More of my celebrity obsessions

I actually love the entries on the Lainey Lurv facebook account, in which the members recall meeting celebrities, and what they were like.

It's even more interesting in some ways than the straight gossip, because it's from the gut and real. I met Willie Nelson, who really is THAT nice. He kindly brought me in to play fiddle with his band, and he was generous with me and pushed me take the entire stage. Made him sing anyway! Haha! Best time of my life. I met Matt Damon, and although he's good and all, he WILL be unhappy when I am awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and he remembers turning me down for a role in my student-written play. And then I give the movie options to someone else. Dream on, you say! Ha!

I think it must be wicked hard to be a celebrity and to be under all these pressures. Just discussing Stevie Ray Vaughn the other day, how it's so easy to slip into addictions when you live in a fishbowl. Can't even IMAGINE Linsay Lohan/Miley Cyrus/Britney Spears/Jonas Bros. Good lord. To be young and wanted everywhere. Robert Pattinson, will he ever have a normal brain again? They say you can hear the thoughts of all the people across the world who are thinking of you. Yeesh. That must be a mess for Tara Reid and Misha Barton!

On a lighter note, I am absolutely OBSESSED with Hugh Laurie as House. I was nuts over Russell Brand until he made fun of the Jonas purity rings. Yikes. So now it's the Englishman with the perfect Yank accent, fake limp, and endless bile with a human heart underneath. I'm dying to know if he ends up with Cuddy soon! The kiss, the suspense is killing me! Aggggghhhh! They have a word for it behind the scenes, "URST," unresolved sexual tension. Used it throughout Friends' run. Keeps the show going, I guess. Maybe that's why Grey's Anatomy fell down dead? I don't care what the ratings say, how can their writers look at themselves in their mirrors every morning? Kill off the gorgeous gay character, make a domestic scene with Meredith, and have sex with ghosts? WT-?

On an even sillier note, I read a Twilight book to see what the fuss was about. Horrible writing, and the worst plot outlines I have ever seen. Sooooo formulaic, and designed exactly to fit into 4 ginormous novels. Ack! I blasted through all 4 of them in 2 months...I have to admit, I was infected with the vampire virus! I thought I could resist. I even read "Midnight Sun" online to see inside Edward's head, and sat there entranced for an entire afternoon. Stephenie Meyer! You have some evil talent there, lady! Yeesh. What's worse: I went to the stupid movie and really loved the whole thing. I got caught up like some teenybopper. I even investigated the requirements to become a Twilight Mom and I qualify with my middle age. What has my life come to, that I would get this obsessed over Young Adult fare? Good lord. I was even completely entranced and happy at the final book's ending in "Breaking Dawn." LOVE how things work out for Jacob, LOVED Bella's honeymoon, LOVED how noone vital died, LOVED how the battle worked out at the end. And I consider myself a serious author! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Blind Item Obsession Defined!

So I'll start with my own goofy story.
To distract myself from my own life last year, I went crazy looking for the answers to 2 Lainey Gossip blind items: Cheap and Crafty; and Mute Stones. Since both appeared to relate to the Oscars, I looked up all the female Oscar winners, and then with mates who also won Oscars, cross-tabulating with the full list of actresses that Lainey eliminated.
So for Cheap and Crafty, since Lainey said the woman in question was married, this is what I came up with:

Probably: (maybe too old for stroller/car seat? 5 yrs and 3 yrs) Geena Davis (On September 1, 2001, Davis married Iranian-American Dr. Reza Jarrahy. They have three children: daughter Alizeh Keshvar (born April 10, 2002) and fraternal twins Kian William Jarrahy and Kaiis Steven Jarrahy on May 6, 2004.)

Daughter too old. Emma Thompson (In 2003, Thompson married actor Greg Wise (who starred with her in Sense and Sensibility) with whom she has a daughter, Gaia Romilly, born in 1999.)

No kids no man. Marisa Tomei

3 yrs one year. Mira Sorvino (She met actor Christopher Backus—fourteen years her junior—at a friend's charades party in August 2003: "He walked into the kitchen looking for silverware. We saw each other and something made us want to talk to each other more". She told People. They were engaged within a month. On June 11, 2004, they married in a private civil ceremony at a Santa Barbara, California courthouse, then later had a hilltop ceremony in Capri, Italy. Their daughter, Mattea Angel, was born on November 3, 2004 and their son, Johnny Christopher King, was born on May 29, 2006.)

