10 March 2010, 7:23 am by: Hamilton Nolan
Yesterday, Lori Mason won plaudits from kinky sex freaks far and wide for allowing her chef husband to make cheese from her breast milk. Alas! Now comes a food critic to dispel your dreams of tasty human bosom curd. More »...
10 March 2010, 7:11 am by: John Cook
Joshua Newton, the director who thought a $400,000 Oscar campaign in Variety would buy his movie a positive review, has made good on his threat to sue the Hollywood trade. More »...
10 March 2010, 7:07 am by: Richard Lawson
Twilight sparkleboyfriend Robert Pattinson is starring in a new movie, premiering Friday, about a young couple falling in love in New York. It's all romantic and silly, until the film's exploitative gotcha! ending. Want to know what it is? More&...
10 March 2010, 7:05 am by: Brian Moylan
Ah, young love. If they're not going their separate ways for new men, they're arguing on the red carpet. So much easier to do blow of a lady's tits at an Oscar party. That will never cause a fight! More »...
10 March 2010, 6:44 am by: Richard Lawson
[The irrepressible Kelly Bensimon, of Real Housewives, out jogging in the middle of a New York City street again; image via INF] More »
10 March 2010, 6:34 am by: Hamilton Nolan
On Monday, a rumor spread that controversial NY Press film critic Armond White had been "blackballed by Focus Features at the request of [director] Noah Baumbach and his producer Scott Rudin." Consequently, a quite entertaining and profane email was...
10 March 2010, 5:48 am by: Jeff Neumann
Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels decided to micro-manage in the weirdest way possible — by banning words like 'authorities', 'diva' and 'manhunt' from the mouths of reporters or anchors at flagship news/talk station WGN-AM (720) in Chicago....
10 March 2010, 5:48 am by: Hamilton Nolan
Corey Haim, the 80s teen movie idol who grew into a cautionary tale of the perils of childhood fame, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose at the age of 38. More »
10 March 2010, 5:39 am by: Ravi Somaiya
Palin, and her fanatical followers, are not a new breed, according to the International Herald Tribune. Commentators are looking to a 1960s essay — the Paranoid Style of American Politics by Columbia historian Richard Hofstadter — to expl...
10 March 2010, 4:59 am by: Ravi Somaiya
The Oscars 'In Memoriam' video, commemorating people who died in the last year, did not include Farrah Fawcett (though it did feature Michael Jackson). People were upset, including her family. Here's the most non-apology apology ever. More &r...
10 March 2010, 3:49 am by: jeff neumann
According to the New York Post the latest email wheeze by those cheeky fraudsters promises to return millions Madoff hid in Malaysia. As they're offering ridiculous returns for very little risk, we predict a huge take up rate. [NYP] More &raq...
10 March 2010, 3:24 am by: Maureen O'Connor
"Mother-daughter stripper pole" is a phrase you don't hear often for a reason. Gwyneth Paltrow spends time with another male musician. Howard Stern makes fun of Gabourey Sidibe. Vigilante sorority closes in on Roethlisberger. Wednesday gossip crosses...
10 March 2010, 2:50 am by: Ravi Somaiya
The economy crashes. People start drinking more tap water. Water industry panics. Begins selling people ridiculous filtration systems for up to $1,595. The world is at peace because there is an overpriced product to meet a non-existent need. [WSJ]...
10 March 2010, 1:04 am by: Maureen O'Connor
Salty sailor and homoerotic harasser Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) recently described a naked confrontation with Rahm Emanuel in the Congressional gym's locker room, where they "don't have shower curtains." They need Extreme Makeover: House of Representativ...
10 March 2010, 12:18 am by: Maureen O'Connor
You'd think the Twitter fight with Adam Lambert would've been a trial by fire, but tragic, handsome Aaron Hicklin was confused and forlorn on his cellphone last night, tweeting messages that appear to be intended for email or text. More &raqu...
9 March 2010, 11:39 pm by: Maureen O'Connor
After a Detroit shopkeeper declined to alter a wedding dress, the bride's family rended manikkins from their stands and bludgeoned the store's staff, one of whom was mysteriously rendered shirtless. A local news station reports. More »...
9 March 2010, 10:28 pm by: Maureen O'Connor
Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican and former Cosmo centerfold, is working on a memoir scheduled to hit shelves in 2011. He may be stuck in Teddy Kennedy's old seat, but he'll become the male Sarah Palin, yet. [AP] More »...
9 March 2010, 10:08 pm by: Maureen O'Connor
Anderson brought his boyfriend to Oscar afterparties, and they got down. "At one point, [the host] stopped the music and said unless Anderson Cooper started dancing, he wouldn't play any more music. Luckily, the CNN anchor quickly hit the dancefloor!...
9 March 2010, 9:02 pm by: Maureen O'Connor
Seven Muslims were arrested Tuesday for trying to kill yet another Muhammad-doodling European cartoonist. Among them was Colleen LaRose, a blond-haired green-eyed suburbanite who met her co-conspirators on YouTube and online forums, under the name Ji...
