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Ewww! Hepatitis Scare Hits A-list Stars In New York

Jeez, you can't even get a drink in New York these days without risking your life! My pals at WCBS-TV report:

Patrons of a West Village bar earlier this month are urged to get a hepatitis A vaccination after a bartender who works there was diagnosed with the serious ailment. Among those who may have been potentially exposed were many A-list stars from Hollywood, music and the fashion industry.

About 700-800 people were estimated to have visited the bar on those nights. Celebrities Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Madonna were among hundreds of patrons urged by New York health officials on Thursday to get a Hepatitis A vaccination.

Link: wcbstv.com - Hepatitis Scare At Popular West Village Bar.

Do Something | Celebs Gone Good (the blog)

If you feel like you need to take a shower after reading TMZ, then this site may be for you.

Link: Do Something | Celebs Gone Good (the blog).

Michael Jackson & Britney Spears - Together

There's been much more written about the personal lives of Britney Spears and Michael Jackson than about their music. But lest you forget the level of talent both of them were originally famous for, check this little clip out (I think it's from Michael's MSG mega concert almost exactly six years ago.)

If I Were Britney's Manager

By now you've probably seen Britney Spears' unfortunate performance at the MTV VMAs either on MTV itself or on the Web.

I was watching it on the monitors in the studio at work when I realized I was holding my face in my hands a la Macauley Culkin in "Home Alone" as I moaned in horror.  One co-worker yelled out "Judy, you sound like you're in pain!"

So much was wrong with the performance. The lip-synching, the half-hearted dance moves and the trashy outfit were all no-nos.

Unfortunately, I don't think anybody out there is telling Britney "no!"

It was a poor choice to go the slutty route for her comeback performance. To succeed in that style, she would have had to have topped her previous racy VMA numbers including the Madonna kiss and the dance with a live snake.

This just looked desperate.

If I were Britney's manager, assuming she'd even listen to me, I would have had her do something completely different.

I've written before that when she stops with the cooing and breathy moans, she can actually sing. So, she would have blown everybody away if she had opened the show dressed in something classy, sitting on a stool or the edge of the stage and belting out a ballad.

Yes, a ballad. Maybe with a string orchestra, just a piano, guitar or even (at least for the intro) a capella.

It wouldn't have been a big splashy production number, but it would have brought her back some healthy street cred and generated excitement precisely because it would have been totally unexpected.

When asked by USA Today what he thought of Britney's performance, Kanye West said, "I have no words."

When Kanye West is rendered speechless, that means there's a problem.

Girls Gone Wild: What Are Celebs Teaching Kids? - Newsweek Health - MSNBC.com

Interesting article on the cover of Newsweek today. Lately I've been having a real crisis of conscience as a willing cog in the giant BS machine that is celebrity news. Do I really want to be writing this stuff? Isn't there something more useful or at least more positive that I could do? I'm really struggling with this.

So, Newsweek's Kathleen Deveny wrote about the "girls gone wild" effect. There's good news, and bad news in the article, and what I think is sound advice in the conclusion.

"Paris, Britney, Lindsay & Nicole: They seem to be everywhere and they may not be wearing underwear. Tweens adore them and teens envy them. But are we raising a generation of 'prosti-tots'?"

My 6-year-old daughter loves Lindsay Lohan. Loves, loves, loves her. She loves Lindsay's hair; she loves Lindsay's freckles. She's seen "The Parent Trap" at least 10 times. I sometimes catch her humming the movie's theme song, Nat King Cole's "Love." She likes "Herbie Fully Loaded" and now we're cycling through "Freaky Friday." So when my daughter spotted a photo of Lindsay in the New York Post at the breakfast table not long ago, she was psyched. "That's Lindsay Lohan," she said proudly. "What's she doing?"

I couldn't tell her, of course. I didn't want to explain that Lindsay, who, like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, sometimes parties pantyless, was taking pole-dancing lessons to prepare for a movie role. Or that her two hours of research left her bruised "everywhere."

Read full article: Girls Gone Wild: What Are Celebs Teaching Kids? - Newsweek .

Happy Ending For The Happy Hooker

Remember Xaviera Hollander, author of the sex classic "The Happy Hooker"?  Well, it came over the wires today that she tied the knot with her boyfriend of two years today.

