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Owen Wilson
"In Good condition", Hospital Says
Owen
Wilson was reported in good condition Monday (August
27) after being taken to a hospital by paramedics over
the weekend.
Wilson "is here in good condition," Cynthia
Harding, a spokeswoman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Beverly Hills, California. The actor had initially
been taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica.
Wilson released the following statement Monday: "I
respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive
care and heal in private during this difficult time."
Several media outlets have claimed that Wilson attempted
suicide, but those reports have yet to be substantiated.
On Sunday, the Santa Monica Police Department released
the following statement: "On Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007,
at 12:10 p.m., officers from the Santa Monica Police
Department responded to a medical assistance call from
the Santa Monica Fire Department at the 900 block of
23rd Street. The person was transported to a local hospital
where they are being treated." No further information
was provided, but People.com reported that the home
is Owen Wilson's residence. Members of Wilson's family,
including his brother Luke, have been reported visiting
Cedars-Sinai.
Owen, 38, is the middle child of the Wilson brothers,
all of whom act, frequently with each other. Earlier
this year, eldest brother Andrew co-directed alongside
Luke "The Wendell Baker Story," a film in
which Owen appeared.
Wilson, one of the most bankable comic actors working
today, is best known for his roles in blockbuster comedies
including "Wedding Crashers," "You, Me
and Dupree" and "Night at the Museum."
One of the most prolific leading men today, he has a
bevy of upcoming projects in various stages of production,
including the already completed "Drillbit Taylor"
and "The Darjeeling Limited."
The latter film, Wilson's latest collaboration with
friend and frequent collaborator Wes Anderson, is scheduled
for release September 29. Wilson was scheduled to attend
the film's premiere next week at the Venice Film Festival.
Wilson earned an Oscar nomination for his writing on
an earlier Anderson effort in which he appeared, "The
Royal Tenenbaums."
Wilson is also scheduled to appear in the big 2008
summer comedy "Tropic Thunder" opposite "Night
at the Museum" co-star Ben Stiller. MTV News recently
spoke to that film's co-writer Justin Theroux, who said
they were still in the midst of shooting the film in
Hawaii.
DMX's Arizona Home Raided;
A Dozen Pit Bulls Removed From Residence
Deputies
with the Maricopa County sheriff's office raided the
Cave Creek, Arizona, home of rapper DMX on Friday morning
(August 24), and according to a police spokesperson,
12 pit bulls were removed from the residence, all in
bad condition. Police would not get into specifics but
did say the animals are being tended to by veterinarians.
At this point, DMX (real name: Earl Simmons) has not
been officially charged with any crime, but police are
still investigating. DMX was not at his home at the
time of the raid, during which police also discovered
a large cache of weapons. Police do not believe the
rapper is in Arizona but would like to question him
as part of their investigation.
Nicole
Richie's Jail Stay, 'Borat' And Other Things That Last
82 Minutes
On
Thursday, at 3:15 p.m. PT, Nicole Richie reported to
the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood,
California, to begin paying back her debt to society.
At 4:37 p.m., that debt was apparently paid in full.
Originally sentenced to serve four days in jail after
pleading guilty to her second DUI last month (see "Nicole
Richie To Serve Four Days In Jail For Drunk Driving"),
Richie spent just 82 minutes — or 4,920 seconds
— behind bars, which sounds less like hard time
and more like a perfectly lovely way to spend an afternoon
(seriously, we've had spa treatments that have lasted
longer).
And that got us thinking: Since Richie was forced to
waste almost a sixteenth of her entire day in the pokey,
here's a list of things she could've been doing with
those earth-shattering 82 minutes. Hopefully, it will
serve as a deterrent the next time she thinks about
smoking marijuana, popping some Valium and driving the
wrong way on the Ventura Freeway. You know, sort of
like what jail is supposed to be.
In 82 minutes, Nicole could have:
» Watched "Borat: Cultural Learnings of
America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
exactly once — and said the film's title exactly
once, too.
» Made somewhere in the neighborhood of nine
delicious dinners, salads and appetizers using Rachael
Ray's vaunted "30 Minute Meals" corollary.
» Run an entire marathon at the pace of Morocco's
Hicham El Guerroj, the current world-record holder in
the mile.
» Watched her good pal Paris Hilton's "1
Night in Paris" film 1.32 times.
» Listened to Hilton's Paris album twice.
» Devoured 451 hot dogs and buns at the pace
of current dog-eating champ Joey Chestnut (66 franks
and buns in 12 minutes).
» Battled her way through a paragraph from her
2005 masterwork "The Truth About Diamonds: A Novel,"
like, for example, this one: "Everyone was there
that night, the whole clique we'd acquired somewhere
between birth and our early twenties: Joey, Carrie,
Mikela, Lanford and moi. We were all crammed into the
most prized booth like a gaggle of kids on a monstrous
Tilt-a-Whirl, smoking, drinking, drugging and/or gossiping
in our best effort to recapture the magic we'd seen
in archival photos from Studio 54's heyday."
» Held her breath under water for as long as
a Weddell Seal.
» Listened to Mr. Edward Van Halen's "Eruption"
solo 48 times.
» Watched her father's video for "Hello"
15 times (though we're certain that it would be impossible
to sculpt a jheri-curled bust of her father's head out
of clay in less than an hour and a half).
» Contemplated the failings of our justice system
roughly 45 times. Or, better yet, she could have slammed
975 pints of beer at the pace of Australian drinking
champion (and former prime minister) Robert Hawke.
» Listened to Lindsay Lohan's A Little More Personal
(Raw) album 1.89 times.
» Watched the Zapruder film exactly 185 times.
Or "The Simpsons Movie" once.
» Listened to boyfriend Joel Madden's Good Morning
Revival album twice. And then suddenly realize that
perhaps jail wasn't so bad after all.
Kelly Rowland Talks Snoop-Enhanced
'Ghetto', And Destiny's Child Reunion?
Kelly
Rowland may have classed it up alongside Eve in the
clip for "Like This," the lead single from
her sophomore album, Ms. Kelly, but in her next video,
for the Snoop Dogg assisted "Ghetto," let's
just say that Rowland is taking a decidedly less-proper
approach.
"I'm working with Andrew Gura on this video. It's
very, I'd say ... gosh, I'm trying to get the right
word out because I don't want to sound crazy. ... It's
ghetto. It's really fly. I feel like everybody has some
sort of element of ghetto in them. Think about it. Right?
Wouldn't you say so? And everyone knows what the ghetto
is."
Rowland just shot the video for "Ghetto"
last Thursday in Los Angeles, but according to her,
the song was actually written quite some time ago by
crooner Tank and upstart Lonny Bereal. The former Destiny's
Child singer cut the track a year ago. She said when
it was time for Snoop to lay down his rhymes, the rapper
came into the studio without skipping a beat.
"He [just] put his Snoop-a-fied player-isms on
the track," Rowland said. "It's hot."
Although Rowland has recorded two proper solo albums,
she said she still finds herself adjusting to post-DC
life. One of the benefits of each lady doing her own
thing, Rowland said, is that the knowledge each member
has gained could improve a reunion should one ever happen.
"There's an element of freedom, but at the same
time, of course, you miss your ladies," Rowland
explained. "But there's always time for growth.
And I feel like growth must take place, and that's definitely
what's happened amongst all three of us: Michelle, with
her doing Broadway; and Beyoncé doing the tour;
and me going out and doing the record and performing
at different places. So I feel that it's really great.
All of us are basically doing everything on our own,
so if we do decide to come back together as Destiny's
Child, it just makes it even stronger."
But don't expect a reunion just yet.
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