Todd Bridges Brust Into Tears During Interview With Oprah Winfrey

pril 29, 2010 07:29:18 GMT
The actor can't hold back his tears when recalling terrible memories of a childhood molestation which happened when he was just eleven.

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Former child star Todd Bridges broke down as he read an extract from his memoirs on U.S. TV show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Wednesday, April 28 - because his own words brought back terrible memories of a childhood molestation. Host Oprah Winfrey asked the ex-"Diff'rent Strokes" star to read from his book, "Killing Willis", after he revealed how the sex acts had begun when he was just 11.

The actor explained that a trusted male mentor and publicist had treated him to gifts and urged him to ignore the adulation of screaming girl fans before sexually abusing him. Bridges started reading and lost his composure as he fought back tears. He continued, "He pulled my pants down. He put his mouth on me and I got hard. I didn't know where to look or how to feel. I squirmed against the back of the seat... I hoped it would be over fast. That's what happened; I came."

He added, "As I confessed and I was upset about it, I liked the way that it felt. I didn't think about whether or not it was wrong." The actor held his head in his hand and started crying as he put the book down and told Winfrey, "I'm past it but it still hurts because it ruined my life. I spent the rest of my time trying to cover up how I felt about it, that pain."

Bridges composed himself after a commercial break and revealed his molester, a man named Ronald, tried to take the place of his father - and he had confusing moments where he just attacked the man who stole his innocence. The actor's mother, who was in the studio audience, revealed her son's strange behavior struck a chord with her - because she had been molested as a child, also.

Bridges explained, "My mother took me off of him. I think she knew right away what had happened." His mum then chased Ronald out of the house with a knife and called her son's father, who refused to believe Bridges had been molested.

The actor recalled, "That really destroyed me because my father was supposed to be my protector. He didn't protect me." At that point, Bridges broke down again and sobbed, "He allowed this man to do this to me and didn't help me. I have kids today (and) if my kids told me that, I'm going to jail; that guy's dead. There's no way he's gonna live."

Todd Bridges also talked about his relationship with Janet Jackson, saying he resisted a romance with her - because he refused to treat her like the other girls he used and abused. He bedded girls like co-star Dana Plato and fans - but there was something about Jackson, who played his girlfriend on the beloved sitcom, that made him turn down her bids for a real-life romance.

"I backed away from her because she was such a nice person and so good to me that I just couldn't see myself hurting her like that... (but) we went out for a little while," he said.

Robert Pattinson's Date on 'Ellen DeGeneres Show

April 29, 2010 07:56:16 GMT
Next month, the depicter of Edward Cullen in 'Twilight' series makes a return to the daytime show to promote the third installment of the vampire saga.

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Robert Pattinson will stop by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" next month in a bid to promote his latest movie. He had appeared on the show last year in support of "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" and he returns to Ellen DeGeneres' couch this time around for its sequel "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse".

The episode will air on Wednesday, May 19 but Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the series, will tape the appearance a day before. The appearance is considerably early for "Eclipse" will only be unleashed to U.S. theaters on June 30.

However, promotional appearances are indeed focused on the time frame for Pattinson is also scheduled to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on May 13. In this particular daytime show, he will be joined by Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Dakota Fanning.

On another news, Robert Pattinson departed from London to Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday, April 28 morning to re-shoot some scenes of "Eclipse". His co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were already spotted on the set earlier that day, flying from LAX.

See Kendra Wilkinson Shake Her Booty—Now!

wed., Apr.21, 20102:15 PM GMT by SUCCESS

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Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett isn't letting mommyhood get in the way of having some bootylicious fun.

The E! reality star jumped on stage at KDAY radio's Krush Groove concert on Friday night in L.A. to do some rather rigorous booty shaking while her rapper pal Too $hort performed his hit, "Blow the Whistle."

But you're not going to believe who's taking Kendra to task for the impromptu performance—former porn star Jenna Jameson!

"I think it's weird when new moms act exactly the way they did when they didn't have babies," Jameson tweeted.

Another tweet read, "You don't see me acting out like a heathen."

Um, okay, Ms. Jameson.

Seriously, folks, Jameson needs to loosen up. Was the booty bonanza really all that bad? We'll let you be the judge. Check out the video after the jump...

Kendra, who hit the concert with a gal-pal, defends her booty jiggling. "Wow, got some haters cuz I'm havin fun," she tweeted. "Crazy! Chill it's just a lil ass shakin haha."

The new mom, who was a runner-up on VH1's Celebrity Rap Superstar, also had the chance to hang out with rappers Xzibit, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and DJ Quik during the night.

