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Frances Bean Cobain: She’s A Chip Off Both Old Blocks
5:31AM Brian Moylan | Of all of Courtney Love’s addictions, we’re glad that Frances Bean Cobain has taken up her “ranting on the internet” addiction. You have got to check out her Twitter smackdown of Ali Lohan. Daddy would be so proud. More »
Online
Secret Service, Facebook Team Up Over Kill Obama Pollsters
8:50AM Andrew Belonsky | Some twisted soul posted a Facebook poll yesterday asking whether or not President Obama should be assassinated. Obviously that’s a big no-no, and now Facebook and the Secret Service have joined forces to form an elite crime fighting team. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Baghdad Shoe Hurler: Journalistic Role Model
6:21AM Hamilton Nolan | Let’s not forget that the hero Iraqi Shoe Hurler was a journalist before he became a footwear projectilist. A certain portion of his colleagues think he disgraced his profession. They’re wrong. Let’s go to Muntader’s brand new explanatory op-ed! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Today, A Dick Joke Involving Tom Cruise Becomes Even Funnier
12:40AM Foster Kamer | Michael Jackson’s doctor is still just as sketchy as before. Tom Cruise will raise your kids for you. Jude Law’s new baby’s name, rappers, witches, Heroes, Gossip Girls, and Ashton Kutcher’s fake life. Presenting an epic Saturday Gossip Roundup: More »
Small Screen
Arthur Kade Will Not Let Vagina Stand In The Way Of Reality TV
12:10AM Hamilton Nolan | In an exciting bit of rumour that almost makes us want to take the rest of the week off, a tipster tells us they heard on Philly radio that Zoolanderesque performance artist Arthur Kade’s getting a reality TV show. Uh. More »
Live From NBC’s TCA Panel: ‘Heroes’ Spared, Ben Silverman In Hiding
7:30AM Seth | NBC potentate Jeff Zucker and loyal henchperson Ben Silverman’s had the aura of proud parents watching their 30 Rock children collecting Globes—but they made the unusual decision to avoid the podium entirely at TCA.
3:10AM Kyle Buchanan | If only he could travel back in time to avert this catastrophe! After remarking that the only people who watch Heroes live are “saps and dipshits” who haven’t figured out how to operate a DVR, show creator Tim Kring is apologising for his remarks becoming so public. “It was a boneheaded attempt at being cute and making a point. Instead, it turned out to be just plain insulting and stupid.” Wait, we’re sorry: that was actually his attempt to explain season two of Heroes. [SyFy Portal] More »
‘Heroes’ Creator Has Special Message for the ‘Saps’ Who Watch His Show
6:51AM Kyle Buchanan | With Heroes currently undergoing a ratings tailspin that even a concentrating, constipated-faced Milo Ventimiglia can do nothing about, one would think that creator Tim Kring would be trying to hold onto whatever fans he had left. Not so much! The Washington Post reports that at a recent Creative Screenwriting panel (where Kring attended solo sans two of the promised guests: Heroes executive producers that NBC recently fired), Kring complained that the Heroes downturn was less his fault and more the fault of people who actually sit down in front of the television and watch the show: More »
‘Heroes’ Still Failing To Attract Viewers, Be Good
5:12AM Seth | CBS’s Monday night sitcom lineup won the night, with How I Met Your Mother earning a season high. NBC saw modest gains, too, except for Heroes, which matched last week’s series low of 7.6 million. Bring back the slovenly puppeteer! His powers to enact drama-class exercises were kick arse! [THR] The King of Kong and Four Christmases director Seth Gordon is attached to Universal’s Suicide Squad, about a Kentucky Derby heist. [THR] Cosby brought him here, now it’s time for Obama to do some TV landscape changing of his own: NBC is developing a sitcom based on the book Making Friends With Black People. “It seemed like a good opportunity to strike while the iron is hot,” said author Nick Adams. Sounds like a great idea. [Variety] After the jump: Whoa. Whooaa. More »
