Elusive British graffiti artist attends film fest (AFP)

A woman walks past a painting by artist Banksy during an exhibition in London in 2007. The elusive British graffiti artist is due to walk the red carpet when he presents his directorial debut in Berlin but organisers said he will stay incognito throughout the high-profile event.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Elusive British graffiti artist Banksy is due to walk the red carpet on Sunday when he presents his directorial debut in Berlin but organisers said he will stay incognito throughout the high-profile event.



Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 3:29 am

Tiger Woods had threesome with 2 Phoenix, Arizona, women who were paid to stay ... - New York Daily News


New York Daily News

Tiger Woods had threesome with 2 Phoenix, Arizona, women who were paid to stay ...
New York Daily News
Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren are reportedly trying to reconcile over Valentine's day. Two women in Phoenix, Arizona, allegedly had threesome with golfer and were paid to stay quiet. Mistress no. 1 Rachel Uchitel. It has come to light that two ...
Tiger Woods's New Boat: A Peace Offering to Elin?People Magazine
Madam claims Tiger Woods spent $250K on prostitutesChicago Sun-Times
Tiger Woods not allowed to live in the family home, but wife Elin calls off ...Daily Mail
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Feb 2010 | 3:17 am

A lifetime of scouting celebrated - Rome News Tribune


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A lifetime of scouting celebrated
Rome News Tribune
Scoutmaster Joe Gittings called the young men who grew up in Troop 28 “his boys.” Some of those boys, which included Scout leaders of today like Jim Manis and Andy Davis, made up a group of 20 Eagle Scouts who earned their ranking ...
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Feb 2010 | 3:13 am

'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is 'allergic' to one part of the female ... - New York Daily News


New York Daily News

'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is 'allergic' to one part of the female ...
New York Daily News
'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson in a portrait for Details Magazine. CLICK PHOTO for more of film's sexiest vampires. His vampire alter ego may be prince charming, but "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson does not worship women in quite ...
Robert Pattinson - 'Bothered' on Late Night with Jimmy FallonBSCreview
Robert Pattinson Bitten by Puppy LovePeople Magazine
PIC: Robert Pattinson Poses With a Naked Woman!Us Magazine
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Feb 2010 | 2:26 am

Kelly Osbourne shows off weight loss at Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief ... - New York Daily News


Sydney Morning Herald

Kelly Osbourne shows off weight loss at Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief ...
New York Daily News
Kelly Osbourne attends the Michael Angel Fall 2010 fashion show at Bryant Park in New York. The formerly curvy star appeared to have slimmed down dramatically. WATCH VIDEO below. A slimmer Kelly Osbourne walks the runway at Naomi ...
At NY Fashion Week, sea of fashionable blackThe Associated Press
Relief WorkersStyle.com
Chris Brown Cheered At New York Fashion Week FundraiserRadar Online
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Feb 2010 | 2:26 am

Movie Review: 'The Wolfman' - The Epoch Times


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Movie Review: 'The Wolfman'
The Epoch Times
There is a moment early on in this in which Anthony Hopkins deliciously delivers the line “never look back, the past is a wilderness of horrors”. And that is what it has been for Universal's historical beasties since their heyday. ...
'The Wolfman" is bloody good fun 'The Wolfman" is bloody good funEagle Tribune
Del Toro's 'Wolfman' lacks dramatic biteNews 8 Austin
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Feb 2010 | 1:27 am

MAVERICKS - Biggest of the big waves - San Francisco Chronicle


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MAVERICKS - Biggest of the big waves
San Francisco Chronicle
(02-13) 21:12 PST -- The sport of surfing reached new heights at Mavericks on Saturday. In the end, it wasn't so much a contest as an elevated state of mind, a heady swirl of fear, respect and bravado among some of the best big-wave riders in the world ...
Surf contest reminds bystanders of sea's powerThe Associated Press
South African Chris Bertish wins bloody Mavericks Surf ContestSan Jose Mercury News
Bertish conquers Maverick's competition on punishing daySanta Cruz Sentinel
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Feb 2010 | 1:08 am

Scorsese, DiCaprio join again in 'Shutter Island' (AP)

US actor  Leonardo DiCaprio  signs  autographs at his arrival to the 60th International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP  Photo/dapd/Hermann J. Knippertz)AP - Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director's latest film, "Shutter Island," at the Berlin film festival Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:44 am

Scorsese, DiCaprio join again in 'Shutter Island' (AP)

US actor  Leonardo DiCaprio  signs  autographs at his arrival to the 60th International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP  Photo/dapd/Hermann J. Knippertz)AP - Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director's latest film, "Shutter Island," at the Berlin film festival Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:44 am

Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, dies at 73 (AP)

AP - Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am

Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, dies at 73 (AP)

AP - Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am

2 killed in collision with Trace Adkins' tour bus

Two men died Saturday morning when their pickup collided head-on with one of Trace Adkins' tour buses north of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:13 pm

A look at the week ahead in the movies and on TV - Feb. 14-20 - MiamiHerald.com


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A look at the week ahead in the movies and on TV - Feb. 14-20
MiamiHerald.com
Shutter Island (R) -- Delayed from October, Martin Scorsese's first feature film since his Oscar-winning The Departed centers on US marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) who investigate the disappearance of a prisoner at a remote asylum for the ...
Scorsese Eyes New Film Project With Robert De NiroABC News
Kingsley: Scorsese directs like a loverVancouver Sun
Mutual admiration society breaks out at Berlin festivalSan Jose Mercury News
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:02 pm

Apolo Ohno Skates Off with First Winter Olympic Medal

Breaking News: AwardsApolo Anton Ohno's dancing days are so 2007. The speed-skating superstar got off to a great start at the Vancouver Olympics Saturday after taking home the silver medal in the...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 10:24 pm

Bolshoi performs in Cuba for first time in 30 years (Reuters)

Reuters - Members of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet danced in Cuba for the first time in 30 years on Saturday in a joint performance with the Cuban National Ballet at Havana's Karl Marx theater.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 13 Feb 2010 | 10:16 pm

Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, dies at 73

Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73. Clifton's sister, Elaine Philip of Buffalo, N.Y., said the former poet laureate of...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:15 pm

Fur makes a comeback at NY Fashion Week (AP)

The Peter Som fall 2010 collection is modeled during Fashion Week Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 in New York.  (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Fur made a comeback Saturday at New York Fashion Week.



Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 13 Feb 2010 | 7:31 pm

Video: The Retro-Eighties Designer With a Chanel iPhone Holder


Designer Rosemary Ponzo just finished re-creating Andy Warhol's Factory and Studio 54 for a Japanese movie called Sushi Prince Does New York. She wore Ports 1961 to the label's show on Thursday, accessorized with gloves "à la Gaga" by a Parsons student, and a Chanel iPhone holder — "two in the country." What more needs to be said? Watch the video, and check out Rosemary's website for more awesomeness.

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Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 7:18 pm

Two Passengers in Pickup Die in Collision With Trace Adkins' Tour Bus - CMT.com


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Two Passengers in Pickup Die in Collision With Trace Adkins' Tour Bus
CMT.com
Two Arkansas men died Saturday morning (Feb. 13) when their pickup truck collided with one of Trace Adkins' tour buses north of Shreveport, La. Adkins was not traveling on the bus, but five members of his band and crew sustained minor injuries. ...
2 killed in collision with Trace Adkins' tour busCNN
Two Ark. men dead when truck hits bus carrying country singer's bandThe Daily Advertiser
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:54 pm

Trace Adkins' Band Escapes Injury After Fatal Crash

Breaking News: HospitalCountry music badboy Trace Adkins is set to continue the Louisiana leg of his tour following his band's Saturday morning bus crash which claimed the lives of two motorists. A pickup...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:50 pm

Dexter-Jones: Lohan Can’t Be Helped


Ann Dexter-Jones at Charlotte Ronson on Friday.

"I don't think anyone can help her, and I don't like to talk about her. And she was never and is not in or a part of my family." — Ann Dexter-Jones, of the famously tight-knit Ronson clan, after being asked if her family's closeness had influenced Lindsay Lohan.

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Filed Under: party lines, ann dexter-jones, charlotte ronson, lindsay lohan



Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:49 pm

The Fug Girls Watch Tavi TV at Alexander Wang


Tavi rocks turban.

This season's Alexander Wang show was located all the way out at Pier 94, so far that we wondered if we should have brought our passports. But every editor in town, including Carine Roitfeld and everyone who's ever worked at Vogue, made the torturous trek, befitting Wang's stature as designer-darling of the moment. Teen blogging-sensation-of-the-moment Tavi walked down the runway in gray hair and a turban, surrounded by a camera crew from FashionTelevision and a man who looked like a producer. "Go talk to her, she's a supporter," the man said, gesturing to Diane von Furstenberg. Tavi approached the great DVF, looking a bit queasy, and we can't say we blame her. We almost stepped on DVF's toes trying to get to our seats and very nearly threw up from the shame ourselves. But it certainly looked like the kid got a successful interview. All we know is, Tavi has a way better set-up than we did when we were thirteen and had to make extra scratch by babysitting.

Tavi's gig probably also outpaces the teenage job of Mary Alice Stevenson, who we had to squeeze by on the way to our seats. "Worst job I ever had?" a very nicely turned-out Mary Alice wondered to a reporter. "When I was thirteen, I was the world's youngest Avon lady." Teen Avon lady might not be as high profile as front row at Alexander Wang — where Tavi eventually took her seat — but you know the free samples were better.

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Filed Under: new york fugging city, diane von furstenberg, fall 2010, mary alice stevenson, new york fashion week, tavi



Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:31 pm

Richie Rich Loves Figure Skating, Pamela Anderson


Pamela Anderson and RIchie Rich at New Zealand Fashion Week last September.

Richie Rich is such a figure-skating fan that he scheduled his Wednesday A*Muse show around the men's Olympic competition (short program on Tuesday, free skate on Thursday). "I was a figure skater, and lots of my fans are also huge fans of the sport, so I didn't want to make them choose between my show and the Games," said Rich, who faces his own quandary over flamboyant artiste Johnny Weir and less-flamboyant technical dynamo Evan Lysacek. "I love Evan, and Johnny," he told us at the W Hotel Lounge after Nicole Miller's show. "I text him all the time. I'm just so proud they're both going to the Olympics. Don't make me choose! It's so hard!" Before he heads to Vancouver for the closing ceremonies, Rich will channel Malibu via Pamela Anderson, who served as muse — get it — for the first A*Muse collection, which Rich describes as "the beach meets the streets. It's resort meets graffiti and break dancing — that kind of thing." Anderson will walk, and although Rich would not disclose exactly how naked she would be, the show's title is "Hot for Teacher." Expect bikinis.

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Filed Under: party lines, a*muse, fall 2010, new york fashion week, pamela anderson, richie rich



Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 5:41 pm

Video: The Difference Between ‘Pause’ and ‘Stop’


Most of Duckie Brown's models this year had never worked a show before, so Lynne O'Neill had to get back to basics during her training session. Watch as O'Neill explains the difference between pausing and stopping to one young innocent.

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Filed Under: behind the scenes, duckie brown, fall 2010, new york fashion week, video



(AP) AP - Bobby Hoy, a stuntman and actor known for his way with horses in Westerns like "Bonanza" and "The High Chaparral," has died. He was 82.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 13 Feb 2010 | 5:02 pm

Fate of McQueen Label Uncertain As Rumors Surrounding Death Surface


Alexander McQueen's fall 2010 collection was essentially finished, a source tells Fashionologie. The design team reportedly completed the final fittings last week before the designer's tragic death on Thursday. However, no one knows what will become of the collection. Yesterday, the label sent out an urgent message to the industry asking that all McQueen samples be returned immediately. It's also unclear what will happen to the label as a whole.

