Jennifer Aniston may have had a bumpy start early on in her career, but within the past decade, the 41-year-old siren has sequed seamlessly from the small screen to become one of the most familiar faces in Hollywood.
AP - The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Well, that was a letdown, wasn’t it? Since the end of the pilot, we’ve been waiting for the moment when Daniel Graystone discovers that his dead daughter’s avatar is stuck in the Cylon prototype that he’s been trying to replicate in his basement. Last week’s cliffhanger finally delivered the goods. But with the avatar stubbornly staying mum, Daniel spent the bulk of the hour trying various methods of psychological torture to get her to admit she’s in there.
We weren’t the onlyones high on the expansiveness of last week’s existential and technological theorizing. But after all the coded revelations, zeroing in on Daniel’s attempt to get the avatar to admit that she’s “tangled up in alloyed skeleton” felt like stalling out. There are big ideological clashes on the horizon over man’s power to create and extend life (or a simulacrum of life). Why waste a week playing with matches? Don’t get us wrong, there was still plenty of juicy techno-theistic musing, but mostly from the direction of New Cap City.
Daniel’s a fire starter, a twisted fire starter.
We don’t blame the Zoebot for being reluctant to admit she’s still “alive.” From the second Daniel reboots her, it's clear his motives are ulterior. He’s using the language of a concerned parent to coax out a sign that she’s in there, but with the cadence of Benjamin Linus. Plus, the last time he hugged her, it was just to upload her into a flash drive.
When the Zoebot doesn’t comply, Daniel exercises his only leverage: the fact that the U-87 is programmed to respond to his commands. We have no idea where a lab geek learned the art of psychological warfare, but Daniel feels eerily comfortable in his new role. He has her dismantle and put back together a firearm all the while regaling her with the story of that time she was stuck in the attic while their house burned down, in order to see if she’ll flinch.
Daniel and the avatar represent two sides of the can-avatars-have-souls debate.
The point of these scenes seems to be to push each party closer to moral bankruptcy — and closer to ushering in the worlds’ end. We just don’t get the logic of rushing through heady concepts like extending life and analog MCPs last week, but drawing out low-grade torture this week. It’s not like BSG, where battle scenes actually leave you battle weary.
The Zoebot goes through two more trials. First, an actual ring of fire. (Daniel says he loves her no matter what her role in the MagLev bombing, but he sure was quick with the gas can.) Then Daniel orders the U-87 to shoot Cesar, the family dog, and gives the avatar five seconds to intervene. She doesn’t, but Daniel filled the gun with blanks.
Caprica hedges its bets on turning Zoe into a monster (at some point the Cylon bloodlust has to seep in, right?) by having her tell Lacy that she calculated right away that the bullets were blanks by the weight of the gun. But not entirely: “If they were full, I might have pointed the gun at” Daniel.
Riddle me this.
What’s the best way to get from one end of New Cap City to the other without de-resing? According to Joseph’s guide-for-hire Emanuelle, it’s a hit of amp. Careful, that stuff’s addictive. But with just a couple eye drops of it, the two make their way to the in-world version of Adama’s brownstone. There they run into some amp-heads who’ve seen Tamara at a club called Mysteries (really?).
When things get rough with the junkies, Joseph hesitates to go in for the kill. But a moral quandary at this point is perfunctory at best. He already signed the death warrant on that Tauron politician and ordered a hit Amanda Graystone. Is he really going to flip out over shooting someone’s avatar in a game he thinks is reprehensible anyways? On the other hand, it was kind of deliciously ridiculous to have Sam tell Joseph that the big secret to offing people while in their face is by pretending it’s not real.
At Mysteries, Joseph gets roped into trying to solve a riddle from the club’s cabaret host (“As the gods overthrew the Titans, so has man overthrown the gods. But when man visits his sins upon his children, how shall he be repaid?” Death by Cylon?). We will say that we called it with the writers going Labyrinth on this sub-plot. As they leave, — riddle unsolved — he sees Tamara’s signature, a T with a flower on top, scrawled over and over on the club’s brick wall. Writ large, so to speak, the little girl’s doodle starts to look like a lonely ghost.
Again, it feels like the writers are purposely slowing things down before Joseph finally runs into a daughter he might no longer recognize and who no longer belongs in his world.
Caprica isn’t shy about drawing parallels between New Cap City and life itself. We get it again with the surprisingly apt riddle and when Emanuelle says like life, in New Cap, “you’ve gotta figure out for yourself what’s important.” Maybe the game’s architect can break it all down for us.
A house divided.
The rift between Amanda and Daniel has been growing by feet, not inches. Caprica staged it beautifully this week by having the two unravel simultaneously, but in different wings of Castle Graystone. Think of it as a more elaborate version of those rich-people dining-room scenes where each spouse sits on the far end of an impossibly long mahogany table. Except on one end of Castle Graystone, Amanda is chain-smoking to keep away visions of her dead brother while Daniel’s lighting a ring of fire to smoke out their dead daughter’s avatar.
Later, at the exact moment that Daniel looks to be sending Cesar to an untimely end, Amanda gets a visit from Tomas Vergis, Daniel’s nemesis. Amanda’s sympathetic when she sees that he’s in mourning (from the Tauron gloves he wears). That is, until Vergis tells her the employees he’s mourning were murdered at the behest of her husband. She starts out righteous, insisting that if Vergis knew Daniel, he could never accuse him of this. But when Vergis pushes it, her doubts rush in.
Daniel’s no Tony Soprano — yet. He may prize his defense contract over the only vestige of Zoe, but his body count is stalled at a pitiful two. That doesn’t stop Amanda from having her Carmela moment. When Vergis asks if she really knows him, her only defense is to say, over and over, that he’s her husband. Here’s hoping next week brings a domestic brawl the likes of which we haven’t seen since "Whitecaps."
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Reuters - Storied Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer may opt for a stand-alone plan if bids disappoint, and creditors are expected to meet early next week as the company sifts through expected offers, sources said. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Mar 2010 | 7:45 pm
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million. Her lawyer said in a court filing made public Friday the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 7:43 pm
Reuters - Universal Music Group (UMG) is embarking on one of the most ambitious efforts yet to boost U.S. CD sales, with the test of a new pricing structure designed to sell most new releases by current artists at $10 or less at retail. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Mar 2010 | 7:37 pm
DENVER (Billboard) - In the promotional run-up to the April 13 release of its new album, Ohio experimental rock group Foxy Shazam tapped a curious outlet to promote the release:... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 7:17 pm
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The magnitude of Sony Music Entertainment's landmark recording contract with the estate of Michael Jackson raises an inevitable question: Is it a smart deal for... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 6:39 pm
Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million Her lawyer says in a court filing made public Friday that the agreement... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 6:18 pm
(Reuters) Reuters - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Mar 2010 | 5:23 pm
Reuters - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Mar 2010 | 5:23 pm
Those possibly cursed Best Actresses have to stick together. Or at least behave alike.
