Paris Hilton is Sorry for Upsetting Celeb Friends

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"I don't know why this stuff always happens to me, but I wish it wouldn't anymore," the vampy social flit-about told Us Weekly magazine in her first interview since her cell phone was breached. Maybe she just wants to get back to the Simple Life.

Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton

The fall out continues for the pampered heiress who's T-Mobile Sidekick was hacked over the weekend and over 500 private phone numbers of people, many of them celebrities, were posted on the internet. Also posted were strange pictures from Paris' camera phone -almost all of them were of herself.

Why does Paris have other people take nudie pixs of herself making out with other women and email them? (The other woman was identified as MTV Latin America veejay Eglantina Zingg.)

, At least one celeb said he was upset because he HASN'T be harrassed by prank phone calls - because his number wasn't in Paris' digital phone book. Talk show host and MTV vet Carson Daly told the magazine, "I've given her my number thousands of times. She never puts it in her damn Sidekick!"

More and more celebs are coming forward with stories about the phone scandal. One was the daughter of the late crime boss John Gotti. "I didn't want to take the phones off the hook because my oldest son was out on a date," Victoria Gotti told the New York Daily News. She got hundreds of calls from pranksters and stalkers.

"This went on all night. I got 100 calls in two hours," Gotti said. "Finally, at 5.30 am, I took the phones off the hook. But when I put them back on in the morning and they started ringing immediately. It's driving me insane."

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Jessica Alba Coming Back in "Sin City"

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So where has Jessica Alba been? In the latest issue of Cosmo, Jessica tells all that she did sleep around quite a bit but that's all over now. She was just 18 when she got engaged to co-star Michael Weatherly while they both appeared on "Dark Angel." And after they broke up, she says, she decided never to date an actor again, but like, that vow only lasted two weeks. She went through "a wild period" after that.

Now Jessica's idea of "wild" probably isn't Lindsay's idea of wild, or skanky Brittany's idea of wild, but she did say that she had no problem being with a guy just for sex. But now, she's found a new beau, a non-actor named Cash Warren, and is getting down to do some serious work in her career.

Well, Jessica is totally cool, and if she's happy we're happy for her, but to be honest, her career choices have sucked. And that makes us not happy. She's been in awful crap like "Honey" the past few years and hasn't had a good gig since "Dark Angel" went down.

But now she's about to score in the huge "Sin City." This my friends, is a movie that should kick all shades of ass.

The official web-site is now up for the mucho anticipated Robert Rodriquez / Frank Miller / Quentin Tarantino's adaptation of Miller's cult-classic graphic novel Sin City.

, Okay, some background: Sin City is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption and others, both. It stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a cop with a bum ticker and a vow to protect stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba); Mickey Rourke as Marv, the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love, Goldie (Jaime King), and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley (Brittany Murphy), who spends his nights defending Gail (Rosario Dawson) and her Old Towne girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), a dirty cop with a penchant for violence.

And the rest of the remarkable cast: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Marley Shelton, Carla Gugino, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Rick Gomez, Jason Douglas, Makenzie Vega, Katherine Willis.

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Dispeling the Legendary Mighty Myths of Rock

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"From strange deaths to blood transfusions and dubious fish-related practices, it's time to debunk the tallest tales," Graeme Thomson writes in The Guardian about the 10 greatest rock and roll myths that have been passed down through generations. Well, at least two generations.

Did John Lennon really blow reefer smoke at the Queen? (Nah, Lennon admitted the lads would have been too scared.) Is Keith Richards really a vampire? (No, he only looks like he's centuries old.)

Other myths include: Jacko and the bones of the elephant man, Stevie Nicks and the alleged cocaine enemas, Led Zeppelin and the mud shark, and Robert Johnson's pack with the devil so he could play the best guitar riffs ever.

And my favorite romantic myth: Did the ashes of dead punk Sid Vicious really end up in the air vents at Heathrow? It's been said that Sid's mum accidently spilled them in the arrivals lounge, and ever since then the Essence of Sid has been wafting through the air vents and descending like punk pixy dust on top of travelers.

, "Sex, death, drugs, sharks, TV, elephants and the devil himself," Graeme writes. "Nothing sums up the ridiculous circus of rock'n'roll better than the mythology that both nourishes and devours it, vividly illustrating the impossible feats of self destruction and degradation we would have our 'rock gods' vicariously act out on our behalf."

In the article we learn that Cass Elliot of the Mamas & Papas was NOT one of the vomit choking victims from the sixties. Turns out it was the obesity and not the ham sandwich.

Read the rest at the the guardian website.

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Nicolette Sheridan Loses British Accent. Madonna Desperately Seeking One

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Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan was taunted by American kids when she attended school in the US so she dropped her British accent as a child to avoid being bullied.

