Baseball, more than any other sport, has a season of ups and downs — a long haul where no one game is too important in the grand scheme of things. But Opening Day still means something, perhaps because seemingly everyone is paying attention, perhaps because each team has its ace pitcher going, or perhaps simply because, finally, it’s a game that counts.
So without putting too much stock in any single game, much less one in April, it’s worth pointing out that the Mets couldn’t have scripted their opener any better. Johan Santana gave up one run over five and one-third innings, then the bullpen — the Mets bullpen! — went the rest of the way without giving up a run, including innings by J.J. Putz and Francisco Rodriguez.
And then there’s the Yankees. While the Mets’ new acquisitions were doing what they were supposed to in a 2–1 win over Cincinnati, the Yankees’ big-money free agents were not in a 10–5 loss to Baltimore. CC Sabathia was terrible, allowing six runs in four and one-third innings, while notorious slow-starter (and Baltimore native) Mark Teixeira went hitless while being mercilessly booed by Baltimore fans who thought he should have signed with his hometown team.
Obviously, fans of neither team should overreact too much, because again, it’s just one game. (Though, of course, that won’t stop anyone calling in to the FAN today from awarding K-Rod the Cy Young or proclaiming Sabathia a total bust.) But for one day at least, Mets fans' hopes, and Yankees fans' worst fears, were realized. One down, 161 to go.
Using an extremely complicated process of Celebrity Weekly Triangulation, we've tried to piece together what's happened so far in the surprisingly eventful breakup of Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson (who knew these two had anything left up their sleeves that could interest us?). After a night of Twitter fighting in the Chateau Marmont on Friday, when Lindsay wasn't allowed up to a Ronson family party, the couple spent the weekend arming themselves. On Monday, the actress released a statement that she was "taking a brief break so I can focus on myself." Her family dutifully rallied around her, and she for once in her life decided to lie low. Likewise, Samantha Ronson's family rallied around her, but instead of keeping quiet, they went to the police, begging for a restraining order against the starlet, claiming that she was following them around. (Police can't issue restraining orders, unfortunately for the Ronsons. Only a judge can.) Sam's mom, New York socialite Ann Dexter Jones, claimed at the station that Lindsay "was doing drugs" and "is a cutter!" Then, they all went home and changed the locks on their doors.
Did you follow all that? Good, because there will be a pop quiz later in the day.
EVENTS TODAY
• Meet Bruno Frisoni, the creative director of Roger Vivier, when he presents his spring 2009 shoe and handbag collections. Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave., at 58th St., second fl. (212-872-8940); 3–5.
SALES STARTING TODAY
• The women's collection by Giambattista Valli is 40 to 75 percent off retail. A double-breasted wool blazer is $580 (originally $1,995) and a chiffon cocktail dress is $870 (originally $3,000). Through 4/8. 57 E. 64th St., nr. Park Ave. (646-422-0210); T, W (3–8).
• At the Olive and Bette's children's sale, all girls' and boys' clothing for infants, toddlers, and tweens is $25. Today only. Olive and Bette’s, 252 Columbus Ave., nr. 72nd St. (212-579-2178); 11–7.
• Iceberg and Frankie Morello men's and women's apparel and accessories are 40 to 75 percent off. A men's puffer coat by Iceberg is $900 (originally $3,000) and Frankie Morello women's jeans are $65 (originally $210). Through 4/8. 57 E. 64th St., nr. Park Ave. (646-422-0210); T, W (3–8).
• Jennifer Lopez's sportswear lines J.Lo and Sweetface are 50 to 80 percent off. Through 4/9. 1071 Sixth Ave., nr. 40th St., Ste. 502; T–Th (10–7).
ONGOING
• Basics by agnès b. are up to 70 percent off. Through 4/17. 250 W. 39th St., nr. Seventh Ave. (212-719-0001, ext. 11); daily (10–7).
• Denim by Cheap Monday is $70, shoes by 3:33 are $50, and tees by Rxmance are $30 at Openhouse Gallery. Stop by between 5 and 8 p.m. for their daily happy hour. Through 4/9. 201 Mulberry St., nr. Kenmare St.; daily (noon–8).
On a Roll:Jennifer Garner will star in the comedy Butter, based on first-time screenwriter Jason Micallef’s Black List–approved screenplay. The plot follows a young girl in the Midwest with a talent for butter sculpting who faces off against the wife of the retiring champion in the annual sculpting competition. Said Micallef: “I wanted to do a political satire and I was looking for some venue that people take very seriously but is also ridiculous — like politics — but at the same time is really visual.” We're sold. [HR]
Flying High:Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Bryan Cranston have signed on for Red Tails, executive producer George Lucas’s Tuskegee Airmen drama. They bolster an already solid cast that includes two Wire alums (Tristan Wilds and Andre Royo) plus Method ManandNe-Yo. A bit worrisomely, though, it seems Lucas has already figured out the high-level technology he will obsess over at the cost of the script or the direction, saying “We're working on techniques that will give us the first true look at the aerial dogfighting of the era." At least he knows that you do not make a Tuskegee Airmen movie without Cuba Gooding Jr. [Variety]
Live With Harrison and Diane:Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum have joined the J.J. Abrams–produced comedy Morning Glory. The plot revolves around an aspiring news producer (the previously cast Rachel McAdams) who tries to reconcile her morning show's feuding anchors (Keaton and the previously cast Harrison Ford) in order to save the program; Goldblum plays McAdams’s boss. A comedy that takes place on the set of a news show? It’ll never work. [Variety]
Pacino Children's Movie:Betsy and the Emperor, the adaptation of Staton Rabin’s 2004 children’s book that was previously set up at Warner Bros., has been resurrected by Killer Films. It stars Al Pacino, who has been attached to the project since its inception. The story revolves around a 14-year-old girl who meets Napoleon after his exile on St. Helena. Thank God, because, seriously, if we had to sit through one more Elba-era-exile Napoleon flick … [HR]
Should Really Be Called Soldiers on Horses:Jerry Bruckheimer has acquired the rights to Doug Stanton’s upcoming book Horse Soldiers, about an elite combined Army and CIA unit that snuck into Afghanistan after 9/11 on horseback and helped Afghan soldiers take the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. In the most disappointing news we’ve heard all morning, it is not at all about a secret government program to train horses to shoot guns. [Variety]
Crichton's Leftovers: Two posthumous Michael Crichton books will be published this year. The first is Pirate Latitudes, found in Crichton’s files and to be released November 24 with a first run of a million copies; that book, set in Jamaica in 1665, revolves around the infamous pirate Hunter and his plan to raid a Spanish galleon. The second is a technological thriller that will be based on notes Crichton left and will be completed by an as yet unnamed author. Those sound cool, we guess, although we are a little disappointed neither is about a fleet of renegade scientists who bring a best-selling sci-fi author back from the dead ... with terrifying consequences. [Variety]
(Reuters) Reuters - Designers defied the global economic crisis at this season's South African fashion week by showing off vibrant outfits with hints of tradition inspired by a golden era of African civilisation. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 7 Apr 2009 | 1:24 pm
Twenty-five years after the hit single "West End Girls," can the Pet Shop Boys pull off songs that make you want to dance like it's 1984, but still reflect a social consciousness of 2009? The answer is the title of their latest album: "Yes."
