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michael jackson
The Last Megastar
Michael Jackson was a beloved worldwide star for the entire 1980s. Even after his reputation darkened, he remained a global obsession. But underlining his death is a sense we'll see no more stars of that scale and endurance. More » -
r.i.p.
Bea Arthur's Top 5 Contributions To Pop Culture
Actress Bea Arthur passed away on April 25, at the age of 86, from cancer. While she personally didn't identify as feminist, her career made an enormous impact on the women's movement. [Jezebel] -
obits
The Death of the Beatrice Inn
If the Beatrice Inn were to close forever, rather than just temporarily, what would we say at its funeral? Because we're feeling wistful this afternoon, we're going to attempt something of a eulogy.
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pop culture
The Simpsons Changes Intro After 19 Years
Remade for high-definition television. And, judging by the awesome high-speed pan at the one-minute mark, for DVR users. Southern affiliates should appreciate the addition of Satan. More » -
music
Billy Joel, 'Worst Pop Singer Ever'
Billy Joel will be dissed, forever, by various critics. Now we're told the singer is a whiny misogynist — and 'The Worst Pop Singer Ever' — by Ron Rosenbaum in Slate. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by televisionarie: I've fought with perfectly nice people over my abject hatred of Billy Joel. Billy Joel is like Forrest Gump in... 11 Responses | Other threads
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bloglash
Lindsay Lohan's Dad: Blogging
Uh-oh: it's the brand-new blog of Lindsay Lohan father/religious fanatic/jailed DUI-er Michael Lohan. Don't hope for gossip, however: "let me say that this website is NOT about Lindsay or Samantha." More »
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By SheilaComment by surfacenoise76: It speaks to Lindsay's character that she hasn't put a hit out on both of her parents. 5 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
The 6 Best Eartha Kitt Videos
This one's for the gays (you know someone's a gay icon when the bear sites note her death.) Click for a collection of Eartha Kitt clips—may she rest in peace—from various point in her career.
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By SheilaComment by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Her accent always confused me; did she spend a lot of time outside of the United States, or is that... 5 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Palin Will Never Quit Us in 2009
Did anyone receive a new calendar for Christmas? (I got a puppy one.) Perhaps you received the Sarah Palin 2009 calendar—it's the #1 most popular "Office Product" on Amazon!
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By SheilaComment by steveholtsmother: Not that I wish her ill harm, but I keep thinking of Two-Face in Batman Forever, "Why won't you just... 6 Responses | Other threads
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tv
Sopranos Actor Commits Suicide
Sadly, suicides (and pet deaths) rise during the holidays. John Costelloe, the actor best known for playing Johnny Cakes on the Sopranos, was found dead in from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
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By SheilaComment by Mymoustache: Was he just found? Cuz if so, maybe killing yourself and nobody noticing for a week might be an explanation. 3 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity
What Might've Caused Jeremy Piven's 'Mercury Poisoning'?
We gotta hand it to actor Jeremy Piven: 'mercury poisoning,' unlike 'exhaustion' or 'dehydration,' is an excuse we've never heard from a celeb. Let's help diagnose him—what could have caused it?
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By SheilaComment by eXXX: Other side effect: utter douchebaggery 6 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Buy the Luv-Beds from the Real World Brooklyn
Would you like to buy the actual Ikea beds from the Real World Brooklyn? The reality stars might have, you know, done it in said beds. Now you can. STD screening not included.
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By SheilaComment by Housebroken(mostly): I always expect a couple extra screws when I get furniture from Ikea........ (anyone want to take it from here?) 3 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
Rocco DiSpirito used to be a critically-acclaimed chef, but then he did that show the Restaurant and then Top Chef and The Biggest Loser and finally Dancing With the Stars. Now nobody respects him!
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By SheilaComment by Larry Fine: Yes Rocco's cocaine and booze addictions are this website's fault. Specifically, it's katastic's fault. 11 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Real World Kids Open Their Mouths, Reveal Why Brooklyn Hates Them
By now, we've seen lots of fly-on-the-wall, non-MTV-sanctioned psychodrama between the Real World Brooklyn kids, who had to do much of their filming in Manhattan due to Brooklyn bars not wanting them around.
