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Sun July 06, 2008
(Box Office Mojo) Interesting Hancock beats off robot, Angelina Jolie (44)
(Bloomberg) PSA NBC-Universal has agreed to purchase The Weather Channel for an undisclosed sum. No word on when Willard Scott's birthday bonanza will start running (55)
(Contact Music) Obvious To the surprise of absolutely no one, Steve-O has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital (54)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Will Smith reckons he'll get wife Jada's permission before he gets jiggy with irresistible "freaking gorgeous" gals who catch his eye (41)
(Some Writer) Obvious Funny how the exact same scene, almost word for word, plays much better with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro rather than Scott Plank and Alex MacArthur (34)
(Sify) Obvious Former child actor Christian Bale says Hollywood is no place for kids (27)
(Daily Mail) Stupid Thousands of Dr. Who fans angered because his mobile phone number seen in the last episode didn't actually work. Bunch of retardis (98)
(Contact Music) Obvious Billy Joel is comforting his ex-wife Christie Brinkley during her divorce. I mean, he's REALLY comforting her, if you get my drift. Wink, wink. GRATUITOUS INNUENDO (28)
(Baltimore Sun) Amusing Stubborn Americans still refuse to eat their vegetables, drive defensively or watch Hollywood's offerings on the Iraq War (73)
(BBC) Sad The star of one of Britain's longest-shown soaps dead at 63. Flat caps off, lads (7)
(Some Guy) Sad What a Moranis (79)
(Yahoo) Strange One film has inspired Chinese filmmakers to criticize their film industry and demand less government controls on culture. The film in question? "Kung Fu Panda" (14)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy The coolest thing about the Batpod from "The Dark Knight"? It actually works (39)
(AP) Silly Look out, Barbie, here comes the Bindi Irwin doll. Corvette Sting-Ray sold separately (32)

Sat July 05, 2008
(Daily Mail) Scary God smites California with fire because Jim Carrey wears his wife's swimsuit. On Malibu Beach (53)
(LA Times) Interesting Hans Zimmer's Joker theme "is a damning piece of music... that comes off like an orchestral interpretation of a something created by Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails." (some "Dark Knight" spoilers at the end) (43)
(Now Magazine) Interesting David and Victoria Beckham's life story to be turned into a musical - auditions for leading lady stipulate no singing ability required (16)
(Daily Mail) Scary Richard Hammond and James May might leave Top Gear if their pay dispute is not resolved. How hard could it be? (31)
(Metro) Hero In latest news that Apocalypse may not be upon us after all, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson vow that ABBA "will never reform" (35)
(Entertainment Weekly) Spiffy So meta it will make your head spin: Pop-culture list of the top 24 pop-culture lists (22)
(People Magazine) Sad Turns out Lynda Carter was using her Wonder Woman lasso to rope in cases of booze (35)
(The Sun) Stupid Madonna wants Britney Spears to join her Sticky and Sweet tour, presumably to add more sticky (41)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Roger Ebert watches widely-acclaimed 1935 Nazi documentary "Triumph of the Will" for first time since undergrad, and is surprised to discover it is a terrible movie and more phony than whatever Michael Moore has been up to lately (120)
(Entertainment Weekly) Obvious Stephen King explains why Hollywood can't make big-budget horror movies scary, and why the new "X-Files" movie will probably suck. Sometimes dead is better (74)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Sixty-year-old Sigourney Weaver is ready to suit up for "Alien 5." Jonesy the cat hisses (71)
(Contact Music) Unlikely Simon Pegg says audiences will need to suspend their disbelief when watching him as a heartthrob who's caught between Kirsten Dunst and Megan Fox. Suspending disbelief? Launching disbelief into space is more like it (45)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Paul Hogan proclaims "That's not an audit. THIS is an audit." (18)
(AZCentral) Obvious All it took to get Meryl Streep into her spandex suit for the movie "Mamma Mia" was seven men and a lifetime of grief counseling (32)
(MIB) Amusing Michael Ian Black says he's beta testing new fireworks like 'Whizzing Octosnatches': eight tiny vaginas that burst screaming upwards at the speed of sound, blow up, and spell out the word "Christmas" (20)
