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Nicolas Cage’s Son Hospitalized After Altercation

Christian Allaire — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:12:13 +0000

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Weston Cage, the 20-year-old son of actor Nicolas Cage, has been hospitalized after an altercation, reports E Online.

Cage was taken to a Los Angeles hospital for psychiatric evaluation after reportedly getting into a violent altercation in Hollywood yesterday.

TMZ claims that Cage went ballistic while lunching with his trainer after he told him he couldn’t eat something on the menu. He then became aggressive and reportedly shoved the trainer. Ugh, it’s tough lunching with your trainer, right? Don’t you hate that?

The trainer and another unidentified individual then tried to calm Cage down, but Weston raged on.

An LAPD spokeswoman says officers indeed responded to a call about a fight that had broken out near the Farmer’s Kitchen, where Weston was dining.

“We had numerous phone calls to respond to that incident. We responded and the person was taken to the hospital for minor injuries,” said the spokeswoman, refusing to confirm identities.

When cops arrived, Weston initially cooperated and was handcuffed, but he supposedly became violent again which lead them to strap him to a gurney. No arrests were made, but Cage is being evaluated.

This is the ridiculous too-much-money story of the day. I mean, really? Don’t you wish your biggest battles were over what your trainer tells you to eat?

Halle Berry Opens Up About Her Traumatic Childhood

Megan MacKay — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:58:14 +0000

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The beautiful Halle Berry is best known for dazzling audiences on the big screen, but few know about her childhood battle with an abusive father in a violent home.

In an interview with CNN, Berry opens up about her past in the hope that it will bring the issue of domestic violence into the spotlight. Berry spent the beginning of her life watching her father physically and mentally abuse her mother before blossoming into the on-screen siren we know today.

“I’ve spent my adult life dealing with the sense of low self-esteem that sort of implanted in me. Somehow I felt not worthy,” Berry, now a mother herself, explains. “Before I’m ‘Halle Berry,’ I’m little Halle…a little girl growing in this environment that damaged me…I’ve spent my adult life trying to really heal from that.”

Berry dedicates an enormous amount of her time to the Jenesse Center, a shelter in Los Angeles that takes in abused women. She also renovates low-cost apartments to provide a new home to victims and their children as they get back on their feet.

Watch Berry’s interview on CNN here:

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/14/exp.am.intv.berry.cnn

Angry M.I.A. Tweets After Violent New Video Pulled From YouTube

Sara Harowitz — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:26:45 +0000

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Sri Lankan-born hip hop singer M.I.A. got angry at her label via Twitter when her violent music video for “Born Free” was deleted from YouTube just hours after its release yesterday (April 26), reports E!Online.

“F— UMG WHO WON’T SHOW IT ON YOUTUBE! FOR THE U.S.,” the singer, real name Mathangi Arulpragasam, tweeted (UMG stands for her label, Universal Music Group). Still, she quickly took back the statement when she found out that it was YouTube itself, not Universal Music, that took the video down: “OK, NOT UMG FAULT!,” she tweeted next.

Directed by Romain Gavras, the video portrays the United States as a fascist state, showing a S.W.A.T. team’s raid of a downtown Los Angeles apartment building. The cops round up redheaded men, then take them to the desert and execute them in extreme ways: one boy is shot straight-on in the head, another is blown up by a bomb.

Apparently, though, it was the level of violence, and not the political views, that got the video taken from YouTube, with a representative saying the video violated the site’s terms of use due to “gratuitous violence.”

M.I.A. recently told Britain’s Radio 1 that “Born Free” “was the first [song] recorded for the album” and that “at the time [of recording], a lot of things were bottled up. It was a good start.”

The singer has never been afraid to stir up controversy and has often been the victim of criticism for her views.

Even though the video can no longer be found on YouTube, it is still streaming on her official website. Her new, still-untitled album is due out in June. Here’s the tracklist, thanks to a tweet by Pitchfork:

1. “The Message”
2. “Born Free”
3. “Meds and Feds”
4. Lovealot”
5. Tequilla”
6. “It Is What It Is”
7. “XXXO”
8. “Tell Me Why”
9. “Story Told”
10. “Space”

DMX Gets Violent After Charity Performance Canceled

Emma Renda — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:26:28 +0000

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DMX turned a charity concert into a riot this weekend when he arrived late for his scheduled performance and then proceeded to fight the security guards. After showing up nearly 90 minutes late for his set, DMX got into a shoving match in front of the stage with the security guards. Fans quickly joined the hubbub, pushing and chanting “DMX! DMX!”

Once he made it on stage, the sound system was turned off to keep him from performing.

The event promoters, American Charities, told fans DMX was not coming when he hadn’t arrived by 9:30 p.m., the time he was supposed to take the stage. Instead, DMX traipsed in at 11:00 expecting to perform.

He continued to force his way onto the stage until the security guards threatened to arrest him, to which DMX responded, “[Arrest me] for what?! You ain’t no police! I’ve been paid to perform.”

According to BallerStatus.com, DMX’s publicist Pam Pinnock suffered a minor concussion and face lacerations in the brawl.

BallerStatus reported the rumour that American Charities stopped DMX’s performance because they couldn’t afford his show rate. Rather than negotiating with his management, the promoters canceled the set entirely, therefore avoiding paying him the reported $15,000 rate for the night.