Scott Schuman of the Sartorialist wrote today:

I was talking to a retailer yesterday who said that her McQueen business was growing faster than it ever had before.

However, she sees no other option than to close the business of McQueen.

Who could take over? Should anyone takeover?

I'm sure Gucci has invested millions in this business but, this isn't the same as finding a replacement for an old house like YSL or Kenzo.

This is different, very different.

I think the closest correlation to this would have to be Moschino. And still after all these years, no one has been able to replace him, just a design team. Do we really want this to be the fate of McQueen's business?

I mean, come on, who could possibly keep the spirit of McQueen alive? He was so unique that his replacement could never get out of that shadow.

The Gucci Group–owned label has made no announcement about its future. Meanwhile, rumors surrounding McQueen's death are surfacing. McQueen is said to have been recovering from a breakup with a boyfriend whose name he had tattooed on his arm. The New York Post reports:

The cad was "a bastard who went back to Australia and I was left looking at his name," McQueen said in the unpublished interview, pointing to the letters on his right arm, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.


Yesterday, police revealed they found "multiple notes" with his body, in which he tried to explain the apparent taking of his own life to his friends. McQueen changed his will last year, and a source tells the Post, "Rather than feeling optimistic about the future, he was quite the opposite."

McQueen's love agony [NYP]
The McQueen Question. [Sartorialist]
Source: Alexander McQueen's Fall 2010 Collection Was Basically Done Before His Death [Fashionologie]

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Filed Under: r.i.p. mcqueen, alexander mcqueen, designers


...And then, according to one asskisser, apologizing for her...

...With other bloggers noting that "Sarah Silverman is being too honest :-)"...

...and some saying she had them "pissing (themselves) laughing" and "killed it"....

Update: Well, we might have some kind of idea, now. Via MediaPost, a fairly rough report:

Sarah learned she was Jewish because everyone else treated her like a Jew. She was a very deep child. It's not like the Jews killed Baby Jesus, and btw: You are welcome for the Jews having killed the 39 year old, otherwise he wouldn't be famous (Everyone knows you gotta die young to be famous).

We need religion. It's a way to cope with the unanswerable. Because if Sarah thinks about the fact that she was just a spec that exploded up out of her dad's balls, that's fucked up.

Insecurity can humble us. It's a survival skill. It can protect us. From things like aging. When Sarah was nineteen, there were so many official pussy inspectors, and now, you never see them anymore… probably because of computers. "Just please don't think I care."

We live in a world of excess. Population doubles every 40 years (Sarah read that on a blog) - that's crazy! How is it not total vanity to give birth when there's so many kids to adopt?

Sarah plans to adopt a mentally challenged child, because she really does enjoy the company of the mentally challenged. Unfortunately they don't leave the nest - ever. Therefore, Sarah plans to adopt a retarded person that is terminately ill. Who does that? Amazing people.

Everyone deserves to have a song. This is for the inner porn stars in the audience. All the penises in the galaxy…

TED's traditionally pretty grandstanding about the nature of their speakers and what they have to say. For example, a totally square (America Online founder) Steve Case:

And more:

And even shock from Silverman herself:

So while she may not have "taken a dump on stage," but Sarah Silverman definitely put something on TED's reputation and speakers. Defiant mockery, perhaps? Not exactly revolutionary, but in that setting, definitely a little groundbreaking.

[Thanks to Paolo at NYC The Tumblr for links.]


At the Olympics in Turin four years ago, Johnny Weir didn't like living among the silly snowboarders and frivolous bobsledders in the Olympic Village. So this year he thought he'd stay in a hotel. Then the animal rights activists showed up. "All these crazy fur people definitely changed my mind. Security wise, staying in a hotel would be very difficult," Weir told reporters in Vancouver. The beef between Weir and animal rights activists stems from the fox fur outfit he wore on the ice a few weeks back.

Because of these "very serious threats," Weir is now staying in the Village, where security is strong. He's not happy about it though. "I'm not always comfortable rooming with somebody or being in a communal village sort of situation, it's what I've got to deal with," he said. It's not all bad though. At least he's got a bathtub.

"Crazy fur people" force Weir's hand [Reuters]

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Filed Under: olympics, face paint, figure skating, fox fur, johnny weir



Source: Daily Intel | 13 Feb 2010 | 3:30 pm

Brooke Shields: ‘I’ve Never Been Skinny’


When we saw Brooke Shields at the Cynthia Rowley party at Gagosian Shop last night, we asked her for her take on the whole overly thin models debate — and got a somewhat surprising response. “I’ve never been skinny, so I never fit into that category,” Shields told us. Still, she understands people’s concerns. “I think we keep needing to educate our children who aren’t models and inform them that the ideal is [to just be] healthy ... I never did runway, though. I was always doing the magazines when the girls were doing the runway.”

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Filed Under: the weight debate, brooke shields, fall 2010, fashion week, models, new york fashion week, new york fashion week fall 2010



These days, Fashion Week is almost a better PR opportunity than a movie premiere. Even your own. Case in point: Probably nobody remembers Aussie actress Teresa Palmer from the Bedtime Stories premiere in 2008, but anyone who attended Peter Som on Saturday knows that the pretty young blonde was the only celeb (or "celeb") in attendance, because she — or her people — played it very smart.

The first step is always getting noticed, and in a room full of editors who are sometimes too tired even to take off their coats, Palmer did that in a lovely, summery, short-sleeved yellow-and-silver dress, and a very Kate Bosworthian side-braid snaking around her neck. Next up is remembering your manners: She greeted the ensuing interviewers and camera crews — all of whom were so excited to have ANYONE to cover that they treated her like the actual Kate Bosworth — with authentic enthusiasm, a handshake, and a bubbly, "It's so nice to meet you!" Then she dropped a few tidbits, like the fact that she's at Fashion Week looking for dresses for a big red-carpet premiere she has coming up, but she's juggling runway shows with re-shoots on a big Jerry Bruckheimer action movie with Nicolas Cage — which, oddly, she declined to name, but which anyone with the Internet knows is The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Maybe getting us to do a search on her name was the whole point. Indeed, one member of a camera crew shrugged, "No idea who she is. That's what Google is for. We're just glad she talked to us."

