The 90-year-old performer is one of many featured at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Under blue skies on the main stage, with his grandson by his side, they close the set with the Woody Guthrie classic "This Land Is Your Land."
(Reuters) Reuters - Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica has dropped out of a race this weekend after suffering minor injuries in a car crash on the outskirts of his Caribbean homeland's capital, his agent said on Thursday. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2009 | 11:29 am
Reuters - After exposing a Church cover-up in "The Da Vinci Code," symbologist Robert Langdon returns to the big screen as an unlikely Vatican ally in the latest movie adaptation of a novel by author Dan Brown.
Reuters - Carol Ann Duffy was named Britain's Poet Laureate Friday, the first woman to hold the royal post in its 341-year history. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2009 | 11:08 am
New Entrepreneurial Slant Offers Gamers an Exciting Perspective on the Classic DinerTown SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2009 | 11:00 am
AP - Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans' vibrant musical tradition.
AP - Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans' vibrant musical tradition.
LONDON (Reuters) - The new Poet Laureate will be named on Friday as Andrew Motion's 10-year tenure comes to an end, with Carol Ann Duffy widely expected to become the first female to hold... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2009 | 8:20 am
Reuters - Canadian actors and independent producers unveiled a new multiyear labor deal Thursday to send Hollywood a signal of industry stability. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2009 | 8:07 am
Having one of its new songs -- "I Can Feel a Hot One," from its just-out sophomore album "Mean Everything to Nothing" -- played on "Gossip Girl" was a momentous occasion for the members of Manchester Orchestra, as well as a way to drum up a little heat for the album seven months before its release.
ROME (Reuters) - After exposing a Church cover-up in "The Da Vinci Code," symbologist Robert Langdon returns to the big screen as an unlikely Vatican ally in the latest movie adaptation of... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2009 | 7:19 am
(AP) AP - Elizabeth Edwards writes in a new memoir to be published in May that news of her husband's affair made her vomit in a bathroom. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2009 | 5:46 am
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Benson Lee will adapt his breakdancing documentary "Planet B-Boy" into a narrative feature for Screen Gems. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2009 | 5:44 am
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Disney Channel is grooming "Wizards of Waverly Place" as its next blockbuster tween franchise in the mold of "High School Musical" and "Hannah... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2009 | 5:42 am
We're seeing a lot more "origin" stories as the movie studios milk each franchise for every last drop, and thus arrives "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," about the blade-wielding character Hugh Jackman plays. Serviceable but inescapably redundant, this movie does just enough to keep the "X-Men" franchise on life support.
AP - It's not easy handling the comic absurdity and terrifying despair that snake hand-in-hand throughout "Waiting for Godot," but the Roundabout Theatre Company's striking revival does justice to both.
(Reuters) Reuters - Six weeks feels like a lifetime in "A Wink and a Smile," a documentary that follows 10 students through a term at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque. Like most strippers, the film promises more than it delivers, offering abbreviated versions of a dozen or so tired routines along with endless critiques, explications and on-camera soul-searching. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 1 May 2009 | 2:54 am
Reuters - "Accent on Youth" is a 75-year-old play, and with its new Broadway revival it looks every bit its age. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 1 May 2009 | 2:52 am
Reuters - People will probably debate the meaning of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" until the end of time, but the reaction of one audience member at the current Broadway revival might say it all. At one point late in the first act, he rose from his seat and stormed up the aisle, and was then heard banging on one of the rear doors of the theater while crying, "Let me out of here!" Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 1 May 2009 | 2:51 am
Front Page: Studio acquires rights to Japanese manga series -- Warner Bros. has acquired rights to turn the Japanese manga series "Death Note" into a live-action film.
Kelis isn't whipping up anymore milkshakes for Nas.
The pregnant R&B songstress is looking to divorce her hip-hop star hubby of more than four years, E! News confirmed...
With Tyson Apostol's demotion to the Survivor: Tocantins jury last week, Benjamin "Coach" Wade was left holding the flimsy strands of his gossamer alliance, which couldn't...
So much new stuff gets revealed in the latest trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Ancient ruins! Undersea creatures! Expensive college!
Plus, the scariest vacuum you...
Last year, Iron Man opened the summer box-office season with a $98 million bang—$102 million, if you counted the early-bird sneaks. Come Friday at midnight, X-Men Origins: Wolverine...
If there's one thing Sarah Palin likes, it's the great outdoors, as seen from a snowmobile, a helicopter, a motorcycle…pretty much anything with a motor and a spot you can shoot...
Front Page: Film acquired at Tribeca fest will air in 2010 -- PBS' "Great Performances" has acquired Spike Lee's film adaptation of the rock musical "Passing Strange" out of the Tribeca fest and announced plans to air the project in 2010.
• Of course, Anne Hathaway's new Lancôme commercial features her dancing, but someone forgot to give her something to sing. And while Anne is twirling around, trying to get us to...
As you can see in the sneak peek above from Monday's Gossip Girl, Nate wants a commitment from Blair, but Blair just wants to be with her BFF Serena. What to do? Hint to Blair: Do not move...
Review in a Hurry: Ghosts mischievously fulfills your vengeful wishes against exes, with surprising sensitivity and humor. It also helps that the whipping boy is Matthew McConaughey, who earns his...
As it’s officially white rapper day on Vulture (see our history of white folks in hip-hop, which was so comprehensive that Sasha Frere-Jones could think of only three measly additions, plus our look at Eminem’s SHOCKING horror-movie trailer), we now present Asher Roth’s new video for “Be By Myself,” which features Cee Lo, plus a bunch of vixens with what looks like — yes — white paint, or at least, some digitial approximation of it (unless it’s an approximation of something else) being poured over their bodies. For those of you who’ve noted Roth recently stepping into a bit of something on Twitter, let us reassure you that this should only offend people who mind degrading images of women.
Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr isn't engaged to Orlando Bloom, but she says she wants a family in the future.
"It's definitely something, one day down the track, I...
Tony winner (and star of Vulture's favorite-ever cave-themed sitcom!) Julie White has joined the cast of the Public Theater's upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, in the role of Maria. [ArtsBeat/NYT]
Contrary to rumor, Jesus Luz won't appear in Louis Vuitton's fall 2009 ad campaign with Madonna, Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs told us at Cipriani Wall Street during the 2009 Parsons Fashion Spring Benefit last night. (Okay, sometimes we get things wrong.) Reporters routinely hound Jacobs with questions about Madonna’s man candy. “I don’t know why!” he said, laughing. “Why is everyone asking me about him? He’s not modeling for me. I don’t do menswear.” Madonna, however, is, and Jacobs said they’d just been working together that day. “I think it was a great shoot,” he said. “She’s the ultimate professional and she and Steven are amazing. I love working with her. There’s no one better.” He refused to divulge the concept of the campaign.
