Stuff from all over

J.J. Abrams directs Star Trek movie – J.J. Abrams, the creator of ‘Lost’ and ‘Alias’ and the director of ‘Mission Impossible III’, was announced today to produce and direct the next ‘Star Trek’ movie for a release in 2008. It will be written by Abrams and his partners, and focus on the early days of James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first mission. With Abrams at the helm, this should fulfill every fan boys dream, as long as their dream was to have a ‘Star Trek’ movie that’s brilliant for about an hour and then rambling and unfocused and boring. Yea!


‘Celebrity Cooking Showdown’ cancelled – NBC has canceled the cooking show just three nights into a run that was planned for 5 consecutive nights because of unthinkably bad ratings, including a lowly 3 share Tuesday night. It will not air the final two episodes. ‘CCS’ is produced by Sean Combs, and is yet another complete and abject failure from the no talent hack that New York and Hollywood is convinced the rest of us just cant get enough of. Maybe one of his hit songs would have saved the show, with the patented freestyle fury only Diddy can unleash : “Celebrity cooking, that’s right, gonna cook the food all night, cooking in the kitchen, yeah, yeah, yeah, On NBC, from sea to sea, gonna cook real good like you knew I would, yeah, yeah, yeah…” And it would just kinda go on like that for a while.


Paris Hilton is graceful – Defamer posts an email from a reader saying they were at Paris Hiltons house for boyfriend Stavros Niarchos’ 21st birthday over the weekend, and the highlight wasn’t the fact that Paris has huge painting of herself in every room, but when Paris and Stavros were dancing together on a stripper pole, and the thing suddenly ripped from it’s moorings and the pair tumbled to the floor in a drunken pile of STDs. As awesome as this clearly is, it does bring up an important point: when you have a stripper pole installed, always keep your receipt.