Reuters - The slime flew, singer Katy Perry blew -- her nose -- and first lady Michelle Obama picked up a "Big Help" award from the youth of America at the Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday.
A battle by a pair of paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport ended with one of them in the hospital and the other in jail. Airport police spokeswoman Sgt. Belinda Nettles said... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Mar 2010 | 9:47 pm
AFP - Former US first lady Barbara Bush has been admitted to a Houston hospital for check-ups after unspecified complaints about her health, CBS television reported.
What the Kids Choice Awards lacked in Sandra Bullock, they more than made up for with Taylor Lautner's abs. And slime. Lots and lots of (often surprise) slime—bad luck, Katy Perry, Steve...
President Obama announced this afternoon that he will make 15 recess appointments while the Senate is out of town, filling posts that have been vacant for an average of 214 days and royal pissing off Republicans at the same time. Among those installed is Craig Becker, the most controversial of Obama's nominees, whose appointment to the National Labor Relations Board was filibustered by Republicans last month.
“The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees. But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis."
Obama's statement cited George W. Bush for setting a recess appointment precedent, but he argued that his are even more necessary than Bush's because W "was not facing the same level of obstruction." Nominees installed during a recess may only serve through the end of 2011, when Senate approval is once again required.
Good news fans of naked, bloody knife fights (that means everyone), Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are re-teaming for a sequel to Eastern Promises! Rumors of Eastern Promises 2 have been floating around for over a year, but it finally has a shoot date (this winter), which means we're that much closer to revisiting the fiercest wang of 2007. Go ahead, celebrate. [Collider via Deadline]
The Metropolitan Opera is projecting a $4 million deficit for the current fiscal year, so imagine the excitement at Lincoln Center philanthropist Ann Ziff decided to hand over a $30 million gift. Perhaps you shouldn't get too excited though. Even though this is the largest gift from an individual donor in the Met's history, "It's still not enough to save us," says general manager Peter Gelb. [NYT]
A couple days after Chloë Sevigny told the AV Club that the last season of Big Love was "awful," she has apologized and said she actually thinks it's the best show on TV. Really, she does. In an interview with EW's Michael Ausiello, Sevigny blamed exhaustion, press junkets, and a reporter who "provoked" her and took her "out of context" for the dis.
I love the show. I think it’s the greatest show on television. I think it’s the weirdest show. I think it is very complex and the content is amazing and it’s just very ironic that this statement would come out and blow so out of control. Because I feel absolutely the opposite.
Unfortunately for Sevigny, blaming the reporter was probably a bad move. Especially since he recorded their conversation. Sean O'Neal, the AV Club reporter who interviewed Sevigny, posted an audio snippet of his conversation with her that shows pretty clearly that she was neither "provoked" nor "taken out of context." She doesn't really sound tired, either.
So much for the whole "working together" as parents thing.
Eddie Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville tells E! News exclusively that while the two are attempting to work...
First we find out Beyoncé's not pregnant, now her infamous music videos are on lockdown?!
By the looks of the Grammy-winning, multihyphenate's YouTube page, Sony has blocked...
Nicole Scherzinger has been dating champion race-car driver Lewis Hamilton for about two years, but that doesn't mean she's anxious for him to put a ring on it.
"The guy who...
If you have the cojones to wear a leather dress you might as well go all out. Vixen vet Angelina Jolie enhanced the sexiness of her Michael Kors strapless with smokey eyes, just-tumbled-out-of-bed...
The cover of today's Weekend section in The Wall Street Journal answers that question in the affirmative. There's a story about how "women from countries with healthier populations prefer more feminine-looking men." To illustrate the story, the Journal has a little collage of feminine-looking men, including the bottom half of a face that looks remarkably like Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s.
Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff is certain that it's Sulzberger's face (we're pretty convinced, too), and not just because it looks exactly like Sulzberger's face. Wolff says when he spent time with Rupert Murdoch for his book about the media baron, Murdoch revealed that he thinks the publisher of the Times is a bit of a girly man.
Sulzberger was always, for Murdoch, a punch line. Murdoch even mimicked him in a way to suggest … well … a certain lack of manhood.
It is a joke that is shared by Murdoch and Robert Thomson, the former Australian-rules football player who is now the editor of Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal: Arthur is a sort of poofter.
This is a pretty dirty move by Murdoch or whichever of his lackeys is actually responsible for it. But on the other hand, it's also pretty damn funny.
