Reuters - MUZU.TV, an Irish-based video Web site which has won plaudits from the music industry for the way it pays artists when their music is played online, has signed a deal with the world's largest label Universal. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Apr 2009 | 12:59 pm
Reuters - MUZU.TV, an Irish-based video Web site which has won plaudits from the music industry for the way it pays artists when their music is played online, has signed a deal with the world's largest label Universal. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Apr 2009 | 12:59 pm
Reuters - Hollywood's major film and television studios on Tuesday began a new push to educate U.S. lawmakers about the entertainment industry by touting job creation in the recession and media's global trade surplus. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Apr 2009 | 12:39 pm
AP - Jay Leno is planning another free "Comedy Stimulus" show for people hurt by layoffs this time in an Ohio community losing thousands of DHL shipping jobs. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Apr 2009 | 12:19 pm
AP - Jay Leno is planning another free "Comedy Stimulus" show for people hurt by layoffs this time in an Ohio community losing thousands of DHL shipping jobs. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Apr 2009 | 12:19 pm
AFP - Stephen Hawking, the acclaimed wheelchair-bound British scientist, is reported "comfortable" in hospital the day after being rushed there, a Cambridge University spokesman said on Tuesday.
Reuters - Stories about Alzheimer's disease, the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks and racist tensions in 1930s Alabama have been nominated for the annual Orange Prize for Fiction honoring fiction written by women. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 Apr 2009 | 11:42 am
Organizers say former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill will be the headline act for the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July. Festival spokesman Gunnar Lagerman says the hip-hop and R&B singer will... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 21 Apr 2009 | 11:38 am
(Reuters) Reuters - "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is the most lyrical drama in August Wilson's monumental 10-play cycle about 20th century black life. It's also the most passionate and religious. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 21 Apr 2009 | 6:00 am
As expected, Depeche Mode, Tool, the Killers, Jane’s Addition, Beastie Boys, and Kings of Leon will headline the 2009 Lollapalooza Festival, the event's promoters announced today.
Reuters - Coachella magic was at work during most of Sunday's closing date of the three-day festival in the southern California desert, from the hot-rockin' Gaslight Anthem out of New Jersey to the headliner, celebrated Britrock mood icons the Cure, playing until the plug was pulled just shy of 1 a.m.
Front Page: Alan Poul to direct 'Modern' pic -- "Sex and the City" alum Jenny Bicks has been recruited to pen a pilot script for HBO, BermanBraun and Sony Pictures TV that is loosely inspired by the Modern Love column in the New York Times' Sunday Styles section.
Front Page: Studio sees daylight to avoid pic glut -- In the latest sign the studios are taking an increasingly year-round approach to box office, 20th Century Fox will open three high-profile titles next January, February and April.
(AP)
AP - It's fundamental, cycle-of-life stuff that happens all day, every day, year-round, worldwide.
Predictably, Indian police have taken Rafiq Qureshi into custody after reading the News of the World's bombshell report that he tried to sell his daughter, Rubina Ali, to a couple of journalists posing to be the emissaries of a wealthy Arab sheik. Qureshi is maintaining that the whole thing is just a misunderstanding, but he also revealed some of the backstory that led to the now-infamous meeting. According to him, this faux sheik, who was really under the employ of NOTW, had been trying to arrange a meeting since January, and had also mentioned that his faux wife was incapable of having children herself. Shadiness abounds. [Sun UK]
Paul Giblin, the co-writer of a five-part series on immigration in the Phoenix-area East Valley Tribune, was laid off back in January, as was the editor who oversaw the project. Depressing. [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
The first single off Clipse’s Til the Casket Drops is here, and guess what: It’s great! Kanye might have made better use of Ron Burgundy’s catchphrase on the “Back Like That” remix, but that’s not nearly enough to spoil “Kinda Like a Big Deal” — this is the most carefree the duo has sounded since “When the Last Time,” with plenty of fast-life rhymes and only two cocaine-trafficking references (well, only two that we understood). Pusha’s verse is all anti-bailout-rock (as we can imagine, “it’s a blessing / to blow a hundred thou in a recession / with no second guessing”) while Malice gets good marks for a well-rounded reference pool (javelins, dental plans, sunroofs); for good measure, Kanye tacks on his second stellar sex-in-school line this month. But it’s D.J. Khalil’s big bass beat — sounding straight off Ratatat’s remix series, a very good thing — that steals the show.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will serve alongside the likes of Caroline Kennedy and Renée Zellweger as Honorary Chairmen (Chairpeople?) of the American Ballet Theater's 2009 Spring Gala. Herbie Hancock will also be on hand to play a song that is to be determined, but one that we're pretty sure will not be titled "The Ballad of Barry O." [ABT]
In keeping with the theme of Sparkle Week, Christie's is having a jewelry sale on Wednesday. But you'd better have some mighty deep pockets for these baubles. The diamonds — with one weighing in at 32.72 carats — have estimated prices in the six figures. The other gems include rubies (a 6.76-carat Burmese set with diamonds) and sapphires. Of course, the real star of the collection is an antique ivory, gem-covered elephant, circa 1900. We know, we know, it's ivory, and there is something a bit odd about carving an elephant out of a tusk (sort of like watching a pig eat bacon). But we can't deny just how stunning the piece is, and had we enough coin, we'd keep him on a velvet pillow in our apartment. Here's a preview of other gorgeous pieces you probably can't afford. Go ahead, drool with us.