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By SheilaComment by Spirit Fingers: Excuse me. There is only one Chet. 3 Responses | Other threads
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drinking
'No One Gets Drunk Anymore' In New York
Last week the Times started a booze blog! Who knew? Today contributor Susan Cheever weighed in with a provocative, some might say intemperate, thesis: There are no more drunks at New York parties.
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By Ryan TateComment by drunkexpatwriter: Wait. I'm 39 and three years ago I ended up crashing in New York for three months (my girlfriend had a... 9 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
The Inspiration Behind Blago's Coiffeur
Where did disgraced governor and brush-fanatic Blago get his hair? Astute Simpsons historian and Gawker videoguy Mike B. points out that it was clearly from "ancient Simpsons pre-Kent Brochman anchor Scott Christian."
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By SheilaComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: I think he looks more like a forgotten Kennedy brother. 5 Responses | Other threads
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obituaries
Pinup Queen Bettie Page, 85, Dies
Bettie Page, whose saucy photo spreads helped get men through, and then end, the sexual repression of the 1950s, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. She was 85. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Beausoleil: My condolences to fat rockabilly girls everywhere. 7 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Dumbest Stunt Book Ever to Become Film
Remember SaveKaryn.com? Back in 2002, a young blondie NYC lass in major credit-card trouble posted an online plea for donations towards her "cause"—crowdsourcing her debt solution, as it were. The Observer certainly remembers: "Ms. Bosnak parlayed her moment of internet 'fame' into a book called Save Karyn and then a novel titled 20 Times a Lady." That second book was about the lady exploring her sexual "quota" and bednotches and what it all meant as she searched for Mr. Right—Who Also Has To Have Money, Too, Obviously. And now it has been optioned for a movie. God help us. Starring the impossibly bubbly Anna Faris, who is just so cheerful and cute that we want to stab her! [Vulture] I mean, how could you go wrong with a film adaptation, given this review on the book's Amazon page: More »
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By SheilaComment by Private Hangnail: Or perhaps you'd like to check out my new website: stealkaryn'sidentityandsellittonigeriang....com. 7 Responses | Other threads
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shut up, brooklyn
Real World Brooklyn's Transgendered Cast Member Should Set Her Livejournal to Private
Katelynn, the token transsexual cast member of the Real World Brooklyn, has a freaking Livejournal! We're so excited—it's called "Indigo Child Kate." As you surely remember from an old NYT trend piece, "indigo children" are especially "gifted" kids that "share traits like high I.Q., acute intuition, self-confidence, resistance to authority and disruptive tendencies, which are often diagnosed as attention-deficit disorder." Sounds about right. Queerty already reported that Katelynn recently wrote about feeling pissed and "defamed" after Gothamist took a tour of their Red Hook home. (She's gonna have a lot more to be pissed about once she sees how MTV producers edit the Real World to make everyone into the biggest douches!) What does Indigo Child Kate have to say in her online diary? More »
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By SheilaComment by TedSez: "There isn't one New Yorker in the bunch-but this season features the first transgender (and the token Mormon, Iraq vet... 6 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
Cross-Dressing Thieves Steal the Most Jewelry Ever
How long does it take to snow a Paris Harry Winstons jewellry store for everything they've got—$102 mil worth of jewels, to be precise? Less than twenty minutes, if you're good. And dressed as women (wait, is this just the filming of a new Borat?) "The raid at 5.30pm on Thursday was the largest ever gems theft in French history and one of the most lucrative armed holds-ups ever in the world," reported the Daily Mail. Harry Winston lends jewels to all the Hollywood stars, so their bling might be looking a little bereft come Oscar-time. More »
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By SheilaComment by DominaDea: The accompanying photo might be the best pin-up yet! 2 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Real World Brooklyn Kids Don't Plan on Leaving New York Ever
Oh, God, three of the cast members of the Real World Brooklyn plan on staying in New York after the show is over, reports the Daily Intel via Gothamist, who were granted a tour of the house. No, wait: the NY Press says that four "of the eight cast members who were so charmed that they decided to stick around."
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By SheilaComment by sugarsnap: nobody has cared about the real world since that girl irene got lupus. 20 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Ask the 'Real World Brooklyn' Kids Anything
The cast members (and executive producers) of the MTV's Real World Brooklyn will be doing a very, very important Q&A at the Paley Center for Media this Friday. They are actually charging money for tickets. If you go to the website you can write in the questions you would like the panelists to be asked. We had a few "questions" of our own!
