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Whitney Houston is in a desperate bid to save her only child from her mistakes. The past couple of weeks have been terrible for 18-year old Bobbi Kristina. An old boyfriend leaked photos of Bobbi Kris snorting cocaine to the tabloids, and there were rumors of a sex tape. The sex tape was never made public because she was under 18 at the time. A few years ago, Bobbi Kris appeared out of control when photos appeared on line showing her smoking and making out with girls. Can Whitney help save her daughter? With family intervention, Whitney says yes. Whitney knows her own problems with substance abuse, and she doesn’t want her daughter to go through the same problems. Bobbi Kris’s dad Bobby Brown is in total denial about his daughter proclaiming She Would Never Do Drugs, even though she admitted it. Brown has been on the road promoting his new solo project, Masterpiece, and working on a New Edition reunion, which would include an album and a tour.
UPDATE: As Stacy Stutz, some lady I know from Facebook, just said: “It’s all fun and games until it goes viral on YouTube” … and you cry about it on TV and hint at launching a lawsuit, and the Streisand effect kicks in.
“In the hours that followed Cathy Cruz Marrero’s appearance on ‘Good Morning America’ today to talk about the fall and its aftermath, she was in court for a status hearing on charges of five felony counts, including theft by deception and receiving stolen property,” reports ABC News.
Turns out Marrero’s been out on $7,500 bail since 2009, after being charged with running up more than $5,000 in purchases on a co-worker’s credit card. No wonder she had a lawyer handy.
Marrero’s next court date is April 21, and she’s facing about six months of house arrest and electronic monitoring, according to the Reading Eagle. So all y’all talking about how if she just shut up and went on with her life, nobody would know it was her in the fountain —maybe six people recognized her — are more right than you realized. While it’s unknown how many people knew about her theft charges, we all sure know about it now.
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A week after becoming the National Face (plant) for the Perils of Modern Mobility, Cathy Cruz Marrero (aka “Fountain Girl”) is both speaking out, and speaking to her lawyer.
What of it?
Sure we hate the habit of texting pedestrians — because let’s face it, it’s as annoying as it is dangerous. That said, our growing habit of dumping humiliating videos on YouTube, with no thought to the unsuspecting “star,” is also pretty obnoxious. But since it doesn’t hamper our personal egress, then heck, how is it a problem?
From Internet users to morning show hosts and cable news anchors, we all yucked it up — and interesting, assumed en masse she was a teen — the first 80 kajillion times we saw the mall security footage of Marrero’s text-induced plunge into the icy water of the Berkshire Mall fountain. Because, yes. It’s funny.
“I saw the water coming at me, I could see the pennies and nickels at the bottom of the fountain and then I was in it,” the 49-year-old Pennsylvania mall employee told the Reading Eagle newspaper, in a story that describes her as both laughing and crying when she talks about it.
Laughing, because give Marrero credit. She gets, like we get: our caveman brain is helpless when it comes to slapstick hilarity.
Crying, because dang! The Internet is mean, y’all! If you spend a lot of time here, you know that. If you don’t, and your first plunge into the cruelty of YouTube comment culture is concurrent with a video of your epic texting humiliation that you didn’t even know existed until it made national news, it’s rough. Have some empathy.
“When I went to work and I saw how they laughed, and the comments that they made, I didn’t think that was funny,” Marrero said in an interview broadcast on CNN that reveals her Internet naiveté. If she wasn’t busy having a real life — planning birthdays and talking to church friends on her phone which she was doing at the time of her fall — she’d know that explaining her circumstances while crying on camera only increases the Internet target on her back.
Marrero’s fall is ripe satire for the over-immersion in technology we’re all guilty of. After all, it’s someone else’s over-immersion that made Marrero a YouTube star. Consider the mall security guards.
“We are troubled by the fact that anyone at the Berkshire Mall responsible for releasing this video would find humor in an employee injured on the premises,” Marrero’s lawyer James M. Polyak told the Reading Eagle. “We intend to hold the appropriate persons responsible,” he added, not directly stating whether “hold responsible” translates to “lawsuit.”
Keeping in mind our Three Stooges-lovin’ caveman brains, it’s a push to fault the reflexive laughter of the security guards heard in the security tape background the second Marrero takes a tumble — or even their extended disection of the event.
You know you would too.
It took some higher brain function however for someone in that security booth to videotape the discussion of the videotape and upload it to YouTube for a shot at viral gold.
Same goes for the jackass who grabbed for YouTube glory by videotaping a rat running up not once, but twice, on a sleeping subway passenger, rather than instinctively yelling “DUDE! DUDE! RAT! WAKE UP! RAT! ” (At the very least, he could have done both — who doesn’t appreciate a good reaction shot?) Under similar circumstances, such a rodent commuting alert is something we’d all appreciate.
we all get the joke. But we don’t have to be jerks about it.
Aries fits into the excitement category. Rams feel with their ego, need attention, and thus fall into the self-esteem sector, too. Many flirtations are just emotional or about how much acceptance they can get. Although a fiery sign, many Aries actually run from forbidden attractions. They may consider infidelity, however, if their mate is unfaithful to them.