"I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me. You had the little English accent, you get up and read out loud in class and everybody was laughing and they used to call me 'Little English Muffin.' So I had a fabulous, intelligent retort. It was, 'Oh yeah? You American Cheese!' I had to practice a lot to get this American accent. I used to come home from school in tears from being called this English muffin and I'd go, 'I can't speak English anymore...' It was very difficult."

, Now, Sheridan says, the problem is reversed when she flies back across the pond. She says she's teased by her British pals about her American twang during visits to the UK: "I go home they're like, 'Oh, you bloody Yank!' And here in the US they're like, 'What are you? Are you from New York?'"

Oh my God. She's British??

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Paris Hilton's Celebrity Friends are Furious

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Everybody who's somebody was in there . . . Christina Aguilera, Ashley Olsen, Lindsay Lohan, Avril Lavigne, Rhona Mitra, Eminem, Andy Roddick, Ashlee Simpson, Victoria Gotti, Vin Diesel, Anna Kournikova and Fred Durst --just to name a few.

They are (or maybe WERE?) the friends of Paris Hilton, who had her T-Mobile Sidekick hacked on Saturday and now her entire phone list and camera phone pictures have been published on the web. The FBI is investigating, but over 500 celebrities and others are having a wicked time today because their private cell phone numbers and even their email addresses have been published on the web.

Not that you'll be able to dial up Christina or Lindsay and leave a few choice comments about their singing or acting talents on their voice mail -- since they're busy getting new phone numbers today.

One top star reached Sunday morning expressed total outrage at Paris: "I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she f**king kept it on her cellphone!"

Desperate Housewives : Gay Outing Episode

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Susan (Teri Hatcher, below) has the shock of her life when she finds out at the police station that her boyfriend, the main suspect in the murder of Mrs. Kravitz, has done time for manslaughter and drug trafficking. She's heartbroken to realize he's really a lying piece of shit.

Creepy mom KimberBree learns from her daughter Danielle that she wants to hook up with Miguel just so he'll love her. (Yeah, like that always works.) So KimberBree goes over to see Miguel and tells him to be really mean to her daughter so that her heart will be broken and she won't be holding on to her dreams of giving her virginity to him. (Nice parenting skills there.) Welp, Danielle is next seen crying and staggering from desperately depressed Zach's un-hip pool party so Miguel must have told her he doesn't want her.

Miguel's roommate tries to blackmail Gabrielle into sleeping with him. She's not going for THIS young buck (She has her standards!) but then he gets all gooey and apologies for wanting to bang her, it was only because he's confused and wondering if he's gay or not. Gabrielle then does the mature adult thing and comes on to him. Nothing. He's like so relieved that she doesn't turn him on. Oh happy day!
, While mom Susan is at the police station, Julie bags her homework and goes to the pool party and sits with Zach while he's tries to channel some kind of pre-Klebold and Harris killer karma and threatens to shoot Andrew. Okay, now Danielle is freaked and believes he's really depressed and crazy.

Matt is thrilled when a co-worker goes down at a softball game and he gets his promotion instead. It means the new gig would take him far, far, far away from home - a lot, but Lynette sabotages it with a psyche job on the boss's wife. Matt is heartbroken over losing the promotion.

Susan finds Julie so not home after she gets back all teary-eyed from being enlightened by the cops that her boyfriend really might be a sicko serial killer. She runs over to Zach's pool party to hunt down Julie, only everyone is gone 'cept for the two gay dudes getting it on. Righty-o, that would be Miquel's horny roommate and Andrew Van de Kamp! Susan discovers the two of them nekked in the Youngs' pool and Andrew yells at her "Hey! I'm not gay!" Yep, she can see that right off.

Episode summary: Three broken hearts, one gay make-out scene, one saved virginity, one heart attack at third base, one murderer living next door, and a teenage killer wannabe across the street.

Looking forward to next week . . .

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Today's Lindsay Lohan Briefing: Too Big for Disney

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Crips, who can keep up with the teenage drama queen and her dysfunctional family? There's more news about Lindsay Lohan and her family hot off the internet news, and no, this time it's not from the ladies room vomitorium at the Whiskey Blue in New Orleans. (And this girl is HOW old?)

First off, it seems Lindsay's new hooters, the "double-wides," are too big for the big screen - at least to appear in a Disney movie. Insiders are saying that her new volumptuous boob job needs to be digitally reduced in her film "Herbie: fully loaded," because the test screen audience were "distracted" and said "oo-la-la." Or words to that effect.

In more family news, her dad, Michael Lohan, was arrested Saturday following a spectacular one-car crash in Syosset, N.Y., some where out on Long Island. Luckily, he got out of the car before it burst into flames. He wasn't hurt but he was busted for driving without a license. And slapped with a DUI. Bummer for him.

