We’re taking a few days off to be with our families and friends.  Never fear…we’ll be back!

Please don’t forget that there might be someone near you who might be alone this Thanksgiving, or who might not enjoy the same blessings that you do.  Won’t you share with them?  Remember, sharing doesn’t have to be material things…you can also share yourself.

Be safe, be thankful, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Okay, I want everybody to take a good look at these two.

Go on, look.  I promise your eyeballs won’t burst into flames or run screaming out of your skull.

Got this image firmly planted in your brain?  Good.

Now, think about this…these are the sorts of people that so many of the fashion-conscious world takes their cues from.  These people are hailed as trendsetters.  Every time you purchase a bottle of Covet perfume, or buy a Valentino frock (I don’t know what you’re talking about…what credit crunch?), this is the sort of thing you’re supporting.

Do you really want to be responsible for this?

Stop the madness!  Just say no!

It’s entirely too early in the morning for this sort of thing.  News is that Cynthia Rodriguez, soon to be ex-wife of slugger Alex Rodriguez, is hopping mad that he is abandoning his children to jump at the chance to be with Madonna and her offspring:

The Yankee slugger, who ditched his wife of six years, Cynthia, after becoming besotted with Madonna, is a “soul-less” man who is “abandoning” his kids on Thanksgiving for his lover, according to what Cynthia is telling friends.

“Access Hollywood” reports that Cynthia, who’s in the final stages of her divorce from A-Rod, wrote an e-mail to a confidant noting: “My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna . . . She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!”

Instead of ushering in the holidays in Miami with his children, Natasha, 4, and Ella, 1 – A-Rod, 33, is hosting a dinner at his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, 50, and her kids, Lourdes, Rocco and David, and manager Guy Oseary.

Well, it’s nice to know that A-Rod has his priorities straight.  After all, what could be more important than keeping Madonna happy?

Cynthia, a bit of advice for you:  He doesn’t want to be with you or your children.  Deal with it and stop trying to force him to pay attention to his daughters, because most of the time a man who is forced to spend time with his children comes to resent it even though that’s the wrong attitude to take.  Raise them to respect him but not to expect him.  One of two things will happen…either he will decide he likes being free and will just ignore them (and really, do you want a man like that in their life?), or he’ll eventually realize what he’s lost with his kids and try to make amends with them.  Either way, make sure he supports them financially, because that is only right.

This has all the makings of a really bad Lifetime special.  Thanksgiving With M-Rod, the heartwarming holiday tale of a couple with no boundaries, no scruples, no wrinkles, and no family.

UPDATE:  For those of you wetting yourself over the details…AH may have gotten the specifics wrong regarding locations but they seem to be on the money otherwise.  M-Rod may not be in New York, but they are in Miami, and they are definitely together.  See here for photographic proof.  It was his camp that tried to tell everyone A-Rod put family first.

If you haven’t checked out www.IanUnderCover.com yet, you should. Regular readers of Glosslip are aware that Ian Halperin, the NYT bestselling author, was responsible for encouraging us to probe deeper into the Church of Scientology, which led us to our first major interview coup with famous biographer Andrew Morton on his fantastic Tom Cruise biography as well as, a vast volume of important interviews with ex-Scientologists and members of the Scientology-protest group Anonymous. Ian’s like our paternal gossip figure

Ian, has taken his show business connections to the blogging format, breaking news and giving entertainment and celebrity news exclusives you won’t find anywhere else!!

So, while you’re stuffing your gullet with turkey (or tofurkey for all you Vegans), sit back, take a break from the football games and parades, and go leave Ian a dirty, innuendo-lace comment and tell him Dawn sent you.

Rumor has it, he likes that sort of thing.

This past Sunday, former Scientologist and mental patient, Mario Majorski, stormed the Scientology Celebrity Center complex in Hollywood, wielding two swords threatening those at the center before being fatally shot by armed Scientology guards. Majorski, who was a member in good standing of the Church as of ‘93, was named in a suit brought by Scientology’s attorney, Ken Moxon against UCLA and a professor at the university.

Majorski, who maintained residence in both LA and Oregon, had a history of making threats against the Church for some time, and was known by the CoS and local law enforcement. He also had had non-CoS related police run-ins in the last decade.

