AP - U2 shut down the center of a small city, and riled up a core of rabid fans when it gave a private concert in a venue a fraction of the size of the stadiums the band plans to fill later this summer. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Mar 2009 | 11:51 am
The sour notes of job losses are being heard at the Philadelphia Orchestra. The orchestra let 12 staff members go Wednesday. Six positions will go unfilled, reducing administrative staff Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 12 Mar 2009 | 10:46 am
Reuters - Time Warner Inc's AOL said on Thursday it is closing a research unit in China, shedding 56 jobs as part of global cost cutting measures. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Mar 2009 | 10:43 am
Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer may have called it quits.
That's the rumor I'm hearing. A source says that the pair's on-again, off-again relationship may have ended when...
Someone always has to go first.
Though usually not after being cast off for good by Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson.
The big American Idol twist...
If you're shocked that Anoop Desai didn't get the ol' heave ho on tonight's American Idol elimination, don't be. He's got something on his side: the admiration of young...
(E! Online)
E! Online - Scarlett Johansson is joining the superhero set.
Women of 90210, you best hold on to your men!
Shannen Doherty herself just spilled to us that her man-stealing character Brenda Walsh will be coming back to America's most famous...
Team Twilight is ready to ratchet up the fright factor.
Juan Antonio Bayona, a protégé of Guillermo del Toro who's best known for the stylish Spanish-language scarefest The...
Scarlett Johansson is joining the superhero set.
Her rep confirms that the actress has signed on to play Black Widow in the Iron Man sequel opposite Robert Downey Jr. The deal was...
The actor lashed out at the tabloid Wednesday over its latest...
Front Page: Joins Clooney to move guild towards resolution -- Tom Hanks has gotten involved in SAG's stalled contract negotiations, joining George Clooney in informal talks on behalf of the Screen Actors Guild.
Singer Chris Brown, facing charges of domestic violence against his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, has withdrawn his nominations for two Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, a spokesman said.
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are both single parents now.
The young couple, who welcomed son Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston two months ago, have gone their separate...
The last we heard, Oscar runner-up Mickey Rourke had balked at Marvel's lowball offer of $250,000, making his appearance as the bad guy in next year's Iron Man sequel unlikely ("Right now, we're not doing Iron Man 2," he told us in February). But now, Vulture buddy Nikki Finke reports that he's made the deal and is locked in to play a "Russian villain" in next year's sequel. Finke says we shouldn't expect Marvel to confirm until contracts have been signed, but that Rourke is in Russia right now promoting The Wrestler and he'll "start researching his new role immediately," which we can only imagine entails ram-jamming vodka drinks until he rolls his R's. Congratulations, Mickey — you've earned it!
Brooklyn-based designers Toni Hacker and Ben Harnett, a.k.a. Hayden-Harnett, unveiled their second stand-alone boutique last weekend: a pretty, 450-square-foot Nolita storefront filled with pick-me-up prints and the scent of leather. Apart from the label's signature bags, the shop is stocked with the duo's women's and shoe lines, outerwear, swimwear, as well as jewelry, and gifts, all artistically displayed on built-in racks and pristine white shelves. Spring apparel is feminine and offbeat: pale-pink jumpsuits, retro, high-waisted swimwear, and an array of breezy silk dresses accented by ruffles or braided sashes. Back shelves are reserved for the label's new range of shoes — cork wedges, studded sandals, and flashy color-block pumps are standouts — as well as impulse buys like Kobo scented soy candles (Portugese Olive, anyone?), luggage tags, clip-on bag tassels, and letterpress cards. Check out a few of our favorite items.
Hayden-Harnett, 253 Elizabeth St., nr. Houston St.; 212-334-2247
Tagline: "You shamed me. Soon it will be you who comes begging to me."
Translation: There's a very good chance that this could become the official movie of the Downturnaround.
The Verdict: Finally! After enduring what seems like years of icky torture porn, creatively bankrupt slasher films, and tired J-horror retreads, horror-movie enthusiasts will finally be treated to a good old-fashioned "scary curse" movie. Sam Raimi wrote and directed this project, marking the first time he has stepped behind the camera to helm a feature that didn't have the word "Spider-Man" in its title since the year 2000. Originally set to star Ellen Page, Alison Lohman stepped onto the project when Page got cold feet after her run at Oscar glory last winter. The plot looks to be very much of the zeitgeist, as Lohman portrays a young bank employee who finds herself on the receiving end of an ancient curse after her boss forces her to deny a thoroughly creepy old woman's request for a mortgage-payment extension. As geeked as we are to see this when it gets released in late May, we're even more excited for its inevitable sequel: Drag Bernie Madoff to Hell.
Fashion Wire Daily - If you thought that deconstructed fashion was radical then take a look at the latest fall 2009 collection from Alexander McQueen, where every look contained some piece of detritus from our contemporary civilization.
Andrew Cuomo filed another appeal seeking the release of the names of Merrill Lynch’s top earners last year, and the court filing contains transcripts of the depositions John Thain, Ken Lewis, and other executives gave to his office recently. Honestly, we're a little disappointed. Whatever nipple clamps they were using in the Bonus Buster's office must not be up to snuff, because the actual testimony is not that exciting. We learn about the early days of Merrill and Bank of America's relationship from when John Thain and Ken Lewis met during the Lehman debacle (Thain went over to Bank of America's apartment in the Time Warner Center, Ken Lewis made some untoward advances, Thain said "I don't want to see the company!" because he is not that kind of girl, but then one thing led to another and suddenly he was that kind of girl, etc.) to their unceremonious parting of ways. What is interesting, The Wall Street Journal tells us (because we didn't go through the whole 200-page thing ourselves), is that while a Merrill Lynch lawyer told Congress that "incentive compensation decisions for 2008 [had] not yet been made" in November, testimony from the head of Merrill's compensation committee indicates that actually, Merrill had voted to accelerate the bonus payments to December from January two weeks before that. So now Cuomo has the evidence he needs to call them liars. Score one for the Bonus Buster! Finally.
Front Page: Media wary of possible WMA-Endeavor pact -- The media has turned the William Morris-Endeavor merger talks into a parlor game filled with rampant speculation and few hard facts.
