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All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities

Hollywood glittered Sunday night as the movie industry celebrated itself in it’s annual Oscar night. The show, co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, is being widely panned as boring and predictable. The show was boring, the winners predictable. The top winners were:

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’nique (Precious)
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)

If there was any surprises, it was that one movie didn’t dominate as is often the case. Favourite, and most nominated movie Avatar, won three Oscar’s: Visual Effects; Cinematography and Art Direction.

Review in Brief: Alice in Wonderland: “It was,” the twelve year old boy shrugged, “OK.”

Higher praise you will not find.

Counterpoint to Oscar night is the Golden Raspberries. The Razzies, which get handed out the night before the Oscars, celebrate the worst performances in movie-dom.

For the first time someone has won both the Oscar and Razzie for acting, as Oscar nights Best Actress Sandra Bullock received the Worst Actress honours for All About Steve. To her eternal credit, Bullock showed up at the 30th annual Razzie awards to receive her award.

Other Razzie winners were:

Worst Picture: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Worst Actors: The Jonas Brothers (Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience.
Worst Supporting Actor: Billy Ray Cirus: Hannah Montana: The Movie
Worst Supporting Actress: Sienna Miller: G.I Joe: The Rise of the Cobra

Miley Cyrus this week had this to say about her relationship with her new boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth:

I think we’re both deeper than normal people…

Which makes them… deeply abnormal?

Pink Floyd won a major court victory this week that prevents EMI from releasing any Pink Floyd recordings in any form except the complete albums.  Floyd originally negotiated a contract that allowed Floyd to block releasing any song individually. In the era of MP3s and iTunes, Floyd decided they are still an album band. A stand that is to be respected, but you have to wonder what it does to Pink Floyd’s long term fan base.

Corey Haim (1971-2010) – Corey Haim was a star for approximately five years during the 1980’s. He seems to have spent the rest of his life paying for his teenage celebrity.

One of the two Coreys, Haim died this week of a suspected accidental overdose – probably prescription drugs – after years of drug abuse.

Originally from Toronto, Haim will be buried in Toronto.

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All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities.

Demi Moore is threatening to sue “celebrity blogger” (or as I like to call him, “Darwinian proof that an IQ is not a requirement to operate a computer”) Perez Hilton. Hilton linked to pictures of Moore’s fifteen year old daughter in a tiny bikini top and shortish shorts. Using Twitter as her platform, the former Mrs. Bruce Willis, current Mrs. Aston Kutcher accuses Hilton of encouraging child porn: “Clearly Perez Hilton isn’t taking violating child pornography laws very seriously. He might not but there are a lot of people who do! Anyone who advertises follows or supports Perez supports violating child pornography laws!”

Hilton has answered by calling Moore’s claims: “libellous, defamatory, inaccurate and stupid.” Four subjects Perez Hilton knows a thing or two about.

Review in Brief – Inglourious Basterds: Funny, violent and better than the reviewers are saying.

Led Zeppelin story of the week, courtesy of Ramble On: John Paul Jones new band, Them Crooked Vultures, is doing a mini tour of North America in October and the UK in December. Shows will be in Austin, Nashville, Columbus, Detroit, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. Your truly will be at the Toronto show, so expect to be bored silly for the next month with Them Crooked Vulture tid-bits.

Celebrity Twitter: (mrskutcher) Anyone who advertises follows or supports Perez supports violating child pornography laws!

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