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The Gawker Wasted 20

It's shaping up as a cruel summer for drunk, high or otherwise messed up celebrities trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Comedian Andy Dick was arrested this week for groping a 17-year-old's breasts while in possession of marijuana and Valium, in something of a reprise of his bust last year for doing blow in a nightclub. Actress and teen rehab veteran Drew Barrymore is now reported to have boozed her way to a breakup with actor Justin Long. Heather Locklear fled "depression and anxiety" rehab in Arizona after barely two weeks. Even a Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood, surrendered himself to rehab again after leaving his wife for a 19-year-old cocktail waitress — and two bottles of vodka per day. Maybe all that summer daylight is pushing everyone over the edge! In any case, it's tough to keep track of who's where on the customary arc of high-profile substance abuse: embarrassment, criminality, rock-bottom desperation, rehabilitation and then either another trip around the circle or a break into the freedom of sobriety. That's why we've compiled a guide to once and future inebriated celebrities: 20 actors, singers, models and socialites who hog way more than their fair share of space in the gossip pages — and here on Gawker. We'll update and expand this list over time as a sort of encyclopedia of shame; your comments and tips are encouraged. (The arrows, by the way, indicate trends in drunkenness, so an upward arrow means getting drunker, downward means getting more sober.) More »

12:39 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Ryan Tate
13,118 views, 98 comments

Latest by missdelite: Gary Busey FTW + Watch video more »

celebrity science

Julia Allison's Weary Morning-After Email To Wired

Julia Allison posted an email conversation with the editor of Wired, the magazine that, in case you missed it, put her on the cover this month and thus made her famous for being famous for nothing. Ever the crafty self-promoter, Allison asked if her cover was as good for Wired as it was for her: "I hope - that as time goes on, you’ll be proud you took the leap," the Time Out New York dating columnist wrote. Remember aspiring fameballs: follow up is key. Wired editor Chris Anderson replied, "I feel great about this one." So sweet. In another moment protocelebrities should study, Allison makes a thinly-veiled pitch for some kind of Wired writing gig by pretending she's tired of all the self-promotion (for real this time!) and wants to get back to her "roots" (what??) as a writer: More »

5:00 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Ryan Tate
4,351 views, 48 comments

Latest by TallulahSkankhead: @Mediahohoho: If she could invert on a pole, I might have a little respect. Maybe. It's pretty hard, believe it or not. more »

innuendo

Anderson Cooper Tired Of Bear Jokes

When dreamboat CNN anchor Anderson Cooper found footage of an adorable younger bear for his show in April, he couldn't get enough of the "cute" and "cuddly" creature. But tonight, after AC360 co-host Erica Hill narrated footage of an older, larger bear, Cooper seemed to get a little grizzly, asking "What is with this program and bears?" Why, only your bread and butter and honey, Anderson! The bedrock of your credibility! What happened to being the "most trusted name in bears?" It's summertime, these guys will be out in force, and there's no going back now. Besides, Hill has a killer merchandising idea, click the thumbnail at left for details. It's only a few more months, that shouldn't be too much to b... well, ya, you get the idea.

1:32 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,764 views, 39 comments

Latest by Minsley Tortimer: @SW-2: I'm on it I'll just get a little closer to the subjects, while marlin stays in the chopper more »

celebrity science

Steve Guttenberg's Many Lies, Dates And Drinks

Actor Steve Guttenberg's insane interview in today's Observer kind of creeps up on you. In the beginning, you're thinking he's an amusing 1980s movie star with a bit of a chip on his shoulder about his faded fame. A once-deferential maitre'd is depicted shoving the actor aside to make way for Tom Cruise, "and I'm like, 'Holy fuck.'" A 120-year-old club for actor types sparks in Guttenberg's head the status-anxious thought, "Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, who cares? ...it's like time, the great equalizer.” Guttenberg is shown haunted by the memory of his peers shunning John Travolta when it seemed he'd never live up to Saturday Night Fever again. The actor says, referring to his dating exploits, "the Goot is on the loose," and you figure he must have been making a joke. But then he starts sounding weirder and weirder, and maybe kind of like a jerk, and the next thing you know he's talking about his compulsive drinking, lying and womanizing. More »

8:16 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Ryan Tate
8,782 views, 92 comments

Latest by zkemeny: @VoxPopuli: I never thought I could be traumatized more by The Goot™ than I was by Police Academy 4, but you have proven me wrong with that video, sir. more »

celebrity science

"Tired" Mary-Kate Olsen Pushes Letterman's Buttons

Flannel-loving starlet Mary-Kate Olsen was in no condition to be on David Letterman's Late Show last night. Her excuse for her disjointed, unenthusiastic interview? She was "so tired" after her long trip (on an airplane, of course, not via any illegal drugs or booze or whatnot). Letterman could hardly have sounded less impressed with this, and twice referred back to how sorry he was about Olsen being "tired," by which he meant that she never should have plopped down on his damned couch if she was exhausted. Having been in show business since she was six-months old, MKO should have realized she was breaking the implicit talk-show contract: free publicity in exchange for a little coherent dish. If you're tired, buy a venti half-and-half latte to pull yourself together, or relinquish your camera time. At least Olsen shared some bitchy history on Spencer Pratt from The Hills. Clip of that and her tired-ness after the jump. More »

5:19 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Ryan Tate
29,000 views, 40 comments

Latest by Strawberry-Switchblade: @azoth: Yep. And it's filed away in my YouTube favs (Cher is my idol!): + Watch video (It's about three minutes into the clip.) more »

rumormonger

Did Ron Burkle Set Up Rafaello Follieri?

