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In Part 3 of TVGuide.com's new Body Talk series, we take a look at stars' nose jobs, tummy tucks and the other procedures they've admitted to having.Cosmetic surgery is nothing new in the whirlwind of Hollywood trends. Stars young and old have been doing it for years. "Honey, if it's saggin', baggin' or draggin'," Dolly Parton told Larry King, "I'm gonna have it nipped, tucked or sucked." Yeehaw!And Dolly isn't the only one. Cosmetic surgery is prevalent in Hollywood, and more and more celebrities are discussing their nips and tucks in public. Gene Simmons, 58, and his longtime girlfriend, Shannon Tweed, 50, put their surgical experience on full view when they documented their face-lifts on their reality show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels. Courtney Love, 43, keeps a public record of her cosmetic antics via her blog. And Kathy Griffin, 47, told King that she'd had "a brow-lift, where they take your eyebrows and put them on a completely different part of your head, and you look months y...
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Think Tom Cruise was the first star to flip out on national TV? Don’t be crazy!1) Tom Cruise loses control.Declaring his love for Katie Holmes, Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch. He pumped his fists and squatted like a scary version of The Thinker. He made weird faces. In short, he acted nuts. Then he went on Today and loonily challenged Matt Lauer’s knowledge of psychiatric history. Of course, Cruise’s 2005 publicity-grabbing antics didn’t hurt the box office for War of the Worlds (or for Holmes’ Batman Begins), so who’s crazy now?2) Michael Jackson dangles a baby.Jacko had pulled plenty of wacko stunts before, but this one seemed dangerous: holding his son (nicknamed “Blanket”) over the railing of a Berlin hotel balcony in 2002. “I got caught up in the excitement of the moment,” Jackson explained. Perhaps most shockingly, no charges were filed.3) Farrah Fawcett spaces out.The Charlie’s Angels goddess denied allegations that ...
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Steve Coogan by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com; Owen Wilson by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
The downward spiral thatl ed Owen Wilson to ultimately attempt to take his life on Aug. 26 was perhaps helped along by the film funnyman "hanging out around the wrong people," sources tell Us, with several singling out actor Steve Coogan. Courtney Love, recalling her own past association with the Brit bad boy, tells the mag, "I was just out of rehab and he was right there with the drugs." When Coogan cozied up to Wilson (both costarred in Night at the Museum), "I tried to warn Owen," says Love. "I hope... that Owen stays the hell away from that guy." In response, Coogan tells TV's Extra, "These accusations are unfounded, unhelpful and hurtful to all concerned. We are taking legal advice."So bad was Wilson's drug dependency, Us reports, that pal Woody Harrelson staged an intervention in May that, alas, didn't take.
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If anyone ever decides to make the definitive Courtney Love biopic they need to hire Anna Faris for the lead With her platinum blonde hair and slightly slurry way of speaking she is very reminiscent of the multi-hyphenate performer Maybe Eric can broker that deal for Anna as her new manager And maybe someone can finagle me a cut for my excellent casting suggestionWhile Eric was busy turning a fender bender into a career opportunity Mrs Ari was reinvigorating her soap opera career As Kendall Scott town slut her kiss with her dreamy costar was too much for Ari to bear Apparently our favorite power agent prefers his woman home tending to the kids and his every whim I love that they have given Perrey Reeves so much more to do this season because she is such a good foil for Jeremy Piven Interested in hearing more from everyones favorite trophy wife Click hereWhile Turtle tended to the business of setting up house Vince enticed him with some exceptionally good
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Justine Bateman, Men in Trees
In a candid TV Guide interview, former '80s teen star Justine Bateman opens up about making mayhem on ABC's Men in Trees (Thursdays at 10 pm/ET), her kids, and... knitting sweaters for Courtney Love?!
TV Guide: How did you land the role of Lynn on Men in Trees? Justine Bateman: This is going to sound so made up, but I was on an airplane and [series creator] Jenny Bicks was also on the plane. We didn't have a conversation. She saw me, called my agents and said, "Oh, can she play Lynn?"
TV Guide: Lynn was a character on the show before we even met her. She was discussed for months, right? Bateman: Yeah. Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before
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This just in.... A statement from executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, refuting the USmagazine.com report that Courtney Love is being courted by American Idol:"I did not call Courtney Love, and am afraid someone may have misrepresented me. Courtney Love is a very talented artist, but the judges for American Idol are Paula, Randy and Simon. We have no plans to add to or replace any of them." That settles that. (Told ya it was crazy talk.)
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Hard-living rocker Courtney Love tells Usmagazine.com that American Idol exec producer Nigel Lythgoe has inquired as to her availability to serve as a guest judge. What's more, a source tells that site that Lythgoe might like to see Love replace Paula Abdul as a full-time panelist, but a well-placed source at Fox tells TV Guide that such talk is entirely untrue, if not, I think, insane. (See Wednesday-afternoon update.)Abdul, meanwhile, dismisses recent disses/dissections of her behavior, telling TV's Extra, "I don't like to [drink alcohol]. I've never been drunk. I'm goofy enough, am I not?" (It's rhetorical.)In other Idol news, Season 5 finalist Katharine McPhee's debut CD is earning some good marks. New York Daily News critic Jim Farber, for one, says "the album's harder R&B beats give McPhee an edge she never had before," while her singing "shows more force and élan... than she did on the show." Pick up the Feb. 5 TV Guide for a full Q&A with Kat.
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Here's a rerun you didn't want to miss. I am tempted to go off on Luke for his horrendous comments when he ran into Lorelai on the street: "It's not as big a deal for me as it is for you. So we're not getting married. It's fine by me. You're the one who proposed in the first place." Ouch!But you know what? Enough agita. I'd rather talk about Lane and Zack, Stars Hollow's best couple. Naturally Pedro's Paradise turned out to be anything but... the poor couple spent their Mexican honeymoon in Pedro's dirty apartment, nowhere near the beach, overlooking an ad for Mexican nasal spray (of all things). I'm surprised a control freak like Lane actually let Zack plan the honeymoon in the first place, but we'll let that one slide. If that's not bad enough, Lane is convinced that her mother was right about sex all along, "that women are maintaining this pervasive media-supported charade, that sex is normal, that sex is wonderful, that sex is sexy." You too would think sex was pretty awful if ...
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You know how for awhile there toward the end of the Jacko trial I was as sick of writing about it as you were of reading about it? Well for some reason, I never get tired of writing about Courtney Love. So it is with great amusement (and a kinda guilty conscience) that I inform you of the Associated Press' report that the Widow Cobain has lost her Washington bungalow following a foreclosure auction at which no one bid. To keep the joint, once her sister-in-law's residence, the Hole growler would have had to cough up $386,000 or, roughly, Frances Bean's allowance through puberty.
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Question: Holy kryptonite, Batman! Silver kryptonite!?! What's up with that? Any details on when it shows up and what it does to Clark? Maybe it will give him super column-writing skills like your own!
Answer: That's the kind of first-rate sucking up that gets your question answered in Ask Ausiello, Jacob. The silver stuff shows up in Smallville on Nov. 10 and, as I teased last week, it makes Clark a wee-bit paranoid. He imagines his worst fears coming to light. Like, for instance, Courtney Love taking over the role of Lana. Just an example.
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