FameCrawler : Chris Cornell

Spying on the Neighbors: 12-24-08

Whit Honea — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:03:00 GMT

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

Chris Cornell and Santa (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Madonna and the divorce lawyer (Fametastic)

Brooke Burke and Santa (Celebrity Baby Scoop)

Beckham and UNICEF (Just Jared)

Pam Anderson gives to Bush and Obama (Contact Music)

Chris Cornell at FAO Schwarz

Whit Honea — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:05:00 GMT

Unlike John Francis "Jack" Donaghy rocker Chris Cornell doesn't get personal visits from FAO Schwartz on Christmas Eve. Cornell has to schlump it over to the store like the rest of us.

3-year-old Christopher, looking quite Big here, seems okay with it.

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Spying on the Neighbors: 12-13-08

Whit Honea — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:10:00 GMT

Let it snow!

Nicole and Hugh in Germany (Just Jared)

Chris Cornell in NYC (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Mary Lynn Rajskub and son Valentine (Celebrity Moms)

Meg Ryan has landed (Jezebel)

Plaxico comes out for good (TMZ)

Gov. Tim McGraw? (Hollyscoop)

Jacko is a freako (Perez Hilton)

Chris Cornell Won't Get Fooled Again

Whit Honea — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:33:00 GMT

Rocker Chris Cornell and his wife Vicky and daughter Toni attended the Kennedy Center Honors where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who were shown some love.

Cornell played a cover of "Won't Get Fooled Again" and frankly, I believe him.

I saw KISS cover that same song back in a little something I like to call "the day." I'm pretty sure they were fooled again.

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Audioslave Daddy Exposes His Child to Drugfest?

Karl Erikson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:15:00 GMT

Audioslave front man Chris Cornell was out and about with little Toni at the Fashion Rocks thingie the other night at Radio City Music Hall. Just the sort of thing you want to take your child to, really. A bunch of emaciated supermodels and coked out rockers all celebrating what passes for fashion. Yep, that's where I'd take MY 4-year-old daughter. Give her all sorts of unhealthy images about what women should look like. Very healthy.

Cornell has two other children, as well. His second child with current wife Vickey is Christopher (2-1/2). And there's Lillian Jean, 8, from ex-wife Susan Silver. I suppose he decided to take them on a crackhouse field trip later.

Former Soundgarden dude Cornell has a new solo album (Scream) coming out next month. Why are you yelling? Oh, no, "Scream" is the name of the album. It wasn't a stage directive. Get this, the new album is produced by...wait for it...Timbaland. No shit. If Chris Cornell starts rapping, I'm going to claw my ears out.

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Chris Cornell is a Swinger

Whit Honea — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:37:00 GMT

Chris Cornell got in a little daddy time on the swings with one of his daughters. Looks like a good time.

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Strollerderby Wonders if Mr. Mom is Really Mr. Right

Whit Honea — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:04:00 GMT

The lovely Redsy over at Strollerderby breaks down an article in Newsweek about the role of dads and how it has progressed over the years. The article by Brian Braiker covers his 9-month stint as a Stay-At-Home-Dad. He uses pictures of celebrity fathers, so I'm using that to justify its presence on FameCrawler.

Basically, Braiker sheds a little light on a fraternity of which I am a member. He also makes it sound like we spend a good deal of time sitting around congratulating each other. He wasn't supposed to mention that.

What I found interesting about the piece is that Mr. Braiker goes so far to show how men are breaking ground in regard to stereotypes and the traditional roles of gender that he actually tips the scale somewhat:

Still, the bottom line is that today's guys are procreating, parenting and pleased with ourselves. Sure, you'll have to endure the occasional hipster dad who slaps a Sex Pistols decal on his $800 Bugaboo stroller. Some of us will give our kids offbeat names like Freya and diligently document our every self-important, profanity-laced insight on our blogs. And it will be another generation who will tell us if this grand experiment has worked.

Yes, what he writes is true, but don't forget that there are plenty of moms doing the exact same thing, down to the profanity and Sex Pistols. Personally, I've never gone for the "hipster" parent thing. It is my opinion that what happens nowadays is that rather than adapting a new persona when an individual becomes a parent, they are simply staying themselves. What's the difference between slapping a punk rock decal on a Bugaboo or a Volvo? Should parents have to turn in their iPods and join a CD club filled with the likes of the Doodlebops and the occasional vocal stylings of a certain Pat Boone? I hope not.

Kudos to Newsweek for running the article and to Brian Braiker for writing it. Now the rest of us need to keep working towards erasing the stigmas attached to At-Home-Dads, from Mr. Mom to Hipster and all of the stereotypes in-between.

Photo: Newsweek

Chris Cornell: Hot Dad, Metaphysical Poet. But Mostly Hot Dad.

BadKitty — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:51:00 GMT

Call me thirty-something, but Chris Cornell will always embody a particular form of HAWT. The f'd up hair + devilishly scruffy beard + druggie pallor = damp panties. Even the presence of his daughter Toni can't distract from the sex charged rock and roll danger of Mr. Seattle Grunge.

Irish poet Clare O'Brien wrote a detailed exposition in The Libertine about Chris and his elemental connectivity to the Metaphysical poets like John Donne. Okay, if you say so. I just want him to sing about despair and pain and take his shirt off.

He's in Malibu in this picture, which is a trifle too sunny for my preference, so I'm going to metaphysically move him back up to Seattle and continue this Calgon moment in private. Thanks for reading.

Source: Celebrity Moms

Chris Cornell's Kids on Hunger Strike

Whit Honea — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:02:00 GMT

Chris Cornell, of Soundgarden and Audioslave fame, recently brought two of his children, Chris and Toni, on stage with him at a concert in England's Hyde Park to "help" him with the first verse of the song Hunger Strike. I think they were supposed to do Eddie Vedder's part, as they don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence.