Sep 17, 2008
The Very Next Economic Bailout? Bossy Is Looking At You, Jennifer Lopez.
While the Insurance corporation AIG begs an $85 billion dollar loan from the government, and Wall Street nosedives, and Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, this happens:
Jennifer Lopez throws her husband Marc Anthony a ginormous surprise 40th birthday bash, and oh my gah: she rented New York’s Bowery Hotel and transformed it into a 1940s Cuban nightclub,
and there were burlesque dancers, y’all,
and showgirls,
and an orchestra,
and even a casino!
But life isn’t all glamour for this power duo and their power duo junior. Because when the party was over, Jennifer and Marc and their twin babies took off on a yacht. A yacht headed to the coast of Italy and Greece.
But it’s a good thing McCain is talking about reducing their taxes. That way they can hold parties to celebrate the half birthdays too. Think of all the jobs those will generate.
And to think my husband fusses about the cost of dinner out on our birthdays…
Italy and Greece! Why, they’re running away from our economy altogether! Snarky..
So much for my “original” idea for K’s 50th.
Damn.
Hey, they’re such copycats
That’s going to cost a bajillion just for gas to take a yacht across the Atlantic! Better to sail…
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/16/obama-hollywood/
A yacht to the coast of Italy? How does Bossy get this latest-greatest info? You have your finger on the pulse!
It would take more that a yacht to get me to say ok a trip across the ocean!
This whole economy thing is like a bad movie – and I can’t wait for the credits to start rolling.
shame – my heart goes out to them…
If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
Maybe they could bail out Lehman Brothers. Twits.
Ms. Lopez is on my short list of “those celebrities who annoy the living daylights out of me”. She complained that everyone was too focused on “that guy who swam in the Olympics”, and that she wasn’t getting enough attention during her triathlon training.
Methinks Jenny from the Block is a blockhead. This party proves it.
And some people in THIS country can’t afford to eat more than Raman noodles and hot dogs…
But are they saving for the twins’ college funds? Or just blowing it all on parties and boats and fancy dancing girls?
Oh, that’s right. They have MORE MONEY THAN GOD. Sigh.
What a co-ink-E-dink, my husband will be spending his birthday on a exciting foreign trip too!!! He’ll spend his 43rd birthday in Iraq.
Ah, Mary Alice, couldn’t he have picked a better place? As for J-Lo, I guess she’s made her money now she has to live with it! I saw a show raising money on tv the other day and one of the celebrities turned to all the celebrities answering the phone and said that it was time for them to give some of their money to charity.
I think you’re on to something here, if everyone an extra mil – hell, even an extra couple of K, would just pass it down to someone short on rent, we’d be well on our way to fixing things right up while the banks lick their wounds and regroup.
Well, I’m sure they had to go for a slightly lower-priced champagne than they would have wanted, so they’re hurting, too.
Must be terribly hard to come up with a original and interesting idea for your spouse’s birthday. Oh right, I don’t have those kind of problems. Hubby got a magazine subscription yesterday for his birthday. My mistake, I should have bought the entire publishing company.
Jen
I guess those that can do, and those that can’t read all about it on Bossy! Here’s to those reading on Bossy!
Wow. It must be such a burden to be vile stinky rich like that. All those THINGS! TO COORDINATE!!! And PEOPLE!!!! To BOSS AROUND!!! And YACHTS! To FUEL!!!
They probably have somebody to hold the twins’ barf bags whist on their transatlantic journey.
Bossy, you write about the nose dive the economy is in, and we get the point, but you still make us laugh. I talk about the nose dive, and I’m afraid people are going to have to double up on their Prozac Rx. You’ve got a gift.
a life of fantasy and wowee..That hotel is gorgeous! Too bad ..ILL never get there! Bossy if you ever go, can I be a hanger-on?
Lisa
coastal nest
Sucks to be them.
How fun! I wish I had been invited!
Weddings at my place today!
http://adventuregirlwannabee.blogspot.com/
If they really cared about America, that yacht would be headed to Alaska. They need people with more disposable income.
For my 40th I got to pick the cake.
Then we got in a minivan and traveled… home.
I’m going to go drink a double gin out of the cat bowl nom.
C’mon Bossy! Give the girl a break, she just finished her first triathlon. That oughta be reason enough to throw a lavish bash and sail away to Europe!
Sheesh. I only gave my hubs sex on his birthday.
They’re not in charge of the financial industry. Just remember, we (that’s a general “we”) were the ones who made them rich in the first place, and I don’t recall that we placed any conditions on how they spent that money. I don’t agree with this extravagance, but we have nothing to hold them accountable to beyond their own consciences. I could point to anyone who owns a flat-screen TV and go “tsk tsk”, but I have no business doing that.
End of lecture. Back to the silliness.
Is that decadent?
Bahahaha!
Sounds like a case of Nero fiddling while Rome goes up in flames, eh?
OMG! That’s exactly what I did last weekend!!! I’m totally kidding. Thanks for the laugh.
Um, I didn’t even get a card for my birthday. Where are my showgirls damn it!
Hey Bossy, just letting you know that irony police are out in full force today–while reading this post, what do I see in your left-hand column? A huge banner ad for Marc Anthony ringtones! Maybe the Anthony-Lopezs are a bit hard up for cash after that party, and they must now resort to pleading for people to buy his music in ringtone form? Hmm…
Darling! Don’t you realize just how difficult it is to be that self absorbed? I mean, the hours required to put on the fake eyelashes alone. How can they be expected to pay attention to the lesser things in life?
They earned their money so why can’t they spend it as they please? Just b/c its not the ideal way to spend for us working class folks doesn’t make it wrong, IMO.
Yeah -sign me up for one of those bailouts, will ya?
I know someone who went to high school with J Lo and she said that even back then she was snotty. So there.
I’m sure they’re not really happy.
PS — just heard about Morgan Stanley loss. Oh the fun never ends.
good points about their money adn how they choose to spend it is their business and we made them rich (I’m such a capitalist, I really am), only not me. Cuz SHE’S GOT NO TALENT and I don’t buy her stinky music or watch her sucky movies.
KEEP BELIEVING
Jho and Skeletor can suck ass.
…and they say we’re in a recession…
And at the SAME time, there were people ponying up $28,000 per plate to see you-know-who. And I bet NONE of the people attending that wore expensive jewelry or clothes or drove expensive cars or ANYTHING.
I’m sorry, but I’m still hung up on the “40th birthday” part of that news item. I’d have thought he was much older than that!
Um, I hate them.
Whoa. I’ll bet that yacht costs a fortune and a half to fill up with petrol. Luckily JLo has many, many fortunes at her disposal…
Y’all don’t get mad at me for loaning them my boat. Also? Later today I’ll post the pictures of me doing the burlesque dancing at their party. Good times, wish you all could have been there.
Dang… give me some of that…. Well my 40th surprise was better: Upstate, NY in my jeans with grocery store cake, wine and true friends!