Finally, she perched next to the people everyone stares at when there's no one else around: the Voguettes. Palmer sat two down from Virginia Smith, then got introduced to seatmate Hamish Bowles — whose mustache is looking delightfully perky lately — and Meredith Melling-Burke, then rushed over to greet Harper's Bazaar's Laura Brown with a squeal and a hug, all of which are moves that let everyone know she's on people's radars. And it almost completely worked: At the end of the show, a Japanese camera crew waited patiently while she finished an interview, then rushed right up … and asked the interviewer if they could photograph her clothes. Ah, so close to total domination! Still, overall, well played, Palmer, or whoever in your camp is pulling the strings. It's proof positive that if the pond you pick is small enough, a fish of any size looks really big.

Watch a slideshow of the Peter Som collection.

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Filed Under: new york fugging city, fall 2010, fashion week, new york fashion week, new york fashion week fall 2010, peter som, teresa palmer



Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm

Madonna to Jump Back in the Directors Chair


About a year and a half ago Madonna made her directorial debut with Filth and Wisdom, a film that according to Rotten Tomatoes was, well, rotten. Don't think that's going to stop the material girl from trying again. Now she's set to helm W.E., which will explore the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, which led the king to give up the throne to marry his lover. Vera Farmiga is likely to star as Simpson while Maddona, along with directing and writing the screenplay, will serve as her dialect coach. [Variety]

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Filed Under: the industry, madonna, movies, vera farmiga, w.e.


...as a 17 year-old Russian kid. Via the New York Times' Bits blog, who, capturing a common sentiment, were "utterly fascinated with, and sometimes repulsed by" Chatroulette, emailed its creator, and finally, heard back:

The question was answered on Saturday when Andrey Ternovskiy responded to the questions we sent to an e-mail address on Chatroulette. Mr. Ternovskiy said he was a 17-year-old high school student in Moscow.

"I was not sure whether I should tell the world who I am mainly because of the fact that I am under age. Now I think that it would be better to reveal myself," Mr. Ternovskiy wrote.

Of course ChatRoulette was created by a computer whizkid. It's at both so ingenious—and so insane—that it would take the sense of wonder, whimsy, and mischief of a teenager's mind; the spare time of a teenager to do it; and someone who grew up with the coding that most web sites use now to come up with it: someone who, like Ternovskiy, started coding when they were 11. Most interesting isn't his motivation ("for fun") or his inspiration behind it ("a certain feeling of what other teenagers would want to see on the Internet"), or even why he does it ("I enjoy what I do. It is like a game for me. I discover new things and solve interesting problems."), but rather—as someone who knows nothing about coding—the way in which he coded ChatRoulette with speed and economy, and also, the way he's not raking it on the site:

Advertising on Chatroulette is kept to a minimum, because there are a lot of sites full of advertisements, which distract you from what you want to do on those sites. I also love minimalism. That's why I have put only four links on the bottom as advertisements. And what is interesting, is that these advertisements almost cover all expenses, just those four links on the bottom!

He does it because he loves it. Meanwhile, that sound you just heard are hands slapping the foreheads of many a web sales team. That said, does anybody really know what the potential of ChatRoulette actually is, or what it can be past a voyeuristic experiment? Vanity Fair columnist and Newser "entrepreneur" thinks ChatRoulette is for the birds:

Chatroulette is a catalogue of real time phalluses. It's in your face priapicness. It's jack-off central. It's really quite astounding.

And if a Vanity Fair columnist calls it "jack-off central," than you know it must be true. Meanwhile, Sam Anderson at New York muses on its potential past "jack-off central" after spending too much time on it (which is besides, arguably, "any"):

It felt like I'd experienced the full range the site had to offer: the shock porn, the dance parties, the weirdly aggressive homoerotic banter.

Quite frankly, if ChatRoulette teaches us anything, one certain less we know—for the moment—is that kids are doing fun things because they like them, and adults are endlessly fascinated by these things that were created for kids to have after-school fun with. Also, that screengrabbing is the best thing ever, and that while ChatRoulette won't bring us world peace anytime soon, it will bring humanity priceless moments like this. Via Buzzfeed:


There's something about movies like Neil Marshall's Centurion that get us really excited. Big group battle scenes are just so damn awesome. This follow up to Doomsday follows in the footsteps of Braveheart, Gladiator and 300 with old-timey warriors swinging swords, shooting arrows and lighting everything in sight on fire. This group of ass kickers is a part of the Roman Ninth Legion, which was massacred by British tribes. Centurion, which stars Dominic West, Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko, is about a group of seven who survived the slaughter and tries to escape back to safety. There are arrows, blood, ice, knifes, blood, screaming and horses—pretty much everything you ever wanted.

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Filed Under: trailer mix, centurion, dominic west, michael fassbender, movies, olga kurylenko



Source: Vulture | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:30 pm

Ohne Titel Delivers Pantsuits in Futuristic Victorian Collection


This afternoon Ohne Titel designers Alexa Adams and Flora Gill showed a fall 2010 collection built around nineteenth-century Victorian silhouettes. "But using, like, the outer shell and simplifying it in a way so it became very pared down and kind of like streamlined and sharp," Gill told us after the show. It opened with pantsuits, which Preen also showed, and seem to be a trend for fall 2010. But this is not your average, boxy Capitol Hill fare. Next fall's pantsuits are slouchy — thanks to softer fabrics — yet strong. "[It's] a little more aggressive of a look. I think it’s nice to be strong," Adams said. "I love power dressing, and I think that our customer is a really powerful, strong woman who would wear those sort of things," Gill added.

