AP - Though music has taken a digital turn, Robert Cray didn't recently get his first computer to keep up with industry trends. The Grammy-winning blues singer is just making sure he can see his young son and wife while he's on tour.
AP - Though music has taken a digital turn, Robert Cray didn't recently get his first computer to keep up with industry trends. The Grammy-winning blues singer is just making sure he can see his young son and wife while he's on tour.
___ ABC's "This Week" _ White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; former Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Bob Dole, R-Kan.; Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif. ___ ... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Sep 2009 | 1:47 am
AP - A criminal charge against a security guard who was accused of shoving former supermodel Stephanie Seymour into a door at her Connecticut home is being dismissed if he can stay out of trouble.
A criminal charge against a security guard who was accused of shoving former supermodel Stephanie Seymour into a door at her Connecticut home is being dismissed if he can stay out of... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Sep 2009 | 12:33 am
Exiled Uighur leader Rabiya Kadeer is seen here speaking at the premiere of a film about her life at the Melbourne International Film Festival, in August. A Taiwan film festival is set to screen a documentary... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 5 Sep 2009 | 12:16 am
A Taiwan film festival is set to screen a documentary on the exiled leader of the Uighur minority next month, organisers said on Saturday, in a move seen as bound to anger China. The... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Sep 2009 | 12:16 am
Former supermodel Stephanie Seymour has come to a closed-door agreement with a security guard who was accused of shoving her into a door at her Connecticut home. Seymour got into a... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Sep 2009 | 12:09 am
Reuters - Filled with unexpected turns and subversive humor, Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is a jazzy, entertaining riff on the theme of a cop who spends too much time in a sewer of criminality and corruption. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 4 Sep 2009 | 11:20 pm
Reuters - Filled with unexpected turns and subversive humor, Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is a jazzy, entertaining riff on the theme of a cop who spends too much time in a sewer of criminality and corruption.
Some were able to make it to the Motown Historical Museum, which houses the studio. Others shared their thoughts over the telephone or in interviews at various Detroit-area locations. ... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 10:00 pm
On Jan. 12, 1959, Elvis Presley was in the Army. The Beatles were a little-known group called The Quarrymen casting about for gigs in Liverpool. The nascent rock 'n' roll world was a few... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 10:00 pm
DENVER (Billboard) - Paul DeGooyer is tired -- for good reason. It's about two weeks before the September 9 release of MTV's "The Beatles: Rock Band," and DeGooyer, senior vice president of Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 9:54 pm
Christian Audigier will not transform Michael Jackson's former home into a public space. Michele Elyzabeth, a spokeswoman for the Ed Hardy clothing founder, said Audigier would move into Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 9:35 pm
Wait, so the Jackson family didn't want Michael Jackson's elegant, star-packed interment service caught on tape?
Not according to Randy Jackson.
In a statement released...
NEW YORK - "Saturday Night Live" has cut a cast member just a day after word of two new hires became public. Michaela Watkins' publicist confirmed Friday that Watkins' contract was not Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 7:07 pm
Khloé Kardashian isn't about to let Kourtney steal the whole spotlight by getting pregnant.
The saucy Kardashian sis confirms exclusively to E! News that she's scored...
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Soap star Stacy Haiduk decided to dazzle the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony by showing up in a slinky, choppy, gown and accent her frock with a petrified puss.
Now, we love cats too! In...
"Saturday Night Live" has cut a cast member just a day after word of two new hires became public. Michaela (Mick-AIL'-lah) Watkins' publicist confirmed Friday that Watkins' contract was... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 5:16 pm
Fall is right around the corner and we're looking for some part-time help here at Cityfile. Perhaps you're looking for some part-time work? If you're web-savvy, have experience blogging, and you know NYC like the back of your hand, we'd love to hear from you. Interested in taking on some painstaking research for us? Well, then, we'd love to hear from you, too. To apply, please email jobs@cityfile.com with some background info. If we're intrigued, we'll be in touch shortly. Thanks!
AP - The massive marble and concrete Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park was slightly accessible by the public before Michael Jackson was entombed somewhere in its maze of floors and hallways.
• Who's going to replace Diane Sawyer now that she's leaving GMA? No one knows, really, but expect the changes to the show to be significant. [NYT] • Time is shutting down its fashion-centric spin-off, Time Style & Design. Editor Kate Betts will remain with Time; six other staffers have been let go. [WWD] • Magazine publishers are bending over backwards and offering to design ads themselves in order to keep their advertisers from fleeing. [NYT] • A frontrunner may have emerged to acquire the Boston Globe. [NYP] • ABC and CBS have agreed to air President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday. Fox, however, probably will not. [THR] • Hollywood writers just aren't earning the cash they used to, it seems. [NYT] • Simon Fuller, the man who brought you American Idol, now has his sights set on fashion: He's one of the people behind a new site called Fashionair. [VF] • One more reason to hope Jay Leno's new nightly show on NBC fails: If it succeeds, you can expect every other network to dump pricey one-hour dramas and replace them with crappy live events and even crappier reality TV. [Time]
Plum TV's Nick Leighton gave himself a tour of Bernie Madoff's house in Montauk this week, which can now be yours for $8.75 million. Leighton isn't all that impressed by the decor, not surprisingly. ("I think this was last renovated before I was born," he says). But he does uncover some better news in the master bath: There's great water pressure in the shower! [PlumTV]
What better way to celebrate Labor Day than by cracking open the big egg, eh? The following video makes me slightly wish I came from farmer folk. They’re so genteel! Have a great holiday weekend.
Oh, and if you hate eggs, you probably should NOT watch.
• About those hermaphrodite rumors, Lady Gaga tells an Australian radio station Nova 106.9: "My beautiful vagina is very offended. I'm not offended; my vagina is...
AP - Despite their roughhewn appearance, the resourceful rag dolls in "9" obviously were crafted with great love and care, both by the scientist who made them in the film and the mastermind behind them in real life, director Shane Acker.
Brody Jenner and Jayde Nicole aren't about to let last week's brawl with Joe Francis get the best of them.
"I saw both of them yesterday," their Hills co-star Lo...
