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Movies
How Pixar Joined The Liberal Bandwagon
Frank Rich of the New York Times, disappointed by Barack Obama's "small-bore" campaign since he won the Democratic nomination, has transferred his affections to a new liberal hero: Wall-E, a computer-generated cartoon of a waste-disposal robot from the brilliant animated film of the same name. It's not as much of a stretch as usual for the Times columnist to ascribe political meaning to the hit Pixar movie, as he does in today's newspaper. More »
Pic Of The Day
A photo editor at the New York Times—forced to work on a public holiday—has decided to make mischief. From a gallery of pictures of the day on the newspaper's website, here's a revealing shot of dancers preparing for the start of the Independence Day parade in Washington, DC.
Happy 4th
A photo editor at the New York Times—forced to work on a public holiday—has decided to make mischief. From a gallery of pictures of the day on the newspaper's website, here's a revealing shot of dancers preparing for the start of the Independence Day parade in Washington, DC.
and now he's dead
Jesse Helms
One is told not to speak ill of the dead, and even the obit writers of this ill-mannered site usually find some praiseworthy note—Hitler was kind to animals!—in even the shabbiest of lives. But it would be dishonest to pretend that Jesse Helms was anything other than a caricature of a Southern bigot. More »
Week in Review
The Week We Broke the Budget
- Rafaello Follieri was friends with Ron Burkle was friends with Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein, who is in jail. Whee.
- The Jews don't want you to watch that video about how they run the whole country. So they forced the baseball player to hang out with the singer lady to DISTRACT YOU.
- Alum report: former editor Thayer Core, after stints at the Observer, New York, and Radar, has just sold his book, And They All Say Candace Bushnell Sucks In the End (Whatever), to Gotham Books for a zillion dollars.
- Did you hear about how CBS reporter Lara Logan once had sex with a guy and then had sex with another guy? Then you are part of the problem.
- Crap voicemails from a dad.
- So. We don't like Donald Trump or Harvey Weinstein or middle-aged dudes in general, actually. Some of us do like Ryan Adams. (Some of us.) (Fire Sheila.)
- Maybe we should like Harvey Weinstein, though—after all, because of him, we may get to see Gwyneth Paltrow do the Turkey Lurkey dance.
- The internet is full of euphemistic jargon, just like the rest of everything. Anyway, we're all getting adjustments for Christmas!
- Happy 3rd of July! No Gawker tomorrow, and the weekend ought to be slow—Ian Spiegelman is off, working on a scheme to break into a Florida county prison in order to personally shiv Jeffrey Epstein. Hooray Independence! See you next week!
The Internets
How to Shut Down an Internet Argument
Just post this video, each and every time, when things appear to be getting out of hand in a comments thread or whatever. Makes everyone involved feel stupid. [via Cajun Boy]
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Pretend You're Talking To Someone Now
Make a YouTube video—any video—and show your stupid Sprint phone in it, and Sprint will pay you $20. The promotion is appropriately called "Sell Out." Or, don't do this, and enjoy a satisfaction that $20 could never buy. Unless you bought crack. [via PostAdvertisingAge]
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Trey Anastasio
225 W 83rd St
I spotted the fabulous Trey Anastasio last night around 7:30 pm on the UWS - 83rd St between Amsterdam and Broadway to be exact. He was happily shuffling along and entered an apatrtment building near Cafe Lalo. -
Robert Downey Jr.
10 Columbus Cir
Robert downey Jr at blue ribbon sushi in Columbus circle with a blonde female. He was wearing a fedora and she was wearing a gray cardigan. Management had to keep fans away. Not sure if it was his wife but they were making out. They made separate exits.. Relapse? -
Puff Daddy
Broadway & 56th St
Around 10 a.m. this morning on 56th and Broadway crossing the street and talking on his phone. He had two bulky-looking guys trailing him. -
Agyness Deyn
10 Columbus Cir
Saw Agyness Deyn and Fab Whateveretti at Whole Foods, actually making out the in bread aisle, and hanging on each other at all times. But not in a gross way. It was sweet.
journalismism
Who Says Newspapers Are Dead?
The L.A. Times is cutting 250 jobs, the Tampa-Tribune is cutting 21, the New York Times is now available only on Kindle during a lunar eclipse, but all is well in dead-tree medialand — in Korea. An anti-Communist group in Seoul plans to distribute 100,000 free copies of its newspaper to North Korean readers via balloons. The so-called Free North Korea Shinmun "will expose and condemn human rights violations in the communist country with articles written by North Korean defectors living in the South." The good news? The paper's made of plastic, so less atmospheric wear and tear. The bad? There's no food supplement made of real food to actually be use to North Koreans. More »
Lorenzo's Royal
Seeing as it's apparently Cute Boy Day on Gawker, we'll throw another fella into the mix. Our friends at Guanabee think that Lorenzo Betancourt, son of the recently-released hostage and one-time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid, is a hottie. And we don't disagree. Though, erm, he's nineteen.
Seeing as it's apparently Cute Boy Day on Gawker, we'll throw another fella into the mix. Our friends at Guanabee think that Lorenzo Betancourt, son of the recently-released hostage and one-time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid, is a hottie. And we don't disagree. Though, erm, he's nineteen.
pot psychology
"Is It Normal For Straight Girls To Only Like Girl-On-Girl Porn?"
