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Snap This: Amy Poehler’s NY Mag Shoot Is Incredible
Girlhero Amy Poehler graces the cover of NY Magazine this month, and her accompanying photo spread features several images that parody the horrendous trend of Photoshopping women into unrecognizable blobs of plastic. One of the images (see them all here) has the note “make neck smarter,” for which we have several suggestions: More »
Ricky Van Veen Laughs At Fallen-Down Cyclist – That, and much more in this 3-page profile of ‘Can the Internet Make TV Funny Again?‘ (New York Mag)
‘Interview’ Throws Party For James Franco’s ‘Book’
Last night at the James hotel, Interview Magazine and James Franco — two of the most overexposed entities in “culture” — joined together to promote Palo Alto, the collection of short stories by James that he wrote while earning one of his 1,000 degrees. You remember, it’s the book with the story they published in Esquire, that had the line “the shadows make it shadow-color“? Yikers. Even having the party at a place called the James now seems like some sort of weird, inside joke that even Franco’s other personalities aren’t finding funny any more. What was the scene like? Our insider had the scoop: More »
Is Mindy Kaling Leaving ‘The Office?’
With Steve Carrel‘s contract for The Office expiring this season, and his vocal guarantee that he won’t be renewing his contract, there’s been much speculation about how the show can continue without its lynch pin boss…or even if it should continue. Even with names like Ricky Gervais (the creator and star of the original British Office) being thrown around as possible replacements, most people seem to agree that the show has been treading water for at least a season. And that means more and more cast-members jumping ship. The most recent edition? Mindy Kaling, who plays the ditsy Kelly on the show. More »
Belated Recognition: Meta-Gossip-Mongering About James Franco
Sorry, it took me awhile to read last week’s cover story in New York Magazine “Is James Franco For Real?” Mainly because I had been asking that question for a couple months now, and felt like this was a little bit ripping off my steeze. Because you know, I am the world’s foremost James Franco expert. And it’s all about me. More »
Lady Gaga Says She Was Never ‘A Lazy Drug Addict,’ Dislikes Food
New York Magazine spent 125 minutes with Lady Gaga and, per the usual, she used the time to shock, awe and manipulate the media a la predecessor Madonna. Here are are some highlights of New York’s Gaga encounter:
On her pre-fame starving artist days: “I wasn’t a lazy drug addict. I would make demo tapes and send them around; then I would jump on my bike and pretend to be Lady Gaga’s manager. I’d make $300 at work and spend it… More »
Christina Hendricks On Her Body
In its cover story this week, New York magazine declares that Christina Hendricks “finds talk of her body boring.” So, naturally, they wrote an entire article about it.
Gorgeous photos aside (and really, how hard is it to take gorgeous photos of a gorgeous woman?), it was interesting to learn that Christina, like a lot of the rest of us, was ignorant of the fact that showbiz people consider her “bigger” than the Hollywood norm (i.e. fat, according to the New… More »