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Jack-Off Sculpture Sells For $15 Million
Takashi Murakami, the artist known in part for his work on Louis Vuitton handbags, just saw his sculpture of a nude anime-looking dude ejaculating (left) sell for $15 million at auction. As we reported previously, it had only been expected to fetch up to $4 million. The winning bid was submitted to Sotheby's by telephone, probably because no one likes to buy this sort of thing in person, even if it's at a classy art auction. Especially if it's at a classy art auction. Click the pic for a larger image. [Times]
the gays
Gay Makeouts Save Soap Opera From Obsolescence
The Times noticed something about the soap opera As The World Turns, which has featured three oh-so-groundbreaking gay kisses in the past year: It is the only soap opera that has gained young viewers over the past seven months. All the other soaps lost young people and are basically left with olds and adult diaper commercials. Sure, maybe forbidden gay love will energize soap operas the way class tension used to, as the Times suggests. Or maybe As The World Turns is just the latest show to learn what Ellen DeGeneres figured out so long ago: introducing a gay subplot is a great way to keep an otherwise weak show on life support, at least in those increasingly rare genres devoid of homosexual storylines. [Times]
Idol Lives
"American Idol, the most popular show on television, will be back on Fox next year." Did anyone actually think it would get cancelled? [Times]
"American Idol, the most popular show on television, will be back on Fox next year." Did anyone actually think it would get cancelled? [Times]
celebrity science
Miley Cyrus A Little Girl Again
Hey, remember Miley Cyrus, the sultry teen temptress in Vanity Fair? It turns out she's actually a chaste little girl completely lacking in demon sex hormones! She can still help Disney make hundreds of millions of dollars from young girls, yay. The Hannah Montana star is featured in some new ads where she drinks milk like a baby. She's very excited about her part in the "Got Milk" campaign and is plugging away on one of her official websites. Miley, you can't just jump between sex icon and infantile little girl so quickly like this. Pick an image. You're flitting around like some kind of god-damned 15 year old or something. [E!, Body By Milk]
Runway Judge Nina Garcia Finally, Truly Jumping To Marie Claire?
"Fashion Week Daily has confirmed exclusively with a source involved in the negotiations that the former Elle fashion director has accepted an offer from Marie Claire and will join the title as fashion director in September. " [Fashion Week Daily]
celebrity science
Real Housewives Star Overfreeloads At The 'Gifting Suite'
Ramona Singer, the aspiring fashionista on Bravo's awful reality show Real Housewives of New York City, was spotted by Page Six acting boorish at a goodies junket, since her show and fellow cast members weren't embarrassing enough already. Singer was stopped at a "gifting suite" at the Ritz-Carlton "demanding four pairs of Luxxotica sunglasses and more than $6,000 of Lia Sophia jewelry. When she was denied, Singer screamed, 'Well, do you want press or not?'" Oh, Ramona. Sigh. If you're going to successfully run a jewelry and clothing company you have to understand there's a hierarchy to celebrity freeloading, and unsympathetic monsters starring in a basic cable reality show are very near the bottom. Also from Page Six, Housewives' "Countess" LuAnn de Lesseps who is married to a French aristocrat, was maybe snogging with a younger dude: More »
energy
Starbucks Shovels More Stimulants Into Caffeine-Addled Masses
It's about time that Starbucks offered weary consumers a little energy with their oversized caffeinated beverages. The coffee chain and infectious disease spreader is now providing the option of a "+Energy" addition to any drink. The new energy formula contains B-vitamins, guarana, and ginseng, which is the same mixture that they toss in most canned energy drinks these days, along with eye-popping amounts of caffeine. What I would like to know is this: what one flavor could possibly taste palatable mixed with every single thing that Starbucks sells, from coffee to tea to fruit-flavored goop? More »
nightlife
Clubs Overrun With Angry Midgets
Hulking literary doorman Rob the Bouncer's assertion: short guys (or "Wee 'Pocket Men,'" as he eloquently puts it) flock to clubs, where they start more trouble than normal-sized men because of their little Napoleon complexes. "All I see, all night long, is all these angry little dudes coming up here. I feel bad for them. Sometimes I want to bend down and say, 'Hey little fella, what's the matter? Why don't you go inside and turn that frown around?'" Ok, we'll give you that one. It's true. Another good reason to leave the club to the bouncers, while the short guys visit the homes of the bouncers' girlfriends for surreptitious assignations! What now, giant? [Clublife]
Tabloid Sneaks Into Sex And The City Premiere
"It was clear by the end of the movie that crowd were not disappointed. There were lots of oohs and aahs, cheers, cries of laughter and more than a few tissues being dabbed on eyes. Sex And The City gives its legion of female fans what they want... The product placement is less than subtle... It is much, much too long for a romantic comedy." [Sun]