Braden Keil, the Post's longtime real-estate columnist, passed away last night after a battle with skin cancer, which he wrote movingly about for the paper. He was 53 years old and leaves behind a wife, Jennifer Gould Keil, who helped him write his last column, and three children. "He was able to write about real estate in a way that made it exciting for everybody, whether you could afford the real estate he was writing about or not," writer Steven Gaines, the author of The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan, told the Real Deal. "There was nobody in the business like him. He's irreplaceable."
Erin Wasson: “I get approached for a lot of TV projects. And I sit in a room with these people and I say ‘You guys realize you’re talking to the wrong girl?’ I’m not your cheesy girl that’s going to dress up in a hokey outfit and say all the sound bites that you want me to say. That’s just not who I am. I’m a total odd bird. I collect prison art and paper mache [sic] masks. I keep a journal and rip pages out of books. I think that when you open your mind, you realize there’s art everywhere, there’s art all around us. That’s what keeps the wheels in motion. To create is my ultimate goal. So why would I ever sell out?” [Daily Beast]
Nothing like a bunch of grade-school caliber rumors to put a grown woman on the defensive.
Chris Brown's manager, Tina Davis, who was rumored to be the woman whose text message...
Today we realized that the band Hollywood Undead existed, after reading about them in the New York Post. Curiosity piqued — fascinatingly, these six young, fun-loving nihilists, camped out on the Billboard charts for weeks, constitute the vanguard of the deathless genre known as rap-rock — we went to YouTube, typed H-O-L into the search and let auto-fill do its work, and found ourselves pleasantly immersed in echoes of late Weezer, Eminem, Insane Clown Posse, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Bloodhound Gang, Kid Rock, Crazy Town, and other bands we’ll freely admit to enjoying in various doses at various times. Check out this video for “No. 5” and see if it doesn’t put a grin on your face.
Britney Spears isn't confining her comeback to the stage. The "Gimme More" purveyor is at work on her personal life, too.
E! News has learned that Spears, 27, has been...
Today had a small amount of big bad news in the media world. Another upscale men's title has folded, and an urban newspaper's staff has begun to see the writing on the wall.
• The Miami Herald plans to cut 19 percent of its workforce and trim the salaries of remaining workers — just in time for spring break. Woot woot! [Romenesko]
• Best Life magazine has no life left to give, and the May issue will be its last. Even the sexy coverboys like Anderson Cooper and Jay-Z couldn’t boost sales enough to save it. [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
• Everyone at the Seattle P-I was unofficially fired. Employees were told it will all be over sometime between March 18 and April 1. [Reuters via HuffPo]
POINTLESS BATMAN 3 INTERNET RUMOR OF THE DAY: Sam Worthington may replace Christian Bale as Batman in the next film. I believe I'm not alone in believing that this would be f***ing amateur. (MTV Movies Blog)
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION: Is there anything more doubly tragic than Sesame Street laying off 20% of its workforce? Maybe if the laid off employees all went home and told their kids Snuffy wasn't real. (Variety)
LICENSE TO WED: Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams got married in a secret ceremony over the weekend. Guess Adams was trying to avoid going through the whole tedious 'Robin Williams preacher obstacle course,' or whatever happened in that movie. (Rolling Stone)
GIANT A-HOLE DOG: Yay, the Marmaduke Explained blog is updating again! And sitting on the internet all day improves by exactly one minute! (Marmaduke Explained)
This is what the inside of a Hot Topic store looks like. May you know it only as this image.
This welcome break from never-ending economic doom and gloom is brought to you by Twilight, the movie responsible for boosting Hot Topic's sales 11.4 percent in the third quarter. What? Yes. Twilight merchandise has saved Hot Topic from bloody retail death in the economic downturn. Just look at the numbers:
The mall-based retailer’s comparable-store sales were negative from the second quarter of 2005 until October 2008. They have risen each month since then, increasing 6.5 percent in November, 4.3 percent in December, 6 percent in January and 10.8 percent last month.
The movie came out November 21, which means Hot Topic cashed in on the prerelease hype, a period of time we never will understand or miss. Even though sales have been increasing month to month, Hot Topic is anticipating the day they start to flag as the popularity of Twilight merchandise fades. Chief executive officer Betsy McLaughlin says this is inevitable and she's "not sure there will be a next ‘Twilight.'" Except she's totally wrong, because there will be a next Twilight — you know, a sequel — and there's nothing any of us can do to stop it. So rather than waste time coming up with complicated music-driven sales strategies that are doomed to fail, why not just hype the sequel and then the next sequel and the next sequel and never let it die? Pretty soon we bloggers might forget about the Perez Hilton Hot Topic line, otherwise known as the most embarrassing fauxlebrity-clothing-line launch in the history of clothing lines. Now, it would amuse us greatly if you Hot Topic execs would put on your Twilight T-shirts and go running through Saks popping bottles of Dom and screaming, with hundred-dollar bills flapping out of your pockets.
Today at a conference at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon bemoaned the recent "vilification of corporate America."
"I personally don’t understand it,” Dimon said in his speech. “I would ask a lot of our folks in government to stop doing it because I think it’s hurting our country.”
Maybe it's because of Jamie's boyish good looks, but this statement inspires in us the exact kind of irritation we've had in the past, when a boyfriend of ours does something dicky and expects to be forgiven immediately. On the one hand, he's right: Holding grudges helps no one. On the other hand, Jamie and his friends did something really, really bad, and we're allowed to be pissed off about it for a little while, and if we want to make them explain it over and over again and slam some doors and otherwise express ourselves, then it's our right and Jamie needs to quit being a baby and suck it up. Maybe buy us some flowers for once, and most of all, stop acting like dicks. We'll eventually forgive them, when the time is right, though we may never forget.
The media bloodbath hasn’t made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York, you could practically hear the collective gasp echoing in the hallowed halls uptown. CUNY? Since when does CUNY trump Columbia? Well, since digital journalism became the single ray of hope on an otherwise dark media horizon, and Columbia’s vaunted ability to train students as print reporters began to appear obsolete. And so the school is trying to change. Fast.
