Actually, I have no idea if Scarlett has a nice personality, but she does have beautiful… um.. er….how do I say this? Hair! Yes that’s it, she has beautiful hair and an excellent sense of direction, and an amazing set of…..china.

Yep. That’s all I have to say. Oh, and she married that Ryan Reynolds cat because attractive people don’t usually marry ugly people, usually.

You know that guy to the left is TOTALLY looking at her….wedding ring. Look how big and voluminous that diamond is.

For more pictures showcasing Scarlett’s top notch assets, visit Egotastic.

The two gorgeous blondes discuss their mutual appreciation of one another, fan worship (Scarlett of Peter Falk and Blondie of Robert DeNiro), Scarlett’s new record, Anywhere I Lay My Head (a Tom Waits cover album) and a Blondie reissue of Parallel Lines, which coincides with tour to promote the album, one of their finest.

As I’ve mentioned before on this here blog, I am a HUGE fan of 80’s music a culture, which was heavily influenced by the greatness of Blondie. I am bummed they won’t be coming to Cleveland, but I encourage you to check the tour schedule for a concert near you.

Here’s one of my favorites – and I will be frightening the neighbors this summer with my own rendition of this classic. I might even break the internets and post it!

As for Scarlett’s debut, I gave it a decent listen and have mixed feelings. On one hand, she clearly has great taste in music. Tom Waits is classic singer/songwriter stuff and considering her very low, and gravely voice, Waits was a clever choice for Scarlett. She has a pleasant tone to her voice and with the right arrangement sounds pretty good, but she could use a vocal coach to help her.

While she isn’t “tone deaf” like I read some commenting at other sites, her range is quite limited and it shows in areas. I give the songs I heard, especially “Falling Down” a solid “B.”

With some practice, and good song choices, Scarlett could have a minor second career. I also like the behinds the scenes aspect of the video. The smiles that fade to sighs at the end say it all. Despite her inordinate beauty, I like Scarlett, she seems to have a fairly good head on her shoulders. She gets that it’s all a facade, even the fleetingness of beauty.

Sounds like somebody needs to get over themselves, just a li’l bit.  Woody Allen favorite Scarlett Johansson missed the premiere of his new movie at Cannes because the studio wouldn’t give in and pay for her list of demands…and, apparently, nobody missed her:

Scarlett Johansson was left at home in New York after a film studio refused to pay for the star’s bloated demands to attend the Cannes Film Festival to launch Woody Allen’s latest movie.

Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall, her co-stars in the film ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’, soaked up all the glory from crowds as they ascended the fabled red carpet of Cannes.

It must have been pretty galling for Johansson, 23, when reports trickled back to the U.S. about the ten minute standing ovation the film received Saturday night after the black-tie audience saw the film. [...]

However, no one burst into tears because Johansson was absent.

“Nobody cared she wasn’t there”, snapped a prominent New York socialite as she noted, approvingly, that Cruz looked stunning in a low-cut gown designed by Marchesa while Hall, daughter of theatre legend Sir Peter Hall, was sparkling in a tumbling silk creation by Alberta Ferretti.

“The movie belonged to Penelope and Rebecca anyway with great help from Javier,” the socialite added.

And just what did the blonde actress want done that the studio refused to do?  Pretty simple, really:

They were willing, and happy, to pay for flights, hotel, provide a limousine, arrange for designers to show her gowns and for her to share hair and make-up designers with Cruz and Hall.

However, Johansson demanded her own exclusive make-up consultant at a cost of 5,000 Euros a day, which was felt a tad too much for a four day trip where looking after the star’s tresses and powdering her nose would cost a total of 20,000 Euros.

Then there was the problem over an hotel.

The film’s director and his leading ladies were delighted to be staying in the centre of Cannes to make it easier for them to attend screenings, public events and to do interviews for TV and press.

Johansson wanted to be at an hotel way out in the sticks, some 25 to 30 miles away.

“It was crazy. Penelope and Rebecca were going to be working very hard and it wasn’t acceptable that Scarlett would be having to come in from that distance every day, most likely turning up late and it would have thrown schedules into a lot of confusion.