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As Democrats prepare to vote on the historic health-care legislation this weekend, a new look inside the White House is emerging from an upcoming book by Newsweek national-affairs columnist Jonathan Alter that's already being buzzed about in Washington political circles. The Promise, due out from Simon and Schuster in May, chronicles in a blow-by-blow narrative Obama's first turbulent year in office. According to an advance copy obtained by New York, Alter makes the case that early stumbles in vetting appointees and the polarized politics over the stimulus set a course for the rest of the year. While the book doesn’t upend the existing narratives about any of the administration’s major characters, it adds intimate, at times comic detail about many of them, starting with POTUS. In an interview with Alter on November 30, Obama offered that Republican opposition to the stimulus "helped create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans."
Other vividly drawn characters include Chief Economic Adviser Larry Summers, to whom Alter writes Obama gave the nickname "Dr. Kevorkian." Alter writes that Obama "privately supported Harvard’s decision to fire Summers in 2005 … because Summers clearly lacked the 'diplomatic skill set’ for the Harvard presidency.'" In the White House, Summers angled for the biggest portfolio he could get, but failed to get oversight on health care and energy. One of his chief antagonists was the powerful budget director Peter Orszag. Alter writes that a tennis partner of Summers’s warned him of Orszag: "Watch out for the guy with the cowboy boots and the bad toupee." One of the more amusing fights inside the White House, according to Alter, was over Obama’s coveted BlackBerry e-mail address, which was given to only 30 or so White House aides and Obama friends. "Summers was annoyed at not being included and complained to Rahm, who put him on the list," writers Alter.
Emanuel’s continual F-bombing is also well documented, if not exactly surprising. During the campaign, according to the book, Rahm told Bill Clinton to "stop acting like the fucking hack-in-chief." Even Bo, the Obamas’ dog, was a recipient of Rahm’s rage. "A few weeks after the first family got a dog, Rahm Emanuel ripped into Bo, whose household accidents were consuming valuable presidential time in cleanups." Alter reports Rahm saying, "I’m going to kill that fucking dog." In one meeting with a junior staffer, Rahm apparently yelled: "Take your fucking tampon out and tell me what you have to say."
In an interview, Alter told me he hopes the book gives readers a deeper, more personal sense of the characters operating inside the White House. "I hope the book corrects some misconceptions and leads people to a more subtle understanding of who he is, where he has fulfilled his promise and where he’s fallen short so far," he told me.
One argument Alter makes is that Obama came late to health care — as a Senator in 2006 he didn’t even include it in a memo listing his policy priorities — but once in the Oval Office, he became a stubborn behind the scenes champion of getting it through Congress, even as many of his advisers warned it was the wrong course. Alter shows that Obama realized quickly that the reality of the White House is different in significant ways from the dream of it. During the campaign, according to Alter, Obama told David Axelrod that he thought being president would be an easier adjustment than being a candidate. He might be rethinking that analysis.
Our TV's Top Couples tournament has reached its almost happy ending, and once again the fans have proven that love is worth fighting for.
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Scratch that! Now The Hollywood Reporter says Marvel has offered the role of Captain America to Chris Evans, who played Johnny Storm in both recent Fantastic Four movies and Lucas Lee in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. To take the part, he'd likely have to pull out of the Anna Farris—starring romantic comedy What's Your Number?, which is also scheduled to shoot this summer. Developing! [Heat Vision/HR]
Anna Nicole Smith's estate is not entitled to $300 million the deceased actress had claimed was intended as a gift from her oil tycoon husband, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Two things we know about Ellen DeGeneres: She's gay and she loves to dance.
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"According to YouTube, Viacom has gone so far as to send employees to Kinko’s to upload clips to YouTube just to be sure that the IP addresses could not be connected with the company." —From an analysis of the uncovered e-mails in the now nearly three-year legal battle between Viacom and YouTube-Google on the Colbert Report fan site No Fact Zone [No Fact Zone]
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According to IESB, Marvel's list of possible candidates to play Captain America now includes just three names: Chris Evans, Channing Tatum, and Sebastian Stan, who plays Gossip Girl's Carter Baizen and is rumored to be the favorite, even though he's Romanian. Chace Crawford is no longer under consideration, but at least he still has Serena. [IESB] Update:THR says the role has been offered to Evans.
Peter Lindbergh hasn't shot for Vogue for eighteen years, but plans to start again. In 1992, he switched from Vogue to Harper's Bazaar, but recently met with Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington, who asked him to rejoin the fold. "It was like you are the black sheep in the family, and your older brother asks you to come home," he told WWD. But will Lindbergh bring anything new to Vogue's pages?
“Fashion photography has gotten a little lost. There is a lot of carnival going on. The hair has gotten too crazy and the make-up. At the moment, everybody is trying to do young. They have to look young or dress young. Youth is so overdone,” he said. “All the advertising and magazine covers today — they don’t look like natural women. For me, that’s a real pity. There’s all this retouching. A little humanity would do good, especially in fashion photography.”
Wise words, but Vogue loves retouching. And crazy hair. And, well, plenty of things that don't look natural. But so do all magazines. We would love to see Lindbergh do more unretouched spreads of women with no makeup, like the one he did of supermodels for Harper's Bazaar.
___ ABC's "This Week" _ Reps. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and John Larson, D-Conn.; David Plouffe, former Obama presidential campaign manager; Karl Rove, former George W. Bush adviser. ___ Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 4:13 pm
If there's anyone who could give sage advice to Lady Gaga, whose over-the-top outfits and performances seem to be wearing her down, it's veteran rockers Joan Jett and Steven Van Zandt.
Today Politico published an unverified memo of talking points for "Democratic health and communications staff" that made it seem like Democratic leadership was hoping to avoid talking about the specifics of the recent CBO score of the health-care bill. "We cannot emphasize this enough: do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative," the memo read. "Instead, focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered." Immediately, Matt Drudge gleefully linked to the Politico post, and staff for House Republicans like Minority Leader John Boehner began forwarding the memo around. Unfortunately for all the fun-making, the memo was deemed fake by Democratic leadership, and eventually taken down from Politico's website. A little disappointing, but at this rate, we'll definitely be throwing toupees and ripping the shoulder pads from unflattering pantsuits by the end of the weekend.