Today, a film starring the charming and lovely combination of Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper called All About Steve hits theaters. IMDB sums up the movies plot as thus “Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.” Sounds like the perfect Labor Day Rom Com, right?
Wrong.
As of yesterday, All About Steve had rarely seen 00% rating on the revered Rottentomatoes.com “Tomatometer”. In other words, out of the 33 reviews of the movie that had been published, not a SINGLE ONE OF THEM were positive. Brian Tallerico of Movie Retriever had this to say “Easily one of the worst movies of the year (if not the decade), there is not one redeeming quality to All About Steve, an offensive film morally, socially, and to the institution of comedy.” Manolha Dargis from The New York Times said “It seems incredible, but the grimly unfunny comedy All About Steve might just be the worst movie on Sandra Bullock’s résumé.” (Allow us to remind you that Sandra Bullock was in the 1993 shatserpiece Demolition Man.)
Then Lisa Kennedy came along. Who is Lisa Kennedy? Well, as of 12 PM today, Ms. Kennedy of the Denver Post is the first Top Rated Critic to give this movie a “Fresh Tomato”. Witness:
And with this opening sentence, who wouldn’t want to see it?
Perhaps you’ve seen “Adam,” the film about a guy with Asperger’s syndrome meeting a girl without it. If you have, then you might think “All About Steve” heroine Mary Horowitz also lives with that form of high-functioning autism.
Sandra Bullock + stalking & autism = Maybe the finest movie of the year, right? Looks like we will judge for ourselves when one day we are forced to sit through this mental health documentary on an airplane.
But for now, we have to wonder: Just who at 20th Century Fox is giving out free HJ’s in Denver? Because we refuse to believe this review was written without a minimum of at least 2 to 3 Gratis HJs.
And really: Does Lisa Kennedy’s Fresh Tomato for All About Steve make her the countries worst movie reviewer? We say: Yes.
Wow! The Comic's Comic is reporting that Lorne Michaels has decided to axe both Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson from the cast of Saturday Night Live as the show enters its 35th season. We'll admit, this is a bit of a shocker. While we kinda saw the Casey Wilson thing coming — after all, she appeared in the least number of sketches of any full-time cast member last year (save for Darrell Hammond) — the Watkins firing comes as a total surprise to SNL observers, as she seemed to be gelling quite well with the cast and even managed to get a few breakout characters on air during her half-season as a cast member. Bitch, pleeze! [Comic's Comic]
City Room started with an easy one: Harlem, which is named after Haarlem, a municipality and a city in the northern part of the Netherlands. “Haahr-lem,” Ms. Jones-Bos said. “You just make the A longer.” She nodded in approval at our attempts. What about Brooklyn, named after the Dutch town of Breuckelen, now spelled as Breukelen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht ... “Bro-ke-lyn,” she said with a puckered lilt we found difficult to mimic. “It has an extra syllable.” ... Coney Island, which came from the Dutch Conyne Eylandt? She brightened up at the word “conyne.” “It’s ‘rabbit,’ ” she said. There were a lot of rabbits on the island when the Dutch arrived, she said. But the pronunciation is where things got hairy. It sounded like Ms. Jones-Bos said “Ko-nay-nen” and then a clipped version of “island.” And what about Flushing? .. “Ve-le-is-sing-nen.”
You know what this sounds like? A really fun game to play when you're stoned. Aha! Amsterdam! It all makes sense now.
On that note, we're heading out for the weekend. We'll be back blogging on Tuesday. Happy Labor Day!
Apparently, in June, Woody Allen visited Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and her husband, French president Nicolas Sarkozy. He said at the time he'd love to put Carla in a movie he's shooting in Paris next summer (who wouldn't?). Naturally, the European press went crazy, saying she had signed a contract (Le Parisien kindly noted Carla's lack of acting experience). But before everyone's panties bunch up over this any further, Carla's publicist will have you know that "Nothing is signed yet, and it’s too early to discuss." Truthfully, we're not even sure we can handle Carla getting a part in a movie. Every time she, like, walks outside or breathes, everyone dies. Oh, wait — that's Michelle Obama. Maybe Carla should do this movie to steal back some of the attention from her.
We're off early for the long weekend to pick up some bleach pens so we don't look too filthy while having our last hurrah wearing as much white as possible over the next three days. We'll be back to our regular posting schedule on Tuesday.
“Getting Iron-Manned” = Having all of your friends somehow see a movie the instant it comes out, so you never end up seeing it until months later, despite your best efforts.
I still haven’t seen Inglourious Basterds, mostly because half my friends wentand saw the Thursday midnight show when it came out, and the other half saw it while I was out of town this past weekend, and now I’m basically stuck between either seeing the movie myself, forcing a friend to see it a second time, finding a new friend and convincing them to go (the most likely option), or waiting and just Netflixing it. Given my prior experience with these situations, the last option is what will happen.
The same thing happened to me when Iron Man came out — definitely wanted to see it, but somehow my entire friend contingent managed to go within like 4 seconds of it coming out, and I was left to watch it on DVD months later, only then realizing that it was pretty cool.
• That Vincent Kartheiser screams out "Fuck life in the ass" before filming his scenes as Pete Campbell on Mad Men. Oh yeah, and Mad Men is coming back for a fourth season, despite the fact that Matthew Weiner knows next to nothing about cymbals.
• That The Final Destinationripped off a Chuck Palahniuk short story.
• Now you can take Hugh Jackman home with you (albeit, in sandwich form).
Our Twitter has been exploding with Twilight fans going through Robert Pattinson withdrawal. Why the ef aren't we seeing anything kissy and up close this time around?
Like we've...
We know he digs the V-neck tees, but does Simon Cowell have an unhealthy—and possibly illegal—obsession with women's footwear?
That seems to be the gist of small-claims...
The New York Post has had a field day this week with the (quite possibly false) rumor that Eliot Spitzer is supposedly thinking about jumping back into politics. That Tuesday cover story led to a Wednesday cover featuring a response from Ashley Dupre's mom; then, yesterday, Ashley herself responded to the Spitzer story before going on to suggest that she really isn't all that different than many women in Manhattan, and that the line between a prostitute and an ordinary gold-digger is a thin one. Dupre's remarks generated a third Post cover yesterday, and although a response to Dupre's comments from a handful of random women today didn't justify the cover of the paper today (despite the fact the Post it's now describing it as a "citywide catfight), it did give the paper an excuse to post one more photo gallery of Dupre in a skimpy bikini. Think the Daily News is feeling a little left out? You bet it is!
Not surprisingly, the News wasn't going to let the Dupre buzz pass without coming up with its own way to wade into the story. And now it has one.
Apparently, designer Yigal Azrouel has decided to keep a "low profile" this Fashion Week, since Ashley Dupre's appearance at his show last year generated some negative attention for him. He's not doing that by skipping Fashion Week entirely. He's still throwing a party for 800 people. But security is going to be tight this year to prevent any, say, notorious ex-prostitutes from slipping inside and sitting in the front row:
Azrouel's show will take place at The Promenade next Friday, and although almost 800 people will be invited, the source says handlers will be extremely strict with the guest list. "Every invite is being scrutinized," another snitch says, "so that what happened last year will not happen again."
But Katie Lee Joel, who split up with Billy Joel earlier this year after reportedly having an affair with Azrouel, is still on the invite list.
So Ashley is a publicity liability for just having attended his show last year. But Joel, whose marriage quite possibly fell apart thanks to Azrouel, is still okay. Maybe Ashley had a point about double standards, after all!
Without giving too much away or engaging in a rambly jokeless post, the film stars Robin Williams as a middle-aged divorced dad and never-was writer attempting to corral his total a-hole of a son, completely failing, then ultimately facing a decision about whether or not to use his son to propel a successful writing career. The film’s both really funny and tastelessly dark, and I don’t mean “tasteless” as a buzzword in promos for lame movies that deliberately try to be shocking; everything in this movie is earned by the characters, the story’s awesome, the dilemma is strangely topical given recent celebrity events, and it’s easily Robin Williams’ best role since Bicentennial Man.
Bruce Hornsby also shows up for one of the funniest cameo appearances ever (after this, of course).
If you don’t have a fantsypants indie theater in your town, you can also order World’s Greatest Dad On Demand on most cable services. You can also watch the trailer here (though the trailer’s actually pretty meh).
EVENTS TOMORROW
• Stop by the launch party for new Atina Aqua Mineral product line at Rani Spas in Queens. Founder Dr. Rani Thukral will give free consultations, and the store is offering free use of spa services, including massages and waxes, in addition to complimentary refreshments. Rani Spas, 64-11 108th St., Forest Hills (718-830-0100); 4:30–8:30.
SALES ONGOING
• Leather slingbacks, classic ballet flats, embroidered denim styles, and more are $109 or less at the French Sole sale. 976 Lexington Ave., at 71st St. (212-472-9200); M–F (10–7), S (11–6), Su (noon–5).
STARTING TOMORROW
• TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie is flying in from California this Saturday to host a "Style Your Sole" event at the brand's Montauk pop-up shop. Buy a pair of white TOMS ($44) and get them customized for free by local artists Lynette Shaw, Mike Guadarrama, Susan Vecsey, and Aurelio Torres. TOMS donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased. Solé East Resort, 90 Second House Rd., Montauk (631-668-2105); 5–10.
ENDING SUNDAY
• Oak samples and merchandise are marked down. 208 N. 8th St., nr. Driggs Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718-782-0521); daily (11–8).
• Shoppers who mention nymag.com receive 15 percent off at the Julie Haus pop-up store. Shop the Julie Haus fall/winter collection and the just-launched J/J by Julie Haus diffusion line. Tops are $50 to $108, dresses are $150 to $220, and coats are $230 to $360. 93 Mercer St., nr. Spring St. (212-239-4100); M–S (11–8), Su (noon–8).
• Otte Brooklyn is hosting a closing sale, including Earnest Sewn and Current/Elliott jeans for under $50. Prices range from $10 to $80. 132 N. 5th St., nr. Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718-302-3007); M–S (noon–8), Su (noon–6).
• Azaleas is hosting a summer sale, offering 70 percent off lingerie, loungewear, clothing, swimwear, and accessories. The Vix reversible floral-print bikini is $45 (originally $145) and Splendid jersey rompers are $55 (originally $115). 223 E. 10th St., nr. First Ave. (212-253-5484); M–S (noon–8), Su (noon–6).
• Eve Salon is offering a 60-minute Essential Facial for $50 (originally $85). The treatment deep-cleans, resurfaces, and hydrates skin. 55 W. 8th St., nr. Sixth Ave. (212-807-8054); M–Th (11–7:30), F (11–7), S–Su (10–6).
STARTING MONDAY
• Become a fan of Upper Echelon Shoes on Facebook and post a comment with your shoe size. On September 7, all fans will receive a link to shop the UES sample sale, and seven of them will win a free pair of shoes. Online only.
ENDING MONDAY
• Barneys holds its annual warehouse sale, offering 50 to 75 percent off designer clothing, shoes, and accessories for men and women. 255 W. 17th St., nr. Seventh Ave. (212-450-8400); Th, 8/20–F, 8/21 (8–9); M–F (10–9), S–Su (10–7); M, 9/7 (10–7).
• Polos, sweaters, shackets, belts, raincoats, and more are discounted at Freemans Sporting Club's office moving sale. Cotton polo shirts are $60 (originally $92), shackets in two- and three-button styles are $238 (originally $420), and fine-wale corduroy shorts are $65 (originally $89). 8 Rivington St., nr. Bowery (212-673-3209); S (11–7), Su (noon–6), M (11–8).
• A Bathing Ape Pirate Store is popping up for five days, offering menswear, womenswear, footwear, and more from designer Nigo at discounted prices. The stock includes archived and factory items. 286 Lafayette St., nr. Prince St.; Th–S (noon–7), Su–M (11–6).
