AP - Simon Cowell, the acerbic Brit who has helped give "American Idol" some of its sharpest — and nastiest — moments, will leave the hit TV singing contest after this season.
AP - Simon Cowell, the acerbic Brit who has helped give "American Idol" some of its sharpest — and nastiest — moments, will leave the hit TV singing contest after this season.
AP - Simon Cowell, the acerbic Brit who has helped give "American Idol" some of its sharpest — and nastiest — moments, will leave the hit TV singing contest after this season.
LOS ANGELES - An animated adventure about a widower who sails away in a house lifted by a bouquet of balloons and an up-close look at a bomb-squad unit in Iraq were the top critical... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 12 Jan 2010 | 1:57 am
A rarely seen 400-year-old map that identified Florida as "the Land of Flowers" and put China at the center of the world went on display Tuesday at the Library of Congress. The map... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 12 Jan 2010 | 1:11 am
A rarely seen 400-year-old world map with China at its center is going on display at the Library of Congress. The map was created in 1602 by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary from Italy. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 12 Jan 2010 | 1:06 am
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's "all together now" for the cast of director Robert Zemeckis' upcoming Beatles feature. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 12 Jan 2010 | 12:35 am
Crisis Mode:Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, who last shared the screen in Charlie Wilson's War, will star in Larry Crowne, a comedy written and directed by Hanks himself. Hanks is set to play the title character, a middle aged man who attempts to find a new career as he enters the second half of his life. This is Hanks' first crack at directing since That Thing You Do! and therefore his first chance since then to cast Steve Zahn. Please, cast Steve Zahn! [Deadline Hollywood]
They All Live in A 3-D, CGI Submarine:Robert Zemeckis' remake of Yellow Submarine has found itself a Fab Four. Cary Elwes (George), Dean Lennox Kelly (John), Peter Serafinowicz (Paul) and Adam Campbell (Ringo) are in negotiations to play the band. Like he did with A Christmas Carol, Zemeckis will shoot this with 3D motion capture technology. The story will mirror the original, in which The Beatles venture to Pepperland to save it from the music-hating Blue Meanies. The kids are going to be so confused. [THR]
Consensual Murder:Antoine Fuqua has signed on to direct the CBS Films flick Consent to Kill. Based on Vince Flynn's 2005 novel, the story focuses on a counter terrorism agent named Mitch Rapp. In the book, Rapp fights off a Saudi billionaire, an ex-German spy, a married couple of assassins, and some some uncomfortable knee pains. Anyone else imagining Woody Harrelson? [Variety]
A Love Story: Can you say new favorite reality show? Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin will let cameras in their house to a reality show for TV Land. Harry Loves Lisa will be given a six-episode run and provide a glimpse into the lives of the the actor, the actress and the actress's lips. [Variety]
Murder in the USA: USA Network is planning to fork over $500,000 per episode of CSI to syndicate the crime drama. Spike TV already airs re-runs of the show, but USA seems to think that the show will be worth it. It will, without a doubt, fit in. The network already runs NCIS, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and will soon have NCIS: Los Angeles. [Variety]
After such a tumultuous day in the world of late night, we were pretty interested to see what those who actually live in that world had to say about it. Good thing we stayed up because they had good things to say. Well, Jay Leno was kind of disappointing. Where's the anger, Jay? NBC is screwing you! Oh wait, we found the anger. It's with Conan. The normally well-behaved host of The Tonight Show went a little off the rails tonight. And it was awesome! (Especially when he proposed leaving "television altogether, and working in a classier business with better people, like hard core porn.") Lastly, because schadenfreude is just so much fun, David Lettermen spent a few minutes making fun of the whole mess (with a Carson Daly dig thrown in just for fun).
100 episodes is supposed to be the cutoff for syndication, but reruns for How I Met Your Mother — which reached that number with this week’s episode — were already bought by Fox a while ago. Still, despite the arbitrariness of the landmark, we say, congratulations HIMYM! Sure, we haven’t been overly kind in our recaps this season, but (and, if for nothing else then for the fact that you keep Bob Saget in spending money) there’ll always be a place in our hearts for you. Here’s to 100 more!
And onto the episode. First up, we had Ted bonding with Cindy (played by Rachel Bilson), a PhD student at the university who was in that classroom that day. You know, the classroom you mother was in. After about .3 seconds, though, we find out that Cindy’s the mother’s roommate, and is also creepily obsessed with her roommate, who guys are “always falling in love with.” Ted and Cindy have a great date, but then Cindy finds out the school’s policy about students dating professors and cuts it off. Ted, inspired by Barney’s tireless pursuit of the hot bartender (will get to it in a few), shows up at Cindy’s apartment to try and change her mind. But, when he picks things up around the room to show her how perfect they are for one another, he ends up grabbing all the stuff that belongs to Cindy’s roommate. (We’ll dole out some cred points here for the Unicorns shout-out.) Oh man, Ted and the woman he marries are going to be perfect for one another. Also, we see the mother’s ankle!
So, yeah, meanwhile Barney is tirelessly pursuing the new hot bartender at McLaren’s (played by wrestling’s Stacy Keibler.) This provides some of the episode’s best comic fodder, starting off with a classic Barney list of the varied professions of girls he’s slept with (“lawyers, teachers, poets, doctors, professional equestrians, amateur equestrians, a candle stick maker, a puppeteer…”) and Lily attempting to browbeat Marshall into admitting the bartender is hot (“Her skin glows! Her legs go for miles! And that ass? I would wear that thing for a hat.”)
And the conflict is … the bartender doesn’t like guys in suits because her last three boyfriends were jerky Wall Street guys. In order to bed her, then Barney must start wearing t-shirts to the bar. Which is way weirder for us than it is for Barney, by the way, because Neil Patrick Harris basically looks like a turtle out of its shell at this point when he’s not in a suit.
Turns out Barney can’t quite handle being out of a suit, so he keeps one hidden in the McLaren’s bathroom to throw on when no one’s looking. But he accidentally tears it while in the stall and then rushes to his personal tailor (Tim Gunn!) for rescuing. Nothing can be done, however, and a bereaved Barney is soon back at the bar with a jar full of suit ashes. The bartender is lured in by sad Barney, and ends her shift early to go home with him. Of course once she gets there she discovers Barney’s closet of suits and tells him he has to choose between her and the suits. Nevermind that this makes no sense whatsoever because it leads to a big, satisfying pro-suit musical number, complete with a suited up lady cop, dog, baby, eighties guy, and full HIMYM cast. And here it is one more time:
LOS ANGELES - An animated adventure about a widower who sails away in a house lifted by a bouquet of balloons and an up-close look at a bomb-squad unit in Iraq were the top critical... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 11:26 pm
AP - An animated adventure about a widower who sails away in a house lifted by a bouquet of balloons and an up-close look at a bomb-squad unit in Iraq were the top critical favorites of 2009. Now "Up" and "The Hurt Locker" are top winners at the Golden Tomato Awards.
An animated adventure about a widower who sails away in a house lifted by a bouquet of balloons and an up-close look at a bomb-squad unit in Iraq were the top critical favorites of 2009.... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 10:48 pm
This is Joe Rollino, sometimes known as the Great Joe Rollino, the Mighty Joe Rollino or the World’s Strongest Man. The 104-year-old Brooklynite, who once lifted 635 pounds with one finger and lifted 475 pounds with his teeth and bent quarters with his fingers, passed away yesterday morning after being struck by a van while out for his daily five mile walk. [NYT]
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has a pretty powerful ally in her potential primary match up with Harold Ford Jr.—the White House. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered a question about Ford at a press briefing today and said. "I think the White House is quite happy with the leadership and the representation of Senator Gillibrand in New York. We’re supporting her re-election." When asked if the administration was planning anything to make Gillibrand's path to reelection any easier, Gibbs offered a vague, "Stay tuned."
Not that any of this bothered Ford. He appeared on Hardball tonight and had this to say to the haters in D.C.: "I have great respect for President Obama. If I run and win, I look forward to working with him. But I will listen to New Yorkers as I make this decision."
doesn't want to shift back to a post-midnight time slot at NBC, Fox executives have a clear message for him: We love you. "It's a very compatible fit for our brand," said Kevin Reilly,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 9:46 pm
Susan Boyle's reign atop the Billboard 200 chart will end on Wednesday when Hot Topic-er Ke$ha and her album Animal becomes number one album in the land. Does this mean America's obsession with the dowdy Scottish mom is waning? Maybe, but she'll be back at number one after she pays a visit to a lady named Oprah. [Billboard]
At least Conan O'Brien is keeping an open mind.
Aside from hosting The Tonight Show at 12:05 a.m., as NBC may want him to do so that the network can keep its beloved Jay Leno on the...
Usher probably should have left home without it.
More than $1 million worth of jewelry, furs and electronics—Christmas gifts, the singer said—was stolen from his SUV while...
The SEC plans to file new charges against Bank of America for lying to shareholders in 2008. This follows a suit from a few months back for lying to shareholders about $5.8 billion in bonuses it paid employees of Merrill Lynch, which Bank of America bought after Hank Paulson put Ken Lewis in a headlock.
The new allegations are that Bank of America failed to tell shareholders about enormous loses at Merrill Lynch before they voted on whether the two firms should merge. The SEC was hoping to add these charges to the previous suit but U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff denied the request, forcing the SEC to file a separate suit. Like with the previous charges, the SEC has decided not to accuse any individuals of wrongdoing, a move that's sure to piss off Rakoff and, maybe, get him to quote some more Oscar Wilde.
Tobey Maguire has hung up his spandex suit and will not return as Spider-Man when the fourth film based on the web-slinging superhero hits cinemas in 2012, studio officials confirmed. In Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 8:55 pm
Tobey Maguire (right) and director Sam Raimi are pictured during a press conference in Tokyo, 2007. It has been confirmed that Maguire has hung up his spandex suit and will not return as Spider-Man when... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 8:55 pm
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Lloyd Banks was arrested in Canada during the weekend after he and three associates allegedly assaulted and robbed a concert promoter. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 8:50 pm
Jay Leno addresses his prime time dismissal with this zinger -- "As you know, we're not just a show anymore, we are now a collector's item" -- and keeps 'em coming.
Into the wild, indeed.
Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and their fellow Summit on the Summit climbers ran into a blizzard Monday on Mt. Kilimanjaro, on what was their fifth day of hiking the...
• Roundups of new restaurants opening over the next week. [NYM, TONY] • Photos: A peek at Wall & Water, which opens later this week in the Andaz Wall Street hotel; and pics of Choptank (formerly Bar Q), opening tonight. • Rumor has it snooty UES restaurant/club Bruno Jamais has closed. [Eater] • Beatrice Inn founders Paul Sevigny and Matt Abramcyk are preparing their comeback and gearing up to take on Andre Balazs' Boom Boom Room. [NYP] • A list of the venues participating in Winter Restaurant Week. [NYCGo] • P.J. Clarke's is preparing to expand; Vegas and DC are coming soon. [Crain's] • A visit to all 11 of Danny Meyer's restaurants—in a single day. [WSJ] • The Pinkberry frozen yogurt empire may be divided in two: The husband and wife who founded the 73-store-strong chain are now divorcing. [TMZ] • The 10 best restaurants for business meetings in NYC. [BI] • NYC's salt-loving mayor/scold-in-chief has kicked off a war on salt. [NYT]
The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson's conservative version of The Huffington Post, arrived today. And like any media entity that plans to be successful, it led with boobs. Specifically, a big picture of the third state dinner crasher, Carlos Allen, and three well-endowed women.
But don't let that sly choice of photo deceive you. This will not be a website about boobs. Rather, it's about something far less interesting—politics. And while reports have characterized this site as right-leaning, Carlson says his website is going to play it down the middle.
"Our goal is not to get Republicans elected. Our goal is to explain what your government is doing. We're not going to suck up to people in power, the way so many have. There's been an enormous amount of throne-sniffing," he says.
Instead of sniffing thrones, Carlson plans to remind people what original reporting looks like. He's got a model worked out to attract top writers (revenue share anyone?) and, hopefully, a new web designer. But as long as he sticks with the strategy of plastering boobs on the front page, we're sure he'll do just fine.
(Reuters) Reuters - Chile inaugurated a museum on Monday to thousands murdered, "disappeared" and tortured during General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, stirring up bitter memories just days before a presidential vote that is expected to pave the way for a new rightist government. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 11 Jan 2010 | 7:47 pm
Mark it on your Jeri Ryan calendar, the Star Trek sequel has got a release date. On June 29, 2012 the next installment of J.J. Abrams produced (and hopefully directed) Star Trek will hit theaters. You might want to start lining up now. [Variety]
UPDATE: We just heard back from Tila Tequila about Larry King cancelling her appearance on his show tomorrow night.
