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After sneaking around some on “separate vavations” in Maui last week, it would seem that Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson aren’t taking too many precautions to mask their relationship anymore. Owen, 37, was spotted visiting Kate’s Pacific Palisades home this past Friday afternoon. Earlier on in the day, Kate, 27, took 2 1/2 year old son Ryder Robinson for a bike ride. She was carrying around a little Davines hair care shopping bag. Nearby, Owen was spotted picking up a pair of swimming googles during that time. To go swimming in Kate’s pool, perhaps? The “secretive” couple was then spotted at the Chateau Marmont hotel later that evening. Owen left a couple hours before Kate left on her own with a girlfriend… Is this blonde bunch in it for the long haul? Hmmm… justjared

TERI HATCHER is furious with Desperate Housewives bosses, because they keep digitally reducing the size of her nipples. The brunette beauty’s excitable nipples mean producers have to spend thousands on computer wizardry to clean up the sexy shots. However, Teri insists other TV shows would allow her to flaunt her best assets. She said: "The whole first season, thousands of dollars were spent digitally erasing my nipples. "I think Grey’s Anatomy gets to have nipples and I have a little beef to have with the network about that. "Then again, they are on at 10 o’clock – 10 o’clock, you can have nipples, 9 o’clock, no nipples." ohnotheydidnt

Johansson Likes Her Hourglass Figure NEW YORK - Scarlett Johansson struts her stuff in cleavage-baring dresses on the red carpet, but in real life, she'd rather remain a mystery. "I can't stand those articles where people spill their life story," Johansson says in the October issue of InStyle magazine, on newsstands Friday. "After a while I feel like I know more about them than their best friend does _ and that's weird. It's better when you don't know everything." The 21-year-old actress, whose screen credits include "Lost in Translation" and "Match Point," plays a former prostitute in "The Black Dahlia," opposite Hilary Swank and Josh Hartnett. Johansson says: "Do I ever get nervous about this, right now, being the pinnacle of my career? Yeah, I do. At the end of (filming) every movie I think, `Wow _ this is the last one! Nice working with you.'" She's more confident about her hourglass figure. "I'm curvy _ I'm never going to be 5'11' and 120 pounds. But I feel lucky to have what I've got." And, given the chance, she'd like to trade lives with President Bush. "Whose life would I like to step into for the day? The president's. I could probably get some things done in the Oval Office." Source: comcast.net

um it's because he likes little boys, janet duh

Davina McCall, Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie and Jordan have all felt the sharp end of his tongue. So they can sympathise with Bono - the latest victim of a vicious, verbal savaging from Graham Norton. "People like Bono really annoy me," rants the 43-year-old chat show host of his fellow Irishman and U2 frontman. "He goes to hell and back to avoid paying tax. He has a special accountant. He works out Irish tax loopholes. And then he's asking me to buy a well for an African village. "Tarmac the road outside your house, you tight-wad! Or pay for a school in Ireland. "I've never met Bono and now I probably never will. But if I do meet him I'll ask him because I think it's a hard thing to justify." What has sparked this furious outburst is the news that Bono - worth an estimated £440million - and the rest of U2 have moved their business empire to Holland to avoid paying high Irish taxes on royalties. "I pay a lot of tax," adds Graham, who is worth £25million and has homes in London, New York, South Africa and Ireland. "By most people's standards I am rich so I should pay tax because I can afford it. When I didn't want to pay it was when I didn't have any money." mirror.co.uk

Davina McCall, Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie and Jordan have all felt the sharp end of his tongue. So they can sympathise with Bono - the latest victim of a vicious, verbal savaging from Graham Norton. "People like Bono really annoy me," rants the 43-year-old chat show host of his fellow Irishman and U2 frontman. "He goes to hell and back to avoid paying tax. He has a special accountant. He works out Irish tax loopholes. And then he's asking me to buy a well for an African village. "Tarmac the road outside your house, you tight-wad! Or pay for a school in Ireland. "I've never met Bono and now I probably never will. But if I do meet him I'll ask him because I think it's a hard thing to justify." What has sparked this furious outburst is the news that Bono - worth an estimated £440million - and the rest of U2 have moved their business empire to Holland to avoid paying high Irish taxes on royalties. "I pay a lot of tax," adds Graham, who is worth £25million and has homes in London, New York, South Africa and Ireland. "By most people's standards I am rich so I should pay tax because I can afford it. When I didn't want to pay it was when I didn't have any money." mirror.co.uk

LOL - from ohnotheydidnt

CHICAGO - The lead singer of the band U-2 brought his fight against AIDS and poverty to town. Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, visited the downtown Nordstrom store Saturday to promote a designer T-shirt that will raise money to pay for AIDS medication and medical care in Africa. The shirts are emblazoned with the logo of Bono's "One" campaign against poverty. They are made in Africa by Edun, a fair trade clothing label started by Bono and Hewson. The company will donate $10 for every $40 shirt sold to a fund supporting the health care of the factory workers who make the shirts. The shirt factory is in a village in Lesotho in southern Africa. Bono said he hopes to get 5 million people signed up for his anti-poverty campaign by the next presidential election. yahoo news

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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is moving on from working with hip-hop stars like PHARRELL WILLIAMS and SNOOP DOGG to produce tracks on the next DURAN DURAN album. The Eighties stars got friendly with him when he presented their lifetime achievement gong at The Brits in 2004. He and chum TIMBALAND are already at work on the album, out early next year. A source said: “The lads think Justin is at the top of his game and were really keen to work with him.” SIMON LE BON told me: “We had the most spectacular and amazing time — probably one of the best in our career.” ohnotheydidnt

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Destiny's Child Singer Slams 'Cruel' Beyonce Singer Letoya Luckett was devastated after leaving R&B group Destiny's Child - because she felt abandoned by her former bandmates. Luckett, whose sole album Letoya debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 this summer, grew up with Destiny's Child stars Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland. But she was left shocked when she and ex-group member Latavia Robertson were kicked out of the group without being formally told about it. Luckett says, "None of the girls called up after I left the group. What I missed most was the friendship Beyonce, Kelly and I had. We had met in elementary school so the hardest things were getting over birthday's and Christmases without them." "I did call Beyonce on the New Years Eve of the new millennium. I told her I missed her, I loved her and that it was a hard time. She called me three days later and told me things were over with the group and they were all going solo." "But then there was another Destiny's Child album after that so I don't know what happened." teenmusic Beyonce Album Blasts To The Top Beyonce Knowles has scored her biggest solo sales week on the US album charts after taking B'Day to the top of the Billboard 200. The pop superstar has debuted at number one with an impressive 541,000 copies sold. The tally is Beyonce's second-highest career sales week - her former group Destiny's Child claimed the top spot with the album Survivor in 2001 after selling 663,000 copies. Rock supergroup Audioslave debut in second place with Revelations (142,000 sales) and Bob Dylan's Modern Times slips to number three with 128,000 copies sold. Iron Maiden debut A Matter Of Life + Death at number nine. It's the first time the British rockers have dented the album chart since 2003 and it's their first release to ever enter the top 10. The only other new entry in the top 10 is Hinder's Extreme Behavior, which debuts at number 10. teenmusic

You're absolutely welcome!! I'm just glad I have a reader or two - I thought it would be pretty much just me forever, LOL.

that guy's abs are really disturbing

from the L.A.M.B. Spring '07 Fashion Show

Eddie Murphy and Scary Spice Get Serious Eddie Murphy brought Scary Spice and her 7-year-old daughter to his annual family vacation with his five kids in Hawaii last month, suggesting the two are getting very serious about their relationship. During the weeklong trip in late August, the party of eight bonded while lounging poolside in private cabanas and dining out together at the island's branch of Spago. Says one onlooker: "There was a lot of togetherness between the families." At a Fourth of July BBQ Murphy hosted at his Beverly Hills home, the pair "were very loving and cute together," says a source. And Murphy recently escorted Brown to his favorite haunt, L.A.'s Laugh Factory, where "they were very cozy," says a witness. The British singer is spending more time at her L.A. house to be close to the actor. "(Eddie) seems very happy with her, and that's what's important to me," says Murphy's big brother Charlie. "He's in a good place. If she does that (for him), then that's great." It's hard to go anywhere but up after being caught picking up a transvestite hooker but it seems Eddie Murphy has still somehow managed to screw that up. If you want to quash rumors you're into women with penises you don't go out and hook up with Scary Spice. That's like trying to convince your friends you don't like doing it with porcupines and then introducing them to your new hedgehog girlfriend. Or some other analogy that doesn't involve having sex with small rodents. the superficial