Slim Shady mercilessly lampoons celebrities from Lindsay Lohan to Sarah Palin in the new clip.By Gil Kaufman Eminem in his video for "We Made You" Photo: Interscope Where do we start? Slim Shady... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Apr 2009 | 12:29 pm
wake of her son winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Games, she's putting out her own book to relate the experiences of a single mother raising three kids, one of whom turned out to... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Apr 2009 | 12:19 pm
AP - The Apollo Theater will celebrate its 75th anniversary by inducting music impresario Quincy Jones and R&B artist Patti LaBelle into its Hall of Fame.
Contestants will perform songs from their birth years.By Gil Kaufman Allison Iraheta Photo: Frank Micelotta/ Getty Images "American Idol" judges are like a broken record when it comes to song... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:51 am
LC will keep busy with her clothing line and young-adult novel series, her bicoastal BFF says.By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Kim Stolz Whitney Port Photo: MTV News Lauren Conrad might be... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:51 am
PARIS, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Etam's swimsuit collection for Summer 09 is a modern interpretation of the eternal feminine. To view the Multimedia News... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Apr 2009 | 7:00 am
The eleventh-hour cancellation by esteemed American soprano Christine Brewer left the Metropolitan Opera's season-ending revival of Wagner's "Ring" cycle in crisis. No Bruennhilde, no... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Apr 2009 | 6:33 am
E! Online - No offense to Brooke Burke, but whoever wins the disco ball trophy this season is going to have to out-dance more than one similarly talented celeb.
Reuters - Writer-directors Jay and Mark Duplass have sold their pitch "Table 19" to Fox Searchlight. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 7 Apr 2009 | 5:05 am
Reuters - Comedy Central's "Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire" is exactly as bad as you would fear. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 7 Apr 2009 | 2:19 am
Reuters - With the rise of such nontraditional television sitcoms as NBC's "30 Rock" and "The Office," it seemed that television comedy was -- we dared to hope -- maturing. The once fresh, beloved art form of the traditional two-camera, live-audience sitcom had grown feeble and was at last being put out of its misery. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 7 Apr 2009 | 2:17 am
Front Page: Comedy stars Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams -- Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum have signed on to join Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams in the comedy "Morning Glory" for Paramount Pictures.
Front Page: Pact is for 'State of Play,' 'Land of the Lost' -- Universal Pictures has inked TruTV as a promotional partner for "State of Play" and "Land of the Lost," enlisting the Turner-owned cabler to run a series of custom spots for these upcoming theatrical releases.
Front Page: Duo acquire rights to Stanton book 'Soldiers' -- Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired screen rights to Doug Stanton's upcoming book "Horse Soldiers."
No offense to Brooke Burke, but whoever wins the disco ball trophy this season is going to have to out-dance more than one similarly talented celeb.
This has quickly been shaping up to...
Britney Spears' tour may be heading south. Way south.
Attorneys representing the popster and father Jamie's conservatorship discussed in court today the possibility of taking...
Call it the last taboo.
OK, maybe second to last. In any case, Hollywood has never been afraid of love between a successful older star and sexy younger partner.
So with that...
Front Page: New role for former editor in chief -- Reed Business on Monday confirmed executive changes at Variety, with Peter Bart assuming a new role as vice president and editorial director.
Reuters - Hollywood's largest acting union will hold a meeting of its negotiating task force on Tuesday although a spokeswoman said a report of a near deal with movie studios on a new contract was premature. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 6 Apr 2009 | 11:41 pm
In the magazine this week, S. Jhoanna Robledo looks at apartments belonging to victims of Bernie Madoff’s swindle. The owner of the penthouse at 7 Hubert Street (4,262 square feet for $12.5 million) actually put her home on the market a few months before Madoff’s cards crashed down. Watch the video to see what the right windows can do for your home.
"Bristol did not even know Levi was going on the show. We're disappointed that Levi and his family, in a quest for fame, attention, and fortune, are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship. Bristol's focus will remain on raising Tripp, completing her education, and advocating abstinence. It is unfortunate that Levi finds it more appealing to exploit his previous relationship with Bristol than to contribute to the well being of the child."
The problem here, obviously, is that Bristol Palin may advocate abstinence, but she doesn't think abstinence-only education is realistic. In fact, she told Greta Van Susteren that telling kids to abstain from sex is "not realistic at all." Kit Seeley at the New York Timesthinks this is a sure sign that Sarah Palin is running for president in 2012 — otherwise she'd have probably remained mum on the whole issue. As if we needed anyothersuresigns.
Mother Sherry Johnston also told Tyra that their once-good family relationships with the Palins have "just turned into a nightmare." Levi explained that his engagement to Bristol ended not because of any cheating, but that after they had the baby, "things got a lot more complicated." "We started fighting. We just weren't seeing eye to eye with one another anymore," he said. "We thought it would be better just to be friends and work things out this way." (Levi clearly does not watch enough daytime television to know that the way to "work things out" is never to "go on Tyra and talk about it.") His family also said that it's been hard to see baby Tripp, and that the lies that have been printed about them are extremely upsetting. "It's ridiculous how someone could come up with a lot of stuff like that," Levi explained. "But at the same time it's kind of funny that they ain't got nothin' better to do than pick on some young kids."
It is ridiculous that people bother to come up with stuff like that. The reality of the Johnstons is clearly magical enough!
The Associated Press is taking a hard line against aggregator sites that mooch off of their original content. Meanwhile, hip-hop magazine XXL and the New York Times are taking different, but equally desperate, measures to survive.
• The Associated Press and its member newspapers say they will challenge “fair use” laws by taking action against aggregator sites that use their reporting without legal permission. “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories,” Dean Singleton, chairman of the group, said today. "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore." Wait: Was it okay for us to use that quote? [Google]
• The New York Times Company is playing dirty and has threatened to close the Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to save $20 million for the company via pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions. [NYT]
• The parent company of the Dallas Morning News, A.H. Belo Corp., said it would lay off 500 employees across all of its properties today and tomorrow. The company also owns the Providence Journal and several smaller newspapers and websites. [Austin-American Statesman]
• WebMediaBrands, the company formally known as Jupiter Media, has closed its two bimonthly design magazines, Dynamic Graphics+Create and Step Inside Design, with plans to keep the sites intact. [Folio]
• In other job-losing news, Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, got "terminated" for posting a mini-review of the illegally leaked X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a 20th Century Fox film featuring a somewhat naked Hugh Jackman. [NYT]
Movie pirate and Fox News columnist Roger Friedman — who was reported as fired on Saturday but was today supposedly given a fake chance to plead his case to Roger Ailes — has officially been terminated for reviewing a downloaded copy ofWolverine, says Gawker. Fox News gave the blog this statement:
"Fox News representatives and Roger Friedman met today and mutually agreed to part ways immediately. Fox News appreciates Mr. Friedman's ten years of contributions to building foxnews.com and wishes him success in his future endeavors. Mr. Friedman is grateful to his colleagues for their friendship and support over the past decade."
