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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:41 am AP source: Deal near for O'Brien to leave 'Tonight'; top NBC Universal executives at tableLOS ANGELES - NBC neared a deal Friday with "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien to leave the network, freeing Jay Leno to reclaim the late- night show he stewarded for 17 years, according to a...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:22 am Survivors of Hudson Crash Toast to Anniversary - ABC News
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 16 Jan 2010 | 12:15 am The Critics' Choice Movie Awards Select Katherine Bigelow as Best Director for 'The Hurt Locker,' Making Her the First Female to Win the AwardSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 Jan 2010 | 12:15 am King Day march in S.F. ends after 24 years - San Francisco Chronicle
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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 Jan 2010 | 11:00 pm Critics' choose `The Hurt Locker' as best pictureJames Cameron's "Avatar" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" won the most awards at Friday's Critics' Choice Awards, but the top honor went to Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker"...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 10:51 pm Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation under fiscal scrutiny - Washington Post
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 Jan 2010 | 10:10 pm Conan, NBC Close to Cutting an Exit Deal; Jay Finally Lets Dave Have It It's a sad day for comedy, for a couple of reasons.
Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show could indeed come as soon as next Friday as the redheaded funnyman is said to be...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 9:30 pm Sandra and Meryl All Tied Up at Critics' Choice Awards; Hurt Locker Gets Closer to Oscar Tonight's king of the world turned out to be a queen. Several queens, in fact.
James Cameron's Avatar went home with a full sack of technical honors, but Kathryn...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 9:15 pm Sandra Bullock gives $1 million to Haiti reliefSandra Bullock said Friday she donated $1 million toward Haitian earthquake relief, and Madonna announced she gave $250,000 toward the effort as celebrity aid continued to pour into the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 9:03 pm Sandra Bullock gives $1 million to Haiti relief (AP)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 Jan 2010 | 9:03 pm Conan O'Brien set to exit 'Tonight Show'Front Page: $30-$40 million deal expected to be sealed this weekend -- Just seven months after inheriting the "Tonight Show," Conan O'Brien -- faced with a timeslot demotion -- is close to finalizing his exit from NBC.Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:44 pm George Clooney, Busy With Haiti Relief, Skips Critics' Choice Awards This is just the kind of guy George Clooney is.
The Oscar winner, nominated at tonight's Critics' Choice Awards for Best Actor for his performance in Up in the Air, was...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:30 pm 2010 could be busy year for digital music mergersDENVER (Billboard) - Think last year's acquisitions of iLike, imeem and Lala marked the end of consolidation for digital music services? Think again.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:14 pm `Basterds,' `Avatar' early Critics' Choice winnersQuentin Tarantino's World War II tale "Inglourious Basterds" came into Friday's Critics' Choice Awards with a leading 10 nominations, and it made good on two of them early in the night. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:13 pm Luxembourg's "Draft Dodgers" an uneven war drama (Reuters)Reuters - The youth of Nazi-annexed Luxembourg had a choice, "Draft Dodgers" shows: conscription in the German army and likely death on the Russian front or the death-in-life of hiding in the country's iron mines for months on end.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:12 pm Courts to rule on fan-created music videosLOS ANGELES (Billboard) - More than a decade after the launch of Napster, the recording industry's complicated legal relationship with Web-savvy music fans seems no closer to resolution....Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:10 pm Source: NBC Nearing Deal for Conan to Leave NetworkA source says NBC and Conan O'Brien were close to settling details for his departure. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:07 pm "Precious", "Avatar" win Critics' Choice awardsLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Precious," "Avatar" and "Inglourious Basterds" won early prizes on Friday at the Critics' Choice Awards, a ceremony that has an uncanny knack of foretelling Oscar...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:04 pm Source: Deal near for O'Brien to leave `Tonight'NBC is nearing a deal with "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien to leave the network, freeing Jay Leno to reclaim the late-night show he stewarded for 17 years. A person familiar with the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:54 pm Roman Polanski judge urged to reject sentence in absentiaLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles prosecutors on Friday urged a judge to reject film director Roman Polanski's request to be sentenced in his absence for a 1977 sex crime, saying he was aSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:54 pm Tiger Woods Back to Being One of the Good Guys, Sends Relief Haiti's Way Russell Simmons tends to know what he's tweeting about.
A day after the record mogul tweeted that Tiger Woods was earmarking $3 million for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Tiger Woods...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:39 pm DA: 'Child rapist' Polanski doesn't deserve special treatment - CNN
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:35 pm Jay Leno Deserves Late-Night Slot! Conan O'Brien was wrong. We should feel sorry for him. He never had a chance.
Jay Leno was, and is, the perfect 11:35 p.m. host.
Note we didn't say best. And, no, we...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:35 pm Mariah Carey to Launch Own Brand of Bubbly Mariah Carey doesn't just dabble in bubbly at award shows...
The "Butterfly" songbird took to Twitter Friday to announce the launch of her very own champagne brand,...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:33 pm Witness: I Saw Tiger Woods in Mississippi! This just in from our fan HQ in Mississippi: Tiger Woods is in the wild.
After weeks of managing to avoid attention, the philandering linkster was working on his frequent flyer miles in...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:25 pm Melrose Place Stars Promise "Lots of Sex" Melrose Place is getting dirty!
We caught up with series stars Katie Cassidy and Stephanie Jacobsen at the launch of the Division E women's collection at Lisa Kline on Robertson...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:20 pm Jersey Shore Cancels on Chicago Club, Goes to Gift Suites Sorry, Chicago, but there will no fist-pumping for you tonight.
At least not by Mike "The Situation" and Pauly D.
The Jersey Shore boys were contracted to host a...Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:19 pm Are Hilton's Sisters Headed for Real Housewives? Kyle and Kim Richards, former child actors who are Kathy Hilton's younger sisters and aunts to Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton, could be the stars of Bravo's upcoming Real Housewives of...In a nutshell, the source says, "Yele Haiti is not a disaster relief organization." According to MTV, Jean's pleas for money via Twitter and television appearances asking people to text "yele" 501501 for a $5 contribution had brought in more than $1 million to the organization as of yesterday. But large first-responders usually have the resources to move money quickly to where it's needed, either by virtue of prepositioned disaster fund, large pools of money that they can shift among accounts as circumstances warrant, or access to a bridge loan to get money flowing. Yele Haiti, which as of 2007 had no paid staffers and currently, according to the source, has one employee who works out of the kitchen in Jean's Manhattan recording studio, has no such capacity. So it can spend whatever money it has on hand—at the end of 2007, it had roughly $500,000 in cash and liabilities of more than $900,000—but after that it has to wait for any donations made over the last three days to actually clear and show up in its bank account. And again, because it is a small player and uses a small firm to process its online donations, the source says, that process can take "two weeks to a month."
