November 2007

Friday We’re In Love With Our Sponsors [Sponsors]

You know, we don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too. Thursday we don’t care about you. It’s Friday, we’re in love with our sponsors. This week, we dedicate this song and send our sincere thanks to Belvedere Vodka, Current TV, Dewars, The New New Museum, New York Times Magazine, Project Runway, Uwishunu.com and The Whitest Kids U’Know. Your melody could be next, just click here.

Source: Friday We’re In Love With Our Sponsors [Sponsors]

Calista Flockhart Doesn’t Dress Her Family in Corduroy & Denim [Snap Judgment]

[Santa Monica, November 28. Image via x17]

Source: Calista Flockhart Doesn’t Dress Her Family in Corduroy & Denim [Snap Judgment]

Is Lindsay Lohan Broke & Single? [Dirt Bag]

• Lindsay Lohan may be strapped for cash — she reportedly shopped around staged Thanksgiving photos with of herself with mom Dina, sister Ali, brothers and boyfriend Riley Giles to the celeb weeklies. The asking price started in the six figures, but dropped to $20,000. Also, does she get paid to be seen shopping at stores like Armani Exchange and Intermix? [MSNBC]
  
• LL and Riley are dunzo: She dumped him after they got back to L.A. after Thanksgiving in New York. “She got tired of him pouting all the time,” a source says. Also, he never paid for anything, not even sodas. Does he even have a job? [E!]
  
• Mary-Kate Olsen is recovering from her kidney infection by partying ’til 3 a.m. She cannot be stopped! [Page Six]
  
• Tila Tequila “is not really bi,” says a source. “It’s all a sham. She as a boyfriend… MTV works hard to pretend she’s single.” Wait, you mean there’s something fake on MTV? [Page Six]

• Ex-porn star Jenna Jameson and Heatherette designer Richie Rich are opening a bar in NYC’s Chinatown. Expect the interior to be delightfully tacky. [Page Six]
• Drea de Matteo popped! She and longtime boyfriend Shooter Jennings had their first child Wednesday, a daughter they named Alabama. Dig the name! [Page Six]
• If you’re interested in a spoiler for that damn Sex And The City: movie, click here. [Page Six]
• Paul McCartney gives all his ladies the same thing: a bottle of perfume and lacy undies. Ever heard of can’t buy me love? [Page Six]
• OKay, so we knew something was up between Helio Castroneves and his dancing partner Julianne Hough, but we did not realize that she is 19 and he is 32. [Rush & Molloy]
• Oh wow, spin control! Julianne says “I love Helio like he is my brother.” [People]
• The season finale of The Hills is only half an hour, but there will be a two days of programming on MTV: A Lauren Looks Back special “video scrapbook” of LC’s life from Laguna Beach High to today, the finale, and a live after-show, with the ladies answering viewer questions and an announcement that “will leave fans wanting more.” Unless it involves Spencer dropping off the face of the Earth, we’re pretty sure we don’t want more. [People]
• Conan O’Brien is paying 80 staffers during the strike: NBC is paying them through the end of November and Conan agreed to personally cover the salaries for the foreseeable future. Seeing as how it’s almost Christmas, we’re sure this is the best news some people could ever have. [People]
• Hey, so you know how Milo Ventimiglia, 30, and Hayden Panettiere, 18, aren’t dating? Here’s a picture of them coming out of the movies together. [People]
• There’s a video of Julia Roberts pissed at the paparazzi. She followed a photographer who was attempting to film her and yelled at him to “Turn it off!” Roberts accuses him of taping her near a school. [TMZ]
• Amy Winehouse is heading into the studio in the new year to record her third album, and sources say it might be amazing: “Some of Amy’s best writing stems from emotional heartache and turmoil. She’s actually more creative now then she’s ever been,” says a source. No shortage of material, that’s for sure. [Mirror]

Source: Is Lindsay Lohan Broke & Single? [Dirt Bag]

Vintage Real World: Miami’s Dan & Melissa Throwdown [Clip]

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The fight on last night’s episode of The Real World, although infuriating, wasn’t really as great as some Real World rows from past seasons. Let’s take a look at the clash between nosy, Latina roommate Melissa, and self-professed drama queen Dan, of 1996’s Miami cast. Melissa was known to go through the other mansion-dwellers’ things. She opened an unmarked envelope that turned out to contain valuable work material that belonged to Dan. Having reached his breaking point, he was ready to rip into her when she got home. He wasn’t ready, however, to hear her call him a “faggot” and a “flamer.” His reaction to it is pretty priceless.

