Word on the street is, James Franco missed a ton of classes, received a low grade, then contributed to the untimely firing of an NYU professor.
But Professor R. John Williams, Franco's adviser at Yale, recalls a different student. In Williams' obsequious Slate column, he describes James Franco as a model student with, uh, plenty of time on his hands:
So what is James like as a reader of scholarly work? I've often heard it expressed that he must be a mountebank, since no single person could be doing as many things ...
In 1985, to commemorate her 30th birthday, Kristen Kardashian---that's the future Kris Jenner, natch---recorded this horrific music video, using husband Rob Kardashian's dough. Truly, Kris could've been the Rebecca Black of another decade.
Set to the tune of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.," this off-key ditty is probably titled "I Love My Friends" (Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé are credited with writing the song's aggressively simple lyrics and catchy refrain). Kris is all mugging and winking, and she treadmills without pants. And yes, most of Kris Jenner's "friends" are actually stores she likes to shop in. Hmm.
The video's cameos are blink-and-you'll-miss-them, but O.J. Simpson is definitely here, enjoying happier times. And who are those three darling little girls? Whooaaa, that was back when Khloé was the littlest Kardashian. />
In 1985, to commemorate her 30th birthday, Kristen Kardashian---that's the future Kris Jenner, natch---recorded this horrific music video, using husband Rob Kardashian's dough. Truly, Kris could've been the Rebecca Black of another decade.
Set to the tune of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.," this off-key ditty is probably titled "I Love My Friends" (Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé are credited with writing the song's aggressively simple lyrics and catchy refrain). Kris is all mugging and winking, and ...
Rumor in Wyoming is, Justin Timberlake finally proposed to his beloved, Jessica Biel, at a Jackson Hole ski resort. The rumor itself comes from the Twitter feed of nearby Tayloe Pigott Gallery. Tayloe Piggott looks like a classy enough operation, so this scrap of gossip seems as credible as any.
And anyway, just last month Emily speculated that something like this was on the horizon. What do you guys think? Has it finally happened?...
Here are some things you maybe didn't know about R. Kelly:
- He has always wanted to be a movie director!
- His epic, Trapped in the Closet, was the product of "having nothing else to do, sitting around in the studio."
- He told TMZ he now has 32 additional chapters in the bag. Now he just needs "investors" to help him film.
Thank you, R. Kelly. Thank you. This is the greatest Christmas present you could have ever given us.
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Yeah, I embedded a YouTube video, even though you can't really see anything. You can, however, hear Rihanna energetically shouting to the crowd. Then she goes silent. (What is the last thing she yells? It sounds like "Facebooooook!" to me. That probably isn't what she said, though.)
The camera points toward the crowd, then looks back at the stage, and voila---no sign of Rihanna anywhere. Just some backup dancers, shimmying.
Rihanna confirmed afterward, in reply to a fan via Twitter, that she totally ran offstage to horf.
My favorite YouTube comment so far is "SHE THREW UP IN A HOPELESS PLACE," which, I keep snickering because I can't tell whether it's literal or figurative. Like, maybe this guy just doesn't like Portugal? Is that what he means?
According to the Huffington Post, though, Rihanna might really be in a "hopeless place." She's even contemplating taking a yearlong hiatus after her exhausting 10-month tour, and others report that she is emotionally drained. Also, she had the flu a few weeks ago, which can't help anything. />
Yeah, I embedded a YouTube video, even though you can't really see anything. You can, however, hear Rihanna energetically shouting to the crowd. Then she goes silent. (What is the last thing she yells? It sounds like "Facebooooook!" to me. That probably isn't what she said, though.)
The camera points toward the crowd, then looks back at the stage, and voila---no sign of Rihanna anywhere. Just some backup dancers, shimmying.
Rihanna confirmed afterward, in reply to a fan via Twitter, tha...
Kinda hard to believe that Brittany Murphy died two years ago, right? And all those cause-of-death rumors! Cocaine. Meth. Anorexia. The suspicious, weird-looking widower.
