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Mike-El
If it's actually in front of the scenes...that's okay, too.
TVJunkie
Ok. So Neil Patrick Harris has finally come out of the closet and admitted to being gay. Well, while I don't find this new all that shocking, I'm left to wonder why so many people care. I mean, maybe Dr. Will Kirby will care after a summer of fawning over NPH, I dunno. But I kinda doubt Dr. Will cares, either.

To his credit, I love the press release/statement given by NPH:

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“(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest,” Harris tells People magazine’s Web site.

The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent “speculation and interest in my private life and relationships.”
<br>Hot damn! Good for you, Doogie. I love that he is "content" and "living [his] life to the fullest".

I may just have to like this guy now.

Rock on, Doogie.
copssister
This seems like the appropriate area to drop this discussion....

Step up and place your bets on the answers to this week's NYPost's PageSix blind items, "Just Asking".

QUOTE
WHICH faded screen siren (think "Sunset Boulevard") has special instructions for her frequent visits to Cedars-Sinai? Written on her chart, it says, "No Filipino nurses!" Explained our source, "She hates them" . . .

Farrah Fawcett

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WHICH faded screen siren (think "Sunset Boulevard") has special instructions for her frequent visits to Cedars-Sinai? Written on her chart, it says, "No Filipino nurses!" Explained our source, "She hates them" . . .

Farrah Fawcett

WHICH wealthy industrialist, who summers in the south of France, was turned down when he tried to buy an apartment at the Carlyle? Prospective neighbors didn't like his reputation for partying with fast women and a very fast boat . . .

...[no guess]...

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WHICH young Hollywood starlet had secret gastric bypass surgery, but then lost too much weight? During a recent four-day stint at a health clinic, she was actually having an operation to remove the bypass.
Nicole Richie
ActonBell
I remember reading somewhere (maybe Snarkfest) quite a while back that Nicole Ritchie had had a gastric bypass. It certainly would explain the emaciation, it is not meant for people that are just a little overweight.
siebal
I didn't think doctors did gastric bypass unless someone was severely overweight?
DodgerGirl
Money money money money money.
ladybug
Quack, quack. Ca-ching.
a.j.
From last week's Popbitch:

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Which British fashion-loving publicity whore is behaving so weirdly and showing such paranoia that people are starting to wonder when news of her massive cocaine consumption will finally come out?
<br>I'm guessing Sienna Miller for this one.

As for the too-skinny starlet, I just can't imagine a doctor giving gastric to a completely average-sized girl. If so, that's terrifying.
woodstove
Think Michael Jackson's face. Gastric for Nicole is nothing compared to that.

Meanwhile, I doubt I have ever even listened to a Britney Spears song, but, for some reason, I am pleased that she is finally dumping that sleazeball's ass. Whee.
Even photos of him make me want to take a long shower.

I agree it's Sienna in that one.
DodgerGirl
Awww, I was going to guess Victoria Beckham!
Meglio
QUOTE (DodgerGirl+Nov 13 2006, 09:42 PM)
Awww, I was going to guess Victoria Beckham!
That's what I thought too. No-one in Britain courts publicity more assiduously than Posh Spice, and just the other week her book all about her love of fashion, "That Extra Half an Inch", was published. It's somewhat depressing that the description fits Sienna Miller really well too.
copssister
Seriously...at what point do we say they're no longer BLIND items of gossip:

November 14, 2006 NYPost.com --

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WHICH ivory tickler, frequently caught drunken driving, is back on the sauce? The musician has stopped in a few of his local bars and had a few drinks, only to leave the bartenders no tip
Billy Joel

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WHICH ivory tickler, frequently caught drunken driving, is back on the sauce? The musician has stopped in a few of his local bars and had a few drinks, only to leave the bartenders no tip
Billy Joel

