Strollerderby : denise richards

Best of FameCrawler: Week of December 19th

Whit Honea — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:00:00 GMT

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Denise Richards Reality Show Canceled

Brett Singer — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT

It's official – you won't have Denise Richards to kick around anymore.

The E! channel has canceled the unwatchable "It's Complicated," which followed Richards as she tried raising her kids and a lot of pets… or something like that. I watched the first episode and found it mostly dull, but also somewhat depressing, since she had her young children on camera all the freakin' time. Remember that it was her ex-husband Charlie Sheen who wanted to keep the kids off of the show, but Denise took him to court and won. It's an old joke now, but when Charlie Sheen is the good parent, something is very, very wrong.

The reason for the cancellation isn't very complicated at all: nobody was watching. Page Six quotes "a source" who said, "The numbers started out pretty good - just over 1.5 million tuned in for the premiere episode…But the audience has dropped off." In other words, people would have been interested, but she just wasn't that interesting.

It's worth remembering that Denise Richards had a career as an actress for awhile. Granted, it was largely based on her looks, but she was considered one of the hotter young starlets around (think Megan Fox). Things were already on the decline career-wise when she married Sheen, so it would be easy to say that she is a victim of Hollywood ageism. But I have a feeling that some of the behavior she displayed on her reality show – the Post cites one "her confrontation with an editor for a magazine over how she [was] portrayed in the tabloid press" as a "low-light" for the series – was also her behavior in real life. That's just a guess, of course. Oh well. At least her kids won't have their lives on display anymore. Maybe she can do "Dancing with the Stars."

Source: NYPost

Image: LATimes.com

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From TMZ: Hooker Moms

Brett Singer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

I'm not a celebrity gossip news obsessive but I like the occasional BritneyAngelinaAmericanIdolPamAnderson Whatever story as much as the next red-blooded American. (Anyone who doesn't is, naturally, a communist. So now you know.) But we've come a long way from the days of Walter Winchell, or even Liz Smith.

TMZ posted a photo gallery called "Hooker Moms." When I saw the title, I actually thought it was, you know, moms who are now or at one time were prostitutes, or maybe strippers or porn stars or something else from the sex trade. In fact, it's just a bunch of mamacitas wearing outfits ranging from slightly unfortunate to seriously slutty.

Now here's the thing: would you really want to be on a list called "Hooker Moms"? Do you really want your kids to see something like that? In Pamela Anderson's case, she's going to have a lot of 'splaining to do once her boys find out about her most famous movie role (her kids are teenagers so they probably already know.) Even so, who needs this type of thing? Is it just the price they pay for being famous and suckling at the teat of notoriety? (There's a sentence for you.) Can TMZ and their ilk ever cross a line and go too far? "Poshtitute Spice?" Are there places even they won't go? Or is it all just harmless fun?

image: TMZ

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Denise Richards still trying to prove she's insane

Brett Singer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

It's Friday the 13th, which must be why I'm drawn to stories about weird, evil people today.

Denise Richards isn't in the same league and Josef Fritzl or Charles Manson, but she does seem to be trying to prove to the world that she's out of her gourd. Showbiz Spy reports that the former Mrs. Charlie Sheen is, "pleading with the star to stop publicly bashing her now he has re-married…'He loves to trash me in the press and discredit me and has tried to sabotage my show. I hope that now that he's married, he can move forward and be civil.'"

Now, we're not excusing Charlie Sheen, who has his own issues, to put it mildly. Back in May he claimed that Denise emailed him asking for a sperm donation. Denise's reply was, shall we say, something less than "civil": "I don't want Charlie's prostitute-tranny-infested sperm." Nice.

She also accused Chuck of exploiting, "our entire situation." Um, you have a reality show on E! that features your kids. Pot? Kettle? Neither one of them is winning parent of the year, but I think when you put your toddler-age children on a reality show you kind of lose the right to accuse your former husband for "exploiting the situation".

I have a wacky, wacky idea for Denise and Charlie. Yes, you hate each other. Yes, it's an ugly divorce. But you have kids. Stop talking to the media for awhile. SHUT-UP.

image: Page Six

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Whoopi Calls Out Denise Richards

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Best of FameCrawler: Week of June 6th

Whit Honea — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Live blogging two crappy parenting shows

Brett Singer — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:03:00 GMT

I'm going to make an attempt to tap out some opinions about what I'm going to call "the crappy parenting hour" on E! - Denise Richards: It's Complicated and Living Lohan. The opinions aren't going to be a problem, sitting through the shows might be.