But if Jesus hasn’t yet earned a spot in a Vuitton campaign, he has earned a place as good friend to Jacobs and his fiancé, Lorenzo Martone. “We’re friends and we have dinner sometimes,” said Martone. “I guess as a Brazilian that’s in New York and is in this industry, I have some hints and advice to give. You know, he’s starting a very big modeling career and he has a lot of potential. So he asks me my opinion about some people in the industry — photographers and that. And I tell him.” Where do these advice-giving sessions take place? The Waverly Inn, of course. “We don’t really have a hangout,” said Martone. “We’ve been having a lot of dinners at the Waverly or other places in the West Village on our street. I’m trying to get him to know downtown, which is younger and fresher than the Upper West Side.”
Speaking of uptown, there’s the matter of that little party Jacobs is hosting with Kate Moss, Anna Wintour, and Justin Timberlake on Monday. Jacobs says that this year the Met ball will have “this kind of El Morocco theme going on.” He also adds that none of the concept is his doing. “It’s Anna’s party,” he said. “She came to us, my partner Robert [Duffy] and I, with a concept. She said, ‘This is the theme we were thinking of.’ And she thought we were really right for it. She asked us if we’d underwrite it. Robert was really keen on it and sort of put it all together and made it work with Anna. Anna’s included me in some of the meetings, etc., but, I mean, she really is astounding in how involved she gets, which is great. It really is the most glamorous party New York has.”
Jacobs says he isn’t worried about what he’ll wear, but is "really worried" about the girls he's dressing, including Madonna, Winona Ryder, Rachel Feinstein, Victoria Beckham, and Rihanna. “You know, I just want them to be happy,” he said. “I don’t know anybody who wants to, like, dress somebody on their wedding day. It becomes like this one important choice you have to make, so everyone’s thinking, like, ‘What can I wear that will blow everyone away?’ And I don’t know the answer to that. Just look good and feel good and don’t worry about it.” He said he’ll delve deeply into the Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton collections and archives “to make everybody happy.”
And after the Met, it’s time to work on his wedding to Martone. Jacobs says he isn’t planning to go to any gay-marriage rallies, “but I sure am planning to get married.” The wedding should be in June. And despite his penchant for skirts, Jacobs won’t wear one on his wedding day. “We’ll wear tuxedos. We’re both men. What else would we wear?” he said. “I’m hoping New York and New Jersey pass legislation. If it didn’t pass, that would really suck,” he went on. “But if not, we’ll go off to Massachusetts and get married there.”
ACTIVIST: Miss California Carrie Prejean announced on the Today Show that she will campaign against gay rights. I may not agree with her politics, but I admire her...I guess, ability to get on the Today Show. (Huffington Post)
DAAAAAAD: Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone says that Leno's new 10:00 show "doesn't stand a chance" because CSI will "beat the hell out of him." He then whipped out a shiv and challenged all of ABC and FOX to a rumble before being calmed down by his associates. (Hollywood Reporter)
HALF-ASSED: These new Harry Poter and the Half-Blood Prince posters should grab the attention of moviegoers who love seeing a person behind another person (watch out, person in the foreground!!!) (ONTD)
HONORARY EIGHTH GRADER: It's impossible not to have masturbation on your brain when you're broadcasting for the Yankees. And Wang wasn't even pitching. (Awful Announcing)
Pablo Schreiber has a nude scene with Carla Gugino in the new play Desire Under the Elms. Looking back at Gugino's career, that means she will have done a nude scene with both Pablo and Liev Schreiber. So when we caught up with her on opening night, we had to know if she had a preference: "I’ve been very fortunate to get to know both Schreiber brothers very well." Can you be that diplomatic about nude scenes? Guess so. For more steamy moments, view our Party Lines slideshow.
From L to R, the live-action cast of Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Meatwad (played by a rubber ball), Frylock (T-Pain), Carl (Dave Long Jr.), and Master Shake (Jon Benjamin).
The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block has been on a real roll lately. From their savvy move to be the first American television network to air The Mighty Boosh (you dropped the ball there, BBC America) to the wildly off-kilter Delocated to the mind-blowingly awesome 90-minute-long G.I. Joe: Resolute micro-series that aired last weekend, this outfit has been firing on all cylinders of late. And even though we pretty much gave up on Aqua Teen Hunger Force after the movie severely disappointed us, we'll admit that their decision to make a live-action episode of the show is a stroke of genie-us. Especially considering they cast Vulture's favorite practitioner of Auto-Tune, T-Pain, as Frylock!
That's what we're thinking of calling the melding of Gossip Girl stars Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) and Jessica Szohr (Vanessa Abrams): Basszohr. Either that or Vanesswick. ’Cause it's like a blend of their real-life-people names and their character names, like they are a blending of the characters and people and some bullshit like that, who are now blending together, as Amanda Setton, who plays Penelope on the show, confirms to People today: "It fell into place quite quickly and we're all super excited for them," she said. "They really balance each other. I'm just happy that they're happy." Incidentally: Did everyone know that Penelope's last name is Shafai? Fascinating.
New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones weighs in on our history of white people in rap, adding "two important, white hip-hop producers and one totally unimportant rapper." [SFJ/NYer]
Star Trek isn't boldly going anywhere in Mexico for the time being—and neither are any of its would-be summer blockbuster brethren.
Paramount Pictures has temporarily shelved...
Front Page: McConaughey's 'Girlfriends' out in 3,000 runs -- Just how much will 20th Century Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" wolf down in its worldwide debut today, which marks the start of the summer box office?
PLASTIC SURGERY
• A do-it-yourself Botox kit was spotted for sale on eBay. We have an inkling that is something you should not do yourself. [BellaSugar]
HAIR
• Only the bottom half of Jennifer Garner's hair is highlighted, so it looks like she has seriously grown-out roots. If you look at the pictures on this post, don't scroll all the way to the bottom unless you want to see a giant picture of her scraped-up knee. Obviously these two things are related. [Beauty Department/Glamour]
• Nearly 5,000 women received hair transplants last year — 21 percent more since 2000. Widow's peaks make some ladies self-conscious. [NYT]
• Leighton Meester went from brunette to honey blonde, which is actually her natural color. Watch out, Serena. [Stylewatch/People]
FRAGRANCE
• Gucci's new scent Flora is like the "still-cheerful older sister of Marc Jacobs Daisy," according to one tester. [Now Smell This]
Last night, about a dozen staffers gathered again at Bryant Park Cafe. This invite had "A 'Wicked Witch of the West,' theme," says our spy, which did not mean everyone wore pointy hats.
Today, an official farewell party, one to be held at Lipman's home, was announced. The invite came from her assistant, Silvia Killingsworth, and read:
Time to raise a toast to ourselves!
At my place, next Tuesday,
May 5, at 6 p.m.
[Address redacted]
Pls rsvp to silvia me at above email
See you there!
Joanne Lipman
Our spy doesn't know anything about this party, though. They weren't invited.
Hi Guys,
This week, I'm sitting down for an interview with actress of the stage and screen Melora Hardin, better known as Jan Levinson-Gould, to chat about all the amazing projects she's working on -- including her directorial debut, a movie called You.
We know how many of you out there are fans of Melora's, so we figured we'd open up the floor and accept your questions. So... what would you like to ask Melora?? Send your questions to tips@bwe.tv, and you might make it into the interview!
Until then, check out the website for Melora's film, You. But keep the tissues handy. It's a good way to test if your ducts are working properly.
