CYBERSLEAZE...12/09
PUSSSYKATT
CYBERSLEAZE...CyberSleaze for Tuesday the 9th of December, 1997
edited by: Jill "The Diva" Stempel
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A very breasty TONI BRAXTON, teenage country music sensation LEEANNE RIMES and
the SPICE GIRLS shared the honors at the BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS in Las Vegas,
Nevada Monday night. The R&B singer made a clean sweep of three awards at the
ceremony organized by the American music journal, including Adult Contemporary
Artist of the Year, Adult Single of the Year, for her chart-topping hit
UN-BREAK MY HEART and R&B Female Artist of the Year. Rimes, who is only 15,
topped the list of winners, however, scooping four honors - Artist of the Year,
Country Artist, Country Album of the Year and Country Singles artist of the
year. And the Spice Girls were named New Artist of the Year and won Album of
the Year for their debut LP SPICE. Although Braxton did not win the most awards
she certainly got the most attention with her cleavage-exposing dress. Comic
host DAVID SPADE even quipped about Braxton's saucy style saying, "I'm going to
let Toni win all night long until that dress falls off. Wow!" The music bash,
which also saw AEROSMITH's STEVEN TYLER taking the plunge in a swimming pool
full of synchronized swimmers during their onstage performance, honored 97's
chart-toppers. In other honors, ELTON JOHN picked up three prizes for his
PRINCESS DIANA tribute CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 including Singles artist of the
year and DRU HILL swept the board in the R&B category, also scooping three
awards. The complete list of the 1997 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARD WINNERS are as
follows:
- LEANN RIMES, ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- LEANN RIMES, COUNTRY ARTIST.
- LEANN RIMES, COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR FOR BLUE.
- LEANN RIMES, COUNTRY SINGLES ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- ELTON JOHN, SINGLE OF THE YEAR FOR CANDLE IN THE WIND 1997.
- ELTON JOHN, SINGLES ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- ELTON JOHN, SINGLES SALES ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- CHET ATKINS, CENTURY AWARD.
- GARTH BROOKS, ARTIST ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
- SPICE GIRLS, ALBUM OF THE YEAR FOR SPICE.
- SPICE GIRLS, NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- PUFF DADDY, RAP ARTIST.
- PUFF DADDY, RAP SINGLE OF THE YEAR FOR "I'LL BE MISSING YOU" WITH FAITH
EVANS.
- TONI BRAXTON, FEMALE R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- TONI BRAXTON, ADULT CONTEMPORARY ARTIST.
- TONI BRAXTON, ADULT CONTEMPORARY SINGLE OF THE YEAR FOR UN-BREAK MY HEART.
- DRU HILL, R&B SINGLE OF THE YEAR FOR IN MY HEAD.
- DRU HILL, R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- DRU HILL, R&B SINGLES ARTIST OF THE YEAR.
- METTALICA, ROCK ARTIST OF THE YEAR
- SUBLIME, MODERN ROCK ARTIST.
- THIRD EYE BLIND, MODERN ROCK TRACK FOR SEMI-CHARMED LIFE.
•THE SPICE GIRLS MAKE A BIG SHOW OF UNITY (YEAH, RIGHT): SCARY SPICE MELANIE
BROWN gave EMMA BUNTON a big smacker of the kissing variety at the prestigious
BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS in Las Vegas Monday night. Speculation surrounding the
future of the Spice Girls had reached fever pitch after BABY SPICE, Bunton, had
a huge catfight with her bandmates over the weekend, reportedly over her
alleged affair with sacked manager SIMON FULLER. But the chart-topping quintet
opened last night's music extravaganza with a "live" (wink, wink) performance.
And THE SPICE UP YOUR LIFE hitmakers hugged for photographers, with Brown
slapping a wet kiss on Bunton's cheek backstage and GERI HALLIWELL, who was
instrumental in ousting Fuller, embracing her to prove the girls' unity. A
spokesperson from the group's VIRGIN label said, "Rumors of Emma leaving the
band were just that rumors." But host of the music extravaganza American comic
DAVID SPADE couldn't hold his tongue on the hot topic. He quipped, "Give the
Spice Girls another round of applause for not splitting up during their song."
Ha. Ha.
•THE OLD GUY SPORTS A MOHAWK: Just to prove that the eighties really ARE back,
aging rocker DAVID BOWIE took to the stage at the Universal Amphitheater in Los
Angeles over the weekend sporting a mohican hairdo. Bowie unveiled his new look
at KROQ's annual ALMOST ACOUSTIC Christmas Show alongside GREEN DAY,
CHUMBAWUMBA and BECK. Programming Assistant GOLDEN CURTIS said, "It was a bit
of a shock to see the new look. He was bald apart from this tuft of hair down
the middle - he still looked really cool though." Bowie played a range of tunes
at the sell out gig, which raised money for local charities.
•NOT TO BE OUTDONE, MICK JAGGER DECIDED TO BECOME A FATHER FOR THE SIXTH TIME:
Shying away from the bad haircut option, Mick Jagger decided to prove his
continued youthful virility be ordering his model wife JERRY HALL to give birth
to their sixth child slightly prematurely. Hall delivered a bouncing baby boy,
named GABRIEL LUKE BEAUREGARD at 12.30 am. London time on Tuesday morning. He
reportedly weighed in at eight pounds, three ounces and both mother and son
were "doing fine," a publicist for the singer said. Jagger, 54, had hoped to be
present at the birth but was unable to jet over to London as the Rolling Stones
are in Atlanta, Georgia preparing for a concert tonight. He is not expected to
see the child until after the band's final 1997 show on their Bridges to
Babylon tour in St Louis on Friday. Jagger and 41 year-old Hall already have
three children together: ELIZABETH, 13, JAMES, 12, and GEORGIA, aged five. The
singer also has a daughter, JADE, 26, from his first marriage to BIANCA JAGGER,
and another daughter, KARIS, 27, from a relationship with actress MARSHA HUNT.
Although BEAUREGARD might sound like a strange middle name for the boy, my
sources tell me that there is a very sensible reason behind it. Beauregard also
happens to be the name of the French ski resort where Jagger and Hall stayed
around nine months ago. The same story is behind the reason their youngest
daughter is called GEORGIA. Awwww…. How sweet. Plus, it is a great way to avoid
those embarrassing, "So, Dad, where was I conceived??" questions.
•STARS TURN OUT FOR VERSACE TRIBUTE: MADONNA, STING, ELTON JOHN, LIZ HURLEY,
JON BON JOVI, CHER, HUGH GRANT, RALPH LAUREN, SANDRA BULLOCK, RUPERT EVERETT,
GWYNETH PALTROW and KATE MOSS were among the stars who turned out at New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday night to honor slain fashion guru GIANNI
VERSACE. Sting sung for the assembled crowd - and party organizers later
dismissed reports that both Madonna and Elton John were upset that it was not
them. Versace's designer sister DONATELLA was also present at the $2,000 a head
bash, which raised $2.4 million for the museum's Costume Institute. An
exhibition of Gianni Versace's work goes on display at the museum this month.
•HUTCHENCE MANAGER BLAMES GELDOF FOR SUICIDE: A nervous breakdown caused INXS
frontman MICHAEL HUTCHENCE to take his own life, according to his manager.
MARTHA TROUP, who has worked with the DEVIL INSIDE hitmakers for 12 years, is
adamant Hutchence's unexpected death was a direct result of intense emotional
unrest in his personal life. Hutchence was found hanged by a belt in his Sydney
hotel room last month. Hutchence and girlfriend PAULA YATES had a serious of
bust-ups with her ex-husband BOB GELDOF over access to her three daughters from
her marriage to the LIVE AID hero. And Troup says, "I think it was the press
about his child and all the escapades that went on in the last year. It just
reached a climax. It was the culmination of everything, how Bob Geldof treated
Paula and how he was making Michael's life miserable."
