Lindsay Lohan just blew off her deposition in another lawsuit. We know, we know … hard to even imagine such an event. The troubled star had been ordered to appear for a deposition in L.A. Monday morning in her lawsuit with a celebrity news photographer named Grigor Balyan. He claims the actress’ assistant crashed into him in 2010 outside an L.A. club and put him in the hospital, all while driving Miss Crazy in her ride. Lindsay, who did not show for her previous deposition in this case because she’s just too busy partying , blew this one off as well … girl is not bright. The best part? Her lawyer, Julia Azrael, can’t even get in touch with Lohan, and tried to give Grigor’s lawyers a heads up that she can’t reach her . The deposition wasn’t rescheduled, however, and Balyan’s camp will file legal papers this week asking a judge to FORCE Lindsay to show the hell up. If Lindsay continues to refuse, the judge could simply issue a judgment against her and order LiLo to pay whatever amount of cash he/she deems fit. Not like they’ll be able to collect. Just saying.
The Real Housewives of Orange County returned last week with a baby and a whimper . Tonight, Vicki’s “work” is a hot topic for discussion and there’s enough Jim and Alexis to make us all want to take a scalding hot shower to burn the ick off our skin. Plus, Heather will try to broker a peace agreement between Vicki and Tamra. You know, just another day in Orange County. At Casa Dubrow, the ladies have gathered for a clambake. Gretchen breaks the ice with Vicki first by asking about her new grandson Troy and Briana. Plus 5 Gretchen! Atta girl. Tamra’s not really interested in having a conversation with Vicki, but is certainly interested in talking about Vicki’s recent plastic surgery. Not like she’s never had any work done. Pot and kettle and such. Minus 7. Terry. Love the man. “Asking a woman if she’s had plastic surgery is like asking your wife if she’s gained weight. You just don’t do it.” Plus 20 . Vicki believes that Heather has brought she and Tamra together because she wants them to be friends again. Vicki apparently didn’t see the pool and landscaping Heather and Terry had done when they were summering in the Hamptons which is the real reason they’re having a clambake in Orange County. Tamra and Eddie don’t have a date set for their wedding. They’ve been engaged eight months already. Tamra says they’re trying to get their business off the ground first, but the real reason they don’t have a date set is because Eddie won’t give her one. Minus 12 . Best line of the night goes to Heather, when telling Tamra how to eat lobster: “Chew, chew, chew from the outside, and it’ll come in your mouth.” Hmmm, Heather. Something tells me if you’re using your teeth, you’re doing it wrong? Plus 75 for hilarity. The look on her face when she realized what she’d said was priceless. Vicki throws out an “I really love onion rings with this type of food” and Heather immediately accuses Terry of planting the comment. Gretchen and Vicki have a moment where Gretchen asks Vicki about Brooks and Vicki launches into the story of how it was just so hard that no one liked him. Gretchen’s reply? “Now you know how I felt two years ago.” Well played, Gretchen. Plus 8 . Tamra doesn’t like that Gretchen and Vicki seem chummy and Vicki mocks the friendship bracelet Tamra gave Gretchen last year. Vicki brings up the infamous “Evil Eye” and accuses Tamra of staring her down again. And so it begins, right? It seems that Vicki and Tamra are going to have an adult conversation about what was actually the cause of their falling out: Tamra’s friendship with Gretchen. Tamra walks away from the table and Vicki vows not to follow. Heather, Hostess with the Mostest, goes after her. Vicki and Gretchen keep talking at the table and Vicki says Tamra’s “mean when she gets mad.” Heather, meanwhile, is counseling Tamra not to be a hothead. If Heather’s acting career doesn’t pan out….oh, wait. Plus 10 for good advice. Terry keeps bringing up the onion rings. Heather keeps wanting to stab him with a fork. Minus 9. Jim and Alexis are on a date. They’re going to take ballroom dancing lessons. It would be sweet if he weren’t such a disgusting man. Alexis says that last year they lost a lot of money on a home and no one knew about it. As a result, Jim