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Jay-Z emerging from his rap retirement Thu Sep 14, 6:18 PM ET Call him the Michael Jordan of rap. Jay-Z, who declared that 2003's "The Black Album" would be his last, is coming out retirement and releasing a new CD. "Kingdom Come" will hit stores this fall, Entertainment Weekly magazine reports in its new issue, due on newsstands Monday. "It was the worst retirement in history," Jay told the magazine. Actually, his post-retirement career looked pretty good. In 2004, the rap icon (real name: Shawn Carter) became president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings. He became part owner of the New Jersey Nets that same year. Also on his resume: Not-So-Secret Boyfriend of Beyonce. Despite naysayers' doubts, the 36-year-old Jay-Z thought he was retired from music-making: "I believed it, yeah. I believed it for two years." But since his "retirement," he's gone on a world tour, performed on hit records with Beyonce and other entertainers, and had a profile higher than most working rappers. There were rumblings that he was working on a new album. And in an interview with The Associated Press this summer, he said he was thinking about coming out of retirement. He told Entertainment Weekly that he began tinkering in the studio over the summer. "Something, when you love it, is always tugging at you and itching, and I was putting it off and putting it off. I started fumbling around to see if it felt good," he said. The result: "Kingdom Come." The disc is "more in the vein of `The Black Album' than `The Blueprint,'" he tells the magazine. "I've been experimenting with things, different types of music." He's already recruited some A-list producer-collaborators: Timbaland, Kanye West and Dr. Dre. Even Coldplay frontman Chris Martin produced a track called "Beach Chair," he said. So — for real now — when does he plan to retire? "If I wake up one day and the best material has passed me by — and that's going to happen," he said, "then it's time to move on. I've said what I wanted to say." AP