Jean has repeatedly demonstrated a long-standing commitment to help the people of Haiti, and has worked earnestly toward that goal over the years. His presence there right now and urgent appeals for help are evidence of that. But even if he can overcome the penchant for "financial shenanigans" that the source says he is "notorious for" among people familiar with Yele Haiti's operations, Yele Haiti is better situated to deliver second-order aide and help begin the rebuilding process once all the donations come through. "Yele Haiti will be doing great work in Porte-au-Prince two months from now, after all the disease vectors are taken care of and reconstruction starts. But in these crucial days and weeks, people with specialized skills and scale are needed. Why not give your money to one of the larger NGOs?" Hugh Locke, Yele Haiti's president, says donors can be assured that their money will be well-spent. "I'm confident that anybody who gives money to Yele Haiti for emergency relief can be sure it will be used effectively. We may be a small organization, and there are handicaps. But there are also efficiencies." Locke says the foundation has already allocated $1.5 million for an airlift due to leave Miami early next week, and is in the process of seeking bridge financing to raise more money as it waits for donations to hit its account. He dismisses the delay in online donations as a matter of days, and says he's already taken steps to speed them up. As for text-message donations—that money never hits the account until the person who sent them pays their cell phone bill weeks later, a circumstance that affects charities large and small alike. "We've got a team of 15 people on the ground in Haiti, and a warehouse, and contacts with people in the neighborhood," Locke says, repeating Yele Haiti's extensive experience getting food out into dangerous neighborhoods for the UN's World Food Program after Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004 and the 2008 world food crisis. He says the organization's relationships and knowledge of Porte-au-Prince make it better suited, in some cases, to get relief into the neighborhoods than larger organizations. And he says that the established charities that have sought out Yele Haiti for collaboration—including the World Food Program and Americares—wouldn't have done so if it couldn't actually get the job done. "They came to us," he says, "and not the other way around." Still, there are those "shenanigans": The $31,000 in annual rent, for instance, that Yele Haiti pays to Jean's production company Platinum Sound to rent what the source describes as a spot in the kitchen in Jean's studio for one staffer. Locke acknowledges that part of the studio's kitchen area is reserved for Yele Haiti, but says other desk space, the shared reception area, and shared conference rooms are included in the below-market rent of $2,600. As for why Jean is charging anything in rent, Locke says, "The business that he co-owns wasn't able to make that offer." Another strange Yele Haiti expense—$100,000 to Platinum Sound in 2006 as a performance fee for Jean playing a fundraiser in Monte Carlo—included payments for musicians and production costs, Locke says. Only $25,000 or so, he says, accounted for Jean's fee. The source familiar with Yele Haiti's operations says the most outrageous expenditure—$250,000 in 2006 to purchase airtime on the Haitian television network Telemax, which Jean and his business partner own a controlling interest in—is even more troubling than it seems. Jean actually used Yele Haiti's money to initially purchase Telemax, and came up with the idea of the donated airtime after the fact to explain the expense. "That money was taken out of Yele," the source says, "and the story was concocted afterward. Hugh Locke looked at the balance sheet and saw $250,000 missing. Wyclef said he'd already spent it on Telemax. Locke said, 'We can't do that. This can't be fraud—we have to get something in return.' The only thing they could get back from Telemax was the airtime, which they did." Locke flatly denies that account, saying Jean had already made the Telemax purchase before Yele Haiti bought the airtime. "We wanted to establish a mechanism for getting information out in Haiti," Locke says, "and it made sense for us to purchase airtime in bulk in advance to get a better rate." So why didn't Jean just donate the airtime then, since he owns the company? "We wanted to make sure we could control the spots and not get pushed around, so we bought them outright." It's clear that both Jean and Locke want to help, and are helping. And Yele Haiti's questionable past expenditures aside, the foundation's work is real and has an impact. It's just a question of whether Yele Haiti's skills are the ones that are most immediately needed right now. This week, Jerry Seinfeld joined Team NBC, we spoke with Nick Nolte about everything, clichés proved unkillable, Simon quit, Spider-Man died, you wrote poetry, Clooney cursed, we rapped with Vampire Weekend, Gabourey Sidibe cracked herself up, Conan wrote a letter, television killed you, James Toback served it cold, Ben Silverman got engaged, Hanx joined Twitter, Harvey told somebody where to stick it, arrrrgh, Taylor Lautner made everybody look good, we went backstage with Passion Pit, MTV pinned its hopes on a wang, we polled the critics on 2009's worst, Robert Pattinson ruined the Oscars, Barry Manilow came and gave without taking, Jay took back the Tonight Show, we talked to Chris Parnell, Neil Young sang about your pants, Jimmy Kimmel was awesome, Avatar was arrested for the murder of Spider-Man, and the director of Downfall liked your silly YouTube videos. See you Sunday night at the Globes! Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: roll credits, What a momentous day in television! Her Gaganess and the Big O came together to talk fashion. Gaga discusses everything from her infamous McQueen outfit at the VMAs to the Kermit the Frog look to her latex dress worn to meet the Queen. More impressive is Gaga's current hairdo on the show. We dare you to try it at home. Read more posts by Amina Akhtar Filed Under: just pants, lady gaga, oprah winfrey, video Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 4:45 pm Emily Blunt Spreads the Word on The Young Victoria, One Theater at a Time![]() The critics and media have widely praised Emily Blunt’s performance as The Young Victoria's turn-of-the-century monarch: This weekend she’s up for Best Actress at the Critics' Choice Awards and the Golden Globes. Now all she has to do is get people who haven’t had free press screenings to see the damn thing, which is no small task for an actress in a small period piece released during the season full of studio-backed "event" movies. So the job has fallen to Blunt to personally win over audiences: She spent Thursday night at the Grove theater in L.A., participating in a post-screening Q&A. “This is the first time I have been directly opposite people who have paid money to see it rather than review it,” she explained to the non-industry crowd before joking, “Someone’s suddenly like, ‘Boo!’” She spent nearly 30 minutes discussing how she got the part, her “genius” director, Jean-Marc Vallée, the elaborate and uncomfortable costumes and hairstyles (for Victoria’s teen years, “I literally looked like a spaniel”), and the current monarch’s opinion of the film (“I heard she quite likes it and wants to know what happens next”). She kept things light, cracked jokes, and even posed for photos with fans and signed autographs after. About the only time she stiffened up in her director’s chair was when someone inquired about her sparkly engagement ring and whether she and her fiancé, The Office’s John Krasinski, had picked a time and place for their wedding. "My mother is asking the same question," she said. "So, uh, you will be the first to know." Come on: Strapping into a period corset and going the full royal is often the quickest way to make yourself awards bait. But Blunt swears that wasn’t her motivation. “I wouldn’t say it was a burning ambition of mine to play a member of the royal family,” she says. “It is usually what’s out there for us." (As she told us last summer, "As an English actress, you have to don a bonnet at some point. This was my time.") Why does she think this kind of role is so often rewarded during Oscar season? “There’s a mystique around the royal family,” she says. “Everyone wants to know how they take their tea and no one knows. It’s history, ancestry, spectacle. There is great gravitas around a king or queen role. These are characters under a lot of duress so there’s a lot emotionally to play with.” Read more posts by Carrie