Here’s more detail on the incident from the LATimes:

A church spokesman said the 48-year-old had not participated in Scientology activities for more than a decade, but in recent years he had made a series of threatening phone calls to church offices in Los Angeles and Oregon, where he had been living.

“There were over a dozen threats at various points since 2005,” said spokesman Tommy Davis.

The church alerted police to the calls, which Davis described as ranging from veiled statements that “something bad” would happen to the church to direct threats of violence.

Although Majorski’s name was known to church security, Davis said, guards, including the former police officer who shot him Sunday afternoon, did not know him by sight.

“It was only after it happened that we realized, ‘Oh, it’s that guy,’ ” he said.

The Times report also said that law enforcement believed Majorski hadn’t had regular employment for a while, but had previously worked with his now-deceased father’s real estate
business. Majorski’s mother also passed away in the last year, and there were some incidents related to his mother at the facility where she was staying before she died:

In 2006, the administrator at Country Villa Broadway, the San Gabriel medical facility where his mother was a patient, sought a restraining order against him. In court papers, the administrator wrote that Majorski’s visits from Oregon were unwelcome.

A Superior Court judge barred Majorski from visiting unless he was accompanied by a special monitor.

While living in Florence, Oregon, Majorski had run-ins with law enforcement there as well:

On Nov. 2, Majorski was arrested at a Mormon church service in Florence, Ore., the coastal town where he lived

A Florence police spokeswoman told the Associated Press that he was “cursing and moving around a lot” and was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.

Less than a month ago, he was arrested in Florence for swinging an ax at an Auto Club employee who was bringing him gas for his car.

Majorski threatened to shoot police who went to his home to investigate, according to a police report. He pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct.

As to the lawsuit and Scientology issue while Majorski was a student at UCLA, that’s a bit more complicated. Here’s what the times was able to dig up:

Majorski was a church member in good standing in 1993 when he and a classmate sued a psychiatry professor and UCLA.

The professor, Louis West, was an expert on brainwashing and an outspoken critic of Scientology, which he dismissed as a “pyramid scheme.”

Suits filed in state and federal court accused West of activities, including speaking to anti-cult groups, that transgressed the separation of church and state and interfered with Majorski’s practice of religion.

Both suits were dismissed, and court records indicate that Majorski’s role was largely limited to providing his name as a plaintiff.

This last bit is where the heart of matter may lie. Scientology’s beliefs are inherently antagonistic towards modern psychiatry and psychiatric therapies, including pharmaceutical drugs designed to help people suffering from a variety of mental illnesses. According to the NY Daily News, Majorski was a mental patient on probation, who has stalked an Oregon judge with a weapon:

A samurai sword-swinging ex-Scientologist shot to death outside the Church of Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Center was a mental health patient on probation for stalking a judge in Oregon.

Mario Majorski, 48, was caught with a “sharpened railroad spike” in his backpack as he entered an Oregon courthouse in June 2007 searching for a female judge who handled a landlord-tenant dispute he’d lost, a top prosecutor told the Daily News.

“He sent the judge a threatening letter, and after that he entered the courthouse with a backpack containing a sharpened railroad spike about seven inches long,” said Lane County Chief Deputy District Attorney Alex Gardner.

Majorski pleaded to a misdemeanor stalking charge, and the felony weapons charge was dropped. A judge directed him to the Lane County Mental Health department on 24 months probation, Gardner said.

Clearly the guard at the Celebrity Center was justified in his efforts to thwart Majorski, who was intent on harming someone. Coupled with his blatant threats against the Church of Scientology, it is probably an open and shut case. But the deeper issue here is how did Scientology’s crusade against psychiatry affect Majorski’s mindset towards getting the mental help he so obviously needed? Not to mention the damage that may have been done to the fragile psyche of a person with mental issues by being involved with an organization which has been routinely accused of being a brain-washing cult.

This is not the first time Scientology has been at the center of a mental illness related death, where their efforts to “obliterate psychiatry” have come back to haunt them. Read about Jeremy and Elli Perkins, Lisa McPherson, or Linda Walicki, an Australian woman, who stabbed her father and her 15-year old sister to death when her Scientologist parents refused her medical treatment for her worsening mental illness because of the Church’s teachings. Her mother survived several stab wounds, and told authorities, “It’s not her fault, she’s sick,” after the deaths of her husband and young daughter.

