AP - Kiefer Sutherland won't be in Manhattan court this week to answer allegations that he head-butted a fashion designer. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 17 Jul 2009 | 10:35 am
AP - Kiefer Sutherland won't be in Manhattan court this week to answer allegations that he head-butted a fashion designer. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 17 Jul 2009 | 10:35 am
AP - Warren Beatty has made a living in front of the camera, but he doesn't want one at his upcoming deposition in a bankruptcy court fight with the Tribune Co. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 17 Jul 2009 | 10:33 am
It used to be so easy.
Back in happier times, we could watch Jon & Kate Plus 8 and think, "Man, I would not want to be married to that one." Whether it was Kate's cutting...
Aw, sad Thursdays are getting worse every week. Luckily, the sad So You Think You Can Dance elimination always comes with a heaping helping of entertainment, as evidenced by tonight's...
We finally know where the cops took Mischa Barton yesterday.
The 23-year-old actress has been hospitalized and is currently under a doctor's care after making a nonemergency phone...
NEW YORK - There could be a new king emerging in late-night television. David Letterman's CBS "Late Show" whipped NBC's "Tonight" show with Conan O'Brien in the ratings last week by... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 17 Jul 2009 | 2:07 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe on Thursday sued a woman for defamation on Thursday after news reports that claimed Rowe was willing to accept millions of... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 17 Jul 2009 | 2:01 am
Front Page: Michael Apted slams SAG president -- The Directors Guild of America has told Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg to shut up and go away.
Front Page: Payne to produce 'Cedar,' shooting begins October -- Ed Helms will follow "The Hangover" with "Cedar Rapids," an Alexander Payne-produced comedy to be directed by Miguel Arteta.
Reuters - Echoes of Stephen King's "Misery" reverberate not so subtly in "Homecoming," an unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 17 Jul 2009 | 1:01 am
NEW YORK - "Friday Night Lights" just can't quite push the ball into the end zone. Despite raves from critics, NBC's football drama was again snubbed by the Emmys on Thursday,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 17 Jul 2009 | 12:59 am
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Salsa musician and actor Ruben Blades celebrated his 61st birthday Thursday with a nostalgic visit to his archive collection at Harvard University. The seven-time... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 17 Jul 2009 | 12:52 am
• Graydon Carter turned 60 on Tuesday, and Frank Bruni was kind enough to give him a gift—an unflattering review of his Monkey Bar. Carter: "Frank Bruni's review in The Times was the perfect nightcap to the perfect birthday." [WWD] • Speaking of Bruni, a long excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, which appears in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, is now online. [NYT] • Are restaurants like Minetta Tavern the city's new nightclubs? [BB] • Word has it Cafe Boulud will be undergoing a major renovation and expansion sometime this summer and will be close for about a month or so. [Eater] • A new cocktail lounge could be coming to Bryant Park next year. [Crain's] • Philippe Massoud's Ilili showcases Lebanese wines for the next month. [NYT] • Le Cirque's Sirio Maccioni will undergo open heart surgery next week. [P6]
NEW YORK - Kiefer Sutherland won't be in Manhattan court this week to answer allegations that he head-butted a fashion designer. A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 17 Jul 2009 | 12:49 am
It was only a matter of time before someone got sued, right? We're just surprised it took three weeks.
Michael Jackson's ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, has filed a defamation lawsuit...
Reuters - From the opening black-and-white footage of Nazis invading Copenhagen, "Flame & Citron" draws you into its doom-laden atmosphere and keeps ratcheting up the tension. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 17 Jul 2009 | 12:16 am
Reuters - Press material for Aviva Kempner's excellent "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg" offers Gertrude Berg, the creator, principal writer and star of radio and TV's "The Goldbergs," as a precursor to Oprah, Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 17 Jul 2009 | 12:15 am
Reuters - With Hollywood dramas doing their best to ignore the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the stream of non-fiction films having dried up to a trickle, films like Aron Gaudet's wrenching "The Way We Get By" are even more important than they otherwise would be. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 17 Jul 2009 | 12:14 am
David Carr reports that Jay Penske, the empire-building founder of Mail.com Media Corporation, employer of the former Defamer crew, and recent acquirer of Nikki Finke's blog, has made another high-profile and (probably) expensive hire: Bonnie Fuller, former editor of shiny, gossipy print magazines like Star and Us Weekly. Fuller, who'd recently left a job as editorial director of American Media to start her own online company, has spiked those plans to head up the Penske-owned Hollywood Life, where she'll lord over a dozen employees (she's hiring!) and work to ease the embarrassing shortage of celebrity gossip on the Internet.
Model Karolina Kurkova happily discussed her future child, a boy, and showed off her engagement ring and her fiancé, Archie Drury, at a dinner honoring Nelson Mandela last night. But even at five and a half months pregnant, the Victoria’s Secret model still doesn’t feel fat. “Do I have a little belly?” she asked us rhetorically. “Not yet,” she answered before we could. “People are like, 'I don’t believe you’re five and a half months pregnant.' They’re like, 'You’re disgusting, Karolina. Where is it?' ” Kurkova said she wore a form-fitting dress to the event, so we could “kind of see” her baby bump. “But if I’m in normal clothes, you will never guess it, so, yeah, they think I’m kind of kidding,” she added.
Now that she's in her sixth month, Kurkova is finally becoming dimly aware of what the rest of us mortals experience — clothing that is too tight. “I can still wear my clothes, but my jeans definitely are getting tighter,” she said. “I might need to get special pants soon. I need to get, not, like, one size up; I need to have, like, a band. I can’t even close the button soon.” But Kurkova insists this is not the first time in her life she’s felt that something was too tight. “I’ve experienced definitely, you know, rollers; something that’s really tight." We're guessing by "rollers" she means fat rolls. She's foreign, remember.
The First Couple on Obama's last visit, which was more fun, and less traffic-inducing.
