Posts by Pareene

Martin Scorsese Has Some Bad Ideas In His Head

9:19AM Pareene | Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are teaming up with Lars von Trier to “reboot” Taxi Driver. In 3D! (Your totally credible source for this information: “Copenhagen film magazine Ekko“.)

The Pope’s Desert Island Album List Is Actually Kind Of Weird

7:19AM Pareene | The Holy See’s official newspaper released a list of their top 10 favourite rock albums ever. Number one: Revolver, which is actually the cooler Beatles choice. (Rolling Stone still says Sgt. Pepper.) But it gets weirder from there. More »

Bristol Files For Child Support From Levi

3:34AM Pareene | Bristol Palin, whose mum has a best-selling book for which she was paid a $US5 million advance and who is now a paid contributor to Fox News, is going after her unemployed ex-boyfriend for the cash he made posing naked. More »

Spider-Man 4 Implodes: Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire Out

8:29AM Pareene | Sam Raimi demanded creative control, Malkovich as the villain, didn’t want Anne Hathaway, and most importantly, couldn’t deliver by May 2011. So Sony will replace him and make Spider-Man 4: 3D a “reboot” with a whole new cast. More »

Drudge: Those Rupert Murdoch Rumors (That You Never Heard) Are Not True!

10:06AM Pareene | Did Matt Drudge just revere-jujitsu a Rupert Murdoch rumour into the news? Australian website Crikey reported that Murdoch split with his wife Wendi Deng. No one, anywhere, picked it up, because Murdoch runs half the gossip industry. But here’s Matt! More »

The Week We Were All Vibrator Victims

10:38AM Pareene | Everybody’s Fine is out! Who’s psyched, guys? America is psyched, that is who. Also: this week was about love. The bad kinds of love, with golf clubs and such. More »

Spain’s Goth First Daughters Embarrass, Embarrassed By Dad

6:06AM Pareene | Here’s Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The State Department uploaded it to Flickr. (What an unlikely sentence!) Whoops — no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before! More »

Happy Dan Brown Day

3:01AM Pareene | Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC. More »