Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Flotsam & Jetsam

Just Shoe It

10:28AM Brian Moylan | [Parisian women give their feet a real workout today while competing in a "Race on Heels" where they must run around a 50m track in high heels. Image via Getty]
Flotsam & Jetsam

The Truth About Zoos

8:21AM Hamilton Nolan | From Rhett & Link, the guys who brought you the ad that all ads should probably be like, comes this new spot for the Central Florida Zoo. Their relentless honesty requires it to focus totally on excrement. More »
People

What Is Going On With Tinsley Mortimer’s Love Life?

8:07AM Brian Moylan | The Tinz just wrapped shooting for her reality show and it looks like her showmance, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn, has gotten the boot for a new beau. Who’s the lucky guy? Former American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis. What?! More »
People

Gothic Girl

7:23AM Brian Moylan | [Taylor Momsen predictably wore black (but an unpredictably long skirt) at the The Cinema Society screening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in New York last night. Image via Getty]
Print

Four Ways Lists Make Us Immortal, According To Umberto Eco

5:48AM Ryan Tate | Italian novelist Umberto Eco, the go-to intellectual for journalists worldwide, has deconstructed the human obsession with all things list-y. The bottom line for editors: Your listicles help readers brush off a terrifying universe of infinite chaos. More »
Small Screen

Oprah To Fans: I’m Quitting My Show Because My Bones Told Me Too

4:53AM John Cook | Here’s a clip from Oprah Winfrey’s on-air announcement that she’s putting the Oprah Winfrey Show out to pasture: “Why walk away, and make next season the last? Here is the real reason: [T]wenty-five years feels right in my bones.” More »
People

Tina Fey —

2:56AM Gabriel Snyder | — speaking at the Ad Council gala at the Waldorf Astoria on Wednesday, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.
People

The Grooms Wore Matching Tuxedos

2:40AM Brian Moylan | [Jimmy Fallon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like a tiny gay wedding-cake topper with their pose at the American Museum of Natural History's Museum Gala last night. Image via Getty]
Flotsam & Jetsam

Which Actress Is Leaving Her Husband Over World Of Warcraft?

1:59AM Brian Moylan | Loving a nerd is one thing, but who could stand a guy constantly plugged into an online universe? Is it worse than a wife who gets frisky in a hot tub or a singer pimped out by a rap star? More »
Music

Kanye West Is NOT Dead

6:00PM Jess McGuire | This post is mainly for the benefit of Richard Wilkins, as I’d hate to see Tricky Dicky making another embarrassing gaffe on television because he decided to use Twitter’s Trending Topics as a source for stories. More »