WHICH singer had to deliver her child via Cesarean because of a raunchy STD her estranged husband gave her?
Britney, though I tend to believe the Cesarean was really performed to have an excuse for her tummy-tuck scar.
Joe Don Faker
QUOTE (copssister+Nov 14 2006, 12:02 PM)
QUOTE
WHICH ivory tickler, frequently caught drunken driving, is back on the sauce? The musician has stopped in a few of his local bars and had a few drinks, only to leave the bartenders no tip
<br>Billy Joel Well he's used to getting his drinks free from John at the bar. A friend of his.
buffyvol
Well, John is quick with a joke and to light up a smoke, but there's somewhere he'd rather be.
Mike-El
Posted by buffy, who's model-glue huffy, and probably will be for life.

buffyvol
I swear! If I don't start getting a little respect around here, I will Flounce. I will Flounce like you've never seen!
DodgerGirl
And then you'll just come crawling back, and we'll make fun of you forever. Not that that would be any different, of course.
skittlebrau
Buffy, is your avatar supposed to look like a santa hat? I mean, "look like a santa hat" when I'm not wearing my glasses, of course. Because that's what I thought it was.

I'll leave now.
Gracie
Robert Altman is dead at 81.
TeslaNewton
QUOTE (Gracie+Nov 21 2006, 01:18 PM)
Robert Altman is dead at 81.
No:(
Mabel Dodge
I hate to hear that. I just IMDB'd him and had forgotten just how many great films he directed.

I still haven't seen Prairie Home Companion and am dying to!
skittlebrau
'tis true. And we just dropped that story from our lineup after I edited a touching obit pkg to him and wept silently the whole time because I am a big ol' film nerd. Why does it feel like this week all I'm doing is editing obituaries and Michael Richards screaming the n-word repeatedly? They're both major bummers.

We need to do more stories about happy kittens and fuzzy bunnies. And maybe an expose on rainbows and unicorns.
Mabel Dodge
And puppies, ponies, and cotton candy too? I too, could use a little good news.
ladybug
Sign me up for some of that, too!
buffyvol
Anyone want pie? There's pie here somewhere.
ladybug
Hell yea pie is good!
TVJunkie
I love pie. Do you have any Extra Creamy Cool Whip to go with it? Mmmmmmm.
buffyvol
QUOTE (tvj+)
Do you have any Extra Creamy Cool Whip to go with it?

<br>I'll even embellish it with some rum extract to make it taste fresh and you'll never know it's not home made!
Mabel Dodge
I saw this linked at Snarkfest.

It's a blind item about a female pop singer that came on the scene in 2001. Apparantly, this singer doesn't actually sing her own vocals and the real singer has been paid hush money. Looks like this could be bigger than Milli Vanilli if it's ever leaked.

Since I don't follow pop music, I don't have the first clue who it could be. I figure it can't be Britney since she's been around longer than that.
floundering
Ashlee Simpson?
Mike-El
Ashlee Simpson hasn't been assaulting our ears for that long. Her first album came out only a couple of years ago. Besides, if they were going to get a ringer to do her vocals, wouldn't they get one that could actually sing worth a damn?

Alicia Keys, India.Arie, and Nelly Furtado made their first albums in 2001...but they all seem on the up-and-up to me.
Joe Don Faker
And the Doodlebops only started their show in 2004... Still, someone should keep an eye on them.
Mike-El
QUOTE (Joe Don Faker+Nov 22 2006, 10:59 AM)
And the Doodlebops only started their show in 2004...  Still, someone should keep an eye on them.

DONE.
Rex Dart
There really aren't all that many possibilities; I'll list them in what I think is ascending order of probability.
  • Michelle Branch or Vanessa Carlton - Can't be, since it specifies that each album sold better than the last.
  • Jennifer Lopez or Jessica Simpson - Debut albums in 1999; don't seem to quite fit the time frame.
  • Amerie or Tweet - Would anyone really care?
  • Hilary Duff - Would you seriously get a seemingly grown woman to stand in for a 15-year-old? But I guess it could be.
  • Anastacia - Not a big name in the US; probably not.
  • P!nk - I guess it could be, but then the real singer can't sing either wink.gif
  • Norah Jones - Maybe.
  • India.Arie - I wouldn't think so either, but with each album certainly doing better than the last, can't rule it out.
  • Alicia Keys - Maybe.
  • Nelly Furtado - Maybe.
  • Christina Milian - Maybe.
  • Ashanti - Maybe. I saw her sing the national anthem at some sports event, and she was just godfuckingawful.
I bet it's Ashanti. Of course, I don't exactly see how that would set the entertainment world upside-down, unless you think any neo-Milli Vanilli scandal would do that; someone might well think that, but I personally doubt it. And the story doesn't make a lot of sense to me in general, since why wouldn't they just pay the singer off from the beginning? It doesn't seem likely that they'd risk her blowing the whistle the second she heard herself on the radio.
Mabel Dodge
Nah, I don't think it would turn the entertainment world upside-down. I just like invoking Milli Vanilli anytime I get a chance. I definitely agree that something sounds fishy, since she isn't claiming to have been paid off from the start. Who knows?

