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Did the 'Extra' Jinx Finally Catch Up With Sarah Silverman?
FROM DEFAMER.COM: If you haven't yet done so this summer, there's no time like the present to pack a few bottles, grab a blanket and head down to park for some fresh air and a picnic. More »
Week in Review
The Week We Were All Terrorist Fist-Bumped
- We found Banksy!
- We discovered the terrible secret of Madonna!
- This happened.
- We came in your ear.
- We didn't sell our kids.
- Hasn't the damn Bohemian Grove story been written ten thousand times already? Whatever.
- Also there was this.
- Maybe we should go into television? Or hey we hear you can't go wrong in newspapers!
- Oh, and this is still going on.
- Everyone is a Nazi.
- If you do enough drugs, someday you might get a plum gig at the Times! Or you will end up on a Digg-bait listicle.
- Oh, right. A magazine printed a funny cartoon. It upset Wolf Blitzer. And maybe others? We wrote more lists. Then racism got solved, the end.
- The culture was is over. Begun, the comment wars have. Soon the monsters will eat us so whatever. We need to get to a barbecue. INOCHI!
In Brief
Harvey Weinstein Offers Rare, Brief Tour of Where His Movies Go to Die
FROM DEFAMER.COM: What will the world do when it no longer has Harvey Weinstein to kick around any longer? This isn't a rhetorical question, either — at least it doesn't feel that way after the latest in a growing stack of Weinstein Company pre-mortems hit the trades over the last 24 hours. More »
We Take It All Back
Angelo Mozilo was the grossly overpaid CEO of disastrous mortgage lending company Countrywide, who became the human face of the subprime crisis while simultaneously finding his customers' pleas for help "disgusting." But scratch that, because his own sister says he's nice. And she's a liberal! [HuffPo]
Angelo Mozilo was the grossly overpaid CEO of disastrous mortgage lending company Countrywide, who became the human face of the subprime crisis while simultaneously finding his customers' pleas for help "disgusting." But scratch that, because his own sister says he's nice. And she's a liberal! [HuffPo]
kreepie kats
Kreepie Kats in" Here's a Hilarious NEW YORKER Cover Idea: My Sweaty Kat Boner Krammed Up David Remnick's Fucking Nose!!"
[Jim Behrle's kitties explain today that everyone reads the New Yorker for the cartoons. Just like Gawker! Also more explication of how to mock Barack Obama. AND THE MOTHERFUCKING BATMAN. Click thru and watch!] More »
The Commies
"Driving a Vespa To Mars"
Get in line, the bread's here. But only six of you are going to get any. Why? Because these are hard times and experiments have failed, and theories are grand but practice is hard work. So put out those little mitts of yours and trudge after the jump to see who eats this week. More »
The Internets
Real Geeks Confused By Latest Wired Cover
"This is what happens when real geeks find out about the self proclaimed [New York] digerati," writes a tipster, referring to this awesome geek conversation, which includes, "I bet those other fake geeks dont even know what an RS-232 booster chip is for." More »
GAWKER STALKER
Latest Gawker Stalker Sightings
Submit your Sightings: stalker@gawker.com
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Edie Falco
E 14th St & Union Square W
Edie Falco just walked in the the Apple store on 14th and jumped right to the head of the 4-hour-wait iphone line, with no apparent regard for the little people who had been waiting out in the hot sun all morning. Real nice. -
Mario Lopez
1633 Broadway
Mario Lopez chillin’ on his phone outside Equinox at 1633 Broadway, sans shirt of course. Friendly – took a pic with my friend who has no shame. -
Chubby Checker
Avenue Of The Americas & 16th St
Saw the legendary Twist singer Chubby Checker eating a cheeseburger well done with fries at Hollywood Diner! -
Sandra Oh
W 14th St & 10th Ave
Just got into the elevator at work on the way to grab lunch when I realized Sandra Oh was already in there with a friend. She seemed intelligent and was having a conversation with her friend. Prettier in real life and not as painfully skinny in person as she appears to be on TV.