Michelle Source: Best Week Ever | 30 Apr 2009 | 10:02 pm
"Welcome to the meeting, Twitchy," said Sawyer, inviting Faraday into his Dharma cabin on last night's Lost. Did that nickname sound familiar? Perhaps that's because it was coined by this very blog! According to Lostpedia, yesterday's episode was the first time Faraday has ever been called "Twitchy" on the show — but New York TV critic Emily Nussbaum has been calling him that since her recap on February 8, 2008, just a week after his first-ever Lost appearance. This is even more exciting than that time CBS quoted us in a Kid Nation promo.
We already know what CBS CEO Les Moonves (a.k.a. Moonvest) thinks about NBC's decision to air five nights of Jay Leno, but we didn't think that Viacom overlord Sumner Redstone was also planning on piling on. During an interview with Larry King, not only did he pronounce that he's gonna pull a "Fame" and live forever, but he also used the opportunity to get a shot in at the the Chin. He told the suspendered wonder that "CSI will beat the hell out of [Leno]" next fall. Oh, SNAP! [Live Feed/THR]
We just received a press release alerting us that Heidi Montag wore a Roberto Cavalli floral bikini from the pre-spring 2009 collection in Mexico. But who cares about that when she and Spencer Pratt both wore face masks (not the stylish kind, as you can see). They probably didn't want to cancel honeymoon plans, even in light of the pig flu, because they knew if they traveled any farther than Mexico, paparazzi wouldn't bother following them. That still doesn't explain why photographers braved the pig flu for this shot, but it presents yet another compelling reason for Speidi to stay out of this country.
We've already touched a bit on Eminem's ode to Klonopin, dead bodies, and Hannah Montana masturbation sessions, "3 a.m.," which also happens to be the second official single* off his anticipated Relapse LP. This strikes us as an odd choice for a song that's presumably intended to get radio play, but then again, we are talking about the guy who turned decidedly dark songs like "Guilty Conscience" and "Stan" into massive hits. So we suppose it's only fitting that Em has decided to fully embrace the song's disturbing lyrical themes by turning its video into a full-fledged horror film, one that will debut on Skinemax at 10 p.m. on Saturday (fittingly, just before the cable-TV debut of The Strangers). A 30-second teaser for the video just hit the YouTube, and, from the looks of things, it's as if Mark Romanek's video for "Closer" had a tawdry one-night stand with the night-vision segments of One Night in Paris while watching Eli Roth's Hostel. Or something.
Rumor has it that the Clintons recently checked out a seven-acre, $1.2 million home in Willow, a hamlet of Woodstock. They've become quite fond of the area, and you my recall that Hillary even once tried to secure a $1 million grant for a Woodstock Festival Museum, which was mocked relentlessly by John McCain. Reportedly, the Clintons want more space to "entertain" than their current five-bedroom Chappaqua home provides — as in, they want to hold some real freewheeling hippie parties without freaking out the neighbors. [NYP]
We admit we scoffed at the idea of a fashion pop-up coming to Port Authority, because Port Authority is such an unpleasant place to spend time. However New York's beauty and market editor Aja Mangum got a sneak peek at the pop-up's offerings, and they look so amazing we'd swim to a barge in the East River to shop them. Okay, we wouldn't swim, but we would kayak! A Lyn Devon dress that was $1,325 is now $129.90. A Charlotte Ronson top that was $283 is now $50. And amazing Alejandro Ingelmo platforms are only $100. The sale starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at, yes, Port Authority. Watch the video to see more.
The rich aren't just hiding their money because of the recession, they're hiding themselves. American Express commissioned a study of upwardly mobile types and found that only 29 percent of people wanted to be recognized as "wealthy," down 6 percent from a year ago. "People don't want to be called out, they don't want to be seen," an American Express executive told Reuters. Oh dear. We went through this the last time and we can see clear as day where this is going: Stephen Schwarzman, running around in a stocking cap, trying to blend in. [Reuters]
Hey, Lil Wayne is having legal problems again! This one stems from a lawsuit last year, when Wayne was sued by folksinger Karma-Ann Swanepoel for sampling her song "Once" on pre–Carter III mix-tape track "I Feel Like Dying" (one of his best, by the way). That suit is still pending but apparently has merit. Now Wayne is attempting to sue his way out of it by going after Rebel Rock, the company that produced the song, claiming they were the ones responsible for clearing the sample.
This is noteworthy, because the assumption thus far has been that if a sample is used on a song not being produced directly for profit — as on the countless mix tapes rappers release every year — it doesn't have to be cleared. But Swanepoel’s lawyers argue that, while "I Feel Like Dying" never generated direct profit, Lil Wayne did use it to promote Tha Carter III "by singing that song in concert and allowing fans to download it for free on his website." Which, come to think of it, is standard operating procedure right now for all rappers: Put out a ton of free stuff with a bunch of unlicensed samples and beats, then try to parlay whatever buzz it accrues into sales of official albums, concert tickets, T-shirts, whatever.
Hip-hop sampling's last major watershed moment came in the late nineties, when the Turtles sued De La Soul for sampling their 1968 song "You Showed Me” on 3 Feet High and Rising and producers found out they couldn’t just nab whatever they wanted. It put an end to great overstuffed sample albums like 3 Feet and the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, and created a must-clear-first precedent going forward. This isn’t quite that, of course — this one lawsuit isn’t going to stop unlicensed mix-tape sampling. But it’s noteworthy that the artists being sampled are becoming at least somewhat more aware of what’s going on. Can someone explain again how the hell Girl Talk hasn’t been sued yet?
It's a rarity to find Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester north of Madison Avenue and 61st Street, but Helena Greene's SWING Concept Shop is giving Harlem a dose of designer gear. But the razor-thin tanks from Owens and swing coats from Demeulemeester (now on sale, by the way) aren't the only items in stock that make our hearts sing. SWING is a hodgepodge of everything from children's clothes and jewelry to home furnishings and apothecary items from local designers and abroad. The cozy vibe makes you feel like you're in your cool globetrotter friend's apartment — albeit a fabulous apartment with a nine-foot white leather Fendi mirror resting against the wall (we asked if it was on sale, but immediately got shut down). The store is having a VIP opening and launch on May 14 (it already had a soft opening), but we picked out a few of our favorite pieces.
1960 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., at 118th St.; 212-222-5802.
In a 20–15 vote, the Maine State Senate passed a bill to legalize marriage equality in that state this morning. The body also defeated a measure to put the issue to a statewide referendum before voters. The bill will pass to the heavily Democratic State House of Representatives next, after which, if passed, it will be handed over to Democratic governor John Baldacci. Baldacci has previously opposed full marriage equality, but has recently said he is undecided. "I was opposed to this for a long time, but people evolve, people change as time goes by," he told the left-leaning blog Pam's House Blend. Currently, a marriage-equality bill is sitting on the desk of New Hampshire governor John Lynch, having been passed by both state bodies there. Fellow New England states Connecticut and Massachusetts also have legalized marriage equality, and the Rhode Island State Legislature is expected to take up the issue later this year. Meanwhile, the New York State Assembly's marriage-equality bill, introduced by Governor Paterson, has gone through committee and is expected to hit the floor next week.
