Lohan returns to partying, Timberlake marries Biel

Hello World—Anthony here yet again to wrap up all the things in pop culture that had us buzzing this week.

I promised myself that I wouldn’t talk about Lindsay Lohan anymore, but old habits die hard.

Everyone’s favorite hard partying actress has made news yet again-- except this time she decided to make it a family affair.

Several blogs and publications were abuzz last week when it was reported that the actress’s father was consulting with her lawyers and other members of her entourage about staging an intervention for the actress.

Rumors have run wild in the last few months that Lohan has fallen off the wagon and resorted back to her hard partying ways.

Normally a father trying to get help his daughter in a substance abuse problem is a good thing, but with the Lohans you can never tell.

All of them are thirsty for attention. I’m sure they all could benefit from a little trip to the Betty Ford clinic.

In ‘less dysfunctional family news’ Grammy winning singer Adele gave birth to a baby boy last weekend.

The songbird surprised fans by announcing her pregnancy after the Grammys back in February.  This is the first child for Adele and her boyfriend, Simon Konecki.

If a bad breakup can cause Adele to spawn one of the bestselling albums in the last five years-- there’s no telling what a baby will do to her musical ability. I guess time will tell.

Cuffing season is in full effect and celebrities are no different. Former NSync front man, Justin Timberlake, married actress Jessica Biel in Puglia, Italy.

After several years of on and off again dating the pair tied the knot in a reported six million- dollar- wedding ceremony that has been months in the making.

Noticeably absent from the ceremony were JT’s NSync band mates. I guess they were still salty from him leaving them high and dry at their peak to pursue a solo career.

But Justin isn’t to blame. No one told JC Chasez to make a crappy solo album, or Lance Bass to try and go to outer space. While they were all playing around, Justin was out chasing paper. Hate the game not the player.

As always tune into Pop Addict next week to catch up on all the latest celebrity gossip.

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Thirsty (adj:) desperate

"Eastwood" becomes a verb

Hello World-- Anthony here, wrapping up all of the top stories in pop culture that had us buzzing, scratching our heads and yelling at our phones, TVs and computers.

Kicking things off this week, everyone’s favorite grouchy old neighbor and American icon, Clint Eastwood, made a surprise appearance at the Republican National Convention.

Being a staple of American history and cinema, Eastwood’s appearance was geared toward getting everyone excited about our great country and the things presidential hopeful Mitt Romney would do. Depending on whom you ask, it didn’t quite go over that way.

Instead of a speech revealing why Mitt Romney would be a good choice for president, audiences were treated to Eastwood awkwardly rambling and talking to an invisible chair for 30 minutes, which presumably was occupied by an also invisible President Obama.

Social media users quickly took to the Internet to put their two cents in on the speech-- and just like that the term ‘Eastwooding’ was born.

The term, used as a verb, refers to the act of yelling at an empty chair. My faith in my generation has officially been restored thanks to this term.

Speaking of the Republican National Convention, it seems that not even Clint Eastwood’s incoherent speech could get enough people to tune into the RNC.

In other news, the “Toddler and Tiaras” spinoff show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” beat the broadcast and cable coverage of the convention, averaging over 3 million viewers. The show follows its star Alana and her self-proclaimed redneck family as they live their everyday life in a small town in northern Georgia.
Hmm--so more people would rather watch a little girl and her family’s shenanigans than watch a potential leader of the free world speak. That faith in my generation has officially been lost again.

Moving from hot mess families to hot mess actresses--we’re going to use the term ‘actress’ loosely with this one. Lindsay Lohan has yet again found herself in more legal trouble.

The hard- partying actress has been banned from famed celebrity hotel Chateau Marmont after skipping out on a $46,350 bill. The charges are allegedly for alcohol, cigarettes and room service from her summer stay.
Wow, $46,000 on alcohol and cigarettes in just a few short months-- how is this girl even still alive? But then again, this is Lindsay Lohan we are talking about-- her body has seen so many foreign substances that she probably needs Vodka and cigarettes to survive or else she will die from the withdrawals.

Lohan was also investigated for stealing over $100,000 worth of jewelry from a friend’s house, and being accused of trashing Elizabeth Taylor memorabilia on the set of her new film ‘Liz and Dick.”
Someone please page Oprah, Dr. Phil or Iyanla Vanzant because this girl needs a serious life intervention. Actually I’m sure her life is so far down the gutter even Steve from Blue’s Clues could be some assistance to her.

Be sure to tune into Pop Addict next for the dish on all your favorite celebrities. With the MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday there’s no telling what’s going to happen!

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“Two-cents”- an opinion; usually unwanted
“Hot mess”- usually referred to someone who acts or thinks in a ridiculous way.

Blast from the Past and On to the Future

Hello fellow pop culture enthusiasts, it is I, Anthony, your new PopAddict author, and I’m here to bring you all the things that had people buzzing this past week.

            All of the ‘80s, and some of you ‘90s babies, were jumping for joy when ‘90’s pop band 98 Degrees reunited to perform their classic hits on the Today Show on Aug 17. The band announced a subsequent tour and the possibility for new music.

Ironically, this came after other 90s pop band Spice Girls performed at the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in London. Now, if only we could get BBMack back together.

           

Twitter was abuzz last week when former Disney star Miley Cyrus posted a picture of her new haircut. The new do could only best be described as a Draco Malfoy meets Edward Scisssorhands.

After Twitter users started to decry the do, Cyrus once again took to her Twitter and responded to the negativity by saying, “My dad @billyraycyrus use to tell me ‘Opinions are like ass holes everybody has one’ LOVE my hair <3 feel so happy, pretty and free.” Apparently, not only did Billy Ray Cyrus pass on his vocal ability to his daughter, he also passed on his knack for bad hairstyles.

            The highly anticipated last film of the late Whitney Houston “Sparkle” premiered to raving reviews from critics. While reviewers were quick to praise the cast performances, the film was a dud at the Box Office debuting in fifth place and grossing a mere $12 million.

           

I guess all the people that were quick to say “R.I.P Whitney Houston” weren’t in enough grievance to spend $10 on a movie ticket.

In other R&B news, diva Rihanna sat down with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey on “Oprah’s Next Chapter” to discuss her music career, business ventures and love life.

            While Winfrey did focus on multiple topics, most viewers tuned in to hear about her volatile relationship with former boyfriend, R&B singer Chris Brown.

            The singer stated that she still loves Brown and that they are currently friends. She even admitted to hanging out as recently as a few weeks ago on a yacht in St. Tropez, France. 

While Rihanna was getting chummy with Oprah down in Barbados, Brown’s current girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, was allegedly getting chummy with a liquor bottle in a Washington, D.C. nightclub.

I guess the thought of RiRi still bumping and grinding with Breezy was too much for Tran to handle.

In another episode of “when over-paid athletes attack”, Miami Dolphin’s Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson was dropped from the team’s roster after getting into a physical altercation with his wife, “Basketball Wives” star Evelyn Lozada.

The incident allegedly started after Lozada found a condom receipt, {really}, in the vehicle they were riding in. After exchanging words, Johnson allegedly head butted Lozada, prompting her to call authorities. Johnson was arrested and released from jail the next day.

Why is it so hard for athletes to just do their job and go home without acting the fool?

Lozada quickly filed for divorce, ending their 41-day marriage.  Somewhere in the world Kim Kardashian is smiling.

            It was a busy week in the world of entertainment. Until next time, my fellow pop culture addicts!

Iverson goes broke, Magic buys Dodgers

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 The Trayvon Martin tragedy is a big topic amongst everybody. Celebrities everywhere have become a part of the fight for justice including singer Chaka Khan who recorded a tribute to the slain teen.
 Irish singer- songwriter Sinead O’Connor even wrote an open letter to Trayvon’s family and the black community.