Tila says she's OK with it.
"I'm not pushing...
• The Late Shift: Despite industry scuttlebutt that says Fox is waiting for Conan O'Brien with open arms, Fox boss Kevin Reilly is playing it safe as far as public courtship. At press...
Attention Upper East Siders: Hide your men and your liquor!
Yep, Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg) herself tells us that she's coming back to Gossip Girl?this season?and...
Front Page: Cabler gets offnet rights to CBS series -- "CSI" has found a new offnet home at USA Network.
Fox confirmed today that Glee, which is currently in the middle of a way-too-long hiatus, will be back for a second season. This isn't really a surprise considering how everyone with a pulse loves the show and Glee's role in leading Fox to its first ever November sweeps victory.
But more important than this very important news: you could be on Glee's second season! Producers have decided to conduct a nationwide casting search to fill out three new roles for the show's second season. The search will air as its own mini-realty show in the summer. This is your chance. Don't screw it up.
Anthony Marshall, the 85-year-old son of Brooke Astor, was sentenced to one to three years in prison last month for stealing money from his dying mom. Turns out, he may never have to go to jail at all. Today a judge ruled that Marshall could stay out of prison while his trial is appealed, a process that the Post says may take years. But Marshall is in such terrible health that last month his wife wasn't sure he'd live another three days. So it sounds like he's going to avoid jail after all. [NYP]
Turns out Tobey Maguire has already had his last dance with Mary Jane.
A few days after script issues pushed it off the May 2011 calendar, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced...
"The New Jersey Legislature approved a measure on Monday that would make the state the first in the region and the 14th in the nation to legalize the use of marijuana for medical reasons." [NYT]
Today, in Out on the Weekend: We got teen pop! We got party rap! We got sad Canadian indie-rock! And for the low, low price of free, you can see it all, including pretty live photos of Passion Pit, Fabolous, Agent Orange, Nick Jonas & the Administration, Light Asylum, LMFAO, Rural Alberta Advantage, Peelander Z, and Teengirl Fantasy.
Books: People still read them! As such, The New Republic has launched a new book review site. Nice to see this sort of thing happen these days. [Book/TNR]
Profiles on Kate and Laura Mulleavy from Rodarte are always fawning (and with good reason). But rarely do writers try to figure out just what makes the ladies so unique. In the latest New Yorker, they still come off as the ingenious duo we've grown to love, but writer Amanda Fortini delves deeper into the peculiar quirks of the sisters than others have gone before. "I've never had a best friend that's two people before this," says pal and photog Autumn de Wilde. "Kate has many times told me a story, and Laura will say, 'Kate, you weren't there, I was,' and will continue the story." Spooky.
The piece also touches upon the "naiveté" of the pair, watching them as they burn materials in their small Los Angeles design loft, and noting that they still have only a self-taught grasp of construction, get depressed when they make something "pretty," and still rock "goober"-style black sweaters instead of anything hip. Said Kate when asked if she would wear the six-inch heels used for their fall '09 show, "Are you kidding?" This was only shortly after Laura apologized to a model for making such an uncomfortable dress (aww!). But between all the horror movies and searches for the perfect "condor red" color, it's Chicago master retailer Ikram Goldman who nails down the appeal of Rodarte's ripped and torn gowns among a fan base that numbers many, many times the 1,000 dresses or so the designers sell every year. "They don't like it, they love it, and they're paying money to have that hole. You'll never have the same placement twice. That's what makes those pieces special — distressing them, giving them life, giving them history."
Do you enjoy the music of Vampire Weekend and writing poetry competitively? If so, we have terrific news: Vulture is giving away a pair of tickets to an exclusive concert by the band at the Studio at Webster Hall at 2 p.m. on January 21 to be broadcast on New York's 101.9 RXP. Based on the runaway success of our previouscontests, we've decided once again to ask our readers to compose haikus, this time about Vampire Weekend. Leave your best seventeen syllables (that's five, seven, and five per line) in this post's comments by 11 p.m. on Friday, January 15. A winner will be selected by a team of Ivy League professors and notified by next Monday. Losers will be forced to attend state schools. For the complete contest rules, see here. Good luck!
This just in from the Department of What Took So Long News: Sarah Palin has signed up to be a regular contributor to Fox News. You know what that means—fresh (red, always red)...
After meeting last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern Business School professor Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini and Black Swan author Nassim Taleb became fast friends, bonding, we hear, over the distinction of being two of the first people to call the crash, a fondess for Julia Allison, and the fact that "they're both horny Semites." They're also both rather exceptionally flamboyant: Roubini has a loft decorated with plaster vaginas, was recently photographed freaking Gwen Stefani, and once, we are told, removed his shirt at a holiday party for his company, RGE Monitor, in order to reveal an "insane quantity of body hair." Taleb, for his part, is apparently a bit of a dandy and a practicing "New Age Caveman" — though he prefers you to use the Latin term, according to yesterday's Times.
Mr. Taleb, who rejects the label “caveman” in favor of “paleo,” avoids offices (including his own) as much as he can. He prefers to think on the go. Dressed in a tweed coat and Italian loafers, this paleo man is a flâneur, sometimes walking miles a day, ranging from SoHo to 86th Street.
These are two of our top economic minds, by the way. But as Felix Salmon, the Reuters columnist who used to work for Roubini and recently posted a picture of himself in a fuchsia suit sitting astride a yoga ball, pointed out to us: "Just because you're a serious person, it shouldn't mean you have to be boring."
"Tik Tok" singer Ke$ha wore leopard-print leggings with beaten-up black boots and an oversize black tank when she went to an album signing at a Hollywood Hot Topic store over the weekend.
So much for that Jon Gosselin-Hailey Glassman heart-to-heart.
Scuttling any notion of a truce between the ex-Jon & Kate Plus 8 star and his former gal-pal, Gosselin's...
Arguments began today in San Francisco in the federal case over Proposition 8. Judge Vaughn Walker pointedly questioned both sides over their arguments. He asked plaintiff counsel Ted Olson, who is representing two gay couples who were blocked from marrying in California after the passage of Proposition 8, why the state's domestic-partnership law was not sufficient. He also called out defense counsel Charles Cooper over claims that legal same-sex marriage would "radically alter" traditional marriage and decrease the rate of heterosexual unions. Unfortunately, owing to an intervention from the Supreme Court, we can't watch all the action. For now.
Seriously. And it's awesome: photos of him, photos with friends (Marc, Lorenzo, the cake!; with Lindsay and family), and of whatever strikes his fancy, including flannels, fire trucks, and models. And, presented without comment, Terry Richardson wearing Uggs. You're welcome. [Terry's Diary]
Mike Fleming, Nikki Finke's new helper, gets his first Deadline Hollywood Daily byline this afternoon with a story on the surprise cancellation of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 (hilariously, the post begins,"Mike Fleming and I have just confirmed ... "). Apparently Raimi pulled out because he didn't think he'd be able to turn in a finished, non-terrible film by Summer 2011. Instead, Sony will reboot the franchise, Batman style, with an all-new cast, director, and script by Jamie Vanderbilt (Zodiac). We'll admit, we are somewhat relieved, since Spider-Man 4's villain was to be a character named the Vulture (played by John Malkovich), and already our in-box was buckling under the strain of an increased number of Google News alerts. Anyway, this means Sony is in the market for a new Peter Parker — so dream big, Josh Bednarsky!
Naomi Campbell was reportedly going to be a judge on the next season of Britain's Next Top Model. But she allegedly pulled out before any contracts were signed because she couldn't "reach an agreement over logistics or the amount of time she would have to commit." Hello, she's just too busy for reality-television nonsense! Though it would have been kind of amazing to see how she dealt with the prissy attitudes of contestants on the show. [Vogue UK]
Attention, gentlemen! Audrina Patridge is available.
Despite paparazzi photos that suggest otherwise, Patridge has not scored a touchdown with Matt Nordgren, a 27-year-old...
People was kind enough to check in with the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore today to find out how they hope to capitalize on their insta-fame. Snooki and J-WOWW are both following reality TV tradition and launching clothing lines; Ronnie says he may open a tanning salon with his dad as well as introduce a beverage line; and Vinny says he's thinking about applying to law school. (Go figure.) As for Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, he tells the mag that he plans to pursue an acting career and is also hoping to exploit his inane nickname by trademarking it. "I have people working on it as we speak," he tells People. The only problem: Two other people have already applied to trademark "The Situation" since the show debuted last month.
Here's hoping Vinny decides to go into intellectual property law. Having him defend his buddy when this case finally makes it court would make for a fabulous reunion show, wouldn't it?
Something's been brewing in the world of Burberry trench coats as of late. Did it begin with the publishing of Trench by Assouline, or is the current fascination with the old WWI invention a product of street-style trends going back a couple of years? Whatever it is, a season that has seen a completely trench-themed collection by Christopher Bailey at Burberry, and the launch of the brand's "Art of the Trench" website featuring photos by Scott "Sartorialist" Schuman, is rounding off with the appearance of some very limited-edition coats at Parisian super-boutique Colette. Again, Bailey has knotted, plumped, and pleated the familiar khaki material, adding curves and sex appeal to the usually straight-lined, all-weather icon. More decorative touches, like the spikes along the collar, suggest that the classic British staple might just be punk enough for more fashion-forward creatures like Róisín Murphy or Rihanna. With wet-weather protection like this, RiRi wouldn't always need her umbrella.
Leaving just one hurdle left before it will be legal for the first time to toke up in the tri-state area, the New Jersey State Assembly voted today to pass a measure allowing the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Both outgoing governor Jon Corzine and incoming governor Chris Christie support the measure and have vowed to sign it if it crosses either of their desks. That just leaves the State Senate, which is expected to vote on it sometime today, to decide the issue. If it is passed, New Jersey will become the fourteenth state nationally and one of the only states in the Northeast to allow people afflicted with illnesses like cancer, AIDS, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis to smoke weed. But New Jersey's law will likely be stricter than most — doctors would only be allowed to prescribe it for the most serious chronic conditions. Patients would also not be allowed to grow it on their own, or use it in public, which, when you think about it, totally takes all the fun out of having cancer, AIDS, muscular dystrophy, or multiple sclerosis.
Is it possible the NYPD is wasting its time by cracking down on counterfeiters? The retail industry has railed against rip-offs for years, but faux merchandise may not actually be such a bad thing, according to a researcher at MIT:
While MIT Sloan School of Management professor Renee Richardson Gosline does not condone the illegal activity in any way, she said more than 40 percent of participants in a recent study eventually purchased authentic merchandise, due partially to the inferiority of fakes. Aside from determining counterfeit goods are not substitutes for the real thing, she said the fakes are sometimes viewed as "low-risk trial" purchases, but once compared with the actual branded product, consumers realize they do not measure up.
"People originally think the counterfeit will be a substitute for the real thing, but they find out the real thing is better," Gosline said of her two-and-a-half-year survey, "Rethinking Brand Contamination: How Consumers Maintain Distinction When Symbolic Boundaries Are Breached."
Naturally, critics aren't convinced that women who pay $50 for a fake Louis Vuitton handbag on Canal Street soon realize that they'll get so much more if they rush up to Midtown and purchase the real thing for an extra $2,000 or so. Says one: "I would definitely find it a bit suspect."
From Get Metsmerized to Ram It, no trend is more reliably always-awesome than the athlete-recorded music video.
This week’s entry, Chargers running back LaDanian Tomlinson’s “LT Slide Electric Guide”, may end up — when all is said and done — being remembered as the greatest athlete music video that ever played the game (of the internet). It’s part early 90s hip-hop, part karaoke video, and part “Professional Football” Wikipedia page; if I’m the Jets right now, I’m frickin’ scared to death:
MAKEUP
• Usually Marion Cotillard wears her hair in sleek updos and her makeup is always perfectly primped. But at a cocktail party over the weekend, she wore a different look — frizzy curls and a smudged, smoky eye. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
• A new study published by Unilever shows that the fuller the lips you have, the younger you look, because lips start to shrink between the ages of 30 and 40. And you wonder why people love collagen. [StyleList]
• New findings published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report that Neanderthals used shells as containers to mix and store pigments, which leads researchers to believe that the Neanderthal society had makeup. [BBC]
PLASTIC SURGERY
• There is a new iPhone app named iSurgeon that allows you to see what you would look like with plastic surgery. It also allows you to pretend you are a plastic surgeon and perform procedures on fictional patients. [Total Beauty]
• Liquid silicone is not approved by the FDA for cosmetic injections, though some people still use the product illegally through the black market. A faulty injection can turn fatal, particularly when the silicone gets into the lungs. [HuffPo]
HAIR
• When Ted Gibson made over Kate Gosselin with hair extensions for the cover of People magazine, the process took him twenty hours to complete. [People]
American Idol without Simon Cowell is like an open bar without hours of barfing afterwards: It is against every physical law of the Universe.
We knew things on Idol were headed in a new direction with the addition of Kara Dioguardi, a bikini-clad songwriter who added little if anything to the chemistry of our favorite threesome. Then, our most beloved lady Paula Abdul was let go as a judge over the Summer, replaced instead with comedian Ellen Degeneres. Sure, we love Ellen, but Paula had kind of become the two-legged dog of reality television: Adorable, a little sad, charming, funny, might have some trouble walking, but in the end, we can’t imagine a world without her.
But we pushed through because, frankly, Cowell was the glue that held this beautiful sometime train wreck of a show together. Randy Jackson is, of course, the eyecandy.
While Cowell plans on focusing more on his latest English import to hit the states, X Factor, we all know that is just code for spending the next few years polishing each and every coin in his McDuck pool using Susan Boyle’s leftover eyebrow hair. And that ain’t right.
So let it be known*: Without Simon Cowell, not only will we stop watching American Idol. We will stop being American altogether.
*We kid. We will always watch Idol. Never leave us. xoxo
We learned a lot about Alan Cumming at his Arts & Leisure Weekend chat with the New York Times' Patrick Healy on Saturday. First of all, Cumming grew up in a forest, which is perhaps the reason he is so spritelike. Nobody else in his family was an artist or actor, and they weren’t big theatergoers. "There is no logical reason why I would become an actor," the Tony winner explained. In fact, thanks to his experiences dealing with animals in this rural upbringing — "Quite often I would have to help in birthing a sheep — I've had my arm up a sheep's … and I quite liked it" — he originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but a really horrible biology teacher put him off that. He started drama school at 17. "I was quite innocent," he said. "And I kind of was sullied." He was working on Hamlet when director Sam Mendes asked him to play the emcee in Cabaret in London, so he sniffed, "Oh, I don't do musicals." However, once he learned that nightlife in Weimar Berlin was all about getting shagged, he decided the role was perfect for him. And that's how we got him — when the production came to New York, he stayed here. Why? "I liked it."
Daily Intel spent a few minutes with the Scot backstage before his Times Talk:
You were honored with an O.B.E. this year. Should we call you sir now?
I'm an officer of the British Empire. No, you don't have to call me anything. I just get to add O.B.E. at the end of my name, should I wish to do that. And I don't.
Does your husband now have some special title conferred on him as being the husband of an O.B.E.?
No. I mean, I think that's really interesting; but if you're a mixed-sex couple, if one is knighted, the other becomes Lady something, and I don't think there is an equivalent for the man. So I was thinking if it was, say, Sir Brian and Lady Fiona, you become that. But if it's two men, what does the other one become? Or if it's two lesbians, Dame somebody — Dame Lesbian, and what’s her girlfriend called, or her partner, or her wife? I think it's an interesting thing about etiquette, if there's sort of a new, uh, thing in the British etiquette system.
Princess Anne bestowed the honor. What did she say? What did you say?
We just chitchatted. I had just come back from Australia, I was really jet-lagged, so we talked a bit about the fact that I was all over the place, mentally. And she asked me if I was getting enough work — I thought that was really sweet — and, in fact, why did I live in New York, and stuff like that. My biggest worry was what I was wearing; I had a kilt suit made by this friend of mine in Scotland, and it was in my tartan, you know, the Hunting-Cumming tartan, and I was just really panicky about the fact that she was going to ask me what tartan I was wearing, because I had mixed up the first two letters of Hunting and Cumming the day before when someone asked me. And I was just really panicked I was going to say the C-word to the princess. But she didn’t ask me.
Is there anything new with your cosmetics line, Cumming? Any new products?
No. It’s funny, though, people invent products. Like the man at yoga today said, "Oh, I love you have Cumming on a Man and Cumming on a Woman." I was like, "I don't." And then someone goes, "Oh, I love you have facial moisturizer called Cumming on Your Face." I don’t. There’s only like five things in the line, and I think it's quite interesting that I've unleashed some sort of devilment in people that they make up products with dirty names involving my name.
This is the New York Times interviewing you today. Do you read newspapers, or have you gravitated to online news?
I'm much more of an online boy. I get the New York Times downloaded to my Kindle.
You're a Kindle person?
I'm crazy about Kindle now! It's all just about what's going to be the cover of my Kindle right now. But I go to the Huffington Post a lot; I go to Google News as well because you can change over to the British papers. And I go to Towleroad for my homosexual news, and the Atlantic, you know, stuff like that. I'm really actually fascinated by the way that the news industry is changing. Like, I had a row with Salman Rushdie last year, about this thing about how he needs to feel the paper, and because all these websites source print publications to get their news, so there's going to be a time when the print things are going to go out of business, and then there's going to be a lull before all the websites work out how to finance their own reporters. And I think it's quite interesting to be in the middle of a change like that.
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New York art impresario Jeffrey Deitch is Los Angeles-bound: He's been named the new director of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art, which makes him "the only art dealer/gallery owner to assume leadership of a major U.S. museum." [LAT, NYT]
The following is a dramatic reenactment. While the actual events are real, a certain amount of color has been added to make the story moderately more entertaining.
Scene: Office of the New York State Attorney General.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sat at the massive wooden desk in his office on the 25th floor of 120 Broadway, poring over the news articles that had been compiled for him by his assistant, Bryce. It was Sunday, but he hadn't been able to relax. He had a queer, shaky feeling in his stomach. He regarded the half-eaten Fruit Loop Surprise that Sandra Lee had prepared for him for breakfast, but he knew it wasn't the sugar. Nor was it nerves about his opponent in the governor's race, Rick Lazio. It was excitement. The same kind of tingly adrenaline feeling he had last year around bonus season, just before he sprang into action and demanded the bonus information from the banks who had accepted TARP money in order to compile his seminal report, the artfully titled “No Rhyme or Reason: The ‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’ Bank Bonus Culture." As his eyes grazed the page-one Times story by Louise Story and Eric Dash, he knew it was almost time to take action again, though he was not sure when. And then he saw it.