at "Last Kiss" premiere

Kathy Griffins former "main gay" dishes on the falling out; her divorce He says the friendship didn’t end over one specific argument. Instead, it was what he calls “a blossoming lack of kindness and gratitude” on her part. “Kathy is the sun in her world and everyone else is planets revolving around her. But she’s a brilliant comedian. No one is funnier. She has created a niche for herself, the world that she wants to live in, and I applaud that. I want to live in a world that has a little more kindness.” “I play an actual gay guy on a show and I’m actually gay! A practicing homosexual who’s not ashamed of it,” says Tony Tripoli. Wearing a tight, long-sleeved black shirt and jeans, with his hair perfectly spiked, the handsome and muscular Tripoli looks great and is upbeat and ready to talk—about everything. It shouldn’t really be a surprise that Tripoli is able to hold his own on the new nightly soap opera Fashion House, headlined by formidable blondes Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild. Here’s a guy who spent a decade as one of the best friends of that formidable redhead Kathy Griffin, and was regularly featured on her show My Life on the D-List. Tripoli, 36, was one of Griffin’s “best gays,” along with his best friend and roommate, Dennis Hensley, author of the popular book Screening Party. But it’s been more than a year since this once tightest of trios has even spoken to each other. But the exposure on D-List led to the Fashion House gig, which casts him as Hans, a gay fashion designer who works for Derek’s character, an evil fashion-label owner. “It’s huge to think about these gay and questioning youths flipping through the dial and to be able to see themselves in television shows,” says Tripoli. “That’s great and profoundly impactful.” When we meet for a chat at the Abbey, a place he refers to as “the Bermuda Triangle of self-esteem,” Tripoli is just two days removed from wrapping a hectic summer shooting schedule for the show in San Diego. “Once the show airs, I’m hoping I can walk in here with a little bit more of an attitude,” he jokes. “I can’t wait to have an entourage. That’s my plan for 2007, to be totally insufferable. … If we weren’t needy freaks, we wouldn’t be in this industry!” Tripoli has never spoken publicly about why he and Hensley fell out with Griffin, and says he never planned to. But the tart-tongued comedian, who made headlines over the summer by saying on Larry King Live that she split from her husband Matt Moline because he stole more than $72,000 from her, also gave the impression, Tripoli says, that he and Hensley had been less than loyal friends. “There’s no way to talk about it that won’t make her look bad,” Tripoli says. “ She wasn’t talking about us and I wasn’t talking about her. She’s chosen to start talking, and mentioned in the press that Dennis and I dumped her in her hour of need. I think it’s remarkable that after a decade of friendship and loyalty, unparalleled in a town like this—it is incredibly sad and painful that she would say to the press that we abandoned her.” On the topic of Griffin, Tripoli wants to set a few things straight: The friendship did not end because of—nor was it ever affected by—money, as he and Dennis were never paid for appearing on D-List and never asked to be. He added that Griffin stopped speaking with him and Hensley before the first season of D-List even began airing on Bravo. The situation with her husband had occurred on the third day of taping of the first season in November 2004, and Tripoli says the situation had essentially been sorted out with divorce papers filed and a “post-nup” agreement to proceed with the show as though all were well. But all was not well. Tripoli remembers getting a tearful call from Griffin the night she discovered some of her money was missing. “I got a call from her, crying, and I had only seen her cry twice before,” he says. “She was crying and said, ‘How fast can you get here?’ I thought that one of the dogs died. Matt came home and the four of us sat there and talked about everything. There were contractual obligations to do a season for Bravo. I’m proud of how we stepped up. I didn’t even tell my own mother.” He says the friendship didn’t end over one specific argument. Instead, it was what he calls “a blossoming lack of kindness and gratitude” on her part. “Kathy is the sun in her world and everyone else is planets revolving around her. But she’s a brilliant comedian. No one is funnier. She has created a niche for herself, the world that she wants to live in, and I applaud that. I want to live in a world that has a little more kindness.” One friendship that has endured is the one between Tripoli and Hensley. Their chemistry was apparent the first time they met at a party, among a group of people watching a Vanessa Williams biography on the television. Both were annoyed by her speaking voice, which they decided was just a bit too self-important. “I made a rude remark, he agreed, and we just knew in that moment we were best friends who hadn’t met yet,” Tripoli says. “It’s one of the greatest gifts of my life. We really have a brotherhood, this incredible closeness. I think I’m at my absolute best and funniest when I’m with Hensley.” With the Sept. 5 debut of Fashion House, it’s a whole new world for Tripoli, who has already completed his work on the show. He filmed 65 one-hour episodes, “which meant a lot of round-trips from Los Angeles to San Diego. We made like three seasons worth of a regular show.” And making it more challenging was that the shows were not shot by episode. Scenes were shot out of order according to location. “You really had to keep track,” he says. “Has this person lied to me yet? Are you pregnant yet? You had to come in every day with your lines learned and be ready to go.” He says working with Bo Derek was a great experience, and she has invited him to visit her and her boyfriend, actor John Corbett (Sex in the City, Northern Exposure), at her ranch. But before they began working, Tripoli was a little concerned about working with the actress, who is a staunch Republican. “I wondered, am I going to spend the entire summer with this woman who thinks I’ll burn in hell forever?” Tripoli says. “I was a little nervous. We’re best friends on the show and I wanted it to ring true. But I’m a little ashamed that I went into it being a little nervous about that, it was really unfair. She was immensely kind and hysterically funny. I loved cracking her up in the middle of her close-ups. People are allowed to have their politics. She’s a wonderful human being and a wonderful person. She’s more beautiful now than she was in 10. Can you believe that was 25 years ago?” As for Fairchild, Tripoli could not have been more impressed. “It’s criminal, criminal that they would have a gay man on the show and never let him have a scene with Morgan Fairchild,” Tripoli laughs. “There should be litigation! There should be litigation!” They didn’t get to share scenes, but they did share some time on the set, including her first day, when word got to her that Tripoli was dying to meet her. “She said, ‘You don’t let that boy leave today until he meets me!’ It’s sorta like I was the Make-A-Wish kid and my dying wish was to meet her. She said, ‘Sit, darling, and let’s talk.’” When he started to gush, Fairchild said, “Oh please, darling. I’ve been playing this same bitch for 40 years. I can certainly do it for another summer!” As for the future, Tripoli is looking for his next acting gig and is also dabbling in stand-up. He made his debut at the Laugh Factory in late August. “It’s another avenue to explore, and honey, I got stories to tell. I just worked with Morgan Fairchild and Bo Derek. I used to sing on cruise ships. There’s enough to fill an act.” But ultimately, he has bigger ambitions. “I want to be the gay Oprah! I want to dictate how everyone’s house looks and how they dress. Oprah does a show on bras and now women everywhere are wearing those bras. I wish Logo would give me a talk show, I would love it!” source

I agree with a lot of what you said - the main characters were definitely not as interesting as the minor ones; the minor characters definitely told the best story. I would have to say that I found Simon's narrative somewhat unreliable; in my mind, the rest of the stories clarified and refined his "truth," such as it was. I agree about the final section: part of me liked it, part of me didn't -- but I went with liking it overall because after reading all that, I wanted a sense of closure, and the last section did that. Then again, if it left you wondering, I probably would have liked that too. When it's all said and done, I really enjoyed reading the book but I'm not sure I would read more of the author, if that makes sense.

Yeah, for me Cloud Atlas was the end-all be-all of Mitchell's work thus far. I thought all that I read of his was good, but none compared to that.