Twin Guitar Special 90210
Here are a pair of twins (from Brooklyn band The Forms) playing the theme to "Beverly Hills 90210." It gave us time to reflect. Whatever happened to Jennie Garth?
Barbara Walters Inspires Hookers Everywhere
Even if this weren't an incredibly touching story, this clip from "The View" would be worth it solely for the way Barbara says the word "hookers" about three hundred times in twenty seconds.
'Post' Lauded For A-Dultery Headline
Poor Alex Rodriguez: You're the highest-paid baseball player in the history of the game and you can't get a little action on the side without the papers making a federal case out of it? Mickey Mantle must be spinning in his grave like a chunk of lamb on a gyro machine. Anyway, the Associated Press notes yesterday's …
Dave Zinczenko becomes a "Jeopardy" question. [WWD]
Right To Drink Won On LIRR, Metro North
We live in an era of apathy and cynicism. Government is broken; religion fails to relieve the anxiety of the age; torpor and resigned acceptance are the default responses to the inconveniences and incivilities life throws in our way on a daily basis. So when a group comes together and rouses itself against injustice,…
"Kevin Spacey is certainly loyal. The 'Moon for the Misbegotten' star was overheard telling people in the smoking lounge at Buddha Bar that he's been with his manager, Joanne Horowitz, for 22 years, and they've never had a piece of paper between them." [R&M]
Lou Dobbs To Find A Leprosy Expert Who Doesn't Hate Black People
So remember that Times column yesterday that basically came out and said CNN populist and honorary Minuteman Lou Dobbs was basically full of misinformation and deliberate inaccuracies? Well, CNN wasn't exactly pleased.
Well, that settles it! Or does it? An additional piece by David Leonhardt, author of the initial …Enjoy the rootsy Americana of Cooksie, half of which is Radar's John Cook. [Cook Brothers]
Comedians grab for piece of the Internet pie. Again. [NYT]
Trump And O'Reilly Trash "Monster" O'Donnell
Last night's "O'Reilly Factor" featured a discussion between noted solons Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly himself on the endlessly fascinating topic of "loser" Rosie O'Donnell. (Remember her? She used to be on "The View"?) Did you know she was polling even more poorly among Fox News viewers than President Bush? Well,…
Lou Dobbs Loves White Supremacists, Hates Imaginary Lepers
Deep at the bottom of David Leonhardt's "Economix" column in the New York Times today comes some shocking news about Lou Dobbs, crusader against immigration and CNN's great white hope to capture a slice of the Bill O'Reilly yahoo demographic: He sometimes plays fast and loose with the facts. Let's boil it down—after…
'Observer,' Like, Really Wants Your Business, Copyediting
"Your next few weeks of The New York Observer," a subscriber was recently informed by letter, "will be your last, unless you respond to this, our final renewal notice. Just think, after a few short weeks, no more writers, like, Rex Reed, Joe Canason and Andrew Sarris, ... no more breaking news stories exposing New…
Interview is for sale. [NYP]
NBC viewers blame it for being "so damned entertaining." [TSG]
'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End'
Is there a more American way of spending your hot summer weekend than sitting benumbed in some air-conditioned popcorn palace while the latest installment of some celluloid masterpiece based upon a comic book or amusement park ride unspools across the screen? We sent Richard Blakeley and the Cajun Boy around to…
Tony Ortega Offs Kristin Lombardi
Kristin Lombardi, a three-year veteran of the Village Voice (for younger readers, that means she came on during the Don Forst era; November 1, 2004, to be specific), was let go on Friday. A Voice spokesperson had no comment on the departure, but the fact that Lombardi, an investigative journalist, has had a grand…
Benevolent, Nonpartisan Corporation Promises Fairness With Data
Now that every presidential candidate has a MySpace page, "News Corp. will soon be able to track and monitor online donations made to presidential candidates." The Financial Times notes that goo-goo types are raising questions about whether or not donations given through individual candidate pages make MySpace a…
Mean Lady Wants To Take Away Our Torture Porn
Writing in AdAge, former News scold Lenore Skenazy (the low-carb version of Andrea Peyser) takes on torture porn—"that new category where the star gets raped and disemboweled." Leaving aside the fact that Skenazy has clearly never heard of genre classics like, say, Titus Andronicus, the soi-disant "resident school…
We Swear A Lot When We Read 'Interview' Too
Your latest installment of Idiot Interview Letter of the Month comes from the June issue (cover: Felicity with a gob of whip cream spooged on her chesticles). While this letter is somewhat "clever" in that it's a play on the band The Bird and the Bee's lead single, "F*cking Boyfriend," we can't help but feel that this…