Just Cancel Law & Order Already
Seriously. Its best actor is leaving the show, so just be done with it. Also today: more Captain America news, two directors sign on to two dubious sounding projects, and ABC Family has the saddest TV pilots.
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, Jessica Simpson discovers the true Price of Beauty, Johnny Weir's sexually-charged Pilates stretches, Law & Order uses Project Runway as its defense, NatGeo dresses hundreds of folks up to reenact the life of sperm.
Was Apple Employee Choked By Law & Order Star?
An Apple Store staffer said she was choked by Richard Belzer. The Law & Order star, meanwhile, says he just touched the employee's shoulders to get her attention. Plus she's a crazy person who kept him waiting.
Andrew Breitbart So Mad at MSM, He Tells MSM
"The conservative online news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart is, for the moment, doing little to dispel stereotypes about bloggers." Now why does that sentence end with the word "bloggers" and not "conservative assholes with persecution complexes"?
"But What Does the 'TBL' Stand For?"
[Mischa Barton and Mariska Hargitay filming 'Law & Order: SVU'; image via INF]
NBC Fills Jay Leno-Shaped 10 p.m. Time Slot
Well, now that NBC has traveled a few months back in time and given Leno the "Tonight Show" back, they've wasted no time in filling his crucial 10 pm spot: Look forward to Jerry Seinfeld, "Law & Order," and "Parenthood."
Law & Order's Two-For One Special
You expected to hear Law & Order would be ripping the Jon and Kate Gosselin saga from the headlines to base an upcoming show on, didn't you? The episode airing on Oct. 16 revolves around a reality show called "Larry Plus 10" and "chronicles the struggles of a single dad who's raising 10 adopted special needs kids by…
Is This the Hipster Grifter Law & Order Episode?
We know that a casting call went out this summer for a Law & Order episode (loosely) based on the Curious Case of the Hipster Grifter. A tipster thinks it's tonight's show (the second promo clip). Hmmm. Maybe not.
Yes, the Hipster Grifter Law & Order Episode is Coming
A tipster tells us Law & Order has put out a confidential casting call for someone who sounds a lot like Kari Ferrell, our favorite Brooklyn scammer.
Ripped From a TV Show
Mayor Bloomberg's new campaign commercial features him chatting up a bunch of cops next to a squad car. The problem? The uniforms and police car identify them as officers from the 27th Precinct, which doesn't exist in real life, but happens to be the fictional precinct depicted on Law & Order. Naturally, Bloomberg's…
The Mood in Cannes, Update From the Upfronts
• How are things going at the Cannes Film Festival? It depends on who you talk to. The Journal says it's been "conspicuously less frenzied" and business has been "slow." The Hollywood Reporter says it's beating expectations and "doomsayers" have been "proven wrong." Take your pick. [WSJ, THR]
• NBC is dropping Medium…
Justice Served
The college student who, at 18, became the girlfriend of the creepy old head of the Emperors Club VIP, and eventually that escort service's manager? Six months in prison! Eliot Spitzer? A column at Slate.
Law & Order's Heath Ledger Story Nothing Like Actual Heath Ledger Story
When you're halfway into your forty-sixth season, as NBC's long-running crime drama Law & Order is, there are only so many storylines left to do that haven't been done before. Thus, it's no surprise that the show's "ripped from the headlines" method of generating plot points would eventually lead it to the death of…
Thanks For Blocking My Close Up, Lady
While enjoying a lunch with a lady friend in West Hollywood, soon to be Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Jeff Goldblum became mildly perturbed when a woman stepped in between him and an enterprising paparazzo. Goldblum thought if he was going to be filmed while enjoying a delicious meal, then there should at least be…
Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
The Linda Stein murder caper felt like a Law & Order episode all along. So it's no surprise the show is now appropriating the sensational real-life crime for a plotline. Joan Jett will star as the slain rock manager-turned-realty bigshot and Det. Mike Logan (Chris Noth) will solve the homicide in an hour or less. [NY…
Spitzer's TV Hooker Confesses Coke Habit
Law & Order concluded its season last night with a thinly-veiled interpretation of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. The much-anticipated finale was probably a letdown to any viewer familiar with lurid details of the former governor's trysts (black socks!) or the many racy pictures of his call girl Ashley Dupre.…
Jurors 'Uncomfortable' With R. Kelly
Poor R. Kelly. All the R & B singer did was maybe videotape himself having sex with a peeing on the face of a girl as young as 13 and now he faces 15 years in prison. Well, Mr. Kelly met his prospective jury this week and it did not go well. "Some of the potential jurors looked uncomfortable, and at least a few placed…
R. Kelly Actually Going to Stand Trial
Remember that whole thing six years ago with R. Kelly where this happened? "The [Chicago] Sun-Times reported it had received a 27-minute video of Kelly having sex with various women, and most troubling, the paper said, one scene appeared to show Kelly having sex with an underage girl and urinating on her face." [MTV]…
Jared Paul Stern Murdered! (On TV)
The story of former Page Six scribe Jared Paul Stern and creepy supermarket billionaire/attempted modelizer Ron Burkle is being ripped from the headlines of two years ago for an upcoming episode of Law & Order. Daily News gossiper Ben Widdicombe reports that The Daily Show's Mo Rocca will play Stern. In real life,…
'Law & Order' Can't Resist Adrienne Shelley Episode
Well, it was bound to happen sometime, but frankly we're a little shocked how fast Dick Wolf is getting going on the Adrienne Shelley rip-off episode, as this casting notice currently circulating attests:
