Salman Rushdie Called Padma Lakshmi “A Bad Investment” And Other Bits From Her New Memoir
The pinnacle of memoirs and memoir writing, Katie Price, has a new esteemed colleague in the world of celebrity biographies. Let’s give a warm welcome to Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. That’s right! Give her a hand! Padma, please tell us about you, your life and the days of it. The New York Daily News got their hands on a copy of Padma’s forthcoming autobiography, Love, Loss and What We Ate.
The bulk of what’s been released has to do with Padma’s messy relationship with author and Taken villain-looking person, Salman Rushdie. She and Salman met in 1999 at a party when she was 28 and he was 51. He was also married at the time. Despite that, he wanted her body bad and chased after her. They eventually went out and she says they ended up sans ropas that first night. Of it, she writes, “At 3am, I woke with a start. I’m naked in a married man’s bed.” I can’t read that without going directly to the part in cinematic masterpiece, Obsessed, where Beyonce shouts “Naked?! In your bed?!”
Luke Skywalker Might Be Gay… If You Think He Is
In a galaxy far, far a gay, I mean away, there was a hero. A young man who faced his darkest fears and changed the fate of the worlds. And maybe kissed on men. If that’s what you want to believe. Mark Hamill, the actor that plays Luke Skywalker – I’m clarifying because there is a shocking number of people that have not seen Star Wars – has said that if people want to think that Luke is gay, then they should raise a rainbow flag, because he is. To them.
Mark spoke to The Sun (via NY Post) and said, “fans are writing and asking all these questions: ‘I’m bullied in school . . . I’m afraid to come out.’ They say to me: ‘Could Luke be gay?’ I’d say it is meant to be interpreted by the viewer. If you think Luke is gay, of course he is. You should not be ashamed of it. Judge Luke by his character, not by who he loves.” Honestly, kudos to him. The character arc for Luke doesn’t hinge on him being gay or not, so it’s not brought up and there was no romantic storyline for him either. This is a pretty classy way of addressing something that clearly means a lot to a lot of people as well as going with the flow of the more diversified world of Star Wars.
Lena Dunham Is In The Hospital With A Ruptured Ovarian Cyst
Professional Girl(s), author and staunch anti-body shamer, Lena Dunham (no relation to Jeff Dunham. I mention it because I always have to check. I love puppets. So sue me!) went to the hospital last night because of a ruptured ovarian cyst. Lena has talked before about dealing with endometriosis. Lena’s rep released a statement to People yesterday:
“Lena Dunham has been very public with her personal bouts with endometriosis. This morning, she suffered from an ovarian cyst rupture and has been taken to the hospital. Lena will be undergoing surgery at an undisclosed hospital. We thank you for you understanding and hope that Lena’s privacy will be respected.”
In February, Lena went on Instagram to let fans and non-fans alike know that she wouldn’t be doing press for the latest season of Girls because of her condition. The disease is chronic so flare ups are common and like any chronic disease, the sufferer needs to rest their ass.
While I’m not a fan of her show, I’m also not a fan of people being sick. Let’s hope she gets better and gets back to work, including hawking Goop’s skincare line on Instagram. Gwyneth needs her!
Pic: Wenn
Madonna May Have Accepted Defeat In Custody Battle Against Guy Ritchie
Last night in the Open Post, I commended Madonna for being relatively tame, for her, with that almost-teary huff huff she pulled at her concert in Auckland, New Zealand when she dedicated “La Vie en Rose” to her son Rocco Ritchie. Last December, 15-year-old Rocco packed his shit up, put on his headphones to listen to Nicole Scherzinger‘s masterpiece “Don’t Hold Your Breath” and moved his ass in with his dad, Guy Ritchie, in December. I thought Madonna was trying to be more low-key with her attention seeking, but she played me. The Daily Mail is reporting she has allegedly accepted defeat on getting Rocco back. This revelation, of course, happened to be “leaked” on English Mother’s Day. Well, played Madonna.
