AFP - Roman Polanski's lawyers vowed to fight his extradition to the United States on Monday after he was arrested in Switzerland over a 1977 childsex case in Los Angeles.
 Los Angeles Times | Children explore the mysteries of Yom Kippur Philadelphia Inquirer By David O'Reilly With sundown less than eight hours away, Kenneth Van Dyk turned his sixth-graders' attention yesterday to Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar and a time of fasting and repentance. "How many of you will be fasting for ... As Persian Jews pray for their souls on Yom Kippur, they scope out ... It's a good day to feel bad about yourself Israel shuts down for Day of Atonement amid fears |
AP - The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated Monday as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail and pressed U.S. officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case.
AP - The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated Monday as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail and pressed U.S. officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case.
 guardian.co.uk | France, Poland want Polanski released on bail The Associated Press ZURICH — The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated Monday as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail and pressed US officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case. ... Roman Polanski's victim Samantha Geimer, now 45, 'got over it long ... Polanski to Fight Extradition After Zurich Arrest Outcry over Polanski's detention |
 E! Online | 'The Amazing Race' recap: Good Morning, Vietnam Entertainment Weekly Was this season 15 of The Amazing Race or season 3 of I Survived a Japanese Game Show? Thankfully, it was the former, even if there was a large chunk in which it seemed like the latter. So let's begin with my new rallying cry, ... The Amazing Race 15: Episode 1 Recap 'The Amazing Race': I survived a Japanese game show 'The Amazing Race 15' Recap, Part 2: What the Duck is Going On? |
 BuddyTV | 'Desperate Housewives' recap: Wedding Crasher Entertainment Weekly Let's see here. The premiere of Desperate Housewives included one wedding, one scorned woman, one adulterous affair, one bitchy teen terror, one very unhappy pregnant wife, one new family on the street with some sort of dark secret, ... 'Housewives' celebrates a wedding, new friends 'Desperate Housewives' Premiere Recap: Poor Katherine, Lynette ... 'Desperate Housewives': The DH cast welcomes Drea de Matteo |
AP - Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian have tied the knot.
AP - "No Time to Wave Goodbye" (Random House, 234 pages, $25), by Jacquelyn Mitchard: If you loved Jacquelyn Mitchard's wonderful book "The Deep End of the Ocean," you may wonder why she would want to tack on a sequel.
AP - "No Time to Wave Goodbye" (Random House, 234 pages, $25), by Jacquelyn Mitchard: If you loved Jacquelyn Mitchard's wonderful book "The Deep End of the Ocean," you may wonder why she would want to tack on a sequel.
AP - "Prospect Park West" (Simon & Schuster, 379 pages, $25), by Amy Sohn: "Prospect Park West" is fun escapism at its best like reading a gossip column or tabloid magazine.
AP - "Spooner" (Grand Central, 466 pages, $26.99), by Pete Dexter: You're not going to read a bad review of Pete Dexter's latest novel here.
Talk about budget cutbacks.
For the first time ever, The Amazing Race eliminated one team before they ever crossed the starting line. Worse, this pair was stuck in the L.A. river basin...
AP - Funny thing about director Peter Sellars' lengthy version of "Othello," now on view at New York University's Skirball Center.
Accepting a lifetime achievement award may have been the blunder of a lifetime for director Roman Polanski. Relatively speaking, of course.
Upon arriving in Switzerland to receive an...
The season premiere of The Simpsons' Season 21, "Homer the Whopper," co-written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and the show's team, in which Rogen voices a trainer hired to get Homer in shape to play a superhero, airs tonight, and might even be worth DVRing! [AP]
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Isn't it always a riot when an interviewer asks a subject a leading question about a controversial topic and the subject gives an answer, but then carefully qualifies it, and then it's reported all over the world as if s/he came up with it all on their own and blurted it out apropos of nothing? That happened this morning on Meet the Press when David Gregory asked Bill Clinton if there was still "a vast Right-Wing conspiracy" and Bill said "Oh you bet," but then went on to explain that while there are still many Republicans who want Barack Obama to fail as a president, in many ways they are far less powerful than they were when that term was coined. To read the headlines, you'd think Clinton was running around yelling about conspiracies (like, well, Hillary did that one time), but watch the video, and it becomes obvious that the question was designed to make easy, sensational headlines. We thought the most fascinating part of the video is actually the moment where Clinton refers casually to the people (nutjobs) who used to accuse him of murder, since we happen to be related to a few of them, and haven't seen Clinton mention that particular conspiracy recently.
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Filed Under: bill clinton, conspiracies!, david gregory, meet the press
Fashion Wire Daily - Uzbekistan, perhaps not everyone's first thought when it comes to inspiration for a hip Italian fashion brand, underpinned a powerful Spring 2010 collection from Gucci that, at its kernel, was all about combining sexy athleticism with the brand's unique hardware.
Fashion Wire Daily - Uzbekistan, perhaps not everyone's first thought when it comes to inspiration for a hip Italian fashion brand, underpinned a powerful Spring 2010 collection from Gucci that, at its kernel, was all about combining sexy athleticism with the brand's unique hardware.
Fashion Wire Daily - The most anticipated shows this season in Milan have been those of Giorgio Armani, whose slow recovery from hepatitis has been the main source of fashion speculation this summer in Italy.
