Roman Polanski: Harvey Weinstein On Switzerland And Rape As Entertainment

ROMAN Polanski, who pleaded guilty to the rape of a 13-year-old – he spent 42 says in prison – is making big news in the Independent, which borrows the words of our jobbing politcians and invites one and all to join the big debate. As the front page declares:

Polanksi: the big debate

When what is lawful becomes a debate, something has gone wrong, or right.

Anorak

Posted: 29th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)

Katie Price Records Whitney Houston Classic

FRONT-page news on the Daily Star is Jordan’s heartache, a dagger to her left breast – [insert sound of air escaping from li-lo here] as she wails:

“PETER’S CUT ME OFF FROM MY KIDS”

It’s Jordan’s “heartache.”

FURIOUS Kate Price has accused former husband Peter Andre of cutting her off from their children. The model claims Peter has changed all his phone numbers to prevent her from speaking to them.

Is there another way of reaching Junior and Princess Timimimimimeeee? Can a note from mum be inserted in their morning tabloid? Can Newsround, the BBC’s children’s news show, carry special messages from Jordan to her kidz on the hour every hour? Will Katie be forced to wait until the kids get on stage to support dad and then scream: “Hax yooo dun yure ‘omewurk?”

Anorak

Posted: 29th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)

Peter Andre, Dwight Yorke And Alex Reid In Fight For Harvey

DWIGHT Yorke, Harvey’s birth papa, has been telling the papers about his time with Katie Price, who is now divorced from Peter Andre an adting Alex Reid. Harvey waits:

Peter said: “I do not hate Dwight and I didn’t realise he felt that way about me. But I have been a real father of Harvey and he calls me Daddy. I guess that sticks in Dwight’s throat.” – Daily Mail, September 28, 2009

Anorak

Posted: 28th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)

Sergeant Delroy Smellie Charged With G20 Assault

SERGEANT Delroy Smellie is to be charged with assaulting Nicola Fisher at the G20 demonstration in London.

Yeah, Smellie. Oh, nominative determinism.

The G20 summit has long stopped being about politics, and now exists only for the media as a chance for the uniformed police and banner waving poverty fans – hoods up, kids – to go for it in scenes missing from our TV screens since all-seater stadia erupted all over football.

Anorak

Posted: 28th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Full Police Transcript Of The Case Against Roman Polanski

ROMAN Polanksi is arrested for raping 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (then Samantha Gailey) at Jack Nicholson’s Mulholland Canyon house in March 1977. Polanksi was 43.

The media wonders if the Swiss can be blamed – and finds that they can  be –  and Anorak’s Man in LA looks back over the case.

Anorak

Posted: 28th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (10)

Let’s Blame The Swiss For Roman Polanski’s Arrest

ROMAN Polanski is arrested in Switzerland and faces extradition to the US for having sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977.

In 1978, Polanski settled in France, where he is protected by France’s limited extradition with US. The media round-up:

The Age: “The controversial Polish-French director, 76, was arrested on Saturday as he arrived to receive a special award at the Zurich film festival. The Justice Ministry said he is being held to await deportation to the United States.”

Anne Applebaum, Washington Post: The Outrageous Arrest of Roman Polanski

Of all nations, why was it Switzerland — the country that traditionally guarded the secret bank accounts of international criminals and corrupt dictators — that finally decided to arrest Roman Polanski? There must be some deeper story here, because by any reckoning the decision was bizarre — though not nearly as bizarre as the fact that a U.S. judge wants to keep pursuing this case after so many decades.

Anorak

Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (12)

Jaycee Dugard Copycat Attacker Strikes In California

JAYCEE Dugard: How the Jaycee Dugard story is being turned into media shorthand – a benchmark for stolen children – even those who haven’t been taken…

FOX 40: “Attempted Kidnapping of 11-year-old from Sacramento County Park”

Jaycee Dugard is now the media’s benchmark for stolen children:

An 11-year-old girl was safe Saturday night, after a strange man tried to snatch her from Howe Avenue Park.