I had to email her to get a picture, since the wire service didn't provide it, and she very kindly wrote me back and sent me a photo from the ceremony. She now runs a bed and breakfast in Holland -- where all they served is breakfast, so don't get any ideas.

Wow, now I can add another 1970s icon to my list of people I've interviewed or written about lately.

Britney Fan Site Says: Enough!

Britney Spears is starting to piss off her fans. The webmaster of WorldOfBritney.com says he's shutting down the site because of the panty-challenged celeb's antics.

"As Britney keeps losing her identity and credibility within fans and industry people, so is WoB. We're moving on to greater, bigger things," says Ruben Garay in a press release that hit the Internet today. "I would therefore like to announce the permanent shut down of World of Britney.com beginning January 31st, 2007."

Of course, this is great publicity for the site and for Garay who's planning on launching a celebrity blog.  I need to do a tour of message boards to see how many disillusioned Britney fans there really are out there (poor dears.)

Part of Britney's image problem is that she hasn't recorded or toured in the last few years, being busy with her deadbeat soon-to-be ex-husband and popping out two kids.

If she comes out with a hit album, all will be forgiven, I'm sure.

Right, Mariah?

Girls Gone Wild

So Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees has been stripped of her crown. She was axed from the Miss USA pageant because of naughty photos that turned up on the Web. 

Now, see the picture at left?

That's NOT one of the pictures that got her in trouble. That's an official photo that I saw on the Miss Nevada USA Web site a few minutes after the announcement was made (it's since been removed). This copy of it is via the National Ledger

The photos that got her in trouble appear to be Rees at a bar with a couple of girlfriends pulling down their pants and exposing their thongs, flashing a breast here or there, and kissing each other. She was apparently 17 at the time.

I'm not saying it's the most ladylike, classy behavior in the world, but jeez, Miss USA ain't the Nobel Prize either.

Rees won the Miss Nevada USA title in the first place by strutting her stuff in that skimpy bikini. And although she's not exposing a breast, she's actually wearing much less in her official photo than what she wore in the "girls gone wild" photos.

And this photo is from the Miss USA Web site. It's Tara Conner, the young lady that The Donald forgave for underage drinking and partying in nightclubs (I think she kissed a girl too...it's a theme.)

Again, that's an official photo from the pageant Web site. Miss USA, in a bikini, posing provocatively on a fur rug.

I mean, who are these people kidding?

Britney Belting It Out

And now, a break from whether or not Britney Spears is a good mom, good pet owner, or wearing underwear.

I stumbled on an interesting medley of Britney Spears' vocal performances, correction, best vocal performances as determined by the editor that created the clip. It was submitted to YouTube.com from a 19-year-old from Cologne Germany who goes by the name of Guido and is very excited to be coming to Orlando next year "to work at Disneyland."  We assume that means Disneyworld or the poor kid is going to have to figure out a way to get to Anaheim.

In the medley, you'll see a 10-year-old Britney on Star Search, Britney singing "New York, New York" in an amateur video, and Britney singing one of my favorite Chaka Khan songs ("I Feel For You") on what looks to be the Mickey Mouse Club (it's a little blurry but that looks like Justin Timberlake in one of the shots.)

Britney does let her more powerful vocal chops be heard when she sings the occasional ballad. But it's always a little bit of a surprise since most of the time she kind of growls, moans and pants her way through her dance music.

I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, at least not for a song like "Toxic." But wouldn't it be interesting to hear her sing a song straight up more often? 

Oy Vey! Michael Richards Is NOT Jewish No Matter What He Says

Vay ez mir! The last thing we need is racist comic Michael Richards claiming he's Jewish...when he is SO not a member of the tribe.

His mom's not Jewish + his dad's not Jewish + he never converted to Judaism = he's about as Jewish as, say, a loaf of wonder bread and a jar of mayonnaise (with apologies to Woody Allen).

Michael Jordan - we'd love to have him; Michael Bublé - a nice boy and such a voice! We'd take him too; and of course we've already accepted Michael Caine because he speaks Yiddish and was even a Shabbos goy as a kid.

As for Richards, we've got enough tsuris, thank you.

Link: Michael Richards: Jewish Or Not?, Rabbis Say Embattled Comedian's Claim Not Valid - The ShowBuzz.