Noticing that midtown is particularly hellish traffic-wise at the moment? That's because the president of the United States is attending the NAACP's 100th-anniversary convention at the New York Hilton on Sixth Avenue, and later a dinner at a DNC fund-raiser at the Waldorf-Astoria. Several blocks of midtown are shut down at the moment. You probably won't see Obama if you're up there, but you might see his awesome armored car! [HuffPo]
What's the sexiest thing you’ve done all day (that doesn’t involve flagrantly misusing nymag.com’s world-class fashion-model galleries. Read the terms of service, people)? Whatever it was, it won’t compare to giving yourself over to the silken indulgence that is soul man Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings,” the first single off his newly minted No. 1 album, BLACKsummers’night, his first touch, er, disc in eight long years, which we’ve had as the soundtrack to our commute almost exclusively since it was available for download. But tender as it is, this ain’t background music: Maxweezy’s crackerjack band deserves ultraclose listening, and the guy himself, or at least his voice, is impossible to pin down — his heartbreak’s got swagger. And the video, if you haven't yet seen it, is twice as hot as the one for “Birthday Sex.”
The glory that is couture happened last week. The gowns flounced. The shoes were high. The models were adorable. And we were there for every second of it. Amy Larocca wrote about the current state of couture; Jak & Jil's Tommy Ton shot street photos of editors, stylists, and designers as they hurried to the shows. Model Skye Stracke video blogged backstage. And there was so much more. In case you missed any of our rather-detailed coverage, we've rounded it all up for you. And don't forget to view the collections in full-screen mode. It's almost like being in Paris.
AP - Kiefer Sutherland won't be in Manhattan court this week to answer allegations that he head-butted a fashion designer. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 16 Jul 2009 | 11:14 pm
The gaggle of sad, sycophantic losers—sorry, the bunch of fun-loving kids—competing for sacred buddy privileges with Paris Hilton gets a special poolside schooling from its hero,...
Members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee stopped short of calling former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson a craven, bum-licking ass-goblin today, but they did manage to get their digs in. “Was Bank of America really forced to go through with the deal, or was this an old-fashioned Brooklyn shakedown?” Representative Edolphus Towns asked, kicking things off. Later, Representative Michael Turner of Ohio called Paulson's Troubled Asset Relief Program “a crock” and the “largest theft in American history.”
Then there was this:
In a particularly contentious exchange, Marcy Kaptur, Democrat of Ohio, claims Mr. Paulson knew all along that there were problems in the financial system and orchestrated the TARP to be the biggest public bailout of the private sector in history.
“It looks like some very rich people are now profiting,” Ms. Kaptur says, referring to the record-setting quarterly profits at Goldman Sachs. She compares the terms of the government’s TARP investment in Goldman with the terms that Warren Buffett, the famous investor, got on his preferred stock investment in Goldman. Why did Mr. Buffett get a better deal than taxpayers?
Mr. Paulson’s answer: At the time, Mr. Buffett’s type of capital wasn’t available. “You do not stop a financial panic by offering capital to banks at the only terms available in the middle of a crisis,” he says.
Four words: Hot high-school mess. We're glad we missed it, and we're sorry that Bess Levin and Zachary Kouwe had to be there. Except not, because reading their live blogs is fun.
This month a debate on Middle Eastern veils has been going on in France. President Sarkozy supports a ban on Muslim women wearing them in public. Reactions have been mixed and heated. Not all Muslim women want to give up the veils. Meanwhile, Givenchy paraded burka-inspired looks down the runway for the fall 2009 couture collection. It's not the first time a prominent high-end label has drawn inspiration from this region of the world. Recall the turbans on Ralph Lauren's spring 2009 runway. Or the ubiquitous harem pant. Is this fashion's way of making a political statement about the controversial Muslim attire? Luxist reports:
"When I ask designers questions like these, they always look confused," says David Wolfe, creative director of The Doneger Group, whose job is to predict trends for fashion professionals. "They operate so much from their gut. Whatever the media focuses on, the sensitive designers pick up the vibe, whether consciously or subconsciously. Fashion is an endless drug and designers look for the new high — anything that hasn't been seen or worked to death."
So probably not. But hopefully this means designers will give harem pants a rest come the spring 2010 shows. Some might say those have been "worked to death" by now.
The investigation into Michael Jackson's death appears to be turning into a criminal probe, albeit in a mighty roundabout way.
A day after denying a report that the Los Angeles...
Speedy's disco stick is no longer Lady Gaga's for the riding.
The mono-monikered entrepreneur broke up with his hitmaker girlfriend of three months Wednesday after a photo of her...
Last night Bill Clinton and Graca Machel hosted a gala dinner and auction in honor of Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday. Morgan Freeman, Josh Groban, and Keisha Whitaker all told us how glorious it is to meet Mandela in person, as did Jeffrey Wright, who told us "it was like meeting my grandfather." But perhaps the strongest reaction came from Alfre Woodard. "I completely came undone," she confessed. "I was just trembling; not with fear, just with joy and energy. And I think I was levitating." View our Party Lines slideshow for more impactful memories.
Myles Hendrik and Devendra Banhart showed up to the one-year anniversary party of Phillip Lim's Los Angeles store last night, where Banhart showed off his pink shoes and a matching pink bow tie.
Mayor Bloomberg has spent $37 million on his mayoral campaign so far. Where's it all gone? In addition to the $20 million that's gone to the firm that produces Bloomberg's TV ads and the $1 million or so that's has gone to pay his campaign staff, campaign finance records released today also list office snacks ($72,000) and pizza ($7,000), which, the Times's City Room blog reports, is usually ordered from Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza on Staten Island. Why the mayor's staff needs to order pizza from another borough isn't explained—maybe his campaign volunteers like their pizza cold?—but the mayor's pizza tab isn't the only curious item on the list of expenses. (Not that it really matters: It's the mayor's own money that is being spent, so if he wants to order his pizza from Naples and have it delivered to NYC via Air Bloomberg, that's up to him.) But the $50,000 that Team Bloomberg has spent on phone expenses? It's a little early to be planning for Hanukkah, yes, but finding gifts for billionaires who have everything is a huge pain, less us tell you. So we're making it public here and now. Mayor Bloomberg's very first MagicJack is on us. So step off. [NYT]
Project Runway was nominated again for an Emmy this year in the reality-competition category. The show is competing with Top Chef. You know what that means: Heidi Klum and Padma Lakshmi are going to scratch each other's eyes out and hurl bangle bracelets at each other on the red carpet. Our money's on Padma. [Vulture]
That's not to say that Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, and Michaela Watkins aren't deserving of the recognition, because they certainly are. It's more that we wish the people who put this together would've gone a little more underground with this list, that's all. Sorta like this one did! [HR]
Terry Richardson's photograph featured in "Soul i-D."
