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Rebuttals
Courtney Love Addresses 'You Gawker People'
I'm not sure what you guys wrote in the comments section of yesterday's item about Courtney Love's attack on Ryan Adams regarding all that money someone stole from her. But Ms. Love sure noticed. On her Myspace page today, she remarks, "I had a very heavy evening but since we are becoming terrifyingly great, I'm happy to oblige you Gawker people for about oh one more millisecond." Her full message after the jump. More »
Trailer
Watch the Watchmen Trailer!
What can comic book and action movie fans look forward to now? Well, Watchmen, of course! You know, 300 director Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel. Lucky for me, the trailer just hit the internet this weekend. So have a look. More »
Gallery
Supercool Star Wars Art
Yeah, yeah, The Dark Night beat Revenge of the Sith's opening day record and now it's gone on to beat Spider-Man 3 for biggest debut ever, but I still love Star Wars more than anything, and so we celebrate with neat Star Wars art from a photoshop contest over at Worth1000. More »
Shut Up, Republicans!
Conservatives Whine that Obama's Afghanistan Coverage is 'Unfair'
The media attention being paid to Senator Barack Obama's trip to Afghanistan this week has all the usual wing-nuts crying that the press isn't doing enough to cover Republican Presidential candidate George W. John McCain. "'The question really needs to be posed: Is this type of coverage fair?' said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. 'This is nothing but a political stunt.'" More »
Siesta Time
Okay, I have to catch the train. Second half of today's summer mini-Gawker around five. It's good to get out! Just ask these drunk monkeys.
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Okay, I have to catch the train. Second half of today's summer mini-Gawker around five. It's good to get out! Just ask these drunk monkeys.
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Monkeys!
Monkey Menace Reaches Terrifying New Level
It's a well-known fact that the monkeys have been plotting against us since the days of yore. But their terrible plans will get sped up quite horribly once they've mastered the skill of banking. That's right. Someone's been teaching the little hellions how to use money! "[O]ne can get some clues as to how evolution prepared us for money from the burgeoning research that seeks to present animals with economic choices. To gain perspective on human financial decisions, one may ask, what would monkeys do?Keith Chen and Marc Hauser at Yale University taught monkeys about resources that bear a strong resemblance to money. Monkeys don't care about money, per se, but they do care about marshmallows." More »
Books
Doing Crack With David Carr
A memoir worth reading? Imagine that! New York Times media reporter David Carr's Night of the Gun comes out next month, and it's been treated to a nice nine-page excerpt in today's NYT Magazine. After detailing how he became a crack addict and how his dealer/girlfriend prematurely gave birth to his twin daughters (which you should totally read) he tackles the question of memoirs, which have been so sorely tarnished in the last few years. More »
Battlestar Galactica
Choire Got A Grace Park Interview!
Former Gawker editor and lucky bastard Choire Sicha got to interview Battlestar Galactica's Pretty Asian Cyclon Grace Park for today's LA Times. Lucky bastard. He opens up with a question about a certain leggy Maxim photo spread. More »
Nostalgia
One More Thing: Music in Movies and TV
As any of my close friends will attest, I don't know a damned thing about music. But I do know when I like it, and I especially like it when it's used to wonderful effect in cinema or television. So what's your favorite example(s) of such use? As usual, the rules are loose and fast. It can be a bone fide musical number, or a scene that simply uses music especially well (Is that a "score"? I have no idea about this stuff.) Anyway, here's my first entry. Add yours! More »
Craigslist
Gay? Bi-Curious? Beach-Lover? Don't Let This One Get Away!
This went up yesterday, and it's still live, so your summer could be made! "So here's the deal... I'm usually in the Hamptons with my girlfriend at my folks house, not far from the town of West Hampton. However, luck would have it that my folks are going away for a week and we're at the house alone. We like to mix it up and have fun with another guy, keeps our relationship interesting and fresh. She's only into guys but knows I like getting it on with another guy while she either watches or gets involved. So what I'm offering is this... if you're looking to get away from the madness of your share house this weekend and looking to stay with us for a couple of nights, let me know how willing you are to please us... sexually. If we think it matches with our style, we'll expect you this evening. Here's a picture of me for starters..." More »
Interviews
Gillian Anderson Hands Annoying Interviewer His Ass
So, you're Gillian Anderson, and you're about to reprise your iconic role as Agent Dana Scully for the first time in ten years in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and your hi-larious interviewer from Newsweek opens up with these "questions": "I've got to confess. I don't know anything about 'The X-Files' [...] Why is it such a big deal?" What on earth can you say? Well, there's this. More »
Television
Brenda's Back on '90210'!
