Morrissey organizes vegetarian concert
Singer calls it a ‘victory for the animals’
Poor earnest Morrissey, taking himself way too seriously, has organized an all-vegetarian concert for March 1. Need I say this will happen in L. A.?
It’s vegetarian in the sense that all the snack bars, etc., at the Staples Centre will offer stuff like bulgur and yeast burgers and all the carrot sticks you can stand, plus of course french fries and fizzy drinks. But the McDonald’s outlets at the place will be closed for the night and there will be no, you know, food. No hamburgers, no pepperoni pizza, no sushi, no 24-oz. medium-rare sirloin steaks with bacon on the side … but I digress.
The singer says solemnly that “I don’t look upon it as a victory for me, but a victory for the animals.”
You may recall that he was in hospital last month. They said it was an ulcer; can wheat grass cause that? I suspect malnutrition.
He’s 53.
Michelle Obama, on Rachael Ray’s talk show, explained her new bangs this way: “This is my mid-life crisis. … I couldn’t get a sports car. They won’t let me bungee-jump. So instead, I cut my bangs.”
Her husband, understanding clearly his duty in this situation, reacted to the new hairstyle by asserting, “I love her bangs! … She always looks good!”
Michelle turned 49 last month.
HBO and James Gandolfini had a deal, they announced a few months back, on a new series, Criminal Justice, an American rip-off of a British series.
But now HBO, having looked at the pilot episode, has backed out of the project.
No reason given but maybe the suits just thought viewers would be unable to get used to Tony Soprano playing a “dishevelled jailhouse lawyer.”
Afeni Shakur, mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, has decided “it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans,” Billboard reports. I think we can all decode this: “There’s money to be made.” Tupac was gunned down in 1996 — nobody has been convicted — leaving behind a lot of unreleased work, some of which has been trickling out ever since. “My son left many incomplete pieces and even more unfinished ideas,” Afeni says now. “Using the blueprints he gave us, I am committed to fulfilling this duty.” Updates:
No, Katy Perry and John Mayer are not engaged. That ring she’s wearing on the engagement finger was just a gift he gave her, not a token of betrothal.
Crime writer Patricia Cornwell has won that lawsuit against the financial advisers Anchin, Block & Anchin. She claimed they cost her $40 million by bungling her business affairs; a federal judge in Massachusetts has now agreed, ordering the company to pay her $50.9 million. Her reaction: “God bless justice.”
The Hugh Grant-Tinglan Hong baby boy, about whom I told you the other day, will be called Felix Chang Hong Grant. Felix is Latin for lucky; and I am told Chang, in Chinese, means long-lasting.