Anna Nicole's Best Gays: Birkhead is Gay

Pol' Atteu and boyfriend Patrik Simpson, self-proclaimed best friends of Anna Nicole Smith's, have penned a biography about the fallen star entitled "Anna Nicole Smith: Portrait of An Icon."

The always reliable National Enquirer (well…) has gotten hold of a copy of the book, and the magazine reports this week that the fashion duo joined the Larry Birkhead "outing" bandwagon:

"The two accompanied Anna Nicole to a camp for HIV-positive and AIDS-infected children in Nebraska… Birkhead was there to do a photo story – and was carrying on a hush-hush affair with a male counselor, charges Simpson. His secret male rendezvous there included spending quite a big of time with a particular young and handsome male counselor…"

Seems like outing Larry Birkhead has become somewhat of a national pastime lately. Last week it was Anna Nicole's former bodyguard, Big Moe, who outed the blond baby-papa.

Last update: 02-20-2008 20:25

GABOR'S HUSBAND PLANS TELL-ALL BOOK ABOUT ANNA NICOLE AFFAIR

ZSA ZSA GABOR’s love cheat husband is out to prove his romance with late star ANNA NICOLE SMITH was not all lies by releasing a book, complete with photos, about their affair.Prince Frederic Von Anhalt hit the headlines shortly after Smith died last year (Feb07) when he joined the list of men claiming to be the father of the tragic actress/model’s baby daughter Dannielynn.Photojournalist Larry Birkhead eventually proved he was the girl’s biological daddy.Many laughed off Von Anhalt’s paternity claims, but now the 64-year-old aims to prove he was Smith’s lover.His expose will feature a titillating photograph he took of Anna Nicole – on the cover.He says. "I want to set the record straight once and for all." In the book, the Hungarian royal will also reveal how he attempted to win Anna Nicole a title after their romance – by setting her up with a German aristocrat.He tells America’s Globe, "I had someone lined up in Germany who wanted to marry her and give her the title, but sadly she died before it could happen."

Anna Nicole Cling-Ons Kill Two Birds With Birkhead Gay Gossip

We’ve got two very enterprising icons on our hands.

Pol’ Atteu and boyfriend Patrik Samson – who describe themselves as Anna Nicole Smith’s “best friends” – have penned a tome entitled Anna Nicole Smith: Portrait of An Icon.

The National Enquirer got a piece of the deplorable action and report this week that the duo joined the Larry Birkhead “outing” bandwagon:The two accompanied Anna Nicole to a camp for HIV-positive and AIDS-infected children in Nebraska… Birkhead was there to do a photo story – and was carrying on a hush-hush affair with a male counselor, charges Simpson. “His secret male rendezvous there included spending quite a big of time with a particular young and handsome male counselor…

So we’ve not only got a book capitalizing on a dead woman’s cult of personality, but a built-in and timely scandal! Well done, gents!

Zsa Zsa Gabor's Husband To Release A Tell-All Book About Affair …

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) – In an attempt to prove he wasn’t a liar, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s current husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt will release a tell-all book about his alleged affair with Anna Nicole Smith.

Von Anhalt is set to shout to the whole world that he had an affair with Smith through a book that will include photos about their affair.

“I want to set the record straight once and for all,” he says revealing that on the book’s cover, he will show a racy picture of Smith he took himself.

The adoptive son of the princess of Anhalt had claimed shortly after Smith died a year ago that he is the father of her daughter, Dannielyn Hope. His claim was dismissed as ridiculous. Now, the offended Von Anhalt says he will expose the affair he had with the model/actress that possibly led to her pregnancy.

It was not revealed when this expose will hit stores.

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Baldwin brothers are taking over TV

The Baldwins aren’t coming. They’re here.

Over the past few years, the quartet of movie-star brothers has worked its way from the big screen into your living room. With Alec and William Baldwin already appearing regularly on network shows, Stephen and Daniel have joined up in recent weeks with roles on “Celebrity Apprentice” and “Celebrity Rehab,” respectively. If that doesn’t make you love reality TV, nothing will.

But it all begs the question: How many Baldwins are too many Baldwins? And what it is about TV today that ensures a place for every Baldwin?

This, of course, isn’t the first time the Baldwins have made their way onto television. Alec’s career began in earnest with a spot as a crazy preacher on “Knots Landing,” while Daniel’s most notable career role was a two-year stint on the critically adored “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

But the recent influx of Baldwins on TV ??” and the fact that they’re all on active shows at the same time ??” is notable.

It started, as most Baldwin movements do, with big brother Alec turning heads two years ago by taking a regular part on the NBC sitcom “30 Rock” as Jack Donaghy, the fictional GE vice president of East Coast television programming and microwave ovens. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC Universal.) Critics were in such amazement at his taking a TV job that one of their first questions to “30 Rock” creator Tina Fey upon the show’s introduction was, “Will Alec Baldwin be on every show?”

He’s not only on every episode, but the notoriously liberal Baldwin gets to flex his comedy muscles while playing a staunchly conservative New York Republican who brings a photo of Ronald Reagan to his barber for reference purposes.

In typical Alec fashion, he tested the waters of the current TV world, gained critical acclaim, won a Golden Globe, was nominated for an Emmy and told his brothers to come on in.

William arrived this fall on TV’s juiciest new drama, ABC’s “Dirty Sexy Money,” which follows a rich New York family of five siblings and the kind of shenanigans that come along with extreme wealth and public exposure.

William, who once worked for a New York congressman in D.C., plays New York’s attorney general. He??™s a married man who’s looking to make a run for a Senate seat, but has a transsexual girlfriend, which might throw a wrench into those plans. It’s a part that benefits from the cool and panicked touches that a Baldwin can deliver, and William could soon find himself on award ballots for it.

But that brings us to the lesser-known brothers, who’ve benefited from desperation on a couple of different levels. Stephen Baldwin was in the right place at the time when the floundering “Apprentice” franchise decided to try a celebrity edition.

At the same time, Daniel joined seven other fallen stars on VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” Both are admirable, if surprising, ventures that could yield positive results in many ways.

Stephen, the youngest member of the Baldwin clan, is best known for his roles in “The Usual Suspects” and, of course, “Bio-Dome.” He previously appeared on “Fear Factor” and, you’re forgiven if you’d forgotten about this one, “Celebrity Mole.” The initial shots at career re-invigoration via reality TV apparently didn’t take, and he’s now playing “Celebrity Apprentice” with 13 other celebrities ??” and former “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault Stallworth.

Stephen has already done some good on the show. As team leader during the first episode, he guided his team to victory in the first challenge put forth by Donald Trump: selling hot dogs in Manhattan. For the victory, Stephen received nearly $70,000 (the total amount of money earned by both teams in hot dog sales) for his charity, The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, and his mother appeared to accept the donation.

Last week, Alec made a cameo on “Celebrity Apprentice” to buy some printers for $1,000 each from his baby brother and bring a little star power to a Kodak printer display the team had set up on a New York sidewalk.

“It was very good to have Alec Baldwin there because, actually, it showed everyone what a real Baldwin is,” said ???America’s Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan, who is Stephen’s teammate, even though they have a brewing rivalry. “Because, choice: Alec Baldwin, massive TV star; Stephen Baldwin … ?”

The stakes are more than fun and games for Daniel Baldwin, who’s had a rough go of it since appearing on VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club” in 2005. Baldwin’s widely reported problems apparently stem from a cocaine addiction he once told People magazine he’s been fighting since 1989. In late 2006, Baldwin was arrested for stealing a friend’s SUV, which resulted in a famously embarrassing mug shot that was featured in the series premiere of “Celebrity Rehab.”

Baldwin, who said in the premiere that he’s been sober since November 2006, is participating in the rehab program (that’s being documented for the series) in order to maintain his sobriety, which he says is a constant struggle. As a longtime addict who seems to be on a genuine quest for sobriety, Baldwin looks to play a key role as he doles out advice to the other celebrity addicts in what turns out to be a genuinely captivating hour of television every Thursday.

The Baldwin crew has overtaken practically every aspect of television ??” the sitcom, the drama, the reality competition and the voyeur reality show. Alec might even have a future as a talk-show host, as he’s scheduled to interview Gene Wilder on TCM’s “Role Model: Gene Wilder” on April 15. All that remains is for mom Carol to start hosting a cooking show on The Food Network.

But as each of them fills his role so effectively across the spectrum of genres television has to offer, it turns out that TV is big and diverse enough to accommodate every Baldwin that comes our way.

And anyway, can you really ever have too many Baldwins?

Victor Balta lives in Philadelphia and is a regular contributor to msnbc.com.

Asked and answered Will those who are on Social Security receive …

Yes, but they must file income tax returns for 2007 to qualify.

An elderly person who pays no taxes but receives at least $3,000 a year in Social Security benefits will get $300, $600 for couples.

Seniors who pay federal taxes will get rebates equal to those taxes, with a maximum of $600 for singles and $1,200 for couples.

Individuals with adjusted gross incomes of at least $75,000 ($150,000 for couples) will get $50 less per $1,000 they make over that income figure.

That means individuals with incomes of $87,000 or more and couples topping $174,000 will receive no rebates.

Q: What happened to the inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son?

It has been proceeding fitfully since November. It already is confirmed that Daniel Smith was killed by a combination of methadone and antidepressants. The inquest is taking place to determine whether Bahamian authorities should pursue criminal charges. It is scheduled to resume in March.

From the Associated Press

Blogger Extraordinaire Alec Baldwin Fights Greedy Studios, Racist …

As you may have learned from the voicemail he left for his daughter, Alec Baldwin has mad yelling skills. So count him as the ringleader of Hamptons residents calling for the ouster of the Independent Newspaper Group editor Rick Murphy. Baldwin has been blogging about his feelings, but now he’s kicked it up a notch: He’s supporting public forums on the matter. Public! Forums!

Along with 60 other East End residents who held a town hall meeting over the weekend, Baldwin wants publisher Jerry Della Femina to get rid of the man behind that racist Barack Obama column, written by “Yo Mama Bin Barack,” in the Hamptons Independent.

But he won’t side with those who’ve been calling for a boycott of the newspaper, since that would hurt the families of innocent employees, when it’s only Murphy who deserves punishment.

Funny, then, that Baldwin didn’t mind hurting the TV-watching families of innocent Americans when he sided with the Writers Guild. Snap!

Alec Baldwin leads drive to dismiss LI columnist over racist …

Alec Baldwin leads drive to dismiss L.I. columnist over racist, sexist rants

BY DEBBIE TUMA DAILY NEWS WRITER

Sunday, February 10th 2008, 4:00 AM

Alec Baldwin? joined dozens of Hamptons residents at a town hall meeting to voice outrage over the racist, sexist writings of a community newspaper columnist.

Many of the 60 people demanded editor Rick Murphy be fired from the Independent Newspaper Group for columns written in the supposed voice of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

But adman Jerry Della Femina, who publishes the weeklies in the Hamptons and the North Fork, refused to bring down the ax – even though he agreed the columns were abhorrent.

“I have not paid attention to his writing before, but from now on, I can assure you, I will,” said Della Femina.

“There is no excuse for this horrible column, which I have suspended until further notice. It’s tragic that he thought he was funny, but it turned out to be filth.”

Some of the demonstrators at the Friday night meeting called for a boycott of the papers and Della Femina’s restaurants.

But movie actor Baldwin, who lives in Amagansett, said a boycott would hurt innocent employees of the businesses – and said Murphy is the only one who should be punished.

“He should either get fired or resign after these columns, which are hurtful to people,” said Baldwin, who was last in the news for calling his daughter a “thoughtless little pig” in a voicemail.

“I also think the Independent should give full pages of space to these groups to give their comments.”

Anna Nicole: One Year On

Though she might have ceded the headlines, Anna Nicole Smith is hardly forgotten on the one-year anniversary of her demise.

