The beginning of this video---ugh, I dunno, man. Amy Winehouse is so sardonic, so full of life. And by the end, she's sincerely giddy about having just sung with Tony Bennett. Both times, bam! I was wrecked.
In the Studio with Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse:
The first time I met 'Tone' was---can I call him 'Tone'? Thanks. First time I met 'Tone'---should you ask him first? Really. Before, ah, you start…? …Okay. The first time I met Tone I would say was, I took my dad and my stepmother and, uh, my boyfriend to see him at Royal Albert...
Actor Ryan Gosling isn't altogether sure he should've broken up that street fight last month---you know, the one that was caught on tape.
As you may remember, a scuffle broke out in a Manhattan intersection between a street artist and another man. Passerby Ryan Gosling stepped in and convinced the artist to let go of the other guy. Then he helped escort the two to the sidewalk. The video stops there, but we do know Gosling resolved the altercation with rational words and a $20 bill (presumably to cover the cost of the st...
Kate Winslet is luminous on the cover of V Magazine's "Heroes" issue, which comes out today. For the photo shoot, fashion photographer Mario Testino reimagined Winslet as iconic Elizabeth Taylor in her prime.
I love-love-love Kate Winslet, but I always get the giggles at how willing she is to do nudity in movies---you know, for her art. But as Winslet tells V, nude scenes are no picnic:
I hate it! Listen, make no mistake, I just get on it. I just go in and say "Oh f---, let’s do it." And...
Actually, the headline is really misleading. Sorry.
Author and journalist Dan Sinker---who notably portrayed Chicago's own @MayorEmanuel on Twitter in his spare time---once tweeted that Wilco's Jeff Tweedy ought to perform nothing but Black Eyed Peas covers at Rahm Emanuel's next fundraiser. (It was a joke! The whole "Mayor Emanuel" thing was a joke!)
So Sinker's new book, The F---king Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, just had a release party, and Jeff Tweedy attended. (So did the r...
After years of practice, I've just finally figured out how to intonate "Mos Def" in such a way that friends can tell whether I mean Mos Def the rapper, or "mos' deff," the idiomatic turn-of-phrase conveying my assent. (In certain music-related convos, things can get confusing!)
But that's all out the window, now that the musician, actor, and activist is retiring his name. It's a name from another place, another time---a name given to him that he, in turn, "built and cultivated over the ye...
WHAT IS THIS, RYAN GOSLING? You went on a date this weekend with your Place Beyond the Pines costar Eva Mendes? And you didn't even have the courtesy, the simple human decency, to tell me we were through?
Because we are through, mister. It's over.
Don't give me that soulful look, Gosling. Don't you dare. You can't smooth it over with puppy-dog eyes this time.
Oh, I saw the pictures in Us Weekly of your Disneyland date. Don't you sweet-talk me. I know you held hands! I know she gave you cute little pecks on the c...
I absolutely loathe hydrangeas. He obviously doesn't know that.
---Madonna, in a clipped, cosmopolitan accent, referring to the fan who just handed her a big shrub of purple blossoms. We all can hear you, Madge. You're sitting at a microphone, lady.
At first I thought this was "Ray of Light" -era Madonna, but I was tricked! Tricked! Instead, the video clip (below) is from day two of the Venice International Film Festival, where Madonna premiered her directorial effort, W.E.
And I ca...
Yesterday Paris Hilton tweeted this photo of herself dressed as a ghost. (At least, I hope that's a ghost costume.)
Anyway. Miss Hilton put on a sheet and played the theremin---which, if the 1950s taught us anything, is the exact sound a ghost would make---at Friday's Deadmau5 concert in Vegas.
Man. You can put lipstick on a ghost, but underneath, it's still just Paris Hilton....
Summertime is nearly over, friends. The kids have their new backpacks, their TI calculators, their fresh sets of colored pencils; the public pools are slowly being drained of chlorine and pee; the barbecues' flames are all but extinguished.
Summertime is also the season for that treasured all-American sport, overeating (see also: Thanksgiving, et al). So as the summer winds down, it is with a trembling lip and a wistful look in my eye that I report (with the help of the AP) that semi-celebrity...
Ah, class picture day: unless Mom was willing to spring for a laser portrait, what was the point, anyway?
So I assume FOX's promotional pics are supposed to (somewhat) resemble genuine class photos. But the cast of Glee isn't exactly awkward, so---unfortunately?---these promo shots for Season 3 aren't quite the humiliating minefield/treasure chest your senior yearbook is.
In the interest of comparison, I have included one photograph of me and my 17-year-old self's untweezed eyebrows in the ...
You always suspected that there weren't too many variables to a hit song, but did you have any idea how simple the average Britney Spears song is?
OK, I'm guessing maybe you did, but the sheer number of "crazies" to a song actually stunned me. Astounding!
I'll probably be humming "oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby" for the rest of the afternoon, thanks. />
You always suspected that there weren't too many variables to a hit song, but did you have any idea how simple the average Britney Spears song is?
OK, I'm guessing maybe you did, but the sheer number of "crazies" to a song actually stunned me. Astounding!
I'll probably be humming "oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby" for the rest of the afternoon, thanks....
Dramatic heavyweight Don Cheadle pulls a Steve Brule and stars in this Funny or Die video as that eponymous superhero of 1990s environmentalism, Captain Planet!
