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  1. Kath

    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    From Answer Bitch, April 13th Will the Bombshell McGee/Nazi/other nasty ladies scandal kill Jesse James' career? I would think so. —Jennifer D., via Facebook You would think wrong. Yes, Jesse James has posed for photos while festooned in Nazi wear and seems to have a pretty obvious problem with gay people. And he's cheated on Sandra Bullock with women more tackily decorated than Neverland Ranch. And true, James has no TV career right now—his latest show, Jesse James Is a Dead Man, went away a while ago—and some magazine has branded him the most hated man in the country. But don't count on him crawling off into a hole just yet... Remember, Jesse James has a core audience—yes, really, he still does have one of those—that is very, very different from his wife's. (As of this hour, yes, James also still has a wife.) And you can take some wisdom from a man who would know: James Cruz, marketing wizard behind names as diverse as Sean Combs and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He says that not only could James make a comeback, but also he could make one soon. Like in a few months, if he wanted to. In front of millions of people even. Why? Because James' people don't really care about cheating. "At the end of the day," Cruz tells me, "Jesse James' core fans are car guys, and the people who are really taking the scandal to heart are married women or single women who have been cheated on." In other words, if Jesse James had a show on the Food Network or a daytime talk empire instead of a business called West Coast Choppers and reality projects based on stunts and wheels, James would be in major trouble right now careerwise. But, Cruz says, he's not. He's just not. "This is always going to be a part of his luggage," Cruz notes, "but three, six months from now...he'll be able to move forward—it will be however long it takes until people start to forget. Until the next superstar cheats on his wife." And speaking of wives, don't worry about Sandy, either. Despite her husband's taste in entertainment, she's holding the sympathy card right now, especially via her core audience of women, Cruz says. "Women are going to understand that kind of pain that she's going through," Cruz explains. Which leads me to my elevator pitch for a new reality show. It's part road trip, part docuseries: Jesse James Gets Slapped by Women Across America.
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    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    from Aweful Truth: Dear Ted: You've already told us that Sandra Bullock has been a B.V. My question is: Did Jesse James appear as a named character in it? –StellsBells Dear Determined: The Blind was double-sided, yes. Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_t...l#ixzz0ku3LBXRJ
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    Jim Carrey

    Jim Carrey keeps making news on Twitter days after announcing his split from Jenny McCarthy. Friday afternoon Carrey tweeted a series of thoughts on Tiger Woods and wife Elin, whom Carrey asserts must have known about the infidelity. First: I made a Tiger joke today, but after listening 2 Payne's speech I think it's time we checked our collective EGO and let the guy play! d;^\ Then: If you really wanna see sexual disfunction get 2 know your favorite basketball star! Curling is the only safe sport 4 a married man! d;^' Then: Tiger Woods owes nothing 2 anyone but himself. 2 please his father he gave up his childhood and his freedom in the world. That's enough!---> And then he hit out on Elin: No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle ;^) - from Huffington Post
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    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    Jesse James Had Affair with Fifth Mistress Published : Friday, 09 Apr 2010, 12:20 PM EDT (The New York Post) - Make it mistress No. Five for Jesse James, the New York Post reported Friday. A new mistress has been found by a celebrity website -- and unlike the women who have spoken publicly of their flings with Sandra Bullock’s cheating hubby, this gal pal was in such "a serious relationship" with the bad boy biker that he even got her a house and paid her rent. Four women -- who included two strippers and a fetish model -- had revealed they had steamy romances with James, 40, while yet another woman hired celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred last month but never publicly came forward. RadarOnline reported Friday that it has discovered a fifth woman and "Jesse was in love with her." "She had a full-on relationship with Jesse," a good friend told RadarOnline of the mistress who wishes to remain unidentified. "After a while, Jesse became obsessed with her and she couldn't handle it anymore. "If he couldn't get a hold of her for some reason he'd go over to her house looking for her," the source added. Finally, "she got kind of scared of him and broke it off." RadarOnline reported Thursday that James spent "several hundred thousands of dollars" on his mistresses over the years -- using private jets to fly them around California and spending several days a week at strip clubs. A source said Friday that James even paid rent for mistress No. Five. "Jesse got a house for this woman and she said he paid the rent on it every month," the source told RadarOnline. "She said he only stopped paying for it once she broke up with him." James is currently attending a sex rehab clinic in Arizona in a bid to save his marriage. Meanwhile, Bullock, the 45-year-old Academy Award-winning actress, is hiding out at her Hollywood Hills home while she decides whether to file divorce papers. Bullock won an Oscar last month for best actress for her role in "The Blind Side." Source: The New York Post
