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Ben Affleck: Dating J.Lo Was Probably Bad for My Career

Monday October 1, 2007

 

Ben Affleck has come a long way in the nearly 10 years since he and Matt Damon won an Academy Award with their mothers by their sides. He's had more flops than blockbusters, a high-profile romance with Jennifer Lopez, and a daughter Violet, nearly 2, with his wife, actress Jennifer Garner. Now Affleck is staking his entire career on his new film Gone Baby Gone, a career that he now admits was sidelined by bad script choices and his dalliance with Lopez.

 

In a revealing new interview in the November issue of Details magazine, the 35-year-old actor discusses his directorial debut, leaving Los Angeles, and how his life has evolved since Good Will Hunting came out in 1997. One thing that hasn't changed? The mama's boy's polite, downhome nature. Ever the gentleman, Affleck showed up to the interview despite a wicked cough and even had a good excuse for showing up late -- his German Shepherd got into a container of Metamucil and sprayed diarrhea all over the house. “There’s no way Jennifer [Garner] was going to clean that up by herself,” he joked.

 

On dating Jennifer Lopez:

“It was probably bad for my career. What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. I ended up in an unfortunate crosshair position where I was in a relationship and [the media] mostly lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of selling magazines. And I paid a certain price for that. Then, in concert with some movies that didn’t work…”

 

On Gone Baby Gone:

“I feel like (Gone Baby Gone) is the linchpin for my life. My career. I have a lot riding on it. I want [the film] to work. Badly. I mean, a shitty movie comes out on 2,800 screens? I’ve been there and it’s embarrassing.”

 

On why he likes directing:

“That’s why there’s something really great about directing-about having authorship over something. If you don’t like this movie, I’m the guy to see. I’m the guy to criticize. I take some measure of comfort in that. It’s fair, at least.”

 

On his directorial debut:

“Listen, I’ve gone out and directed a movie and made it really f—king good. If the movie’s good, people will like it and go see it. All the rest of it is bullshit.”

 

On what’s at stake with his new film:

“It’s pretty simple. If people don’t go see it – I’m f—ked.”

 

On his decision to direct:

“I guess I just thought, I’ve seen it done enough. I’ve been on the sets enough. I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. I guess I just thought the sum of these parts would come together and I’d be able to do it.”

 

On living in L.A.:

“I’d be surprised if I’m still living here in a couple of years. Professionally it would be difficult. But that’s not as important as that other thing.”

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Michael Lohan: 'Lindsay and Her Mom Need Rehab'

By WENN | Monday, May 28, 2007

 

HOLLYWOOD - Lindsay Lohan's father blames his ex-wife Dina for his troubled daughter's wild behavior, and claims both mother and daughter need to check into rehab.

 

Michael Lohan has spoken out after the Mean Girls actress was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) after crashing her Mercedes convertible in Beverly Hills on Saturday night.

 

Police found "usable amount of illegal narcotics," thought to be cocaine, at the scene of the crash.

 

Lohan Sr. blames his ex-wife Dina for Lindsay's behavior and is pleading with them both to seek treatment in rehab.

 

He tells the New York Post, "She needs to go, and my ex-wife should go with her.

 

"The writing was on the wall years ago, and when Lindsay was in (Los Angeles rehab center) Wonderland...give me a break. What kind of rehab facility lets people leave the grounds? They wanted the name Lindsay Lohan to stay there; they didn't want to help her. She needs a faith-based program."

 

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Lindsay's Dad to TMZ: "I'm Partly Responsible"

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Lindsay Lohan

 

Michael Lohan, Lindsay's estranged dad, who was recently released from a two-year stint in a New York state prison over a DUI, tells TMZ that he's partly to blame for his daughter's constant problems with drugs, booze and the law.

 

In an exclusive conversation with TMZ, Lindsay's dad said that he doesn't believe that the 21-year-old can survive this latest DUI storm on her own, and wants to put the nasty custody fight with his estranged wife Dina on hold, in a last ditch effort to save their daughter's life. "I want to withdraw everything -- court wise -- sit down with Dina as Lindsay's parents and figure out how to help her," Lohan said. "Lindsay can't do this on her own ... when we were together, none of this was happening."

 

Last month, a Nassau County Family Court judge ordered Michael and Dina to see a family therapist as part of an ongoing custody war over their two children, Ali, 13 and Dakota, 11. The couple was also ordered to stop speaking negatively of each other in front of their kids and undergo counseling at a hearing on Monday.

