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John Travolta showed up at the UK premiere of Wild Hogs in a beret increasing speculation of hair issues, but that’s another story. This story is about Travolta who, according to the Daily Mail, causes 100 times more carbon emissions than the average Brit due to his private jet fetish (he owns 5,) yet felt the need to talk environment at the premiere. Here are some interesting tidbits courtesy of the Daily Mail:

He spoke of the importance of helping the environment by using “alternative methods of fuel” – after driving down the red carpet on a Harley Davidson.

Travolta, a Scientologist, claimed the solution to global warming could be found in outer space and blamed his hefty flying mileage on the nature of the movie business.

But his appointment as a “serving ambassador” for the Australian airline Qantas doesn’t seem to have much to do with the movies. Nor does a recent, two-month round-the-world flying trip.

“It [global warming] is a very valid issue,” Travolta declared. “I’m wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities.

“Everyone can do their bit. But I don’t know if it’s not too late already. We have to think about alternative methods of fuel.

“I’m probably not the best candidate to ask about global warming because I fly jets.

“I use them as a business tool though, as others do. I think it’s part of this industry – otherwise I couldn’t be here doing this and I wouldn’t be here now.”

He should go to those other planets he’s talking about, and take best bud Tom Cruise with him. Maybe they can find the solution out there or just build a domed city if they can’t. Oh, and note to Travolta, you could have gotten to that premiere via commercial like millions of other people do, even movie stars. I have never heard such crap.

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Hugh Grant goes for a stroll with his five-year-old godson Damian Hurley, son of ex-girlfriend Elizabeth. I know Grant is giving him tips on the ladies already.

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While previously not thought possible, Joe Francis is in fact going up another level in the tackiness department. He’s moving his Girls Gone Wild franchise to the restaurant industry. The first two restaurants will open in Cabo and Cancun, and then look out for more popping up in college towns across the U.S. Finally, well-endowed sorority girls will have another venue where they can earn extra booze money. Watch out for Hooter’s versus Girls Gone Wild mud wrestling at a school near you!

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Evil Doer Howard K. Stern managed to get a judge to delay the inquest into Daniel’s death for at least two weeks, maybe forever.

TMZ reports:

Stern’s lawyer argued the law allowing the inquest was flawed, because it was impossible to impanel a fair and impartial jury given the massive publicity surrounding the deaths of Anna Nicole and her son.

The inquest judge is letting Stern’s lawyer go to the Supreme Court of the Bahamas to argue that the hearing should be permanently blocked.

I wish this sleezeball would disappear. If karma doesn’t win out in this one, I’m throwing in the towel.

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Bono has become a member of the non-British honorary knights club, which includes people such as Bob Geldof, Bill Gates, Placido Domingo, Rudolf Giuliani and Steven Spielberg. According to the BBC, there was a small ceremony in Dublin at the British ambassador David Reddaway’s official residence during which a letter by Tony Blair, singing Bono’s praises, was read.

It seems rather low-key for a knighting ceremony. I always thought that the honored one went to Buckingham Palace, saw the Queen. But, no, Bono didn’t even go to England to pick the thing up. They sent it to him along with a letter from Blair! Maybe the journey across the Irish Sea was too long. Just don’t call him Sir Bono. Sirs are only British citizens.

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M. Night Shyamalan has cast Marky Mark in his new film The Happening. According to comingsoon.net and Variety, “Wahlberg will play a man who takes his family on the run when the world turns upside and a cataclysmic natural crisis threatens to end the world.”

After less than optimal reactions to his last two films, The Village and Lady in the Water, Shyamalan is bringing back Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense producer Barry Mendel, who will produce with Sam Mercer. Third time’s the charm.

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In an interview with Parade magazine, Halle Berry reveals that she:

• Almost gassed herself over her failed marriage with David Justice
• Had to go to sex rehab with Eric Benet after the first year of marriage
• Is focusing primarily on her new goal of motherhood

In a quick IMDB search, I found out that she only has partial hearing due to “a physical encounter with a boyfriend in the early 90s.” Yikes! Let’s hope she uses an anonymous sperm donor. Her choice in men seems a little iffy.