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By SheilaComment by Nice Beaver: Hey, can you guys ask Svetlana from Real World: Key West if she likes any Gawker commenters, like, more than... 65 Responses | Other threads
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spin
AP Calls Bullshit on Spencer n' Heidi's 'Elopement'
Us Weekly ate up Hills "stars" Spencer and Heidi's story that they got married on the spur of the moment while on vacation in Mexico. A photographer just happened to be there to capture their beautiful declarations of love! Heidi just happened to have a white, full-length Balenciaga sundress lying around that doubled perfectly as a wedding gown! But the AP is asking if they're actually now husband and wife or if the whole thing was just another elaborate Speidi photo op. More »
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By SheilaComment by es-ki-mo: Great, and I just ordered the 300 cc's of saline off their registry. 12 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Anderson Cooper Is So Totally Not Obsessed with Beyonce
Beyonce's latest video has sparked a YouTube dance craze. Anderson Cooper pretends to be confused about it to hide the fact that he's probably been grooving to it all day ("Do they still call them 'albums'?"), yet, he already knows that it's a "bouncy tune, as Lawrence Welk used to say—I'm quite partial to it myself." We know you are, Andy. We know you are.
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By SheilaComment by MoeGolden: As soon as you mentioned "youtube dance craze", I looked to find an example - and holy shit, did I... 9 Responses | Other threads
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show biz
Moving Personal Story to Become Oscar-Bait
Remember Eugene Allen, the White House butler? The Washington Post put his story on the front page the Friday after Election Day. Allen, a black man, worked at the White House for 34 years, starting during the days of segregation and retiring during the Reagan years. He cast his vote for Barack Obama the day after his wife of 65 years died. It was a wonderful little piece of journalism that made everyone in the country cry. We're choking up just thinking about it again. So now it will become a mawkish, sentimental movie, probably starring Morgan Freeman. More »
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By PareeneComment by punkthis: Freeman is okay, but I think Damon Wayans could really bring the kind of emotional gravitas a film like this... 18 Responses | Other threads
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film
Still-Watching Watchmen
The trailer for the movie version of the hugely popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, The Watchmen, is out. Since 1986, various attempts have been made to turn it into a film— it'll be out for real next March. Of course, Moore won't be watching—he didn't want to be attached to a film adaptation and has told Entertainment Weekly that he wouldn't watch the movie should it happen—but it looks awesome. Click for pretty stills from the trailer. More »
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By SheilaComment by youranalogbuddy: is anyone actually going to see this? I mean really, who watches the watchmen. 7 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
Oh my God, shut up, Tim Robbins! There are few people more insufferable than rich, self-righteous Hollywood liberals. Remember how he thought his name was taken off the voting rolls on November 4 and threw a fit that drew the cops—when the real problem, explained the New York Times very patiently, was that he had showed up to the wrong voting place? He's still traumatized (the rest of us have moved on with our lives), and has written an "open letter" on Huffington Post—the LiveJournal for celebrities—to the Board of Elections: More »
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By SheilaComment by Hey_mikey: Marry Susan. That is all. (I had to break out a T I A for this one). 3 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity
Obama Children Protected from the Sins of Miley Cyrus, For Now
Did Barack or Michelle deliver some stern words to Billy Ray Cyrus after he invited the Obama children to be on the Hannah Montana show anytime they wanted? After all, we begged the Obamas not to do it—too much potentially damaging child-star drama!—and now Miley's Dad seems to be backtracking. Billy "Achy Breaky Heart" Ray sounds chastened: More »
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By SheilaComment by AMERICAN FUCKING DREAMER: is there a SINGLE african american female tween star right now? i dont think vanessa hudgens counts. and don't get me... 5 Responses | Other threads
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books
Did Full House Drive Jodi Sweetin to Addiction?