Anoop Desai doesn't need to win American Idol to appear on VH1. In fact, Best Week Ever booked him LONG before he even auditioned for that show. True story. Watch him tomorrow night at 11pm on VH1, and get another sneak preview right here:
The truly special thing about Matthew Williamson's H&M line, aside from its unabashed LOOK AT ME aesthetic, is that it rolls out in stores in two shipments. So if you missed the launch on April 23, you'll have another chance to get a piece when shipment No. 2 arrives on May 14 (or at least, those of you who can manage to free yourselves of pesky obligations such as jobs on a Thursday morning to wait in line and have a decent shot at getting what you want will). And "you" means ladies and gentleman, for the second shipment will include Williamson's first menswear range. The men's line was inspired by what Williamson would wear himself. As such, it was only natural for Williamson to model it himself in the ad campaign. And what a good recessionisto that makes him! He shops himself for models. The men's line shares the LOOK AT ME aesthetic of the women's line. It includes bright-pink pants, Speedo-style rainbow-patterned swim trunks, T-shirts that look like Magic Eyes, and so much more. And if the men don't go wild for it, the ladies may as well snatch it up, because, to be honest with you, we women at the Cut kind of love the leather jacket. And some of the other stuff wouldn't look amiss on a chick. Check it out in the slideshow, along with Williamson and Daria Werbowy's ads (bikinis!).
Over the last month and some change, four books have hit the shelves that prominently feature the borough of Brooklyn. If you're looking to get a bead on whether Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, Joanna Smith-Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, Arthur Phillips's The Song Is You, or Jim Knipfel's Unplugging Philco are worth your time, well, then, this is your lucky day. [NYM]
Anybody receive a weird e-mail link from a friend on Facebook this morning? The website has been "phished," that is, attacked by a program that searches your address book and "phishes" for your login information. It really goes without saying if you use the Internet at all (and presumably you do because you're reading this blog, but maybe you have your secretary print it out for you to read during conference calls, which is okay, too), you should know not to open random e-mails with the subject "Look at this," today or ever. [BuzzFeed]
Paula Abdul called in to a radio show this morning to explain her embarrassing appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, which her blundering publicist approved after she was told that Abdul had been voted "Artist of the Year" in Germany, hilariously. According to the loopy American Idol judge, she was forced to sit on a gardener and she never did receive her award. You can hear the interview here, but we've transcribed the whole thing for your reading pleasure.
It is the most interesting, whacked-out situation that happened to me. I was scarred for life for a year. A year ago, my publicist said I'd won "Artist of the Year" in Germany. And I said, "Really? That's interesting. Okay ... " They said they were going to film a Johnny Depp one for film, and a Scorsese one, I think ...
It was on a day of Idol, so I could do it in the morning. It was in the Hollywood Hills. So I get there, and it's this German crew. And I never signed a release, but I guess my publicist did. And I walk into the home and I'm greeted by this futuristic Captain Nemo–looking dude with a mohawk — and he's flaming. And I'm going, "Oh, this is going to be one of those fun Japanese game shows." I'm like, okay, this is weird. Is this a variety show or something like that? So I walk in and there was no furniture except for a chair. And I'm waiting and waiting. And this guy Brüno introduces himself and I said, "Hi." And he said, "Here have some food." And the food looked horrible. And I said "No, I'm fine." And he said, "It's very, very, very good." I said, "That's okay, I don't want to have it."
And he says, "Sorry there's no furniture." And he snaps his fingers and says "Gardeners!" And these two Mexican guys come in, and they drop down to all fours. I see him paying them like ten bucks. They drop down to all fours and he says [to me], "Sit down." And I said, "I'm not doing that." And he says don't be like ...
And I'm in a dress, so I'm tipping and holding my core muscles to not sit on them. And he pushes me down on them, and I'm like, "I'm sorry. And these two gardeners ... Mexican gardeners don't speak a word of English, and I'm like patting them and I'm like, "I'm so sorry." And he kicked one of them, and we all fall. It was getting so uncomfortable and I'm throwing daggers with my eyes at my publicist. And they're kicking my publicist out. And I said, "Get me out of here. This is crazy. This is not funny, this is discrimination. This is abusive stuff going on here." And he says, "I need you to change your clothes," and I said, "No, I won't be doing that. I have to go to work ... And by the way, where's my award?"
I had to go to Idol and I couldn't wait to get out of there. And as I'm going to my car, they're chasing me with cameras, and I'm like, oh God this is so awkward. And I'm trying to hold a smile on my face and the guy Brüno's running down the street in front of the car. It was hysterical but it was so disturbing. I was so mad at my publicist at that point. I said, "I can't believe you signed [the release]." And my manager and attorney were trying to call the production office — and of course it doesn't exist. So I was freaking out.
So a year goes by. And three weeks ago, my manager sends over something. He says "I have no idea what this is ... " People magazine wants to know how it feels to be totally punked by Sacha Baron Cohen, a.k.a. Brüno. And I said, "I've never done anything with Sacha Cohen ... They're wrong." So we respond — "We have no idea what this is, but she's never worked with Sacha Baron Cohen." And at two o'clock in the morning that night I woke up in a cold sweat. I popped my body up out of bed and I went "Holy crap! Oh my God!" And that's what happened. And I'm dying.
Cause you don't expect it. You just don't expect it. Like I said, I thought it was just one of those Japanese TV shows where they do crazy things. They wanted me to jump up against a Velcro wall.
While we await the sixth season of Project Runway, to begin airing in August on Lifetime (sigh), Heidi Klum and her team are plowing ahead on making season seven work, because who knows if season six, which was shot in L.A., will. Klum said Susan Boyle "could be a good challenge." It's unclear what she means by that (sadly, E! thought it was more important to press her about Tim Gunn not having dated in eons). Sure, they'd get ratings if they made over Boyle, or an army of Boyle look-alikes, but we're having flashbacks to the episode where designers had to make over moms, and Jeffrey made poor Darlene cry. Actually maybe the Lifetime move is a good thing. Clearly we spend too much time watching this damn show. [E!]
In the blink of a glitter-coated eye, Miley Cyrus went from the unknown spawn of a nineties crooner famous for wearing overalls and a mullet to the face of the billion-dollar Hannah Montana franchise. But nothing lasts forever: Hannah allegedly has just one more guaranteed season, and Miley wants to transition into "serious acting," reportedly via a custom-written Nicholas Sparks schmaltzfest in the vein of The Notebook. In other words, 16-year-old Miley officially has entered that awkward phase between coasting on her tween-idol charms and slowly disassociating herself from Disney tripe in order to be taken seriously. What better way to start redefining oneself than with wardrobe? This past month, as she globe-hopped to six premieres for Hannah Montana: The Movie, we tried to gauge how — or if — her clothes peddled a more mature Miley to the world. The results were, much like Hannah's ratty blonde wig, totally all over the place.