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The pictures of a thin, bikini-clad Courtney Love made their way all over the Internet yesterday. The transformation has been amazing. Not too long ago she was slightly ballooned up, to say the least. So has she gone back to her blow diet so soon after the judge cleared her name? Us Magazine says that she’s doing it the healthy way:

According to a source with Usmagazine.com, Love has lost 45 pounds in four months since she began drinking Isopure diet shakes last December. A source tells Us that she’s also been forgoing carbs, eating fish, steamed veggies, and “doing lots of yoga.”

“She’s feeling like a different person,” says the source, who adds that her goal is to lose 55 pounds altogether.

I really hope Courntey is pulling her life together. I love that crazy mama!

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Heather Mills is spreading the word that she’s only been able to practice 3 hours per week compared to everyone else’s 40. She says that pain has forced her to limit her rehearsals for Dancing with the Stars. She knew the routines for the first two shows ahead of time, but now with new dances, she says, “I doubt I’ll stay in the show that long.”

So when she gets voted off, she hopes people will say, “But that poor thing could only practice 3 hours per week.” Doesn’t she get it? She has only one leg, but people still feel no sympathy for her.

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Chips and Burgers are becoming a thing of the past for British school kids, and they can’t stand it. British chef Jamie Oliver is campaigning all over the UK to get junk food banned in schools and provide healthy food instead, and the kids are not hesitating to blame him. 10-year-old kids were interviewed for a new documentary for England’s Channel 5, and the Daily Mail says that according to the survey, “Jamie Oliver is the most hated person among Britain’s ten-year-olds because he deprived them of junk food.”

Jamie had better watch his back. Kids are bred tough and angry over there and aren’t all sedated on mood-altering chemicals like they are here.

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Elton John had quite a 60th Birthday Extravaganza in New York last weekend. Not only did he celebrate at legendary New York venues, Madison Square Garden and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, but also, rumor has it, at the annual infamous S&M event, Black Party, held at Roseland Ballroom. Ben Widdicombe reports in his Gatecrasher column at the New York Daily News:

He was spotted around 3 a.m. holding court in a small back room with a new pal, described as “a very tall and muscular African-American man wearing black leather.”

But our source - who, like Mr. J., was sober - says his visit failed to make much of a stir among the revelers: “Everyone was so messed up on drugs or drink they could have seen anything and hardly noticed or cared.”

After just watching the first season of “Queer as Folk” and the Leather Ball episode, my imagination is going to all kinds of crazy places, with Sir Elton all tied up.

As a working actor, Mia Farrow has probably insulted the wrong person in Hollywood. In a new opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, she and her son Ronan compare Steven Spielberg to Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl because of his involvement in the Chinese Olympics. She’s upset with China because of their backing of Sudan where there’s currently a holocaust going on in the region of Darfur.

Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games? Do the various television sponsors around the world want to share in that shame? Because they will. Unless, of course, all of them add their singularly well-positioned voices to the growing calls for Chinese action to end the slaughter in Darfur.

Maybe Steven Spielberg doesn’t read the Wall Street Journal.

The full article can be read here

I feel strangely protective of Miss Lohan since hearing about her close encounters with 33-year-old, lady-loving Robbie Williams at Hollywood nightclub Les Deux on Monday. On the other hand, why do I picture these two doing lines together and making fun of the losers they met in rehab?

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Last year, he revived Rocky. Now it’s Rambo. Sylvester Stallone has started a trend for aging has-beens to revive their most popular franchises. Bruce Willis is doing it with another Die Hard movie. And am I the only one who feels a little embarrassed for Harrison Ford reprising Indiana Jones at 64? Hopefully those two have learned from Stallone’s mistake and will not travel with any performance-enhancing hormones. The 30-year-old body double he’s using couldn’t hurt, though.

The tennis scenes in “Match Point” and “In Good Company” have paid off for sultry actress Scarlett Johansson. She’s becoming the new face of Reebok with the launch of her retro-inspired athletic line called Scarlett Hearts Rbk. While filming Match Point, she developed an affinity for the game. “Tennis is great,” she said. “You don’t even notice how much you run. You get a nice body, taut legs and great butt.” Sounds like she’s the perfect Reebok girl!

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