Source: Vintage Real World: Miami’s Dan & Melissa Throwdown [Clip]

Hooker With A Heart Of Gold [Sex]

A Chilean prostitute has auctioned off 27 hours of sex to raise money for charity. Maria Carolina, who typically charges $300 for 90 minutes in the sack, has already raised $4,000 for Teleton, Chile’s largest fundraising event. The cash will go to help disabled children, a cause that Carolina said “touches me deeply.” Sheesh, after 27 hours of straight sex, she probably won’t want to be touched deeply for a little while. [Telegraph]

Source: Hooker With A Heart Of Gold [Sex]

How Do You Make It On To Project Runway If You Can’t Make Pants? [Clips]

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Last night’s Project Runway was essentially a slow descent into madness. Designing a look for former football star/current Today show correspondent Tiki Barber to wear on air. But when Tiki’s clearly domineering wife showed up to critique the designers while they worked, all hell broke loose. Not only did the designers not know how to design pants, most of them were too busy ogling the male models brought in for the challenge.

Carmen ultimately proved to be the challenge’s loser; not only could she not make pants, she couldn’t make a shirt either. (She exited giving some bullshit speech about how at least she is going out showing great “integrity” for menswear. Um, she does know she failed to actually make any garments, right?)

The real stand-out this week was ethereal gay Steven, who is slowly emerging as the hauntingly witty narrator/soothsayer of the season. His comparison of the mood in the design room to the Titanic was amazingly accurate.

Here are our burning questions after this week’s episode:
Why is Nina now greeting the designers every week with an icy “Hola”? We know she is from Colombia (even though she does speak with an inscrutable, ambiguous Eastern European accent), but really — where does this come from? Is she trying to render herself as the token minority judge? Display the same futility also seen in Bill Richardson in trying to win over the Hispanic vote?

Why did Tim Gunn laugh maniacally when Fat Chris said, “Do you like hot pants?” when they were at Mood? Is there something we should know about Tim and hot pants?

Most importantly: How did any of these bitches make it on Project Runway if they can’t even make a pair of fucking pants?

Source: How Do You Make It On To Project Runway If You Can’t Make Pants? [Clips]

Katie Kate Holmes’ New Dominatrix ‘Do [Snap Judgment]

[Dusseldorf, November 29. Image via AP.]

Source: Katie Kate Holmes’ New Dominatrix ‘Do [Snap Judgment]

Jay-Z’s Old BFF: “We Had Sex With The Same Women…We Had The Drip.” [Memory Lane]

Jay-Z’s old friend De-Haven Irby spoke to New York Magazine today, and yeah Henry Hyde died and more appealing Judi Giuliani news emerged today, fuck it; Jay-Z’s friend is quite frankly the most interesting thing on the internet. De-Heaven, along with assorted other Jigga-associates from back in the Marcy Projects days, accuses Jay-Z of appropriating aspects of his life into his lyrics and selling them as his own. Before De-Haven started hanging out with Hov, you see, “he was hanging out with some ’school’ guys. Nerds!” De-Haven was the one who introduced him to the thug life, although Jay-Z was mostly an observing body; specifically, he didn’t have an “affiliation” with a person named “Spanish Jose” whom he mentions in some of his songs. Nevertheless, the two were close.

Whatever was mine was his. So, we shared clothes, we shared a whole bunch of stuff. We had sex with the same women plenty of times. We both got burnt! We had the drip. My mom took him to the clinic.

Aw! Nothing brings friends together faster than a shared STD.

Anyway then they moved to Trenton. And that’s when Jay-Z started fooling around a bit in the recording studio and De-Haven started funding his music with his drug sales. Eventually they drifted apart, and anyway, now De-Haven is doing YouTube videos and Jay-Z is telling Charlie Rose he wishes he’d stopped fooling around with drug dealers and applied himself to his writing earlier.

Sigh.

Former Jay-Z Associate De-Haven Tells His Side [Vulture]

Source: Jay-Z’s Old BFF: “We Had Sex With The Same Women…We Had The Drip.” [Memory Lane]

ANTM’s Saleisha Has A Long History With Tyra [You Wanna Be On Top]

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We’ve all known since the casting episode that Saleisha knew Tyra back in the day because she’s a T-Zone alum — or refugee, depending on how you see it. (And in case you forgot, T-Zone is Tyra’s camp for young girls, where she teaches them about self-esteem.) And though we figured that Ty and Sal hadn’t seen each other since the T-Zone days, a very observant reader tipped us off to the fact that Saleisha appeared in the Gen Art fashion show in Cycle 6, and then later appeared on the Tyra show to model Rami Kashaou’s designs. (Yes, that Rami, from this season’s Project Runway. It’s all so meta!!!) Take a look at the clip above to catch some vintage Saleisha.

Source: ANTM’s Saleisha Has A Long History With Tyra [You Wanna Be On Top]