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There’s a saying that you ought to dress for the job you want, not the job you have; judging from these two looks, Miley is gunning for a gig on a generic CW teen drama. She’s leggy and adorable in a teal fringed dress and leather jacket at the Hannah Montana Los Angeles premiere, but if you squint your eyes, you could easily imagine that outfit on the likes of Sophia Bush or one of the girls from 90210. The ruffled pink skirt Miley paired with a boob-tastic white tank at the Rome premiere is much worse, recalling Ashley Tisdale on a bad day in the middle of the High School Musical juggernaut. Surely the last thing Miley needs is to remind us of her Disney roots.
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These two youthfully relaxed outfits do a better job of bridging the gap between being Disney-fied and dignified, but mimicking the polished flower-child aesthetic of a Nicole Richie should not be done without adult supervision. For starters, the kid desperately needs a hair wrangler. Her tresses are needlessly molesting the silver frock Miley brought out in Munich, to the point where it almost gets lost behind scraggly strands, and the purple could've been so much more adult and regal with about three fewer bracelets and a loose updo. And a lesson on posture. Still, on the whole, both are a refreshing step away from the Miley of yore, who never met a sequined tank minidress she didn't try to wear.
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We applaud Miley for taking a few risks on her world tour, as if she decided to take at least temporary inspiration from successful actresses and fashion darlings Kate Bosworth and Diane Kruger. It paid off with the edgy silver Hervé Léger minidress she wore in London, possibly the best look Miley’s ever trotted out in public: fresh, current, and sophisticated, while seeming effortlessly so. We know; we’re stunned, too. But just as big risks often reap big rewards, they can also turn you into Stumpy McNoNeck, which is less likely to get you a meaty acting role than it is a reputation for playing dress up in your mother's closet. And so it was in Paris, where poor Miley fell flat in a ruffled Dolce & Gabbana printed number whose proportions ate her alive. It's possible that dress would look good on someone, but Miley is not that person.
Overall, Team Cyrus gets an A for effort — a girl can't look like she just fell out of Hot Topic forever, and four of the six outfits are at least flattering and polished. And while the haphazard execution at first struck us as directionless, in the end it might be exactly what Miley needs: After all, the last time someone shoved a teenage girl into a direction she didn't choose for herself, we got Britney beating the paparazzi with an umbrella and shaving her head. Compared to that, we'll take a slow evolution any day.
Just when we thought it would be another slow news day, the following product came to our attention via the good people over at Pophangover. It's called the "The Cuchini Pad", and it bills itself as "a comfortable, light-weight material that smoothes the ridges of a woman’s mons pubis area, eliminating what is commonly known as Camel Toe." And if you love seeing camels wearing makeup and bikinis, let us assure you The Cuchini website has a little something for everyone -- even a celebrity cameltoe gallery (really Cuchini? That's low, even for you, a cameltoe eraser). A camel even blows you a kiss!
Cuchini claims to do so many things:1. Smoothes the ridges of a woman’s mons pubis area.
2. Keeps undergarments clean.
3. Can be used with or without underwear.
First of all, maybe Congress should start worrying less about swine flu and the economy and start focusing more on banning the term "mons pubis", because seriously, even Latin sex ed teachers can't spit that one out. But also, #3. #3.... WHY WOULD YOU WEAR SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITHOUT UNDERWEAR? Just pop it into a pair of jeans and hope it doesn't slip down the leg during your average work day? And what if you're out at a club, wearing your best polyester fringe pants with nary a camel's toe in sight, and some gentleman caller comes back to your house with you to pay you for sex. What the AITCH is he going to think when the pants come off and he's staring at some sort of castrated Ken crotch? WHAT THEN?
Even worse? It costs $15. $15! To erase a cameltoe, which some people would call priceless! Let's be honest here: If you really wanted to get rid of a little harmless c-toe, you could put plenty of things in your underwear to block its appearance. Toss a Lands End catalog in your p's; throw a couple of socks down there; use an old flip-flop or pair of Adidas shower shoes; even better? Drop an old cell phone in front of your beefseat for two. All of these common household items will easily blog c-toe, not to mention save you money better spent on hand-beaded thongs.
But you know, we don't want to put an end to Cuchini's soon-to-be-bustling business. We fully support the idea of all cameltoes being erased, especially if Cuchini would be willing to shell out some vagbucks and put out a late night infomercial to promote its product. Picture it: "Does this ever happen to you?" (Cut to a woman losing her keys inside of her cavernous cameltoe, and then blowing the bangs out of her eyes.) "Do you ever find yourself doing this?" (Woman tries to open can using cameltoe, but it barely works and she gets baked bean juice all over her pants. She then blows the bangs out of her eyes.) Well then you need "CUCHINI!" (Cut to woman finding her keys on her lap and opening the can of beans A-OK.)
I'd plunk down $15 if it meant I could open a can of beans with my chatch, I'm not gonna lie to ya. And be honest: How many of you are busy ordering this right now? Source: Best Week Ever | 30 Apr 2009 | 6:54 pm
Tyra Banks's stalker, Brady Green, a Brooklyn supermarket worker, was convicted of stalking and harassment in criminal court today. Criminal Court judge James Burke called Green's behavior "hounding." Rather than sentencing jail time, Burke told Green's lawyer to find his client a new city to live in. "Put Mr. Green in a location where he can thrive," Burke said. "And that location is not likely to be the city of New York." Green could have faced 90 days in jail. His defense attorney tried to paint him as a super-fan who was of no threat to Tyra. However, according to court documents, Green threatened to slit the throat of one of Tyra's employees over the phone. When he was arrested at a McDonald's near Tyra's studio, he was carrying three magazines with Tyra on the covers. But we wonder, where in the world will he not be able to "thrive"? Hasn't the judge heard that Tyra is taking over the world?
Well, this is one of the worst things I've seen in my life:
Yup, Sweet Sue's homestyle country goodness: an entire chicken in an effing can. Everything about this screams "homestyle" -- I'll never forget on my grandpa's farm those mornings when we'd wake up at the crack of dawn, scoop up the freshest eggs you've ever tasted from the henhouse, then cram fifty of them at a time into a can against all that is natural, seal the can, then take the can to our breakfast table and take turns drinking directly from it, until we realized how horrible it was and immediately stopped doing it and agreed we were stupid.
After the jump, a picture of the actual chicken itself. DO NOT CLICK if you're squeamish, or have eaten lunch within the past lifetime. It's not quite Faceless Cat territory, but holy lord is it close:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
It's like a Ridley Scott alien took a dump that had a little baby alien stuck in it, threw everything in a can, then opened the can a month later and turned it upside down.
If this is somehow one of your guerrilla tactics to make us all puke, PETA, then well played. Source: Best Week Ever | 30 Apr 2009 | 6:30 pm
The 'Mean Girls' star - who recently split from her girlfriend DJ Samantha Ronson - has been gulping down bottles of the mood enhancing soft drink to help keep her spirits high.
She said: "I drink so much of it - I love it. There are several kinds, including Neurogasm, which is for sex. But I don't need that one right now, unfortunately!"
The 22-year-old beauty - who has been to rehab three times for addictions to alcohol and drugs - is thought to be talking about either Neurosonic or Neurotrim beverages.
Energy drink Neurosonic contains caffeine and claims to enhance moods, while Neurotrim is said to stop hunger pangs, speed up metabolism and help burn fat.