Warning: this video is pretty weird, and probably NSFW. Still, it features Brenda Song, Gillian Jacobs (Britta from Community), plus Efren "Vote for Pedro" Ramirez---and also, uh, two other dudes---as the multicultural Planeteers. Not quite childhood-ruining, but it definitely toes the line. />
Dramatic heavyweight Don Cheadle pulls a Steve Brule and stars in this Funny or Die video as that eponymous superhero of 1990s environmentalism, Captain Planet!
Warning: this video is pretty weird, and probably NSFW. Still, it features Brenda Song, Gillian Jacobs (Britta from Community), plus Efren "Vote for Pedro" Ramirez---and also, uh, two other dudes---as the multicultural Planeteers. Not quite childhood-ruining, but it definitely toes the line....
The beginning of this video---ugh, I dunno, man. Amy Winehouse is so sardonic, so full of life. And by the end, she's sincerely giddy about having just sung with Tony Bennett. Both times, bam! I was wrecked.
In the Studio with Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse:
The first time I met 'Tone' was---can I call him 'Tone'? Thanks. First time I met 'Tone'---should you ask him first? Really. Before, ah, you start…? …Okay. The first time I met Tone I would say was, I took my dad and my stepmother and, uh, my boyfriend to see him at Royal Albert...
Actor Ryan Gosling isn't altogether sure he should've broken up that street fight last month---you know, the one that was caught on tape.
As you may remember, a scuffle broke out in a Manhattan intersection between a street artist and another man. Passerby Ryan Gosling stepped in and convinced the artist to let go of the other guy. Then he helped escort the two to the sidewalk. The video stops there, but we do know Gosling resolved the altercation with rational words and a $20 bill (presumably to cover the cost of the st...
Kate Winslet is luminous on the cover of V Magazine's "Heroes" issue, which comes out today. For the photo shoot, fashion photographer Mario Testino reimagined Winslet as iconic Elizabeth Taylor in her prime.
I love-love-love Kate Winslet, but I always get the giggles at how willing she is to do nudity in movies---you know, for her art. But as Winslet tells V, nude scenes are no picnic:
I hate it! Listen, make no mistake, I just get on it. I just go in and say "Oh f---, let’s do it." And...
Actually, the headline is really misleading. Sorry.
Author and journalist Dan Sinker---who notably portrayed Chicago's own @MayorEmanuel on Twitter in his spare time---once tweeted that Wilco's Jeff Tweedy ought to perform nothing but Black Eyed Peas covers at Rahm Emanuel's next fundraiser. (It was a joke! The whole "Mayor Emanuel" thing was a joke!)
So Sinker's new book, The F---king Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, just had a release party, and Jeff Tweedy attended. (So did the r...
After years of practice, I've just finally figured out how to intonate "Mos Def" in such a way that friends can tell whether I mean Mos Def the rapper, or "mos' deff," the idiomatic turn-of-phrase conveying my assent. (In certain music-related convos, things can get confusing!)
But that's all out the window, now that the musician, actor, and activist is retiring his name. It's a name from another place, another time---a name given to him that he, in turn, "built and cultivated over the ye...
WHAT IS THIS, RYAN GOSLING? You went on a date this weekend with your Place Beyond the Pines costar Eva Mendes? And you didn't even have the courtesy, the simple human decency, to tell me we were through?
Because we are through, mister. It's over.
Don't give me that soulful look, Gosling. Don't you dare. You can't smooth it over with puppy-dog eyes this time.
Oh, I saw the pictures in Us Weekly of your Disneyland date. Don't you sweet-talk me. I know you held hands! I know she gave you cute little pecks on the c...
I absolutely loathe hydrangeas. He obviously doesn't know that.
---Madonna, in a clipped, cosmopolitan accent, referring to the fan who just handed her a big shrub of purple blossoms. We all can hear you, Madge. You're sitting at a microphone, lady.
At first I thought this was "Ray of Light" -era Madonna, but I was tricked! Tricked! Instead, the video clip (below) is from day two of the Venice International Film Festival, where Madonna premiered her directorial effort, W.E.
And I ca...
Yesterday Paris Hilton tweeted this photo of herself dressed as a ghost. (At least, I hope that's a ghost costume.)
Anyway. Miss Hilton put on a sheet and played the theremin---which, if the 1950s taught us anything, is the exact sound a ghost would make---at Friday's Deadmau5 concert in Vegas.
Man. You can put lipstick on a ghost, but underneath, it's still just Paris Hilton....
Summertime is nearly over, friends. The kids have their new backpacks, their TI calculators, their fresh sets of colored pencils; the public pools are slowly being drained of chlorine and pee; the barbecues' flames are all but extinguished.
Summertime is also the season for that treasured all-American sport, overeating (see also: Thanksgiving, et al). So as the summer winds down, it is with a trembling lip and a wistful look in my eye that I report (with the help of the AP) that semi-celebrity...
Ah, class picture day: unless Mom was willing to spring for a laser portrait, what was the point, anyway?
So I assume FOX's promotional pics are supposed to (somewhat) resemble genuine class photos. But the cast of Glee isn't exactly awkward, so---unfortunately?---these promo shots for Season 3 aren't quite the humiliating minefield/treasure chest your senior yearbook is.
In the interest of comparison, I have included one photograph of me and my 17-year-old self's untweezed eyebrows in the ...