Four paragraphs down:
Many executives are bracing for more scrutiny of pay from Washington, as well as from officials like Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general of New York, who last year demanded that banks disclose details about their bonus payments.
"BRYCE!" the attorney general yelled, his voice echoing down the long corridor lined with lawyers and publicists. He heard the brisk tap-tapping of shoes on marble and soon Bryce, a slight young man in his early twenties, was standing before him, holding a pen and legal pad. His eyeliner, Cuomo could see, was still visible from the night before.
"It's time, Bryce," Cuomo told his assistant. "Louise Story and Eric Dash have given us the Sign. Bonus furor is at a fever pitch, and we must take maximum advantage by drafting letters to each bank demanding the details of their bonus pool, then calling a press conference and making a huge deal of it, just like we did last time."
Bryce nodded and took out a pen and legal pad.
"Tell the banks I want to know how these bonus pools were established," the attorney general said, pacing. "How their compensation is tied to performance — if it is. And ask them how, exactly, their bonus pools have changed since the crisis, if in fact they have at all."
Bryce nodded. "On what grounds should I tell them I asking for the information, sir?"
Cuomo stopped pacing and looked at him ...
Bryce hesitated. "I mean, all of the banks have paid back their TARP money, except Citigroup, obviously, and therefore they don't have a responsibility to tell taxpayers — "
Cuomo exploded. "Yes, they do have a responsibility!" he shouted. "Do you know why? Because they can't think they just use us and walk away and continue their lives as they did before. We won't let them, Bryce, do you hear me? We're like the Human Papilloma Virus! They had sex with us and now we will be a part of them forever, so they had better damn well get used to it, and expect us to flare up occasionally and require them to get uncomfortable colposcopies."
There was a pause. "Do you want me to write that?" Bryce asked.
The attorney general shook his head. "No. Mention the Martin Act. And tell them this:"
“As we informed your firm last year, when you received TARP funding, your firm took on a new responsibility to taxpayers,” Cuomo said in his Jan. 11 letter to Bank of New York Mellon. “While your firm has now paid the TARP money back, it is not clear that your firm would have been in the same position now had you not received that TARP money.”
"Add that 'Transparency and disclosure of the banks’ practices and plans are essential especially at this time.'"
"That's perfect, sir."
"You think?" He strolled over to the window and looked out at Ground Zero below him. "I think it could use something else. Something that captures not only the boldness but the futility of their endeavor to pay out bonuses when I, Andrew Cuomo, am watching. It's like trying to hide a secret from GOD."
"How about this," Bryce asked:
“Trying to hide and secret information never works.”
Cuomo raised an eyebrow and regarded his young assistant. "Well. It's choppy," he said. "But I like it. Has a ring to it. A populist ring."
"Thanks," Bryce beamed. I saw Erin Brockovitch this weekend."
Grace Coddington stopped by The Martha Stewart Show today to promote her book Catwalk Cats. Miss Martha was hosting an entire show about cats, and there were plenty of freaky creatures (both owners and animals) on the show. Grace wasn't one of them. Obviously. She was just a member of the audience — seated with the common folk! — when Martha called on her to talk about her book featuring cat sketches and drawings. "It's my life in the book through the cat," Coddington said. The Vogue editor expressed her feline love in another way, too — through a huge silver necklace made up of cat-head charms, which Martha said she "coveted" from afar. "I got this in a little shop in Bridgehampton," she told Martha. However, the animal lover was there without her furry, four-legged friends. "They're not very sociable," she said of her two cats, Bart and Pumpkin, who didn't want to come on the show. "They don't really like other cats. They like each other. They don't like publicity." Her pets sound like they have an attitude, and for some reason that makes us like her even more. See the whole clip below.
Front Page: Sony to reboot franchise with high school story -- Star Tobey Maguire and helmer Sam Raimi, who were both set for big paydays for "Spider Man 4," will no longer be involved in the franchise as Col moves forward with a high school-aged Peter Parker pic, which will bow theatrically in summer 2012.
Anyone schooled in fashion knows that, as much as womenswear satisfies one's need for femininity and fantasy, top-end menswear is a fascinating game of centimeters where even the slightest change can transform an entire look. Today, you can delve a little deeper into suiting and shirting with Dolce & Gabbana's video preview of their men's fall 2010 collection on their new YouTube channel, launched just in time to commemorate a decade of sharp menswear by the Italian duo.
The Observer reported last week that execs at Condé Nast have been thinking about cutting licensing deals to generate a little extra revenue, even though Condé chairman Si Newhouse has been resistant to the idea in the past since it has the potential "cheapen the brand." Presumably Vogue-branded toilet paper is a good example of a product extension that would never see the light of day. But it's nice to see that one Mexican company is giving it a go anyway! [Paper]
With the Simpsons’ 20th anniversary now upon us, it’s been an optimal time for Simpsons reminiscing throughout the internet, tv, and print, particularly, on just about every occasion, from cultural critics endlessly praising the show’s ability to incorporate and lampoon popular culture unlike any show before it or since.
While this is certainly true, why not go the extra step to prove the Simpsons’ keen cultural eye by pointing out instances where The Simpsons didn’t just imitate real life, but where real life imitated The Simpsons? In tribute to the 20th anniversary of the show so good it parodied things before they even happened, here are 7 Simpsons Jokes That Ended Up Coming True:
1. My retirement grease!
Homer and Bart’s grease-stealing scheme (Lard Of The Dance, Season 10) initially smacked of latter-season plot desperation on the part of the Simpsons writers, but it turned out to be an act of incredible foresight, as soaring oil prices throughout the 2000s turned leftover grease into a valuable bio-commodity, and grease stealing became a regularly occurring crime. Safe to say, Groundskeeper Willie might be able to retire even earlier than he could’ve ever expected.
2. It tastes like…Grandma!
Homer’s disgusting but irresistible “tomacco” plant (E-I-E-I D’oh, Season 11) became a reality when Rob Baur, a senior operations analyst at an Oregon sewage treatment plant, proved his Simpsons fandom scientifically by grafting together a tobacco root with a tomato plant to create real-life tomacco, without even enlisting the aid of radioactive material. To date, no nearby farm animals have gone berserk and articulated their tomacco desire through speech, at least on record.
3. We call it the “Good Morning Burger”
What began as an intentionally-exaggerated object of Homer’s most obese desires, the Good Morning Burger (Bart’s Friend Falls In Love, Season 3) has more or less been replicated by dozens of fat envelope-pushing restaurant establishments, including the above-pictured “breakfast sandwich”. What, they don’t sell it anymore?? What a load of rich creamery butter.
4. No, what I said was, “He sleeps with the fishes…”
Troy McClure’s fishy “romantic abnormality” (A Fish Called Selma, Season 7) may have initially seemed too absurd to be unairable, but Troy can now point a finger in his defense at a Lynwood, NY man who stole a $350 nurse shark from an aquarium and took it home in his jacket. An employee on the scene remarked, “This guy obviously has a thing for fish” — though the “S” word was never actually brought up by the arresting officers, here’s hoping the guy at least learns to take the “Follow Me To The Lynwood Aquarium” sticker off his bumper.
5. Ice to see you
McBain emerges from an ice sculpture at the villain’s dinner party, declaring “Ice to see you” before killing everyone at the table (Last Exit To Springfield, Season 4) — it would’ve been a funny exaggerated example of a groan-inducing Schwarzenegger one-liner, except for the fact that Batman and Robin got made four years later and actually included Arnold quipping “Chill out,” “Cool off,” “What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!” and literally about fifty additional ice puns. Ah well.
6. Don’t worry Frinkie, you’ll have these babies out
on the market while he’s still grappling with the
pickle matrix!
Professor Frink’s (top secret) hamburger earmuffs may have coincided with Homer’s Thomas Edisonlike inspiration to invent something that no one’s thought of yet (The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace, Season 10), but Nike beat both of them to the punch with the AirMaxBurger 360, a combination of lunch food and footwear that doesn’t function well as either. Granted, it’s not technically the same as earmuffs, but the fact that it’s actually less useful qualifies it for this list on thematic grounds.
7. Itchy’s a jerk
Itchy and Scratchy may have been the first to promote their movie with a blood-spraying billboard (Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie, Season 4), but a tv station in New Zealand borrowed the concept for their own blood-spattered piece to promote the television premiere of Kill Bill. And the best part is, when it came time to put up the ad for Auckland Barber College, they didn’t have to change a thing.
There’s literally hundreds more examples (feel free to leave others in the comments), so why stop at seven? In honor of 742 Evergreen Terrace. And because these were the seven most specific ones I could actually find. Also, I was stealing projectors. Cough.
The only thing better than Jersey Shore’s Snookie pole dancing by herself at the Opium Hard Rock are the expressions of the security guards on Snookie Detail at the Opium Hard Rock. I’ve seen those looks once before… pretty sure it was every soldier’s face at the end of The Hurt Locker.
Click through our gallery below to see more hilarious shots of Snooks not giving a sh*t about anything or anyone, with or without iced tea dripping down her leg. In other news: ALL OF THESE PICTURES ARE OUR CHILDREN AND WE CAN’T PICK ONE TO LOVE BEST. (Photos: Splash News Online)
Erin Wasson on what makes a woman sexy: "I think in America that sort of disheveled, gritty look seems dirty — like someone who just doesn't give a fuck — and it's not like that. My idea of what is sexy is not the typical idea of American sexy." (Right, like when she said the homeless look is so chic.) "I think for a while women were dressing for women, and it was a woman's idea of what was sexy, this very done-up look. If you ask men, they're like, 'I love my girl in a T-shirt and no make-up.' I think that's interesting." [Independent UK]
It's a good thing many investment bankers are collecting record bonuses. Working on Wall Street just got a lot more expensive! Citigroup raised its cafeteria prices by five percent today, a move that follows UBS's decision last week to begin charging employees ten cents for cardboard lunch trays and Deutsche Bank's recent decree that plastic coffee cups will no longer be available and employees will have to bring a mug of their own to work. [Business Insider]
Eva Mendes and Jamie Dornan are back for another season as the faces of Calvin Klein. While the duo wore lingerie and manties for the fall campaign, they are modeling denim this time around, though that doesn't mean they are necessarily more covered up. Rather, both are shirtless and grinding on the sand covered in baby oil. In the above picture, she looks so slippery that Dornan has to grip a big wooden slab just for Mendes not to slide off him. In another shot (below), she's wearing a tank top and jean skirt, the most clothes we've seen on her thus far, though Dornan appears to be in the process of removing them. Steven Klein shot the ads, which will appear on large billboards at the corner of Houston and Lafayette Streets, the site of the former Calvin Klein threesome image, and at the High Line. Steamy enough for you?
Front Page: Reality series' judge to focus on 'X Factor' -- Fox execs and Cowell himself on Monday confirmed the acerbic judge's decision to exit the hit talent competish in order to help launch his long-awaited U.S. version of Brit TV sensation "The X Factor."
Meet the World’s Very First Sex Robot, Roxxxy, a giant, synthetic woman with a real skeleton who can talk about soccer and cars while simultaneously giving you a sparking H job.
And for the bargain price of $9,000 (to a virgin, a small price to pay), you can even customize your sex robot with unique personalities. Take the above lass, as an example, who has been programmed to say “Don’t touch me there,” “No means no,” and “Hello, police? This is a sex robot.” Indeed, it marks the first time in history a robot has actually been scarred for life.
Seen next to our favorite PTSD Robo-Whore is Douglas Hines, the man smart enough and sexually frustrated enough to actually put this vagstrosity together in his replica Silence of the Lambs basement. In fact, we’re not entirely sure Douglas isn’t a nerd robot built to assemble a sex robot. This is some Terminator M.C. Escher sh*t goin’ down right here.
But don’t feel left out, ladies!! A male sex robot named Rocky is said to hit the market in the coming months. No word yet if one would be able to program Rocky to tell us how beautiful we are, pour red wine into a glass, soon by a fire and then stick around after the baby is born.
PEOPLE.com regrets a reporting error that appeared in the story "Five Things You Didn't Know About Elin Nordegren," originally published on December 3.
The New York Post claims that Conan is prepared to leave NBC after the network’s decision to move Jay Leno back to 11:30. Want to read everything you’re already thinking, but in the form of someone else’s quotes? Here you go:
The peacock ruffled Conan O’Brien’s feathers — and now he’s ready to fly the coop.