Beginning in August, Columbia will offer a revamped, digitally focused curriculum designed to make all students as capable of creating an interactive graphic as they are of pounding out 600 words on a community-board meeting. The force behind the change is former WSJ.com managing editor Bill Grueskin, the school’s new dean of academic affairs. “We’ve gotten pretty good at teaching the skills,” he says of Columbia’s new media chops, “but in terms of understanding the integration of those skills into the creation and distribution of journalism, I don’t think we’re where we need to be right now.”
Grueskin wants to make multimedia skills and storytelling mandatory via the school’s core course, RW1, shorthand for “Reporting and Writing 1,” which has, since its inception in the early seventies, stuck to very traditional lessons in beat reporting and on-deadline news writing. Though RW1 has undergone upgrades such as a class website, Grueskin wants a more significant shift. "Where the transition needs to go is from a skill set to a mindset," he explains, citing a live blog of a news event, followed by a slideshow, followed by a longer story a week later as an example of new media practices.
But the push for modernization has also raised the ire of some professors, particularly those closely tied to Columbia’s crown jewel, RW1. “Fuck new media,” the coordinator of the RW1 program, Ari Goldman, said to his RW1 students on their first day of class, according to one student. Goldman, a former Times reporter and sixteen-year veteran RW1 professor, described new-media training as “playing with toys,” according to another student, and characterized the digital movement as “an experimentation in gadgetry.”
Goldman’s official take on the situation is considerably more measured, and he insists he is not against new media. “They need to know the ethics and history and practice of journalism before they become consumed with the mold they put it in, because the mold will change — the basics won't,” he says, explaining his outburst.
But Goldman's concerns are not isolated. “We have, clearly, two camps: the new school and the old school,” says Duy Linh Tu, the coordinator of the new-media program and Grueskin’s right-hand man.
Part of the problem is the perception that the situation is a “a zero-sum game,” as one person put it, where adding lessons in video production or law for bloggers will dilute or displace the school’s long-heralded focus on journalism’s core precepts: concise prose, ethical reporting, and sophisticated editorial sensibilities. “There’s this big, huge, fundamental issue: How much of the skills do you teach?” says journalism school dean Nicholas Lemann. “You can go to the Learning Annex and take a Flash course. I don’t think what we should do is be replicating courses you can take at the Learning Annex. But you have to have some familiarity, or you’re not able to execute a website.”
But the hurdles are practical as well as philosophical. Because many of the tenured professors haven’t worked in new media themselves, their classes require the addition of tech-savvy adjuncts, which has Lemann worried about “blowing out the budget.” The school has been trying to do away with this added expense by training the professors themselves, but this takes time Columbia doesn’t necessarily have, given the rapid implosion of the industry it serves.
The real issue, of course, isn’t whether the school can afford to change, but that it can’t afford not to. “There’s an argument about whether this is for the better or detriment of journalism,” says Tu. “I don’t get into that argument. This is the reality of journalism.”
The New Yorker’s not prone to offending our sensibilities (although we have been known to cock an eyebrow at an especially impertinent Anthony Lane pun now and again), so we were surprised to find a post to their Goings On blog about the planned Rihanna–Chris Brown collaboration that read, “There is no — repeat, no — truth to the rumor that their duet will be a remake of ‘He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)’” — and included video of Sunny and Cher performing “The Beat Goes On.” We’ve read New Yorker cartoons funnier than that. [Goings On/NYer]
After last week's announcement of ten concert dates at London's O2 Arena resulted in immediate sellouts, Michael Jackson has just scheduled seventeen more shows at the 20,000-seat venue. This puts him on the path to a possible $400 million payday, even though tickets for the gigs are priced at an astonishingly reasonable $70 and $105. Who says nice guys never win?
Last night at the premiere of The Great Buck Howard, we asked director Sean McGinley what it was like working with John Malkovich, who plays the has-been mentalist. Because he seems, well, kind of scary: “You know, the company that financed this film, they came to me about two weeks before we started filming and said watch out for Malkovich, he’s a badass, he will fuck you — I don’t know if I’m allowed to curse — he will really, you know, ride a director into the ground," he said. "And then he showed up and he was nice and cool and funny and sweet and I never had a single problem. Kind of disappointing; I almost wish that at some point he had really let me have it, but he never did.” Not yet, anyway.
For more gossip from the premiere (including Hanks-on-Hanks action!), check out our Party Lines slideshow.
MAKEUP
• Peter Philips on the makeup he did for Alexander McQueen: “We were inspired by clowns, divas and Pierrot, with a bit of Joan Crawford thrown in." Meanwhile, hairstylist Guido Palau taped sculptures made of spray-painted Coke cans to the models' heads, which were wrapped with stockings. [WWD]
• In France, L'Oréal sued eBay for selling counterfeit beauty products in 2007 but the ruling won't come today, as expected. The French legal system has so many cases it won't be able to rule on the case until next month. [WWD]
• While sitting front row at the Chanel show, Freida Pinto confirmed she will not be the next face of Estée Lauder, dismissing the talk as "a lovely rumor." [WWD]
HAIR
• Katie Holmes stepped out with long hair the other day, which was obviously fake, not to mention awkward. [Daily Mail]
• Mop Shots is a website that posts pictures of regular women with their new haircuts and shows the salon and stylist responsible. This sounds like a fabulous idea. [BellaSugar]
This week's issue of Harper's Bazaar proclaims you can look "Fabulous At Every Age", and to prove it, they even show a picture of supermodel Gisele Bundchen somehow looking not-ugly even though she's -- get this -- twenty-eight years old! Do you believe it???
Take it from Harper's, ladies - it's not all over when you hit your mid-twenties. You can look fabulous at twenty-six, twenty-seven, and maybe even twenty-nine if you play your cards right, especially if you're already a supermodel. Thanks Harper's! Source: Best Week Ever | 11 Mar 2009 | 9:35 pm
Vulture would like to pass along a hearty and heartfelt congratulations to the happy couple, a couple who have long disavowed that they were even a couple to begin with. We'll be honest, we're not sure exactly what to make of these two, but we are fairly confident that Ryan Adams will release at least two albums about the challenges of being a married musician by week's end. [US]
Front Page: Journo takes 'Road Trip' to report on economy -- Tom Brokaw has signed on for a multiplatform documentary project at NBC Universal that will feature the newsman filing dispatches on life during the recession as he undertakes a 10-month cross-country trip.
