Seriously? OMG! WTF?

JEREMY Piven likes to joke about why he’s 41 and single. "I’d love to have a girlfriend – if I weren’t gay," he tells Playboy’s March issue. "That’s right, I’m gay! I’m gayer than Liberace in 1972." As to why he’s seen as a round-the-clock party boy, Piven adds, "At the moment, I happen to be the mother[bleep]ing pretty girl . . . The pretty girl who goes to the hot spot sure does look like she goes out all the time, right?"

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Can someone please explain his appeal to me? He is not attractive, he has really bad hair plugs and he is a Class A Jerk, so what is there to like about him? I mean what is up with his comments about why he is single, is that funny? Just like John Cusack, I am so over him.

IT’S bad-behavior time on the sets of a trio of movies now being shot. Chris Tucker, the star whose large paycheck and ego have been well-documented, has been demanding script changes in "Rush Hour 3." "He won’t come out of his trailer until the script is up to his standards," giggled one spy on the set in Santa Ana. "What, $25 million isn’t enough to just do your job and act?" A rep for Tucker didn’t return calls. On the same set, horndog director Brett Ratner "sends an assistant named Scott around to every female extra, collecting phone numbers in a too obvious, not-so-suave way," the source said. "Scott commands these $150-a-day actress-hopefuls to give him their phone numbers simply because ‘the director wants it.’ " A rep for Ratner, who has dated Rebecca Gayheart and Serena Williams, said, "That’s ridiculous. If Brett wants a phone number, he’ll get it himself." Meanwhile, across town, detoxing can be hard on a girl – but even harder for her co-workers. A source on the set of Lindsay Lohan’s "I Know Who Killed Me" says that ever since she went to the Wonderland clinic, she’s been "moody and is making everyone miserable around her. She’ll be late and sometimes won’t come out of her trailer." Lohan is being trailed by a "sober coach" as well as an entourage. Lohan’s hardworking rep, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, said, "I am not witnessing [cranky, moody] behavior at all. When is this girl going to get a break without everyone judging her every move?" The third delinquent, Paris Hilton, supposedly has been late arriving on the set of "The Hottie and the Nottie," and had trouble learning her lines. "Everyone is really fed up with her right now," said our tipster. But producer Hadeel Reda told Page Six: "Paris has never been more than 15 minutes late. Everything is memorized. She’s been very professional." Hilton has been studying with Ivana Chubbuck, one of the top acting coaches in Hollywood, Reda said. "I think people are going to be shocked at how good she is."

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Chris Tucker is such a schmuck. If it weren’t for the Rush Hours movies, he wouldn’t be working or commanding the salary he is. Personally his voices makes all my vertabrae touch. When it comes to Lindsay and Paris, no breaking news there.

Turner Broadcasting System will pay as much as $2 million to Boston-area authorities to settle claims following last week's bomb scare in the Hub. The money includes $1 million to Boston and neighboring cities Somerville and Cambridge, plus the MBTA, Massport, state police and the U.S. Coast Guard to cover for the costs of responding to the incidents. Turner will pay another $1 million to Boston, Somerville, Cambridge and the state to fund homeland-security awareness programs and other initiatives. This will settle all civil and criminal liability for Turner and its guerrilla marketing agency, Interference Inc. Monday's settlement closes the book on a marketing campaign for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" that was mistaken Wednesday for a plot to bomb bridges, roads and other infrastructure in Boston, Somerville and Cambridge. In a statement Monday that was mandated by the settlement. Turner and Interference Inc. took full responsibility and apologized for the marketing tactic and the trouble it caused.

Reuters 

I wonder how many people lost their jobs over this bad idea?

Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel was dragged from an elevator and roughed up, possibly by a Holocaust denier, during a peace conference at a San Francisco hotel last week, police said Friday. According to San Francisco Police Sgt. Neville Gittens, a man approached Wiesel in an elevator and requested an interview with the acclaimed author on the evening of Feb. 1 at the Argent Hotel, which was hosting the forum sponsored by the San Francisco-based RockRose Institute. When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel’s lobby, the man insisted it be done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the sixth floor, Gittens said. The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream, and Wiesel went to the lobby and called police. Gittens said police are investigating the incident as a crime. Wiesel couldn’t be immediately reached for comment at Boston University, where he teaches, or through his institute in New York. A posting on a virulent anti-Semitic Web site Tuesday by a person identifying himself as Eric Hunt claimed responsibility. "I had planned to bring Wiesel to my hotel room, where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious," Hunt wrote on the site. The poster also said "I had been trailing Wiesel for weeks" and had hoped to get "Wiesel into my custody, with a cornered Wiesel finally forced to state the truth on videotape." Gittens said investigators were aware of the posting and declined to comment further on the investigation. The anti-Semitic Web site was disabled late Friday. It is registered to Andrew Winkler in North Sydney, Australia.

KPIX 

I don’t understand why the police are having such a hard time investigating this hate crime?

Rocker Marilyn Manson is romantically involved with 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood, sources close to the situation tell PEOPLE. The sources say his relationship with the Thirteen actress was a factor in the Dec. 29 divorce filing by Dita Von Teese, 34, Manson’s wife of one year. "Dita is heartbroken, she didn’t see this coming," says a source close to the burlesque dancer and MAC cosmetics model. "His partying contributed to the split as well." Manson, 38, and Wood have been friends for some time. According to his official Web site, Manson first met Wood when he asked her to be in his upcoming horror film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. In addition, she posed for a watercolor that he painted, and attended the opening of his new Hollywood art gallery, the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art, last Halloween. "It came as kind of a shock," Wood told Rolling Stone about being asked to pose. "I was beyond flattered." Manson, who is currently in Paris, was unavailable for comment. A rep for Wood would not confirm the relationship. A spokeswoman for Von Teese did not return calls for comment.

People 

Ewww Ewww Ewww Ewww. Seriously this story creeps me out in so many ways. I mean his looks always freaked me out, but he is dating a woman half his age who is 19…she could be his daughter. Yuck

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