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"I Have Eight What? Oh, Oh, Right. Them." [Open Caption] - 03/11/2010 03:17 PM
[That's America's sweetheart Kate Gosselin going to dinner with her Dancing with the Stars friend in New York, after a seven hour hair appointment. After. Image via INF] More »
Patrick Kennedy's Media-Savvy Anti-Media Rant [Awesome] - 03/11/2010 02:55 PM
Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy totally reamed the national press corps as a bunch of "despicable" scandalmongers in a screamy speech on the House floor yesterday. The media sprung into action to prove him right. More »
Futures Market for Movies Coming Soon [Back To The Futures] - 03/11/2010 02:37 PM
You'll be able to bet, and trade, on the domestic box office of upcoming movies from next month, when a subsidiary of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald will open an online futures site. More »
Bush, Cheney, Inspired to Torture by Watching 24 [Unsurprising] - 03/11/2010 01:49 PM
The former head of Britain's intelligence service says that the three-headed monster known as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld fetishized, and were inspired by, Jack Bauer's torture techniques. More »
Another Sexy Teacher Confesses to Having Sexy Sex with a Student [Affairs] - 03/11/2010 01:20 PM
Wracked with guilt after a nine-month affair with a student, a 33-year-old LA teacher walked into police headquarters and confessed. The married mother of three now faces seven years in jail. More »
Bank of America Steals Pet Parrot from Wrongly Foreclosed Home [Pet Theft] - 03/11/2010 12:30 PM
A Pittsburgh woman was away when repo men invaded her not-foreclosed home and "stopped utility services, cut water lines and electrical wiring, damaged flooring and finishings, poured antifreeze into sinks and toilets," and stole her parrot. More »
Gerard on Jennifer: 'I Trimmed Her Bush' [Gossip Roundup] - 03/11/2010 11:55 AM
As soon as the words came out of Gerard's mouth, he regretted them. Corey Feldman defends Corey Haim. Jessica Simpson misses Tony Romo's "cute butt." Pattinson used to get beat up all the time. Thursday's gossip roundup has no filter. More »
LA Loses Last Bastion of Endangered Sushi [Whales] - 03/11/2010 11:53 AM
Riding high on Oscar glory, the brains behind dolphin hunting documentary The Cove, along with several federal agencies, busted Santa Monica hot-spot eatery The Hump for serving endangered Sei whale meat. More »
Bar Rafaeli Should Dump Leo and Date a Nice Jewish Boy, Says Bubbe Mafia [The Chosen] - 03/11/2010 10:53 AM
Israeli nationalist organization Lehava "provides assistance to Jewish girls in relationships with non-Jews," helping "extricate" them from goyim relationships. Their latest target: Israeli supermodel and Leonardo DiCaprio girlfriend Bar Rafaeli. More »
Madonna and Lourdes to Outfit Teens, Possibly in Ed Hardy [Fashion] - 03/11/2010 08:49 AM
You're never too young to have a personal brand. Madonna and her precociously stylish 13-year-old daughter are co-designing Material Girl, a teen clothing line that will hopefully resist the urge to stamp "Material Girl" on the seats of gym shorts. More »
Proof That Your Parents Totally Still Have Sex [Old People] - 03/11/2010 08:24 AM
The average sex life ends at the age of 70. So, for every 30-year-old who can't get laid, there is a 110-year-old getting it on. That's how averages work, right? [Bloomberg] More »
Dakota Fanning Writhes in Lingerie for 'Cherry Bomb' Video, Other Teen Starlets Way Jealous [VideUhOh] - 03/11/2010 08:06 AM
Little Dakota Fanning is all grown up and making everyone feel like a pedophile. Alongside Kristen Stewart, Dakota shakes her distressingly young chest in this music video for Joan Jett biopic The Runaways. Somewhere, Taylor Momsen is seething with envy. More »
Dear Howard Stern, Stop Pretending Like You Care About Gabourey Sidibe's Health [Bullshit] - 03/11/2010 05:18 AM
Howard Stern defends yesterday's rant about "enormous as a planet" Gabourey Sidibe: "Obesity in this country is out of control," and he just wants everyone to be healthy. Since when does acknowledging a fat person constitute "tacitly" promoting obesity? More »