Lost Redux: Was It Worth the Wait?

wed., Apr. 20, 2010 01:44 PM GMT bysuccess

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Oh, bless you, Lost writers. Before you undoubtedly tear us to pieces in the coming weeks, you gave us something good tonight.

A moment we've all been waiting years for finally happened—holler!—but it was actually four little words earlier in the episode that brought me to tears...

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You can find out those four little words in the "What Lies Ahead" section below.

WHAT WE LEARNED

Sun and Jin Are Reunited and It Feels So Good. Fina-freakin'-ly! Did anyone else expect the fence on the beach to zap Sun and/or Jin as they ran toward each other for their long-awaited reunion? Thank you, Lost bosses, for giving us this one pure, lovely moment amid all the island-war chaos that is building. Jin vowed to Sun that they "will never be apart again," and based on what I've heard so far I'm thinking that is probably gonna be true.

Jack Is a Man of Faith Now: Dr. Jack Shepard (Matthew Fox) has come full circle from where he began on this series as the "Man of Science," taking a quite obvious, physical and metaphorical "leap of faith" as Sawyer described it, jumping off the boat to see what else the island needs from him. With each passing episode, Jack is shaping up to be a more realistic replacement for Jacob--which of course probably means that it won't be him. Though the Locke Mess Monster believes that Jack is "with" him now, I'd put a whole heap of money on Jack keeping his wits about him and not "drinking the Locke Kool-Aid," as James put it, in the final episodes.

Desmond Is Getting Freakier by the Minute. OK, I know the guy is special and all and he has a master plan to make all the Flight 815-ers in the Sideways world remember, but let the record show that if Des were following my 8-month pregnant ass around an office building like Claire, I would kindly shut that elevator door in his face, with one hand on my mace. That said, Desmond has such an ethereal, purposeful, calm demeanor both on the island and off (even while holed up in that well about to get shot by Sayid) that it's clear he knows so much more than most, if not all, the other Losties. Turns out that being able to willfully jump between space and time gives you all kinds of insight.

Re-examining John Locke: That scene in which Fake Locke and Jack first came face to face had some pretty great revelatory moments did it not? I now understand why Matthew Fox was too busy the day I was on set to jibber-jab with me...He was prepping for that night scene with Terry O'Quinn. We now know with 100 percent certainty that the Man in Black took the shape of Jack's father Christian Shepard (and who else?), and we were reminded by Jack that John Locke "was the only one of us who ever believed in this place [the island]" and "did everything he could to keep us from leaving." I just can't help but wonder, is there any way John Locke from the Sideways world could end up being the new Jacob on the island? Mayhaps? Cause at this point I'm pulling for Locke or maybe Desmond to claim the throne, even though they're not on "the list." You?

Kate Didn't Kiss Anyone: So it seems Evangeline's vanilla-mint chapstick is staying put for the time being. Hmph! (If you missed all my on-set interviews from tonight's episode, including Evangeline's kiss talk, they're down below.)

Exchange of the Night: Sawyer: "Sayid has gone over to the Dark Side." Hurley: "Yeah, but you can always bring people back from the dark side. I mean, Anakin." Sawyer: "Who the hell is Anakin?" Did you ever hear Damon Lindelof is a huge Star Wars fan?

WHAT LIES AHEAD

"The baby is fine." Why, you may ask, did I outright sob when Jin said those four words to Sun in the hospital in the Sideways world? Because I have it on good authority that things are going to get very ugly for many of our favorite Losties in coming weeks, and I'm pushing for most if not all of them to land in their lives in the Sideways world at the very end. (Please oh please, Darlton, make it so?) Of course, in the case of Sun and Jin, that only works if their baby girl survived. And she did!

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John Locke Is in Good Hands: Another plea for the outcome of the Sideways world? John Locke seems to be on his way to being able to walk there too, and have Helen (Katey Segal) and eat their wedding cake, too. Jack, who is told "that's why we called you in" when he arrived to the hospital, seems considerably more confident and qualified to perform a miracle...Especially now that he's a man of faith!

The Man in Black Is Tom Hanks! According to tonight's promo, the Man in Black's "soul had gone mad...living alone in the wilderness." Are you to tell me that if he'd had a volleyball-head pal like Wilson in Castaway, all this evil could have been avoided? Damn.

Bring a Hanky Next Episode. You will cry. Unless the smoke monster already ate your soul.

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What did you think of tonight's episode? Is Jack really on Team Black now or is he playing Locke and only interested in fulfilling his island fate? Were you disappointed there wasn't more of the Kate-Jack-Sawyer triangle in this episode, or happy it's taking the backseat for the final episodes? Bets on Jack's baby mama in the Sideways world? Discuss below...