April 22, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, nr. Sixth Ave.; 212-636-2000.
Front Page: Studio to privately refinance $66.6 mil of its debt -- In a move that may put a damper on any takeover effort by Carl Icahn, Lionsgate is refinancing $66.6 million of its debt in a private deal.
Once upon a time, Real Housewife and alleged boyfriend beater Kelly Killoren Bensimon worked at Elle Accessories. A colleague of hers found a fabulous vintage owl pendant not to shoot for their esteemed publication necessarily, but for Kelly to wear for photo shoots and media appearances, since she is the most in-demand boldface name in this town. So fabulous was this pendant that one day the two ladies verbally agreed they should make copies of this item and peddle it to the world. But then, according to the tale, Kelly did something a Real Housewife would most certainly never do — she went behind her colleague's back and made the pendant for her own jewelry line.
Photo: Courtesy of Kelly Killoren Bensimon
And now the colleague is suing Kelly for stealing, not an original design, seeing as the piece is a vintage replica, but the idea to make copies of the design and sell them for the low low price of $325 after they talked about it. Now that's a case if we ever saw one. Not to mention a piece of jewelry worth fighting for.
Barbara Walters pulled an Oprah and lost her "twitter virginity" (needless to say, ew). While not celebrating their five Pulitzers, the New York Times rediscovered Twitter in a number of short, uninteresting ways that conflate twitter with youth (original!). In today's main media news, Jossip bites the celebrity gossip dust.
• The Ecologist in Britain, the environmentally crusading magazine whose director is Zac Goldsmith, will publish as an online-only magazine from June, and its final printed issue will hit U.K. newsstands June 19. But get this — they're doing it for the environment. [WWD]
• McClatchy has been notified that they run the risk of being de-listed on the New York Stock Exchange. [Tampa Bay Business Journal]
The short shelf life of published crap is on our minds today, with HarperCollins signing up two books by His Highness the Prince of Wales (a groundbreaking call to protect the environment, plus a picture-book adaptation) while at the same time reportedly rejecting the first draft of Jerry Hall's tell-nothing memoir. And on our desk arrives a galley of the insightful 50th Law, by 48 Laws of Power guru Robert Greene — this time in collaboration with 50 Cent, whose brave accomplishments in brand building and crack dealing are stacked up alongside those of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Abraham Lincoln.
The publisher of The 50th Law is Robert Miller's HarperStudio, the pioneering little HarperCollins imprint that's meant to do an end run around sky-high advances without, apparently, improving the overall quality of published books. Witness their plan to publish two of the highlights of Friday's New York Times article on user-generated blogs turned books (linked to by Publishers Lunch under the headline "Timesworthy: Lazy Humor Books Based on Blogs of User-Generated Nonsense." Postcards From Yo Momma and This Is Why You're Fat make The 50th Law look like The Prince (which is basically Greene's hope).
Into this glut steps Jonathan Karp, publisher of Twelve — which only puts out twelve books a year on the assumption that too many publishers publish too much garbage. He's been flogging this mantra for a while, and today his column in Publishers Weekly offers "12 Steps to Better Book Publishing." Though he makes some sense — advocating for more decentralized control over marketing and acquisition and more streamlining elsewhere — he's a bit maniacal in his quest to tame the wild beast of unpredictable publishing. In his world, a small book of short stories by a major novelist would be consigned to Print-on-Demand, and even more people in publishing would be unemployed.
What's more, Karp is an imperfect messenger. He begins his column with a stroll through his neighborhood bookstore, unearthing such horrors as a probing history of the potato, a coffee-table book on vibrators, and The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession With Virginity Is Hurting Young Women. ("Who exactly is the audience for this book? Self-hating virgins?") Left out of the story are his own carefully curated books, including a collection of essays on women's first periods (My Little Red Book), The Liar in Your Life, and Seven: The Number for Happiness, Love, and Success. These books may or may not be less disposable than a history of the potato. It's easy to put down the competition, but the truth is that one man's gold is another man's crap. Karp is right in the sense that both commodities lose value when there's too much of it around.
Was Madonna just horsing around?
Despite her rep's claim that a pesky paparazzo was to blame for Madonna's weekend fall from a horse in the Hamptons, the officers who...
Relax. This New Moon rumor has nothing to do with a Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson hookup. And unlike the latter, this one has already been proven false.
Numerous blogs and news sites,...
WOMAN WITHOUT A FACE: Brooke Shields is set to star in a horror movie based on her own quote. (Us Magazine)
STAR WHORES: What does a British woman with zero name recognition wear to the premiere of Star Trek? Why, the paper casing found around a Lean Pocket of course! (The Daily Mail)
BRITAIN'S GOT BOYFRIEND: Susan Boyle, the self-professed 47 year old virgin and current Youtube celebrity with the voice of an angel, has a man in her life! And by the looks of his face in that doorway, he has definitely taken her virginity. (The Sun)
BEST $5 YOU CAN SPEND: And speaking of Designing Women, will somebody please buy me this fan-created Designing Women fanzine on Ebay before Annie Potts gets to it first? Appreciated. (Urlesque)
CUE FRIENDS THEME SONG: I had the pleasure of seeing Mad TV's Arden Myrin perform at NY's UCB theater on Saturday night, where she literally put on a comedy facemask and stole the show. And would you believe, we were on The Mike and Juliet Show this morning... together! Check out Arden's new blog to see the two of us in our TV makeup best (me deploying my killer crazy eyes saved exclusively for other people's digicams), and check back for daily updates. (Arden Myrin)
Apparently Ron Howard has not forgotten what happened the last time he adapted a work of fiction for the big screen.
Looking to nip the inevitable religion controversy in the bud, the...
Season two of True Blood is still a couple of months away, but HBO just released the awesome sneak peek you can see above.
Check it out and then share your thoughts on the Bill-Sookie...
Actor Zac Efron arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. "17 Again" held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on April 14, 2009 in Hollywood, California. Youthful fantasy "17 Again," starring Efron, shot to the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 Apr 2009 | 10:15 pm
The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University earlier today, and the big winners in the letters, drama, and music categories included Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin, and Double Sextet by Steve Reich. The full list of winners, including many other things we are embarrassed to admit we have not read or heard, is available on the official Pulitzer Prize site. [NYO]
Heidi Klum: "In many cases, the girls (on Project Runway) eat garbage — things like pancakes and waffles and a lot of junk — which is not going to help them. You'd hardly see any of them eating vegetables or salads. Not even an apple. It was kind of shocking. I try to explain to them that they have to be fit. Models need to have some energy to be able to deal with long days on a photo shoot and taking red-eye flights and managing job after job. You won't last if you're not eating healthily.'' [Telegraph UK]
Yes, there was a Snuggie pub crawl in the East Village on Saturday, and yes, you probably missed it. (Stops included the Village Pourhouse, SideBar, BarNone, and similar bars from freshman year.) And, of course, that's probably for the best, because dudes, it was 70 degrees and who wants to walk around wearing a bunch of fleece indoors when you could be outside inadvertently sunburning at brunch? Thankfully, our crack video team followed along with the robed ones as they bounced from bar to bar. Watch as reporter Tim Murphy gets to the bottom of the mysterious appeal of the blanket that is also a piece of clothing, and gets closer and closer to the Snuggie-wearers themselves.
The full original lineup of Jane's Addiction may be reunited, but members of the volatile quartet are already at each other's throats, just like in the old days. According to Reuters, the group has been fighting nonstop since they got back together for the first time since 1991 to record new songs with their producer and tour mate, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor. Apparently things got so heated in the studio that Reznor was forced to act as a mediator in the ongoing battles between singer Perry Farrell and bassist Eric Avery, the only member of the band to not participate in previous Jane's Addiction reunions. Truly, if Trent Reznor is the guy doing your intervention, you know you've got some serious problems. Despite the incessant feuding, Farrell remains inexplicably optimistic, chalking up the band's severe interpersonal dysfunctions to quasi-hippie stuff like "vibrations." When asked about his troubles with Avery, Ferrell explained, "We're different people, that's okay. He serves a different purpose, he's got a different frequency he operates on. I'm overjoyed that we're working together. I don't care that we butt heads as long as when we hit the stage we blast on people." Good luck with that, Perry!
We're seriously going to regret this, as we've been trying desperately for years to get off the e-mail list that tells you every day, whether or not you want to know, what color the Empire State Building will be that night — and why. But the fact that it's going green tonight Thursday night in honor of 25 years of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is just too stellar to ignore. [City Room/NYT]
Of all the tortured, cruel, and ultimately forgotten internet rumors, no promise has let me down more consistently over the past five years as the rumblings of a comprehensive DVD set for MTV's amazing early-90s sketch show The State, to the point where I pretty much stopped believing that such a thing would ever exist in my lifetime (I would've settled for a VHS tape of two sketches taped over the beginning of the movie Batman, in that old Batman logo VHS case, with audio of Batman playing over it).
Today, at last, the State DVD has an official release date (July 14th), and it's the entire series on five discs with commentary on every episode, deleted sketches, and extras. Unfortunately, I bet a friend that the series wouldn't be released until the next form of media superior to DVD had been invented and become commonplace, but I'll gladly eat the $50.
Hooray:
Can ya believe it's been nearly a year since Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon stunned everyone with their surprise wedding?
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Media commentator and personality analyst Michael Wolff wonders: If Eliot Spitzer can have such a strong hand in carefully steering his reentry into the public eye, would someone like Bernie Madoff have the same chance in a year? [Off the Grid/Newser]
• Kate Moss's perfume, Velvet Hour, won Best New Women's Celebrity Fragrance at the fourth annual Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Beauty Awards in London. Girl sure does know how to market. [MSN]
• Indie brand Stila was acquired by venture-capital firm Patriarch Partners LLC. Sounds so … corporate now, doesn't it? [WWD]
• Botox usage is going up as the economy is going down. Makes sense: Who has money for a full lift job? [Beauty Department/Glamour]
• Isabella Rosselini thinks Lancôme probably regrets dumping her as the face of the brand. [WWD]
We caught some chatter on Twitter over the weekend about a new(ish) iPhone/iPod Touch app called Flight Control. Because it was only $0.99, we decided to splurge and buy it. Needless to say, the next time we looked up, it was three hours later. [Flight Control]
The 14th season ofThe Amazing Race is dwindling down to the final remaining teams, and as tensions grow, so do the assy tendencies of Luke, the show's first deaf contestant and seventeenth intolerable one. Throughout the season, Luke has been less than sportsmanlike (U-turning a team when not necessary, smack talking other teams, just being generally hyper-competitive), causing nice-guy contestant Mike White to label him "The Sinister Deaf Kid."
