Trouble is on the way for MTV’s Real World: New Orleans after a member of the cast fell victim to a house mate’s dirty revenge.

Reportedly, Ryan Leslie became so sick he had to go to the hospital after using a toothbrush he his housemate, Preston Roberson-Charles claims was urinated on and used to scrub a toilet.

Leslie wrote a statement saying,

Preston later came in my room and took my toothbrush off the counter and scrubbed the  inside of the toilet and urinated on my toothbrush.

I wasn’t aware of this [happening] and continued to use my toothbrush.

Preston says he used the toothbrush for more than two weeks when his throat “started to hurt and got progressively worse” forcing him to go to the hospital.

A report was filed with the New Orleans Police Department and police spoke with executive producer, Jim Johnston, about the shows video surveillance.

If Preston really did this, he deserves a HARSH punishment.  Scrubbing the toilet and urinating on some one’s toothbrush is wrong!!  What was he thinking?

What are you thinking after reading this?

Brooklyn’s Finest is overflowing with homages to recent gritty urban dramas and contains a familiar plotline involving a lot of strangers in various predicaments, whose troubled lives ultimately intersect. It’s a good movie, despite lacking much of anything new, although I will say that I left the movie feeling distinctly more depressed than I would have liked. Then again, even in good action thrillers like this, there’s almost invariably something that really bums me out. I didn’t like what happened to Jack Nicholson in The Departed, for example. And I didn’t like what happened to Denzel Washington in Training Day, which also starred Ethan Hawke, and which was directed by Antoine Fuqua, who directed Brooklyn’s Finest as well.

The movie follows the lives of three different New York police officers as they struggle to survive in a world of unremitting violence. Richard Gere is Eddie, a seasoned veteran days from retirement and struggling to cope with a career full of dreadful images that drive him to start his day with a glass of whiskey and a little casual Russian Roulette. Don Cheadle is Tango, an officer who’s been working undercover for so long that he feels closer to his criminal target, Caz (Wesley Snipes), than with anyone on the right side of the law. He has a desperate desire for a suit and a desk job but no longer knows if he’ll be able to make the major bust required to get it.

And Ethan Hawke is Sal, a drug enforcement officer without enough money to move his family into a house where his pregnant wife won’t be getting sick from the wood mold. Sal’s is a story that’s probably going to be the biggest stretch to believe. He and his wife are living in a house that’s too small for them and their seven kids, and the dangerous asthma attacks caused by the wood mold are endangering the life of their unborn twins. Sal’s motivation to constantly attempt to steal drug money may be encouraged by his certainty that, should the twins be born healthy, the family should easily be able to land a reality show deal. Or at least a sequel. Keep your eyes out for Brookyln’s Finest II: Sal and Lili Plus Nine.

So enough about the plot, you see where this is going. All of the characters are living lives that seem designed to make life in New York look like hell, and the movie is definitely pretty successful in making Brooklyn feel like the Worst City in America. And the performances are all above and beyond what I expected. I would suggest that this is definitely Wesley Snipes best performance (except for Drop Zone, of course. That thing was classic), and Richard Gere and Don Cheadle are in top form as well.

But the problem with the movie is that is starts out with enormous promise as we see how impressively the three central characters are presented, and then the movie ultimately dissolves into the manufactured series of coincidences that somehow brings their lives together. It’s as suddenly violent as we’ve come to expect from Fuqua, but the humanity isn’t developed enough to override the saturation of killing. The human element is developed well, but the violence element distantly overshadows it, particularly in the inevitable bloodbath at the end.

But overall, it’s good action and hard violence, and there’s always an audience for that. Terrible date movie, though.

The Bean Meter

Over a year later, Chris Brown is still feeling the fallout from assaulting Rihanna.

His latest album, Graffiti, has failed in comparison to his pre-altercation albums and some radio stations won’t even play his music at all.  So, Chris is turning to his fans to try and make a come back.

Brown released an audio message on Wednesday basically begging his fans to help “bring [him] back.”

