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In an effort to drum up support for presidential wannabe Barack Obama, Roseanne Barr filled her blog with a good tongue-lashing fired off in the direction of Angelina Jolie and her father Jon Voight. 

However, Barr may have said too much because the public is giving her genuine heat for speaking her mind.

On her website, Barr wrote, “Jon Voight is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu, who acts like Obama just wondered in from the rain forest with a bone through his nose and a communist pamphlet in his loincloth."

Barr heaped up insult after peculiar insult and even went to the extent of ridiculing Jolie’s adopted daughter, Zahara, whom she adopted together with partner Brad Pitt six months after her birth.

"Do you know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican Party's economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan?"

Barr also took aim at Pitt and called him "vacuous," and said that the couple earn "forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children," referring to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation that has raised millions for charitable causes.

It appears that Barr, who was once the queen of prime time owing to her outrageously popular '90s sitcom that bore her name, thinks that she could bring in voters by spewing mouthfuls of insult.

For someone who has declared herself a “domestic goddess,” she sure has a funny concept about people who try to bring a ray of hope into the lives of a few fortunate beings.

Too much flab up there?

However, a day after disgorging out thoughtless remarks against Jolie and Pitt, Barr is now backing off.

Now, she's got her sights directed at bloggers and the media for being so quick to report on her insulting remarks.

"Those who inhabit the media world of glamour and entertainment and fashion and gossip are horrid people who have no talent of any kind, and yet think of themselves as tastemakers,” she said.

Duh... That last line pretty much says a lot about herself.

Pop star Madonna reportedly didn’t have a happy birthday.

Reports claim that she was left disenchanted when some of the people she invited to her posh 50th birthday partaaaay at an exclusive Volstead watering hole in London’s West End were no-shows.

While many of her family and friends were in attendance, she was particularly ticked off with the absentees and allegedly told guests, "I'm really disappointed. There are a lot of people who are not here tonight, but thanks to everyone who did make it."

Lourdes, Mad-donna’s spawn, had some good use for a grand piano and played a song from hit musical Fame.

Hubby Guy Ritchie presented her with jewelry worth $500,000 (probably with the tag still on the lot just to make sure). Still, Madge felt distressed.

Ooh-weee… The second "presentation" should’ve roused her from the doldrums. Partaaay must have been a yawn fest.

Maybe her friends were busy watching the women’s shotput finals in Beijing, or they were out lining up for a book-signing session with brother Christopher.

Bosses over at the famous zip code are trying desperately to keep the public from getting ideas.

CW chiefs have refused to air any footage of the new spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210 before its scheduled September 2 release.

Critics, too, have been forbidden to review the program and no advance screenings have been planned prior to its airing on TV.

CW has released a statement saying, "The CW and our studio partner CBS Paramount Network Television have made the strategic marketing decision not to screen '90210' for any media in advance of its premiere.

"We're not hiding anything. ... simply keeping a lid on '90210' until 9.02, riding the curiosity and anticipation into premiere night, and letting all our constituents see it at the same time."

In recent weeks, Beverly Hills, 90210 has been hit by controversy after Tori Spelling announced she isn’t joining her old peers due to an alleged misunderstanding over her pay.

Original stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth will be reprising the roles that led them to fame’s door.

Maybe the bosses will keep it so super secret that 90210 will never air, but of course, we couldn’t be that lucky.

Ex-model Tyra Banks has allegedly outraged studio audience who accuse her of being “so cold” and “a phony.” 

Reports have it that she was set to appear in the Tyra Banks Show studio, but got in two hours after she was supposed to – and didn’t even acknowledge the people who patiently awaited her entrance.

Her reason for appearing late? She reportedly joked and chatted the whole time with staff backstage, reports New York gossip column Page Six.

According to the publication’s source, "You could hear her going on and on because she was standing right behind the stage curtain. She's talking and talking. Meanwhile, you have the entire audience waiting almost two hours for the taping to start."

Fans were said to be uninterested when Banks went onstage. The source adds, "She leaves us waiting, and everyone is sitting there complaining, and then she comes out and doesn't say a word about it. She didn't even say hello, she got right into her script.

"She acted so cold towards everyone. She's a phony."

The host further offended the audience when she reportedly took them outside the studio for a balloon-releasing stunt to celebrate black models.

The source continues, "She had the audience prance down the street and then release black balloons. It was so disorganized, people fell over the press outside and almost trampled two little girls." The Olsen twins?

Supposing the story’s real…. Why they waited two hours straight is beyond me.

Somebody should have hollered, “Come out, Banks, we can hear ya loud and clear.”

