Blah … it has been so cold and so miserably rainy here in SoCal for the past few days that I am having a hard time wanting to peek my head out the door to get my mail, let alone venture out in public. I realize I’ve dealt with much, much worse when I lived in Michigan but the wonderful California weather has thinned my blood — considerably. But, I did manage to get out of the house last night and meet up with Jordan for a movie. We talked about catching a flick together sometime this week and decided to go see Frost/Nixon at the ArcLight in Hollywood:

To be honest, I am not at all familiar with the famed Frost/Nixon interviews that aired on TV back in the late 70’s but I have always been very intrigued by them. When I heard about the play, I really wanted to see it but timing never worked out. Now that the film has been made into a movie, it was finally time for me to learn more about the interviews. I had no idea that the interviews were broken up into four 90-minute segments … I imagine that made for riveting TV all week long. Now, about the movie … while I liked it very much and felt that the performances were pretty amazing, I found the whole thing a touch too overdramatic. Pretty much every single element of these interviews was dramatized to the point of folly. I mean, I can see the truth in the story but all the extraneous drama added to the tale for heightened effect felt too forced for me. I also felt they handled the faux “documentary” interviews pretty shoddily … it just wasn’t believable. I also question that phone call that was supposedly made to Frost by Nixon on the eve of their final interview. It makes for great drama but … not totally believable. I’m sure those conventions worked better on stage. That being said, I was wholly fascinated by the whole thing … I can only imagine what life would be like today if something as heinous as Nixon’s crimes occurred to today. The man did such a disservice to our country that it has always pained me that he was never held accountable for his crimes (Gerald Ford, arguably our second worst president ever made sure of that). I can see the satisfaction that some may have gotten from watching Nixon crumble on national television.

While I enjoyed the movie and was thoroughly entertained I am now very anxious to watch the actual Frost/Nixon interviews in full. Having seen the dramatic reenactment, I now want to see the real thing.

Tonight, Darion and I have been invited to a pretty cool event … it looks really cold and rainy outside again today … but this event is deffo worth venturing out for! Deets tomorrow!!!

• Hilary Duff will not confirm nor deny reports on her virginity.
• Tom Cruise reveals his birthday plans for Katie Holmes’s 30th birthday tomorrow.
• Contrary to reports, Tiffani Thiessen is NOT pregs.
• Rosario Dawson reveals that she is a new Twilight fan.
• This season’s Biggest Loser reveals that they “feel at peace”.
• Jossip talks to Adam Brock from MTV’s The Paper about how he’s no longer interested in actually writing for a paper.
• Melissa Etheridge gives Elisabeth Hasselback a lesson in same-sex marriage.
• Ivana Trump needs abetter vetting process when taking on new boyfriends.
• Um, what?
• Heidi Klum does Italian GQ magazine.
• The Rihanna tour just won’t stop!
• People magazine looks back at Jennifer Aniston’s 2008 Life.
• An overzealous Lindsay Lohan fan gets arrested while trying to “meet” her.
• Milla Jovovich is 33, Giovanni Ribisi is 34 and Eugene Levy is 62 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• Mr. Skin reveals the Top Nude Movie Scenes for 2008.
• No Doubt reveal that they will NOT release their new album until 2010.
• Lily Allen gets in trubs for covering Britney Spears’s Womanizer.

Say it ain’t so!!! Could it be that the supposed happily married Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are on the verge of dunzoness? According to US Weekly magazine, yes … they are. Last week, J. Lo — in all her Diva Latina glory — showed up at the Hollywood premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button sans hubby Marc Anthony which immediately raised red flags and set tongues wagging that there may be trouble in paradise. In a new US Weekly coverstory this week, the mag contends that the couple have reached the “breaking point” and are very near calling off their 4-year marriage:

Rumors swirled that Lopez’s marriage was on the rocks after she showed up to the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last week without her 8-carat diamond engagement ring, wedding band – or ever present husband, Marc Anthony (who was spotted in Las Vegas sans wedding band the weekend before). Multiple sources confirm to to Us Weekly their marriage is at a breaking point. “They both didn’t wear their rings on purpose,” a mutual pal of the married couple of four years (who renewed their vows in October) tells Us. “Nothing Jennifer does is without purpose.” While Anthony’s rep insists to Us, “They are doing great,” a source tells Us deep trouble has been brewing. “He’s very, very controlling of her,” a close Anthony pal tells Us. “The skirts aren’t as short. You don’t see so much of that booty anymore.” The new Us Weekly also reports that Anthony also picks out Lopez’s clothes and keeps tabs on her phone calls. But Lopez — who once claimed she “loved getting his opinions” — has become less interested in his approval since the birth of their 10-month-old twins, Max and Emme. “She walks in from work, washes her hands and grabs the babies,” a longtime friend tells Us. “With him, it’s almost like, ‘Ugh, they’re crying again?’” Another problem: Lopez — who once commanded $15 million per film — “blames Marc for her career going down the tubes,” says a mutual pal, adding that she’s bitter about the failure of their 2006 drama, El Cantante, which only grossed $7.5 million. (Her 2002 flick Maid in Manhattan earned over $94 million.) “Jennifer looked around and said, ‘This is my life now? I’m a Long Island housewife?’” a pal says. “She hates that everything she worked for went down the tubes.” … Anthony has also been badmouthing his wife. One night after their tense family Thanksgiving in which the couple “didn’t sit together,” Anthony hit NYC hotspots Bungalow 8 and Marquee, where he was spotted with his hand on a woman’s thigh and overheard complaining about his wife to a group of women, “telling them, ‘She’s making me miserable,’” a source says. His club spree didn’t stop there: The next night, he was photographed by TMZ.com partying sans wedding band with pal Eva Longoria Parker and Russell Crowe in Las Vegas. (A source says, “According to Jennifer, he didn’t cheat.”) The pair, who hadn’t been spotted together since Oct. 23 — and the very public removal of their wedding bands — had dinner Tuesday at Beverly Hills restaurant Luau, which they left holding hands.

I am always suspicious of magazine coverstories with headlines like “The Rings Are OFF!” but, in all honesty, I wouldn’t be that surprised if J. Lo and Marc ended up calling it quits. Something about their pairing never felt right for me … they got together milliseconds after Ben Affleck dumped her and Marc divorced his then-wife Dayanara Torres. I just never truly believed that he was right for her. J. Lo’s marriage to Marc was her third and it wouldn’t truly shock me if it doesn’t turn out to her her last. As much as I think that Jennifer Lopez might find true happiness with someone else, it’s a shame that things did work out with Marc Anthony considering she finally gave birth to the babies that she’s always wanted. I suppose time will tell what is really going on with these two … refusing to wear wedding rings is really a very telling sign that something’s amiss. Isn’t that how Madonna and Guy Ritchie started showing the world that they weren’t destined to last?

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Halle Berry continues to film scenes on the Vancouver, Canada set of her latest film Frankie and Alice and this week shows just how far she’s willing to do for a movie role. Despite the freezing temps up in Vancouver these days, Halle stripped off her top and bared her buxom breasts for an integral scene in the film:

Now, we all know that Halle Berry has no problem gettin’ nekkid in movies if it’s an important part of the story … so we have to assume that all of this running around topless is for a good reason, right? After the jump, check out a few uncensored NSFW images of Halle’s berries on the set of her new movie …

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TMZ is reporting that former Full House star Jodie Sweetin is currently engaged in an emergency custody battle with her soon-to-be ex-hubby Cody Herpin (yes, that is really his last name, y’all) over their 8-month old daughter Zoe. Honestly, I am utterly and completely shocked … after all, the couple looked so happy when they made their public debut together as a couple:

Jodie Sweetin is locked in a custody battle so ferocious — that her estranged husband called for an emergency hearing this morning to get access to their 8-month old daughter ASAP. TMZ has learned the 26-year-old “Full House” star and her soon-to-be-ex Cody Herpin are currently facing off in an Orange County courtroom.

HMM … it’s pretty remarkable that Sweetin is so interested in keeping her daughter away from her father, especially considering all the nice things she had to say about him in her divorce papers:

“Our house is in foreclosure, our water has been shut off twice. Currently, all of our other utilities are overdue,” the actress says in papers filed Nov. 19 in an Orange County, Calif., court, describing the 16-month union as “rocky.” Herpin, a driver and transportation coordinator in the film industry, stopped working after they got married, Sweetin alleges. “[He] kept finding one excuse after another for his failure to even attempt to find employment,” she says. Sweetin, 26, claims the couple were kept afloat financially with Full House residuals and help from their parents.

Sad. And I thought this was one Hollywood couple that had it all … I mean, they looked so right for one another. Truth be told, I think baby Zoe would prolly be better off in the care of someone other than either Sweetin or Herpin … I wonder if Uncle Joey would be willing to take her.

UPDATE: TMZ has updated this story with new courtroom deets … and they aren’t great for Ms. Sweetin:

Jodie Sweetin is not allowed to see her 8-month-old daughter without supervision. Moments ago, an Orange County, Ca. judge made the explosive ruling after Sweetin’s estranged husband Cody Herpin accused the “Full House” star of being an unfit mother — citing an alleged incident where Sweetin drove intoxicated with their baby in the car. The couple faced off in open court today for an emergency custody hearing at Cody’s request. Jodie, an admitted meth addict and alcoholic who lives with her parents, will not be allowed to be with the child unless one of her folks is present. A doctor also took the stand and claimed that Jodie had recently fallen off the wagon. However, the doc confirmed Jodie has been in touch with her sponsor and is attending AA meetings. The doctor said she does not believe the baby is at risk at the moment. A judge ordered both Cody and Jodie to submit to drug tests before the next hearing.

