Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is officially a mom. The Jersey Shore star and her fiance, Jionni LaValle, welcomed their baby boy – 6-pound, 5-ounce Lorenzo Dominic LaValle – into the world this morning. “The world just got another Guido!!!” a Polizzi rep told MTV, which confirmed the baby’s arrival moments ago. “Nicole, Jionni & Enzo are doing great!” Enzo was born at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. around 3 a.m. Sunday, according to MTV, which congratulated Snooki and Jionni LaValle . “We couldn’t be happier for Nicole and Jionni on the healthy delivery of their baby boy!” the network said in a statement. “We are looking forward to Lorenzo’s first trip to the Jersey Shore and can’t wait to see his first animal print onesie.” Jersey Shore will return for a sixth season this fall, and her spinoff Snooki & JWoww has also been picked up for a new season, though it’s unclear the extent to which Enzo will appear on either, or whether he has an agent yet. So there you go. Snooki is a mom . In charge of keeping a small human alive. The Mayans predicted the world will end 12/21/12 … turns out they missed by 118 days, not too bad considering the scope of human civilization. In all seriousness, congratulations to Snooki and Jionni. Welcome Enzo! [Photo: WENN.com]
Lena Headey is not married to her brother in real life, but the Game of Thrones actress is filing for divorce from Peter Loughran. In legal documents, the star cites “irreconcilable differences” as the basis for the couple’s split. They got married in 2007 and have a two-year old son. Headley was born in Bermuda and has appeared in such movies as The Brothers Grimm and 300 . But she has now broken out as the evil Cersei Lannister on the aforementioned HBO smash. Game of Thrones Season 3 premieres on March 31 and shooting is now underway.
Finally some good news out of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado: Katie Medley, a movie goer who escaped unharmed from the horrific James Holmes last Friday, gave birth to a boy at the University of Colorado Hospital yesterday morning. He’s named Hugo and both child and mother are reportedly doing well. Tragically, however, Katie’s husband Caleb was not as fortunate as his wife: also in attendance at The Dark Knight Rises showing, Caleb was shot in the head and remains in a medically-induced coma. “He had some motion in his hands today,” Seth Medley, Caleb’s brother, told reporters at University Hospital Tuesday night. “His injuries are pretty serious. I don’t want to get into any details, but there’s some serious injuries around his face.” Seth referred the birth of his nephew as “a silver lining to a very dark cloud.” Due to Caleb’s presumed recovery time, and the medical bills that are certain to add up, the family has set up a WePay account at calebmedley.com/help . We encourage all readers to donate whatever they can.
The ‘Dark Knight Rises’ actor was spotted on Tuesday (July 24) at the Medical Center of Aurora South. By Josh Wigler Christian Bale visits a shooting victim in Aurora on Tuesday Photo: Denver Post
As many times as this kid was shot , he’s lucky to be alive. An 18-year-old man who was shot in the head, leg, arm and chest told friends he felt as if he’d been “punched in the head” and his “arm … blown off” after he was hit by gunfire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater Friday morning. Louis Duran, 18, was released from the hospital and is recovering at home, said his high school friend Jahlil Hall. Hall visited Duran this morning and said his friend knew he was “lucky to be alive.” Duran skipped the usual Thursday basketball game he plays with Hall and friends, and instead attended the midnight screening of “The Dark Night Rises” with two high school friends, Hall said. He was sitting toward the front of the theater when he was hit by a spray of bullets unleashed by alleged gunman James Holmes. “He said it felt like getting punched in the head and it was really hot,” Hall said. “Then he felt like his arm had been blown off. He ran over to the stairs and some random guy helped him out of the theater.” One friend was grazed by a bullet, while another is in the intensive care unit at University Medical of Aurora, Hall said. Once outside, Duran took off his shirt and wrapped it around his head in order to apply pressure to his wounds, Hall said. “He was on the phone with his mom and just in complete shock,” he said. Duran was transported to the Medical Center of Aurora, where he was treated and released. “There are a ton of pellets still in him,” Hall said. “He’s lucky to be alive, definitely.” We wish him a speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the friends and families of the victims at this time. Source Photo courtesy Jahlil Hall