The Atlantic's Ross Douthat, who helms a popular and analytically sincere right-leaning blog for the magazine, has been tapped to write opinion for the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review reports. According to a memo from editorial-page editor Andy Rosenthal, "he will start out primarily online, but will soon be writing with increasing frequency, and then regularity, on the op-ed page, in the Monday slot opposite Paul." Douthat will start up full-time in mid-April, and "at some point, he’ll also resume his work as a blogger." Douthat's presence on the page will likely soothe irked liberals (and many moderates) who openly loathed the knee-jerk GOP rhetoric spouted by his predecessor, Bill Kristol. If you're looking for a reason to resent him, though, just note that he graduated from Harvard in 2002. Which makes him 30 years old, or under.
Update: The Times rubs it in in a story headlined, "A 29-Year-Old Joins Times Op-Ed Lineup": "Asked when The Times last had such a young columnist, Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, said, “I don’t think ever.”
Last week, Bono told Rolling Stone that U2 would be releasing a second album in 2009, specifically one named Songs of Ascent which would feature the lead single "Every Breaking Wave." Now, the Edge tells MTV that though they have "loads of material" leftover from No Line on the Horizon sessions, "it's hard to put a timetable" on when, or if, said album will hit stores: "Will it be released? We don't know," says Edge. [MTV]
John Galliano's show is about to walk in Paris. Here's a glimpse of the backstage action. The theme is Ukranian virgin brides with a dash of Greek soldier. Looks like we're in for more white face makeup, too. Don't forget to keep checking our Twitter feed for more live updates from Paris. [Twitter/Cutblog]
Pants might be over as we know it. Thigh-high boots emerged as the hot shoe for fall, landing so far up the leg they doubled as leg warmers. Is this designers' collective attempt to save the world from the pantless ladies everywhere (Lady Gaga and Lindsay Lohan)? Designers even tacked on a few bells and whistles to their boots: Hussein Chalayan added garter belts, Prada made rubber waders stylish, Antonio Berardi lined his in fur, and Stella McCartney's faux-leather leggings were actually boots that pulled up to the crotch. Even Vogue editor Lauren Santo Domingo was so enthralled by the "It" item that she created her own after designers rejected her plea for an early off-the-runway pair, and cameras caught her frolicking around Paris in her DIY boot legs. But are we ready to embrace the implications of this phenomenon? Pants as we know them are losing popularity. And with the surge of thigh-highs, rescuing them is even further from our reach. So grab your ThighMaster and dust it off now ... things are about to get leggy. To see all of the over-the-knee boots, click ahead for our slideshow.
From P-Diddy's Twitter: "It's official! at 12AM tonight PST i will be joining JayElectronica in a spiritual fast!!! No Food-just natural juices for 48 hrs. u wit me?" Wait, did you hear that thundering noise? We think that might have been the sound of Biggie actually rolling over in his grave. [I Am Diddy/Twitter]
Front Page: 4% ticket charge dropped from consideration -- Legiters can breathe a sigh of relief now that New York state leaders have announced that $1.3 billion in proposed tax increases will be dropped from consideration -- including a potential levy on live theater.
(Above, a Blingee made be BWE.tv intern Erin Winterbottom.)
Our love for American Idol's Adam Lambert knows no bounds. Some of you might question his singing ability... but you have to give it to the guy: He is entertaining. And it's not just his performing - photos from his personal life which leaked on the net last week prove that the guy is an all-around, man-on-man show stopper. And so, we are honoring him with his own Blingee Wednesday.
Ahead, we've posted some (some = a ton) of our favorite Adam Lambert photos. Grab one here or find your own, head over to Blingee.com, make him GLORIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL, and then post the link to your artwork in the comments. Then, we'll post our favorite ones here! GET TO WORK.
God bless Mad Men's long off-season and the person who first told Jon Hamm to try comedy. Next week may be his last-ever episode of 30 Rock, but now he's fallen in with Will Ferrell's Funny or Die crew, starring in this awesome video as Lex Luthor, wearing the world's worst bald wig and begging the Treasury for a bailout. Is a Don Draper–starring Judd Apatow movie now inevitable? And has he already started begging Matthew Weiner to let him try some slapstick in Mad Men's third season?
The unemployment rate is starting to creep into the double digits. Animals are revolting against us. No one seems to have any idea what is going to happen with the economy. What can we, the citizens, do about these things? Eh, nothing, really. The sense of empowerment we felt back in November has been basically crushed by recent events, and all we can do is embrace the apathy. But all is not lost! Comedian Michael Ian Black has made this actually fun with his Fuckitlist, which the Twitterati are currently going nuts over. Basically, a Fuckit list is the opposite of a Bucket List: a list of things you don't care about doing before you die instead of things you do want to do. (Black's include seeing the reunited Phish, learning about birds, and watching the sunrise. Daily Intel Jessica's are making a sex tape that gets leaked to the Internet, watching Two and a Half Men, and becoming a member of the Red Hat Society. Intel Chris's are watching The English Patient, dancing like nobody's watching, and finding out what a vagina tastes like.) What's on yours?
"While nothing has been confirmed yet, IESB reported that Josh Hartnett has met director Kenneth Branagh for the part [of the villian in Thor] ... He is said to be interested in playing the character after Heath Ledger won 2009 Oscars for his role as Joker in The Dark Knight." [IESB via Ace Showbiz]
Instead of a runway show, this season Gareth Pugh presented his fall 2009 collection in a haunting film shown to a modest audience in Paris. He tells Dazed Digital that he decided to do a film instead of a runway show because he didn't want to look "overly brash" by doing a big women's show on the heels of his first seminal men's show.
DD: You were conscious that people might judge you? GP: I didn't think it was the right kind of mood. It was my first menswear show and it needed to be like a proper show and it was important for me to do that. For the womenswear it was more about taking it down to a different sort of level, trying to take away the shine or varnish of a show. It was much more about being realistic about things. With shows, it's sometimes nice to get away from something that I'm used to.