Bell Filed Under: party chat, emily blunt, people, the last victoria Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2010 | 4:35 pm The Hot Rats Do the Beastie Boys One Better![]() We know what you’re thinking: "Come on, dude, it’s just about closing time on a Friday, I’m trying to get into the correct party-don’t-stop mentality, and all Right-Click’s got for me is an early Beastie Boys cover from a semi-obscure Britpop band’s side project?" First of all, you should take a deep breath, and maybe a few steps back. Second, trust us, it's way better than that sounds. The Hot Rats, the covers-only band made up of Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass, bring an urgent, pleading energy to “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)” that shakes off all of the song’s original cheekiness. Instead, we get an honest, slightly sad ode to the importance of, you know, partying (also, standing up for yourself). Coombes’s clear-eyed croon makes it certain he cares about the words to this song way more than Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D ever did. Check out the Hot Rats reimagining on Letterman below. Read more posts by Amos Barshad Filed Under: right-click, beastie boys, music, the hot rats Bar Refaeli, the model most well known for her attachment to Leonardo DiCaprio and her work in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, may be headed into a world of tsoris, as she's been accused of getting married for the sole purpose of avoiding compulsory service in the Israeli Defense Force. Seems the Sabra married a family friend (under Israeli law, married women do not have to submit to two years of military training and deployment) and then quickly divorced once the government gave her absolution. Seems Refaeli has been playing games with the tax code as well, by attempting to establish herself as a non-resident. Now, it's a fact that constructing methods for avoiding military service is something of a pastime among a certain sector of Israel's youth, so members of the IDF are coming down on Refaeli in much the same way that a drill sergeant makes an example of his least responsive cadet. "We are a society that has an army, and Bar Refaeli doesn't have to participate in ads for Fox and, if she advertises Fox, then you shouldn't buy their products," said IDF Major General Avi Zamir, making history by being the first military leader in history to order an embargo of a swimsuit model. He continues, "At the end of the day, she is the one who has to look at herself in the mirror." Perhaps the general may not have figured out that what this particular draft dodger sees in the mirror is a face that nets six-figure contracts. As you were. Bar Refaeli Dodged Army Duty, Israeli General Claims [NYP] Read more posts by Gabriel Bell Filed Under: not so model behavior, bar refaeli, israel, models Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 4:20 pm Dennis Hopper files for divorceDennis Hopper, who's battling cancer, has filed for divorce from his wife, Victoria, Los Angeles court records show.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 4:12 pm Get Caught Up on NBC Versus Conan![]() Have you missed some of the catty back-and-forth among our nation's late-night talk-show hosts? Are you wavering between Team Coco and People Who Enjoy a Gentle Chuckle From Jay Leno Before It's Bedtime for Bonzo? Make up your mind already by watching this week's awkward moments and uncomfortable disses, all in convenient video form. Read more posts by Aileen Gallagher Filed Under: late shifting, conan o'brien, nbc, video Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2010 | 4:05 pm Plane Flying Religious ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Banner Crash-Lands![]() The passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 toast at the moment their plane touched the Hudson one year ago. While the passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 toasted the one-year anniversary of the "Miracle on the Hudson" on a boat out in the river this afternoon, a plane towing a sailcloth banner in honor of the anniversary experienced engine trouble and was forced to crash-land. The pilot of the Piper PA-18 Super Cub, Jaime Saint, safely landed the plane in the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. Before doing so, he released the banner, which read: "If you died today, would you go to heaven or hell? -John 14:6." No one was injured, according to the Times, which reported that, of yet, there is no evidence that geese were involved in the crash. It’s Not the Hudson, but Landfill Will Do for Pilot [City Room/NYT] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: miracle on the hudson, birds, flight 1549, fresh kills, terrorists of the sky, why they hate us Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm Sarah Jessica Parker said to partner with Halston (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:45 pm At Least Nine State Senators Are Ready to Expel Hiram Monserrate![]() Even though the vote is not expected for a couple of weeks, state senators are already signaling that they're ready to expel their girlfriend-slashing colleague. The list includes several fellow Democrats, which probably makes Monserrate wish he hadn't turned his back on them and thrown Albany into chaos last summer. [NYDN] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: oh albany!, hiram monserrate, politics, state senate Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:45 pm Check Out Red-Carpet Madness Sunday Night on Vulture![]() Award-show season is officially upon us. And that can mean just one thing: red-carpet looks galore! Check out our brother blog Vulture on Sunday night for an as-it-happens slideshow of all the stars and their outfits. Plus, the Fug Girls will be live blogging for your reading pleasure. [Vulture] Read more posts by Amina Akhtar Filed Under: red-carpet watch, golden globes Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:45 pm Sarah Jessica Parker said to partner with Halston (AP)
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:39 pm Critics’ Choice Awards Live Blog Party
The media is going gaga over Sunday’s Golden Globes, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, people. Do the Globes have Nick Jonas & The Administration as its house band? Do the Globes have Adam Lambert and Sarah Silverman presenting an award together? Are John Krasinski, Amy Poehler and Death Cab for Cutie paying tribute to John Hughes at the Golden Globes? True, the Globes have funnyman Ricky Gervais as its host, but is he as easy on the eyes as funny girl and Critics’ Choice host Kristin Chenoweth? Of course not! That’s why you’ll want to watch VH1 tonight at 9PM EST (red carpet, 8:30) and join our Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Live Blog Party right here or via mobile by texting PARTY to 22422. Blogging along with us are our pals Moviefone, The Envelope, The Huffington Post, TheFABlife and fashion experts Refinery29. Expect to see most actors nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award at the show (we’re talking A-listers at the George Clooney/Meryl Streep/Matt Damon level), plus a lineup of presenters that includes Kristen Bell, Emily Blunt, Bradley Cooper, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Vera Farmiga, Heather Graham, Samuel L. Jackson, Tobey Maguire, Amy Poehler, Zoe Saldana and Susan Sarandon. Critics’ Choice is known as the best barometer for who will win at the Academy Awards. So use tonight to start filling out your Oscar ballots. Watch Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on VH1, 9PM EST Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:38 pm Stupid Babies Always Interfering With Single Gal’s Carrie Bradshaw Fantasy![]() When you're a single lady in in your early twenties and you live in New York and work in publishing, you sometimes feel so sorry for yourself that you burst into tears, spontaneously and without warning, in public. We've been there, and so we empathize with how annoying it is for Risa Chubinsky, a twentysomething subsidiary-rights manager at Simon & Schuster who lives in Park Slope, when she bursts into tears at a local bar — just like anyone in her situation would! — and finds herself upstaged by people who are even fatter, less talented, and incapable of financially supporting themselves than she is. Risa writes in the Times: If I am out drinking and sobbing about a bad breakup, I don’t want my cries to compete with those of an infant sitting next to me. If I go to the bathroom to correct my wayward mascara at the end of a long weekend night, I don’t want to watch a baby being wiped down on the soggy sink counter.
