Stars get their own private terminal at LAX
Los Angeles International Airport has approved a private company’s proposal for a new VIP terminal, Now, celebrities catching scheduled flights won’t have to be pestered by, or even see, paparazzi, reporters, gawkers, and other Dull Normals.
To use this “Los Angeles Suite” terminal, the L.A. Times reports, you’ll pay an extra US$1,500$1,800 per trip. For that, you get an indoor drop-off spot, 60-step access to a swanky private lounge, exclusive security and customs attention, and a chauffeured limo ride out to the plane.
Gavin De Becker and Associates, the company behind this, will pay LAX $34 million over 10 years, and hopes to expand to several other U.S. airports soon.
There’s already something like this at Heathrow, the $4,100-a-time Windsor Suite that once was used only for the Royal family, and a few other international airports.
A lot of people got excited last week about MaRihanna, a new line of cannabis that Rihanna would be promoting, according to a much-re-posted news item. But where there’s smoke, there isn’t always … wait, that’s not a good way to put this.
I’d better cut through the haze: the story was wrong.
The report, from something called 18karatreggae.com, said Rihanna’s brand would offer “Karibbean Kush, Haitian Haze and Jamaican High Grade, as well as edibles and concentrates” in Colorado, and soon other states where the stuff is legal.
But New York magazine checked, boringly enough, and Rihanna’s publicist denies 100 per cent of everything about this story.
Adele wants to do a duet with Drake on his hit Hotline Bling, she told interviewer Danielle Graham on CTV’s etalk.ca.
“I really want us to do an official remix … I love Drake,” Adele said. “I love Drake so much. I even got the coat that’s in the video — I got it delivered the other day, I ordered it. The red one.”
Why not? They each have a single five-letter name ending in “e”, and their videos both involve cellphones. Both songs have been big hits, and both have been widely mocked.
It’s obviously a collaboration made in Top Ten heaven.
(Danielle, by the way, is no kin to the rapper, who was born Aubrey Drake Graham.)
Adele’s 27. Drake’s 29.
The divorce of comedian Chris
Rock and Malaak Compton-Rock is getting strange, over the issue of the seven-year-old sometimes called their third daughter.
Adopted from South Africa as an infant, Ntombi lived with the Rocks — who also have two daughters born to them — but since Chris and Malaak split a year ago, he hasn’t seen the little girl, TMZ.com reports.
Around the time of the breakup, South African officials suddenly got interested in the case. Apparently, there are no official adoption papers, TMZ says. Ntombi’s biological parents are said to be a jobless South African couple.
Further, Rock never signed any papers about Ntombi, his PR person told TMZ, and doesn’t have any adopted kids.
So, apparently, this is all Malaak’s problem.