Uh Ohhhhh Halle Berry Rushed To Hospital After Accident On Movie Set According to TMZ reports : Halle Berry was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night after suffering an injury while shooting a movie. Sources tell TMZ … Halle hit her head on concrete after taking a nasty fall. According to a photo agency, Halle was taken to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in L.A. We’re told the injury occurred at around 10 PM. There was an ambulance on scene, and it appears that’s how Halle was transported. Halle was shooting the movie, “The Hive.” You’ll recall she suffered an ankle injury during another movie shoot in Spain. Her condition is unclear. Obviously we wish Halle a speedy recovery, but we’d be remiss if didn’t mention a certain sense of karma coming back to her because she’s been acting like a lil’ beyotch toward her baby daddy, “Catch Fade” Gabriel Aubry Peep the pics of Halle on the set prior to her accident. Images via GSI
Today I learned two things. 1) You can never predict SCOTUS and 2) I’m gonna punch the next guy in the eye who calls the Supreme Court of the United States ‘SCOTUS.’ You don’t need to have been swallowed up in the abyss of indifferent bureaucracy to know that our medical system is FUBAR. (Oh, God, enough with the acronyms!) All you need to do is go to the movies. Here are some of cinema’s highlights that have made me want to try chewing cardamom seeds and holding a crystal rather than make that $15 copay. The Hospital (1971), Arthur Hiller, director Writer Paddy Chayefsky was raging against failing institutions before his masterpiece Network . The Hospital stars George C. Scott as a hospital administrator whose personal life and his place of work are in a race to see which more quickly turn to shambles. It’s a movie that will anger up the blood, but worth checking out if for no other reason that to hear the term “zapping” as a euphemism for the sex act. — Critical Care (1997), Sidney Lumet, director Chayefsky’s future collaborator on Network got to take his turn tsk-tsking the medical system with Critical Care . The film is primarily a romantic comedy, but it has more than its share of startlingly frank scenes of how emergency care is weighed against ownership of insurance. For those who thought Drive was the first time Albert Brooks played a murderer, check out the below clip. — The Rainmaker (1997), Francis Ford Coppola ’97 was not a good year to be in the health insurance business. In The Rainmaker , the evil HMO “Great Benefit” don’t just deny Mary Kay Place’s son a necessary bone marrow transplant, they’re big fat jerks about it in a letter. Memo to self: don’t call a grieving mother “stupid, stupid, stupid” when she’s got an idealistic young attorney like Matt Damon on their side. — Saw VI (2009), Some Gross Guy, director We can all send letters of gratitude to John Roberts for not spiking Obamacare. Nobody deserves the fate the insurance company employees got in Saw VI , which explained why Jigsaw started torture-punishing his victims in the first place. (They were tools of the bureaucracy that denied ailing folks’ necessary care.) And the last thing we need is a Saw reboot. — The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Cristi Puilu, director Of course, it could be worse. You could live in Romania. This film (presented as a dark comedy in the trailer, but I didn’t do much laughing) is a near 3-hour exercise in frustration. Watch in horror as a dying man is shuffled between selfish neighbors, CYA-pencil pushers and disinterested physicians. It’s a difficult flick, and, unfortunately, a reminder than no amount of government legislation can force people not to be idiots. — Contagion (2011), Steven Soderbergh, director Woah, woah, let’s close this out with a little positivity! Contagion taught us a few things. Number one was STOP TOUCHING YOUR FACE, and number two was that there are some people who are (shock!) employed by the government who will put themselves in harm’s way for the betterment of society. Jennifer Ehle’s CDC character saves the day, while Kate Winslet’s is a martyr. I dunno about you, but every real life doctor I’ve ever spoken to wishes the nightmare of insurance, malpractice, referrals and general mishigoss would just disappear so they can do what they first set out to do: help people. Jordan Hoffman is a regular critic at ScreenCrush , columnist at StarTrek.com and contributor to a great number of your favorite websites. He has produced two independent films and was named IFC’s Ultimate Film Fanatic of the NorthEast. Follow on Twitter at JHoffman6 .
