Taylor Swift gets a lot of flack for her dating habits, but it’s hard to overlook the fact that she doesn’t use sex to sell herself, she writes most of her own music and she’s extremely intelligent.
In next month’s Vanity Fair magazine, she says, “For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated … and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”
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Some poor, unsuspecting teenage girl in England is now receiving death threats after Justin Bieber retweeted something nice she said about his new acoustic album.
According to The Sun, the 15-year-old has been inundated with nasty Twitter attacks from jealous Beliebers who have said things like, “AND HE NOTICES YOU BUT NOT THE GIRL WHO’S BEEN TRYIN FIVE LONG YEARS TO GET HIS ATTENTION,” and “you’re not a fan, go kill yourself.”
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Tom Cruise reportedly flirted with the Catholic Church before finally alighting on his home base of Scientology, the New York Daily News reports.
His “all-consuming infatuation” with the church even landed him in the seminary with plans to be a priest, a source claims. A priest at the school recalls that Cruise was given an IQ test to get in, and he barely made the cut.
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LaToya Jackson has finally found something to do with herself! Yep, she’s running her own talent agency, which makes sense because she has been surrounded by it without actually possessing it herself her whole life.
She has just signed her first three clients, too, and they are Prince, Paris and Blanket, her brother Michael Jackson’s children, who stand to inherit billions.
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A dog that competed at this year’s Westminster dog show died days later from strange circumstances, and its handler is crying foul. Could someone have poisoned him?
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An ex-model who appears in the opening credits of “Mad Men” is suing them for using her image from more than 40 years ago. The Huffington Post says Gita Hall wants to be compensated for use of her picture, which, she asserts, helped make the sequence the key to the show’s success (huh?) and has “generated income in excess of $1 billion through exploitation of the series and its episodes.” The face that launched a thousand clips! Good luck with that.
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Justin Bieber says he just had, like, the lamest birthday ever, despite going shirtless in London (in March?) and making the rounds of English clubs that don’t care that he is only 19 and a total idiot. Well, one club cared, hence the indelible stain on his special day.
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Honey Boo Boo has used her massive star power to hawk Girl Scout Cookies on her Facebook page, but the organization is not amused.
Apparently they oppose online selling, TMZ reports, since it defeats the purpose of sending children out into the cold to sell foodstuffs door-to-door and thus build character. But just think of all the cookies the Girl Scouts could sell if they collaborated on some Go-Go Juice Bars?
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Another day, another horrible life decision made by Lindsay Lohan. This time she has reportedly rejected a plea deal to go into rehab and will instead go to trial over charges that she lied to police after a fender-bender last summer.
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There she goes again: Taylor Swift is reportedly back in the arms of her old British boyfriend (no, not that one), “The Hobbit”-like Ed Sheeran. It’s like the old song goes, “If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty man your BF.”
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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has opened up about his recent rehab stint in a story for Rolling Stone magazine. He claims he was abusing alcohol and prescription medication. And at its worst he would wake up in strange living rooms, unsure of how he got there, having blacked out the night before.
Actually, that just sounds like the old Berkeley punk scene; he’s just gone back to his roots!
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Seth MacFarlane continues to be hammered by women and the press for his barrage of base humor as the Oscars host Sunday night. The Huffington Post reports that now two California legislators have entered the fray, penning a letter to the Academy president outlining their disappointment.
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The lily-white “Bachelor” franchise has gotten a lot of flack for being about as diverse as a GOP convention. This season there were four black contestants vying for Sean Lowe’s hand, and two of them survived more than a few shows.
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California cutie pie Joanna Newsom and Andy Samberg are engaged to be married, according to Gossip Cop.
The chickadee-voiced harpist has been seeing the Berkeley-born “Saturday Night Live” alumnus for five years. Both are musical geniuses, from Newsom’s “Milk-Eyed Mender” to Samberg’s seminal collaboration with Justin Timberlake, “D**k in a Box.”
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Journey guitarist Neal Schon got a nice early birthday present when a judge told his ex-wife to “get a job,” according to TMZ.
Amber Schon wanted Neal to increase his $3,000-a-month child support payment to $5,758.90, but the court disagreed and said her request was “primarily to upgrade her own standard of living.” Oooh, snap!
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