Each year the Italian suitmaker holds a contest to find the best merino wool in the world (the prize is the fleece's equivalent weight in gold). Zegna is — finally — creating a blend of all the winning fleeces since 2002 with which to make twenty custom suits, retailing for $22,500 a piece. Each apparently takes over eighteen hours to make and the help of 330 people. The wool is supposed to be one of the lightest fabrics ever, with fibers measuring about 11.1 microns, which is about a tenth the width of a strand of human hair. So. How thick are your suit fibers? [T Magazine/NYT]
Tons of buzzworthy films out there this weekend, eager to steal your dollar.
The two friends, Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston, are releasing their adventurous comedy The Bounty...
So, uh. Dina Lohan …she sort of invented a toothbrush. OR SOMETHING. From Contact Music:
LINDSAY LOHAN’s mother DINA is launching her own environmentally-friendly toothbrush in a bid to raise awareness about water conservation. The Lohan Green Tooth Brush is a liquid-free device that claims to save the user two gallons of water a day.
Alrightttttttttt. Why is….? Like, if you…. What are we all doing here? On earth. What is this? Who is it that thinks the mom of a young, seemingly troubled actress is the appropriate spokesperson for any toothbrush, much less a niche eco-toothbrush? Because the only person I can imagine thinking that Dina Lohan is the right person for this is Dina Lohan, but she clearly didn’t do this alone. She had help.
So, to Dina Lohan and her toothbrush aides, I would like to say this: NOBODY IS USING TWO GALLONS OF WATER A DAY TO BRUSH THEIR TEETH! This isn’t the 80’s. We’re not standing around with the water running while we brush our teeth. We all got the pamphlet in first grade.
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Lady Gaga's former boyfriend, producer and business partner, is suing the pop star for $35 million, claiming he was pushed away after their failed romance.
That was the reaction of one staffer at The Wall Street Journal's soon-to-be-launched New York City section after writer Kate Taylor, who was just hired earlier this year, jumped ship for the New York Times this week. [NYO]
With all the shows finally over, we've finally pored through all the photos. Knits, furs, mixed textures, and patchworks are all major trends for fall '10. What else is big? Breasts. That's right, ladies, curves are in. So are trousers, finally, and camel, beige, and other variations on pale colors. Click to see what else you'll be wearing next fall.
Chanel's spring clogs raised our eyebrows; all subsequent clogs and variations thereof haven't been our cup of tea either. But with this "Floral Slouch Clog," Free People has gone too far. If we wanted to look like we had hooves made of flowers, we'd have been My Little Pony instead of people who have to be seen in public. [Free People]
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For a guy who first burst onto the scene in the sixties, Italian director Marco Bellocchio, now 71, has been on quite a tear in recent years, with socially caustic and gripping films such as Good Morning, Night, My Mother’s Smile and The Wedding Director making waves at home, on the festival circuit, and in American art houses. And now there’s Vincere, his ambitious epic about Mussolini’s Italy, which opens today and which David Edelstein calls “a near-masterpiece … a monument to intoxication: of sexual conquest, of military conquest, and, most of all, of cinema.” It tells the fascinating story of Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), Benito Mussolini’s mistress and the mother of his child, spurned by Il Duce on his ascent to power, and eventually confined to mental institutions. Bellocchio sat down with us during last fall’s New York Film Festival, as he prepared to present Vincere to American audiences for the first time.
Your film seems to present opposing visions of madness. Here we are watching a character who is supposedly going insane and spending time in asylums, while the world around her, and Italy in particular under Mussolini, is truly going mad.
The tragedy of Ida Dalser is that she favored this kind of self-destruction in order to win back Mussolini. She chose it. In the movie, I didn’t want to depict a specific condition, like hysteria or schizophrenia. I wanted to show a woman who was incarcerated in an institution in order to avoid any leaking of information that might tarnish the image of Mussolini or of fascism. Ida Dalser to me is a rebel, a prisoner who tries to regain her freedom in many ways. I’m not trying to be particularly faithful to the history here. Over the ten years of her incarceration, she underwent a lot of things that were fairly common in insane asylums at the time — electroshock, near-death experiences, extreme violence. But what I wanted to highlight here was the fact that she was detained, and to present one angle on the reasons why she was detained.
There’s a further irony here, though. Your films often tackle the issue of madness, especially as manifested in the social institutions of Italy — be it the government, the church, or the military. But more than any other institution, the family is usually the main source of madness in these films. So here we have a woman going mad while trying to build a family for herself.
That’s a very interesting observation. Ida Dalser is fixated on her marriage with Mussolini. But Mussolini decides to marry a woman who is emblematic of a very conservative tradition. The woman he marries is from his own town, and speaks the same dialect. He uses the family to present an image of himself to the Italian people. For her part, Ida’s vision of the family she wants to build with Mussolini is also a typically bourgeois ideal. But it’s shattered for her. It’s important to remember that her initial relationship with Mussolini happens during a pivotal period in his life: He was a member of the Socialist party, and like all Socialists supported neutrality in World War I. But then he became an interventionist, and this led to a break with the Socialists. He founded his own magazine, and Ida Dalser sold all her possessions to help finance him. So she gave up everything for him, literally.
But she does eventually see Mussolini for what he is.
Yes, but it’s a knowledge that she gains through immense amounts of pain. In the film, and in reality, through the suffering of her later years, she understood the enormous amount of violence perpetrated by Mussolini. She detached from him finally, in the last years of her life. We see this in her letters: She would say things like, “Beware Duce, your victims may take vengeance on you, and you may end up the same way your opponents have.”
To what extent are contemporary Italian audiences familiar with the history you’re depicting here? The broad events of Mussolini’s rise, after the first half of the film, are depicted mostly through brief glimpses of newsreels.
Almost nobody knows about the story of Ida Dalser. Even I didn’t really know anything about her at first. And I would say that although obviously people are familiar with Mussolini, very few young people really understand the history of the twentieth century in Italy. But it was important to me not to get too distracted by the historical events of this period in telling the story of this woman. So, after a certain point, I tried to show the course of events without getting into specific details of the politics of the period.
Your films have always been political, in a sense — they often tackle issues of history, politics, and identity. In a way, you’re one of the few Italian filmmakers who is still making films like this. Is it harder for you to make films in Italy today?
I wouldn’t say it’s harder. The way that we make these films has changed. Politics has changed. In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, politics in Europe expressed a radical vision of Utopia, something that today is unimaginable. The Left no longer expresses such things. The opposition to Berlusconi is very ineffective, and has not been able to express a coherent vision of Italy or standing up for real principles. Paradoxically, even though I’m an atheist, I think the Catholic Church has been much more effective than the political opposition in terms of defending principles of solidarity and justice.
What is your relationship with critics like these days? You’ve always had a kind of contentious relationship with them, particularly in your early years.
