Whitney Houston died in her bathtub at age 48, and her tragic death may have been caused from and accidental combination of Xanax and alcohol

Whitney Houston died in her bathtub at age 48, and her tragic death may have been caused from and accidental combination of Xanax and alcohol

Whitney Houston died on Saturday at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Ca., the night before the Emmys at which she was going to attend.

She is survived by her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown who she had from her former husband Bobby Brown.

TMZ reported that Whitney’s aunt, Mary Jones discovered Whitney Houston’s body in the bathtub. Mary had laid out Whitney’s dress for the evening on the bed and then left for about a half hour. When Whitney didn’t come out of the bathroom, Mary entered, pulled Whitney out of the tub and began administering CPR.

So sad, and a tragic lose for her family and music fans around the world.

L.A. County Coroner officials told the family that Whitney Houston did not die from drowning, but rather from what appears to be a combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol.

The autopsy of Whitney Houston is complete, but the results will be deferred pending a toxicology report, which typically takes 4-6 weeks.

A coroner’s spokesman says the results are on a security hold, which just means nothing is being released at this time.

Although the cause of death is unknown, it is increasingly looking like Whitney may have fallen asleep or lapsed into unconsciousness in the bathtub and drowned.

Coroner officials informed the family there was not enough water in Whitney’s lungs to lead to the conclusion that she drowned, but obviously being under water did not help the situation.

Whitney’s mom has arranged to have the singer’s body flown back to Atlanta, as early as the day after the Emmys, and the family was told the Coroner has no problem releasing the body because there is no evidence of foul play.

This whole event is like her best songs… So Emotional… and I Will Always Love You… and Didn’t We Almost Have It All…

Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive at pre-Grammy gala honoring David Geffen in Beverly Hills, California

Whitney Houston wheeled out on a stretcher after she died in her bathtub at age 48, and her tragic death may have been caused from and accidental combination of Xanax and alcohol

Lindsey Lohan is quickly released from jail in theft case – Oh please; this is a joke of justice!!

Lindsey Lohan is quickly released from jail in theft case - Oh please; this is a joke of justice!!

I am sure LILO really feels bad that she got caught lifting a necklace from a swank LA store, but everyone owed her something for her fame. Right? I mean totally, she’s a total A-list class act celeb, like you know?!

Well, a judge Los Angeles Superior Court Judge (Stephanie Sautner) thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved.

The judge initially reduced the actress’ charge from felony grand theft to a lesser misdemeanor charge and imposed the 120-day sentence.

Now that was a break for LILO – I am sure if your 24 year old friend from east LA would get the same break, right?

The best part of the sentence was that Judge Sautner hoped to give the “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday” star a dose of perspective by sentencing her to almost 500 hours of community service, including time at the county morgue and 300 hours at a women’s shelter in downtown LA.

LILO helping poor people? Eeeeeyyyyeewwwwww!!! They smell!!!

Well, the stupid bitch got her lawyer Shawn Holley to file a notice of appeal right before court closed, clearing the way for the actress’ release on bail.

April,23 2011, after 18 hours in jail, LILO was freed at 9:21 p.m. after posting $75,000 bail, according to the sheriff department’s website.

Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers also said her office would consider appealing the ruling as well. Low friends in high places?

She could afford $75,000 bail, but not a $2,500 necklace? WTF!!!

It is my opinion, that LILO needs to do some hard jail time. 120 day minimum. She needs to clean toilets, be lonely, get off of drugs and most of all she needs to be someone’s bitch.

Then 300 hours in the downtown LA women’s shelter will help put her life in perspective, and maybe she might become a better person.

Right?

Lindsey Lohan is quickly released from jail in theft case - Oh please; this is a joke of justice!!

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

It comes with a list of standard features like (also see photos further down):

• Machine guns
• Bullet-proof shield
• Revolving number plates
• Tracking device
• Removable roof panel
• Oil slick sprayer
• Nail spreader
• Smoke screen

It is one of the most beautiful and prized colletor cars in standard trim, but what makes this 1964 Aston Martin DB5 special, is that it is the James Bond film car from the hit movies “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball.”

The car is said to have been one of two used for driving scenes in the movies with the actor Sean Connery behind the wheel as Bond.

Four were built in total, but two were mules (non-working) used for promotional purposes.

The other car used in the films was reported stolen from a Boca Raton airport hangar in 1997 and has not been seen since.