Thanks for the list of possibilities, Rex.
Mike-El
QUOTE (Rex Dart+Nov 22 2006, 11:18 AM)
[*]Michelle Branch or Vanessa Carlton - Can't be, since it specifies that each album sold better than the last.

Besides, everybody knows that the big Michelle Branch/Vanessa Carlton scandal is that they are, in fact, the same person.
buffyvol
I was trying to think of who it might be and I thought Ashanti also. I don't know why, I don't even know what she sings, I just know she played some booger that Xander went out with once.
a.j.
Ashanti seems like a good guess, but if she's lip synching, then why didn't they pick a better singer to do the vocals? She already has a reputation for being a terrible singer.
a.j.
From this week's Popbitch:

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This Hollywood A-list celebrity isn't exactly known for her sanity, but now she's started stalking actors from movies she likes. Russell Crowe has been one of her victims. Smells like she's trying to get under celebrities' skins?
<br>Is Courntey Love still A-list? With the "smells like she's trying to get under celebrities' skins" line, I don't see who else it could be.

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This Hollywood A-list celebrity isn't exactly known for her sanity, but now she's started stalking actors from movies she likes. Russell Crowe has been one of her victims. Smells like she's trying to get under celebrities' skins?
<br>Is Courntey Love still A-list? With the "smells like she's trying to get under celebrities' skins" line, I don't see who else it could be.

We may be about to get a load of information about one celebrity couple's bedtime stories. A nanny has a six-figure deal with a tabloid, unless her silence gets bought off first. Separate bedrooms is one of her revelations.
<br>Seperate bedrooms? That's totally boring. I'm going to guess the Beckhams, but only because I can't think of any other British couples with children right now.
Rex Dart
Forget my earlier post.... "bedtime stories" suggests Madonna/Guy Ritchie.
a.j.
I always assume that blind items from popbitch are about British celebs unless they say otherwise, but that's totally not necessarily true. TomKat is a pretty good guess, because yes, those two have obviously never had sex.

eta...look at you, Mr. Clever. I totally missed the Bedtime Stories reference.
La G
QUOTE (a.j.+Dec 1 2006, 03:40 PM)
Is Courntey Love still A-list? With the "smells like she's trying to get under celebrities' skins" line, I don't see who else it could be.

She's been all over the British media this week promoting her autobiography so I think that one's a dead cert.

The Beckham's have famously prevented their ex-Nanny from going to the press. So I think Rex is correct.

From Holy Moly:

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Sound Of The (30,000 ft) Overground

Which member of pop quintet Girls Aloud recently got tiddly and fiddly with Wentworth Miller - he of the tattooed torso from hit US TV drama 'Prison Break' - during a recent Virgin (the irony) Atlantic flight to LA?
<br>I thought he was gay. I want him to be gay, because of the Church people. As it's been pointed out 'dayum' is unfitting of a Britisher - Hellfire, Criminy, Lawks a mercy .
Meglio
QUOTE (Rex Dart+Dec 1 2006, 03:43 PM)
"bedtime stories" suggests Madonna/Guy Ritchie.
I lurk on the PB board and I saw that message when it was first posted; the implication was that your interpretation is correct.
This week's are really easy! Usually I haven't a clue who they're talking about.

QUOTE
Hellfire, Criminy, Lawks a mercy
Stone the crows!
Eris Rising
QUOTE (Meglio+Dec 1 2006, 10:25 AM)
QUOTE (Rex Dart+Dec 1 2006, 03:43 PM)
"bedtime stories" suggests Madonna/Guy Ritchie.