When Sharon Murphy told reporters her daughter "had a cold" when she died, people rolled their eyes. Then the coroner's office ruled that the 32-year old really had died of pneumonia, complicated by anemia and prescription pills.
Ohhh. Pills, everyone thought, because yeah, pills could definitely kill a person. But then...
First… we brought you… THE POSTER.
Then…! We brought you… THE TEASER TRAILER.
Which…! told you nothing about The Dark Knight Rises and was basically just the animated version of the poster, and you were all, "Oh…! That's it, I guess."
Now…! In a woooorrrrld! Where you are excited whenever Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in anything, but you still wish this trailer would tell you what he is doing in a Batman movie,
...and…! The only way to survive a Stadium Terrorism Attack is by scoring a touchdown.
In…! The disappointing conclusion to Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman trailers:
This Particular Trailer is Not as Exciting or Inspiring as I Remember the Other Trailers as Being.
(Coming soon to laptops near you.)
(In fact, you can just press 'play' on the video.) />
First… we brought you… THE POSTER.
Then…! We brought you… THE TEASER TRAILER.
Which…! told you nothing about The Dark Knight Rises and was basically just the animated version of the poster, and you were all, "Oh…! That's it, I guess."
Now…! In a woooorrrrld! Where you are excited whenever Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in anything, but you still wish this trailer would tell you what he is doing in a Batman movie,
...and…! The only way to survive a Stadium Terrorism Attack ...
"It always really bothers me when people imagine that characters that don't look like you, or have the same accent as you do, are far from you. The great actress Sybil Thorndike said 'I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.' And I think we do."
---Meryl Streep on, uh, the universality of humankind, I guess, to 60 Minutes
Look. Meryl Streep can do anything. No one disputes it. I'm sure that her characterization of Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming The Iron Lady---not her impersonation, but her actual acting---will mo...
Christian Bale has been in China for the premiere of his movie, The Flowers of War, which is about the Rape of Nanking.
Yesterday the socially-minded actor attempted to visit the home of Chen Guangcheng, a civil rights activist who has been under house arrest for a year. Bale was accompanied by a CNN film crew and had driven eight hours to the activist's home.
There, guards stopped Bale and the crew just outside the house. The Huffington Post:
When Bale approached Chen's house, he wa...
In three of the best (YMMV) sitcoms on television---Happy Endings, How I Met Your Mother, and Up All Night---the character ensemble is supposed to be very "young" and "hip" and "with-it" when it comes to pop culture.
But sometimes lazy scriptwriting takes over, and the mere mention of a celebrity's name is supposed to inspire raucous laughter.
Which celebrities are punchlines? Gwyneth Paltrow. Edward James Olmos. Ian Ziering. Basically, anyone you feel kind of weird about liking.
Oh, no, it isn't all bad. In a way, the little namedrops do double-duty: they make the episodes feel very topical, but they also establish the characters as being credibly "real," slightly snarky people.
The namedrops are great simile-shorthand, too: "They're like Vaughn and Favreau in there"? I actually know exactly what that means.
And by the way? If the Stop Online Piracy Act passes, I will never be able to post a great video---like the one of Sean Bean dying repeatedly---ever again. I can't live like that. Call your congressperson. />
In three of the best (YMMV) sitcoms on television---Happy Endings, How I Met Your Mother, and Up All Night---the character ensemble is supposed to be very "young" and "hip" and "with-it" when it comes to pop culture.
But sometimes lazy scriptwriting takes over, and the mere mention of a celebrity's name is supposed to inspire raucous laughter.
Which celebrities are punchlines? Gwyneth Paltrow. Edward James Olmos. Ian Ziering. Basically, anyone you feel kind of weird about liking.
Oh, no, it isn't all bad. In a way, the little namedrops do double-duty: they make the episodes feel very t...
If you didn't read about this yesterday, I feel bad for you. BECAUSE IT MIGHT ALREADY BE SOLD OUT.
The Internet is abuzz with news of the R. Kelly Cruise. I KNOW! I once spent a full month trying to win a ticket onto the Jeopardy! Cruise, but this is on a totally different level.
Prices start at $1500---that's right, $1500---which includes a ticket to an R. Kelly Boat Concert, as well as access to the "Karaoke Club." I wish I were kidding.
But the ship sets sail in October 2012, so act...
(I tried to give this post an optimistic title.)
Giuliana Rancic---who was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-October---finally went through with it Tuesday evening. That's right: she had a double mastectomy.
Rancic underwent a double lumpectomy in October, but the surgery wasn't completely successful. Ugh, I can't imagine the grief of making that kind of decision. (On the bright side, she apparently opted for reconstructive surgery, so maybe we'll see her with an amped-up chest soon. Y...
Word on the street is, James Franco missed a ton of classes, received a low grade, then contributed to the untimely firing of an NYU professor.
But Professor R. John Williams, Franco's adviser at Yale, recalls a different student. In Williams' obsequious Slate column, he describes James Franco as a model student with, uh, plenty of time on his hands:
So what is James like as a reader of scholarly work? I've often heard it expressed that he must be a mountebank, since no single person could be doing as many things ...
Rumor in Wyoming is, Justin Timberlake finally proposed to his beloved, Jessica Biel, at a Jackson Hole ski resort. The rumor itself comes from the Twitter feed of nearby Tayloe Pigott Gallery. Tayloe Piggott looks like a classy enough operation, so this scrap of gossip seems as credible as any.
And anyway, just last month Emily speculated that something like this was on the horizon. What do you guys think? Has it finally happened?...
Here are some things you maybe didn't know about R. Kelly:
- He has always wanted to be a movie director!
- His epic, Trapped in the Closet, was the product of "having nothing else to do, sitting around in the studio."
- He told TMZ he now has 32 additional chapters in the bag. Now he just needs "investors" to help him film.
Thank you, R. Kelly. Thank you. This is the greatest Christmas present you could have ever given us.
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playe...
Kinda hard to believe that Brittany Murphy died two years ago, right? And all those cause-of-death rumors! Cocaine. Meth. Anorexia. The suspicious, weird-looking widower.
When Sharon Murphy told reporters her daughter "had a cold" when she died, people rolled their eyes. Then the coroner's office ruled that the 32-year old really had died of pneumonia, complicated by anemia and prescription pills.
Ohhh. Pills, everyone thought, because yeah, pills could definitely kill a person. But then...
"It always really bothers me when people imagine that characters that don't look like you, or have the same accent as you do, are far from you. The great actress Sybil Thorndike said 'I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.' And I think we do."
---Meryl Streep on, uh, the universality of humankind, I guess, to 60 Minutes
Look. Meryl Streep can do anything. No one disputes it. I'm sure that her characterization of Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming The Iron Lady---not her impersonation, but her actual acting---will mo...
Christian Bale has been in China for the premiere of his movie, The Flowers of War, which is about the Rape of Nanking.
Yesterday the socially-minded actor attempted to visit the home of Chen Guangcheng, a civil rights activist who has been under house arrest for a year. Bale was accompanied by a CNN film crew and had driven eight hours to the activist's home.
There, guards stopped Bale and the crew just outside the house. The Huffington Post:
When Bale approached Chen's house, he wa...
If you didn't read about this yesterday, I feel bad for you. BECAUSE IT MIGHT ALREADY BE SOLD OUT.
The Internet is abuzz with news of the R. Kelly Cruise. I KNOW! I once spent a full month trying to win a ticket onto the Jeopardy! Cruise, but this is on a totally different level.
Prices start at $1500---that's right, $1500---which includes a ticket to an R. Kelly Boat Concert, as well as access to the "Karaoke Club." I wish I were kidding.
But the ship sets sail in October 2012, so act...
(I tried to give this post an optimistic title.)
Giuliana Rancic---who was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-October---finally went through with it Tuesday evening. That's right: she had a double mastectomy.
Rancic underwent a double lumpectomy in October, but the surgery wasn't completely successful. Ugh, I can't imagine the grief of making that kind of decision. (On the bright side, she apparently opted for reconstructive surgery, so maybe we'll see her with an amped-up chest soon. Y...