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10 Tour Rider Requests More Demanding Than Nicki Minaj’s
Yesterday’s publication of Nicki Minaj‘s tour rider prompted many people to brand her an overly demanding diva, but I think it’s actually quite reasonable, especially for one of the highest grossing entertainers in the world. Between the scrambled egg whites, fruit plates, meat plates, fried chicken, salad, and silverware with which to eat it all, it seems like most of Ms. Minaj’s requests are a.) relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain, and b.) things she and her friends are actually going to use and/or consume. She’s certainly lower-maintenance than some of her peers. Here are ten tour rider requests much more extreme than Nicki Minaj’s. More »
50 Cent Will Tweet A Dick Pic If The Giants Lose The Super Bowl
Even though he already won $500,000 on the Giants, 50 Cent is now relying on them to win the Super Bowl, or else he has to tweet a nude pic. More »
50 Cent Is The Best Pimp That Vanessa Hudgens Ever Had (In The Movies)
50 Cent has been working really hard on his challenging new role: Pimp. No, seriously. (And for those of you who remember his astonishingly awful single “P.I.M.P.”, we’ve got that in here, too.) More »
Hazing Week: 8 Male Actors Who Drastically Lost Weight For A Movie Role
Later on during Hazing Week, we’ll be talking about the most hardcore on-set training that actors have undergone. But today we’re focusing on how specific stars have risen to the challenge of certain roles. You always hear about women like Renee Zellweger packing on weight to play Bridget Jones, but how about the men who drop to alarmingly low weights for their Oscar bait? More »
New Rap Feud? Game Says 50 Cent Is Gay
Game (who you probably remember by his drastically different former name The Game), known for his long-standing feuds with 50 Cent and G-Unit, is baiting a new group: The LGBT community. As part of the larger, pretty misguided statements Game made about closeted gay men spreading HIV, he also did something really bizarre: It seems like he tried to out 50 Cent on Twitter. More »
Possible Reasons That Ron Artest Is Changing His Name to Something Stupid
We don’t get it — it’s not like Ron Artest is a celebrity kid who was saddled with an awful name like Jermajesty. And yet, the L.A. Lakers player has just filed a name change request. Henceforth he would like to be known as — wait for it — Metta World Peace. (It’s not even an Internet-culture joke: “Metta” means goodwill, which makes his new moniker rather redundant if you ask us.)
Often when you hear about celebrities and name changes, it’s people like Allen Stewart Konigsburg trading in his mouthful of a name for Woody Allen, or Norma Jean Parker shedding her Midwestern past to embody Marilyn Monroe. That said, Artest is not the first person to take the leap for an inexplicably weird new name. While he hasn’t given any reasons for the decision, we’ve looked at other notable name changes for possible leads. More »
Emma Roberts Manages to Play a Better Version of Her Past Roles in ‘The Art of Getting By’
Hollywood typecasting makes it easier to audiences to figure out what a movie’s about without knowing anything about its plot — thanks to actors who play the same roles over and over again, trying to recapture lightning in a bottle. With each role, they run these characters into the ground until they’re the most bare-bones stereotypes.
It becomes shorthand: Sarah Jessica Parker is a highstrung, Type A businesswoman. Sandra Bullock is tough-as-nails and uses a breezy attitude to hide her secret insecurities. Penelope Cruz played the same role in both the Spanish and American Vanilla Sky movies, with the second an awful remake of what had been a fantastic performance the first time around.
Emma Roberts‘ good-girl muse Sally in The Art of Getting By could have been just a worse rehashing of her radiant character in Twelve, but the combination of director Gavin Wiesen‘s script and Roberts’ own know-how elevates Sally to a better version of what we’ve seen before. More »
Gallery: The Best Celebrity Tweets for Twitter’s 5th Birthday
Five years ago today, the first tweet was sent. What followed was a social media revolution embraced by some and derided by others, mostly over the notion of oversharing. But Twitter has also become a tool that breaks down the barriers between celebrities and their fans, and providing to-the-moment citizen journalism thanks to fast thumbs and Twitpics.