felt like a failure and she was too busy with her dress lines and career as a “news anchor” to fix his emotional issues. She says they’re closer now than they were last year and then tells him he’s getting lucky. The whole thing was kind of sweet but then it’s Jim. He’s so…Jim. The party has moved to the rec room at Casa Dubrow. There’s coffee and dessert and, of course, more wine and “champs.” Tamra gets notice that her permits for her fitness studio have been approved. She’s the owner of a gym and Eddie’s boss. Plus 10 . Heather’s trying to push Tamra and Vicki to talk things out. Tamra says they never talk about things. They just put band-aids on their problems and leave them alone, but no more. If they’re going to be friends, they have to talk things out. Plus 5 . So they lock themselves into a wine cellar to chat. Which is exactly the place two semi-drunk women need to go to have an emotional conversation. Gretchen thinks Vicki will try to make the conversation all about her, but Tamra doesn’t let her. Tamra points out that Vicki’s not good at reading people when they say what she wants to hear. Vicki admits that she remembers when they were both still married and how good things seemed then and says that she misses that. It’s apologies all around, with a healthy dose of “but I don’t think I can trust her.” So, sort of apologies? Gretchen seems to be undoing the good that Tamra and Vicki have just done because she doesn’t like Vicki and is worried that if Vicki and Tamra become friends again, Gretchen will be left out in the cold. Minus 15 , Gretch. Insecurity’s not becoming. Jim and Alexis have started a new business. An indoor trampoline park, Sky Zone. Of all the businesses they’ve been in, at least this one seems fun. Plus 8 . Alexis is, like, the spokesperson for Sky Zone, which, I mean, she guesses, means she talks about, like, Sky Zone. Minus 8 for the ditz. Alexis says that Jim has always been supportive of what she’s done, except I seem to recall him being incredibly UNsupportive last year. Minus 4 for selective memory. Slade’s a radio host and Gretchen’s proud of her man for being gainfully employed. Plus 5. He goes on the radio to bring up Miss Piggy-gate and compares Vicki to Mickey Roarke now that she’s had her surgery. He just cannot leave her alone. Minus 12 . Now that Slade is making the dolla dolla bills and paying off his debts, Gretchen’s hearing wedding bells. Or that’s her ovaries. Vicki’s in the middle of a full-home renovation now that Donn has moved out and Briana has moved in. Briana’s frustrated with the remodel not realizing that at least in part it’s because she and baby Troy and daddy have moved in. Minus 10 Briana says she’s cutting her mom some slack, however, now that she knows how hard it is to be a mom. Plus 8 . Weird Jim alert: He tries on Alexis’ flip flops. Just to test the cushiony factor. Minus 8 . Eddie and Tamra are trying to decorate. She’s making canvases of all of her childrens’ handprints and Eddie suggests they also do the dog’s paw prints. It’s kind of sweet. Plus 8 . And then it gets not so sweet. Eddie brings up the conversation with Vicki. Tamra says that in her heart she feels like Vicki is her family and Eddie gives her a serious side-eye. He doesn’t trust Vicki. He “highly recommends” that Tamra doesn’t let Vicki back in. Just like Gretchen told her. His final on-camera words to her about the whole situation are “be careful.” EPISODE TOTAL: +77 SEASON TOTAL: +114
Jenna Jameson had an interesting birthday celebration Saturday night. The porn star emeritus was arrested for battery in Newport Beach. Law enforcement sources say Jenna was hanging out in the Orange County city’s Balboa Peninsula neighborhood when she allegedly battered someone. The alleged victim put Jameson under citizen’s arrest (seriously) and then flagged down a police officer, who cited Jenna for battery and later released her. Jameson was supposed to attend an early birthday party in her honor (the star turns 39 Tuesday) at Heat Ultra Lounge in Anaheim later that night. No word if she made it or not. Jenna Jameson is no stranger to handcuffs, and we don’t mean that in a kinky way. She was arrested for a DUI last year after crashing her car into a pole. She also made headlines for accusing husband Tito Ortiz of battery.
Consider yourselves warned, fellow human beings: Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley are threatening to procreate in the near future. The Real Housewives of Orange County star tells OK! of her plans: “We’re working really hard right now to have a baby. He actually has a vasectomy so he has to get a reversal and we have to kind of figure that all out.” So, does this mean the long-time couple will make their relationship official? “If that is the path we are taking, there should be some sort of commitment and I don’t know when that is going to happen and who is going to ask who,” Rossi tells the tabloid. Rossi, of course, turned down Smiley’s proposal a few months ago, but with proper magazine coverage, you never know: she may say yes next time!
Ann Romney, the wife of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, addressed the party’s convention last night to discuss life, challenges, and her husband. “Tonight, I want to talk to you about love,” the warm and engaging Mrs. Romney said, regaling the crowd with stories of the couple’s courtship and marriage. The goal of her speech: Help people understand the personal side of her husband, a successful and decent man but one who struggles to connect with voters. Think she succeeded? Take a look below …
Alexis Bellino shared “big news” via Twitter Monday. She cut her hair! OMFG! The Real Housewives of Orange County star removed her extensions and cut her hair short. “I wanted to do this cut for over a year!” the 35-year-old wrote. “After last season nothing scares me! Thoughts?” Vote on her best look below: Of course, it wouldn’t be The Real Housewives of Orange County – and Alexis specifically – without drama. Gretchen Rossi had a few “thoughts” on the change. Rossi, 33, cut her hair short last month and claims Bellino copied her. “Funny when people copy a lot of things you do!” she tweeted. “Weird or compliment?” “I was trying to be different and have a different look than long hair, but I guess that went out the door! LOL! Funny! I didn’t call the press! I just did it!” BURN.
Revenge is a hell of a thing In a shocking display of what unbearable grief can drive a person to do, a father has been arrested for allegedly plotting to murder students and administrators at his deceased son’s high school. Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, a 48-year old professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), began his alleged crimes in March after his 14-year-old son was disciplined at school, KTLA reports. The teen, who attended University High School in Irvine, later hanged himself in Mason Park Preserve. When the Orange County Register reported on the suicide, several readers commented that they knew the teen and that he had been bullied. However, the Irvine police said they did not find any evidence of bullying. Reinscheid allegedly started five fires at his son’s high school, at the home of an assistant principal from the high school and at the Mason Park Preserve. Between July 4 and July 24, Reinscheid is accused of setting newspapers, fireplace logs, brush and vegetation, a book, and a plastic porch chair on fire. Reinscheid, who taught at UCI for 12 years, was first arrested on July 24 at around 1 a.m. in the park where his son died. Officers had seen him allegedly trying to set a blaze with newspaper and lighter fluid, CBS reports. The father posted $50,000 bail the same day and was released. However, Irvine police detectives Friday found emails on Reinscheid’s cellphone to his wife and one to himself in April and re-arrested him that evening, the OC Register reports. The emails explained in graphic detail his plan to burn down University High School, buy guns, murder school officials and students, commit sexual assaults and eventually kill himself. When asked if he was working alone or targeting a certain group of people, Orange County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Katz said to the Associated Press, “I can only at this point tell you, he laid out in sufficient detail plans to purchase guns and murder lots of people.” This sounds like this sadistic man finally found a perfect excuse to do things he always wanted to do. This dad has clearly gone off the deep end due to his son’s death, but do you think his bereavement will help his case? Source