The cars and all thier gadgets are the brainchild of late special effects maestro John Stears, who won an Oscar for his work on “Thunderball” in 1966. He also worked on the special effects in “Star Wars” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”

The car sold on Thursday was reportedly bought by its seller, Jerry Lee, a Philadelphia radio station owner, for $12,000 in 1969.

At the RM Auctions Automobiles of London sale, Ohio collector Harry Yeaggy brought home the top prize James Bond film car from “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball.” The car sold for £2,600,000. With the addition of auction fees, the final figure is expected to be over $4,600,00.

The car is said to have been one of two used for driving scenes in the movies with the actor Sean Connery behind the wheel as Bond.

Despite being close to half a century old, the DB5 only has 30,000 miles on the clock. The seller Jerry Lee said he has only driven the car once: “I drove it for two blocks in London. I think it’s a work of art,” he said. “It’s just pure beauty.”

Lee said he will put the proceeds from the sale towards the Jerry Lee Foundation, which he founded in 2007 to reduce crime.

Sean Connery and the James Bond Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

James Bond’s Thunderball and Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 Sells for $4.6 Million

“Bond. James Bond.”

TelOnU.com is one of the best company research, job, layoff, school research and celebrity sites I have ever been on.

TelOnU.com is one of the best research and job related sites I have ever been on.

Site Alert!!!! — TelOnU.com

TelOnU.com is one of the best company research, job, layoff, school research and celebrity sites I have ever been on.

I don’t normally rave about a site, but I was doing research on some companies and I ended up on telonu.com with one of them. Then I looked around the site and realized it is a really valuable tool for people doing research about companies and people, as well as job seekers and those being abused at a job.

Basically, Telonu.com is kinda of like yelp.com – but focused on companies, people, teachers, schools, product, politicians and celebrities.

Say you are looking for a job, and you have an interview at IBM. Well if you go to telonu.com and search on IBM, then you will be taken to the IBM page:

http://www.telonu.com/reviews/ibm

There you will find posts by employees, former employees, suppliers, etc. – all talking about there experiences with the company. These posts are called “Tell’s”, and you can also signup and post your own ‘tell’, and even start a section on a company or person if it doesn’t already exist.

Really cool!!

The teachers and school section is also very interesting, since the tell’s are from students and parents about various schools and teachers. If you were moving and wanted to find a good school, then telonu.com could be very valuable indeed.

The other part of the site that is really cool, is that it tracks the various layoff that are occurring at companies. If a layoff is happening at your company, you can post it in the layoff section so other can be aware of it.

All of the tells are anonymous, so employees at a company can post without fear of reprisals from their bosses.

Telonu.com also has a fun celebrity and politicians section with some of the funniest tell’s and gossip. Great place to take a break from job and company research.

TelOnU.com is one of the best company research, job, layoff, school research and celebrite sites I have ever been on.

Brittany Murphy husband, Simon Monjack found dead in same Hollywood house – only 5 months later – now things are getting strange…

Brittany Murphy husband, Simon Monjack found dead in same Hollywood house – only 5 months later – now things are getting strange.

British screenwriter, and husband of Brittany Murphy – Simon Monjack was found dead Sunday (June 23, 2010) night at his Rising Glen Road mansion in the Hollywood hills.

Monjack, 39, was pronounced dead after the Los Angeles Fire Department was called at 9:40 p.m. to the home for a medical emergency. Brittany’s mother, Sharon Murphy, reportedly lived in the home with Monjack, and according to a CNN report, it was Sharon who found the unconscious Monjack in his bedroom and called for help on Sunday night.

Brittany Murphy, 32, Simons Murphy, his wife of less than three years, died five months ago in December from a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and multiple drug intoxication, a coroner said. The drugs involved were legal and used to treat a respiratory infection, according to an autopsy. See my blog report on it:

https://pusz4frog.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/brittany-murphys-cause-of-death-pneumonia/

Now Brittany’s husband Simon Monjack is dead, too. And, yet again, reports have surfaced that there were significant amounts of prescription medications in the house. “We’re not sure if it is natural causes or a possible accident, maybe because of the prescription medication found there,” Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner in L.A., told People magazine on Monday.
“We concluded there no signs of foul play or any criminal activity involved,” Sgt. Alex Ortiz, another police spokesman, told the AP.

A Monjack family spokesman, meanwhile, told the magazine that Simon was due for a heart bypass operation in the near future. “I don’t believe he had an overdose,” the spokesman said. “If you have a heart condition, you’re going to have prescription medication for yourself. You’re going to be on some kind of medicine.”