 

TMZ also contacted Lindsay's mother Dina, who had no comment.

 

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Last month, a Nassau County Family Court judge ordered Michael and Dina to see a family therapist as part of an ongoing custody war over their two children, Ali, 13 and Dakota, 11. The couple was also ordered to stop speaking negatively of each other in front of their kids and undergo counseling at a hearing on Monday.

 

I think speaking negatively about each other to the press is the same thing as doing it in front of the kids. They are gonna hear it, and even worse- from their friends or from the television!!

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Pitt Speaks Out About Paparazzi Irritation

 

 

Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt has dubbed the paparazzi "the defining annoyance of my life." Pitt has spoken out about his life amid the flashbulbs, admitting all the attention he and his family has to deal with has left the four kids he and partner Angelina Jolie share confused about life. And the actor worries about the effect constant exposure to the paparazzi will have on them. He says, "I just think how strange it is for my kids. Mad (Maddox), Z (Zahara), Pax - they really believe that every time you go outside there is a herd of people with cameras snapping flashes in your face, who are going to block your way when you're trying to get somewhere. That is their vision of the world outside. Very strange, isn't it? It's an everyday thing for them. They don't really see it as bad or good. Z will point and go, 'Cameras!' Pax will point and say, 'People!' Maddox is keen to where his parents are coming from. I don't want them to be tensing up, and I don't want them to see of feel any kind of threat. But man, when photographers cross the line, you know - if it happened to one of your kids, it's hard not to want to take them down."

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Berry Won't Wed Baby's Daddy

 

Halle Berry's first child will be born out of wedlock - the actress has no plans to wed boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. The Perfect Stranger actress has sworn off marriage after two divorces, and becoming a mother hasn't changed her mind. She says, "What Gabriel and I have decided is that we will just redefine marriage for ourselves."

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Tom Sizemore Vows to Quit Drugs

Actor is in prison till November

October 9, 2007

 

 

While Tom Sizemore has been in jail, he's had time to reflect on and address his mistakes.

 

The "Saving Private Ryan" actor vowed that he's done with drugs, according to an interview he granted The Bakerfield Californian from the jailhouse.

 

"I'm not trading my whole life for some powder," says Sizemore. "God's trying to tell me he doesn't want me using drugs because every time I use them I get caught."

 

The 45-year-old is serving time in Kern County after he was booked on suspicion of various drug charges in Bakersfield in early May, which violated his probation for a 2004 methamphetamine conviction. He's been in jail since early June and will be released in November.

 

This wasn't the first time he had violated probation for that conviction. In early 2006, he had his probation lengthened by three additional years for using drugs. He also once had his probation temporarily revoked for having a Whizzinator -- a prosthetic device equipped with clean urine -- was found during one of Sizemore's drug tests.

 

In the latest incident, Sizemore was charged with seven drug-related counts, but pleaded no contest to a charge of transporting drugs for personal use. He was sentenced last Wednesday, Oct.3 to treatment in a drug therapy program.

 

"I got another chance," he said. "Some people might think I don't deserve one, but I'm glad the judge thought so and I mean to make the most of it."

 

Sizemore's films include "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down." He last appeared in 2003's "Dreamcatcher," the thriller "Paparazzi" and as Pete Rose in the TV movie "Hustle."

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Britney’s “Blackout” Critical & Fan Hit, Jive saysno Tour

 

According to her record label, the title alludes to the blocking out of negativity with an embrace for life at its fullest, capturing the dance-friendly nature of the songs and giving a nod to past musical references with an ear toward the future, says Britney via the Sony BMG website. Jive also said there would be no tour to support the album at this time.

http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=2422

 

:wacko: Can you imagine what a glorious disaster it would have been :wacko:

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No Britney World Tour? Ohhh...boooo! What are we going to snark on? I was up for taking bets for how long the tour would last! No rumors of exhaustion...ohhh...I feel...faint! :D

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No Britney World Tour? Ohhh...boooo! What are we going to snark on? I was up for taking bets for how long the tour would last! No rumors of exhaustion...ohhh...I feel...faint! :D

The tour would have probably taken about an hour and a half. She would have played a few thirteen minute shows (including encore) in each venue before she lost interest and went Vegas to party.

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:blink: *poof* Idea...