Still, he couldn't resist springing for a bed of dry ice above which to hang his film screen. Though Pugh loves girls like Karlie Kloss on the runway, he chose seasoned model Natasha Vojnovic to star in the film. Experienced girls are not afraid to do silly-seeming things in front of the camera, like flap their arms like a chicken in a coat puffed up by a fan. See Natasha perfect her Pugh dance in the behind-the-scenes video.
Gentlemen, times are tough for Topps. With the rise of video games, the internet, and actually-interesting things, kids just don't care about baseball cards anymore. So how can we make baseball cards -- what's that word the kids use -- cooling again?
Boss - what if instead of competing with video games and computers, we made the cards interactive with computers, allowing collectors to play a really slow, horrendously animated video game that's less fun and more dated than decade-old calculator programs?
BEAUTIFUL, Charlie! I'm promoting you to "Chief Randy Johnson Special Edition Card Flame-Designer!"
Governor Paterson has announced a deal with party leaders that will allow him to withdraw his proposed taxes on non-diet soda, music downloads, porn downloads, movie and concert tickets, golf courses, cigars, massages, beer, wine, and more — all seemingly predicated on a notion of making New York the least enjoyable state in America. In their place, he'll use $1.3 billion in stimulus money, which was intended for state Medicare costs, to help erase the budget deficit. [City Room/NYT, NYP]
Front Page: Opponents of final offer march outside WB -- With SAG negotiations mired in stalemate, about 75 members picketed Wednesday outside the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank in protest of the final offer on the table from the major studios.
Ever since DreamWorks Animation spent "tens of millions" of dollars on a poorly received 3-D commercial for Monsters vs. Aliens that aired during the Super Bowl, there has been a slightly acrid stench surrounding the film. For example, a few weekends back, during a Saturday-afternoon screening of Coraline at Manhattan's Ziegfield Theater that was packed to the gills with young children, we heard toddler-pitched groans and a distinct lack of laughter when its trailer played. Still, Dreamworks Animation (not to be confused with the other Dreamworks division that Steven Spielberg sold off to deep-pocketed Indian investors) is hoping that the bad buzz fades, as they are counting on the film to drive significant revenue for the company. Unfortunately for them, The Wrap is reporting that they might want to start revising their financial forecasts for the film, as fewer than half of the theaters that were supposed to be ready for digital 3-D projection will be ready by the movie’s release on March 27.
This news does not bode well, at least in the short term, for either Dreamworks or its 3-D-happy chief executive, one Jeffrey Katzenberg. While they have promised their investors that the film would open on over 2,000 3-D screens and that they'll look to these returns "to serve as a proof of concept and to propel the new format forward," these numbers are significantly short of their original expectations when the film was green-lit with a budget exceeding $165 million (and that's before marketing and P&A costs are factored in). Because, as anyone who shit their pants during My Bloody Valentine 3-D's opening weekend would attest, theaters charge moviegoers upwards of 20 percent more for a ticket to a 3-D movie than they do for regular old movies. You see, it turns out that the craptastic economy is preventing theaters from making the investment to re-equip their theaters with projection equipment capable of delivering a high-quality, digital 3-D experience.
However, no matter if Monsters vs. Aliens ends up as a massive flop or a huge hit, we here at Vulture implore theatergoers to do whatever it takes to secure the investments necessary to get more 3-D screens available. Because, really, the last thing anyone needs at this point is to give James Cameron yet another excuse to delay the planned December release of Avatar again.
Ladies, you might want to sit down on a heavily padded bean bag before reading the following article. Are you sunken? Good. Because it is our grave responsibility to announce... vaginas are having the worst week ever.
How so? It all kicked off on Monday, when Britney Spears' p*ssy was hangin' out all over the place while she performed in her Circus tour. Vaginas have made great strides since Britney last flashed her birthin' hole, going above and beyond what is expected of your average vagina to regain its stellar reputation as "a lady at all times." So for a vagina to have its dignity stripped away from itself in such a literal pubic arena... it's shameful, is what it is.
But get ready, vadges, because things this week were about to get infinitely worse. Today, two separate events have crossed the wires that will have your crotch writhing in agony. (Squeamish folks might want to stop here.)
In an instance of life imitating American Psycho, a woman... GAVE BIRTH TO A BLOCK OF CHEESE. Because my own appetite has just committed suicide 4 lyf, allow me to reprint the article in full:
A pregnant woman rushed to the hospital to give birth shocked doctors and staff when it was revealed that what she had passed off as a fetus for months was in fact a large block of cheese.
Neighbors, assuming that she was in labor, took her to an emergency room where doctors uncovered a sodden and moldy mass of what they later determined to be several bricks of cheddar cheese bound together with twine. "Beyond weird," remarked the doctor. "I don't know how one would do it, but it must take an unworldly level of self deception to even conceive of something like this."
What inspires someone to wrap cheese up in twine and put it in themselves? A makeshift tampy? A new, French ageing technique? Inspiration from an old I Love Lucy episode? It's stories like this that make one thing "Well, at least she didn't go into a mall and shoot a bunch of people."
And while you would think "How much more suffering can vaginas endure?", let us answer a resounding "Lots more". (Last chance to click away.) (Really, you're still reading? Hold up a mirror and say "Someone's got problems".)
A Maryland woman was rushed to the hospital after a do-it-yourself sex toy meets powertool fantasy backfired... when the power tool saw SLICED THROUGH THE SEX TOY AND THEN THE WOMAN HERSELF. The woman has since been released from the hospital... and will never, ever, ever enjoy sex again. (via College Candy)
So listen here, Vaginas: Try to stay at home, stay inside, don't get too wild this week... because yours might be next. Source: Best Week Ever | 11 Mar 2009 | 7:55 pm
Barbie's never-ending 50th-birthday celebration continued in Malibu this week where — brace yourself — Mattel spent an estimated $500,000 on a party in a real-life dream house. Heidi Klum was there. "I also want to congratulate Barbie on how fabulous she looks at 50," she told WWD, which adds that Klum "remained tight-lipped about her upcoming clothing venture, a possible tie-in with the iconic doll." A Barbie clothing line would explain her presence at the party. But then again, so would the fact that she's, well, Heidi Klum. [WWD]
Front Page: 'Sesame Street' producer announces layoffs -- Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit producer of "Sesame Street" and other kids' programs, says it's cutting 20 percent of its work force because of the recession.