(Contact Music) Interesting Don Cheadle, Sidney Poitier, Lenny Kravitz and Denzel Washington have joined Barack Obama on a new list of black guys that wouldn't make you cross the street if you saw them coming your way (37)

Fri July 04, 2008
(YouTube) Cool It's 1988, you go to see the Pogues and Joe Strummer steps out and leads them in "London Calling". Does it get any better? (55)
(Celebitchy) Interesting 82-year-old Hugh Hefner on how he almost died choking on a sex toy, received sex from another man and had foursome with his brother in his upcoming biography (55)
(Boston Globe) Weird "A near minutelong, wordless interlude where Peter struggles to dispose of a dead bullfrog has the artistry of Chaplin" (52)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Martin Scorsese's 'The Departed.' Michael Mann's 'Heat.' And now, Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' can join the ranks as one of the best crime dramas in modern movie history" (103)
(Denver Post) Stupid Susan Olsen has radio interview that ends badly after she shows up hung over. You might remember her from the Brady Bunch, she was the one that played Cindy BraAAAAAAAAUUUUGHHRRRRGGGHHH (72)
(Cracked) Strange The most baffling explosions in movie history (135)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding's boyfriend has pissed her off so much she's considering fleeing the country to become a lesbian (17)
(Fox Sports) Followup Lenny Kravitz insists that he has standards (28)
(Now Magazine) Amusing David Hasselhoff plans to make friends as crazy as him on his newly launched social networking site, Hoff Space (16)
(St. Petersburg Times) Spiffy Thirty-five years ago, movie executives didn't think Americans would go to movies on the Fourth of July. Here's the top ten most impressive Independence Day releases since "Jaws" changed their minds (43)
(BBC) Followup There may be an ounce of sense left in Hollywood yet: Warner Bros. say there is "no truth" to the story that a 'Friends' movie will be made (20)
(Metro) Obvious Katie Holmes' Broadway debut headed for disaster, leaving insiders joking that she may have to strip off to bring the crowds in. Let's hope she shaves the beard first (21)
(io9) Followup Next year's tentpole summer sci-fi movies "Star Trek" and "Terminator" represent yin and yang of time travel. Together, both are managing to turn 2009 into 1984 (18)
(Metro) Asinine Dumbass: Man is willing to pay £150 to watch final episode of "Prison Break" on his cell phone. Asinine: His phone company billed him £31,500. Stupid: Is as stupid does (54)
(Some Guy) Sad Christina Applegate is back on the market (44)
(JSOnline) Spiffy Strip club, hoping to gain license to allow in 18 to 20-year-olds, promotes itself as a "center for the visual and performing arts". Number of art critics suddenly increases (32)

Thu July 03, 2008
(The Hollywood Reporter) Asinine Spike TV accuses ABC of ripping off "MXC" to create "Wipeout," which is basically claiming they invented mocking people who fall down (84)
(KNBC) Hero Bozo the Clown dies at age 83 (277)
(Deceiver) Sad You know what Tatum O'Neal really likes? Crack (41)
(New Zealand Herald) Strange Reality show producers say there was "a clear editorial purpose for the inclusion of an image of a frostbitten penis, which had been shown for a medical rather than a sexual purpose" (26)
(NYPress) Interesting New tell-all book written by former stripper rips Matt Drudge a new one, revealing among other shocking facts, that he's a "Young And The Restless" addict (85)
(YouTube) Spiffy The most awesome Star Wars/Flashdance mash-up you'll see ever (47)
(The Sporting Blog) Cool The ten greatest sword fights on film "My name in Inigo Montoya and I am not #1 on this list. Prepare to die" (134)
(Dr. Horrible) Cool What happens when you combine Neil Patrick Harris, Nathon Fillion, and Joss Whedon? You get the awesome tag. (Accepting the award for the absent awesome tag is the cool tag) (43)
(AZCentral) Wheaton Great Robert Sean Leonard interview; "If I were Hugh Laurie, I would have had a gun in my mouth three years ago" Tag is for Wil reference (54)
(Bitten and Bound) Obvious Guy Ritchie plus Madonna divided by A-Rod plus Cynthia Rodriguez divided by Lenny Kravitz equals one helluva week for bloggers (11)
(Wired) Spiffy Wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka (91)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Amy Winehouse put under house arrest so she doesn't relapse. Translation: the public needs to be protected from her (20)
