Lust Hurts
Lust Hurts
This! Is! Lame!
Just 'cause you’re treated like a VIP by all the trendy T-town clubs, it doesn’t mean all the gals and guys inside will gaze upon you as if you're royalty. Case in point: Gerard Butler and his bud were at the Tropicana Bar at the ritzy-butt Roosevelt Hotel in H'wood, enjoying a stud’s night out. Dude was dressed to the sorta-eights in black pants, ratty shoes more apropos for beers 'n' bowling and a fitted white Tee that would’ve been too pectoral-gazing even for Simon Cowell. G.B. also donned a scruffy five-o'clock job, a seriously messy mop of hair and bounced around the room, feelin' just a wee bit too pain-free. What a dreamboat, eh? Still pretty doable, though. 'Least he didn’t have that face he had in Phantom of the Opera, tho maybe a mask woulda helped cover up some of that blasted bedhead.
Gerard’s friend, tho, was every bit the witty hunk Ger-hon wasn’t, and the ladies would’ve gladly left in his company had Butler not eventually picked up on the girls’ interest in his less famous bud and left, taking his crushed pal along to sulk. We gotta wonder how G landed Cameron Diaz with an arsenal of antigame like that. Was it just the bod? Women are so shallow.
Introducing Lindsay Ronson
You may want to sit down for this one, 'cause it’s bound to be the surprise of the century. If you aren't wearing a hat, go put one on and hold onto it, 'cause it’s about to be blown off! Lindsay Lohan is rumored to be off the wagon. Well, technically she was never really on the wagon—more like hanging onto the side, sneaking off (like to Chicago) whenever no one was looking. Oh, who are we kidding? Someone’s always looking...and always snapping photos, too.
At the time of this writing (since we figure the number will rise like fresh bread, sorry Passover pals), our freckled friend has been out on the town—on both coasts—hitting the clubs with roommate and bestie Samantha Ronson. And Oprah's girlie-powered town is the latest scheduled sistah stop. How close are these two kittens? Well, LiLo’s been following SamRo to all her DJ gigs like a needy, nocturnal pooch, and she’s even christened herself “Lindsay Ronson” on her supposed Facebook profile. Maybe Beyoncé and Jay-Z aren’t the only celebs effing with the media right now? I wonder what in the ef S.R. is thinking, letting Linds stay out until all hours when she claims she’s looking out for her gal-pal’s best interests. I guess we all know who wears the leggings in that relaysh.
Someone seriously needs to step up and act as conservator over L's estate. It’s slowly but surely working (temporarily, at least) for dear Ms. Spears; chances are it should do the trick for Linds. How else is she supposed to hit rock-bottom when she’s always landing on a comfy cushion of cash? Her asking price may have stumbled (her going rate for upcoming flick Florence is a paltry by comparison $75 thou), but LiLo’s anything but bankrupt. She’ll never run out of enabling friends all too happy to ride her clubbing coattails and her credit cards. And even if she never stars in a hit movie again, she’ll always have her boobs to expose on magazine covers, securing a paycheck until infinity.
IN THE CLOSET
What is this, Divine Ms. Midler? Not only does your granny from Greenland outfit for Earth Day look like it's been put together by a leprechaun stylist on crack, you're at a tree-planting ceremony in Central Park, dear, not the North Pole. But gotta say, your fashion fall simply pales when compared with the temerity it took for you to pose with a shovel while planting some young twig at the Martin Luther King Jr. Housing Campus. Did ya think this photo op would wipe out folks' memories of how you felled more than 230 gorgeous trees from your lot on the Hawaiian isle of Kauai? Without a permit, no less. (And yes, I know you've apologized and you're busy replanting there, but that was seriously screwed up.) Think folks'll forget the volcanic-like eruption from locals who were not only appalled but who saw to it that you were fined, appropriately? Real life ain't Vegas, baby. Things just don't go poof because you and Caesars say so.
ENDBLAB
"Yes."
—How a legal insider and "Awful Truth" amiga veryclose to some California Supreme Court judges answered when I asked if she knew which way the Court was leaning over its landmark gay-marriage decision, being weighed this very sec. More in Friday's column on whether things look peachy or bitchy for Ellen 'n' Portia and all our same-sex ilk