At the time of his death, Monjack, a Brit, was known in Hollywood as a sometime director, with a history of messy romantic entanglements, bad debt, and other legal trouble.
Monjack was outspoken about his grief following Murphy’s December death. He described how he had lost his “best friend and soul mate” as the “Clueless” and “Girl, Interrupted” star was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Christmas Eve.

Celebrity drug addicts, and those who supply them with drugs, have all sorts of ways to try and convince people that they are sober individuals, with no connections to illicit substances. Simon’s death is now amid a torrent of speculation that he and his deceased wife Brittany Murphy had had problems with cocaine and prescription medications.

When his wife died in December, there were pill bottles lying all around the house. But Monjack had explanations: She was hypoglycemic; he had heart problems and survived oral cancer.

However the Murphy’s died – the fact is that both are now dead. A tragic end to a wonderful actress and her husband, both who died way to early in their lives.

For me, it is still a question whether these deaths are just another sad Hollywood drug related death story, or just a strange set of co-incidents…

Brittany Murphy husband, Simon Monjack during happier times.

Brittany Murphy photos shot by husband, Simon Monjack

Brittany Murphy photos shot by husband, Simon Monjack

The 82nd annual Oscars – 2010 : The year of The Hurt Locker and female director Kathryn Bigelow

The 82nd Oscars 2010 : the hurt Locker wins big.

The show, kinda boring, but well organized and Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin delivered their can jokes with as much enthusiasm as could be expected under the circumstances.

Personally, all the films I wanted to win – didn’t.

I didn’t see Hurt Locker, even though I wanted to, it left the theaters before I could get around to it.

Still, The Hurt Locker which only earned just $21 million worldwide (Avatar has earned $2.6 billion so faR), won 6 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing

The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow made history by becoming the first woman to win the directing prize. The bonus prize was that she kick her ex-husbands ass (James Cameron). Presenter Barbra Streisand opened the envelope and said, “Well, the time has come!” as a loud standing ovation and lots of shrieks greeted Bigelow when she came up on stage. Way to go girl!!!

I will say that Avatar got what it should have: three Oscars, for cinematography, visual effects and art direction.

I really loved that Sandra Bullock won best actress for her role as a forceful mother who brings a homeless teen into her well-off family in “The Blind Side.” I thought it was a great film, still think District 9 should have won Best Picture though.

Sandra Bullock started her speech with a few jokes, paying tribute to her “lover, Meryl Streep” and asking, “Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down?”  It was sweet though when her voice cracked with emotion as she dedicated her award to “the moms that take care of the babies and the children, no matter where they come from,”.

Jeff Bridges won the best actor Oscar for his performance as an alcohol-soaked country singer in “Crazy Heart.” – but we all know he should have won it long ago for the ‘Dude” in the Big Lebosky.

I like that he said “Thank you Mom and Dad for turning me on to such a groovy profession. … They loved showbiz so much, and I feel like an extension of them. This is as much for them as it is for me.” Bridges’ father was Lloyd Bridges, star of the TV show “Sea Hunt” and many movies, and his mother was actress Dorothy Bridges.

So, overall it was good TV, and several new people got Oscars bringing new blood into the scene.

Below is the complete list of winners for the 2010 Oscars:

Below is a complete list of the 82nd annual Academy Awards winners and nominees:

Best picture

• “Avatar”
• “The Hurt Locker” [WINNER]
• “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• “Up in the Air”
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “Up”
• “The Blind Side”
• “District 9”
• “An Education”
• “A Serious Man”

Actor

• George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
• Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” [WINNER]
• Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
• Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
• Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Actress

• Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”
• Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side” [WINNER]
• Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
• Carey Mulligan, “An Education”

Supporting actor

• Matt Damon, “Invictus”
• Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
• Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
• Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
• Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds” [WINNER]

Supporting actress

• Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
• Mo’Nique, “Precious” [WINNER]
• Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
• Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Crazy Heart”

Director

• Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
• Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker” [WINNER]
• James Cameron, “Avatar”
• Lee Daniels, “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”

Animated feature

• “Up” [WINNER]
• “Coraline”
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
• “The Princess and the Frog”
• “The Secret of Kells”

Original screenplay

• “The Hurt Locker” [WINNER]
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “The Messenger”
• “A Serious Man”
• “Up”

Adapted screenplay

• “District 9”
• “An Education”
• “In the Loop”
• “Precious” [WINNER]
• “Up in the Air”