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    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    We’re trapped in sex-scandal hell It used to be that crime sold newspapers – 'If it bleeds, it leads.' Now we’re on to 'If he cheats, it tweets.' The whole world is reeling from TMI Published on Thursday, Apr. 08, 2010 3:51PM EDT Here’s a headline I hope not to read any time soon: “Sandra Bullock reveals all.” Poor Oscar-winning Sandra – gorgeous, accomplished, likeable and now, of course, the heartbroken betrayed wife of that tattooed motorcycle guy whose name never fails to confuse me. I keep hoping “Jesse James” will go back in my mind to being a handsome Wild West outlaw from the 1800s instead of an allegedly Nazi-saluting, sexually harassing, sex-addicted (yeah, right) creep who nicknamed himself the “vanilla gorilla” because of his qualities as a sex partner. Sex, sex, sex. We’re trapped in sex-scandal hell, and the story of Sandra Bullock – who has, as the cliché goes, “remained tight-lipped” about her troubles even as she’s mobbed everywhere by concerned citizens – is the latest manifestation. The Internet has turned these private and painful tales of sexual betrayal into a multi-platform nightmare: blogs, voice mails, pictures, texts. The cycle starts with whispers and revelations, proceeds to widespread shock and outrage, and ends up with late-show jokes and op-eds in The New York Times . We say, “No, we’re better than this,” but we don’t really mean it. Tiger Woods, anyone? On the eve of his Masters comeback, Vanity Fair magazine was hoping that our appetite for disgusting details and cheesy photos was, well, bottomless, as it released a 14-page spread featuring four of Tiger’s “mistresses.” One story involves a quickie in a parking lot and a used tampon, and prompted this online comment from one disgusted reader: “There is more dumbing of America in this issue than the Jersey Shore and Tea Baggers put together.” It may be dumb, yes, but we are all addicted to sex these days, and increasingly not our own. It’s everyone else’s half-literate sexts and breathy voice mails that have us panting for more. I participated in a live chat this week about Tiger Woods in which most of us – writers and readers alike – fervidly agreed we were “Tigered out” when it came to his monster sex scandal. Okay, if we really mean that, the Vanity Fair issue won’t be a newsstand blockbuster. And how likely is that? It used to be that crime sold newspapers – “If it bleeds, it leads.” Now we’re on to “If he cheats, it tweets.” The problem is the whole world is reeling from TMI. One day soon, given the saturation coverage of every public penis that goes wandering, we’re going to have to decide whether sexual infidelity involving celebrities is necessarily a big story. Is this really what we want? Is this who we are? The fact that a self-proclaimed serious person would click on a news item on a respected news site about “Jennifer Aniston’s bush” suggests we’ve all become hard-wired for dirty details – any and all, no matter how squirm-inducing, no matter how banal. In fact, as a society we’ve become “banal retentive.” Witness Vanity Fair’s promotional video of writer Mark Seal smirking about how enjoyable it was to spend time with Tiger Woods’s women, proclaiming that he learned from this that (ta da!) “temptation is all around us.” Oh, shut up. That’s not to say there aren’t important sex scandals – ones that we need to talk about. In a far more dangerous and damaging sexual landscape, the Vatican is trying desperately to keep the Pope away from the enveloping stench of a priestly sexual abuse scandal that appears to be engulfing the globe. Now, there’s a sex scandal we shouldn’t let out of our sights – or off our sites, for that matter. It demands both moral outrage and more digging – not for dirt, but for truth. On Monday, the U.S. Pulitzer Prizes will be announced and it will be instructive to see whether the National Enquirer gets a nod for breaking the news of former presidential hopeful John Edwards’s scandalous affair, complete with dying wife, New Age mistress and little love child, not to mention persistent news of a sex tape. For the first time, the nominations committee ruled that the tabloid was eligible for consideration after being the first to report this politically explosive and significant story. I say it was significant with no irony – there’s no question, it mattered. Imagine if the Democrats had gone ahead and chosen Mr. Edwards as their nominee, and then … Rielle! In these sex-saturated times, we need to make decisions constantly about what really matters as we wade through the muck. Of course, some people take the high road and just decline to notice or discuss these tawdry tales. But most of us are only human. After all, “temptation is all around us.” That’s why I hope Sandra Bullock continues on her dignified, discreet way, firmly rejecting the notion that we the people need to be any more deeply informed about her marital nightmare. Because, of course, if the headline “Sandra Bullock reveals all” appears, I will have to read the story, and I’ll be back here again, stuck in sex-scandal hell.
