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All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities

Anne Hathaway has tied the knot, marrying her man of more than four years, Adam Shulman, in a sunset wedding at Big Sur, California last Saturday.

Hathaway wore Valentino and when the minister asked if anybody had any reason to object to the marriage, the FBI did not stand up.

Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill also stepped across the aisle this weekend, marrying model Martha Patterson. The Leonic King and the bikini beauty hitched up in a rustic ceremony in Charlotte, Tennessee.

No word on whether there was a fireplace.

Returning to our regular programming, Lindsay Lohan was assaulted in her hotel room last weekend.

Lohan invited Christian LaBella back to her room after partying at 1 Oak Saturday night. She then discovered a number of pictures of her on his phone, and confronted him about the pictures. He attacked, and Lindsay pulled the fire alarm to bring in the police. Lohan received minor scratches and turned down medical help and LaBella was charged with 2 counts of assault and 2 counts of harassment.

While Lohan is the victim in this story, I’m reminded of Glenn Hughes response to being punched by a roadie in a hotel elevator in the wee hours:

“Normal people don’t get beaten up in hotels at four in the morning.”

Here’s a quiz. Pretend your a bookie, your job is to give out odds on events. There’s four people in a room, including Mariah Carey. One of those four people has a complete diva-like meltdown. What are the odds the meltdown was someone other than Carey?

Well, get ready to pay Mr. Vegas. TMZ posted video of American Idol tryouts from Charlotte. This year judges, in case you have a modicum of taste and simply don’t know or care, are Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Nicki Manaj and Carey. In the video, Manaj is going completely off the handle, shouting and swearing at Carey: “I told them, I’m not fuckin’ putting up with her fuckin’ highness over there.”

Carey apparently argued back, with Urban, physically between the two, tried to calm things down.

Nicki Manaj with a superiority complex: now I’ve heard everything.

Fluffernutter Anne Hathaway, Christian LaBella, Glenn Hughes, Jared Followill, Keith Urban, Lindsay Lohan, Mariah Carey, Martha Patterson, Nicki Manaj, Randy Jackson

All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities

For some “stars,” it’s all they can do but take advantage of their fans. Apparently, Nicki Manaj, a singer of some form, is one of those.

Manaj was PO’d last weekend when a fan site, NickyDaily.com leaked a new, never before heard song by the rapper. So what did she do? Delete her twitter account. Leaving with a parting shot at an unfair life that has given her money and fame far beyond any ability, Manaj basically blamed her whole fan base for one website.

Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good f–king bye,

Twitter loses one: twitter gains one.

After an hiatus from her twitter account following her very public marriage break up, prescription drug problem and rehab stint, Demi Moore returned to twitter this week.

The actress/cougar hasn’t been seen much since husband Ashton Kutcher stepped out on the MILF queen. Her first tweet since the breakup was a photo of herself lying on her bed (sorry guys, fully clothed). She later tweeted that she was looking to change her twitter name, which is currently @mrskutcher.

I’d suggest @mrsgardiner, but the current occupant of that position might object.

This just in: The Tupac hologram has been shot. I repeat, the Tupac hologram has been shot. RIP Tupac hologram. 2012 – 2012. (h/t to Gord)

Breaking news. Nicky Manaj says the voices in her head made her quit twitter, and she is thinking of rejoining the “look at me” site.

We’re shocked.

Wouldn’t it be nice if once, just once, fans of these vacuous, talentless fame junkies didn’t return when these Diva’s treat them like shite. I know if I was running the free publicity web site she bashed it would have been an ex-web site by about last Sunday.

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Lousy, lousy week to be a music fan. Doesn’t matter if you’re period is the 50’s and 60’s, late 60’s and through the 70’s or disco era, there’s bad news.

Former Bee Gee Robin Gibb is in a London hospital suffering pneumonia. Gibb has been fighting cancer and the pnemonia appears to be of the fatal variety. Friends and family were called to his bedside last weekend where Gibb fell into a coma.

No recent word on his health, but prognosis does not seem to be good.

How did you know you made it in rock’n’roll in the 50’s?

You were on American Bandstand.

And if you were on American Bandstand, you got bigger and you had Dick Clark to thank for that. Clark was the host of the popular music and dance program form 1957 to 1987.

On top of Bandstand, he hosted Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve from Times Square from 1975-2004, when he stopped hosting duties after suffering a stroke.

On Wednesday Clark died after suffering a heart attack following a medical procedure. The timeless entertainer, known for seeming to have not aged in his 50 years in the public eye was 82.

I don’t normally do mourning for celebrities or are bothered too terribly by the death of someone famous whether I liked them or not. Sure, I have empathy for the deceased, and always try to be graceful if I write a eulogy. But they are people I have never met and the effect on my life is minimal. I note their passing, try and offer some thoughts but don’t get too emotional. So this week when Levon Helm died and I found myself deeply saddened, I can’t answer why.

Helm was by all accounts a decent, easy man who did what he did simply because he loved music. When his health failed and treatment for cancer of the larynx took his voice and his money, he kept on playing, creating the somewhat legendary Midnight Rambles at his farm in Woodstock NY, the greatest show I never made it too but really, really intended too.

It took a number of years, but Helm worked his voice back, and if you listen to Dirt Farmer from 2007, it’s clear he is back in fine form.

After asking the audience at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions to pray for Helm last Saturday, there was a report that ex band mate Robbie Robertson went to Helm to attempt to repair a 30 year rift. On Tuesday, Helms family announced via his web page that his cancer had returned and that he was near the end.

Sadly, he passed Thursday afternoon.

Helm was the drummer, but also played mandolin and guitar, in The Band. The lone American in the otherwise Canadian outfit, Helm had one of the strongest and most soulful voices in rock music. He never really lost his Arkansas accent when he sang, and it gave his singing a character others simply didn’t have.

Levon Helm was, simply put, a vital part of one of the greatest rock bands ever. He was 71.

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