<![CDATA[Gawker: oopses]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: oopses]]> http://gawker.com/tag/oopses http://gawker.com/tag/oopses <![CDATA[In Touch Don't Know Brentwood]]> High-end celebrity weekly In Touch ran a feature this week showing where various celebs live in the tony Brentwood section of LA. They even have a handy map. Only problem? The map is of a different Brentwood, up in Oakland.

So yeah, those little arrows showing you exactly where Tom and Giselle and Reese and Arnie keep their mansions? Completely made-up. Some genius staffer at the magazine just typed "Brentwood, CA" into Google Maps and ran with it. So, they got this Brentwood, CA, a sleepy subdivision homestead town outside of Oakland. Maybe a ton of celebrities live there? Like that Idaho trend a few years back maybe? Somehow, we doubt it.

Nice work everyone.

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<![CDATA[Whole Foods: The Final Frontier]]> Nikki Finke heard a rumor that the catering company who was covering the big Star Trek premiere party last night totally shit the bed and ended up serving upscale grocery store food. To celebrities!

The company screwed up the (star)date and time of the big shindig, so while the affair was all snazzily decorated and big-name attended, the caterers had to scramble to Whole Foods and sadly laid out a spread of hummus and dinner rolls.

It's weird they didn't just use the replicators.

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<![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan Didn't Know She Was Being Broken Up With]]> Poor LiLo. After her breakup with DJ Samantha Ronson, she is just so alone. Worst of all, she told Ellen today that she didn't even know she was splitting up, let alone being restrained against.

Ellen (DeGeneres, of the talk show) asked about the breakup and the rumors that Lohan had a restraining order issued against her by Samantha's sister Charlotte, in her usual funny, friendly way. And Lindsay gamely, well sorta gamely, played along. In that bitchy girl from high school trying not to act bitchy because you guys are stuck at your lame parents' dinner party because they're friends and she wants to be good so she'll get a car but mostly she just seems really disinterested kind of way. So it was disinterested, evasive stuff: "I didn't even know..." and "what could I do?", in reference to the alleged restraining order.

But mostly, yeah, Lohan claims she heard about her breakup in the big awful Media before she heard it from the horse's mouth. Which is too bad. Remember when that happened to poor Minnie Driver?

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<![CDATA[Jimmy Fallon's Set-Ups Now Funnier Than His Punchlines]]> On Tuesday's edition of Jimmy Fallon's late-night laff riot, he used a 'study' about Prague's 'Franz Kafka International Airport' to set up a Hudson River plane crash joke. Trouble is, The Onion made up that 'study.'

The arch satirical news outlet ran a funny video on its site early this week, a report (from former CNN anchor Bobbie Batista!) that the Franz Kafka airport alienated its passengers with strange rules and surreal trips into the horrors of the mind. You know, like a Kafka story.

Fallon (or, more likely, someone on his writing staff) apparently just grazed that headline on some blog and wrote a joke that "it must be bad, because the second worst airport is the Hudson River." Har har. It's pretty clear that Fallon wasn't ripping off the Onion's joke because, um, he didn't seem to get it. But still, this is pretty sloppy, even for the puppyish newbie.

[via Dumb as a Blog]

See the clips below.

Onion News Network segment

Fallon clip (starts at 2:17)

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<![CDATA[The City's Secretly Trashy Nevan Tried to Swap Drugs for a Blow Job]]> We learned this morning that Nevan Donahue, from MTV's reality tinkle The City, had a warrant out for an old prostitution charge. Now we know all the white trash details! How will Olivia Palermo live this down?

According to The Smoking Gun, Donahue, who on the show seems to fancy himself some sort of New York City Valmont (so I guess that would be Ryan Phillipe in Cruel Intentions), was arrested on February 27, 2007 after he rolled up on an undercover police officer, hollering out of his Jeep Cherokee in his "'white cheetah shirt' and blue jeans." The then-24-year-old was looking for a beej, and offered to pay her in Oxycontin. When he approached the officer, his "green rhinestone belt" was unbuckled and pants were undone, revealing "shiny black underwear."

