Amy Attacks a Fan
Amy Winehouse stunned followers at the U.K.’s Glastonbury festival after allegedly attacking a fan. Amy was singing “Rehab” to 75,000 fans on Saturday when she jumped from the stage and into the security pit. Amy then appeared to lash out at a fan, striking the fan with her fist. But a spokesman for Amy insists she was provoked, adding, “The ‘lashing out’ was when someone tried to grab her hair and she reacted.” Amy also hit back at fans who booed her as she paid tribute to her incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil. She said, “Boo me one more time and I’ll find you and your phone and call your mum and tell her you ain’t got no manners.”
Can Heath Ledger win an Oscar for his role as the Joker in “The Dark Knight”? “Rolling Stone” critic Peter Travers thinks so. In his review of the flick, Travers goes pretty well overboard raving about Heath’s performance. He says, “I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker.” He add, “There’s a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976’s ‘Network’.” The movie’s end credits will include a dedication to Heath and Conway Wickliffe a special effects guy who died doing a stunt for the movie last fall. “The Dark Knight” hits theaters July 18th.
Verne Troyer, aka `Mini-Mi` in two “Austin Powers” films filed a $20 MIL lawsuit against the gossip Web site TMZ.com and others for showing snippets of a private sex tape he made with his girlfriend. Troyer claims TMZ and Kevin Blatt, the man who distributed the “One Night in Paris” sex tape of socialite Paris Hilton, of violation of privacy, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, violation of right to publicity and misappropriation of name and likeness. The tape was made within the last year and shows Troyer and his girlfriend engaged in a series of sex acts. Word has it, the distributor “is entertaining a $100,000 offer from SugarDVD to distribute” the video. Ranae Shrider is the mystery woman in the Mini-Me sex tape. The 22-year-old actress lived with The Love Guru star for six months and thought she would marry him.
Will we see Britney Spears on this year’s MTV Video Music Awards? The president of MTV says that “everyone deserves a second or third chance”, so it could be a possibility. Britney’s performance during last year’s VMA’s was one of the most-talked televised moments of 2007 and drew 7.1 million viewers. This year’s awards will be in LA on September 7th and MTV is already working to top last year’s performance. There’s no doubt that a Britney opener would bring in the viewers and Britney’s recent good behavior might indicate a decent performance.
Benji Madden is helping girlfriend Paris Hilton with her singing career, or lack thereof…Benji already wrote one song about Paris being his light or whatever, but now he’s helping her write the theme song to her upcoming MTV reality show “My New BFF.” She’s going to sing it, too. Paris says she will release another album, she just doesn’t know when yet. But it’s definitely on her To Do list.