We are drooling over the tights.Photo: Imaxtree

The Victorian silhouettes could be seen in ever-so-slight a bustle in the back of a jacket, for example. Some dresses came with flouncy skirts. "We wanted to add in this kind of idea of textures and lace, but making it very futuristic," Adams said. "But making it very tech-y and modern by using athletic meshes and kind of oversized versions of the lace-making techniques that they used in that time," Gill added. The result was the über-cool show the industry has come to expect from these designers, though it must be said that photos hardly do the details justice. Leave it to Ohne Titel to make the pantsuit cool again.

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Filed Under: show and tell, alexa adams, designers, fall 2010, fashion shows, flora gill, new york fashion week, ohne titel



Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:20 pm

Miranda Cosgrove Named New Neutrogena Rep; Get a Bra Inserted Under Your Skin


The hair at Doo.Ri.

SKIN
• Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove is the new face of Neutrogena. The 16-year-old's first ad for the campaign will premiere in early spring, around the same time that her new solo album drops. [StyleWatch/People]

HAIR
Doo.Ri's lead hair stylist aimed to create a realistic look on the runway that everyday women would be able to achieve, opting for straightened hair with two loose fishtail braids. Is this a look you'd try on yourself? [BellaSugar]

• The buns on the models at Jason Wu were inspired by the 1993 movie The Piano. [Beauty Reporter/Allure]

PLASTIC SURGERY
• A new procedure would allow women who have had breast lifts or reductions to help retain their new shape by inserting a bralike support underneath the skin. The mesh material is shaped into a cone and helps take stress off of the skin in the area. Studies found that 60 percent of women who underwent the procedure felt able to go braless all of the time. Would you get an under-skin bra? [Daily Mail UK]

• Sociopolitical photographer Phillip Toledano shot a collection of photos of people who have undergone extreme plastic surgery to reach what they consider beautiful. He titled the series "A New Kind of Beauty." Do you think these severe transformations can be considered art? [Refinery 29]

NAILS
• Manicurist Jin Soon Choi is creating a second limited-edition polish collection for M.A.C., set to drop at the end of the summer. She unveiled the first color in the line at the Doo.Ri show, a puttylike gray with gold flecks. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]

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Filed Under: beauty marks, beauty, Doo.Ri, hair, Jason Wu, M.A.C., Miranda Cosgrove, nails, Neutrogena, plastic sugery, skin



Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:20 pm

Lacoste's New Wave After Party (Fashion Wire Daily)

FWD101 Model walks the runway at the Lacoste show during Fall 2010 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York on Saturday, February 13, 2010.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily - Christophe Lemaire's increasingly successful tenure at Lacoste took a fresh turn Saturday, Feb. 13, in New York with a snappy runway show that highlighted all this label's virtues.



Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:11 pm

Lacoste's New Wave After Party (Fashion Wire Daily)

FWD101 Model walks the runway at the Lacoste show during Fall 2010 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York on Saturday, February 13, 2010.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily - Christophe Lemaire's increasingly successful tenure at Lacoste took a fresh turn Saturday, Feb. 13, in New York with a snappy runway show that highlighted all this label's virtues.



Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:11 pm

Barack Obama Wants You! To Tweet For Him


Do you know how to waste time on Twitter, Myspace and Facebook? Do you love politics? Do you wish Rahm Emanuel would call you all sorts of mean names because your Tweet wasn't on message? Then the White House has a job for you! The president is currently looking for a "social networks manager" to maintain the his accounts and help "execute grassroots campaigns to advance the President's agenda for change." There's one downside though—you've got to move to D.C. [CNN]

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Filed Under: commander in tweet, barack obama, facebook, myspace, poitics, twitter



Source: Daily Intel | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

Games opening ceremony is most watched TV event in Canada

Okay, so, if you thought Obama was manning his Twitter, I'm sorry to rip open a hole in the delicate fabric that is the universe you occupy, but, shocker: he doesn't. That job would belong to one Mia Cambronero, who sent out an email recently to a listserv regarding her recent job opening that we ended up with. The full text:

Friends,

Wanted to firstly let everyone know that at the end of the month, I will be stepping down from my infamous role as "Barack Obama's twitterer", otherwise known as Social Networks Manager for the Democratic National Committee and Organizing For America. While I have very much enjoyed my time here, I've never really wanted to stay in domestic politics in the long term, and I'm really excited to get started on the international work that I've long wanted to do. (Won't bore everyone with the details, but feel free to shoot me an email if you're interested — would love to catch up with y'all anyway!)

Secondly, wanted to ask for your help in finding someone awesome to fill my position. (We're looking for someone who is available to start immediately. )

Here's the link to the application. Feel free to forward it far and wide.

http://my.barackobama.com/socnetsmanager

And if any of you are interested in applying, please let me know!! Would be happy to give you a little more insight into what the job is all about.

Much love,
Mia

Well, now we know a few things:

1. Ms. Cambronero has a very warm, charming email style! Which is probably necessary if you want to control the presidential Twitter.

2. The job of presidential Twitter is being left for "international work," which is apparently something you can go on to after doing lots of exciting this:



So make sure you're not too overqualified or something, either. And now you know! Gawker Employment Agency: Not afraid to @whatever.


With only five weeks until the release medieval Nic Cage thriller Season of the Witch, Lionsgate has decided that the world will have to wait a little bit longer. Teh studio has yanked the movie from its planned March 19 opening and has not chosen a new date for its release. This is bad news for anyone pining for two hours of Cages hair whipping in the wind as he rides his steed through the forests of 14th-century Europe. It's good news for everyone else. [Variety]

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Johnny Weir is terrified of the same passionate furpeople who like to throw paint on catwalks and pie Michael Kors because Canada's full of crazies who show up to the Olympics that might wild out or something and who definitely send him crazy angry letters. Vogued Weir:

"All these crazy fur people definitely changed my mind. Security wise, staying in a hotel would be very difficult," Weir told reporters after turning up for an 0800 news conference sporting a striking red and white silk scarf looped around his neck and with his nails manicured.

