Each year, for decades now, fur-maker Blackglama has chosen a big lady star to be its spokes-clotheshorse. Think Kate Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Sophia Loren. This year? Janet Jackson in a pert new short 'do and furs up to her nostrils. PETA, of course, had a mink about it. With reason: Janet's been on record against real fur in photo shoots. Too bad, PETA! That was then, this is cash! Girl's gonna be in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and W, and on a big Times Square billboard. Meantime, Pamela Anderson, who takes off her clothes if you say, "Money," has a startling new PETA ad, in which the Anderson bod is marked out in butcher cuts, "Rump," "Breast," etc. Sorry, no loin. "All Animals Have the Same Parts - Have a Heart. Go Vegetarian," it says. What, no Pam cutlet? No Pam brisket? No Pam pot-au-feu? The ad's banned some places in Anderson's native Canada. She's a real cutup.
Hallowed star breaks hip, is mended
Celebrity high priestess
Zsa-Zsa Gabor, now 93, fell out of bed Saturday at her Bel Air home and broke her hip. Yesterday, Zsa-Zsa, grandaunt of
Paris Hilton, among other distinctions, had hip replacement surgery, a big job any time but especially worrisome here. We wouldn't have SideShow without stars like Zsa-Zsa; we wish her Godspeed. See? We can be nice.
There are at least four rich Irishmen
Bono's bad back may have trashed
U2's plans this year, but in the last 12 months, the Iro-rockers pocketed $130 million, tops on
Forbes' Top-Earning Musicians list of 2010. (They still haven't found what they're looking for?
What are they looking for?) This reflects earnings between June 2009 and the end of June 2010, and it's dominated by acts that got rocking in the 1970s and '80s. The old heads got da cash, OK? The rest of the top 10: (2)
AC/DC, $114 mil; (3)
Beyoncé, $82 mil; (4)
Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen, $68.7 mil; (5)
Britney "I Been Quiet Lately" Spears, $64 mil; (6)
Jay-Z, $62 mil; (7)
Lady Gaga, $61 mil; (8)
Ma-"I Hate Gwyneth Paltrow"-donna, $58 mil; (9)
Kenny "Like My Cowboy Hat?" Chesney, $50 mil; and tied for 10,
Black Eyed Peas and
Coldplay, $47 mil.
Sarah: Font of linguistic innovation
On TV with
Sean Hannity the other night, author and inspirational speaker
Sarah Palin coined a new English word:
refudiate. As in, c'mon,
Barack Obama, refudiate what the NAACP is saying! Now, some stiff-heads are getting all prancy-tailfeathers, "How ignorant is
she?" and "
That's not in Webster's." Well, neither is your aunt, but you still have to send her a birthday card. C'mon, you know Sarah means halfway between
refute and
repudiate. Like halfway between Camden and Trenton. Say, Delanco. Later, she tweeted: " 'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language.
Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Got to!! Word, yo!
Misunderestimate recalls
George W. Bush.
Wee-wee'd up, as in "all anxious about nothing," is now famous thanks to Obama. Palin just wants you to put her cheek by vowel with two presidents and the greatest poet who ever lived. That's all. Don't misunderestimate her, and don't get all wee-wee'd up. You'll have to refudiate yourself later.
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