Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ?

**ravengrim** · Subject: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:28 pm

Newspaper apologises to Helena Bonham Carter

It was oh, so delicately phrased. Designed, indeed, to smooth the seriously ruffled feathers of the extremely affronted luvvie and aristocratic diva, Helena Bonham Carter.
In a deliciously worded apology yesterday, a national newspaper said sorry to the somewhat eccentric film star for criticising her bizarre living arrangements.
Acknowledging that she, her partner and her two children live in three houses that are fashioned into one – one assumes on the word of the actress herself – the Independent newspaper was happy to confirm that Bonham Carter's lifestyle was not at all ''chilling'' as it had said the week before.
Indeed any such suggestion was unfounded, it told its readers, before gushing that it accepted Ms Bonham Carter is a caring mother and apologised to her for "suggesting otherwise".
And so there you have it. The fragrant, if somewhat bohemian and gloriously deshabille, Ms Bonham Carter happily confirms that she lives in one London town house, her partner (the equally eccentric film director Tim Burton) is next door and in a third interconnected home live the couple's two young children – Billy Ray, six, and Nell, two – with their nanny.
By anybody's standards it is unconventional arrangement.
But, given her track record, it's nothing that one wouldn't expect from the bloomer-wearing great granddaughter of British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, who does the school run on a tricycle.
Though clearly a devoted couple and loving parents, the Burton Bonham Carters (nothing so conventional as a wedding certificate in sight) see nothing strange in their domestic set up. They all, says Ms Bonham Carter, coexist happily in what she describes as ''separate domains'' that are dominated by distinctly vivid decor.
Before meeting Burton, Bonham Carter was just as famous for her kooky fashion and dishevelled coiffeur (she was once described as resembling a bag of laundry beneath a bird's nest) as she was for her bodice-ripper roles in period dramas such as Room With A View, Howards End and Lady Jane.
When she met Burton he was known as a Californian nerd who was fascinated by headless corpses and had more than a passing interest in all things morbid. Their combination has produced a loving union. But a seriously wacky lifestyle.
The homes are connected by what Ms Bonham Carter describes as an ''airlock'' through which they pass to meet up. "Mine looks like something out of Beatrix Potter," she says. "But if you go over to his house, you're in a totally different place.
"He's got dead Oompa Loompas lying around, and skeletons and weird alien lights. It's like going from the land of the living to the land of the dead. He has neon lights to illuminate the gloom. He thinks his side is James Bond."
But it is over the festive season that Burton's obsession with the dark side comes to the fore. "He decorates the Christmas tree with dead babies and slime balls and things. It looks lovely from afar.
"But as you get closer, you realise it's rather gory. He always visits, which is very touching.''
Sometimes, she confides, they even sleep together.
"There is a snoring issue,'' she says. "I talk, he snores. The other thing is that he is an insomniac so he needs to watch television to get to sleep. I need silence.
"To me, it makes complete sense. If you've got some money and you can afford it, why not have your own space?"
Together they seem an eclectic mismatch: she, ivory-skinned with a plummy accent and a penchant for Merchant Ivory parts; he, half Goth and given to dubbing grey make-up on his face before facing the cameras to enhance his ashen, hangdog expression. Even their parenting is rather eccentric. When their daughter was born two years ago they didn't name her for seven months. Press reports speculated endlessly before the couple settled on Nell.
But while Burton is the boss on set, it is Bonham Carter who rules the domestic roost.
''At home I am the boss,'' she says. ''Tim calls me chief and I would say, on the whole, he likes me to make the decisions. At work, that's where we sometimes get it wrong. He's the boss and I'm not as silent as he would like me to be."
And neither does he show his partner any favouritism when it comes to roles. Burton insists she audition along with everyone else. And it can create tension, she has confided.
''I auditioned for Sweeney Todd and then there was five weeks of silence,'' she says. ''All he said was 'well done' at the end and that was that. For five weeks I heard nothing – and we were living together. So you can imagine the strain."
The pair are, she admits ''a bonkers couple''. It has a lot to do with their hair, she says. ''The lack of a comb, the lack of hair care. But he isn't a mad professor. His time management is good. He is financially responsible. A part of him maybe exists in an alternative reality but he is a very sane, grounded and good father. But it's such a nice life and we have fun. Tim is a great find. I think our sensibilities go well together. He is dynamic and funny. We are soul mates."
Proof, then, that living apart is the new together.

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**nsanelilmunky** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:04 pm

....I so want to take a tour of their houses now.

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**SPF** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:11 pm

here is my celeb gossip contribution. I just heard of this...i am out of the loop

http://idolator.com/5263432/roisin-murphy-knows-that-lady-gagas-imitation-is-in-fact-flattery

**MoonRaven** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:09 pm

Nice. I think Lady GaGa has a crazy style.