I lurk on the PB board and I saw that message when it was first posted; the implication was that your interpretation is correct.
This week's are really easy! Usually I haven't a clue who they're talking about.

QUOTE
Hellfire, Criminy, Lawks a mercy
Stone the crows!
Cor blimey!

This is fun. All you have to do is watch Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
roseland
Also, didn't Russell Crowe and Courtney Love hook up at some point pre-Meg Ryan? I remember reading about them leaving some Hollywood awards after-party. I would just love it if Courtney Love was really stalking Russell Crowe. She's crazy. And as much as I think Russell Crowe likes to pretend he's a bad boy, I've always gotten a wimp vibe off of him.
a.j.
If we were unsure about the bedtime stories blind item from last week, this week's popbitch more or less confirms it:

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Madonna better wake up. One member of her large entourage/staff is trying to reveal details of her private life to a newspaper. The whistleblower's partner has overstayed a visa here and the couple need some quick cash to disappear abroad, hence the plan.
Gracie
Peter Boyle dead at 71.


Here's a link.
DodgerGirl
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TeslaNewton
Aw sad.gif
ladybug
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fofanna1
Shit - I didn't know he was ill. To this day, the tap dancing monster is one of my favorite laugh out loud movie moments.
Gracie
I didn't know he was ill either and 71 is just too young.

His guest role on the X-Files was one of the best.
OffTopic
I can't hear "Puttin' On The Ritz" without singing that line like Young Frankenstein's monster.
Adieu, Mr. Boyle.
floundering
Oh, what a shame. He made an indelible impression on me (i.e., frightened and repulsed) in Joe.
certified
No! I had no idea.
TeslaNewton
QUOTE (OffTopic+Dec 13 2006, 03:31 PM)
I can't hear "Puttin' On The Ritz" without singing that line like Young Frankenstein's monster.
Adieu, Mr. Boyle.
I hate that song, but Young Frankenstein's monster makes it so funny.
ladybug
Frank Barone will live forever. His best line no matter how it's delivered,"Holy Crap".

ELR is on tonight on TBS for 3 hours. I am going to watch and remember Peter Boyle's body of work and try my best not to be too sad.
DodgerGirl
Looking for some good Frank Barone quotes:

QUOTE

I tried nice once. Didn't care for it.

You are what you eat.
Marie: Robbie, give your father his order of miserable bastard.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, Peaches.

It's called protecting your sandwich!

I could have eaten a box of Alpha-Bits and crapped a better interview!

You don't know a monkey wrench from a monkey's ass.

'Luck' is the residue of good planning.

What in the holy name of crap are you talking about?

You're even dumber than I tell people.

I'd like a minute for rebuttal.

Trophy wife? What contest in hell did I win?

That's gonna need another coat.

<br>And finally:

QUOTE (->
QUOTE

I tried nice once. Didn't care for it.

You are what you eat.
Marie: Robbie, give your father his order of miserable bastard.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, Peaches.

It's called protecting your sandwich!

I could have eaten a box of Alpha-Bits and crapped a better interview!

You don't know a monkey wrench from a monkey's ass.

'Luck' is the residue of good planning.

What in the holy name of crap are you talking about?

You're even dumber than I tell people.

I'd like a minute for rebuttal.

Trophy wife? What contest in hell did I win?

That's gonna need another coat.

<br>And finally:


You want to know the meaning of life? You're born, you go to school, you go to work, you die. Canole... Marie

ladybug
Thanks so much DG! I needed that!
floundering
I caught part of a year-end gossip roundup show on E! and saw a clip of John Travolta kissing some random pilot dude on the lips. How did I miss that when it happened? Did the press mostly let it slide?
roseland
No. I remember seeing it on the front page of the tabloids and I'm pretty sure People had an article on it.
TVJunkie
Well, shoot. This is not a Christmasy piece of news!