(NYPost) Cool Ex-employee of movie producer and unhinged nutbar Harvey Weinstein saved his notes and didn't sign a non-disclosure agreement. There's going to be a book and it's going to be good (25)
(Starpulse) Obvious "Our Favorite Canadian Thespians." List is so short, they had to dig up a couple of dead guys and add a hot chick with Hep-C (80)
(Gawker) Dumbass This just in: Donald Trump is a monumental douchewaffle who doesn't know when to keep his damn mouth shut (78)
(NYPost) Obvious Lindsay Lohan's sleezoid father now trying to sell the results of his DNA paternity test to gossip magazines for $20,000. For $25,000 he'll even give them a fresh sample (14)
(BBC) Cool Henry Winkler visits British school to talk about dyslexia. Because who could be a better spokesman than someone whose catchphrase consisted of one letter? (103)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Tori Spelling announces that her husband impregnated her with super sperm (28)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Naomi Watts is the latest celebrity to get into the "total vag workout" craze (27)
(New York Daily News) Misc Howard Stern Show comedians bombed in latest stand-up show. Literally (51)
(Now Magazine) Hero Jean-Claude Van Damme reckons he's a brand name like Levi's. Steven Seagal is also a brand name - but more like Wal-Mart (50)
(Newsday) Ironic Everyone whose wife hasn't run off with Lenny Kravitz, take one step forward. Not so fast there A-Rod (44)
(Got GPL?) Interesting Bravo to broadcast the first 'Gay Personal Lubricant Ad'. Let's hope everything goes smoothly in the end (42)
(Telegraph) Dumbass Christie Brinkley's ex-husband admits in court he spent $3000/month on internet porn. While married to CHRISTIE BRINKLEY (80)
(Daily Stab) Obvious Megan Fox dumps long-time boyfriend Brian Austin Green before she had to suffer through the embarrassment of him appearing on the new Beverly Hills 90210 (67)
(Some Guy) Cool Hip-hop and chess: a match made "just for the joy of flexin' ya mentals." (17)
(Daily Mail) Cool The coolest pictures of celebrity busts made entirely of matches you will see today. Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor conspiciously absent (24)
(Daily Mail) Misc UK bookies place 2-1 odds on "Trainspotting" star to replace David Tennant as eleventh Doctor Who, a topic suddenly on mind of many Time Lord fans lately (69)
(Reuters) Dumbass Rapper DMX arrested again. No, this is not repeat. Soon he'll be in Henry Earl territory (25)

Wed July 02, 2008
(Entertainment Weekly) Interesting Surprise hits such as "Sex and the City" and "The Devil Wears Prada" have Hollywood wondering: isn't it time they aimed for middle-aged women instead of action-thirsty teens? (65)
(E! Online) Sad Sorry ladies, Rosie O'Donnell is shooting down rumours that her marriage is on the rocks (21)
(Stereohyped) Interesting Watching BET programming, you're "exposed to violence, profanity or obscenity once every 38 seconds." That Tavis Smiley will smack your motherf**ing ass (61)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Mr Christie Brinkley paid $300,000 to the teen he was sleeping with so that she would keep it a secret. Good to know the investment paid off (37)
(CNN) Obvious Netflix is making a pile of cash on news that people don't want to waste expensive gas driving to expensive theatres (99)
(CNN) Scary TMZ, proving that they hate everyone, is re-posting the Mini-Me sex tape (31)
(Some Comic Guy) Cool Dabel Brothers Publishing to adapt "The Wheel of Time" to graphic novel format. Let the nerdgasm commence (129)
(Guardian.com) Asinine News: "Top Gear" has been rapped by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee for showing presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May drinking while driving. Fark: At the North Pole (43)
(Now Magazine) Interesting John Mayer regrets ever hooking up with Jennifer Aniston. He is now in the unfortunate position of being in between two whiny, highly-overrated and generally pathetic women (76)
(Daily Stab) Obvious "Friends" stars are running out of cash, ready to jump on the reunion train and make a movie (110)
(NYPost) Amusing Criticized by animal lover/daughter screamer-at-er Alec Baldwin, NYC's horse-and-carriage drivers call their horse diapers "Baldwin Bags" (20)
(NYPost) Interesting Director Robert Rodriguez splits with Rose McGowan, the woman he left his wife for and who he was trying to put into every film he makes (95)
