Max Bratman (age 9 months) looks around as mom Christina Aguilera waits to board a flight at LAX to London on Friday. We never travel without our tiny hoodies, how about you?
Angelenos headed to London lost a major carrier this past week when Air France announced it will no longer fly between LAX and Heathrow after just over six months of operation. Booked on Air France after November 6? You're probably flying Delta now through JFK or Atlanta. Sorry.
Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. made a special appearance onstage with T.I. on Saturday night at a party in Brooklyn sponsored by Diesel, but she wasn't alone! Looks like the woman formerly known as Mathangi Arulpragasam is carrying the next generation of super rappers.
Lindsay Lohan and Gossip guy Chace Crawford also attended the concert, which was held in the trendy DUMBO neighborhood and also featured N.E.R.D. and Hot Chip.
M.I.A. canceled her European tour this summer, telling New York magazine, "Physically I just have to stop for a second."
Sadly there are no current concert dates scheduled, but we're sure baby A.W.O.L. is going to tear it up on the mic.
Keep clear! Paris Hilton invades London to promote her reality show. She's out to enslave our young!
Hilton was later overheard in Mayfair while out drinking and carousing at the Cuckoo Club before moving to the Kingly Club in Soho. All of this was, of course, captured by the MTV cameras as a sign of her angst in picking her new right-hand lady in "My New BFF."
Since Hilton still contends via Funny or Die that she's running for president, would that make her new BFF her running mate? Maybe she should go with her onscreen buddy in her new "campaign ad," former "West Wing" star Martin Sheen.
Her appearances on "The Hills" this season, apart from one memorable episode, have mostly been limited to asking LC about her drama. Now Whitney Port cashes in with her own series set in New York with herself in the spotlight.
Rumors about Whitney getting her own show have been running rampant for a few seasons--ever since she went to New York and tangled with SuperIntern Emily, really--but the blonde buddy Lauren met while interning at Teen Vogue a century ago finally confirmed the news. She'll be living in NYC and working for Diane von Furstenberg, whose show she was spotted at last month during Fashion Week.
We were hoping MTV would call the show something like, "The Skyscrapers" or "The Rivers" or "The New Jersey," but they've already allegedly decided on the name of the show and it's "The City."
When we read Britney Spears was involved in a car accident, we thought, "Well, there goes the entire redemptive arc of her going to dad rehab, chilling with Mel Gibson and winning three Moon Men. Now why did we pay attention in the first place?" Well, color us corrected and deeply cynical: Britney didn't do it!
The pop princess was in the back of an Escalade reading magazines when a paparazzo rear-ended it. Her bodyguard was driving, so even if he hit the brakes a little too quickly, it still wasn't her fault. Repeat: Move along people, nothing to see here.
Why, in Puerto Rico, of course! World famous bachelor George Clooney took some time out from filming his new movie "Men Who Stare At Goats" to play a pickup basketball game, complete with the mustache he (or someone) has apparently chosen for his character. Looks like nose hair gone wrong, right?
Clooney is also co-producing the film, which is using the Rio Piedras neighborhood (where a campus of the University of Puerto Rico is located) as a stand-in for the Middle East.
The movie costars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges as US military officers trying to find strategic applications for paranormal powers.
Light enough to carry on: Gold medal winning gymnast Shawn Johnson lands at Reagan National before heading to the White House to meet President Bush along with a delegation of other Olympians.
The race may be won, the distinctions awarded, but for most Olympic athletes the sprint to take advantage of their 15 minutes of fame is still going on. (We recently saw Usain Bolt leaving David Letterman's stage, and he looked ti-yerd.)
Not every returning hero gets a Phelpstival, but those endorsements and that attention will only be up for grabs for so long before Americans forget about the Olympics. At least Shawn is allowed to wear a T-shirt and Uggs when she's out meeting the nation instead of a leotard and chalk.
Time to give Tyler Perry his due: After continually stealing number one at the box office, nudging his show "House of Payne" into syndication and continuing to adapt his original plays into movie gold, Perry put the cash together to open up his very own movie studio.
Friends like Oprah and Sidney Poitier celebrated the opening of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia (in a former airline reservations center, no less!) at a Saturday party. Will Smith brought his smiling face and Perry ensemble player Cicely Tyson brought a date to hear Patti LaBelle perform.
Of course, as with any huge party, there were crashers: Writers Guild representatives claim Perry fired four writers from "House of Payne" for participating in WGA activities. Perry's studio may be bright and shiny, but his show is one of the only scripted productions without a union presence.
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