Baby Barflies [City Room/NYT] Read more posts by Jessica Pressler Filed Under: blobs and the people who own them, babies, blobs, new york times, park slope Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:32 pm CCMA Preview: Nick Jonas Rehearsing (Or The Worst-Attended Jonas Concert Ever)In preparation for tonight’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, here’s Nick Jonas rehearsing a number for the evening in the un-Jonas-ly empty venue. If you didn’t know it was a rehearsal, and you played this sound effect at the end, you could almost pretend this was some weird, post-apocalyptic Jonas Brothers show… (via The Fab Life) Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:30 pm Academy Getting Avatar Screeners![]() Despite fears to the contrary, Oscar voters will receive copies of Avatar on DVD, for some inane reason. Unless Academy members are also mailed Imax-size, 3-D televisions, we can't imagine this will help the film win any Oscars. [Gold Derby/LAT] Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: kudos, avatar, hmfic, movies, oscar race 2010 Ouch! But also, yes. Well, it's been a busy day for fans of big-box designer collaborations, as this morning's release of images from Zac Posen's Target collection were quickly followed by pics of Jean Paul Gaultier's work for the megastore. Interestingly, Refinery29 got their hands on the images after they posted a somewhat misleading, definitely blurry shot from a forthcoming edition of Elle. Seems corporate didn't like those initial leaks and thus plugged the hole by offering the blog a full look book. The line itself is immediately identifiable as Gaultier's work — massive collars on high-waisted jackets, tattoo prints, naval embellishments, and a certain hard-edged European drama are all apparent. The printed tights, floral-print A-line dress, and simple red dress with ruching at the front are all particularly wearable and, at just under $200, the leather jackets are eminently buyable. First Look! Jean Paul Gaultier For Target's (Not-Blurry-At-All!) Lookbook [Refinery29] Read more posts by Gabriel Bell Filed Under: collab allert!, collabs, jean paul gaultier, target, zac posen SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: If you like Jim Behrle's crappy cartoons, you might enjoy his new book of crappy poems. Check it out at http://editionslouiswain.com/books/ There are still plenty of questions about whether or not Tiger is an inpatient at the renowned sexual addiction treatment center, but there have been reports that he checked in today and Radar Online is reporting that security at the facility has been beefed up. Tiger's whereabouts have been a mystery for some time now, but we thought he was locked away at some Hooters in Tallahassee. Looks like he may be going in the other direction. Well, not like sex rehab is going to fix his debilitating medical condition—being so rich that he can have any tail that he wants anywhere in the universe at any time. That is, unless, they take enough of his money. What a cure! [Image via Getty] Last night, Would you wear this look as a teenager? Read more posts by Sharon Clott Filed Under: look of the day, taylor momsen Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:10 pm 'Our Town' Featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" (Playbill)Playbill - The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway staging of Thornton Wilder's Our Town will be the subject of a feature on "CBS Sunday Morning" Jan. 17.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:09 pm Has Leno lost his appeal?Comedian Jimmy Kimmel ripped into Leno on his own show and others seem to no longer be fans.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:02 pm Gisele Gives $1.5 Million To Haiti Relief![]() Not that we are being judgmental or anything, but that is half a million more than what has — as far as we know, waiting on those employee contribs numbers! — been donated by America's wealthiest financial institution, Goldman Sachs. [Us] Read more posts by Jessica Pressler Filed Under: angels, banks, business, gisele, guilt money, haiti, lloyd blankfein i love you and your scrunchy face and twinkly eyes so give up the money already
All Rush Limbaugh wants to know is whether or not Barack Obama is going to kill Hatian refugees just like he will kill your grandmother, with his Socialist Health Care. A legitimate question! You have to hang on to the little victories, people. [Curbed] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: stand clear of the closing doors, mta, neighborhood news, subway, subways, union square Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 2:51 pm The Price of Victory [Campaigns]The final tab is in for Mike Bloomberg's campaign for a third term as mayor. It cost him $108.3 million, or $185.10 for each of the 585,466 votes he received. That's a few million more than what Bloomberg had reported previously. And it's about $99 million more than what poor Bill Thompson spent to come within a mere five percentage points. [NYDN] Source: Cityfile.com - Dailyfile | 15 Jan 2010 | 2:48 pm Claudia Schiffer Continues to Create Spawn With Adorable Overbites![]() Schiffer: Currently gestating. It's been a pretty big year for model pregnancies — Heidi Klum, Gisele Bündchen, and Adriana Lima have all recently given birth. Well, the gene pool's about to get even richer, as veteran "supe" Claudia Schiffer has another bun in the oven — this time at the age of 39. The child, whose gender is not public knowledge at this time, will be the third for semi-retired Schiffer and her husband, producer Matthew Vaughn, since they married in 2002. Claudia Schiffer Is Pregnant! [Grazia UK] Read more posts by Gabriel Bell Filed Under: breeding models, claudia schiffer, models, models who have given birth Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 2:40 pm Jersey Shore Recap: Top Ten Catchphrase Countdown (Part Deux)![]() "I figured she'd love the nice aroma of sliced, uh, dirty pickles." As promised, we gave you a few hours to digest the first of last night's two Jersey Shore recaps. And since it's nearly closing time on a Friday afternoon, we suggest you fire up the house music, take a few seconds to beat up the beat, and feast on Part Two! 10. "That's one shot. That's one shot, kid. That's one shot!" —Ronnie Sweetheart 9. "I will toss her out like the trash, real quick." —Mike "the Situation" 8. "If you leave, I'm going to stuff your fucking nose with tampons." —Snooki 7. "I figured she'd love the nice aroma of sliced, uh, dirty pickles." —Mike "the Situation" 6. "What did the five fingers say to the face? [Smack]" —Mike "the Situation" 5. "I closed that deal a long time ago, bro. I already got the title for that closing. You know what I mean? C'mon, bro." —Ronnie Sweetheart 4. "That hater juice is best served cold." —Mike "the Situation" 3. "She's mad weird, that chick." —Pauly D 2. "I told him to put me down because I'm not trashy. Unless I drink too much." —Nicole "Snooki" 1. "Have I got girls every day? Have they not been pretty? Some days no, some days yes." —Mike "the Situation" Until