TinselTown Trash

Archive for July, 2007

What the hell is wrong with Lindsay Lohan anyway? How many chances does she need? How many does she get? I, for one, am getting tired of hearing about her escalades…. Err… Escapades. Maybe, just maybe, she has no idea where to draw the line. Someone should draw that line for her, and make her stay on the right side of it. Is it just me or does she seem like she’s fallen off one too many bar stools?

Someone sent me a strange email today asking if we lived in Southern California as well as several other odd questions, so I thought I would answer a couple of them here.

Well, I used to, for a short time. My wife and I met on the internet, and moved to Simi Valley for 4 months before she got homesick for the North Georgia Mountains. We don’t live in North Georgia, in the boonies, not L.A., and we have Century furniture, not the post-modern stuff you find on the west coast.

I hope that answers the questions you may have had. Ha!

Welcome to the first in a new series here on TinselTown Trash. Each Tuesday I will try to post a “less than flattering” photo of some of your favorite celebrities.

Our inaugural train wreck? Lindsay Lohan, of course.

(click the photo to enlarge the wreck)

Do you remember, Juice Newton?

Who could forget Queen of Hearts?

So what has she been up to?

On July 20th she performed at a free concert at Terrible’s Lakeside amphitheater in Pahrump, Nevada!

Her website is loaded with information about upcoming concerts and news. You can also visit her myspace page and listen to some other classics, like Love’s Been A Little.

I saw her in concert once, many, many, years ago, and I’ll never forget it. Her style of music is like no other.

Well, it’s over… Jerry Yang won the World Series of Poker.

As I was saying last week, I love poker, and since my post last week I have been visiting poker.com. I figure the only way I am going to learn how to play is to start playing, or at least reading about those who are playing.

I think my biggest problem is that I love to multi-task all the time. It doesn’t matter what I am doing, whether I am watching the latest Celebrity Poker game, or reading the poker blog, I always have to be doing two things at once, or else I get bored very easily.

Just tonight I was wriitng some notes and reading the poker forum at the same time. Now those guys are smart. If I have any chance of learning what I need to know, I will find it at poker.com, that’s for sure.

I am probably a few years away from working up the courage to play in any real poker tournaments, but I’ll get there. Eventually.

Amy Winehouse has serious issues, and now it seems she’s spiraling out of control.

Brit singer Amy Winehouse shocked her fans with yet another appalling act during a gig at Eden Project in Cornwall, where she took to the stage once again after canceling gigs for almost two weeks.

The gig took off peacefully, but after two songs Winehouse fled the stage. She returned to the stage in a while and suddenly slapped herself in the face and banged her head continuously against the microphone.

The 23-year-old then forgot the lyrics of her own songs and began spewing swear words in the middle.

To make matter worse, she spat into the crowd who had paid 33 pounds for her show.

What is it with stars who think they are all that? Her biggest claim to fame right now is not showing up for her own performances, so what makes her think people are going to tolerate her spoiled brat temper tantrums?

She’s becoming so nasty, heck, she’s almost becoming the kind of girl you don’t ever want to find in the back of your truck, even if you have a truck bed liner.

She’s obviously got some talent or else people wouldn’t be paying money to see her., so let’s hope she get’s some help and cleans up her act.

Rosie O’Donnell has turned down an offer from NBC’s Ben Silverman to appear on “Celebrity Apprentice”.

Imagine that. Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t want to appear on the same show as Donald Trump. Who would have thought that would happen?

Even if she wanted too, how would she pull it off?

With taping of Nip/Tuck set to resume, and her cruises, how would she manage to find the time to squeeze that into her schedule?

It would have made for interesting television, that’s for sure.

Keep Merv Griffin in your prayers this week.

Merv Griffin has been hospitalized for a recurrence of prostate cancer, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. He was being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for cancer discovered during a routine examination a few weeks ago, said Marcia Newberger, spokeswoman for The Griffin Group/Merv Griffin Entertainment.

“I’d rather play Jeopardy! than live it,” the 82-year-old game show impresario and former talk show host said in a statement. “I was ready for a vacation; however, this wasn’t the destination I had in mind.”

Here’s a clip of Merv, just because I can.

 
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