Donald Trump thinks Al Gore should return his Nobel Peace Prize because the recent record snow fall proves that global warming is not real. "With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel prize back from Al Gore." Well thank you, Mr. Scientist! Little did you know, Donald Trump is not only good at firing people ("Al Gore, you're fired."), he's also good at climate research, understanding and measuring greenhouse emissions, and tracking weather patterns and data.
"Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity."
So, because China is polluting the planet we should too? Bad argument, Mr. Trump. You have the money. There are smart ways to be productive and still preserve our planet, why don't you start using your energy and power to help find ways to do it rather than making yourself sound ignorant. After he made these comments in Westchester, the audience of 500 white, middle-aged, balding, billionaire men jumped to their feet in applause. These are the people in charge of our future...
WEZ SEZ: Donald Trump is so 2000. Over him. Via the New York Post
-Kevin Smith, the director of the upcoming, sure to be awful movie Cop Out, got kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat. What's worse than being too fat? Being asked to leave a full plane after you are already seated because the pilot thinks you are a "safety risk". Yikes. He took to his Twitter account to blast the airline tweeting, "Dear @SouthwestAir - I know I'm fat, but was Captain Leysath really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated?" he began. "(He) deemed me a 'safety risk.' Again: I'm way fat... But I'm not THERE just yet." -OMG
-Kathryn Bigelow (Oscar nominated for The Hurt Locker) will direct the pilot for HBO's new drama series, The Miraculous Year. It will be an examination of a New York family as seen through the lens of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer. Sounds interesting...
-Andrew Lloyd Webber'sPhantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies has been postponed in London due to "unsafe" conditions. The original date of previews was supposed to start on February 20th, but has now been pushed back to the 22nd. The producers wanted "to allow two days' extra rehearsal time and a break to ensure that the first performance is not presented by a company and crew exhausted at the end of a long technical week." They also added that the "show (is) still not in a technically safe and secure state". They could have also added that this show didn't need to happen. Oh Andy, when will you stop?
-Heidi Klum will be guest starring on an episode of Desperate Housewives to air sometime in March. She will be playing herself in a scene that takes place in New York City as Gaby Solis (Eva Longoria) and Angie Bolen (Drea de Matteo) travel to the Big Apple. -Daily Mail
-The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be released this summer and the first set of stills has been released showing Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) getting frisky. Only two more movies and the madness will end. The pictures are pretty hot though. Take a look at more of the hot shots after the jump...
Ms. Plastic Surgery herself, Heidi Montag is hoping that everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day in the most beautiful VD photo shoot you will ever see! It was all put together by her hubby, Spencer Pratt so you know who you need to thank for these shots. In the shoot, the 23 year old shows off her brand new, modern medical miracle body. She recently had 10 plastic surgery procedures done at once, and now looks ah, ah, a-mazing! Her new body doesn't look fake at all, in fact if you didn't already know what she used to look like, you would think she was born that way! Not seeing enough of her in these photos? Not to worry, she recently told Radar Online that she is in talks to pose fully nude for Playboy to show off all that man-made beauty. SWEET!
The full list of work she had done includes a mini brow lift, Botox, nose job, fat injections in her cheeks and lips, a chin reduction, liposuction to her neck, her ears pinned back, buttocks augmentation, liposuction to her waist and thighs and breast augmentation revision according to Radar. She is still planning on getting more work done in the future, "I would like to get my breasts re-done because I couldn't get them the size I wanted because they couldn't fit." Thank God. The first thing anyone thinks when they see her new look is, "Wow, you really need more."
After all the fuss, Heidi wants to remind everyone that "it is who you are on the inside that really matters, this is just the shell at the end of the day." And she wants to remind everyone to buy her CD. You can find it in the $5 bargain bin...
Robet Pattinson is covering Details Magazine, the magazine for gay guys who like to feel semi-straight and straight guys in the closet, for their March 2010 edition. He is looking hotter than ever and poses for a "80s porn style" photo shoot. You have to hand it to the guy, he is trying his hardest to break away from his teen idol status and is constantly working on small indie projects to off-set his Twilight / Harry Potter fame. He is currently filming Bel Ami (see pictures of him at work HERE), previously played Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, and is starring in the upcoming release Remember Me.