John Mayer: "Can I give you John Mayer’s fashion tips? Will you make a blog about this? Ready? . . . Number one, in no particular order: Basics are the hardest to find. The word basic always gives the impression that it’s the easiest to find. Basics are incredibly hard to find. When you find a white T-shirt, a hoodie, a pair of jeans. When you find a basic you love, buy four of them. Because you need to create a basic private stock. Because basics come and go very quickly and next season you can be sure they will change. And it will never be the same." [Fab Sugar]
Simon Cowell may not recognize "American Idol" alumna Mandisa the next time he sees her. The woman about whom the acerbic judge once said, "We're going to have to get a bigger stage," has lost 75 pounds. Her new album, "Freedom," is due out later this month.
This is a recap for The Top 13 on American Idol Season 8, theme: Michael Jackson.
1. Lil Rounds: "The Way You Make Me Feel". You have to hand it to the girl: Lil' Rounds really knows how to dress her rounds. My problem with this performance wasn't so much her as it was the song itself - which seems to be the same five notes sung over and over again. It is impossible for me not to compare her to my favorite AI contestant ever, Latoya London... they sort of look alike, they sort of sound alike, only Latoya had a much better singing voice. Still, in this competition where so few of the women stand out, Lil's got a mighty good chance of making it far. Also, she's wearing parachute pants. Grade: 7/10
2. Scott MacIntyre: "Keep the Faith". (I'm really going to try to avoid any and all "blind" puns in this review.) I really don't understand what people see in Scott MacIntyre. (F*ck.) He chose to sing the musical equivalent to the inspirational poster in a guidance counselor's office, a Michael Jackson melody that approximately 89 people have heard -- 88 of them molested by Michael and Michael Jackson himself. We'll give him credit: Learning it on piano in a week with tunnel vision is quite the feat, and his stage presence is stellar (though, to be fair, he could be performing in a broom closet for all he knows.) Grade: 3/10 This image found over at ONTD pretty much sums up my feelings on Scott:
3. Danny Gokey: PYT. Sure, Danny might be a culty Christian, widowing son-of-a-gun who kind of looks like K.D. Lang... but what a performer! Yeah, he's a little like Michael McDonald and guess what? I LOVE MICHAEL MCDONALD SO STEP. OFF. Also, let's for a moment recall Paula's hilarious, shaky prediction that Danny would be in the finals... on the first episode of the show. Grade: 7/10 (1 point deducted for doing the Jerry's Kids Dance.)
4. Michael Sarver: "You Are Not Alone". A friend and I got into a fight over whether or not Michael Sarver was cute. My friend insists he's hot; I argue that I cannot stand his face. My friend says "Camman, if he walked up to you in a bar, you would talk to him." I then said "Only if rolled over to me on a drum of oil." And so it went. But on to the singing: I thought he sucked. Grade: 5/10
5. Jasmine Murray: "I'll Be There". Simply put, she shouldn't be there. Forgetting for a moment her star turn in the movie Antz, she suffers from a disorder my mother describes as "no salt, no pepper". In other words, there is absolutely nothing interesting about her, other than her own adorable mother. Grade: 5/10
6. Kris Allen: "Do You Remember The Times?". I'm adding a point to Kris' score for singing one of my favorite songs of my childhood. Forgetting for a moment the fact that he was playing a prop guitar, he was OK. Seeing as he's the only sort of cute, straight guy on the show, expect to see a lot of Kris and his unhinging sideways dinosaur jaw. I never thought I'd say these words, but here they are: "I miss you Jason Castro." Grade 6/10 (Another point was added for his wife's reaction to Simon's "keep her locked up for a few more weeks" comment.)
7. Allison Iraheta: "Give It To Me". Allison's borderline autism is somehow taking a right turn at "Avoid-eye-contact-ville" and driving down a one-way street to "Favorite-contestant-onia". The song was not super-familiar, but she sang it well, and knocked it out of the park with her "I'm not cutting myself" line. When Paula tells you to zip it, you know you're doing something right. Grade: 7/10
8. Anoop Desai: "Beat It". I wonder about Anoop. Clearly, we love him because he is essentially a dorky-ish Indian guy presenting himself as some sort of amazing lover. But watching him tonight, I began thinking: "Is he believing too much in his own hype?" Because that would be terrible, and would ruin all the fun. Maybe it's the new "cool guy" haircut, or the dancing, or the sadness in his father's eyes that the future Dr. Desai might one day get frosted tips. We'll give him another chance. Grade: 5/10
9. Jorge Nunez: "Never Can Say Goodbye". I literally love this guy. He is off the charts hilarious. Is PBS remaking Que Pasa USA anytime soon as a reality show? Because the joke might actually be on us. He is so goddamned fabulous without even trying! That is a true gift. As is only posessing two expressions: The smile of unfathomable foreign joy; and the tears of an immigrant's sadness. Grade 6/10 (bonus point for heartwarmingness.)
