<![CDATA[Gawker: Natasha Lyonne]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Natasha Lyonne]]> http://gawker.com/tag/natasha lyonne http://gawker.com/tag/natasha lyonne <![CDATA[ Actress Contemplates Where She's Going ]]> [Look! It's newly-clean actress Natasha Lyonne! In New York, not deathly skinny or holding drugs! Yay! Image via Bauer-Griffin!]

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Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:40:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5030889&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natasha Lyonne Looks Back on a Childhood in the Playhouse ]]> lyonnepeewee.jpgOh, we want so much to hate Street Carnage, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes' home for his immature bullshit now that Vice is all grown up, but today they posted a clip of former child star and recovering trainwreck Natasha Lyonne watching a clip of herself as a child on Pee-Wee's Playhouse, the greatest television show of all time. Young Natasha is adorable, older Natasha is looking healthier, and while we don't like the company she's keeping here, she can't help but sound poignant when she says Paul Reubens still sends her Christmas cards. Heartwarming. Older Natasha clip, after the jump.

Head to Street Carnage to watch both clips.

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Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:16:00 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=373583&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natasha Lyonne possibly procreating ]]> natasha.jpg We report, you decide. This week in baby rumors, is Natasha Lyonne preggers? Last time we stalked caught up with our favorite crazee, she looked "clean, clear eyed and smiled a lot" with Chloe Seviggasygny. Now, our stalker says she has a bun in the oven. What do you think? Not is she pregnant, but SHOULD she be pregnant? What is in store for the baby, being the spawn of a celebrity? How much will Natasha get for the pics? Sighting after the jump.

And keep sending your sightings to stalker@gawker.com and we'll post them to our famous map.

Saw Natasha Lyonne at her 57th Street gym doing yoga with an impressive baby bump — looked about 4-5 months along. Pretty sure that's no burrito.
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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:06:28 EST Valerie Flame http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361907&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natasha Lyonne's Triumphant Return! ]]> natasha!Last seen on the streets of New York and in Bellevue hospital with a collapsed lung and on methadone (and in 2004's extremely awesome Blade: Trinity with Parker Posey which was so good even though Natasha couldn't really walk or anything and Parker was all "Look at me, I'm getting paid bitches!"), Natasha Lyonne is making her major comeback! In a new Mike Leigh play, to be directed by extreme Mike Leigh enthusiast Scott Elliott of the New Group. This is nothing short of miraculous. Welcome back, Natasha, you dog-molestation threatening extremely extremely troubled young person! We're thrilled.

Natasha Lyonne Cast in Off-Broadway Debut of Leigh's Two Thousand Years [Playbill]

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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:28:16 EDT Choire http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312439&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natasha Lyonne: still alive! [The Superficial] ]]> Natasha Lyonne: still alive! [The Superficial]

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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:37:16 EDT Choire http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299232&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Did Puffy Kill Fluffy? ]]> raccdog-04_small.jpgSean Jean coats sold at Macy's in New York may be trimmed with the fur of Chinese raccoon dogs (pictured — aww), according to the Humane Society of America. The coats in question are currently being tested to determine the provenance of the fur, which was advertised on Macy's website as being fake. If the fur is from doggies, Macy's will pull the coats from its shelves — the store has a no dog or cat fur policy. We'll leave the question of the policy's arbitrariness aside for the moment and focus on the big picture: what does this mean for Sean "Diddy" Combs' image? We can't decide which easy joke to go with, so pick one from Column A: feud with Bow Wow, what would Natasha Lyonne say, something about Rosie O'Donnell.

Group Says 'Fake' Fur on Coat at Macy's is Real
[Reuters via BWE]

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Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:40:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=222666&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ When It Comes To Dog Molestation, Natasha Lyonne Doesn't Pussyfoot Around ]]> natasha.jpgYou know, when we took this job, we didn't really know what to expect. There was a lot of uncertainty. But there was just one thing that we were absolutely sure of: that we would one day be writing an item about promising indie actress turned crackhead flameout ne plus ultra Natasha Lyonne.

Today's the day!

