April 14. Selena Roberts’ A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez is published by HarperCollins. Countless rumors of the salacious details found within — steroids might be the least of A-Rod’s problems — have been making the rounds for months now. (Clearly, A-Rod is worried — he accused Roberts of “stalking” him during an interview with ESPN. He later apologized.) Eventually, A-Rod will have to release a statement about the book, but it won’t be in the locker room with his teammates, which will be a relief to everyone.

April 16. The first game at the new Yankee Stadium. (Oddly, it’s a day game.) The festivities will start early that morning, with the pomp, the circumstance, the Steinbrenner, the Yogi Berra. It’ll be an epic, historic day in the life of an epic, historic franchise … and Alex Rodriguez will not be there. They’ll sell commemorative coffee-table books about the first game in the new stadium. A-Rod won’t be in them. And there will be no boos.

April 24. The Yankees play their first series of the season at Fenway Park. The Red Sox and their fans were this close to being stuck with A-Rod years ago, before the Yankees “swiped” him, and since then, the fortunes of the two franchises have reversed themselves. Booing A-Rod is popular everywhere, but no one’s better at it than Fenway faithful. It’s unlikely they’ll work themselves into as much of a lather for Cody Ransom.

So, A-Rod will miss the least important month of baseball, a time when he would have been an endless distraction to a team already fed up with him. It couldn’t have worked out better. Are we sure his labrum is actually injured?

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Filed Under: alex rodriguez, baseball, sports, the sports section, yankees

Killing Us Softly With That Song: The L Word Series Finale!

The last episode EVER of The L Word! What do we want? Denouement, bitches! When will we get it? Uh … never.

We knew there was no way things would be tied up by the series finale, but we weren't quite prepared for how much would be left hanging. It could have been worse: they could have run us through a flash-forward of every character's life, complete with awful aging makeup, like they did on Six Feet Under. Or, they could have thrown everyone in jail, like they did on Seinfeld. (Hey, wait a minute…)

But like most of the six seasons of The L Word, too much was not enough.

What we do get in this episode, titled "Last Word," because we don't get anything about Jenny's killer: Bette and Tina prepare to move to New York City to begin a new life without the Planet and palm trees. Jenny creates a "tribute" video to the couple, stitching together random characters from years past to say their farewells (well hello again, Carmen). And yeah, Jenny dies somehow at the goodbye party. Then, the gang's brought down to the station house for questioning.

Everybody has a reason to kill Jenny — even, it seems, the yikesy contractor who didn't finish the railing on the upstairs porch. Shane discovers both the undelivered letter from Molly and the lost Lez Girls negatives hidden in Jenny's secret attic. Shane and Tina: Pissed. Bette finds out about Jenny's purported evidence showing her getting down with Kelly. Bette: Pissed. Helena learns that Jenny leaked the details of the Nikki Stevens stakeout to Dylan before it happened, so the test wasn't accurate. Helena: Pissed. Everyone's pissed, but then again, everyone's seemingly too entranced by this goodbye video to notice that Jenny has gone missing (we'll say it again: Hello, Carmen).

The whole thing is fucked from the get-go. In the scenario laid out before us, Bette and Tina are the heart of The L Word and this video is some sort of wake for both them and the show itself. But really, Chaiken and Co. had it right in their fist: Jenny Schecter is The L Word, and the death of her is the death of the show.

Like Jenny, The L Word was, at any given moment, capricious, obnoxious, patronizing, fabulous, fun, sexy, non sequitur, over-reaching, under-reaching, annoying and yes, unforgettable. Not one other character besides Jenny embodied the whole character of the show.

As cliché as it may sound, it would have made a much better ending had the last episode been Jenny's funeral and the tributes made to her, rather than Bette and Tina. Then, this groundbreaking show would have had its proper send-off.

What did the finale get right? Instead of playing that dastardly theme song at the top of the show, they tack a Latin-Klezmerish instrumental version of it to the end as The L Word ladies walk slo-mo, all David LaChapelle-like gorgeous, heading toward the camera as if taking a bow. And you know what? It sounded okay just then.