"Remember Goliad!" joined "Remember the Alamo!" as the battle cries of Gen. Sam Houston's men in their rout of the Mexican army to form the short-lived Republic of Texas. But few people... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Mar 2010 | 11:24 am
Shia LaBeouf really enjoyed the time he spent on Wall Street filming Wall Street 2. Not only did he meet "some wild human beings," but he learned loads about stocks. So much, in fact, that he was giving out stock advice in an interview with GQ, including a tip to buy an oil company called InterOil, which he said will "surprise to the upside." Yesterday the price dropped almost $9 per share. Better stick to fighting robots, LaBeouf. [NYP]
CBS is gearing up to shoot the pilot for the William Shatner–starring sitcom based on the Twitter feed "Shit My Dad Says," but the network is having trouble deciding on a name for the show. Right now they're internally going with Bleep My Dad Says, but a CBS spokesman says that's "not the official moniker at this point." The spokesman did not say whether the network is going to use the obvious choice Shat My Dad Says, but we're still holding out hope. [Media Decoder/NYT]
If you're troubled by the recent coyote invasion in the city you may not want to be here in the fall. According to a spokesperson for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, our local coyote nightmare is only going to get worse. "I would anticipate we will be hearing more about coyotes in the city in the future," said Ward Stone, who added that this is the season for coyote pups to be born. Once fall arrives they'll be bigger, more curious, and more willing to take naps outside your front door. [NYP]
A few weeks ago, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit thanked the government for the $45 billion it gave his bank, which he said "built a bridge over the crisis to a sound footing on the other side." Well, now it's the government's turn to thank Citigroup, because the Obama administration is about to sell its stake in the bank and make an $8 billion profit. Yay!
A quick recap on how we got here: Back in November 2008, the government gave Citigroup $45 billion for preferred stock shares. That package was later restructured so that $20 billion became a loan and $25 billion became common stock. Now that stock is worth $33 billion and when the government sells it, the $8 billion profit will be the most made from any company that took bailout money. The Washington Post says the profit will amount to a "validation of the rescue plan adopted by government officials during the height of the financial panic." Finally! We're glad that's settled.
What do they say, that it's darkest just before the dawn or something like that?
If that's the case, maybe dawn's coming soon for Jesse James, whose reputation only took more...
In How to Train Your Dragon, the otherwise slimmed-down Gerard Butler plays a giant, hollering Viking with a filthy knotted beard, a character he describes as "like him on...
Olympic speed skater catapults into a pool of green goo during Nickelodeon awards show.By Amy Wilkinson Apolo Ohno breaks the world slime record at the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards Photo: Charley Gallay... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am
After months of rumors, Fox finally confirmed yesterday that this season will be 24's last. But don't expect Jack Bauer's face to explode in the last episode; the show will live on in a film and potentially a spinoff.
There's plenty of blame to pass around for the show's cancellation, which some have been predicting for months. Not only are 24's ratings declining and its costs becoming prohibitive, but the writers are completely spent. Showrunner Howard Gordon says the writer's had "exhausted the real-time possibilities for Bauer," according to the Hollywood Reporter. They also haven't been able to come up with a good idea for Day Nine. But even with all of those problems, 20th Century Studios tried to pitch the show to NBC after Fox passed on a ninth season. The Peacock turned it down even after the studio offered a discount. And when NBC turns you down, that's when you know it's time to give up.
We keep seeing pics of Taylor Swift with Taylor Lautner and Cory Monteith but why isn't anybody picking up on all the sightings of John Mayer and Taylor Swift? I hear they're together, so...
Nice knowing you, Jack Bauer. It was good while it lasted.
After eight seasons of secret agent, butt-kicking goodness, 24 is officially closing its doors on the Counter Terrorist Unit....
AP - Unsealed search warrants in the Michael Jackson case reveal large quantities of general anesthetic and dozens of tubes of skin-whitening creams were among items found in the singer's home after his death.
What the Kids Choice Awards lacked in Sandra Bullock, they more than made up for with Taylor Lautner's abs. And slime. Lots and lots of (often surprise) slime—bad luck, Katy Perry, Steve...
So much for the whole "working together" as parents thing.
Eddie Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville tells E! News exclusively that while the two are attempting to work...
First we find out Beyoncé's not pregnant, now her infamous music videos are on lockdown?!
By the looks of the Grammy-winning, multihyphenate's YouTube page, Sony has blocked...
Nicole Scherzinger has been dating champion race-car driver Lewis Hamilton for about two years, but that doesn't mean she's anxious for him to put a ring on it.
"The guy who...
If you have the cojones to wear a leather dress you might as well go all out. Vixen vet Angelina Jolie enhanced the sexiness of her Michael Kors strapless with smokey eyes, just-tumbled-out-of-bed...
What do they say, that it's darkest just before the dawn or something like that?
If that's the case, maybe dawn's coming soon for Jesse James, whose reputation only took more...
In How to Train Your Dragon, the otherwise slimmed-down Gerard Butler plays a giant, hollering Viking with a filthy knotted beard, a character he describes as "like him on...
We keep seeing pics of Taylor Swift with Taylor Lautner and Cory Monteith but why isn't anybody picking up on all the sightings of John Mayer and Taylor Swift? I hear they're together, so...
Nice knowing you, Jack Bauer. It was good while it lasted.
After eight seasons of secret agent, butt-kicking goodness, 24 is officially closing its doors on the Counter Terrorist Unit....
Oh dear god, noooo!
Katy Perry, Gossip Girl's Jessica Szohr and Audrina Patridge are wearing belly shirts like they're—gulp—cool again. Which. They. Are....