<![CDATA[Gawker: lane garrison]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: lane garrison]]> http://gawker.com/tag/lanegarrison http://gawker.com/tag/lanegarrison <![CDATA[Bay: Blowing Shit Up Is Twice As Awesome With FIOS]]>
· Things Michael Bay considers awesome: Blowing shit up, tigers in his living room, fiber-optic internet access. Especially the first one.
· We completely forgot to watch The Moment of Truth last night, but thanks to Fox's handy YouTube recaps, we got all caught up in just two minutes. We'll never suffer through another drawn out pause between the lie-detecting robot lady's "The answer is..." and an anticlimactic "TRUE!" again!
· Here's a handy guide to how some celebrities are spending their Valentine's Day. It's interesting because they're famous!
· Incarcerated former Prison Break star Lane Garrison and Access Hollywood are pen pals! Tomorrow: Dr. Drew reads aloud from Pat O'Brien's sobriety diary on Celebrity Rehab.

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<![CDATA[Lane Garrison Gets 40 Months Without Possibility Of Kick-Ass High School Parties]]> 114c1d6ac65aae64963b0c3d085a11a1.jpgThe Lane Garrison legal saga found a measure of closure today, a judge having decided that 40 months in jail was a suitable sentence for the Prison Break actor's cokey-boozy bender that ended in the death of Beverly Hills High School student Vahagn Setian. From the AP report:

"The public has the right to know that conduct such as this, causing devastation such as this" will have consequences, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox said.

"Unfortunately, in this case, you have to be the messenger," he told Garrison.

Before the ruling, he apologized to the family of Vahagn Setian.

"I'm sick of my own behavior that night," he said. "This remorse is genuine. I feel it every day."

With Garrison safely behind bars, relieved parents of Beverly Hills High students can now feel free to sign permission slips for the Terror At 30,000 Feet Halloween Dance, semi-confident that no C-list Hollywood type will sidle up to their children on a beanbag couch in the Cockpit of Doom to coax them away from the proceedings with the promise of a "kick-ass, all-you-can-snort party in the Hills."

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<![CDATA[22 Conversations About One Lane Garrison Thing]]>
· Ever find yourself wondering what Survivor legend Sue Hawk is doing with herself these days? Wonder no more: Thanks to a visit from Access Hollywood, we know she's blasting snakes with a shotgun and lighting shit on fire with a propane torch. In other words: Exactly what we thought she'd be doing. Hey, beats going to jail for tax evasion.
· In case you have any doubt about who owns the Lane Garrison beat, here's one TMZ for each post they've run about his court appearance today: TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ, TMZ.
· "There are pilots who can fly a plane. But Tom Cruise has the soul of flyer. I saw that right from the start."
· When you've got a celebrity murder trial jury you need to keep well fed, these are the guys you call.
· At the Chateau Marmont's grade school cafeteria, Victoria Beckham is becoming the smelly kid no one wants to sit near.

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<![CDATA[Robin Williams Delights Thai Restaurant Patrons With Impressions Of Thai Elvis, Thai John Wayne, Thai Jack, Thai Rabbi...]]> williams-robin.jpgPrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the time you spotted the cutie-pie accidental teen-killer of your dreams eating Chinese food one table away from you.

In today's episode: Robin Williams; Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Iris and Maude Apatow; Lane Garrison and Joe Simpson; Bradley Cooper; Jenna Elfman and Ted Raimi; Alyssa Milano; Madeleine Stowe; Ed Helms; Angela Kinsey, Kate Flannery, and Melora Hardin; Michael Rosenbaum; Delilah Andre; Mira Furlan and Eric Wareheim.

· Yesterday (6/4), eating at Toi on Sunset and who should walk by but the hairiest man in comedy himself, Robin Williams. He said hello, smiled, and waved to several people who recognized him as he crossed the street. That is all.

· Around 8:45 this morning (6-7) walking to work, saw Judd Apatow, his wife Leslie Mann and their two kids (Iris and Maude Apatow) at Swinger's in Santa Monica. Maybe a breakfast celebration for his LA Weekly cover story?

