Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards Remind Us How Glad We Are Not to Live in L.A.

Photo: Getty ImagesFriends of Charlie Sheen refuted his ex-wife Denise Richards's claim that she did her E! reality show to make money for the couple's kids, noting that Sheen actually gives her $52,000 a month in child support as well as a cut of his sitcom earnings. (Sheen has also produced e-mails that claim that Richards asked him for a sperm donation post-breakup so she could have another kid, though she says they're fake. This is a classy story!) Derek Jeter may be wining and dining Friday Night Light hottie Minka Kelly. Mariah Carey hung out on the set of her recent Elle photo shoot with husband Nick Cannon and an assistant who made her protein shakes. Sigourney Weaver wants an "energy-producing windmill" on her apartment and a communal garden with "a cow and everything." Michelle Trachtenberg supposedly refuses to talk about any of her female Gossip Girl castmates in real life because she is a bitch. Gina Gershon and P.S. I Love You co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan got cozy at Libation on Ludlow. Ashton Kutcher celebrated his five-year anniversary with Wilmer Valderrama and Audrina Patridge at his restaurant Dolce. Zach Braff checked into the Bowery Hotel with ugly luggage. Whitney Port, Alex Rodriguez, and Maggie Rizer are all expected in the Hamptons this weekend for various parties. Mick Jagger groped a girl on a yacht in Cannes in front of his oblivious girlfriend, L'Wren Scott. For some reason, paparazzi refused to take Petra Nemcova's picture at Wyclef Jean's "Together for Haiti" charity event, instead opting to snap Paul Simon. Former Rolling Stone and New York publisher Joe Armstrong jokingly wore a button on his lapel at a book party that featured an image of John McCain and President Bush hugging under the words "Four More Years!" 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl may or may not have used the word "pussy" during her commencement speech at Jesuit school Loyola College. Rumors are flying that the marriage between Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi has

Published: 2008-05-22 Provider: New York Magazine

Joe Rogan Likens Fame To Amusing Magic Trick That Makes Long Restaurant Waits Disappear

Carlos Mencia verbal bitchslapper and crusader on behalf of plundered stand-ups everywhere Joe Rogan checked in with the folks over at Cracked.com, covering a variety of topics, including his thoughts on fame himself--something he now enjoys in large quantities thanks to six seasons as host of the groundbreaking televised goat-testicle-eating contest, Fear Factor: Rogan: Fame is a trick. You're still a human being, except now you're being displayed in front of millions of people. All you have to do is be on TV. Paris Hilton is a perfect example of that. Do you even know what her voice sounds like? I don't have a fucking clue.And if you're famous, and being tricked by the very magic trick that makes other people think you're special, then you're a fucking idiot. If you're famous and you don't step aside and go, 'Well, this is ridiculous,' than you're an idiot. Of course, Rogan had some difficulty seeing the ridiculousness of the fame trick when he embroiled himself in a flame war with a 20-year-old MySpace user, telling him in one message, "You're an ugly, fat faced zero, and I'm a famous multi millionaire. Those are the facts there, dear sweet kevin :)" Even master fame-illusionists have moments of befuddlement, however, and Rogan must have been momentarily confounded by the smoke and mirrors of celebrity when he was forced into putting that mouthy kid--without even one TV credit to his name!--in his rightful, broke and anonymous place. An Interview with Joe Rogan [Cracked.com]

Published: 2007-04-05 Provider: Defamer Keywords: Joe Rogan