Taurus is known for loyalty, but like Aries, may cheat if the partner is unfaithful or is suspected of being so. A negative situation for Taurus is when they get little affection, touching, and attention. Cheating fulfills the sense of loneliness and neglect for this tender, loving sign.
With Gemini, lust isn’t the motivator, it’s intellectual cheating or intimate conversation more than sex. It’s excitement, too, for this eternally restless sign. Also, when Gemini feels neglected and lonely, he or she reaches out for kindred spirits and shared interests to pass the time.
Cancer is another loyal sign, prone to personal guilt trips, so motivation to cheat isn’t high. If they are involved, they often get entangled in love-slave/soppy romances. Moonchildren have self-esteem issues and are extra impressionable if they need “filling up” because they feel empty.
Fiery Leo craves excitement. Lions also fall into the self-esteem category because of the need to be the center of attention. A few are naturally horny, and thinking they are the world’s greatest lovers, they set out to prove it. Leo is especially vulnerable to having a midlife crisis, drawn to charming individuals at least 20 years younger than they are because they want to feel youthful.
The Virgo is another potentially emotional cheater. In this light it’s not a physical, but a mental affair. Needless to say, the sign of the Virgin is prone to heavy, personal guilt trips. The motivation to cheat might be that they have tried everything to make a relationship work, but they go to another out of frustration.
Libra likes to please. Natives of this sign do have strong principles, sound instincts, and take commitment seriously, so they aren’t tops on the list of potential cheaters. However, this is a sign that finds it hard to say no, and is a potentially dangerous flirter. Librans need affection and attention. They may fall for the fantasy of finding infinite love, so most won’t take cheating lightly.
Passionate, mysterious Scorpio gets a bad rap when it comes to their fidelity. Oozing sex appeal, they get accused whether they cheat or not. Scorpions fall into the need-for-excitement category, liking the intrigue of clandestine activities. They have strong physical appetites many can’t keep under control. This is another sign that is out for revenge if a partner cheats.
Sagittarius is another sign that needs excitement. They wonder if there could be someone else or a grand, passionate adventure around the corner. An ultimate, starry-eyed romantic, they get in trouble when innocent flirting leads to something more. They panic when the passion gets heavy, which is one reason why they do try to do the right thing in a committed relationship.
Capricorn’s nemesis is self-esteem when it comes to a lack of respect and feeling unloved. A few natives of the sign a find sex “naughty,” and therefore exciting. Most Capricorns, however, discover that their worry takes the adventure out of it. This is another sign torn by guilty feelings and is very capable of controlling their “forbidden” passion.
Aquarius natives need to receive a lot of attention and to feel needed. Often, Aquarians are mates who are cheated on, because their partners need romance. Like Gemini, they get involved in intellectual cheating, or emotional affairs, instead of sexual flings or physically-based cheating.
Pisces’ motivation is self-esteem. Like Leo, they could be lured into a midlife crisis situation. When they realize that life is short, they don’t want to grow up, and may wonder, “Where’s the magic?!” And like Scorpio, Fish are attracted to mystery and clandestine things. Ever the romantic, they can feel like a hot fling with someone new is fate.
Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel issued the sentence after listening to testimony from employees of an alcohol treatment program that Lohan had been ordered to attend.
Lohan missed seven classes since December, which led to the judge’s harsh rebuke moments after the “Mean Girls” star offered a tearful apology.
“I did do everything I was told to do and did the best I could to balance jobs and showing up,” Lohan told the judge. “It wasn’t vacation, it wasn’t some sort of a joke.”
Revel said she found Lohan’s apology insincere, comparing it to “somebody who cheats and thinks it isn’t cheating if she doesn’t get caught.”
Lohan was not immediately taken into custody and will be permitted to surrender on July 20. She will have to wear an ankle alcohol monitor until then.
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Ok here is my 2 cents, to the commentary. She should go to jail for one year as stipulated earlier by the judge when he gave her a one year probation. Now she is only going to do 90 days, and it looks like just a fraction of that time. Are you kidding me. What happen to the laws of the land. She is wrong and has been wrong for quite sometime. Granted the young lady has some serious mental issues. Evidently her family and friends are not concern or love her enough to see that she gets the help that is require.
She has been a living train wreck for sometime. Maybe being in jail for a few weeks will make her think about
how serious DUI’s are and her own mental health. At this point it looks like money talks and B.S. walks!
How do you feel about Lindsey Lohan?
Reagan’s youngest son Ron has a new book out about the Gipper.
2011 is a big year for Ronald Reagan fans, being the centennial of his February 6 birth in Tampico, Ill. But youngest son Ron Reagan is spoiling the good cheer with a new book that suggests the Gipper suffered from Alzheimer’s disease while in the White House, a claim dismissed by Reagan’s doctors and outside experts. “Had the diagnosis been made in, say, 1987, would he have stepped down?” Ron asks, regarding the disease confirmed in 1994. “I believe he would have,” he writes in My Father At 100: A Memoir, due in bookstores Tuesday. [Poll: Who do you think was the worst president?]
