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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
"Glee"'s Cory Monteith (Finn) opens up about drug abuse, drinking and rehab.
"Life wasn't always a soaring musical number for Glee'sCory Monteith.
Now 29, the Victoria, British Columbia native was a child of divorce who began cutting school to get drunk and smoke pot at the age of 13. He finally dropped out of school at the age of 16, and hit the drugs harder than ever, he tells Parade.
"I burned a lot of bridges," he says. As for his drug use, he says he did "anything and everything, as much as possible...I had a serious problem."
Finally, his mom and family friends, fearing he "could die," staged an intervention for Monteith, then 19.
"That's when I first went to rehab," he reveals. But the first stay didn't stick. "I did the stint but then went back to doing exactly what I left off doing."
Monteith said he reached rock bottom -- and a turning point -- when he "stole a significant amount of money from a family member," he explains. "I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help. I was confronted and I said, 'Yeah, it was me.' It was the first honorable, truthful thing that had come out of my mouth in years."
The future star was given an ultimatum: Get clean and sober or be turned over to the police.
"I was done fighting myself," he admits. "I finally said, 'I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.'"
After moving in with a pal in a nearby town, kicking his habit and landing a job as a roofer, Monteith began rebuilding his life -- and soon started working with an acting coach.
"I don't want kids to think it's okay to drop out of school and get high, and they'll be famous actors, too," cautions Monteith, who finally received his high school diploma from an alternative school in Victoria this past spring. "But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it. If I can, anyone can."" - US Magazine.
10 year old "Vogue" model... Too young to be promiscuous? (Tell us what you think).
"Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau is 10, but an issue of French Vogue, in which she wears heavy makeup, stilettos and a come-hither look has stirred up an adult-sized controversy.
The images of Thylane, which appeared in the magazine's December/January issue but were brought back into the spotlight in a "Good Morning America" segment on Thursday, are firing arguments about the sexualization of young girls. Some see it as part of an overall recent trend toward younger models. (Although one might argue that it is hard for a young girl to get a break, given all the fortysomething movie stars hogging covers nowadays.)
Still, two young film stars have recently gone the modeling route: Elle Fanning, at 13, is the star of the Marc by Marc Jacobs fall campaign, and 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, the wholesome-looking star of "True Grit," signed a deal with Miu Miu. Actresses Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan also started their careers as young models. And just this week Kardashian sibling Kendall Jenner, 15, landed a swimsuit modeling contract.
And of course there are other children making their marks, with teen blogger Tavi Gevinson and seamstress Cecilia Cassini (who was 10 when she ventured into the public eye) stirring up fashion waves behind the scenes.
Thylane, who already has an impressive modeling portfolio, is the daughter of Patrick Blondeau, a former soccer star, and Veronika Loubry, a former French TV personality and the source of Thylane'sgreat cheekbones.
Perhaps we've seen this all before (think Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby") but the outcry over Thylane's Vogue photo shoot -- with comments of outrage sounding on the Internet -- has refreshed the debate.
In Britain, which recently implemented a government initiative to restrict the sexualization of children in the media, a spokesman for the Mothers' Union reacted to the Vogue shoot, telling the Daily Mail, "Photo shoots requiring her, a 10-year-old-girl, to dress in full make-up, teetering heels and a dress with a cleavage cut to the waist across her pre-pubescent body deny Blondeau the right to be the child she is."
There's something more than ironic about all this, coming as it does just after an internationalcrackdown on child pornography led by the U.S. Justice and Homeland Security departments.
It's unlikely that then-Vogue Paris editor Corinne Roitfeld (since replaced by Emmanuelle Alt) would think this is porn, but it is very likely she and guest editor fashion designer Tom Ford wanted to be provocative ... and succeeded.
What do you think? Should children be featured in sexy high fashion shoots?" - LA Times.
Friday, August 5, 2011
"Two And A Half Men": Ashton Kutcher's character's name revealed.
"Next on “Two and a Half Men“! Jake and Alan Harper’s new roommate officially has a name: Walden Schmidt, an Internet billionaire with a broken heart.
Fans have been curious about Ashton Kutcher‘s character, and what his role will be on the
aging
veteran CBS comedy, in the wake of former co-star Charlie Sheen’s public implosion and firing. The network began capitalizing on that mystery a few weeks ago with a randy promotional poster featuring an apparently naked Kutcher hiding his naughty bits behind a banner that reads “All will be revealed 09.19.11.”
aging
veteran CBS comedy, in the wake of former co-star Charlie Sheen’s public implosion and firing. The network began capitalizing on that mystery a few weeks ago with a randy promotional poster featuring an apparently naked Kutcher hiding his naughty bits behind a banner that reads “All will be revealed 09.19.11.”
But on Wednesday, 08.03.11, we at least got a name and assurance that full details about Kutcher’s character would be revealed over the course of a two-episode arc. Beyond that, [CBS Entertainment President Nina] Tassler dodged just about every Sheen-related question TV reporters threw at her.
First, she tried the soft touch: “Who could have predicted that we’d be here in six months?” she asked somewhat rhetorically.
Answer: we did, particularly after the Winter Press Tour where Tassler and other executives assured us that Sheen was doing his job. If memory serves, she also told us that in spite of numerous reports of delayed episode production and bacchanalian parties fueled by hookers and cocaine, CBS had no reason to fire Sheen.
Tassler went on to dodge subsequent queries about the Sheen debacle by simply saying that the producers of “Two and a Half Men,” and the network, were only interested in moving forward. She would not confirm or deny that Sheen’s character Charlie Harper will die a fiery death in the season opener. Instead, she showered compliments on Kutcher, calling him “committed to doing the job, committed to being there,” and assured us that the show is written and produced so well that she’s confident it’ll move on smoothly." - IMDb.com
Personally, I think a wet blanket is a better actor then Kutcher. He always has the same facial expressions and is only good for the kiddy slapstick stuff. He might run the show into the ground.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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