Refresh this page for updates.

9:54PM: Caught a few minutes of Keeping up with the Kardashians, which featured the Kards going to New Orleans to take a poor family out to dinner and then bring Reggie Bush in to sign a football. Then the family goes back to their FEMA trailer. Heartwarming. And what the hell happened to Bruce Jenner? He looks like he bathes in Botox. It's kind of sad.

10:02PM: OK, Denise is going to the DMV to get her license changed back to her maiden name, and is busting the clerks' chops in a very staged way. Wow. Stunning.

10:03PM: We open with Denise explaining that she knows what we're thinking - that she's the "Bond" girl, the girl from the tabloids, blah blah - but "look past all of that and my life is all about family." Her father lives with her, along with about 12 dogs and a couple of pigs.

Richards is either stupid, insane, or both. The idea that doing this show is good for her career in any way is ludicrous, although I don't know what she was doing before this ("Bond girl" was awhile ago.)

10:17PM: You know what? The main complaint from a television perspective is that this just isn't very interesting or entertaining. She's looking for a "boyfriend" for her pet pig, who is in heat. This search coincides with her own attempts at dating. I guess that's what passes for storytelling on reality television.

Everytime her two daughters pop up onscreen I get a creepy feeling. It's one thing to want to do a reality show yourself. Putting your own young children on a show like this is just disturbing.

Denise informs us that she's "just a girl from Illinois who lives on a f**kin' farm" (lots of "F" word, bleeped of course.) Then her Tanning Specialist comes over to spray her bronze in the privacy of her own home. Kinda makes the claim that she's doing this show because she needs the money a little tough to believe (not to mention the $52k/month in child support, and possibly a piece of ex-hubby Charlie Sheen's hit TV show.)

10:30PM: On to the Lohan show.

"There's nothing more important than family to me. Next question!" I hate her already.

Dina is another plastic surgery disaster. Do these people not realize that they look worse after going under the knife?

10:39PM: "They better not start on Ali like this." That refers to the tabloids and how they cover Lindsay. Now, if you want to reduce the amount of attention paid to your children, is putting them on a reality show the best way to do that?

Talking to her daughter about choosing songs for her second record (she's 14): "or anyone else that I manage." Dina. Who the hell else are you managing other than your daughters?

Some music producer shows up at her house to play some tracks. They make it look like he just pops by after IM'ing Dina, which doesn't even kind of sound true. Five minutes later he's babysitting the son, Cody. Or maybe he's dating Lindsay. So he's a liar! He's playing them for suckers! Gosh, it's all unfolding before our eyes, in real time. OMG!!!! It's so REAL!

Dina definitely takes pains to try to show that she's a "regular" mom, opening the show with a typical brother-sister fight, or something. Messy house, Long Island, and so on.

The editing is so quick that it's giving me a headache.

10:49PM: "There's gotta be boundaries with these people." I agree, Dina. I'm going to call Child Protective Services, that cool with you? Oh wait, you meant other people. Got it.

10:52PM: I sort of like Gramma. She's got one of those deep New York voices, sounds like she smokes three packs an hour.

10:56PM: Now Ali and Jeremy are arguing about his supposedly dating Lindsay, but Lindsay doesn't even know who he is, but we never see Lindsay, because mom banned her from the show, and... I don't know, I can't really follow what they're talking about.

If Dina says "I'm a single mom" one more time I'm going to get on the LIRR to North Merrick and slap her silly. Wait! There, she said it again. OK, I lied. I'm not going out there.

11:03PM: After watching these two shows I actually feel drained. In order to make these shows seem like something is happening, they use reallyquickcutsandedits. Maybe I'm old but it makes my head hurt.

I'm vaguely curious to see if either of these shows gets any ratings. They've both been hyped as if they were something that people were desperately clamoring for, which really seems unlikely. Did anyone really give a crap about Denise Richards? Do we want to see her "set the record straight"? At best, we wanted to see her making out with Neve Campbell in a pool, or playing a nuclear scientist in a bikini while seducing James Bond. When she isn't doing those things, is she interesting?

Of the two shows, "Lohan" is definitely more palatable; in this context, that means less offensive. Mostly that's because she doesn't have really young children like Denise does. Cody's young but not 3 years old young. That's something, right?

