Joshua Gillin, tbt*/Times Staff Writer
Since 2006, Joshua Gillin has been the jack-of-all-trades for tbt*, doing everything from writing TV listings and editing entertainment news to reviewing video games and poking fun at self-absorbed celebrities in print and online in The Juice*. He also occasionally writes for the Gadgets and Gizmos blog and PolitiFact Florida, because he doesn't already have enough to do. A Nebraska native and diehard Cornhusker, he has worked in many writing and editing capacities in news, sports and features at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He lives in St. Petersburg with his lovely wife, a young daughter and a cat larger than most zoo animals.
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Katy Perry buys two new homes for $11.2 million to replace old house
05/23/13 BlogSay you divorce your husband, and you need to sell the house you both lived in. What kind of a place do you move into? Well, if you're Katy Perry, you buy two houses to build a compound of your very own.
The singer is listing the house she shared with Russell Brand for almost $7 million, but has recently purchased two homes on three Hollywood Hills parcels on about four acres of land for $11.2 million, the Huffington Post reports. They weren't even officially on the market....
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'Teen Mom' updates: Jenelle Evans arrested, Farrah Abraham gets show
05/23/13 BlogWe've be trying very hard to avoid the Teen mom crew, but things so disheartening have happened that we have to share the sorrys tate of humanity with you. It'll be like watching MTV with us, but without the eye damage.
First up, Jenelle Evans was arrested on Monday for not showing up for a court date. Her response was typical for her: She wrote on her blog she missed it because she forget while on vacation with her mom in Hickory, N.C....
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Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt had a baby girl last month
05/23/13 BlogActing couple Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt are finally parents, welcoming a daughter on April 29. They're still not quite A-listers, because they managed to keep a secret for almost a month.
The pair are “thrilled to announce the arrival of their daughter, Gracie James Livingston,” their reps told People. "The whole family is happy and well."...
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Eva Longoria graduates with master's degree from Cal State University
05/23/13 BlogEva Longoria had good reason to jet back from Cannes after spending a few days at the film festival: She had a masters degree to accept Wednesday night. That's a way bigger accomplishment than all those years on Desperate Housewives.
The 38-year-old earned the advanced degree in Chicano and Chicana Studies at Cal State University Northridge after three years of classwork, TMZ reports. We're not talking online courses or anything -- she went to classes and wrote a thesis like everyone else, even during her ABC series. ...
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Trailer trash: Jennifer Aniston strips in 'We're the Millers'
05/23/13 BlogThere's lots of yapping on the Interwebs about Jennifer Aniston's striptease in the trailer for We're the Millers, but frankly, Nick Offerman's character looks like the showstopper. It is RV season, you know.
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Will Smith was joking about Jaden being emancipated, doesn't see his kids as property
05/22/13 BlogWill Smith has made it clear in a new interview his son Jaden is nowhere neear going to be set free from him or mom Jada Pinkett, so you can stop worrying about his parenting right now. Not that you really were, but Will confirms he's not as crazy as we thought.
"Yeah, that was a joke! I made a joke," he told Haute Living magazine about his jibe that Jaden could move out if he had a bigger movie than dad. "He is definitely not going anywhere; he is so scared of being out on his own. Willow is probably going to be emancipated before Jaden!"...
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'Girls Gone Wild' mogul Joe Francis says jury who convicted him 'should all be lined up and shot'
05/22/13 BlogFormer Girls Gone Wild sleaze peddler Joe Francis is waiting to be sentenced after his conviction for false imprisonment and assault, but he only has one word for his jury (well, several, really): They all need to be shot for being idiots. Way to make your case, cool guy.
"I want that jury to know that each and every one of you are mentally f--ing retarded and you should be euthanized because, as Darwin said, you have naturally selected yourself," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "You are the weakest members of the herd. Goodbye! And if that jury wants to convict me because I didn't show up, which is the only reason why they did, then, you know, they should all be lined up and shot!"...