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Filed Under: overnights, the l word, tv

Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza on Their New Plans to Publish ‘Intelligent Writing About Stupid Topics’

Neil Strauss, author of The Game and approved biographer of Jenna Jameson, Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, and Dave Navarro, has paired off with fellow rock-star puffer Anthony Bozza (Eminem, Slash, Tommy Lee) to found Igniter, part of HarperCollins' new imprint for the kids, It Books. Given the duo's pedigree, it's not surprising that Bozza uses a music-business analogy to describe the alliance: "It's kind of like an indie record label that has distribution through a major label. We're not employees of Harper. We're not in the building."

The duo have already picked three of their outside-the-box projects (they plan to start with four). First they signed the late Larry Harmon's autobiography, The World According to Bozo the Clown. It may not be the most auspicious debut — "our first author died on us, which put a crimp in our plans," says Strauss. But they're moving forward with it. Then there's the tale of a woman, brought up as a traditional Muslim, who became "the most depraved rock groupie you've ever seen," Strauss says. "She enjoys pushing bands to extremes, like 'Whoa, that's too much for us!'" Also slated is the memoir of a mobster with the timely motto, "We don't kill you anymore, we kill your credit."

What's the governing philosophy? "My thought is two words: be interesting," says Strauss. "We're dealing with [readers] who think a four-minute YouTube video is painfully long. That's not even a chapter. And we're dealing with an industry that has a certain sense of what should and shouldn't be a book, and that sometimes shoots itself in its own foot."

He and Bozza may have a few tell-alls under their belt, but they're after different game. Strauss recently took a meeting with someone "in the news a lot," who said he'd have no problem revealing the unsavory bits of his past — like the fact that he'd hit and killed a pedestrian with a bus. "There was no emotion, there was no remorse, it was just a guy willing to exploit his life to sell a book," says Strauss. "Celebrities are doing just fine on their own," he says. "But who does need us is this woman who's got an amazing piece of writing, and a story that any editor who's seen it is revolted by it. They can't stop talking about it, but they won't publish it."

Like the very athletic groupie. "A lot of publishers feel pretty okay putting out novels like that or [fiction that is] even more revolting," says Bozza. "I think there's something about the fact that it's true that was an issue. Which I never got." Strauss says he tries to edify members of his mailing list by recommending books like Ulysses, Pale Fire, and As I Lay Dying. But he doesn't buy the whole highbrow-lowbrow thing. "I worked for the New York Times," he reminds us. "I've thought about low-culture versus high-culture obligations. People I find that are interesting live in both those worlds. I just think that's where the world is now. Intelligent writing about stupid topics can be a good thing."

Related: HarperCollins Launches ‘Escapist’ Imprint, Aided by Neil Strauss

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Filed Under: anthony bozza, books, light reading, neil strauss, publishing, the game

Fug Girls: Keep Homeless Celebrity Chic Off the Runways

After the largely dark, recession-tinged array of clothes shown during New York Fashion Week, we've been eager to bask in the dramatic, fanciful quirk of Milan's collections — the searing-hot pinks at Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci's polka dots, and the baguette hats and handlebar-mustache dress that only Agatha Ruiz de la Prada could hallucinate. So it dismayed us to discover that the Dsquared2 collection — the same boys currently putting the touring Britney Spears in headdresses and feathered epaulets — looked more like a Walk of Shame than a runway show. Is it possible that the pervasive, sloppy-starlet style we’re most accustomed to seeing in Us Weekly’s "Stars: They’re Just Like Us" section ("They look hung-over!”) actually is crossing over to the catwalks?

For years, we've been baffled by otherwise adorable actresses embracing their inner slobs. Homeless chic made for a brilliant parody in Zoolander, but that movie also theorized that you could brainwash someone into committing murder by playing "Frankie Goes to Hollywood." It was never meant to be taken seriously. When the satire became celebrity street attire, we threw up our hands — and on occasion, our lunches. An untidy aesthetic can be excused when you’re popping out for some groceries, and sometimes, the unpolished thing can be very sexy. But there’s carelessly cute, and then there’s looking like it's been laundry day for the past eighteen months: Mary-Kate famously pioneered ripped hose paired with mountains of heavy layers (and $2,500 shoes). Lindsay Lohan spent the last two years in leggings and unwashed-looking concert tees. And despite Blair Waldorf’s testimony that tights are not pants, Mischa Barton actually did treat a mangy old pair of brown hosiery as if they were real trousers. Grunge was one thing; what these girls did seemed more like grime.

Which is why it’s alarming to see the ensembles celebrities wear for morning-after coffee runs actually appear, in some form, on the allegedly sophisticated European catwalks — in Dsquared2's case, complete with real Starbucks cups, in case the point had not been made finely enough. It felt like a derivative cocktail of Olsen, Barton, and Nicole Richie, with a dash of Miss Sixty and an assist from Katie Holmes's pegged boyfriend jeans.

We hope this is merely an artistic statement on how our collective economic woes may make us all a tiny bit less self-obsessed. Because if Mary-Kate Olsen's castoffs are hot for fall, then by spring 2010, there may be nowhere left to go but Pam Anderson–style track pants, tank tops, and Ugg boots. At a time when we're seriously considering stuffing all our money under a floorboard, fashion should be our escape. Who wants to bankrupt herself in order to look ….well, bankrupt?

For more of the Fug Girls, check out Go Fug Yourself.

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Filed Under: dsquared2, fug girls, katie holmes, lindsay lohan, mary-kate olsen, milan fashion week, mischa barton, new york fugging city

Smith: How Bloomberg Could Finally Build Moynihan Station

Somewhere, there’s a cornerstone for Moynihan Station. I’m not reaching for a metaphor: There is literally a hunk of marble, engraved with the names of politicians, ready to go. It was carved back in 2000 in anticipation of a ceremony declaring the start of construction to transform the grand old Farley post office on Eighth Avenue into a railroad showpiece called Moynihan Station in honor of the New York senator who’d had the brilliant idea in 1992. The ceremony never took place, of course; the station has never been built; thousands of people are instead still condemned to commute through cruddy Penn Station.

But here’s the metaphor, or the bad joke, that epitomizes the entire ridiculous, complicated saga: The cornerstone is lost. No one knows where it is.

It would be wildly premature to hire another stonecutter, but there is new hope that Moynihan Station will get underway. Senator Chuck Schumer, with the help of the recession, has reframed the project along its original lines: Creating a new transportation hub instead of redeveloping a vast stretch of Midtown West all at once by moving Madison Square Garden to Ninth Avenue, as private developers Vornado and Related Companies intended to do when they won bidding rights four years ago. “Vornado and Related can’t get financing for the larger project right now, and they don’t know where they’re putting the buildings,” a government official says. “Dealing with trying to move Madison Square Garden is an intractable mess, and ESDC [New York State’s development agency] is not capable of running such a project. So this simplifies things by putting the Port Authority in charge and making transportation the central part of the project again.”

Schumer has also come up with a plan to use $100 million in federal stimulus money to jump-start the project. The money helps (though only a little, with construction costs estimated to be more than $1 billion), but money has always been only a part of the puzzle. The project has a surplus of competing stakeholders — the city, the state, New Jersey, the private developers, the Postal Service, Amtrak, and for a while, Madison Square Garden, until the Dolans decided to stay put and renovate — but it has never had a leader with the power and focus to push everyone forward. Schumer needs to follow through by wrangling federal funding and beating the drum for a deal, but he wasn’t nominating himself for Moynihan Station czar. He has a few other things going on in Washington. Which means that the next move is up to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The mayor played a pivotal role in ending the paralysis at another state-owned city site: the World Trade Center. After four years of frustration at the lack of action, Bloomberg helped end the stalemate by raising $350 million for the September 11 memorial and leveraging city bonds. Those tools don’t exist at Moynihan Station, and Bloomberg smartly avoids getting involved in issues where he can’t exert substantial control; he also has daunting budget problems of his own. “We’re very supportive of Senator Schumer’s idea, and $100 million is a great start,” a City Hall official says, warily. “But it’s still a complicated and expensive project, and the devil is in the details of how the other pieces would come together.”