Today I learned two things. 1) You can never predict SCOTUS and 2) I’m gonna punch the next guy in the eye who calls the Supreme Court of the United States ‘SCOTUS.’ You don’t need to have been swallowed up in the abyss of indifferent bureaucracy to know that our medical system is FUBAR. (Oh, God, enough with the acronyms!) All you need to do is go to the movies. Here are some of cinema’s highlights that have made me want to try chewing cardamom seeds and holding a crystal rather than make that $15 copay. The Hospital (1971), Arthur Hiller, director Writer Paddy Chayefsky was raging against failing institutions before his masterpiece Network . The Hospital stars George C. Scott as a hospital administrator whose personal life and his place of work are in a race to see which more quickly turn to shambles. It’s a movie that will anger up the blood, but worth checking out if for no other reason that to hear the term “zapping” as a euphemism for the sex act. — Critical Care (1997), Sidney Lumet, director Chayefsky’s future collaborator on Network got to take his turn tsk-tsking the medical system with Critical Care . The film is primarily a romantic comedy, but it has more than its share of startlingly frank scenes of how emergency care is weighed against ownership of insurance. For those who thought Drive was the first time Albert Brooks played a murderer, check out the below clip. — The Rainmaker (1997), Francis Ford Coppola ’97 was not a good year to be in the health insurance business. In The Rainmaker , the evil HMO “Great Benefit” don’t just deny Mary Kay Place’s son a necessary bone marrow transplant, they’re big fat jerks about it in a letter. Memo to self: don’t call a grieving mother “stupid, stupid, stupid” when she’s got an idealistic young attorney like Matt Damon on their side. — Saw VI (2009), Some Gross Guy, director We can all send letters of gratitude to John Roberts for not spiking Obamacare. Nobody deserves the fate the insurance company employees got in Saw VI , which explained why Jigsaw started torture-punishing his victims in the first place. (They were tools of the bureaucracy that denied ailing folks’ necessary care.) And the last thing we need is a Saw reboot. — The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Cristi Puilu, director Of course, it could be worse. You could live in Romania. This film (presented as a dark comedy in the trailer, but I didn’t do much laughing) is a near 3-hour exercise in frustration. Watch in horror as a dying man is shuffled between selfish neighbors, CYA-pencil pushers and disinterested physicians. It’s a difficult flick, and, unfortunately, a reminder than no amount of government legislation can force people not to be idiots. — Contagion (2011), Steven Soderbergh, director Woah, woah, let’s close this out with a little positivity! Contagion taught us a few things. Number one was STOP TOUCHING YOUR FACE, and number two was that there are some people who are (shock!) employed by the government who will put themselves in harm’s way for the betterment of society. Jennifer Ehle’s CDC character saves the day, while Kate Winslet’s is a martyr. I dunno about you, but every real life doctor I’ve ever spoken to wishes the nightmare of insurance, malpractice, referrals and general mishigoss would just disappear so they can do what they first set out to do: help people. Jordan Hoffman is a regular critic at ScreenCrush , columnist at StarTrek.com and contributor to a great number of your favorite websites. He has produced two independent films and was named IFC’s Ultimate Film Fanatic of the NorthEast. Follow on Twitter at JHoffman6 .
Model Injured In Chris Brown Drake Brawl Speaks Some random breezy spoke to the NYPost about her involvement and injuries during the bloody bottle-throwing brawl with Drake and Breezy : The sexy Brooklyn model who was partying with Chris Brown and his crew before the big Rihanna-sparked brawl with Drake told The Post she was having the time of her life until all hell broke loose. Ingrid Gutierrez, 21, and six sultry girlfriends arrived at the exclusive W.i.P. club around 3 a.m. on Thursday and were whisked right past the velvet rope and into a VIP section. “It was crowded, and I wanted to go somewhere where I could just sit,” said Gutierrez, a curvy, 118-pound, 5-foot-6 brunette, with pink manicured nails who was wearing a low-cut mini dress that hugged her curves. “We wanted to hear some hip-hop,” she said, “So we went to W.i.P., because we know everyone there and we knew that’s the kind of music they had.” She then bumped into a female friend she has in common with Brown — and landed two seats at the rapper’s table, where $2,000 bottles of Ace of Spades champagne were flowing like water. “Each of them had a bottle and they were sharing them with us,” she said of Brown’s entourage. They were also buying bottles for other tables — a gesture that would soon prove the powder keg for the massive melee. “They were all so nice,” she said. “We were having such a good time. I was talking to my girlfriends, and I talked to Chris a little bit. I also talked to his bodyguard Big Pat.” Gutierrez’s friend started making out with a member of Brown’s posse — and the girls were asked if they would be interested in joining them for an after-party at his suite in the swank Trump SoHo. Brown asked a waitress to send a bottle of the bubbly to Drake’s table — and she came back with a piece of paper that Brown looked at and threw onto the floor. That turned out to be the taunting Rihanna-referencing note that read, “I am f–king the love of your life,” sources have said. Drake and a group that included rapper Meek Mill and their bodyguards then strutted over to Brown’s table. “They got up in his face and were giving him the middle finger. Chris told Drake to f–k off, and the next thing I heard was smashed glass and the bottles started flying at us,” she said. Someone threw a punch at Brown but was blocked by Big Pat — who suffered a big gash in his head. “I didn’t see Chris act violently towards anyone,” she said. “Chris said, ‘Let’s go,’ but there were bottles flying and I saw him get hit in the face, so I hunkered down where I was.” “Suddenly I feel this pain in my head and my friend is covering my face, trying to protect me,” she said. “And then everything was over. I’m laying bleeding on couch and we’re all freaking out.” Another friend popped Gutierrez into a car service and they rushed over to NYU Medical Center, where she needed five staples to close a head wound. She plans to sue the club and anyone else who is found liable. “I think Drake’s entourage are cowards for throwing bottles at girls,” she said. “I’ve lost all respect for Drake. Chris Brown acted like a gentleman to all the girls there. Chris tried to protect me and my friend.” Wow. SMH. More details at NYPost
