Justin Bieber is all swagged out
And Katy Perry takes a hard look in the mirror
Oh, shut up: The Hollywood Reporter asked Justin Bieber what he makes of black culture. His answer:
“I’m very influenced by black culture, but I don’t think of it as black or white. It’s not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It’s a lifestyle — like a suaveness or a swag, per se. But I don’t really like to say the word (‘swag’) anymore. It’s kind of played out.” Spotlight couple: People magazine suggests, without quite asserting, that Taylor Swift’s new flame is British actor Douglas Booth, who played Boy George in a BBC biopic.
Taylor and Doug have met a few times, and were alone together the other night at the Holly Bush, a trendy London saloon, the mag reports.
Booth stars in this new Romeo and Juliet movie with Hailee Steinfeld, who’s pals with Swift.
Doug is 21. Taylor is 23.
Meanwhile, Katy Perry tells MTV that she doesn’t believe in the Swiftian tactic of trashing old boyfriends in her songs.
“I never try to make people out to be villains, too much. … It’s really easy when relationships end to be like, ‘That guy was a (bad adjective followed by rude noun).’
“But really, if you laid it down, and you saw the whole span of the relationship, you saw that you were in love.
“You saw the intimate moments, you saw the pain, you saw all the emotions and you have to kind of say, ‘Well, what responsibility can I take for myself in all of this?’ ” Quote of the day: Jon Hamm tells World Entertainment News Network that he’s turning into a grump:
“I’m getting older, I’m slowly morphing into that guy who stands on his lawn and shakes his fist and shouts, ‘Get off my lawn!’
“All I can say is that I don’t get Miley Cyrus, I don’t get Katy Perry, I don’t get One Direction. … I don’t get why that’s a thing.”
The Monty Python reunion will be just one live show, in London on July 1, followed by a DVD version, the boys have now confirmed.
Meanwhile, I have been reproached, politely, by reader Monica Lewis, for saying this reunion is rather depressing.
“We are all on our way to becoming ‘all grey and wrinkly,’ ” she said in an email. “The aging process does not necessarily diminish creativity and ingenuity.
“Perhaps (the revival) won’t be the same, as you say — it might even be better.”
Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $3 million to protect tigers in Nepal.
There are only 3,200 wild tigers left anywhere, he noted in a statement, and they need protection from habitat destruction. He’s giving the money to the World Wildlife Fund, of which he’s a board member.
It worked! My incessant bleating about the November weather, in emails to friends in Jalisco, has paid off: they’ve invited me to visit them again to help them work on reducing the tequila glut.
I’ll be back in a week, if I can stay out of trouble.