Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Flotsam & Jetsam

Which Hotel Heir Is Slumming It With A Reality Star Beau?

11:45PM Richard Lawson | Today we have a young… baron (?) of the hotel industry puttin’ the blocks to some hunky reality star, a TV actress who is cheating on her hubby, and a power couple that’s splitting up and moving on. More »
Print

Nekkid Erin Andrews Haunts The Media’s Soul

11:39PM Hamilton Nolan | Oh, how the American media wishes that some sex perv had never secretly recorded a nude video of shapely ESPN reporter Erin Andrews! Then the media would not have been forced to discuss this disgusting spectacle. And make photo galleries! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Does Michael Jackson Have A 25 Year-Old Son?

9:27PM the cajun boy | Michael Jackson may have a secret child, Billy Joel gets a rebound girl, Ruth Madoff travels in ripped jeans and a baseball cap, Britney Spears’ father pronounces his daughter completely sane and Sienna Miller goes off on an interviewer. More »
Online

Kevin Spacey Fails To Sell David Letterman On The Virtues Of Twitter

5:26PM the cajun boy | Until tonight, we’d no idea that David Letterman was so painfully ignorant about Twitter. He thinks it’s something people have to pay for! So Kevin Spacey pulled out his Blackberry and attempted to explain it all to him. More »
Music

‘Get You Back’ by Oh Mercy

12:15PM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia raved about Oh Mercy a while back – hell, we even gave away tickets to their live shows in Sydney and Melbourne! Well, yesterday I was sent their latest song ‘Get You Bacl’ and it is deliciously lush and gorgeous and I want to run away with it and make prodigiously talented babies. More »
Online

Huffington Post Serves Up Hoax On Front Page

10:36AM Ryan Tate | It’s hard to imagine anyone taking seriously a satirical proposal to build an airport on Central Park. Except maybe for the Huffington Post, which ran with the story on its front page tonight. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

8:22AM Jess McGuire | Carly sent me this clip, and I absolutely love it. Auto-Tune The News have created this song based on clips from – you guessed it – the news. It has NO RIGHT to be this catchy. More »
Big Screen

Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal

8:20AM Natasha VC | Shame on you! Movies are bombing all over and it’s your fault. The latest creation in the Ass-Covering Studio Excuses R&D Dept. is the “Twitter Effect.” Movies aren’t making money, you see, because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, about how bad they are. More »
Online

San Francisco Chronicle Wants You To Pay For Its Pearls Of Wisdom

8:14AM Ryan Tate | These are desperate times for newspapers. Experimentation abounds. For the San Francisco Chronicle this means trying to charge for their fancy (but relatively cheap to duplicate) columnists and give away less-glamorous (but expensive) reporting. More »
Big Screen

Embargo On Saying Mean Things About Tyler Perry Ends Now

8:02AM Natasha VC | We don’t care how many free Disneyland trips you hand out, Tyler Perry! Your newest flick I Can Do Bad All By Myself, appears to be another brick in the towering wall of suck you’ve built. More »