James Brown has passed away

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IDriveATruck
I think I killed James Brown. I read about him being hospitalized and said, ''Dang - I thought he was already dead.'' And then the next day, he was; Deels is being very unforgiving about the whole situation.
Little Bear
My dad killed Roddy McDowall the same way, IDAT. He saw him on an A&E Biography of Elizabeth Taylor or something like that and said, "He's dead, right?" McDowall died a day later. So don't feel too bad. It happens.
roseland
So...

Jessica Simpson. Dead already, right?
Gracie
QUOTE (roseland+Dec 31 2006, 12:20 AM)
So...

Jessica Simpson. Dead already, right?
I could swear I read somewhere that Paris Hilton killed her and then turned the gun on herself.



*did it work?*
DodgerGirl
Didn't I just hear Michael Jackson took a wrong turn off the road and drove into the Grand Canyon?
cassandra
And wasn't he with Kevin Federline?
copssister
PageSix.com's latest "Just Asking" (and my guesses):
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WHICH ubiquitous blond clotheshorse is gaining a reputation for being dumb as a brick, obnoxious, spoiled and hard to work with? Look for several business deals to fall through next year due to her waning appeal.
Jessica Simpson
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QUOTE
WHICH ubiquitous blond clotheshorse is gaining a reputation for being dumb as a brick, obnoxious, spoiled and hard to work with? Look for several business deals to fall through next year due to her waning appeal.
Jessica SimpsonWHICH terrifyingly thin celeb convinced friends she needs to re-enter rehab for anorexia by telling them she survives on decaf Starbucks and mixed nuts?
Mary-Kate Olsen, she's always photgraphed at Starbucks.
QUOTE
WHICH back-stabbing friend of an overly publicized starlet is on retainer at a high-selling tabloid? When she's not trying to copy the star or steal her boyfriends, she's selling secrets to the rags.
Kimberly Stewart?
Magpie
I'm gonna guess Paris Hilton for the first one, just because I just read about the deal with Club Paris.
a.j.
I'll guess Sienna Miller for the first one. I don't think it's Jessica or Paris because I don't think either of those women are "gaining" a rep for being stupid, spoiled and obnoxious.
Meglio
Is Sienna Miller ubiquitous in the US? As a citizen of Britain, I extend my apologies.

I rather hope the guess is correct.
potmeetskettle
I read some less-than-flattering gossip on Scarlett Johanson recently that leads me to believe it could be her.
Calendae
Is Mischa Barton blond?
fofanna1
The photos are here:
Page 6 Blind Items
Scroll down the page a bit.
Magpie
Cool, but those are just the blogger's guesses, right?
fofanna1
Oh - I guess so - I assumed that the photos were the match for that particular item of gossip but that there was no guarantee that the gossip was true.
copssister
More from PageSix:
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WHICH desperate housewife (not from the show) who lives with her well-born, wealthy husband in New Jersey just bought an apartment off Fifth Avenue? She uses the pad for rendezvous with her lover of three years, a married exec with a financial services giant.
Dunno
QUOTE (->
QUOTE
WHICH desperate housewife (not from the show) who lives with her well-born, wealthy husband in New Jersey just bought an apartment off Fifth Avenue? She uses the pad for rendezvous with her lover of three years, a married exec with a financial services giant.
DunnoWHICH Tinseltown sex siren with a humanitarian streak has resumed her old habit of dabbling with heroin? She paid a recent visit to an old rock star friend and joined him in narcotic stupor.
Pamela Anderson
QUOTE
WHICH married-with-children network anchorman is in trouble again with his wife? Someone tattled, and she learned he misbehaved with a comely co-worker at the office Christmas party.
Matt Lauer
Msquared
Descendents of the original characters? Isn't that kind of like when Chrissy's cousin (or sister, or whoever she was) came to live with Jack and Janet after Suzanne Somers left Three's Company? You know really bugs me? I never watched that show, and I still know that.
Msquared
Say it with me. "If those two whacky kids can't make it, what chance do the rest of us have."
Little Bear
It pains me to say it, and we're missing Cusack's side, but I think the Piv's coming off a tad bitchy there.
Mike-El
I've always dug the guy's movies but I've read a lot of first-hand accounts of Cusack being a real dick to fans.