Anorak

Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Katie Price’s Chicken Nuggets, Sex And Dwight Yorke’s Ring

HIGH time to hear from former Katie Price squeezer Dwight Yorke, Harvey’s daddy.

In “DWIGHT YORKE EXCLUSIVE”, the NoTW hears Dwight “reveal sensational details on his relationship with Katie Price”.

Ready for the sensation? Go:

DWIGHT YORKE: Jordan is wild in bed, Katie Price is tender

Dwight has bought into that marketing plot in which Jordan, the pneumatic aide to masturbation is different to Kate Pie, the pneumatic aide to masturbation in an apron. That’s Katie Price flashing her bra in an interview with Piers Morgan. That’s Jordan flashing her bra in the papers. See the difference?

PULLING Katie Price was like winning the double for soccer star Dwight Yorke – he quickly discovered she had TWO bedroom personas.

Anorak

Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)

Jack Tweed’s Suicide Watch With Jade Goody

JACK Tweed says he wants to kill himself. In “JACK: I WANT TO KILL MYSELF”, the News of The World places Mr Jade Goody on suicide watch – “nor death shall us part”.

Beneath a picture of Tweed, readers are told:

QUIET NIGHT IN: Prison beans and orange squash is far from Jack Tweed’s usual Champagne style

One would venture that Tweed is sipping on “prison orange squash”. But we should not interrupt the facts as Jack’s mum, Mary Tweed, tells her story to the tabloids, and so – finally! – welcomes a bona fide outlet of Jade Goody Industries.

THE distraught mum of rape charge widower Jack Tweed told yesterday of her torment at seeing her “baby” in prison and hearing him threaten to take his own life.

Anorak

Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

First Shock Pictures Of Jaycee Dugard At Disney

JAYCEE Dugard: the media’s hunt for picture of an adult Jaycee Dugard is on.

And the National Enquirer has the scoop – an image of Jaycee taken from the business card of Printing For Less, the firm Phillip Garrido ran from his home in Antioch.

The NE says local barber Wayne Thompson provided the image.

“I was told it was her by Phillip,” Thompson said. “He said he put his daughter’s picture on the card to show what he could do with photos.”

Because if you can’t trust an alleged kidnapper, and a proven rapist and paedophile who hears god’s voice from black box and was addicted to LSD to tell the truth, to put the correct picture on a business card, who can you trust?

Anorak

Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)

Phil Brown And Hull City Present Strictly Come Premier League

THOSE Premier League managers – lovely movers to a man: up; down; out the door.

Anorak begins its regular look at Strictly Come Managing, this week’s football manager dance contest.

Anorak

Posted: 26th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment

Strictly Come Dancing Judge Vows To Punch Alesha Dixon

IN “MY War With Alesha” – Craig Revels-Horny (the erect chocolate coated orange) tells of his Strictly Come Dancing arms race.

The Mirror’s headline promises much, looking to pile more misery on Alesha Dixon, this year’s John Sergeant. But reading on we get:

Furious Craig Revel Horwood has threatened to wallop fellow Strictly judges Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli if they do not shut up and let him speak.

Anorak

Posted: 26th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Sophie Anderton Charged £15k For 120 Seconds Of Sex

SOPHIE Anderton, reality TV fodder, Jeremy Kyle interviewee and, reportedly, a former coke dealer says she “sold sex for £15k an hour”.

It’s a confession that begs the question: Sex with whom?

For £15,000 an hour, Old Mr Anorak’ assures us that you can go for bulk and have sex with an entire south-east Asian island – literally – most of Basildon or the late Queen Mother.

Reading on, however, it turns out that Sophie says there was someone out there willing to stump up the £15,000 fee to have sex with her, for a whole hour.

