FameCrawler : Europe

Michelle Obama Teaches Kids About Gardening

Josh loposer — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:12:00 GMT

Michelle Obama's like a Supermom. Just after she gets back from touring all over Europe, she's already tackling the White House dog issue, the White House Easter Egg Roll, and getting down and dirty with the much-anticipated White House Garden.

Michelle held court out on the White House lawn decked out in her gardening gloves and all, as she taught a group of school children the virtues of growing your own spinach, lettuce, herbs, fruits, and veggies. I wonder if she enlisted Malia and Sasha to help dig up the garden and get it ready to plant. I would.

When she asked the kids how much they thought it cost to plant the WH garden, a little boy guessed $100,000. To which Michelle replied: "My husband would go crazy if he thought we were spending that kind of money...It's between $100 and $200. So it's not a lot of money."

According to her, the garden was the hot topic while she visited with world leaders abroad. Back in the States, I gotta say there seems to be a lot more anticipation about what dog the Obamas will get. Hey, we're a nation of dog lovers. Or, maybe we just don't really care enough about sustainable gardening. Whatevs.

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Angelina Jolie is The Sexiest Private Eye Ever

Karl Erikson — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:37:00 GMT

It's great to see Super Mom Angelina Jolie back in New York. If not for film premieres, she might stay in Europe forever. She's back in the States to promote "The Changeling," her latest flick, which opens later this month.

"Changeling" is actually premiering during the New York Film Festival tonight. Clint Eastwood is the director, and J. Michael Straczynski wrote it, so I can't imagine it being anything less than stellar. Plus, Jolie and John Malkovich are nothing to sneeze at. One of the few movies I'm looking forward to.

By the way, how hot is the trenchcoat look on Angelina?

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Brad Pitt and Zahara and French Toy Stores...Oui Oui!

Karl Erikson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Brad Pitt spent several days in Paris before taping a TV commercial recently. Here he is with cutie patootie Zahara Jolie-Pitt, taking her into a toy store and buying her whatever her little heart desired. I guess little French Dora the Explorers or whatever.

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Tony Gonzalez is a Hero

Whit Honea — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Tony Gonzalez is on pace to be among the best, if not the best, tight ends of all time. Tight end is a football position and any resemblance to his ass is purely coincidence- and no, I'm not going to look.

Gonzalez was eating dinner in Hunnington Beach with his wife, his brother and his baby daughter when a patron at the next table started choking. This wasn't just heavy coughing and watery eyes choking, this was the everyone freezes and/or freaks-out kind of choking, like in the movies.

The choking man, Ken Hunter, had a piece of meat lodged in his throat and his dining companion started yelling, "He can't breathe, he can't breathe."

Gonzalez, who has never been trained in the Heimlich maneuver, realized that nobody else was going to act so he "jumped to his feet, wrapped his long, sinewy arms around the stricken man and began to squeeze. After a few seconds, the meat popped out and Hunter, a shipping company manager in Huntington Beach, recovered."

After the incident Hunter told the media, "Tony saved my life."

The story was so big that Gonzalez received a letter from President Bush (he can write?) and was even approached by Barack Obama at a campaign stop to discuss the heroics.

From the NFL:

"I never anticipated what an impact this would have," said Gonzalez, who arrived in River Falls on Thursday for the Chiefs' training camp.

"But now, looking back, I think with all the negative stuff that's in the media these days about NFL players and athletes in general, when a story like that comes out, it really grabs people's attention. I know it was an incredible situation the way it came down. I believe things happen for a reason. Hopefully, there'll be a domino affect."

Chiefs president Carl Peterson was traveling in Europe when his star tight end made news off the football field.

"Nothing surprises me about the abilities of Tony Gonzalez," Peterson said. "Thank God he was there, in the right place at the right time and reacted the way he did. The story was all over the world."

Shortly afterward, Peterson happened to run into Steve Tisch, part owner of the New York Giants, in France.

"We hugged each other and right away he said, `Hey, how about your tight end saving that guy's life?"'

Good for Tony Gonzalez and lucky for Ken Hunter, kind of pathetic for everyone else in the restaurant.

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Guess the Celebrity Mom

Whit Honea — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:05:00 GMT

Do you know who's walking away?

It's J.Lo! It looks like she went back to find Marc Anthony, but he didn't disappear, he just turned sideways.

