Thursday, October 8, 2009
People
The One Where Joe Jackson And Everyone Else Is Or Has A Dick
3:00AM Foster Kamer | Joe Jackson: Dick, obviously. That Slumdog Millionaire kid, the theory: huge wang. Levi Johnston: famously awaited dong. Jon Gosselin, dickfore. Paula Abdul, Fergie, Josh Duhamel, Adam Duritz, DMX. Presenting your Dicktacular Gossip Roundup. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
This Pill Makes Hollywood Men Go Soft
9:15PM Andrew Belonsky | Need to scientifically explain Zac Efron’s popularity? Blame birth control. Researchers found that women on the pill are more attracted to “wimpy” men, which explains the decline of the masculine leading man. Damn you, pill! Damn you! [Daily Mail]
People
Madonna, Guy Ritchie In Fierce “Retard” Battle
8:15PM Andrew Belonsky | Divorces are ugly business. That’s what we can learn from today’s gossip roundup, which includes Madonna and Guy Ritchie acting like children, Peter Brant taking on Stephanie Seymour’s fashion habit and, on another note, the return of Tina Fey’s Palin. More »
People
Seth Green Mugging Footage: Revealed!?
7:02PM Andrew Belonsky | Remember that footage of Seth Green ranting and raving about how he was mugged? We originally doubted its validity, but this surveillance footage makes us believers. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
5:43PM Clem Bastow | Are you an average true-blue Aussie keen to comment on a news item regarding last night’s Hey Hey/Red Faces gaffe? Do you, like many average true-blue Aussies, think that “blackface” just means “pretending to be African American, like Robert Downey Jr. in that funny movie about the Vietnam war”?
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Blackface: A Guide For The Average Australian
5:43PM Clem Bastow | Are you an average true-blue Aussie keen to comment on a news item regarding last night’s Hey Hey/Red Faces gaffe? Do you, like many average true-blue Aussies, think that “blackface” just means “pretending to be African American, like Robert Downey Jr. in that funny movie about the Vietnam war”?
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Music
Courtney Love’s Twitter Updates In Easy-To-Read Magazine Interview Style – Issue Five
5:00PM Jess McGuire | Hello, readers! I am currently sitting on the floor at Kuala Lumpur’s slightly less glamorous LCC terminal waiting to board my flight to London, and it smells a bit like wee, and I just fell asleep in a food court for four hours, so the only thing making me cheery in the heart is the fact that the place has Wi-Fi so I get to read the gorgeous Lorelei’s interpretation of Courtney Love’s recent Twitter updates! That I also get to share this spectacular piece of writing with you is a bonus. More »
Big Screen
2:55PM Clem Bastow | Saw this yesterday and laughed, so, to borrow Fearless Leader’s turn of phrase, REET! REET! This just in from the Day Old News Desk: In what must be the professional understatement of the decade, Saw actor Kostas Mandylor has admitted to finding the “torture porn” series’ latest gorefest “too much” to watch.
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‘Saw VI’ Star Surprised To Find Film Gory, Unwatchable
2:55PM Clem Bastow | Saw this yesterday and laughed, so, to borrow Fearless Leader’s turn of phrase, REET! REET! This just in from the Day Old News Desk: In what must be the professional understatement of the decade, Saw actor Kostas Mandylor has admitted to finding the “torture porn” series’ latest gorefest “too much” to watch.
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Flotsam & Jetsam
2:00PM Clem Bastow | Amidst the horror that was last night’s blackface Red Faces routine, the happier moments of the Hey Hey reunion have been lost like dust in the wind (dude): one of them was seeing just what cute lil’ Nathan Cavaleri has grown into (mix Jack Sparrow with Limp Bizkit and you’ll have a vague idea).
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
2:00PM Clem Bastow | Amidst the horror that was last night’s blackface Red Faces routine, the happier moments of the Hey Hey reunion have been lost like dust in the wind (dude): one of them was seeing just what cute lil’ Nathan Cavaleri has grown into (mix Jack Sparrow with Limp Bizkit and you’ll have a vague idea).
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Small Screen
1:33PM Clem Bastow | As the backlash from the Hey Hey/Red Faces/”Jackson Jive” skit continues, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the group of men who performed the skit don’t seem to see what the fuss is about. Because, hey, they’re not white, so they can’t be racists! AM I RIGHT?
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‘Jackson Jive’ Unaware That Racists Come In All The Colours Of The Benetton Rainbow
1:33PM Clem Bastow | As the backlash from the Hey Hey/Red Faces/”Jackson Jive” skit continues, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the group of men who performed the skit don’t seem to see what the fuss is about. Because, hey, they’re not white, so they can’t be racists! AM I RIGHT?
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Radio
12:55PM Clem Bastow | Kyle Sandilands must be clapping his hands together with glee given that, this morning at least, there is a person – nay, six people! – more offensive than he is. Yes, “Vile Kyle” has returned to the airwaves, and did so in his infuriating inimitable style.
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Kyle Sandilands Blessed On-Air, Does Not Turn To Dust
12:55PM Clem Bastow | Kyle Sandilands must be clapping his hands together with glee given that, this morning at least, there is a person – nay, six people! – more offensive than he is. Yes, “Vile Kyle” has returned to the airwaves, and did so in his infuriating inimitable style.
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