Sinister is a nice way of putting it. On last night's episode, Margie and Luke got into a heated argument with sister team Keisha and Jen after Luke body-checked Jen by a clue box, throwing a decidedly flamboyant elbow into the poor girl's face. Jen, in response, called him a "bitch." Worse words have clearly been said about Luke; frankly, "Bitch" was putting it nicely. But before you can sign "You are team number... 1" with your hypnotically expressive eyebrows, Luke attacks Jen yet again by another clue box! This time pushing her directly into the box itself. And then... the the following pit stop argument took place. Infuriating is putting it lightly:
Ahead, my take on the situation... A couple of things to note:
1. The whole reason Luke claims to have gone on this race is so that he could be treated like a normal person, and not just someone who is impaired. He wanted to prove that he is as able to perform the tasks as anyone else. Well, little word to Luke: Most people, disabilities aside, do not act like a**holes. (On second thought, a lot of people act like a**holes, but forget that for a second.) Rarely has any Amazing Racer gotten physical with someone else in a challenge. So deaf or not deaf, you are, in fact, a bitch.
2. While I can understand Margie staunchly defending her son, her twisting of the story is pretty despicable. Keisha and Jen, dare I say, actually acted like LADIES on the mat. They did their best not to throw a tantrum, and their smiling in Margie's face was called for. "You should understand because you're black"?!?!?!?! STFUUUUU MARGIE. It should not be wrong to laugh at Luke, not because he is deaf, but because he is ridiculous.
3. Considering how The Amazing Race penalizes people (people = midgets, in this case) for various race f**kery (using personal items to pay tabs; sabotaging other teams), shouldn't PUSHING ANOTHER PLAYER and throwing an elbow be cause for some sort of penalty? Forget even the rules of the show... imagine the DRAMZ. (I'm salivating as I type.) (psRIP Tiny Guys, you were fun, and you loved Thai trannies.)
4. As my pal Ben put it: Karma Duck is a gift from God. If it wasn't for Karma Duck biting that idiot's hand during the challenge, the episode would have been without its usual pleasures. So thank you, Chinese Fish Retrieving Duck. Thank you for making the show enjoyable again.
5. Some of you might be Team Margie and Luke. And that's fine. But there's just something about them that skeeves.
OK guys, let's debate who was in the right and wrong in the comments. And, as always, feel free to call us, Philly Kay-Kay. Source: Best Week Ever | 20 Apr 2009 | 9:01 pm
The verdict: Though Jarvis Cocker's debut solo album sounded more or less exactly like his work as the front man of Pulp, his second record finds the lanky, newly bearded Brit rocking out more than at any other point in his 30-year career. Appropriately enough, the album is produced by Steve Albini, a man best known for his work capturing the raw intensity of Nirvana, PJ Harvey, and the Pixies. Though the shift to more aggressive material is hard to ignore, Jarv is still Jarv — half the record deals with some rather severe sexual frustration, and one of the album's highlights is a cheeky, incredibly self-deprecating ballad titled "I Never Said I Was Deep." Similarly, fans of the grim yet relentlessly horny grooves of Pulp's This Is Hardcore album are advised to skip directly to "You're In My Eyes (Discosong)," an epic disco ballad that is equal parts romance and sleaze.
• Suri Cruise is a lady of the people. She takes time out from a little third-birthday-party trampoline fun to acknowledge her fans and assure them that even more adorable dresses are...
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How close?
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We've found the ongoing ghettoization of the Hamptons pretty amusing: The fact that some of the rich jerks who spent summers barking on their cell phones and screaming at each other over parking places in front of Citarella may have lost everything fills us with not a little pleasure. But of course, it's not just the rich who are suffering. With everyone hanging on tight to whatever shekels they have left, the illegal laborers they previously underpaid to do their handiwork are struggling, and a small campground of homeless day laborers has sprung up in the woods in Southampton, the Post reports today, "just blocks from Saks Fifth Avenue and Intermix stores." The police know they're there, but they're not doing anything about it. "Our hands are tied," the police chief told the paper. Really?
It actually seems like this problem dovetails nicely with another problem in the Hamptons right now: the empty-mansion problem. There's tons of property on the market, and we know for sure some people aren't going to be around this summer. For instance, Marc Dreier probably isn't going to make it to his place. Or Bernie Madoff. And the Noels likely won't be going back to their estate, Dolphins, this year, not after what their neighbors said about them in Vanity Fair. And that place has ten bedrooms, nine and a half baths! It's the perfect size for a nice little homeless shelter! As we see it, it's a win-win solution for everyone. The disgraced financiers would be forced to do something nice for once, the laborers would no longer be homeless, and the neighbors will know that this time around, the people living next door are actually capable of performing an honest day's work.
Karl Lagerfeld shot the fall 2009 campaign for his K Karl Lagerfeld line at Le Montana, a modest hotel in the French Alps. Purple editor Olivier Zham art directed the ads, and took some shots of the action on set. Edita Vilkevièiûtë stars in the campaign alongside, we're told, some French male hipsters — courtesy of the Purple editor's vision, we imagine (not that we'd expect Karl to turn away attractive man-boys). Karl appears to be wearing a denim jacket, which must be his spring uniform.
