So, Madame Sadie always seems to share my fondness for mocking celebrities (and for pointing out the rhinoplasty addiction at FOX News Channel), so let’s see what we’ve got on tap for today.

• Damon Albarn, the lead singer for Blur (yeah, I have no idea who the hell he is either)has had the temerity to criticize Live 8 for being “just too damn Anglo-Saxon.” Sir Bob is apparently legendary for his treatment of people (and tabloids) that don’t go along with his way of thinking. Should be interesting to see if poor Damon and Blur disappear from the few maps they appear on.
• Courtesy of Sheila (who also happens to be our newest Divaesque Lady…YAY! We’re ever so pleased she’s joined us.) we have this fascinating article from The Hollywood Reporter about Tom Cruise’s Cult based PR meltdown. There is much comparison and contrast with Brad Pitt, who’s going through his own PR melodrama right now, but surprisingly is weathering it quite well. Hmmmm. Could Scientology THE CULT be the problem?
• Mark Lawson, who appears to be an Arts Critic for The Guardian has his own ideas about what really motivated Russell Crowe to slam a phone into the face of the Mercer’s concierge.
  

  {…}For a start, the story is intriguing for what it tells us about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. On what lawyers call the night in question, Crowe, promoting a film in New York, had reportedly just flown briefly by private jet to Manchester to watch a title fight. This may be psychologically significant. A man able to cross the Atlantic at a whim may feel that he has conquered money and time – two of the traditional constraints on humans – and may therefore be shocked to find himself defeated by a piece of technology as widely available as a telephone.

  Crowe’s apparent lack of access to a mobile is one of the oddities of the incident: we would imagine film stars to carry some kind of tri-band satellite phone thinner than a matchstick. My guess would be that the actor is phobic about either the potential radiation from cellphones or the greater possibility of journalistic eavesdropping. Another possibility is that a film company was picking up the hotel tab and he was determined to make full use of free facilities. But, for whatever reason, he chose to try a transpacific landline and, unable to raise the missus in Oz, ended up complaining to hotel clerk Nestor Estrada.

  Having been defeated by a machine, Crowe now seriously failed in human interaction. In the not very far Hollywood past, stars could treat others and especially underlings exactly as they wished. Violence, rape and even murder could usually be covered up by the studio or your backroom flacks. Crowe, though, had failed to see that the star-staff relationship has starkly changed.{…}

  Jeez. Talk about overanalyzing. You think this guy gets paid by the hour to come up with this bs?

  What’s more likely is that Russell has always had an issue keeping his temper under control. He blew it once again. Not a real big surprise here, people.

• Lindsay Lohan has apparently wrought more than just a story about how fake her boobs are. After she was rammed by a paparazzo on a bike last week, the paparazzi in Loo Loo Land are now under investigation by the Los Angeles County DA’s office for their tactics. Wooooh. I’m sure they’re scared.

  The more likely scenario is that the DA is coming up for reelection and needs to line his campaign bank account.

And that should do it for now, kids. I’m sure some dumb celebrity will do something stupid, yet again, before the weekend’s up. I will update when they do.