next week! (Which, unfortunately, looks like it might be the season finale! Noooooo!) Read more posts by Mark Graham Filed Under: overnights, i love the situation, jersey shore, mtv, tv MAKEUP • Jessica Biel: “When I see myself in pictures with makeup on, even to this day, I think it looks weird. My eyes get squintier and smaller. On the red carpet, I’m playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing I think, Oof, wipe that gloss off. I’m wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I’m immediately trying to get comfortable. It’s really a part I play.” [Just Jared] • Lancôme is sponsoring Victoria Beckham's next fashion presentation in February. Could she be the next lip-color collaborator for the cosmetics company? [Beauty Counter/Style.com] FRAGRANCE SKIN NAILS Read more posts by Sharon Clott Filed Under: beauty marks, bare escentuals, beauty, cool water, crabtree & evelyn, fragrance, jessica biel, jesus luz, josh holloway, lancome, makeup, shiseido, skin, victoria beckham Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 2:10 pm Yemeni Military ‘Almost Certain’ It Killed Al Qaeda Leader in AttackAt least two leaders of the terrorist cell Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group that nurtured underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, were killed in an air strike by Yemeni forces today. The government says it is "almost certain" it killed military commander Qassim al-Raymi, which would be a serious blow to the group. (The government has wrongly proclaimed his death before.) Meanwhile, officials are negotiating for the surrender of radical cleric Anwar Aulaqi, the religious leader who ministered to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, who is also hiding in Yemen. [NYT] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: terror plots, al qaeda, anwar aulaqi, nidal malik hasan, terrorism, umar farouk abdulmutallan, yemen Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 2:07 pm Trading in Chicago: Like Altamont, But More Fun!![]() Back in the day, before computers came along, working as a trader was fun. There were no MBAs, no dorks peddling codes, no sex perverts with whiteboard markers. Just a bunch of guys from the neighborhood, shouting and screaming and rubbing up against one another in nonhomoerotic ways as they made loads of money, and occasionally, got their faces ripped off. That's Wall Street speak for losing a lot of money, but it also happened literally on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, according to a new documentary, Floored, which describes how a guy got his nose bit off by a fellow trader in the heat of the moment. "When you’re throwing around that kind of money, people tend to lose it sometimes,” one ex-trader explains. "Sometimes you’d drop all your trading cards and your pen on the floor, and you’d leave them there till the end of the day because you’d get crushed trying to bend over and get them." But the physical danger was worth it, because at least they felt alive. "You were jammed like sardines, but alive and kicking." Trading-Pit Glamour Dims as Computers Ascend in Film [Bloomberg] Read more posts by Jessica Pressler Filed Under: white men with money, altamont, business, chicago, floored, trading, video Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:51 pm The famous Hollywood signThe famous Hollywood sign is seen in 2009. On-location filming in Los Angeles plunged by nearly 20 percent last year, the sharpest annual decline since records began, the group responsible for issuing...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:51 pm HAPPY FRIDAY: Here’s A Dog Riding A SealIn the internet’s grand tradition of one animal standing on another animal, behold a new combination — a dog standing on a seal: The sweet dog-on-seal action comes via the 34th Monte Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco, and not, as I initially hoped, from the greatest MLK Day event any of us have ever seen. Whoa, the Daily Mail just granted me tenure mid-post. Thanks! Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:48 pm Vulture’s Got Your Golden Globes Coverage Right Here![]() As you may be aware, the Golden Globes are this Sunday. As you are now being informed, you won't have to wait until Monday for Vulture's incisive, hard-hitting analysis, as the Fug Girls will be live blogging the red carpet, and we'll be providing up-to-the-minute reactions to all the shocking upsets, ridiculous moments, and Ricky Gervais insults via Twitter (we're @vultureblog). Read more posts by Amos Barshad Filed Under: announcements, golden globes Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:45 pm Take Your Blame Game Elsewhere [Wall Street]![]() If you're like most people, you're a bit ticked off that the banks that were begging Washington for billions last year are the same ones that are now paying out giant bonuses. (JPMorgan reported today that it set aside a record $26.9 billion to compensate its employees in 2009.) But maybe it's time to stop whining and find something else to complain about? Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post sure thinks so: The blame game for the financial crisis has been going on for two years now, and it is getting tiresome. The money's long since been lost, the first crop of books has already been published, and regulators are well along in hammering out new rules to make sure it doesn't happen again. For the rest of us, the best approach to Wall Street might be to simply ignore it and turn our attention to those parts of the economy that can create real economic value and broadly shared prosperity. What's done is done, people. The financial crisis is old news at this point. Getting angry isn't going to change anything. (And all your complaining is beginning to get annoying!) Besides, you never had much of an argument in the first place: One reason for the populist backlash is that people assume the bonuses are going to the same Wall Street wise guys who caused the financial crisis. Not true. Many of those who made the worst decisions have been fired, while many of those who will earn bonuses work in divisions that had nothing to do with the financial debacle. But it's also important to remember that culpability for the crisis extends well beyond Wall Street bankers to asleep-at-the-switch regulators, conflicted rating agencies, sleazy brokers, greedy mortgage bankers, reckless money managers and millions of clueless homeowners, along with an entire country that insisted on living beyond its means. Did you hear that? All the really bad people have been fired! So you don't have to worry about them screwing things up in the future. Besides, you probably shouldn't have been blaming them in the first place. No one's hands are clean here! If Pearlstein's explanation doesn't do much to reassure you, try telling yourself that some of the money that big banks are making is going right back out the door to help some of the neediest people on the planet. In the last 48 hours, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley all promised to give $1 million