, He's been hitting the news wire a lot this past year: Among other things, Papa Lohan pleaded guilty in December to assaulting his brother-in-law at a family party and was ordered into drug and alcohol treatment. And last summer, he skipped out on a $4,000 hotel bill and was was arrested for that.

In his divorce from Lindsay mom, Dina, he is asking for half of the 15 percent his daughter pays her mother to manage her career. His lawyer says the figure could be as much as $6 million to $7 million per year. Yowser! No wonder he doesn't want the little meal ticket to get away.

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The "Numa Numa" Dance - You Go, Gary!

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You've probably received a link to the "Numa Numa Dance" in your email box since he's the hottest sensation to hit the web in a long time.

Gyrating to the techno beat of a Romanian pop song, with more lip-synching talent than Ashlee Simpson, the chubby teenager from the New Jersey suburbs, Gary "gman" Brolsma, 19, who lives with his parents, has the physique of the Pillsbury Doughboy and more natural talent than any of the losers on American Idol.

With the sex appeal of Napolean Dynomite, this guy's got some serious dance moves -- check out how his butt never leaves the chair! Notice how the camera shakes when he start flailing his arms in the air like Madonna. Or that you lean away from your own screen when he flicks his spaz tongue at the lens? The snake in the glass aquarium in the back is an especially nice touch. Watch the video on this website.

In just a few weeks, the video has gotten more than 1 million hits on one of gman's web sites and has even been featured on CNN and VH-1. Brolsma is more surprised than anyone about his world wide fame. "You people are crazy!" he wrote on one Web site -- right before he shut it down because the number of hits probably fried his server.

Keanu Reeves : King of Gloom in "Constantine"

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Gloomy Dude Keanu Reeves looks like he has switched sides and is now the playing type of roles you saw in the creepy and relentless Agent Smith from the "Matrix." Now he plays "Constantine," a character from the comic book series created in 80s ("Hellblazer"series). But this is no superhero such as the likes of Ben-nifer in "Daredevil." Oh now, Keanu is a new hard-living, demon-fightin' antihero who totes a "Holy Shotgun" (a large ornate silver pistol) in the new film "Constantine."

In the comic book, John Constantine is a British con artist or thief or something, and has a close physical resemblance to Feyd from "Dune" (or Sting who played him in that film), and oh yes,Constantine is a drunk, and an cynic, and treats woman like s**t. In other words, the perfect antihero to fight the devil and his army.

So, while Keanu doesn't look like Sting or the comic book character, that's not a problem since he's the King of Gloom, right? It's a title he sometimes shares with Johnny Depp, but Keanu has "The Matrix," "The Devil's Advocate," and "The Watcher" in his filmography.

, This movie tosses out Constantine's British accent and blond hair, but not the dark, gloomy world - or "home" to the K. Now John Constantine's soul is lost since he's already been committed to hell since he's been told he'll die prematurely (from smoking!). Actually, he committed suicide and was tossed back from the other side. So, he lives between the here and there, he can see half-breed angels and demons but he battles them at the same time he rails at God. He's a dude with an attitude -- but still a righteous dude (without the righteousness part) who wants to buy his way back into heaven. OR something like that.

The cynical dark dude teams with a skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (played by Rachel Weisz) who want to solve the mysterying surrounding the suicide death of her twin sister (also Weisz). Their investigation takes them to the underworld of demons and angels (conveniently,it's like, RIGHT UNDER Los Angeles where it belongs), where things go from bad to worse, which means a joy ride to hell. A subplot in the movie is a young boy named the Scavenger, who finds "the Spear of Destiny" which possesses him and sends him on a mission that will eventually collide with Constantine's. Then Satan appears in the final ten minutes and things really get interesting.

Here's a trailer at the website. Opens today (Feb 18).

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Keira Knightley Says Topless is Cool With Her

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Keira Knightley will appear topless in her upcoming thriller titled "The Jacket." She's told everyone that she's fine with exposing her boobs on the big screen but isn't willing to be fully nude.

"You're not going to see my [butt]. The top half is fine, but the bottom half isn't." she told her director John Maybury. Whoa. That's half-assed, Keira. (Okay, she so really meant full frontal.)

"The Jacket" co-stars Adrien Brody and tells the story of a military vet who journeys into the future where he tries to prevent his death and the death of his loved ones. The film opens March 4th in the US.

Keira is already on her way to having a monster career and she and Johnny Depp will also be together again for Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest to be shot later this year. If you're not a Keira fan yet than you're missing out. Check out her recent films "Bend It Like Beckham," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "King Arthur." One thing's for sure, she knows how to pick good projects.

Next up is a film is to be titled "Domino" a biopic about Domino Harvey who is the bounty-hunting daughter of the late screen star Laurence Harvey and Vogue model Paulene Stone.