 

We should think of some "fun" tour names for her now cancelled tour. And her Career is still going pretty damn strong, isn't it? :D

 

No Kids Attached - World Tour '08

Freebasing - World Tour '08

Waiting To Inhale - World Tour '08

Meth-od Woman - World Tour '08

Cheetos-Red Bull-Starbucks- World Tour '08

Britney Spears & Amy Winehouse - Up in Smoke - World Tour '08

Cracked - World Tour '08

Dazed & Confused - World Tour '08

Britney Spears - Live From A Crackhouse - World Tour '08

Passin' The Buck - World Tour '08

For My Psycho Fans - Britney Spears World Tour '08

Britney Spears - Live From A Bathroom Stall - World Tour '08

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The trouble with rehab, Malibu-style

Lawsuits and violations reveal problems in a luxury cottage industry for the addicted.

By Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

October 9, 2007

 

Hollywood rehab can produce unhappy endings, even when the patient isn't named Lindsay or Britney.

 

That's what Kelly Logan learned when he sought treatment for a methamphetamine addiction at Promises Malibu, detox destination to the stars.

 

Logan's brother, Garfield, says he paid $42,000 up front to admit the former professional surfer for a month at Promises' canyon-top Mediterranean-style home. Five days later, he says, Promises kicked Logan out for belligerent behavior but kept all the money.

 

"They're scam artists," said Garfield Logan, a plaintiff in one of four consumer-rights, breach-of-contract and unfair-business-practice lawsuits filed against Promises Malibu and its Westside branch in the last year. Promises has denied the allegations.

 

The suits and state licensing violations reveal a little-seen side to the high-end rehabilitation centers that have become a Malibu cottage industry and -- thanks to such patrons as Promises alums Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears -- a tabloid feeding ground.

 

The legal problems also reflect how the Malibu properties -- the area has one of the densest concentrations of rehab retreats in the nation, experts say -- can differ from industry norms, as represented by the Betty Ford Center, Hazelden, Phoenix House and other leaders in addiction treatment.

 

All of the Malibu centers are for-profit enterprises in a field dominated by not-for-profits. With luxury as a principal appeal, many charge far more than the going rate for residential care. Court records indicate that Promises' fee is more than double the $23,000 cost for a month at Betty Ford.

 

At the same time, Promises and fierce rival Passages Addiction Cure Center make sweeping claims on their websites about their clinical successes and reputations, purporting to have few or no equals in the world. Addiction researchers say the boasts are virtually impossible to substantiate.

 

In addition, Promises, Passages and other Malibu rehab firms have identified on their websites a number of psychiatrists and other physicians as staff members, even though the centers are not licensed to provide medical care.

 

Instead, they are limited to offering services such as detox monitoring that does not require medical treatment; group and individual counseling; and addiction education, state officials say. Over the last few years, Promises and several other centers that do business in Malibu have been cited by state regulators for providing medical services outside the scope of their licenses.

 

Until recently, the Promises website said the center had a medical staff led by Jack Kuo, director of psychiatry; and Robert Saltzman, medical director. The site no longer refers to a medical staff, and it describes Kuo and Saltzman as "independent affiliates" with the title "independent detox specialist."

 

The changes occurred after The Times inquired about Promises' operations. The center did not respond to questions about the physicians, and attempts to interview Kuo and Saltzman were unsuccessful.

 

Two doctors, Robert Waldman and M. David Lewis, have been listed as staff internist and psychiatrist, respectively, and sometimes "addictionologist," on the websites of at least three of the 11 centers that run rehab houses in the Malibu area. Renaissance Malibu described Lewis as an "adjunct" staffer; Waldman was listed as the "medical director" of Cliffside Malibu, but his staff designation has been changed on the website to "M.D./detox."

 

Bruce Moorman, intake coordinator at the Canyon, a center that identifies Waldman and Lewis as staffers, said there was nothing misleading about the characterization. "They take care of our clients," Moorman said. "They're on site more than not."

 

Don Grant, director of Harmony Place, whose website also lists Waldman and Lewis under the staff heading, said they do not provide medical care but "monitor the detox" of patients. The state cited Harmony in 2005 for advertising "medical detoxification services" on its website and contracting with physicians.

 

Grant said Harmony now strictly adheres to the state rules and that Waldman and Lewis are part of the center's "ancillary staff."

 

"They are not paid by us," he said. "Our clients contract with them independently."

 

Asked about the website staff listings for several Malibu centers, Lisa Fisher, spokeswoman for the state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, which licenses the firms, said the agency planned to investigate. "There should be no medical staff," Fisher said. "No medical services."