Notorious B.I.G. Family's Civil Suit All Played Out

wed., Apr. 20, 2010 01:37 PM GMT by success

Notorious B.I.G.'s murder remains unsolved, and his family has never let Los Angeles forget it.

A federal judge has dismissed the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the rapper's mother, Voletta Wallace, against the city, in which she claimed the police department purposely dropped the ball on the investigation into her son's death to shield whoever fatally shot the Ready to Die artist in 1997.

But while B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, is long gone, his memory has been kept alive by court filings just as much as it has by his musical legacy.

Wallace first sued the city in 2002. The case went to trial in 2005 but L.A. Superior Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, since deceased, declared a mistrial after learning that the LAPD and the city's attorneys withheld documents that connected two imprisoned police officers to the crime.

The judge ordered the city to pay Wallace $1.1 million in sanctions in January 2006. Wallace refiled her suit in 2007, adding the two aforementioned cops as defendants.

The hefty complaint was dismissed April 5 without prejudice, meaning she could refile her case at another time.

But while this would appear to be another nail in Biggie Smalls' coffin, the Wallace family is still carrying a torch for criminal justice.

"We run the risk of pursuing a case against some people, and later finding out we went after the wrong people," Bradley Gage, an attorney for the fam, told the Los Angeles Times, adding that the 13-year-old criminal case has been "gathering speed and steam."

"There is benefit to both sides on waiting on this case. Murder has no statute of limitations, so the criminal issues linger on."

‘Death’s’ humor takes a holiday

Chris Rock seems miscast and director Neil LaBute never finds the proper tone in the multicultural comedy

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Director Neil LaBute's new comedy, "Death at a Funeral," which stars a posse of comics headed by Chris Rock, is the movie version of karaoke. It sings the same tune as the 2007 British underground hit, but it's a little, and at times a lot, off-key.

Anyone who saw the original Frank Oz comedy of manners, with its Pandora's box of problems sharing coffin space with the deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional English family, should hold on to whatever fond memories they might have. For the rest, this new "Death" has its moments, but on the whole the production is, as "American Idol's" Randy Jackson might say, very pitchy and a couple of beats behind.

The problems start with Rock, who also serves as a producer on the film, which I guess gave him dibs on whatever role he wanted; he took the straight guy. Why? As Aaron, he's the serious older brother to whom all the funeral planning falls, including a eulogy that promises to be deadly (the stack of note cards and the stilted speech he keeps rehearsing is the clue). But Rock wears boring like an ill-fitting suit.

Other than asking one of the funniest comics around to play the nebbishy central character, the film hews so closely to the original that it can feel like an echo chamber with words, scenes, plot twists, even the graphic style of the opening credits borrowed. The script, for which original writer Dean Craig again gets credit, replaces British slang with American but keeps the same cast of characters, and in the case of Peter Dinklage, the uninvited guest who stirs the pot and thickens the plot, the same actor as well.

For the uninitiated, "Death" is very much an ensemble farce swirling around the death of the father — in this case an affluent African American family long settled in an upscale South Pasadena neighborhood. Although Aaron and his wife have been living at home with the parents, Ryan ( Martin Lawrence) is the favorite son who left years ago for New York, where he's a successful novelist and the source of much unresolved sibling rivalry. The assorted extended family is a multicultural cast consisting of doctors, investment brokers and other professional types, each with a set of issues they're working through.

Those intersecting issues get passed around like a hot potato, which makes for a fast-moving film, with broad slapstick carrying the comedy, including the conservative boyfriend who is on a bad acid trip to an unfortunate encounter with poop. The stick that gets slapped around the most is Dinklage, as someone small enough to be stuffed into tight spots when the spot he thrusts the family into turns out to be tight indeed.

LaBute has done better mining the fun out of some of the setups than others, with James Marsden engaging as the accidentally drugged boyfriend who's now gone commando and Tracy Morgan a good fit as the fat friend saddled with wheelchair-bound old Uncle Russell ( Danny Glover) and all the bodily issues and anger that accompany his advancing age.

In fact, most of the ancillary bits swirling around the brothers hold up to the translation pretty well. But when the center is weak, the cake falls, and that's what happens here.

Rock and Lawrence just never gel as dueling brothers. In the film, Aaron is conflicted about his future, but Rock is even more conflicted about his comedy. He swings between the searing situational outrage, which grounds the very best of his observational stand-up and the strait-laced, tradition-bound son and henpecked husband he is supposed to be. Meanwhile, Lawrence acts more like a party guest floating through than a member of the family, a loose end the filmmaker can't quite tie up.