That's an actual quote, with actual context ("a striking red and white silk scarf," Reuters?), from a wire report. And if you can't trust an Olympian whose style icons include Dr. Frank N. Furter and Liberace, who can you trust? Weir's actually switched to faux before after receiving death threats and the like, but never renounced the Real McCoy, and now appears to have crossed the threshold again. This man's safety must be protected.

"I decided to stay in the village and my team has made it as comfortable as possible. I don't want any outside influences to hurt my chances here. Even though I'm not always comfortable rooming with somebody or being in a communal village sort of situation, it's what I've got to deal with." The American figure skater had talked about staying in a hotel because he didn't enjoy his experience in the Olympic village four years ago.

Your passe, pedestrian, protie Olympic Villages simply aren't fab enough for Johnny Weir, bottom line. So instead Johnny Weir is rooming with Olympic Ice Dancer Tanith Belbin, who will help Weir do Weir things, like, I don't know, eat brunch? He's also spruced up his previously underwhelming pad:

The self-styled diva makes no secret of liking his own space and creature comforts but for the second Winter Games in succession, he has been forced to "rough it" — albeit in a room lit with scented candles and decorated with pink bath mats.

Also, via the AP, this:

Our Lady of the Immaculate Penis will indeed protect you, Johnny. But all of this begs the question: What the fuck is the big deal on either side that this warrants death threats and/or standing your ground like Weir? Weir notes that fur activists find the Olympics prime time to get their cause out in the spotlight, and are capitalizing on Weir for their cause.

Well, yes. Exactly.

But on the other hand, Weir's got a significant bone to pick, and we're not talking about Lady Gaga's penis:

"There are humans dying everyday. There are thousands if not millions of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti. I tend to focus my energy, if there is a cause, on humans. While that may be callous and bad of me, it's my choice."

While it's not the "eat it, bitches" I wanted to hear: well, yes. Exactly.

No, Johnny, they can't read your Poker Face, 'cause you're gonna keep rocking that fur, and in spite of the assholes putting death threats his way, can you blame him?

Tell 'em, girl. Requisite video of Johnny Walker/Lady Gaga fabulousness in action:

How can you not like this person?*

*I have no doubt some of you humorless awfuls will find a way. And for that, I'm sorry. For you.


(AP)

Madonna arrives to meet with Sao Paulo's Governor Jose Serra in Sao Paulo, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.  Madonna is meeting with Serra to discuss possible social projects. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)AP - Maybe she will have advice on what not to do in a marriage.



Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 13 Feb 2010 | 12:32 pm

'We Are the World' Reboot Video Is Here


Before the Olympic opening ceremony kicked off last night, NBC debuted a chopped up version of the "We Are the World" reboot, which was recorded to raise money for Haiti. The Internet has the whole thing. We've already detailed how we feel about the song and we don't want to pile on, but this just seems full of so many strange choices, from the ill-advised rap verse that we've been dreading for weeks to opening with Justin Bieber. At least the video juxtaposes shots of the stars and not-stars (seriously, who are some of these people?) with some footage of Haiti, which helps make it a little more moving. But really, it's totally a good cause and we should shut up and stop complaining. At least that's what we were thinking until the Auto-Tune showed up.

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Filed Under: reboots, charity, haiti, music, tribute singles, we are the world



Source: Vulture | 13 Feb 2010 | 12:30 pm

Kristen Stewart: Friday Night Lights in Hollywood

Kristen StewartKristen Stewart out on a Friday evening in Hollywood is as likely a sighting as the Loch Ness Monster. But there she was—the Twilight star, as we first told you, attending last...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 12:12 pm

Vatican's Top 10: Jacko to Beatles

Call it the Vatican's 10 commandments for good listening. The Holy See's newspaper Saturday published its picks for pop rock paradise, ranging from Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" to...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 13 Feb 2010 | 12:10 pm

Record Amount Spent on Lobbying in 2009


Over the past few years politicians have made it clear that Main Street's biggest enemy is Wall Street. And with all the anger directed there, there hasn't really been any left for D.C.'s K Street. But those guys deserve your hatred too! Just last year a record $3.5 billion was spent on lobbying. The pharmaceutical industry topped the spending list with $267 million spent, the most ever spent by one industry in a single year. [Talking Points Memo]

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Filed Under: k street, lobbying, politics



Source: Daily Intel | 13 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm

Pickup hits bus carrying country singer's band

Authorities in north Louisiana say two people in a pickup truck were killed when the truck ran head-on into a tour bus carrying members of country singer Trace Adkins' band. Cindy...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:53 am

We Are the World 25 for Haiti: Watch It In Full

Justin Bieber, Usher, Barbra Streisand, LL Cool J, Toni Braxton, We are the WorldThe stars did their part, flocking together for the remake of Michael Jackson's do-gooding classic, "We Are the World." Now it's your turn. Sing along at home if you like as you...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:50 am

WWE Network Coming to a TV Near You


We have a lot of fun here scrutinizing the moves of TV network heads. So you can only imagine our excitement at the news that Vince McMahon, owner of the WWE, is planning to launch in mid-2011 that's all wrestling, all the time. This guy is almost as amazing as Silverman! [TV Sqaud]

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Filed Under: head locks, vince mcmahon, wrestling, wwe


Our J-School Embed, Gawker contributor Hunter Walker, did some digging around, and found the following on Dr. Amy Bishop:

  • Bishop's a Harvard-educated biologist who's an assistant professor at UAH. The three dead victims were all working in the Biology department, including the department's chairman. Via the New York Times, Bishop's denial of tenure is what supposedly triggered her violent rampage:

    "She began to talk about her problems getting tenure in a very forceful and animated way, saying it was unfair," the associate said, referring to a conversation in which she blamed specific colleagues for her problems. "She seemed to be one of these persons who was just very open with her feelings," he said. "A very smart, intense person who had a variety of opinions on issues."