Chris says,

Some radio stations aren’t playing my records.  They’re not being that supportive and I wouldn’t expect them to.  But it’s on the fans… It’s in your power to bring me back.

It won’t be possible for me to be an artist if I don’t have support from people who give me an artist outlet.  I can’t be an underground mixtape artist.

A judge recently praised Chris for keeping up with his community service and he refers to himself as a “better person,” but it hasn’t been enough to revitalize his career.

Rihanna has already forgiven him and wishes him the best, but only time will tell if the fans can do the same.

Do you think Chris deserves the help from fans or does he deserve to fail?

Rapper DMX made headlines earlier this week for being the first celebrity to get arrested in 2010 and now Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab wants to help.

DMX’s lawyer told TMZ,

Reps for “Rehab” contacted him after X was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly violating his probation by using drugs.

Jenkins says the “Rehab” team is considering sending someone to DMX’s next court hearing to speak with the judge — just like Dr. Drew did with Jessica Sierra from “American Idol” — to try and get X placed in their care instead of being locked up.

DMX is due back in court on March 16th and is being held without bond.

What do you think…. will he stay in jail or accept the Rehab offer?

I may as well admit right off the bat that I went into Cop Out totally unaware that it’s a Kevin Smith film, and didn’t realize it all through the movie until the closing credits because the only thing it has in common with any other Kevin Smith films is Jason Lee. This might be because Smith didn’t write the script, but check this out – when Zack and Miri Make A Porno was released, Roger Ebert recalled a conversation with Kevin Smith where he made the following important statement, “I don’t know sh** about directing, but I’m a f***ing good writer.”

Should we be worried then, that he still signed on to direct a movie that he didn’t write?

Whatever the case, Cop Out is meant to be something of a spoof and something of an homage of buddy cop action movies in general, everything from Lethal Weapon to Blue Streak. I’ll admit that I have an almost inexhaustible love of these movies, and hardly ever find them repetitive, derivative or…ah…intrusive, but there is a way to make them (or any comedy) bad, and that’s to just not be funny. I know, that’s a little obvious, but the biggest crime for an unfunny comedy to commit is to have too many unfunny jokes that just go on for far too long, and Cop Out is full of them.

The plot is simple enough. Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis are New York cops with a relationship the just begs to be made into a ho-hum buddy cop movie.  Jimmy (Willis) is an experienced cop struggling with his low salary while his daughter is getting married and his ex-wife’s new husband loves to taunt him for not being able to afford to pay for it. And Paul (Morgan) is Jimmy’s mouthy partner struggling with desperate suspicions that his wife is cheating on him. It won’t be any surprise when a sting operation goes wrong, a storefront gets all shot to hell and Jimmy and Paul end up getting chewed out by the police chief, who’s just about had enough of them. Personally I prefer the completely unintelligible chief in Last Action Hero. That guy was hilarious.

Needless to say, they get suspended for 30 days without pay, and just as I’m again wishing that I had a job where my boss would force me to take a month off, the movie has officially transformed into a giant cliché and it’s safe to look for your entertainment elsewhere. But just when Seann William Scott enters and you think you might have something to laugh at, he ends up being responsible for the majority of the movie’s lengthy, unfunny jokes. Scott plays Dave. Jimmy had a classic baseball card that he was going to sell so he could pay for his daughter’s wedding, but Dave stole it and sold it for drugs. Jimmy makes Dave lead him to the Hispanic gangsters that he sold the card to, and they tell Jimmy that he can have the card back if Jimmy can just get back a beloved, stolen Mercedes.

Oooohhh! Tough guy!

Anyway, you see where this is going. Jimmy needs to get that card back and pay for a wedding, Paul needs to find out if his wife is cheating on him, the gangster needs his car, and Dave needs to crack a lot of bad jokes at the expense of Paul’s vanity. Everyone puts in a sufficient performance, but there’s something missing that would have made the movie really memorable. It’s not a bad movie, just a run of the mill cop comedy that no one will argue is the best work from anyone involved. And it doesn’t help that the whole criminal element, the Mexican gangsters caricatures, involves a level of visceral violence that’s totally at odds with the comedy that the rest of the movie tries to convey. Seems that these two elements may have done better in separate movies. Fans of the leads will have a good time, but I recommend waiting for the DVD.