The Church of Scientology protected itself on Sunday from one of its own, but what about all the victims it’s knowingly created and unleashed on the world? Who will protect them or those they hurt in the process?

You know, just when I start to really like Britney, she does something stupid.  Like opens her mouth and makes words come out of it.

First, it was complaining that she is being “punished” for her actions over the past year or so.  No, Brit, you had a mental breakdown, and you have a mental problem, and you need continued monitoring for a while.  Hardly punishment and more like looking out for your well-being, because it seems that you still aren’t well enough yet to look out for yourself.  But here’s her latest:  In her new documentary about her life, she disses fellow celeb mom Katie Holmes:

In her new fly-on-the-wall documentary for MTV, Brit is caught during a candid moment shopping with her assistant. As she holds up a blouse, she says, “Look, this is very mommy.”

Her assistant replies, “It’s very ugly.”

Britney wrinkles her nose and laughs, “It is very Katie Holmes.”

I’ve been firmly on Brit’s side for a while now, but you know how you can support what somebody is going through without really liking them personally?  Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m starting to feel about Brit.

Look, I’m not saying she should wear mom jeans and polyester print blouses and sensible shoes.  I’m older than Brit and I still dress fashionably.  But come on.  Have you seen some of the questionable fashion choices Brit has worn out for the paps?  I’ve got a folder dedicated to them.  Don’t make me bust them out.

And since when is dressing like a mommy a bad thing?  Just what look is “very mommy”?  One where one’s breasts are underneath one’s shirt and one’s bottom is inside one’s trousers?  One where a person has on underwear and doesn’t show it off?  You can’t be on parade all the time, Brit.  Too many people today equate “sexy” with “half-naked”.  You can be a mom, dress like a decent person, and still be sexy, because sexy ain’t clothing.

Yes, Katie’s fashion is geared more towards comfort than clubbing.  But even though she’s toned it down a bit (and honestly does dress a bit older than her age, I’d like to see her dress younger), she’s still a beautiful woman.  Like Brit is, when she isn’t being nasty.  Some things you just can’t blame on being bipolar.

And to me it says a lot about Brit’s continued state of mind if she equates the state of being or looking like a “mommy” with boing, ugly, and not-slutty.  It makes me wonder just how ready she truly is to take on her mothering duties.  Moms can be sexy, but true sexy don’t need to flaunt it.

Besides, Katie would so totally pwn Brit.  Katie can have her husband Tom Cruise come out and point Tom’s Finger at her and scream at her how glib she is, while the best Britney can do is throw Cheetos.

The world’s two most boringest attention junkies decided that they just weren’t getting the sort of press they thought they deserved lately, so they decided to make their traveling roadshow more of a permanent run and got hitched:

“The minute we said our vows, I couldn’t stop crying,” Montag, 22, tells Us.

At the altar, Pratt, 25, told his bride: “Heidi, from the moment you came into my life, I knew my life would never be the same without you. You are the light in my life like the sun to the earth! Your loving warmth makes me want to be a better person. Being with you, I feel complete. I’m honored to even be able to call you my wife. You are the most amazing, loving and caring woman on this planet. I will love you forever and always.”

Someone who might not be so thrilled? Montag’s mother.

“I called her right before the ceremony, sort of hinted that something that happened, but her reaction was to ask me if we were breaking up! I told her it might be something else, and she said, ‘Well, if you ever plan on getting married just know that your stepdad is really upset that you want your father to walk you down the aisle,’” Montag tells Us.

“She was starting so much drama, it kind of pushed me toward wanting to get married without that,” she adds. “I don’t know when I’ll tell her.”

Giving Exclusive! interviews to Us is her very reason for existing.  Who are they fooling?  Their whole relationship is a media event.  These two are about as real as Heidi’s breasts.  Wonder what they spent their check on?

Heidi couldn’t stop crying after her vows, and I couldn’t stop crying because this is about the most interesting thing that has happened in the celeb world so far today.

Taking bets on when we get the Exclusive Divorce Details?