Not married. Helen Hunt (Hunt was married to actor Hank Azaria from 1999 until 2000. She has been in a relationship with Matthew Carnahan since 2001 and they have a daughter, Makena'lei Gordon Carnahan, born in 2004.)

4 years. Jennifer Connelly (Connelly is a vegan. She is married to well-known English actor Paul Bettany (born 1971), whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind. The couple's son, Stellan (named after actor Stellan Skarsgård), was born on August 5, 2003. She also has a son, Kai (born 1997), from her relationship with photographer David Dugan.)

Not married. Rachel Weisz (Weisz is engaged to American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. They have been dating since 2004. They have a son, Henry Chance, born on May 31, 2006 in New York City. The couple reside in the East Village in Manhattan. They are considering getting married in a traditional wedding ceremony at the oldest synagogue in New York)

11 yrs 6 yrs. Diane Keaton (Diane Keaton is mother of two children: a girl named Dexter (adopted 1996) and a boy named Duke (adopted 2001).

9 years and 3 years. Marcia Gay Harden (Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), and the couple have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel, and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel. She and her husband, Thaddaeus Scheel, have three children: a daughter, Eulala Scheel, born in September 1998, and twins, a boy named Hudson Harden Scheel and a girl named Julitta Dee Harden Scheel, born on 22 April 2004 in New York.)

Son adopted in 1994; 13 yrs old. Frances McDormand (McDormand has been in a relationship with director Joel Coen since 1984, and the two married in 1994, as well as adopted a son from Paraguay, Pedro McDormand Coen.)

Not married. Juliette Binoche (Binoche has two children: Raphaël (born on September 2, 1993), whose father is Andre Halle, a professional scuba diver, and Hana (December 16, 1999), whose father is French actor Benoît Magimel, with whom Binoche starred in the 1999 film Children of the Century. Binoche is currently romantically involved with Argentine writer/director Santiago Amigorena.)

No mention of kids. Linda Hunt

Seriously! I actually did this. I know, I know. But if this is my worst habit, I think I'm doing OK. I went on a wild goose chase, though, because Rachel Weisz is engaged, not married! Yeesh.

And Mute Stones was funny; I guessed at Phoebe Cates/Kevin Kline and Rachel Miller/Daniel Day Lewis. Can you imagine? Really it was the race car world for the awards. The Judds don't look the same anymore. I've heard that they treated the youngest like Cinderella, literally. What a shame!

If any of you would like to see the original blind items, they're easy to find on Lainey on a quick search, but I will repost them if you're desperately curious. I'm figuring that, if you're here, you're looking for the answers like I am and know the blind items already! LOL is overused, but what else can I say? LOL! I am so obsessed with gossip that I started my own blog? Craaaazy AND lol!

(P.S. - All info from this posting comes from wikipedia, from separate entries on each actress. Thank you, wikipedia! 97% of what I see makes sense, which is a miracle in a user-written encyclopedia. Also, all Lainey references are from www.laineygossip.com. Thank you for a wild new hobby, Lainey! -n)

Wow! I love the celebrity bloggers!

I am laughing, because I added 4 celebrity blogs to my automatic reader service, and they are ALL top-notch! And I think to myself, I really don't have ad revenue, or insider hints, or any of THAT in my back pocket. So the best I can do is try to solve blind items that are still out in the ether. Or maybe start working on the great American novel, and stop procrastinating.

So, gentle readers, what are you still trying to figure out? Let's have some fun here!

Welcome all celebrity gossip lovers!

Do you spend wayyy to much time following the lives of people you not only don't know, but probably would not want in your house! Ha! I know I'm in this category.

I am a fanatical follower of Lainey Gossip, dlisted, and the Lainey Lurv facebook account.
There's a troll on facebook, and some gracious blogger on blogspot just made their account private, so I say: I'll do my own blog, and you guys can join my party!

Let's have some silly gossiping fun, people!