The Bean Meter

Seann William Scott telling a joke, Bruce Willis not getting it, Tracy Morgan not caring.

Lil Wayne has officially begun serving his one year jail sentence for gun charges at Rikers Island jail in New York.

According to TMZ, Lil Wayne was transported to the jail in a corrections van and not with other prisoners because of his “high profile” status.  It is unclear at this time if Lil Wayne will go into the jail’s general population or if he’ll be given his own cell.

What we do know is that his first meal behind bars will be, noodles with beef sausage & marinara sauce, steamed greens, a mixed green salad, whole wheat bread, sliced peaches and a fruit drink or tea.

There is good news for Lil Wayne; his sentence can be reduced for good behavior.

How long do you think Lil Wayne will actually be in for?

Cameron Douglas is trying to use his fame to get him out of trouble with the law.

Cameron and his legal team are saying that the fame of Cameron’s father, Michael Douglas, is what made him do drugs.  The lawyer’s said,

(Douglas’) serious heroin addiction (stems from) notoriety that is not due to any acts of his own but by dint of birth and a difficult upbringing.

He didn’t benefit from his celebrity.  He was hurt by it in a variety of ways, including ways in this case.

Sadly, Cameron’s therapist agrees, telling the court,

He has been sort of a reckless person since he was really young, endangering himself constantly.  Not violent, just screwing up in every way – car accidents, motorcycle accidents, tattoos.  I think a lot of it had to do with who his parents are.

Personally I think Cameron’s defense is total BS, and it seems the judge would agree.  Cameron was denied bail for fear he would return to his old ways.

It’s about time Cameron step up and take responsibility for his actions, he’s not a child anymore.

What do you think?

Lindsay Lohan is finally addressing her substance abuse issues.

In an interview with the UK Sun Lindsay said,

When my father was going public, that’s when I hit rock bottom.  I abused substances too much and it wasn’t the answer to my problems.  People need to know that.

I tried to mask my problems with alcohol, cocaine and mind-altering substances.  Now I’m in a place where I don’t need to use anything and I can feel emotions because I choose to.

I learnt from my mistakes and I’m now healthy and happier.  I never want to be close to losing everything I worked for and aspired to have my whole life.

Mind-altering substances are so dangerous.  If I can teach others, especially teens, by sharing my experiences, then that’s what I will continue to do.

I’ve made some dreadful mistakes but learned from them – that has probably saved my life.

Linsay then talked about rehab, saying,

I went to rehab three times.  The first time I checked myself in because I had taken Ambien.  It’s a sleeping aid but it makes you hallucinate.

I’d run a bath and fallen asleep on the floor and the bath had overflowed.

When I woke up I was so scared, I called my therapist and said, ‘Can I just go somewhere for a month?  I’m around bad people and I need to take care of myself.’  I was terrified, so I put myself in.

As for her cocaine use, Lindsay said,

I was only aware of cocaine because of my dad.  I was terrified of it.  But I tried it because I was stubborn, stupid, and wanted to see what it was like.

It’s not something I ever want to do again.  It made me feel like s***.  It became uninteresting to me.  I’m hyper anyway and I have that kind of personality so I don’t need something like that.

Lindsay  says she is now sober and clean and plans to remain that way.  Do you think she can do it?

Travis Barker and a few of his buddies went crazy on the paparazzi outside a Calabasas restaurant.  Travis and his entourage spit on and hit the paparazzi and slashed their tires.  Check out the video obtained by TMZ.

Sean Penn was charged with criminal battery and vandalism yesterday, February 19th.

According to TMZ, the charges were in connection with Penn’s attack on a paparazzi last October in Brentwood, CA.

The Los Angeles City Attorney filed two misdemeanor counts –battery and vandalism and if convicted Penn could go to jail for 1 1/2 years.

Do you think Sean Penn’s attack was justified or does he deserve to serve jail time?