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Jon Bon Jovi calls Justin Bieber an 'a--hole,' tells him to go to work
05/22/13 BlogSpeaking of Justin Bieber, elder statesman of rock Jon Bon Jovi had some choice words for the YouTube star, calling him an "a--hole" for going onstage two hours late in London in March. Jon gives arena concerts for $12 tickets, so he knows what he's talking about.
“Every generation has guys that do that, none of that is new," Bon Jovi told the U.K.'s Standard about Bieber making the audience wait. “They run the risk of disrespecting their audience members who have worked hard to pay for their ticket, to give you the permission to take two or three hours of their lives — or in that kid’s case, 80 minutes of their lives." Sick burn. But wait, there's more....
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Justin Bieber will sue you for $5 million if you talk about his house parties
05/22/13 BlogIf you ever suspected Justin Bieber gets wild and crazy during the parties at his Calabasas, Calif., mansion, rest assured you'll never know. Even if you get invited, you won't be able to tell anyone, because he makes people sign a release making them liable for $5 million in damages if you blab.
TMZ got ahold of the waiver form the singer allegedly requires people to approve, saying you can't talk about what happens inside the house, including "physical health, or the philosophical, spiritual or other views or characteristics" of Bieber or any of the other guests. That means no talking about getting high....
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Dennis Lehane and Leonardo DiCaprio making another movie together
05/22/13 BlogDennis Lehane will have another movie on the big screen soon, with the author preparing to write the screenplay for Travis McGee, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It's not based on one of Lehane's books, of course, but until Ben Affleck finishes the Ybor City-set Live by Night, it'll have to do.
Travis McGee will be based on the 1964 John D. MacDonald novel The Deep Blue Good-By, and will feature a 6-foot-4 monster of a man in the titular character. We're assuming he will be played by DiCaprio, because The Hollywood Reporter doesn't specify. Of course, Hollywood also had Tom Cruise play Jack Reacher, so who knows?...
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CBS pulls season finale of 'Mike & Molly' over tornado storyline
05/21/13 BlogSpeaking of Melissa McCarthy, you may have noticed the season finale of her show Mike & Molly was yanked Monday night. That's because it was about tornado ripping through the town.
After tornados destroyed much of Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon, CBS pulled the show and replaced it with a rerun, the AP reports. It will air the season finale "at an appropriate date." There was no further word on when that might be....
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Melissa McCarthy throws extra off movie set for pushing around child
05/21/13 BlogMelissa McCarthy is using her new directoral powers for good and not evil, it seems, because the comedian fired an extra on the set of her latest movie for allegedly abusing her kid. The extra's own kid. So much for that $58 per diem.
TMZ says a woman in her 20s had brought her 4- or 5-year-old daughter with her Monday to the Wilmington, N.C., set of Tammy, a movie McCarthy is directing with husband Ben Falcone. The kid was causing a ruckus all day and being disruptive, so the mom had been telling her to pipe down. But when the extra allegedly snatched the child up by the wrist, McCarthy went into maternal mode and canned the extra....
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Katy Perry 'played a role' in Robert Pattinson's breakup from Kristen Stewart
05/21/13 BlogThe Schadenfreude-laden details of Robert Pattinson leaving Kristen Stewart are marching on, with the Interwebs plastered with photos of Rob packing up and leaving her house. But now E! points out Katy Perry is all mixed up in it. Everyone loves a love triangle!
E! says Perry is a friend of the couple, and was supposed to be at Pattinson's 27th birthday last week. He also left the Met Gala in New York with the singer, and now Stewart. That's plenty of damning evidence to put them together, by gossip site logic, so an unnamed source says Perry "played a role, as one of many reasons" the couple broke up....
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Zach Galifianakis pays for homeless woman's apartment, takes her to movie premieres
05/21/13 BlogComic actor Zach Galifianakis isn't joking about his date for the Monday premiere of The Hangover Part III. He took an 87-year-old former laundry worker whom he saved from homelessness. What? We told you it wasn't funny.
Galiafianakis has known Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist for almost 20 years, the New York Daily News says, meeting her in 1994 when he moved into an apartment around the corner from the L.A. laundromat where she volunteered for tips....