Now Fox just has to find the guy who leaked Wolverine in the first place, remove every single copy uploaded to the Internet, and delete it off the personal hard drives of the countless thousands who've already downloaded it, and we can all put this entire debacle behind us.
Marc Jacobs is reportedly on the hunt for a new muse now that Victoria Beckham, who starred in old Marc Jacobs campaigns, is focusing on her own fashion line. "Marc and Anne have forged a fast but very intense friendship and they’re going to start doing public appearances together soon," a friend of Anne's tells the Daily Mail. The source adds that it's a great opportunity for Anne to revamp her image and for Marc to infuse his line with a "fresh but famous face." Also, "Anne would be happy to model for some of Marc's campaigns." That obviously means nothing, since who wouldn't be happy to star in one of Marc's campaigns? Anne never screamed fashion muse to us, especially for a quirky label like Marc's, but we never would have pegged Katie Holmes for the spring 2009 face of Miu Miu. Nor Madonna for Louis Vuitton. Nor Posh for Armani Underwear.
I'M CONVINCED: Chris Brown pled 'not guilty' to two felony counts in court today. His defense will attempt to exploit California Penal Code 113-B, the controversial "Seriously I Fell Down The Stairs" Law. (People)
STOLEN NAZI GOLD WAS THEIR TREASURE: George Lucas is moving forward with a new World War II drama called Red Tails, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Method Man, Terence Howard, and Ne-Yo. The story will focus on the first group of African-Americans to be honored in a movie by someone other than Spike Lee. (Daily News)
OBSESSED WITH KIDS: Jackie Earle Haley will play Freddy Krueger in the upcoming Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. Between this and Little Children, Haley is well on his way to co-starring in the upcoming To Catch A Predator movie (it's a comedy). (EW.com)
JURASSIC FIVE: Two Michael Crichton novels will be published posthumously; one is a 17th century adventure novel, the other is a technological thriller, and both sample Tupac. (Reuters)
WILLIS HAS IT: Rumer Willis will star as a prostitute on the show Medium. I honestly didn't know Medium was currently airing, nor did I know that Rumer Willis appeared in things. (Socialite Life)
Good World closed last week and designer Kai Kuhne was among the revelers at the closing party, which involved destroying the space. A partygoer writes, "when i got there at 2am the place was decimated. i was told that Kai Kuhne had almost been arrested for urinating in public. put in cuffs and about to be dragged away. and everyone rallied and got him released. he was only given a citation. people were wasted." Judging by the looks of the place when the event ended, public urination was the least of this party's problems. [Grub Street]
The members of the George-Izzie-Alex love triangle on Grey's Anatomy turn out to be key players in this last run of season five G.A. episodes. Find out how Izzie's screwing up Alex's...
Bleak House, the one-time home of the Victorian author Charles Dickens is pictured in Kent, south-east England, in 2006. The former seaside home of Dickens, where he wrote part of the novel "David Copperfield",... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 6 Apr 2009 | 10:23 pm
Gisele and Tom Brady renewed their vows at her home in Costa Rica on Saturday. Guests included Gisele's fashion friends and Brady's teammates. This being a more publicized affair than the secret wedding that shocked the world that they had at the end of February in Santa Monica, paparazzi showed up. The couple's bodyguards shot handguns at two photographers who got too close. No one was hurt, but does anyone care who designed Gisele's dress now? All we know so far is that it's not by Dolce & Gabbana. [DI]
US actor Vin Diesel arrives for the British Premiere of his latest film, ''Fast & Furious'', in London's Leicester Square in March 2009. Car chase movie "Fast & Furious" left its box office... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 6 Apr 2009 | 10:10 pm
At least something good has come from the Bernie Madoff scandal. The Daily Beast's Lucinda Franks lunched at the Palm Beach Country Club, where she picked up some gossip about Ellen Jaffe, the daughter of Carl Shapiro, the apparel entrepreneur who lost $545 million of his personal fortune to Madoff, and the wife of Madoff associate Robert "Once You've Had Filet Mignon You Never Want to Go Back" Jaffe. "Ellen was so snobbish before all this happened, she wouldn’t even say hi to me," one woman tells Franks. "Now her husband is being pursued by the law and she is embarrassed. So of course, she couldn’t be friendlier to me." [Daily Beast]
E! Online - She was shunned from the party and locked out of her love nest. Now, Lindsay Lohan exclusively tells E! News that reports of her breakup with Samantha Ronson are true: "We are taking a brief break so I can focus on myself."
First it was Wale who boarded the Lady Gaga bandwagon; now fellow future star of hip-hop Kid Cudi has taken inspiration from the five-foot bisexual. Cudi's take on Gaga's "Poker Face" is a breezy track, built around a tweaked sample of the original song's chorus and heavily reminiscent of Late Registration–era Kanye (specifically "Gone"). The song features Cudi mentor Kanye, plus fellow G.O.O.D. Music colleague Common, with the three trying to outwit each other with references to ... erm, well, a certain sexual act. Kanye's "getting brains in the library cause I love knowledge" wins second place, while one Common line (which our well-mannered upbringing prevents us from repeating here) takes the grand prize.
As James Tedisco battles over a few votes to try to seize Kirsten Gillibrand's former seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, he has been quietly replaced as State Assembly Minority Leader by Brian Kalb. Kalb hopes to bring the spotlight back to the Assembly GOP, who are outnumbered in the body by Democrats 109 to 41. [City Room/NYT]
OM-f*cking-G you guys -- the producers' secret codename for the Lost Season 5 finale has been revealed!
Get ready for easily-understandable meaningfulness... The Season 5 finale will be called...
"The Fork in the Outlet"
Last year's finale codename was "Frozen Donkey Wheel," which sounded like nonsensical producer secret-jargon, but then an actual frozen wheel ended up figuring prominently into the final episode. So what does "The Fork in the Outlet" have in store for Season 5? Some possibilities:
- Aaron literally sticks a fork in an outlet and electrocutes himself.
- Locke sticks his foot (the 'fork') deep into Ben's ass ('outlet')
- Ben realizes he needs to move the island even more, so he must turn a giant frozen 'fork' in an 'outlet' and causes the island to again start jumping through time, but instead of causing nosebleeds it gives overexposed people hiccups.
- Something electrical or something.
- Concluding the most violent season of Lost yet, Sayid returns to kill Horace by throwing a stick (fork) through his eye (outlet) and causing him to bleed to death onto the camera for fifteen minutes (not including the three-minute commercial break in the middle). Hurley says 'dude' -- cut to Lost title screen.
