Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Online
Everybody Wants Google To Rat Someone Out
11:47PM Hamilton Nolan | That which we feared most hath come to pass: Mean, anonymous people are being forcefully purged from the internet, with lawsuits. First the skankblogger affair, and now it’s happening again! Sort of. More »
People
Which Actress Is Facing A Family Tragedy?
11:32PM Brian Moylan | We love tearing celebrities down, but it’s so much harder when they’re doing charity work and helping a family member dealing with a terminal illness. Damn this heart! No sympathy however for a fashion mag whose Twitter password is retarded. More »
People
The Triumphant Return Of Lindsay’s Nether Region
8:00PM Andrew Belonsky | Lindsay Lohan’s vagina makes a surprisingly discreet reappearance, Michael Jackson’s good for real estate, Perez Hilton lied to Tyra and Lady Gaga talks blow. More »
Big Screen
Cattrall’s Predictably Icky Sex “Spoilers”
6:30PM Andrew Belonsky | Some die-hard Sex and the City may throw a fit after the publication pictures of Kim Cattrall holding the movie sequel’s script. But, before they explode, let it be known the snapped pages give away entirely foreseeable, cringe-inducing plot points. More »
Online
Facebook Makes Your Brain Big. Twitter Doesn’t.
5:46PM Andrew Belonsky | Need an excuse to eschew the so-called Facebook exodus? Well, here’s one: the site makes you smart! Twitter, meanwhile, turns you into an aggressive, drooling knuckle-dragger. More »
Big Screen
America, You’re To Blame For Hollywood’s Artistic Decline
4:50PM Andrew Belonsky | Much hay has been made over Hollywood’s growing reliance on the remake. Creativity is dead, yes, we know, but, more importantly, the silver screen’s recycling kick also acts as an endorsement for mediocrity. And it’s all your fault! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
4:47PM Jess McGuire | It’s taken years for me to see it, but here are the Little Britain team imitating Kylie and Dannii Minogue (thanks to Will for alerting me to its existence). More »
Kylie and Dannii Interview
4:47PM Jess McGuire | It’s taken years for me to see it, but here are the Little Britain team imitating Kylie and Dannii Minogue (thanks to Will for alerting me to its existence). More »
People
Annie Leibovitz’s Financial Doomsday Clock Hitting Midnight
4:10PM Andrew Belonsky | Poor Annie Leibovitz can’t catch a break! An Italian photographer’s suing Leibovitz for allegedly stealing his work and passing it off as her own. Of course, that’s hardly the worst thing on her plate right now. More »
People
Tila Tequila’s Twitter Attacks Not Best Idea
1:29PM Andrew Belonsky | Tila Tequila has mastered of technological self-promotion. It helped her infect popular culture. Now, in the wake of her domestic violence drama with football player Shawn Merriman, she’s back in the saddle to defend her name. But she really shouldn’t. More »
Music
12:46PM Jess McGuire | Today I received a nice parcel from Sony Music, and it contained the brand new Whitney Houston album. I am going to review it for you – track by track – as I listen to it for the first time. Please note: this is probably going to be a terrible piece of music journalism. I get easily distracted, you know. 18 days without cigarettes is making my brain go a bit funny. More »
Thoughts On The New Whitney Houston Album
12:46PM Jess McGuire | Today I received a nice parcel from Sony Music, and it contained the brand new Whitney Houston album. I am going to review it for you – track by track – as I listen to it for the first time. Please note: this is probably going to be a terrible piece of music journalism. I get easily distracted, you know. 18 days without cigarettes is making my brain go a bit funny. More »