Gucci and i-D magazine are teaming up for a new exhibit at Christie's, opening tonight, called "Soul i-D." The show, which features photos, anecdotes, advice, and more from the Soul i-D book, has toured Europe and is finally hitting the States. Designers like Alexander McQueen and Giorgio Armani have contributed their personal insights to the show, and frankly, who doesn't need McQueen's advice on everything? The exhibit will also feature photographers Terry Richardson and David LaChapelle, as well as Yoko Ono, Chris Martin, Bono, and more, and will be on display until July 30.
"Soul i-D," Presented in Collaboration with i-D magazine and Gucci. July 16–30; Gallery 6, Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza
Earlier in the week, Hillary Clinton made her first big foreign-policy speech. At the time, it was called "muscular" for its stern reminder to countries like Iran and North Korea that we have not forgotten how to use force in extreme situations. Today, though, recently (sort of) reelected Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to a podium and showed Clinton how it's really done:
"As soon as the new government is established, with power and authority, ten times more than before, it will enter the global scene and will bring down the global arrogance ... In this recent election the enemy tried to bring the battlefront to the interior of this country ... But I have told the enemies ... that this nation ... will strike you in the face so hard you will lose your way home!"
The "global arrogance" is a common political nickname over there for America and the West. Wouldn't it be fun if our leaders talked like this? Like, really talked trash to other countries? You know, without being human-rights–violating, Holocaust-denying, terrorist-funding, dubiously elected despots, of course.
A large screen displays a portrait of Michael Jackson during a memorial service for the music legend at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on July 7, 2009. A new Michael Jackson song titled... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 10:20 pm
Tight pants, short shorts, fedoras, pierced septums — these trends will no longer separate one hipster from another. So they're shaving and bleaching their eyebrows! What else would they do? They can't even shave half their heads anymore — Alice Dellal and Cassie have done that. So: eyebrows. What purpose do they serve, really? All they do is keep a person from looking creepy. And if you don't look creepy, you must not be fashionable.
“I get a lot of stares,” said [eyebrow-less] Mr. Toro, who wasn’t immediately recognized by his friends that evening, his face had changed so much. “But it’s cool because they are perplexed looks instead of something hateful.”
And here we've been holding on to our eyebrows. Why? We've missed out on so many "WTF?" stares from strangers — no wonder life feels so empty, our souls so hollow. Our eyebrows have also, apparently, kept us from being part of an elite and therefore enticing hipster community, according to Mr. Toro's friend:
“It’s unifying,” she said. “There is an asexual element to no eyebrows. We are much more accepting of the ‘other’ nowadays. Removing eyebrows removes a degree of expression, which makes one look less human and more cerebral, maybe even mechanical. It’s an exercise in modernity.”
And, evidently, poetry. Of course the eyebrowless look has been in fashion magazines and on runways for years. It's the signature look of Rick Owens's shows. Prada also erased eyebrows for fall. Givenchy bleached Adriana Lima's eyebrows for the fall campaign, which helps distance her from her sexpot Victoria's Secret image. Models including Kristen McMenamy and Karen Elson are known for the look. But why is it appearing on the streets? On normal (but not really) people? The Times has the answer:
Could no eyebrows be a reflection of economic downturn? Can one be too poor to have them? Having no eyebrows is certainly a way to express oneself without buying a product.
“The economic troubles we are facing now open people up to be more daring and willing to don cutting-edge looks,” [Pat] McGrath offered.
Of course it's the economy. Except now that the trend has been highlighted with a substantial article in the "Thursday Styles" section, it's no longer cool. Hipsters will have to find something else that doesn't cost any money but will cause strangers to stare at them. Something strange enough that they'll feel united for being brave enough to do it together. Like wrapping garbage on their heads with Saran wrap. Or better yet, plucking out all their eyelashes!
Fan girls, be warned: Get engaged to a Jonas Brother and they may spend more time honing their Neil Diamond impression and getting name-checked in Emmy acknowledgments than putting the starting...
E-mail–hacking Dolce & Gabbana publicist Ali Wise may soon appear in your living room. And not because she picked your lock! Fashion Week Daily reports that the CW is interested in a reality show focusing on Ali, "among others." Among other whats, we wonder? Publicists? Socialites? Hackers? Felons? Bitches who be crazy for love? Wait: Is Socialite Charm School, hosted by Muffy Potter Aston, imminent? Tell us yes! Alas: "The CW has no comment," says a representative.
We don't want to read too much into this photo, but it sure looks like there's some serious hand-wringing going on there.
We already knew that a significant number of people over the age of 49 defected from the Jay Leno–hosted version of NBC's Tonight Show to their fellow baby boomer David Letterman's Late Show program on CBS after Conan took the reins in June, but now it seems like O'Brien's supposed fortress of support within Gen X and Gen Y circles seems to be eroding with every passing week. According to a CBS press release that Vulture buddy Nikki Finke got her hands on, last week's run of Tonight Show episodes was the lowest rated since Letterman's first week as host of the Late Show way back in 1993. But if you believe the spin that's been coming out of Jeff Zucker's mouth since the transition, overall ratings don't really matter to NBC, as they're more concerned about the ratings in their coveted 18-to-49 bracket.
Unfortunately for NBC, things aren't going so well for them in that department, either. Not only has Dave basically pulled even in the 25-to-54 race, but Conan's ratings in the 18-to-34 segment have dropped almost one full point since he took over on June 1. One thing's for certain: The two months and change before Jay Leno comes back into the NBC fray in mid-September is going to be a white-knuckle ride for the network. We don't anticipate anyone over at NBC hitting the panic switch and making any rash moves until the end of the year, but you can bet that Jeff Zucker is already dreading his year-end review.