Mia
Finally the obvious is out in the open: Mia was in love with Paul and felt abandoned when he left for Baltimore. Now she’s crushed that Paul was willing to waive his professional ethics for Laura but not for her — Mia’s committed some professional indiscretion herself by reading Laura’s deposition. He lets her test him and proves he can be relied upon as a shrink. We’re not sure if it’s confidentiality or something else that made him take so long to tell her he didn’t sleep with Laura. Her next episode will further explicate how “difficult” the lawyer is with men and address this now-formulaic episode endgame: Mia left Laura’s deposition in Paul’s office.
April
If Mia’s episode felt like a recap, April's is full of drama. She bumps up their appointment because she was up all night finishing a project and wants to crash. Really, she wants to kill time until 8, when her architectural model will be overdue; she destroys it. A discussion about falling, death, insanity, obsession, and home brings out April's doubts about her empathy with her autistic brother, and her reluctance to present her mother with another problem child. She fakes a call to her mother at Paul’s behest. Left behind: that smashed model.
The beleaguered New York Times had a triumph this afternoon when it was announced that the paper won five Pulitzer Prizes, for Investigative Reporting, Breaking News Reporting, Feature Photography, International Reporting, and Criticism. The photography award went to Damon Winter for his work capturing the Barack Obama presidential campaign, the breaking-news prize went to the investigative team that unearthed the prostitution scandal that brought down Eliot Spitzer, and the international award went to the reporters who covered the deepening American military challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The St. Petersburg Times won two medals, for National Reporting and Feature Writing. The Miami Herald, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times also took home honors. In the arts, Elizabeth Strout won in fiction for her Olive Kitteridge, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham won for his biography of Andrew Jackson, Lynn Nottage won for her play Ruined, and W.S. Merwin won in the Poetry category for The Shadow of Sirius.
Behold Lady Gaga running around London doing press for her new single "Paparazzi." Do no let her swirly hat, John Lennon glasses, and geisha lipstick distract you from her dress, which is not a leotard but a dress with a skirt that covers her thighs! It isn't even made of latex! Her best accessory of late is that teacup, which she tells BBC radio someone gave her as a gift. "I’m on the road so much that little things that make me feel at home really mean a lot to me," she explains. We can understand. Little things like covering one's thighs really mean a lot to us. [BBC Radio]
CHRISTAL: Okay, so. SichaCommaChoire: Yeesss? SichaCommaChoire: (I'm already laughing.) CHRISTAL: What should I write about your website, which I already like? SichaCommaChoire: Local Morons Work For Free? CHRISTAL: Well, it's not for free. CHRISTAL: I see an ad for a thing I didn't know was a product. CHRISTAL: (Caffeine in a Butterfinger? It was a surprise.) SichaCommaChoire: Actually, it's more like… SichaCommaChoire: Local Morons Spend Money To Work
CHRISTAL: Do you have a business person? SichaCommaChoire: David Cho is our business dude. SichaCommaChoire: Late of College Humor and then of Radar. CHRISTAL: I am so pleased. So is it all about media? SichaCommaChoire: Oh, gosh, no. It's solely guided by what we're interested in. SichaCommaChoire: Like, for instance, I just put up a picture of Saturn! Because, yum, Saturn! CHRISTAL: Hahaha. You can find a bunghole in everything. CHRISTAL: This is so exciting/overdue. It's like the eighth Octomom baby. CHRISTAL: Or the bonus Jonas. SichaCommaChoire: Well, we just want to have a good time. SichaCommaChoire: (and drink some cherry wine) CHRISTAL: WHAT IS CHERRY WINE?? SichaCommaChoire: Because you know there's not enough websites! CHRISTAL: Can I tell you? My boyfriend is moving in with me and we drove to New Jersey yesterday to drop off stuff. And that song came on twice! SichaCommaChoire: Hot! CHRISTAL: And he loves that. CHRISTAL: And both times I was like, "WHAT IS CHERRY WINE?" SichaCommaChoire: Now I love your boyfriend! CHRISTAL:: Wait. so how do you think you and Balk are going to work together? Aren't you too similar? Except for the loving cock thing? SichaCommaChoire: : Too similar??? He and i are nothing alike! SichaCommaChoire: Except we are both passive-aggressive. SichaCommaChoire: So it's REALLY QUIET IN HERE. CHRISTAL:: Wait, you're like in the same room? SichaCommaChoire: YES! CHRISTAL: You have an office? SichaCommaChoire: Um, let's call it that charitably, yess! CHRISTAL: You know, the guy who sang that song involving the cherry wine lyric CHRISTAL: Died of AIDS CHRISTAL: And the whole song was about not having to take your clothes off to have a "good time." CHRISTAL: (Where the "cherry wine" rhyme came into it.) SichaCommaChoire: Dare I say the word "ironic"?
The Police got back together, Van Halen got back together, Martin & Lewis repaired their rift, The Pixies reunited, but apparently, none of those people faced a greater lasting animosity than Jonathan Taylor Thomas and the cast of Home Improvement.
If you've seen the Home Improvement True Hollywood Story a half-dozen times, as all living humans have, you'll recall that JTT left the show midway through the 8th season when the Randy character "went to Costa Rica," but because of movie obligations, JTT also declined to appear in the show's series finale the following year.
