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Gawker’s Guide To Coverage Of Rolling Stone’s Megan Fox Coverage
8:57AM Richard Rushfield | In the most misguided media decision of the decade, Rolling Stone opted to let online readers look at the pictures from their recent Megan Fox cover story, but held back the text from the internet, making them pay for words. More »
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Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At Online Presence
7:15AM Foster Kamer | It must pain Jann Wenner to see his other properties start succeeding where his flagship magazine, Rolling Stone, squandered possibilities and descended into irrelevancy: online. Now that US Weekly’s site has heat, Wenner’s finally starting to line up RS’s strategy. More »
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Adam Lambert: Gay As He Wanna Be
12:51AM Richard Lawson | The most ludicrous American Idol contestant ever, Adam Lambert, has finally come out of the closet. In a cover story for Rolling Stone! More »
Print
10:05AM Jess McGuire | Orlando Bloom’s maybe-future-missus Miranda Kerr knows exactly how to get to the heart of important environmental issues. She’s taken her top off, and a bunch of music nerds who buy Rolling Stone are surely sorting out their recycling as we speak. More »
Miranda Kerr Strips Off For Trees… Or Something
10:05AM Jess McGuire | Orlando Bloom’s maybe-future-missus Miranda Kerr knows exactly how to get to the heart of important environmental issues. She’s taken her top off, and a bunch of music nerds who buy Rolling Stone are surely sorting out their recycling as we speak. More » Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Incredibly, Amy Took Drugs In Rehab
11:24AM Clem Bastow | From the “surprising absolutely no one except Drew Barrymore’s character in 50 First Dates” file comes the latest Amy Winehouse “news”: Amy apparently took drugs while she was at rehab.
And I say “news”, because, well, did anyone really think she’d make it through rehab without getting a fix? If so, LOL at you!
She said: ‘I’ve never been to rehab – I mean, done it properly. I’m young, and I’m in love, and I get my nuts off sometimes.’
‘To be honest, my husband’s away, I’m bored, I’m young. I felt like there was nothing to live for. It’s just been a low ebb.’
Wow, that was so incredibly surprising, it was like M. Night Shyamalan got together with David Copperfield and organised a surprise birthday for me, and then told me I’d won the Lottery and have cancer!
Incidentally, if you would prefer to read a piece by someone who hasn’t spent the last year suffering Amy Winehouse-related déjà vu Amy Winehouse-related déjà vu, Claire Hoffman’s Rolling Stone piece, Up All Night With Amy Winehouse, is compelling reading. More » Heath Ledger Oscar Buzz Starts… Yesterday!
8:47AM Clem Bastow | The buzz on the streets has been that Heath Ledger would deserve a posthumous Oscar for his work as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s latest Batman flick, The Dark Knight, but it’s only been recently that critics and assorted media have actually seen the film – and now the buzz is even stronger.
In particular Peter Travers’ Rolling Stone review, which is pretty much the biggest rave I’ve ever read (and Travers isn’t usually prone to hyperbole); on top of that, industry notables like Kevin Smith are also starting to join the call.
Travers said Ledger “is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker”.
“If there’s a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976’s Network, sign me up.
“Miles from Jack Nicholson’s broadly funny take on the role in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman, Ledger takes the role to the shadows, where even what’s comic is hardly a relief.”
Peter Finch (also AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! – and, for those of you who have FOR SHAME not seen Network, is the shouting/pointing dude Defamer Australia uses in our television ‘industry’ stories) has so far been the only posthumous Oscar winner (others have been nominated) and beat Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver), Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties), William Holden (Network) and Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) for the gong.
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