The Slums of Beverly Hills star, who had been been issued a bench warrant last January for not showing up for four hearings about a complaint from a neighbor who'd accused her of threatening to sexually molest a dog, finally turned herself in to a New York court today. We're glad that Natasha is safe in custody, and we're glad to finally have more information about the dog thing, which, frankly, we'd never felt that we had the whole scoop on. Here, at last, is a description of the incident:

Lyonne's former roommate claimed Lyonne trashed their apartment and then banged on a neighbor's door, rushed into that apartment and picked up her dog, telling the woman, "I'm going to sexually molest your dog."
How admirably straightforward!

American Pie Actress Turns Herself In at NY Court
[Reuters]
Earlier: Gawker's Coverage of Natasha Lyonne

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Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:00:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=222285&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Remainders: Natasha Lyonne Roams Free ]]> lyonnelives.jpg• Look! Visual proof that Natasha Lyonne is alive, walking upright, not eating dogs, and looking a little thick. Dear God, is she with child? Or just pudgy? Either possibility, combined with the absence of visible sores on her face, suggests that Lyonne may be off the rock. Miracle of miracles. [Splash News]
• Columbia University is launching a full-color weekly magazine — to be edited by none other than Satan's spawn herself, Bee Shaffer. [Bwog]
Donald Trump is seriously disappointed in Britney Spears. What fasincates us is that he had any hopes for her to begin with. [Trump University]
Time Out defines and illustrates words like "crackberry, " "underboob," and "celebuskank" (representative example: Tara Reid, of course). Thanks, TONY — we don't know where we'd be without you. [TONY]
• Novelist Kathleen McGowan believes she is the living Da Vinci Code, a direct descendent of the union between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. We believe she's just thought of the best self-promotional pitch ever. [USA Today]
• Britain thinks we work too much. Agreed, but we have to pay for our dental insurance somehow. [Observer]
• Goldman Sachs getting into the hotel business? A Goldman Sex hotel might be more profitable. [Curbed]
• Ashton Kutcher needs to keep an eye on his second cousin. [The Oxford Project]
• Live right above Angela Chase, bump into Jordan Catalano in the elevator. [The Real Estate]
• It's not necessarily #2 at Us Weekly, but this might be just the job for Crazy Us Weekly GuyTM. [Mediabistro]

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Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:00:23 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=188761&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ NatashaWatch: Father Believes Clara Bow Role Better Than Rehab ]]> Last week we posted a compilation of reader sightings of starlet Natasha Lyonne, whose well-documented drug problems have pushed her towards obscurity. The sightings weren't positive — more or less, Lyonne was described as looking as if she fell off the wagon right before it ran over her. After the item ran, her father, Aaron Braunstein, emailed Gawker to speak with us, but when we responded that we were available, he never wrote back and we moved on with our day. But it would seem that Braunstein opted to talk to Lloyd Grove instead:

"Natasha is safe and sound in California, working on her role in 'Clara Bow,'" Braunstein E-mailed Lowdown. "Her sightings in N.Y. by Gawker people is a lie, and if Mel Sachs and our [lawyers] find out who is spreading these vicious lies, they will be dealt with legally, in an ugly, expensive matter."

Sachs, however, wouldn't comment, and Lyonne herself couldn't be hunted down. Braunstein's story then changes a bit; Natasha doesn't have a role in Clara Bow, but her father claims she's "probably" going to be the star.

Sarcasm aside, this is really sad. We understand Braunstein's reaction — he loves his daughter and you, hallucinatory readers, are hurting his family. But perhaps Natasha might be best helped if her father had a reality check: nobody wants to see a Clara Bow movie.

