if the wrinkly old man hands fit??

Now, I love me some SATC. I truly truly do. I have all six seasons on DVD, I did the bus tour when I was in NYC last year, half of my photos from that trip have a relationship to the show, I even snuck under the chain at "the" stoop and snuck a photo.

But I gotta say, I kinda loved how Season 6 ended. When the movie came out, I grudgingly jumped on the bandwagon, and got on board with that as well. I grew to like how it ended. Now, Darren Star, again? I have to swallow whatever story you have dreamed up to continue the story of these four friends...... Third time had better be a f*cking charm. This story and script had better not suck balls. That's all I am saying.

I think I am putting you on notice Darren Star. Don't f*ck this up my friend. Please don't f*ck this up.

PS: The photo's above are the infamous "Friar F*ck Church", the Stoop, and the New York Public Library where Carrie almost got married to Big. I have tons more, let me know if you wanna see them ;)

XO

Spencer Pratt - King of the Fame Whores

Oh Spencer Pratt – you genius you!

Here is the deal. I am an intelligent person. I know that the only reason you are doing this is for the press. I also know that I should ignore you if there is any hope that you & your twit of a wife will disappear. Unfortunately, I am shamed to admit that I am unable to resist your asinine charms. Today, Spencer Pratt - one half of the fame-whoriest couple in America - has taken said fame-whorishness to a whole new stratosphere.

Apparently it is not enough for him that he is known as the biggest douche in Hollywood. He wants to add the moniker of “king” to his title. Seriously. According to US Weekly, Spencer is going to change his name to “King Spencer Pratt”. Sigh. Word is he has decided that America needs a king and has nominated himself for the role.

To this entire situation I say, why? Followed closely by WTF?

Isn’t it enough that he chooses to whore out his wife to Playboy, MTV, Ms Universe and whoever has enough cash to make it worth his while? Or that “Speidi” claim they do everything in the name of Jesus? Or that he regularly stages the most ludicrous photo-ops with the paparazzi? Or that he is another Hollywood celebrity who is famous for doing nothing?

Sadly no.

Spencer Pratt has studied hard at the altar of the Hiltons, Jenners and Kardashians & is slowly building an empire that will rival that of Ms Hilton herself. All that is missing is a sex tape or a baby. And if the trailer for Season 5 of The Hills is any indication, one of these will be coming shortly.

Can I get an Amen on this one?

XO