• McGraw-Hill, which announced recently that it's looking to get rid of BusinessWeek, has now announced plans to get rid of 550 employees. [WSJ] • Jim Spanfeller, the president and CEO of Forbes.com, either decided to leave the company or was forced out, depending on who you talk to. [DF, NYT] • As expected, the new Harry Potter movie raked it in yesterday. [THR] • Donald Trump's long-running libel lawsuit against author (and New York Times business editor) Timothy O'Brien has been dismissed by a judge. [NYP]
• According to a new poll, 60% of adults say they use the crappy ads shoved into newspapers "to help plan shopping or purchasing decisions." Who these people are we don't know, but take the good news where you can get it. [E&P] • The new TV ad for CNN that claims it's "No. 1"? Yea, not so much. [LAT] • So who's winning, Letterman or O'Brien? Letterman, it seems. [DHD] • Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks has secured $825 million in funding. [THR] • Ryan Seacrest jumped from William Morris to CAA because the former wouldn't give him a discount. As if Seacrest really needed one. [DHD] • Today's Emmy Award nominations: some snubs and surprises. [LAT]
Pixie Geldof, Daisy Lowe, and Alice Dellal have switched agencies. They used to be with Select in London, but all have recently signed with Next. Rumors are flying about this very intense upheaval in the industry. Could it be that the trio's booker at Select is no longer with the agency? Or that Select dropped the girls for their hard-partying ways? Someone less lazy than we are has some detective work to do. [Grazia]
New York police have apprehended a 17-year-old aspiring Tyler Durden who they say was responsible for the May 25 bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks. Why did he do it? Kyle Shaw claims he was inspired by the movie Fight Club and had been in the process of launching his very own "Project Mayhem." Adorable! [NYT via Movieline]
Sarah Palin may be dominating the news right now, what with her odd career choices and op-eds and constant tweeting and loquacious ex-almost-son-in-law, but it's the far quieter Mitt Romney who may be the man to beat for the 2012 Republican nomination. Not only is he besting Palin (and Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and everyone else) in a poll of GOP voters and GOP-leaning independents, but he's also raising much more cash than Palin, albeit apparently from far fewer individual donors. Another caveat, though, is that the Gallup poll results show that Americans overall have a higher opinion of Romney now than they did at the end of his campaign in February 2008 — you know, when they were faced with actually seeing him, hearing him, and experiencing his generally off-putting personality.
SKIN
• New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is cracking down on "Astroturfing" in the beauty industry, which refers to companies posting fabricated reviews about their own products online. Lifestyle Lift agreed to pay the state $300,000 for fake comments about its face-firming procedure. [Fashionista]
• David Wright of the Mets is the newest partner of Mission, a skin-care line tailored to athletes that donates proceeds to charity. He joins fellow partners Serena Williams, Steve Nash, and Amanda Beard. [NYP]
FRAGRANCE
• Charlotte Gainsbourg is the new face of Balenciaga's fragrance, which will debut in February 2010. [WWD]
HAIR
• If you've ever considered trying Latisse, a new product that promises to lengthen lashes, you may want to read this upcoming diary from someone braving possible side effects (like itchy eyes, redness, dryness, and skin darkening) to try it. [BellaSugar]
MAKEUP
• Celebrities are still wearing spring's tangerine-lipstick trend on the red carpet. [Beauty Department/Glamour]
The 2009 ESPYs culminated with a massive afterparty last night, complete with a very almost-modern teal/purple club lighting theme, the token bizarre celebs/ESPN anchors ESPY mingling combo, and, above all, a performance by three hip-hop ghost people or something?
Anyone want to explain what this performance has to to with sports, celebrities, or anything ever?
More pics of the bizarre ESPY afterparty performance:
You've read David Edelstein's reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and (500) Days of Summer in this week's issue of New York — but have you read them with footnotes? [Projectionist]
Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes, is said to be "on death's doorstep" as he battles meningitis. He is not expected to survive, according to his brother. [NYDN]
We just thought we'd beat the Post to this Photoshop.
This morning's New York Post contained a hysterical story about the Obama administration's health-care plan, which plans to pay for universal health care by increasing the tax on the wealthy. The plan is currently trapped in the bowels of Congress, where said increase is being vociferously debated. Meanwhile, the right-wing think tank the Tax Foundation did the math, and figured out that New Yorkers are getting especially screwed (also Oregon, but who cares about them), since with the proposed surtax, the tax rate for the people in the top tax bracket (Individuals earning $250,000 and up, and families earning $350,000) will go up to 58.68 percent, or almost 60 percent. Sixty percent! SIXTY FUCKING PERCENT!
How terrifying is it really? The story makes it sound like Obama Hood is coming to take away more than half of everyone's current income, which is not actually the case. The plan is not even to raise the tax rates of those New Yorkers making over $250,000 by 60 percent. It's to raise it by 5.4 percent.
Here in New York, the top tax rate, including city taxes, local taxes, and medicare, is already 53.17 percent. It already sucks that bad. And lest we forget, with the plan, we'd get health care, which, last we could bear to look at our pay stub, already siphons away a healthy percentage of everyone's income.
We're not saying that people in that income bracket should just roll over without even whimpering. No one wants to pay more taxes. It's unfortunate that it impacts the middle class — and in New York, $250,000 is arguably middle class, much as it weirds us out to type that. Sure, it would be nice if our cost of living here were taken into consideration, or if the bill specifically targeted these guys. But this isn't really about that. It's about health care, which we desperately need fixed. So, maybe everyone should stop stressing out. You wouldn't want to have to go to the emergency room. We all know how bad those are.
Whip It — about a girl who defies her mother by quitting beauty pageants to join a roller-derby league — may be Drew Barrymore's first-ever movie behind the camera, but she'd have to work pretty hard to screw it up with a supporting cast as (mostly) appealing as this one (Kristen Wiig! Marcia Gay Harden! Eve! Daniel Stern! Ari Graynor! Jimmy Fallon. Alia Shawkat!). And from the looks of this new trailer, it's a totally cute-seeming, Ellen Page–starring coming-of-age story, unmarred by pregnancy or Moldy Peaches. Count us in.