a piece to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Sure, a bank giving $1 million to charity is the same as you giving a homeless man a quarter. And, yes, Citigroup managed to find it in its heart to give out $2 million. But it could have been worse. (Here's looking at you, American Express.) Blaming Wall Street on bonuses is hypocritical [WP] Source: Cityfile.com - Dailyfile | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:37 pm Vampire Weekend Guy Dreams a Dream![]() "To even throw your name among the Susan Boyles of the world is an honor and a privilege." —Vampire Weekend front man Ezra Koenig [BBC via Pitchfork] "There I was in my pink tutu and size 14 ballet slippers. It wasn't so bad until I realized that I was doing my first scene with my co-star Julie Andrews, who I was meeting for the first time. But, she was very gracious. I think she may even have complimented me on how well my tutu fit. My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But, I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too." —Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson on shooting The Tooth Fairy [Parade] "It’s a male nightmare is what it is. You put a kid in the candy store and you say to the kid, eat as much candy as you want. Go on, eat as much candy as you want. And then you ask the kid the next day, 'Hey you want some candy?' And the kid’s going to look at you like he never wants to see another piece of candy in his life." —Big Love's Bill Paxton on having multiple wives [LAT] "I really couldn’t explain it. We had never met before the show. Then we went to the gun range for weapons training, and we just clicked. You have one guy, Chris, who’s from the Midwest and this other guy, me, who’s from the inner city of New York. But we share a common sensibility. I think that me plus him equals a little more than two, you know?” —LL Cool J on his friendship with NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Chris O’Donnell [Parade] “I’ve never looked at myself in the mirror and thought 'hey.' I think it was Stanislavski who said, 'beware of the actor who looks in the mirror all the time.’ He was right. ... You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film. It’s a constant reminder that they’re actors. And there is just this one face — isn’t that odd?” —Clive Owen [Telegraph UK] Read more posts by Edith Zimmerman Filed Under: quote machine, bill paxton, clive owen, dwayne johnson, ezra koenig, ll cool j, vampire weekend Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:30 pm Beyoncé Waxes Geeky As Spokesmodel for Style Savvy Video Game![]() Beyoncé: "Play my game, play my game." As mentioned before, the video-game industry has finally realized how much time women and girls spend shopping for, researching, and dreaming about clothes, and are responding with a series of fashion-focused titles available for multiple platforms both now and over the coming months. As if to show the industry's commitment to turning style followers into gamers, Nintendo is shelling out top dollar to have diva Beyoncé advertise their successful fashion title Style Savvy in a series of ads airing on Nickelodeon and other networks. The game offers users the chance to experience running their own virtual boutiques, where they can order and restock clothes and play other gamers in wireless "runway contests" without having to deal with real-world bummers like shoplifters or meeting OSHA standards. But, says the fiercely compensated spokeswoman, Style Savvy is more than just an amusing collection of digital, fashionable bleeps and boops made to help while away the minutes during your commute. According to Ms. Knowles, it's practically educational software. "It can teach young girls a sense of business and of responsibility. You have to be a good listener and pay attention to what the customers want. It also teaches you about fashion, using terms that fashion people use, like 'asymmetrical.'" Nintendo Helps Savvy Singer Beyoncé Step Up Her Style Game [USAT] Read more posts by Gabriel Bell Filed Under: game on!, beyonce, nintendo, style savvy, video games Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:30 pm Obama Heading to Massachusetts to Save Coakley, Health-Care Reform, His Entire Agenda![]() Robert Gibbs announced this afternoon that President Obama will be traveling to Massachusetts this Sunday to campaign in support of terrible Senate candidate Martha Coakley, who says things like (paraphrasing), "Why would I want to shake hands with strangers when it's cold outside?" But, terrible candidate or not, Coakley is the potential 60th vote for health-care reform not to mention pretty much anything else Obama hopes to pass this year and so Obama, who is still more popular than unpopular in the state, hopes his appearance can push her over the top. To give you an idea of how quickly this race has gone downhill for Democrats, it was all of four days ago that Gibbs claimed Obama had no plans to visit Massachusetts. Obama to stump for Coakley [Politico 44/Politico] Read more posts by Dan Amira Filed Under: early and awkward, barack obama, campaigns, elections, martha coakley, massachusetts, politics Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:20 pm Will Globes attire inspire?While we're plenty excited to find out who will win at the Golden Globes, we're saving our real zeal for the outfits.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:09 pm Robber Forgets to Put On Mask Until Halfway Through Robbery![]() A lot of people think that armed robbery is easy, that you just go into some place waving a gun around and say, "Gimme all your money." But actually, there's a lot of detail involved. A lot of moving parts and stuff you gotta remember. For instance, you have to not only make sure you purchase and wear a black ski mask—so that the person you are robbing and/or their security cameras doesn't capture your face and later splash it all over the Internet— you also have to remember to pull it down over your face before the robbery. "No kidding," you might say to yourself, "that's pretty obvious," but ask this guy who robbed a deli in Kew Gardens and he will tell you it's not. Wearing a mask while you're robbing is like talking to someone and wearing sunglasses — how do you know you're really connecting with them with a big woolly thing over your face and your eyes? You try it and get it done right — then you've earned the right to call this guy stupid. Read more posts by Jessica Pressler Filed Under: stupid crime of the day, awesome things, crime, robbers, theives Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:02 pm Erin Wasson to Ditch Tents for ABC Carpet & Home![]() Erin Wasson is reportedly showing the next season of her Erin Wasson x RVCA collection inside the store ABC Carpet & Home, a much smaller venue than the Bryant Park Tent she showed in last season, which holds 1,100 people. Style.com reports: "We hear Erin Wasson is trading in the Tents for Fall '10 in favor of an ethnic-rug catwalk at ABC Home. Still planning live band though." Well, that's one guest list getting