December 2008
61 posts
November 2008
62 posts
One of these things is not like the other...
Page Six reports that “we hear THAT although we didn’t think it would be pos sible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reaction- ary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut … THAT the Tel Aviv Hilton was abuzz Saturday with the arrival of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jeffrey Katzenberg for the Israeli premiere of ‘Madagascar...
So nothing will change, then?
In a follow up to Tuesday’s story about Alan Colmes departing Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes program after 12 years, according to the New York Times, Sean Hannity will become the sole host of the political debate show. The network has not confirmed this report and Colmes will continue with announced plans to remain with the network as a commentator, develop a possible new...
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808s and Heartbreak
Came out today and I can’t wait to go home and buy it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZX-W3vo9I
Diane Von Furstenberg on plastic surgery: “I know that a lot of people look at me and think, ‘Why doesn’t she do something to that face?’ But I made a decision. I do yoga and I hike, but I won’t do Botox … I know if I start doing things I will get insecure.”
Thanks, boing boing.
Turns out, according to two academics on the NYT Op-Ed page, there is little scientific proof that this reduces energy consumption. It also turns out that this practice could be wasteful, a bit annoying, and a lot of people, including Obama, want to get rid of it.
A study in Indiana, a state that recently started DST, showed an overall increase of 1 percent in residential electricity use with...
Sign me up!
Polar Rink Opens What: New ice skating park fits 200 skaters and a seventeen-foot-tall stainless steel bear dressed in pine branches and sparkly lights. Why: Six to ten bucks includes rentals. When: This Sat.-Feb. 28. Sun.-Thurs., noon-8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Where: American Museum of Natural History, Arthur Ross Terrace, CPW, at 79th St. (212-769-5200).
TARGET TIME: Target has nabbed two new accessories brands for collaborations. Felix Rey designers Lily Band and Sulaika Zarrouk will launch a limited edition handbag collection called Felix Rey for the retailer on March 29. The line will be available until June 14. It is the seventh handbag launch in a series of limited-time-only accessories designers at Target. Also, footwear designer Trish...
I'm really excited for this
Next Tuesday at 10p, Starz will premiere a new series exploring the links between Hollywood and the fashion industry with Starz Inside: Fashion in Film. The series will reveal how integral fashion is to celebrities and a movie’s story and how fashions on the silver screen translate to the pages of fashion magazines.
Obit.
Irving Brecher, the versatile Hollywood talent who wrote knee-slapping jokes for Milton Berle, classic comedies for the Marx Brothers, and screenplays for movie musicals including ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ and ‘Bye Bye Birdy,’ died on Monday at age 94.
‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ was one of the first Broadway shows that I saw. I loved it.
Al Qaida is full of racists? I'm shocked.
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites,...
Pirates! Again! Are they Unionized?
The Indian navy sank a suspected pirate “mother ship” and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said Wednesday, as the owners of a seized Saudi oil supertanker negotiated for the release of their vessel and its $100 million cargo.A multinational naval force has increased patrols in the waters between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, where pirates have grown...
Al Franken's battle rages on
Al Franken asked Monday to have rejected absentee ballots be considered in the U.S. Senate election results that are to be certified today by a state board, a move later blunted by an attorney general’s opinion that the issue should be left to the courts.
The eleventh-hour maneuvering occurred as the five-member state Canvassing Board prepared to meet at 1 p.m. today in St. Paul to review...
The Wahlbergs love Boston. And The Departed. But...
Veteran actor Brian Dennehy will co-star with Donnie Wahlberg in TNT’s drama pilot Bunker Hill, per THR. The pilot about crime and corruption, produced by Warner Horizon Television is set in the Bunker Hill area of Boston with Wahlberg portraying a cop who returns to his childhood home and Dennehy playing a former mobster who now runs a flower shop.
So it's like The Office, but worse. And Criss...
Actor/writer Chris Moynihan is working on two projects for NBC with the first involving Criss Angel, star of the A&E Network series Criss Angel: Mindfreak, reports Variety. The half-hour project is one Angel himself created with producers Dave Baram, Jason Verona and Adam Shulman; Moynihan is writing the office comedy script set in the magic industry and Universal Media Studios produces.
Prop 8 should be overturned and Wanda Sykes is gay
Comedian Wanda Sykes is openly gay, but was content to keep discussions of her sexual orientation private - until Proposition 8 passed in California. Sykes surprised organizers of a Las Vegas rally for gay rights with an unscheduled appearance on Saturday, and told the crowd, “You know, I don’t really talk about my sexual orientation… I was just living my life, not necessarily in...
Hillary's Liability: Bill. Who could've guessed? →
WTF, Page Six?!? I work for my furs.
IN a sign of bad times, high-end stores on Madison Avenue are seeing lots of luxury goods being returned - high heels, handbags, fur coats - anything with a price tag still attached. And sources say men are bringing in the returns instead of their wives. “It’s as if the women are too embarrassed, or too upset, to come in themselves. It’s too painful for them to part with their...