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**ravengrim** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:55 pm

Worst to first in 24 hours

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Sandra Bullock movie that I’ve really liked (I haven’t seen The Blind Side yet), but I have to give her props for being able to laugh at herself. This is a video of her actually showing up in person to accept the Razzie for Worst actress the night before she won the Oscar for best actress.

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**SPF** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:18 pm

^^^lol

Spooky · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:50 pm

Good for her, being able to take a piss out of herself.
Everybody got a DVD of All About Steve.

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**helen damnation** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:26 pm

ravengrim wrote:

Newspaper apologises to Helena Bonham Carter

It was oh, so delicately phrased. Designed, indeed, to smooth the seriously ruffled feathers of the extremely affronted luvvie and aristocratic diva, Helena Bonham Carter.
In a deliciously worded apology yesterday, a national newspaper said sorry to the somewhat eccentric film star for criticising her bizarre living arrangements.
Acknowledging that she, her partner and her two children live in three houses that are fashioned into one – one assumes on the word of the actress herself – the Independent newspaper was happy to confirm that Bonham Carter's lifestyle was not at all ''chilling'' as it had said the week before.
Indeed any such suggestion was unfounded, it told its readers, before gushing that it accepted Ms Bonham Carter is a caring mother and apologised to her for "suggesting otherwise".
And so there you have it. The fragrant, if somewhat bohemian and gloriously deshabille, Ms Bonham Carter happily confirms that she lives in one London town house, her partner (the equally eccentric film director Tim Burton) is next door and in a third interconnected home live the couple's two young children – Billy Ray, six, and Nell, two – with their nanny.
By anybody's standards it is unconventional arrangement.
But, given her track record, it's nothing that one wouldn't expect from the bloomer-wearing great granddaughter of British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, who does the school run on a tricycle.
Though clearly a devoted couple and loving parents, the Burton Bonham Carters (nothing so conventional as a wedding certificate in sight) see nothing strange in their domestic set up. They all, says Ms Bonham Carter, coexist happily in what she describes as ''separate domains'' that are dominated by distinctly vivid decor.
Before meeting Burton, Bonham Carter was just as famous for her kooky fashion and dishevelled coiffeur (she was once described as resembling a bag of laundry beneath a bird's nest) as she was for her bodice-ripper roles in period dramas such as Room With A View, Howards End and Lady Jane.
When she met Burton he was known as a Californian nerd who was fascinated by headless corpses and had more than a passing interest in all things morbid. Their combination has produced a loving union. But a seriously wacky lifestyle.
The homes are connected by what Ms Bonham Carter describes as an ''airlock'' through which they pass to meet up. "Mine looks like something out of Beatrix Potter," she says. "But if you go over to his house, you're in a totally different place.
"He's got dead Oompa Loompas lying around, and skeletons and weird alien lights. It's like going from the land of the living to the land of the dead. He has neon lights to illuminate the gloom. He thinks his side is James Bond."
But it is over the festive season that Burton's obsession with the dark side comes to the fore. "He decorates the Christmas tree with dead babies and slime balls and things. It looks lovely from afar.
"But as you get closer, you realise it's rather gory. He always visits, which is very touching.''
Sometimes, she confides, they even sleep together.
"There is a snoring issue,'' she says. "I talk, he snores. The other thing is that he is an insomniac so he needs to watch television to get to sleep. I need silence.
"To me, it makes complete sense. If you've got some money and you can afford it, why not have your own space?"
Together they seem an eclectic mismatch: she, ivory-skinned with a plummy accent and a penchant for Merchant Ivory parts; he, half Goth and given to dubbing grey make-up on his face before facing the cameras to enhance his ashen, hangdog expression. Even their parenting is rather eccentric. When their daughter was born two years ago they didn't name her for seven months. Press reports speculated endlessly before the couple settled on Nell.
But while Burton is the boss on set, it is Bonham Carter who rules the domestic roost.
''At home I am the boss,'' she says. ''Tim calls me chief and I would say, on the whole, he likes me to make the decisions. At work, that's where we sometimes get it wrong. He's the boss and I'm not as silent as he would like me to be."
And neither does he show his partner any favouritism when it comes to roles. Burton insists she audition along with everyone else. And it can create tension, she has confided.
''I auditioned for Sweeney Todd and then there was five weeks of silence,'' she says. ''All he said was 'well done' at the end and that was that. For five weeks I heard nothing – and we were living together. So you can imagine the strain."
The pair are, she admits ''a bonkers couple''. It has a lot to do with their hair, she says. ''The lack of a comb, the lack of hair care. But he isn't a mad professor. His time management is good. He is financially responsible. A part of him maybe exists in an alternative reality but he is a very sane, grounded and good father. But it's such a nice life and we have fun. Tim is a great find. I think our sensibilities go well together. He is dynamic and funny. We are soul mates."
Proof, then, that living apart is the new together.

I've always loved Helena! She may have looked like a pile of garbage in her time but she ROCKS!