Anorak

Posted: 26th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)

East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer Is Big In Ladies Tights: Pictures

HERE are photos of East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer dressed in his best knickers and bra combo.

Indeed, dear reader, finally America has a politician with imagination.
Says Brewer:

“Are you all part of the Eric Brewer for governor campaign? You need a sex scandal if you want to get to the next level.”

He’s right. With any luck the pictures will enableBrewer to bypass all that boring politicking and jump right into the media career.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

Incest Chic MacKenzie Phillips Introduces David Hasselhoff To Oprah Winfrey

WHILE the British media talks about Katie Price’s rape, over in the US MacKenzie Phillips is selling her story of sex with her father John Phillips, late lead singer of the The Mamas & the Papas. David Hasselhoff approaches.

MacKenzie says at 19 she was raped by her musician father and then partook of a consensual 10-year sexual relationship with him.

“I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. I don’t remember how it started or, thankfully, how it ended. Was it the first time? Had this happened before? I didn’t know, and I still don’t. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it. For a moment, I was in my body…in that horrible truth and then I slide back into a blackout. Your father is suppose to protect you.”

MacKenzie makes he confession in her memoir High on Arrival was released, and repeats it on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Anroak’s Man in The Hollywood Swamp tuned in:

Oprah went there Wednesday and she’s returning today (Friday) when she brings back Mackenzie Phillips for day two of her sordid discussion of how she and daddy did the nasty for ten years. This time, she’s bringing little sis, Chynna Phillips, along for the trudge through the sludge.

After a disappointing 2008-09 season in the ratings, the Big O has been kicking some syndicated ass since last Monday’s Whitney Houston premiere. She stretched that interview into a two-day affair, and cleaned up in the Nielsen overnights in the process.

Looks like she’s hoping for the same from a second appearance by Phillips.

Incest. Viewers can’t get enough of it.

What’s more ghastly than Phillip Garrido hiding Jaycee Dugard in his shed for 18 years and giving her two babies in the process? Mackenzie Phillips having drug-fueled incestuous sex with her father.

Oprah can get Jaycee Dugard in a double-header. The Telegraph glances at Google keywords and provides context:

Her sensational allegations have served to split the only showbiz family who are more dysfunctional than the Jacksons.

Two of John Phillips’ ex-wives, Michelle Phillips and Genevieve Waite, have denounced the story, but what is undisputable is that Phillips has one of the worst and wildest reputations in rock.

So she can be believed? Let’s have a heated debate:

Hell no!

“Mackenzie has a lot of mental illness,” stepmother Michelle Phillips said. “She’s had a needle stuck up her arm for 35 years. She was arrested for heroin and coke just recently. She did ‘Celebrity Rehab’ and now she writes a book. The whole thing is timed,” Michelle Phillips said.

You’re dreamin’

I spoke to Michelle this morning by phone; she has not read Mackenzie’s book, published today, called “High on Arrival.” Michelle Phillips says that in 1997, Mackenzie told everyone in their extended family that she and her father, Michelle’s famous former husband, had had a sexual relationship.
“She told me, then she called me back and said, ‘You know I’m joking,’ ” Michelle told me. “I said it wasn’t funny. Mackenzie said, ‘I guess we have different senses of humor.’” – Showbiz 411

Hell yes!

Chynna told US she “knew it was true,”

Making Incest your own cause

She further added “If you open a textbook on incest you can see a picture of the Phillips family,” Phillips said. “We are behaving in a typical way. The instinct is to say it’s not true. The instinct is to deny. The instinct is to brush it under the table. The instinct is to protect the abuser.”