10. Megan Joy Corkrey: "Rockin' Robin". Megan is super sweet, kind of like this "special" child neighbor I used to have who I would take a few minutes to chat with while on my way to the school bus in the mornings. Sweet on the outside, but something deeply, darkly wrong on the inside. I find it increasingly uncomfortable to watch her, especially when she breaks out into a bird dance. And caws. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome the lead singer of "Quirky quirk quirk and the Twees." Also, Gordon Ramsey clearly has a crush on her, which I fear in my frail condition I just cannot handle. Grade: 2/10
11. Adam Lambert: "Black and White". Oh, what fun the future lawsuit of "Every Epileptic Ever vs. Adam Lambert" will be. The judges literally put their feet in stirrups and delivered a giant block of cheese, they were so excited. (Ed. Note: Do not click if you are prone to vomming at work.) Paula took off on a jet pack full of oxy, and Simon delivered his review while unbuckling his belt and revealing a giant d made of sunshine. Adam came out with thousands of calories of energy to be expended, jumping around the stage, hitting his signature high notes with tongue a-flyin', thrusting his hoisted package into America's collective faces. It was a performance that barely translated onto the TV, but in person, probably ripped the stage a new one. So while we/I were/was on the fence about the performance, I have no choice but to believe the judges were dead on accurate. Hence Grade 1,339,024/10
12. Matt Giraud: "Human Nature". "Human Nature" is my favorite inspirational MJ song after "Man in the Mirror" and "We Are The World". Matt Giraud managed to sing it without gutting it from the inside out with a hooked blade. Hard to explain, but I have a soft spot for this guy, giant gums and all. Grade 7/10
13. Alexis Grace: "Dirty Diana". Alexis is barely memorable, pink hair and all. Truly, I could not place who the 13th contestant was. So imagine my surprise when she started singing... and she was pretty awesome! My favorite female performance of the night. The judges weren't feeling it, further proving how rigged this show is. Grade 8/10Let us know who you voted for in the comments. Source: Best Week Ever | 11 Mar 2009 | 7:00 pm
Angelina Jolie and Katie Holmes are throwing a tea party for their daughters.
The former 'Dawson's Creek' star has reportedly invited Angelina and her eldest girls Zahara, 4, and Shiloh, 2, for tea and cupcakes with her two-year-old Suri at their New York home.
A source said: "Katie loves entertaining and spoke to Angelina about having an at-home tea party with cupcakes for the girls."
Another source adds: "It's something she has wanted to do for ages. Because of security reasons, Katie can't have just any child over to her home.
"But with celebrity tots like Shiloh and Zahara, there's no problem."
Katie, 30, and Angelina, 33, have both relocated their families to New York while they work on upcoming films.
They started planning the playdate in Los Angeles in January when Angelina and her partner Brad Pitt met Katie and her husband Tom Cruise at a private Golden Globes after-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel.
Tom, 46, and Brad, 45, first met when they co-starred in 1994 film 'Interview with the Vampire', but failed to stay in touch over the years.
Since the film, their careers and social circles have become so different, they rarely see each other. But at the party both talked at length about their children and they agreed to get their little girls together. A source said: "Since the film, their careers and social circles have become so different, they rarely see each other. But at the party both talked at length about their children and they agreed to get their little girls together."
Katie and Tom are said to be keen to introduce Suri to children her own age because her adopted siblings - Connor, 14, and Isabella, 16 - are much older.
An insider said: "Suri's a very shy young lady. Even when Tom or Katie have taken her to a park or beach and tried to introduce her to other kids for a little playtime, it hasn't worked. She's very clingy." Source Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 11 Mar 2009 | 6:54 pm
Jessica Simpson has asked Tiger Woods for golfing lessons.
The singer-and-actress - who has been sporting a seemingly fuller figure of late - wants to embrace a healthier lifestyle and so asked the US sportsman for tips.
A source said: "Jessica is taking it seriously. She even asked if Tiger Woods would give her some pointers, but he's been busy with his new baby."
As well as helping her to get in shape, Jessica, 28, thinks learning to play golf will bring her closer to her American football star boyfriend Tony Romo.
Jessica is taking it seriously. She even asked if Tiger Woods would give her some pointers, but he's been busy with his new baby. Tony is a huge fan of the pastime, so Jessica thinks it could be the perfect way for them to spent time together.
She has already signed up for a set of lessons, and has splashed out $8,400 on a Louis Vuitton golf bag and clubs to ensure she looks stylish as she learns. Source Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 11 Mar 2009 | 6:52 pm
Amy Winehouse is ready to quit music to reunite with husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
The 'Rehab' singer is prepared to do whatever it takes to win back ex-convict Blake - who started divorce proceedings while in prison after seeing Amy romantically linked to other men while holidaying in the Caribbean - and would even walk away from her successful singing career.
Writing on her page on social networking website Facebook, she wrote: "Amy would chuck it all in for 'im indoors.
She swiftly followed it with another message, saying: "Nothing is worth as much as Blake."
Friends of the troubled 26-year-old star replied urging her to move on from Blake, who recently moved his 17-year-old rumoured girlfriend Francesca Morralee into his London home.
Amy would chuck it all in for 'im indoors. She swiftly followed it with another message, saying: Nothing is worth as much as Blake. One wrote: "He ain't worth it."
In a heart-rending final note, Amy said: "Where's my oblivious Blakey boy?"
Just a few days ago it was reported Francesca left her £11,000-a-year Bancroft school in Woodford, Essex, to set up home with 27-year-old Blake.
A source said: "Francesca wants to leave the area and have a fresh start with Blake at his place in Camden."
In an effort to compete with her younger love rival, Amy - who has been battling drug addictions -has gained weight and is working hard to transform her image.
A friend of the star said: "Amy is like a different woman since returning from St Lucia. For a start off, she's all woman and no longer possesses the body of a pre-pubescent teenager. Since keeping away from the drugs, Amy's finding new pleasures in food - something she used to be pretty indifferent about. She's regained a few of her curves and has gone up a few dress sizes." Source Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 11 Mar 2009 | 6:51 pm
With the recent second-breakup of Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel, Hollywood has lost another one of its precious few super-likable couples. Often times we forget that for every easy-to-rip-on Hollywood gossip pairing -- from Tom & Katie to Heidi & Spencer to Cameron Diaz & A Weekly Roofied Twentysomething -- there's another rational celeb couple living something resembling a sane and normal existence (actually the ratio is closer to 80 crazy couples : 1 kind-of-sane couple, but you get the idea).
In the spirit of celebrating rather than complaining for a change, here's our list of 10 Celebrity Couples That We Actually Like:
10. Amy Poehler and Will Arnett
Further proof that two funny, attractive people can find each other in this crazy world. Just like Gallagher and Mrs. Gallagher, or Andrew Dice Clay and Some Unfortunate Woman.
9. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick
Couldn't be more New York if the Empire State Building f*cked the Carnegie Deli.
8. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
Number of years Ozzy would've continued living if he had never met Sharon Osbourne in the 70s: Negative a hundred.
7. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy
They're both unavoidably charismatic in interviews, but we mostly enjoy this couple cause it still just doesn't seem real. Like this picture.
6. William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman
Currently on pace to be the first 60-year-old couple that I'd happily threesome up with.
5. Beyonce and Jay-Z
All guys can rest easier when Beyonce maintains her inattainability by dating a cartoon rap supermogul caricature. If she was just dating some actual human, we'd lose a lot more sleep.
4. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
Anyone who's seen Idiocracy knows just how doomed the future of the human gene pool is; please, please keep at least pumping out future hot people, celebrities. We're counting on you.
3. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Just when you thought lesbians couldn't become more universally liked...
2. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
The amount of legitimate good this couple has accomplished together far outweighs the bad (causing a billion easy "adoption" jokes on late night tv, the disappointingly softcore sex scene in Mr. And Mrs. Smith, etc.) Plus they've given gossip magazines that infamous handy nickname, "Angbradna".
1. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
They've been married since 1988, meaning Hanks has stuck with his lady from his 'Burbs days up through the Philadelphia/Forrest back-to-back tear-covered Oscar slam-dunks. A man of lesser character would've ditched the uber-likable Wilson for a quick tabloid fling with an early 90s celeb (Sharon Stone? Liz Berkley? Yahoo Serious?) and later regretted it, but that's what makes him Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Decentest Dude.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: David Bowie & Iman, Steffi Graf & Andre Agassi, Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick, Heidi Klum & Seal (for the humor), Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. (for the sheer late-90sness of it)
Others we're missing? Leave 'em in the comments! Source: Best Week Ever | 11 Mar 2009 | 6:36 pm
Karl Lagerfeld had the models in the Chanel show walk through an intricate, mazelike set. "'I've seen the space in my head and girls confidently walking in the criss-cross directions,' he said of conceiving the idea. 'All I had to do was add colors like the pinks and the greens.' And how did he get inside the maze for his finale? 'That I don't know and it's a strange thing. It happens to me often early in the mornings,' he said. 'I get into the middle of mazes and come out of completely nowhere!'" What does that mean? [FWD]
Chuck Nice is back with a new Best Day Ever: P Diddy tries to answer one of life's most biting questions, a woman and her dancing dog got a little too personal on Rachel Ray, and America's favorite bankrupt winner Donald Trump has strong words for Rihanna.
How many Kermits had to DIE just so you could wear your stupid fancy rich people outfit, huh? HUHHH??? You should be beaten with a protest sign covered in red paint and blood. Think about the...[SNIFF]........THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN, DAMMIT!!!
Michael Jackson making his comeback announcement in London on March 05, 2009. More comeback concerts were announced Wednesday after organisers said the first batch of tickets for the London shows had sold... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Mar 2009 | 5:12 pm
Witness Jon Hamm... bald. After watching it, I feel it is necessary he change his name to Jon Hammson. Here he is in an exclusive video for Funny or Die of Hamm playing Lex Luthor, who would like to dip his kryptonite in a lil' bailout cash:
Poison frontman Bret Michaels promises to tell all when he publishes his autobiography, "Roses and Thorns: The Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy to My Reality" (Simon & Schuster) in June.
E! Entertainment Television, the sort of armpit of celebrity TV, donated $250,000 to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation last year. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Mar 2009 | 3:36 pm
Michael Jackson has added 16 more concerts to his summer residency at London's O2 Arena following strong demand for the pre-sale tickets today (March 11).
U2 scores its seventh No. 1 on The Billboard 200 as "No Line on the Horizon" bows in the top slot. The Interscope album moved 484,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Members of the Georgian pop group "Stephane and 3G" watch a video of their performance in Tbilisi, February 2009. Georgia said it was pulling out of the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow after contest... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Mar 2009 | 2:59 pm
While most celebs probably would have freaked out if their apparent "weight gain" was hitting headlines across the world, apparently Jessica Simpson whipped back into svelte shape in just a matter of weeks by simply not stressing. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Mar 2009 | 1:43 pm
On the same day singer Chris Brown was arraigned for allegedly beating his pop star girlfriend Rihanna, he made an appeal to fans on his Myspace page: Vote for me for the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. That's right. No apology, no concern for his battered girlfriend. He's worried about the next awards show.
Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer may have called it quits.
That's the rumor I'm hearing. A source says that the pair's on-again, off-again relationship may have ended when...
Someone always has to go first.
Though usually not after being cast off for good by Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson.
The big American Idol twist...
If you're shocked that Anoop Desai didn't get the ol' heave ho on tonight's American Idol elimination, don't be. He's got something on his side: the admiration of young...
Women of 90210, you best hold on to your men!
Shannen Doherty herself just spilled to us that her man-stealing character Brenda Walsh will be coming back to America's most famous...
Team Twilight is ready to ratchet up the fright factor.
Juan Antonio Bayona, a protégé of Guillermo del Toro who's best known for the stylish Spanish-language scarefest The...
Scarlett Johansson is joining the superhero set.
Her rep confirms that the actress has signed on to play Black Widow in the Iron Man sequel opposite Robert Downey Jr. The deal was...
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are both single parents now.
The young couple, who welcomed son Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston two months ago, have gone their separate...
Nothing like a bunch of grade-school caliber rumors to put a grown woman on the defensive.
Chris Brown's manager, Tina Davis, who was rumored to be the woman whose text message...
Britney Spears isn't confining her comeback to the stage. The "Gimme More" purveyor is at work on her personal life, too.
E! News has learned that Spears, 27, has been...
Ladies, you might want to sit down on a heavily padded bean bag before reading the following article. Are you sunken? Good. Because it is our grave responsibility to announce... vaginas are having the worst week ever.
How so? It all kicked off on Monday, when Britney Spears' 
And while you would think "How much more suffering can vaginas endure?", let us answer a resounding "Lots more". (Last chance to click away.) (Really, you're still reading? Hold up a mirror and say "Someone's got problems".)
A Maryland woman was rushed to the hospital after a do-it-yourself sex toy meets powertool fantasy backfired... when the power tool saw 