ladybug
I tend to agree with Little Bear. Piven has a rep for being difficult and Cusack does not. That says something to me.
qb9b
I've heard the same about Cusack - that his onscreen personality was opposite from the nice characters he always plays.
roseland
Yeah, I don't know about Piven but it seems pretty widespread knowledge that Cusack is an ass. And it pains me to say that because he's a Chicago boy.
buffyvol
*LALALALA Not hearing anything bad about John Cusack LALALALALA*
Msquared
I think they're probably both asses, even though I love them, and should kiss and make up. So either Jeremy has gotten a big head, or John's being a jealous ass. Or both.
I'm just so torn up about it.
cassandra
Oh God. First Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, and now this.
Say Anything....but this!

I refuse to pick teams (my heart would break instantaneously if I did, so invested am I in the Cusack-Piven dynamic duo) but I think it's a little deeper than just John Cusack being jealous of Piven's success. I believe Piven when he says he's not jealous or envious of his friends -- on the other hand, his friends have done a lot for his career so naturally he would see his success as linked to theirs. For instance, would Piven have been in a lot of those previous roles without Cusack, the bigger star, pulling him onboard? And I speak as one who would jump his bones in a split nanosecond. (And no, not because of Entourage. Because of his role in Cupid.)

Now that Piven is a bigger star than Cusack, the whole power dynamic has changed. Cusack probably believes he helped Piven get where he is, and maybe he believes Piven isn't reciprocating with some role on the show or something. Cusack probably really got used to the spotlight, and especially for stars that's hard to share.

It's a little sad that Piven took it to the press, however. I agree with you Little Bear I think he does come off bitchy, especially when he got all on his high horse about his lack of envy with this:

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"I have always been so proud of my friends' success. I own that proudly because I come by it naturally. I was raised on that spirit of collaboration. ... You start getting into trouble in life when you start comparing and contrasting your life to anyone else's. You don't win when you do that."
<br>I mean, I believe him. But still. I wish he would have been a little been more graceful about it and didn't talk trash in the press. I want them back together!



ladybird
Is Piven really a bigger star than John Cusack, though? John Cusack is a pretty well known movie star, even if he hasn't been anything that great lately. Entourage might get a lot of press, but it's on HBO, so not that many people watch it. I know he won an Emmy for it and everything, but is he really a household name? He does have that Smokin' Aces movie coming out, but that looks like crap.

Whatever, I'm sure they're both assholes.
ladybug
I was wondering the same thing. I think Cusack is a bigger name and has more movies. Piven is on Entourage, which I love. But HBO is a smaller audience.
cassandra
Yeah, I see that. I guess Cusack is the bigger star in general. Stars are only as good as their latest project, though. Cusack's last major movie was what, America's Sweethearts? And that tanked. And before that it was Serendipity, I think, and that tanked too.

So Piven may be small-time in comparison, but he's hot right now because his show is doing well. HBO is not a huge audience, but think of the press Piven is getting, and the Emmy and Golden Globe talk and all the rest of it. I imagine he's probably getting some good scripts, where Cusack is not getting as many calls. Just my theory.
Joe Don Faker
user posted image

hug it out
Msquared
JDF, thank you so much for that picture. You can't imagine how important it is to me to remember when things were good between J/J.
Mike-El
One thing's for sure...it can't be because Cusack is jealous of Piven's rug.

Is it supposed to be obvious on his show that he wears that thing? Because it's downright Shatnerian.
ladybug
The Ice Harvest was Cuscack's last movie and Must Love Dogs before that. He needs a hit. Big time.
whome
Can I just repeat
QUOTE
*LALALALA Not hearing anything bad about John Cusack LALALALALA*
Gracie
QUOTE (whome+Jan 10 2007, 12:19 AM)
Can I just repeat
QUOTE
*LALALALA Not hearing anything bad about John Cusack LALALALALA*
Yes.

Piven does come off bitchy there but maybe he was just drunk or something. I'm kinda hoping we never hear Cusack's side of it.
DodgerGirl
You know Cusack's house in Malibu Colony was in danger of this recent fire? Apparently he was outside with a hose trying to wet down his and neighbor's houses.
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