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**ravengrim** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:40 pm

Sharon Osbourne - Sharon Osbourne To Auction Off Breasts

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**SPF** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:32 pm

Lindsay Lohan sues for 100 mil

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-lohan-suing-e-trade-for-milkaholic-parody/37130?nc

**ravengrim** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:07 pm

Naomi Campbell Allegedly at it Again, Assaults Driver and Runs?

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Spooky · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:19 pm

SPF wrote:

Lindsay Lohan sues for 100 mil

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-lohan-suing-e-trade-for-milkaholic-parody/37130?nc

Ok, wait, so is the baby they used with the red hair a super-imposed face of a young Lindsay Lohan which they didn't get permission to use? Or is she assuming that using the name Lindsay could only mean they were talking about her? If it's the latter, then this is just silly, there are plenty of people in the world named Lindsay, including my cousin in Atlanta, can she sue E-Trade too?

True story, I love Lindsay Lohan, love her. She's the real representation of a poor kid who suddenly got a ton of money and went apesh!t. People like Paris Hilton were born rich and have no idea what the real world is, Lohan became rich and was like; "lets get crazy". But this lawsuit is just retarded, if she wins I'm going to sue Warner Brothers for making What About Bob. As someone named Robert. I feel they're making fun of me and calling me crazy.

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**SPF** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:45 pm

Spooky wrote:

SPF wrote:

Lindsay Lohan sues for 100 mil

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-lohan-suing-e-trade-for-milkaholic-parody/37130?nc

Ok, wait, so is the baby they used with the red hair a super-imposed face of a young Lindsay Lohan which they didn't get permission to use? Or is she assuming that using the name Lindsay could only mean they were talking about her? If it's the latter, then this is just silly, there are plenty of people in the world named Lindsay, including my cousin in Atlanta, can she sue E-Trade too?

True story, I love Lindsay Lohan, love her. She's the real representation of a poor kid who suddenly got a ton of money and went apesh!t. People like Paris Hilton were born rich and have no idea what the real world is, Lohan became rich and was like; "lets get crazy". But this lawsuit is just retarded, if she wins I'm going to sue Warner Brothers for making What About Bob. As someone named Robert. I feel they're making fun of me and calling me crazy.

I think she might be assuming the anme lidnsey refers to her. Lohan was cool in the parent trap...but yes she is crazy

**SPF** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:46 pm

Spooky wrote:

SPF wrote:

Lindsay Lohan sues for 100 mil

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-lohan-suing-e-trade-for-milkaholic-parody/37130?nc

Ok, wait, so is the baby they used with the red hair a super-imposed face of a young Lindsay Lohan which they didn't get permission to use? Or is she assuming that using the name Lindsay could only mean they were talking about her? If it's the latter, then this is just silly, there are plenty of people in the world named Lindsay, including my cousin in Atlanta, can she sue E-Trade too?

True story, I love Lindsay Lohan, love her. She's the real representation of a poor kid who suddenly got a ton of money and went apesh!t. People like Paris Hilton were born rich and have no idea what the real world is, Lohan became rich and was like; "lets get crazy". But this lawsuit is just retarded, if she wins I'm going to sue Warner Brothers for making What About Bob. As someone named Robert. I feel they're making fun of me and calling me crazy.

i think she is being crazy and assuming the name is referring to her

**ravengrim** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:07 pm

Tim Burton To Remake The Adam's Family

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Ginger_Snaps · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:30 pm

ravengrim wrote:

Tim Burton To Remake The Adam's Family

Ok, he needs to stop making remakes and get back to doing his own work.

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**ravengrim** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:05 pm

Jesse James's Girlfriend

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**La Diva Carlotta** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:44 pm

^She's kind of scary looking. Who the hell gets a tattoo on their forehead?

RedAngel · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:29 pm

^^ And she's a white supremacist! What a charmer! Disgusting.

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**nsanelilmunky** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:52 pm

La Diva Carlotta wrote:

^She's kind of scary looking. Who the hell gets a tattoo on their forehead?

Mike Tyson.

And yes, a bit scary looking.

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Ginger_Snaps · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:36 pm

ravengrim wrote:

Jesse James's Girlfriend

When I look at him, I don't necessarily see quality. I would have saw it coming since they aren't really a perfect pair.

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**ravengrim** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:08 pm

‘Maleficent’

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RedAngel · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:15 pm

^^ That would *rock.* But then, I adore her and would just as happily watch her fold laundry.

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Ginger_Snaps · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:47 pm

I really think they should be looking at people who are not famous to play these roles.

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**cynfullov** · Subject: Re: Umm Celebrity Gossip Thread ? Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:26 am

^ I agree.

Angelina Jolie would do a very fine job I'm sure, but the more I think about it and this is an *edit in... I just think I'm not really excited about the Snow White remake.

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