Cold Comfort and Hot Love

Lee was a few other things too. He was a fisherman, a skateboarder, and an aspiring photographer. Perhaps the most notable role that he played was as Christina Applegate's boyfriend. They'd had an on again off again relationship. Her acting and his dope seemed to be bones of contention for them. For instance Lee had been through rehab a couple of times, at Christina's insistence. It was the kind of insistence that usually comes with an 'or else'. They had their bust ups, but usually found their way back together. Maybe they had nothing better going on.

That changed for Applegate when she landed the lead role in a new TV series called "Who's Samantha". It's about a 30 year old amnesiac who has to go through a process of personal rediscovery - you can't make this up, can you. While Samantha was rediscovering her personal relationships on TV, Christina was re evaluating hers, back in 'real life'. She decided that a lay around drug addict was gonna be a drag on her career. He didn't even have 'accesory value'. So she cut him loose. Lee went off to work on a fishing boat for a couple of weeks, to clear his head. Upon his return to LA, he went on a massive and fatal drug bender.

Now friends say that Christina is genuinely broken up by Grivas death. She phoned up some friends in hysterics talking about how much she loved him and how much she had tried to save him, and how she had failed. Casual listeners might have been unsure whom the conversation was really about, given the sheer number of I's my's, me's and mine's that worked their way into the conversation. The skeptical among us will remember that it's a professional actress talking, and so this conversation, like every other that she engages in, must be about her.

We should give Christina some credit though. Her friends describe her grief as 'heart wrenching'. Perhaps that's why she's felt the need to find comfort in a new boyfriend. That lucky fellow is a 39 year old gap toothed, bass playing Dutchman named Martyn Lenoble. The guy must be working some magic too, because the couple have been seen up and down the LA area kissing and slobbering over one another. Why the pair were even spotted on a shopping expedition, where Christina dropped a bundle at the Guitar Center Music Store. Martyn has even been spotted driving Applegate's black Lexus - so you know that it's serious. Now all this gallivanting took place on July 5th, approximately the same time as the funeral of the poor wretch that she was supposedly so in love with. It's tempting to remark that the grieving girlfriend didn't stay in character very long - that's one of Applegate's many failings as an actress. Still, there are no people like show people, they smile when they are low - & the show gotta go on. What a little trooper that Christina is!

Now for a little summer eye candy, it's lovely Aishwarya Rai as Wonder Woman!

Wondertrash Bogus Zen:

"This is the measure of a human being: how we treat the people who love us and the people that we love"

- words of wonder and wisdom from Lynda Carter

"Embrace the conspiracy nuts because if not for them the mind would not be open to what could possibly be true, but probably isn't."~

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