He spoke about playing Tyler in Remeber Me in his interview with Details saying, "Tyler is so aware of his actions. But he has no idea whether they're of any value at all. Can you be a person if you live in the bubble? He's stuck in the middle. At the same time, he's lucky to have the choice. Conflict is innate in a lucky person. I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God." The movie will be released on March 12th, 2010 and is about two lovers whose newfound relationship is threatened as they try to cope with their family tragedies.
He also spoke of his hatred of vaginas. That's right Candy eaters! R-Pat hates the vag. "I really hate vaginas. I'm allergic to vagina. But I can't say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five or six hours. But I wasn't exactly prepared. I had no idea what to say to these girls. Thank God I was hungover."
In the future we can look forward to seeing more naked Pat. "I'll be a tiny bit naked. Except tonight I won't, because it's fucking freezing and my balls will shrivel up." (of course he was more than a tiny bit naked in Little Ashes)...
In the most nausea-inducing magazine cover to date, Jon Goesselin's ex, Hailey Glassman is gracing on the front of cover of Steppin' Out, NY and NJ's #1 Entertainment Magazine that you've never heard of. Dear God, let this picture be a lesson to all the slutty girls out there hoping to bag a D-list celebrity to shoot them to modeling fame. Some bitchy queen who calls himself a stylist came in and played a nasty joke on Glassman. "Girl, you look fierce! Oh wait... it's missing something. I know! Black, fingerless gloves!" They must've hidden all the mirrors from this poor girl in hopes of capturing her at her absolute worst. To add insult to injury, they added an arrow pointing at her saying "Judge this haters!" I have a feeling the haters will be judging.
But wait. The candy does not end there. She actually did an interview with these people, which proved that she may have deserved the bad cover shot. She gives the classless dish on Jon Gosselin to the mag saying, "He's hung like a nine-year-old boy. I'm serious. This is true," she even claims he only measures "3 inches."
No one in America will be surprised to hear that Jon Gosselin is small, he wears Ed Hardy after all, but everyone will be disgusted by such lude and inappropriate comments. Don't kiss and tell. It's not a cute color. Even on someone with finglerless black gloves.
She added that "anybody who sleeps with him will notice. It's very noticeable. It's so tiny, tiny, tiny." She even talks about how she would "laugh about it with my mom." That's just disgusting. She did say that Jon was very sensitive about the subject (shocker), "He said, 'You know how subconscious I am of down there.' I would tell him to his face, 'I don't think you would cheat on me because you're so small.' I would tell him that all the time." And she was right. Oh wait...
Wow. After this interview and this picture, Hailey Glassman won't be single for long!
Robert Pattinson has hung up his fangs (for now) to play the womanizing Georges Duroy in the costume period piece Bel Ami. He will be starring with Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas. Check out the pictures that were just released of him on set sans beard, fangs and annoying teenage girls who fall in love with vampires named Bella.
Chicago has been running on Broadway since 1996 and it refuses to close. The producers of the hit musical are either the smartest people producing for Broadway or the most annoying. They have fueled tourist interest in the show by having a constant influx of quasi-celebrity actors join their show for limited engagements. It has been like a giant machine, churing out one celebrity who shouldn't be starring in a Broadway musical after another. The latest stars include Ashlee Simpson, Mya, Michelle Williams, Brian McKnight, and now they just announced that starting March 29th, Matthew Settle from Gossip Girl will be appearing as Billy Flynn for a 10 week run.
Oh Broadway. Remember the good ol' days when people were cast in Broadway shows based on their talent? Although Matthew Settle may be amazing, I saw Brian McKnight and Ashlee Simpson and they were both horrifying, leading me to ask: "What is more important? The fact that the show is running or the artistic integrity of the show?" And if the only people seeing it are tourists, should we even care?
Rihanna just seems to be getting more and more annoying lately. The latest cause of annoyance (besides the get-up you see her in above that is), is her new music video for the single "Rude Boy" and it's obvious attempt to emmulate M.I.A.'s "Boyz". Although the video is cute and fun, it's all been done. At least it's not as boring and pitiful as "Russian Roulette". Now if we could just get to her to understand that a wearing a cat costume is not fashion.