Flash forward to the 2009 TV Land Awards -- notice which cast member is suspiciously absent from the Home Improvement reunion:
Three letters: J.T.Thomas. (And Wilson, who passed away)
Was he still busy shooting a movie? Perhaps a remake of Man of the House with himself in the Chevy Chase role and Ace Ventura Jr. kid playing the kid? Or is the rift between JTT and the Home Improvement cast simply too deep?
What I'm saying is, could someone please get to work on updating the True Hollywood Story?? Source: Best Week Ever | 20 Apr 2009 | 7:50 pm
Last week, this image of Kanye West with his naked lady love, Amber Rose, surfaced on the Internet. Word was the shot was part of Kanye West's ad campaign for his range of Louis Vuitton sneakers. However, sources have just informed the Cut that the images are not part of a Louis Vuitton ad campaign of any kind. So to answer the question we all asked when we first saw these images, no, Louis Vuitton is not out of its mind. We're still not sure what the shots are for. We're guessing some kind of urban magazine like Giant. Unless Vogue has lost its mind.
Once a week, Daily Intel looks behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Fabulous Freelancer With a Singleness Problem, 26, male, Jersey City, gay, single.
DAY ONE 9:15 a.m.: Run into Dunkin' Donuts. There’s a hot papi on line behind me in a tight tank top. Want to say, “As long as you’re behind me and there’s a counter in front of me ... ” figure it’s a little inappropriate. I go with “Hi.” 11:30 a.m.: Friend calls. Listen to her man problems. I wonder why she's had four boyfriends in the past month and I've had none. I’ve been single for about three years now, because my therapist says I have a hard time letting go. There’s more drama in my life than on Broadway. I guess you could say I'm looking for the right co-star. 12:15 p.m.: E-mailing ex-boyfriend at work. Thinking about how hot the sex used to be. 2:20 p.m.: Slightly bored and sexually frustrated. Decide to enjoy some self-lovin'. 4:15 p.m.: Still thinking about sex with ex-boyfriend. 5:30 p.m.: Ex calls and we talk for about an hour. Decide to hang out tonight. It’s no mystery why I’m still single. 11:40 p.m.: Just got home from hanging out with the ex. Bad decision No.1, hanging out with your ex. Bad decision No. 2, drinking a lot and hanging out with your ex. 12:30 a.m.: Sign online and flirt with a friend of mine that thinks of me as a brother. Good times.
DAY TWO 9:45 a.m.: Went to bed last night wearing clothes, but somehow woke up naked AND ALONE. Something tells me today is off to a rocky start. 11:30 a.m.: Head to BJ's Wholesale Club with a friend and think about getting a b.j. 3:45 p.m.: Start texting an interest of mine who is currently involved with someone else. Get annoyed that he’s not hanging out with me. 3:46 p.m.: Decide to call and bitch about how I'm annoyed that he's not hanging out with me. 5:15 p.m.: Have erotic thoughts about him. Entertain self. 6:44 p.m.: The interest and I hang out. Ex-boyfriend tags along. Again, no mystery why I’m single.
DAY THREE 10:15 a.m.: Make a mental list of relationship issues to discuss in therapy today. I’m thinking an hour isn't going to cut it. 1:30 p.m.: Discuss relationship issues with my therapist. We go over why I can’t let go of my ex and why I gravitate toward men that are unattainable. I wonder if my therapist is a top or a bottom. 2:30 p.m.: Leave therapy feeling a little bummed, but luckily there is a liquor store a block away. 5:50 p.m.: Decide to cook dinner. The only thing to eat is leftover weenies from a BBQ. Enough said.
DAY FOUR 9:51 a.m.: Client calls and gives me a new assignment. I open the drawer to grab a pen and see condoms I bought seven months ago. Sealed and unopened. Grrr. 11:30 a.m.: Job interview. I wonder if the guy who’s interviewing me is gay. I can’t tell. Wedding bands aren’t really good indicators today. 2:29 p.m.: I’m supposed to be working on my new assignment, but decide to read a message from the online dating site I recently joined. It begins, “Hey cutie.” That’s original. 2:31 p.m.: I check out the dude’s profile. It says he's 52, married, has two kids, isn't gay, but up for gay sex. Hmmm. 2:35 p.m.: Crack open a bottle of wine.
DAY FIVE 10:33 a.m.: A friend calls me. She thinks her boyfriend is cheating on her. 11 a.m.: We decide to go on a stalking mission. 3 p.m.: We go to a movie, then swear off men forever. 6:15 p.m.: We decide we are not swearing off men anymore. 10 p.m.: Ex-boyfriend calls and I backtrack. Swearing off men. 10:15 p.m.: I decide that I'm just going to swear. #%!&^!%
DAY SIX 9:15 a.m.: I start working on my weekly blog. Today’s topic is ... drumroll please ... relationships. It’s all about how I don’t have any relationship escrow. 2:25 p.m.: I talk to the interest and ponder what I really find interesting about him. 4:01 p.m.: I talk to ex-boyfriend while I check my online dating profile. I contemplate selling my life story to ABC. I think I’d make a good soap opera. 7:30 p.m.: Me and some friends grab dinner. The amazingly hot waiter definitely got a good tip. I think he was straight, though.