“Also, I think, while Woody’s terribly fond of Scarlett, he was a little upset that she wasn’t being a team player”, an executive connected to the film told the Daily Mail.

Sounds like Miss Scarlett needs to be taken down a peg or two.  Somebody needs to remind her of who Woody Allen is, what the press is, and just what it is media exposure can do for a movie (and her career).

But personally, I don’t see the problem with what she wanted.  After all, there must be a reason why she would demand her own personal makeup artist.  She can’t be expected to bend that beautiful arm and use a powder puff, now can she?  And I can totally understand not wanting to stay at the same hotel as Penelope and Rebecca.  I hear they get wild and crazy after a few tequilas and start prank calling the other guests and hanging their undies off the balcony.  Oh yeah, and Penelope steals the lip gloss when you aren’t looking and Rebecca totally hogs all the hair gel.

Glosslip did a powerful interview with ex-Scientologist Marc Headley yesterday on Glosslip Radio. During that interview many major bombshells were dropped.

Headley, a Executive Director at the Church of Scientology’s video production branch, Golden Era Productions, worked closely wih RTC and CoS leader David Miscavige. Marc also worked with Tom Cruise during Tom’s sessions during his “pre-Clear” days. Marc Headley knows deep secrets about Scientology’s inner workings, and he’s committed to sharing them.

Here’s a portion of a transcription from the radio interview with Marc Headley, which can be heard here. In this portion, Marc explains how Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige helped set up a dating service using Church facilities and Church resources for Tom to find a new and suitable girlfriend/wife for their most high profile member after Cruise and Nicole’s public and difficult divorce:

Glosslip: Now you- are you you familiar with any stories related to- we won’t focus too much on Tom Cruise, although, you know, since you certainly have the knowledge, about- so he and Nicole divorced, and Tom’s alone- as we know from reading Andrew Morton’s book, Tom doesn’t like to be alone. Tom wants women in his life, you know, especially women he’s always surrounded by women, he always wants people around him, he doesn’t want to be lonely. Is there any truth to the rumour that David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology helped him find his next girlfriend, make sure that they were pro-Scientology? What do you think of those stories?

MH: Sure, those are absolutely true. We- well of course after Nichole, he was with Penelope, and then Penelope wouldn’t drop the Buddhism so he dropped her, and then he was going out with another girl I think her name was, Sophia Vergara.

Glosslip: Vergara?

MH: Right. And then basically, um, the thing with Sophia wasn’t going to work out. There was something about her or there was something that had happened or she did or something that was not going to be good if they were put under the microscope. So- Dave was constantly being called by Tom. And basically, Tom was in his ear, about how, you know, he’s gotta figure out what he’s going to do. You know, and basically, Dave was like “Why do I have to hear this?”. He tells his assistant, who is also his wife Shelly Miscavige to figure this out and basically handle it. What we ended up doing was, in Golden Era Productions we have a talent agency that works out of the celebrity center in Los Angeles.

And they basically do auditions for films and videos all the time, so a casting call went out to all the young 20-something Scientology actresses that there’s a Tom Cruise movie coming up you might be able to get a part in and we need you to come in for an audition. And they were basically asked a series of questions and these- all of these interviews were videoed. And those tapes, every day, were compiled and sent up to RTC. And we must have interviewed hundreds of Scientology actresses.

Glosslip: Anyone you want to name, specifically? Who was rejected?

MH: Oh, just- well then they were all rejected. Every single one of em was rejected.

Glosslip: By Tom, or by Scientology? I mean- who…

MH: We don’t know. They just went went up to RTC and that was it. We never heard. They didn’t- nobody said “ok this is the one, get her”, it was just, nothing. And then, this big head honcho guy from RTC, Greg Wilhere, who’s kind of like- used to be one of Dave’s- kind of like go-to guys, he is now suddenly like jet setting all over the place. He’s going off to New York, he’s going down to LA, and this is all from the Hemet facility. And he’s now taking interviews with high profile actresses. And that’s where you hear the stories about Scarlett [Johansson], and Jennifer Garner, because basically it was like Dave just said “If you had a list what would the list be? Let’s just basically go through what girls you’d like to be with.” And that was how that happened. The Katie Holmes..-

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Glosslip: Can he not get a date on his own or it just the whole Scientology thing- we wanted a Scientology girlfriend? And was this his idea or was it David Miscavige’s idea?

