Holla Backlash

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Our favorite hometown hero (or hometown mishap?) Princey-poo created quite a bit of controversy over the weekend.

Apparently he gave away a free copy of his album with every issue of the British tabloid Planet Earth purchased over the weekend. (Just in case the readers desired more than just subscription slips to toss in the trash.)

Once again, His Purpleness is ticking off his record label - the album is not scheduled to go on sale until July 24. And music stores are furious.

Prince has a global distribution and marketing deal with Columbia, but the British arm of the business has pulled out of the agreement, claiming that this only seems fair. (Quick! Change your name to a symbol again. Record companies are powerless against the symbol!)

Anyway, Prince is past his musical prime - especially since the Jehovah's Witnesses have really softened his musical content (if ya know what we mean … wink wink). But that doesn't mean Holla has lost our love for Prince. We are very excited for Prince's new fragrance line. We hope it will smell like grape!

Sometimes love - and luscious blond locks - just ain't enough

Rumor has it our beloved Kate Hudson has moved on from who Holla had picked as the perfect beau for her: Owen Wilson. (Think of your future blond, curly-haired children, Kate!)

The new man who's the apple of her eye? Supposedly it's supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, who the lovely lady was seen with last Friday in Paris, enjoying a day of shopping.

Let's see. It's OK for the blond beauty to go shopping with the old geezer (who at the ripe old age of 60 seems more appropriate for Goldie!) if he's going to be footing the bill. After all, the grocery-store guru is worth $2 billion.

But dating him? Seriously? Pretty sure that's a huge step down from Hollywood hottie Owen. Holla's still hopin' that she and Mr. Wilson are just keeping their love on the DL and will surface in a year as married. Hey, we can dream.

Just remember: Money doesn't make you happy … It makes you REALLY happy!

It's time for another episode of "Isn't Life Unfair?," in which Holla will be giving you the lowdown about what's going on in Hollywood's billfolds.

First off, whether you love him or hate him, Michael Moore has turned exposing the evils of America into a very profitable business. (Too bad the nation's journalists can't seem to catch on to his secrets.)

Seems the "Sicko" director will rake in 50 percent of the document's gross profits. And if the movie makes even close to as much as his last flick, "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore's gonna be seeing money in the tens of millions.

Moore says it's an "interesting irony" for him that he's getting such a great windfall and adds that, "The money allows me to never have to give in, never compromise." And don't forget, never have to live like those sad saps you make money off of. America: love it or at least find a way to make $$$s.

In other news of people making (arguably) much more dough than they deserve, "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe recently signed on to play Sir Potter in the last two films. And for how much? $50 mil. The news made Holla say, "Whoa damn!" but caused the Olson Twins to chuckle, "Sucka!"

And, if you can believe it, Paris Hilton has been offered a $1 million-a-year contract to host a radio show. And guess where?

That's right, our very own KDWB offered the heiress the job of co-hosting the morning show. The current host, Dave Ryan, said, "We need a cohost. She needs something to do." And maybe someday (or maybe now), she'll need Hazelden.

Well, Howard Stern couldn't do it, but maybe, just maybe Paris Hilton could be the one to bring down the king of local morning shows, KQ's Tom Barnard. We hear Paris tells racist jokes too.

Local TV talents: They're just like us!

It is not enough to simply report the news these days. No! We want to know exactly the type of people bringing us our daily 411. You can't just be a pretty talking head, now you have to be a pretty talking head who blogs!

Holla recently noticed many of our favorite (and least favorite) local news anchors and reporters have blogs. This is great! We've always yearned to go deeper into the mind of Eric Perkins - the man must have so much more to offer than just "Perk at Play" right? So this week, Holla took some time between happy hours to explore the lives of local newscasters. Here's what we learned:

1. News reporters do have feelings. And they will feel sad when they have to report to you about a missing child. Oh, and war and cancer makes them sad as well.

2. News people are all busy. 99% of all their blogs begin, to some extent, with, "Golly gee, it's been a busy week, sorry for not blogging." Even better, sometimes they will write about how they don't know what to write about.

3. WCCO's Caroline Lowe named her daughter Shelby! We suspect 'CCO's contract specifically states, all underling-reporters must name their children after an anchor. We only hope Jason DeRusha will name his next child Framelia.

4. Eric Perkins likes New Kids on the Block. Looking at his hair, is this really a surprise? He also ends each entry with "Perkout." We hope Eric does not mind, but Holla has started to use this instead of "goodbye."

5. Holla fears Cyndy Brucato uses her blog as a cry for help. Check out this entry that she posted on why she likes "The Sopranos": "The ambiguous ending meant that Tony Soprano still lived. As flawed a human being - if even that - that ever walked the earth, Tony Soprano could still be loved, even lovable." Awe, don't worry Cyndy, even though you are clearly a biased news anchor (she worked for Republicans Arne Carlson and Norm Coleman), and even though you are not as pretty as Robyne Robinson or Mike Pomeranz, you can still be loved, even, lovable.

6. 'CCO weatherman Paul Douglas has the most literary of all the TV personality blogs. Just look at the way he spins metaphors into a beautiful weather analogy: "Who turned out the lights? Who flicked the switch? I think I may have pushed the wrong button … in truth Mother Nature picked up her TIVO remote control and fast-forwarded us right into September?" Whoa, so many things going on in that sentence - lights are turning off, TIVO is fast-forwarding … so um, what's the weather like?

P-Doug also calls nice days, "up in the 'Oh!' zone." Oh! Paul! You make the weather sound so drrrty! Love it.

7. Sven Sundgaard posts many pictures of himself running marathons. What a show off. He also hardly mentions the weather - a sign some weathermen are just not as dedicated to their jobs as P-Doug…

8. Though Holla learned many neat facts from this reading adventure, and we now feel a special bond with Cyndy, these blogs are a lot like watching an episode of "The Simple Life": They are very staged and not a whole lot is being said.

That's all for this week - Perkout!