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Chris Rock Victim Of Cute "You Raped A Child" Prank
An unnamed reality show accused Chris Rock of having sex with a British minor in South Africa where the comedian is touring, according to a court official. The show sent a fake prosecutor to court and told Rock that South African police were going to arrest him; he quickly called his lawyers. The AFP hasn't found the name of the show that pulled the prank. But of course it'll get on TV with no whiff of scandal because ha! ha! Statutory rape! Photo: Getty
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Chris Rock's Rape Accusation Phone Call
Comedian Chris Rock features prominently in a recording being used against Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano in his trial for wiretapping and racketeering and posted at midnight by the Huffington Post. In it, Rock and Pellicano discuss allegations from a woman Rock once slept with while separated from his wife, who accused him of fathering her child (proven false) and raping her (charges never pressed, hew own lawsuit later dropped). The audio sheds light on the tactics Pellicano used on behalf of showbiz clients like Rock, and includes Pellicano saying things to Rock like, " I want to make [the rape accuser] out to being a lying, scumbag, manipulating, cocksucker, so that all that could ever come back to her is that." The Post is already on the story. A summary of the dialog between Pellicano and Rock, including audio highlights, after the jump. More »
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1-800-COLLECT Ad Causes Wistful Reminiscence
Ah, the 90s—when times were simple, and phones had cords. Two trends we look back on fondly: the brief popularity of collect calling plans like 1-800-COLLECT (when was the last time you made a collect call, while not in a foreign country or incarcerated?) and the innocent sight of celebrities (who would one day sit astride the earth as legends) doing the schlubby crap that defines the workaday life of a not-famous-enough-yet star. So this 1-800-COLLECT ad featuring dead SNL Smirk King Phil Hartman embodies all the purity of that bygone age. And hey, look at who else is in this stupid ad! I guess work is work, until that big break in Nurse Betty comes along. Video [via Best Week Ever] below. More »
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Chris Rock Brought to Tears On Washington Post Site
The Washington Post Co. launched a new black culture site this morning called The Root, and Editor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has already made both Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters proud by making a celebrity cry. In a brief, unaired PBS interview posted to the site, Harvard professor Gates informs comedian Chis Rock that one of his ancestors enlisted as a Union soldier in the Civil War and was promoted to corporal. Rock is overcome and starts to cry, though he bounces back with a joke by the end of the video. Also, actor Don Cheadle isn't sure how to handle the news that his ancestors were enslaved by Native Americans instead of white people and Morgan Freeman gasps at a revelation about his white great-great grandfather. The main Washington Post site should be totally jealous of this content!
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Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again
Hey, so the Vanity Fair Africa issue hit newsstands today! Guest-edited by Bono! We rushed out to get our copy and brought it to the office where we realized that, you know, we're kind of shallow. Isn't Africa kind of last fall? We don't have the attention spans for that stuff. You know what we do care about, though? Celebrities! And with twenty different celebrity-studded covers, the magazine kept up involved for a good five minutes looking at the Annie Leibovitz compositions. Each one blends one subject from the previous cover, so you've got your Don Cheadle and Barack Obama giving way to Barack and Muhammad Ali. Here's a handy guide to who you'll want to look for at the newsstand. More »
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Oscar to Bore Himself, Viewers to Death
The Times's Sharon Waxman reports that Chris Rock will not be hosting the Academy Awards this year. Okay, so maybe Rock didn't bring the funny last year like we expected him to, but for the love of all things retarded, the part where he made fun of Jude Law causing Sean Penn to jump to Law's defense was freaking hilarious: "I would like to address our host's question of 'Who is Jude Law?' Jude Law is one of our finest actors who — " We're giggling too hard to keep typing. Let's just keep going. Waxman writes: More »
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Chris Rock Loses His (Expletive Deleted) on CNN
A transcript cannot really capture what we're told was the true stoneditude of the live event, but, still, it's worth nothing at least this snippet of Chris Rock's appearance on Anderson Cooper 360° last night, touting the relief efforts he and has wife are spearheading for Katrina victims in Houston: More »
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Gossip roundup
· Comedian Chris Rock's reaction to Matt Drudge's report that Rock had been instructed by DreamWorks not to badmouth President Bush while promoting their new film, Head of State: "I never met Matt Drudge, but if I see Matt Drudge, I'm going to take my red-blooded American foot and put it up his un-American ass for trying to disrupt the opening of my movie." [Page Six]· Producer Scott Rudin goes sour on Paramount execs (including Paramount chief Sherry Lansing) planning an upcoming movie based on the Lemony Snicket children's books: "I found the amount of energy being poured into this circle jerk frustrating and debilitating and completely unrewarding and painful...These people can give you a lot of pain when they're trying to make a movie with you. Imagine what they can do when they're just trying to give you pain." [Page Six]
· Jon Stewart on Germany's refusal to join the U.S.-led coalition: "Poland wants to fight and Germany doesn't? That's crazy. It must be like the way an alcoholic doesn't want to go into a bar. They'd start bombing and wake up the next morning and say, 'Did I just invade Czechoslovakia last night?'" Richard Gere thinks that if Tibet were turned into a big spa resort, the Chinese government would allow the Dalai Lama to return to his homeland. [NY Daily News]
· The Word reports that CEO Steve Florio may be the next exiting executive at Conde Nast. [The Word