It’s been a busy time for Gwyneth Paltrow.  First, she had to do a bunch of backpedaling when she ticked off vegetarian terrorists PETA when she wore fur in a recent ad (her excuse:  I was attacked by a stealth stylist!):

“That was awkward, and I’m glad you asked, because I do not wear fur at all. It was a daylong photo shoot on a boat near Capri, and there were all sorts of poses with all kinds of clothes—none with fur. During one set-up, a stylist came up from behind and draped a stole around my shoulders. I didn’t pay much attention to it, and when I noticed it was fur I assumed it was fake fur but did not ask, so it’s my fault. I was very surprised when they ended up using that one shot out of hundreds for the centerpiece of the Tod’s ads. I know it’s not a great excuse, but I hope you and your members understand.”

I guess the leather purse and boots in the photo were okay, because cows are really ugly.  It’s okay if you kill them, eat their meat, and wear their pelts.  Not like cute little squirrels or bunnies or minks.

But now Gwyneth had better watch her back and send somebody else out to start her car, because the folks at PETA will really blow out their aortic valves when they realize what she’s fixing for Thanksgiving:

Turkey will always be the main event of Thanksgiving (at least in my house) and a whole turkey is the way to go if you’re feeding at least 12. But if your party is smaller, the stuffed turkey breast turns out to be a great halfway point. Brining it overnight insures that you don’t need to baste it and it has a quick cooking time. Why should things be any less festive if dinner is just for two? I came up with these stuffed turkey burgers which were a giant hit in my house. They are the perfect solution for anyone who isn’t feeding a big group (or for a big group that wants to try something different!).

Okay.  This is totally bogus.  I don’t know what sort of serving size she is using (perhaps the size of a quarter, or possibly a half-dollar if she’s really feeling gluttonous), but at my house I’ve fixed a whole turkey for the four of us (five of us if my mother is involved) and not had that many leftovers.  It’s one day a year!  Twelve people with one turkey?  When I go to my dad’s for Thanksgiving we go through a turkey and a ham and are scraping the platter.  We have fifteen people or so, but still.

What is it with celebs who release these sorts of missives, anyway?  Are people really that pathetic that they can’t figure out what sort of food to serve for the holiday?  A new recipe or two, fine, but a whole menu?  And who serves brussels sprouts at Thanksgiving?  That’s like serving spinach as a wedding cake.  Srsly, can you imagine the portion control at her Thanksgiving meal?  What an ungrateful Oliver Twist you’d be made out to be.  I imagine if you go back for seconds you’re going to get a fork in the back of the hand.

And don’t even think about asking for more pumpkin pie.

The economy has hit all of us hard.  I’ve been trying to reduce my trips in the ol’ vehicle, buying more generic groceries instead of name brands, clipping my coupons, and turning down the heat, all in the name of trying to economize and save money.  But you know it’s bad when Linda Hogan Bollea Whatever is so broke she can’t even pay attention:

Recession or not, it’s extremely hard to balance a budget on $40,000 a month. That’s why Linda Hogan needs more. Oh did we mention — she wants Hulk to foot the bill for her 19-year-old boyfriend’s nautical tuition?

Charley Hill wants to go to sea school, and Linda wants Hulk to pay for what could be the next Captain & Tennille. Getting back to why $40,000 isn’t enough, Linda blew $14 grand at a Bev Hills Doctor’s office this week. Hulk says it’s for cosmetic surgery.

Um.  Hulk?  If I were you, I’d insist on a receipt for that surgery.  You know, just in case there might  be a refund involved.  Hey, I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.

Wonder when the last time was that Linda visited John Graziano?  You know, the Marine that her son put in a permanent vegetative state due to his stupidity and her lax parenting?  I’m totally sure that part of that $40,000 went to help his family with their medical bills.  I don’t know what people are thinking when they criticize Linda…she’s a saint.  A saint, I tell you.

Gordon Ramsay caught cooking outside of his own kitchen? – The Sun

Are NBC’s pink slips ‘green’, and do they naturally decompose? - Deceiver

Travis Barker has filed a lawsuit against the airplane company that totally wrecked his tats – ICYDK

What IS it about David Spade?  Now he’s got Nicolette Sheridan on his short list (no pun intended) – starcasm

Bronx Mowgli Wentz.  I’ve told you before, when this kid grows up he’s so pulling daddy’s underwear over his head – dlisted