DAY SEVEN 10:07 a.m.: I wake up slightly depressed and begin working. I look in the mirror to see that I somehow turned into Sarah Jessica Parker overnight. 1:15 p.m.: I decide to accept a dinner invitation from a friend who is going through a breakup. 1:37 p.m.: A friend sends me a link to a porn site and my curiosity gets the best of me. 1:40 p.m.: As I watch the porn, I can't help but wonder if meaningless fucking is better than the emotional strain of relationships. I feel like I should start looking behind furniture for the hidden cameras. Somebody is having a good laugh, and it ain’t me.
TOTALS: Three acts of masturbation; zero acts of intercourse; zero dates; three phone calls with ex-boyfriend; two hang-outs with ex-boyfriend; two phone calls with interest who is dating someone else; one hang-out with interest who is dating someone else.
Oh, British People. Even their "Make Things Fun at Work" Day themes are quaint!! Take the following series of photographs, which depict a group of people wearing tea cozies on their head in order to raise money for Elizabeth Finn Care's'Big Tea Cosy' fundraising event, which encourages people to come together over a "cuppa" to raise funds and help those living in poverty in the UK.
Now, while we're not quite sure what the correlation is between putting a teapot cover on your head and raising money for poor folks is, you kinda look at these people smiling away and think "Why ask why?" JFC, look how happy this guy is!:
If poor people even knew what went into their next hot meal, they would probably die laughing (literally):
And somewhere, deep below the Earth's crust, Dudley Moore is like "Wait, has somebody reanimated me?"
Vogue is offering new subscribers a free red crocodile-embossed handbag. However the bag that actually comes in the mail is nothing like the bag in the picture. It is red canvas with pleather handles and patches. Just the first of the many disappointments that come with your yearlong subscription. [NYP]
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This year's Costume Institute Ball at the Met is supermodel themed, but Lauren Hutton might not make it, due to a surfing accident she was in two weeks ago in Hawaii. A kid hit her knee with his board and ripped some ligaments. "[O]nce they go, the bones fall sideways inside the bag of skin," she explains. Hutton made it back to L.A. but must decide “whether I want to go through a five-and-a-half-hour flight to New York with my leg up in the air in public because I can’t bend it more than 30 degrees.” She's supposed to be Michael Kors's date. [NYM]
FX recently aired Snakes On A Plane, and rather than simply cutting Samuel L's famous "I have had it with these MF-ing snakes on this MF-ing plane!" line (and risking a dangerous break in continuity), they instead opted for an edit that rivals Stranger in the Alps and Fairy Godmother in basic cable F-word censoring infamy.
I wonder if anyone noticed?
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Some people celebrate today, April 20, by lighting up a joint and calling it a life, as it's also "4/20". But today also marks the date that the closest thing history has ever had to the Devil himself -- Adolf Hitler -- was born, back in 1889. But do you have any idea how many beloved celebrities have to share their birth date with one of the most vile, evil figures of humankind? Even you -- yes, you -- will be surprised. Here are 10 Celebrities Who Share a Birthday with Hitler:
10. Joey Lawrence, 1976 Whoa! Who knew Joey LoLo was born on Hitler's Birthday? You know who knew? Joey Lawrence, that's who. And most definitely Mayim Bialik, whose Hebrew name means "Water Bagel" in English.
9. George Takei, 1937George Takei is the essence of all things joyous. You know who isn't? HILTER (The way my middle school history teacher used to spell it so as not to honor him with his correct name. Needless to say, this was in a public school.)
8. Luther Vandross, 1951 Sadly, Mr. Vandross passed away suddenly in 2005. But who would have ever guessed that the man responsible for music that helped conceive hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands, of babies, was stricken with easily the worst day to be born out of the entire year.
6. Don Mattingly, 1961 Second most famous moustache born on April 20.
5. John Hugger 1977/Gordon Smiley, 1946 To be honest, we have no idea who thesepeople are, but to have last names like Hugger and Smiley, and share a b-day with Hitler? It ain't right. Though, further research shows that wrestler John Hugger might have more in common with Hitler than previously realized.
4. Crispin Glover, 1964 Actually, upon further reflection, this one kinda makes sense on the Maniacal Scale.
3. Carmen Electra, 1972Move over Eva Braun, knowhudimean? No? Me neither, really. Moving on.
2. J.D. Roth, 1968 THE HOST OF FUNHOUSE WAS ALSO BORN ON HITLER'S BIRTHDAY!!! IS THIS SOME SORT OF KARMIC PRACTICAL JOKE MY HEART JUST CANNOT TAKE ITTTTTTtttttt.....
1. Clint Howard, 1959 As though Clint Howard didn't have it bad enough. First, he remains perma-second-banana to older brother, director Ron Howard, usually playing borderline Aspbergery sideline (yet unforgettable) characters. In his free time, the poor guy delves into the virtual community known as "World of Warcraft". And to top it all off, the poor bastard was born on Hitler's birthday. Here is our present to Clint Howard this year. Happy Birthday, old friend. Source: Best Week Ever | 20 Apr 2009 | 5:40 pm
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Lindsay Lohan and Leonardo DiCaprio were at the same club this weekend and spoke to one another. Wait, that's not exciting -- I meant to say, LiLo is back on the peen wagon lookin' for some A-List man-juice, and she kick-started things this weekend by giving a sensual lapdance to none other than Leo DiCaprio!!!