For the past couple of days the Times has been gathering data on what commuters on different subway lines are reading, with the results to be compiled into some kind of interactive graphic (naturally) sometime today. But why wait for the paper's "renegade cybergeeks" when we can just speculate on the results based on our own preconceived assumptions? So, what book, magazine, and newspaper do you expect will be most popular on various lines? The New Yorker on the 4/5/6? Infinite Jest on the L? Hopefully something really long on the F? Tell us!
Say you're a film critic, and for reasons totally beyond your control, you were unable to file your review of Sandra Bullock's All About Steve until today. How, in original terms, do you express how awful it is now that every other critic has already scathingly done the same? (Steve's amazing Rotten Tomatoes score: 0 percent.) After others have branded it "the worst movie on Sandra Bullock’s résumé" and "to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai," simply pointing out that, in the film, Ken Jeong plays himself again just isn't going to cut it, right? Well, we suppose you could say All About Steve is such a lazy production that they gave Bullock, Bradley Cooper, and Thomas Haden Church (all natural brunettes) the exact same terrible blond highlights.
French singer Johnny Hallyday, seen here in 2009. Hallyday has cancelled a concert in Reunion due to the rapid spread of swine flu on the Indian Ocean island, his producer said on Friday. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 11:41 am
See, this is why we're not businesspeople. If we were in charge of deciding whether to fire the guy overseeing a company that lost 90 percent of its value in the past year ($1.62 billion in just the last quarter), the guy whose plan of getting out of his hole had been described by a member of the federal administration from whom it had already borrowed several billion dollars as "Their Plan A was: Seek assistance from the government. And their Plan B was: Ask again," and whose spouse incidentally but still embarrassingly wrote a story about the painful loss of her luxury lifestyle in a national magazine, we'd be like, "Right, I'm for a management change."
But apparently the solution is precisely the opposite!
CIT Group Inc., the 101-year-old commercial lender, extended the employment contract of Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Peek for a year as the company struggles to avoid bankruptcy.
Interesting. See? Decision-making in business is just so nuanced and complex and above our intelligence level that we don't even understand it. We'll go back to watching our puppy video now.
Time magazine's fashion quarterly, Time Style & Design, will cease publication indefinitely. Four staffers were laid off, while the magazine's editor, Kate Betts, will stay on at Time. Time Inc. credits the suspension to the downturn in the luxury market. "We'd hope to bring it back when the economy improves," a spokeswoman said. If the magazine returns, they'll probably have to make some editorial changes. The luxury market will never be the same again. [NYP]
Are local real estate developers now privy to classified CIA briefings? "This building under construction is forecasting a major military conflict in the near future," observes law professor Adam Kolber. [PrawfsBlawg]
This week, the designers took an exciting, far-flung field trip! Which ends up being to a local beach about seven minutes' drive away. Thrilling. We’re treated to the sight of Tim Gunn’s impeccably groomed toes (he’s wearing flip-flops … and a blazer), and he explains that this week’s challenge is to create a “fun and fashionable surfwear look.” Like multicolored Roxy shorts and striped Billabong bikinis? Apparently more like poufy ballgowns and homemade hats, but more on that later. The designers are broken up into teams of two, and they get to speak to real surfer girls for inspiration: sunsets, comfort, tropical reefs, hoodies! Though, according to Nicholas, “hoodies are not for the runway.” But full-lace bodysuits are. So here comes the twist: The designers have to make a second avant-garde look to accompany the surfwear look. Epperson and Qristyl start fighting at the beginning of the challenge, and never stop. Epperson: "I need some Tylenol." So do we. And Mitchell decides not to work, like, at all, so Ra’mon is left to do everything himself. Side note: Does anyone else think Mitchell looks exactly like Corey Haim before he got old and creepy-looking? Google it, we’re so right. Our guest judge is Rachel Bilson, whose style we love, though she should have toned down the orange foundation. Blame it on Lifetime’s shoddy makeup artist. And herewith, the results of the challenge!
"Get on your bike. Russell wants you to go riding with him. Are you ready to die?” —Russell Crowe's spokesman to a journalist who mocked the actor's fitness regimen [Contact Music]
"I enjoy doing an array of films. If I was to play Bond, that would quickly stop. How likely would I be accepted doing those roles after having played Bond? People outside of movies think it would be amazing to play 007, but as an actor you think, 'Well I don't know because from then on ... ' You do a lot of movies as Bond and you'd become even more synonymous with the role. I think Daniel Craig is a great Bond and good for him, but I would much rather create a role from nothing." —Gerard Butler [Female First]
"In The Tudors I’ve only slept with like 22 people,” he said. “Which is not bad because if I go out in London on a Saturday night and I say to some handsome young dude or some handsome young girl that’s standing in the club: ‘How many people have you slept with this year’? ‘Er about 50′. So it’s not so much. Henry was much more prudish in history than we portray him in The Tudors. But sex happened and sex was very much a matter of state then." —Jonathan Rhys Myers [Showbiz Spy]
"I've seen it printed that I'm a marijuana activist, and I understand that, but it's really just something I enjoy. Folks may have a drink ... People may want to pop a pill before going to a party — that's not for me. Cocaine freaks me out. I like the mellow vibe of herb, its uninhibiting effect. For me, it's a better drug than any of the others, and since we're all drug addicts, I don't think it's a bad choice. Whether your drug is sugar, coffee, sex, exercise or religion — everybody has something. I was two years on (attention deficit disorder drug) Ritalin; my brother was eight years on it. If you didn't have a drug addict before, you had one after. You have someone who's forever chasing the dream. —Woody Harrelson [Playboy via Female First]
"But Michael [Jackson] wasn’t anti-Semitic. It’s funny. If you’ve seen Taxi Driver, Scorsese can play a character and say, 'See that window up there? My wife’s up there. She’s with a nigger. You ever seen what a .44 can do to a pussy?' He can say that, and be the character — and that’s my man, too — but nothing. And then Michael. That wasn’t his thing. Every song you sing has to be your own? You can’t let the character speak for you? “Psycho Killer,” David Byrne? Come on." —Spike Lee on Michael Jackson as PC target [AV Club]
"It seems kind of dead now. It's such a fantastic story and a dream role, but it doesn't seem to be want to made, and you can't force these things. I don't think any of the work I did was lost. I enjoyed doing the research, so I don't regret any of it." —Zooey Deschanel on training to be Janis Joplin ... for nothing [Contact Music]
Earlier this summer, two goats were found stumbling along the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx. Now a third goat has been found in the area.
