Celebrities

It’s hard to be a good villain without a good voice. For the past few months, Michael Bay has been making his Transformers movie without a voice for his super-villain, the mechanically maniacal Megatron, without a voice for the once-gun-turned-tank super-robot. Paramount confirmed on Friday that the Decepticon leader will be voiced by former Matrix and Lord of the Rings star Hugo Weaving.

Weaving has been in contention for the role, along with Frank Welker who provided the voice of Megatron in the original series. After months of negotiations, Weaving won the role, though Welker is still slated to voice another undisclosed character in the film.

Another unconfirmed report is suggesting that Keith David, also known as Childs from The Thing, has been picked to voice Barricade, the evil Decepticon police cruiser.

Aint It Cool News: Weaving, David ToVoice ‘Transformers’

Today, fans and the casually interested will be able to close the book on at least one chapter of the Anna Nicole death mystery. The Broward County Medical Examiner officially ruled that Smith's death was an accidental overdose of around nine different prescription medications, plus a bacterial infection on her buttock and the flu.

The autopsy revealed what many had suspected: Anna had a buttload of different doctors all prescribing her different things without consulting each other and, along with her history of over self-medicating, the toxic soup of pills led to her untimely demise.

Although it answers many questions, the cause of death in no way puts to rest the Smith case, as the paternity of little Dannielynn is still to be determined.  

Yes. This is the end of the article. What? Were you expecting a joke? A person dying is no laughing matter. Especially when they're famous for taking their clothes off and part of what contributed to their death was a bacterial infection on her buttock.

Yahoo! News: Chief: Smith Died of Accidental Overdose

Following rampant speculation that actress Emma Watson was going to play the part of Yoko Ono and break up the biggest British sensation since the Beatles by refusing to reprise her role as Hermione in the final two Harry Potter films, Warner Bros. has confirmed that all three stars of the series, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Watson have been successfully signed to complete the film series.

It has been reported last week that Watson was considering not returning to the film series that has made her a star, and all of Hollywood seemed aflutter with the news.

So, now everyone can go and take back all the nasty things they said about Miss Watson in the various talkbacks, comment threads, online community boards, or your "working lunches" at Spago and Applebee’s.

She’s doing the movies, fellas. Time to calm down.

Variety.com: ’Potter’ trio will finish film cycle

Cirque du Soleil have certainly branched out of late, bringing The Beatles back to live in Love, and exploring human sexuality in Zumanity. Now, they're threatening to do the same with weird magic, adding Criss Angel, known for his television show Mindfreak to the mix. The show, which will be another Vegas extravaganza, is a look inside the mind of the notorious magician and has been described as an 'acid trip' of a show.

Among the things you're going to see in the new Cirque presentation? How about a tornado coming from the man's mouth? How's that grab you? Also, there will be giants. And evil. Sounds like exactly the wrong show to see if you're having some sort of substance-fueled adventure. However, you can see it for yourself at the Luxor, beginning in 2008.

Yahoo! News: Magician Criss Angel in new Cirque show

What’s the deal with celebrities getting panned for doing charitable work? So what, some of them are doing it just to get attention or good press? 

When a celebrity takes up a worthy cause, people that most of us don’t give a crap about get help. That’s why all of those whiners who complain when a celeb donates, adopts or puts on a benefit concert for whomever, should shut their godd*mn mouths!

Conversely, when a do-gooder celebrity goes out of his way to hamper people’s good time because it’s against his or her lofty moral principles, then he or she should shut their mouth. In this case, we’re looking at the lead singer of U2, Bono and praying that we don’t have to issue a stern rebuke.

The Venezuelan Solidarity Network has written a letter asking for Bono’s help in halting production on Pandemic Studios’ Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and that could mean trouble for d-pad assassins. 

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Justin Timberlake won't be bringing sexy back to the Tennessee Legislature. State Sen. Ophelia Ford had introduced the resolution to honor Timberlake, a Tennessee native, "for his highly successful music career and for his meritorious service to the State of Tennessee."

Area republican senators are protesting a resolution to honor Tennessee native Justin Timberlake "for his highly successful music career and for his meritorious service to the State of Tennessee."

Proposed by Tennessee Legislature. State Sen. Ophelia Ford, the move is being questioned over the content of his music, with his latest album title (FutureSex/LoveSounds) and songs (like "SexyBack" and "Rock Your Body") deemed too racy.

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Actress Vivica A. Fox got popped for a DUI last night on L.A.’s 101 Freeway.

It happened at 10:57 p.m. when the (Dancing With The) Star passed a marked cop car while going around 80 mph in her 2007 Cadillac Escalade.

The foxy Fox was unable to perform the field sobriety test officers administered so she was placed under arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence and taken to Van Nuys jail.

There, she submitted to two breathalyzer tests and was over the .08 legal limit.

Blah blah….all I wanna do is shake the hand of the black and white that got to frisk her!?!? Now that’s sweet justice!

TMZ.com: Vivica A. Fox A-rrested for DUI

Well...

...hell hath officially frozen over…

Why?

‘Cause K-Fed launched his own internet search engine, that’s why!

Now, go burn!

BURN!!!!!!

Bernie Mac is ready to say goodbye to the world that made him, the world of stand-up comedy. After he releases his newest blitz, This Is The Truth, The Whole Truth, So Help Me Mac, he's outie.

According to Mr. Mac, thirty years of stand-up is just about enough. He will continue to produce and star in films, but he's ready to get out of the public eye a little bit and 'enjoy his life.'

TheFeed would like to remind Bernie Mac that there's nothing 'enjoyable' about life, and that it's ultimately a losing proposition. Also, it always ends badly. You might as well make as much money as you can before The Universe* decides to shut off your talent faucet and give you a disease.

Yahoo! News: Bernie Mac to Stand Down

* 'The Universe' copyright 2007 - The Secret

TheFeed is flabbergasted, shocked, and chagrined. Our collective innocence has been shattered and our universe destroyed. Reality and all of its disappointments have come raining down on our heretofore blissfully ignorant parade and, honestly, we never saw it coming.

Duty, however, demands that we pass along this almost impossible to believe news: Sports Illustrated is reporting that several high profile professional wrestlers, including Edge, Randy Orton, and Kurt Angle, may be connected to the national steroid and human growth hormone scandal that has already enveloped several other star professional athletes.

According to SI, documents seized during a raid of a Florida anti-aging clinic allege that during 2004 and 2005, WWE wrestlers Angle, Rey Mysterio, and the late Eddie Guerrero received prescriptions for several different forms of steroids from Arizona doctor, David Wilbert. Orton allegedly received steroid prescriptions in 2004 from the same doctors that prescribed substances to Major League Baseball outfielder, Gary Matthews, Jr. And Edge and Gregory Helms are alleged to have received prescriptions for HGH.

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Paul McCartney's soon-to-be-ex Heather Mills has been warned by UK cops to stop using emergency phone number 999 so often. It seems the former model has been dialing up the fuzz all the darn time, complaining of harassment by paparazzi.

"We are having to spend a disproportionate amount of time on one particular person," said Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore of Brighton and Hove Police, noting there was a risk that officers may take her calls less seriously if she contacted them too often.

"We are duty-bound to respond, but clearly people who make lots of calls to the police run the risk of being treated as the little boy who cried wolf," he added.

...or the little one-legged girl that cried wolf and then bilked her rockstar hubby out of zillions....

YahooNews.com: Police warn Heather McCartney over emergency calls

Gumby was once a little green slab of clay, but now he's a 50-year-old slab of clay.

To celebrate the green dude's golden anniversary, starting today, classic TV episodes from the 1950s and 60s, including the pilot "Gumby on the Moon," are launching on Google and AOL/In2TV, as well as a dedicated Gumby area on YouTube at the DMGI channel www.youtube.com/dmgivideo.

The son of Gumby's creator personally oversaw the digital remastering of this beloved television icon. Joe Clokey, President of Clokey Productions, said, "For 50 years, Gumby with his innate goodness and eternal optimism, has inspired us to look at the bright side of life. His imaginative and creative adventures have always struck a chord with people. Gumby's digital launch is the perfect way to give the gift of these stories to today's audience and help inspire generations to come."

You can count on Wikipedia to give you all kinds of information. Not necessarily correct information, but information nonetheless. For example, the online encyclopedia falsely reported the death of Sinbad, the comedian from the 80's. When his daughter read the information on the internet and called her 'dead' father, she was delighted to find out that it wasn't true.

Though we're pretty sure that Sinbad isn't actually dead, considering he's come right out and said so, perhaps what was being reported was the death of the man's career, which has been dead since he started hosting those soul festivals in the Caribbean some years back.

Yahoo! News: Wikipedia falsely reports Sinbad's death

That Gene Simmons just doesn’t quit. Even as the KISS merchandising machine continues to branch out and claim stake in every consumer market imaginable, from music to clothing to personal hygiene products, the front man for the band is hard at work on yet another bold business venture, this time in the world of funny books. Before you stop reading, understand this isn’t old news.

This is not a late account of his (KISS’s) dealings with Marvel Comics and the creation of the KISS Comics Group. This is a whole new deal baby, only with one of Marvel’s competitors and the publisher of some of the darkest comics to ever hit the stands, IDW Publishing. Gene has gone and signed a deal with IDW to beget the Simmons Comics Group.

The new imprint will include four titles; Gene Simmons House of Horrors (on which Simmons’s son, Nick will be writing), Zipper, Dominatrix and Indy: Race of the Galaxies.

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Actress, singer and piece of ass Jessica Simpson is reportedly getting baby fever after watching all these celebrity couples popping out kids left and right and adopting like mad dogs.

The New York Post is reporting that ol'?Jessica is getting ready for motherhood by tending to her dogs, who put her into the maternal care-giving mode.

I wonder how soon before John Mayer is out the door now that he's heard this????

NYPost.com: Jessica Simpson green with stork envy