Less than a year after the death of Brittany Murphy, the actress’ mother, Sharon Murphy, is writing a tell-all book about the actress.
“This book will be my way of celebrating and honoring her extraordinary life and career,” Sharon told RadarOnline.
Brittany died in Dec. 2009 after collapsing in the bathroom of her Hollywood Hills home and going into cardiac arrest. An autopsy showed that the “Clueless” actress’ primary cause of death was pneumonia, with complications from anemia. She was 32.
Only five months later, the actress’ husband, 40-year-old Simon Monjak, was found dead in the same home. In a bizarre twist, officials ruled that his death was also caused by pneumonia and severe anemia.
In the months following the couple’s surprising deaths, Sharon fought rumors that her daughter used illegal drugs, as well as a report claiming that Sharon slept in the same bed as her son-in-law following Brittany’s death.
Now, she says, she wants to set the record straight.
“Brittany was a kind, loving person who enjoyed each day; she was my life,” Sharon told the website. “I am looking forward to everyone reading the accurate account about my dauther, her life, loves and career.”
She said a portion of the proceeds from the book sales will be donated to charity.
Kanye West says he’s sorry for giving George W. Bush the worst experience of his presidency.
But apparently he doesn’t like the way Matt Lauer got the apology out of him on the “Today” interview that aired yesterday.
In a series of tweets after the interview, the singer said Lauer “tried to force” his answers.
“I went up there to express how I was empathetic to Bush because I labeled him a racist and years later I got labeled a racist,” he tweeted.
“While I was trying to give the interview they started playing the “MTV” under me with audio,” he tweeted, in apparent reference to footage of the star storming on MTV’s Video Music Awards’ stage to interrupt Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech last September.
“I feel very alone very used very tortured very forced very misunderstood very hollow very very misused,” West tweeted after the interview.
The Grammy-award winning rapper said on the show he regrets saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” five years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“I would tell George Bush in my moment of frustration, I didn’t have the grounds to call him racist,” West said in the interview.
The singer admitted he was running on “high emotion,” adding that sometimes “we as human beings don’t choose the right words.”
West made the heated statements about Bush during a 2005 televised fundraiser for victims of the hurricane.
Bush says in his recently released memoir, “Decision Points,” that the West incident marked an “all-time low” during his time in office.
Upon hearing the singer’s regrets, Bush said “I appreciate that,” during a live interview on “Today.” He noted it wasn’t just West who made hurtful comments during Hurricane Katrina.
“I’m not a hater. I don’t hate Kanye,” Bush said. ” No one wants to be called a racist if in your heart you believe in equality of race.”
Movie critic Gene Shalit has watched his last movie for the “Today” show.
The flamboyant critic said Tuesday that he’s leaving the show where he’s reviewed movies for 40 years. The last time his “Critic’s Corner” appeared on the morning show was in May, when he reviewed “Shrek Forever After.”
The “Today” show said it would air a salute to the 84-year-old Shalit today. Executive Producer Jim Bell says 40 years on the same show is “a feat unlikely to ever be matched.”
Rapper T.I. won’t exactly be a free man when he’s released from prison next year — he’ll be barred from leaving the northern half of Georgia without a good reason, according to TMZ.
TMZ has obtained court documents outlining the terms of T.I.’s year-long supervised probation when he is released from prison in 11 months.
According to the papers, T.I. won’t be allowed to leave the northern district of Georgia, which includes Atlanta, Gainesville, Rome and Newnan, unless he can prove it’s for “verified employment within the United States.” That means he can’t leave the country.
T.I. is also banned from leaving northern Georgia for more than seven calendar days per month or for more than seven days in a row.
And further, as long as T.I. is on probation, he can’t drive a vehicle, can’t own “any firearm, dangerous weapon, or other destructive device,” and must participate in a drug/alcohol testing and treatment program, the website reports.
— lsmith@denverpost.com