Best foreign-language film

• “Ajami”
• “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” [WINNER]
• “The Milk of Sorrow”
• “Un Prophète”
• “The White Ribbon”

Best film editing

• “Avatar”
• “District 9”
• “The Hurt Locker” [WINNER]
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “Precious”

Art direction

• “Avatar” [WINNER]
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
• “Nine”
• “Sherlock Holmes”
• “The Young Victoria”

Cinematography

• “Avatar” [WINNER]
• “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
• “The Hurt Locker”
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “The White Ribbon”

Costume design

• “Bright Star”
• “Coco Before Chanel”
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
• “Nine”
• “The Young Victoria” [WINNER]

Best documentary feature

• “Burma VJ”
• “The Cove” [WINNER]
• “Food, Inc.”
• “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”
• “Which Way Home”

Documentary short

• “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
• “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”
• “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”
• “Music by Prudence” [WINNER]
• “Rabbit à la Berlin”

Makeup

• “Il Divo”
• “Star Trek” [WINNER]
• “The Young Victoria”

Music (original score)

• “Avatar”
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
• “The Hurt Locker”
• “Sherlock Holmes”
• “Up” [WINNER]

Music (original song)

• “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog”
• “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog”
• “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36”
• “Take it All” from “Nine”
• “The Weary Kind (Theme from “Crazy Heart”) from “Crazy Heart” [WINNER]

Short film, animated

• “French Toast”
• “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”
• “The Lady and the Reaper”
• “Logorama” [WINNER]
• “A Matter of Loaf and Death”

Short film, live action

• “The Door”
• “Instead of Abracadabra”
• “Kavi”
• “Miracle Fish”
• “The New Tenants” [WINNER]

Sound editing

• “Avatar”
• “The Hurt Locker” [WINNER]
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “Star Trek”
• “Up”

Sound mixing

• “Avatar”
• “The Hurt Locker” [WINNER]
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “Star Trek”
• “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”

Visual effects

• “Avatar” [WINNER]
• “District 9”
• “Star Trek”

PS3 XCM Chrome Case Mod – Star Wars Princess Amidala’s spaceship for your living room

XCM Cyberchrome case makes your PlayStation 3 look like Princess Amidala's ship in the first Star Wars prequal

Now I prefer PC Gaming to console gaming, not that I spend 12 weeks locked in a basement playing Quake 4, but I do game once a week.

I have been thinking of getting a new game console, but Wii, X-box or PS3 has been the question.

Well, I saw this XCM Cyberchrome case makes your PlayStation 3 look like Princess Amidala’s ship in the first Star Wars prequal:

J-type 327 Nubian royal starship

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/J-type_327_Nubian_royal_starship

Now I love the J-type 327, but I don’t know if spending $70 on and already $300 PS3 really is worth it, but damn if looks hot!!

Now, it is cool that the game geeks who do get this, will actually be able to see themselves in it – pale, pasty and with bloodshot rat eyes – and maybe decide to come up for air between 40 hour on-line slog fests and see if the real world still exists.

Note: We did not receive any product or money to post this article.

XCM Cyberchrome case makes your PlayStation 3 look like Princess Amidala's ship in the first Star Wars prequal

Is John Mayer really Satan? The real truth of his Playboy Interview.

Is John Mayer really Satan? The real truth of his Playboy Interview.

For the last week now, I have been hear all this stuff about John Mayer and his now infamous Playboy interview.

I am not a big fan of his music, so I don’t really pay much attention to anything about him. That changed like a car wreck in January when I read the Rolling Stone Interview by writer Erik Hedegaard called “The Dirty Mind and Lonely Heart of John Mayer,” with the subtitle, “He has everything a 32-year-old man could want. So why can’t rock’s biggest playboy shut up and enjoy?”

This interview had the insight of John Mayers stream-of-consciousness ranting, in which we all learned that the singer has a $20 million watch collection, owns a bulletproof vest, can’t resist “poop Twitters,” believes he has “masturbated [himself] out of serious problems” in his life and describes how even in his sex dreams, he has to stop his virtual mate from grinding on him because he’s distracted by a phantom paparazzo. These were all very personal, TMI-style utterances that the average guarded modern pop star would never reveal. His he real, uncontrolled or just plain stupid?

PlayMayer?

The new big deal the the Mayer interview with Playboy. The Playboy interview was done by Rob Tannenbaum (former music editor of Blender magazine), and is a good detailed interview that has been portrayed as something it may not be – revelations that Mayer is racist and sexist – both may or may not be the case depending on your beliefs.