Nancy Reagan Has Died
Nancy Reagan, who was FLOTUS for most of the greatest decade in pop culture the 80s, died of congestive heart failure at her home in Bel Air, CA. She was 94.
TMZ first broke the news, because you know, this election season has been such a never-ending acid trip that of course TMZ broke the news that Nancy Reagan has died. Nancy’s rep Joanne Drake confirmed the news in a statement and said that there will be a public memorial before Nancy is buried:
“Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who died on June 5, 2004. Prior to the funeral service, there will be an opportunity for members of the public to pay their respects at the Library.”
Before Nancy became the First Lady of California (from 1967 to 1975) and the United States (from 1981 to 1989), she was part of the acting game in Hollywood. Nancy met former president Ronald Reagan in Hollywood and they got married in 1952. They had two children together and stayed married until he died in 2004. When Nancy was FLOTUS, she created a SCANDAL by trying to bring glamour back to the White House. She apparently replaced all the china. Us children of the 80s know that Nancy’s main cause was the “war on drugs” and she became the Queen of Just Say No. Nancy even spread her anti-drugs message on a very special episode of Diff’rent Strokes, which still holds a place in the memory box in my brain. When I first read the news that Nancy Reagan had died, I went to my dresser to pull out my “Just Say No” t-shirt. But I don’t have a “Just Say No” t-shirt. I have a “D.A.R.E” t-shirt and yes, I’ve worn it while smoking the good shit.
Nancy was in the news again last year when the full story came out about how in 1985, she refused to help her friend Rock Hudson get an AIDS treatment in Paris. Rock Hudson died 9 weeks after he asked her for help. In 2013, Nancy’s daughter Patti Davis said that her mother’s views on gay rights had evolved and she supports marriage equality.
After Ronald Reagan’s death, Nancy stayed active in public service. During the past few years, she was in a bad way health-wise.
And now here’s my favorite picture of Nancy Reagan because this pretty much sums up 1983:
Hot Slut Of The Day!
CupcaKKe, my new favorite philosopher and a high priestess of rap whose lyrics are extremely relevant to my interests!
The music industry is in a sad state, and yes, we already knew this, but that point has been jammed into my brain once again. Because it says everything when someone like Iggy Azalea is a multi-millionaire with hits and a true rap artiste like CupcaKKe isn’t. CupcaKKe has been around for a minute, but I was first exposed to her elegant artistry the other day when a reader dropped a link to one of her videos with the subject “Your new favorite rapper!” They weren’t lying. CupcaKKe’s YouTube channel is a treasure trove of YES. There’s a good reason for why I’ve made her HSOTD on a Sunday. Some of her songs are gospel to me.
If the “casual encounters” section of Craigslist was a song, it’d be CupcaKKe’s “Deepthroat.” The title pretty much explains it all, but here’s a few of its extremely poetic lyrics:
Mouth wide open, mouth wide open
Mouth wide open like I was at the dentist
Mouth wide open, mouth wide open
Put it so deep, I can’t speak a sentence
When you put those lines in your Tinder and/or Grindr profile, make sure you give credit to the William Blake of rap that is CupcaKKe. And the video…. While wearing one of Miley Cyrus’ most demure funeral-going ensembles and Hottie from Flavor of Love’s old wig, CupcaKKe slurps up water from a dog bowl and sucks off a banana. If the “homemade” tag on PornHub was a music video, it’d look like this. Screw million dollar video budgets. All you need to make art is an iPhone 3GS and a motel room at Super 8’s competitor Not-So-Super 6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzuvfy4jFwE
CupcaKKe’s YT channel also features classic hits like “Juicy Coochie” and “Vagina.”
If the music industry wants to pull itself out of the sad state it’s in, it should quickly put together an arena tour starring: Majela ZeZe Diamond , Wendy Ho, Khia, Fly Young Red and CupcaKKe!