 

Fisher said the Malibu centers are allowed to recommend doctors to patients but that they should not create the impression that they have in-house physicians available to prescribe and administer drugs or provide other types of medical care.

 

Similarly, physicians are permitted to serve as counselors at rehab centers, but even in that role, they must refrain from practicing medicine as staff members, said Rebecca Lira, deputy director of licensing and certification for the alcohol and drug department. "I have never seen a physician who is only a counselor," Lira said.

 

Since 2002, the state alcohol and drug agency has cited nine of the centers that operate in Malibu for a total of about 20 substantiated licensing violations, records show. These included improper administering of medications and TB tests; contracting with physicians; operating beyond patient capacity; failing to have staff members trained in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and for an employee's having sex with a patient.

 

State officials said the problems were corrected.

 

By contrast, the four Phoenix House centers for adults in Los Angeles and Orange counties -- which together have about 230 beds, compared with 167 in Malibu -- have received no citations in that five-year period.

 

Malibu Ranch Treatment Center closed in January after regulators said they found that alcohol and illicit drugs had been taken onto the premises; it had no licensed or registered counselors; staff members did not supervise residents; it exceeded its treatment capacity; and its sewer line was clogged.

 

Malibu Ranch director Jerry Schoenkopf said the violations were technical.

 

"We didn't close down because we were running a substandard treatment center," he said. "We were having economic problems."

 

Schoenkopf said his center was an affordable alternative in Malibu, with a monthly fee of $15,000, and that it treated many low-income patients free of charge.

 

In recent years, clean and sober retreats have mushroomed in the privileged environs of Malibu. The firms licensed in Malibu operate more than two dozen rehab houses there. Some are clustered in adjoining or nearby residences.

 

"What is taking place in Malibu is rather unique," said Michael Cunningham, chief deputy director of the state alcohol and drug department. He said most communities have a dire shortage of rehab beds. "Clustering is not the norm."

 

Some of the Malibu centers are known for lavish accommodations, including 500-thread-count sheets, gourmet meals and ocean views. Passages offers multiple mansions; marbled baths; 65-inch flat-screen televisions; and massage, acupuncture and hypnotherapy rooms.

 

Many of the Malibu firms typically demand a month's payment in advance and refuse to refund any portion if the patient leaves treatment early or is expelled. No-refund policies at more traditional centers often apply to just part of the fee -- $5,000 in the case of Betty Ford, for example.

 

Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, executive director of NAADAC, the Assn. for Addiction Professionals, said such no-money-back rules are an exception and "a shame."

 

"People do leave programs, they do get expelled from programs when they act out," said Tuohy, whose organization has about 11,000 members. "That's not a reason not to be reimbursed for services that aren't received. It's important not to take advantage of someone who is ill."

 

Promises and other centers say the stringent financial terms motivate patients to complete their treatment and are spelled out in admissions contracts.

 

Promises lawyer Gerald Sauer said that when patients leave early, the balance of the month's payment is retained for their use if they check back in, or the money is sometimes transferred to other rehab centers where the patients seek treatment. "No one is losing any money," he said.

 

But former patients and their relatives who have taken Promises to court maintain that the company intended to unjustly enrich itself at their expense by refusing to refund any money, no matter how short the patients' stay.

 

"They get people at their most vulnerable point to turn over huge sums of money," said Michael Parks, a lawyer for a former patient identified only as John Doe, a 50-year-old lawyer and alcoholic who sued in July. "Promises has a double standard of caring for celebrities first, at the expense of regular people."

 

The suit accuses Promises of evicting the plaintiff after a week -- and keeping the balance of his $49,000 payment -- because of false claims that he had made a "sexually inappropriate remark" to an unnamed celebrity patient.

 

The Promises staff tolerated "racially insensitive comments" by a celebrity, the suit alleges. Promises denied the allegations. A hearing is set for November.

 

Tucky Masterson said she wasn't in her right mind when she paid about $35,000 for a month at Promises. "I was on heroin," she said.

 

Masterson left Promises after two stays that totaled about a week, according to a suit she filed in 2003. She said she eventually received $15,000 in a settlement, minus legal fees.

 

"I was treated at Hazelden -- I was there for three days -- and they charged me to the penny for those three days," said Masterson, 48, who runs a sobriety house for women in Huntington Beach. "With Promises, I had to fight tooth and nail to get any money back."

 

Her story mirrored those of other plaintiffs and their relatives.