What's a really fast shortcut to addiction? Being a child star. Remember Full House, the lovably terrible situation comedy about the whitebread-dorky Tanner family, whose cast included infants Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen? Jodi Sweetin—the actress who played young Stephanie for eight years—went through meth-addiction hell and lived what she called a "double life." She's since gotten married, had a child, and acted in an indie TV pilot, Small Bits of Happiness. Today, reports the Observer, Sweetin signed with Simon and Schuster for an addiction memoir. The price was "in the six figures"—America loves a redemption/celeb combo! (Click for a video of Jodie's best work on Full House, which very well may have led to her urge to smoke just about anything.) More »
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By SheilaComment by ian spiegelman: Screw Steph. Whatever happened to Kimmy Gibbler? She owned that show! 6 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Gwyneth Paltrow Should Get Out of Web Publishing
It's hard times for online media, and any twit with an idea and some bandwidth is no longer guaranteed an audience. With that in mind, actress Gwyneth Paltrow might want to get out before it's too late—or before she embarrasses herself further. Her puzzling soft-launched, minimalistic website—Goop.com (gross)—is about "nourish[ing] the inner aspect" and telling us how to live. (She already thinks we want her to tell us to vote.) In fact, the website is almost completely devoid of content, but we just received a GOOP e-newsletter, with quiet wisdom straight from Gwyneth. More »
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By SheilaComment by Unfun: Oh, fuck you, you do NOT shop at Zara. And if you do, get out. Leave that shit... 13 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
M.I.A. Expects "Cave-Aged Gruyere" at Every Show
Kickass British-Sri Lankan performer and former refugee M.I.A. doesn't seem like a diva, but her tour rider—recently procured by the Smoking Gun—indicates otherwise. Her "2008 Hospitality Rider" demands a very specific assortment of cheeses, as well as various "ORGANIC" foodstuffs and those gold-foil-wrapped Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Things, we might add, you'd have trouble finding in the middle of a life-affirming war. But, hey, she's pregnant, so we'll chalk it up to weird cravings rather than stocking her backstage with the most yuppie selection of snacks ever. More »
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By SheilaComment by Hey_mikey: Dear Gawker, Not to be rude or anything - but please do the reading before the joking. To be dumb in... 18 Responses | Other threads
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tv
Real World Brooklyn Trailer: Now with More Crying!
We've been following the development of Real World Brooklyn closely, watching as they cavort all over the gentrified parts of the borough. Now that the trailer's out, It may be the most melodramatic Real World yet: you have an ex-solider admitting to killing people, a virgin Mormon accused of being gay, somebody putting a rodent in someone's bed, a dude talking about getting beaten bloody by his dad, and another guy smashing a glass coffee table. And that's only the two-minute preview! Click to watch. More »
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By SheilaComment by badasscat: Ah, I remember when I had young-people problems. This trailer seems so quaint. 3 Responses | Other threads
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bravo
Bravo Chief Determined To Be Cooler Than You
It is true, as the Times magazine will tell everyone Sunday, that Bravo has put a distinctly urbane stamp on the schlocky genre of reality television, taking "contestants off primitive islands and placing them squarely in sophisticated corners of cities like New York and Los Angeles." The NBC Universal cable network has transmitted a winking, insidery sensibility through shows like Project Runway and Top Chef — and still made the programs look somehow effortless. This natural poise, Bravo Media chief Lauren Zalaznick must have anticipated, was bound to be undermined by the Times' profile of her, which pulls back the corporate curtains to reveal Zalaznick, in the mold of all television executives, as something of a frenzied grasper. Writer Susan Dominus' 16-page story includes this memorable scene of Zalaznick demanding to be kept up on trends: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Richard Lawson: OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!! WHAT SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY!! YOU'RE ALL EXECUTED!! 8 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
Garbage-Picking for Reporters
Page Six is reporting that somebody is going through celeb trash in order to "bare their secrets," such as the prescription for Mary Louise-Parker's thyroid medication. Surprisingly, that "someone" is not Page Six themselves. We have to congratulate the garbage trawler—that's great shoe-leather reporting. (Maybe it was Village Voice editor Tony Ortega—that's how he got his got his hot Harvey Weinstein scoop!) Since we sadly have a bit of experience in dumpstering, here's a how-to guide on finding interesting things in the trash—especially since the economy's going straight to hell and you might need to. More »
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By SheilaComment by the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower: I once pulled a mirror out of a dumpster, cleaned it off and hung it in my apt. After... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Music For Poors
Why Is Bob Dylan's Recession Album $130?