  • Her profile on the university's site shows that she specialized in "Molecular Biology of Oxidative Stress, Neurobiology, Neuroengineering, and Induced Adaptive Resistance." Her most notable achievement in her field was the invention of InQ, a "cell growth incubator," which was assisted by her husband, Jim Anderson. She was profiled by the Huntsville Times in 2006, to whom she boasted that her colleagues think the InQ will "change the face of tissue culture."

  • Whether or not it did is far less notable than the fact, that, as the teacher of "Anatomy and Physiology," she wasn't necessarily notable.

  • Walker checked out her Rate My Professors profile, and found the following:

    RateMyProfessors.com has 34 reviews of Bishop's class dating back to April, 2004. On a scale of one to five, Bishop received ratings of 2.3 for "average easiness," 3.7 for "average helpfulness," 3.4 for "average clarity," and a "hotness total" of 0. Her "overall quality" was a 3.6. None of the postings describe Bishop as the kind of angry or mean person from whom we might have expected some sort of violent outburst. Several of the online reviews of her class say Bishop was "fair," however not all of her students seem to have enjoyed her class. Multiple reviewers described Bishop as "brilliant" a smart teacher, who was eager to help out with extra study sessions, and taught an excellent class. There are also several reviews indicating that she is a "boring" teacher who "reads straight from the book" and "highlight[s] the book word for word."


  • Even more, Walker notes that she might have been a "fish out of water" on the UAH campus given her Ivy-League roots and her fairly liberal ideologies. More from her students:

    After classes ended last spring, a RateMyProfessors.com user said Bishop "is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class." In 2008, someone described her on the site by saying: "she's a liberal from ‘Hahvahd' and let's you know exactly how she feels about particular subjects."


  • Finally, Walker found that she was a member of the "Clergy Letter Project," which is devoted to connecting scientists with clergy members who "have questions about the science associated with all aspects of evolution."

Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, pointed this RateMyProfessors comment out and it was immediately picked up by other historically conservative bloggers. Because you know all the comments on "Rate My Professor" are true and valid reflections of a teacher's personality, style and ability to do their job and not student perceptions and biases, right?

Huff also dug up a complaint to the FTC by Bishop's husband, which ends:

"By the people … for the people …"
not
"Buy the people … for the Corporations …"

Does a liberal ideology, an Ivy League education, and a husband who writes letters to the FTC make a rage-prone shooter? Not necessarily, but as we've learned, extremities of any kind almost always definitely do. The extent of Bishop's politics, ideas behind them, and the lifestyle to which Bishop and her husband inhibited them have yet to be fully fleshed out, but one thing—as each instance of breaking violence of this stripe happens proves without fail—is for sure: the pictures that can come together from aggregated information is hitting people faster and is colored deeper than each time before it, every time, as are the assumptions and projections they yield.

Amy Bishop had shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, an accomplished violinist who had won a number of science awards. John Polio, chief of police at the time, said Amy Bishop, who was 20 at the time, had asked her mother, Judith, in the presence of her brother how to unload a round from the chamber of a 12-gauge shotgun.

Polio told the Globe that while Amy Bishop was handling the weapon, it fired, wounding Seth Bishop in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead at a hospital 46 minutes after the Dec. 6, 1986 shooting. "Every indication at this point in time leads us to believe it was an accidental shooting," Polio said at the time.


The Olympic Opening Ceremony was last night and if you didn't watch you missed a joyous if a bit somber celebration. The festivities were dedicated to 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who died during a training run yesterday. His death cast somewhat of a pall over the event but the crowd of over 60,000 did its part to honor the fallen athlete with a moment of silence and roaring ovation for the Georgian delegation, who entered the stadium wearing black arm bands.

But the show had to go on. And it did with Royal Canadian Mounted Police, giant ice sculpture totem polls, some energetic dancing from the First Nations people and an enormous LED-covered spirit bear. O Canada! The whole event built up to the lighting of the Olympic torch and the resolution to the mystery of who the hell would do it. And the winner was...Wayne Gretzky, of course.

A Tasteful Way to Start the Olympic Games [NYT]

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Source: Daily Intel | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

Christian Siriano: Retro Parisian

Via BlackBook's Chris Mohney—hi weekday boss!—sometime between last night and this morning, Google had the above image up. As blogger Zach Everson noted, "at least he's on the track." The kinda Gothic illustration was—if you haven't been to Google in the last few seconds—changed since then.

Kind of related: the Men's downhill was postponed because of slush on the course after one skier crashed (they're okay). Basically, the Canadian Olympics can't catch a break.


    (A) A California Redwood.
    (B) The Na'vi Headquarters of the Dicktail Tribe.
    (C) A harvest-primed hydroponic transplant of California's finest Sour Diesel Orange Crush Kush.
    (D) A 200 year-old olive tree.

    If you guessed A, B, or C, you're wrong. Because Angelina Jolie sucks. You know what Jennifer Aniston would buy him? Yeah, the weed. Just so you know. Which you now do. [NYDN]

  • So, wait, the breaking point is now an appearance on that ridiculous Dr. Oz show to convince Carnie Wilson she can afford to drop a few? The Power of Oprah-Designation, everyone. [NYDN]

  • When the Hamptons have become too lame for Billy Joel, you know it's time to head to the North Fork? [Page Six]

  • Wow. Jason the White Power Ranger wants to kick Jean Claude Van Damme's ass. Who are we to stop him? [TMZ]

  • God, I hate Fashion Week. Fashion Week makes me hate Fashion People more than I should, but honestly, I've only known one good market editor, and he was fired for being good at his job, and replaced with an asshole. Fashion people aren't really so bad, it's the fashion press people (and publicists, lord knows) who are just the worst: they're a bunch of professional succubi who think the fact that they work in "fashion"—which has now become dependent on designers getting deals with H & M and Target to maintain their ability to throw stupid shit like Fashion Week—gives them the right to be insufferable, whiny assholes with mammoth power insecurity complexes of extraordinary proportions. Anyway. Fashion press people are so desperate they put up with the Kardashians. Here's an item about them supposedly doing something about Haiti. [Page Six]