It's almost as if LaBute, whose work usually comes with a serious mean streak, whether drama ("In the Company of Men") or comedy ("Nurse Betty"), wasn't quite sure how to play nice. Though he knows how to put on a funeral so that it's a polished and proficient affair, he never completely embraces "Death" and makes it his own.

Seagal's Ex 'Not Surprised' By 'Sex' Allegations

Originally posted Apr 20th 2010 01:10 pm GMT by afeez oba
Steven Seagal's ex-wife, Kelly LeBrock, tells TMZ she's "not surprised" by the allegations that Seagal treated a former female employee as his own personal "sex toy."


LeBrock -- who had three children with the action star during their marriage from 1987 to 1994 -- added, "I will refrain from saying anything specific now because of our 3 children."

And why is Kelly so tight lipped? Well, here's a small clue ... LeBrock told us, "I have many shocking things to say about Mr. Seagal which will be known soon when my book comes out."

And that folks is what we call "a tease."

Larry King's Wife Shawn Southwick Hit Back With Affair Scandal

April 20, 2010 07:51:56 GMT

A baseball coach claimed in an interview with National television that he once had an affair with Shawn Southwick who previously accused of Larry King cheating on her with her own sister.

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A baseball coach who mentored Larry King's kids has revealed he's the reason for the newsman's marriage troubles - because he briefly romanced the TV personality's wife. In a taped interview with U.S. news show Entertainment Tonight, which will air on Wednesday, April 21, Hector Penate reveals what started with a stolen kiss in a car became a full-blown affair.

And he insists King's wife Shawn Southwick talked to him about divorcing the CNN anchorman "all the time". He adds, "(She said) Don't worry he's gonna die soon."

King and Southwick both filed divorce papers last week and they are currently in counseling trying to save their marriage. Lawyer Dennis Wasser told TMZ on April 19, "Larry and Shawn met with the counselor today It was decided that there will be no divorce activity for two weeks as several issues need to be discussed and resolved."

Jennifer Aniston goes nude for GQ

Jen bares all

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Jennifer Aniston bared more than her soul for this month's issue of GQ.

Aniston, the ever gorgeous nearly-40-year-old is almost nude on the cover -- and inside -- except for that pesky neck tie. Looking better than many 20-year-old starlets, Jen chats with the magazine about her new love, her old love, and all the rumors.

Calling the relationship between her, ex-husband Brad Pitt and admitted former mistress and now mother hen to his six children Angelina Jolie, she jokes, "The funny thing is that people don't realize we all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends. No. Can you imagine? That'd be hysterical: I've got Zahara on my hip, and Knox..."

What does Jen think now that both Angelina and Brad have come clean about their relationship starting while Brad was still married -- something both denied for several years?

"Well, you know, that was definitely a confirmation for me of something that wasn't quite confirmed at the time. But listen... You sit there and you... No. No daggers through the heart. I laugh. Am I surprised? Well, how do I say this?... Considering the source, nothing surprises me."

Zing!

She does say that while she and Angelina have absolutely no contact, Jen and Brad still keep in touch occasionally. "When there's something to congratulate or celebrate, there's an exchange," she said. "But there's no charge on it."

And how about that John Mayer character? "Honestly, did not know much about him before I met him. I'd heard... you know, uh 'Your Body' -- that song. But what I can say is that I had no idea what an extraordinary musician he is. And it's just great to sit and be witness to that. It's kind of like, Whoa!"

But no -- she is not having his baby, and the couple so far has no plans to wed.

Chris Brown Up for Charity Concert With Keri Hilson, T-Pain and More

April 20, 2010 08:25:04 GMT
There are also Trey Songz, Ryan Leslie, Mario and Juelz Santana booked for the upcoming concert which will benefit Haitian relief effort.

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Chris Brown is going to headline a charity gig in Richmond, Virginia on May 15. The R&B performer who previously performed at BET's "SOS: Help for Haiti" will be joined by the likes of Keri Hilson, Trey Songz, T-Pain, Ryan Leslie, Mario and Juelz Santana.

Dubbed "Virginia Stand Up! A Call to Action", the concert will take place at Virginia Commonwealth University's Siegel Center. It is aimed to benefit the Greater Richmond Chapter of the American Red Cross for their Haitian relief efforts and the Central Virginia Food Bank, which provides food for those in need.

