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LiLo Spirals Downward, Uma Wedding this Weekend?

cityfile · 04/22/09 06:24AM

• Lindsay Lohan is "drowning her sorrows" over Sam Ronson in a "sea of men," including 90210's Kellan Lutz and British paparazzo Chris Jepson. She's also going out all the time again, and hit up six clubs in one evening last week. But that's probably just because she's naturally very energetic. [P6]
• In related news, LiLo tells E! that she isn't in talks to join a topless show in Las Vegas, but she'd be willing to dabble in the burlesque world for the right price. [OK!]
Uma Thurman's rep says she and Arpad Busson did not get married in the Bahamas last weekend, although it's rumored the couple is planning a "low-key" wedding this Saturday instead. [E!, Sun]
• Daphne Guinness was supposedly overheard telling a friend that she and Andre Balazs aren't "seeing each other seriously," since she's about to move in with French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. [P6]

Happy Birthday

cityfile · 02/09/09 07:40AM

Mia Farrow turns 64 today. Mena Suvari is turning 30. Amber Valletta is 35. Author Alice Walker is 65. Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee is turning 69. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz is turning 66. Physicist/author Brian Greene is 46. Real estate exec Frederick Peters is 57. Virginia Senator Jim Webb is 63. Actress Judith Light is 60. Chinese actress (and Vivi Nevo's girlfriend) Ziyi Zhang is turning 30. And Joe Pesci is celebrating his 66th birthday today.

Piven's Got a New Girl

cityfile · 12/31/08 06:32AM

• Jeremy Piven's latest conquest? A 23-year-old model/bottle waitress at Mansion named Ashley Chontos, who was the first to respond to Piven's late-night text appeal ("Come to my room—whoever responds first gets me for the night") and who, you'll be happy to hear, is standing by her man, even though he's in Bangkok so he can "recover" from "mercury poisoning." [NYDN]
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are supposedly divorcing in a few weeks, or at least that's what the Daily News says. For the time being, though, they seem to be enjoying themselves in Puerto Rico. [E!]
• Mia Farrow's daughter's death may have been been AIDS-related. [NYP]
Mariah Carey is supposedly in talks to make a Broadway musical about her life and hopes Leona Lewis, Vanessa Hudgens, or Eva Longoria will take on the lead role. [Telegraph]

People Pays Up for Bristol's Baby

cityfile · 12/30/08 06:45AM

People won the bidding war for photos of Bristol Palin's baby, Tripp, and could be paying as much as $300,000 as part of the deal. [MSNBC]
Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Lark died on Christmas Day. [NYDN]
• Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer spent Christmas on separate coasts, which obviously means their relationship is on the rocks. [Daily Mail]
• According to the always-reliable National Enquirer, Regis Philbin is refusing to help out his son Daniel financially, even though he's a double amputee and ekes out a living selling crafts. [NE]
• Disgraced billionaire Henry Samueli is dumping his jet to raise cash. [P6]
• The economic meltdown doesn't seem to be affecting the champagne-swilling partygoers on St. Barts this season, you'll be relieved to hear. [P6]

Newsflash: Angelina Manipulates the Press

cityfile · 11/21/08 08:00AM

It really is about time psychologists gave a name to whatever personality disorder Angelina Jolie suffers from, because "narcissistic control freak with a Mother Teresa complex" (see also: Princess Diana, Mia Farrow) is a bit of a mouthful. Anyway, Angie must have pissed off someone at the Times, because today the paper does a mild hatchet job on her, raking over various details that we already knew: She micro-manages all aspects of her tabloid interviews especially her coverage in People; she supposedly doesn't employ a publicist or agent; she and Brad make a big song and dance about giving the proceeds of their media deals to charity, but only a small slice seems to reach the beneficiaries; and, most importantly, when that bitch Jennifer Aniston is winning the hearts and minds of US Weekly readers, all Ang has to is don a headscarf, be photographed helping the tragedy-stricken in a third world country, and she's back in the game.

CNN.com Headline Does Its Part To Further Erode Sino-Spielbergian Relations

Seth Abramovitch · 02/13/08 05:08PM

Yesterday's surprise announcement that Steven Spielberg would not, in fact, be contributing to the Beijing summer games—having enacted the force genocide clause of his contract that allowed him to pull out if he found the host-country to be bankrolling a very unsportsmanlike systematic human slaughter—caused human rights groups the world over to sing the director's praises. (Amnesty International went so far as to issue a statement absolving the director "of all perceived misdeeds, including the last 7 minutes of War of the Worlds.")

Unable To Tack A Happy Ending Onto Genocide In Darfur, Steven Spielberg Abandons Beijing Olympics

Seth Abramovitch · 02/12/08 06:56PM

Steven Spielberg has long been attached to the 2008 summer games in Beijing, his wizardry over childlike wonder™ secured by organizers for their opening ceremonies. The decision greatly angered Mia Farrow, who blamed the Sudanese-backing Chinese government of helping to fund the Darfur genocide; in a now-famous WSJ op-ed from last March, she likened the Schindler's List director to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl for agreeing to work with a regime with so much blood on its hands. Minutes ago, news broke that Spielberg would be pulling out of the Olympics, citing Darfur as the reason. His statement follows after the jump:

Mia Farrow

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Mia Farrow has appeared in dozens of movies since her star turn in Rosemary's Baby. She may be best known, however, as Woody Allen's former flame and the mother of more than a dozen kids.

Farrow-Browbeaten Spielberg May Quit The Beijing Olympics

mark · 07/26/07 04:19PM

Without question, Mia Farrow's Wall Street Journal op-ed warning 2008 Olympic adviser Steven Spielberg that his failure to pressure the Chinese government about its funding of the Darfur genocide risked establishing him as the "Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games" was a stirring speaking-truth-to-Hollywood-power moment, and one that proved far more effective in getting the director's attention than Brad Pitt's pulling aside Spielberg at the after-party for the A Mighty Heart premiere to tell the legend, "Um, Steven, I think Angie has something she'd like to tell you about The Sudan." But what drove Farrow to risk a DreamWorks disappearing by so publicly criticizing the beloved icon? Slate's Kim Masters reports that after a pair of personal pleas went unanswered, she felt she had no other recourse:

Mia Farrow Probably Kills Chances Of 'Indy 4' Cameo After Likening Spielberg To Nazi Filmmaker

seth · 03/28/07 02:54PM

Trailblazing celebrity orphan collector Mia Farrow has co-penned a scathing op-ed in the WSJ with her son (currently available to subscribers only). Titled "The 'Genocide Olympics,'" it lambastes 2008 Olympics host China for "pouring billions of dollars into Sudan," where a horrific genocide continues in the Darfur region. (George Clooney and Brad Pitt have been begging you to care about this for ages now. Was anybody listening?) Most shocking of all, Farrow targets Steven Spielberg, whom she has the—chutzpah, we believe is the appropriate term here—to liken to Adolph Hitler's right-hand helmer, Leni Riefenstahl:

Exteriors

abalk2 · 08/17/06 04:50PM

Over at Adfreak, Catharine P. Taylor expresses suspicion about the new Mia Farrow ads for Gap, suggesting that they may have been airbrushed. Clearly they have: If Farrow looked this young in real life, Woody never would have left her.