De wedding of DeGeneres and De Rossi has finally come to reality. 

Talk show king queen Ellen DeGeneres has wed her longtime partner actress Portia De Rossi in a private ceremony on Saturday.

The super intimate ritual had only 19 guests who witnessed the pair recite their handwritten vows to each other.

The couple’s publicist reveals to People, "Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were married tonight in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles."

After the wedding, DeGeneres filmed an interview for her daytime talk program, where she first announced her marriage plans with De Rossi.

Like we always say in this part of town, here’s wishing the couple eternal gaiety.

Janet Jackson’s notoriously famous wardrobe malfunction has gone down in history. 

The two-word phrase has now entered the English lexicon.

It was back in 2004 when the words were first heard after Jackson’s Super Bowl performance where she was left stunned after her onstage partner Justin Timberlake ripped her open top to show a breast.

Over 90 million people witnessed the live broadcast and the term “wardrobe malfunction” was born.

And now the phrase has gained entry into the latest Chambers English Dictionary.

The Chambers guys missed out something. They actually forgot the word “calculated.”

I wonder how the definition goes. Maybe something like this:

Wardrobe malfunction = the act of stripping off a breast and retracting the exploit when the entire planet dry-heaved.

When Heath Ledger died, he left his last role in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus unfinished.

Actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrel were then hired to replace Ledger’s role.

The fantasy movie, set in a carnival, will feature the three actors who will play three various versions of Heath’s character as he is transported through different dimensions.

Before the actor passed away, he left all his money with his father. It turns out that the will was made before he and Michelle Williams had their baby, Matilda, who’s now 2.

Kim Ledger, the actor’s father, has stated that “Matilda will be provided for.” However, there’s controversy over his money-handling capabilities.

While Williams is seen to be a good provider, the three actors who took over Ledger’s role have decided to ensure that Matilda will certainly have a part of her father’s legacy by donating their entire Imaginarium pay to her.

Dang, I think I have something in my eye.

The rage over Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez will soon be overshadowed by two little princesses born to really famous parents. 

The latest issue from Star magazine features a face-off between two of Hollywood's most famous kiddos who live in entirely different worlds: Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Suri Cruise.

The magazine shows just how worlds apart the two toddlers are. Shiloh wears hand-me-downs (surely not from Maddox?), while Suri gets designer dresses. And while Brangelina's offspring -- who already thrives on cookies and playing with twin dollies -- is a free spirit, Suri -- who's still on the bottle and lugging a security blanket -- is described as a someone who "calls the shots." Does Scientology have something to do with this?

While these two adorable kids shouldn’t be “battling it out” this early, people just can’t help pitting them up against each other.

Some say Shiloh comes across as ‘special,’ while Suri looks like a ‘spoiled little brat.’

But methinks they’re just extremely cute little girls who had the luck of having Jolie-Pitt and TomKat for parents.

Shiloh and Suri both turned two the past spring but already, they’re all over gossip magazines.

Imagine what their lives would be when they turned 18.

Ever since Sharon Stone said rather ghastly things about Chinese people and how they deserved the disastrous earthquake in May, her bad karma never stopped coming. 

Stone’s list of bad kismets since uttering those callous words:

1. Christian Dior dropped her images from its Chinese beauty products.
2. Shanghai International Film Festival permanently banned her and her movies.
3. She lost a role in the flick Mermaid Island when producers decided against casting her.
4. PETA offered to pay for her brain scan procedure to find her heart since they’ve grown sick of her extensive fur wardrobe.

And the latest in the growing list of karmas: A New York lawyer and more than 1,000 Chinese earthquake victims are calling for her to put her money where her mouth is and are asking for a $1 billion payout.

According to the New York Post, Stone was recently served with legal documents declaring lawyer Ming Hai’s plan to sue her for “harming Chinese people” when she said that the appalling quake that occurred in May was “karma” for the government’s occupation of Tibet.

Citing the notorious remarks Stone made at the Cannes Film Festival, Ming wrote, “For the families who have lost their loved ones or lost limbs or suffered severe injuries, your . . . statement and act has caused extreme emotional distress.”

Stone had already expressed regret over her thoughtless comments, but $1 billion? This is going to be one interesting case.

Now that Stone is a ‘defendant,’ it will be up to the 1,000 complainants to find proof that the earthquake WASN’T caused by karma.

THIS JUST IN:

A man fell who and injured himself on the actress’ estate in 2006 is suing her for undetermined damages.

Peter Krause says he fell down a “large, concealed drop-off” while at Stone’s home two years ago. Since then, he has been coping with the pain from the injury. Quick question, what was he doing up there anyway?

