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Not everyone is cut out for a life in the spotlight!

Singer Sia is claiming that after the release of her album, We Are Born, she will retire from performing and instead work as a songwriter for other artists!

She says:

"When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked a lot of personal questions, which was really difficult. I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came at the same time as my fame, it made me withdraw, and I started to have panic attacks. It was then that I was prescribed antidepressants - fame made me develop a panic disorder. Sure, there are advantages (to fame): I can Tweet someone famous and they'll usually Tweet back; I get given free stuff, but I can afford to buy it myself. It's no wonder Britney Spears was diagnosed as bipolar. Amy Winehouse wasn't doing crack and heroin until she became successful. And then there's Heath Ledger… People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. Now my dream is to write songs for others, to have a baby, to have a routine… I want a normal job. I want to be who I was before all this."

We'll see if this one actually pans out! How many singers claim to quit and then pop right back up after being out of the public's eye for too long??

Thoughts??

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Absolutely disgusting.

Ramin Setoodeh wrote possibly one of the most ignorant articles of all time for Newsweek Magazine, asserting that although straight men can play homosexual parts flawlessly, it doesn't work when gay people play heterosexual.

WTF kind of logic is that?!

Oh, we're sorry, are straight people just innately better performers than gays?? Or are straight people just so emotionally complex and superior that they can easily inhabit the role of a simple, caricature-like homosexual?

Here are some of infuriating gems published:

It's weird seeing Sean Hayes play straight. He comes off as wooden and insincere, like he's trying to hide something, which of course he is. Even the play's most hilarious scene, when Chuck tries to pick up a drunk woman at a bar, devolves into unintentional camp. Is it funny because of all the '60s-era one-liners, or because the woman is so drunk (and clueless) that she agrees to go home with a guy we all know is gay?

But the truth is, openly gay actors still have reason to be scared. While it's OK for straight actors to play gay (as Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger did in Brokeback Mountain), it's rare for someone to pull off the trick in reverse. De Rossi and Harris do that on TV, but they also inhabit broad caricatures, not realistic characters likes the ones in Up in the Air or even The Proposal.

As viewers, we are molded by a society obsessed with dissecting sexuality, starting with the locker-room torture in junior high school. Which is why it's a little hard to know what to make of the latest fabulous player to join Glee: Jonathan Groff, the openly gay Broadway star. In Spring Awakening, he showed us that he was a knockout singer and a heartthrob. But on TV, as the shifty glee captain from another school who steals Rachel's heart, there's something about his performance that feels off. In half his scenes, he scowls—is that a substitute for being straight? When he smiles or giggles, he seems more like your average theater queen, a better romantic match for Kurt than Rachel. It doesn't help that he tried to bed his girlfriend while singing (and writhing to) Madonna's Like a Virgin. He is so distracting, I'm starting to wonder if Groff's character on the show is supposed to be secretly gay.

Lesbian actresses might have it easier—since straight men think it's OK for them to kiss a girl and like it—but how many of them can you name? Cynthia Nixon was married to a man when she originated Miranda on Sex and the City. Kelly McGillis was straight when she steamed up Top Gun's sheets, and Anne Heche went back to dating men (including her Men in Trees costar). If an actor of the stature of George Clooney came out of the closet tomorrow, would we still accept him as a heterosexual leading man? It's hard to say. Or maybe not. Doesn't it mean something that no openly gay actor like that exists?

Or maybe, and call us a little crazy here, MAYBE it's because ignorant articles such as this are still being published, that perpetuate this kind of bigotry and ignorance that keep closeted gay leading men in the closet!

Unbelievable.

Shame on you, Newsweek!

Thoughts??

After the announcement of the third Chris Nolan-directed Batman film, Warner Bros. has set the official release date to July 20, 2012.

The studio is in the very early stages of development, yet Nolan has said this is most likely the last film in the series.

So far, no word yet on which big villain will be featured. Whoever it is, it will be hard to fill the shoes of Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight.

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La Loca continued her delusional interview today - in which she tries to convince herself the world that she's not still a disastrous mess of a crackwhore - with the most respectable, highest-profile news outlet she could find that would still pay for her irrelevant ass, Britain's The Sun, and it gets even more ridiculous in part two!!

We think Lindsanity has a promising career ahead being a delusional liar creative writer!!!

The best part about the entire thing is that her interviewer smells LOLhan's bullshiz two miles away and writes:

"It is a whirlwind of a meeting and, if I'm honest, none of us are particularly taken with Ms Lohan. I am left staring at a very mixed-up, confused little girl who just wants to be loved. As I leave her to party in her hotel suite, I can only hope that one day she will let somebody do just that."

Here's some of Lindsay's better crazy:

On her toxic lesbian relationship with SaMANtha Ronson:
"I never really thought about women before, it kind of just happened with Samantha. It surprised me. We're still in touch. We live in the same apartment building in LA and see each other often. She has always been one of my best friends. If I wasn't with Samantha, I would probably be with a boy next. She's the only woman I've been attracted to. We love each other. We might reconcile the relationship, maybe. I don't know."