Bob Dylan's new album of outtakes, "Tell Tale Signs," has some great countrified blues numbers for coping with the coming depression. And in a seeming nod to the tough times, the folksinger streamed the album for free on NPR's website for a week ("Bob Dylan Understand The Weak Economy," said the Times). And yet when the compilation finally dropped earlier this month, aficionados had to pay $130 to get all 39 tracks. That you could buy a smaller, poor man's version for the usual $20 or so was no consolation to hard-core online fans, some of whom vowed to aid and abet piracy in an act of revenge. They shouldn't get too flustered at their hero, judging by Gustavo Turner's review in the Boston Phoenix. You can safely blame Dylan's "mafia" entourage. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by belltolls: Springsteen's NEBRASKA is fine depression music. Cheap too. 4 Responses | Other threads
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crime
Jennifer Hudson's Mother, Brother Dead
This is the worst Friday we can remember since the last terrible one. Darnell Hudson, mother to almost universally loved Oscar-winner and American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson, was murdered in Chicago today. "Investigators said two shooting victims were discovered inside a home belonging to Hudson's mother just before 3:00 this afternoon," local TV reports. The other victim: her brother Jason. Police are releasing no details except to say it was "domestic," which means... not a robbery, we suppose. Just sad. -
madonna
Madonna's Guy Diss Caught On Film
The Sun tracked down video of Madonna's mean reference to her husband as "emotionally retarded" at a Boston concert Wednesday night Harsh. Worse yet are the lyrics to the song she was dedicating, "Miles Apart:" "“I’m alright, don’t be sorry, but it’s true/When I’m gone, you realise/That I’m the best thing to happen to you.. I guess we’re at our best when we’re miles away/So far away, so far away.” If Madonna timed her divorce to maximize publicity for her tour and new film Filth and Wisdom, as the conspiracy theorists have it, her instincts were sound.
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By Ryan TateComment by Bruck: Meanwhile Guy's mother has fired back with the following which was quoted in this afternoons TheLondonPaper "Guy chose to take this... 1 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
The Cult of Tina Fey
Tina Fey—nerd-girl hero, Saturday Night Live alum, 30 Rock writer/actor—just signed a book deal. It was "reportedly pitched as a book of humorous essays in the style of Nora Ephron," said the Observer. (Hopefully it'll be funnier than that.) Successful SNL alums doing a humor book or half-baked movie spin-off is unremarkable. But a multi-million dollar advance and the defining pop culture moment of her a-little-too-accurate Sarah Palin impression is further evidence of her gathering stardom. Also: her Google trends are suddenly off the hook. More »
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By SheilaComment by Unfun: I feel weird chatting when it's not FNFF. But I can't think of anything brilliant to say about Tina... 84 Responses | Other threads
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nightlife
The Parties Are the Same; It's You That's Different.
Everyone tortures themselves with this question: Did the parties used to be better? Probably not; It's just your mind playing tricks, pining for that magical time back when you and your friends were young and free and ready to take on the world—years before life and consequences trammeled your spirit. That said, New York magazine, as part of its 40th anniversary, has a slideshow of 40 years of parties. Here's one of precocious little brat Drew Barrymore chatting up party guest Moon Zappa... when she was ten. [New York]
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By SheilaComment by Fishnets and Cigarettes: From the greatest party evah! 5 Responses | Other threads
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tom wolfe
Financial Armageddon Possible Tomorrow, Says Tom Wolfe
Last week the Observer, Tom Wolfe said the truly rich would be protected from the Wall Street meltdown because all the smart guys had long since decamped for hedge funds, leaving investment banks staffed by "real second-raters." This weekend in the Times, the author of Bonfire of the Vanities clarified that statement by adding that elite hedge funders may still be ruined, just not until September 30, that is to say tomorrow. In other words, these strapping Masters of the Universe are so ingenious they staved off the sad fate of i-bankers for all of maybe 14 extra days: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by skahammer: Snark all you want, but the man has made a lucid prediction that is easily testable in the short term. How... 5 Responses | Other threads
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pop culture
Rachel Zoe Knows Her Critics Well
Supertan, creating-the-zeitgeist celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe talks about the cultural critics that hurt her feelings: "Oh, honey, I’ve spent a good part of the past three years wanting to crawl under a rock. Marc Jacobs said to me, 'Rachel, most of these bloggers are living in God knows where, having a bad day.'” [Blackbook]
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By SheilaComment by Miss Information: If at some point she cares about the tortured lives and deaths of the animals she puts on... 6 Responses | Other threads
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