Kim Kardashian has picked out an engagement ring - even though her boyfriend is yet to propose.
The reality TV star - who has been dating American footballer Reggie Bush for two years - was out shopping with friends, who are all brides-to-be, when she saw her perfect band.
She said: "He definitely knows all of us went ring shopping. I definitely scared him and told him it was probably way more expensive than it is, just so that when he goes he feels like he's getting a good deal. He knows what it looks like. I think I've emailed him enough pictures!"
Kim recently claimed she is Reggie's good luck charm when she goes to watch him play for his team the New Orleans Saints.
She said: "I don't have to sneak into games. I'd like to think I was his good luck charm, but I'd also like to think he plays at his best even when I'm not there." Source
Indian Bollywood film actors Aishwariya Rai Bachchan(L), Amitabh Bachchan (C) and Abhishek Bachchan display their ink-marked fingers after casting their vote at a polling booth in Mumbai for the country's... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 30 Apr 2009 | 5:46 pm
Jessica Simpson reportedly enjoyed an intimate lunch with ex-boyfriend John Mayer.
The singer-and-actress, who is currently dating American football star Tony Romo, secretly met John for a meal in Calabasas, California, recently and onlookers claimed they couldn't contain their joy at seeing each other.
One source told gossip website X17Online: "They were keen not to be seen together but they looked so happy to be in each other's company. It looked to me like they were more than just good friends!"
Musician John - who has been single since breaking up with Jennifer Aniston earlier this year - split from Jessica in November 2007. Friends claim the blonde beauty was left devastated by the end of the relationship.
Last year, it was claimed Jessica went on a drinking binge to drown her sorrows after learning John was dating Jennifer.
However, the 28-year-old beauty has always insisted she is happier than ever with Tony as he "saved" her.
Jessica - who is divorced from Nick Lachey - said: "I would always fall for guys I wanted to save. For the first time, I fell in love with someone who saved me."
Yayyy!!! Mad Men is returning! Not til the summer, but in the meantime, we have viral promotions like this Australian cookware commercial to tide us over.
Note that the fake misogyny in this intentionally-offensive commercial is about 1/80th as ridiculous as every second of every Axe Body Spray ad (especially their latest tagline, "Axe - It will open legs so you can have sex with the vaginas they were blocking!"):
The fiberglass head weighed 600 pounds and resembled Clarabell the Clown from the 1950s "Howdy Doody Show." Bill Ziegler, owner of the Wild Bill's nostalgia store, stumbled across it on an artist's Web site and wondered if it would work for a project he had in mind.
It happens every season. Word gets out that a television show is "on the bubble" and may be canceled. That riles up fans, who get together to send a message to the networks: SAVE OUR SHOW! This year's prime example: "Chuck."
The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday joined News Corp. and NBC Universal as a partner in Hulu.com, a fast-growing online video website featuring full-length television shows and movies. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 30 Apr 2009 | 5:08 pm
The following is a recap of Lost Season 5 Episode 14 entitled “The Variable”, originally airing April 29, 2009. If you read on, I will spoil that everyone on the show is the father of every other character on the show, and Darth Vader is everyone's grandfather.THIS FATHER-SON PICNIC IS GETTING CROWDEDWe learned last week that Miles was officially Pierre Chang's son, and learned earlier in the season that Charlotte's parents were Dharmas and briefly raised her on the island, but this week's dad-bombshell made the others look like the wussy "Michael was the man on the boat!" twist: Faraday is the son of Eloise Hawking and CHARLES WIDMORE (well-known sidenote: women love douchebags). This means that Faraday's inclusion in the freighter party was only partially motivated by his skills but also partially motivated by his parents' adorable desire to heal his aching mind (as long as he didn't use it to play that gayass piano, right Mom? I'm pretty sure she calls it "gayass" in one of the deleted scenes.) It's only a matter of time now before we learn that Frank Lapidus was the son of Richard Alpert and a polar bear, with Richard actually being the mother in some bizarre Junioresque flashback plot (season finale! Fork In The Outlet!) and Ben and Widmore are actually each other's fathers and their incestuous baby together was the island. I give this a 50/50 chance of actually happening.
However, Eloise isn't just Daniel's regular ol' piano-hating mother -- she also has been foreseeing the future for quite some time now, including, shot-Faraday believes, an intentional decision to send him back to the island with the knowledge that he would die there. We've known that Eloise has had a grip on destiny since her cryptic encounter with Desmond in the jewelry store, but during Desmond's hospitalization for his deflected-by-eggs gunshot wound, Eloise reveals to Penny that she's experiencing difficulty seeing the future for the first time in a very long while. Does this mean that the Oceanic "Variables" in the past manage to accomplish something to change the course of destined events, thus blurring Eloise's vision? But if the 70s events took place before the majority of Eloise's future-seeing life, wouldn't she retroactively have never seen the future?
In the words of this week's wink-to-audience layman's construction worker dude, "Time travel? How stupid does that guy J.J. Abrams think we are? J.J. Chang, I mean. No Pierre Chang, I mean, crap. Can we take that again?"
ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANETA-RY!"You have to wear a hardhat down here" Daniel is told, because if earth-imploding electromagnetic energy is unexpectedly unleashed, you're gonna want to protect your head with an inch of plastic -- I'm counting on someone yelling a Radioactive Man style "my head!!! The hardhats do nothing!" if the explosion happens next week.
Daniel's plan, he finally reveals after giving people really limited information then saying "I'll be back in a minute" seventy times, is to counteract the impending release of electromagnetic energy from within the island by detonating the atomic bomb he told Alpert to bury; Faraday develops this uncharacteristically intrusive plan after undergoing an epiphany and realizing that even though the world's destiny cannot be changed from the past, the outcome for individual humans, the "variables," is actually alterable. The way he puts it, "I took into account the constants but not the variables! I'm a supreme ultra calculating whiz but forgot one of the TWO components of this equation! Ooopsie doopsie doo!" [Paraphrasing]
Now that Daniel has been shot by his own mother in the past (hooo-ey, that's the Lost I know and love) and appears to be dead, the islanders are faced with a dilemma: carry out Daniel's plan in his stead, or go back to trying to make due with the situation the best they can and stay alive without altering the future. Theoretically, a successful counteraction of the electromagnetic energy by the bomb would cause the Oceanic plane to have never crashed in the first place, thus erasing their experiences on the island -- as my roommate put it, "If they pull this off, do my Lost DVDs just disappear." The answer is yes.
Unfortunately, if we recall from Season One (remember back that far? "Johnny Angel" topped the pop charts, gasoline cost a nickel, and Lost was showing us how the lives of the Oceanic survivors on the island mirrored their past experiences...) all of the survivors are living pretty crappy lives before the crash, and they're gonna have to think long and hard about whether they want to give up magical healing island fantasy in exchange for being a fugitive / cursed lottery winner / alcoholic doctor (Rose was about to become an alcoholic doctor, I mean). So basically, the last few episodes of the season are set up nicely with about 1,500 dilemmas, ranging from "should we do this?" to "how do we do this?" to "will Jack & Kate / Sawyer & Kate ever see each other again if this works?" to "will someone please shoot Radzinsky in his brain?"