The “Tonight Show” host feels like the redheaded stepchild of late-night TV after NBC’s abrupt decision to cancel Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. experiment after just five months — and return the car-loving comic to O’Brien’s coveted 11:35 p.m. slot.
“This level of sh- – -iness was not expected,” one source said.
“He’s done a great job for NBC. He moved his entire staff, he moved his family to LA. And five months later, they repay him like this?”
As it stands now, the source said, “Conan would be happier somewhere else.”
The pompadoured host has “many options,” including a move to Fox, which for years has been looking to create its own late-night show.
In fact, he has already spoken with Fox, The Wall Street Journal’s Web site reported last night.
Doesn’t sound like there’s anything conclusive here, or anything we couldn’t have already guessed — was their “source” actually just anyone’s basic deductive ability? I really just wanted to link to this because the headline was “Just Call Him Conan O’Flyin’” Hehehehe. Conan O’Flyin’. Almost makes the whole situation worth it, in a “not really worth it” kind of way.
Just give me a network and a time when this whole thing’s resolved so I can resume watching Conan, after being sure to watch the first couple minutes of Leno’s again-reformatted show prepared to scoff at it then having my scoff immediately justified. Thanks.
Front Page: 'Avatar,' 'Hangover' among original screenplay nods -- 'Hangover,' 'Avatar' among original screenplays; adapted noms include 'Precious' and 'Star Trek.'
Here’s David Beckham taking his pants off on the field during an AC Milan soccer game. Later in the game, Beckham took his shirt off on the field and left it off for the postgame celebration. It wouldn’t have been so egregious, except in between the pants and shirt removals, he didn’t even play soccer, he just sat at midfield pretending to have sex with his own abs with a rolled-up Armani billboard.
More pics of David Beckham in various stages of clothing removal in the gallery below, if you’re into that sort of thing. I’m not though!!!! Personally I’m into CHICKS and SPORTS and FIXING CARS with BOOBS ON THEM YEAAHHHHH DUUUUUDESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A man looks at a work by William Blake at the Grand-Palais in Paris in 2005. Britain's Tate Gallery unveiled Monday eight "powerful" etchings by 18th century writer and artist William Blake, which lay... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Jan 2010 | 10:20 am
Thank you! It’s about time someone took my suggestion to motivate the British army with giant animal costumes. I’ve been suggesting that for a while now. Seriously. I’ve been picketing outside Buckingham Palace for two years demanding some damn animal costumes for the damn troops. How have I been blogging if I’ve been picketing non-stop for two years, you ask? Well, smart guy, I saved three posts back in 1995 and they’ve just been appearing on a loop ever since. They’re all just pictures of Newt Gingrich farting.
This isn’t about me. It’s about army morale and giant animal costumes:
I was hoping the promotion was Trigger Happy TV related, but it’s actually a program designed to provide theater shows to soldiers and their families. Theater shows like…Trigger Happy TV: The Musical? Let’s hope.
AP - "Happy: A Memoir" (Scribner, 289 pages, $25) by Alex Lemon: Alex Lemon tells us with his title, "Happy: A Memoir," that all is not as it seems. After all, what self-respecting memoirist would be so unabashedly earnest as to pick such a name without an ulterior motive?
AP - "Sleepless" (Ballantine Books, 368 pages, $25), by Charlie Huston: "Sleepless," the new novel from the writer of the moment, Charlie Huston, kept us up all night through 275 pages.
AP - "The Swan Thieves" (Little, Brown and Co., 576 pages, $26.99), by Elizabeth Kostova: Renowned painter Robert Oliver pulls a knife and attacks a painting in the Impressionist collection at the National Gallery of Art. He tells psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, "I did it for her," and then falls silent for nearly a year.
Avatar is now the second-highest grossing film ever made, trailing only Titanic. Clearly, if we learn anything from the chart below, it’s that the presence of Bill Paxton is worth half a billion dollars:
Looking at this list, I can’t get over how many of these movies are just straight-up, unapologetic fantasy films. And to think, people might’ve thought I was a nerd for playing D&D growing up. Ha! The joke’s on you! A movie called Avatar eventually came out and made a lot of money!!!
Balloon Boy dad Richard Heenebegan his 90-day jail sentence today. That should give VH1 more than enough time to have 4-5 pitches ready for him the minute he walks out.
The Vatican paper called Avatar a “spiritual dud”. To salt the wounds, the Vatican paper also called The Squeakquel “The New Jesus”.
A paparazzo struck by Lindsay Lohan’s driver is threatening legal action, claiming “Of course I’m going to sue them … but I don’t care about the money.” He then added, “Of course I’m gonna go eat lunch now, but I don’t care about the food.”
Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly have reportedly reserved November 5, 2010 as their wedding date. Sorry, ladies. And New York Post columnists.
Leap Yearshockingly dethroned Avatar to take the weekend box office crown, grossing $48.5 million. Nahhhhh, just kidding – it was Avatar again. That was my new Monday morning featurette, “Having a Josh”.
Five months after relocating to Los Angeles, Conan O'Brien reportedly ready to leave NBC over talks to move Jay Leno back to his old spot on the late-night lineup.
AP - "Day Out of Days: Stories" (Alfred A. Knopf, 282 pages, $25.95), by Sam Shepard: Images of severed heads recur throughout Sam Shepard's new collection of short stories, "Day Out of Days."
At least Conan O'Brien is keeping an open mind.
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Into the wild, indeed.
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Attention Upper East Siders: Hide your men and your liquor!
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Turns out Tobey Maguire has already had his last dance with Mary Jane.
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We knew things on Idol were headed in a new direction with the addition of Kara Dioguardi, a bikini-clad songwriter who added little if anything to the chemistry of our favorite threesome. Then, our most beloved lady Paula Abdul was let go as a judge over the Summer, replaced instead with comedian Ellen Degeneres. Sure, we love Ellen, but Paula had kind of become 
And for the bargain price of $9,000 (to a virgin, a small price to pay), you can even customize your sex robot with unique personalities. Take the above lass, as an example, who has been programmed to say “Don’t touch me there,” “No means no,” and “Hello, police? This is a sex robot.” Indeed, it marks the first time in history a robot has actually been scarred for life.
The New York Post claims that Conan is 
