When lightening strikes
Whoever said that lightening doesn't strike twice never met Anne Hathaway. Now Anne is striking, but that's not what I mean. In this case the lightening has come in the form of more man trouble for Dreamboat Annie!obliging Annie - the Dreamboat and the Deadbeats
Now you'll probably recall that Anne had some heavy trouble with her previous beau, the Italian fraudster entrepreneur Raffaello Follieri! He's the guy who got in shit for trying to cheat the Vatican and friends of Bill Clinton.
Anne was in that one deep too. He'd made her the chairperson of a few of his dubious charities, and also used her as a frequent 'business expense' excuse when he needed to explain where the money was disappearing. In fact when he fled the country, the govt. threatening to go after Anne. They seized her diaries and other valuables as evidence in a possible case against her. So Anne was obliged to help herself by talking Raffaello back to the states, and ultimately into a 8x12 rat infested jail cell!
Never repeat your mistakes, there are plenty of new ones waiting to be made!
When the shit went down everyone had a good laugh, especially Anne herself. She even sent herself up on a SNL monologue. She joked about it on various TV chat shows (This was coincidentally about the time her ironically title movie Get Smart came out. Sandra Bullock's Blindsided must be a pain that Anne herself knows). Then she moved on to new beau Adam Shulman.
well heeled heels & riff raff rogues ... and now for something completely different. New and improved might have to wait for more of the same!
Unlike Raffers, Adam wasn't well heeled. In fact he has been described as a manipulative social climber who uses young women to improve his position in the world (& also to camouflage his secret life as a crime fighting serial murderer!). If that's what he wanted Annie was prepared to oblige him. She let him live with her rent free. She paid for all their together time: restaurants, trips, and splashing out on award show attendance. For instance Anne would buy him his tux if she wanted to take him to the Oscars or something. People gave her shit for sugar mommying him, but Anne apparently thought it was safer to pay a man's way than it was to take money from a con man. So now for something completely different?
Shit for sugar - Where's Mr. Clean when you need him?
If this was Anne's idea of playing it safe then she'd have been better of covering the angles instead, since her new beau is in some old familiar trouble. It started like this: Adam was involved with a guy called Ken Hart. Hart is the president of the H&H Builders. He is also the owner of an expensive mural done by acclaimed New York Street artist Dr. Brainwash. Dr. Brainwash sounds like one of Wonder Woman's foes in the comics! The story is already getting good! Now had the artist in question called himself Dr. Mouthwash the thing really would be picking up steam!
new situations old complications - same old song & dance
Though Hart is the owner of the Dr. Brainwash piece, he is not the possessor. That's because according to Hart, Shulman up and ran off with the mural. Though possession is nine tenths of the law it's the other one tenth that's the problem. Putting it bluntly the lad stole it, allegedly (just because you're being blunt doesn't mean that you still don't have to cross you T's and dot your i's!). Now Kenny is trying to be big about this. He's said publicly, through the New York Post, that if Shulman returns the missing piece he'll forgive and forget. If not he's gonna call the cops about it! So that means Anne will have another guy behind bars. Strike two!
Love & war: Anne's scorched earth policy
As for Anne she doesn't seem to be talking about this. Maybe she feels that she's said all she should have to say after Raffers made her look ridiculous. For instance she told David Letterman, after some of his patented malicious teasing: "You do have to give me credit because as far as relationships crashing and burning goes, c'mon, I did pretty great. I mean, scorched that earth!"
Fighting for her rights, in her satin tights against the toxic heart of gossip
Well Anne, Wondertrash is giving you as much credit as we can. You not only scorched the earth, but left radioactive fallout that Internet bloggers are still tapping to power our posts (like Tony Stark's toxic arc reactor in Ironman 2. That was a fantastic film BTW and you really have to see it if you haven't already. If you have then see it again!). Besides she did say it all in that Letterman statement. So idle gossip couldn't really ask any more except "What does Dr. Brainwash have to say about this?" I can wait until Law & Order features Anne in an episode. If she's really a sport she'll portray herself in the show!
BTW Anne, take it as a consolation that like comic book super heroines, you have an attraction to dudes in distress! Another consolation, if Robert Downey jr. can rise from the ashes of his scandals like some glorious phoenix of the box office, then you shouldn't worry. Though you might have to consider a role requiring red boots, magic bracelets, and occasional bondage (Just kidding. Annie's more of a Hawkgirl than a Wonder Woman!