slashed. [Styledotcom/Twitter] Read more posts by Sharon Clott Filed Under: is fashion week upon us already?, erin wasson, erin wasson x rvca, new york fashion week Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 1:00 pm The Director of Downfall Speaks Out on All Those Angry YouTube Hitlers![]() When the Conan-Leno debacle began, two things were certain: One, it would change the face of late night, and two, someone would apply it to the Downfall Hitler meme. When Oliver Hirschbiegel staged the famous bunker scene in his 2004 movie, with Bruno Ganz as Hitler, he wasn't expecting it to be appropriated for comedy; a dramatic recreation of Hitler's last stand is not exactly a laugh-out-loud subject. And yet the German filmmaker is pleased, nay, thrilled that YouTube enthusiasts have taken it upon themselves to reinterpret it to address anything from Hillary Clinton's loss to the Taylor Swift-Kanye West feud. "Someone sends me the links every time there's a new one," says the director, on the phone from Vienna. "I think I've seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the sound down when I watch. Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn't get a better compliment as a director." Some of Hirschbiegel's favorites are the one where Hitler hears of Michael Jackson's death, and one in which the Fuhrer can't get Billy Elliot tickets. As for the idea of such a serious scene being used for laughs, Hirschbiegel thinks it actually fits with the theme of the movie. "The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality," he says. "I think it's only fair if now it's taken as part of our history, and used for whatever purposes people like." He adds, "If only I got royalties for it, then I'd be even happier." Read more posts by Emma Rosenblum Filed Under: news reel, conan o'brien, downfall, hitler, Jay Leno, oliver hirschbiegel, the tonight show, youtube Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:45 pm CNN's Anderson CooperCNN's Anderson Cooper at The Kodak Theatre in 2009 in Hollywood, California. US TV networks announced Friday they will air a two-hour global telethon fundraiser for earthquake victims in Haiti next week...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:39 pm Local NBC Reporter Catches Aerial Footage of Port-au-Prince Wreckage![]() Tom Llamas, an Emmy-winning reporter from NBC New York, managed to take a cameraman along with him on a helicopter ride over much of earthquake-devastated Port-au-Prince. We've been looking at many scenes of horrific devastation on the ground for the past few days, and some very compelling before-and-after satellite shots. But this footage of collapsed embassy buildings, tent cities, and buildings that have literally rolled like logs one on top of another down soft hillsides gives you a whole new view. Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: earthquakes, haiti, haiti earthquake, media, port-au-prince, tom llamas Source: Daily Intel | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:38 pm Project Runway Season Seven Kicks Off Back in New York![]() Aaaaand we’re back! Yes, still on Lifetime, sorry guys, but at least we’re back in New York (for now). And we have an entire new crop of contestants to scrutinize and root for. Unsurprisingly, they fall into the easy categorizations of seasons past (more on that later), but it’s still exciting to start afresh, and be reminded of how nice it is in New York when it’s actually warm outside. The designers head out to Central Park, where Tim meets them to explain the first challenge. Oh, God, it looks beautiful out. Distracting us from the lovely weather are fabrics littered over the park benches (most likely now covered in urine and H1N1), and Tim explains that everyone must gather up as much as they can within three minutes. The contestants run off “like fat people at an open buffet in Vegas,” says Emilio, who’s 43, from NYC, and is sort of like Epperson lite with his real-life experience and laid-back manner. We like him. Ping, the requisite avant-garde weirdo, gets wrapped up in her own fabric. Oh, Ping, even your name makes us laugh. Everyone has to pick five fabrics from the ones they gathered, and then create a look that represents who they are as a designer. To quickly run through the contestants: Janeane is “dorking out” about being in New York, and cries about twelve times throughout the episode. Ugh. Ben is into armor or something. Anthony is from Birmingham and is the crazy gay of the season. “It is hell being black, gay, and in the ghetto!” Aw. He’s hilarious and we love him. Jay doesn’t “want to make a lot of money.” Um, Jay, why? Pamela is type A, Anna Marie went to RISD, Jonathan describes his style as “gritty meets pretty.” Doesn’t that equation equal ugly? Then there’s Jesse, who’s cute, though not as cute as Logan, but was a pirate at Disney World, which is awesome. Mila is 40 and Maya is 21, but they both have bangs. Christiane goes for color, Jesus is young but ready, or so he says, Amy likes being different, Seth Aaron is over-the-top and already speaks about himself in the third person. Oy, here we go again, says the recapper. In other good news, we see the return of Nina Garcia, Michael Kors, and Heidi, of course, whose new haircut we’d like to snatch off her head for our own. The guest judge this week is Nicole Richie, whose haircut we’ll happily leave be. It’s going to be a great season, folks! On to the runway show. Read more posts by Emma Rosenblum Filed Under: make it work, overnights, project runway, tv Source: The Cut | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:35 pm This Week in Rap Beef: Lloyd Banks Must Get Paid![]() Bit of a down week for beef: To our knowledge, no actual famous person said anything mean about any other actual famous person. Instead, we have 50 Cent cronies doing stupid things and radio D.J.'s (radio D.J.'s!) getting into Twitter wars (Twitter wars!). Maybe all the rappers just figured they wouldn’t be able to outdo Leno versus Conan. 2. Lloyd Banks versus a concert promoter 1. D.J. Funkmaster Flex versus D.J. Clue Read more posts by Amos Barshad Filed Under: feud for thought, beef, dj clue, dj funkmaster flex, lloyd banks, music Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:30 pm Maria Bello Feels 'Really Sad' for Rush Limbaugh After His Haiti CommentsThe “Coyote Ugly” actress says she is preparing to go to Haiti as soon as possible. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:26 pm A New Entertainment Option in Times Square [Crime]![]() Unless you manage a hotel, Broadway theater or overpriced electronics store, you probably have no use for the millions of tourists who flock to Times Square every year. That's about to change. Out-of-towners can now solve murders—and reduce NYC's crime rate in the process—after they visit Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum or have dinner at Applebee's: Some of the nation's most wanted criminals are going to see their names in lights on Broadway. The FBI will unveil a massive Times Square billboard today that's short on movie stars in tighty whiteys and long on bad guys.
