goodbyes

Lessons Your Editor Learned From Competing On Big Brother

7:45AM Kyle Buchanan | I’ve been instructed to use my goodbye post to relate a story I haven’t told before. So strap in, kids: you’re getting the never-before-revealed tale of my brief foray into reality television. More »

Cloris Leachman’s Impossible ‘Dancing’ Dream Ends on Jimmy Kimmel’s Floor

4:11AM STV | Cloris Leachman’s improbable Dancing With the Stars run concluded Tuesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where the irascible 82-year-old hoofer ultimately settled not long after being ousted from the show’s final seven competitors. Ever the gracious host, Kimmel joined her on his stage, Indian-style, for an exit interview combining a heady blend of batshittery, pathos and defiance amounting to a defeated cry for help that not even nine Emmys, a Golden Globe and an Oscar waiting for Leachman at home could quell. Or maybe it’s just her final, insolent means of saying, “Suck it, Lucci.” Either way, Cloris remains first in our hearts and has a standing invitation to rearrange our furniture any time. Godspeed, girl. [ABC] More »

DreamWorks Remembers David Geffen as Loving, Studio-Shopping Father

5:22AM STV | A tender postmortem in today’s New York Times reminds the world yet again that seriously — like, really, this time — David Geffen is leaving DreamWorks. Having shepherded the monolith through the Hollywood establishment from conception to its first marriage (and divorce) before giving the frazzled bride away a second time in an arranged marriage to its dashing Indian suitor, Geffen’s tenure is remembered fondly by his ‘Works co-founders Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Not that they’ll admit to knowing what they’re doing without him. More »

Letter From The Editor

9:32AM Jess McGuire | Beloved readers, I have some news for you. Prepare yourselves, sit down (as if you’re on a computer while standing up, although maybe you are one of those weird people with internet connections in your fridge door or whatever), and maybe prepare a hanky. Our dear Associate Editor Clem Bastow is leaving us. OMG WAT!!!!!1!! NOEEEEEEEEEES!!!1! I know, I know. JOSS MACGIRUE AN CLAM BESTOF IN HAPPIER TIMES Clem has been a fantastic member of the Allure Media family since mid last year, delivering the blog goods daily in her own inimitable style. Always good for a quick James Blunt related Photoshop gag, a devotee of Australia’s Next Top Model (and pretty much our Couture Correspondent), and a woman charmingly obsessed with James Spargo from this year’s Australian Idol, she is – truthfully – irreplacable. So we won’t even bother trying. Clem’s off to continue her freelance career in The Proper Media TM, as well as continue working as editor of the Australia feminist blog The Dawn Chorus, delivering the goods on RRR, and caning it in the kitchen as she continues “soon-to-be-world-dominating cottage industry jam experiment”. Oh, she’s also appearing in this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival (her show is nearly sold out, but try to get along to it if you can!), and god! Probably a million other things as she’s an extremely busy woman! Now before you start listening to emo tunes and gently scratching at your wrists with a blunt LadyBic, she may still pop on here now and then with the odd Idol-related thoughts, or if I end up in drug and alcohol rehab and am unable to blog for a week, but we’re going to have to say goodbye to her day to day genius. Best of luck to you, dear, and on behalf of everyone at Allure Media, I hope it all falls on its arse so you end up back here. JUST KIDDING. You’ll be a wonder, as ever. Feel free to mourn her passing in the comments, Clam Bestof obsessives. I’ll be writing more to try and make up for her virtual passing, but it just won’t be the same AND THERE’S NO NEED TO HAMMER THAT FACT HOME, I’M NO CLEM AND I NEVER WILL BE. Pass me my LadyBic, I’ll be in the bath – Britney Spears’ Everytime style. x More »