Jenny from the Blog

Awww... so Avril really loves Paris...
Avril rocks - but always has Paris
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Avril Lavigne's flashing a big diamond ring - but boyfriend Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 is insisting the two are not engaged.

Besides, Lavigne has been seen exploring her inner Sappho lately - first reportedly making out with Christina Aguilera, and recently with Paris Hilton, though her rep claims she was "just dancing" with Paris.

Then why was she so hot to find the rock 'n' roll-bodied heiress soon after landing in New York from Las Vegas yesterday? She even had her people contact the "Tony Danza Show," where Paris had been a guest, to find out how to contact her.

Wise decision, Frist.

THE SIMPLE-MINDED: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a cardiovascular surgeon, would sooner perform a heart transplant on himself - which would certainly make for exciting television - than allow Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie to intern in his office. But somehow the geniuses at Fox Television's "The Simple Life" thought it would be a great idea to send a pitch letter to Frist's press office this week suggesting that Paris and Nicole, for the hit show's third season, "can help with administrative duties and perhaps they may have the opportunity to suggest certain policy reform or draft a bill for Congress." Producer Ryan Crow added: "'The Simple Life' is one of Fox's most watched programs and would provide even more national exposure for Sen. Frist's office." Just what the doctor ordered.

She is fired.
Hilton's turn to intern

Paris Hilton wants to carry on the good works of Monica Lewinsky.
The hotel heiress and her "Simple Life" co-star, Nicole Richie, are trying to land intern jobs in D.C. for the third season of their reality show.

Paris' sex tape would seem to qualify her for, um, a position on Capitol Hill. But she and Nicole are having trouble finding work. Fox producers offered the ladies' services to Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert and uber-conservative Sen. Rick Santorum.

Hastert's spokesman, John Feehery, told us, "I asked the Speaker about it, and he didn't think it was such a good idea."

Santorum "has a policy of hiring only native Pennsylvanians to intern," his rep told Roll Call. "[Paris] grew up living in the swanky Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, and although we have several Hilton hotels in Pennsylvania, we don't have any Waldorfs! Sorry, Paris."

Another Paris!

Paris in Avril?: Publicity-seeking princess Paris Hilton, who reportedly frightened the horses and children by making out with Aguilera last month during the MTV Video Music Awards festivities in Miami, apparently has found a makeout partner for Fashion Week. Lowdown hears that in the wee hours Friday at Bungalow 8, Paris "started going at it" with Avril Lavigne. Yesterday, Hilton's rep insisted: "They were dancing, but they weren't making out."

From Daily News

The doctor is in: The rapper Nelly might not have a degree in clinical psychology, but that doesn't stop him from speculating in the upcoming Blender magazine about which pop tart is more likely to crash and burn - Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears?

"Probably Britney," Nelly ventures. "Christina looks like she's doing it on purpose, and she looks like she has that under control. ... If something were to seriously happen to Britney, it might really affect her mentally. I'm not saying that it would, because I know Britney and she's cool, but that could be a downer for her to come down from so high as the Barbie doll of pop."

Scary family... Scary book... But must-read...
Kitty's book? Mostly catty
DAILY NEWS

According to the new Kitty Kelley book "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty."

-He arranged an illegal abortion for an ex-girlfriend.
- First Lady Laura Bush of once being a pothead.
-In Texas especially, the Bushes ruled, even people who disliked them did not want to run afoul of them socially."
-Ex-wife of Dubya's brother, Neil, claimed Bush and another brother snorted coke at Camp David during their father's term as President. "Not once," Neil's ex-wife Sharon says in the book, "but many times."
-First Lady's alleged pot smoking is a Texas public relations man named Robert Nash who says, "She not only smoked dope, but she sold dope."
-The First Couple went to pot parties on the British Virgin Islands with Laura Bush's college roommate Jane Clark and her pal, Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax.
-To back up the much-rumored story of the younger George Bush getting an abortion for a girlfriend, Kelley cites Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.
-Kelley offers no new insights into Bush's controversial stint in the Texas Air National Guard. But the Bush that appears in her book is a mean ex-drunk who mistreats his wife, believes Jews can't go to heaven and is terrified of "looking wimpish."

Best story of the year:)
Puppy pulls Trigger on dog-killer
DAILY NEWS

They call him "Trigger."

A brave little puppy who knew he was next after watching his heartless owner shoot three of his six siblings in the head apparently decided e-ruff is e-ruff. The poky little pooch somehow managed to slip his paw on the trigger, blasting his would-be executioner in the wrist.

The tale of horror and vengeance unfolded Monday when, Florida authorities say, Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, of Pensacola decided to get rid of his dog's litter of seven puppies with the help of his .38-caliber revolver. One by one, he began shooting the three-month-old German shepherd-mixed cuties.

Bradford would later tell Escambia County deputies that he was holding one puppy in his left hand and another in his right arm when the one in the left "began to wiggle, placing its paw on the trigger of the .38-caliber handgun, causing it to discharge into his left wrist," a sheriff's office statement read.

Bradford faces felony animal cruelty charges, a third-degree offense, after he recovers from his wound. As for Trigger, he won't be facing any charges. "No paw prints were taken off the weapon," Rova said, "and he's a juvenile, anyways."

He is cool!
Pardon his French!
Colin Powell
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Did Secretary of State Colin Powell tell his British counterpart two years ago that the U.S. government's three top hawks were "f--g crazies"?

Respected Brit journalist James Naughtie reports that in private talks with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw before the war in Iraq, a deeply frustrated Powell used just those words to describe Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Powell's chief rivals in the Bush administration.

What kind of debate is that??
Bush wants only 2 debates
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WASHINGTON - President Bush wants to debate John Kerry only twice and will press for a seated format he believes favors his strengths, according to Bush campaign sources.

Bush has instructed his debate negotiators, led by former Secretary of State James Baker, to resist the plan proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates for three contests.
Moreover, Bush hopes to eliminate a town hall-style format for the second debate, where the contenders would be questioned by undecided voters.

"Bush thinks he's better when everybody is seated at a table," a senior GOP source told the Daily News.

Conversely, he harbors bad memories of debates with former Vice President Al Gore, where both candidates stood at podiums. "He didn't enjoy Al Gore stalking him all across the stage," one Bush adviser recalled.

Bush sources said the President is risking criticism by trying to limit debates but will not be damaged politically if a quick deal is reached with the Kerry camp and the commission.

"He'll be fine with two [debates] as long as the talks are resolved quickly and don't give the press a chance to hammer him for being chicken," one Bush campaign strategist said.

Bushie
Confusion says: Wlicked by own tongue
DAILY NEWS

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - President Bush is obviously tired from a grueling reelection schedule, and it's starting to show when he speaks to crowds on the campaign trail.

Across the state in Poplar Bluffs on Monday, the President bumbled one line that turned a few heads: "Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country," he asserted.

He apparently meant to say that physicians want to practice "the medicine they love."

And on Saturday, in Erie, Pa., Bush jumbled this one: "I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental - supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel." He meant body armor, not body parts.

Like his father, Bush has a rich history of tangle-tongued moments. Last month, he said enemies of America "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

I am at a loss what to say... Congrats?
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Ben and Jen again

A celebrity pal of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck tells me it's serious between the former "Dare-devil" co-stars. The pair has been stepping out in Los Angeles on a series of discreet dates. "He's been hanging around the set of 'Alias' a lot," says my source, who asked not to be named.

But what about the big question? Now that Ben's dating another famous Jennifer, what do we call the duo?

Says my spy, "Their nickname around Hollywood is 'BenGar.'"

I love this guy!
Johnny Depp Says He Enjoys AgingMonday September 6
AP

Unlike legions of other Hollywood stars, hipster heartthrob Johnny Depp says he actually enjoys aging.

The boyish-looking Depp who plays the author of "Peter Pan" in his latest picture "Finding Neverland" was asked if the children's character famed for never growing old made him wish for the same power.

"Nowadays, it's all a question of surgery, isn't it?" Depp, 41, joked to reporters at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. (You mean this?)

The soundbite of the year
Luna landing
Actor Diego stays down to earth despite growing fame (Daily News)


Diego Luna insists that one key element of his budding stardom has eluded him.

"If being a sex symbol means you have lots of sex, then I am glad to be a sex symbol. But in real life I'm not. That doesn't happen," the singleton laments. "When I go into a bar the girls don't come and say, 'Oh! You're a sex symbol! Wow!' Maybe I haven't been hanging out that much. I need to get some time off to see if that is right or not."

According to some girl who was arrested for the protest during the convention
Dirty cells & nonstop Enya (Daily News)

Julia Gross, 20, was upset over getting arrested for protesting and even more steamed over the rash she got from lying on the motor oil-stained floor of Pier 57. But what drove her over the edge was when cops piped the New Age music of Enya into a holding cell. (Better than Brit or something)

"It was really degrading and upsetting," said Gross, a student from Philadelphia.

Wait, are you kidding? Do you like this freak?
Rove's got specs appeal (Daily News)

Don't look now, but Karl Rove is the Republican Party's newest sex symbol.
The bespectacled, wispyhaired political guru - known in some circles as "Bush's brain" - had to be physically protected Tuesday night from a flock of lady admirers during a cocktail party at Gotham Hall.

"As soon as he got off the stage, he was mobbed by a group of women," party volunteer Warren Seubel told Lowdown. "Women were fawning over him. They were swooning," said Seubel. "I've never seen someone so gnarly get so much attention from so many women."

Things got a tad ugly when Rove's handlers tried to separate the man from his fans.
"It was unbelieeeeevable. I had to start throwing elbows at senators and congressmen," said Seubel. "But the real problem was the congressional wives."

Maybe it was the 53-year-old Rove's toast that had the gals excited. Addressing the crowd - which included human Uzi Ann Coulter, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, G. Gordon Liddy and Interior Secretary Gale Norton - Rove yelled, "We're right, and they're wrong! On the economy, we're right, and they're wrong! On the war on terror, we're right, and they're wrong! On marriage, we're right, and they're wrong!"

Yesterday, a Rove associate tried to knock down the sex-symbol scenario. "He's like a rock star, and people want to shake his hand, take pictures with him, say hello, etc." the associate E-mailed. "I've been here all week and it is crazy, but I don't seriously think it is because he's a babe magnet. He's just the man!"

HA! They can't run themselves forever.
(Hiro's Note: Kid Rock is Republican)
Twins & Kid: No chants encounter (Daily News)

Kid Rock concerts aren't political rallies - as Jenna and Barbara Bush learned the hard way.
President Bush's daughters turned out for Rock's Wednesday night show at nightclub Avalon and danced, drank, and sang the night away in a tightly guarded upstairs VIP box opposite the stage.

But when the foulmouthed cowboy finished his set, the twins earnestly tried to lead the hundreds of beer-drenched, rowdy Republicans in a chant of "Four more years! Four more years!" (See, Convention is fake. All fake, acting shit. Clinton was real though!)

Both girls leaned over their "Evita balcony" and shouted, exhorting friends around them to join in. But it was not to be.

The teeming masses below, clamoring for a Kid Rock encore, drowned out the Bush daughters' feeble yells, and Jenna and Barbara were soon forced to abandon their quixotic quest.

Even worse, Kid Rock neglected to give the twins any shout-outs over the course of his performance, despite the fact that his routine included the song "If I Were President," in which he promises to give his State of the Union address "from a mile high, smoking a joint on Air Force One."