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Small Screen
The Seinfeld Reunion Will Spell The Death Of Meta
4:57AM Brian Moylan | Seinfeld was a revolutionary sitcom, so its reunion had to be equally brilliant. As witnessed on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the non-reunion reunion about the making of a reunion on a different show will make blood pour out of your ears. More »
Big Screen
Everything Un-Ravaged, Everthing Un-Burned In Hollywood
2:58AM Natasha VC | Three picture deals, reunions, prequels, and the secret ingredient to box office success have all been revealed! Like a fresh patch of skin that emerges after a viscous sunburn, this last week of July has some rejuvenating news from Hollywood. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Love Forces Orlando Bloom To Walk Away From New Pirates Sequel
9:59PM the cajun boy | Orlando Bloom passes on playing Will Turner to be with his girlfriend, Megan Fox thinks zombies are sexy, Tara Reid is quite skinny, Paris Hilton claims to have inspired Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse almost dies after a binge. More »
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Woody Allen Is Feeling Bleak Enough Without Your Judgement
6:40PM Ryan Tate | Woody Allen uses the word “tragic” four times in his front-page interview with the New York Observer. Also, “nihilistic,” “dreadful,” “sad,” “malcontent” and “embarrassment.” And that’s before he gets going about the “appropriate police.” More »Cameron Diaz Finally Finds Her Oscar-Worthy Line: ‘Drop That Clitoris’
7:40AM Molly Friedman | Have you ever found yourself mindlessly trying on the latest pair of $800 jeans at Fred Segal and suddenly realised, you know what? It must be way hard for all those African girls out there in Africa and The Iraq Such As to even wear jeans like this. Why? As “Cameron Diaz” (flawlessly portrayed by Tracey Ullman) informs us, for the very first time all their genitals are falling off! The suckiest part? “This is the golden age of American blue jeans! It’s really sad and amazing.” The fictional burp-happy actress’ solution, of course, is to star in That Terrible Time Of The Month, in which a gun-toting Diaz burps and farts her way through the jungle to save each and every halfway-severed ladypart from girls named Toko. For more insight, including Bono’s method of miming the actual chop and toss, watch our clip after the jump. More »
4:20AM Seth | Blogging on the election (presidential, not Idol) for the Huffington Post, Larry David admits he’s lost a bit of confidence in the increasingly histrionic Hillary Clinton: “There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost…I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere.” We’re looking forward to Jerry Seinfeld’s own op-ed on the race, in which he asks, “What is with this Hillary Rodham Clinton? The woman’s totally a woodwork wacko! And she’s a three-name woman…and many of the three-named people do become assassins.” [HuffPo] More »
4:20AM Seth | Blogging on the election (presidential, not Idol) for the Huffington Post, Larry David admits he’s lost a bit of confidence in the increasingly histrionic Hillary Clinton: “There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost…I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere.” We’re looking forward to Jerry Seinfeld’s own op-ed on the race, in which he asks, “What is with this Hillary Rodham Clinton? The woman’s totally a woodwork wacko! And she’s a three-name woman…and many of the three-named people do become assassins.” [HuffPo] More »
Study: Larry David Might Be Mentally Ill
6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | If you’ve ever felt that the awkward confrontations in which Larry David invariably finds himself during the average episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm sometimes seem like the product of profound mental illness rather than improvisational comedic invention, the work of a clinical psychology student noted in this week’s New Yorker might finally convince you that David’s TV character might have deeper problems than merely being an impatient, fussy jerk. When the student showed episodes of Curb to his schizophrenic patients, they quickly recognised Larry’s socially dysfunctional behaviour: So Roberts began showing TV clips during therapy sessions. Soon he had narrowed his selections down to one show: television’s purest expression of social dysfunction, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Roberts considers Larry David to be the perfect proxy for a schizophrenic person. “On his way into his dentist’s office, he holds the door open for a woman, and, as a result, she’s seen first,” he said. “He stews, he fumes, he explodes. He’s breaking the social rules that folks with schizophrenia often break.” More »
