Crying Games & Sob Stories

What would a week be without the ever petulant Britney Spears?

Remember those nasty rumours about Salma Hayek using donor eggs? Well her fertility clinic specializes in egg donors.

People say to me a lot how do you do this show if you’re in a bad mood? How do you do your show if you’re sad or, don’t you have bad days? I’m a human being and I have bad days and I have sad days. But when I walk out here and you all cheer and when you’re here to dance, you’re here to laugh and I know I make people happy. It changes my mood. I come out here and I can do anything because of the energy I get.

But today is a hard day for me. Today is bad. I am not capable of coming out and pretending to be funny and on when things are going so terribly wrong right now.

'There's no people like show people they smile when they are low', but this time you'd better break out the Kleenex! Ellen DeGeneres isn't the type to pretend things are fine when they're not. She's more like the type who cries when she doesn't get her own way. On yesterday's show, Ellen began weeping like President George W Bush after a night in the Lincoln Bedroom, as she revealed that a dog she'd purchased, named Iggy, from a rescue agency, and then passed off to her hairdresser, was reclaimed. The hairdresser's children had bonded with the dog, Ellen claims, and shouldn't be punished for her bad.

Now Ellen's partner, Portia de Rossi, had signed a contract, saying that they would inform the agency if the dog didn't work out, which they failed to do. Perhaps it seemed like too much trouble, and not as much fun as making a messy emotional scene. The agency goes onto state that dogs are matched to owners. If a dog with health problems, let's say, is placed, and then passed on to another family - this time with small children, the dog may bite. Once it gets a reputation as a biter, it will be impossible place. Since the rescued dogs were often a week or two from being put down, the agency wanted to be especially responsible in placing them. Unlike Ellen.

So the agency reclaimed the dog, and Ellen got on the air and played the crying game. My first thought, when I saw the public freakout was "What's wrong with that silly bitch? Is she breaking in new medications?" She didn't publicly slobber like that about her Anne Heche breakup! Don't anyone tell her about Darfur or global warming - lest she have to be hospitalized! Furthermore the show is taped, so that scene wouldn't have gone to air, unless Ellen wanted it to. My view, Ellen's power tripping. She didn't get her own way, and thought she'd show the animal rescue agency exactly who they were ing with. The result is that the woman who runs the agency has gotten death threats. She too has done a teary public interview. It seems that Weepy Wilma has set the dogs on the poor woman.

Now is this really the sort of thing that the public should be supporting Ellen on? I mean she is an adult, right (although crying on air over a dog she didn't want isn't a good indication of that)? Shouldn't she be able to work this out on her own? In any case, thank you Ellen, for not pretending. I suppose that if Michael Vick has taught us anything, it's that America's going to the dogs.

Now here's Ellen interviewing the subject of yesterday's post, Catherine Zeta Jones.

Now here's Lady Cat in a commercial, hawking her wears: Alfa Romeo's this time, and not TVerizon cell phones.

Oh yeah, and guess who's website got hacked? It wasn't Paris Hilton's.

Wondertrash thoughts of the day:

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breath more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours.
-- Swedish Proverb

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
-- George Santayana

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