Celebreality

[madupont]

http://www.bvonstyle.com/2010/08/10/naomi-campbell-blood-diamonds-trial/?icid=main|htmlws-bv-n|dl5|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvonstyle.com%2F2010%2F08%2F10%2Fnaomi-campbell-blood-diamonds-trial%2F%0D%0A%0D%0A

[madupont]

http://www.bvonmoney.com/2010/08/12/michelle-obama-spain-republicans-racist-jealous/

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http://www.thegrio.com/politics/palin-is-deplorable-for-hailing-dr-laura-as-free-speech-hero.php

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Margaret Cho would, however, like to take her on. Think it was Popeater this morning.

Here's the really big news, Sookie Stackhouse was married to Vampire Bill Compton this weekend in Malibu. It was an "evening" ceremony.

As you know, no other vampire surpasses the one and only original. I took another look at Gary last night.  His ability to carry an entire movie was utterly amazing in those days (because Anthony Hopkins tries to upstage him, independently, in his own scenes and has the opening intro lines giving the history of Count Vlad to top it). 

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http://www.thegrio.com/politics/author-of-carla-bruni-book-defends-mrs-obamas-hell-quote.php

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Why Did Ricki Lake's Malibu Home Burn Down?

http://www.popeater.com/2010/09/19/why-did-ricki-lakes-malibu-home-burn-down/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-tarana%7Cdl2%7Csec3_lnk1%7C171579

Well, it was good to see that Ricki Lake shaped up,trimmed down, firmed it together after her working relationship with the Schlockmeister John Waters.  I tend to think she did the thing that people in California have learned from earthquakes; less applicable to housefires.
But it still is going to cost her hunk of change because she is still a ditz.

Now, should I go and see about a brisket or check out who saw Boardwalk Empire and what they learned from it?

[kidcarter8]

Dang - that's long, longggggg ago.

Glad she and her family are fine.

[madupont]

Titanic's Gloria Stuart, 100, Dies
Actress became oldest nominated for supporting Oscar

[madupont]

harrie, did you see this in the news?
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/georgina-bloomberg-nyc-mayor-michael-bloombergs-daughter-suffers-spinal-injury-in-horse-fall/19707073

[harrie]

Yes I did, madupont.  Everyone falls off horses, even great riders - but it sounds like she took a strangely bad spill. (Saddle slipping on approach to jump, so she's falling off sideways as the horse takes off.)  I think the public has a heightened awareness of riding injuries ever since Christopher Reeve broke his neck  - on a cross-country jump, which has no give, hence the injury - and thus panics a little.  Apparenlty she's broken a bunch of stuff in the past and has always come back.  Give her time, she'll be fine. 

[madupont]

Yes, I was appalled by her collected injuries as they are nearly about equal to the experience of dancers who do the same occupational damage in many of the same parts of their anatomy.

With horse, quite often the saddle slips because the horse rolled over on it previously.

I fondly remember Reeve for his sense of humor in daily life but the last time that I saw him in passing was well before his serious accident; the result of which killed him eventually. He used to visit his mother in Princeton where she had raised him and one brother, I believe,following the parental divorce. His father,F.D.Reeve was a poet and an educator whom Chris used to like to visit because his father had more interesting friends who also visited where he taught. More interesting than Mom's house in Princeton.

I guess that I am attentive to these accidents because a school mate  when I was in junior year of high-school was killed when hit in the head by a low tree-limb when her horse took off seemingly with intent to de-horse the rider.

This was something I kept in mind and many,many years later, while riding with a group of friends, we encountered a lone stallion approaching us down a country highway,seemingly out of nowhere, as he had left where he was supposed to be and it was now 34 years since I had last been on horseback,  I didn't wait around when the gelding reared up in alarm at the contender; but slipped from the saddle  rather than be in the amidst of  two sets of flying hoofs.  I was with a group of nurses but the after-effects did not show up immediately. This turned out to be a fine-line fracture of the coccyx  and I spent the rest of the summer sunbathing it on a flat roof over my front porch veranda in the country. It has not bothered me in the last thirty years since then but I haven't taken up with horses either.  Three and a half weeks ago, my friend's buggy-horse got all goggle-eyed with fear when I merely entered the room outside his stable area  when she went to feed her cats, I backed off slowly and excused myself.

[harrie]

With horse, quite often the saddle slips because the horse rolled over on it previously.

Huh??  Saddles slip for a number of reasons, but usually because the horse blows up when the girth is being tightened - a lot of them do this.  I've seen where a person puts their foot in the stirrup to mount, and the whole thing - saddle, pad, anything else attached slides down the side of the horse, and the rider has to re-saddle.  It's pretty funny.  An experienced rider - and Ms. Bloomberg falls into this category - tightens the girth, gets on, then checks/tightens the girth again once up on the horse.

When a horse rolls over on a saddle, it's usually time for a new saddle.  And often a new rider as well.

[madupont]

That's exactly what I was afraid of, since the adults in charge didn't seem to notice the objections of the horse other than to acknowledge that he had played polo the previous afternoon, a Sunday, and was not interested in going around a track  relatively early Monday morning on a summer's day. I was less than ten at the time, not really sure what my exact age other than I was over five, but never forgot the flippant attitude of the adults in charge of us during Summer day-camp.  At least the young women took notice and observed that the "polo pony" shifting his weight from one side to the other indicated some discomfort and perhaps I should dismount (where upon  he did roll over on his saddle)

The fellow who was supposed to be riding with me was just put out that t I was being such a "baby" and whiner. I have no doubt that I had a crush on him until then; of the kind that you might have for a movie star,at that age.

Neverless, that Monday morning never discouraged me from attending polo games any Sunday afternoon that I could, most usually if I ran into my friend Julio Orlandini who would give me a ride in his Triumph.  I thought it the perfect car for tail-gate; preferably if you could get it in Regency Purple.

[madupont]

Guess what? Today's celebrity is none other than...William, who wants his father to be King.  That's right, Prince Charles.  It occurred to me that, of course, the normal succession to the throne, although it may be as bad as saying I wish Grandmother was dead, does lead to an interesting conclusion that if Charles is King as he rightly should be than William's mother would be considered to have been definitely likely and rightfully "Queen Diana" in the sense of being the Royal Consort of King Charles, Prince of Wales.  Good to know how loyal sons will be to their mothers.

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http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-by-british-police/19749421?icid=main%7Chtmlws-bv-n%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk1%7C188558