In Italy, in general, this film was very well received. There were some exceptions of course, and there always are. The critics have changed over the years, obviously. A lot of the critics who wrote about my early films are dead. A new generation has come, society has changed. So I can only trust in my own abilities to make films that can travel the world. Otherwise I’d either have to retire or switch to television, as many of my colleagues have done. But I’ve always been a bit of a loner in the kinds of films I’ve made. I’m always in a position to do my own thing. I don’t have any political protections, and I don’t work for studios. So I’m free to do what I want.
Joe Dioguardi, a Republican candidate vying for Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate seat, is the father of Kara DioGuardi, the American Idol judge. But you knew that. In fact, it's probably the only thing you know about Joe DioGuardi at this point, because it's mentioned in every single interview or newspaper article about him (including this one!). We chatted with DioGuardi today about being overshadowed by his celebrity daughter, as well as, believe it or not, other things — like why he kind of appreciated what Jim Bunning did, and why George Pataki shouldn't be proud of how he left New York.
Tell me the truth, are you getting tired of people asking you about your daughter?
No, I’m not at all. It’s just fascinating how celebrity works in America and how it seems to trump, you know, a lot of things. Even when one tries to be extremely serious and run for the Senate, the fact that you have a celebrity daughter seems to be the thing that a lot of people want to hear about. And you know what? That’s fine with me, because on the practical side, Dan, it really draws attention to me so that I can make my case. But I don’t want it to go to the point where people think I’m running because I have a celebrity daughter. That really has nothing to do with it.
Are you worried, though, that people won’t take you seriously, because whenever they hear about you, you’re referred to as “the dad of the American Idol judge”?
Right. Well, once they look at my record, they will see a very serious person.
Would you consider yourself a tea partier?
Well, you know what, I’m in sympathy with much of what they’re standing for and I speak at every teaparty event that I get an invitation to that I can accommodate …. Obviously they’re upset about everything about government and most want to just change things as much as they can, and I think that’s really what’s happening today. And I think that’s why I’m being received so well, because I’m kind of an Independent …. and the tea-party people seem to like a self-made man and someone who says they’re going to change things.
Some people know tea partiers as conspiracy theorists — people who think that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States, or he’s secretly a Muslim. Are you concerned about being associated with those views?
The one thing about the tea party is that it is made up of many different kinds of people. Some focus on just a few issues, but I’d say that the vast majority of the tea-party people that I speak in front of are more traditional. Although I do realize there’s a fringe element that’s worried about whether there’s a birth certificate or something like that. I don’t identify with those issues.
What grade would yo give President Obama so far?
I think if you looked at him as a person, as a spokesman, as someone who is inspirational, you'd have to give him a pretty high grade. I wouldn’t give him a very high grade, but I would say it would be above 5 [out of 10], maybe a 7. But when you look at the way we’re spending money …. He has the audacity to say that we can expect $10 trillion in deficits in the next ten years. That is outrageous!
But what grade would you give Obama’s presidency though?
I would say that it would have to be below 5. Obviously he’s a well-intentioned person, but I would give it a 4. Take the health-care plan — I could never vote for this plan. I mean, the fact that they can tell the people that this plan over ten years saves $132 billion [Ed: It's $138 billion], when on the other hand he’s announced that we’re going to add $10 trillion to the national debt …. $132 billion is like taking a cup of water out of the ocean.
Do you think the health-care system needs reforming?
Absolutely, and I want to see more people covered, because we’re paying for them anyway. They go to emergency rooms if they’re not insured, and we end up paying for it. But if President Obama wanted Republicans at the table, the first thing he would have to say is, “All right, let's at least open the door to tort reform.” He didn’t do that, and that’s a very important factor in why health care costs so much in America.
What’s your position on gay marriage?
Well, listen, I’m a traditional marriage believer, I’m a Roman Catholic, but I do believe that we have to be fair to everybody in society. And to the extent there are ways that we can help long-term, committed gay couples have the benefits that other citizens enjoy — I think it’s been called civil unions — I think that’s something that is entirely appropriate. So, I believe that we have to be fair to everybody in society, but I don’t see us using the term marriage to define a relationship between two people of the same sex.
On Neil Cavuto's show the other day, you kind of hesitated on whether you supported Jim Bunning’s decision to hold up an extension of unemployment benefits as a protest against government spending, Do you support what Jim Bunning did?
I like the concept of what he did, but I don’t know that I would have done it on that issue. At a time when so many people are out of work and dependent on the safety net — and I see government, when things are really bad, as a safety net — we could have been in a depression and there had to be action that was taken. But I like what Jim Bunning did because it pointed out that one senator can stop government, and I wanted to make that point — even though he did it on an issue that I wouldn't have used it on — I wanted to make the point that I would use that same tool in voting against these huge jumps in the debt limit.
Let's say that, in a hypothetical Utopia, the national debt was suddenly gone, and it was no longer a problem. What would be your priority at that point?
I would think it would be to increase savings. Get people to understand that at some point in the future we could be back to a point where we have spent more than we're taking in, and why not now start promoting savings like my father taught me to do?
What do you think about Steve Levy switching parties to run for governor?
I think that to have a really well-developed democracy, we need to encourage people to jump into the debate, and I'm not going to say that someone should not do what they think they need to do in order to jump into the debate. I’m not running for governor, I don’t know Steve Levy, I don’t know the politics of it. I frankly don’t like people switching parties. I could never, in a million years, think about switching parties. I would rather do what I did back 25 years ago in a district where Republicans were outnumbered four to one. I made my case to many Americans in my district that did not share my party label, and I got them to vote for me. That’s the way I like people to run. Why Mr. Levy thinks he has to change his party label to run is beyond me. If thinks he’s good and wants to become governor, he should prevail by staying who he is and running on that line.
Do you live in a constant state of fear that George Pataki is going to enter this race and overpower everybody else?
Not at all. I don’t see George Pataki really entering this race. If he wanted to do that I think he would have shown up to the Conservative Party convention, where I was on February 1, and you would have seen signs by now. I think George Pataki would have to worry about where he left New York State when he left it. Don’t forget, we had a grouping of people surrounding him that call themselves conservatives, and were always talking about reducing taxes. But guess what they did? They kept spending like drunken sailors. And guess what they did? They borrowed. Right now, New York State is 49th on the list of 50 states with the lowest bond ratings. I wouldn’t be proud of that, if I were George Pataki.
When Jesse James issued a public apology this week for his "poor judgment" after rumors of an affair began to surface, you could almost sense a collective gasp in break rooms, dorm rooms and cubicles around the country.