Advertising
George Clooney Gets Women Drunk For A Mere Kiss
Did you know that in the UK it's actually illegal for liquor companies to imply that their product will help you achieve “seduction, sexual activity or sexual success"? Crazy, right? But the byproduct is that even George Clooney—the sexiest man alive (according to women or whatever)—has to play like a good boy in his European ads for Martini vermouth. Oh, he's so couth. He just wants to twirl that fake mustache and meet you later on to get to know the real you. Don't believe the hype, ladies; he can't love you like a blogger can. Scoff at his act, after the jump: More »
living legends
George Lois to Design 02138 Cover
Relaunching your niche magazine in this miserable market and dismal culture? Get legendary designer George Lois on board! He cannibalized his old Esquire work for Radar, and now he's lending his talents to pretend Harvard Alum mag 02138 (can't believe we got the name of the mag right on the first try, sigh). If it wasn't late Friday afternoon we'd mock up a funny photoshop here. But now YOU CAN'T MAKE US. Anyway Lois is still awesome and cantankerous so it will probably be good, unlike the rest of that miserable magazine. The relaunch cover story? "The Harvard 100, the magazines annual ranking of the top 100 living alumni. " [NYP]
Advertising
New Ad Campaign Flaunts Gossip Girl's Bad Self
How could the CW ever top their infamous "OMFG" Gossip Girl ad campaign that set uppity tongues a wagging earlier this year? By embracing the finger-pointing criticisms and couple them with more sexy pictures of the sun-browned, nubile cast. Like the one here! And the two below. Oh, you know. After the: More »
"Cancer tempting Tasmanian devils to have teenage sex"
Do you ever read science magazines just so you have some interesting factoid to talk about and sound cultured? It's worthwhile. [60 Second Science]
Do you ever read science magazines just so you have some interesting factoid to talk about and sound cultured? It's worthwhile. [60 Second Science]
A Demure Review
More Batman! Our former leading man Choire Sicha reviewed The Dark Knight for Radar. And he liked it. A lot.
More Batman! Our former leading man Choire Sicha reviewed The Dark Knight for Radar. And he liked it. A lot.
Wtf
The Socialite's Nazi Publicist
Ok guys, deep breaths. Do you know the Fanjuls? Pepe and his lovely wife Emilia? They're maybe the wealthiest Cuban-American couple in the nation. Emilia, a socialite about Palm Beach, the Dominican Republic, and, yes, New York, is famous for her charitable work. Recently she's made a couple headlines for her newest project—"helping to finance and build a sparkling new campus for Glades Academy, a charter school in the town of Pahokee, Fla.," a town full of impoverished migrant workers and their families. So it's odd, isn't it, that her "executive assistant" and publicist is a white supremacist. More »
Public relations
'Guido' War
Staten Island—all of it!—is threatening to boycott Belmar, NJ because the mayor there made derogatory remarks about "guidos," the overtanned, hair-gelled, well-muscled gentlemen who I say are just fine, so that I don't get jumped next time I go to the gym. "The mayor should watch his f- - -ing mouth!" one Staten Island resident told the Post. Ha, right you are, my friend! Do you care to read the entire press release about this grievous insult from Staten Island Good Neighborhood Association president John "JE" Englebert, for some reason? Then click through and do so! [UPDATE: And a sample of the mayor's original gentle insults!]: More »
In Brief
Depraved pictures land Facebook user two-year jail sentence
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: If you can't do the time, don't post photos on Facebook celebrating the crime. That's the harsh lesson 20-year-old college student Joshua Lipton learned after a judge handed him a two-year sentence for severely injuring a woman while driving drunk. More »
In Brief
Screw Superheroes -- Just Give Me Darkness
FROM IO9.COM: The Dark Knight succeeds as a film because it fearlessly trashes the idea of heroism, and turns hopelessness into a motivation so pyrotechnic that even torture is a kind of seduction. Nothing escapes corruption. More »
executions
Au Revoir, New York Illiterately Mean
