When was the last time anyone heard from Jay McInerney? Was it when he did that awkward cameo on Gossip Girl? One thing's for sure, he's still a star in his own head.
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Sometimes I think Richard Simmons has a really good grift going where he pretends to be very flamboyant and queen-y as a cover to molest all the women he wants. Think about it and then watch this clip from CNN today: tell me if that wouldn't be amazing if I was right. CONTINUED »
It shouldn't come as any surprise that newspapers and books and basically anything you can hold in your hands and doesn't need a charger is basically on its way out. But did you know that printed photographs are going the way of the Dodo bird and Men's Vogue? It's true!
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How long was that Minnesota Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken? Now that it's over and Stuart Smiley has officially won, I feel a little sad inside. Now whenever I look up at the moon at night, I won't have the satisfaction of knowing that somehow, somewhere, the Minnesota Senate seat is being discussed at great length.
Scribner, that unfortunately named subgroup of Simon & Schuster, will be publishing that Laura Bush memoir that the first lady has been shopping around. So far, no details on how much Mrs. Bush walked away with, but we promise to pick up a copy if it details her account on what it was like to kill a man.
Plus, I hear the chapter where she escapes from Auschwitz and ends up falling in love with the little Texan boy who threw her apples over the fence is going to be spectacular.
The Obama team is already leagues ahead of any of their predecessors when it comes to having an Internet presence. Forget Whitehouse.gov: If you want the real scoop of what's going on in the Obama household, you have to go to Change.gov, which has already set up a Flickr account of Sasha and Malia going to their first day at Sidwell Friends school. Maybe this is what the Obama campaigners meant when they talked about a fully transparent White House.
Madonna has entered daughter Lourdes Leon into Manhattan’s Professional Children’s School, where the 14-year old will walk in the footsteps of greats such as Jerry O'Connell, Tara Reid, and all the Culkin children. Guess Madonna didn't want her daughter upstaging her performance in League of Their Own this early in her life.
Courtney Cox has signed on to do a three-episode series on the eighth season of Scrubs, cementing the impression that the NBC show is where once-famous celebrities go to die (see: Heather Graham, Tara Reid). Unfortunately as last season proved, even Scrubs' once-remarkable rejuvenating power has lost most of its comedy mojo.
British scientists have created a molecule that can cure hangovers. Bridion was originally invented to reduce blood poisoning, but because it targets an unwanted chemical in the body and renders it harmless, researchers suggest it can also be a great cure for morning after toilet-hugging. Which is totally sweet if you are a heavy drinker and now have one more excuse to put off going into treatment.
Steve Jobs might be stepping down from his role at Apple (for real this time)? He's lost a lot of weight because of a hormone imbalance? Though by now it's been confirmed by Apple's HQ themselves, this morning's early rumors were floating around as so much flotsam and jetsam on various techies' Twitter accounts. Does that mean in the future all the news will be broke in 150 characters or less? Great, because verifying sources on the Internet wasn't hard enough already.
Now that Valkyrie's juggernaut of a campaign is over and it was universally agreed that producer/star Tom Cruise was the worst part of the feature, the one-time heartthrob can go back to letting Xenu out of his cage, despite promises that he'd stop talking about Scientology in public if people stopped making fun of him mentioning it. Apparently that rule applies only to American publications.
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Heavy.com enlisted the help of Role Models actor Seann "Those two 'N's are unnecessary" William Scott for their new web content, The Burly Sports Show. And it might sound like an annoying marriage of bro-ness, but it represents a fundamental shift in our changing media landscape…'bra.
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Since Jett Travolta's death is the kind of celebrity tragedy that newspegs are made of (this one involving mysterious circumstances, weird religious practices, and a secret mental disorder — the trifecta for tabloids), you can bet that the condolences and respectful silence will quickly turn into probing exposes and a media shitshow surrounding the 16-year old's seizure from Kawasaki Disease.
So far though, it's Radar Online, now owned by David Pecker over at AMI, that's leading the pack of inappropriateness with an interview with one of the EMT's who responded to the Travolta's 911 call. CONTINUED »
When it comes to debunking the New York Times' television critics, our attention is usually devoted to error-prone Alessandra Stanley. But in her review of Hulu.com (why?), it's Virginia Heffernan who doesn't know what she's talking about. CONTINUED »
Even though we've all coasting along on this Obama Hope-train for quite some time now, it never hurts to get a pragmatic perspective. Such as: While Inauguration preparations are being made, somehow, somewhere, Jeb Bush is plotting his trajectory into the Oval Office.
This may be a little awkward bu-ut: Viacom just issued an apology to Time Warner — which the media giant just settled a carriage dispute that lets Viacom's 19 channels remain on cable provider's network — for having their attack ads run a day late in several publications, including the Times. You know, after the two conglomerates had already reached an agreement and were best friends again. CONTINUED »
After CNN's live New Years Eve debacle/spectacle with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin yelling obscenities to a crowd of hecklers, a lot of people (well, me) were worried that the FCC were going to crack down on the delightfully funny broadcast faster than Janet Jackson covered up her nipple. But fortunately, the decency rules that govern broadcast stations do not apply to cable, so CNN is free to hire Griffin for another event where they need Cooper to loosen up and talk about Real Housewives of Atlanta some more.
A word of caution for all of you young bucks thinking about auditioning for the new American Gladiators: it's a long, treacherous road to bitch tits and shriveled balls, according to one ex-giant's memoir. CONTINUED »
The menial task of trying to put a valuation on The Huffington Post continues in earnest, with the latest estimate from Simon Dumenco, which pegs the brash Greek pundit's homepage at just $2 million, a far cry from the $200 million figure thrown around as investors piled on. And why does HuffPo even deserve a $2 million figure? Because Arianna is at least a big enough brand whore to inspire a Simpsons character. [AdAge]
So how was Hollywood able to remain the one industry barely affected by the poor economic climate, with less than a 1% decrease in revenue in 2008?
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