The goat, a brown male Nubian believed to be about a month old, was suffering from a severe case of pneumonia when it was discovered on Tuesday wandering the grounds of a nursing home near where the parkway intersects with Interstate 95.
When asked where he came from and from whom he had escaped, the goat only managed to baaa in an indecipherable Russian or Eastern European accent. He has since been sent to a farm where he is recovering, but Arthur Sulzberger Jr., in his somewhat humiliating role as the Times chief animal correspondent, is on the case!
“It looks like the Hutchinson River Parkway has become something of an underground railroad for goats looking to escape New York City’s live markets with their lives."
Sounds like this is a case that requires ... the Law & Order noise!
Have you always wanted to see The Shawshank Redemption, but haven’t had a chance to rent the movie or buy the book in the last fifteen years, but also happen to be near a playhouse in London with a bunch of money and prefer Fake Tim Robbins and Fake Morgan Freeman to the originals?
There hasn't been much good news for photographer Annie Leibovitz the past few months. But today there is! Leibovitz had been given a deadline of September 8 to respond to a lawsuit that alleged she'd failed to repay a $24 million loan that had been extended to her last year. Yesterday, however, a judge granted her another month to either respond to the suit or settle the case with the lender, Art Capital. Will that give her enough time to figure a way out? Or is she just putting off the inevitable, which could include filing for bankruptcy or surrendering her real estate holdings and collection of photographs? See you back here in 30 days! [NYP]
Michael Jackson's family and about 200 of their closest friends gathered on a hill Thursday evening for their final farewell to the pop singer, who died 10 weeks ago. The guest list included Elizabeth Taylor, Lisa Marie Presley and Macaulay Culkin.
And you thought Mickey Rourke's drunk cockatoo in Iron Man 2 was bizarre? According to the guys at In Contention, there is a moment in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans in which an iguana sings Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me!" to a (presumably cracked out) Nicolas Cage. That gets us thinking ... maybe it's time for someone to reboot Dr. Doolittle again? [In Contention]
Earlier this summer, we noted that astronauts were having a hot moment, shilling for Louis Vuitton and Omega — not to mention the Orbit hat's gloriously brief taste of fame. And the fall runways were rife with structured, futuristic garments and "haute helmets" galore. (Aloha Rag is currently stocking $1,195 Martin Margiela helmets — the ultimate accent piece, clearly.) Now that the fall collections have arrived in stores, the space-age theme has hit the racks, manifesting in flying-saucer tees, comet-streaked jumpers, lunar tops, and, yes, galaxy-print leggings. Lace up your metallic boots and check out some of the cosmos-inspired offerings in stores now.
Even Federer's opponents agree: This is a thing of beauty.
As the U.S. Open heads into its first weekend, we've learned a couple of things so far: The top-seeded men are as good as advertised and the top-seeded women are as shaky as advertised. Also: The weather has been spectacular (not a drop of rain, and though we've been a bit chilly during the night sessions at Ashe, we're not complaining). After the jump, the developing trends in both the men's and women's brackets.
On the men's side, none of the top ten seeds had lost a set as of this morning, let alone a match. Of course, it's still Roger Federer's tournament to lose, and there isn't much left to say about him at this point. Except maybe this: It's no secret that the first couple of rounds are little more than a warm-up for him, but it's nice to see his opponents realize this as well. After Federer dispatched former NCAA champion Devin Britton on Monday, the Mississippi alum admitted that at times, he hit the ball to Federer's forehand knowing it would cost him the point, just so he could see Federer's shot up close. "It's so pretty," he said.
The women's bracket, unsurprisingly, is a bit more chaotic. At the start of the tournament, Filip Bondy of the Daily Newscalled the women's draw "razor thin" behind the Williams sisters, and the other top seeds haven't done much to prove him wrong. Serena hasn't broken a sweat, and Venus has hobbled her way to two victories so far. But both fourth-ranked Elena Dementieva and fifth-ranked Jelena Jankovic are out, which is good news for dubious No. 1 seed Dinara Safina. Safina has survived two scares so far — she lost the first set in both matches — but Dementieva and Jankovic were both on her side of the draw. She could still potentially face either Maria Sharapova or Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semis, but she wouldn't see either Williams sister until the finals.
AP - Tim Gunn is taking his fight against fashion crimes from the workrooms of "Project Runway" to the pages of a comic book. And, wow, does he get to wear a power suit.
With Labor Day right around the corner, you'd think the federal government could serve up a little positive news as we head into the long weekend, right? Apparently not. The unemployment rate stands at 9.7 percent, the Labor Department reports today, the highest it's been since June 1983. [CNN Money]
What’s the plot? Wait no lemmie guess…Jon and Kate eff a bunch of people?
“In our movie they go to marriage counseling and come out with the suggestion that maybe they should go out there and bang other people, so they do and then it turns out that after they sow their wild oats that they are meant to be together,” he said. “It’ll probably be true to life.
“Right now with the timing of it—they’re on TV every three minutes—I think this movie is going to be huge.”
Ahh, so they don’t have sex with their eight children, that’s good to know. Also, the movie is not just the eighth installment of the popular porn series, “Jon & Kate F*ck.”
I think DListed’s image title just about sums up the rest.
Harassing Wall Street over its bonuses was potential primary challenger Andrew Cuomo's entire raison d'être for a while this spring, so it's clear what Governor Paterson's motivation is in arguing that the state actually really needed those bonuses for its tax revenue. Which is true — it's just that nobody cares. [ NYDN]
The future is now! At long last, T-Pain's massively anticipated iPhone application has been made available on iTunes. For the incredible price of just $2.99, you can record your Auto-Tuned voice singing along to classic T-Pain jams like "Buy U a Drank" and "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)." We'll see you on Tuesday — maybe. [iTunes via Gizmodo]
It looked like Jourdan Dunn, who is about five months pregnant with her first child, would walk this season when her comp card was included in her agency's show package. However, a representative from Women agency in New York confirmed the 19-year-old model will sit this season out. She will be missed.
People who have absolutely no right to sing “Feeling Good”:
This Guy
& David Hasselhoff (as evidenced by his performance on this week’s America’s Got Talent, in which he proves that he should be the last person judging anyone’s talent. On the bright side, it’s super-Hoffy!)
Ten weeks after his death, the King of Pop was finally buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. A British woman from Warwickshire legally changed her name to Michael Jackson. Samantha Ronson, John Mayer, Travis Barker, D.J. Jazzy Jeff, and ex-girlfriend Nicole Richie stood by as DJ AM was buried at Hillside Memorial in LA. And in light of his untimely passing, Nike is delaying the launch of his shoe line. Ever the loyal fan, Anna Wintour gazed at Roger Federer from his box at the U.S. Open Wednesday night. Kate Hudson and A-Rod have been strolling around Rye, New York, close to where Rodriguez is renting a home. Rihanna has been acting "silly and touchy-feely" with Mary-Kate Olsen's ex, Travis London, and the East Village tattoo parlor where she inked up three male staff members was just cited with a health violation. And Megan Fox boasts, "I constantly struggle with the idea that I think I’m a borderline personality — or that I have bouts of mild schizophrenia. I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven’t pinpointed what it is.”
An Australian gossip columnist made fun of Russell Crowe for pausing mid-bike-ride to smoke and scarf down three tacos, so he challenged the columnist to a twelve-mile bicycle duel and won. Woe is Robert Pattinson. He's become a "prisoner of the paparazzi." And he's stuck in Vancouver. Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, and other film-industry types are protesting the Toronto Film Festival's spotlight on Tel Aviv and leading Israeli filmmakers, claiming it is "complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine." Halle Berry abstained from raw fish and alcohol at Nobu, which obviously means she's preggers. Kim Kardashian passes the time by tweeting photos of herself in her underwear, and after shopping for baby clothes with her pregnant older sister Kourtney, she now wishes she was pregnant. And contrary to rumors, LiLo will not be pulling a Heidi Montag for Playboy. That's a relief.
Like every other actress who doesn't need to lose weight, Zooey Deschanel is upping her workout routine at L.A.'s Pure Barre. Chris Brown has a beef with Oprah because she dedicated her show about domestic violence to "all the Rihannas of the world," explaining, "I did a lot of stuff for her, like going to Africa and performing for her school. She could’ve been more helpful, like, ‘OK, I’m going to help both of these people out.'" Jon Gosselin's girlfriend has gone into hiding. We'd hide from him, too. Jay-Z admits that he offended a few people by keeping his wedding to Beyoncé so under-the-radar last year. Susan Boyle's yet-to-be-released album is already topping Whitney Houston's supposed comeback, I Look to You. Ouch.
Animator and filmmaker Emily Hubley (the daughter of legendary animators Faith and John Hubley, for those wondering) has been a regular on the film-festival and awards circuit for many years now — some viewers will recall her animations from Hedwig and the Angry Inch — but it was only last year that she premiered her wondrous debut feature The Toe Tactic, an arrestingly whimsical family drama about innocence lost and urban yearning that mixed offbeat live action and surreal animation. In honor of this lovely film’s DVD release this week, we're offering Hubley’s 2002 short Set Set Spike, which itself was written for one of the characters in The Toe Tactic. It’s a beautiful little experimental collage about a single woman’s morning workout, with music by Yo La Tengo (who also did the music for The Toe Tactic, giving you one more reason to check it out).
Van Jones is President Obama's green-jobs "czar," and a highly respected figure in his field. He recently invited the unflinching scrutiny of Glenn Beck when the group he co-founded, Color of Change, began pressuring advertisers to drop their support of Beck's Fox News show. In retaliation, Beck's supporters unearthed an old video a few days ago in which Jones refers to Republicans as "assholes." Yawn, right? What else you got? Well, plenty! It turns out this Van Jones character was either not vetted at all, or vetted but seemingly without any concern for the skeletons that turned up (which really defeats the purpose of vetting in the first place). In 2005 Jones told a newspaper that after the 1992 Rodney King trial, he became "a Communist." In 1994, he helped found an activist group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. Since a sizable faction of Americans already believe that Obama wants to turn the country into the new Soviet Union, you might expect these revelations to raise a red flag. But perhaps those were simply the actions of a younger man, one who would eventually mature into someone more palatable to the American mainstream?
Actually, no. The most damaging disclosure about Jones is that he might just believe 9/11 was an inside job. The Washington Times discovered that in 2004, Jones attached his name to a petition that "calls for immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war." (Some other notable signatories include Ed Asner, Daniel Ellsberg, Janeane Garofalo, Richie Havens, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, and Howard Zinn.) "I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever," Jones now claims, and an administration officials says Jones "did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name." Which is never a good idea, for anyone! Hopefully he learned a valuable lesson here. And maybe the Obama administration did as well. Perhaps next time they'll go the extra mile and Google the names of their new hires.
• Nancy Talbot, founder of Talbot's, passed away at the age of 89 owing to complications of Alzheimer's disease. [NYT]
• Cedric Charlier has been named the new creative director for Cacharel. The 31-year-old designer previously worked at Michael Kors and Lanvin. [Vogue UK]
• Jewelry designer Tom Binns is collaborating with Disney to create a line of jewelry inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The collection will launch in 2010 when Tim Burton's new movie comes out. [Glam]
• Monique Lhuillier is launching a lower-priced bridal collection named Bliss, which will hit retailers this fall. Prices for the line range from $2,300 to $3,500. [StyleList]
• Anna Wintour watched Roger Federer play at the U.S. Open with her boyfriend Shelby Bryan on Wednesday from the comfort of Federer's box. She "applauded heartily as the Swiss ace won in straight sets." [NYP]
As though being violently ill over a three-day weekend wasn’t bad enough, now this: The World’s Tiniest Dog Scooter has passed away, at the age of 7 buttons and a pinch of the warmhearts. Look at him! He’s a fleshy cup of fuzz tea!
