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terrorists
FBI Thwarts NYC Bombing
"The FBI arrested four men in New York City on Wednesday evening in an alleged plot to detonate a bomb outside a Jewish temple and to attack an Air National Guard Base in upstate Newburgh." (WCBS)
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celebritards
How Twitter Saved the Celebrity P.R.
Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter were supposed to liberate famous people from old-media gatekeepers. But John Mayer, Courtney Love, and others are teaching us that public figures are terrible at shaping their own image. More »
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ryan reynolds
Marathon Spares the Undiscovered Third Nipple of Ryan Reynolds
As near as we can tell, Ryan Reynolds is known for these five things, in order: shirtlessness, marrying Scarlett Johansson, that Pizza Place show, the Canadian teen soap Fifteen, and pantslessness (NSFW). Considering that two of those five accomplishments leave Reynolds pretty exposed, we thought that there was little left to discover about his impressive physique — that is, until he sat down with Rachael Ray to talk about the effect his recent marathon run had on his body: More » -
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Shannen Doherty Insists You Only Call Her Brenda When The Mortgage Payment's Due
Recently bestowed with official "icon" status by the L.A. Architectural and Faded Starlet Landmarks Association, Shannen Doherty pulled up a chair at The Rachael Ray Show table to discuss her recent cryogenic career-defrosting, appearing on a short but heavily promoted arc on the new 90210. She vigorously denied harboring any regrets about her decision to abandon the original series at its peak, explaining how the strain of playing a fictional bitch week-in and week-out was ultimately taking its toll on her real-life, bitch-being pursuits. As for why she chose to return to the fabled zip code, she admits she was hesitant at first; ultimately, it was something she did less for herself than for her fans—those "Brenda!"-chanting masses who have kept both her and her dogs in natural fabrics and macrobiotic vittles since her days on Little House on the Prairie. [Rachael Ray] -
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Won't You Take a Whiff of Jessica Simpson's New, 'Fart-Proof' Perfume?
Apparently Jessica Simpson is still doing... things... and one of those things is a new perfume scent, maybe? That's the story she told Rachael Ray, and it seems plausible enough, though we're a little more skeptical of the singer's insistence that she's "completely" in charge of making the product ("Vanilla bean smells completely different than vanilla. It's really weird!"). Still, her unenthused patter briefly comes alive when Ray spritzes some "Fancy" (it is called this) into the air, causing Simpson to point out the perfume's unique bonus: the ability to queef in an elevator without anyone being the wiser. Ladies, do not try this at home. [Rachael Ray] -
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Paula Abdul Accidentally Swallows Own Tongue During 'Rachael Ray Show' Brownie Binge
· It's really not the end of summer until Paula Abdul salivates over a Tupperware container filled with Rachael Ray's delicious Klonopin-chip brownies. Side note: We believe that video breaks the world record for on-camera time in which Ryan Seacrest remains completely silent. [RR] More » -
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Food Network Courts Spew-Ready, Binge-Eating Demo With 'Eat the Clock'
As proven by the longevity of G4's spew opus Hurl! (eight weeks yesterday!), television has finally reached that crucial cultural point where America's taste for swampy gastric drama may yet outstrip its taste for... well, taste. To wit, even the Food Network — our Moms' favorite leisure-time destination — is ready to push its programming to levels of guttural extremity unseen since Iron Chef Sakai wore a necklace of calf intestines to a climactic tasting in 1999: More » -
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Even Rachael Ray's Audience Can't Get Excited About Awful, Faux Paparazzi Service
Perhaps inspired by the Britney-prompted downturn in paparazzi profits, former commercial photographer Tania Cowher has come up with a novel (yet terrible) solution: allowing non-celebrities to hire their own personal paparazzi via her service Celeb 4 a Day. After all, who among us hasn't yearned to be stalked by a loudmouthed photographer screaming, "Over here! Look over here, you bitch!" on the way to Walgreens? The answer is "almost everyone," at least if this clip from Rachael Ray is the judge. After grilling Cowher, Ray asks the audience to raise their hand if they'd use the service themselves, soliciting a feeble response. Next time, Tania, try Oprah: the audience will scream in pleasure when O yells "You get Getty Images! You get an X17 subscription! EVERYONE GETS A BAUER-GRIFFIN LOGIN!" More » -
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'Rachael Ray Show' Overrun By Litigious Aneroxics
In what will easily go down as the Most Insane Legal Filing of the Long Weekend, a male employee at The Rachael Ray Show has named producer CBS and several other staffers in a legal filing seeking $1.5 million in damages for anorexia discrimination. From TMZ: More » -
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30 Minute Proust
Rachael Ray, America’s Favorite olive oil distributrix, has decided that her talk show, two Food Network series, magazine, cookbooks and Islamist Dunkin' Donuts endorsements are not enough. She's writing a memoir so we the hoi poloi can find out what it's like to say "So Delish" and "Yum-O" all the time. Well, according to Ted Cassablanca, Rachel's being rather difficult with her publishers, insisting on calling her memior EVOhno, and missing deadlines. This is not the perky, pliant Italian-Cajun girl I came to know and loathe on 30 Minute Meals, but it's hard to bargain with a woman who knows where to find the cheapest breakfast burrito in all 50 state capitals.[E! Online]
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Tired Of Sex
· From clingy dresses to canine masturbation, from mean-spirited reviews to disappointed Cosmo swillers doling out handjobs, we found ourselves oversexed in our city. More » -
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"Dunkin Donuts is one of our sponsors," Idiot!
