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Paula Abdul’s Morning Show Bender
5:50AM Seth | There are two Paula Abduls: The first, a fierce and focused businesswomman, overseeing a growing multimedia empire bolstered by her stratospheric visibility on American Idol. The other is tanked, and the one we actually care about. You rarely get just one or the other, mind you, but instead a glorious spectrum of increasingly blurry…how do you say…shades of Paula. More »
Just How Hot Is The New Tinker Bell, And How Much Of A Perv Are You For Thinking So?
8:05AM Seth | The Village Voice has gotten a good look at Disney’s new straight-to-DVD Tinker Bell (now in 3-D with speaking capabilities!), and declares the 2008 version of the spritely heroine—the original of whom is wrongly rumoured to be modeled on Marilyn Monroe—to be a platitudinous pixie snore. They also find her extremely “sexy/creepy…a chubby-cheeked, slightly infantilised adolescent with the body of a grown woman. She sports the skimpiest dress in the movie.” More »
Actor’s Mustache Hijacks Candid ‘GMA’ Discussion of Race and Entertainment
7:40AM STV | If you think you’ve had about all you can stand of whatever controversy Tropic Thunder is shoveling today, try notching down the dosage a bit with Robert Downey Jr.’s appearance today on Good Morning America. Eschewing a straight discussion of his ostensibly incendiary portrayal of an Australian Method actor in blackface, RDJ brought his over-lit facial hair to bear on Chris Cuomo and the rest of the studio crew, whose early laughter fades into a riveted ’stache trance unseen since then-UN Ambassador John Bolton made a news round-up way back in 2005. Try for yourself, but only if you’re insured and have a friend nearby to spot you. We can’t have that many lost work hours on our conscience, at least not in this economy. [ABC] More »
Ben Stiller And Jack Black Draw Clear Line Between Movie Retardation/ Flatulence And The Real Thing
4:00AM Seth | With Tropic Thunder —the product of Ben Stiller’s harrowing journey into the heart of retarded darkness— storming multiplexes today, the film’s stars are going into promotional hyperdrive. And nothing sells your movie more than some old-fashioned controversy—particularly one in which you’re accused of being insensitive to the disabled. (Semitic advocacy groups, meanwhile, surprised everyone by seeing nothing objectionable in Tom Cruise’s minstrelsy, Jewface performance.) On the GMA hotseat today was Stiller and co-star Jack Black, both of whom calmly explained that in matters of insensitivity and bodily function, context is everything; framed by the movie’s central comedic conceit of actorly self-indulgence, then, not a single dropped R-bomb or ass-bomb should be considered anything other than purely satirical. More »
Morning Show Team Stunned Silent By ‘Bachelorette’ DeAnna Pappas’s Astonishing Dumbness
5:45AM Seth | At long last, The Bachelorette—that epic, six-week-long search for eternal love in which inarticulate Mediterranean beauty DeAnna Pappas is made to choose a suitable lifemate from a man-harem of 25—reaches its chilling conclusion tonight on ABC. Stopping by the GMA studios to show off her sparkly new hardware for a visibly envious Chris Cuomo, Pappas explained the difficult-to-grasp concept of having to choose between “two totally different people. You got one guy on one hand, and another guy on another hand, and I’m two totally different people with each guy.” This suggests that Pappas is the relationship equivalent of tofu, her spongy personality absorbing the flavors of any man with which she comes in contact. Somewhere, Brad Womack is breathing a sigh of relief that he ditched this chick at the Fantasy Proposal Gazebo, and chose instead to hold out for some hot, Serbian supermodel ass like his tire-fortune-heir predecessor. More »
Cynthia Nixon Talks Openly About Her Recent Breast Cancer Scare On ‘GMA’
7:35AM Molly Friedman | Cynthia Nixon is living proof that bad things happen to good actresses. Speaking openly for the first time about her 2006 diagnosis with breast cancer on Good Morning America today, the happily outed actress demonstrated exactly how a public figure maintains grace under fire. And even after telling us how one goes about telling their kids they sorta have to undergo an operation, and how to deal with the public’s response to her coming out, one of the most intriguing lessons the Sex And The City star shared had to do with which half of a lesbian couple is called “Mom” and which is called “Mommy.” Nixon’s life lessons, after the jump. More »