· Today 6/7/07 at the PF Changs in Sherman Oaks for dinner, I noticed this hottie at the next table kinda give a coy smile from under his Kangol. We go back and forth stealing smiles around what looks like to be a family dinner, then I realized this hottie is Lane Garrison. As they are finishing up dinner I then see mom and dad are none other than Joe and Tina Simpson! I am glad to report there was no alcohol served. But damn I love me some Lane.

· Tuesday evening—Jenna Elfman at Gloss Nail Salon in Silver Lake, getting a mani/pedi and extremely preggers. Also, Ted Raimi at the lounge at Table 8, with an age-appropriate reddish haired woman.

· Alyssa Milano - First Class - Delta Airlines - Logan Airport to LAX. She is gorgeous and has flawless skin. Holy shite I want to know her dermatologist.

· 6/6/07 On my way to Cent City mall when I see a pack of CAA agents, including a friend of mine-went to say hi to friend and who is the guy next to him, the only non agenty suited male in the pack? Bradley Cooper looking very hot. I am 5'9 and was in heels and he was significantly taller than me. I hear he's single now. Too bad he bears more than a passing resemblance to my ex.

· 6-5 I saw Madeleine Stowe at the Whole Foods Mothership in Santa Monica. I'm pleased to report she's still a total knockout and that I'd electrocute her genitals anytime!

Wow. That sounds pretty sick if you weren't one of the five people who actually saw "The Two Jakes".

· Ed Helms (Daily Show, The Office) jumped the queue in front of me at Pinkberry on Abbot Kinney's today (6-6). Even Crystal the girl working the allegedly frozen yogurt whirrly machine thought you pushed in, Ed. I hope you got brain freeze. Bastard.

· On Friday, June 1st, while lunching at the Roosevelt's pool I saw a trio of female celebs from The Office. Angela Kinsey (Angela), Kate Flannery (Meredith), and Melora Hardin (Jan) were dressed casually, big smiles, and having a good time. They hung around the pool for about ten minutes before being whisked inside by an assistant-type. If I had to guess, I think there was some kind of promotional product giveaway going on, as I also spotted a couple of other no-name D-list actors carrying oversized branded shopping bags.

· Only in LA...on Tuesday I was catching up on Veronica Mars on my tivo (watched the prison experiment episode), then went to Equinox on Sunset and saw Delilah Andre (thanks imdb) coming out of the afternoon ab class. Then Thursday, watched Smallville on the tivo...then went to Hollywood & Highland and nearly got knocked over by a hurried Michael Rosenbaum. He had hair, so that threw me at first... Tivo...the new magic 8-ball

· Last Thursday night (May 31), I saw Mira Furlan, Rousseau from "Lost" (thanks, IMDB). She was with a cute, approximately 8-9 year old, mop-headed little boy at Barnes & Noble at the Grove. At first I didn't recognize her without the rifle and creepily feral look on her face. She cleans up nicely.

· Okay, a little late with this, but it took me forever to figure out who he was: Eric Wareheim, a.k.a., The Mayor from Tom Goes to the Mayor, at Taylor's Steakhouse on Eighth Street in Koreatown Friday night, June 1. He was sitting at the bar with a pretty girl about half his height. He's very tall, and she was very petite. They moved upstairs and had dinner. No funny faces or bizarre karaoke numbers. Just a normal date night, apparently. I hesitate even to send it in, but maybe the member with the Aqua Teen Hunger Force icon will dig it.

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<![CDATA[Lane Garrison Hopes Throwing Himself On Mercy Of Court Wins Him Hilton-Style Accomodations]]> garrison - DefamerAn update on the sad case of Lane Garrison, an actor you likely hadn't heard of until the night he befriended a trio of teenagers and escorted them to a Beverly Hills High School party (just like your own high school parties but with less making out to Duran Duran, and more cocaine and age-inappropriate TV star cameos), resulting in an ill-fated Grey Goose run that killed one and seriously injured two others. Garrison pled guilty today at his arraignment at the Beverly Hills Courthouse:

Appearing before Beverly Hills Judge Elden Fox today, Garrison pleaded guilty to one felony count of driving under the influence causing injury to multiple victims, and one misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor. He also admitted to causing great bodily injury and death and that he was driving with a blood alcohol level of more than .15 percent.
"It is very unusual for anyone to accept responsibility these days for their conduct. And he has done it," Garrison's attorney, Harland Braun, said after the hearing. The judge set sentencing for Aug. 2.