 The Miami Heat took a picture with hoodies on. And people around the globe are posting pictures in hoodies. Let’s hope this movement teaches people a valuable lesson about race discrimination.

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 Remember when Allen Iverson was one of the best NBA players? Remember when everybody wore his jersey?

 Well it seems that his wife feels he is no longer relevant either.

 Tawanna Allen wants a divorce from the former sports superstar but it seems “The Answer” is not feeling the divorce.   Iverson and his lawyer have sent papers to show their divorce judge that the couple is still intimate, and that’s enough for the judge to throw it out. Nobody is sure whether AI wants to save his marriage or slow down the process of spousal support since he is supposedly “broke.”

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 Magic Johnson has written the blueprint for athlete entrepreneurs to follow after their sports careers. The NBA legend and his business group have become part owners of the MLB franchise the LA Dodgers.

Johnson dished out $2 billion for this deal. LA Dodgers fans everywhere were excited.

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 Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova was the first dancer eliminated on “Dancing with the Stars.” Why does it always seem like the male athletes do better than the female ones?

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 Lindsay Lohan and Whoopi Goldberg have been confirmed to guest star on “Glee.” Lindsay is rumored to play herself as a celebrity judge at a competition. Whoopi will play a professor from the New York Academy Dramatic Arts, (Kurt and Rachel’s dream school).

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 “The Hunger Games” broke the box office with its release last Friday bringing in $2.5 million. It had the third best opening ever.

 When they say reading is fundamental I guess some Hunger Game fans should have paid attention.

 Many fans were disappointed that characters Rue (Amanda Sternberg) and Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) were played by black actors.

Some tweets read:
"why does rue have to be black? I’m not gonna lie, it kinda ruined the movie."
 "Call me racist but when I found out Rue was black her death wasn't as sad. #ihatemyself."
 "Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the little blonde innocent girl you picture."

  Well if they were such fans, they would know in the book Rue is described as having dark brown skin and eyes. I guess reading between the lines isn’t everyone’s strong point.

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 Director Michael Bay is telling fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise to take a chill pill. Fans are upset about that he is shortening the title to simply “Ninja Turtles.”

 Well at least he kept the turtle part. I don’t care about the changes he made as long as the movie is awesome!

 Well guys, check back next week for a full blast of channel flipping!

Conspiracies and Catfights

Hello guys and dolls, do you have your cups ready? Because I have some hot tea for you guys!

Mother Oprah is at it again, not giving the other girls a chance! She has already snagged the first television interview with the late Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina. It seems Bobbi Kris trusts Mother O.

Bobbi Kris is telling friends that Oprah "was loyal to my mom, and never did my mother wrong, or made her look bad; she always looked out for my mom."

Speaking of The Late Great Nippy, The L.A. County Coroner’s office has been plagued with emails and phone calls form people claiming to be related to Whitney. Sources told TMZ that the calls all have one thing in common—the belief that Mrs. Houston was murdered. One person claimed to have proof of this murder theory.

The Coroner’s office has not verified the callers as relatives but they have already said they saw no signs of foul play.

Well Tila Tequila’s 15 minutes ended eons ago, but it seems she is trying to end her life.  Tila was rushed to the hospital last week after her roommate called 911 telling the cops that Tequila had ,“tried to kill herself all week.”

Let’s hope she gets the help she needs.

Thug Life is making its way to the Great White Way.

Theater Legend Kenny Leon developed a play centered on the late Tupac Shakur’s music. “Holler If You Hear Me” is not a biography, but is about childhood friends growing up in an industrial Midwestern city listening to Pac’s music.

Tami Roman is not only a face-musher, but now you can add purse-snatcher to her resume. It seems once again you cannot take Ms. Roman out of time. If you think the Meeka Mushing was something else in Italy how about Ms. Roman holding new cast members Kesha Nichols purse hostage in Tahiti.

