<![CDATA[Gawker: resolved]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: resolved]]> http://gawker.com/tag/resolved http://gawker.com/tag/resolved <![CDATA[Project Runway Deal Signed, Harvey Weinstein Returns to Bashing NBC]]> Harvey Weinstein's gracious-in-defeat couldn't last long. After paying off NBC to take his Project Runway to Lifetime, the mogul had "personally" congratulated the network. Now, he's calling NBC chairman Ben Silverman a big naked-arm-wrestling homo.

Or at least that's the joke he made! The entertainment mogul was on Ryan Seacrest's radio show yesterday and yukked that that's how resolved the Project Runway dispute between his company and Silverman's NBC/Universal.

"This is a bombshell," Weinstein growled. "Ben Silverman said, 'Why don't Harvey and I arm-wrestle this? Naked!'" And Seacrest, of course, giggled that way he loves to giggle when anything gay comes up. Seacrest added that it must have been a first in conflict resolution, but Weinstein, delighting in seeing the sprightly little frosted pixie in stitches so, decided to press on with the joke.

"I've spoken to some of his dates, and apparently it's not a first," he said as Seacrest went bright red and peed himself a little, out of a heady mixture of hysteria and awkwardness. I mean, really, when Harvey Weinstein makes a joke, you'd better goddamned laugh.

Nice, if not surprising, to see that Weinstein is treating this like a victory. Though we assume that Bravo will have the last laugh (or giggle!) when no one tunes in to watch PR on the damn Lifetime network.

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<![CDATA[Finally, the Nation's First Black-Handed Obama Cutout]]> Last week we mulled an important question: does the popular Barack Obama cutout have white hands? Well now, because of some heroic reporting, a true change has been made.

The Utah-based company that makes the ubiquitous 6'1" cardboard cutout pleads ignorance in the whole debacle, but has taken the complaints to heart. Their website is advertising that a New Obama Cutout is "coming soon", this one with decidedly Barack-colored mitts. They've also added a cutout of him standing behind a podium, which is how he sleeps!

So, gone are the light-hued paws and strange round spectacles that he doesn't wear. Were those glasses and hands those of Tom Daschel, as some guessed? We may never know. What we do know is that already, not even a week in, hard-won changes are being made all across the country. [The Root]

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