Vin Diesel must have been high as a kite because he told the LA Times that he wouldn’t be surprised if there was Oscar buzz around Fast Five. Please stop laughing. Vin Diesel didn’t seem to be joking.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some Oscar talk around this. I don’t know, maybe I’m just biting off what some guy from Channel 7 thought,” he said with a chuckle. “But sooner or later, people are gonna say, ‘Wait a minute, just because they are for the working class doesn’t mean they’re not great.’”

You know who would be surprised if there was Oscar talk around this? Everybody else in the world. Even Paul Walker told Vin Diesel to put the crack pipe down. Of course, he didn’t say it in those exact words. He probably put it much more eloquently like, “Bro, put the crack pipe down, bro. Bro!”

Vin Diesel decided to not show up to a day-long junket for his new Fast & Furious 4 film. Any attempts to reach him were ignored. It was only when an exec from Universal contacted him that he picked up. Diesel used the “I’m sick” excuse and ended up arriving four hours late to do two hours of press. Witnesses say he “didn’t even look sick.”

As a direct result, Diesel’s publicist at 42 West say they no longer represent him. As they should. Vin Diesel’s last big “hit” was The Pacifier in 2005. Being a diva is only tolerated if your movie is pulling insane numbers at the box office. As it stands, the only thing Diesel should be getting away with is using a lower grade wax on the director’s car. Although, even that might be pushing it.

Not that any of you care, but Vin Diesel and girlfriend/model Paloma Jimenez are now the proud parents of a baby girl. No one knows the baby’s name because everyone was too busy scratching their asses to ask. However, they do know she was born in April. And no, I’m not late on this. This was reported today, June 6, more than a month later.

Next time instead of reporting on a celebrity baby they don’t care about, they can just type the name of the mom and dad, whoever is more famous, and trail off into a bunch of ellipses, like so, Vin Diesel…… It’ll save them a lot of trouble.