When it’s a celebrity’s birthday, we at Crushable usually come up with a gallery of the best photos of that person. So how do we ring in Twitter’s fifth year of giving celebs mouthpieces and bringing fans closer to their idols? With a gallery of the most TMI, unnecessary, astounding, controversial tweets! More »
“Historically Hardcore” Posters Compare 50 Cent, Bret Michaels to Famous Figures
Last week I posted some tweets from Columbia College Chicago’s Twitter page, where whoever was in charge of outreach used pop culture references to attract applicants to the school. The trend seems to be catching: “Historically Hardcore“, a series of posters by art director Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler, unites the accomplished men from your high-school history books with male celebrities found on reality TV and Twitter. More »
Parting Tweet: Gilbert Gottfried Gets Fired For Insensitive Japan Comments
On Friday we pointed out an insensitive Tweet from rapper 50 Cent that mocked the devastating earthquake and tsunami that so crippled Japan. Turns out 50 wasn’t the only jerk tweeting “jokes” about the event — Gilbert Gottfried unleashed a stream of horrible comments over the weekend, which have resulted in AFLAC firing him as the voice of their mascot duck (and a nation takes out its earplugs). Gilbert has since deleted the tweets, but the damage has already been done. More »
Parting Tweet: 50 Cent Is A World Class Jerk
Are we naive for expecting that 50 Cent might show a modicum of sensitivity in the wake of a world tragedy? Or for thinking he might pay attention to the news enough to realize Los Angeles residents were not actually threatened in the aftermath of the Japanese tsunami. Well, at least 50′s hoe’s (sic) are okay! More »
Gallery: Celebrities In The Snow
It is super snowy in New York today! Luckily, most famous people are in Los Angeles, where it never snows and it’s always warm and beautiful and lovely forever. But sometimes celebrities are tricked into leaving their paradise state and forced to venture into the cold, where big pieces of white stuff fall from the sky. What is up with that? They are so confused! More »
Sex On The Wire: Blowjobs Give You Head Cancer
• Oral sex now puts you at a higher risk for developing HPV-related neck and head cancer. Head cancer? Sure. Which is an awesome new excuse for us not to give you a blowjob. Thanks science! (US News)
• German brothels are now catering to the elderly. Wonderful, now I know what to get grandpa for his 80th. (Nerve)
• Women care more about text messaging than men. But that’s how else are we supposed to communicate with you when you’re watching the game? Right ladies? (Switched) More »
Parting Tweet: Homeland Security Or 50 Cent Shuts Down WorldStarHipHop.com
50 Cent is on the warpath today. Not only is he taking credit for single-handedly bringing down gossip site WorldStarHipHop.com, but he’s threatening to “predict” two more blogs folding before the end of the week. We hope it’s not our friends over at MediaTakeout, although the site is ominously now trending on Twitter. More »
Vintage Paris And Nicky Hilton: The Week’s Ten Best Celeb Twitter Pics
This week, Paris Hilton hit Twitter to post a family photo from the 80s that encapsulates everything that was hilarious about that decade. And Jenny McCarthy snapped an adorable photo of her son while Sammi Giancola just has a puppy. And of course there’s Justin Bieber‘s infamous black eye. Check out the rest in this week’s roundup. More »
Video: A Grandma Reads 50 Cent’s Tweets
Granny! You’re not allowed to say those words! The pop culture Grandma is back with a very special message of holiday cheer and holiday misogyny. God, old people are hilarious! More »
Questionable Choices: Dudes In Ironic Plastic Sunglasses
Fellows: What’s going on with the cheap ironic shades? Did we not get that trend out of our systems back in high school? Glee‘s Darren Kriss was spotted out shopping in L.A. with a pair of neon glasses at rest atop his nose, a look he’s also sported on the red carpet. And 50 Cent tweeted a pic of himself in pink Lolita shades, which you can see after the jump: More »
Chelsea Handler in bed with 50 Cent - The Twitpic edition. Chelsea tweeted a photo of herself snuggling with her rumored (fake-rumored?) boyfriend. We sort of hope these two will date for real. (Just Jared)
Parting Tweet: Ice T And Dog Farts
Welcome back to the Internet, folks. Nothing new to see here. Ice T is giving 50 Cent a run for his money in the “Creepy sh*t I tweet about my dog” department, but other than that: same old, same old. More »
Sex on the Wire: Sports and Sex
• There are sexy NFL coaches? No, not really. (Buzzfeed)
• Here’s all the ways sex doesn’t count. (CollegeCandy)
• Dita Von Teese: A good role model? (Betty Confidential) More »