Dirty Old Man Update: Ensign's Water Gets Hotter [Dirty Old Men] - 03/11/2010 03:00 AM
New emails tie John Ensign even closer to his cuckolded, hush-moneyed staffer. More »
McQueen for a Day [Pic Of The Day] - 03/11/2010 01:20 AM
[Alexander McQueen's final collection, completed a few weeks before his suicide last month, was revealed in Paris yesterday and today. The 16 outfits featured his trademark tailoring, attention to detail, and glamorous outlandishness.] More »
Twitter Co-Founder Would Like You To Think He's Turning 30 [Twitterati] - 03/11/2010 01:16 AM
Biz Stone used an age-shortener to fit his birthday onto Twitter; Julia Allison tried doing math with her brain; and Ana Marie Cox attempted to flirt with Rahm Emanuel over basic cable. The Twitterati turned to tools of last resort. More »
New York Times Savior Is Now the Richest Man on Earth [Billionaires] - 03/11/2010 12:58 AM
Despite the millions and millions he's poured into the struggling New York Times, shady Mexican mogul Carlos Slim managed to bypass Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to nab the No. 1 spot on Forbes' 2010 list of world billionaires. [Forbes] More »
Fur Returns to Popularity, Creative Protests Don't Work [Fashion Kills] - 03/10/2010 11:58 PM
For the first time in awhile more designers are showing fur than not. No matter how many sit-ins PETA stages, how much red paint it throws, or how many naked celebrities it puts on billboards, our animalistic tendencies live on! More »
Comments of the Day: We Love You Corey [We Read You] - 03/10/2010 11:55 PM
Today a sad thing happened, in Hollywood, in the world of celebrity, so we posted about it. And so did you! Lots and lots of comments — remembrances, odd little details, various other ephemera. Here are some samples. More »
Today In Drugs: Everything About Drugs Is Illegal [Taking A Hit] - 03/10/2010 11:34 PM
Bad news guys. There's just been a huge marijuana bust in New Jersey, the biggest of its kind in the state's history. Also? The police are onto your whole "drugged driving" thing. More »
Gran on the Street [Oscars] - 03/10/2010 11:30 PM
Here are some very old ladies weighing in on Oscar night fashion. More »
Bloomberg Crowns Henry Blodget 'King of the Blogosphere' [Blogging For Dollars] - 03/10/2010 11:20 PM
Bloomberg TV proclaims that, just as Amazon.com reinvented itself as a megamart, former Amazon.com bull Henry Blodget has reinvented himself as Blogger King. Hey, if Blodget's blogs do as well as his Amazon.com call, Perez Hilton should watch his tiara. More »
Six Lies Princeton Kids Tell About Why They're Becoming Investment Bankers [Shut Up, College] - 03/10/2010 11:00 PM
Oh neato, the Daily Princetonian has interviewed a bunch of Princeton kids who are going into investment banking. Marvel at the wide variety of lies they tell about their motivations! More »
The One Thing Still Left to Learn about Tiger Woods [Nine Irons] - 03/10/2010 10:37 PM
Isn't it amazing that with all those mistresses doing all those interviews, no one never mentioned Tiger's, uh, size? Thanks to intrepid gossip journalist Jo Piazza and kiss-and-teller Jamie Jungers we now have our answer. [Pic via Getty] More »
The Eric Massa Story Is About Every Single Political Story of Our Time [Salty Tales] - 03/10/2010 10:14 PM
"He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him." Eric Massa's Navy shipmates are speaking out. Add them to the list of people Massa's touched, from Rahm Emanuel to David Paterson. This story has everything. More »
Jennifer Aniston Can Smell Her Next Movie From Here [Open Caption] - 03/10/2010 10:03 PM
[The star of "The Bounty Hunter" in London today; image via Bauer-Griffin] More »
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day [Clipjob] - 03/10/2010 10:00 PM
Today at Gawker.TV, South Park's first-ever deleted scene, It's Always Sunny's Mac in an anti-smoking PSA as a teen, more pregnant teen-moms, Lost's flash-sideways re-imagined as a classroom television drama, and Steve Doocy's son gets schooled on Fox and Friends. More »
Court Says NYC Owns Tavern on the Green [Trademarks] - 03/10/2010 09:54 PM
A judge has ruled that the city—not the restaurant's previous operator—controls the name of the famous tourist trap, which closed January 1. Thank God. Now when it reopens, our grandmother won't drag us to "Tavern on the Park." More »
Sloganeering Towards Fallujah [Recessionomics] - 03/10/2010 09:46 PM
The Way We Live Now: Boldly Embracing Change. We must Move Forward and Evolve With Strength and Reward Success and other such buzzwords, if we are to survive as a nation in which people "buy" things. Not that you can. More »
A Google Employee Is Running Microsoft's Pub [Conflicts Of Interest] - 03/10/2010 09:31 PM
The co-owner of the Spitfire pub at Microsoft HQ now works for the software company's archenemy Google. Talk about hedging your investments. (NB to Microsofties: We hear the Google-friendly pub spikes your drinks with a productivity-killing chemical. It's called "alcohol.") More »
Does Lindsay Lohan Even Know That She's Suing E*Trade? [Lawsuits] - 03/10/2010 08:58 PM
Stupid lawsuits are filed every day, and Lindsay Lohan does stupid things every day. But is she really behind the E*Trade lawsuit that bears her name? More »
Capitalism Eats the Iraqi Shoe-Thrower [Advertising] - 03/10/2010 08:58 PM
Hero Iraqi shoe-hurler Muntader al-Zaidi probably had to get his balls electrocuted in prison so hard, and for what? To have his heroic act co-opted for a Colombian fabric softener commercial. A revolutionary's cruel, inevitable fate! [Copyranter at AnimalNY] More »
Just What You Need: More Bravo Shows [Television] - 03/10/2010 08:30 PM
The lady/gay reality network has added a fifth evening of original programming to its brightly-hued lineup, we're guessing Sunday night. New shows will include Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and some actual scripted fare, including a comedy about male escorts. More »
Dan Rather Gives Convoluted Apology For Loving Watermelons [Media Crack] - 03/10/2010 08:22 PM
In your wicked Wednesday media column: Dan Rather apologizes for not understanding the Twitter, looming BusinessWeek layoffs, the Ellies go to the usual suspects, and Jason Mulgrew's book is here. More »
Men's Health Is Recognized For Excellence In Coverline Repurposing [Honors] - 03/10/2010 07:39 PM
In a triumph for lazy hacks everywhere, Dave Zinczenko's Men's Health was nominated for National Magazine Awards for three of its 2009 issues—the covers of which are visually indistinguishable from the same shit Zincenko was hawking last year. More »
Mad Men Gets the Retro Barbie Treatment It Always Deserved [Things We Actually Like] - 03/10/2010 07:34 PM
We know this news came out yesterday, but we couldn't resist sharing the Joan, Roger, Don, and Betty Barbie dolls that Mattel is hawking for $75 a pop. Alcohol problems, sexual peccadilloes, and suburban ennui not included. More »
The Mayor in Question Is from Staten Island, Which Makes it Even Funnier [Beef] - 03/10/2010 07:27 PM
New Jersey Guidos now in full control of New York politics. More »
Assistant Ditches Cursing Yahoo CEO for Much Cooler Twitter CEO [Cubicle Culture] - 03/10/2010 07:23 PM
Kristen Cordle is stoked: The young executive assistant has abandoned the scary pirate captain of dying Yahoo to work for the CEO of red-hot Twitter Inc. She's already dissing her lame old company, and the competition. More »
Thinly-Veiled Novel About Gossip Bloggers Coming Soon [Gossip] - 03/10/2010 07:13 PM
Gossip about a book about about gossip about books and whatnot! Lately we've said to ourselves, "What this city needs is another thinly-veiled fictionalized tale of various media types doing their dramatic NYC thing." Hello, we hear one is coming! More »
American Idol: When No Man Loves the Women [Recaps] - 03/10/2010 06:49 PM
Girls! All we really want is girls! Well, that's all we really wanted at the beginning of this season's competition, because a woman was due to win the crown. Now, three weeks in? We don't want that anymore. More »


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