An oral history of White Men Can't Jump: Oral-history tipping point or the reason the oral history was invented?
Wesley Snipes Surrenders Himself to Prison
Wesley Snipes surrendered himself to a Pennsylvania prison today to serve a three-year sentence for tax evasion.
White Powder Scare at Dancing with the Stars: Are Radical Haters to Blame?
Biological terrorism strikes dancing-based reality show! Lindsay Lohan's loses her last best chance at saving her career. The cabin where Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton: Revealed! Sexiest man alive news! Saturday Gossip Roundup is protecting the homeland.
Wesley Snipes Is Finally Going to Prison
A federal judge ordered that Wesley Snipes surrender himself and serve his three-year prison sentence. He was convicted in 2008 for not filing taxes. Hopefully he'll go willingly. The star of U.S. Marshals must know all the escape tricks!
Uma Thurman Was Bilked by Celebrity Financial Consultant
Ken Starr, Bernie Madoff to the Stars! He's been charged with running a Ponzi scheme using money from celebrities. One of them is reported to be Uma Thurman. Dude, didn't you see Kill Bill? You're dead meat!
Wesley Snipes Just Disappears Into His Roles
So this happened this morning, on local cable news station NY1. To be fair, both Snipes and Congressman Charlie Rangel have very good excuses for not paying their taxes. [Via]
Happy Birthday
Bee Shaffer turns 22 today. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is turning 90. Billionaire financier Leon Black is 58. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is 44. Wesley Snipes is turning 47. Muckraking defense attorney Ron Kuby is 53. Another muckraker, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, is 51. Theater director Oskar…
While America Lies In Ruins, Selfish Celebrities Party In Dubai
Are you a horrible camera flash-stained, fraying-at-the-edges tabloid media darling who mourns the loss of the recent American rococo decade? Is everyone being poor and complaining all the time just too much for you? Well worry not, dear inexplicably financed friend, because Dubai is waiting for you! Oh you know about …
Can Wesley Snipes's Evil Genius Lawyers Help You Live the Tax-Evading Hollywood Dream?
We've heard of (and often tried) a lot of ways to ladder-climb in Hollywood, but "superstar tax-evasion defense attorney" is one we had pretty far down our list, just above "blogger." Still, that's not stopping Robert Bernhoft and Robert Barnes (or simply "the Bobs," as Portfolio refers to them in its November issue)…
Spottings
Beyonce showing up to watch her sister Solange perform at the J&R Music Fest in City Hall Park ... Chace Crawford leaving his trailer on the set of Gossip Girl ... Jennifer Aniston shopping for jewelry at Fred Leighton ... America Ferrera dressed up as a softball player on the set of Ugly Betty ... Kid Rock performing…
Tommy & Dee Call It Quits
Some Anti-Drug PSAs Are Best Enjoyed Brain-Meltingly High
· In honor of Pineapple Express opening tomorrow, we thought we'd further promote mind-alteration with this trippy Hanna-Barbera anti-drug PSA, best enjoyed after a delicious bowl of psilocybin-and-MDMA cobbler. [Attack of the Show] · Wesley Snipes' Totally Fucking Insane Tax-Avoidance Trial of the Century yields…
Happy Birthday
Hope mama got you something nice: Ms. Katherine E. Shaffer, better known as Bee, turns 21 today. Billionaire financier Leon Black is 57. Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau is still going strong at 89. Defense attorney Ron Kuby turns 52. The Public's artistic director, Oskar Eustis, is 50. The Office's B.J. Novak is 29.…
