Mikey Welsh, best known as Weezer's bassist from 1998 to 2001, died yesterday. Welsh was 40 years old. He had been visiting friends in Chicago; hotel staff found him unresponsive on the floor of his room.
Chicago police say narcotics are likely the cause of Welsh's death, the Tribune reports. The Tribune adds that Weezer, in its current incarnation, is slated to headline tonight at RIOT Fest, an annual three-day music festival in Chicago. Welsh was supposed to be in the audience.
After ...
Can you believe it? Another week has come and gone, and we are all that much closer to our deaths. That means it's time to watch yet another episode of Saturday Night Live! It's like Icy-Hot salve for the soul. This week's host? Eddie Murphy Ben Stiller! Surprise!
The cold open is kind of flat and fizzless right up until the arrival Bobby Moynihan (mugging as former presidential contender Chris Christie). The problem with making fun of Mitt Romney being boring is, it can get so boring! In the me...
That's right, ladies! The most famous living Beatle is officially off the market as of, er, sometime today.
If you feel out of the loop, you're not alone. This whole wedding thing has been shrouded in mystery. Sir Paul is marrying fiancée Nancy Shevell, whom the Daily Mail epithets an "American heiress" and, elsewhere, a "millionaire socialite."
In stark contrast, the New York Observer insists Shevell is hardly the picture of U.S. royalty, describing Shevell instead as a "New Jersey-ite," ...
On Friday, Arnold Schwarzenegger attended the inauguration of the first-ever museum dedicated to the Triumph of Being Arnold Schwarzenegger. The museum itself is located in the house where Schwarzenegger was born, in the village where Schwarzenegger was born, in Austria---where Schwarzenegger was born.
Actually, the museum first opened its doors in July, but I guess Arnold Schwarzenegger was busy then. The building houses "a sword from Conan the Barbarian," as well as "a Harley-Davidson motorbik...
A few days ago, Adele took to her blog to explain exactly why all her U.S. tour dates have been canceled. (She'd first rescheduled in June, midway through her U.S. tour, and---as Vulture puts it---"once again, she's not coming.")
In her blog, Adele explains that, in January, her voice became "weaker and weaker until it eventually 'broke.'" Try as she might, Adele was never quite able to regain her voice's "complete strength," she writes.
And as for the canceled dates in June?
I was in Min...
I think I type "oh, no!" a lot without really meaning it, but this time I do mean it: OH NO!
Recently, Patricia Arquette deleted her Facebook account. She explained in a final Wall Post:
The [social] experiment was… Could a celebrity actually friend strangers and get to know them as a person? Just a regular person. Could you really become friends? Could you move past all that they had in their mind about you and actually show them the real you?
Oh, no. Although we don't know why Arquette deactivated her...
How carefully have you been following the Nancy Grace saga on Dancing with the Stars? That lady has awful luck. First her bosom flagrantly burst from her corset-style top; of course Ms. Grace insisted that viewers had only seen a pastie, rather than a nipple. But we all know the truth.
Next, myriad fans claim to have heard Nancy Grace 'let 'er rip' on the October 3 episode of the dance competition. You be the judge! (For my own part, I think it sounds like a slightly gaseous tummy rumble, but ...
Anna Faris is ready to start a family with her hubby, actor Chris Pratt of "Parks and Recreation" and Moneyball! Yaaaay! They are going to have the cutest, funniest, most talented babies.
But before the loving couple gets down to work (heh), they need to tie up some loose ends. So: Chris Pratt asked his Twitter followers whether anyone were interested in adopting Anna's beloved cat.
Bad move! Reports Us,
Unfortunately, Pratt's inquiry was met with a several rude comments and even death th...
Lindsay. Lindsay. I know we've never met, but I do read magazines, and I've always felt like we have kind of a big sister/little sister kinship thing happening. No? Well, whatever.
Anyway. In 2009, you employed a limo service. Within a scant three months, you, Miss Lohan, racked up a bill of $33,978. I applaud you for not driving yourself, since, uh, well, I guess legally you couldn't drive yourself. But still! Good for you!
But seriously, woman. Pay your bills. Because that teeny-weeny $3...
Here it is: the first official trailer for The Raven, starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. Who! Incidentally! Is caught in the middle of a string of gruesome murders, each of them copycatted from a Poe suspense story. And IT'S UP TO EDGAR ALLAN POE TO STOP THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERER BEFORE THE MURDERER KILLS SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO EDGAR ALLAN POE. That is what I deduced entirely from the trailer, like the masterly detective I am.
But I can't believe how seriously this trailer takes itse...
What, it's an honest question. I only ask because Gawker reports that CNN Money reports that Charlie Sheen is anticipated to be the most popular costume this Halloween. And CNN could well be dead-on: you wouldn't believe how many Charlie Sheen "party supplies" are out there (no, that was not a veiled cocaine joke). So you see, I have to ask what you're planning to go as for Halloween, because it would be SO EMBARRASSING if we went to that house party on Division Street wearing the same thing.
...
Oh man, oh man, oh man. This trailer looks so good, right?
Charlize Theron stars in Young Adult as Mavis Gary, an insufferable "young adult" fiction writer who returns to her Minnesota hometown hoping to make her old high school boyfriend fall in love with her (thanks, IMDb). And! It co-stars my dream man, Patrick Wilson, who plays the guy Mavis can't have. And! Patton Oswalt plays the unwilling wingman, an acquaintance from high school who obviously puts up with Mavis's ish because she's so darn cute and catty.
I have totally high hopes for this one you guys---like, even higher hopes than I had for One for the Money. For one thing, anyone who's watched Arrested Development or "Between Two Ferns" knows Charlize has done her career a major disservice, because she has mad comedic timing. Patton Oswalt I'm actually so-so on---I know it isn't fair to hold King of Queens against him, but I just do---but since he is a Career Nerd, I have to stand with him in solidarity. Then there's Patrick Wilson, whose filmography is a veritable Rosetta's Stone of What? Hngh. Love him.
But most importantly, this flick is a Jason Reitman joint. It's great to see him again paired with breakout screenwriter Diablo Cody (they made Juno together), and this movie could be infinitely more affable. Who wants to see a 15-year old act like she's 35, anyway? I'd much rather see a 35-year old act like she's 15. Now you're speakin' my language, Cody. />
Oh man, oh man, oh man. This trailer looks so good, right?
Charlize Theron stars in Young Adult as Mavis Gary, an insufferable "young adult" fiction writer who returns to her Minnesota hometown hoping to make her old high school boyfriend fall in love with her (thanks, IMDb). And! It co-stars my dream man, Patrick Wilson, who plays the guy Mavis can't have. And! Patton Oswalt plays the unwilling wingman, an acquaintance from high school who obviously puts up with Mavis's ish because she's so ...
Mikey Welsh, best known as Weezer's bassist from 1998 to 2001, died yesterday. Welsh was 40 years old. He had been visiting friends in Chicago; hotel staff found him unresponsive on the floor of his room.
Chicago police say narcotics are likely the cause of Welsh's death, the Tribune reports. The Tribune adds that Weezer, in its current incarnation, is slated to headline tonight at RIOT Fest, an annual three-day music festival in Chicago. Welsh was supposed to be in the audience.
After ...
Can you believe it? Another week has come and gone, and we are all that much closer to our deaths. That means it's time to watch yet another episode of Saturday Night Live! It's like Icy-Hot salve for the soul. This week's host? Eddie Murphy Ben Stiller! Surprise!
The cold open is kind of flat and fizzless right up until the arrival Bobby Moynihan (mugging as former presidential contender Chris Christie). The problem with making fun of Mitt Romney being boring is, it can get so boring! In the me...
That's right, ladies! The most famous living Beatle is officially off the market as of, er, sometime today.
If you feel out of the loop, you're not alone. This whole wedding thing has been shrouded in mystery. Sir Paul is marrying fiancée Nancy Shevell, whom the Daily Mail epithets an "American heiress" and, elsewhere, a "millionaire socialite."
In stark contrast, the New York Observer insists Shevell is hardly the picture of U.S. royalty, describing Shevell instead as a "New Jersey-ite," ...
On Friday, Arnold Schwarzenegger attended the inauguration of the first-ever museum dedicated to the Triumph of Being Arnold Schwarzenegger. The museum itself is located in the house where Schwarzenegger was born, in the village where Schwarzenegger was born, in Austria---where Schwarzenegger was born.
Actually, the museum first opened its doors in July, but I guess Arnold Schwarzenegger was busy then. The building houses "a sword from Conan the Barbarian," as well as "a Harley-Davidson motorbik...
A few days ago, Adele took to her blog to explain exactly why all her U.S. tour dates have been canceled. (She'd first rescheduled in June, midway through her U.S. tour, and---as Vulture puts it---"once again, she's not coming.")
In her blog, Adele explains that, in January, her voice became "weaker and weaker until it eventually 'broke.'" Try as she might, Adele was never quite able to regain her voice's "complete strength," she writes.
And as for the canceled dates in June?
I was in Min...
I think I type "oh, no!" a lot without really meaning it, but this time I do mean it: OH NO!
Recently, Patricia Arquette deleted her Facebook account. She explained in a final Wall Post:
The [social] experiment was… Could a celebrity actually friend strangers and get to know them as a person? Just a regular person. Could you really become friends? Could you move past all that they had in their mind about you and actually show them the real you?
Oh, no. Although we don't know why Arquette deactivated her...
How carefully have you been following the Nancy Grace saga on Dancing with the Stars? That lady has awful luck. First her bosom flagrantly burst from her corset-style top; of course Ms. Grace insisted that viewers had only seen a pastie, rather than a nipple. But we all know the truth.
Next, myriad fans claim to have heard Nancy Grace 'let 'er rip' on the October 3 episode of the dance competition. You be the judge! (For my own part, I think it sounds like a slightly gaseous tummy rumble, but ...
Anna Faris is ready to start a family with her hubby, actor Chris Pratt of "Parks and Recreation" and Moneyball! Yaaaay! They are going to have the cutest, funniest, most talented babies.
But before the loving couple gets down to work (heh), they need to tie up some loose ends. So: Chris Pratt asked his Twitter followers whether anyone were interested in adopting Anna's beloved cat.
Bad move! Reports Us,
Unfortunately, Pratt's inquiry was met with a several rude comments and even death th...
Lindsay. Lindsay. I know we've never met, but I do read magazines, and I've always felt like we have kind of a big sister/little sister kinship thing happening. No? Well, whatever.
Anyway. In 2009, you employed a limo service. Within a scant three months, you, Miss Lohan, racked up a bill of $33,978. I applaud you for not driving yourself, since, uh, well, I guess legally you couldn't drive yourself. But still! Good for you!
But seriously, woman. Pay your bills. Because that teeny-weeny $3...
Here it is: the first official trailer for The Raven, starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. Who! Incidentally! Is caught in the middle of a string of gruesome murders, each of them copycatted from a Poe suspense story. And IT'S UP TO EDGAR ALLAN POE TO STOP THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERER BEFORE THE MURDERER KILLS SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO EDGAR ALLAN POE. That is what I deduced entirely from the trailer, like the masterly detective I am.
But I can't believe how seriously this trailer takes itse...
What, it's an honest question. I only ask because Gawker reports that CNN Money reports that Charlie Sheen is anticipated to be the most popular costume this Halloween. And CNN could well be dead-on: you wouldn't believe how many Charlie Sheen "party supplies" are out there (no, that was not a veiled cocaine joke). So you see, I have to ask what you're planning to go as for Halloween, because it would be SO EMBARRASSING if we went to that house party on Division Street wearing the same thing.
...