 

Sauer said Promises did nothing wrong. "Just because someone files a lawsuit, does that mean anything?" he asked.

 

In 2004, the state cited Promises for providing medical services, administering TB tests and having doctors conduct physical exams at its Westside location, all of which it was not licensed to do, records show. Fisher, of the state agency, said Promises stopped the practice as a result.

 

Promises founder and Chief Executive Richard Rogg declined through a publicist to be interviewed for this article.

 

Among the other Malibu rehab centers with no-refund policies are Renaissance, whose website features a testimonial by actor Daniel Baldwin, and Passages, which counts fashion designer Marc Jacobs among its graduates.

 

"If you leave, your money stays," said Passages co-founder Chris Prentiss, who added that the center immediately resells the vacated bed -- the monthly cost is $67,550 -- and that returning patients must wait for the next opening. Their payment stays on account, he said.

 

In the last six years, Prentiss said, only seven patients have departed early and failed to complete treatment later.

 

In 2005, the state cited Passages for exceeding its patient capacity. The center complied with a corrective order, Fisher said.

 

Passages says on its website that it has the "highest cure rate in the country" and is "renowned as the most successful alcohol rehab and drug treatment center in the world for many reasons."

 

Addiction researchers have criticized Passages for saying that it cures patients. "A cure? That's pretty good," Scott Walters, a University of Texas School of Public Health professor, said facetiously. Walters co-wrote a landmark 2001 study on treatment success rates. "People have been making claims about successful treatment since the dawn of time, since the snake-oil salesmen," he said.

 

Prentiss says his center eliminates dependencies by treating their underlying causes -- depression and anxiety, for example -- through intensive one-on-one therapy. Passages also disdains Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step program, which Promises and other Malibu centers have adopted or adapted.

 

"We have an 84.4% success rate since we opened our doors in 2001, the highest in the world," Prentiss said.

 

Not to be outdone, Promises declares on its website that it is designed for "anyone wanting the finest rehab program in the world."

 

Promises attorney Sauer did not respond to questions about the basis of those statements. The center also declined to put The Times in contact with former patients who could provide testimonials.

 

"Anybody can make any claim they want and get away with it," Walters said. "It's essentially an unregulated industry."

 

paul.pringle@latimes.com

 

Times researcher John Tyrrell contributed to this report.

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When Nikki Sixx was on Stern, Howard asked him what he thought of all these fancy rehab facilities that the Hollywood starlets were going in. Nikki said that they would all fail, because the way to treat addiction is not to coddle people. When he went to a rehab for a relapse six or seven years ago, he went to a hard-core facility. He felt it was good that they broke him down, because then he was able to really figure out and address the underlying cause of his problems, which stemmed from being abandoned by his father at age 3 and his mother at age 6. When he originally got straight, he just put a bandaid on his problem by getting clean, but until he relapsed, he hadn't really resolved his issues and truly beat his addiction.

 

These facilities aren't really helping the celebrities because they're providing massages and luxury suites, but not actually addressing the reasons behind their addictions. If they really wanted to get clean, they'd go to Betty Ford or one of the other real addiction treatment facilities.

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Lindsay's Father Hopes for `redemption'

 

Michael Lohan wants to patch things up with his family.

 

"Reconciliation and redemption across the board," says Lohan, a born-again Christian. "Just all of us getting right with God."

 

Lohan's 21-year-old daughter Lindsay, star of "Mean Girls," "Freaky Friday" and other films, has said that her father's behavior and her parents' divorce have caused her to act out.

 

Michael and estranged wife Dina Lohan settled their long-simmering divorce in August, months after he left a New York state prison where he served almost two years for drunken driving and other charges.

 

He reunited with Lindsay in September after a 3 1/2-year estrangement. She had entered a drug and alcohol treatment center the previous month after reaching a plea deal on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges.

 

Lohan's visit to the Cirque Lodge in Utah was her third trip to rehab since January, a frenetic year in which she wrecked a Mercedes-Benz, released the box-office flop "I Know Who Killed Me" and was arrested more than once. She left the center earlier this month.

 

Does Lohan blame himself for Lindsay's troubles?

 

"Absolutely. How can I not? I mean, we lead by example," Lohan said in an interview Wednesday with AP Television News.

 

He entered a Christian-based drug and rehabilitation center in West Babylon, N.Y., after he was released from prison in March. Lohan had repeatedly said Lindsay needed the same kind of treatment.

