PROBLEMS MULTIPLY

Porn Maker Preys On Nadya Suleman’s Housing Plight?

By Elizabeth C.

INCONCEIVABLY, OCTOMOM’S PLIGHT GETS WORSE.

Notorious baby incubator Nadya Suleman faces eviction from her LaHabra, Calif. house, and now a pornographer who wants Suteman to work for him is closing in on a deal to buy the property.

The Associated Press reports that the home’s noteholder, Amer Haddadin, is considering an offer from Vivid Entertainment co-founder Steve Hirsch who has reportedly repeatedly propositioned Suleman to make a video.

CHOICE UNDER DURESS?

Trading Life For Life, Mississippi Sisters To Be Released From Prison

By Elizabeth C.

THE RELEASE OF TWO MISSISSIPPI SISTERS FROM PRISON on the condition that one donate her kidney to the other prickles the thorny issue of requiring prisoners to be organ donors.

Supporters of Jamie and Gladys Scott are quick to point out that the idea for the kidney transplant comes from the sisters. The life sentences of the two women, convicted in 1994 of armed robbery, were suspended after a two-year public campaign and on the condition that Gladys’ donate her organ to Jamie who is ailing from kidney failure, according to reports.

The NAACP praised the Gov. Haley Barbour who announced his intention to release the Scotts. “I’m here to thank the people and the governor of Mississippi,” said National NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. “I’m here to thank the people and the governor of Mississippi. When you are right, you are right. Gov. Barbour, you were right today.”

Yet Arthur Caplan, the nation’s most high-profile ethicist and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said the requirement raises troubling questions.

IRREVERENT REFERENCE

The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film Bites The Stars That Feed It

By Elizabeth C.

DAVID THOMSON HAS CONTRIVED A CLEVER WAY TO CAPTALIZE ON 35 YEARS AS FILM CRITIC: he’s published the new New Biographical Dictionary Of Film in which he succinctly slices and dices Hollywood’s biggest names with a poetic plunge of his pen(knife).

Released in its fifth edition on October 26, Thomson’s classic has been hailed as “one of the most absurdly ambitious literary achievements of our time,” a “mad and magnificent opus,” “the greatest bathroom book ever written.”

BUT WHAT ABOUT ME?

Celebrity Rehab Remix: Friends & Family

By Miz J

HERE’S THE THING: I WAS GETTING TRASHED with all my old friends last Wednesday. So I was too busy to listen to a bunch of nobodies talk shit about my buddy Jameson, okay?

This week, though, all the fruitcake has been eaten and what’s left in front of me is the TV, so let me bring you up to speed.

Janice’s breakdown was a non-issue. Just another symptom of the withdrawal. Meanwhile, Frankie came to terms with the fact that all her damn kids (and there are a lot of damn kids) are probably pissed at her for being on crack and/or giving them up to DCFS. So far, she’s the only one who realizes that she’s got more hard road ahead of her and is lacing up her shoes to walk it.

LET’S RECAP

A Toast To The Douchebags: Celebrity WTFs Of 2010

By Madi S.

2010 WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKINGLY ENTERTAINING in Tinsel Town history, but for all the wrong reasons.

Just trying to make a time line of the year’s most disturbing events can make your head spin. Not to worry; I’ve done the hard work for you.

A HUNTING HE WILL GO

Did A Kentucky Man Bag A Chupacabra?

By Elizabeth C.

MARK COTHREN IS OBVIOUSLY A MAN WHO LIKES TO SHOOT FIRST AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER.

We jump to that conclusion after reading that Cothren shot a freaky hairless creature that wandered onto his lawn because, well, he didn’t recognize it.

THE MONEY GAME

Who Can Julian Assange Trust With His New $1.5 Million Windfall?

By Elizabeth C.

NOW THAT JULIAN ASSANGE HAS INKED A PUBLISHING DEAL FOR his memoirs for a reported $1.5 million, let’s hope he hires fancypants financial wizards to lock it up on a trust — and away from any potential governments hoping to convict him for publishing secret government documents.

Assange has signed with Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Canongate to release his autobiography in spring 2011. “I don’t want to write this book, but I have to,” Assange told Britain’s Sunday Times.

The Day After Christmas And All Through The Nation

By Elizabeth C.

WHEREVER HE IS, SANTA’S NO DOUBT KICKING BACK TODAY WITH SOME TUNES AND A COCKTAIL — at least as envisioned by illustrator and animator Ward Jenkins. And after delivering dreams around the globe in 24 hours, surely the jolly fat man deserves time to put his feet up.

GENEROUS TO A FAULT

Giving Back To Those In Need: Justin Bieber, Ozzy Osbourne

By Elizabeth C.

MUSICIANS JUSTIN BIEBER AND OZZY OSBOURNE COULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT, BUT each proved himself a “giver” over the weekend.

Pop prince Bieber used his power over the people to raise donations for sick Atlanta children. The 16-year-old asked concertgoers attending his Dec. 23rd sold-out show to drop off toys at a bus parked outside the city’s Philips Arena. The toy drive was a campaign of Q100 DJ Bert Weiss, and Bieber himself reportedly visited some hospitalized kids.