"I wanted to find a way to contribute personally to the ongoing Haitian relief effort and also support an organization that helps people in need in my home state," the ex-boyfriend of Rihanna said in a statement. "The images I see on television, both in my community and in Haiti, remind me that everyone has to do their part."

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Lauren Conrad Wanted for a Hills Return—in France!

Apr. 17, 2010

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We doubt Lauren Conrad has plans to return to The Hills, even for the series finale. But maybe a former boss will convince the 24-year-old otherwise.

"The show gave her a great run," Teen Vogue editor Lisa Love told us last night at Diego Della Valle's MOCA fundraiser at Tod's in Beverly Hills. "She should definitely come back for the finale."

Hills creator Adam DiVello told EW.com that his dream is to have Miss Conrad walk down the aisle in the last episode, but Love has other things on her wish list for L.C.'s hoped for return...

"It'd be fun if Lauren and I caught up in Paris," Love suggested. "I think they could find a way to make it work with her coming back."

Unlike former Hillster Whitney Port, Love hasn't quite been following the antics of Audrina Patridge and Lo Bosworth since Conrad's farewell.

"It was over many years ago for me, and I haven't watched it since," Love said. "I never watched it even when I was on. You don't want to watch yourself on TV. I only follow what's going on with the cast when I'm at the airport

Review: Date Night Not Worth Paying a Sitter For

Review in a Hurry: We all love Tina Fey and Steve Carell, don't we? So why doesn't Hollywood love them, too? At least enough to give them a script worthy of their talents? This halfassed (but star-studded) farce from hacktacular director Shawn Levy, in which the comics play harried marrieds on a mistaken-identity run from the mob, is marginally better than the likes of Evan Almighty and Get Smart. But not by much.

The Bigger Picture: It's commonplace nowadays to dis director Chris Columbus (Home Alone) for being a generic sentimentalist, but let it be said that he set the template for what Date Night is trying to do in his directorial debut, Adventures in Babysitting. Substantially mocked in its day, that movie has since become a classic for kids who grew up with it, and its escalating nuttiness as it strands a babysitter and kids in a bad part of town strikes the perfect balance between humor and real-life tension.

The babysitter and kids stay safe at home in Date Night. This time, it's the parents whose night on the town begins with a case of mistaken identity, and spirals further into a conspiracy ploy involving a mobster (Ray Liotta), the District Attorney (William Fichtner), some corrupt cops (Common and Jimmi Simpson), a lowlife junkie couple (James Franco and Mila Kunis), and an elite, ex-military something-or-other (Mark Wahlberg, flaunting his funky bunch of abs like it was 1989).

Kristen Wiig, Mark Ruffalo, and Taraji P. Henson also figure into the cast; it's as if everyone involved called in favors from all their celebrity friends.

Let it be noted that there are some laughs in Date Night, many involving Carell yelling amusingly inept threats. Director Levy and screenwriter Josh Klausner (one of many Shrek sequel scribes) could have left well enough alone and gotten some credit, but the forced, unfunny "gag reel" over the end credits strongly implies that Fey and Carell were allowed to improvise, and that Levy ultimately used the only takes that weren't egregiously directionless and overdone.

The pacing and setups are way off. Each sequence ought to make our main characters progressively more hysterical, but not only do they not, they also suddenly have the characters doing drastically out-of-character things, like a particularly dangerous stunt on a moving car that Carell's character would seem in no way prepared to do.

Then there are some awfully strained "wacky" setups: Oh, look! A strip club! Cue bad attempts at pole dancing! Worse are the attempts to actually make a profound statement about love and marriage. As if.

That the leads manage to get off some good lines in spite of all this nonsense is a testament to them, but it only makes an audience member long for a movie that uses them—and the many supporting celebrity faces—correctly.

Pink Pokes Fun at Pregnancy Rumors

Rumored pregnant after sporting a tummy bump, the singer manages to make a joke on it by tweeting, 'Lord knows when this 600 pound baby comes out that I've been growing for 8 years.'

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Pop star Pink has poked fun at rumours she's expecting her first child with husband Carey Hart by joking about having a "600 pound baby". The "So What" hitmaker, real name Alecia Moore, sparked reports she was pregnant after she was snapped with a slight tummy bump on April 12.

The singer has so far refused to confirm or deny the claims, but took to her Twitter on Thursday, April 15 to suggest the renewed baby speculation is just the latest in a longrunning joke. She wrote, "Off to the gym. Lord knows when this 600 pound baby comes out that I've been growing for 8 years, i better be strong and physically prepared!!!"

Pink reunited with motocross racer Hart in 2009 after a year of estrangement. They wed in 2006.