CAAAAALBACKS!The episode also tied up a couple loose ends; we flashed back to Faraday tearfully shaking while watching the news of the fake Oceanic remains being discovered, now knowing that his mind was essentially broken at the time and he was subconsciously aware of what he was eventually going to have to do. He was also a little upset because he knew that Charles Widmore always shows up to his house to talk about events on the news three seconds after he watches them.
Pierre Chang also let loose his own "God help us all," meaning that he watched the same Jerry Bruckheimer trailer that Mrs. Hawking saw, and we also revisited Faraday's conspicuous bumping into Dr. Chang underground (did Daniel pick his pocket) and widdle Charlotte's delivery of the line "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner," thus repeating future Charlotte's eventual last words. At this rate, Lost might actually tie up all its loose ends before the series finale, if the finale airs in 2038.
LOSTDS AND ENDS-- "You're son is Benjamin Linus?" "GOOD LORD NO!" Eloise's episode-opening exchange with Penny was a bit of a tip-off about the Widmore/Daniel blood connection, but if she's actually on Widmore's side and fake-helped Ben to get the Oceanics back to the island, does that mean Ben's actually been had? How will the return of the Oceanics benefit Widmore? I imagine that'll depend on whether or not they reverse the course of surviving human history, which should happen in the next episode or two.
-- The pauses between the last-line bombshells and the commercial breaks were all SUPER long this week. The strings just kept getting higher and higher pitched until they entered "only dogs can hear it" territory; the music after the last line of the season is just gonna shatter every window and set off every car alarm within a three-mile radius of any tv sets, including ones that aren't even tuned to Lost.
-- Next episode opens with Sawyer saying "Get up, Twitchie, you crazy sonofabitch," and Alpert answering, "Dude, not cool."
-- Was kid Charlotte from the Village of the Damned?
-- I kept expecting Ben and Locke to just walk by in the background and wave to the camera.
-- The code to the sonic fence is 141717 - I Googled it to see if there were any biblical implications or anything, and this page was the first Google result. Don't click that unless you wish to have EVERY ANSWER OF LOST SPOILED FOR YOU IMMEDIATELY. It all makes so much sense now.
Episode thoughts, theories, predictions, observations, details, favorite lines, and satisfaction at the amount of actual things that happened last night -- leave 'em all in the comments! Source: Best Week Ever | 30 Apr 2009 | 5:00 pm
E! Online - Given the bomb that was the Jonas Brothers' 3-D movie, it's understandable that the Disney dudes get a little nervous before they drop their new album.
Supermodel Tyra Banks says she feared for her safety when she learned that her accused stalker had entered the Manhattan building where she tapes her TV show Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2009 | 4:23 pm
More than 160,000 people flocked to the tenth Coachella music festival in April, signaling the start of the annual summer music festival season worldwide.
In the 40 years since Stephen Frears fell into filmmaking -- "it wasn't my masterplan" -- the twice Oscar-nominated veteran director has defied genre to direct a clutch of movies that inspire a special kind of devotion from audiences.
It was always about the music, as a new documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival shows. "Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB," by director Mandy Stein, revives the passion aroused by the club that closed in 2006 after 33 years due to a rent dispute.
Michelle called out publicity-seeking animal keepers earlier this month by suggesting that the viral-gold stories about interspecies animal friendships were staged, but that exposé hasn't stopped zoos from going out of their way to grab some free interspecies attention. Take, for example, this dog nursing a tiger cub in South Africa:
Adorable, yes, and the story mentions that the tiger was the runt of its litter and rejected by its mother, which is also sad and adorable, but their first solution is to give the tiger cub to a domesticated dog?? Not to have another tiger raise it, or to just have zookeepers raise it in captivity, but to deliberately give it to a dog so they could snap some adorable doggie/cubbie photos and get on BWE (oops!) in the two months before the cub becomes too large and dangerous to be around the dog and the keepers will have to take care of it anyway?
I second Michelle's objection -- we are so over you, interspecies relationships.
But if you can't resist, two more pics after the jump:
Enjoy it now, dog! That tiger's gonna be eight times your size in like three days!
Awwww, adorable! The zoo is putting them in the same cage and pushing them towards each other!!! They should cover the tiger's face in peanut butter so they kiss.
Deceased Wu Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard will be memorialized in an upcoming documentary and a series of tribute albums, all produced by his cousin Raison Allah Iceman.
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American Idol's Anoop Desai debuts a fresh new beard. But can it sing? Don't miss Anoop on an all-new Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins tomorrow night at 11pm on VH1.
Matt Giraud is ready for what's next. The Michigan singer, who was booted from "American Idol" on Wednesday night by a season-high viewer vote of 47 million says he's looking forward to a quick trip home, a return to Los Angeles for the season finale, touring North America with "American Idols Live!" and getting to work on an album.
What do you do when someone spotted the blind Governor of New York, David Paterson, drinking 'tinis and wolfing down burgers at a hip downtown restaurant? Well, if you're the NY Post, you run with this insensitive ingenious headline/photo combination:
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Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner are known for their bangin' bodies, but the romantic co-stars of "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" took things to a whole new level when they battled it out by on-set pumping. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2009 | 1:18 pm
In the wake of the recent swine flu outbreak, Ticketmaster's Mexican Web site resembled an airport departure screen during a snow storm, with rows of concert listings followed by the same word: "Cancelado."
Front Page: Dauman hopeful despite the numbers -- Viacom’s profit tumbled 34% last quarter, but chief executive Philippe Dauman sees some light on the horizon for one of the nation’s worst-ever economic downturns.
Australian rock quartet Howling Bells has signed to Nettwerk Music Group, and the band is set to release its sophomore album and North American debut, "Radio Wars," on July 28th in the U.S. and Canada. The album's first single, "Cities Burning Down," will be out June 2nd on iTunes.
At 71, two painful back surgeries have left Art Neville walking with a cane and a stiff gait. But if you put him down in front of a keyboard, his eyes light up and his fingers are as nimble as ever.
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Hi Guys,
This week, I'm sitting down for an interview with actress of the stage and screen Melora Hardin, better known as Jan Levinson-Gould, to chat about all the amazing projects she's working on -- including her directorial debut, 
Just when we thought it would be another slow news day, the following product came to our attention via the good people over at 
Cuchini claims to do so many things:
1. Smoothes the ridges of a woman’s mons pubis area.
2. Keeps undergarments clean.
3. Can be used with or without underwear.
First of all, maybe Congress should start worrying less about swine flu and the economy and start focusing more on banning the term "mons pubis", because seriously, even Latin sex ed teachers can't spit that one out. But also, #3. #3.... WHY WOULD YOU WEAR SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITHOUT UNDERWEAR? Just pop it into a pair of jeans and hope it doesn't slip down the leg during your average work day? And what if you're out at a club, wearing your best polyester fringe pants with nary a camel's toe in sight, and some gentleman caller comes back to your house with you to pay you for sex. What the AITCH is he going to think when the pants come off and he's staring at some sort of castrated Ken crotch? WHAT THEN?
