Well Well Well Bitches, The Oscar Awards were last night have a lot of news to report.
The big news today, of course, is last night’s 79th Annual Academy Awards! “The Departed” won the top honor, getting Best Picture and Best Director for Martin Scorcese, making it 6 nominations for the director, but his first win. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor, as expected, for his role as Ugandan dictator Amin in “The Last King of Scotland” and Helen Mirren took home Best Actress, also as expected, for her role in “The Queen”. Former “American Idol” reject Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for “Dreamgirls” and Alan Arkin upset the favorite, Eddie Murphy for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Little Miss Sunshine”. “Little Miss Sunshine” also won Best Original Screenplay. “Happy Feet” won for Best Animated Film. Al Gore won Best Documentary for his film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth” and Melissa Etheridge won Best Original Song for “I Need You to Wake Up” from the film. I feel that Ellen Degeneres did a fantastic job hosting the show. She was rious and kept the ball rolling.
The anticipated Van Halen reunion tour with David Lee Roth has been called off, Los Angeles-based concert promoter Live Nation said Friday. In a memo to its employees, Live Nation said, “(The) Van Halen tour has been shut down,” FMQB.com said, noting that other reports indicate contractual issues surrounding the tour and a deal with Live Nation never materialized. The group is to be inducted in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in March. Original lead singer Roth said he didn’t know whether he would be on hand for the Hall of Fame induction March 12. “We have fragile politics in Van Halen — please accept that as a partial answer,” Roth told the Los Angeles Times. “But I don’t know if the Van Halens are going to go. I hope they do, but right now, I just don’t know.” Well who could not see that one coming. I would have been one of the concert goers to see David Lee Roth fronting the mighty Van Halen once again.
Rapper Ludacris is mourning his father Wayne Bridges, who died from unknown causes Sunday morning in Atlanta, Georgia. The star, real name Chris Bridges, learned his dad was in a grave condition earlier this month, and paid tribute to him at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles a few days later. In his acceptance speech for Best Rap Album, he said, “This goes out to my father, who’s in critical condition right now. I appreciate your prayers.” I still get amazed when celebrities show their softer side.
Norah Jones has a secret obsession with Shakira and would let her boyfriend sleep with the sexy Colombian. The sultry jazz star tells men’s magazine Maxim she’d give her lover a pass to spend a night with Shakira because she could understand the temptation. Jones says, “She’s hot. I like that she’s this pop star, but she’s also kind of unique and weird. “I always sing Shakira when I karaoke.” God how Degeneres of her.
And finally, It appears that Jessica Beil has already moved on from Justin Timberlake. Us Weekly is reporting that the new Hot Couple is Jessica Simpson and Fez Himself, Wilmer Velderama. Good for those two. They do seem like a good couple. They both have a weird hot sassy side.
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