(Now Magazine) Scary Rachel Hunter uses her stint on NBC's "Celebrity Circus" to audition for the WWE. Look at the size of her arms (with pics) (61)
(The Local (Germany)) Interesting Lost scenes from Fritz Lang classic "Metropolis" discovered in Argentina. Dialogue track still missing (86)
(Now Magazine) Unlikely Daniel Radcliffe likens the new Harry Potter film to 1996 drug film "Trainspotting." Expect to see Harry climbing in an out of a toilet to collect his wand (62)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Hancock" a disaster beyond saving (103)
(TopNews) Interesting Jessica Simpson beats off many other A-list celebrities to earn "best breasts in Hollywood" poll. Insiders admit that Jessica's brr... brrr... BBBBRRRROMSKIIIII (182)
(Contact Music) Hero Christian Bale vows to resign from the Batman franchise if the producers decide to introduce Robin: "If Robin crops up in one of the new Batman films, I'll be chaining myself up somewhere and refusing to go to work" (181)
(Daily Mail) Hero Baby Spice likes being curvy, doesn't think she looks good thin. Even studman69 would definitely hit it (91)
(The New York Times) Amusing First it was the fatties, now it's right-wingers who are hissy fitting over "Wall-E" (388)
(Variety) Silly The next Judd Apatow production will star Sacha Baron Cohen as Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson (58)
(Orlando Sentinel) Stupid "CBS Evening News With Katie Couric" wins Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. In related news, Edward R. Murrow spins in his grave so quickly, he catches fire from the friction (71)
(Wordpress) Cool Gary Oldman all but confirms The Riddler for the next "Batman" installment (124)
(AP) Weird Hottest new opera in Paris this season based on 1986 film? "The Fly." Gregor Samsa not amused (18)
(News.com.au) Scary Good for him: Jack Black wants to lose weight. Bad for us: So he can film more nude scenes (63)
(JoBlo) Obvious Why the addition of Robin into the new Batman universe created by Christopher Nolan wouldn't work. Sadly, no mention of the fact that the studios would probably demand Shia LaBeouf be Robin (96)

Tue July 01, 2008
(Reuters) Followup You can all rest a bit easier tonight, Guy Ritchie and Madonna are not divorcing (40)
(St. Petersburg Times) Amusing Cameron Frye, you're my hero: oldest Ferris teenager Alan Ruck turns 52 (60)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Dumbass "Jericho" fans send 1,050 pounds of nuts to The Hollywood Reporter, showing delusional faith that the cancelled show could return and that trade publications have real power (22)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Pierce Brosnan is a motorboating son of a biatch. And if he isn't, he should be (87)
(Starpulse) Obvious Teri Hatcher snubbed by the Emmys. Even voters know she'll never top her performance as a go-go dancer playing the electronic drums in "Tango & Cash" (45)
(Sci Fi) Sad General Hammond takes last trip through the Gate. Actor Don S. Davis dies at age 65 (82)
(CNN) Spiffy Beatles interview thought lost for 44 years will air again on BBC, and will feature Lennon and McCartney talking about the days before your mother was born, though she was born a long, long time ago (78)
(Metro) Obvious Victoria Beckham says Corey Haim didn't want to have sex with her during their brief relationship. Sharp knees and all that (57)
(LA Times) Spiffy This just in: Molly Ringwald is still hot (230)
(The Tennessean) Obvious Dear NBC: "Nashville Star" sucks. Signed, Nashville (27)
(Some Guy) Scary Twelve movie directors who don't seem to be able to get a decent big screen job any more, while McG gets a Terminator flick. Go figure (81)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Amy Winehouse is being turned into a waxwork at Madame Tussauds and it will include a three-foot beehive. Reports that the replica hairdo is being made from recycled parts of Chewbacca's waxwork yet to be confirmed (26)
(CBR) Sad Comic book artist Michael Turner passes away. The loss is hard to fathom (38)
(CTV) Silly Shatner describes his life as "most illogical" (23)
(Starpulse) Dumbass Britney Spears gets a second chance to shuffle around like a rhythm-devoid zombie at the MTV Video Music Awards (36)
(Google) Interesting Car Talk's Click and Clack take their made-for-radio faces to TV (27)
(Honolulu Advertiser) Strange Harry Potter fans hold their Wrockstock rock fest in Missouri, New York, Chicago and Green Bay (21)
(Telegraph) Obvious Charlize Theron: "I'm pretty hot" (76)

Mon June 30, 2008