"Mostly it was great. Everyone has ups and downs, it's normal. But in front of the public eye they're going to take the downs and make it seem like they're a million times worse. That comes with the territory. It was a big deal for me because I've never had a relationship as public as that, especially being with a girl for the first time. That was really scary for me. But I didn't care because I love her. A picture can tell a thousand different words and lies. They want the negative, they want the drama. They want to say, 'Oh Lindsay's distraught, here we go again, should Sam leave?'"

On why the Ronson family wants her gone:
"There have been a lot of ups and downs. Her family is very involved in her relationships and that was difficult. I think Samantha was growing as a celebrity and a musician and I think that might have scared her family. But I've always been her biggest supporter and, yeah, I love her. All the fighting stuff was just because all her friends had got involved and made me an outcast, which wasn't fair to Samantha. I think it was a jealousy thing in terms of her becoming more famous than the rest of them. She kind of does what she wants now. It's changed, so who's to say we won't be together again?"

On Heath Ledger:
"That's kind of a touchy subject. Sorry. He was a really good friend to me for a long time and it was really sad when that happened."

On her fameWHORING parents and her EFFED UP childhood:
"My childhood was very… well, my mom was amazing but my dad was there and then not there. My Dad experimented with drugs including cocaine and I think maybe that had a lot to do with it. When I was younger he would disappear for three days then show up and we'd be walking on eggshells because we would be nervous of what he would say or do. I would put myself in between him and my siblings and do the best I could to protect them. Maybe I didn't realize how much it was affecting me as a person and what it could do to me in the long run. He never hit me, it was more verbal. When I was younger he hit my mom, but I don't really remember that part of it. I think my family is part of the reason I've made mistakes. I think it's just the pressure of wanting to please everyone. That's always been hard."

This would honestly be quite sad if she weren't getting a paycheck out of it!!

You can only blame everything else around you for your mistakes for so long, LiLo, but at some point you're going to have to OWN up to your problems if you truly want to FIX them.

Nobody buys this as sincere. Get HELP.

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Wow! What HORRIBLE thing to do!

Heather Ledger's uncle is trying to use his nephew's death as an excuse to get out of prison!

Hayden Charles Ledger plead not guilty to charges that he received $130,000 worth of stolen machinery in 2008, on the grounds that he suffers from bipolar disorder and he was distraught over the actor's death and therefore should not be held responsible for his crime.

Are U serious?! How completely tasteless!

And STOOPID. I'm sad so I stole machinery??

Luckily, the judge called bullshiz and sentenced him to 18 months in jail.

Good! What a MORON.

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While Sherlock Holmes and Avatar were box office hits over the weekend, Heath Ledger's last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus had a poor showing in the US.

It barely made $130,000 in sales from the four theaters that were featuring the film.

We blame marketing, a limited release AND bad timing!

So sad considering this film had a huge opportunity to make $$$.

This morning, the notes from the coroner's report were leaked onto the Internet, detailing the massive amounts of drugs found in the home of Brittany Murphy. Though the cause of death has still not been revealed, as they are waiting for the toxicology report to be completed, an expert from the University Of Florida College of Medicine thinks that her death could have been an accidental overdose.

The same kind of overdose that took the young life of Heath Ledger.

Dr. Bruce Goldberger, a professor and the Director of Toxicology studies at the university "absolutely" feels that the mixture of drugs found in her possession could have easily resulted in her death. Furthermore, he relates her death as being more similar to the circumstance leading up to the death of Heath Ledger, rather than some who have compared the tragedy to Michael Jackson's demise. Dr. Goldberger said:

“It is more likely to be like the Heath Ledger scenario where we had death from an accidental overdose…Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine."

Hydrocodone was one of the drugs found at Brittany's home.

So very sad to lose such young and bright people this way.

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Not AGAIN?!

Poor thing!

In a phone conversation recorded between Dina Lohan and the despicable Michael, Orange Oprah reveals that Lindsay was dating Heath Ledger before he died and has valid concerns for the safety of her daughter and her bleak future.

"And she was dating Heath when he died," Dina said. "I don't know if you know that, but I know cause I would drop her off and they were friends very, very close, ok?"

His death was a terrible shock and devastated Lindsay! This worried the family about her own actions.

"Because when she's drunk or takes an Adderall with it she will do something like Heath Ledger did in a second without thinking," continued Dina.

In the conversation, it becomes apparent how desperate Lindsay's situation has become.

"She cannot be alone," said momma Lohan to Michael. "When she sleeps here she sleeps with me… she has fears from being little and what you did to us."

And she defends former assistant/manager Jenni Muro as being someone who is attempting to save LiLo! The actress needed someone with her at all times to control her or she would go off the deep end.

Of course, the entire family is concerned about LezLo's tumultuous relationship with saMAN and realized that her daughter can't just walk away.

"It's very easy for a rational person to say. But for an irrational person who has a problem with her DNA and alcohol and Adderall and asthma and every other things she's got wrong with her," Dina revealed.

The betrayal is tragic!

Leave El Lay, Lindz! Get help!

CLICK HERE to listen to the heartbreaking discussion!

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