MH: It was- it was basically mutual between em. They just were like “Hey, what can we do”, you know. And- and I left, in 2005, so obviously Katie Holmes was the one, and I think what happened on the Katie Holmes one was she had just recently, or at some point done a magazine interview that said she wanted to marry Tom Cruise. So-

Glosslip: Right.

MH: So how much more perfect can you get? She’s the perfect candidate. They just gotta like each other. And then sure enough-

Glosslip: Were you around, were you around for when she was first indoctrinated? There’s a story that- uh- and then we’ll move on from Tom Cruise because I know you got lots of actually pretty- even more interesting things than old..

MH: Well I’ll tell you this, I’ll tell you this. When Katie showed up years before that, there’s this girl that worked in- basically Tom Cruise’s camp, and she’s a Sea Org member, she’s part of the Church of Scientology’s- the, you know, the organization that runs the church. And her name is Jessica Rodriguez. Jessica Rodriguez is an auditor, and the reason that was with Tom is because she was giving security checks to Isabella and Conner Cruise, Tom Cruise’s two adopted children. These children were basically being interrogated on the e-meter whenever they were misbehaving or things weren’t going so well. They would get these metered interrogations from Jessica Rodriguez. So it seems kind of ironic that as soon as Katie gets into Tom’s camp suddenly her best friend is Jessica Rodriguez. And Jessica Rodriguez-

The only reason Jessica Rodriguez is Katie’s best friend is to get her through her auditing and her training. And someone who can be the eyes and ears of the church so they know who’s in Katie’s ear, and they can basically pick people off who are gonna, you know, foil that little plan of theirs. So that’s where Jessica Rodriguez comes in. Jessica Rodriguez is in the same camp as Tommy Davis and these other- basically handlers. That were with Tom. And they were the eyes and ears of David Miscavige. So if something happened they could say “this is the guy who’s doing X, Y and Z and then the Church can figure out how to deal with them. Or they can tell Tom how to deal with it. And then that’s literally- that’s- to this day, you’ve got Jessica Rodriguez and Tommy Davis working with each other at the Office of Special Affairs in Hollywood, right- yesterday. Yesterday those two were together.

Glosslip: They were together yesterday? Tommy- Tommy’s still in? I thought Tommy was demoted to scrubbing David Miscavige’s floor for screwing up that whole John Sweeney thing.

MH: That was the word on the street. He did disappear for many many moons, and then all of the sudden he just popped back up on the radar. So, yeah, I’m sure it’d be very interesting to ask Tommy where he’s been for the last year or so, but he’s definitely not been out in the news. And even now he’s not really out in the news. He’s a little bit behind the scenes. But both him and Jessica Rodriguez have been involved in recent handlings on what’s going down from OSA. So.

What’s so significant about this information is it is final confirmation of what Andrew Morton outlined in his book. Morton’s book, where I’ve gotten a vast portion of my information about Tom Cruise until now, stated Tom Cruise used the Church of Scientology as a screening process for any future girlfriends/spouses.

According to Marc, and confirmed by actor Jason Beghe, Tom Cruise dropped out of the Church for much of the 90’s after he had reached OT Level III and became disillusioned with the mechanistic self-help philosophy. OTIII is often referred to as “The Wall Of Fire” and it is this level where CoS members discover the Xenu phenomena and many people drop out finding the idea of ancient aliens trapped in our bodies as utterly implausible. It wasn’t until Nicole was out of Tom’s life when David Miscavige saw the opportunity to lure Tom Cruise back in, but this time, as the devout, fervent and somewhat unhinged man we see today.

Coming up…….how the Church of Scientology helped facilitate Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s divorce.

[BIG FAT HATTIPS TO Anonymous members at Enturb for helping us transcribe this. Cake for you!]

I have nothing bad to say about Scarlett Johansson.  She’s talented, she’s smart and she’s beautiful – and most importantly, she’s NOT Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.

I would ask her but one thing though – keep her male conquests to a minimum.  It’s great that she’s been voted Glamour’s “Sexiest Body In the World” and every other magazine’s sexiest woman.  I feel proud for her, but that doesn’t mean that she needs to prove her desirability by being seen with every single eligible bachelor, famous or otherwise.

This week’s flavor is actor Ryan Reynolds, Alanis Morissette’s ex-fiance.  The two were spotted spending Easter weekend together, which is perfectly fine.  But like last week, it was Ryan Phillippe, and the week before it was Justin Timberlake, and the week before Benicio Del Toro and the week before Jared Leto and the week before that, it was Big Foot. 

I kid.  I don’t think she’s ever dated Big Foot – but the others, well there’s a pretty good chance they’ve gazed longingly into the blonde beauty’s eyes.  It also seems this whirlwind dating is part of her overall game plan.  Scarlett was recently quoted saying this about dating:

“I can’t stand mind games. But I think you should be mysterious and flirtatious. You should always have some mystery in a relationship. You don’t wanna know what the person’s thinking all the time. And you don’t want him to know what you’re thinking all the time.”

That’s a very good strategy, but also bear in mind that the guys might be thinking “Wow, this chick’s easy.  If that dork Josh Harnett can hit that for two years, then a stud like me is a sure thing.”

I doubt that Scarlett has dated or slept with 90% of the men she’s been associated with, but perception can be reality to some folks and I would hate for her to gain a reputation for being wanton hussy.  

I mean I was a serial dater too when I was her age and people just assumed I was slut. 

And they were right!!

Almost as ubiquitous as hurricanes in Florida, another force of nature, silver-screen beauty Scarlett Johansson is interviewed by James Kaplan for Parade Magazine, out this Sunday.

Scarlett, 22, unlike her similarly-aged peers, projects a maturity that is both worldly and natural.  Whether she’s playing Bill Murray’s object of affection in the great Lost In Translation or a nanny in her upcoming film The Nanny Diaries, Johansson never comes across as precocious or insincere, most likely a facet of her upbringing and close relationship with her mother, who is also her manager:

Scarlett also knows the value of hard work and playing under the radar – the latter of which, clearly separates her from the pack:  

And what of her famed beauty?  Does she see herself as others, especially men, see her?

It’s a very nice article about a very grounded young star, who embodies beauty, brains and a good, healthy perspective.  I want to be just like her when I grow up. 

Read the whole article in Sunday’s Parade Magazine, including some beautiful pictures.  She even dishes a little on the paps and their fascination with her and that other guy, what’s his name, oh yeah, Justin Timberlake.

First off, I want to say that as far as starlets go, I like Scarlett. Sure she likes to present her boobies on a silver platter with a side of caviar and liver pate. And so what if she exudes an uncomfortable level of sexuality that kind of makes my skin crawl, for the most part she seems well-adjusted.

I just wish she hadn’t used the Grammy Awards as the platform to make that announcement, it seemed like a real misuse of one’s position. But heck- I use PTA meetings to announce my pap-smear results, so who am I to judge?

And unlike Paris Hilton, Scarlett can sing. In fact, I found her singing voice to be quite lovely in Lost In Translation. Best of all, she won’t be releasing some trite and pointless pop album.

Scarlett has wisely devoted her debut album to covering Tom Waits’ songs. Currently titled Scarlett Sings Tom Waits, the album is scheduled for release (Rhino Records) next spring to coincide with her movie projects.

Scarlett Johansson has made headlines lately, not for her singing career but for her love life. Most recently the actress has been linked to Justin Timberlake and despite being seen together behaving like a couple, the two have denied a romance.

Justin and Scarlett first met while filming a video together for Justin’s single “What Comes Around (Goes Around)” off his multi-platinum selling SexyBack album.

Clearly they are just friends. Just because a person sticks their “thing” in your “you-know-what” doesn’t mean you’re in a relationship. At least, that’s what they keep telling me.