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Flotsam & Jetsam
Jon Returns Money That Kate-Hate Will Spend On Her Roadkill Hair
2:15AM Foster Kamer | Jon and Kate Gosselin are basically the worst people in the history of TV. Scott Weiland’s wife: a crazy-awesome smack addict. Kanyeezy’s community serveezy. J-Lo’s Lola gives me facehurt. Weirdos! Celebrities! Whatever! Presenting your Sunday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
Big Screen
As Vivendi Fiddles, Hollywood Awaits Big Shake-Up (Or Shake-Down)
1:03AM Richard Rushfield | Nothing that excites Hollywood more than the thought of a studio changing hands; the implications spilling down over a generation of executives and deals might be completely incomprehensible from this distance, but they are darn exciting. More »
Good Fucking Riddance, ‘Revolutionary Road’
6:15AM STV | In the spirit of fairness for those many times we called the Academy out for its general Oscar-nominating ineptitude, let’s all commend its members’ fine taste today in snubbing the utterly despicable Revolutionary Road. More »
Kate Winslet Not Quite Ready For Husband’s ‘Awkward’ Thigh-Surrendering Orders
5:39AM STV | Kate Winslet’s sex-positive, clothes-allergic career emerged from its most severe test to date in Revolutionary Road: It was there, the actress admits in a wrenching confession to ET, that her husband sternly insisted that he share her with Leonardo Di Caprio. More »
8:12AM STV | Today in Deadpan Hyperbole: “Why Revolutionary Road is going to be a big, practically zeitgeist-defining, hit,” wherein Glenn Kenny deduces that because Mad Men is a hit (though not quite), the show’s viewers will race to see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as an ad man and his wife splintering in early 1960s Connecticut. Titanic isn’t mentioned. If he isn’t serious, then it’s the best poker face we’ve seen in a long, long time. [Some Came Running] More »
When Paul Newman Made a Grown Man Cry
8:40AM STV | Appraisals and appreciations of Paul Newman haven’t been in especially short supply since his death last weekend; Robert Redford even got two chances at a eulogy, with his ABC rough draft giving way to an essay in the new issue of Time Magazine. We love a good Butch and Sundance/Sting story as much as the next grieving viewer, but nothing has yet proved as illuminating as Sam Mendes’s reminiscence rolling out in next week’s New York Magazine. The last man to direct Newman in a feature film, Mendes may not have acquired decades’ worth of personal dirt to dig through, but with veteran cinematographer Connie Hall on the set, he didn’t really need it: More »