- Jack literally sticks a fork in an outlet and electrocutes himself. (Ed Note - Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease)
Other theories stemming this surely very meaningful four-word title? Leave 'em in the comments.
(via ONTD) Source: Best Week Ever | 6 Apr 2009 | 9:40 pm
How often do you see photos of Lindsay Lohan wearing genuine pants? A handful of times a year? Usually she wears clingy tank tops or minidresses that barely cover her rear, with nothing more than leggings or tights. So it makes sense that she'd expand her 6126 leggings line to panty hose. The category will include five styles of hose in matte and shiny blacks and nudes with a shaping component (read: the always-sexy control top). One pair will be white-and-black, perhaps like the tights Chanel showed for spring 2009 (Lindsay's padded leggings were inspired by Chanel handbags). The hose will launch at Intuition in L.A. in July and then in other stores.
We're a bit frustrated, since this will do nothing to bolster our Tights Are Not Pants campaign. Lohan will wear her new panty hose for promotional purposes, and the chances of her pairing them with legitimate dresses are slim. Like Lady Gaga, she will probably only further the belief that tights can serve the same purpose as pants. We don't know if we'll ever be able to accept butt cheeks as the new boobs.
Ben Silverman really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? From Variety comes word that NBC is developing a modern-day take on The Wizard of Oz, tentatively titled Dorothy Gale, for next fall: "Script follows the story of Dorothy, a girl from Kansas who tries to tackle modern-day Manhattan (her version of the Emerald City). Dorothy finds a job in the art world — and must deal with a wicked boss." So how much do you want to bet that Toto is a Chihuahua in this version? [Variety]
Front Page: Signature show will air from L.A. Live complex -- ESPN officially began its West Coast broadcast operations Tuesday as the cabler prepared for its signature "SportsCenter" to be aired live from the L.A. Live entertainment complex in downtown, adjacent to Staples Center.
Flamboyant financier Robert Allen Stanford has been having a difficult time since the SEC accused him of perpetrating a "massive fraud" through his wealth-management firm, Stanford Financial. Because of the charges pending against him, Stanford was deprived of taking his rightful place as No. 405 on the Forbes list of richest Americans this year, the Texan told ABC in an interview that will air tonight. And since they froze his assets, he's had to live like a poor person. Meaning: He's actually had to fly commercial. "They make you take your shoes off and everything — it's terrible," he complained to the network, which reports that, when describing this miserable treatment, Stanford cried. Other times, he just got really, really angry.
Like when Charlie Gibson asked him about how certain people were comparing his financial empire to Bernie Madoff. "Bullsh—. That's bullsh—," he said. "It makes me madder than hell and it touches the core of my soul," he said.
"If you say it to my face again, I will punch you in the mouth," he said.
He later clarified that didn't really mean he was going to hurt grandfatherly 66-year-old Charlie Gibson. It's just that when a man's core gets touched like that, he gets upset and confused. He can't help it. He feels persecuted.
"I'm the maverick rich Texan where they can put the moose head on the wall. And that's the only reason they went after me," Stanford said. "I'm fighting for my survival and for my integrity."
Well, we have to say he's doing a bang-up job. After all, Hillary Clinton cried on television, and look where it got her.
She was shunned from the party and locked out of her love nest. Now, Lindsay Lohan exclusively tells E! News that reports of her breakup with Samantha Ronson are true: "We are taking a brief...
Clay Aiken still knows how to make the girls swoon. The American Idol alum popped by the set of America's Next Top Model to help them, um, act. Yes, act like a diva, or divo, that...
Nothing says you're officially a Hollywood couple like walking a red carpet together.
Ghost Whisperer costars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy did just that yesterday when they...
The series finale of Life On Mars -- aka, that show that I always watch the beginning of because my DVR recorded the first two minutes after Lost and cannot believe that it's actually a thing airing on a real network -- aired last Wednesday (who knew?) and if you happened to miss it, please watch the video below and immediately feel grateful that you didn't spend any time or energy following the show while it was on ABC. Aside from the (awesome) ending of Newhart, no finale in history has rendered the entire series that preceded it completely worthless quite like the final minutes of Life On Mars.
Also, Harvey Keitel is the main character's dad. (Twist!) Also Harvey Keitel is named "Major Tom" (Twist!) Also Harvey Keitel is pregnant with Sawyer's baby (Twist!)
Brace yourself for the most memorable final shot in television history:
Will & Grace made Eric McCormack a star. In Alien Trespass, an homage to classically cheesy science-fiction flicks, he plays an astronomer named Ted Lewis who gets possessed by an alien marshal, Urp, after he crash-lands on Earth. McCormack spoke with Vulture recently about acting possessed, his son: the alien, and why Trust Me might be done for.
What are the keys to playing someone physically possessed?
I think my first instinct was to make him more alien, sounding like Mr. Spock, and [writer-director R.W. Goodwin] wanted more innocence — like a lilting, childlike inflection. So the image I used was that Urp is on another planet and has to steal a vehicle. And that vehicle happens to be my body. So the walk, the hands, the voice, and of course the erection that keeps happening, those were all just somebody trying to understand a machine that it needs to get around.
How do modern science-fiction movies differ from their forerunners?
I think nowadays when we make science fiction we delve deeper, and the allegories are so much more dense. Back then, the allegory was pretty simple — it was terror from [the outside], whether it was McCarthyism, or the Cold War. Aliens represented everything we didn't understand and were afraid of. I tried to approach Alien Trespass the way an actor in 1957 would have, because, in my mind, this movie was Midnight Run and Urp was the Robert De Niro character, carrying the bad guy from one galaxy to another.
Movie aliens often express childlike naïveté or innocence, and you have a son who's almost 7. Is he at all like a little alien?
For sure, absolutely. When they're little, you can't believe they came out of your wife's body, or your sperm. But when they get a little older, it becomes, "How did that sentence just come out of your mouth?" Was it society, was it television, something in class? The other day I was being sentimental with my son, and said, "I'm just glad you were born." And he said (dispassionately), "Yeah." And I said, "What, weren't you glad you were born?" And he said, "Well, yeah, because otherwise I'd just be sitting with God, doing nothing!" And I thought, "What a concept! Sitting there, just waiting to go to Earth." But I knew that specific image was his own — nothing I or my wife had ever said.
A couple years removed from Will & Grace, have people stopped assuming that you're actually gay?
Well, early on, the publicity department at NBC made a big thing of it: "Isn't this cool, he's not really gay, he's acting!" So that hasn't so much been a big deal. With folks that think that, it's actually more about how television shapes people's minds. They're so keen to believe what's on the small screen, and that that's who you are.
Is Trust Me officially done, and will you be returning to network TV?
They haven't officially made a decision on a second season for Trust Me, but it's not looking too good. I was very proud of it, but I don't think enough people showed up. And I did just shoot a pilot for ABC [with Scrubs' Tad Quill]. It's as yet untitled and I can't really talk about it, but it's done, and funny, and we'll see what happens with that.