Lyonne Hunters Share Scary Tales [Lowdown]
Earlier: As Taxpayers, We Ask That the City Please Do Something About Natasha Lyonne

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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:15:31 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183323&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ As Taxpayers, We Ask That the City Please Do Something About Natasha Lyonne ]]> Remember Natasha Lyonne? The adorably husky actress from American Pie and Slums of Beverly Hills seemed to have skipped her DARE classes and, in the past year and a half, has threatened to molest her neighbor's dog, pissed off her landlord Michael Rappaport (who wrote about her drug den in Jane), and was hospitalized for all sorts of life-threatening, needle-related things. The last Natasha sighting we ran was in January; we didn't receive another until mid-May. But as we'd not heard much about Natasha, we weren't sure if the sighting was legit, so it was set aside for safekeeping. Then we received a genuinely disturbing Natasha account, then another, and yet one more last night. Four fucked Natashas cannot be ignored, so here they are, in order:

May 20th: It is Saturday morning around 9 am and I just saw Natasha Lyonne dragging herself down the street shuffling her feet. It is so sad. I saw this young girl looking like she is in a drug induced coma walking down west 23rd street past Hotel Chelsea. I noticed her because she was so young looking and her face was so dirty and in contrast I looked at her clothes and she was wearing designer jeans, white button down blouse and a cap on her head. Her clothes were disheveled but you don't see many homeless, drug addicts walking around with designer jeans on and little flat ballet slipper type shoes. She dragged herself over to a public payphone and picked up the receiver and sat for a minute and put it back down and kept walking toward 8th ave. Poor thing!
June 11: I just saw that girl from Slums of Beverly Hills, Natasha Lyonne, inside the Walgreens on Union Square (14th Street, Manhattan) at about 2:15 am. She looked terrible...she had a gray, hooded sweatshirt on (with the hood up) that looked like it was stained on the front, her face was really oily, and she had really dark circles under her eyes. I saw her in the Pharmacy section of the store (I was waiting for a prescription). She walked right up to the cashier and asked for syringes! Specifically, she said "Can you get me a pack of 1 CC syringes?". The cashier made her sign her name in a book, Natasha paid for them, shoved them in her bag, and then left the store. I was very surprised she would be so open about buying them...I guess she figured no one would recognize her with her hood up at 2 o'clock in the morning.
June 13: This morning at about 9:30 I left my apartment, next door to Cafe Mozart on 70th. Sitting at one of the outside tables was Natasha Lyonne looking ultra-tragic, with two attractive friends who almost seemed like nurses or babysitters. Natasha was dressed in a huge hooded sweatshirt, baggy jeans, etc. It was impossible to estimate her body weight, but her face looked a lot heavier and she was covered in some sort of bad red rash, or a giant pimple over her entire face. She actually looked so bad I feel guilty writing this, I just know there are some people out there who like to hear she's still alive once in a while.
June 18: I keep seeing her in my neighborhood-chelsea! I sat and watched her for awhile. It is so sad. She looks like she could die any minute. She was sitting on a step with her drug needle literally falling out of her hand as she started to go into her heroin sleep.Then she would wake up and try to itch her face. What is wrong with her face? She looks like she has a huge tumor or maybe she has been beaten up or has some sort of infection but it is red and swollen and bleeding. Every time I see her, she has different clothes on. This time she was wearing black pants, black long sleeved t-shirt (Sunday-the hottest day of the year)and black boots! It is so sad. Where is her family? Why isn't anyone getting her help?
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Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:33:12 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=181662&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Remainders: Deconstructing the Crow/Armstrong Split ]]> crowarm.jpg• Never underestimate the power of a hairdresser. Says one with plenty of celebrity clients, "I have this one client, and I gave her an ultimatum...You have to leave him if he's not going to marry you. You're 43, and you've got to get out. You can't accept this. You're beautiful.'" Innneresting. Did Lance refuse to set a date? [NYT]
• Funny that Dave Itzkoff wrote the New York piece on James Frey's editor, Sean McDonald, considering some have called foul on the accuracy of Itzkoff's own memoir. A sympathetic ear always makes for a great interview. [VV]
• A Paris Hilton impersonator crashes Fashion Week, caught on video. It's funny until you watch the clip of the impersonator talking about her job as a Fake Paris — her voice is as monotone and scarily deep as the real thing. [TMZ]
• An open letter to Graydon Carter. [Open Web Letter]
Natasha Lyonne's father insists that she's not homeless, but rather very wealthy. Sure, but that doesn't address the crackhead problem. [Handbag]