Truth is, Scooter wasn’t even a year old. And his obituary might be the saddest — and therefore mustreadiest — thing we’ve ever seen. The highlights:
He broke his leg jumping out of the hands of a minder earlier this week. His tiny leg was put in a cast but the medication he was given for it caused stomach ulcers and he did not survive.
D: It goes on.
The 8cm tall, 20cm long, pooch is now buried in his shoebox at the bottom of his owner’s Gisborne garden.
Scooter slept and spent a lot of his life in the shoebox, she said.
When he died the vets offered Ms McKnight a box to bury him in, but it was too big.
“There was no box small enough for him. I said `I’m not going to bury him in that’, so I thought I would put him in the shoe box he lived in. The poor little fella. I put him in the box with flowers and a little dove picture to take him to heaven – he looked wonderful.”
His weight never exceeded 400 grams – and that was while fully clothed. Ms McKnight fashioned a regular purple sock into a jersey, which Scooter wore around the house so he was easily seen. He was originally named Pee Wee, but Ms McKnight changed it, saying she didn’t want him to suffer an inferiority complex.
According to New York rabbi Gary Moscowitz, pretty much anybody could walk into a synagogue, "say 'Shabbat shalom,' and then blow the place up and start shooting." Or, he says, they could just run in with a gun screaming "Allah akhbar, or whatever." It's for this reason, and recent threats to city temples, that he started the International Security Coalition of Clergy in Kew Gardens, Queens. The former cop is training fellow rabbis how to become rogue warriors and fight back under various attack scenarios, teaching them how to shoot guns, use everyday objects (like folding tables — you need to watch the video) as protection, use hand-to-hand combat, and defend against hostage-takers. So far the group has had 100 hours of training. Of course, Jewish law forbids carrying guns on the Sabbath, but some rabbis are willing to compromise on this. "Jews are not like Christians," Moscowitz said. "If I turn my cheek, I'm coming around to make a kick."
Did you ever wonder what would happen if Jude Law, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, John Leguizamo, Dianne Wiest, Steve Buscemi, Lily Cole, and yes, Bob Balaban, decided to get together for a very special episode of Best Week Ever?
It would probably look and sound a lot like the trailer for Rage, a movie best known for the fact that a. Jude Law is in drag and b. It probably cost $11 to make. Though, to be fair, the Spanish fashion designer is prettttty hilarious… and that David Oyelow’s impression of Paul F. Tompkins is pretty spot on!
And don’t even front like you wouldn’t eff Jude Law as a man or a woman. He can do no physical wrong.
The movie will be released September 21 via — wait for it — mobile phone.
The British dramatization of the collapse of Lehman Brothers may not be as poncey as we feared: According to Bloomberg's review, the Fuld character reportedly "hyperventilates in his shirtsleeves, swears at staff, pines for spare ribs, and keeps a toy gorilla in his office that he punches when times get rough." [Bloomberg]
Michael Jackson was entombed in a highly-guarded mausoleum outside Los Angeles yesterday. Already? I never had a chance to pay my respects.
Big Momma’s House 3 is definitely a go. Their tagline? “Bigger. Momma-er. House-er.”
An appeals court in New York is deliberating whether or not to allow a Swedish author to publish a sequel to J.D. Salinger’sCatcher in the Rye. It’s mostly the same book word-for-word, but Holden and everyone else are vampires.
Taye Diggs and Idina Menzelwelcomed a baby boy yesterday. The child will have its first solo on Monday.
Russell Crowechallenged a gossip columnist to a bike ride after she ran an article about his lax workout regime. If any celebrities I’ve written about would like to challenge me, I’d be more than happy to take you on one-on-one at Dr. Mario.
You're lucky it's a three-day weekend! This Sunday's Times Magazine features an enormous, 7,600-word cover feature on Spike Jonze that's been online since Wednesday and has taken us since then to finish. It's a little short on breaking news (you already knew about Warner Bros.' reluctance to let him make Where the Wild Things Are a dark, plotless tone poem instead of a more traditional kids' movie); but it's an interesting, wide-angle look at Jonze's film career, unending battles with studios, and six-year quest to bring Wild Things to the screen. Also, it reminded us of something we read once but totally forgot about — did you know Warner Bros. once allegedly wanted Jonze to direct Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls?
We say "allegedly" because Jonze famously used to lie in all his interviews and when EW asked him about the Ace Ventura rumor in 1995, he gave them a silly, made-up answer ("My stepdad sells juicers to a lot of people in Hollywood and he knew Jim Carrey through his juicing connection. In Hollywood all the big deals are made through juicing"). But, according to the Times, it definitely happened (and presumably the Times is still fact-checked).
So Jonze, then better known just for music videos, purportedly turned down AV along with a slew of other big-studio comedies to make Being John Malkovich in 1997. And, of course, PolyGram, the studio paying for BJM, had different ideas than the director about the film's direction. So, as would later become standard, Jonze only got to finish it owing to a stroke of luck. Reports the Times' Saki Knafo:
To capture the appropriate sense of gloom, Jonze and Acord lit the set mainly with ordinary household bulbs and completely dispensed with the Hollywood custom of using fill-lights on the actors’ faces. "The footage couldn’t have been more depressing," Vince Landay, a producer on the film, told me. 'And here PolyGram had been sold on this wacky comedy. So by the time they started reacting to the dailies — it’s handheld, there’s low light — they were freaking out." After a few more disagreements, PolyGram threatened to shut down the production. Then, in the spring of 1998, the company merged with Universal. New executives came in. By the time anyone got around to checking on Jonze and his team, they’d already been editing for almost a year. Jonze had made the movie he wanted to make.
Obviously, it's probably better that Jonze took his first big stand over a movie for which he'd later be vindicated by universal critical acclaim — but isn't it sort of a bummer we didn't get to hear about Jonze squabbling with a studio over the direction of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the movie in which Jim Carrey memorably emerges from a rhinoceros's butt? We wonder how Jonze would've lit that scene! What would Warner Bros. have thought of Charlie Kaufman's rewrite of the screenplay? We suppose we're not sorry we missed out on Jonze's version of AV, but the funny anecdotes certainly would've made this Times Magazine profile a quicker read.
