One Direction

● One Direction, an American band formed in 2009, has taken up legal action against the baby-faced British boy band which has been topping charts and selling out arenas using the same name. [TMZ]

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Lindsay Lohan

● Lindsay Lohan forgot to pay some $93,000 in federal income taxes. Good thing she picked up that Playboy money. [TMZ]

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Demi Lovato

● "I find it really funny how a company can lose one of their actress' from the pressures of an EATING DISORDER and yet still make joke about that very disease," Demi Lovato tweeted, calling out her former employers, Disney, for a joke made on the show Shake it Up about how “I could just eat you up, well if I ate." Disney has since pulled the problematic episodes, saying that "It's NEVER our intention to make light of eating disorders!" Rather, they prefer to quietly harbor them in their young actresses like Lovato. [NYDN]

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● T.I.'s first post-prison performance was an unlikely guest spot at Taylor Swift's Atlanta show last night. As it turns out, the girl's got edge. [Rap Radar] ● Waka Flocka Flame was slugged in the face by a former protege during a charity being held at a bowling alley. The rap game's stressful. [TMZ] ● When it became clear he wouldn't be making his Toronto show, Russell Brand likened the Canadian border patrol to Nazis and blamed them for denying him access into the country. In reality, Canada could care less about the comedian; he was just late because of plane problems. [THR]

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● Whether their romance is "hot and heavy" or "they were just hooking up," the fact remains that Ryan Phillippe, at 36, is exactly twice Demi Lovato's age. [Us] ● There's been an up-tic in graffiti this past year and officials can't tell if it's a result of high unemployment rates, because everyone thinks they're artists now, or because maybe kids will be kids. [NYT] ● Spike Jonze's new Beastie Boys video is all action figures, only a little bit about the song, "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win," and actually pretty awesome. [BeastieBoys]

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● Selena Gomez checked into a hospital complaining of "nausea and a severe headache" after her appearance on The Tonight Show. Jay Leno gives us migraines, too. #getwellsoonselena [DailyMail] ● Last night was a big one for live-tweet aficionados: there were a lot of theater jokes, a lot of basketball jokes, and a lot of jokes about all the bad jokes. The Book of Mormon won nine Tonys, and on the court, the Mavericks beat Lebron James and the Miami Heat, taking home their first championship trophy (and some cool wide-brims). [NYT/NYT] ● Demi Lovato's worst-life-ever continues, with her mom now in rehab and her boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama, now her ex. Sometimes things don't get better... [Page Six]

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● 67-year-old Mick Jagger is not done yet. The Stones legend has been secretly recording with a new, motley super-group of sorts, with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damian Marley, Joss Stone and Indian musician and producer A.R. Rahman. That's a lot of talented musicians! But it's rather unclear, though, what exactly they plan doing together. [NYP] ● Botox Mom was a fake! She didn't actually inject her 8-year-old daughter with botox, she just pretended to for "a large fee" from the tabloid that broke the story. It's nice that she can have her botox-less child back, but we still have some questions about her choices as a mother. [TMZ]

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● Fresh from a stint in rehab for "body issues," Demi Lovato announced her departure from the Sonny With a Chance show yesterday. Disney, not yet ready to relinquish the starlet's fans, has decided to turn So Random, the fictional show-within-a-show on Sonny, into an actual sketch comedy series, thereby spinning a web of alternate realities in which to catch their next victim. [ArtsBeat/NYT] ● So we can all agree, Lil Wayne is the cutest rapper doing it, right? This Carter IV cover [pictured left], following up on the last, couldn't be sweeter. [You Heard That New] ● You might think that Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sounds similar (very, very similar) to Madonna's "Express Yourself," but Gaga thinks "That's retarded." "I feel like honestly that God sent me those lyrics and that melody," she said through tears. "There's no way for something that pure to be wrong." So much for the mentally disabled! [NME via ONTD]

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● The socialite Lydia Hearst is all set to star in Dogs in Pocketbooks, based on "a spoiled brat prone to alcohol and cocaine binges, reckless driving, failed rehab attempts, career-ending partying and ruthless hangers-on" -- a.k.a. Lindsay Lohan's life -- though the real Mommy Dina is threatening to sue. [TMZ] ● Justin Timberlake received Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year award, which is not -- believe it or not -- the same as an Oscar. [Popeater] ● Reese Witherspoon is engaged to Jim Toth, while Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Phillippe high-five and are like, "Haha, who?" [Us Weekly]

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● Lindsay Lohan is being investigated for allegedly hitting a female worker at her Betty Ford rehab clinic. If guilty of misdemeanor battery, Lohan would violate her parole and probably head back to jail. [HuffPo] ● Ryan Reynolds is supposedly "beyond sad and depressed" about his divorce from Scarlett Johansson despite the fact that he openly told people that "she treated him badly." The travails of being pretty and dumb! [Us Weekly] ● Glee's Heather Morris is being considered to play the lead role in the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer. [Access Hollywood]

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