9 March 2010, 7:18 pm by: Maureen O'Connor
Mon dieu, the French, they are so insatiable. Nicolas Sarkozy and his young, frequently nude ex-model wife Carla Bruni have both been accused by French magazine Suchablog.com (does that work in French?) of schtupping a Junior Minister and musician, r...
9 March 2010, 6:37 pm by: Maureen O'Connor
Meet Stumptown Coffee, bastion of the "third wave" of American caffeine, wherein we chuck our totally corporate Starbucks cups and switch to independent cafes and underground dripperies that all buy their beans from the same snobby supplier. More&...
9 March 2010, 4:55 pm by: Brian Moylan
[Michelle Obama ambled down her block to the Smithsonian today to donate her inaugural gown by Jason Wu to the museum's collection where it will not be upstaged by Aretha Franklin's hat. Image via Getty More »...
9 March 2010, 4:32 pm by: Brian Moylan
Everyone is pissed off about people making out in public today. Security officials, Washington Post readers, and Tiger Woods fans are all up in arms. We're close to a government-mandated all-out PDA ban. More »...
9 March 2010, 4:10 pm by: Ryan Tate
Heidi Montag dreamed of starring in a pointless remake of an absurd film; Nicholas Carlson imagined nailing Facebook's CEO to the wall; and Perez Hilton envisioned getting his mom back. The Twitterati were in fantasyland. More »...
9 March 2010, 3:24 pm by: Ryan Tate
A judge ordered Andrew Young and his wife Cheri to serve up to 75 days in jail for withholding from the court secret copies of a John Edwards sex tape and unknown "other items" that we don't want to contemplate. More »...
9 March 2010, 3:10 pm by: Pareene
Salty Eric Massa did not disappoint on Glenn Beck. Did Massa "grope a male staffer"? Yes, he says. In fact, he jumped on top of him and "tickled him until he couldn't breathe." Because it was his birthday. More »...
9 March 2010, 2:57 pm by: John Cook
Christian Coalition pixie and Jack Abramoff pal Ralph Reed is coyly leaking word that he'll announce whether or not he's running for Congress tomorrow at 11 a.m. For what it's worth, he is. Remember the '90s? More »...
9 March 2010, 2:53 pm by: Richard Lawson
Earlier today we wondered aloud why it is that people still get cosmetic surgery. Our question prompted a lot of debate among you the commenters. Here are some highlights. More »...
9 March 2010, 2:46 pm by: Pareene
The Huffington Post removed a 9/11 "Truther" post from former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. According to their editor's note, "The Huffington Post's editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of...
9 March 2010, 2:45 pm by: Hamilton Nolan
Also in bleak news today: Douglas Schantz—the energy executive who disappeared after drinking on Bourbon Street early Friday morning—has been found, dead, in a river. More »...
9 March 2010, 2:13 pm by: Hamilton Nolan
A janitor at Ohio State University was told that he'd be getting laid off. This morning, he shot two of his supervisors, killing one. Then he killed himself. Since no students were hurt, this incident will be quickly forgotten. [LAT] More &ra...
9 March 2010, 2:05 pm by: Brian Moylan
With her latest stab at relevancy—a new single and a VH1 show—Jessica Simpson is yet again being shoved down our collective gullet. It's time for this uninteresting, talentless person to take a hike. Forever! More »...
9 March 2010, 1:45 pm by: Pareene
Former Democratic congressman Eric Massa retired from the House because he has cancer and because he was maybe constantly groping male staffers. He will be on Glenn Beck for the full hour today. Michelle Malkin is not happy about that! More &...
9 March 2010, 1:35 pm by: John Cook
First Israel kneecaps Joe Biden by announcing a settlement expansion on the day Biden arrives to restart peace talks. Then Biden shows up 90 minutes late to dinner at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house. Did he bring wine? Probably not. More...
9 March 2010, 1:30 pm by: Hamilton Nolan
The Way We Live Now: Wackily. What is life but risk by another name? We're betting our pensions! We're quitting Wal-Mart and Burger King and wearing crazy bedazzled shoes! We're living in style, for we all shall die! Soon. More »...
9 March 2010, 1:14 pm by: Pareene
The funny thing about this clip (from the upcoming season premiere) of South Park's Eric Cartmen asking for, and receiving, 500 AK-47s, is that it is based on a real thing that Blackwater did in Afghanistan. More »...
9 March 2010, 1:07 pm by: Richard Lawson
We're sorry, but it's coming. Rumor is that the shaggy Office star has the role of Captain America pretty much in the bag. It'd be "a multi-film deal," which means Jim Halpert is about to get big. This is bad. More »...
9 March 2010, 1:00 pm by: Whitney Jefferson
Today at Gawker.TV, we point out the mistakes in "Up in the Air," Anthony Bourdain's a hypocrite about food bloggers, Stephen Colbert draws attention to Obama's recent balls-of-courage, and Andy Richter finally speaks about NBC and the Late Night war...
9 March 2010, 12:51 pm by: Hamilton Nolan
Religious crazies now trying to kill another Muhammad-drawing European cartoonist. Hey, stop that. More »
9 March 2010, 12:00 pm by: Ryan Tate
A judge might send Andrew Young to jail for lying about his handling of the John Edwards sex tape. It seems the tape was distributed more widely than it should have been, like every sex tape ever. More »...