 It seems during a trip that will be aired later, Tami being the “real” person she is, confronted Kesha about talking behind the other girl's back. According to TMZ, the girls began arguing and Kesha stormed out, tired of going at it. She left the argument and forgot her designer bag. Well Tami grabbed the bag hoping that once Kesha realized it was gone she would come back to finish their little pow wow.

When Kesha realized that Tami took her bag back to her room , fearing for her safety, she sent hotel security to get it. Well the hotel called the po-po. The producers convinced Roman to give Nichols back her bag. Kesha hopped on the first thing smoking back to the U.S.

This just proves you cannot take the Basketball Associates anywhere.

Well its seems that Chris Brown’s women are having a shade throwing fest. Karreuche and RiRi have been taking little jabs at each other via social networking. Ri tweeted a picture of a rice cake dressed up like a recent photo of Karreuche. The rice cake had black shades and big gold hoop earrings. Well Karrabas or whatever her name is took to her Facebook quoting a Nicki Minaj verse. “I'm Angelina, you Jennifer, Come on b-tch, you see where Brad at.”

Well let’s sit back, relax, get out the popcorn and watch this play out.

It's been confirmed. Our beloved Snooki is three months pregnant. Only problem is the paternity of the child’s father. Keep your head up Snooks because there is always Maury!

Well, guys and dolls, lets wash out those cups! As, always I will be back serving tea that is guaranteed hot!

Whitney Houston remembered, Rhianna and Brown get back together?

Hello guys and dolls. Its time. Get your cups out because I am serving some hot tea.

Whitney Houston’s funeral inspired folks all over the world to tune into church on a Saturday.

The funeral was held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ which was the church Whitney grew up in.

The funeral, as one speaker said, “had more stars than the Grammys”. Stars such as Mariah Carey, Oprah, Brandy, Monica and many more showed up to pay their respect to Whitney.

Tyler Perry, Kevin Costner, BeBe Winans and the Eulogist Bishop Marvin Winans gave riveting speeches about the fallen star. Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, The Winans, Kim Burrell, Donnie McClurkin, and R. Kelly performed songs dedicated to Whitney.

Aretha Franklin was supposed to sing but was said to be suffering from leg spasms. However, the singer performed at her sold out concert in New York Saturday night.

Now Aretha, you could have pulled a Maya Angelou and just sat down.

Bobby Brown caused a little stir by leaving the funeral early. He released a statement shortly after the funeral.

“My children and I were invited to the funeral of my ex-wife Whitney Houston. We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions. I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to move,” Brown said.

Well the Houston’s family lawyer has come to set the record straight.

Lawyer Mark G. Trigg called into “The Frank and Wanda Show” on V-103 in Atlanta to give the on-air personality the true tea.

According to Triggs, Brown was supposed to sit in the first three rows with Houston’s family and not his children, who were not by Whitney. Brown’s children were told that they must sit close to the back with their uncle.

“Security “discretely” asked the children to sit with their uncle,” Trigg told Frank and Wanda.

That’s not all. It seems Bobbi Kris didn’t even want her Dad to talk to her.

Trigg said Brown also had agreed not to try to speak with Bobbi Kris unless she initiated contact first. Well Bobby tried anyway and security stepped in hopes that Bobbi Kris would intervene on the Brown’s family behalf.

The funeral went off without a glitch. It was about Whitney and it remained that way.

Chris Brown and Rihanna sent twitter into frenzy Monday with the releases of two remixes featuring both artists.

On her birthday Rihanna released the full length remix to her song “Cake” featuring Brown.

In all seriousness the song basically is about them reminiscing and missing their bump and grind sessions.

Don’t believe me? Here is lyrical proof: Breezy sings, “Girl, I wanna f— you right now. Been a long time, I’ve been missing your body.”

Then Rih Rih raps back “Remember how you did it? Remember how you fit it?”

Breezy released a remix of his new song “Turn up the music” featuring Rih Rih. The song is pretty PG.

I wonder how Breezy’s girlfriend Kamikaze feels about this.

Oh, her name is Karrueche; well this proves how irrelevant she is because I forgot Breezy had a girlfriend.
Basketball Associates, (because no one is a wife) returned with all of the craziness and foolery that we as viewers have come to enjoy.

We are introduced to two new girls: Keisha Nichols and Kenya Bell.

Suzie and Royce resolve their issues and Tami is the man in the middle. Ochocinco’s forever fiancée and former BFF Jennifer are no longer friends.

Well let’s buckle up and enjoy this season that is sure to be filled with enough foolishness to last us a lifetime.

Time to wash out your cups! As always, come on back ya hear? Because I will be serving tea that is guaranteed to be hot!

54th Grammys honor Whitney Houston

Hello guys and dolls. It’s time. Get your cups out because I am serving some hot tea.

Grammys weekend is supposed to be a big celebration of music, but a sense of mourning stained the festivities with the shocking death of music icon Whitney Houston.

Whitney was found underwater in her tub Saturday at the famed Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Ca.
Now, before we get all in our emotions, let’s talk about the Grammys.

The Grammys set us all up for the old rating okey dokey, making us wait until the last 30 minutes of the show to see the Whitney Houston’s tribute that was done nicely by Jennifer “Sun in the Sky” Hudson.

Like others, my only reason for watching the Grammys was for the tribute and to watch Adele slay the competition.

Adele won all six categories she was nominated for including “album of the year.”

She performed for the first time since her vocal surgery. Although a little nervous, she had the best performance of the night.

Chris Brown had girls on Twitter wanting to give him the honor of [abusing] him anytime they want.
Really? Seeing him dance on boxes, not even bothering to lip synch, and all this while wearing tight jeans is enough to make you feel uncomfortable that you would allow him to “Ike Turner” you?

I am really concerned with this generation.

While we are on Ike Turner, who told Rihanna that her Anna Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) hair is a good look for her? But I digress.

She actually had one of her best award show performances that night. She actually moved and did not look stiffer than a card board box.

Though, she did lose me when she did her duet with Coldplay.

Katy Perry performed her “forget you Russell Brand” song resembling a cross between a smurfette and a superhero.

Nicki Minaj had people around the world wondering if they should pray or throw holy water at their television.

Nicki walked the red carpet with a man dressed as the pope.

If that wasn’t crazy enough, she performed an exorcism while performing her new song, “Roman Holiday”.

I don’t know what was worse; her failed attempt of creating a performance that would be as controversial and entertaining as Lady Gaga or the extremely horrible song that she performed.

It should be noted that her creative director is former Lady Gaga creative director, Laurie Ann Gibson.

Now, everybody is speculating on what happened to Whitney Houston.

She was captured leaving Kelly Price’s event Thursday with what appeared to be blood running down her leg.

People are now saying that it was wine.

Now at that same event, Houston had a little altercation with X-Factor contestant Stacy Francis over Ray J.

The situation was diffused because Ray J. told Houston that Stacy was family.

Houston jumped on stage and sung “Jesus Loves Me” to Kelly Price.

Friday, Houston stopped by singers Brandy and Monica’s rehearsal for Clive Davis’s annual pre-Grammy party.

Houston handed Brandy a note which she has declined to give details about.

Sources say she and some friends partied heavily Friday night at the hotel. Houston was said to be especially loud and boisterous by people at the hotel.

Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, and her cousin, Dionne Warrick, said Houston seemed fine before her death. Houston spoke with her daughter 25-30 minutes before she died.

Music legend, in her own right, Chaka Kahn is upset with Clive Davis for still having his pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hilton while Houston’s body was still in the hotel.

Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is under the watchful eye of family members after having a panic attack and being rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

Houston’s funeral will be Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J. where she sang in the choir.

The funeral is invite only.

Houston is a legend no matter how she lived or how she died. Let’s remember her for the music and not her demons.

Time to wash out the cups! As always, come on back, you hear because I will be serving tea that is guaranteed to be hot!