Speaking to the Times of London, legendary performer Bob Dylan waxed poetic about the president and his first book, Dreams From My Father:
He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it’s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you’re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse.
Sounds lovely, right? Though if it's an odyssey in reverse, does that mean we're leaving home and returning to war? That doesn't seem very nice, actually.
Rumors circulated on the Internet last week that Christian Siriano had booked America's Next Top Model winner CariDee English for his fall 2009 campaign. This is untrue, Siriano's publicist confirmed to us today. The misunderstanding is the result of English's photo shoot with Brad Walsh, Siriano's photographer boyfriend. She's wearing the designer's clothes and Payless shoes in the photos, which Walsh often uses — it's cross-branding (and boyfriend-y support, aw). But it's not for Christian's campaign. As for who actually scored the gig: The designer has not chosen a face at this time. Our write-in vote goes to Sessilee Lopez, who closed his fall show. Now that girl would be fierce. [AfterElton.com, BradWalsh.com]
• Forget tears. When it comes to shampoo, Gwyneth Paltrow is concerned it can give children cancer. No word yet on what adverse effects stem from naming your kids Apple and...
It's not only war that's hell—war movies, too, can take their toll.
Luckily for George Lucas, his would-be WWII epic that's nearly two decades in the making is almost...
Former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld sent a "blast e-mail" saying he has a new gig at Matrix Advisors, and for some reason — in order to punish him for having the gall to rejoin the workforce? Or for not using BCC-ing? — the Journal has used this occasion to reveal the Gorilla's favorite feeding grounds. "Despite his fall from grace, Mr. Fuld is still a fixture around New York, and is often seen lunching or power breakfasting at Brasserie in midtown Manhattan." See you there, Code Pink ladies. [WSJ]
HAIR
• Miss Virginia, Tara Wheeler, promised to shave her head if she raised $500,000 for a children's cancer charity by next week. Donations have only amounted to five figures, but she promises to shave her head anyway at the end of her reign this summer. "Society needs to take a second look at how we deem someone pretty," she said. [Reliable Source/WP]
• At the Country Music Awards last night, many stars opted for low, loose curls. Nicole Kidman and Miley Cyrus finally had something in common! [Beauty Department/Glamour]
FRAGRANCE
• A new book states that oakmoss, a material used to make perfume, will be banned by the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) on January 1, 2010. Any fragrances containing oakmoss will be illegal in the E.U. after that date. [Now Smell This]
MAKEUP
• A pair of vintage shoes seen in the book The Seductive Shoe feature a little holster for lipstick. If only they were more attractive. [BellaSugar]
• Instead of throwing out old makeup packaging, take it to Origins and they'll recycle it for you. Or just recycle it yourself. [Stylewatch/People]
Back in March when Observe & Report debuted at the SXSW Film Festival, director Jody Hill spent most of his time fending off journalists eager to draw connections between his second feature and the film that has so far turned out to be the surprise multiplex hit of this young year, Paul Blart: Mall Cop. But now that he's out on the publicity trail promoting the film in advance of its wide release this Friday, it seems that inquiring minds everywhere are less interested in how Seth Rogen is the anti-Blart and more interested in how Hill and his fellow University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumnus Danny McBride managed to conquer Hollywood. And while the story of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay discovering The Foot Fist Way after the 2006 Sundance Film Festival has been told umpteen times by now, the New York Timesgot Hill to open up about one of the major motivating factors that propelled him to success: his jealousy over the early-career success of David Gordon Green.
As you may know, Hill was college buddies not only with Danny McBride, but also with the director Green and Ben Best (a co-writer of Foot Fist). After getting his degree, Hill moved out to Los Angeles and worked on crappy reality shows like The Mole while trying to make a name in town. Along the way, his old buddy Green started garnering critical acclaim for films like George Washington and All the Real Girls, fueling Hill's healthy competitive spirit:
“You would read about David, he’s off in France showing his film, and it’s like, what am I doing?” Mr. Hill said. “I would literally wake up in the middle of the night in these panics. Any of the girls I dated, I apologize.”
However, this (temporary) chasm between their levels of success didn't drive the two apart; rather, it inspired Hill, McBride, and Best to head back to North Carolina and shoot The Foot Fist Way with the $30,000 Hill had saved up since college. Green helped explain Hill's motivations to make it in Hollywood thusly: "I think that [competitive drive] comes from a kid that wants to punch something. It’s great to bring that hunger and anger and put it in a healthy place."
And while we're not sure we'd describe any of Hill's work as necessarily coming from a "healthy place," we're certainly excited to see how America reacts this weekend when they go to the movies expecting to see a Blart redux and instead come out of the theater seeing something that Variety has famously described as being "downright transgressive."
Tonight, the sixth season of The Hills premieres on MTV. It's Lauren Conrad's last season, and she tells the L.A. Times she's relieved to be walking away from the show. Now she can wear backless ensembles and white, have a relationship with a boy that goes somewhere, go to lunch with her friends spontaneously, and eat the food she orders. Also, she won't have to deal with the show's creator, Adam DiVello, her relationship with whom she calls "weird." She doesn't like how he stirs up drama on the show, like he did for tonight's episode about her birthday party.
After Montag showed up unannounced to the birthday party airing tonight, Conrad informed the producers she'd be taking a week off immediately as payback.
"He's a genius, and I have a lot of respect for the show he's created ... but we've had a lot of arguments," she said. "They'd put us in situations we didn't want to be in. There were times I'd take my mike off and just stop."
If the other situations Conrad alludes to are equally as terrible as the birthday fiasco, we shudder to think what happened. Maybe DiVello forced her to hold another pool party for Audrina. Or got Stephanie liquored up and encouraged her to make out with Doug right in front of Lauren, which she did with hardly any encouragement at all. Seriously Lauren's life could only be worse if she were fighting terrorists in Afghanistan.
MTV is unsure if it will continue the show without Conrad. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt hope it will (because without the show, the only careers they'd have would involve wearing polyester uniforms and serving tacos). "I don’t know that we need her," Montag said. So we guess they're not friends again!
"I’m on the toilet. Still on the toilet. Guys, dot-dot-dot, out of TP. Still on the toilet." —Zac Efron on what he's not posting on Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace [People]
"That's not me on Twitter. I have never partaken in any social networking avenue on the internet. I'm not on Facebook, I'm not on MySpace. I'm especially not on Twitter. But apparently there is a fake me on there." —Seth Rogen on his nonexistent Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts [Female First]
"Me? I die in every film that I'm in this year. They're just gonna have to keep on killing me. I'll keep coming back, until they realise what's hot and make flicks for bitches like me." —Michelle Rodriguez on how Hollywood can't kill her, baby [Female First]
"I've finally got 'round to a book but I can't remember anything." —Ozzy Osbourne on wondering what he's done in his life [Spinner]
"I'm fully aware that when some people hear my name in a musical context, it's not often equated to anything earth-shattering." —Mandy Moore on her ho-hum reputation [Spinner]
"And to hang out with the guy playing me dressed in my shirt? It’s gross. It’s like that scene in Being John Malkovich, and you enter his head. It’s the ultimate narcissism. I found it gross. Is that weird? I don’t know." —Evan Wright, Generation Kill author, on being on the set of Generation Kill [Daily Beast]
Two things we learn from this:
1) The two most important things that have happened since Friday are both the Lindsay/Samantha breakup.
2) Every photo of this couple apparently features Samantha sneering thuggily and Lindsay looking a lot uglier than she actually is. Source: Best Week Ever | 6 Apr 2009 | 7:40 pm
Is anyone else besides Michelle Obama leaving the house these days? Because for the last week, you would have thought that Anne Hathaway, Gwyneth Paltrow and Halle Berry had gone into the Witness Protection Program.
Another season, another unhappy young woman: Pratt architecture student April holds a grudge against her last therapist, but she seems to be dealing well enough with a recent breakup and the familial stress of helping her autistic brother. Her real problem is so scary she hasn’t told anyone about it, and can only write it down for Paul: stage-three non-Hodgkins lymphoma. April is too deeply in denial to make another appointment with Paul, or with an oncologist.
Front Page: Howard, Gooding, Cranston cast in WWII film -- Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Bryan Cranston have joined the cast of George Lucas' "Red Tails," the WWII action-adventure about the Tuskegee Airmen.
Now that she's boastful of her new curves, the secret's out: Kate Moss eats. According to the Mirror, the supermodel is contemplating reaffirming her love of calories to the world by authoring a cookbook. She reportedly recently fell in love with cooking after testing out recipes in the cookbook by Stasha Palos, Topshop owner Sir Philip Green's stepdaughter. The theme of Stasha's book is traditional Jewish meals made simple. This possibly made-up story is a brilliant plug for Stasha's book just two nights before Passover begins: Kate has tested recipes for "everything from chicken noodle soup to salt beef and potato latkes, non-dairy pareve carrot and honey cakes," the Mirror reports. That means she's consumed quite a bit of sugar, fatty meat, oil and/or butter, and quite possibly schmaltz. Since everything Kate wears sparks a worldwide trend (shorts over tights, men's shoes, tights as pants), we see no reason her eating habits shouldn't as well. So schmaltz is in! If she goes to a seder, think how cool going to those will be. She can plug her new Topshop line as "great seder dresses." If that sounds silly, you should see some of the press releases we get.
Front Page: 'Hitched,' 'Mafia' set for summer -- Having gone fishing the past two summers, The CW is finally getting into the off-season game. The Dub net announced Monday that it has slated two original reality skeins this summer.
Here we go again! In advance of next month's Up — which will almost certainly be another perfect, hugely successful addition to Pixar's spotless filmography and will probably spark another debate over why animated movies can't win Oscars for Best Picture — Wall Street and toy manufacturers are concerned about the film's commercial prospects, reports today's Times. "The worries keep coming despite Pixar's track record," says some blowhard from an investment bank, "because each film it delivers seems to be less commercial than the last."
At issue, as usual, is the lack of a cuddly protagonist (Up stars a morbidly obese boy scout and a grouchy 78-year-old who fly to South America together in a balloon-powered house): "We doubt younger boys will be that excited by the main character," says a joy hater from Pali research who's also concerned about the lack of a female lead. Thinkway, the company responsible for all of Pixar toys going back to Toy Story, will apparently not create a single Up-related item, and Disney Stores will only stock tie-in products "on a limited basis," say analysts.
The Times also points out that Wall-E and Ratatouille have been Pixar's worst performing movies ever, earning only $224 million and $216 million, respectively.
Most worrisome of all, though, is Pixar's galling commitment to making quality films regardless of what investors think:
Perhaps Wall Street would not care so much if Pixar seemed to care a little more. The co-director of Up, Pete Docter — who also directed Monsters Inc. — said in a recent question and answer session with reporters that the film’s commercial prospects never crossed his mind. “We make these films for ourselves,” he said. “We’re kind of selfish that way.”
Outrageous! Honestly, though, if anyone's earned the right to ignore focus groups, it's Pixar. Even though this argument seems to come up every time they make a movie, we sort of didn't expect it this time. Doesn't Up also feature an adorable talking dog, for godsakes? And what does it say about our society when we're worried that audiences might find an elderly hero less sympathetic than a rat and a garbage-disposal robot?
Come on, Wall Street — this is the same noxious thinking that ruined all the other movie studios. Leave Pixar alone!
Topshop's retail strategy keeps beating the downturn. After opening a flagship in Soho last week (that lived up to the hype), the retail giant is now launching a new line of accessories for female cyclists in the United Kingdom on Thursday. Designers Amy Fleuriot and Sarah Buck of Cyclodelic created the line, which offers headscarves, hats, visors, capes, ankle cuffs, bags, and grip tape, all in bright reflective colors. It's a move that capitalizes on the growing market of casual female riders and commuters. Although, we're crossing our fingers that they'll expand into spandex gear, like padded-butt shorts. Only Topshop could make ass protection stylish. New York bikers will have to head to London if they want any gear: The line is available exclusively at the Oxford Circus flagship. Boo. [Independent UK]
A weekend push from Kevin Smith's Twitter sparked a remarkable comeback from Clerks, which ended up crushing tournament favorite Clueless by a 75-25% margin. To all those in the comments calling voting shenanigans, we never made a rule against (and in fact, encourage) directors rallying online supporters, and if Alicia Silverstone and Jill Sobule couldn't retaliate with tweeting of their own, that's their problem. Meanwhile, Wayne's World continued its dominance with a 77-23% win over surprise Final Four entrant Scream and now enters the Finals having won every one of its matchups by more than 75% margins.
This is it, Internet. Clerks vs. Wayne's World -- remember, the question isn't "Which movie is better," it's "Which movie is more 90s?" (Or "Whose Twitter linked you to this page?")
Vote Away, after the jump:
Source: Best Week Ever | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:15 pm
(Ed. Note: Spoilzies Alert!)
One of my most sacred guilty pleasures in life* is to kick back on Sunday evening and catch the latest episode of The Celebrity Apprentice, a smörgåsbord [or ˌsmœrɡɔsˈbuːɖ] of C- and D-list celebrities jumbled together and assigned various tasks, all in an effort to eventually be Donald Trump's Apprentice, a fake title which means nothing and doesn't do anything. On the bright side, there's charity money involved.
Celebrity Apprentice is no joke, people. It's a two hour long show, 30 minutes of which are spent in the boardroom where Donald, flanked by his already botoxed children, rip these celebrities up and then tear them down. The season began with so much potential... until the most entertaining of the contestants seemed to get the axe the earliest. First of the faves to go was Tom Green; then, last week, in a unprecedented move, Dennis Rodman was sent packing up his portable Ed Hardy store and told "Good day."