The anchor of Fox's "Good Day New York" thinks this Rachael Ray/ Dunkin' Donuts controversy (recap: Celebuchef Ray wore a keffiyeh in an ad, right-wingers were outraged, the company pulled the ad) is so stupid. It is! When the story came up this morning, he acknowledged that he can't stand Rachael Ray and doesn't even care what this controversy is about. Cue co-anchor Jodi Applegate leaning over and hissing (audibly): "Dunkin Donuts is one of our sponsors." His backtracking is magical! Please, click to watch this moment of journalistic integrity in action.
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defamer
Easy-Meal Jihadist Rachael Ray Promised 72 Extra-Virgins In Paradise
When leading fried-treat purveyors Dunkin' Donuts hired Rachael Ray to represent their brand, they had no way of knowing the white-trash-cooking guru would use that platform to further her own take on the United States of America as a Satan-loving nation that wallows like a pregnant desert jackal in a cesspit of its own making. Unfortunately, that was exactly the message delivered by her Middle Eastern-influenced accessorizing choices, and the internet ad featuring Ray wrapped in a keffiyeh and sucking thirstily on a cruller-flavored latté has since been pulled from their site. Yes, Ray's extremist leanings are shocking, but should come as no surprise to regular The Rachel Ray Show watchers who found it nearly impossible to come up with the "blood of a thousand Zionist filth-dogs" component of her Extra Chee-Z Shells n' Cheese recipe, no matter how many specialty markets they searched in. More » -
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'Ellen' Tries To Poop On The Rachael/Rosie Love Parade
In a Battle of the Lesbian Talk Show Titans (and Rachael Ray, who isn't a lesbian, despite the fact that we could easily picture her spitting out tobacco juice from a softball dugout), producers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show made a last-minute attempt at blocking today's Rosie O'Donnell-themed episode of The Rachael Ray Show. The reason? Concerns that Ray's syndicated series, which used Telepictures-owned clips of Rosie's old show, would beat Ellen's (also a Telepictures production) in the ratings. The Scoop reports: More » -
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Why Oprah And Rachael Ray Hate Each Other, In Words And Pictures
Frankly, we don't know what might have come between Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray, the easy-meal guru and multimedia mogul whose career she helped to launch. But there it is, plain as day, on the cover of the new issue of trusted celebrity news source National Enquirer: "YOU MAKE ME SICK!" Four little words that will change...everything. Obviously, there was no guaranteeing that all Harpo hatchlings would remain as loyal to their mentor as, say, a Nate Berkus, available round-the-clock to board an O-emblazoned helicopter whisking him off to solve 4 a.m. window-treatment crises in Santa Barbara. Even Dr. Phil, that unspeakably bald evil that Winfrey almost certainly wishes she could undo, maintains a level of civility with his Maker. But not that pistol Ray—her feisty Sicilian and Cajun ancestries rendering her even more ornery than a cankle-afflicted Kirstie Alley. More » -
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Despite Cancellation Rumors, Rachael Ray Performs Nicely Among Highly Coveted Alter Kaker Demo
Page Six has ignited quite the firestorm with their report today that Rachael Ray, the homecooking guru whose open-mouth circumference quite improbably exceeds that of her entire head, is at high risk for cancellation. The reason: dwindling ratings and a rapidly aging demographic, whose calcified joints can barely manage to crack open a bottle of EVOO. (We wont get into the hard numbers here, but if you're really interested, the Sixers throw up a bunch of pie charts and nanaimo bar graphs to prove their point.) But wait! A representative from King World disputes their claims, saying Ray has managed to even outperformed the talk show deity who fashioned her in her own image out of a variety of dipping sauces. From HuffPo: More » -
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Rachael Ray Peddles Her Wares In Barren Ice World
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Bill Clinton, Pancake Pirates Do Rachael Ray
As mentioned yesterday, Bill Clinton made an appearance on "The Rachael Ray Show" to talk about the childhood obesity epidemic. Clinton knows all too well the perils of poor eating habits, as he mentions in this clip. And yes, fast food can be dangerous, and sometimes that message—mmmmmm, IHOP's Stuffed French Toast Treasures!