Don't they sell food in Italy?

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Guess the Celebrity Baby

Whit Honea — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:21:00 GMT

Do you recognize this little cutie? Here's a hint, her daddy luvs her.

Is that a good hint? I never do this guessing stuff.

Give up? It's Mia Hewitt, whose daddy Lleyton just did his country proud at the Davis Cup.

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Lleyton Hewitt and Daughter Mia

Whit Honea — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:07:00 GMT

Lleyton Hewitt played well for Australia in the Davis Cup and is now resting up for a couple of weeks before hitting the European circuit. His daughter Mia looks to be his biggest fan.

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Heidi Klum: Now With Less Nanny!

HerBadMother — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:00 GMT

So, wow, from the looks of this picture Heidi Klum is rolling with at least one or two fewer nannies than usual. I only see one in the background there. Of course, they could just all be just out of frame, but Heidi's looking pretty comfortable schlepping the boy - and she has been photographed being pretty hands-on with the playdates recently - so I'm guessing that maybe one or two of them have been getting some days off.

Anyway. How cute is the boy, for seriously? Nothin' cuter than a toddler who insists upon wearing his Spiderman costume everywhere. An awesome look that they really should do something with on Project Runway. (Challenge: turn children's superhero costumes into club wear. They'd be just the right size for the models, the muscle padding would make for good bustiers, and it would just be fantastically postmodern.)

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Heidi and Her Boys

Whit Honea — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:27:00 GMT

Heidi Klum and her sons Henry and Johan spent some time in the park. Her daughter Leni is there too, I'm guessing somewhere left of that foot. Our left.

You may be wondering why Henry loves Koln, or as many of us know it, Cologne. This is why, oh wait, that's why I love it. I'm sure he has his reasons.

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Louis Vuitton Doesn't Like Britney Spears?

Sassy Smith — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:01:00 GMT

Or maybe just the fact that Spears, or rather her "people" used a close up of Louis Vuitton fabric in the pink Hummer used in her 2005 video, "Do Something." *Gasp*

The house of Vuitton (oh don't they sound uppity?) won a case against Sony, BMG and MTV Online (Spears was not named in the actual lawsuit), and the video has been banned on European TV stations. LV was awarded 80,000 Euros (um, not sure how much that is in US funds, what do I look like, a conversion chart?) in damages for the unauthorized use of the fabric. Paaaalease! Usually designers want famous people to flaunt their shit. And Brit was a respectable ~~tramp~~ popstar back then! Go figure. Apparently, the tribunal found the director of said video, guilty of "clearly emphasizing the Louis Vuitton brand." Holy! How awful right? Rolling my eyes here.

The producer of the video was also ordered to pay a crap load of money for damages for "tarnishing" Vuitton’s image (Huh? I mean, sure if it was a 2007 Britney video, ya, get upset, but people, this was when she was hot!) and $1,470 per day until the video is removed from the Internet. Have fun with that task.

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The Final Countdown to a New Baby for Europe's Tempest

Whit Honea — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:36:00 GMT

Yes! Freaking Europe! Ba-na-now-now, ba-na-now-now-now. Holy crap, that's it. That's it, I'm getting the mullet back together.

Joey Tempest (real name Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson- which is also catchy) and his wife of 7 years, Lisa, had their first child last week. Please welcome James Joakim to the stage.

Ba-na-now-now, ba-na-now-now-now...

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Where in the World is Britney Spears?

Whit Honea — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:31:00 GMT

Looks like crazy has hit the road. First, Britney did the most insane thing yet, turning down an offer to do a duet with Mr. Justin Timberlake, and now she's left the country. I think I'm serious. Would Perez lie?

It appears that Fed-Ex has the kids (hope they're comfortable), and Britney has reportedly been spotted in Belgium- and she was wearing the wig. Merry X-mas Europe. Keep her as long as you like. Please.

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Flowers from Killers: A Baby Story

Whit Honea — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:04:00 GMT

Somebody told me that Brandon Flowers, frontman for The Killers, is now a daddy. His wife, Tana, has given birth to a bouncing baby boy.

The birth worked out swimmingly, as the band is home in Las Vegas for sin and relaxation before going to Europe in August.

Flowers, who is constantly being quoted by the press as making derogatory comments about other bands, now has the perfect opportunity to start talking shit about their children. He does like a good hot fuss.