California Girls Parodies

Flight attendant Steven Slater's ex-wife defended her former husband's character

Of course Steven Slater is having his 15 minutes of fame and the first person out of the closet (opps did we say that) to tag onto that moment of fame is his ex-wife of about a NY minute. His boyfriend seems to be taking a shine to the cameras as well so we can only assume that he'll be the next one to pop out of the closet (doph! we said it again) to get some of that fleeting fame.

Flight attendant Steven Slater's ex-wife defended her former husband's character on 'Good Morning America.' Sitting down with George Stephanopoulos, Cynthia Susanne explains that "I do think that this has been made a very grand situation as a sign of the times." Instead of coming out of the woodwork to bash her ex, Susanne defends the so-called folk hero, who she hasn't spoken to since the meltdown. "Steven is an extraordinarily patient and tolerant person. There's no doubt in my mind that this passenger had to have been pretty horrific to take him to that place," Susanne explains.

When Stephanopoulos confronts her with new reports that "other passengers [are] coming forward and suggesting he may have been the instigator," Susanne finds it hard to believe and even questions their motives. "Steven is an absolute consummate flight attendant. He is a professional and was literally born to fly," she explains.

Regis and Kelly Word of the day: "Allegedly"

The word of the day was "Allegedly" on this morning's 'Live with Regis and Kelly.' Discussing the allegations surrounding last week's JetBlue incident, in which flight attendant Steven Slater went ballistic, Regis and Kelly discover the joy of hiding behind the ever-popular disclaimer. Reading from a newspaper, Regis reports that the unruly passenger "Brought down an overhead bin door on his head, allegedly."

That gives Kelly a great idea, "I think that we should just have the word 'allegedly' printed in the lower left-hand portion of the screen, so we're covered." Moments later, Kelly notices that the producers have done just that. "I love that word," Kelly says as she leans down to kiss it. Regis and Kelly then have a good time adding "allegedly" to the end of every sentence. "I got my hair colored last night everybody," Kelly explains, "I'm so excited about that, allegedly.

Man Up Bro!

Only a day after being ridiculed on 'The Early Show' for letting a foul ball hit his girlfriend, "The Bailer" and his girlfriend sat down with Harry Smith to discuss the young man's alleged lack of chivalry. "Now, in normal human life," Harry lectures, "If a foul ball comes your way, you know what men do? They stand up and they catch the foul ball." Boyfriend Bo Wyble explains, "I stood up to catch it and then, when it got really close I just lost sight of it, so I moved... I figured she would move."

"That's all you got!?" Smith asks, "You didn't have like a brain aneurysm?" The victim, Sara Saco-Vertiz, giggles as Harry explains that the man is supposed to catch the foul ball and gallantly hand it to the woman. When asked if they are still a couple, Sara lets out a long sigh.

Teri Hatcher sick of people criticizing her face and body

It seem like people can't age gracefully in Hollywood these days. Not that we've ever allowed our icons to age gracefully without putting them under a microscope but I have to give Kudos to Teri Hatcher in this regard. She's a real beauty who doesn't need botox and all those surgical procedures that most women - and dare I say men - are putting themselves through in the never ending pursuit to stay forever young.

As Teri puts it; "... all those damn critics of my face. Love it or hate it, my face that is, no surgery, no implants, no matter what "they" say," She's taken to her own page to discuss this and I have to applaud her for being so upfront about age - she being 45 and HOT at that.

So below look at some of the beauty that is Teri Hatcher (along with her comments on the photos) and this is even without makeup! Go on girl!

Out of the bath getting ready for bed. Thought about all those damn critics of my face. Love it or hate it, my face that is, no surgery, no implants, no matter what "they" say. Decided I'd shoot myself in to reveal some truths about "beauty" and hope it makes you all easier on yourself.

45 year old me. Just me wanting to teach that all those glam versus trash pictures of celebs are about LIGHTING. It's not makeup it's not suregery or botox its LIGHT. Flat front light in you face especially sun setting 4pm light blows out all wrinkles and imperfections. Over head light, sun anything casts shadows under your eye from your brow making you look tired. Shoot all family reunion photos that way over the camera man who should be holding the camera a little higher than your eye line.

Oh look I can raise my eyebrows and wrinkles show up on my forehead.

I can look both ways too.So I guess I"m safe to cross the street then.

I can really rough you up. I can also look like a monkey if I put grapes in my upper lip. It's really funny. I have to say I cant remember ever being upset enough to look like this, but I'm just making or shall I say "under LINING" a point.

Did I every toy with fillers or Botox over the years? yes. Tell me does this look Botoxed to you?
Yes I am alone in my bathroom naked in a towel on behalf of women everywhere trying to make a point. Women YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL

I can be mad, or confused or sad and tired. Julia Roberts had that same vein in her forehead in Eat Pray Love. Proud of Julia for being a real woman on a real journey.

Idea to self: give everyone blurry eyes so when we look at each other we'll see hazy glory. Which is what all of us are, Glorious!

STUPID NEWS: Sicilian wedding photographer accidentally shot, killed by couple after he had them pose with guns

Maybe he should have just told the happy couple to say, "Cheese?"

A wedding photographer in Sicily was accidentally killed when he asked the prospective bride and groom to pose for a picture using hunting rifles as props - and one of them went off.

The blast hit 45-year-old Calogero Scimea in the head, and he died while the wedding party looked on in horror.

High school sweethearts Valentina Anitra, 22, and Ignazio Licodia, 25, immediately put their wedding on hold while police investigated.

In another sad twist, Scimea was filling in for another wedding photographer.

"He was only there as a favor for the wedding photographer who had originally been booked but had to pull out as he was ill," Col. Teo Luzi, a spokesman for the Palermo Police, said in published reports Tuesday.