Good news! Crocs might disappear as soon as September. The shoemaker has until the end of September to pay off its debt. Last year the company lost $185.1 million. They cut about 2,000 jobs, but still owe creditors millions. The Washington Post reports:
"The company's toast," said Damon Vickers, who manages an investment fund at Nine Points Capital Partners in Seattle. "They're zombie-ish. They're dead and they don't know it."
After, against all logic, the company managed to sell 100 million pairs of shoes over seven years, they made millions more shoes to meet demand. They even made charms with which to adorn them. Luckily the universe has no room for this sort of hideousness, and as fate would have it, the economy crashed. Crocs customers realized their money is best spent on anything other than that absurdly ugly footwear.
Two summers ago, Nancy Fisher of the District bought two pairs of Crocs, one green and one pink, for her daughters. The girls, now 8 and 12, wore them constantly and even got charms to decorate the tops. This year, the shoes are forgotten.
"They were their go-to," Fisher said, "and now they're just really interested in flip-flops."
Praise! But the company is in denial about their imminent demise. They recently hired a new CEO to lead the seemingly pointless exercise of trying to keep Crocs afloat. He's telling analysts George Clooney has promised to work with the company. We thought George had decent taste, but it makes perfect sense: Someone as rich as he is hasn't felt the economic force that knocked the beer goggles off so many other Crocs customers.
The portrait of Michael Jackson by pop art legend Andy Warhol, seen here in this handout from the Vered Gallery,purchased just weeks ago for less than 300,000 dollars, could fetch as much as 10 million... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 8:13 pm
Location: The Great Lawn, Central Park. Activity: Catching a free performance. Temperature: 77 degrees. Soundtrack: Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony. Beverages: Wine from Trader Joe’s, a Bubba Keg of Bass, and a bottle of Recession Red. Snacks: Almonds, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. Company: Friends, spouses, strangers. Reading Material:Fine Woodworking magazine. Clothing: Chinos, Lilly Pulitzer, flowered headscarves.
Okay, here's Intel Chris's:
Location: My apartment, if my apartment were nicer. Activity: Hosting a dinner party. Temperature: An artificial 69 degrees, controlled by central air (see above, re: location). Soundtrack: A carefully calibrated gay playlist that begins with Sufjan Stevens and ends with "C'est La Vie" by B*witched, such that people want to bop around when they get drunk. Beverages: Martinis, then fancy wine that someone else brought. Snacks: Cheese, bread, and various sausages. Preferably all together. Company: The BF, and attractive friends with nice arms. Reading Material: Blissfully only recipes, for one night. Except maybe at the end of the night after we've all gone to a piano bar to embarrass ourselves, a really good novel, read in bed with the BF, who will probably be reading something by Stephen King that will give him terrible nightmares. Clothing: Oh, let's face it, same as the Times: Chinos, Lilly Pulitzer, flowered headscarves.
The unemployment situation in NYC isn't improving. The city's jobless rate jumped to 9.5 percent last month, which is almost double what it was a year ago and the highest it's been since July 1997. But there is some good news for unemployed Wall Streeters: It looks like banks are beginning to hire again. Of course, the very best news is reserved for people who happen to be employed by Goldman Sachs, who are on track to make $1 million this year, on average. If you fall into that last category, rest assured that everyone else in NYC is totally thrilled about your good fortune, isn't the slightest bit jealous, and only wishes you the very best. Promise! [Reuters]
The wrangling between State Senate Democrats and Mayor Bloomberg continues today on a bill restoring mayoral control of the schools. The Democrats want guarantees from Bloomberg, Sheldon Silver, and Governor Paterson that their amendments will be passed by the Assembly in September, though negotiations are difficult today as Bloomberg is in D.C. testifying at the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor. At least one senator, who opposes the bill without the amendments, doesn't mind the delay. "We’re not in a hurry," Queens senator Shirley Huntley told the Daily News. "I could be here forever.” [PolitickerNY, Daily Politics/NYDN]
Yesterday Newsdayintroduced us to the Bristal All-Stars, a Long Island senior softball team funded by an assisted-living company. After “grousing” about the Mets’ lack of fundamentals, the team decided to make a video to send to the team showcasing “a number of basic plays.” “We are not doing it to embarrass anyone,” one of the seniors said. “We are doing it because we care about them."
So, yeah: That’s pretty much how the first half of the season has gone for the Mets.
The Mets are not only losing, they’re losing with the aesthetically displeasing and dispiriting combination of sloppy play and nearly nonexistent hitting. But for all the frustration for fans — including this poor bastard, who went to five consecutive Mets games in which they did not score — and all the annoyance with the seemingly endless parade of mental errors, the reason the Mets are struggling is because three of their best five players are hurt. Complain all you want about how “top heavy” general manager Omar Minaya constructed his roster, but there isn’t a team in baseball that could lose Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, and Carlos Delgado and expect to contend the way everyone had hoped. It is to Jerry Manuel’s credit that the boat hasn’t completely capsized.
And as a matter of fact, the Mets are only three games under .500 and six and a half games out of first. (Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA Playoff Odds Report puts their chances at making the playoffs at a somewhat encouraging 13 percent.)
So have hope! We have hope!
1. No one’s running away with the division. The Phillies had a five-game winning streak heading into the All-Star break, but their starting pitching, despite the addition this week of (an injured, elderly) Pedro Martinez, is the worst in the division (outside of Washington, of course). Unless they trade for Roy Halladay, that’s not likely to improve. Trailing the Phillies by six and a half games, the Mets are further behind than they have been all season — a direct result of the Phillies’ recent streak. They won’t stay that hot forever, not with their staff. If the Mets come within five games or so by mid-August, they will be close enough to make a run. Hey, maybe it’s the Phillies’ turn to collapse in September!
2. Those injured players are coming back. Reyes should return from his mysterious hamstring injury by the end of the month, with Beltran a week or so after that. Delgado? No one’s quite sure about him yet.
3. David Wright might hit homers again. It’s astounding that Wright, who hit at least 26 homers in every full big-league season, has only five this year. His average is starting to fall back to the level it should be (considering all his strikeouts), and it’s clear that the massive dimensions at Citi Field, which changed his strategy from Power Hitter to Free-Swinging Tony Gwynn, are still in his head. It’s time to start swinging for the fences again. The man has the ability to do it.
