Saturday, October 4, 2008
Jennifer Love Hewitt Claims That ‘Us’ Cover Was a Big, Fat Surprise
10:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Jennifer Love Hewitt found headlines last winter when unflattering paparazzi photos prompted her to cry, “To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini–put it on and stay strong.” Sadly, it appeared that Hewitt then took advice from 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy (”She needs to lose thirty pounds or gain fifty. In between has no place in television”), for she re-emerged sharing her weight loss secrets on the cover of Us Weekly two months ago. Now, Hewitt tells TV Guide that the mixed message was just one innocent misunderstanding: More »
10:00AM Kyle Buchanan | You Betcha! Sarah Palin isn’t simply ratings gold when Tina Fey is playing her. The vice presidential debate last night was the most-watched VP matchup ever, even surpassing by 33% the Obama/McCain debate from last week. According to THR, 69,989,000 viewers tuned in, which makes it the biggest debate audience since 1992, when Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot all faced off. Palin has since had all three men fired. [THR] More »
Jackie Mason Thinks ‘Sick Yenta’ Sarah Silverman Oughta Shut Her Punim
9:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Just as British funnymen Ricky Gervais and Simon Pegg have resolved to patch up their “fat idiot” feud, along come Sarah Silverman and Jackie Mason to fill the void with their own bit of culturally specific warring. Perhaps you’ll recall Silverman’s recent video for thegreatschlep.com, an organisation designed to coax young, Jewish Obama supporters to travel to Florida and convince their grandparents to vote Democrat. Creaky comic Mason is not a fan of this idea (to put it mildly) and in an ad paid for by a Jewish Republicans group, he tears into both Obama and Silverman, calling the latter a “sick yenta.” Careful, Jackie — if Silverman can handle talking shit about her ex-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel, she’s not going to be daunted by your dated patter. Both videos, after the jump: More »
Harrison Ford All But Confirms ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of the $100 Million Payday’
8:00AM STV | It would be too easy to say that Harrison Ford hit the Crystal Head Vodka a little hard before today’s interview at the LA Times; how else to explain his eagerness to jump aboard Indiana Jones 5 so soon after the franchise’s fourth installment? He’s 66! George Lucas can’t settle on a script! And Shia still has months of recovery ahead for his pinkie and balls. All signs but the dollar say “stop,” but that’s all the actor apparently needed to wax fantastic about the potential pouring forth everywhere from the box office to cereal aisles: More »
7:40AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s a Bad Thing: Buried deep into HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington’s blog entry about last night’s debate is the response everyone wants, that of domestic doyenne Martha Stewart. “The home-spun homilies [Sarah Palin uses] have to go,” Stewart sniffed to Huffington. “And, oh my god, words do have ending consonants.” [HuffPo] More »
Audrina To Stare Plaintively After Smelling Ex Justin Bobby on BFF Lauren Conrad
7:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Though Hills stars Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge recently patched up their fractured friendship under the warm, nurturing eye of multiple video cameras, a brand-new rumour has both girls on the outs yet again. Says E!: More »
Activist Jonah Hill Has 19 Kids, ‘Never Used Abortion Once’
6:55AM STV | Having already given up any hope of Jessica Alba and Hayden Panitierre’s muzzled tryst persuading young people to get out the vote, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions this week corralled an ensemble including Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Halle Berry and scads of others to keep up the fight via reverse psychology. “Don’t vote,” they implore to America’s youth, none more so than Jonah Hill, whose exhortations “The economy’s in the toilet. Who gives a shit? I don’t care — I’ve got so much money” and “I’ve never fought a war on drugs; I’ve never done shit on drugs besides played Halo 2” have stirred nearly 300,000 viewers since yesterday. We pass it along to you (after the jump) as a public service of our own whether you’ve already heard the message or plan to vote or not, if only because it never gets old hearing Hill share such intimate ideology. Particularly the part about his 19 kids — who knew? [YouTube] More »
Today in Dead Myths: Arnold Schwarzenegger Goes Begging
6:30AM STV | Believe us, there were plenty of signs around the office today keeping it real about the country’s current financial situation. But pound-for-pound, little else has brought it home quite the way Arnold Schwarzenegger has, with the governor actually sending a letter yesterday to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson asking for $7 billion to cover California’s “short-term expenses.” In other words, the man who built his political career on the backs of unkillable icons from the Terminator to Conan to Mr. Freeze the freaking Running Man is pacing the halls of the Capitol wondering how he’ll pay almost 300,000 teachers: More »
Madonna Has Put A-Rod Back In Her Batter’s Box
6:05AM Kyle Buchanan | Perhaps mindful that her McCain/Hitler concert montage went over about as well as a soiled dominatrix outfit, pop superstar Madonna has returned to the well that attracted her the most attention this year: her are-they-or-aren’t-they flirtation with New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez. Though Madonna’s camp had quelled the rumours before by having her step out with husband Guy Ritchie, the director is now overseas shooting Sherlock Holmes, and Us Weekly says that Madonna seized the opportunity to meet up with Rodriguez once more:
