Tuesday, Oct 07
Are Her Glasses Fake?
Seems to us the top of her cheek should appear somewhat diffracted through the lens from this angle if the glass is prescription. Did she really think her beauty was so loud it had to be muted for her to become VP? (Photo: Getty Images)
Tuesday, Oct 07
Winkage and Dinklage
Just the kind of thing you're likely to see on any given day in Manhattan. We miss that. (Photo: Splash via Defamer)
Quote Unquote
"I am not in favor of children's suddenly finding a lot of money coming their way, because then they have no incentive to work. [My children] aren't bothered. They don't think that way. It is about having a work ethic. I don't believe in inherited money at all." – composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, to the London Mirror, on not leaving any of his $1.3 billion to his kids but instead bequeathing it to aspiring singers and composers. So it's OK for strangers to find a lot of money coming their way, just not family? (Page Six)
Sarah Silverman's Fucking (with) Barbara Walters
Sarah Silverman refused to define her current relationship with Jimmy Kimmel to Barbara Walters when she guested on The View this morning, saying, "In total respect to you and your legendness, I do not feel beholden or compelled to define my personal relationship." But the ex-couple attended Howard Stern's wedding at Le Cirque over the weekend, lunched together, and went to the Saturday Night Live afterparty. So it smells like they're back together. "We talk every day," Silverman told the NY Times. "It's fine, it's great. I'm doing his show at the end of the month. We're very Demi and Bruce." Pointedly not Demi and Ashton. (Us; photo: Joe Corrigan/Getty Images)
Tuesday, Oct 07
Commercial Break: Herpetrex
Our new favorite comedy team, JC Gardiner and Beth Crosby, in a familiar TV spot made real.
Lacroix, Darling!
Despite disastrously unsuccessful previous attempts to reproduce in the US the delicious, hilarious magic of the Britcom Absolutely Fabulous, the folks at Fox think they can do it this time, with the original series creator Jennifer Saunders executive producing. Variety reports that the latest attempt at a US version will transplanted it in LA but try to retain the basic concept of the original series, which was about two alcoholic, drugs-and-fashion-addicted 40something best friends desperately trying to stay hip and young on the London scene. Roseanne Barr and Carrie Fisher gave it a try back in 95, and so did Jean Smart and Mary McDonnell, but neither duo could recreate the bracing chemistry of Saunders and sidekick Joanna Lumley in the roles. (Even later AbFab reunions of Saunders and Lumley themselves seemed less than fabulous.) The original series represented a specific time in pop culture history; it needs to stay there. We have Entourage.
Sex Change Hospital
In her review of World of Wonder's life-affirming series, Sex Change Hospital, which premieres in the US October 14 at 11PM on WeTV, Karla Scoon Reid says on Syracuse.com, "You'll find yourself thinking about Sex Change Hospital's families long after the show ends. And you'll wonder: Will you always love and support your children – no matter what?"
What This Country Needs...?
Brendan Donnelly puts forth as a serving suggestion Ron Paul for prez and RuPaul for vice prez, and we think, well, at least Ru would add just the right dash of vice to the position. Visit Donnelly's very fun site, Remember...You're a Winner, here.
Pageant-Winning Killer Gives New Meaning to the Term Beefcake
British chef, Anthony Morley, who was also the first Mr Gay UK, is on trial for murder after stabbing 33-year-old friend Damian Oldfield (above right) multiple times and cutting out chunks of the body, which were found on a cutting board in his kitchen, tenderized and ready to saute. His lawyer said Morley, 36, had cut Oldfield’s throat and seasoned parts of the body, “cooking and sampling a section by chewing.” A former lover described the killer as otherwise "caring." (Source; t/y Blake)
Voila!
Don't discard your cumbersome VHS cassettes, recycle them. WOW editor Drew Forni has come across a video that takes you step-by-step through the process of turning those tapes into ingenious miniature pinball machines. Hey, wait – is that Arnold narrating?
Itemizing
• Posh and Becks use bird-shit facials to control their acne.
• Rev Peter Mullen, chaplain of the London Stock Exchange, wants it made law that homos have their asses tattooed with SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.
• This time, Japanese scientists have gone too far and are going to hell.
• Coldplay to release eight-track EP. That's an EP with eight tracks, not an 8-track EP. Just so you know, you 8-Bit freaks.
• Jennifer Lopez intends to send her twin babies to Scientology school the moment their anterior fontanels close.
• Britney's back, bitch, playing three roles in her "Womanizer" video.
• Courtney Love laughed all the way to the gastric-bypass surgeon.
• Girls Next Door's Holly Madison to old playboy: "Hef Hugh!"
• Tina Fey signed a "megabucks" book deal with Little, Brown. Not a memoir. Meanwhile, it's likely Sarah Palin will make an appearance on either SNL or the first of SNL's Thursday-night "Weekend Update" specials.
Monday, Oct 06
The Thairin Smothers Files
Another random gem from the Tupperware container of undeveloped film in Thairin Smothers' closet
Alexis, Candis, and David, Club Makeup at the El Rey, Los Angeles, late '90s
Club Makeup was a club in the late '90s and early '00s that mixed tranny fierceness and rock 'n' roll. It was kind of like New York's Squeezebox, but LA -style with a notoriously hard door at the El Rey. Here we Have Candis Cayne, currently of ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, in a double beef (wink!) Arquette sandwich (Alexis on the left and David on the right). Candis has a show at The Abbey tonight in West Hollywood, and she hosts Wednesday nights at Fubar. *Bonus* If you look closely between Candis and David, you can see a pre-CoCo Courtney Cox-Arquette!
– Blake Jacobs