There was an interesting line in Wednesday's front-page Wall Street Journal story on alleged Italian con man Rafaello Follieri. Follieri, you'll recall, has been accused, among other things, of squandering $50 million from a partnership involving supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle and former President Bill Clinton, in part on lavish personal luxuries. The Burkle-Clinton swindle is at the heart of the criminal case that got Follieri arrested this week. And yet, the Journal said, Follieri and the partnership "recently settled the [parallel] civil case on undisclosed terms, and Mr. Follieri has begun spending time again with Mr. Burkle, say people familiar with the matter." Wow, Follieri blew millions of dollars of money entrusted to Burkle by his best buddy Clinton, and yet suddenly all was forgiven? I don't suppose Burkle was doing any surreptitious recording during his buddy-buddy time with Rafaello, like he did with Post gossip Jared Paul Stern? More »

1:40 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,051 views, 5 comments

Latest by Phyllis Nefler: This is good. I hope it becomes increasingly salacious and somehow loops in Obama. more »

us weekly

Obama: The New Hope Of Celebrity Magazines

In this slow time of year in which there is no news—when even gossip mavens themselves are arguing that celebrity gossip is dead—could Barack Obama be the unlikely savior of the celebrity media complex? The candidate and his wife are on the cover of Us Weekly, and an insider tells us that the gambit "paid off" in terms of sales, even beating out some of the magazine's Britney Spears covers on the news stand. We also hear Obama covers have performed strongly across the board for magazines in more weighty categories. And now Versace is dedicating her new men's collection to Obama. Your next president: almost as significant as Lindsay Lohan. Click through to see five more glamorous BarackOmania covers, wow!! More »

5:07 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,058 views, 17 comments

Latest by ronaldpagan: The GQ and Rolling Stone covers are creepy. He looks typically hot on all the other ones. more »

celebrity science

John Mayer Finds Perfect Ironic T-Shirt

Singer and sensitive blogger John Mayer has been trying to get this t-shirt for seven years. Now he has it and wrote a positively orgasmic blog post about it, even though it doesn't. Even. Fit. Why? Because it is a hipster holy grail, basically: More »

12:07 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Ryan Tate
10,458 views, 28 comments

feminism

Watering Down Michelle Obama

Well, you can't say the National Organization for Women didn't warn you: Barack Obama might be leading a campaign for change but, judging from a story in this morning's Times, Michelle Obama will be forced to bend to established patriarchy just as would-be-first-lady Hillary Clinton did 16 years ago. The Times writes about how Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, is known for bridging racial divides with bold, frank talk. "Her style is still to say: 'Hey! I'm going to tell you where I stand, and you figure out where you stand,'" said a former illegal immigrant who started a Chicago school with Obama's help. But American is scared of smart, mouthy ladies, so the Obama campaign is giving Michelle a makeover to make her far less interesting: More »

1:32 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,335 views, 44 comments

Latest by n/a: @busyness: To clarify, I should have put "The New and Improved Michelle Obama explains... blah blah" - no jabs against her, just against those trying to soften, whiten and mammy-fy her. more »

celebrity science

A Brief Field Guide To Raffaello Follieri, Dumped Swindler

Just last week we asked when button-cute actress Anne Hathaway would break up with her troublesome, scandal-plagued boyfriend of four years, Raffaello Follieri. She's reportedly "devastated," about it but hey, about time. He was a pretty sleazy character. After the jump, a field guide to the dumped Italian playboy: More »

1:00 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
14,323 views, 45 comments

celebrity science

Miley Cyrus Replacement Features Unremovable Top

According to Walt Disney Co.'s new designated TEEN SENSATION Demi Lovato, "Disney... artists aren't as manufactured as they appear." In other words, they are only partially manufactured, which means Disney can't create a 15-year-old completely devoid of sex hormones to replace Miley Cyrus, whose Disney Channel ratings plunged after she posed sorta-topless in Vanity Fair and in her underwear for her boyfriend in pictures that leaked online. While Lovato is, unfortunately for Disney shareholders, no robot, she promised to remember to always ask, "'Is this something a 15-year-old should be doing?' and if it isn't, then I don't do it." How wholesome! A 15-year who will keep the intimate details of her life off of MySpace... Are you sure she's not a robot? Disney is a little defensive, according to the Wall Street Journal: More »

2:26 AM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,902 views, 23 comments

