Showbiz Round-Up

Finding erroneous showbiz stories in the currant bun is surprisingly hard, mainly because finding out whether the story is true or not is a task of epic proportions, as showbiz has little recourse to fact or documentation and many in the industry unfortunately do behave like jazzed-up pigs.

However, what has caught my eye is when a certain actor is marked out for nigh-on constant abuse because he is deemed a safe target that the public loath. Enter Rhys Ifans...

Back in June of this year, The Sun published what has to be one of it's shortest and most underhand apologies. Since then it has gone on to write stories about him virtually every day, the tone of them swinging from he's a 'sad, old drunk' to he is a 'lecherous, sad, old drunk' to he is 'perhaps the worst human on the plant'. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a Rhys Ifans groupie but one does get the feeling that he is a Sun punchbag since Pete Doherty's clean-up and like Pete, The Sun seems to hate it when the scruffy guy gets the pretty girl. I could perhaps understand if he was an actor of merit (Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties anyone?) but he isn't, not really.

Speaking of pretty, this made me laugh...

TIRED BALE LOOKS LIKE BAG MAN

*cough*

Has anyone here seen a bag man looking that good? Certainly where I live the class of bag man looks more like this: And again, it seems Bale's alleged loss of temper has made him fair game, even though the case has been dropped due to lack of evidence; it'll be interesting to see how long The Sun hounds him.

I'll sign-off with a bizarre discussion I found regarding the Jewishness or not of Peter Falk, the actor who played Colombo. Warning: may contain anti-semitism.