So Moynihan Station would be tougher, in some ways, than the World Trade Center. There are plenty of rational reasons for it to stay stalled. Yet Bloomberg is the one person who could put the political dominoes in motion. David Paterson is hapless at economic development, and Jon Corzine doesn’t see enough benefit to New Jersey, so the governors — and the Port Authority they control, which would operate the new station — aren’t likely to act until Bloomberg and the city are aggressively behind the project. Amtrak, which would move from Penn to Moynihan, won’t commit until all three elected officials are onboard. “Amtrak is the trickiest part,” one Moynihan negotiation veteran says. “If it sees even a crack of daylight between the mayor, the governors, and the Port Authority, they’ll drive an Acela right through it and kill this chance.”

Fortunately, Bloomberg is a man who thinks big. The mayor has repeatedly proven his desire to push megaprojects — though he's been frustrated by the failure of some of the mega-est, including the West Side Stadium and Atlantic Yards. Here's his chance to push a project both huge and with indisputable merit to the public at large, while at the same time serving his own self-interest. Because even though Moynihan Station is legally the property of New York State, emotionally it’s owned by the city. If this thing finally happens, Schumer’s name should be in large letters on the new cornerstone. But Bloomberg would get credit from the city’s voters this fall, and he’d be on the fast track to a third-term legacy.

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Filed Under: charles schumer, early and often, mayor bloomberg, moynihan station, politics

Your Best of New York: The Results

A while back, in anticipation of our "Best of New York" issue, we asked you to tell us what your personal favorites were. We asked for your recommendations for best bar, pizza, clothing shop, burger, bagel, bakery, and place to take an out-of-town guest, and you responded in droves. Here are the results.

Best Pizza:
1. Joe's Pizza
2. Patsy's
3. Artichoke and Di Fara (tied)

Best Place to Take an Out-of-Town Guest:
1. Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park (tied)
2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
3. Museum of Natural History, Boat Basin, The Box, Pianos, the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights

Best Bar:
1. Rose Bar and Employees Only (tied)
2. Angel's Share, Lit, PDT, Botanica, Little Branch (tied)

Best Clothing Shop:
1. Loehmann's and Century 21 (tied)
2. Bergdorf Goodman
3. Intermix, What Goes Around Comes Around, Tokio 7 (tied)

Best Burger:
1. Shake Shack
2. JG Melon
3. The Burger Joint

Best Bagel:
1. Ess-A-Bagel
2. H&H
3. Russ & Daughters

Best Bakery:
1. Patisserie Claude
2. Almondine, Buttercup, Ciao for Now

Earlier: What's Your Best of New York?

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Filed Under: best of new york, intel

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Filed Under: brussels, buttons, china, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, debt, egypt, empress michiko, empress tk, fine dining, gaza, Hillary Clinton, human rights, indonesia, japan, love, robots, russia, Secretary of Awesome, seoul, slum, south korea, tea

Source: Daily Intel | 9 Mar 2009 | 2:19 am

Behold, Doctor Manhattan’s Wang!

Believe it or not, some unflappable movie pirate this weekend was able to get a shot of Doctor Manhattan's "massive and uncircumcised" penis in Watchmen without dropping his camcorder. After the jump, see the full, uncensored picture of Billy Crudup's blue, computer-generated wang. NSFW, obviously!

Earlier: Dr. Manhattan’s ‘Giant Blue Wiener’ Gets ‘Glowing’ Reviews
25 Things Zack Snyder Actually Got Right in Watchmen
Outrage: Watchmen Movie’s Doctor Manhattan to Have Large Penis

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Filed Under: alan moore, doctor manhattan, movies, wangs, watchmen

Source: Vulture | 9 Mar 2009 | 2:15 am

The Bachelor's Castoff Rebounding on DWTS?