Latest by ObtuseIntolerant: @Nick Douglas: Can I quote a wise tween from that Hollywood Grind site? Ahem, "That's bs man. They are in Effing bathing suitssss. get a life u porn obssesed freaks." Thanks, morgan - you kids are all right. more »

celebrity science

Uncensored Katie Couric Is Kind Of Hot

So we were vaguely aware Katie Couric had a YouTube channel, but had no idea the CBS Evening News anchor put so much energy into it. It's almost as though she feels stifled at work! Can't imagine why that would be. Anyway, Los Angeles Times writer Matea Gold watched all the videos so you don't have to, and wrote up the highlights, which we've assembled into a quick montage after the jump. Couric snaps Larry King's suspenders, chats up the paparazzi, sings with Bette Midler, makes a Saturday Night Live joke and hangs out barefoot with a bunch of mom bloggers. More »

9:25 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Ryan Tate
6,267 views, 18 comments

Latest by rtisovec: Larry King doesn't understand YouTube because the walls of his crypt are impenetrable to Wi-Fi. more »

Bill Clinton Donates His Celebrities To Obama Clinton "reached out to Obama-backers, like vicious Clinton-basher David Geffen... [saying] 'We all have to get behind Barack now.'" [Daily News]

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celebrity science

Diamonds: Nice And Cheap, Or Big And Evil?

Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons reportedly had a suitcase full of his jewelry stolen from a downtown apartment yesterday. Considering the fact that the case contained "three diamond rings, a pendant, three sets of earrings and two bracelets," from Simmons' own jewelry company, the reported total value—$15,000—is pretty meager. That's partly because Simmons is involved a much-derided effort to improve the reputation of the diamond industry, which somehow trickles down to his own company in the form of cheap jewelry that gives a cut of its (relatively small) profits to charity. Which is better: Charitable, uglier, cheaper jewelry, or much shinier jewelry that embraces nothing but out-and-out materialism? These questions are important to moguls. To help you decide, there's a collection after the jump; Simmons' company's jewelry versus some pieces from Jacob the Jeweler—hip hop's gaudiest diamond guy. Each is terrible in its own way:
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11:23 AM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,954 views, 42 comments

Latest by n/a: @stymied: probably because it was made for Busta Rhymes and he is from Hempstead on Longuyland. more »

celebrity science

Tom Cruise Proves Sanity By Calling Shrink A Nazi

Drew Pinsky is downright respectable, at least by TV doctor standards. Unlike "Dr. Phil," he has an actual medical degree, practices medicine and even teaches psychiatry. His reality show, Celebrity Rehab, is both more gripping and responsible than other celebrity "reality" vehicles. But Tom Cruise has allowed his lawyer to compare "Dr. Drew" to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, because the doctor told Playboy the following about movie star Cruise's fevered devotion to the Church of Scientology: More »

6:15 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Ryan Tate
12,136 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: Ironic they'd try making Nazi inferences. It was Hubbard, after all, who advised killing off all the suppressives "without sorrow." He estimated that was 3% of the world's population. more »

celebrity science

The Clinton Penis Chat

Because the internet is a miraculous place where revenge fantasies come true , Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are selling video of themselves chatting about former president Bill Clinton and his sexual predation. Flowers, you'll recall, described during Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign a 12-year affair with him, while Jones accused Clinton of exposing himself to her in a hotel room in 1991. Hence the interview segments — $1.99 each — entitled "Paula And The President's Penis" and "Gennifer's Story And The Presidential Penis." There are five other segments, meaning the full video will run you $14. But the Guardian gives it a limp review: More »

2:18 AM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Ryan Tate
5,108 views, 42 comments

Latest by skahammer: @kitkatsplash: Monica-inspired porn -- and someone to watch it with? Internet, please never go away. more »

celebrity science

Why Do So Many Star Athletes Go Broke?

You know how certain celebs are always screwing up their financial affairs? Then they have to do some really embarassing project to get some money back. The Toronto Star even posited that 60 percent of NBA athletes go broke within five years of retirement.) Brian Cuban (attorney for Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire blogger Mark Cuban's enterprises) has figured out why! It's because they lack life skills. They're not total idiots—they just trust the wrong people.
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11:17 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Sheila
5,345 views, 47 comments

Latest by drewheyman: I'm late on the market/incentive to help regular folks while we screw athletes discussion. i fall firmly on the side to help regular while screwing rich under the Rule 501 of Regulation D. Rule 501 defines an 'accredited investor' and 'unaccredited more »

disasters

Justin Timberlake's Angry Hack Interview

Although this press-junket interview between Justin Timberlake and "Chuck the Movie Guy" is less than three minutes long, one gets the sense at several distinct points that Timberlake is about to either storm out or punch "Chuck" in the throat. There's an uncomfortable confrontation about a prior interview, an uncomfortable retort from Timberlake involving his Speedo, uncomfortable sarcasm — notice a theme? Videogum wonders whether Timberlake or "Chuck" is the bigger jerk here, but that's kind of missing the point. You really need two people, each acting aggressively awful toward the other, to produce a moment so beautifully bitchy. After the jump, video of this excellent team effort in awkward hostility. More »

10:25 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
8,670 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: That video looks faked... like, staged. more »

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