The plea faces a maximum prison sentence of six years and eight months, a sobering reminder of the high price of succumbing to the deadly BHHS lifestyle. Garrison, meanwhile, becomes just the latest casualty of the crackdown on the illicit antics of Hollywood's club-crawling elite. Even his one fansite, Lane Garrison 101, seems to be resigned to the actor repaying his debt to society, having not even produced a CafePress.com "Free Lane" t-shirt, opting instead for an entire line selfishly bearing their own logo.

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<![CDATA[Lane Garrison Looking At Up To Six Years Without A Prison Break]]> e9a7ad0bd65be77c2e91c4748e46220b.jpgFormer Prison Break actor Lane Garrison, who, we think it's safe to say, is probably having a worse year than you, found out the charges being filed against him for accidentally killing a teen after plowing his SUV into a tree while allegedly impaired by a generous, Beverly Hills high school party-sized serving of Grey Goose and blow. Reports the LAT:

The Los Angeles County district attorney will file manslaughter and other charges today accusing actor Lane Garrison of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol during a December crash that killed a teenager . [...]

District attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said Garrison will be charged with vehicular manslaughter, two felony drunk driving charges and a misdemeanor charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor. He faces a maximum prison term of five years and eight months, Robison said.

With six years of an actor's most employable years hanging in the balance, Garrison's legal team has a challenging, but not entirely hopeless, case to mount in his defense. Their main strategy at this point is to focus on their initial claims of mechanical failure. Should the court prove ultimately unswayed by their argument that Land Rovers' brakes have an inherent design flaw that renders them useless when a driver is coked-up and drunk, they intend to move on to Plan B: blaming the death on the City of Beverly Hills, and their planting of stubbornly inflexible trees on the 300 block of South Beverly Drive.

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<![CDATA[Investigation Determines Lane Garrison's Biggest Mistake Was Getting Caught Up In The Beverly Hills High School Party Lifestyle]]> garrison - DefamerYou may recall the Lane Garrison accident from early December. By way of utterly depressing review: the former Prison Break actor made some teenage friends at a Beverly Hills grocery store one Saturday night, accompanied them to a house party, allegedly downed several shots of vodka, then later struck a tree with them in his SUV, injuring two and killing Beverly Hills High School student Vahagn Setian. A press conference held by Beverly Hills police today delivered the results of their investigation, including three separate charges, listed in decreasing order of fucked to fuckedest:

Authorities said they are seeking at least three charges, including gross vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Beverly Hills police said officers also found containers of alcohol inside Garrison's SUV.

Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden said Garrison had a blood-alcohol level of more than 0.15% — about double the state's legal limit of 0.08%.

Harold Braun, Garrison's lawyer and title holder of Today's Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness, had originally stated the actor had consumed a grand total of two drinks that night, a "margarita" (perhaps the kind served in a festive five-quart plastic sand pail that did Paris Hilton in, as well), and "a drink from the bottle of alcohol that he had just purchased." But while Braun had originally postulated that "someone put something in the drink," we're pretty sure he was referring to some kind of date-rape drug, and not a 1.5 liter splash of citrus-infused Grey Goose chased with a couple of fat rails.