About two months ago, government officials found that 1,600 American Apparel employees weren't authorized to work in the U.S. A lawyer for the company now says about 1,500 face termination this month as a result — or about 10 percent of the company's entire staff. This makes Dov Charney very sad, according to the L.A. Times:
"Many of you have been with me for so many years, and I just cry when I think that so many people will be leaving the company," he wrote. "It is my belief that immigrants bring prosperity to any economy."
Charney told the workers facing termination they'd get priority for rehire if they can get their papers straightened out. Charney may weep over losing them, but it's purely out of personal connection and deep-rooted feelings, not losing money. A lawyer for American Apparel said the loss won't have a "significant impact" on the brand's productivity, because no one's shopping so they have a bunch of merchandise lying around anyway and don't need any more. Also, demand isn't increasing, so they don't feel pressured to churn out more bags o' scraps, which is now a real thing you can buy there. At least if the economy suddenly bounces back while the workforce is depleted, bags o' sCRAPs are pretty easy to make.
(From L) Director Bobby Paunescu, actress Monica Birladeanu abnd actor Doru Boguta pose during the photocall of Francesca at the Venice film festival. Conservative Italy's culture wars came into sharp... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 8:44 am
Italian director Erik Gandini gives a press conference during the 66th Venice film festival. Conservative Italy's culture wars came into sharp focus at the Venice film festival as movies on Romanian immigrants... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 8:44 am
French director Laurent Cantet, seen here in February 2009, whose docudrama "The Class" won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will head the jury at Spain's San Sebastian film festival later... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 4 Sep 2009 | 8:31 am
Despite Paul and Ringo's hopes of keeping it a secret until the game's release on Wednesday, the identity of the final track from The Beatles: Rock Band has been discovered. It's "The End," which means you'll get to play three guitar solos — and Ringo's only-ever drum solo — on plastic instruments. The masochist in us had been hoping for "Revolution 9," but we suppose this is okay, too. [Joystiq]
A French filmmaker who recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang in El Salvador was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital city of San Salvador, authorities said.
Perry, Again:Tyler Perry will write, direct, and produce a feature adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The play is structured in a series of poems that deal with issues such as love, abandonment, and rape from the female perspective; Perry would look to put together a star-studded ensemble cast. Also, this is the first Perry film not based on an original idea, which could have major consequences — now that Perry has discovered adaptations, we could go for whole months with just Tyler Perry movies being released in theaters. [HR]
Good Fortune:Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, and Jeffrey Tambor are starring in indie comedy Lucky. Directed by Gil Cates Jr. and scripted by Saturday Night Live writer Kent Sublette, the movie centers on a would-be serial killer who wins the lottery and goes after his lifelong crush. Tom Hanks's kid as an aspiring murderous psychopath? We’ll reserve judgment for the big screen. [Variety]
Government Assistance:The Host 2, the prequel to Bong Joon-ho's 2006 hit about a river monster that wreaks havoc on the citizens of Seoul, will get $1.5 million from the Korean government toward its $10 million budget. The money will come, specifically, from the Korea Creative Content Agency's global projects technology-development-support program, and will go toward the CGI budget. When, oh when, will the U.S. stop lagging behind other countries in the development of awesome Korean monster movies? [Variety]
Queens County Is So Jealous Right Now:Spike Lee is lending his support to Brooklyn hip-hop artist Lemon Andersen’s one-man show County of Kings, signing on as one of the presenters. The show, a memoir, premiered at the Public Theater last year as part of the Under the Radar Fest, returns to the theater for a longer run. So if you're into the possibility of being in the same bathroom line as Mr. Lee, get your tickets now. [Variety]
Face-off: Uh-oh! Major-studio smackdown! Just days after Columbia announced Dec. 17, 2010, as the release date for Seth Rogen crime-fighting flick The Green Hornet, Disney announced the exact same date for Daft Punk–assisted sequel-adaptation Tron Legacy. Who will grab the wheel and veer out of the way first? Who?! [HR]
Imus on the TV:Don Imus’s morning show, nationally syndicated by Citadel Media, will be simulcast on the Fox Business Network starting October 5, with appearances by Fox Business Network anchors Jenna Lee, Connell McShane, and Ashley Webster as part of the deal. According to Imus, Fox News chief Roger Ailes is the "preeminent genius of American broadcasting." Looks like Imus is picking his words more carefully these days? [Variety]
Few companies brilliantly fuse art and beauty like Shu Uemura. For its 2009 artist collaboration, the brand teamed up with manga artist Moyocco Anno to create a collection of cleansing oils and makeup tools called the Tokyo Kamon Girls. The packaging is adorned with cool manga drawings and looks groovy on any bathroom sink, but most important, the oils are lightweight and effective. Each of the five facial cleansing oils are named after a character (Sakurako, Tamaki, Tsuruha, Matsuno, and Katsura) and are specially formulated with everything from cherry extract (to help remove dead skin) to bitter orange peel (to help promote circulation) to green-tea extract (to help boost antioxidants). So whether you're acne-prone, wrinkly, or have dull skin, these gentle cleansers can handle it all.
$65 to $75 at Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave., at 61st St.; 212-833-2007.
"Number nine. Number nine. Number nine." The words from "Revolution 9" are more prescient than the Beatles could have realized: On September 9, 2009 -- 9/9/09 -- the band's remastered CDs and "The Beatles: Rock Band" will come out. But will the audience follow?
No movie of the last 10 years -- not even "Fight Club" -- has had a more precious hold on the hearts and minds of white-collar wage slaves than "Office Space," Mike Judge's bittersweet 1999 valentine to coffee machine kvetch sessions and lives of inert desperation.
Paris Jackson wept as she stepped into the mausoleum where her father, Michael, was to be entombed. Katherine Jackson, overcome by sorrow, turned back when she was faced with her son's final resting place. Source: FOXNews.com | 4 Sep 2009 | 4:08 am
Wait, so the Jackson family didn't want Michael Jackson's elegant, star-packed interment service caught on tape?
Not according to Randy Jackson.
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