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Harvey Weinstein Threatens to Destroy Democratic Party Unless His Gal Hil Wins

Hollywood strongman Harvey Weinstein is a big supporter of Hillary Clinton, because they share a similar megalomania. Weinstein, who throws a great deal of showbiz money at Democrats and who is known for his Hulk-esque temper, reportedly called up House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month to threaten her unless the Dems handed his gal Hillary the nomination. Weinstein said he'd cut of all money to Dem congressional campaigns unless Pelosi backed the Clinton campaign's unfeasible plan to get the Dems to pay for brand new elections in Florida and Michigan. Weinsein has denied it all. Or at least he denied that it was a "threat." He owns up to calling Pelosi and "offering" "to put together a team of people to help finance a revote in Florida and Michigan." Then he threatened to eat the officials who leaked details of the call. Weinsein's owned up to a bad temper before, once telling Ken Auletta that it's the thing he dislikes most about himself. In fact, Weinstein's temper makes Weinstein so angry he feels like he's going to explode. An Entourage clip exploring this famous bad mood in a comedic style may be found after the jump. More »

11:40 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Pareene
3,994 views, 35 comments

Latest by Buzz Killington: I miss Entourage. Whens the new season start? more »

a pox on the media

Candidates Still Hate Each Other, Everyone Still Hates Media

The general consensus about last night's Democratic debate is that the media came off looking the worst. That consensus is based on, of course, media reaction. Alessandra Stanley read some odd "disgruntled employee/imperious boss dynamic between Mr. Stephanopoulos and Mrs. Clinton" but everyone else just saw two moderators asking the most inane, navel-gaving, pointless, content-free, media-obsessed questions ever. Then some petty sniping between the two candidates while they each tried to out-exasperate the other. It was grim. More »

11:24 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Pareene
2,238 views, 57 comments

Latest by Mediahohoho: @ADismalScience: Okay, I re-read what you wrote and realize that you'd actually answered my arguments before I made them. That the Democratic leadership is stupid is axiomatic at this point. But I think Obama's entire argument is that he more »

leaders of the future

Meet Your New Princeton Student Government: A Jew And A Wang


On Sunday, Princeton chose a new Undergraduate Student president, Josh Weinstein. (He succeeds outgoing USG president, Rob Biederman, who, on the front page of the Daily Princetonian, is shown lighting "a giant gas-fired menorah outside the Center for Jewish Life.") Weinstein got five times as many votes as his opponent. What's his secret? His spectacular YouTube ad, in which various Class Presidents endorse him while looking uneasily off camera and blinking irregularly and possibly in Morse Code. His opponent, despite winning some science prize when she was eighteen, had no Youtube video. But Weinstein isn't the only Princeton winner with a great ad! More »

11:50 AM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Joshua Stein
3,632 views, 47 comments

Latest by SeeingI: I'd vote for that hair even if it were attached to Lyndon Larouche. more »