 

"I made a commitment when I was in there to God and to myself that, when I got out, I was going to do God's work, and I was going to share with other people what I've been through and how God changed my life," Lohan said.

 

He is now a spokesman for GodMen, which holds events designed to help Christian men renew their faith.

 

Lohan said he doesn't care if people question the sincerity of his religious convictions.

 

"I've had such an effect on my family and my daughter Lindsay, and I want to show them through my example that you can right the wrongs and turn it around," he said.

 

Lohan added: "And I hope that the grace that has been given to me can work through my family, and that we can come back to that same place in our hearts."

 

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Pitt "Embarrassed" by Early Films

 

Brad Pitt was so embarrassed by his performance in movies Cutting Class, Meet Joe Black and Seven Years In Tibet, he's apologized to film critics. He admits some of his roles in the late 1980s and 1990s were not his strongest - and agrees with movie critics who claim his earlier work is not his best. But Pitt insists the experience has made him a much better actor. He says, "I believe I'm quite capable and we, as people, can learn to do anything, and that's proof of it! And my education is on film, on record! Now I can take on anything that comes my way and find truth in it an do a pretty good job."

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Mills McCartney Fears for Her Life

 

Heather Mills McCartney accused Paul McCartney of failing to protect her and their 3-year-old daughter Beatrice from abuse, which she says ranges from lies and slander to death threats.

 

Breaking her recent silence about issues surrounding their divorce case, Mills McCartney gave two television interviews Wednesday. She also announced that she would seek European legislation to compel newspapers to apologize for untruthful stories.

 

"Do you fear for your life?" she was asked in a British Broadcasting Corp. television interview.

 

"Yes I do, yes I do," she said.

 

"And you are saying that Paul McCartney does not protect you and your child?"

 

"I'm afraid not," Mills McCartney said.

 

She also appeared earlier in the day on an ITV television morning show, saying she had taken precautions because of death threats.

 

"I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person, should anything happen to me, so if you top me off it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out," she said.

 

"There is so much fear from a certain party of the truth coming out that lots of things have been put out and done, so the police came 'round and said, `You have had serious death threats from an underground movement.'"

 

On the BBC, she was asked if the tabloid newspapers were at fault.

 

"It's the tabloids and a certain party, but it is so extreme and so abusive ... I mean, I've been called monster, whore, gold digger, fantasist, liar."

 

"When you say certain party, do you mean someone from Paul McCartney's camp?" BBC reporter Maxine Mawhinney asked.

 

"I'm not allowed to talk about Paul and the court case and all that kind of stuff, because we are in court," Mills McCartney said.

 

"But it is, by clear implication, that's what you're saying," BBC reporter Jon Sopel said.

 

"I can't say, because I'd be in contempt of court. But you're not stupid, that's all I can say."

 

Paul McCartney, 65, declined to respond. "There's no comment from our side," said his spokesman, Stuart Bell.

 

Mills McCartney, who is still negotiating a financial settlement in the divorce case, urged the public to stop buying sensationalist newspapers.

 

"We've had death threats, I've been close to suicide. I'm so upset about this," she said on the ITV show. "I've had worse press than a pedophile or a murderer, and I've done nothing but charity for 20 years."

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Mills McCartney Fears for Her Life

 

Heather Mills McCartney accused Paul McCartney of failing to protect her and their 3-year-old daughter Beatrice from abuse, which she says ranges from lies and slander to death threats.

 

Breaking her recent silence about issues surrounding their divorce case, Mills McCartney gave two television interviews Wednesday. She also announced that she would seek European legislation to compel newspapers to apologize for untruthful stories.

 

"Do you fear for your life?" she was asked in a British Broadcasting Corp. television interview.

 

"Yes I do, yes I do," she said.

 

"And you are saying that Paul McCartney does not protect you and your child?"

 

"I'm afraid not," Mills McCartney said.

 

She also appeared earlier in the day on an ITV television morning show, saying she had taken precautions because of death threats.

 

"I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person, should anything happen to me, so if you top me off it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out," she said.

 

"There is so much fear from a certain party of the truth coming out that lots of things have been put out and done, so the police came 'round and said, `You have had serious death threats from an underground movement.'"

 

On the BBC, she was asked if the tabloid newspapers were at fault.

 

"It's the tabloids and a certain party, but it is so extreme and so abusive ... I mean, I've been called monster, whore, gold digger, fantasist, liar."

 

"When you say certain party, do you mean someone from Paul McCartney's camp?" BBC reporter Maxine Mawhinney asked.

