HOLLYWOOD DIRT OVERFLOW (7-24-09)

HERE'S A FUN PICTURE OF JENNIFER LOPEZ EATING A HOTDOG:

JENNIFER LOPEZ was photographed WOLFING down a hotdog . . .(--TAKERU KOBAYASHI style.) Unfortunately, it wasn't real life . . . she was shooting a scene for a movie . . . but it's still fun. (--Here's the picture . . .)

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THE "GREEN HORNET" MOVIE HAS A NEW DIRECTOR:

MICHEL GONDRY . . . the guy who made "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Be Kind Rewind" . . . is now going to direct the movie version of "The Green Hornet". He's replacing "Kung Fu Hustle's" STEPHEN CHOW. Chow was ALSO supposed to play Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick, but there's no word on who the new Kato might be.

Seth Rogen is still going to be the Green Hornet. Nicolas Cage might be the villain, and Cameron Diaz might be in it too, as a reporter.

(--The original "Green Hornet" was a radio show in the '30s about a newspaper publisher who fights crime. It was turned into a TV show that only ran for one season in 1966, with Van Williams as the Green Hornet, and Bruce Lee as Kato.)

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THE NEW "TRON" MOVIE WILL BE CALLED "TRON LEGACY":

The new "Tron" movie won't be released until over a year from now, but Disney and JEFF BRIDGES released a couple minor details about it at that Comic-Con convention thing in San Diego yesterday.

The movie will be called "Tron Legacy" (--instead of "Tron 2" or "Tr2n") and it's a sequel, NOT a reboot. There's also a new logo, a movie poster, and Facebook Page. (--You can check out the Facebook page at . . . http://www.facebook.com/Tron.)

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CHECK OUT THE TRAILER FOR "NINJA ASSASSIN":

Sometimes a title is enough to get me psyched about a movie. A title like: "Ninja Assassin". It's an action movie produced by ("Matrix" creators) the WACHOWSKI BROTHERS about the world's deadliest assassin, and it comes out this Thanksgiving. (--Here's the new trailer . . .) http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailers/412608/ninja-assassin.jhtml

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BACKSTREET'S BACK... AGAIN!!

The BACKSTREET BOYS just dropped a new track called "Straight Through My Heart". It'll be the first single off their upcoming album, "This is Us", which is scheduled to hit stores on October 6th.

(--It's up on their MySpace page, here . . .)http://www.myspace.com/backstreetboys

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***MICHAEL JACKSON MADNESS***

MICHAEL JACKSON'S PLASTIC SURGEON SAYS THE L.A. CORONER WAS WRONG . . . MICHAEL *DID* HAVE A NOSE:

To be perfectly honest, I COULD go on forever telling you about all the mini-scandals swirling in the aftermath of MICHAEL JACKSON'S death. I really could. And I probably will. Because there are about twelve new ones each day. But to me, THIS is what makes the whole thing so sad . . . confusing . . . and weird:

Yesterday, one of Michael Jackson's former plastic surgeons, a guy named Dr. Steven Hoefflin, went on "Entertainment Tonight". And he talked about what HE says are some unintentional mistakes in the L.A. Coroner's initial autopsy report. -Dr. Steve says the Coroner's office was incorrect in reporting that Michael was wearing a nasal prosthesis, and had LOST his nose . . . leaving only two holes in its place. He said, quote, "I believe that the coroner's office is profoundly competent, and did a commendable job in their post-mortem examination of Michael Jackson.

"As is so frequent under these circumstances, they merely did not have sufficient information to make an accurate description and interpretation of the anatomical findings." --Right. In other words, he's saying the coroner somehow MISUNDERSTOOD, and that Michael Jackson REALLY DID HAVE A NOSE.

Personally, I trust the coroner. Not a guy who's paid to tell people they need to surgically alter their features. -He says what Michael DID have is, quote, "an indentation of his right nose, which was not from surgery, but from a deep biopsy due to the suspicion of skin cancer." And that Michael's dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, gave Michael huge collagen injections that inflamed his Lupus.

Finally Michael Jackson's body is in the hands of authorities who can tell us something real, so we can all learn what really happened to the man, and these jackasses confuse everything. It's infuriating.

It's as if these parasites and quacks who leeched off him for years are still circling, like vultures, confusing the official results, spreading disinformation, and accusing each OTHER of messing up Michael. --He had no nose. Who do you trust? The friggin L.A. coroner who could care less? Or the scumbag plastic surgeon who helped ruin Michael Jackson's nose in the first place?

And you know what's worse? This clown says he's speaking out at the written request of . . . KATHERINE JACKSON, Michael's mom. In order to, quote, "give a truthful legacy for Michael."

In other words, even Michael's FAMILY continues to play the blame game, in the face of the ugly reality that the guy was totally insecure about his looks, obsessed with plastic surgery, and addicted to drugs. But WE already knew that. We just have to watch them duke it out in public.

HERE'S WHAT "EBONY MAGAZINE" *THOUGHT* MICHAEL JACKSON WOULD LOOK LIKE:
Way back in 1985, "Ebony Magazine" ran a feature called "What They May Look Like In The Year 2000." Would you like to see how they THOUGHT MICHAEL JACKSON would turn out?
Compared with how he DID turn out?

You have to see this, because basically, "Ebony" assumed Michael would turn out looking like BILLY DEE WILLIAMS as Lando Calrissian in "The Empire Strikes Back". Instead of . . . well. You know the rest of the story.

THE COURT HANDLING MICHAEL JACKSON'S ESTATE APPROVED BOOK DEALS . . . SO THEY CAN PROFIT FROM MICHAEL'S DEATH:

Everything about the aftermath of MICHAEL JACKSON'S death feels wrong. Including this. --The court in the Michael Jackson probate case has just allowed the special administrators of his estate to enter into proposed book deals, including reprinting his autobiography, "Moonwalk".

The special administrators pushed hard to get the deals approved quickly, because they, quote, "believe that it is in the best interest of the Estate for all book publishing agreements to be entered as soon as possible . . . --". . . as sales of the book and profits for the estate will be maximized the sooner the book is released due to the notoriety surrounding Michael Jackson's unexpected death and the resulting heightened demand for such products."

(--Like I said. It feels wrong. I mean, they don't even know how he died yet. And they want to reprint his autobiography?)