Revenge is a hell of a thing In a shocking display of what unbearable grief can drive a person to do, a father has been arrested for allegedly plotting to murder students and administrators at his deceased son’s high school. Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, a 48-year old professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), began his alleged crimes in March after his 14-year-old son was disciplined at school, KTLA reports. The teen, who attended University High School in Irvine, later hanged himself in Mason Park Preserve. When the Orange County Register reported on the suicide, several readers commented that they knew the teen and that he had been bullied. However, the Irvine police said they did not find any evidence of bullying. Reinscheid allegedly started five fires at his son’s high school, at the home of an assistant principal from the high school and at the Mason Park Preserve. Between July 4 and July 24, Reinscheid is accused of setting newspapers, fireplace logs, brush and vegetation, a book, and a plastic porch chair on fire. Reinscheid, who taught at UCI for 12 years, was first arrested on July 24 at around 1 a.m. in the park where his son died. Officers had seen him allegedly trying to set a blaze with newspaper and lighter fluid, CBS reports. The father posted $50,000 bail the same day and was released. However, Irvine police detectives Friday found emails on Reinscheid’s cellphone to his wife and one to himself in April and re-arrested him that evening, the OC Register reports. The emails explained in graphic detail his plan to burn down University High School, buy guns, murder school officials and students, commit sexual assaults and eventually kill himself. When asked if he was working alone or targeting a certain group of people, Orange County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Katz said to the Associated Press, “I can only at this point tell you, he laid out in sufficient detail plans to purchase guns and murder lots of people.” This sounds like this sadistic man finally found a perfect excuse to do things he always wanted to do. This dad has clearly gone off the deep end due to his son’s death, but do you think his bereavement will help his case? Source
Suburban America has its share of Oranges . Orange County, CA, probably the richest and best known of the lot (there are of course fellow O.C. namesakes in New York and Florida) has had its hare in the spotlight with the original Real Housewives , not to mention that teen/young-adult primetime soap The O.C. and who could forget MTV’s Laguna Beach . But watch, out, there’s a new Orange grabbing the spotlight, and it even grabbed O.C. star Adam Brody who plays the successful son of a couple living in a leafy neighborhood in West Orange, NJ. The Oranges promises to take a bite out of the upper middle-class intrigue market. But Brody appears to be incidental in the block scandal taking place on – you might have guessed, Orange Drive. The quick plot goes something like this: Two dads are morning jog-BFFs who live across the street from each other. One daughter comes come for a holiday after breaking up with her boyfriend. Instead of going for the neighbor’s good looking age-appropriate son (that would be Brody) she takes a liking for the dad – a big uh-oh! And even a bigger problem, the neighbor’s dad goes for it… Here’s the official synopsis and trailer below : David and Paige Walling (Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener) and Terry and Cathy Ostroff (Oliver Platt, Allison Janney) are best friends and neighbors living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey. Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester), newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan (Sam Rosen), returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in the successful son of her neighbors, Toby Walling (Adam Brody), which would please both families, it’s her parents’ best friend David who captures Nina’s attention. When the connection between Nina and David becomes undeniable, everyone’s lives are thrown into upheaval, particularly Vanessa Walling’s (Alia Shawkat), Nina’s childhood best friend. It’s not long before the ramifications of the affair begin to work on all of the family members in unexpected and hilarious ways, leading everyone to reawaken to their lives, reassess what it means to be happy, and realize that sometimes what looks like a disaster turns out to be the thing we need.
Unlike the cities of Boston and Chicago, Laguna Hills did not place a ban on the opening of Chick-fil-A in its area. But perhaps it now wishes it had. A new store in that town was greeted this morning by protestors from the Orange County Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, holding signs and calling for boycotts of the chain whose President has come out against gay marriage. Aside from simply saying his company was “guilty as charged” when it came to supporting the “biblical definition of marriage,” Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy has donated millions to the Marriage & Family Foundation and the Family Research Council. The issue first came to attention when Ed Helms Tweeted his reaction to that news and said Chick-fil-A had lost him as a customer. The The Jim Henson Company has also severed ties with the store, who tried to stem the tide of public disdain by releasing a statement that read: “Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.” So far, as today demonstrated, it has not worked.
