At the Oscars last Sunday, The Cove went home with the Academy Award for Best Documentary. When the film’s cast went onstage to accept the golden statue, ex-dolphin trainer Roc O’Barry stood behind the pack holding a sign that read “TEXT DOLPHIN to 44144.”
Even though it received lukewarm reviews, the Academy Awards drew in a large enough audience to send a tidal wave of texts to the advertised number, almost shutting down the group’s mobile service provider.
TMZ is reporting that actor Corey Haim was found dead this morning of an apparent drug overdose. Haim was 38.
The actor was found in his apartment by his mother. He was apparently clean and sober after a substantial time in recovery. LAPD suggest that the overdose may have been an accident. The apartment complex where he died is the same complex Rick James died in 2004.
DMX (aka Earl Simmons) was arrested earlier today in Arizona (yes this is hardly news as it seems DMX gets arrested daily). TMZ reports that the rapper violated the terms of his probation by using illegal drugs from the past nine months.
His lawyer Gary Jenkins says “He’s been battling addiction for some time and he’s in need of treatment.” Additionally his lawyer commented that DMX needs serious help, potentially from somebody like celebrity therapist Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Multi-talented artist Mark Linkous took his own life on Saturday (March 6), Rolling Stone Magazine reports. Linkous, best known for his work with Sparklehorse and its collaboration with Danger Mouse, was 47-years-old when he shot himself in the heart outside a friend’s house in Knoxville, Tennessee. He had relocated there just recently to work on music.
“It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today,” a statement from his family read. “We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. There’s a heaven and there’s a star for you.”
You heard right, Lady Gaga is planning for a 3-D concert and a subsequent DVD, reports MTV News.
On top of planning for the 3-D concert and DVD, Gaga is still in the middle of the Australian leg of her Monster Ball tour and she is also putting the finishing touches on her music video, “Telephone.”
A Gaga representative from Interscope Records said that “there are talks about a 3-D concert and DVD in the near future.”
However, no other information was provided at press time, including how a 3-D concert would be presented.
The first step is admitting you have a problem. The second step is making money off it. Lindsay Lohan has launched a $100 million lawsuit against discount brokerage company eTrade for using the name “Lindsay” in a TV commercial while referring to a baby with a love for the bottle.
In the ad, two computer animated infants talk over webcam about how the the little boy is building his business portfolio with eTrade. At one point, the girl baby asks, “And that milkaholic Lindsay wasn’t over?”
It seems that it isn’t only the ladies who are falling in love with the charm of Robert Pattinson; MTV News reports that Zac Efron digs the heartthrob actor, too.
“He is absolutely amazing,” Efron said to Access Hollywood on the Oscar red carpet last night (March 7) of the Twilight star. “I think he’s making great choices. I think he’s handling it all really well, but you know, he’s a superstar. He really deserves all this.”
Apparently Hollywood is just like high school: everyone cheats…or gets accused of cheating, at least.
Fresh from his Best Director Oscar loss for Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino is now being sued by a man who says that the quirky film director stole his concept for “Kill Bill,” according to a TMZ report.
In a lawsuit that was filed Tuesday (March 9), Dannez Hunter says that in 1999 he submitted a treatment to Miramax about a made-up character named Ren. He claims that eventually Miramax, Harvey Weinstein and Tarantino ripped-off his ideas, including the “concept/character name Ren.” Hunter says that Tarantino copied everything from Ren witnessing her mother’s gruesome murder to the knife through the abdomen, etc.
Beastie Boys rapper Adam “MCA” Yauch, who was diagnosed with a salivary gland tumor last year, is on his way to a full recovery, according to perezhilton.com.
For some icing on the cake, the band is also reportedly going to start working on their new album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1, again, which was indefinitely postponed after Yauch was diagnosed.
Quite frankly, we find it rather appalling that we would be omitted from this. Recently in a star studded post Academy Awards Show, Jimmy Kimmel featured a segment on a league of extraordinary handsome gentlemen. Among which were the likes of Mathew McConaughey, Patrick Dempsy, Matt Damon, Lenny Kravitz, Ben Afleck, Sting and many other Hollywood studs. To be blunt we’re upset. No, upset isn’t strong enough description. We’re appalled.
How could they plan this segment without even considering andPOP’s two golden boys? We’re handsome, funny and we’re on XM Radio. To be fair, we’re not 100 percent sure Jimmy Kimmel has heard our show on channel 153. Regardless, we would like to make a plea to the online community to lobby with us. Please send a letter of your support radio@andpop.com
Either way, this is one of the funniest things on the internet this week and a solid way to cap off the Oscars. Well done Jimmy! Well done.
At the Oscars last Sunday, The Cove went home with the Academy Award for Best Documentary. When the film’s cast went onstage to accept the golden statue, ex-dolphin trainer Roc O’Barry stood behind the pack holding a sign that read “TEXT DOLPHIN to 44144.”