 

"I'm not allowed to talk about Paul and the court case and all that kind of stuff, because we are in court," Mills McCartney said.

 

"But it is, by clear implication, that's what you're saying," BBC reporter Jon Sopel said.

 

"I can't say, because I'd be in contempt of court. But you're not stupid, that's all I can say."

 

Paul McCartney, 65, declined to respond. "There's no comment from our side," said his spokesman, Stuart Bell.

 

Mills McCartney, who is still negotiating a financial settlement in the divorce case, urged the public to stop buying sensationalist newspapers.

 

"We've had death threats, I've been close to suicide. I'm so upset about this," she said on the ITV show. "I've had worse press than a pedophile or a murderer, and I've done nothing but charity for 20 years."

 

 

She cannot possibly be as self absorbed as she sounds.

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Side Dish

 

Lynne Spears, Britney's mother, has finally taken ownership of her train wreck of a daughter. "For everything that's gone wrong for Britney, I blame myself," Momma Spears tells Life & Style's latest issue. "I didn't raise my children to have Hollywood careers. This all just exploded in my face, and big dreams became big headaches." As for the pair's relationship, it's on the mend. "We've reunited," Lynne says. "We're friends."

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Lynne Spears takes blame for Brit’s troubles

‘I didn’t raise my children to have Hollywood careers,’ she explains

MSNBC.com

 

NEW YORK - Lynne Spears say she’s responsible for her daughter Britney’s troubles.

 

“I blame myself,” she tells Life & Style Weekly magazine. “What mother wouldn’t?”

 

“I wish I’d been there more while she was touring,” Spears says. “But I couldn’t be. I had the other kids to look after.”

 

Spears, the mother of three children with ex-husband Jamie Spears, is writing a memoir about raising her family in the public eye. “Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World” is set for release May 11, which is Mother’s Day.

 

“I didn’t raise my children to have Hollywood careers. This all just exploded in my face, and big dreams became big headaches,” says Spears, who recently reconciled with her 25-year-old pop singer-daughter after a period of estrangement.

 

Britney Spears, a tabloid fixture thanks to her public blunders and turbulent personal life, was ordered last month to temporarily surrender custody of her sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

 

“Here are two parents who care about their kids,” Spears says. “They’re good people. With my daughter’s, Kevin’s and the boys’ interest at heart, I’m trying my best to bring them together, to bridge the gap. I think things are getting good.”

 

“Britney loves her kids from the pit of her soul,” she says.

 

© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Shar Jackson Lends Hand with K-Fed's Boys with Britney

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2007 01:35 PM EST

 

By Shruti Dhalwala

 

Embroiled in an ongoing custody battle with ex-wife Britney Spears, Kevin Federline nevertheless is trying to see that all four of his offspring get along, thanks to a helping hand from former girlfriend Shar Jackson.

 

Jackson, 31, has two children – Kori, 5, and Kaleb, 3 – with Federline, 29, and says that she watches Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, who are Federline's kids with Spears, 25.

 

"We definitely make sure the kids all bond together," Jackson told reporters Tuesday night. "I mean, they're siblings, they need each other."

 

Jackson also stresses that she and Federline strive to keep their family closely knit, despite whatever differences she and he might have.

 

"We're not together or anything but we're definitely still a family unit," says Jackson, who perhaps remains best known professionally for her portrayal of Niecy on the 1996-2001 UPN show Moesha.

 

Best of Friends

"Honestly," says Jackson, "we're like the best of friends. Obviously, the relationship didn't work out for a reason, and we're cool with that. But we're still a part of each other's lives. And our children get to see two people who aren't together but still have a great relationship, and I think that's really important."

 

Jackson, who in the past has repeatedly praised Federline's parenting skills, says she exclusively trusts him with her kids. "I know he's in a good place," she says, "the kids are in a good place, and I made sure from day one – I told him, 'You make sure you have our children.' "

 

And just how is K-Fed holding up in the fight with Britney over their kids? "He's great," says Jackson. "We don't even talk about that stuff, because that would be a non-stop conversation, and we don't even go there."

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Tina Fey Says Paula Abdul Was 'Awful' As SNL Guest Host

Tuesday December 4, 2007

 

Tina Fey isn't done bashing celebs.

 

In the new issue of Playboy, the 30 Rock star (and former Saturday Night Live head writer), 37, said Paula Abdul, 45, "was awful" while hosting SNL in 2005.

