Chinese Am. Army Reservist Marries ‘My Girl’
July 2, 2008
Anna Chlumsky - the bee sting-lipped blonde who macked on Macaulay Culkin before he turned to, well, Jacko - married Brooklyn live-in boyfriend Shaun So in March. “We’re going to do a fusion of two cultural traditions,” she told People back in October. “There will be lai see. … Both of our fathers are chefs, so food is number one.” So’s father owns China Town restaurant in Topsham, Maine, and Chlumsky’s father teaches culinary arts at Kendall College in Chicago, Illinois. She told People that she hoped to skip the “kidnapping of the bride” but wanted to keep the tea ceremony. So is an Army Reserve member who served in Afghanistan, and Chlumsky just wrapped filming the political satire The Loop with James Gandolfini.
Tera Patrick: A New ‘Pussycat’?
Quentin Tarantino has set his sights on Thai English porn star actress Tera Patrick (nee Linda Ann Hopkins), and the San Francisco-raised beauty might appear in the 21st century remake of Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! “Quentin loves her, and she’s a dead ringer for original star Tura Satana,” a source told The New York Post. True or not, Patrick’s flattered, and believes that she was literally “made” to play the part of the busty, ball-busting babe.
Here’s Mud in Your Eye
Alan Kao, guitarist for Bay Area band Mud, is banking his dream of opening for Linkin Park. Take a few minutes away from the social networking flavor site of the month, and send your votes over to addictedtonoise.com/profile/mudsf to help the band make the top 12 for one of three opening slots. “You don’t have to sign up for an account, unless you want to write a sweet comment about us,” Kao writes. No word whether fans will be supplied with complimentary panties to toss on stage should Mud win. Voting ends on Wednesday, July 9.
Frameline Sees Cho, Perez Hilton
Comedian Margaret Cho was visibly grumpy in a slightly dowdy floral dress for the lunchtime screening of her Sordid Lives at the Castro Theater. She stood anxiously at the door, far away from fans lining 17th Street. Perhaps she was upset that she was missing out on the famous $6 bottomless mimosa brunch at Lime on the first day of the U.S.’s largest gay pride celebration weekend? Or perhaps she was still hungover from hanging out with the B-52s and girl-crush Joan Jett in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. Perez Hilton was also in town for the local screening of his film, but no eggs were thrown.
Top Model Judge Expecting Second Child
Indo-Brit America’s Next Top Model judge and former model Nigel Barker has much to celebrate this summer: His wife, model Christen Chin, is expecting! The Barkers confirmed with OK! Magazine that little Jack Barker will be welcoming a new baby brother later this year. “One boy is crazy, but two is going to be even more ridiculous!” Barker told the magazine. “My wife is going to have three men around, and I’m not sure if she’s prepared for that!” If Chin has four more men, she can live out any Snow White fantasies - that is, until they hit their growth spurt!
Kazakh Supermodel Jumps to Death
ANTM’s CariDee English is beautiful, young, and a winner — but none of that can matter when the rumor mill has you allegedly popping one to many pills on a toilet seat to self-remedy a broken heart by Tyson Beckford. This week, the modeling world took another victim: Russian model, Ruslana Korshunova, a 20-year-old Kazakh model best known for her spreads for Vera Wang and Donna Karan lingerie. Korshunova wrote morbid poems on her profile pages alluding to a broken heart, home sickness, feeling isolated in NYC, and wanting “to fly, [but] my rainbow is too high … I’m so lost. Will I ever find myself?” She jumped from the 9th floor of her new boyfriend’s Manhattan apartment following a movie with an ex-boyfriend on Sunday, June 28. Geraldo Rivera and FOX News have received much online flames for airing “exclusive” video coverage of the broken beauty’s smashed and bloodied face on TV and the Internet. Her death has been ruled a suicide, and friends said she had been sending money to family in Asia.