This week the Mets face Atlanta, Washington, and Houston, none of which are overpowering teams. If they can win six of those ten games, Reyes should boost them in the following homestand against Colorado, Arizona, and St. Louis. You can still see hope. If you squint.
One person was killed Thursday when a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in Marseille, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.
We're not entirely sure what band member is in charge of U2's brand-new Twitter feed, but based on the first tweet that the band posted (at left), our guess is the Edge. In a surprising twist, the band revered the world over for their bombastic flourishes seems to be taking the "Brevity is the soul of wit" approach to the service: So far the gatekeeper of the account has only posted TwitPics. [U2_360/Twitter via Rock & Roll Daily/Rolling Stone]
Yesterday, it was reported that Renee Zellwegger, the talented actress behind such classics as Cold Mountain, Chicago and 8 Seconds, will be reprising her signature role as Bridget Jones in an upcoming threequel of the hit series. And you know what that means: So long eating stamps for dinner, and hello actual meals! Renee put on about 20 pounds to play her undeniably hilarious Bridget, and managed to snag both Hugh Grant and Colin Firth’s characters in the process, two actors whose ghost babies appear in my own dreams on the semi-regular. (Sadly, Hugh’s ghost baby is a little FASsy, that ol’ so n’ so, but I love it just the same.)
But before Renee resumes to eating corncobs (just the cob) and chocolate-flavored saliva, she was spotted out on the streets of LA flaunting the ol’ skelly bones we’ve come to know and love. She’s likea lady version ofD’Angelo in these pics!
And while the title of the threequel hasn’t been revealed (we’re pulling for Bridget Jones’ Pie-ary, where she opens a pie shoppe), we want to wish Renee all the best. Here’s to hoping the movie is roughly 148 percent funnier than Ken Burns’ The Edge of Reason.
Costumed fans attend the opening night of "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on July 14, 2009 in Hollywood, California. The sixth "Harry Potter" film raked in 58.4 million... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 6:55 pm
"My dream role would be to play music legend Carol Channing in a biopic of her life. I love her, I really do. She's amazing. With all the digital technology these days, I could probably pull it off ... I'd have a go at playing a 12-year-old girl if they asked me to." —Johnny Depp on wanting to play an 88-year-old woman [Mirror UK]
"Don't just look at it at work, bring in your old porn mags and scan them there! It's like converting your vinyl to MP3s. Fill up your hard drive, and when you need a break from spreadsheets, just open a favorite pictorial." —Brad Pitt advocating porn at work [Wired]
"When you have three kids, you've got to take your opportunities when they come. In a limo, on the way to the Academy Awards this year, Will started looking at me in this way that drives me wild. We started kissing passionately, and the next thing I knew, well, let's just say we missed the red carpet and I ended up with almost no make-up on." —Jada Pinkett Smith [Shape via Contact Music]
"At first I was afraid to tell Alison [Lohman] all the things I had to do to her like, 'While digging up the corpse you may get blisters, you'll be in the rain, you'll get a little cold, you have to get a little dirty.' And what if I tell her I'm going to bury her alive in 800 pounds of mud? I slowly told her everything she'd have to go through. I was worrying she wouldn't take the part after a few hours of this but she did." —Sam Raimi on not lying, but just not telling his Drag Me to Hell star the whole truth [Sydney Morning Herald]
"The idea was to walk across the crossing, and I showed up that day with sandals, flip-flops. It was so hot that I kicked them off and walked across barefooted, and this started some rumor that because he's barefooted, he's dead. I couldn't see the connection. I just laughed. I knew it was because of the fame and the craziness. But it was a bit strange, because people started to look at me like, 'Is it really him or a very good double?' No, this is him!" —Paul McCartney on the cover for Abbey Road [Contact Music]
Today’s video that didn’t actually happen in real life but was magically willed into existence by the power of the internet comes to us in the form of an adorable group of ducks who just can’t seem to get up the down escalator. It’s either a deep metaphor for the circular pointlessness of human existence, or perhaps more likely, it’s the internet being the frickin’ internet.
DUCKS on an ESCALATOR?? It’s just like that ridiculous Samuel L. Jackson movie, Shaft!
"30 Rock" led all shows with 22 Emmy nominations, and "Mad Men" had 16 as the nods were announced Thursday morning. Among the surprises: "Family Guy" picked up a nomination for best comedy series.
There are plenty of pop culture differences between our great nation of America and that of Israel. For example, if you want to make it big as a singing sensation over in the Middle East, it is not actually required that you have a good singing voice. Having a curly ponytail — or “Kebab Knob” as I call it — certainly does help. Being a Russian prostie won’t hurt your chances either.
But of all these pop culture differences, one in particular rises above the occasion, almost literally. Because in Israel, their most famous television host — the “Ryan Seacrest of the Holy Land” — well, there’s really no classy way to say it, so here it is: His name is Guy Penis.
GUY PENIS
To be fair, he spells his name “Guy Pines“. But no matter where you were to turn, if there was a TV around, the words “GUY PENIS” would stick out, pun more than definitely intended, from in the midst of the otherwise ancient mumbo jumbo. And clearly, it is the most amazing name on the face of the girth since my best friends uncle, Dick Gay.
Not much else needs to be said about Guy Penis. Other than that I just added him as a friend on F-book (peens crossed!!) Check out this video of Guy being interviewed by two men in old man makeup to hear the name being said, as well as to marvel at how low their television budget can go:
Also, feel free to leave comments of actual names you’ve heard that are worse or more shocking than Guy Penis.
Poor Steve Rattner. As if it wasn't bad enough that he's embroiled in a scandal over pension fund bribes, may face criminal charges for his role in the scheme, and was forced to step down as President Obama's "car czar" earlier this week, comes the news that he paid $4.35 million for house in D.C. just two months ago. [peHUB]
Actress Chandra Wilson, Television Academy Chairman & CEO John Shaffner and actor Jim Parsons announce the nominees for "Outstanding Comedy Series" during the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 5:52 pm
Actors Chandra Wilson and Jim Parsons announce the nominees for "Lead Actress In A Drama Series" during the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Hollywood... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 5:52 pm
Actors Chandra Wilson and Jim Parsons announce the nominees for "Outstanding Drama Series" during the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Hollywood. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 5:52 pm
Goldman Sachs announced record earnings the day before yesterday. Today it was JPMorgan Chase's turn wow everyone on Wall Street, announcing a $2.7 billion second-quarter profit thanks to "stellar trading and investment banking results." A few months ago, the bank had accepted $25 billion in bailout cash. Now the Jamie Dimon-led bank is "emerging with renewed confidence," reports the Times, and it's "taking advantage of the financial crisis to vault ahead of longtime rivals in the investment banking rankings and grab market share in mortgages and retail banking." When Goldman shared its good news with the world, we wondered if the bank had an exciting party planned. (It didn't.) We didn't bother to ask Dimon's people if they were planning to live it up this evening. Jamie's too cheap to treat anyone to anything fancy, clearly. But he is the kind of guy who would happily rub his good news in the face of the competition!
To make his job easier, we came up with a perfect way for Jamie to remind people like Citgroup CEO Vikram Pandit and Bank of America chief Ken Lewis that while they may still be at the mercy of Washington, Jamie has "cemented his status as one of America’s most powerful and outspoken bankers," according to the Times.
We went over to the website PersonalWine.com, which allows you to customize bottles of champagne and send them to your friends (or rivals, as the case may be). From what we gather, the service is normally used by couples getting married who want to see their names stamped on the bottles of bubbly they serve at the reception. But there's nothing that says you can't use it to tell everyone on Wall Street to go suck it, right?
I came to the realization years ago that complaining about Award Shows is a Sisyphean ordeal (I am words using!!), but since that hasn’t stopped me from using this blogspace to whine about the Tonys at every possible opportunity, I will now extend the same courtesy to the Emmy Award nominees, which were announced earlier today.
Unlike the Tonys, I don’t have any angry “this whole thing is pointless” mindset towards the awards in general, but looking at this list with 6-7 things nominated in every category when there’s only, like, 9 non-reality shows on television, it just seems humorously excessive.
Let’s take a peek at some of the awesomely meaningful categories:
BEST COMEDY SERIES Entourage Family Guy Flight of the Conchords How I Met Your Mother The Office 30 Rock Weeds
Five people messaged me this morning about Family Guy’s nomination in the Best Comedy category (The Simpsons has apparently only been nominated for Animated Comedy), anticipating my angry re-hashing of my anti-Family Guy stance, but honestly, who cares? There are SEVEN comedies nominated — how many comedies are even on tv? Ten? If you count Alton Brown’sGood Eats as two? It’s Always Sunny… definitely got snubbed, because it’s as funny or funnier than anything else on this list (save maybe the second half of this Office season), but we’re talking about SEVEN nominees in a category that included Two and a Half Men three years in a row. It’s a meaningless distinction.
If the Emmys want to spread around as many nominations as possible to bolster the notoriety of television in general, that’s their prerogative. If Family Guy wins, on the other hand, it might be time for a post consisting of nothing but F-words.
Some other categories…
GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alan Alda, 30 Rock
Beau Bridges, Desperate Housewives
Jon Hamm, 30 Rock
Steve Martin, 30 Rock
Justin Timberlake, Saturday Night Live
Justin Timberlake hosting SNL counts as a “Guest Actor In A Comedy Series”? Jon Hamm’s arc on 30 Rock was amazing, but really, 4/5 of the category comes from Lorne Michaels’ two shows? That miiiiight be a sign that having five nominees (or a category at all) is an eentsy bit excessive.
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal
Michael Emerson, Lost
William Hurt, Damages
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
William Shatner, Boston Legal
John Slattery, Mad Men
Lost scaled back Ben’s part significantly this past season, but if Michael Emerson doesn’t win a frickin’ Supporting Actor Emmy before Lost is over, I’m going to murder whoever’s fault it was. Or the enitre Academy, if need be.
GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Brenda Blethyn, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Carol Burnett, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Ellen Burstyn, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Sharon Lawrence, Grey’s Anatomy
CCH Pounder, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Anyone else find it a bit unsettling that the series about brutal domestic abuse and rape is apparently the only show with guest actresses? (But I’ll be at the edge of my seat to see if CCH Pounder can win for her unforgettable The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency performance!!! So exciting!!!)
REALITY SERIES Antiques Roadshow Dirty Jobs Dog Whisperer Intervention Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List MythBusters
Nothing crazy here, just amusing myself picturing the Antiques Roadshow people winning and throwing a drunken, batsh*t-crazy afterparty.
MINISERIES Generation Kill Little Dorrit
Loved Generation Kill, and it’d deserve to win a crowded field, but seriously, TWO frickin’ nominees?? What is this, the NFC West of Awards categories? Winning “Best CSI Iteration” would be more meaningful.
HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Heidi Klum, Project Runway
Padma Lakshmi (Host) and Tom Colicchio (Co-Host), Top Chef
Jeff Probst, Survivor
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
We must reward these humans for their contributions to the universe! Can’t all seven win????
Thoughts on the Emmy Nominees? Leave ‘em in the comments (or wait for Michelle’s happier Emmy Nominee post this afternoon)
Singer Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson "kind of drifted apart," but there was "no big bust-up" after Jackson bought the Beatles song catalog, McCartney told David Letterman Wednesday.
Reality star Khloe Kardashian is flaunting her newly slim bod in a new interview with Life and Style magazine, saying she was tired of being the 'funny, fat one.' Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Jul 2009 | 4:23 pm
Uighur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer waits to speak to the press on the unrest in China's western Xinjiang province at the National Press Club in Washington on July 6, 2009. China said Thursday it opposed... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 4:11 pm
The European Union handed out Thursday its first ever literature prize to 12 authors, in an award aimed at promoting cultural diversity across the 27 nation bloc. "The prize is aimed at getting the works... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 16 Jul 2009 | 4:11 pm
Hahahaha!!!! Nice Bluetooth, DORK! Can you use it to call up your IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND??? Not that you’d know what to do with her in bed cause you’re probably a virgin and I’ll bet she’s all ugly anyway!!! High five boys!