 

"I was pregnant [with daughter Alice] at the time and probably a little moody, but I remember thinking, 'She's a disaster! I gotta prop this lady up and get her on TV,'" Fey dished.

 

She said Abdul was "disastrous ... in the way she generally appears to be.

 

"It was an American Idol sketch, and she wanted to change parts. So Amy Poehler had to play her."

 

A year later, Fey recalled seeing Abdul on a flight.

 

"We both looked at each other like, 'Do I know that girl?'" she said. "And then we both had that moment of recognition, and she was like, 'uuuggh.' I saw it register on her face that she had had a terrible time with us."

 

Tell Us: Would you ever want to work with Paula Abdul?

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Doctor: Drug combo killed Smith's son

By TOSHEENA ROBINSON-BLAIR, Associated Press Writer

Mon Dec 10, 6:46 PM ET

 

NASSAU, Bahamas - The late son of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith was killed by a combination of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro — a cocktail that would have turned lethal after about five hours — a pathologist testified Monday.

 

The conclusion by Dr. Govinda Raju, who performed the official autopsy on Daniel Smith, confirms the findings of a private doctor who examined the 20-year-old's body after he died Sept. 10, 2006 in the Bahamas.

 

On the third day of an inquest into Smith's death, Raju said the young man had five other drugs in his system — including two that medical personnel used in an attempt to revive him after he collapsed while visiting his celebrity mother at a Nassau hospital.

 

The former Playboy playmate herself collapsed and died Feb. 8 in Florida from an overdose of drugs.

 

A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith's attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern, who was also in the hospital room the day Daniel died, said the drugs he was taking were all for either depression or back pain.

 

"Once you boil it all down, these were medicines treating either pain or depression," said the attorney, Wayne Munroe.

 

Zoloft and Lexapro, which a U.S. doctor had prescribed, are antidepressants commonly used to treat anxiety and panic. Methadone is prescribed as a pain reliever and is also used to suppress symptoms drug users experience when going through withdrawal from heroin and other opiates.

 

Cyril Wecht, the doctor who performed a second autopsy at the request of Smith's family, has said the other drugs in Daniel's system included a third antidepressant, the sleep medication Ambien and an over-the-counter cold medicine. He said they did not play a role in his death.

 

Daniel Smith had bruises on his back and shoulders, but Raju said these could have been caused by medics who tried to revive him. Police have said there is no evidence of homicide.

 

Police believe he arrived in the Bahamas the night before his death and went directly to the hospital where his mother had given birth two days earlier. He spent the night in a room with his mother, Stern and newborn half-sister before losing consciousness.

 

Testimony is scheduled to resume Tuesday.

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it still is just sad that daniel and anna nicole had to die this way. it didnt have to be this way. that poor baby having to grow up without a mother now....

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Britney’s toxic diet may be to blame for antics

Spears’ favorites foods could lead to irrational behavior, expert says

MSNBC.com

Access Hollywood

 

LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears had a hit with “Toxic,” but now a toxic diet is taking a hit on Spears.

 

She loves her fast food and keeps Starbucks in business, but are her eating habits creating the bizarre Spears we’ve been seeing? Access Hollywood examines her toxic diet.

 

“When you take a look at Britney Spears and her behavior, it’s very frightening,” Dr. Timothy Brantley, a Ph.D. who educates patients on the power of food, told Access. “She’s a person who’s completely addicted to sugar. This is like heroin for a junkie. She’s literally on a roller coaster to hell.”

 

Spears’ irrational behavior — from shaving her head to attacking a car with an umbrella — can partly be attributed to her toxic diet of caffeine drinks and fast food, Brantley told Access.

 

“Caffeine and sugar in this drink will drive your blood sugars and hormones crazy and it can effect your mood for hours,” Brantley said of a Frappuccino.

 

Spears’ favorite Venti Frappuccino coffee can cause her to become irritable, agitated and lose focus.

 

“And of course irrational behavior follows that,” Brantley said. “Once you get a quick rise and a quick drop, the body is back in a craving cycle again.”

 

Additionally, the caffeine content in her extra large soda could cause memory loss, inattentiveness and anxiety.

 

“If you flood your body with sugars and all of a sudden you become really hyper, I think your judgement is going to be really altered,” he said.

 

The greasy tacos and fries Spears craves from the drive-through are equally destructive.

 

“It’s toxic to the liver,” he said. “It’s going to mess up your hormones.”

 

Copyright 2007 by NBC. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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