So Bittersweet...
Bravo’s Fashion-Design-Series Casting Call Changed LocationSince Project Runway jumped ship for Lifetime, Bravo is wasting no time getting its new fashion-design series off the ground. Fashion House, a design competition with GenArt, is casting this Sunday, November 16. Originally scheduled to cast contestants at Hiro Ballroom, the casting call has moved and will now take place at the Park (118...
Maybe Nicole Richie should get into competitive...
Friday Fun Fact: 98 lb. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas is a top-ranked U.S. competitive eater. Some of her records include: Hard-boiled eggs: 65 in 6 minutes & 40 seconds. Lobster: 11.3 lbs of lobster meat (44 lobsters) in 12 minutes and Cheesecake: 11 pounds in nine minutes.
Mark Foley: Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt.
Foley insists he did nothing illegal and never had sexual contact with teens, just inappropriate Internet conversations. Investigations by the FBI and Florida authorities ended without criminal charges.
And while he concedes his behavior was “extraordinarily stupid,” he remains somewhat unwilling to accept full public scorn. These were 17-year-olds, just months from being men, he...
A Lesson In Professionalism
Oh MAN, this is hilarious.
dangurewitch:
As the person that answers all of the e-mails sent to CollegeHumor, I hear from a great deal of mind-numbingly stupid and/or humorless people. When an e-mail really dazzles me, I entertain myself with the response. Here’s today’s exchange:
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Hi, I was watching one of your videos the other day and discovered your CHTV slogan: “100 Billion...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
How to Fix a Flat
Somebody ought to call Steve Jobs and ask him if he’d like to run a car company for a year. It wouldn’t take him long to come up with the G.M. iCar.
Turns out NYC subways aren't so cool at 5:15am
Had to be at work by 6am this morning and decided to try and take public transportation to get there. The M7 bus passed right by me, clearly not seeing little me in the pitch black of night. I chased after it, finally catching up with it at a light, and banged on the window. Did that bastard of a bus driver do anything? Nope!
By the time I finally made it to the subway, it was filled with...
Watchbenjoseph:
Kanye West meets the animation style of Ralph Bakshi. Crazy.
LOVE IT
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Why does Greg Behrendt think he's a licensed...
Greg Behrendt’s Wake-Up Call - reality series featuring Greg Behrendt as he works with one couple’s incompatible issues each week, using practical and humorous relationship expertise. With six one-hour episodes produced by Avalon Television, the series premieres January 8 at 11p.
Really?
FOX announced it approved nine additional episodes of The Cleveland Show, the animated Family Guy spin-off premiering fall 2009. Furthermore, Arianna Huffington will lend her voice to a recurring character, joining the cast of series regulars.
How many dead Ram's eyes can a man eat?
Discovery Channel showcases new episodes of Man vs. Wild beginning late January with adventurer Bear Grylls at the helm. Eight new hi-def episodes will follow Bear to challenging locations such as Transylvania, Turkey, Belize, the Yukon Peninsula, Dominican Republic and the Bandlands of Oregon. These new episodes, produced by Diverse Productions, continues season three which began last August.
California Hates Brownies and Cookies →
Way better than a Michael Moore documentary
HBO picked up the U.S. television rights to the unnamed documentary about President-Elect Barack Obama from Edward Norton and his production company Class 5 Films. Directors Amy Rice and Alicia Sams have had unprecedented access to Obama, his family, friends and senior level staffers since early 2006, traveling with him on his trip to Africa as well as the last two and a half years campaigning...
For all you nerds out there...
Fans of SCI FI Channel’s Battlestar Galactica series can buy a piece of the show as NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group is working with Propworx to provide thousands of unique props, set pieces, costumes and more for a three-day auction event. The auction begins with a preview on January 16 and convenes January 17-18 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena,...
And really awesome!
SCI FI Channel approved nine new episodes of Scare Tactics for next spring. Hosted by Tracy Morgan, this hidden-camera series using elaborate sets and scenarios to scare the bee-geebies out of unsuspecting people has averaged 1.54 million total viewers through its third season (July-November 2008).
Really?
A&E Network has a new real-life original series in production. Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design features former NFL player and current ESPN analyst Keyshawn Johnson as he begins a new career as an interior designer. Ten 30m episodes are produced by Screen Door Entertainment.
CNN reports the news before it happens.
Polls JUST closed in a bunch of states and CNN has already told me who will win them without actually having any of the results. This is how meteorologists report the weather, not how journalists should report the news. Especially when it comes to the new President-Elect!
Jared's a Rockstar! →
Nooooooooooooo
Buried in the front of the print edition of the Post today, in a small box headlined “Campaign Morsels,” is a truly morsel-y morsel. (Ha, morsel is so one of those words that becomes progressively more ridiculous the more you repeat it.) Actually, there are two morsels. [Morsel No. 1] “Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as ‘Joe the Plumber’ was seen at the...