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more about #tragedy more comments → OrneryBabe: No, not Pat Kiernan! I love In the Papers! more » MelitaPolyhymnia: Dean Meminger Jr. is such a nice guy and a decent reporter. He seems to be a real person reporting what he sees, rather than being a blowhole hogging... more » Nesbiteme: That’s it. I can’t take it anymore, this Dominic Carter-bashing. First, Mr. and Mrs. Carter often beat the shit out of one another. I’m not cond... more » Rozelle’s Bagman: Lewis Dodley, in The Standard, with a rope. more » SpyMagician: Sad, sad, sad. Who’s next? Bud Mishkin? more » hollygirl: It seemed odd that this guy's dad was a former sports star and living in a rooming house. Crack. more » iheartapocalypse: As I hear the cheers and jeers, I am reminded, we are the same species that invented bear baiting. I expect this to be a mid-season replacement for Ja... more » Magister: I'm a parent who has taken the kids to a lot of zoos. Though I might watch it on YouTube, if I were to ever run across a lion eating a deer in real l... more » Poop Cooper: This story is like Where the Red Fern Grows meets Bambi. With lions. It's like God decided that English students needed Gawker to send them the perf... more » Trai_Dep: Wait. I thought that in DC, even the fauns pack Glock 9s. #viralvideo more » fatmonalisa: Did they at least give the deer to the lion to eat? That's the closest it's going to get to hunting for it's whole life. #viralvideo more » ModernMindOfM: I'm sorry, but this was one of the funniest damn things I've seen all weekend. That tiger was so self conscious. I think it purposely let the deer get... more » raincoaster: Derivative. #viralvideo more » Motoko Kusanagi: Life proves itself equally unfair and beautiful in so many ways every day. I know I sound like an inspirational poster (pun intended?) but it's true.... more » skt.smth: Am I the only one who finds the hysterics of the crowd terrible and frightening? It's like an instant, just-add-water version of the kind of 24 hour n... more » -
#curses
NY1 Anchors 2/3 of the Way to Terrible Trend
NY1 news anchors: Cursed? Portly (former) political anchor Dominic Carter ruined his own career by beating his wife and trying to squirm out of it by name-dropping. Now, another anchor's dad is critically injured in a crack pipe fire. More » -
#sadstory
Baby Deer's Heroic Escape from Hungry Lion Caught on Tape—And Then, Tragedy
After leaping over a fence at D.C.'s National Zoo, a small deer evaded capture by two hungry lions, drawing elated cheers and joyous tears from hundreds of onlookers. And then, they read the tale's horrible conclusion in today's Washington Post. More » -
#tragedy
Ruth Reichl Does Not Read The Internet
Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl does not read this blog or Craigslist, which is causing her all sorts of trouble, in the media. More » -
#balloonboy
Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax
For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course. More » -
#boyintheballoon
Everything the Internet Knows About the Boy in the Balloon
Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of Falcon, who is missing after having apparently floated away in a helium balloon-craft built by his parents, have left a long and wide internet trail. Here's what we know. More » -
#suicide
Newspaper Heiress Had Problems
Anne Morell Petrillo, 38 year-old heiress to the Scripps newspaper fortune, jumped to her death off the Tappan Zee bridge last week. Trauma from a bad marriage and her mom's brutal murder? Perhaps. But the NYT has an additional theory: More » -
#dang
Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Noooooooo: Last week we heard the heartwarming story of how old school rapper Roxanne Shante got her evil record company to pay more than $200K for her to get a Ph.D. Now Slate says the whole story's a fake. More » -
#sexwars
Tabloids Admirably Cover Genital Scalding
In a lesser town, Emmanuel "Ojo" Ojofeitimi would have been just another dude whose wife got angry at him for cheating and poured a cauldron of boiling water over his genitals while he slept. In New York, we have tabloids! More » -
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#sad
'I Can't Get Over It'
Andy Rooney—whose work we do not usually care for—was overcome with grief while delivering the eulogy at Walter Cronkite's funeral yesterday, and had to excuse himself after less than two minutes. It's god damn heartbreaking. A generation passes. More » -
#unjustdesserts
Chocolate Is Death
A 29 year-old chocolate factory worker in New Jersey died today after falling into an eight-foot-deep vat of melted chocolate. One option for the poor man's cadaver: a mold for chocolates. More » -
#therich
The Fall of the House of Noel
The Noel family was once the toast of Greenwich, Connecticut. Dad ran a hedge fund. Mom and the daughters were social queens. Now, they've reportedly been kicked out of their country club. An American tragedy: More » -
#updates
Freddie Mac Suicide CFO's Stressful Career
The media's had a good half day now to find out more about David Kellerman, the Freddie Mac CFO who committed suicide early this morning. He hung himself. The "job stress" scenario is looking plausible: More » -
#tragedy
With Child-Selling Tale, Slumdog Has Officially Gone from Heart-Warming to Gut-Wrenching
Rubina Ali was plucked from the slums of Mumbai to star in Slumdog Millionaire, which went on to be a smash hit around the world. Too bad absolutely nothing good came of that! More » -
#war
After 18 Years, Citizenry Witnesses Return of War Dead
The family of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, 30, authorized news media coverage of the return of Myers' body from Afghanistan. The coverage was the first of its kind of 18 years. More » -
#obituaries
Nicholas Hughes, Son of Sylvia Plath, Commits Suicide
Nicholas Hughes, a marine biologist and academic, hanged himself at home 46 years after the suicide of his mother, the poet Sylvia Plath. He was 47. More » -
#thecinema
Liam Neeson's Coma-Movie Plans
Actor Liam Neeson understandably set aside his work in Chloe, which was shooting in Toronto when Neeson's wife Natasha Richardson suffered a fatal skiing accident. His next role? More » -
#update
'Vigil' For Natasha Richardson in New York
Natasha Richardson completed her flight from Canada to New York, and then apparently to Lenox Hill Hospital amid fresh reports the Tony-award-winning actress is brain dead and family are saying goodbye.
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#tragedy
Natasha Richardson Update: Conflicting Reports
The status of actress Natasha Richardson after her skiing accident remains unclear, as various news agencies are reporting vastly differing items. The New York Post claims she is "brain dead," TMZ claims she is not. More » -
#ohmartha
Martha Loses Chow, Prepares Chow
Oh no! Martha Stewart's new chow puppy, Genghis Khan, died in a tragic fire at her breeder's boarding facility. She was so upset that she told Twitter all about it. So how did she cope?
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#war
Maybe We'll All Get to See the Coffins Come In
Ever since the heroic War on Terror began, the Pentagon hasn't let the media cover the arrival home of the coffins of dead US soldiers. Now maybe they'll loosen that ban...because the Pentagon hates war? More »