Sure, plenty of the old classmates from the original Beverly Hills 90210 have signed-up to be the CW's revamp of the cheese-TV classic. But forget those suckas. It was just announced today that simmering, lazy-eyed, trouble-making beauty Shannen Doherty is coming back! More »
Shark!
More Killer Sharks Off L.I. Shore!
They get a little closer every day! Just yesterday one of the meat-crazed super-fish was defeated by a crew of life guards after it snuck up on some swimmers at Jones Beach. That's a real beach! Not some silly, pissy Hamptons beach where you deserve to be chomped into chum! More »
Siesta Time
Okay, I'm out 'til this evening. You should get out too. Like these intrepid surfers.
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Okay, I'm out 'til this evening. You should get out too. Like these intrepid surfers.
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Movies
Batman Defeats Vader
Come on! Can't us Star Wars fans have anything left to brag about? The millions and millions of fans who crammed theaters to see The Dark Knight starting at midnight on Thursday put the comic book movie into record-breaking territory. Which is nice, except the record it broke was previously held by Revenge of the Sith. Sigh. More »
the riches
Poor Rich People Having Less Fun in the Hamptons This Year
Oh pooh! The moneyed slobs of the Hamptons are feeling the pinch of the recession this summer! Tiffy's gala will be positively ruined! "Trustees of the Children’s Museum of the East End rejected a dinner dance at a rented farm in favor of a cocktail party on the museum grounds here, replaced a five-piece rock ‘n’ roll cover band with a teenage jazz combo and slashed ticket prices to $150 from $450, but still only drew about 150 guests, half the number that turned out for the benefit last year... And there are still hundreds of tickets left for the annual Art for Life gala, also scheduled for Saturday night, at the East Hampton estate of Russell Simmons, the rap impresario." People, won't someone please think of the rappers?! More »
Feuds
Courtney Love Would Like Her Money Back, Ryan Adams
Sober rocker Courtney Love posted an open letter to her myspace page last night, in which she charges that fellow musical mess Ryan Adams had something to do with stealing "858,00$" from her—and from daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Let's all try to make sense of it together, shall we? More »
Programming Change
A Word About Weekend Gawker
Hey everyone, just a brief note about the summer version of Gawker Weekend. Tomorrow through Labor Day it's going to be mini-Gawker Weekend. The vom the papers and magazines—and all of media—seek to make us consume on weekends in the dead of summer is all rehash, trashy speculation, crappy political senselessness, and essays by people who have not yet earned the right express opinion or who should have STFU centuries ago. It's nothing anyone should read. It's certainly nothing I should read. So I won't read it. Well, I will, sadly, read it, but I refuse to post most of it. Wow, this is getting long. The rest after the jump. More »
things
Watch Dr. Horrible and Be Happy
Hey, I'm just popping in for sec here. In case you forgot about or didn't see our Gawker interview with Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Firefly / Serenity creator Joss Whedon, his latest project, "Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog" starring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion premiered on the Interwebs today. Each of the three acts—the first of which went up today—will only be available for free viewing for a limited time. So get thee here tonight damnit and check out Act One. I just did, and it is charming and hysterical. And, yeah, I am fanboy. Sue me.
Nostalgia
One More Thing: Greatest Films of the 90s
Sure, our end-of-the-day video-fests are usually about the 70s and 80s, but the 90s were pretty long ago. And, the fact is, it was a fairly rocking decade for the cinema. So let's celebrate it! I'll get us started with an instant classic. More »
Photos
Why Queens Rules
This incredible walkway through the treetops is the Rhizotron, and it's Kew Gardens, Queens. Seriously! It's five minutes from me and I never even knew about it. More shots after the jump. Update: How could this be five minutes from me without my knowing it? Coz it's in Kew Gardens, London. To be fair, Forest Park in Kew Gardens, NY, is fairly huge, and should totally have one of these. And ponies. More »
Snakes!
Forget the Sharks, the Snakes are Coming!
There's that cuddly animal video I was looking for! Over 100 totally deadly snakes confiscated from an illegal reptile dealer in Frankfort, Kentucky! You southerners! What will you think of next? Video after the jump. More »
Politics
