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In Memoriam: Remembering the 10 Best of Mr. Blackwell’s 10 Worst
1:30AM STV | Richard Sylvan Selzer — better known to pop culture observers as the acerbic, list-making fashion zealot Mr. Blackwell — died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection. He was 86. A former hustler, petty thief and model whose acting and B-grade fashion career overlapped with the infamous 10 Worst-Dressed Celebrities list he launched in 1960, Mr. Blackwell found his voice firing one-line zingers into a crowded pop culture at a time when celebrities could do little wrong. His latter-year rhymes weren’t always fully functional, but some of his early jibes were as vicious as anything you’d find online today; 10 years ago he said of his commentary: “The list is and was a satirical look at the fashion flops of the year. I merely said out loud what others were whispering. … It’s not my intention to hurt the feelings of these people. It’s to put down the clothing they’re wearing.” Believe us, Mr. Blackwell, we can relate — as can so many of our peers and colleagues in print and online who, for better or worse, trade on his influence every day. After the jump, we mourn his passing with our own top 10 of Mr. Blackwell’s withering witticisms from nearly 50 years on the scene. Rest in peace, (un)kind sir. More »
Defamer Presents The 10 Greatest Halloween Specials Of All Time
9:45AM Seth | It’s just eleven Sarah Palin-glasses-shopping-days ’til Halloween, and in honour of the spookiest night of the year (besides the ones in which Holly Madison attempted to conceive at the *THUNDER CRASH!!!* Playboy mansion), we thought we’d pull together ten of the greatest Halloween-themed TV specials to haunt and delight our distant youths. We think you’ll find that all the essentials are there—your Great Pumpkins, your Roseannes, but sifting through the YouTube stacks, we were reminded of some long-forgotten gems: More »
The Top 10 Female TV Characters Women Want To Be Like And Men Want To Be With
8:05AM Seth | You didn’t think we’d post last week’s Top Ten of the coolest male TV characters without following up with one dedicated to all the honeys, now, did you? And while our definitive men’s list—checked and rechecked by a panel of TV experts canvassed at various local correctional facilities and gourmet coffee outlets—surprisingly met with some vocal opposition, we’re confident its vagina-filled counterpart will please even the most persnickety of TV-lady lovers. There’s only one way to know for sure, however. Click play, and decide for yourselves. More »
Ten Hairy Hippies That Do Inexplicably Well With The Ladies
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | They’re one of Hollywood’s most glorious odd couples: pixie dream girl Natalie Portman and Manson-resembling folk singer Devendra Banhart. Still, despite the fact that Portman was game enough to appear as an octopus in one of Banhart’s videos, she still can’t seem to shake those naysayers clucking, “Is she really going out with him?” She is — and she’s hardly the first fresh-scrubbed starlet to fall for a charming, soap-eschewing bohemian. With the help of Molly McAleer, we’ve put together a Top Ten list of the world’s most loved-up hippie womanizers. Is it their devil-may-care facial hair, their free love attitudes, or their penchant for sharing necklaces that draws in Hollywood’s most beautiful ingenues? Burn some incense and meditate on the subject — we’ll be out back crafting a swingset out of hemp and spit. More »