It's actually not as easy to make fun of these shows as I thought it would be. Obviously this because of the parent factor. I don't mean to be self-righteous but I really do feel strange watching those little Richards children. Do they have any idea what's going on? Is there any good that can come from them being on a show like this? It's bad enough that they have to live with the fact that video of their mom yapping about their father and other men she slept with will be around forever ("What can I say, I like hot guys with big d**cks!"). Do they need to be onscreen as well?

All right, enough moralizing.

Well, maybe a little bit more:

The "single mother" line shows up in both shows. It's fairly obnoxious, frankly. Neither one of these women fits the bill as a "single mom." Yes, both are divorced. Dina's ex is apparently nuts, but Charlie Sheen is looking more normal by the day, and that's really saying something. (Well, except for that whole "I hope you get cancer and die" thing. That's not so much on the normal side.) I don't think you can play the "single mom" card when your morning ritual is scanning the tabloids for naked pictures of your kids with your personal assistant.

Feh. I'm tired. Maybe I'll add more tomorrow. Bottom line: neither show is really worth watching. So I've saved you some time.

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photo: NYPost

Best of FameCrawler: Week of May 23rd

Whit Honea — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Whoopi Calls Out Denise Richards

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Best of Famecrawler: Children Who Need Therapy

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:02:00 GMT

Posted by Sassy Smith

According to Life & Style magazine, after several long months of acting like ~~immature hotheads~~ not getting along very well, Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen have decided to put their young daughters, Sam, 3, and Lola, 2, into therapy sessions.

"This was a big victory for Denise... She said all she wanted was what's best for the girls. And Charlie was pleased about settling things."

Denise is said to be worried about the impact of the divorce on her two daughters.

Well duh. Perhaps if, oh I don't know, the parents, at least tried to get along, then their very young children, who are barely into toddlerhood, wouldn't have to go to therapy. Just sayin'.

Photo Credit: Splash News

And it's a good things celebs have enough money to pay for their kids' therapy:

Beatrice will surely need it
Violet will (if only cause mommy is so annoyingly perfect)
And who can forget Lourdes and Rocko (if for their names only)

Fame is Good. August 8th Edition.

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:36:00 GMT

You've got to love FameCrawler. Where else can you read celebrity related posts ranging from

a feminist analysis of breastfeeding versus formula feeding, to
the trials of a scorned breeder, to
the problems posed by unauthorized biographies

I don't care what you think about all the easy money, good looking partnering, and exotic vacations, you couldn't pay me a mint to be famous these days.

Little Mommy Day. Because it's Never Too Early to Brainwash Kids

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:24:00 GMT

Mattel designated the day before Mother's Day as "Little Mommy Day." Little girls are no longer little girls. They are "mini-mommies." Denise Richards and Dayna Devon brought along their ~~little props~~ daughters to take part in a Beverly Hills Tea Party and other fun activities to kick off the event.

At one point, the little girls took an "oath" to love their little babies. There is no question that kids love dolls and that little girls often identify with their mothers (which is why mine play a game called "yell at the Republicans"), but must we brainwash them to believe that being a "little mommy" is their primary role in life?

Teaching children to be nurturing and loving and considerate of others is incredibly important. And playing "mommy" is often as fun as playing "doctor." If we make our little toddler girls take "oaths" to protect their baby dolls, what's next? Toddler bank accounts?

Mom-ebrities: Celebrities Famous for Being Moms

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:31:00 GMT

Who are these tiyerd "celebrities" cluttering up the pages of tabloids and online sites just because they have kids they cart all over West L.A.? Yeah, I'm talking about you, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. I don't know what you've done lately, but every time I sit down to check my gossip feeds you and your kid are front and center. Why? Move over, Melissa Joan. Maybe I don't want to see your perky mug when I'm trying to find out who Lily Allen puked on last night.

I'm also talking to you, Denise Richards. I've seen you and the kids at the zoo, the park, out shopping. Can't you stay home for five minutes so the paparazzi can move on to someone else more ~~interesting~~ effed up? Like Courtney Love?

And Brooke Shields? You know what I'm about to say. Going for a walk? Having tea? Cut it out.

At this point y'all are famous just for being mom-ebrities. Call your agents! I know there's a Danielle Steel screenplay somewhere that needs filming. Get back to work! Take your kids with you, but get back to work! Give us a break and stay out of Santa Monica for a week. Trust me, Fred Segal ain't going anywhere.