Posts by Pareene
Online
Let’s All Have A Calm And Rational Talk About This
8:46AM Pareene | Good news, culture warriors: a woman is live-tweeting her abortion. Trending topic, guys!
Big Screen
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“.)
Music
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 »
People
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 »
Big Screen
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 »
People
Tila Tequila/Johnson Family Meeting Underway?
9:12AM Pareene | The Daily News quotes a source close to Tila Tequila confirming an upcoming meeting with the Johnson family. But Casey’s father Woody will probably not attend. So… who knows which Johnsons Tila will meet.
People
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 »
Flotsam & Jetsam
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 »
Flotsam & Jetsam
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 »
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