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Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:45:28 EST Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=153057&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Remainders: The CorcoDevil Pays for Her Orgies ]]> corcoholiday.jpg• Late breaking, but: Behold the bacchanalian realtor horror of the Corcoran Group's holiday party. [BizBash]
Natasha Lyonne may be back out on the streets, but it doesn't mean she's out of trouble: the cracktress skipped her court date yesterday, presumably because she was out buying 60 lbs of baking soda and some bell jars. [NYP]
• Meg Ryan officially adopts a baby girl from China. She's a mess without her, little China Girl. [Us Weekly]
• A trip to Ikea is stressful enough as is. Taking that trip with your significant other can make for relationship hell. Which is exactly why we'll die old and alone, with furniture made from cardboard boxes. [NY Sun]
Blackface Jesus explains the blackface; confesses that his Halloween costume was Whiteface Jesus. Of course. [Junk Mag]
• Yesterday on Howard Stern, Alexis Stewart revealed her predilection for fucking the wage laborers. [Howard Stern]
• Billy Joel isn't some little kid, you know. It's time to start calling him "Bill." [NYT]
• How to deal with a porn producer. [JenIsFamous]
Donald Trump sues the NYT Co. and reporter Timothy L. O'Brien for $5 billion in damages — which should cover, oh, maybe half of Trump's paper losses for the next week. [WSJ]

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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:55:51 EST Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=150562&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ A Very Special Gawker Stalker: Natasha Lyonne Still Exists! ]]> BREAKING:

7:30 PM on Sunday night (January 22), at the DSW/Filene's Basement building Union Square - we're on the down escalator, a homeless woman whom I first thought was Becky Wreck was on the up escalator. We began to wonder what security would do once she entered either store. The woman was staring at my sister, and then made eye contact with me when I was staring at her trying to figure out who she really was. She was very engrossed in her cell phone conversation and didn't skip a beat on account of us. Upon further staring, we realized it was none other than Natasha Lyonne. She was wearing dark, oversize diesel clothes, a 'do rag, and her face was very pale and full of crackne.

There you have it: Natasha Lyonne is alive — but, if shopping at Filene's is any indication, she's still suffering. While we'll never be sure what happened, we can't help but blame Fake Writer James Frey — you just know he convinced Natasha she could beat her addiction on her own.

Earlier: Gawker's Coverage of Natasha Lyonne

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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:29:22 EST Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=150326&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natasha Lyonne, Just in Time for Halloween ]]> lyonnedoll.jpgWe receive the occasional email from readers asking what's become of cracktress Natasha Lyonne, who went from semi-starlet to Michael Rappaport's worst nightmare as his drug-addled tenant. Truth is, we don't know where Natasha is — last we heard, she was detoxing in the hospital and, according to her father, she was very ill. The latest issue of Vice has further insight:

Natasha Lyonne Doll
Natasha's going through a really hard time right now, and we all miss her a lot. Laugh if you want, but sometimes going to the Halloween store is the only way to stop missing her so much.

We're not sure Natasha is in a state so bad as the picture above might imply, but come to think of it, a Natasha Lyonne Halloween costume could be pretty awesome.

Tidbits [Vice]

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Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:22:10 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=132954&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ NatashaWatch: It's Worse Than We Thought ]]> natashae.jpg

It's really sad when you refer to someone as a crackhead not in a derogatory way, but as a factual identifier. That being said, we knew American Pie crackhead Natasha Lyonne was in the hospital with Hepatitis C — but we certainly didn't know she was suffering from not one but two collapsed lungs.

First Look [E! Online]

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Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:20:48 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=118557&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natasha Lyonne in Hospital, Diseased but De-Drugged ]]> Apparently, the Post has gone to desperate measures to make a profit, refusing to run a very important story online and, instead, forcing you to spend your hard-earned quarters on a paper copy, just to read the following update:

Missing Star Natasha Lyonne is found in Downtown NYC Hospital.
"American Pie" Star Natasha Lyonne is lying in Beth Israel Hospital's Intensive Care Unit in New York City under an assumed name name, suffering from drug withdrawal and disease.

Poor Natasha — but we saw this coming. Sadly, if you want to help the fallen starlet with her battle against the Post says is Hepatitis C, you're going to have to fork over the pocket change for more details. Rupert Murdoch's Post does tough love like that.

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Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:25:54 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=118234&view=rss&microfeed=true