Farrow’s son in line for MSNBC anchor gig
Uphill battle: That three-month house-arrest portion of Lauryn Hill’s tax-evasion sentence? Under terms of the Important Persons Act, the singersongwriter will be allowed to do a concert tour in the last six weeks of the year, her lawyer now says. That’s the last half of her “home detention.”
Oh well, at least this will make it harder for her to whine about racist oppression, etc.
Sprite to the rescue: This year’s Nobel Prize for medicine must obviously There was, it seems, an almost-military precision in the timing of that Mia Farrow bombshell about her son Ronan possibly really being the child of Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen. Guess which handsome young man is about to become a TV news anchorman, on the liberal oriented MSNBC?
Would some big-headline news about his paternity help with that? Boost his ratings? Maybe just a little.
The New York Post reveals that Ronan, a lawyer and activist, “has been in talks with network execs for months” about becoming “a news correspondent and a future Anderson Cooper-style ‘face of the network’ anchor.”
He’s 25. go to these Chinese researchers who have figured out how to prevent hangovers: Sprite.
No, really. I read it in Food & Function, the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
OK, OK, actually I read it in The Independent, a British daily, but its writers read it in Food & Function. There’s a lot of bafflegab about the liver metabolizing booze into aldehyde dehydrogenase, etc., but the bottom line is that scholars at Sun Yat-Sen University, in Guangzhou, say China’s equivalent of Sprite speeds up some chemical reaction; this is like detox. For best results, guzzle some before boozing.
Quote of the day: Miley Cyrus admits, in Hunger mag, that it’s all about the dead presidents: “It’s like a salesperson really — you know you’re like ‘this (rude word) does not get rid of your wrinkles but if I sell it well enough … they’re gonna buy into it.’ It’s like the exact same thing for me … I want people to buy my records — it isn’t about thinking just about this two-minute performance on VMAs or this music video … the more that they’re wondering ‘what the hell is she doing?’ the more they’re going to want to listen to my record.”
Singer on the move: Rihanna will move from California to New York this fall, the New York Post says. She was apartment-hunting last month, and has her manager continuing the search.
The paper speculates that she wants to leave Pacific Palisades because her mansion there has been “plagued by trespassers, stalkers and attempted burglaries.”