Last night was yet another two-hour supersized episode, where the challenge was for each team to create a viral marketing video for ALL Brand Detergent. Melissa Rivers, yanked away from the protection of my personal life inspiration Joan Rivers, headed up the Athena Team, where country singer and all around face-of-a-squirrel Clint Black took the reigns of Kotu.
The results were... in a word... horrendous. It was almost like NBC plundered a TLC casting call, there were so many little people involved. And where they were able to find tiny blue jumpers in a pinch I'll never get over.
Clint Black was revealed to be a Napoleonic assh*le with deep-seated anger towards women (or, to be more accurate, all of their newfangled "opinions.") The way he addressed international treasure Joan Rivers alone should have gotten his cocky ass thrown off the 19th fl of Trump Tower, DJ Jazzy Jeff stizz. But more importantly, his video not only sucked, it made no sense, and was overall embarrassing to watch. That's not to say the ladies did any better: I found very little funny about Jesse James' midget commercial. But at least it didn't make me want to punch the glass of my TV in and pull the vacuum innards out, holding them over my head and screaming like some sort of futuristic low-budgy Mortal Kombat, as did Clint's.
But why this rant? Let's fast forward a bit to 90-f**king-minutes into the show when it's board room time. Donald breaks the news to the teams: They were both losers. ALL rejected both ads! Meaning two people were going to go home.
Now, having invested dozens of hours into this reality show that basically has zero payoff, one would at least hope to see Clint get his comeuppance at the end. But did he? No. No he did not. That's because Donald chose to fire two people for the most INANE reasons imaginable. First, Trump randomly fires Tionne Watkins for volunteering herself into the board room elimination. I had actually pegged Tionne to possibly win the whole show, given how admirably she performed during last week's stressful hotel challenge. Instead, Trump called her out on a technicality and sent her unceremoniously packing.
But much, much more enraging was who else Trump sent home. The entire episode, the only way to deal with that smug summabitch that is Clint Black was to imagine how sweet it would be when he is fired later on. But was it Clint who was forced to take the elevator ride of shame? No. It was homegirl Khloe Kardashian. I could see Trump firing her because she really did little to contribute to the tasks, though her talking head comments were pretty funny. Instead, Trump put his judging wig on and got a tad too high n' mighty for my tastes, chiding Khloe for a past DUI which she had to deal with back in California. Trump tells Khloe he wasn't aware of this infraction, and because of this, she is fired. Here is hidden camera footage of me upon finding this news out.
Now, please do not misunderstand. He did have kiiiiind of a point. DUI is a horrible thing that is not to be taken lightly. Still, even if he wanted to kick her off the show, did he have to embarass her in public the way he did? It's not her fault that his producers were ill informed. She is paying the consequences thanks to a California judge, and unless part of her punishment was to "be humiliated in front of millions of American people by a pompous blowhard", this could have been dealt with in a more private manner. The only person who should have been "fired" in this scenario was the producer who screwed up in the first place.
Firing Khloe had absolutely nothing to do with the challenge, and, thusfore, wasted two hours of my extremely busy** life. So Donald, you officially owe me two hours of my life back. Also? If Joan doesn't win, I will literally return every single case of Trump Water I bought last year, so help me God. And trust me... there are hundreds of them. Because if he kicks her off... who is left? Who is left?
*(after methsicles)
**(empty)
What were your thoughts on the episode? Source: Best Week Ever | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:02 pm
Carrie Underwood captured entertainer of the year Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards, winning the top honor that has eluded women for nearly a decade, while Taylor Swift won album of the year and Julianne Hough snagged top new artist. Source: FOXNews.com | 6 Apr 2009 | 5:55 pm
Every so often we like to check in on the country of Japan, just to make sure they're still remembering to be Japan:
Yyyyyep, giant pink penis float being paraded through downtown Kawasaki - looks like everything is in order here. Way to continue to be Japan, Japan.
After the jump, a bunch more penile pics from the Kanamara Festival - I guess NSFW? They're pretty adorable d*cks...
Like a Crayola Crayon Box, but penises. The Penis Sharpener on the box is just as useless though:
A coin-operated ride for the kiddies:
You've heard of leafy "greens"? Well you might call these, leafy "c*cks". Or leafy peens. I prefer my first one though.
And finally, an extremely self-assured (and class-ayyy) lady:
Actor Jackie Earle Haley arrives at the premiere of 'Watchmen' on March 2, 2009 in Hollywood, California. The Oscar-nominated actor has been unmasked as the latest incarnation of horror movie icon Freddy... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 6 Apr 2009 | 4:39 pm
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's armed bodyguards opened fire on paparazzi at the couple's nuptials in Costa Rica, blasting out the windows of a pho tographer's SUV, and just missing the shaken lensmen, the fotogs said yesterday. Source: FOXNews.com | 6 Apr 2009 | 4:35 pm
AP - There's a secondary contest running each week on TV's "Dancing With the Stars": Who will have the best costume? Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 6 Apr 2009 | 4:34 pm
It's been a dynamite month for the seven ardent Smashing Pumpkin fans still holding out hope for their band, first with drummer Jimmy Chamberlain quitting, and now with the asexual moon that is Billy Corgan appearing in these red carpet photos:
I don't interpret these pics as a calculated Joaquin-esque publicity stunt or as an actual celebrity couple; I think Corgan is just no longer an actual living entity, but rather a half-alive ghost thing that drifts around and is occasionally photographed and appears in concert to do 30-minute Pink Floyd covers, not unlike Claire from Lost (though Claire's last two albums were better).
After the jump, two more WTFey pics of Billy and Tila, or as I've dubbed them, Billquila:
Front Page: CBS bucks trend of faltering awards shows -- CBS felt the rhythm of Sunday night's Academy of Country Music Awards, winning the evening handily over second-place Fox. The three-hour kudofest won or tied every half-hour and improved over last year's broadcast significantly.
Indian film director Vipul Shah, seen here in 2004, is currently working on a film called "Action Replay" which uses the same plot as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." US studio Warner Bros on Monday... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 6 Apr 2009 | 4:02 pm
Son Volt, the Americana-inspired rock group fronted by Jay Farrar, returns this summer with a new album and new label. "American Central Dust," the band's sixth full-length and its first since signing with Rounder Records, will be released on July 7.
If you haven't seen the preview for Jaime Foxx's upcoming movie The Soloist, allow us to present our interpretation of what the poster should have looked like:
Fashion Wire Daily - The bridal gowns of Badgley Mischka, a celebrity and socialite wedding favorite - Kristen Davis in "Sex and the City" even wore a Badgley Mischka gown for her character Charlotte's second wedding - may be an investment, but they are the type of gowns that granddaughters may find themselves wearing one day.
Lady GaGa completed a U.K. chart double yesterday (Sunday) as her Interscope/Universal album "The Fame" rose 3-1 and the single "Poker Face" began a third week at the top.