Even worse? It costs $15. $15! To erase a cameltoe, which some people would call priceless! Let's be honest here: If you really wanted to get rid of a little harmless c-toe, you could put plenty of things in your underwear to block its appearance. Toss a Lands End catalog in your p's; throw a couple of socks down there; use an old flip-flop or pair of Adidas shower shoes; even better? Drop an old cell phone in front of your beefseat for two. All of these common household items will easily blog c-toe, not to mention save you money better spent on hand-beaded thongs.
But you know, we don't want to put an end to Cuchini's soon-to-be-bustling business. We fully support the idea of all cameltoes being erased, especially if Cuchini would be willing to shell out some vagbucks and put out a late night infomercial to promote its product. Picture it: "Does this ever happen to you?" (Cut to a woman losing her keys inside of her cavernous cameltoe, and then blowing the bangs out of her eyes.) "Do you ever find yourself doing this?" (Woman tries to open can using cameltoe, but it barely works and she gets baked bean juice all over her pants. She then blows the bangs out of her eyes.) Well then you need "CUCHINI!" (Cut to woman finding her keys on her lap and opening the can of beans A-OK.)
I'd plunk down $15 if it meant I could open a can of beans with my chatch, I'm not gonna lie to ya. And be honest: How many of you are busy ordering this right now?
We learned last week that Miles was officially Pierre Chang's son, and learned earlier in the season that Charlotte's parents were Dharmas and briefly raised her on the island, but this week's dad-bombshell made the others look like the wussy "Michael was the man on the boat!" twist: Faraday is the son of Eloise Hawking and CHARLES WIDMORE (well-known sidenote: women love douchebags). This means that Faraday's inclusion in the freighter party was only partially motivated by his skills but also partially motivated by his parents' adorable desire to heal his aching mind (as long as he didn't use it to play that gayass piano, right Mom? I'm pretty sure she calls it "gayass" in one of the deleted scenes.) It's only a matter of time now before we learn that Frank Lapidus was the son of Richard Alpert and a polar bear, with Richard actually being the mother in some bizarre Junioresque flashback plot (season finale! Fork In The Outlet!) and Ben and Widmore are actually each other's fathers and their incestuous baby together was the island. I give this a 50/50 chance of actually happening.
However, Eloise isn't just Daniel's regular ol' piano-hating mother -- she also has been foreseeing the future for quite some time now, including, shot-Faraday believes, an intentional decision to send him back to the island with the knowledge that he would die there. We've known that Eloise has had a grip on destiny since her cryptic encounter with Desmond in the jewelry store, but during Desmond's hospitalization for his deflected-by-eggs gunshot wound, Eloise reveals to Penny that she's experiencing difficulty seeing the future for the first time in a very long while. Does this mean that the Oceanic "Variables" in the past manage to accomplish something to change the course of destined events, thus blurring Eloise's vision? But if the 70s events took place before the majority of Eloise's future-seeing life, wouldn't she retroactively have never seen the future?
In the words of this week's wink-to-audience layman's construction worker dude, "Time travel? How stupid does that guy J.J. Abrams think we are? J.J. Chang, I mean. No Pierre Chang, I mean, crap. Can we take that again?"
"You have to wear a hardhat down here" Daniel is told, because if earth-imploding electromagnetic energy is unexpectedly unleashed, you're gonna want to protect your head with an inch of plastic -- I'm counting on someone yelling a Radioactive Man style "my head!!! The hardhats do nothing!" if the explosion happens next week.
Daniel's plan, he finally reveals after giving people really limited information then saying "I'll be back in a minute" seventy times, is to counteract the impending release of electromagnetic energy from within the island by detonating the atomic bomb he told Alpert to bury; Faraday develops this uncharacteristically intrusive plan after undergoing an epiphany and realizing that even though the world's destiny cannot be changed from the past, the outcome for individual humans, the "variables," is actually alterable. The way he puts it, "I took into account the constants but not the variables! I'm a supreme ultra calculating whiz but forgot one of the TWO components of this equation! Ooopsie doopsie doo!" [Paraphrasing]
Now that Daniel has been shot by his own mother in the past (hooo-ey, that's the Lost I know and love) and appears to be dead, the islanders are faced with a dilemma: carry out Daniel's plan in his stead, or go back to trying to make due with the situation the best they can and stay alive without altering the future. Theoretically, a successful counteraction of the electromagnetic energy by the bomb would cause the Oceanic plane to have never crashed in the first place, thus erasing their experiences on the island -- as my roommate put it, "If they pull this off, do my Lost DVDs just disappear." The answer is yes.
Unfortunately, if we recall from Season One (remember back that far? "Johnny Angel" topped the pop charts, gasoline cost a nickel, and Lost was showing us how the lives of the Oceanic survivors on the island mirrored their past experiences...) all of the survivors are living pretty crappy lives before the crash, and they're gonna have to think long and hard about whether they want to give up magical healing island fantasy in exchange for being a fugitive / cursed lottery winner / alcoholic doctor (Rose was about to become an alcoholic doctor, I mean). So basically, the last few episodes of the season are set up nicely with about 1,500 dilemmas, ranging from "should we do this?" to "how do we do this?" to "will Jack & Kate / Sawyer & Kate ever see each other again if this works?" to "will someone please shoot Radzinsky in his brain?"
CAAAAALBACKS!
The episode also tied up a couple loose ends; we flashed back to Faraday tearfully shaking while watching the news of the fake Oceanic remains being discovered, now knowing that his mind was essentially broken at the time and he was subconsciously aware of what he was eventually going to have to do. He was also a little upset because he knew that Charles Widmore always shows up to his house to talk about events on the news three seconds after he watches them.
Pierre Chang also let loose his own "God help us all," meaning that he watched the same Jerry Bruckheimer trailer that Mrs. Hawking saw, and we also revisited Faraday's conspicuous bumping into Dr. Chang underground (did Daniel pick his pocket) and widdle Charlotte's delivery of the line "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner," thus repeating future Charlotte's eventual last words. At this rate, Lost might actually tie up all its loose ends before the series finale, if the finale airs in 2038.
LOSTDS AND ENDS
-- "You're son is Benjamin Linus?" "GOOD LORD NO!" Eloise's episode-opening exchange with Penny was a bit of a tip-off about the Widmore/Daniel blood connection, but if she's actually on Widmore's side and fake-helped Ben to get the Oceanics back to the island, does that mean Ben's actually been had? How will the return of the Oceanics benefit Widmore? I imagine that'll depend on whether or not they reverse the course of surviving human history, which should happen in the next episode or two.
-- The pauses between the last-line bombshells and the commercial breaks were all SUPER long this week. The strings just kept getting higher and higher pitched until they entered "only dogs can hear it" territory; the music after the last line of the season is just gonna shatter every window and set off every car alarm within a three-mile radius of any tv sets, including ones that aren't even tuned to Lost.
-- Next episode opens with Sawyer saying "Get up, Twitchie, you crazy sonofabitch," and Alpert answering, "Dude, not cool."
-- Was kid Charlotte from the Village of the Damned?
-- I kept expecting Ben and Locke to just walk by in the background and wave to the camera.
-- The code to the sonic fence is 141717 - I Googled it to see if there were any biblical implications or anything, and 
