Friday, October 24, 2008
Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, And An Emboldened HuffPo Blogger Enliven Thursday ‘SNL’
5:07PM Kyle Buchanan | Returning alumni Will Ferrell (as George W. Bush) and Tina Fey turned last night’s Thursday edition of Saturday Night Live into a veritable class reunion, but one other notable name returned behind the scenes: Ferrell’s frequent collaborator Adam McKay. Little over a month ago, McKay (Step Brothers, Anchorman) lit up the left with a sky-is-falling Huffington Post blog entitled “We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose This Thing,” but to judge from the opening sketch he co-wrote, he now finds the Republican ticket about as threatening as a Jackie Mason PSA. The clip, after the jump: More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day II
4:23PM Jess McGuire | Two YouTube Clips Of The Day? Why not, it’s Friday!
I love this kid for so many reasons – the blissed out expression on his face, the booty shaking when he gets to the chorus…
Oh, and the terror.
Clip courtesy of the obscenely wonderful Mitch… More » 
Kristy Hinze Is Getting Hitched!
3:01PM Jess McGuire | Jim Clarke, the 64 year old billionaire founder of Netscape, and Kristy Hinze, the 28 year old model and host of Project Runway, have announced they’re getting married! Congratulations – although god knows what they see in each other.
Oh yes, thanks for reminding me.
After dating for nearly three years, Kristy Hinze, 28, the host of Project Runway Australia and granddaughter of the late Russ Hinze – Queensland’s original minister for everything – is set to walk down the aisle and marry the American billionaire Jim Clark, 64, the internet pioneer who founded Netscape.
More » MTV Australia’s Darren McMullen Goes Wild!
1:32PM Jess McGuire | I have received numerous emails from readers over the past two days alerting me to a SEX SCANDAL! (exact words) involving MTV’s Darren McMullen, someone called DJ Pheebs, and a video featuring Darren getting up to mischief.
Here were my thoughts, in order.
i. Who the hell is Darren McMullen?
ii. Who the hell is DJ Pheebs?
iii. Am I old and out of touch?
iv. Mmmmm, cup of tea would be nice.
v. I will press play on this video I’ve been sent and wait for the debauchery.
vi. This video is, like, three seconds long.
vii. And if someone trying to kiss a girl on the cheek during an interview is a “sex scandal”, then this country has gone tragically soft.
Apparently this all occurred at an Absolut 15 party, and having DJ’d at one of those, I know how CRAZY and WILD the kids get on assorted vodka-based drinks.
To revel in this scandal-I-don’t-actually-get-why-it’s-a-scandal-but-whatevs, go and check out the Pedestrian TV.com link below.
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Sarah Palin: The Trash Years
11:10AM STV | Sarah Palin ran for vice-president, and all the GOP got was a lousy $US150,000 wardrobe bill. But judging from the evidence of what came before it, the investment might have been worth every penny. [via Radar] Katy Perry’s breasts are hard, white and going on the block for charity. Danny Boyle’s relatively tame Oscar-season favourite Slumdog Millionaire received a surprise R-rating from the MPAA. And the critics! Are! Outraged!!! Speaking of critics, Time Magazine is trying the child-labour route with its High School Musical 3 review. First Scott Rudin, now Mr. Blackwell: Was the late, list-keeping fashion tyrant’s partner of 60 years pinkwashed out of his obit by the Associated Press? More »
We Had No Idea These Two Were Even A Couple!
10:45AM Jess McGuire | Sometimes I feel like my poor brain is bursting with pointless information about famous people. As each day passes, it becomes even more crammed with useless celebrity relationship updates. I like to believe I know exactly who is hooking up and who has broken up, so you can imagine my surprise to learn – like, SEVEN MONTHS AFTER THE FACT! – that Parker Posey is going out with Keanu Reeves!
DID YOU KNOW THIS? WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME!
And apparently there were recently pregnancy rumours floating around too. Unbelievable. I adore Parker Posey, and Keanu Reeves was my high school obsession (along with Callan Mulvey, Tim Wheeler from Ash, and one photo of Sweat’s Martin Henderson wearing a nice woolly jumper for a Dolly Magazine shoot where I thought he looked like the kind of lad who would make a nice boyfriend and so I cut out the picture and put it beside my bed). I can’t believe they’re together. I can’t believe it took me seven months to find out.
In short, I failed you. I’m sorry.
(Parker Posey clip after the jump, all you fans of The Queen Of Indie). More » Vanessa Amorosi Denies Getting Her Lez On With Ruby Rose At The ARIA Awards
9:29AM Jess McGuire | Vanessa Amorosi has spoken out against claims she indulged in a little girl on girl fun with MTV VJ Ruby Rose after Sunday night’s ARIA Awards, informing excited interviewers that the reports of a budding romance between the two ladies were “definitely not true”. You need proof? Apparently Ruby Rose was too busy being girlfriends with a certain newly blonde popstar with whom she shares a tabloid past.
As the internet was sent into a frenzy with talk of a lip lock between Ruby Rose and rock chick Amorosi yesterday, Confidential learnt only one girl is the apple in the lipstick lesbian’s eye at the moment.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
8:29AM Jess McGuire | Today’s clip of choice features US talk show host Craig Ferguson delivering a heartfelt opening monologue where he explained why he wouldn’t be making fun of a then very troubled Britney Spears on his program. He then goes into very personal stories about when he was an alcoholic, and the entire thing is long but incredibly lovely.
Genuinely moving and funny and thoughtful. More » 
Defiant Sulu Blasts Back at William Shatner’s ‘Big, Shining, Demanding Ego’
8:25AM STV | It was only a matter of time before the alleged psychotic gay bridezilla that is George Takei fired back at his one-time TV captain William Shatner, whose claims that Takei invited every living Star Trek alumnus but him to his wedding met stiff, Suluian resistance in an interview airing this evening on Entertainment Tonight. After the jump, hear all the honours, weddings, funerals and other events Shatner has shined on in apparently forsaking his chums from the Final Frontier. “We keep reaching out and reaching out,” Takei says, “but he takes that and twists it and crumples it and turns it into something that’s rather… ugly.” Damn it, Jim! So can the relationship ever be mended? Yes, nods Takei, laying down terms we hope find the actors setting aside their differences at last — for the gays’ sake, if not Shatner’s own. (Be warned, their video is set to autoplay. It’s psychotic, too!) More »