Other than it being a great idea for a TV show, we figured David “The Decline of the American Empire” Simon decided to set Treme in New Orleans during the months after Katrina because it was the only way he could out-bleak The Wire (he also stopped in between to make a mini-series about the invasion of Iraq). But we may have been totally wrong! Halfway through Wyatt Mason's Treme piece in The New York Times Magazine is this hard-to-believe bit:
[B]ecause so many of [The Wire’s] story lines dramatized the futility of any of these characters’ attempts to break through social and economic ceilings, the image of contemporary urban America that the show offered was one in which character wasn’t fate so much as a fait accompli: in the land of the free market, Simon was arguing, free will wasn’t going to get you very far. In “Treme,” Simon seems to be arguing for the very opposite idea: the triumph of the individual will despite all impediments, a show about people, artists for the most part, whose daily lives depend upon the free exercise of their wills to create — out of nothing, out of moments — something beautiful.
Wait — is Treme going to be sort of fun to watch? And not in a “see Jimmy McNulty self-destruct” kind of way, but in a straightforward, uplifting kind of way? These Tremetrailers suggest that somewhat, but we assumed the producers just plucked out all the happy-looking stuff from the first season. The guy who once described most mainstream entertainment as “it’s like, ‘Can you tell me another bedtime story about how people are special and every one of us matters? Can you tell me that shit?’” probably hasn’t gone soft exactly, but Treme sounds like it could be, for better or worse, a little easier to swallow. Maybe that means that this time around, unlike with The Wire, Simon won't have to fight for renewal after every season?
Tinsley Mortimer toughened up a strapless printed frock by Alice + Olivia with military-inspired lace-up peep-toe booties to attend the Alice + Olivia Saks Fifth Avenue launch party last night.
As legendary rock-and-roll manager/impresario Kim Fowley in The Runaways, Michael Shannon delivers a spot-on, entertaining performance that captures the outsize personality who shaped Joan Jett and her bandmate Cherie Currie. For those familiar with the Oscar-nominated actor’s work, the role feels like a departure, though Shannon bristles at the notion that many of his other recent parts have been brooding types. He recently took the time to set us straight, and to discuss what it was like to play a guy who likes to order teenage girls around.
You play a flamboyant, larger-than-life character in this film. It seems like a bit of a departure from some of your more subdued roles. Did you ever see it that way?
Not really. When you act for a living, you often do a project because it’s different from the last project you did. But I guess I know what you mean, though. It’s weird. Sometimes I wonder if I’m not doing my job well enough, if sometimes they seem so similar. Also, I do a lot of theater, and in my theater work I’ve done some parts like this. I was actually in an improv-comedy group for a number of years. So when people call this a departure, I’m like, “What are they talking about? I’ve done comedy before!” But then I have to remind myself that it was in a basement somewhere and that nobody saw it.
Since Kim Fowley is a real-life character, how much liberty did you have in creating this role?
I was very concerned with trying to capture Kim the way he is. I spent a little bit of time in his company, but mostly I looked at footage of him that I’d found. There’s an interview he did on the Tom Snyder Show that I watched. And I watched The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, which is a documentary about Rodney Bingenheimer, who is also portrayed in the film.
What was the most challenging part about this role for you?
It’s like you said, he is a very fearless person. You can’t be self-conscious about it. If any doubt creeps into your mind, it’ll show and it’ll screw up the illusion. So just having the authority to walk into a trailer and tell everybody what to do. I mean, think about it: Teenagers don’t usually listen to grown-up people telling them what to do. That’s a tricky situation even when you’re not acting — telling a teenage girl to do something. The fact that I had to do that on camera was even more daunting.
What was Kim’s attitude towards this project? Did he have any advice for you?
I think he was excited about it. In the music scene out in L.A. he’s a legendary presence, but in the rest of the country people don’t know about him that much. So he was excited that people might find out more about him because of this movie, or his influence on the Runaways in particular and on music in general. He kind of managed to squeeze in everything about his life into a two-hour dinner conversation. [Laughs.]
What does he think of the finished film? He’s not always seen in the most flattering light.
He seemed very happy with it when I saw him after the premiere in L.A. He said some very flattering things to me about it. But I don’t know how much of that he would reveal to me or to anybody else. As to his portrayal, that’s a matter of every individual’s point of view and judgment. I don’t know if Kim thinks he looks bad in the film. The film is based on Cherie’s book, and it was made with the blessing of all parties involved. They all got to look at the script, and they all had a chance to say, “This is what I believe to be the truth” before the film got made. If Kim didn’t approve of how he was portrayed in the film, he probably could have done something about it.
What’s his relationship like nowadays with Joan and Cherie?
The night I had dinner with Kim, I was with Joan and Kristen Stewart. It was the four of us, and Joan actually set it up. Kim and Joan were sitting across the booth from me, and they seemed like old buddies. I think Joan has a very accepting, Zen attitude about the whole thing. She’s very much living in the present moment right now: She’s still a musician, and she has a lot to be happy about. I think maybe with Cherie, Kim’s relationship is more distant, but it’s not like they don’t speak to each other.
Finally, what can you tell us about Boardwalk Empire?
It’s set in Atlantic City at the start of the Prohibition era. The first episode is the beginning of Prohibition. It’s loosely based on the life of a guy named Enoch Johnson, who kind of ran Atlantic City during that time. I play this guy named Van Alden, a prohibition agent for the United States Treasury Department. I’m trying to keep people from selling or drinking booze. And I’m, uh, very serious about my job.
Like, precisely exactly specifically? Okay, you asked for it. In her essay "A Viewer's Guide to This Weekend," politics professor Sarah Binder explains the extremely complicated (and somewhat amazing) procedures that will unfold as health-care reform finally gets settled.
MissInfo's offering two particularly solid (and free) new MP3s today: "Retaliate" by Maino, off his upcoming Day After Tomorrow album, and Cam'ron's "Sorry," which samples Tracy Chapman pretty ingeniously. Listen, download if you like. [MissInfo]
Photographer Tom Munro has shot dozens of celebrity covers — everyone from Tom Cruise to Madonna to Lady Gaga. "I certainly retouch — it very much depends on the shoot," he adds. "There are certainly times, whether it’s with a model or a celebrity, when one uses it to enhance an image or a figure. I try to do it as subtly as possible without being too extreme." [WWD]
Today, executives at Dow Jones reached a contract agreement with the International Association of Publishers Employees, the union that represents staffers at The Wall Street Journal. The agreement resulted in lower health-insurance premiums for the workers, and an improved 401(k). Overtime rules are also changing, and will now count hours worked from home. The centerpiece of the deal, though, was a seventeen-month wage freeze, matching the one imposed on non-union workers last year. "Without it," bargainers told their union members in a memo today, "there would be no contract."
After appearing on this month's cover of Vogue, Tina Fey appears on the April cover of Esquire. She looks markedly different on Esquire, with the messy hair, smoky eye makeup, and hint of cleavage — like she's just dying to have sex with Esquire's readers, which is how men would like to imagine women roam the earth (most often not the case). The retouching on the Esquire cover may not be as egregious as Vogue's; despite her unnatural vampiness, she still looks like herself — if she had 45 minutes to spend on her hair and no wrinkles (which, as a 39-year-old human, she does). However, the magazine with the Tina cover that seems to have stayed most true to this amazing lady?
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We're going with Harper's Bazaar. Their Tina cover came out in November of last year, before the other two. Of course retouching and styling were again at play, but we don't feel like they tried to awkwardly make her into something she's not.
Reuters - The sonorous voice behind the long-running gospel No. 1 and R&B crossover hit "Never Would Have Made It" is back with his eighth album, "Here I Am," recorded live at the same Michigan church where Marvin Sapp laid down 2007 album "Thirsty." The singing preacher once again delivers powerful, emotional messages focusing on inspiration, praise and spiritual guidance. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 19 Mar 2010 | 2:09 pm
As Gossip Girl: The College Years continued, our commenters were left concerned about a few very key points: chest hair, the authenticity of freshman dorm parties, and the logistics of kitchen sex. While generally pleased with Chuck's joy at finally reconnecting with his long-lost mother, this week you seemed even more excited at the prospect of reconnecting with that other creeper of the House of Bass, Jack. Read on to see this week's best comments, compiled by Comfortably Smug.
Realer Than Serena Sacrificing Her Friends for Her Daddy Issues
• So Chuck actually is... wait for it... a BASStard. —ILUDYTHINK
• lily takes oxy for headaches. awesome. Plus 20—chuckbassismybabydaddy
• Plus 20 for Chuck's pajamas. Because Chuck would never sleep in boxers and an old t shirt like every other 20something man in America. —chiyork
• I loved Blair's face at the Greek lunch when Chuck was following Serena's advice. Women, no matter how secure, HATE it when anyone, especially a slutty BFF, reaches out and advises the BF and the BF actually listens. Blair would want to be the ONLY voice Chuck hears. Plus 10. —ICECASTLES
• Rufus: "When I look at you, I don't see my little girl anymore." (Based on his earlier retort to Lily, would he rather see Serena?) Anyway, plus 15 for the fact that Rufus says this to Jenny with equal amounts of sincerity and bewilderment about three times per season. He absolutely would think that that would guilt her into no longer dealing drugs, grooming her hair, and wearing pants. —PurpleandGreen
• Plus 5 for Serena immediately assuming the issue is sexual when Blair mentions that she and Chuck haven't been "connecting". Of course her mind would immediately gravitate towards sex, since, really, that's basically what all of her relationships solely revolve around. —IWANTTOGOTOTHERE
• Blair: "I'm just glad I got Chuck's couch Scotch Guarded". Plus 30 only because obviously Dorota did it — miss_demeanor
• [Dan’s] roid arms are HUGE and sometimes cover up Vanessa's face...actually plus 10 — newyorkiloveyou
• "I may be a b*tch, but I'm not a little b*tch." Jenny still has a chip on her shoulder from Blair dubbing her Little J.Plus 5, because people never get over the nicknames they hated in high school. —IamBlairWaldorf_BlairWaldorfisme
• Jenny willing to ruin her relationship with her father for a dude who doesn't really like her at all. Plus 20. Ah, to be 16 again. —MissChristyPoo
• Okay, Paul looks like a gay. But you know what? At NYU, most of the straight boys look gay. It's like they're trying to blend in with their surroundings. Or they just get confused. Anyway, Plus 2. —masha339
• Serena leaves her dad the kind of message that you might leave a guy who didn't call you back after you slept with him on the first date. Plus 10 for character consistency. —chestercopperpot
• Plus 2 for Blair's production at the beginning of the episode - not like we haven't all done that once during college.— foofoo231
• Dan looks suspiciously like Pauly D from Jersey Shore in this episode. Minus 5 for making me anticipate a spontaneous fist pump and then failing to deliver. Plus 5 if Vanessa shows up next week with a Snooky-style bump-it. — NurseLuvBass
Faker Than That Entire Party
• Minus 10 for lack of eric. seriously, shouldn't he be plotting against jenny somehow? —astorwaldorf
• Minus 10 for the comment about Vanessa and Dan celebrating their first wedding anniversary while their friends are getting their first STDs. Dan was screwing Serena, he should have been checked out a long time ago. Chuck is fond of escorts, and no one seems to use any type of protection. They probably all have STDs already. —MelissaMoody
• Nate using the word 'heathen' appropriately. Minus 7— miserable
• Who goes “with” someone to a college party?! You go in groups of guys or girls, take shots, possibly do a keg stand, black out, then wake up the next morning in a dorm room across campus with someone you don't recognize and a random hickey... You don’t bring dates! Minus only 10, because Dan and Vanessa are both needy, and wouldn't risk being the kids standing alone in the corner texting. —iamreallyBLAIR
• Vanessa: “Don’t get all Dan Humphrey on me!” Dear Dan, if Vanessa fricken’ Abrams uses your name as a synonym for “judgmental,” you have a problem Minus 14, the number of letters in “pot,kettle,black” — HookedOnBass
• Minus 5 for Damien hanging around for what seemed like HOURS after being caught in Jenny's room. He would have grabbed the DVD and been gone ten seconds after Lily walked in. —elisecb
• While I'm on the subject, how is Vanessa the turbo-ho of the group? She's not only banged the GG trifecta of Nate, Chuck, and Dan, but she's also dated half the show's random male guest characters, like gay Paul and the somewhat less gay half brother of Dan and Serena. Minus 10. —EMMYLOSER
• I understand that we don't have to get hung up on the fact that the older siblings are no longer attending class - they are in college, they can do what they want, etc. - but Jenny is still in high school. Are we still on a break of some sort? She's the Queen - without scenes of her at the school we are all going to completely forget that she is more than just a Courtney Love in the making - I mean, people actually LOOK UP TO HER. Or pretend to at least. And without this reminder, we will surely forget. —ponies_and_rainbows
• Minus 5: Doormen don't just walk into your apartment to deliver a lost scarf. They come up in the service elevator or have the porter do it. —GALAGIRL
• Dumb ass Nate should have instantly realized Blair's fake sex groan was fake. Minus 20.—theyoohoogirl
• Minus 10 for Rufus acting like he's the one taking drugs. Yelling has become his only means of communicating with anyone, save the ho in the building. Meanwhile, he didn't care about Jenny in the slightest when he was avoiding Lily and Jenny was basically living like a 20-something with no supervision or curfew. —YouandWhoseArmy
• I was shocked to see baby chuck not wearing a bow-tie in the picture in the locket. Minus 10. —andrealr123
• In addition to a boy’s oxford shirt conveniently stowed in her overnight bag, Serena also has a pair of Risky Business-esque knee socks available, just in case there was fridge-sex. Yeah right, private school girls burn those things when they graduate high school. Minus 5— brooklynbrethren
• Minus 50 for making Damien the douche have feelings. We've been through this already. There is no room for another bad boy with a secret soul. IT IS CALLED CHUCK BASS. — stiletto33
A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.