  • Tila Tequila was rushed to the hospital because she "dented" her head. If you didn't think she could get any stupider, on, like, nine levels: you were wrong. [TMZ]

  • It's like the A-Team meets Zoolander: Naomi Campbell's bringing in her Super Beautiful Rescue Squad to raise relief money for Haiti. Please, for the love of god, keep the relief efforts confined within domestic soil, though. Haitians have enough to sort through right now without having to work around Campbell's preferred management style of FRE-F.O.T.S. ("Freaking the Fuck Out and Throwing Shit"). [Page Six]

  • If you want to see Snooki kinda naked, here. If—like me—you're brain damaged enough to know what I'm talking about when I say "Snooki," you can't be any more hurt by this. But you will be surprised at how dark that tan is. Dear lord. I'm surprised all that Hawaiian Tropic hasn't had some kind of embalming effect on her organs. Poor thing. Poor, poor thing. [HuffPo]

  • Again, only during Fashion Week can Axl Rose look like a decent guy for being his typical asshole self. God bless 'im. [Page Six]

  • Madonna's going to appear on some show Jerry Seinfeld created about warring married couples. This is funny because Madonna sucks at marriage, I guess. [People]

  • Holly Robinson Peete, who John Mayer called "gorgeous" in his now-infamous Playboy interview, doesn't think Mayer's apology was sufficient, and was "disgusted and offended" by what Mayer said. Listen, people. People, people, people, and daughters, and daughters of daughters: this is the man who wrote "Your Body Is a Wonderland," not "Your Body Is a Wonderland (of Aryan Pride)." John Mayer said some dumbassed shit, but John Mayer isn't a racist. You're a bigger dumbass than John Mayer if you think so. [People]

  • Dolly Parton was sad over not having kids. Instead she had Dollywood. Not really, but still, Dollywood is, from what I hear, a pretty decent experience. [NYDN]

  • That Jewish kid from Maroon 5 gets more hot ass than the L-Train in July. Damn. Note to self: Learn how to play piano warble. [Page Six]

  • Jennifer Garner thinks guys need to be smart about what they choose to do with their ladies for Valentine's Day, and don't need money to impress a date. One thrifty idea: don't spend your money seeing any recent Jennifer Garner movies. That said, that's really (A) no fault of her own, and (B) she is a pretty likable person, no? [People]

  • The guy who had sex with Stiffler's mom who's now in some HBO show that prolly sucks was at Meatpacking District club SL which is attached to Abe & Arthur's which a friend of mine tried to masturbate in. Also, they've got pretty decent food. And now you know! [Page Six]

So! How 'bout those crafty Jewish kids? Good on 'em. Here's this. And off we go! Happy weekend, hope you all have plans for tomorrow lest your Hallmark-Holiday-Obsessed loved ones freaks out on you. Time to get it together! This weekend's for lovers, not for fighters. And sometimes, love is pain! Other times, it's awesome. And sometimes, it's just the guy from Maroon 5's presumably big dick, I guess. L'chayim?

[Photo via Getty Images]




Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

Burani fashion house seeks bankruptcy protection (AFP)

A model displays a creation of Mariella Burani Fall/Winter 2009-2010 ready-to-wear collection during the Women's fashion week in Milan, 2009. Debt-ridden Italian fashion house Mariella Burani said it would seek bankruptcy protection after failing to raise funds to cover losses.(AFP/File/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - Debt-ridden Italian fashion house Mariella Burani said Saturday it would seek bankruptcy protection after failing to raise funds to cover losses.



Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:43 am

TV's Top Couples Tournament: Happy Valentine's Day, Shippers!

Lost, Evangeline Lilly, Josh HollowayWe love love, and apparently we're not alone! More than 3,000 of you weighed in with suggestions when we asked, "What TV lovers do you love?" yielding what is probably the all-time...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am

Which Valentine's Day Star Is Dressing Under the Influence?

DUI RevelerWe wish we could say that this is one of Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls crashing the London premiere of Valentine's Day—especially since the stuff she's wearing is...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:17 am

Why Is Everybody So Hot for Gerard Butler?

Gerard ButlerJust what is it about Gerard Butler? I don't get it. —Irene, Los Angeles via the Answer B!tch inbox I don't either, but that's probably because the guy kind...



Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:02 am

Oh! That feeling of Love - Times of India


Artuji

Oh! That feeling of Love
Times of India
This year I haven't planned anything for Valentine's day. During my school days, it was a very special day and it was my dream to have someone to share it with. I still think of the day as one full of romance with lots of gifts and cards. ...
Beyond Valentine's Day...Love Me Every SecondPeace fm Online
Lessons on love from the stars of 'Valentine's Day'USA Today
Top 10 tips for having a great Valentine's DaySeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Seattle Times -Vancouver Sun -The Guardian
all 239 news articles »

Source: Entertainment - Google News | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

President Obama Will Take Matters Into His Own Hands


Fed up with Congress and its inability to do anything at all about anything at all, President Obama is planning to use that thing called executive power, which, until now, he didn't seem to know about. With the election of Scott Brown likely to render Congress even more ineffective than before, Obama is starting to assert his power through "executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat," according to the Times.

“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.


Already the administration has pressured the Senate into confirming some Obama nominees by threatening to use recess appointment power. Up next are issues like "don't ask, don't tell," which Obama plans to "soften enforcement of" as Congress endlessly argues over repealing the law. And rather than wait for the Senate to figure out cap and trade, the EPA is considering regulating heat-trapping gasses itself.

The Obama administration also seems to have learned an important 21st century lesson -- self-promotion is key. So it's now "drawing more attention to the sorts of actions taken regularly by cabinet departments without much fanfare." It's the executive branch version of a status update.

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power
[NYT]

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Filed Under: early and often, barack obama, politics, rahm emanuel, us senate



Source: Daily Intel | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

Hollywood's love affair with Valentine's

Bad romantic comedies, like any other poorly produced or plotted film, can happen to anyone, at any time of the year.

Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 13 Feb 2010 | 2:59 am