Krause claims he suffered from "numerous internal injuries, severe fright, shock, pain, discomfort and anxiety."

However, the Basic Instinct actress and her assistants are puzzled about the lawsuit because they do not know who the guy is.

A publicist for the actress states that “there's no record of this individual being on the property and likewise there's no record reporting this individual being injured on the property. Neither Ms. Stone or her attorneys have seen a copy of this complaint."

Oh. And we all thought it’s karma #6.

Now that Angelina Jolie has retired to babymaking profession, Tomb Raider bosses have decided to present the newest face of Lara Croft, the video game version. 

Allison Carroll, a receptionist-gymnast from Croydon, England, beat out hundreds of superheroine wannabes to become the new Croft.

Carroll, 23, will be the real-life embodiment of the multiple-holstered, black-booted raider. She will be promoting the series’ latest offering, "Tomb Raider: Underworld."

The Telegraph reports on its site: 

But Carroll has not landed a movie role - instead she will promote the new Tomb Raider video game, Underworld, which is released in November.

Nell McAndrew found fame as the first Lara Croft model in the 1990s. Carroll will star in TV adverts and travel the world to meet Lara Croft fans.

Winning the role of Lara means Carroll can quit her job as a receptionist.

"This is a fantastic opportunity and I am really looking forward to embracing Lara's world," she said.

"I still can't believe they chose me to take on the role of Lara - and I can't wait to get stuck in. This is my dream job.

"I have always wanted to be an action hero and hope to be able to use my gymnastic ability to perform all of Lara's stunts."

People are so used to seeing a pouty, lanky Lara that Carroll is suddenly an interesting change – less pouty but one beefy and flexible raider.

Allison has 12 years of experience as a professional display gymnast. Definitely not one to mess about with.

Barely three months since the release of her debut album, actress Scarlett Johansson is already planning the launch of her next project. 

For those who didn’t even realize that she has ventured into the music scene, Johansson released her first album, “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” a collection of Tom Waits cover, in May.

Despite the fact that critics dismissed her first record as not up to scratch, the actress said she’s interested in giving singing another stab. I heard talk that folks over at the Olympics need a lip-syncher.  Maybe SJ would be interested?

She asserted, “It was fantastic to do that album. Not only live with that music that I love everyday, but I just worked with such wonderful musicians who are so talented.”

While she may already have the second album on her radar, she admitted she isn’t in a rush since she has yet other plans for her career.

She added, "I would love to do another album. Right now, though, I'd like to focus on developing something to direct."

While she’s entitled to do anything she wants, complete with denigration and all, what the public would be extremely interested to know is if she’s going to send Barack Obama an email and ask him if he could do a duet with her.

Rehab hitmaker Amy Winehouse has come up with a wicked scheme to upset James Bond. 

The Brit singer intends to wrap up the track she started writing with Mark Ronson for the latest Bond offering, "Quantum of Solace," and release it at the same time as the new theme by Jack White and Alicia Keys comes out.

Amy reportedly said she’s out to “prove that they have made a big mistake.”

“I do think they could have waited a bit. If they want a worldwide hit, I have them all up here [pointing to her beehive].” So that’s what her hair is for – to store her demo tapes.

"I guess they are going for clean-cut and boring. When I do release mine – and I am tempted to do it on the same day – this would be the bigger hit.” ‘Clean cut and boring’ aren’t exactly fitting descriptions for White, but since Winehouse said it, there must be a sliver of truth to it.

Her parting words, “If they change their minds, I’m waiting!”

So, the Winehouse is still nursing wounds after she was dropped in favor of Keys and White to record the official Bond track.

She was supposedly THE favorite for the assignment, but Bond bosses detected that she had a bit of an issue with stringing a coherent sentence and her regular sanatorium visits related to her snorting activities didn’t help.

So Amy was plunked, something that never sat well with her and she isn’t taking it lying down either.

Can’t wait till she releases the hit that’s cooking in her crack-infested hive. Mewonders if the song has the word Blaaaake in it.

Gay Clay Aiken and best friend/music producer Jaymes Foster have just become proud parents of a baby boy. 

American Idol graduate Aiken’s daddyhood is all thanks to Artificial Insemination as was confirmed in May by Foster’s brother.

The 50-year-old producer gave birth to six-pounder Parker Foster Aiken at 8:08am Friday, 8/8/08 at a North Carolina hospital. This would have been such a fortunate coincidence if not for the circumstances that surround Parker’s birth.

