Madonna

By Dodai Angelina is "preparing" to bring home a little girl from Syria, "a move that could result in an almighty showdown" in their "already strained relationship." Angie met the girl in October when she traveled to Syria with the UN Refugee Agency. Some more hyperbole: "Blinded by her desire to ad...

By Margaret Jon Gosselin has been doing some soul searching (or hired a better publicist). Today, he publicly apologized to Hailey Glassman and insisted there's no Nadya Suleman-Jon Gosselin reality show, though his recent behavior "lent credence to such outrageous stories." Gosselin responded...

By Margaret • The suspects range in age from 15 to 21 and included a 17-year-old boy who turned himself in and a former Richmond High School student. Richmond, California Police Lt. Mark Gagan said, "These suspects are monsters. And, I don't understand how this many people capable of such atrocious beha...

By LatoyaPeterson She adds: As Pool says: Madonna Launches Malawi School Construction [Reuters] Raising Malawi: Will You Join Me? [Huffington Post] Arise Magazine [Official Site] The White Man's Burden [Wikipedia] Related: Meet The Neo-Colonialists: Madonna And Vanity Fair [Racialicious]

By Dodai Jennifer An, an Asian-American model from Philly, also appears to have had her skin darkened. Since the recent issue of French Vogue features model Lara Stone in blackface, and Madonna has admitted that she did a blackface shoot, it begs the question: Is blackface somehow trendy?

By Margaret Roman Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer, has filed papers urging a California appeals court to dismiss the criminal case against him. She says she's received nearly 500 media calls since his arrest and just wants people to "leave her alone." Various TV shows including Larry King and The...

By Dodai Madonna has arrived in Malawi to visit the girls school she is building there; a groundbreaking ceremony takes place today. [AP]"Lindsay Lohan has a new addiction." Shopping! Specifically: Shoes. [Gatecrasher]Jon and Kate Gosselin's lawyers will be in court today regarding the money m...

By Dodai Meanwhile, Lindsay says it's okay for her 15-year-old sister to party because "She's tougher than I am." And: "She has a good head on her shoulders. Maybe it was different for me because I didn't know what to expect and it just happened really fast. I didn't have a big sister." [E!]A club that had...

By Margaret Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has been fired from Melrose Place along with co-star Colin Egglesfield, with whom she was rumored to be flirting on-set. Producer Todd Slavkin is trying to make it sound like it was always the plan to have Ashlee exit after filming episode 12 in January, saying, "we fe...

By Dodai Balthazar Getty and Lindsay Lohan? Seen "all over each other"??!?! [Page Six]Madonna made over $110 million last year, and her Ray of Light foundation is worth $6 million — but she only gave away $500,000 to charity. Some went to Raising Malawi — which this column points out is a front for th...

By Jenna In a cover story (not available online) in the new issue of Rolling Stone, the pop star says that the pictures were intended for the cover of her latest album: That album became Hard Candy, the cover of which was also shot by Klein, and those "Black Madonna" photos with their unspecified "la...

By Dodai Maybe Khloe shouldn't hear this, but Kristen Stewart says: "You should see my brother; he's, like, emaciated. We both just happen to be really skinny." [Us Magazine via Allure]Kim Kardashian will get $50,000 for celebrating her birthday at Tao in Las Vegas. A source says, "Kim is worth the h...

By hortense Breaking the hearts of every boy I went to elementary, middle, and high school with, Alyssa Milano married her boyfriend of three years, David Bugliari, in New Jersey yesterday. Bugliari's good friend, Bradley Cooper was in attendance. [People] Milano wore a Vera Wang gown and walked dow...

By Dodai More info on A Day Without Megan Fox at the link, and, of course, an intro to the Twitter tag #NoMF. [Asylum]A family affair: Madonna's daughter Lourdes will be in Her Madgesty's music video for the single "Celebration." [ET]Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie is in Montenegro cavorting with 18-year-...

By Sadie What is so irksome to workaday adoptive parents like me, is ...why Madonna, who adopted a boy named David to much criticism in 2006, decided to adopt another child from a country that doesn't have an established, transparent adoption system. In reputable adoption countries-which include C...

By Dodai Madonna took Jesus Luz to a Kabbalah service. Again. This paper calls her "the world's most boring date." [Daily Mail] Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou got married in Africa over the summer??? Well, it was a ceremony. But it's not necessarily legal. [Gatecrasher]Katie Holmes has to make...

By Dodai By the by, it looks like Guy Ritchie is getting around $76 to $92 million from Madonna in the divorce settlement. No wonder he's been looking so giddy lately! [AP] Her rep says Michelle Williams will not be accepting awards for Heath Ledger if/when he gets any at the Golden Globes or beyond. TM...

By Dodai A gun thought to be the murder weapon in the Jennifer Hudson family tragedy has been found. [TMZ] William Balfour, the main suspect in the Hudson murders, has refused a polygraph test. [Yahoo News] There was a drug raid at the Hudson house in 2002: Jennifer's brother, Jason, allegedly sold c...

By Dodai Cloris Leachman was booted off of Dancing With The Stars. "I'm not leaving," she said. "I'm going to get a pretty costume and be here next week. I'm going to sit over there. I can't go home. Are you serious? This is a joke." [UPI] Despite at first being told she was too old, Cloris might be Frau Blucher...

By Dodai Jennifer Aniston had dinner with Gerard Butler at L.A.'s Tower Bar — days after eating there with John Mayer. Don't hate the player, hate the game. [Page Six]Amy Winehouse was in the hospital last night, being checked out for a chest infection. Is it related to the emphysema she was diagnosed wi...

By Dodai A Britney Spears/Justin Timberlake duet! In the works! [Page Six] Jennifer Garner has confirmed that she is expecting her second child. But you knew that. "It always makes me laugh when people say 'Is she?' 'Isn't she?' It's like eventually you will know, so just chill out for a minute," she...

By Dodai OMFG: Madonna wants to reunite Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake on stage during her Sticky & Sweet tour. See, Brit's in a video that will play during the concert; Justin worked on many of the songs on Hard Candy. But will the two of them perform live together??? [The Sun] Justin perfo...

By Dodai Whoa. Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan are dunzo. She was supposed to star in his remake of Barbarella, but studio moguls wanted "a bigger star, a bigger name." Now the flick might have — wait for it — Jessica Alba as the lead. What a fucking mess. But yeah, the whole leaving your wife for the chick...

By Maria Mercedes Lara Is Madonna still relevant? This seems to be the question that everyone is asking with the release of her 11th studio album (and final release from Warner), Hard Candy. While listening to the album, you might think Madonna is cool, if only because she refers to her coolness about 30,000 time...

By Dodai Amy Winehouse will get $1 million to sing at a party thrown by George Clooney and Julia Roberts and hosted by Giorgio Armani. That kind of cash buys a lot of eyeliner. [Mirror] George Clooney is not, as previously reported, Nicole Kidman's baby's godfather. He is still hot, however. [MSNBC] Ge...

By Dodai Dina Lohan's new boyfriend calls Michael Lohan a violent, drug-abusing criminal who never deserved his "classy, intelligent" wife. It's like a Telenovela, come to life! [Page Six] Photographer David LaChappelle "hates" Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera and Madonna. It's like a Telen...