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<![CDATA[Lane Garrison's 'One Drink' Actually Several Bite-Sized Mini-Drinks Called 'Shots']]> lanegarrison-lawyer - DefamerWhen Lane Garrison's attorney announced that his client had consumed a single drink at the high school party he stumbled into Saturday night after randomly befriending three teenagers—then offered a Variety Pak of defenses for the ensuing fatal crash—surely he must have known that it wouldn't be long before the many party attendees would come forward with their own, eyewitness accounts of events. And short of developing a "they all drank from the same hallucinogen-laced punchbowl!" tactic, it seems that his One Drink Defense is not going to hold up:

Five eyewitnesses from the party tell TMZ that Garrison arrived at the party with Setian and two women, whom he had met earlier at a gas station. They say Lane brought a bottle of Grey Goose vodka to the party and unveiled the bottle to the crowd with a flourish. The gathering was described by several attendees as a "kick back of around 30 people.
The eyewitnesses, all acquaintances of Setian, say that Garrison then started taking shots of the vodka and offering shots to other partygoers. Several eyewitnesses also said photographs were taken of Garrison consuming alcohol.

Later in the evening, when the alcohol at the party was running low, the eyewitnesses say that Garrison agreed to drive out to buy more, and took Setian and two girls with him.

While nothing here can reduce the senselessness of the events, perhaps at the very least the newly emerging details of the Grey Goose-branded tragedy and supporting photographic evidence will be enough to jog post-traumatic amnesia sufferer Garrison out of his current fog.

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<![CDATA[Fansite Abandons Lane Garrison In Hour Of Need]]>
A reader directed us to Lane Garrison 101, the "very first and only Lane Garrison fan site" (well, with the possible exception of this one) which has put itself on hiatus following the Prison Break actor's well-documented, tragic car crash. We understand the impulse to temporarily take the site down, but we'd argue that he needs his fans—especially ones dedicated enough to erect a web presence celebrating a performer we'd never heard of before yesterday—now more than ever to provide much-needed moral support while his lawyer valiantly battles to prove that the unfortunate combination of faulty brakes, bad alignment, and a possibly spiked cup of keg beer was responsible for the accident.

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<![CDATA['Prison Break' Actor Lane Garrison's Lawyer: 'My Client Was Just Playing Carpool Mom']]> lanegarrison-lawyer - DefamerIt has now been determined that it was indeed actor Lane Garrison behind the wheel of the tragic accident that claimed the life of Vahagn Setian, a popular 17-year-old student at Beverly Hills High School, and injured two other 15-year-old girls Saturday night. (For those unfamiliar with Garrison's work as Eminem-wannabe inmate Tweener on Prison Break, a fan posted this highlight reel on YouTube, in which he demonstrates a repeated reluctance to being made many an inmate's bitch.) Garrison has retained attorney Harold Braun for his defense, who, despite offering several alternative scenarios to counter the currently popular "drunkenly plowed into a tree" theory, is still having trouble getting around the whole "my client picked up a bunch of teenagers at a supermarket and accompanied them to a party" part of the story. The LAT reports:

According to Braun, Garrison met the teens, who were fans, at a grocery store and accompanied them to a party, where he had one drink. About an hour later, the actor left the party to meet a female friend and the teens asked if they could go with him, Braun said. Garrison said yes.

The next thing Garrison recalled was waking up at Century City Doctors Hospital — where he was treated for minor injuries — with a taxicab voucher in his lap, Braun said.

"There is always the possibility that someone put something in the drink," Braun said, adding that the blood test would show that.

"We're still trying to figure out what happened," said the lawyer, adding that Garrison was having trouble with his vehicle's brakes and the SUV pulled to the right. He said police would examine the vehicle.

Garrison, who lives in Beverly Hills, was "despondent" and "overwhelmed" by the incident, Braun said.

The lawyer's explanation of the bizarre turn of events leading up to the accident only raises more tricky questions: Specifically, what was a 26-year-old TV actor doing befriending two 15-year-old girls and their pal at a supermarket on a Saturday night, then accompanying them to a high school house party? (A similar turn of events was played for laughs on the last season of Entourage.) Stories about what exactly went down at that adolescent bacchanalia are sure to emerge in the coming days, upon which we will inch closer to the truth about whether or not Garrison fell victim to a couple of celebrity-leery, teenage pranksters who plotted to dose his Pabst with GHB before loosening a few nuts on his Land Rover's master cylinder.

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