Self-described "100% gay" skydiving instructor Donald Zarda was fired from his job after a woman (to whom Zarda was strapped, during a tandem skydive) complained he sexually harassed her, somehow, while skydiving. Thought I had a joke, but no.
In your positive Monday media column: Richard Desmond buys a TV network, HuffPo personifies the mysterious blog world, Mitch Albom is celebrated for some reason, media job moves are afoot, and Kathie Lee and Hoda are still there.
A—totally faithful!—black couple recently welcomed into the world a white, blond baby, likely due to some long dormant genes. Teabaggers the nation over kicked the dirt and said "phooey" upon learning this happened in the UK, not here.
The fashion maven and Project Runway mentor has been cast as "an exec assistant at a major cosmetic company" in the upcoming live-action/animation Smurfs movie. So, yay. But, uh, why is there a cosmetic company in a Smurfs movie? [Variety]
This Levi's full-page tribute to Teddy Kennedy in the weekend NYT was a little weird, now that you mention it. What's the brand connection? This: Teddy Kennedy always believed Walt Whitman was gay. Levi's®. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter]
Here's an intriguing product found at a 99-cent store in Greenpoint. What is it, and in what way does it encourage "Close relations between family members?"
Jeremy Piven quit his Broadway show three months early because of an overexposure to mercury. Sounds serious! And fake! So who's treating him? A celebrity doctor with a shady past named Carlon Colker.
We have Olympic fever! But not as much as Beijing-ians. The Chinese government is like an overanxious mama, worried her kid might start picking his nose on stage at his preschool graduation. So they're bombarding the wayward citizenry with propaganda posters directing them how to act when all the weird foreigners get…
This graffiti was scrawled in Chelsea last March. The once-legendary party promoter Baird Jones was found dead (for unclear reasons) late last week. Hmph. Well, it could have just been someone tired of getting all his freaking promo emails. [Photo by Nancy Smith/ artloversnewyork via Bucky Turco]