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    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    On Sandra Bullock and Everywoman's heartbreak The Good Woman, the Bad Boy and his Low-Rent Lovers: We care about Sandra Bullock because she’s a proxy for our own broken romantic dreams Published on Thursday, Apr. 08, 2010 7:25PM EDT When Sandra Bullock stepped on stage to accept the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side, she was her perfectly calibrated, accessible self: the Miss Congeniality of the Hollywood beauty pageant. Her long, dark hair sleek as an otter, her lips brightly red, she exuded the simple prettiness that endears her to female fans. Not quite a girl next door, Ms. Bullock is more Everywoman –someone who has had to work hard for everything she has. She took a hiatus from the film-making business when she was unhappy with a lack of challenge in the roles she was offered. . She finds celebrity “meaningless and empty.” “It holds nothing for me, although it will hold a great table in a restaurant when you’re at your peak,” she once said. She had her nose fixed – and it’s still not perky. She had a goofy-fringe and bad-highlights period of hair history. Best of all, “if she puts on weight, forget it. Her prettiness goes,” observes Cooper Lawrence, a syndicated radio host in the United States and author of The Cult of Celebrity: What Our Fascination With the Stars Reveals About Us. Gotta love our BFF Sandy! It’s Sandra Bullock’s position as the avatar of average femininity that fuels the continuing tabloid frenzy about her marital woes in the wake of revelations that her motorcycle-enthusiast husband, Jesse James, cheated on her with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, a Nazi-loving tattooed creature with a name that helps catapult the whole affair into a soap opera of archetypes. There’s the Good Woman, her Bad-Boy Husband and his Low-Rent Lovers (four at latest count, and at least one with saggy stockings and a cheap-looking cone bra). If there ever was a celebrity romance/breakup story that reveals the purpose of tabloid culture, this is it. (Though maybe it’s not quite as enduring as the ongoing Jennifer Aniston-Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie triangle.) We’re fascinated because they’re proxies for our broken romantic dreams. We don’t really care about them as individuals. And we wouldn’t bother with them if their troubles were over business deals or bad real-estate transactions. We pay attention because they play out our worst nightmares. The human heart is one complicated universal muscle, and with celebrities we can theorize endlessly over the virtual garden fence about why the love didn’t last, who was to blame, and whether the wronged woman will come out of seclusion soon to put a brave face on her devastating humiliation. “I don’t think there’s a woman out there who hasn’t had a romantic situation like Sandra Bullock has had,” comments Ms. Lawrence. “She does everything right, but things don’t work out for her.” Ms. Bullock remained single until 2005, just before she turned 41, when she wed Mr. James. There had been boyfriends in her past, and all of them presented romantic complications – Matthew McConaughey (the eternal bachelor) and Ryan Gosling (a little too young for her). There was even an engagement to Tate Donovan, a little-known actor with whom she’d starred in a forgettable romcom. “I don’t think it was that she was picky,” Ms. Lawrence says. “The perception was that men wouldn’t fall in love with her. She couldn’t find the right guy.” Her marriage to Mr. James, five years her junior, cemented her image as America’s Sweetheart. She would reform him. His exes included a porn star, Janine Lindemulder: Ms. Bullock was his salvation. She was playing out a cliché script that never loses its punch. “She pushes me to be a better person,” Mr. James told People magazine in 2006. “No one knows what someone is like based on appearance,” Ms. Bullock was quoted as saying about their unlikely pairing. ”She never had the typical romance,” comments Bonnie Fuller, editor-in-chief of hollywoodlife.com. “It was as though she was seeing people for who they truly were. And with Jesse, people didn’t like him. Her friends didn’t like him. But they thought, ‘If Sandra likes him, then he must be okay.’ Everything about her was admirable. She was like the characters she played in films.” Ms. Bullock was the ideal stepmom to Mr. James’s three children (never an easy task). She was actively involved in the custody battle for the youngest when Ms. Lindemulder was imprisoned for tax evasion. She even adopts handicapped canines from a local shelter. She fawned over her monkey-suited bad boy at all the awards shows, gushing about her love for him, how hot he was, how much she wanted him, as the cameras panned to his mug, smiling in his goatee. We believed in their love. So is it simply a schadenfreude thrill we get by witnessing her heartbreak, by refusing to let the story go ? Better her than us? A cautionary tale? Tsk, tsk, Sandy: Bad boys will always be bad? Sure – at least partly. But as weeks go by, and the scandal remains on the covers of the tabloids, darker theories are emerging. Ms. Bullock, who has a squeaky-clean, sex-tapeless Hollywood image, is reportedly reluctant to divorce Mr. James. Some have speculated that she is worried about his erratic behaviour. He has publicly (as well as through his attorney) pleaded for her forgiveness; she has remained silent. “She doesn’t want to send him over the edge,” one anonymous “friend” was quoted as saying, shoring up the übermaternal rescuer-of-lost-souls image. More troubling is the notion that perhaps Ms. Bullock is fearful that if she divorces him, he will sell stories that could ruin her image. Could it be that America’s Sweetheart – an image she has certainly done her best to uphold – has some marital secrets that could make her Miss Nasty, not Miss Congeniality? “Look, maybe you don’t know that your hubby is having sex with some floozy when he goes to his office, but don’t tell me you don’t know that he has a Nazi room full of stuff,” opines Ms. Lawrence, who worked in Hollywood as an assistant to celebrities before becoming an author. “She must have known,” she says of Mr. James’s rumoured interest in neo-Nazism. Stay tuned. We are all not what we seem.