Executions started with the goal that commenters would come to be respected. A part of me hoped that Gawker commenters could rise above the scene of thoughtless vitriol spewed by anonymous office drones and 12-year-olds, to not be mentioned in trend pieces that try to co-opt what it means to be mocked on the internet. Because these days, everyone hates anonymous bile, unless it's funny. I hoped to force the Gawker commenters into the former category. And it seems to be working. Maybe too well. More »
Hoaxes
Race-Baiting Media Whore Is A Credible Source To One Dumb Paper
Metro, the free paper best known for causing track fires on the NYC subways, ran a cover story yesterday that is totally indefensible, even by the lowly journalism standards of free morning papers. Radar spotted it: a front page splash about an innocent grad student girl who was supposedly attacked by four wild young black females because she was wearing a t-shirt with the slogan, "OBAMA IS MY SLAVE." The paper's one and only source? The untalented media whore designer who sold the mystery girl the shirt. (We would feel dirty giving him more PR than necessary, but it was this prick). But guess what, Metro: we got that press release too. And if this whole story isn't a hoax, I will personally buy one of those shitty shirts. More »
New Media
Will HuffPo Pay its Bloggers Some Mythical Day in the Future?
The Huffington Post, that repository of crackpot rants and informed political debate (plus "verticals"! Lots of verticals) does not pay its bloggers. But they hypothetically might, sometime in the future. HuffPo CEO Betsy Morgan (formerly of CBSNews.com) was interviewed by her college alumni magazine. After the jump, probably the most obnoxious and telling new-media statement of our time about actually paying employees. (Hint? "So 1993.") (Mixed Media via CJR) More »
muzak
The Mournful Music of Footloose?
So if someone told you that, as a memorial to a friend's dead sister, they'd recorded a mournful, twinkly cover of the entire soundtrack to the 1980's homo carnival Footloose (a movie about John Lithgow bellowing about the evils of dancing and Kevin Bacon boldly and baconly defying him), what would you think? Well, we are faced with that stumper today, as we've stumbled upon a musician called Doveman who has done just that. More »
Bad ads
Somebody Please Pun-ch Kenneth Cole. Get It?
Kenneth Cole is not just a middling designer and outspoken advocate for responsible journalism; he's also, for reasons we can't fathom (narcissism), his own advertising copywriter. A bad advertising copywriter. It's not every CEO of a massive fashion brand that's too cheap to hire someone to write his own billboard taglines. But in Kenneth Cole's case, coming up with them only robs him of mere seconds of thought. That's how his poor clothing line ends up with billboards like this one on Houston St.—presumably the balls are there to distract you from the slogan itself: More »
Ryan Adams, the Book
The musician/experimental blogger is already publishing a book of poetry, and today's Page Six says he's "signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books" for a "collection of prose." Is it the same poetry book they're referring to—or a separate one? (Our e-mail to Adams asking for elaboration bounced.) [Page Six]
The musician/experimental blogger is already publishing a book of poetry, and today's Page Six says he's "signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books" for a "collection of prose." Is it the same poetry book they're referring to—or a separate one? (Our e-mail to Adams asking for elaboration bounced.) [Page Six]
Marketing
New York Life has a foolproof plan for its new online promotion: they let any member of the internet riff-raff go on their website and submit three-word slogans, which are displayed in the company's trademark blue box. Looks just like the real thing. I can see why they want some new ideas, considering what they have now. Jeez. [via Afreak]
Public Slogan-Writing Promo: What Could Go Wrong?
New York Life has a foolproof plan for its new online promotion: they let any member of the internet riff-raff go on their website and submit three-word slogans, which are displayed in the company's trademark blue box. Looks just like the real thing. I can see why they want some new ideas, considering what they have now. Jeez. [via Afreak]