Like a nightmare that continues to play out after you wake up, Sarah Palin just won't stop. As a new level of horror is reached, you think she can't get worse, and seemingly just to prove everyone wrong, she does! In a brand new horror that just surfaced, she has proven that her intelligence is equivalent to a fifth grader. For a recent speech (made mere hours after criticizing Obama as a "charismatic guy with a teleprompter") Palin read notes not from a teleprompter, but from her hand. Yes. Her hand. The best part is that she seemed to put some real thought into the notes - she actually crossed one out after she wrote it. She was like, "hmmmmm.... no. I don't want to say that." Are you kidding me?!!!! Why would she ever think to write notes for her speech on her hand? Why not just have a note card? No one would blame her for having some notes... after all no one besides her cares that the president uses a teleprompter. God please, let the madness that is Sarah Palin end!
As you all know, Taylor Swift can't sing. This was heard by millions watching the Grammy's as she shaked, wobbled, and missed all the right notes in a medley of her songs. Everyone can have an off night, but hearing her voice so raw and exposed revealed a huge lack of training and her performance left a lot to be desired. This point was solidified as Swift's idol, Stevie Nicks walked onto the stage to sing a duet with her. Nicks was calm, collected and on-point while Swift was jumping all over the place, her energy seemed to be a distraction from her short-comings.
As pop stars and teen sensations go, Taylor Swift does have singing talent. But as we all know, to be a pop star takes MUCH, MUCH more than singing talent. You have to be fierce, have an incomparable stage presence, demand attention, dance, connect with the music / crowd / band, and you have to sing. At this point, Taylor Swift needs to decide what she wants to be. A pop star? Or a singing artist? Because she doesn't have what it takes to be either right now, and she is stuck in the middle (it is a Grammy winning middle, but it is the middle none the less and will be fleeting).
The huge backlash against her performance has been heard from the major critics (The New York Times, Washington Post), TV News, Twitter, Youtube comments, blogs and more. The noise made its way all the way up to the big man at Taylor Swift's record label, Big Machine Records. His name is Scott Borchetta and he released a statement through the Tennessean which did not help her case.
"Maybe she's not the best technical singer, but she's probably the best emotional singer because everybody else who gets up there and is technically perfect, people don't seem to want more of it." Who are these people that don't want to see a technically perfect singer? Swift is billed as a SINGER.... shouldn't she be able to SING? "This is not 'American Idol.' This is not a competition of getting up and seeing who can sing the highest note. ... It's not about that technically perfect performance."
She definitely did not sing the high notes... in fact she lowered all of them in comparison to what she sings on the CD, and she was still pitchy. "I think (the critics) are missing the whole voice of a generation that is happening right in front of them. … She's an extraordinary songwriter and her vocal performances are getting better."
The voice of a generation?! Maybe. If the generation he is talking about is today's pre-teen girls. But does that equal staying power? True staying power? No. You have to have something. You have to be able to perform. In some sense of the word.
Kelly Clarkson has weighed in on this whole subject in her blog, and attacked Borchetta for his American Idol comments. "you know what, we not only hit the high notes, you forgot to mention we generally hit the ‘right’ notes as well. Every artist has a bad performance or two and that is understandable, but throwing blame will not make the situation at hand any better."
Ouch. "Instead of lashing out at other artists (that in your 'humble' opinion lack true artistry), you should simply take a breath and realize that sometimes things won't go according to plan or work out and that's okay."
Thank you Kelly, for your words of wisdom.
She signed the blog "One of those contestants from American Idol who only made it because of her high notes "
In the end, Taylor Swift won 4 Grammys and is now the youngest artist to win the top prize of Album of the Year. But winning a Grammy does not equal staying power. To have that she's going to have do some major work.
I have decided to take my blog in a new direction, sharing more about myself and my personal thoughts and feelings. In the past I was worried about everyone else's opinions instead of sharing my own. Which is what your here to get, right? So here it is:
WEZ Candy | Candy thoughts from the mouth of WEZ
My opinions and thoughts on all things gossip, movies, Broadway, news and anything else that pops out of my mouth...
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