Hollywood headlines: A week in review
Aspiring comedians, consider yourselves warned: Make fun of Bruce Jenner at your own peril. As Jimmy Fallon and Joel McHale have learned the hard way, the Olympic decathlete and Kardashian stepdad doesn’t take too kindly to cracks about his frighteningly taut visage. The subject came up Thursday on “Late Night,” when McHale was discussing a run-in with Kris Jenner earlier in the day backstage at “The View.” She scolded him for running in fear from her family, presumably to avoid awkward encounters with the very people he ridicules so often on “The Soup.” Fallon, too, felt the awesome wrath of Jenner this past summer, when Jenner shook Fallon’s hand and leaned in to whisper a stern warning: “Stop saying [stuff] about my face.”
Full story: VIDEO: Joel McHale and Jimmy Fallon swap Bruce Jenner horror stories (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times, Timothy White / E!, Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)
Jennifer Lawrence ogles John Stamos, Joel McHale discusses his fear of Bruce Jenner, and Marilyn Manson passes out onstage in this week’s Hollywood headlines.
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody are dating — OMG! Someone alert Gossip Girl! Yes, the teen drama stars, she of the recently wrapped “Gossip Girl” and he of the long-canceled “The OC,” have been dating for several weeks and were recently photographed together, Us Weekly first reported. Pardon us, but: Blair Waldorf + Seth Cohen = <3! Xoxo! A pic was snapped of Brody, 33, leaving Meester’s L.A. home Wednesday. The couple met on the set of their 2011 dramedy, “The Oranges,” where they hung out occasionally during shooting, the magazine said. “They were always close and friendly,” the source said.
Full story: ‘Gossip Girl’s’ Leighton Meester, ‘OC’s’ Adam Brody dating, xoxo! (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Tuesday accused singer Chris Brown of failing to complete his court-ordered community service for his 2009 assault conviction and questioned whether the documents submitted as proof of his service were fraudulent. A motion filed by the district attorney’s office said that Brown claimed he completed four hours of trash pickup between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on one day when he was actually on a private plane to Cancun that he boarded at 4 p.m.
Responding to allegations that his client faked fulfilling his community service, Brown’s attorney accused Los Angeles County prosecutors Tuesday of making “scurrilous” statements against his client and said he plans to ask a judge to sanction prosecutors. Mark Geragos told The Times he encouraged the Richmond Police Department to “take legal action against the Los Angeles County district attorney,” which alleged Tuesday that Brown violated his probation by not abiding by the terms of his court-ordered community labor in his home state of Virginia. “Apparently the district attorney’s office has completely lost their minds,” Geragos said. “They are making scurrilous, libelous and defamatory statements and apparently have lost their ability to read their own reports.”
Full story: D.A. alleges Chris Brown failed to complete community service | Chris Brown’s attorney says prosecutors have ‘lost their minds’ (David McNew / Getty Images)
Justin Bieber thinks his Ferrari 458 Italia is getting him into trouble. “It drives amazing, although, you know what, the police really like to pull me over,” Bieber said in an appearance on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” Tuesday. “I don’t do anything, I promise. It looks bad ... you see pictures of me getting pulled over. But really, the tints are really dark. “Usually, I need dark tints because I don’t want to cause accidents because people are trying to take pictures. I just thought it would be more safe for everyone else if I had dark tints .... I’m thinking about other people.”
Full story: Justin Bieber: ‘The police really like to pull me over’ (Theo Wargo / Getty Images)
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Lena Dunham did too vote, ya big meanies! Even if a New York politics blog thought it had uncovered proof that she didn’t. “Hey kids, some people on the internet are saying I didn’t vote. Some of them are still mad I used a sexy metaphor re: voting. Read on,” the “Girls” star and creator tweeted Thursday. “Some people” would refer to New York politics blog Room 8 — later picked up by larger outlets — which on Wednesday revisited Dunham’s suggestive ad about her “first time” voting for Barack Obama and then declared that Dunham hadn’t had, well, a “second time.”
Full story: Think Lena Dunham didn’t vote? Welcome to the steampunk corn maze (Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images)
Marilyn Manson has come down with the flu and collapsed onstage during a concert in Canada. According to reports, about an hour into his Wednesday performance in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s TCU Place, the shock rocker began vomiting several times then passed out during his song “Beautiful People.” Manson, whose concerts are chock full of theatrics, was helped off the stage when the band and stagehands realized that the incident was not part of the performance, Billboard reported. TMZ added that the 44-year-old was not taken to the hospital but, rather, was taken to his hotel room to rest. Manson was feeling under the weather before the performance but felt worse when he took the stage, sources told the website.
Full story: Marilyn Manson has the flu, collapses during Canada concert (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
John Mayer is ‘fessing up to his playboy ways, calling himself a “jerk” in an upcoming interview. Mayer has a celebrity black book that includes Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Minka Kelly and Jessica Simpson, whom he famously equated to “crack cocaine” and “sexual napalm” in a March 2010 Playboy interview. And just about all those relationships ended with Mayer looking like the bad guy, gaining him the skeazy rep of Hollywood’s serial playboy. There’s even a Swift song called “Dear John” that seemingly fleshes out exactly the kind of guy he was, though she denies that the song was actually written about him. “I was just a jerk,” the “Speak for Me” singer says in the interview airing on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” this weekend.
Full story: John Mayer: ‘I was just a jerk’ in previous relationships (John Moore / Getty Images)
Jennifer Lawrence has revealed one of her celebrity crushes: John Stamos of “Full House” fame. In a Tuesday appearance on “Conan,” the always-unpredictable Oscar nominee said Uncle Jesse was the one celebrity who completely blew her mind. She bumped into him at a party and could not stop staring at his behind. “He was at a party, and I turned into the most perverted guy,” Lawrence said. “I lost my mind when I met him — and I didn’t want to meet him because it’s not good when I meet people who I really idolize. It’s just never good — and so I was avoiding him, but then my friends brought him over because my friends are jerks, and I started really freaking out, and he asked me if I was on mushrooms and I was like, ‘No. I’m dead sober. This is just me.’”
Full story: Jennifer Lawrence ogles an ‘oblivious’ John Stamos (Kirk McKoy, Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)