Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:03 EST
McQueen for a Day [Pic Of The Day]
[
Alexander McQueen's final collection, completed a few weeks before his suicide last month, was revealed in Paris yesterday and today. The 16 outfits featured his trademark tailoring, attention to detail, and glamorous outlandishness.]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:58:11 EST
New York Times Savior Is Now the Richest Man on Earth [Billionaires]
Despite the millions and millions he's poured into the struggling
New York Times,
shady Mexican mogul
Carlos Slim managed to bypass Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to nab the No. 1 spot on
Forbes' 2010 list of world billionaires. [
Forbes]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:34:58 EST
Today In Drugs: Everything About Drugs Is Illegal [Taking A Hit]
Bad news guys. There's just been a huge marijuana bust in
New Jersey, the biggest of its kind in the state's history. Also? The police are onto your whole "drugged driving" thing.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:20:37 EST
Bloomberg Crowns Henry Blodget 'King of the Blogosphere' [Blogging For Dollars]
Bloomberg TV proclaims that, just as Amazon.com reinvented itself as a megamart, former Amazon.com bull
Henry Blodget has reinvented himself as Blogger King. Hey, if Blodget's
blogs do
as well as his Amazon.com call, Perez Hilton should watch his tiara.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:05 EST
Six Lies Princeton Kids Tell About Why They're Becoming Investment Bankers [Shut Up, College]
Oh neato, the
Daily Princetonian has
interviewed a bunch of Princeton kids who are going into
investment banking. Marvel at the wide variety of lies they tell about their motivations!
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:37:49 EST
The One Thing Still Left to Learn about Tiger Woods [Nine Irons]
Isn't it amazing that with all those mistresses doing all those interviews, no one never mentioned Tiger's, uh, size? Thanks to intrepid gossip journalist
Jo Piazza and kiss-and-teller
Jamie Jungers we
now have our answer. [
Pic via Getty]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:14:03 EST
The Eric Massa Story Is About Every Single Political Story of Our Time [Salty Tales]
"He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him."
Eric Massa's Navy
shipmates are speaking out. Add them to the list of people Massa's touched, from
Rahm Emanuel to David Paterson. This story has everything.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:24 EST
Jennifer Aniston Can Smell Her Next Movie From Here [Open Caption]
[
The star of "The Bounty Hunter" in London today; image via Bauer-Griffin]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day [Clipjob]
Today at
Gawker.TV, South Park's first-ever deleted scene,
It's Always Sunny's Mac in an anti-smoking PSA as a teen, more pregnant teen-moms,
Lost's flash-sideways re-imagined as a classroom television drama, and
Steve Doocy's son gets schooled on
Fox and Friends.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:54:12 EST
Court Says NYC Owns Tavern on the Green [Trademarks]
A judge has ruled that the city—not the restaurant's previous operator—
controls the name of the famous tourist trap, which closed January 1. Thank God. Now when it reopens, our grandmother won't drag us to "Tavern on the Park."
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:04 EST
Sloganeering Towards Fallujah [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: Boldly Embracing Change. We must Move Forward and Evolve With Strength and Reward Success and other such buzzwords, if we are to survive as a nation in which people "buy" things. Not that you
can.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:31:44 EST
A Google Employee Is Running Microsoft's Pub [Conflicts Of Interest]
The co-owner of the Spitfire pub at Microsoft HQ
now works for the software company's archenemy Google. Talk about hedging your investments. (NB to Microsofties: We hear the Google-friendly pub spikes your drinks with a productivity-killing chemical. It's called "alcohol.")
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:58:05 EST
Does Lindsay Lohan Even Know That She's Suing E*Trade? [Lawsuits]
Stupid lawsuits are filed every day, and
Lindsay Lohan does stupid things every day. But is she really behind the E*Trade lawsuit that bears her name?