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By abalk2Comment by Imipolex_G-Unit: I hope Bill's surgeon screams "treasure" during the next bypass. more » | Other threads
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Rachael Ray And Bill Clinton Team Up To Provide Material For Lazy Joke Writers
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Rachael Ray, Racially Insensitive?
The ubiquitous TV chef seems to have gotten herself into a bit of an unsavory situation. Yes, indeedy, she's in hot water! The critics are sharpening their (Santoku) knives! Okay, we'll stop. TMZ reports that the perky FHM poser had a few too many glasses of irresistably Yum-O (sorry) red wine at dinner one night in late 2005 and got a little chatty about her the lady who would later end up syndicating her daytime show: Oprah. About a still from Beloved that graces the lobby of Harpo productions, Ray reportedly yammered,Why is she wearing slave drag? She obviously has problems being black.
Ray's publicist denies that this ever happened, natch, and also casts aspersions on claims that, during the same meal, Ray also called Brad Pitt a "pussy boy" and Angelina Jolie a "skanky, backdoor cunt." As Ray herself would say, though: how good is THAT? More »
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By Emily GouldComment by Romana Klay: Leave my Oprah alone, you Trailer Trashy Trollop. Go pee on your husband like a good girl. more » | Other threads
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atoosa rubenstein
As It Turns Out, There Are Worse Things Than Rachael Ray
As the year draws to a close, media organizations are busy putting together collections of lists and handing out gimmicky awards in an attempt to grab traffic and attention. (Yes, of course, we're working on ours.) A case in point is I Want Media's 2006 Media Person of the Year Poll, a venerable tradition going back all the way to 2002, when Martha Stewart took the title. So it's only natural that Rachael Ray, "the new Martha," (and conclusive evidence that we as a society are getting collectively stupider at an alarming rate) be included. Let's take a look at her qualifications. More »
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By abalk2Comment by JackieTreehorn: Fair enough. I'm too young to hate on Sandra Dee, so I'll take your word for it. I'll go back to ogling... more » | Other threads
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By gawkternComment by Mike Barthel: Hey, the "Obese twins on scooters" link now takes you to a site that tries to install all sorts of... more » | Other threads
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Breaking: Rachael Ray Did Not Invent The Idea Of Celebrities Doing Something Everyone Else Does
After the yeoman's work they did yesterday, you can't blame TMZ for getting a little excited about every possible scoop that comes down the pike. To wit:Ross Crystal, host of "Showbiz Express," claims he contacted Food Network prez Judy Girard back in 2001 and pitched a show he called "Showbiz Chefs." The idea, claims Ross, "is a 30-minute interview/cooking show featuring celebrities cooking their favorite dishes in their own kitchens. Celebrity guests will open their homes to the viewer, providing a glimpse into their lifestyles, and the host will participate in the cooking experience."... In November 2004, Food Network launched "Inside Dish With Rachel Ray," using the promotional description: "Join host Rachael Ray as she takes us to the homes-and kitchens-of some of America's biggest celebrities."
Now, we hate Ray as much as any sentient human being who values talent over "talent," complexity over simplicity, and, you know, brains over whatever the hell she's got up there, but even to us this seems like something of a stretch. What's next, a claim that this guy had the idea of nailing Courtney Love before Batali did? Dismissed. More »
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By abalk2Comment by raincoaster: Isn't it the medallion of the Order of the Golden Dawn? That would explain alot. more » | Other threads
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By abalk2Comment by raincoaster: I love that photo: it's the scariest thing since that hydra-headed Oprah shoot for Revlon. The Most Unforgettable Women in... more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: Also, Some Chick Gave Notice At Some Blog
• Could Tom Freston replace NBC Chief Executive Bob Wright? We're hoping yes, because a) we still blame Jeff Zucker for Hidden Hills, and b) Freston-Moonves II will make Ali-Frazier II look like Tyson-McNeely. [NYP] More »
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By abalk2Comment by suburbanangst: Jessica I just want you to know that I cut myself last night for the first time since I was... more » | Other threads
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Rachael Ray's War on Couch Talk
Food Network perky hellion and FHM foodsex model Rachael Ray will get her own half-baked talk show in September, and she promises to cut out all the "deep discussions" that ruin current examples of the genre. Also verboten are "finger wagging," "makeovers of 20-year-olds," "experts," and "crying." Ray wishes to distinguish her show as "kitchen table talk" as opposed to "couch talk," which just gets too damned cerebral and heavy. "I'm grossly unqualified for every job I ever had," chirps Ray, happily demonstrating and celebrating the fact that once you've been on TV for one thing, you can be on TV for anything else. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Glossed Over: I can't decide if her admission that she's unqualified is refreshingly down-to-earth or incredibly stupid. more » | Other threads
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