Making the brand

Not to downplay the seriousness of Mackenzie Phillips’ shocking claims against her famous father, but this former actress has launched what will surely be one of the most successful marketing plans for a tell-all book since…well, this doesn’t really compare to anything else. First, Phillips shared a shocker with Oprah. Now, she continues to tell her tale despite input from stepmom Michelle Phillips. By the time this book is on the shelves, there’s no doubt that Mackenzie will be at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Who says the print industry is struggling? – Gearlive

A celebrity trend

We’re still one father-daughter pairing short of a media-certified trend, but as of this morning “celeb blurred family boundaries” is tracking on the Hollywood horrors power rankings chart with a big up arrow. Hours after McKenzie Phillips’ revelations of her “consensual” sexual relationship with her father swept media by storm, singer/talent judge/tabloid coverboy David Hasselhoff, a man who can’t stand to sit on the sidelines of history, threw his 17-year-old daughter into the car and headed straight over to West Hollywood’s noted sex shop Coco de Meraccording a TMZ report. Too soon? – Gawker

A woman alleges, a book gets sold, media has a new pet subject and MacKenzie Phillips restarts her career…

Anorak

Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)

X Factor Amie Buck Strips In Pictures

MORE news on Amie Buck, the X Factor lap dancer.

Having told readers of Amie’s “seedy profession” – to whom Simon Cowell, a seated middle-aged man with a Stag-night-sized lap oozed “You look fantastic” – the Sun now delivers:

“WHY I’M PROUD TO BE A STRIPPER”

The interview is equipped with a video of Amie showing right-minded Sun readers just what she looks like in her seedy knickers.

Anyone might think that you need cosmetic surgery – Amie’s breasts have been boosted from a B-Cup to a DD – and to show loads of skin to get on in showbiz.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Five Ways Michael Jackson Was Like Hitler, By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Having mutated from the King of Pop to the King of Propofol, Jackson is bing painted Bad once more (geddit?).

The Sun leads with news that Jackson thought Hitler was genius. To emphasise Jackson’s respect for the mono-tested great dictator, the Sun finds a picture of Jackson with his right hand raised in a salute to the enlightened.

Readers are forgiven for thinking they have read this before – and they have in August the News of The World told us:

He was obsessed with Adolf Hitler, collected Nazi medals and scoured books about evil experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (15)

Video Of IFK Gothenburg’s Goalkeeper Kim Christensen Moving Goalposts

KIM Christensen, IFK Gothenburg’s Danish goalkeeper, is accused of making the goal smaller by moving the goalposts for his side’s match against Örebro in the Allsvenskan league.

Christensen, who has been reported to the Swedish Football Association’s disciplinary board, explins:

“I got the tip from a goalkeeping friend a few years ago, and since then I have done it from time to time.”

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment

Gawker Versus Gayheart And Dane: Sex Tape Round Up

ERIC Dane and his pregnant wife Rebecca Gayheart, stars of the dullest non-sex sex tape to hit the internets, are suing Gawker over publishing it on their site.(Cut scenes here.)

Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart claims Gawker “maliciously” distributed the Noxzema video and included nude shots of them and former beauty queen Kari Ann Peniche. Ric, Gayheart and Penishe. Who needs porn names, right Mindy McCready?

How much is the injury to their reputations worth? They say $1million.

Their layer, Marty Singer also want the video pulled.

Gawker publisher Nick Denton twitters:

“To quote the great Marty Singer — Eric Dane’s lawyer — if you don’t want a sex tape on the internet, ‘don’t make one!'”

Well, nto so much to quote as to paraphrase. What Singer said:

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Lily Allen’s Traditional Copyright Infringement

WHEN Lily Allen said piracy was made for music, that in broadcasting music to the masses in a free and easy way new acts will find it harder to reach an audience, we wondered if anyone wanted to hear any more of Lily’s brain working.

Lily Allen knew that we did and set up her own blog on the subject, inviting other musicians to contribute.

Lily’s position is:

Music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some rich and successful artists such as Nick Mason, of Pink Floyd, and Ed O’Brien, of Radiohead, don’t think so. Last week, they told The Times that file sharing is fine. It probably is for them. They do sell-out arena tours and have the biggest Ferrari collections in the world. For new talent, though, file sharing is a disaster — it makes it harder and harder for new acts to emerge.

Michael Masnick on Techdirt investigated:

When Lily was first trying to get attention, she created a couple of mixtapes with a ton of songs from other artists… available as MP3 downloads, and mixing in her own tracks… According to the tracklisting of the second mixtape, it included 19 tracks by artists other than Lily Allen. Both mixtapes (mixtape 1 and mixtape 2) are available directly off of Lily’s website, LilyAllenMusic.com, which has a copyright notice at the bottom from EMI.

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

X Factor Curtis Moore Had A Knife

MEET Curtis Moore, the “knife lout” go “terrorised” a town.

The Sun’s Lucy Connolly is on the X Factor web beat, trawling social network sites for signs of X Factor wannabes. Lucy ends up on Bebo, the bin end of the web savvy youth beat. And therein lurk Curtis Moore.

Secret details of the 16-year-old’s thuggish past came to light as disturbing photos of him emerged on the Bebo social networking website. One shows Curtis – a strong contender in the TV talent show – staring menacingly into the camera as he appears to brandish a lock-knife.

Secret details posted on a publicly viewable website? That’s the picture on the left. Its does indeed look like a knife but Curtis looks less menacing than his tool. He looks like a stroppy child looking at a knife. In the second pictures, gleaned from the X Factor show, Curtis seems to be competing with Dannii Minogue and Simon Cowell  to see who can blink first, or at all.

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)

Left-Handed Underpants Add Seconds To Obama’s Life

HARRY Wallop, the Telegraph’s consumer affairs editor brings news of the left-handed underpants.

Thanks to knicker maker Hom, southpaws have finally achieved equal opportunities where it matters most.

In the press release Hom says the gunties will “save left handed men up to three, often vital, seconds when visiting the loo“.

Over the course of a lifetime this could add up to a full quarter of an hour to your telly watching, preventing you missing that decisive goal or the weather for your region.

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (5)

Angelina Jolie Tells OK! ‘I Don’t Ask For Tabloid Attention’

ANGELINA Jolie would like OK! readers, and therefore us, to know:

“I don’t ask for all this tabloid attention so I never read what they write about us.”

It’s the media. It’s all the media. Angelina is talking about the invasive tabloids in an OK! interview. She doesn’t ask to be in the tabloids. It’s not her fault that hacks and snappers not part of her accredited team follow her about.

AJ: First I see myself as a mother – that’s my priority… I don’t even go out that much, I travel and do a film and that’s about it so I don’t understand why people want to know more about our lives.

Cue:

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, OK! | Comments (4)

Madeleine McCann: Watching Kate McCann And Looking For Damages

MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: Three summers on from when Madeleine McCann vanished, the media is still watching the parents, zooming in on Kate McCann. The McCanns are in Portugal in search of Madeleine…and damages.

Daily Star (front page): “MADDIE: OUT NEW HOPE”

The harrowing trip was “extremely emotional” for Kate McGann and her first visit to Portugal since Maddie disappeared in May 2007…

The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell added: “It has been a difficult and daunting ordeal for both of them, but particularly Kate. It’s her first trip back and it’s been very traumatic for her. In the end she just decided: ‘I’ll do it for Madeleine.’

“It’s an extremely emotional time but she feels it was necessary to help find her daughter.”

Daily Mirror (front page): “Every day I cry for Maddy”

At an emotional press conference in Lisbon she admitted: “I cry for her every day.”

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (10)

Lady Gaga’s Period Inspires Milan Fashion Week

TO Milan fashion week, where Actress Francesca Duca is modelling at the Seduzioni Diamonds fashion show in the style of Lady Gaga, by wearing her knickers in public, exposing her primary sexual characteristics and dripping in (fake) blood?

But get a load of those rocks?

The Frisky wonders if “flaunting your period is the next big thing”.

Anorak

Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment