Each week, we list the coolest celebs, movies and happenings in the world of entertainment.
1. Nicole Richie, for giving us the skinny on everything. In this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, Richie, who says she’s doing something about her current weight, claims she once tried China White heroin and immediately found herself hooked. “To me it was the epitome of caring about absolutely nothing.” (Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.) We’re happy for Nicole.
2. Pop star Ashlee Simpson, for having a head–and a new nose–on her shoulders. Trashlee says she has no plans to marry boyfriend Braxton Olita because she is determined not to repeat her older sister Jessica‘s mistakes. She can only repeat her hair, her style and her career…
3. The jilted wife of actor Dean McDermott, for getting her just desserts. What’s For Dinner TV host Mary Jo Eustace is shopping around a tell-all book about the collapse of her marriage, titled My Husband Left Me for Tori Spelling. The book proposal reportedly begins with McDermott leaving to shoot the MOW Mind Over Murder with Spelling, then returning to report he’d slept with her. Eustace also says McDermott got a tattoo on his wrist that read “Truly, Madly, Deeply, Tori” at the time he didn’t have money to pay the electricity bills. Now that’s a movie of the week.
4. Movie nerds, for taking revenge on moviegoers. Fox Atomic, the new young-adult genre division of Fox Filmed Entertainment, has greenlighted the remake of the 1984 teen comedy Revenge of the Nerds with Kyle Newman at the helm. We vote real-life nerd and Mormon poster boy Jon Heder, aka Napoleon Dynamite, for lead.
5. Alphabet network ABC, for yanking its freshman White House drama Commander in Chief. But who’s to blame for President Mackenzie Allen’s demise: Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Sorry, conspiracy theorists. It just wasn’t a very good series. Seriously.
7. The St. Louis Rams, for using Hollywood to make a splash the day after the NFL draft ended. The football team signed the son of actor Denzel Washington, 5-10, 200-pound running back John David, as one of 10 undrafted players. What are John David’s credentials, you ask? He attended Morehouse College and…. OH–he was named national player of the week by D2Football.com!
8. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, for having a unique way of relaxing–he parades around in a pair of high heels. “I have a love for women’s shoes, wearing them or just looking at them,” Meyers said. “I would go out and buy a fantastic pair of shoes for nobody–just to own them.” That’s not strange at all, slingback Meyers.
9. Rapper Ice-T, for trying? The “Cop Killer” singer will coach a group of 13-year-olds from New York City’s prestigious York Prep school in ‘street’ disciplines including rhyming, scratching and break-dancing for the upcoming reality show Rap School. Ice-T hopes he will show hip-hop can have a positive influence on teens.
10. TrimSpa spokesperson Anna Nicole Smith, for moving one step closer to inheriting her late husband’s fortune. The Supreme Court this week gave new legal motion to Smith‘s bid to collect millions of dollars from the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall II, estimated at as much as $1.6 billion. Smith married Marshall in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89. He died a year later.