Wow, socialite and series-star Olivia Palermo! Your cuz totally gets your tony Upper East Side high society culture, doesn't he? He and you really ought to rescue Whitney from that hideous and seedy downtown lifestyle. She'll be so grateful.

Donahue has also been arrested on two other occasions, once all the way back in 2001 for drugs and, another for a regular traffic stop. TSG got mugshots!

Sheesh.

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<![CDATA[Bush Library Pays $35,000 to Reclaim Domain Name]]> Dubya's Web-design contractors forgot to pay for georgewbushlibrary.com — and ended up paying $35,000 to get it back.

What makes this more embarrassing is that this is the second time our outgoing president has paid for the domain name. Yuma Solutions, a Web-development firm based in Tallahassee, Fl., which has done campaign-website work for both Dubya and his brother, former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Yuma bought the domain name in March 2007, but didn't notice it was due to be renewed. George Huger, a Web developer for North Carolina-based Illuminati Karate, saw it on a list of expiring domain names, and snapped it up.

The thing is, I'm in no position to point and laugh, since the same thing happened to me a few years ago. I bought a domain name, mistakenly thought I'd renewed it for two years, and missed the renewal notices when they went to a defunct email address. I didn't spend nearly $35,000 to get it back, but it still hurt. So I'd cut Dubya some slack on this one: He is no stupider than a gossip blogger.

Oh, and? After Yuma finishes spiffing up the library website, it might want to work on getting better search-engine placement. Right now, if you search for "George W. Bush Presidential Library," one of the top results is georgewbush.org. Which is funny, but not the correct website!

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<![CDATA[Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview Cover Suddenly Becomes Summer Movie Preview]]> When the news broke that the next Harry Potter movie, The Half-Blood Prince, was being pushed from this fall to next summer (because Warner Bros. feared a tent pole-less 2009), things must have been squirmy down at the old Entertainment Weekly offices. Though owned by the same Time Warner company, Warner Bros. failed to let the magazine in on the "important friggin’ information," so they ran a big splashy Harry Potter cover for their Fall Movie Preview (always the best issue of the year, in my opinion.) Though, it's not the first time a cover has been blown like this—at least Harry Potter isn't dead.

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<![CDATA[It's Blunders A-Go-Go as US Media Bumbles Toward Chinese Olympics]]> From the Department of Ruh Roh, we have another Olympics-related wacky fuck-up, in which the New York Times today kept a possibly-imperiled restaurateur's name anonymous, and then bone-headedly provided the name of the restaurant. What a head-scratcher for the people who want to kill him! Click thru for larger.

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<![CDATA[China Tells Sharon Stone To Shut Up]]> Sharon Stone can be a loudmouth idiot. Most Americans and Europeans know this because the actress is always draping herself over podiums and auction stages, loudly and obnoxiously trying to drum up support for charity causes. While the end may in fact justify the means, the means are still garish and a mite self-serving. Well now, blessed be, we can share our burdensome kinda-like/hate for Ms. Stone with another 1/5 of the world's population.

Yes Red China has wised up to the actress's ways after she blunderingly suggested on a red carpet that the massive earthquake in Szechuan was a bit of "karma" spurned on by the Chinese "not being very nice" to her "good friend" the Dalai Lama (who, as it turns out, has praised China's disaster relief efforts). The nation has now decided to issue a boycott of sorts, or at least its actors have. "This actress does not deserve our attention. The best way is to ignore her. I will never watch her films in future," said actor Liu Wei. Others Chinese performers have said she lacks "respect" and "humanity." Well, OK, we wouldn't go that far. She's just a little much sometimes. Oh, Sharon. [Variety]

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<![CDATA[ReWired]]> From Radosh: "I loved last night's episode of the Wire, but the photocopier lie detector is a 35-year-old urban legend that's already been used by Homicide and NYPD Blue." Well, I guess Simon cribbing from his own Homicide ain't so bad.

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