She didn't win the guy, but The Bachelor's Melissa Rycroft might be in line to win the coveted disco ball trophy. A source has confirmed to E! News that Rycroft, 25, who...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 9 Mar 2009 | 2:15 am

SAG, majors inch toward compromise

Front Page: Leaders explore ways to end stalemate -- Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have signaled they’re exploring ways to end the stalemate with the congloms over the guild’s feature-primetime deal.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 9 Mar 2009 | 2:00 am

Madam Kristin Davis on the Anniversary Eve of Spitzer’s Downfall

March 13 marks the one-year anniversary of Eliot Spitzer's prostitution-prompted resignation; today, he says he's glad to be much more focused on his family. We spoke to Kristin Davis, the Manhattan madam who once called Spitzer a client.

"Eliot Spitzer was a client of ours for years. By and large, he liked slender but busty girls; he preferred a collegiate with a C cup. He used us consistently in 2005 and 2006, a couple times a week. If he was with someone he really liked, he would see her until that relationship would end, and he would move onto somebody else. He was a very good regular client, but there were many complaints. The girls referred to him as aggressive and pushy. I blacklisted Spitzer in 2006. He found us again in 2007.

"Spitzer came to our apartments or the girl's apartment. For special clients like him, depending on my mood at the time, I would let them use a converted room in my apartment. Spitzer once said, 'Don't you have any place nicer? More private?' So I let him come to my apartment many times. Sometimes I was in my bedroom next door while he was with a girl. Spitzer would come out afterwards and say good-bye; we'd talk.

"He was usually never with a girl for more than three hours. He was one of the clients that I based more on girl quality than what he could pay. He used us so much he was very aware of how the agency worked. We were both very up-front; he'd tell me, 'look, this is what I want.' We charged him at least $800 per hour, on average $1,100. He was always picky. And more when he used my apartment — we would up his price here and there as an inconvenience fee to me.

"I interviewed Ashley Dupré once, but I didn't hire her. I had a girl that looked very similar to her, and I didn't want to take away the business from that girl. And Ashley wanted to go out with a much higher rate than I could get for her at that time."

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Filed Under: eliot spitzer, kristin davis, the passage of things

Source: Daily Intel | 9 Mar 2009 | 1:50 am

Gothic excess and purist chic on Paris catwalks (AP)

AP - Gothic excess and understated, masterful simplicity were both on display on Day Five of the Paris fall 2009-winter 2010 ready-to-wear shows.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 9 Mar 2009 | 1:15 am

Watchmen's Weekend: $55.7 Million Worth of Unanswered Questions

So, when an R-rated comic book movie that runs more than two-and-a-half hours and stars no stars, much less Batman or Spider-Man, opens with an estimated $55.7 million, that's good,...

(Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - A futurist princess landed in Karl Lagerfeld's show in Paris Sunday, March 8.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 8 Mar 2009 | 9:25 pm

Icahn circles Lionsgate

Front Page: Battle could be brewing for control over studio -- An all-out battle for control of Lionsgate appears to be brewing. Carl Icahn, who has rapidly boosted his stake in the company to 14.5% during the economic crisis, is in talks with the company that could see the activist investor end up with several seats on Lionsgate’s board.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 8:45 pm

Bono

Bono visits "Late Show with David Letterman" at the Ed Sullivan Theater on March 2, 2009 in New York City. Veteran Irish rock group U2 went straight to the top of Britain's album chart with "No Line On...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 8 Mar 2009 | 8:10 pm

Fetish dresses, fur collars defy crisis in Paris (Reuters)

Reuters - Models in black fetish dresses showered banknotes over the catwalk at Jean-Paul Gaultier, while Christian Lacroix opted for baroque gold dresses and big fur collars as Paris fashion dared to be decadent.
Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 8 Mar 2009 | 8:08 pm

'Burn Notice' finale tops cable ratings

Front Page: USA spy thriller hits series high -- USA Network spy thriller "Burn Notice" is now the hottest show on cable. The skein finished its second season Thursday with two series highs: 6.1 million total viewers and 2.7 million adults 18-49.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 7:14 pm

'Watchmen' takes box office lead

After all the anticipation and hubbub, the weekend is coming to an end and the box office results are here: "Watchmen" (No. 1) grossed $55.7 million during its first frame, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.

Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 8 Mar 2009 | 7:06 pm

'Terminator' producers in legal battle

Front Page: Moritz Borman sues Halcyon duo for fraud -- A lawsuit has been filed over the "shady" background of two "Terminator: Salvation" producers.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 6:57 pm

'View' ratings riding high

Front Page: Show enjoys most-watched season yet -- Last year's presidential election was a boon for cable news networks, but it also proved to be quite a windfall for daytime's hottest show -- "The View." Talker is enjoying easily its most-watched season to date: Its average aud of 4.2 million viewers is well ahead of last year's 3.5 million.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 6:46 pm

Rihanna "Easing Back" Into New Music

While Chris Brown is spending late nights in the recording studio, girlfriend Rihanna is also focusing on new music, one month after being brutally attacked by her longtime love. Her...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 6:30 pm

'Watchmen' tops at foreign box office

Front Page: Comicbook pic takes in $27.5 million overseas -- "Watchmen" dominated the foreign box office with a respectable rather than blockbuster opening weekend of $27.5 million at 5,097 in 45 territories -- less than half the domestic launch.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 6:22 pm

President Obama Rocks Out on SNL

You wouldn't like him when he's angry...or maybe you would. Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, offered up a nifty Barack Obama impersonation on Saturday Night Live this weekend. In a...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 5:15 pm

Haider Ackermann: Mad Mode (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - Paris runways are full of disturbed women this season. Haider Ackermann opened with mad mode in a sensationally well cut and composed collection Saturday, March 7.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 8 Mar 2009 | 5:10 pm

Dora the Explorer Gets a Makeover

New Mature Look Has Some Parents Up in Arms
Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 8 Mar 2009 | 4:47 pm

Britney Not Clowning Around With Donation

Britney Spears knows everybody loves a circus.  The 27-year-old pop star, who's currently on her Circus world tour, is donating $100,000 to the Miami Children's...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 4:30 pm

Loewe: Overloaded Leather Luxury (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - This weekend's big catwalk debut was Stuart Vevers Cafe Society fall 2009 collection for Loewe, staged in a somewhat eccentric triple header in a cut stone hall of academia near the Odeon in Paris Saturday, March 7.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:46 pm

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman Split - Again

An unnamed source told People the 41-year-old Kimmel and 38-year-old Silverman split several months after rekindling their romance.

Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:40 pm

Chris Brown Back at Work in Los Angeles

Here's one recording Chris Brown won't mind sharing with the public. E! News has learned that Brown is hard at work on a new album while in Los Angeles.  The...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:30 pm

"This Woman Is Nuts": Octomom Births 2nd Ex-Flack

They say any publicity is good publicity. But at this point, Octomom Nadya Suleman may be thinking any publicist is a good publicist. That's because she just had a second one quit on her,...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:30 pm

Kardashians: Which Sister Wants a Baby?

Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian say they rented a chimpanzee for a week on the third season of Keeping up with the Kardashians (debuting this Sunday) because mom Kris has babies on the brain....

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:25 pm

Cast set for Chris Rock's 'Funeral'

Front Page: Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan to star -- Screen Gems and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment have assembled their cast for the Chris Rock starrer “Death at a Funeral,” with Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan signing on to star alongside Rock in the Neil LaBute-directed comedy.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:22 pm

What Up With Crudup's Superhero With Zero...Clothes?

Shades of Dirk Diggler, Billy Crudup goes prosthetic for his full-frontal star turn in The Watchmen. OK, the box office wasn't quite as large as hoped, and Crudup's sidestepping another...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 8 Mar 2009 | 3:00 pm

'Watchmen' on top with $55.7 million

Front Page: Zack Snyder's superhero pic wins box office -- Warner Bros.' edgy superhero pic "Watchmen" grossed an estimated $55.7 million from 3,611 theaters in its domestic B.O. debut, coming in lower than expected but still scoring the best opening of the year and one of the best showings ever for an R-rated film.

Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 8 Mar 2009 | 2:03 pm

Kate Snow Hangs With U2

"GMA Weekend" anchor dishes on interview with boys from Dublin.
Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 8 Mar 2009 | 1:38 pm

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