Celebrity Excess

I had a really great post yesterday about Mary J. Bliges's comments about her 'god' that were absolutely priceless, but blogger first posted it 3 times and then after I deleted two of them, it was still posting it 3 times, so I deleted it. Basically, Mary claims that god wants her to wear bling and to look hot, that he tells her that he wants her to be the hottest thing around.

Wow, it's nice to know that God is so concerned about how Mary looks instead of you know, fixing the environment, stopping the genocides that are going on in Africa and Bosnia, and smiting Osaman bin Laden.

Do celebrities ever listen to themselves or do they just blather on without a censor button?

This has not been a good week to be a celebrity. Maury Povich is being sued for sexual harassment, Snoop Dogg was detained at London airport, Julia Roberts got creamed for her Broadway debut although I give her props for having the courage to try something new. It has to be hard when you've been on the top of the heap for so long. What do you do next?

Alec Baldwin's behavior was so heinous during the run of Entertaining Mr. Sloane that his co-star not only quit, but is filing charges with the actors union. Alec's response was that 'only her doctor knows why she's been unhappy.' Is this guy for real? You don't file charges with the union unless you've been pushed to the wall, and I love the Roundabout Theatre's response which was basically covering their butts because starts like Baldwin are what keep them operating. This is despite the fact that Baldwin has on numerous occasions revealed what an ass he is (and the apple doesn't fall far in the Baldwin family tree considering his brothers Stephen and Daniel).

Denise Richards has been seen canoodling with her best friends ex-husband. How do you do that? Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora just split up. Aren't there any other single men in Hollywood that Denise can date? Come on, Ryan Seacrest is available, as is Carson Daly for starters. Even if Heather is okay with it, it's still weird. It's like having your mother go out with one of your ex-boyfriends (which actually happened to someone I know).

Brittany is pregnant again supposedly. Why? Didn't she learn anything from Shar Jackson? Just because you have his kids doesn't mean he's a good person or a good father. Girlfriend needs to get her act together before she brings another child into this world.

And the Harvard student author who claimed that she unconsciously channeled Megan McCaffery's words? Honey, one passage is unconscious, 40 is out and out plagiarism. I worry about this all the time, and I read alot. It's gotten to the point where if I even think something in one of my manuscripts is too similar to something I've read, I'll change it or rewrite because the last thing I want is to be accused of plagiarism. Now people are pointing the finger at Alloy Entertainment, the co-owners of the copyright on the book, asking what did they know and when did they know it.

Any celebrity excesses out there that you think are particularly egregious? Or who do you think really needs a good smackdown?