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    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    Jesse James Also Denies Sex Tape Reports By Elizabeth Leonard Wednesday April 07, 2010 Sandra Bullock and Jesse James can agree on at least one thing: They did not make any sex tapes together. While Bullock denied an Internet report of such a sex tape, James has broadened the denial to also include an online story claiming he's in at least a dozen sex tapes with other women featuring Nazi-themed paraphernalia. "The claims of sex tapes are untrue and completely fabricated," says a rep for James in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE. James, 40, remains in a treatment facility while Bullock, 45, has stayed in virtual seclusion since reports of James' alleged infidelity surfaced last month.
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    Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

    The more I hear about Jesse James, the more I wonder: What in creation did Sandra Bullock ever see in him? Didn't she see the same warning signs we all saw? —Lovey, Austin, via the Answer B!tch inbox Well, if she did, Sandra Bullock didn't exactly share them with the planet. Long before Michelle "Bombshell" McGee blasted what appears to be an irreparable hole in their marriage, Jesse James and Bullock were celebrated by the media as an "unlikely" couple. But if you dig deeper, you'll see that these two had more in common than you may think, including a few similarities that may surprise you... Early in her relationship with James, Bullock wouldn't talk about the budding romance, instead telling People magazine that she wanted stories on her to focus on her work. "There's a reason they call it private life," she quipped. But that eventually changed. Here's what she apparently saw in James, as well as some interesting commonalities: • James, apparently, didn't try to remake Bullock or criticize her faults. "Thankfully I married someone who loves me just the way I am—and all the nuttiness that goes into me," Bullock told In Style. • He made her reconsider her stance on kids. Again, per Bullock in In Style: "I haven't had children biologically. I had shut that off; then I met Jesse, and it turned on again. I was like, 'Oh, that's that feeling.' " • He made her feel like she could let her guard down. "He takes care of her, which was really hard for her at first," Ann Lopez, wife of Bullock bud George Lopez, said in an interview. "She's so independent. Then here comes Mr. Macho: strong and yet sensitive, artistic, a businessman and all around a cool dude. I have never seen her so happy." • They actually both like driving really fast on vehicles with wheels. Bullock loves to go off-roading on dirt bikes and cussing a lot. She once said, "I want to be a broad." • James isn't the only one who seems very conscious of, um, race. Addressing a question about future children, Bullock told People, "If that's gonna happen, that's exactly the way things are supposed to be, and it would be amazing. And if it didn't happen, then I'd know that I was supposed to be right here with these three amazing, blond Aryan children. Everyone looks at me and goes, 'I know you ain't the mama!' I'm like, 'That's OK, I can put in some blond highlights!' " • James himself isn't all guns and choppers. He admires Martha Stewart, for one. And they both consider themselves very stubborn. • Most tellingly, Bullock seems to have believed that James's past was just that: his past. While shooting the film Premonition in a Shreveport, La., church, Bullock reportedly told the pastor, "He's gotten over the wildness and I'm the wild one now!" Sadly, it looks like Bullock was wrong, at least, on that last count. Read more: http://eonline.com/uberblog/ask_the_answer...l#ixzz0kTIAxdFQ
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    Tiger Woods

    This is from the Aweful Truth Dear Ted: With Tiger Woods and now Jesse James going to sex addiction rehab, do you really think there is such a thing—especially with these guys—or an attempt for some sort of positive publicity since they were getting sliced and diced by the media and public? Men (and women) have cheated on their spouses for centuries, suddenly, now it is an addiction, especially among the famous and only after they get caught. I think it is a bunch of hooey! —CB Dear Doctor's Diagnosis: Sex rehab—at least the one Tiger and Jesse are claiming to attend—would better be called Douchebags Annonymous. Of course it's only for PR—and possibly to get in good with the wifey. Haven't you heard the saying "you're only sorry because you got caught"? Duh. Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_t...l#ixzz0kFyiRolL
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    Lindsay Lohan still broke and a mess

    Freckles are cute and much better than her orange tan! I'm certainly no fan of The Guardian, but here's an article from April 1 about Linsay's Child Trafficking DVD and what a nightmare she was when making it. Linsay Lohan and the Drug Trafficking DVD Fiasco
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