Pirates of the Caribbean" star Orlando Bloom's Hollywood Hills home has been burglarized, according to a report from TMZ.Kerr in Gran Canaria, part of the Canary Islands. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Jul 2009 | 3:27 pm
Not every classically trained musician has the gumption to interpret Michael Jackson on the violin. But German-born virtuoso David Garrett re-imagines "Smooth Criminal" with such fervor that you'd think Jackson had intended the song to be played by the instrument all along.
Ryan Seacrest, the Man with the Heart and All Other Parts of Gold, has once again delivered, for this morning he brings us a photo of Kim Kardashian, replete with “eyebrow concealing wax”, painted up to look more “goth”.
But come on, Kim, fess up. We know what this is really about. You may source Prada’s 2009 Fall Runway Show as your inspiration, but anyone with eyes and no hand knows that you’re clearly ganking Cher’s otherworldly look in the 1987 classic rom-com Moonstruck. Her hair, the lips, those cheekbones! Hot glue a giant fountain behind this bitch, throw some 4-inch thick brows for good measure, and dangle Cosmo’s moon high in the air, because now I’m in the mood for a good solid cry. Though, I think we can all agree that no matter how hard Kim tries, she will never be half the woman Cher is.
Let’s also take this time to give a moment of silence to a time when Nicolas Cage was, like, crazy hot:
Mmmmmmyup, even with he’s monkey mouthin’ it up while signing copies of Hamlet with his own damn face on it, Jude Law, as of July 2009, is still hot. It’s gonna take more than a hairline to change our minds on this. The good news is he can alway suture some skin from his arm onto his forehead and we would be none the wiser.
Has anyone seen him as Hamlet in Londonyet? How often does he make Keira Knightley mouth? Can you spot his bulge through his Cavaricci’s?
Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil were officially granted a divorce. Custody of the Cr has yet to be determined.
Bruno has been banned in Ukraine for “anti-social behavior which could damage the moral upbringing of our citizens.” That country’s just a little extra-sensitive after getting re-conquered every single turn on a Risk board.
Brett Favre told the Minnesota Vikings he’ll decide by July 30th whether or not he’ll be returning to the NFL this season. And if he doesn’t decide by then, he’ll decide any time ever.
Michael Jackson has sold 9 million records since his death, pushing the total number of records sold by the recording industry to an astonishing 9,000,006 over the past month.
Khloe Kardashian claims to have lost 20 pounds in just 10 days. For Kim to do the same, she would have to cut off her ass IT IS SO BIG YOU GUYS SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A stage being built for a Madonna concert in the French port city of Marseille collapsed Thursday, leaving one dead and six injured, the fire department said.
Who would've guessed that Kanye West, who used Auto-Tune on his most recent album, "808s and Heartbreak," was who inspired Jay-Z's latest single, "D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-tune)," off his upcoming album, "The Blueprint 3."
Michael Jackson's songs and albums went to the top of the charts in the days and weeks following his death --and there may be plenty more hits to come, if his rumored plethora of unreleased songs find their way to the public.
Hannah Montana edges out Mariah Carey on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, as Miley Cyrus' TV alter ego claims her first top 10 on the chart. "He Could Be the One" debuts at No. 10, just above Carey's "Obsessed," which debuts at No. 11.
Country mainstay Martina McBride is preparing for her first concerts in the United Kingdom and Ireland for some 15 years. The star tells Billboard.com that the dates will pave the way for a yet-to-be-announced American tour in November.
It used to be so easy.
Back in happier times, we could watch Jon & Kate Plus 8 and think, "Man, I would not want to be married to that one." Whether it was Kate's cutting...
Aw, sad Thursdays are getting worse every week. Luckily, the sad So You Think You Can Dance elimination always comes with a heaping helping of entertainment, as evidenced by tonight's...
We finally know where the cops took Mischa Barton yesterday.
The 23-year-old actress has been hospitalized and is currently under a doctor's care after making a nonemergency phone...
It was only a matter of time before someone got sued, right? We're just surprised it took three weeks.
Michael Jackson's ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, has filed a defamation lawsuit...
The gaggle of sad, sycophantic losers—sorry, the bunch of fun-loving kids—competing for sacred buddy privileges with Paris Hilton gets a special poolside schooling from its hero,...
The investigation into Michael Jackson's death appears to be turning into a criminal probe, albeit in a mighty roundabout way.
A day after denying a report that the Los Angeles...
Speedy's disco stick is no longer Lady Gaga's for the riding.
The mono-monikered entrepreneur broke up with his hitmaker girlfriend of three months Wednesday after a photo of her...
Fan girls, be warned: Get engaged to a Jonas Brother and they may spend more time honing their Neil Diamond impression and getting name-checked in Emmy acknowledgments than putting the starting...
There are plenty of pop culture differences between our great nation of America and that of Israel. For example, if you want to make it big as a singing sensation over in the Middle East, it is not actually required that you have a good singing voice. Having a curly ponytail — or “Kebab Knob” as I call it — certainly does help. Being a Russian prostie won’t hurt your chances either.
Goldman Sachs announced record earnings the day before yesterday. Today it was JPMorgan Chase's turn wow everyone on Wall Street, announcing a $2.7 billion second-quarter profit thanks to "stellar trading and investment banking results." A few months ago, the bank had accepted $25 billion in bailout cash. Now the 
I came to the realization years ago that complaining about Award Shows is a Sisyphean ordeal (I am words using!!), but since that hasn’t stopped me from using this blogspace to 
Five people messaged me this morning about Family Guy’s nomination in the Best Comedy category (The Simpsons has apparently only been nominated for Animated Comedy), anticipating my angry re-hashing of my anti-Family Guy stance, but honestly, who cares? There are SEVEN comedies nominated — how many comedies are even on tv? Ten? If you count Alton Brown’s Good Eats as two? It’s Always Sunny… definitely got snubbed, because it’s as funny or funnier than anything else on this list (save maybe the second half of this Office season), but we’re talking about SEVEN nominees in a category that included Two and a Half Men three years in a row. It’s a meaningless distinction.
GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil were officially 