StyleList asked a plastic surgeon to create a digital dramatization of what Jesse James's alleged mistress Michelle "Bombshell" McGee's forehead tattoo will look like in 40 years. Now it says "Pray for us sinners," but in four decades, when her skin is saggy and wrinkly, it will be — unreadable. "The old joke is that a rose tattoo on the breast becomes a long-stemmed rose as you age," the doctor said. So it could only be a matter of time before she resembles a giant walking bruise. [StyleList]
HAIR
• Sarah Jessica Parker wore her hair in long, loose, beachy waves at the Halston Heritage launch in Toronto. Definitely an improvement over her Oscar hair. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
• 90210's Shenae Grimes took a page out of Lauren Conrad's book and rocked a front braid. With her loose updo, it works. [Girls in the Beauty Department/Glamour]
• False eyelashes don't seem to have been affected by the recession: Sales last year increased by 6.2 percent to $44 million. Lash-enhancing products, including Latisse and Rocasuba RapidLash, also did quite well. [StyleList]
NAILS
• The blue-gray custom Lancôme color the models at L'Wren Scott's fall 2010 runway show wore will be available in stores before the end of the year. It doesn't yet have a name. [All Lacquered Up]
MAKEUP
• Topshop will launch their long-awaited makeup line in May, with the first batch aimed for use at music festivals. They plan to offer four to six collections each year. [Daily Mail UK]
FRAGRANCE
• Elizabeth Taylor launched a new scent, called Violet Eyes. She had her Twitter followers weigh in on possible names for the fruity, floral scent before deciding. [BellaSugar]
• L'Occitane plans to launch a fragrance called Paeonia/Peony to coincide with the launch of their new Peony makeup collection. The scent includes notes of peony, rose, sandalwood, and white musk, and will be available in May. [Now Smell This]
Reuters - Following up on 2006's "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" with the second film in an anticipated concert trilogy, Jonathan Demme returns with "Neil Young Trunk Show: Scenes from a Concert," an appreciably more visceral and spontaneous documentary. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 19 Mar 2010 | 1:14 pm
Reuters - Following up on 2006's "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" with the second film in an anticipated concert trilogy, Jonathan Demme returns with "Neil Young Trunk Show: Scenes from a Concert," an appreciably more visceral and spontaneous documentary. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Mar 2010 | 1:14 pm
Not every model and photographer in the fashion industry is against Terry Richardson, whom many have recently accused of sexual misconduct on shoots. Model turned New Moon actress Noot Seear worked with Terry, clothed, on a campaign, and was quick to stand up for him. "Terry's a really cool guy. It's not like he pressures you into doing anything you're not comfortable with," she told us at a silent auction in Milk Studios benefiting Rose Charities to aid Haiti earthquake victims. Photographer John Mark Sorum also stood in Richardson's corner. "Terry is an amazing photographer. All that goes on while shooting is participatory play," he said.
Seear agrees with those who believe the fashion-photography world would be a little dull without Richardson's contribution. "There's something very beautiful, very raw about it and I'm glad that there is a photographer out there that does work like that," said Seear, founder of Rose Charities USA. Richardson donated an original print to last night's auction.
Ana Marie Cox's review in Bookforum of Emily Gould's new book, And the Heart Says ... Whatever, says a lot about Gould and what the former Wonkette editor thinks of her writing. But it includes a dose of criticism for Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, who used to employ the two women. Like this, for example:
A memoir by a completely un-repentant unethical person could make for a titillating read, if not a very literary one (Nick Denton, our mutual former boss, leaps to mind here, not sure why).
Cox, who did not overlap with Gould while the latter was at Gawker, points to this section of Gould's book, which explains why she was a good candidate for the web-media company:
Being mean and quick came easily to me, and if I thought about it, I could imagine that everything I'd done up until that point had been my training for this job. The hyper-awareness of celebrity culture I'd developed at the publishing house served me well, certainly, but I was also reminded ... of my high-school era proclivity for frantic, constant note-passing. I had even maintained a notebook solely for the purpose of writing nasty little observations about my teachers and classmates, which my friends and I would circulate. ... At one point it had been confiscated and a teacher we'd been particularly cruel to had punished us; I had protested the punishment, citing the first amendment rights we'd been studying that semester in Government class.
"I have never read a clearer description of what it's like to work for a Gawker blog, right down to the huffy self-righteousness and the absence of any sense of responsibility," muses Cox. "The quotation above hints at what a soul-sucking, pleasureless attitude factory (maybe even a sweatshop) Denton runs. Gould, whatever faults she may have, is not cruel, and few people can survive such relentlessness."
Well. This is probably the best thing on the internet right now. It’s an adorable fight between a cat and a baby. Wanna know who wins? We do. We all win for watching this.
A man who pulled a gun on a taxi driver, and then bit him "repeatedly on the neck, arm and back" in the struggle that followed, is being sought by the NYPD. He is described as being around 30 years old, six feet tall, pale, lightning-quick, cold-skinned, and sparkly when exposed to sunlight. [WCBS]
AP - "For All the Tea in China" (Viking, 252 pages, $25.95), by Sarah Rose: The plot for Sarah Rose's "For All the Tea in China" seems tailor-made for a Hollywood thriller: An industrial spy hired by the world's largest multinational corporation steals trade secrets that enable the world's biggest superpower to wrest control of a business that represents up to 10 percent of that nation's economy.
With only a couple of days before the House is scheduled to finally vote on health-care reform, Democratic leaders have been sounding extremely confident that they'll have the votes for passage. But in the meantime, a bunch of different websites and news outlets are picking through the latest statements from fence-sitting Democrats, and keeping track of every new "yes" vote and "no" vote. Follow along with the whip count on Huffington Post, the Hill, and Firedoglake.
US singer Beyonce Knowles arrives in Cannes. German celebrity gossip magazine Neon admitted Friday it had published five made-up interviews since 2004 with stars such as Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 11:13 am
America's sweetheart, she ain't. Michelle McGee is covered in tattoos -- one on her forehead reads, "Pray for Us Sinners" -- works as a stripper, chats and poses on an adult Web site, and uses a lewd phrase for her Twitter page. Her nickname is "Bombshell."
First of all, you should all understand that if for any reason you also blog about this, you will end up saving this image file as “Nazi Bombshell” and you will feel very uncomfortable about it. Second of all. This is not a photoshop thing. This is a real thing. Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, the lady who slept with Sandra Bullock’s husband, actually did a Nazi themed photo shoot, and TMZ got a hold of it. Look! There’s more!
Yikes.
Let me just put this question out there: Who has this many fetishes? I can understand a tattoo fetish. But a tattoo fetish and a Nazi fetish? At the same time? Who wants this? Well, I’ll tell you who wants this (the answer after the jump):
Ellen Degeneres might not be the best thing to happen to American Idol, mainly because she doesn’t seem to have it in her to tear people to shreds. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t continuing her quest to make people happy, specifically with regard to the following video which has gone viral thanks to Degeneres’ generous tweet…
Meet Crystal Swing. They’re a family. They sing a song called “He Drinks Tequila.” They were born to go viral. Watching a brother and sister sing the lines “He drinks tequila, she talks dirty in Spanish” is internet’s musical equivalent to “Two Girls, One Cup”: It’s horrifying, but you can’t look away.
Really, we wish the Catholic Church would reconsider the whole Bar Mitzvah thing. Pretty sure this fam would go multi-zillionaire-platinum if they could just line up a steady gig…
This was brought to our attention by friend Dave Horwitz who points out that there is, “NO indication that this is an ad for a business. Just a guy who’s passionate about dogs, vests, cigars, Kenny Rogers, and poker.” (The sheet music is for Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler.”)
This image released by Russian film company Centre of National Film in Moscow shows a scene from the animated film "Belka and Strelka: Star Dogs". Two mongrels named Belka and Strelka made history in 1960... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 10:04 am
This image released by Russian film company Centre of National Film in Moscow shows a scene from the animated film "Belka and Strelka: Star Dogs". Two mongrels named Belka and Strelka made history in 1960... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 10:04 am
This image released by Russian film company Centre of National Film in Moscow shows a scene from the animated film "Belka and Strelka: Star Dogs". Two mongrels named Belka and Strelka made history in 1960... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 10:04 am
Those of you looking for a good hard cry this Friday, look no further than your crumbling marriage, Sandra Bullock the above photo of a crippled piglet in Africa, who has been nursed back to health by constant snout-nudging from his mother and some local human caretakers. Can you imagine sleeping in a bedding set made out of baby pig head dander.
Thanks to the Daily Mailfor also inspiring my upcoming Mother’s Day card with this:
Fashion Wire Daily - You might not even recognize Ben Stiller at the moment, for the usually bulked-up, over-the-top comedic actor has transformed himself into a low-key guy for his latest film, the dry comedy "Greenberg."
Katherine Heigl’s dress had no interest in being associated with the strangely off looking actress, and decided to express its feelings while Heigl was on stage accepting a ShoWest award last night next to world Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Billy Bush.
Anyone interested in almost looking at Katherine’s breast, click through the following gallery.
Rumors are swirling like so many anorexic frozen yogurt dinners that Britney Spears has broken up from her hot agent boyfriend Jason Trawick, though recent photos of the two suggest they may still be together.
But mo matter what is happening in her personal life, it’s clear her weave is on the verge of death. We’re guessing Brit will find it hanging from the end of a topsy tail with a chair kicked out underneath it over the next few days.
It’s been a while since we’ve compiled a giant, nerdy, time-wasting post (besides every other post on this site), so in apropos of nothing, here’s a list of the first Google result for each letter in the alphabet.
Among these 26 prestigious Google champions, you’ll find:
6 Wikipedia Entries About The Letter
4 Mathematical Values Of Constants
4 Company Stock Profiles
1 School controls the letter “U”
…And plenty of other other random surprises (you already know what company owns “I”, though.)
Alright, enough wasting time — on to the time wasting:
Students walks over pirated VCDs of various Bollywood and Hollywood films during a anti-piracy protest in New Delhi in 2006. Leading Indian and US film makers have formed a Hollywood-Bollywood coalition... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Mar 2010 | 7:09 am
Reuters - Scarred by poverty and conflict over natural resources, Congo Republic is showing a brighter side with its most recent export: fashionistas bringing Congolese dandy chic to Paris.
AP - "The Queen's Lover" (William Morrow, 592 pages, $25.99), by Vanora Bennett: If ever there was a poor little princess, it was Catherine de Valois. Born to the mad King Charles VI of France and the unfaithful — some would say depraved — Queen Isabeau, Catherine grows up neglected, often lacking food, clean clothing and supervision.
AP - "Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato" (Counterpoint, 304 pages, $26), by Arthur Allen: "Ripe" is the latest in a rapidly growing number of books examining U.S. agricultural and food production systems and their affect on public health and the environment.
AP - "For All the Tea in China" (Viking, 252 pages, $25.95), by Sarah Rose: The plot for Sarah Rose's "For All the Tea in China" seems tailor-made for a Hollywood thriller: An industrial spy hired by the world's largest multinational corporation steals trade secrets that enable the world's biggest superpower to wrest control of a business that represents up to 10 percent of that nation's economy.
Fashion Wire Daily - You might not even recognize Ben Stiller at the moment, for the usually bulked-up, over-the-top comedic actor has transformed himself into a low-key guy for his latest film, the dry comedy "Greenberg."
Reuters - Scarred by poverty and conflict over natural resources, Congo Republic is showing a brighter side with its most recent export: fashionistas bringing Congolese dandy chic to Paris.
AP - "The Queen's Lover" (William Morrow, 592 pages, $25.99), by Vanora Bennett: If ever there was a poor little princess, it was Catherine de Valois. Born to the mad King Charles VI of France and the unfaithful — some would say depraved — Queen Isabeau, Catherine grows up neglected, often lacking food, clean clothing and supervision.
AP - "Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato" (Counterpoint, 304 pages, $26), by Arthur Allen: "Ripe" is the latest in a rapidly growing number of books examining U.S. agricultural and food production systems and their affect on public health and the environment.
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Tons of buzzworthy films out there this weekend, eager to steal your dollar.
The two friends, Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston, are releasing their adventurous comedy The Bounty...
With apologies to fans of Seducing Cindy, it's a pretty safe bet that after The Soup, Breaking Bad is the second best show on television.
The brilliant acting, the intricate,...
The Real Housewives franchise just got a fabulous face-lift—in Beverly Hills!—and E! News has learned the identities of the new crop of camera-friendly ladies who...