In addition to challenging the former president’s doctors, Ron also reports for the first time that Reagan, right after falling off a horse six months out of the White House, underwent brain surgery, denied by Reagan associates.
Let’s start with the Alzheimer’s diagnosis. It was announced in 1994. While it prompted some to suggest they knew Reagan had the disease as president, his four White House doctors said they saw no evidence of it. But Ron, who became a liberal and atheist, disappointing his dad, suggests he saw hints of confusion and “an out-of-touch president” during the 1984 campaign and again in 1986, when his father couldn’t recall the names of California canyons he was flying over. Arguing his case in the book, Ron adds that doctors today know that the disease can be in evidence before being recognized. “The question, then, of whether my father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s while in office more or less answers itself,” he writes. [See a gallery of caricatures of Reagan and other pols.]
Besides playing amateur doctor, Ron Reagan reveals, if true, brain surgery on his dad never before reported. He accurately reports that Reagan, after leaving the presidency, was bucked from a horse on July 4, 1989, while in Mexico. Ron tells of how his dad, after initially refusing medical help, was transported to a San Diego hospital. “Surgeons opening his skull to relieve pressure on the brain emerged from the operating room with the news that they had detected what they took to be probable signs of Alzheimer’s disease.” Several Reagan associates, however, say there was no surgery in San Diego.
What’s more there is no reporting about any San Diego operation on Reagan. News reports at the time of his fall say Reagan was flown to a hospital in Arizona, where he was treated for scrapes and bruises and released after five hours.
There were no reports of Reagan with a shaved head or skull stitches later that month when he served as a guest TV announcer at the July 11 baseball All-Star Game in Anaheim, Calif., or when he was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City on July 21.
In September, he went to the Mayo Clinic, where a small burr hole was drilled to relieve a fluid buildup due to the fall.
Ron Reagan doesn’t mention this, but says that Reagan visited the Mayo Clinic in 1990 for tests that “confirmed the initial suspicion of Alzheimer’s.” Reagan’s post-presidency history, documented in several archives like University of Texas, reveal no such visit. And Dr. John E. Hutton Jr. his doctor from 1984 through Reagan’s retirement, told the New York Times that Reagan didn’t show the tell-tale symptoms until 1993.
Ron Reagan won’t talk about his book until its release, says his publisher Viking. The publisher also didn’t provide documents backing up the San Diego operation claim.
Here are key excerpts from Ron Reagan about his dad’s situation from My Father At 100, A Memoir.
Early hints that Ronald Reagan’s mind was fuzzy:
“Three years into his first term as president, though, I was feeling the first shivers of concern that something beyond mellowing was affecting my father. We had always argued over this issue or that, rarely with anything approaching belligerence, but vigorously all the same. He generally had the advantage of practiced talking points backed up by staff research, but I was an unabashed, occasionally effective advocate for my own positions. ‘He told me you make him feel stupid,’ my mother once shared, to my alarm. I didn’t want my father to feel stupid. If he was going to shoulder massive responsibility, I wanted him to feel on top of his game. If he was going to fulfill his duties as president, he would have to be.” Pages 204-205
“Watching the first of his two debates with 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, I began to experience the nausea of a bad dream coming true. At 73, Ronald Reagan would be the oldest president ever reelected. Some voters were beginning to imagine grandpa—who can never find his reading glasses—in charge of a bristling nuclear arsenal, and it was making them nervous. Worse, my father now seemed to be giving them legitimate reason for concern. My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered.” Page 205.
“My father might himself have suspected that all was not as it should be. As far back as August 1986 he had been alarmed to discover, while flying over the familiar canyons north of Los Angeles, that he could no longer summon their names.” Page 218.
The July 4, 1989 horse bucking and discovery of Alzheimer’s:
“In July 1989, barely six months out of office, my father visited friends in Mexico. While out riding he was thrown when his horse shied at something in the trailside scrub. That my father, even at age 78, would be bucked off his mount was, in itself, an ominous sign. It’s a wonder he didn’t break any bones, but he did hit his head hard enough to cause a sizable contusion. After initially refusing medical attention, he ultimately relented and was transported to a hospital in San Diego. Surgeons opening his skull to relieve pressure on the brain emerged from the operating room with the news that they had detected what they took to be probable signs of Alzheimer’s disease. No formal diagnosis was given, as far as I know. I have since learned from a doctor who happened to be interning at the hospital when my father was brought in that surgeons involved in his care, in what my informant characterized as ‘shameful’ behavior, violated my father’s right to medical privacy by subsequently gossiping about his condition.” Page 217.
Doctors recommended to my mother that further tests of cognition be conducted the following year to measure any decline. Those tests, at the Mayo Clinic, confirmed the initial suspicion of Alzheimer’s.” Page 217.
“I’ve seen no evidence that my father (or anyone else) was aware of his medical condition while he was in office. Had the diagnosis been made in, say 1987, would he have stepped down? I believe he would have. Far less was known about the disease then, of course, than is known now. Today we are aware that the physiological and neurological changes associated with Alzheimer’s can be in evidence years, even decades, before identifiable symptoms arise. The question, then, of whether my father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s while in office more or less answers itself.” Pages 217-218