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Tenacity Now!
2:30PM Andrew Belonsky | Roman Polanski’s finishing his final movie from his jail cell. What a hard worker!
Small Screen
Letterman Apology: A Lesson In Covering All Your Bases
8:00PM Andrew Belonsky | Eh. Despite his promise not to discuss his sex scandal too much, David Letterman used this evening’s Late Show to do just that and offered his requisite apology. It’s a three-pronged effort that’s a bit confounding, but, ultimately, convincing. More »
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CBS Tries, In Vain, To Erase Letterman’s Affair Confession
7:02PM Andrew Belonsky | CBS has been going through YouTube and its own site to erase all mention of David Letterman’s sex scandal confession. We don’t know why. It’s not like that will make this go away. Plus, there’s no stopping the internet. [NYT]
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Judging Potential Hypocrite David Letterman’s Sex Extortion Scandal
2:53PM Andrew Belonsky | So, here they are: David Letterman’s remarks on how he had “creepy” sex with an indeterminate amount of female staffers and was then extorted. Considering Letterman has long used affairs as punchlines, should we run him out of town? More »
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Mary-Louise Parker, Man Thief?
8:45PM Andrew Belonsky | Gossip types are absolutely atwitter over the news that Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker has a new boyfriend, singer Charlie Mars. But not everyone’s celebrating. In an email entitled “Cougar Goes Too Far”, one irate tipster claims Parker’s a man-stealing tart. More »
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Even Obama Thinks Kanye’s An Arse
1:02PM Andrew Belonsky | Basically the entire world has rallied around the idea that Kanye West is an entire asshole for ruining Taylor Swift’s big moment last night. So, too, has Barack Obama, the US president. But he won’t do it on the record. More »
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Chris Brown Sentencing Reveals International Rihanna Brawls
11:38AM Andrew Belonsky | We knew Chris Brown wouldn’t go to jail for beating Rihanna, so we can’t say we’re surprised a judge sentenced him to 1400 hours of community service this afternoon. But it’s worth noting that the infamous incident wasn’t isolated. More »
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Twilight Scribe Accused Of Plagiarising Other Vampire Novel
6:48PM the cajun boy | Attorneys for an author named Jordan Scott have fired off a cease and desist letter to Hatchette Book Group, claiming that Breaking Down, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, ripped off major storylines from Scott’s book, The Nocturne. More »
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AT&T’s American Idol Vote-Rigging Conspiracy
12:35AM Richard Lawson | The voting machines were tampered with! By “voting machines” we mean the mindless finger-dialers from Arkansas who were tricked by the nefarious AT&T syndicate into voting for, successfully, Miss Kris Allen, the straight white corn boy who defeated, in an upset, the gay Frankenstein. The New York Times now cries foul. More »
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