Aiken wrote on his web site:

"HE’S HERE! My dear friend, Jaymes, and I are so excited to announce the birth of Parker Foster Aiken (No hyphens. One first name. One middle name. One last name.)"

"Wow … 8:08 … 08/08/08. The little man is healthy, happy, and as loud as his daddy. Mama Jaymes is doing quite well also."

Aiken’s mother, Faye, first broke the news of the birth to TV station WRAL.

Clay and Foster have made the solemn vow, not of marriage, but of raising the kid, who hopefully won’t take after Aiken’s awful Michael-Jackson makeover.

Aiken looks way, way better when he was still in AI. I guess the gayelle got the better of him.

But despite all the negative rumors, let’s all be happy for the baby. He’s got two mommies, one of whom will be around 70 when he graduates from high school. Cool, huh.

Buffy alum Eliza Dushku has caused more stress to animal rights activists after she divulged that she’s into elk and deer hunting, after she gave up vampire slaying, that is. 

During her guest appearance at talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday, Dushku got into a swanking mood and boasted about her hunting skills. The highlight of her tale: She had slain Rudolph a deer in Oklahoma last Christmas.

She also said that she was out elk hunting in Colorado when she won her role in the forthcoming Dollhouse TV series.

When she noticed that the studio audience were frozen shock at the thought of Bambis dying from her arrow shots, Dushku quipped, "My mother called me herself and said, 'You're a liberal from New England, what the 'f' are you doing in Oklahoma shooting things."

While the actress may have come across as cool for some people for taking up the sport, she lost most of them when she said, "When you're in a relationship with somebody you have to, like, experience things that they do."

However, she got their interest back when she uttered, "A lot of people eat meat ... and I eat what I kill."

And as expected, Pam Anderson’s BFFs suddenly became interested in her, too. The angry kind of interest.

PETA, or PEople for Tasty Animals People for the Ethical Treatments of Animals, is once again on the attack mode.

A spokesperson for the organization (whose Grand PooBahs reportedly hold meetings dressed in water buffalo horns and Flintstone pelts) says, "Slaying bloodthirsty vampires on 'Buffy' is brave, but slaying innocent animals where they live and raise their families is cowardly and cruel.

"Eliza is sorely out of step with the rest of the country; 95 percent of Americans oppose hunting."

Really? If 95% are against hunting, then the person next to you is an airborne skunk.

The statistics are a bit odd considering that 95% of Americans aren't exactly into leafy vegetables.

PETA, who some people think should eat compost, need to do some serious research. Their statistics seem generated and self-serving.

Those over at PETA, STFU, WTF or however people refer to them should just try and understand Faith. She’s used to slaying creatures.

Anywaaay, PETA should just chill and get on with their knitting sessions. Many people love animals – medium rare with mashed potatoes on the side, please, thank you.

Here’s a story that will probably put to rest divorce rumors that have been surrounding the couple for some time now. 

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have allegedly bought an LA home to the tune of $16 million to house their growing family. Their daughter, Violet, is already 2 years old.

The two are expecting their second offspring. Or should that be offsprings? Jen, who reports claim is five months on the family way, is probably bearing fraternal twins like everybody else in Hollywood. Tinseltown's twinnage syndrome is growing more and more frickin’ banal.

The purchase puts the Garflecks in the neighborhood of Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and TV personality Ricki Lake.

Us Weekly reports that the lovely pair, who are making plans to put down their roots in the LA abode as they get ready for the coming of baby No. 2 (or should that be #2 and #3? whatever), bought the 9,900 square-foot estate that boasts of: seven bedrooms, seven baths, six fireplaces, a library, a brick white cellar, a swimming pool and a three-car garage.

Before any of you say that Ben’s probably doing good at the poker table that’s why they could afford the McMansion, you’ve first got to consider that he’s made lots of money in his films, the latest of which is… The memory escapes me.

Methinks Angelina Jolie won’t respond to this story by buying Europe.

Crooner Jewel and champion bullrider Ty Murray, her beau of 10 years, flew to the Bahamas to elope, according to People.

The act of eloping actually gives way to thoughts of a baby jewel – which means another celebrity baby gets born into the world and affixed with names as odd as Tyger Toof or Crystal Jewel.

Jewel’s spokesperson says, "She wore a traditional wedding gown, while Ty wore his favorite blue jeans, white shirt and cowboy hat. The couple is very happy and look forward to enjoying their honeymoon."

Jewel, who Dlisted smartly likens to a Squinty Zellwegger but better-looking, can just about compile into a book all the criticisms she got because of the “snaggle tooth” she never bothered to have fixed.