"We're going to make some bad guys famous in Times Square," said Special Agent Richard Kalko. "Hopefully, we'll get some of them in handcuffs, too." Of course, this also means if you were hoping to become a famous supermodel, just so you could see your likeness grace America's busiest intersection, you can now go out and commit a murder and you might just get there. Times Square billboard to display nation's most wanted criminals [NYDN] Source: Cityfile.com - Dailyfile | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:09 pm 10 reasons Globes top OscarsThe Golden Globes are essentially the opening act of the awards show season. But that's not at all why you should watch it.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 12:05 pm Celebrity telethon to raise money for Haiti effortsIn the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 11:58 am Unintentionally Funny Trailer-Off: Dramatic Harrison Ford VS. Bald John Travolta
Harrison Ford yelling about an experimental medical cure and bald, badass John Travolta as a wisecracking sharpshooter named “Wax”? Even an unfrozen caveman without a cell phone calendar knows what’s going on: we are full-on into Mediocre Winter Movie MadnessTM)! Neither From Paris With Love or Extraordinary Measures looks like the worst movie ever, but I can’t stop laughing at the nondescript, January-movie averageness of the trailers; when I see even one shot of bald Travola blowing crap up or Harrison Ford being Oscarly, for me, that’s a dealbreaker ladies!!! I use this expression because it applies doubly if either element somehow occurs on a date with a lady. My question to the masses – Which unintentionally funny element ruins a trailer quicker: Bald badass John Travolta, or super-serious-acting Harrison Ford? Let’s go to the tape. First up, Travolta in From Paris With Love: After the jump, Harrison Ford’s rebuttal: Harrison Ford isn’t a bad actor, and he was in some of the best movies ever 15+ years ago, but I’ve gradually grown to view him as a less-extreme, film version of Bono — everything this dude does cracks me up, often for no reason. Here’s candidate #2, the trailer for Extraordinary Measures (not to be confused with Extreme Measures or Desperate Measures in the Hollywood canon of “Measure” films): Bald badass Travolta or dramatic Ford – who ya got? Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 11:56 am Spotted [Out & About]![]() Alexa Ray Joel moving out of her East Village apartment ... Kelly Cutrone walking with her kids in SoHo ... Rachel Weisz leaving her apartment ... James Gandolfini putting gas in his Vespa before getting caught up in a bit of traffic ... Whitney Port walking with a friend in the West Village ... Mandy Moore leaving a TV studio ... Pete Wentz playing with son Bronx in a park and later carrying him home on his back ... Ke$ha arriving at her hotel ... Bradley Cooper walking and eating downtown ... and Mischa Barton returning to her hotel. Source: Cityfile.com - Dailyfile | 15 Jan 2010 | 11:34 am Milan starts 2010 fashion season with menswear (Reuters)Reuters - Milan will kick off the fashion action of 2010 on Saturday, when designers will present their menswear collections for next winter, hoping for a recovery in the crisis-hit demand for clothes and accessories.Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 15 Jan 2010 | 10:58 am James Franco Appears On 30 Rock To Reaffirm That He Is NOT In Love With A PillowJust as 30 Rock nails the innerworkings of a tv station on a weekly basis (with such accuracy, I’ll forever be convinced all tv stations are exactly as they say), so, too, can 30 Rock nail the realm of celebrity gossip with this week’s arranged tabloid relationship between Jenna and guest star James Franco. Here’s a clip from part one of last night’s 30 Rock double bill, “Klaus And Greta”, in which James Franco meets Jenna for the first time and continually reaffirms how much he is definitely not in love with a body pillow: (It’s just the full episode embed queued up to the first James Franco part. If you leave it playing, you can just watch the whole episode again, as I’m currently doing.) Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 10:29 am Indian group likely to bid for Hollywood icon MGMIndia's Reliance Entertainment is likely to bid for US film group Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the Hollywood studio behind classics such as James Bond and the Pink Panther, a report said Friday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 10:23 am Federer predicts Tiger's comebackWoods's pal Roger Federer has spoken to the elusive golfer and believes his scandal-plagued friend will soon return to the sport.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am VIDEO: Jimmy Kimmel Appears On The Jay Leno Show, Things Don’t Get Awkward At AllAhhh, good thinking, Leno! Get Jimmy Kimmel, who just did an entire show as you, viciously ripping into you for this whole Tonight Show fiasco, to appear on your “10 at 10″ segment. This should diffuse the situation! Never mind the fact that Kimmel is on another network and has no incentive to pull punches with his thoughts on NBC, and he’s clearly sympathetic towards Conan, and he also basically just revealed that he has little to no respect for Leno or his late night antics. There’s no way an interview on Leno’s show could get awkward: Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 9:51 am NBC getting late-night ratings boostNBC has been the butt of nearly every joke in late night this week, and many of them were aired on NBC itself.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 9:45 am Senegal's top singer Youssou N'Dour performs in Beirut in 2009Senegal's top singer Youssou N'Dour performs in Beirut in 2009. Dozens of French rappers and pop stars are joining renowned singers Charles Aznavour and Youssou N'Dour to record a music video to raise...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:21 am Conan Puts The Tonight Show On CraigslistLast night, Conan O’Brien announced he was putting the Tonight Show up for grabs on Craigslist:
Anyone who wants a talk show for at least a couple days, better act fast! Unfortunately, given NBC’s recent transpirings, the Tonight Show brand is now essentially worthless. If I’m shelling out any money on Craigslist, it’s gonna be for something more reliable, like a bedbug-ridden Wal-Mart futon or sex with eight dudes on a bedbug ridden Wal-Mart futon. Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 8:13 am Leo DiCaprio, Lindsay Lohan Party With Cast of 'Jersey Shore'The MTV reality stars were the most in-demand guests of the evening, with partiers clamoring to get a peek. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Jan 2010 | 7:32 am Conan O'Brien Will Host 'Tonight Show' 'Until Someone Tells Him Not To,' Says RepAs for rumors that next Friday will be his last show taping, his rep said "we do not know that to be true." Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Jan 2010 | 6:41 am Review: Great cast can't save 'Last Station'It's easy enough to venerate a saint, even of the secular variety, but you wouldn't want to find yourself married to one.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 5:18 am Review: Close the 'Book of Eli'The clouds are gray, the scorched earth is gray, and the age-old nuclear ash falling from the sky is gray.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 Jan 2010 | 5:15 am PREMIERE: Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me” Music VideoMost of you won’t even read this copy and will go straight to the video. To those of you who do this: Shame. To the rest of you (Hey Carl), thank you for your patience. You realize that when something as delightful as Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me” music video premieres, perhaps its best to savor every moment of anticipation before watching it, like slowly taking off the giant novelty bow on your brand new Mercedes. Especially when that video is beautifully shot, like a living painting, and gives you that angsty Adam you’ve all been waiting for… J-EFFING-K. GET IN THERE: Don’t forget to tune into the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Live!, tonight at 9 PM on VH1, which will feature an appearance by Lambert and a very special guest presenter… YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS IT. Oh, there’s also a pre-show starting at 8:30, where you’ll catch glimpse of all the fabulous celebrities before the show starts. (By the by, the line-up for the event is sick amazing. And we’re not just saying that because they’re paying us too. It’s real A-list business up in here.) Bestweekever.tv will be live at the event! Check back here as we live-blog the show (and from the red carpet) with our partner sites, including AOL’s Moviefone, The Envelope, The Huffington Post, TheFabLife and fashion experts Refinery29! Source: Best Week Ever | 15 Jan 2010 | 3:00 am
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