•DOWNEY JR HAULED OFF CRYING TO JAIL: ROBERT DOWNEY JR broke down in tears in
court on Monday as he was hauled off in handcuffs and jailed for a second time
for drug addiction. The troubled CHAPLIN star was jailed for 180 days by a
Malibu court house after he admitted to violating a three year probation with a
four day alcohol and drug binge earlier this year. The stony-faced 33-year-old
actor, who has already served 60 hours behind bars for drugs offences, told the
stunned court he had dabbled in drugs for 16 years. Downey told Municipal court
judge LAWRENCE MIRA, who originally gave him the probation order last year for
a string of drug and weapons charges, that he had "absolutely no excuses. I
find myself defenseless." He whimpered, "Since the age of eight years old I
have been addicted to drugs in some way. And since 15 I have started to try and
get help." Despite the jail term, the re-sentencing of Downey is seen as
lenient as he could have faced a three year term behind bars. Judge Mira said
in an 18-minute lecture to the worried star, "You could lose your life in this
drugs-soaked lifestyle you have chosen. You had the warning last time, you make
the choice for drugs and you go to jail." The actor, who persuaded estranged
wife DEBORAH FAULKNER - the mother of his son INDIGO - to accompany him at the
critical court case, was also given a fresh three year probation order complete
with rehabilitation programs. Tough love.
•SPIELBERG NUT PLANNED MASS KILLING: A stalker who was arrested in the grounds
of movie mogul STEVEN SPIELBERG's mansion reportedly planned to abduct and kill
the director's whole family. In a search of the madman's home a diary was found
outlined his gory plans for the ET director, his wife KATE CAPSHAW and their
seven children. Norman is now in jail while he waits to answer to the felony
charge of stalking after he was caught near the movie man's palatial Pacific
Palisades property. Norman, 31, appeared at Santa Monica courthouse on Monday
for a 10 minute hearing in which he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Court
officials for the District Attorney's Office and the Los Angeles Police
Department have been gagged, by a court order, from uttering any details about
the high-profile case. The judge slapped a secrecy order on the case to protect
the personal details of the victim Spielberg from being revealed. Norman was
arrested in early July of this year on Spielberg's estate and police said that
at the time that he had a shrine to the JURASSIC PARK director in his own Los
Angeles home.
•IN THE GOOD NEWS FOR SPIELBERG, HIS MOVIE IS ALLOWED TO OPEN: A Los Angeles
judge decided on Monday that director STEVEN SPIELBERG had not plagiarized a
novelist for his latest film AMISTAD. BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD insisted Spielberg
and screenwriter DAVID FRANZONI borrowed heavily from her novel ECHO OF LION,
about a 19th-century mutiny aboard a slave ship. But the JURASSIC PARK
filmmaker claimed similarities were merely the result of the story being based
on historical events. Chase-Riboud can still press ahead with her lawsuit, but
Spielberg and his DREAMWORKS studio are free to open the movie in America this
weekend. She said she was disappointed but was confident she would prevail at
trial, which has not yet been scheduled. She added, "A preliminary injunction
is the only protection a poor person has against a rich infringer. I'm doing
this for all writers." Spielberg insists its movie is an original blend of
history and the historical novel BLACK MUTINY, published 36 years before Echo
of Lions in 1953. He (of course) owns the rights to Black Mutiny.
•DJ BUYS VIRGIN RADIO FROM BRANSON: Tycoon RICHARD BRANSON has sold his British
station VIRGIN RADIO to his breakfast DJ CHRIS EVANS. The red-headed, English
version of HOWARD STERN has bought the national pop station for $133 million.
Branson reportedly rejected a an even higher offer from rival CAPITAL RADIO to
accept Evans's bid. Meanwhile, the VIRGIN RECORDS founder is set to take off
today in his latest bid to go round the world in a balloon. What a nutter.
•HEY, I TAKE DRUGS BECAUSE OF THE FILM BUSINESS, DON'T YOU?? QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Ninety nine point nine per cent of our members are not involved in drugs and
neither do they have the urge to take drugs because of the film business." - A
spokesperson for the Screen Actor's Guild responds to the accusation, made by
ROBERT DOWNEY JR's judge, that he was on drugs because it was an occupational
hazard of actors and "Hollywood People".