In a world where orange tans and size 600 silicone breasts are the norm, her incisors are delightfully natural in that it made her endearing and REAL to many people.

The pretty singer also displays unassuming attitude and doesn’t seem too concerned about her celebrity status as she still likes to do regular people stuff such as working around her ranch and riding horses.

She also doesn’t give a cowboy's hoot if her man looks like a Brokeback Mountain guy.

The female half of the Brangelina tandem is being sought by both Barack Obama and John McCain for an endorsement. 

Jolie is said to be waiting to reserve judgment on who she’ll be supporting come election day.

Variety’s Wilshire & Washington said that both campaigns have reached out to her, apparently to court her support. But in a statement to Variety provided by political adviser Trevor Neilson, Jolie says that she is waiting to make up her mind.

Jolie states, “I have not decided on a candidate. I am waiting to see the commitments they will make on issues like international justice, refugees and how to address the needs of children in crisis around the world.”

While she could always make public her choice, it’s best if she stayed out of it and just concentrated her efforts on the humanitarian work she’s spearheading.

She’ll gain more respect if she just encouraged people to cast their votes instead of getting caught up in the Obama-Barrack combat.

Reality show actress(?) Denise Richards may soon quit trying to make publicity for her show Denise Richards: It’s Complicated as the program is said to be taking in its last few gasps. 

E! has reportedly decided to NOT bring the show back for Season 2. The network’s probably readying the slot for Pam: Girl on the Loose, starring Pamela Anderson, of course. Who else has been on the loose the past few years?

The show, which gave viewers a peek into Denise’s life and her two kids with ex-husband Charlie Sheen, was launched on E! in May of this year.

While it started out great – it had more than a million followers – the show’s ratings had begun heading south after the way she handled her much-publicized battle with Sheen over their daughters’ custody. And from the looks of it, the ratings are determined to reach the South pole as fast as they could.

A source told Star magazine (a publication that seemingly has reliability issues from time to time), "The numbers started out pretty good -- just over 1.5 million tuned into the premiere episode. But the audience has dropped off. Denise has turned into an unappealing reality star." And to think that she used to be a glamorous Bond girl.

What made matters worse for Richards was her liberal usage of foul language on TV, which obviously enraged the viewing public. Potty mouth will have to go elsewhere.

The insider added, "Viewers were disgusted that a mother of two young girls would use such foul language."

Many of you may be asking if there’s a chance that the folks over there could swing the ax at Denise herself for doing and saying the things she did. If there’s a teeny bit chance, Sheen would probably do it himself...

... and no, changing the name of her reality show to Facing Axe wouldn’t help her case at all.

Hollywood actress Kate Hudson has vowed to stop revealing details of her personal life with the press people after years of trying to keep things quiet. 

Since divorcing Chris Robinson two years ago, Hudson has constantly been in the headlines due to her high-profile and short-lived romances with celebrities like Owen Wilson and Lance Armstrong.

Maybe she should try dating a non-celeb, like a plumber, for instance.

Hudson, 29, says, "I've learned that things are better left private until you're actually planning the wedding. It's so hard for me, because I'm so open, to hold back. I could really just go on forever about this stuff.

"We can talk about Chris (until) the dogs come home. I married Chris, I had a baby with Chris, Chris will be in my life for the rest of my life."

Those who want to talk about Chris, raise your hands.

The actress, who says that there is one male in her life she will always love, insists she doesn’t have regrets making sacrifices to bring up Ryder, her son with Robinson.

She adds: "Am I gonna look back and say, 'God, I wish I could have gone to that ... that ... concert? I'd rather be listening to my son sing songs. I'd rather be watching him sleep."

Ever heard of shaddup shuttin' up?

Anyhow, good luck on her intentions. But isn’t it a bit funny that she had to go public with her desire to go private?

Looking at the picture may make you want to jump to conclusions about the ex-Baywatch babe and her PETA involvement. However, it's not really what you're thinking. 

Anderson, together with PETA’s honorary director and a slew of local animal rights advocates, was at a KFC restaurant in Vancouver, BC to try the new faux-chicken Classic Vegetarian Sandwich.

The actress found the experience a tasty one and is said to be proud of the Canadian KFCs for being in the lead to take on more compassionate means of slaughtering chickens and for being the first to offer veggie sandwich.

Anderson said, “I didn’t think I would ever walk into a KFC, but here we go.”

For many years now, the blonde bombshell and her PETA pals have constantly targeted the fast food chain, whose suppliers have been held accountable for some grave Kentucky Fried Cruelty.

And you thought her famous bumpers were the only fake things in this picture.