The title of the Pet Shop Boys' 10th album, "Yes," perfectly reflects the duo's positive mood as they celebrate 25 years of proving synth pop can rise above mindless fluff.
With the backdrop of this morning's second round of U2 tickets for their fall concert in New York, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer unveiled new legislation to improve fans' chances of getting tickets at face price and crack down on ticket resellers.
Was there any drama when Hef and Holly met up again for the first time since their split at his 83rd birthday bash? Source: FOXNews.com | 6 Apr 2009 | 1:39 pm
Fashion Wire Daily - "Light, airy and happy" and "approachable fantasy" was how Reem Acra described the mood of her fairy tale-inspired Spring 2010 bridal collection, which she presented in New York on Sunday, April 5.
Fans of the character Easy Rawlins don't want to hear it, but author Walter Mosley says he has officially moved on. The prolific writer has seemingly wrapped up his beloved series in favor of a new character.
No offense to Brooke Burke, but whoever wins the disco ball trophy this season is going to have to out-dance more than one similarly talented celeb.
This has quickly been shaping up to...
Britney Spears' tour may be heading south. Way south.
Attorneys representing the popster and father Jamie's conservatorship discussed in court today the possibility of taking...
Call it the last taboo.
OK, maybe second to last. In any case, Hollywood has never been afraid of love between a successful older star and sexy younger partner.
So with that...
The members of the George-Izzie-Alex love triangle on Grey's Anatomy turn out to be key players in this last run of season five G.A. episodes. Find out how Izzie's screwing up Alex's...
OM-f*cking-G you guys -- the producers' secret codename for the Lost Season 5 finale has been revealed!
Get ready for easily-understandable meaningfulness... The Season 5 finale will be called...
She was shunned from the party and locked out of her love nest. Now, Lindsay Lohan exclusively tells E! News that reports of her breakup with Samantha Ronson are true: "We are taking a brief...
Clay Aiken still knows how to make the girls swoon. The American Idol alum popped by the set of America's Next Top Model to help them, um, act. Yes, act like a diva, or divo, that...
Nothing says you're officially a Hollywood couple like walking a red carpet together.
Ghost Whisperer costars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy did just that yesterday when they...
• Forget tears. When it comes to shampoo, Gwyneth Paltrow is concerned it can give children cancer. No word yet on what adverse effects stem from naming your kids Apple and...
It's not only war that's hell—war movies, too, can take their toll.
Luckily for George Lucas, his would-be WWII epic that's nearly two decades in the making is almost...
Keith Urban
Eddie Montgomery
Billy Ray Cyrus
Carrot Top and Bruce Jenner 
Leann Rimes
Matthew David McConaughey
Darius Rucker
Kellie Pickler
Billy Ray Cyrus 
Nicole Kidman
Carrot Top
Taylor Swift
Jennifer Love Hewitt and boyfriend Jamie Kennedy (Note: I kid.)
Miley Cyrus
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(Ed. Note: Spoilzies Alert!)
One of my most sacred guilty pleasures in life* is to kick back on Sunday evening and catch the latest episode of The Celebrity Apprentice, a smörgåsbord [or ˌsmœrɡɔsˈbuːɖ] of C- and D-list celebrities jumbled together and assigned various tasks, all in an effort to eventually be Donald Trump's Apprentice, a fake title which means nothing and doesn't do anything. On the bright side, there's charity money involved.
Celebrity Apprentice is no joke, people. It's a two hour long show, 30 minutes of which are spent in the boardroom where Donald, flanked by his already botoxed children, rip these celebrities up and then tear them down. The season began with so much potential... until the most entertaining of the contestants seemed to get the axe the earliest. First of the faves to go was Tom Green; then, last week, in a 
Last night was yet another two-hour supersized episode, where the challenge was for each team to create a viral marketing video for ALL Brand Detergent. Melissa Rivers, yanked away from the protection of my personal life inspiration Joan Rivers, headed up the Athena Team, where country singer and all around face-of-a-squirrel Clint Black took the reigns of Kotu.
The results were... in a word... horrendous. It was almost like NBC plundered a TLC casting call, there were so many little people involved. And where they were able to find tiny blue jumpers in a pinch I'll never get over.
Clint Black was revealed to be a Napoleonic assh*le with deep-seated anger towards women (or, to be more accurate, all of their newfangled "opinions.") The way he addressed international treasure Joan Rivers alone should have gotten his cocky ass thrown off the 19th fl of Trump Tower, DJ Jazzy Jeff stizz. But more importantly, his video not only sucked, it made no sense, and was overall embarrassing to watch. That's not to say the ladies did any better: I found very little funny about Jesse James' midget commercial. But at least it didn't make me want to punch the glass of my TV in and pull the vacuum innards out, holding them over my head and screaming like some sort of futuristic low-budgy Mortal Kombat, as did Clint's.
But why this rant?
Let's fast forward a bit to 90-f**king-minutes into the show when it's board room time. Donald breaks the news to the teams: They were both losers. ALL rejected both ads! Meaning two people were going to go home.
Now, having invested dozens of hours into this reality show that basically has zero payoff, one would at least hope to see Clint get his comeuppance at the end. But did he? No. No he did not. That's because Donald chose to fire two people for the most INANE reasons imaginable. First, Trump randomly fires Tionne Watkins for volunteering herself into the board room elimination. I had actually pegged Tionne to possibly win the whole show, given how admirably she performed during last week's stressful hotel challenge. Instead, Trump called her out on a technicality and sent her unceremoniously packing.
But much, much more enraging was who else Trump sent home. The entire episode, the only way to deal with that smug summabitch that is Clint Black was to imagine how sweet it would be when he is fired later on. But was it Clint who was forced to take the elevator ride of shame? No. It was homegirl Khloe Kardashian. I could see Trump firing her because she really did little to contribute to the tasks, though her talking head comments were pretty funny. Instead, Trump put his judging wig on and got a tad too high n' mighty for my tastes, chiding Khloe for a past DUI which she had to deal with back in California. Trump tells Khloe he wasn't aware of this infraction, and because of this, she is fired. Here is 
Now, please do not misunderstand. He did have kiiiiind of a point. DUI is a horrible thing that is not to be taken lightly. Still, even if he wanted to kick her off the show, did he have to embarass her in public the way he did? It's not her fault that his producers were ill informed. She is paying the consequences thanks to a California judge, and unless part of her punishment was to "be humiliated in front of millions of American people by a pompous blowhard", this could have been dealt with in a more private manner. The only person who should have been "fired" in this scenario was the producer who screwed up in the first place.
Firing Khloe had absolutely nothing to do with the challenge, and, thusfore, wasted two hours of my extremely busy** life. So Donald, you officially owe me two hours of my life back. Also? If Joan doesn't win, I will literally return every single case of Trump Water I bought last year, so help me God. And trust me... there are hundreds of them. Because if he kicks her off... who is left? Who is left?
*(after methsicles)
**(empty)
What were your thoughts on the episode?