(IGN) Cool IGN reviewer on "The Dark Knight": "The violence is quite possibly the most intense I have ever seen in a PG-13 film, leaving myself and others wondering how 'The Dark Knight' avoided an R" (100)
(Starpulse) Strange 1968: The Stones get blood recycled through them to remove traces of drugs. 2008: Ron Wood voluntarily enters rehab after a wine-tasting (15)
(Some Guy) Cool "The Quantum of Solace" trailer, available in up to 720. Pierce who? (74)
(Starpulse) Unlikely Paris Hilton's new boyfriend won't let her get any tattoos... because he wants her to remain "pure" (46)
(Google) Asinine Further proof that the UK has no taste: "Four Weddings and a Funeral" named best British film of all time (58)
(Daily Stab) Obvious Eddie Murphy says he's done with movies and wants to go back to stand-up. Oh wait, but first he wants to get that big paycheck for "Beverly Hills Cop 4" (45)
(Rolling Stone) Amusing John Oates' mustache thrill ride coming soon, hopefully (23)
(Miami Herald) Obvious Flat-screen TVs making television armoires about as scarce as quality sitcoms (179)
(Radar Magazine) Weird A-Rod and Madonna are dating? (27)
(Celeb Stoner) Cool Rob Thomas: "I'm a huge pothead." Yeah, that Rob Thomas (70)
(Lookero) Scary Top 10 celebrity plastic surgery disasters: We're going to need more eye-bleach for these ones (56)
(Washington Post) Interesting Guy wins the Pulitzer for originality 77 years after someone did the same stunt with the same equipment and script (49)
(iF Magazine) Cool Christian Bale says he'd do a third "Batman" movie... wait, the second isn't even out yet. Of course, he also has some "conditions," none of which include him striking (76)
(BBC) Followup Fan elbowed in the head by Amy Winehouse during Glastonbury tells the BBC all about it. He won't press charges for assault, but he may sue for emotional damages after being forced to look at Amy up close (18)
(Sun Sentinel) Sad "They should be taken out to pasture and shot" celebrity "Then and Now" photos (110)
(Bitten and Bound) Obvious Tobey Maguire took his sweetheart to the park yesterday. Oh, wait, his wife was there too with a minor role in the playground production (35)
(UPI) Amusing Amy Winehouse manages to wheeze out insults to Kanye West and Jay-Z during concert. Rev. Al Sharpton seen checking one bag of moral outrage while boarding flight to London for protest march (33)
(Deceiver) Sad It's not entirely outside the realm of possibility that Steven Tyler might have a teensy-tiny bit of a drug problem, maybe (35)
(Celebitchy) Interesting Ben Affleck lends his crucial expertize to the "Nightline" crew, flies over to Congo for a special report and comes back with devastating news: There is poverty in the world (with videos) (26)
(Bitten and Bound) Interesting Kim Cattrall is partnering with an Egyptian billionaire. No, wait. It's a business deal only -- so far, that is (5)
(Reuters) Interesting Helena Bonham Carter joins "Terminator 4" cast. Will take significantly more time in makeup to make her look like an artificial human than it did to make her look like a chimpanzee (59)
(Breitbart.com) Obvious Hollywood actors: We are prepared to strike. Rest of the world: Whatever (71)
(Fox News) Interesting Christie Brinkley has not been taking her kids to see the piano man (13)
(New York Daily News) Sad Even if you could get Anne Hathaway to go out with you, you couldn't trust her not to tell the cops about your stash of counterfeit action figures (50)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane strikes side deal with Google, keeps his $100 million day job (65)
(Variety) Spiffy Sparta Boogaloo (44)
(NYPost) Cool Quentin Tarantino wants Tera Patrick for remake of "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" as the mainstreamification of porn continues (75)
(New York Daily News) Followup Boyfriend of Russian suicide model goes into shock when he realizes that he's never going to hit anything that hot ever again (295)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Gun-toting killers are no match for a cute robot at the box office (42)
(News.com.au) Interesting "Two of the models only have one arm, one has lost a leg, and one 'had all the neurons sheered off' in her brain -- set your TiVos for this week's premier of 'Britain's Missing Top Model.'" (With video preview) (115)
(New York Daily News) Interesting Nicole Kidman's delivery room soundtrack for her first biological child includes the music of flautist James Galway, ensuring the poor kid endless locker room wedgies and towelsnaps (16)



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