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:58:02 EST
Capitalism Eats the Iraqi Shoe-Thrower [Advertising]
Hero Iraqi shoe-hurler Muntader al-Zaidi probably had to get his balls electrocuted in prison
so hard, and for what? To have his heroic act co-opted for a Colombian fabric softener commercial. A revolutionary's
cruel, inevitable fate! [
Copyranter at AnimalNY]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:30:15 EST
Just What You Need: More Bravo Shows [Television]
The lady/gay reality network has added a fifth evening of original programming to its brightly-hued lineup, we're guessing Sunday night. New shows will include
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and some actual scripted fare, including a comedy about male escorts.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:34:34 EST
Mad Men Gets the Retro Barbie Treatment It Always Deserved [Things We Actually Like]
We know this news
came out yesterday, but we couldn't resist sharing the Joan, Roger, Don, and Betty Barbie dolls that Mattel is hawking for $75 a pop. Alcohol problems, sexual peccadilloes, and suburban ennui not included.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:22 EST
Thinly-Veiled Novel About Gossip Bloggers Coming Soon [Gossip]
Gossip about a book about about gossip about books and whatnot! Lately we've said to ourselves, "What this city needs is another thinly-veiled fictionalized tale of various media types doing their dramatic NYC thing." Hello, we hear one is coming!
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:49:18 EST
American Idol: When No Man Loves the Women [Recaps]
Girls! All we really want is girls! Well, that's all we really wanted at the beginning of this season's competition, because a woman was due to win the crown. Now, three weeks in? We don't want that anymore.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:38 EST
A Field Guide to Child Stars Gone Bad [Sad Trends]
Corey Haim is not the first—or the last—former child star who
became a drug addict. Some make a full recovery. Many, sadly, do not.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:37:01 EST
Hey, Network TV: If You Can't Say Anything Nice About the Internet, Stop Making Episodes About Bloggers [Internet]
Last night, CBS's
The Good Wife, that show that I think is a fictionalized Silda Spitzer thing, was about people Tweeting scandalous things at each other.
Then it literally mentioned Politico blogger Ben Smith, by name. This has to stop.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:19:08 EST
Obama Hires Internet's Favorite Pretty Chart Guy [Charts & Graphs]
Barack Obama has
appointed designer and statistician Edward Tufte to the stimulus-monitoring Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. To a certain segment of the internet, this is like learning that Admiral Ackbar is the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:43:01 EST
Lost WTF of the Week: The Invincibles [Clips]
Last night's
Lost episode was definitely strange, and not just because it was directed by
Mario van Peebles. (But srsly, wtf?) There was also weirdness about Richard Alpert, our mysterious and eyelinered island eternal.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:23:21 EST
Breast Milk Cheese: Tastes Like Pickles [Yum]
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.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:11:10 EST
Iron Cross Director Sues Variety Over Oscar Shakedown [Legit]
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.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:07:17 EST
Will Critics Spoil the Ridiculous End of Remember Me? [Spoilerz]
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?
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:32 EST
Which Famous Couple Is Splitting and Getting New Boyfriends? [Blind Items]
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 off a lady's tits at an Oscar party. That will never cause a fight!
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:44:22 EST
Real Housewife Testing to See If Andy Cohen Has Granted Her the Gift of Flight Yet [Open Caption]
[
The irrepressible Kelly Bensimon, of Real Housewives, out jogging in the middle of a New York City street again; image via INF]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:34:26 EST
Film Critics Unite: 'Go Throw a Cellphone at Some PA You Thin-Skinned Pussy' [Angry Emails]
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 written!
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:48:39 EST
Radio Boss Issues Bizarre Memo Banning 119 Words From the Air [Thought Police]
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.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:39:39 EST
Sarah Palin Best Summed Up in Essay From 1964 [Old News]
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 explain her, and the
tea party-ers. "I call it the paranoid style because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind," he wrote. Sounds familiar. [
IHT]
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:59:45 EST
Academy (Kind of) Apologises to Farrah Fawcett's Family for Snub [We're Not Really Sorry]
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.
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