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether the Styles section is legitimately reporting on what they think is a trend, or baiting reasonable people with outrageous and obvious jokes. Like this story today on the "trend" of Williamsburg hipsters drinking from coconuts on the streets (only on the streets, never at home -- that is literally specified) as an affectation. Anyone who's witnessed a Williamsburger smoking a tobacco pipe on the street will know there's no doubt this happens, and it's probably fun the first time, but reasonable people can agree that, as a growing trend, it's ridiculous. There isn't even any alcohol involved! And if anyone can explain why this story ends with the quote "What's a coconut?", we'd genuinely appreciate it, because: what? [NYT]
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Over at the Projectionist, New York’s David Edelstein weighs in on the arrest of Roman Polanski: "Now, there will be a lot of grandstanding by idiots, who will say that Polanski is worse than the likes of Peter Braunstein and should be thrown in prison for the remainder of his life." [The Projectionist]
Filed Under: david edelstein, roman polanski, the projectionist
Seriously, she did. You missed it?
Saturday Night Live kicked off its 35th season with host Megan Fox, and while we're not enitrely sure why the oh-so-underexposed actress was chosen...
The New York Times reports that famed columnist, pundit, journalist, essayist, novelist, linguist and Nixon speechwriter William Safire died today of pancreatic cancer. He was 77. His Times' obituary is an appropriately entertaining, but respectful, read. [NYT]
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Filed Under: death, obits, sad things, william safire
The nation's financial meltdown proved a gold mine for Michael Moore.
Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore's latest him-versus-them adventure, was a bottom-line success in very...
Top 3: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: $24 million; Surrogates: $15 million; Fame: $10 million. Despite strong word-of-mouth, The Informant! drops 33%, coming in fourth. [Box Office Mojo]
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Filed Under: cloudy with a chance of meatballs, fame, surrogates, the informant!
AP - Boudoir styles, once a trademark of Italian fashion, are back for spring/summer 2010. But rather than the sex pot numbers, which brought out the best in designers such as Dolce&Gabbana and Gianni Versace, this round the look is demure and yesteryear.
Just when it seems like the John Edwards fiasco couldn't get any sadder, Rush & Malloy report today that, according to "a source close" to Elizabeth Edwards, the scorned wife of John Edwards has been spending her time writing vicious blog comments about Rielle Hunter, under the pseudonym "Cherubim." We hope this isn't true, because it's a terrible waste of Mrs. Edwards' time, but we found it odd that Rush & Malloy don't name the blogs in question. Some simple Googling reveals that Cherubim, whoever he or she is, has been commenting about John Edwards for a long time on several blogs, and not just about Rielle Hunter (Barack Obama is also a target.) The blog Jammiewearingfool has a rundown -- and, after quoting from one long Cherubim rant about what a good man John Edwards is, comes to the conclusion that only Elizabeth Edwards would have said those things about him at that point in time. That reported, we still hope this story isn't true. [Rush & Malloy] [Jammiewearingfool]
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Filed Under: blog commenters, elizabeth edwards, family court, john edwards, rielle hunter
Jaime Pressly is a married mama.
The former My Name Is Earl star and entertainment lawyer Simran Singh tied the knot on Saturday evening in a Malibu sunset ceremony overlooking the...
Justin Guarini was the big winner last night.
The American Idol-bred celeb tied the knot Saturday with longtime girlfriend Reina Capodici at a private estate on the Delaware River, not...
Two down, one to go.
Following the arrest of alleged Lindsay Lohan-Audrina Patridge burglar Nicolas Prugo last week, E! News has learned that the second of three reported thieves has...
The News of the World reports "exclusively" (heh) today that James Michael Tyler, the actor who played Gunther on Friends, is on board for a movie version of the sitcom, should it happen. The rag interviewed the actor while he was in London for the opening of a Central Perk-themed coffee shop, and even quote him as saying "everyone is really keen" to do the movie, even though it seems unlikely that an American would use that word. All of this is very funny, because there will probably never be a Friends movie, but it gives us an idea: since James Michael Tyler appears to be the only Friends regular who's up for a movie version, why not get Charlie Kaufman to write a darkly comic retelling of the story of Friends from Gunther's point of view? Kind of like a "You want a Friends movie? Here's your Friends movie!" You know, like Adaptaton. [The News of the World]
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Filed Under: friends, james michael tyler, reunions
Director Roman Polanski, who has spent over thirty years evading charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, was arrested last night trying to enter Switzerland, where he was going to be honored at a film festival. He is awaiting extradition to the U.S. [CNN]
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Filed Under: celebrity justice, roman polanski
It's unheard of for a new SNL cast member to become a household name after her first show, but the internet is abuzz after NYC comedy world darling and SNL newbie Jenny Slate slipped up and dropped the f-bomb (in a sketch in which she had to say "freakin" over and over -- it could have happened to anyone) last night, making the phrase "I f-ing love you for that" an instant Twitter catchphrase. The FCC doesn't level fines after 10 pm, so Slate should be in the clear job-wise, and the protective hug Seth Meyers gave her -- front and center -- during the closing credits seems to indicate Slate might have been right when she told us in an interview a few weeks ago:
"everybody who works on Saturday Night Live is so nice. It's just a really caring community."
So far, the internet seems to have her back as well, with almost every Tweet and blog comment noting Seth's hug and the adorable "oops" face Jenny made when she realized her mistake (there's even already an interrupting-Kanye meme.) If you missed it, you can watch it on Mediaite, who are quick to point out that Bono was cleared after saying the same word in prime time. Look for our full SNL recap by Mark Graham tomorrow -- Megan Fox and U2 also appeared on the show.
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Filed Under: f-bombs, jenny slate, snl
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Were people always this crazy about vampires, or did it take Stephenie Meyer's PG-rated and Alan Ball's basically NC-17 approaches to make people crazy?
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