Monday, June 22, 2009

Flotsam & Jetsam

Who’s Neglecting Her Kids In The Hamptons To Flirt?

11:30PM Richard Lawson | Today we have a negligent flirty reality star, a TV actor who’s doing stuff, another actor who’s been weird about stuff, and a fourth person who’s, y’know, weird. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Megan Fox Explains Her Disdain For Fat Kids Bearing Flowers

10:31PM the cajun boy | Megan Fox cites confusion in explaining away the infamous flower incident, Ryan Seacrest is developing a Lindsay Lohan reality show, Kate Moss is an absolute pain in the arse girlfriend, and Katie Lee Joel’s new man is shagging fashion editors. More »
People

Terrified Anne Hathaway Tackles Scary Shakespeare

7:23PM the cajun boy | Many Hollywood stars have come to New York thinking they could conquer the New York stage and many of them have failed miserably. Now here comes Anne Hathaway in her “first major theatrical production,” playing Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. More »
People

David Rohde’s MacGyver-Esque Escape From Taliban Captivity

1:35PM the cajun boy | Yesterday we learned that New York Times’ reporter David Rohde, secretly held captive by the Taliban for months, had escaped when he “climbed over a wall.” Now more details of Rohde’s daring escape have emerged. More »
People

Newsweek Reporter Arrested In Iran

12:21PM the cajun boy | Newsweek’s Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for the magazine for a decade, was taken into custody by Iranian officials during an early morning raid of his home. His captors also seized his computer and several videotapes. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

11:55AM Jess McGuire | I heard about this video of 10 Toys That Made You Gay yesterday while on the footy field at Community Cup (more – or maybe less, actually – about that later) and it sounded killer. Naturally I looked it up as soon as I got home. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

It’s Fish Wrapper, Not Weed Wrapper

11:45AM Hamilton Nolan | In your maudlin Monday US media column: Magazines fail at drug-smuggling, sad layoffs at Videogum and Boston Magazine, newspaper reporters in Canada may strike(!), the NYT pokes the WaPo, and an update on the Milwaukee journalist-cop affair scandal. More »
People

Prince William Turning Gang Members Into Team Members

10:45AM Jess McGuire | The future King of England has been spending time with gang members in order to keep it real and/or learn from their streetwise ways. Word to your mother. More »
Music

Guess Which Hollywood Star Loves Augie March?

8:58AM Jess McGuire | Your Editor is a big fan of acclaimed Australian musical ensemble Augie March. Glenn Richards is a brilliant songwriter (and once helped me spell ‘Phnom Penh’ which was very nice of him indeed) and ‘Here Comes The Night’ is one of my favourite tunes ever in the history of anything. Guess who else is really into Augie March? More »
Small Screen

Finally: Susan Boyle Sings At Wembley Stadium

8:30AM Foster Kamer | Susan Boyle – who’s had to cancel performance after performance on the Britain’s Got Talent tour due to “exhaustion” – finally managed to take the stage tonight at England’s famed Wembley Stadium. How’d she fair? More »