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Which Mean Parents Made Their Kids Go See Ice Age This Weekend?
4:43AM Natasha VC | Sure, sure, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince raked in a gazillion dollars this weekend. But who are these people who went to Ice Age? Our guess: creationist parents who wanted their kids to watch a nature documentary. More »
Were Denis Leary’s 9/11 Theories Thwarted By Book Soup Security?
7:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Last night at the Sunset Blvd. staple Book Soup, autism-unfriendly comedian Denis Leary was signing copies of his book, Why We Suck, when he was approached by two very curious fans. One of them tentatively asked whether Leary endorsed the idea of a reinvestigation into the events of 9/11, which Leary said would actually be a plotline in the upcoming season of Rescue Me. Then, a second fan asked him a more specific question about conspiracy theories surrounding Building 7’s collapse. After a pause, Leary began, “You don’t want to get into that with me, because several of the guys who I know really well were helping to hold that building up,” upon which the fan, who was recording the incident, was swarmed by Book Soup security (they even blocked his camera). What do they know?! Video, after the jump: More »
10:15AM Kyle Buchanan | About Time: It was only a matter of time before the week’s two big autism stories collided, but let’s thank Access Hollywood for hastening things along. Billy Bush caught up with “cleavage and veggies” advocate Jenny McCarthy to get her comments on Denis Leary’s assertion that autistic kids are stupid and lazy, and she described a scene that sounded as though it had come straight out of a Sarah Palin rally. “Whoo! First of all, let me tell you, the autism community has received probably 10,000 emails [saying] ‘Go kill him!’ ‘Go yell at him,’” she told Bush. “[But] it’s so hard to even get up enough juice in me or energy in me to even try to fight someone that is obviously stupid.” Really? Jenny, consider your guest-blogging privileges at Defamer revoked. [Us] More »
Jenny McCarthy: ‘A Diet Of Cleavage And Veggies Cured My Son Of Autism!’
10:13AM Seth | While Rescue Me star and Miss Worcester second runner-up Dennis Leary may have rankled some with his book’s assessment of autism sufferers as being “dumb-arse kids,” “junior morons,” and “dumb, lazy, or both” (”Totally out of my book’s contest!” rebutted Leary), one true believer in the disorder—an outspoken activist, in fact—is Jenny McCarthy. Where she veers from her fellow crusaders is in her theory on its cause: She blames the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccination drained the life out of her young son Evan, and gave him autism. Now she’s raising even more eyebrows by claiming on the cover of the current Us Weekly that she “saved [her] son” through “a strict no wheat-and-dairy-free diet.” From usmagazine.com: More »
Dr. Denis Leary Diagnoses Autistic Kids as ‘Stupid, Lazy’
1:30AM STV | Let’s face it: As well-intentioned celebrity spats go, Jenny McCarthy vs. Amanda Peet was a total disappointment in its attempt to bring awareness to the cause and treatment of autism. What it needed was less born-again book-tour proselytizing and more substantive debate about nature, nurture and science itself. In other words, it needed the radical authority of a medical professional like Denis Leary, who, in his own new book, tastefully settles the problem of autism once and for all: More »
Emmy Nomination Hell! 10 Plots and Subplots to Watch After Today’s Big Announcements
1:10AM Defamer Hollywood | The world awoke this morning to the chirping of little birds resembling Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris, perched at a podium in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, announcing nominations for the 60th Emmy Awards. While most rolled over and tried to get back to sleep, we sat bolt upright as usual and sprinted to the window, our furious note-taking chronicling a few snubs, surprises and plenty of the conventional wisdom we’ve come to expect from the annual ritual. More »