The 39-year-old Playmate turned reality star died unexpectedly Feb. 8, 2007 in a Florida hotel room. Her death came just five months after the equally surprising death of 20-year-old son Daniel, a loss that came three days after the birth of her daughter Dannielynn.

And while it may have taken a full 12 months before those left behind have been given any semblance of peace, the passing of time hasn't healed all wounds.

"Anna Nicole Smith, I love you and hope you are proud of our beautiful baby girl," Larry Birkhead posted on his Website Friday. "Please watch over us and guide us on our journey through life. We miss you."

The message, the first to be added to the site in more than three months and accompanied by both a photo of a lounging Smith and a backdrop of Smith's signature color, bright pink, was signed: "Love, Larry and Dannielynn."

Smith's longtime sidekick Howard K. Stern also paid tribute Friday.

"Today is extremely difficult for those of us who were close to Anna Nicole, and we ask that the media please respect our privacy," he told Entertainment Tonight.

In memory of his once constant companion and her late son, Stern has created the Anna Nicole and Daniel Smith Charitable Foundation, which will benefit causes championed by Smith during her life, chief among them children, elderly and the prevention and treatment of AIDS.

"Hopefully it will grow, help more people each year, and eventually be headed by her daughter Dannielynn."

Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Mexia, Texas, led a life of watercooler highlights—teen bride, stripper, high-profile model, wife of octogenarian mogul, gazillionaire widow at 27, tabloid train wreck, reality star.

A coroner ruled last year that Smith's death was caused, like her son before her, by a lethal combination of prescription medications, triggering an ongoing criminal investigations into several of her  doctors, some of whom issued multiple prescriptions in fake names.

Her death was also followed by months-long legal battles in Florida and the Bahamas over the paternity of her sole surviving child. While both former lover Birkhead and Stern claimed fatherhood—claims also echoed by a revolving door of less-likely Z-listers—a DNA test finally proved in April that Birkhead was the papa.

Despite their conflicts, Birkhead and Stern remained surprisingly cordial in the wake of their courtroom drama, a geniality that led to salacious reports of the duo's relations, followed by a massive libel suit, over Rita Cosby's Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.

Birkhead retains custody of Dannielynn to the chagrin of Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur. Stern remains the executor of Smith's estate and has been laboring in Los Angeles courts to have Dannielynn named as Smith's sole heir. A hearing in that case will take place Mar. 14.

Dannielynn would be in line to collect millions in inheritance from Anna Nicole's late billionaire husband, J. Howard Marshall, depending on how a long-playing court battle shakes out.

The child appears to be a healthy 17-month-old, having celebrated her own one-year anniversary back in September.

A delay-plagued inquest into Daniel's death has finally begun in the Bahamas. Currently in recess, proceedings are expected to resume Mar. 17, when both Stern and Birkhead are expected to be called to the stand.

Earlier this week, Birkhead and Dannielynn honored Smith's death in their own special way, paying a visit to her Bahamas grave.

"It's tough," the 35-year-old photographer told Entertainment Tonight of his decision to take his daughter to Nassau. "Even though she doesn't understand, it was important for us to come. One day I can tell her that we went to visit her mom."

Smiths Anna Nicole and Daniel are buried side-by-side in the cemetery and while Birkhead paid tribute to both during his visit, he repeated his long-held claims that the duo's final resting was not fitting.

"I don't like the fact that they're here, I never did. I know that Daniel didn't want to be here, and I know his mother was only here because of what was going on between us with the paternity question. To me, it feels really odd."

Birkhead and Dannielynn have since returned to their Studio City home, property which housed Smith prior to her passing and which was left in her will.

Earlier this week, a source close to Birkhead told E! News that Dannielynn and daddy have taken their hard-won life together in eager stride.

"The baby loved him, and he is a hands-on dad. When he leaves the room, she cries for him. It is not like a fake-dad thing.

"Even before she could talk, she would cry for daddy when he left the room. They are very bonded. She puts her arms out like any kid would do for her dad."

The heady task

A Life in the Theatre By Ira Nadel 278 pages. $26.95. Palgrave Macmillan.

The apotheosis of David Mamet comes near the start of the movie version of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Alec Baldwin – hair slicked back, pocket square peaking just so – unleashes a furious, seven-minute tirade against some under-performing real estate salesmen. “First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado,” he says of a sadistic new contest to increase business. “Second prize is a set of steak knives. . . . Third prize is you're fired.” After insulting his listeners' manhood, competence and just about every other attribute that can be impugned with a well-aimed profanity, Baldwin caps the presentation by extracting from his briefcase and brandishing a pair of huge brass balls.

Terse lyricism, vicious comedy, masculinity that's at once aggressive and pathetic, lots and lots of swear words: virtually every facet of the Mamet persona gets a note or two in this aria of testosterone. It says a great deal for this speech and others like it in his fierce early works (“American Buffalo,” “Edmond,” “Speed-the-Plow”) that his public profile even now remains that of a swaggering, foul-mouthed Chicagoan, despite several decades' worth of work that tells a more complicated story.

Although it's long been the privilege of major American playwrights to wander off the reservation, Mamet has done so more aggressively than most. What was once a side business in Hollywood has become something closer to a full-time occupation. In addition to writing some two dozen screenplays, he has directed 10 films, including “The Winslow Boy,” about the kind of proper English folk that his earlier characters would have mugged, and “Spartan,” a political thriller about agents for a lethal secret government agency that gave him the idea for the television series “The Unit,” which he continues to produce. He has written 11 nonfiction books ventilating on everything from the movie business (“Bambi vs. Godzilla”) to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hatred (“The Wicked Son”). He has written three novels and directed commercials for Ford. He also draws cartoons.

Any biographer trying to make sense of such a far-flung body of work faces a difficult task, one made more urgent when the subject happens to be the greatest American playwright of his generation. First to attempt the feat is Ira Nadel, a professor of English at the University of British Columbia, who has also written books on Tom Stoppard, Leonard Cohen and James Joyce.

With “David Mamet” clocking in under 280 pages, notes and all, it would have taken a miracle of compression to do justice to every facet of Mamet's life, especially with Mamet still living it. All the same, Nadel aims high, setting out “to align the outer story of Mamet's life with the inner” – that is, synching up the full range of Mamet's work with his closely guarded personal affairs.

It helps that the raw material on both counts is memorably vivid. You can't spend more than a minute or two with “Lakeboat,” his play about men working a Great Lakes freighter, or “The Cabin,” his excellent collection of autobiographical essays, without hearing echoes of Hemingway. In fact, the more you learn of the playwright's life, the more seriously you have to consider the possibility that Mamet may himself be a Hemingway character. Here is a Nick Adams-ish tough-guy hunter/poet, who was once (and may still be) a member of both the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, with a crew cut and bluejeans that say “man's man” but accessories that say otherwise. (“To still wear a beret in 2004,” said Val Kilmer, “you have to have guts.”)

It's easy to imagine Mamet sitting down to work in his Vermont cabin, nudging aside his antique Colt revolver paperweight and chanting the Hemingway dictum: “Tell the story, take out the good lines and see if it still works.”

Mamet doesn't seem to have given Nadel many chances to watch him putting that advice to work, or doing anything else. The book's only reference to a personal interaction concerns Nadel's trip to Mamet's Los Angeles synagogue. Shorn of the biggest advantage of writing about a living subject, Nadel's book falls back on recapping the events of Mamet's life while trying to find an artful way of mentioning all the plays and books and other things. The biography works best when there's least competition for Nadel's focus, as when he describes Mamet's parents: the harsh, demanding father who “bluffed” his way into Northwestern Law School using a faked transcript, going on to finish first in his class and to become a successful labor lawyer; the mother and stepfather whose cruelty helped the boy grow up to be the sort of person who writes David Mamet plays. But Nadel runs into trouble once the young acting teacher (and sometime cabdriver/real estate salesman) gets the hang of playwriting.