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Parenting Lessons From Teen Mom 2: Opposite Day
Teen Mom 2 often portrays the babydaddies as useless, but this week they’ve stepped up. Jo wants to meet Jordan, and Kieffer offers to stop smoking pot for Jenelle. More »
Video: Santa Matt Damon Tries To Give Kids Water Bottles For Christmas
Matt Damon dresses up as Santa and tries to get kids to ask for water bottles instead of Justin Bieber or zombie dolls (whatever those are). More »
Tony Bennett’s Nude Sketch Of Lady Gaga Could Soon Be Yours!
Bid now for your chance to purchase evidence that Tony Bennett shouldn’t quit his day job. More »
Video: The Music Video For Betty White And Luciana’s ‘I’m Still Hot’ Is Here
Remember that weird/awesome song that Betty White recorded with someone called Luciana? Well, now there’s a music video for it, and it’s every bit as great as I thought it would be. More »
Tareq Salahi Is Selling Michaele Salahi’s Used Underwear
Would you buy fame-pariah Michaele Salahi‘s used underwear? Because her cuckolded estranged husband Tareq Salahi is selling them — supposedly for charity, although that may be a bit of a sham. Meanwhile, Michaele continues to live the high life with her new boyfriend, Journey guitarist Neal Schon. More »
Video: Amy Winehouse’s Last Single, ‘Body and Soul,’ Is A Duet With Tony Bennett
Today would have been Amy Winehouse‘s 28th birthday. Let’s all watch the her last ever audio/video recording and remember how great she was. More »
Someone Made An Ice Cream That Tastes Like Justin Bieber
I.e., like laughter, moonbeams, and the dreams of little girls. More »
Video: Stephen Colbert and The Roots Perform ‘Friday’
Stephen Colbert announced that he would join band The Roots to perform a cover of Rebecca Black‘s “Friday” if fans helped raise $26,000 for Colbert’s favorite charity, DonorsChoose. (Editor’s note: DonorsChoose is awesome!) Not only did viewers raise the money, but NBC matched the amount. Last night, the performance happened on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (the Roots are Fallon’s house band), and it was every bit as glorious as you thought it would be. More »
Fan Service: What You Can Do to Help Japan
Often fandom is viewed as an insular, even selfish community dedicated only to discussion and art related to their specific series. As we saw with the whole Firefly fiasco last week, fans can drum up bad press by appearing way too single-minded.
However, those negative incidents don’t characterize fandom as a whole. For every natural catastrophe that has occurred over the past eight years, I’ve witnessed LiveJournal fan communities unite to raise funds for emergency aid organizations. Their latest efforts, centered in the multi-fandom, multimedia community Help Japan, are reminiscent of the actions that fans took after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. More »
Hey, You Could Totally Win Neko Case’s Car!
Crushable favorite Neko Case is auctioning off a 1967 Mercury Cougar to benefit 826 National, the Dave Eggers-founded charity that helps kids hone their writing skills. The awesome cherry red muscle car was featured on the cover of Neko’s latest album, Middle Cyclone, and is one of many prizes the auction promises to yield. Tickets are $45 and for a good cause — what are you waiting for? More »
Interview: Grant Achatz on Plagiarism, Social Media, and the Celebrity Chef
USA’s motto has always been “Characters Welcome” in reference to the original and rerun scripted shows that it runs. But now the network has branched out with the USA Character Approved Awards, highlighting real people in a variety of industries – fashion, theatre, art, food, design – who are bringing effective change to the world through their passions.
Crushable had the chance to speak with one of the honorees: Grant Achatz, the chef at Alinea and the winner of the 2008 James Beard Award, famous for his progressive work in molecular gastronomy. Alinea has received countless accolades for its innovative 12- or 24-course tasting menus. Achatz is also a cancer survivor, overcoming tongue cancer in 2007. More »
Mickey Rourke Plays With Sick Children, Strippers – This has to be one of the oddest (and NSFW) photo ops I’ve seen in a long time. What’s a broken down piece of meat doing in a Russian cancer ward anyway? (Buzzfeed)
The Daily WTF: Prince William Greets The Crazies
Prince William and Harry did their royal duty yesterday and paid visit to the high court of insane looking people for ICAP’s Annual Charity Day. For some reason, this charity day involves corporate employees dressing like extras from Pippin, but at least their odd costumes detract from the real sideshow that is William’s melting face. More »
Rant: I Barely Know You. Please Stop Asking Me For Money.
The internet has made it amazingly easy to share things. Also, to ask for things. Like favors and charitable donations.
Asking for money online is a lot better than doing it in person. And between services like Kickstarter and PayPal, microdonations are helping people raise large amounts of money for great (and not so great) causes. And that is just fine with me.
But like most any human interaction, people need to exercise a little restraint before sending out their money grubbing emails.
Dear Former Coworker Who Never Spoke To Me When We Shared An Office, But Is Now Running A Triathlon And Wants My Money: I am talking to you. More »
Don’t have a job? Join Sean Penn in Haiti!
Last night at Huffington Post’s celebration of its 100 Game Changers, we bumped into Sean Penn, who was asking people to donate to his Haitian charity, the Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization. “What about young people who may not have the money to donate? What can they do to help?” I asked him, worried that I might be given the Tara Palmeri treatment and be forcibly removed from the premises. More »
Exclusive: Greg Grunberg Raises Awareness For Epilepsy While Gearing Up For New Show
Don’t cry too hard for Greg Grunberg, part of the cast of Heroes, which NBC canceled this spring. Not long after learning about Heroes’ demise, Greg was cast as a series regular in a new NBC show Love Bites, originally slated for fall that has been pushed back until January.
“It was a short mourning period for me,” Greg told Crushable. “I’ve been wanting to do comedy for a long time and this came along. I guest starred with Jennifer love… More »
The Betty White Surrounded By Hunks Calendar: Yay Or Nay?
Have we as a culture reached the Betty White over-saturation point yet? I thought we had after SNL, even with Hot In Cleveland premiering. Now, our final Golden Girl can make a graceful exit into Angela Lansbury territory, you know, where she’s not on every commercial or guest-spot, reminding us how “cool” she is. Don’t get us wrong: We doubt this is Betty White’s fault: It’s more the producers, agents, publicists, whomever, who sees Betty’s surge in popularity only in… More »
Happy Arbor Day! In honor of Arbor Day, Carmen Electra will be in New York’s Madison Square Park tomorrow shaving (or “deforesting”) men’s chests before a live audience. In case you were wondering why, it’s part of Phillips Norelco’s “Deforest Yourself. Reforest the World” campaign. (via New York Recession Diary)