Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"I usually ignore Hollywood divorces and TMZ's coverage of them, unless the paperwork shows what the bigwigs are earning .. Just now, the website cites documents filed by estranged wife Gigi's accountant that Imagine co-founder Brian Grazer's cash haul per year is $28 million, $13 mil of which comes from just his production company. The rest comes from 'corporate distributions ... perquisites ... as well as interest and dividend income.'" (DeadlineHollywoodDaily)

"Rapper Jay-Z, who recorded a robo-call for Barack Obama in Ohio before the primary, is out with a video for Michigan urging 'all [his] people' to vote on November 4. The real question, of course, is why the campaign got a Brooklyn-based rapper (wearing a New York hat!), rather than homegrown talent, like the notable noise-makers in Detroit. UPDATE: Shortly after posting this item, the Obama campaign appears to have pulled the video from their YouTube page." (Observer)

"Remember the old Mother Goose tale that Richard Gere got a sexual thrill out of sticking gerbils up his ass for nightly bouts of squirming captivity? Remember when every douche nozzle in town claimed to know someone who knew someone who had a copy of the X-rays of the little critter suffocating in Gere's rectal canal in vivid closeup? .. According to imdb.com, Gere told an interviewer he won't read magazines because they're full of lies. "I stopped reading the press a long time ago," Gere is quoted as saying. "Lots of crazy things came up about me at first, especially from the tabloids. There is an infamous 'Gere stuck a hamster up his bum' urban myth." (VillageVoice)

"Friday’s shock selloff by Sumner Redstone had Viacom’s stock reeling, but company CEO Philippe Dauman remained confident about the outlook for his company, he said at the Mipcom keynote today. Late last week Redstone announced a $233 million sell-off in CBS and Viacom stock by his National Amusements company..Dauman said that he had talked to Redstone before the news was announced. 'We talked very easily—it wasn’t one of his happiest days...Everyone knows he loves these stocks, but he’s fundamentally very pragmatic and used to dealing with adversity, that is one of his strengths.' He said that there is 'no one on the planet you’d rather have by your side in a crisis.'"

"The shortest retirement in showbiz history is coming to an end in spectacular fashion. Just six weeks after George Michael closed the curtain on the most recent of his 'final' shows, the singer's announced he is off to the Middle East for a musical extravaganza. So much for the quiet life... But we suppose ($1.7 million) is enough to coax most people off their backsides." (3AMGirls)

"(Senator Joe) Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who caucuses with Democrats and gives them their two-seat Senate majority, disputes partisan attacks that Coleman conducted inadequate oversight of the Iraq war as the top Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) ..His advocacy for Coleman, who is locked in a tight battle with comedian Al Franken, may give Democratic leaders another reason to take away Lieberman's leadership position in the next Congress. Democrats expect that if they have a robust majority, the senator may lose the coveted chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee." (TheHill)

"LAUREN Bush might be a crypto-Democrat. The niece of President Bush told W magazine, "[Barack Obama] is still so new. He seems like a strong leader. We'll see." And Lauren doesn't want to be associated with the Bush clan much these days. She named her upcoming clothing line Lauren Pierce - using her grandmother's maiden name instead of the one she shares with our unpopular president. "It wasn't a conscious decision," she told the magazine." (NYPost)