My favorite little tidbit is how Us Magazine.com published excerpts from the lengthy interview that will be in the March issue of Playboy. Their headline, “John Mayer: Jessica Simpson Was ‘Crazy’ in Bed,” was a distorted and softly sensationalist distillation: Mayer said of the relationship, ‘Sexually it was crazy.’ Now even a blind bat can see how Us Magazine twisted the meaning and molded it to fit the shape of celebrity.

Now multiply that effect by a million or so. Because among many, many things that flew out of his mouth, Mayer also claimed to have “a David Duke cock” and used the word “nigger” [I don’t know if with the over use of the word in music and culture if the rule still exists if only African Americans are allowed to use this word…]

The Interview with Mayer is a 6,870 word article, but it was quickly reduced to something 140 characters or less: Mayer is a racist. Just because he said ‘nigger’ he is a racist? In the interview Mayer used the word, in imaginary italics or finger quotes, to make a point: As a white musician who has worked extensively with black musicians, he was discussing the paradox and impossibility of a “hood pass” (the notion that some whites are more authentically ‘black’ than others), and demonstrated the paradox by embodying it via an N bomb. Commenting on white privilege, he stepped right in it.

On Twitter, writer and hip-hop activist Harry Allen described Mayer’s refutation of a ‘hood pass’ as a powerful, pointed statement. It’s also a tough way to prove a point. To put it in Twitter argot, “The word > the point.”

I understand the point, but maybe someone more nuanced could have done a better job of getting it across. By the way, if you are half white, or part Mexican, or Asian, can you still use the word without being a racist?

Poop Pile

So, the next big poo pile Mayer stepped in was when he made the David Duke reference in self-reproach to his own sexual history: Among his relationships, none have been with women of color, which is ordinary enough but puzzled him and prompted him to reflect, in a joke, about the discrepancy between his taste and his experiences. Mayer named three black women he is attracted to; one of them, actress Holly Robinson Peete, blogged that Mayer had “foolishly picked a fight with a demographic you don’t wanna mess with: African-American women.” Many of the jokes these women made online, at Mayer’s expense, were explosively funny. But Mayer’s description of his sexual history was quickly altered and relayed as “John Mayer won’t date black women.” How does hasn’t turn into won’t?

The Internet has loosened the definition of writing, and now the online world is a limitless, unstable fiction. Tweets and blogs translate every link, adding ideology in the guise of summation. The reaction to Mayer contains many truths about race and celebrity, though nothing that fits in 140 characters.

The Web is a series of filters, many of which narrow a story until it’s a negligible number of bytes. Few people in America are willing to discuss race in public, and this reminds us why. Harry Allen hoped Mayer would “keep speaking as intelligently as he clearly can against racism/white supremacy.” That’s not going to happen. During a concert in Nashville that night, Mayer apologized for using a profane word and announced he was done doing interviews.

So, the 140 word summary:

The Internet and social media takes long nuanced conversation and reduces them down to inaccurate, sensationalized, celebritized, bastardized 140 word sound bits that completely change the meaning of what was said.

John Mayer and Jessica Simpson - The real truth of his Playboy Interview.

John Mayer as Borat?

Brittany Murphy’s Cause Of Death – Pneumonia

Brittany Murphy's Cause Of Death - Pneumonia

I’m a big Brittany Murphy fan, and was shocked to hear about her sudden and tragic death. Now, we find out from  the Los Angeles County coroner’s office that her death was accidental. It seems that Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, but anemia and prescription drugs also played a role in her death.

According to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. The primary cause of death was community-acquired pneumonia, with contributing factors of iron deficiency anemia and “multiple drug intoxication.”

Poor Brittany died Dec. 20 at age 32 after collapsing at her Hollywood Hills home. Her mother and husband have said the actress didn’t abuse prescription medications or have an eating disorder.

Details about the drugs the “Clueless” and “8 Mile” star had in her system will be released in several weeks when a complete report is done. LA Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey declined to detail what types of drugs were involved but said they “were all prescription medications” which could have been perscribed to her, or not.

Pneumonia seems to fit, because both Murphy’s husband (Simon Monjack), and mother (Sharon Murphy), told investigators the actress had been experiencing flu-like symptoms in the days before she died.

Simon Monjack told The Associated Press last month that his wife did take several prescriptions, including an anti-seizure drug, but did not abuse the medications.

Whatever … to take a line from Clueless. It will not bring this great talent back, bless her and her family.