Jihad at Frameline
I sat down briefly with A Jihad for Love director Parvez Sharma before his Sat., June 28, showing at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco’s sunny Mission District, and the genial Indian filmmaker/journalist who is still appalled that American producers and executives wanted to censor him from using “jihad” in the title of his documentary film about the underground world of gay Muslims around the world. “It was very frustrating at first, but eventually they saw that using ‘jihad’ actually made the movie more popular. People were curious about what the movie would be about,” Sharma told me over grapes and ice tea. “I wanted to use ‘jihad’ to mean personal struggle, something worth fighting for. In my movie, that’s love, and the right to love.” The health-conscious salad-fanatic admits to only one true vice he cannot shake, smoking — though did not censor himself to tsk tsk a radio receptionist about her french fries. Sharma enjoyed a salad for lunch, much to the delight of Jihad producer, Sandi Simcha Dubowski (Trembling Before G-d), who phoned prior to our meeting with one request: “Make sure he eats something!”
Racist Brawl at Brit Model Bday Bash
Model Cydney Chopping celebrated a grand birthday fete for her eighteenth, but millionaire daddy, Marc Chopping, started a HUGE melee with one bad joke at the door: “Come this way, it’s four pounds for the blacks and two pounds for the whites” — climaxing in a glass smashed in the face of an Indian caterer, according to the UK’s Daily Mail. Although the dance floor fight took place April 2007, Sanjeev Subramanian required more than 50 stitches to repair his face. Submramanian told the court, June 30, that, “I had my face hanging off, you could see my cheekbone and I was covered in blood and a policeman came up to me and said if you want to leave it at that we will leave it at that )…) Even the paramedic looked shocked.” The birthday girl was arrested last year for “attempting to pervert the course of justice” by trying to cover up assailant Nick Chequer’s tracks, and Chequer was told he would face jail time on June 30 if found guilty of assault. She blames her father for ruining her big day.
Naomi Campbell Gets F-listed by Nelson Mandela
She once touted South Africa’s Nelson Mandela as her “honorary grandfather,” but looks like ol’ pops has officially tied the purse strings: the former President banned Campbell from attending his celebrity-studded, 90th birthday bash. And, you know it’s bad when Eminem is invited, Chef Gordon Ramsey caters, Amy Winehouse can wheeze out an ephysematic ballad on the mic — but you’ve got “anger issues”. Not only did Campbell miss her Sao Paolo Fashion Week appearance (due to a court appearance), earn herself 200 hours of community service, but this week’s blackball from the political shindig of the year is just another blow to the former hot top: She was supposed to be one of the presenters, Fri., June 27, at London’s Hyde Park. No wonder she’s losing her hair and wearing a baseball cap! Up next: Campbell strips for cash at the movies. They’ve already called it Bad Love. This will end well … I can already tell.
Ben Kingsley Admits: He’s a Bottom
At least, when it comes to making out onscreen with Mary-Kate Olsen, a.k.a. “the less cute twin” (if you ask The Hills’s Spencer Pratt). The Wackness enjoys its San Francisco preview on Wed., July 8, but if you haven’t eaten a big dinner and can stand the idea of 64-year-old Kingsley swapping spit with the elfin actress/ingenue, then go right ahead. Just remember this: Kingsley was shooting Bugsy and The 5th Monkey back when Olsen was still rocking Full House in a diaper. “She was completely in charge,” he told People magazine. I wouldn’t be too flattered, though: I’d want it over as soon as possible, too!
Ex-U.S. Tour Manager: Kournikova, a Sexpot!
The director of the Association of Tennis Professionals is back-tracking faster than Melanie B.’s baby-daddy after delivering extremely sexists rants about many (blonde) tennis players, calling Tatiana Golovin and Alize Cornet “sexpots” and “d***es,” and Anna Kournikova (Enrique Iglesias’ non-committal girlfriend) a “b***” on morning radio show, “The Junkies.” The Washington-based show hosts asked Justin Gimelstob whether he hated the Russian beauty, whom he trained, and he replied: “Hate’s a very strong word. I just despise her to the maximum level just below hate,” and that he’d like to bap her in the midriff with a hard serve. Also, that the reason there’s less lesbians on the tennis court lately is because they’re all from Russia. He and Kournikova hit the court together next month to play mixed doubles. AWK-WARD.
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