Rifles are legal on the scenic Italian island that's known for - among other things - spawning the Mafia. It's also a tradition for guns to be fired off at family events and not unheard of for partygoers to get hurt.

But investigators are having a hard time getting the whole story out of Licodia's parents. They face possible criminal charges because the shooting happened at their house in Altofonte, just before the kids were to set off for a local church.

"What we are trying to establish is if the gun went off as it was being handled by the photographer, or if it went off as it was handed to him," said Luzi. "But no one is being very talkative."

'Real Housewives' star Danielle Staub calls cops after ex-con Danny Aguilar demands $100K from her 10/0

This week just keeps getting worse for "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Danielle Staub.

Less than a week after Staub's sex tape co-star slammed her with a defamation lawsuit, the reality star's sordid past has come back to haunt her.

Convicted felon Danny Aguilar called Staub on Sunday night demanding $100,000 that he says she still owes him for bailing her out of a drug deal gone bad back in the '80s, reported RadarOnline.com.

"My money got her out of trouble with these drug dealers," Aguilar told Radar. "They wanted her dead and I didn't want them to kill her. I paid for it."

According to TheSmokingGun.com, Staub and Aguilar found themselves out around $24,000 in 1986 after an alleged cocaine deal went awry. The two reportedly kidnapped the man they blamed for the deal's failure, Carmen Centolella, and placed calls to his father demanding $25,000 in ransom money.

Feds soon caught the partners in crime and accused Staub of extortion and cocaine possession with intent to distribute, the Web site reported.

Staub reportedly entered into a plea bargain with prosecutors and agreed to testify against Aguilar and others.

She escaped with just five years probation and drug testing, while Aguliar got 15 years in prison.

"We all got popped," Aguilar told Radar. "Everyone went to jail and she snitched."

Aguilar told Radar his phone conversation with Staub Sunday night quickly turned ugly, with the reality star calling him a "celebrity stalker" and threatening to sue him for defamation of character.

Aguilar said he told Staub, "I'm the 'Real McCoy,' I'm the one that did 15 years in a federal penitentiary over you. I'm no stalker."

He added that Staub contacted police after the conversation, and that a detective from the Wayne, N.J. police department phoned him 15 minutes after the call to inform him that stalking is a crime in New Jersey.

Wayne Police Captain James Clark confirmed to Radar that Staub was at the station Tuesday morning but would not disclose additional information.

Last Thursday, Staub's ex, Stephen Zalewski, filed a lawsuit against her for defamation of character and harassment after the reality star claimed on an episode of "Real Housewives" that she didn't know he was filming their sexcapades.

Meanwhile, Staub is reportedly taking some legal action of her own against co-star Teresa Giudice and Ashley Holmes, "Housewives" co-star Jacqueline Laurita's daughter, after Holmes physically attacked her on last week's episode.

Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette?

Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama's inaugural address to the nation, and he's referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.

But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns - or forgoing them altogether - the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her "closest friends." According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times.

Reports are calling the lodgings of Obama's Spanish fiesta, the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella, "luxurious," "posh" and "a millionaires' playground." Estimated room rate per night? Up to a staggering $2,500. Method of transportation? Air Force Two.

To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.

Perhaps it could be that the Obamas, who seem to fancy themselves more along the lines of international celebrities than actual leaders, espouse a different view of sacrifice. When Michelle Obama accompanied her husband to Copenhagen along with best buddy Oprah Winfrey, she billed the trip - an ultimately unsuccessful bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago - as follows: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the President to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."

A quick jaunt to Denmark is a sacrifice? What portraits in courage!

The Obama modus operandi is becoming clear. From lavish trips to Spain to reportedly flying Bo, the President's Portuguese water dog, on a separate aircraft to vacation with them in Maine, to a date night in New York City that perhaps cost nearly $100,000, their idea of austerity is really just the lap of luxury, at least for ordinary folks.

Incredibly, the Obamas have long portrayed themselves as precisely such commoners. Just this month, Obama told ABC the First Couple is "not that far removed from what most Americans are going through." And that "it was just a few years ago that we had high credit card balances, we had two kids, thinking about college. We had our own retirement accounts, wondering if we were going to be able to get enough assets in there."


If that's true, why not select a more appropriate destination like the California coast? The scenery is just as gorgeous as that of Spain, and instead of patronizing a foreign country they would be pumping money into an American economy that desperately needs it. Camp David wouldn't exactly be slumming it, either. A long weekend there would really send a message of responsibility, leadership and compassion. For a couple that has sharply criticized former President George W. Bush so widely, they could stand to follow his example for once and select a more low-key locale, as Bush regularly did in his Texas vacations.

Instead, Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette - the French queen who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects' plight - than an average mother of two. While she's spent her time in the White House telling parents they should relieve their chubby kids' dependency on sugar and stressing the importance of an organic veggie garden, hopping a jet to Europe to meet with Spanish royalty isn't the visual the White House probably wants to project. Perhaps they've forgotten the damning image of John Kerry, on the eve of the 2004 election, windsurfing off the coast of Nantucket?

I don't begrudge anyone rest and relaxation when they work hard. We all need downtime - the First Family included. It's the extravagance of Michelle Obama's trip and glitzy destination contrasted with President Obama's demonization of the rich that smacks of hypocrisy and perpetuates a disconnect between the country and its leaders. Toning down the flash would humanize the Obamas and signify that they sympathize with the setbacks of the people they were elected to serve.

In January, President Obama insisted that "everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good. Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game."

If sacrifice is the precursor to change, what will the family that ran on change offer up? Elitist doublespeak won't cut it.