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice column" in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) More »
microfeuds
Emily Gould Handles Her Own PR, Calls Out Everyone
We will begin by thanking Emily Gould—former Gawker editor, recent NYT Magazine cover story, and recently-sold book-writer—for providing us with content on a slow news day before a holiday weekend. She's chosen the perfect time to publish a long screed on her blog, titled "How Your Emily Gould Gossip Sausage Gets Made." Whoa! Everyone gets called out. We're all crazy from the heat this week! More »
Hipsters In Space
A cartoon starring an East Village DJ in shutter shades, on a space ship. About time. [Current]
A cartoon starring an East Village DJ in shutter shades, on a space ship. About time. [Current]
chaunce hayden
Entire New York Gossip Agenda Shaped By One Dude in Jersey
Recently, Steppin' Up editor Chaunce Hayden got himself banned from tipping Page Six because of an inaccurate item he sorta sent them about a sex tape involving the wife of radio morning show host Opie. Does that sentence confuse and upset you? It should, because there's no fucking reason you should've ever heard of Chaunce Hayden, Steppin' Out, or "Opie," as Chaunce Hayden more or less admits in a Radar profile today. The unread free New Jersey magazine is actually just a vehicle for Mr. Hayden to meet famous (or "famous") women and land his name in the columns. More »
Movies
Is It Too Soon For The Wackness?
I guess it was inevitable after Interpol's second album tanked that late-80's postpunk recurrence was fated to be as short-lived as Ian Curtis. But how the hell did we reach 1994 in our retro cycle so quickly? The Wackness (trailer after the jump), the indie feature directed by Jonathan Levine, opens this weekend, revisiting the broiling New York City summer that you might not have before realized was so zeitgeisty. The film's being cited as much for its splenetic anti-Giuliani politics as for its remember-when hip hop soundtrack. Our hero Luke Shapiro (think a smarter version of Telly from the Larry Clark film Kids) is a virginal high school drug dealer who runs a mini-cartel of Jamaican weed out of an Italian shaved ice cart. Cosmopolitan! But his skanking around town with Ben Kingsley, a fiending Jewish psychotherapist dressed like Kramer, is about to be interrupted by broken windows law enforcement. Where were you standing when Newt Gingrich took over Congress? More »
Money
Yet Another Show About The Increasingly Uninteresting World of the Filthy Rich
Oh look. A new show about rich people. It's certainly not a new TV meme, but there's just so much of it these days. What with the Real Housewives and the Gossip Girls and the Super Sweet sixteen-year-olds. One might begin to think there was some sort of canyon-sized poverty gap growing in this country of ours. This newest entry in the genre is about a young writer who takes a job tutoring two spoiled rich heiresses and blah blah blah, people swim in money. The show is slated to be on the CW, where Gossip Girl is housed, this fall. So tune in on your non-flat television set, pour a glass of Fish Eye from a box, and feel terribly, terribly impoverished. It's a good thing poor people just aren't that interesting. A promo clip for the show awaits you after the jump. More »
Photography
"The empire struck back and laid me off"
A couple months ago we brought you the elegiac newsroom photography of Martin Gee, a designer at the San Jose Mercury News who picked up a camera one day and documented the ghostly quality atmosphere inside a newspaper dessicated by layoffs. Well, guess what: Gee has now been laid off! With no warning. While he was on vacation. Sucks. He's pissed, but he never put down his camera. After the jump, three photos that express his feelings towards his old employer: More »
Rex Sorgatz
Oversharing Is Sometimes Okay, Says Oversharer
Goaded by a commenter, writer Rex Sorgatz wrote a passionate defense of those who share intimate details of their lives online. The media blogger (and recent author of a piece on microfame for New York) had linked to his anonymous Tumblr blog, which documented conversations Rex had about New York and the hookup scene. (The blog was outed even more quickly than Rex expected.) Rex says his pillow-talk conversations weren't oversharing, and fuck you for accusing him of that. So what's his defense, and is there anything still too intimate to blog? More »
In Brief
Dear Anna: I'm Outsourcing Your Job To Vogue India. 8 Pictures That Explain Why…
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: Anna: Trust you're having a merry Fourth. Please don't let what I'm about to say put too much of a damper on it. Listen, you've been impeccable these past 20 years. More »
Snark Break
Julia Allison's bestfriend, "handbag designer" Mary Rambin, has lost her dog in the Hamptons. He's escaped! No snark here! Have you seen how cute he is? Update: He's been found! (Wandering near the highway, yikes!) [Guest of a Guest]
Media
Washington Post Pwned By Ex-Posties
Two years ago, two of the Washington Post's political reporters urged the paper to start a separate political website. The paper turned them down, and those two guys—John Harris and Jim Vandehei—left the Post and launched Politico.com. Now, the Post has decided it does want to launch a separate political site. But! There was a SLIGHT PROBLEM. More »
Downtown
Trendiest Dive-Themed Bar Nails a Patron with Meanness
This is exactly the type of shit you won't be missing if you have the blessing of going out of town this weekend: being yelled at by jerks at the trendiest new dive-themed dive bar downtown. This week's culprit: Taavo-Somers designed nautical spot The Rusty Knot, where a tipster went the other night: More »
Television
Fox Biz Helps Newswoman Realize Dream Of Shaking Booty
Rebecca Gomez knew way back in the heady '90s that she wanted to get into the important field of business journalism. So she worked hard, paid her dues, and now her dream has come true! She co-hosts Happy Hour on the Fox Business Network, a show described as "easy to understand for those of us who are not financial gurus." Ha, yes, well Gomez helps bring complicated finance stories down to earth for even us simpletons. Like she does in this clip, by strutting her stuff in a dress made for "girls with well developed booties." Living the dream! [Hispanic Magazine via Talking Biz News]
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