Paging, Uncle Joey! You are needed — STAT!

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New York Yankees baseball player Álex Rodríguez was spotted in Miami, FL this week on day two of training camp for the coming MLB baseball season. Clearly, someone managed to use a crowbar to pry the man away from his BFF Madonna who he has been practically attached to since Thanksgiving. Since Madonna has been in Brazil on her Sticky & Sweet (and Slippery) Tour for the past week or so, I guess it was time for A-Rod to get back to work. Here is a pic of Álex adjusting his jock strap cup while chillin’ in the dugout yesterday afternoon:

But wait … what’s that on the front of his cup? It’s so small … I can’t quite make it out. HMMMM. I know — I’ll blow up the photo so that we can get a better look. After the jump, check out an enlarged version of this photo …

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This past Monday night on MTV’s hit reality TV series The Hills, we got to see what is being alleged as the wedding of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt … well, actually … we only got to see the recreated events leading up to the supposed nuptials as well as the “morning after” events — we never actually were allowed to witness the wedding ceremony itself. In the teaser preview video for next week’s season finale episode, we were shown quick scenes of Heidi, Spencer and his sister Stephanie Pratt walking into an LA courthouse, standing before a judge and a tiny portion of their wedding vows — scenes that are to have us believe that the couple officially and legally married here in the US. BUT, a new report out today by MSN questions the validity of these nuptials reporting that no public marriage license has ever been filed or submitted for these two, that the courthouse shown in the preview video was rented out by MTV afterhours … and that the judge shown in the clip isn’t even a real judge at all:

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag don’t appear to be any closer to getting legally hitched. A brief tease for the fourth season finale of MTV’s “The Hills” that aired Monday seemed to indicate that the reality TV couple have made their unofficial Mexican wedding ceremony a legitimate marriage in California. The pair were shown walking into a courtroom with Pratt’s sister, Stephanie Pratt, while a judge smiled down on them from the bench. “I, Heidi, take thee, Spencer,” Montag coos in the preview. Despite all the official trappings, the tease of legitimate nuptials for the pair may be just that. A Los Angeles Superior Court official said Tuesday that MTV was recently granted permission to shoot in a courtroom in Beverly Hills, but it was done after hours — and that’s not one of their judges sitting on the bench in “The Hills” footage. MTV was granted permission to film “what purported to be a wedding outside of court hours” at the Beverly Hills courthouse, court spokesman Allan Parachini said Tuesday. He did not know who the participants were in the wedding, but Parachini said court officials wanted the filming to be treated as a news event. The preview for next week’s season finale features a wood-paneled courtroom with the California state seal perched on the wall behind a judge. Civil ceremonies are sometimes performed at the Beverly Hills courthouse, but not in the manner portrayed in the brief preview. If a judge does preside, it is typically in chambers during a break, Parachini said. Pratt, 25, and Montag, 22, acknowledged that their Nov. 19 marriage ceremony near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, was entirely symbolic, despite appearing on the Nov. 26 cover of Us Weekly with the headline “Heidi & Spencer Elope!” Monday’s episode of “The Hills” depicted the pair spontaneously agreeing to exchange vows after downing several shots of tequila. “In my mind, it’s as legal as the ring on my finger,” Pratt told Us Weekly. A check of marriage records last week did not reveal any filings by Pratt or Montag in Los Angeles County, although the couple could get married in any county in California as well as opt for a confidential license. Officials at two courthouses in neighboring Orange County said they have not received requests from MTV to film in their facilities. The couple and MTV did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday.

OMG … this is really turning out to be the biggest Hollywood sham to come along since the alleged pregnancy of Katie Holmes! Nothing about this supposed Speidi wedding appears to have any semblance of truth to it. It makes no sense that the couple would choose to be wed in any county other than LA county (especially since they filmed their “wedding” in an LA courthouse) nor does it make any sort of sense that the couple would opt for a confidential license — there is NO REASON for them to hide the legal paperwork for their wedding at all. The only logical conclusion is that those legal papers do not exist. It doesn’t help their case that Spencer was quoted as saying, “In my mind, [our marriage] is as legal as the ring on my finger” because A.) how can a ring be legal, B.) the ring in question is a piece of leather (reportedly purchased in a souvenir gift shop) wrapped around his finger and C.) “in my mind” implies that there is NO legal bearing of his statement. Again, all of this staged, seemingly completely fabricated nonsense continues to anger me as a fan of the show. That MTV would go so far as to FAKE a wedding and broadcast it as a real event is totally insulting. The “reality” portion of this show has been dwindling to minuscule proportions for the past couple of years now … this latest sham looks to be the final straw in destroying any smidgen of credibility the show used to have. Thoughts?

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