Let's break down the always fun "our sources tell us" quotes from the Sun UK story and translate each portion into factual English to give us some sense of how this obviously factual story came to factually be (factually).
Lindsay spotted Leo at Hollywood hotspot My House on Wednesday night. A source said: "As soon as Lindsay saw Leo she was like a bee to honey."Translation: Lindsay walked over to Leo.
"She was going for the big catch and when she spotted him in a dark corner of the club she headed straight for him."Translation: Lindsay walked over to Leo, who is a very famous person.
"She quickly monopolised his conversation and made sure she had him all to herself."Translation: Lindsay talked to Leo.
"Lindsay is a sharp tac. She wasn’t wasting her time chatting up small fish. She seemed interested in the gents with deeper pockets, probably because her career is on a downward trajectory."Translation: Lindsay continued talking to Leo, who is a very famous person.
"The pair were cosied up together deep in conversation. She definitely tickled his fancy."Translation: Lindsay continued talking to Leo.
As the night went on and the drinks flowed, things between her and Leo hotted up and she took to the dancefloor to show off her talents.Translation: Lindsay danced on the dance floor of the dance club they were at. Things hotted up.
My eyewitness added: "It was a bit shocking when she got up and started dancing in front of him but he seemed to be enjoying it."Translation: Lindsay danced on the dance floor of the dance club they were at.
I just hope for Leo’s sake his girlfriend doesn’t get wind of his antics or he may find himself barred from the bedroom.Translation: These people are famous. Source: Best Week Ever | 20 Apr 2009 | 4:40 pm
Regina Berdybaeva performs in the "Vagina Monologues" in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in March 2009. The first Russian-language performance of the piece US playwright Eve Ensler, in Central Asia exposed the deep... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 Apr 2009 | 4:01 pm
This weekend saw the return of America's yearly parade of future Donald Trump wives, the Miss USA Pageant, where freshly browned blonde girls of all shapes and sizes parade years of starvation and mental motherly beatings for the chance at winning a fur coat and community college scholarship. (Ed. Note: Was that too bitter? My "B".) Easily the best part of the competition is the "Questions" segment, where years of learning how to walk in a circle immediately go to waste and the contestants are forced to actually, you know... "think."
Now, clearly no one could top the idiocy of Miss South Carolina's answer in 2007 (which, for the record, has been viewed on Youtube almost 35 million f**king times), becaussuh summuh people out there in our nation like, such as, computer owners, and like the internet community, enjoy watching pretty rere's suffer in the spotlight.
Admittedly, the following clip will delivery nowhere near the joygasms of South Carolina's ploy to get people to donate to our public school system. But Miss California, who many pegged to take the crown, may have cost herself the victory after voicing her opinion on gay marriage. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton -- likely the most recognizable judge in attendance -- asked her if she supported gay marriage, only to find out Miss California's decidedly pro Opposite Marriage agenda:
Let this be a lesson to all future Miss USA contestants: Never, ever piss off the gays. Because they made you... and they will destroy you. Shouldn't pageant girls know better? The gays run that show! Miss California deserved to lose the crown, if only for being Rere Retardo (and, also possibly such as a homophobe.)
(Image via The Daily Telegraph) Source: Best Week Ever | 20 Apr 2009 | 3:40 pm
The massacre of students and a teacher within the seemingly safe hallways of Columbine High School reverberated so strongly that its reflection can be found in the creations of multiple artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers over the past decade.
In an exclusive interview with FOXNews.com, Miss California says her phone has been ringing off the hook with people offering her support after she took on a question about gay marriage on Sunday night's Miss USA telecast. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Apr 2009 | 3:30 pm
Front Page: Musical duo pick up 10 nods each -- "Billy Elliot" and "Shrek the Musical" top the 2009 list of nominations for the Outer Critics Circle Awards, with either tuner nabbing 10 noms each.
Matthew Broderick is...
1) A Piano-Playing Political Satirist
2) A Dapper Marionette
3) About to owe a bully some lunch money (possibly Chris Noth)
4) Other - Leave in the comments
Front Page: Studio gets ball rolling with third 'Da Vinci' pic -- While Columbia Pictures is prepping for the May 15 release of Ron Howard’s Tom Hanks starrer "Angels and Demons," the studio will move quickly on the third pic in the franchise.
Green Day has announced a slate of 38 summer dates that begins July 3 in Seattle and marks the chart-topping rock band's first full North American tour in more than three years.
R&B singer Keyshia Cole announced today the tour dates for her "A Different Me" tour in support of her latest album of the same name, which starts on May 13th in Cincinnati and caps on June 20th in Los Angeles, Ca.
The 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival concluded Sunday with a series of challenging, dissonant sets that saw the avant-garde take center stage on the event's final day of music. From My Bloody Valentine's wall of noise and Public Enemy's sonic sculptures to Devendra Banhart's rollicking reimagining of classic rock and Throbbing Gristle's industrial revolution, Coachella flew its freak flag high while the delighted crowd went along for the ride.
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Lindsay Lohan and Leonardo DiCaprio were at the same club this weekend and spoke to one another. Wait, that's not exciting -- I meant to say, 
This weekend saw the return of America's yearly parade of future Donald Trump wives, the Miss USA Pageant, where freshly browned blonde girls 
