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Kevin Costner Speaks Fondly Of Whitney at Memorial; Bobby Brown Walks Out

Katie J.M. Baker — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST

You can watch clips of Whitney Houston's memorial here if you didn't catch the entire live stream. Kevin Costner, Dionne Warwick, and Tyler Perry spoke, and R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, and Alicia Keys performed.

Bobby Brown arrived with 9 people in tow, including his girlfriend Alicia Etheridge, daughter LaPrincia and son Landon, and left shortly after being hassled by security. "We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions," he said in a statement. "I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to move...In light of the events, I gave a kiss to the casket of my ex-wife and departed as I refused to create a scene." Right, sounds like he's totally drama-free! [Extra TV]
Aretha Franklin said in a statement that she had "every intention" of being at Whitney's funeral but that leg spasms and locked leg muscles following her concert kept her up all night and left her unable to attend. [People]
Will Bobbi Kristina go to rehab soon? According to TMZ, her family wants her to enter a live-in rehab facility to confront her own substance-abuse issues and plans on confronting her shortly after her mother's funeral. [TMZ]
Some people found it odd that the Rev. Al Sharpton was tweeting during Whitney's funeral (He told his followers, "I am at Whitney's funeral. I spoke with Bobby Brown trying to calm him down and not distract from the services. Today is about Whitney!"), but he assured everyone that he had stepped out to tweet. "I am going back in the services," he clarified later. "I did my best out here. Can't tweet from inside the sanctuary, I hope the press will not distort the day." [KiduNot]
The finale of Whitney Houston's funeral was scored to "I Will Always Love You," because we will all always love Whitney. [Gawker]

And This Is How You Totally Dominate The Cover Of Vogue Paris

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:45:00 EDT

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Here's Russian model Natasha Poly, rocking brown hair and bright eyeshadow on the November cover of Vogue Paris. [@VogueParisLive]
Victoria Beckham Tweeted a super-close-up picture of her husband looking hunky and wearing a pair of her new sunglasses. [@victoriabeckham]

Jennifer Lopez Starts American Idol Gig Next Week

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EDT

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According to this report, Jennifer Lopez's "diva demands" have delayed her American Idol deal.

Cindy McCain Models For Marriage • Polanski's Prosecutors Motivated By Politics?

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:30:00 EST

• Cindy McCain has posed for an ad for the No H8 campaign - in 2008, John McCain endorsed the measure. Is there about to be a same sex marriage mutiny in the McCain household? • More »

CDC Panel Approves Cervarix • Endorsement Of Oklahoma Abortion Law Delayed

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:30:00 EDT

• A CDC advisory committee has recommended GlaxoSmithKline's HPV vaccine Cervarix, which is similar to Merck's Gardasil vaccine, for use in girls and women. But, some say Cervarix is overpriced because it offers less protection than Gardasil. • More »

A Star Is Mourned: Inside Michael Jackson's Memorial

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:20:00 EDT

All different kinds of celebrities showed up at the Staples Center today to pay respects to the King of Pop. A gallery, after the jump. More »

Conservative, MJ-Hating Concern-Trolls Worried For Black Community

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Bill O'Reilly, Fox & Friends' dead-eyed, soulless Gretchen Carlson and Juliet Huddy got together yesterday to muse thoughtfully about the intersection of celebrity, death, sexuality, race and hagiography. Just kidding: they just wanted to know what's up with black people! More »

48 Hours Delves Into The Ambivalence Over Michael Jackson's Skin Color

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:40:00 EDT

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Last night on 48 Hours, Harold Dow reported on how Michael Jackson's ever-lightening skin complicated his relationship with the black community. Spike Lee, Quincy Jones, and Al Sharpton weighed in on whether or not MJ was ashamed of his heritage. More »

SJP's Twins, Britney's New Look, Chris Brown's Sorta-Apology

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Here's the first picture of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick with their new twins, Marion and Tabitha Broderick. Big brother James, are you ready for double trouble? [TMZ]

Famous Friends React To Michael Jackson's Death

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Michael Jackson's autopsy will be performed today. [TMZ]

Geithner Stumbles, Hillary Sails & Sharpton Gets Sweet On Marriage Equality

Megan Carpentier — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST

While Hillary Clinton's winning popularity contests (and Al Sharpton is trying his darndest to do the same), Treasury nominee Tim Geithner is hoping not to lose his nomination and the Bushies are protecting their legacies. More »

You're Going To Need This Puppy To Get Through The News

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:40:00 EST

The Bidens plan to add to their household by getting another puppy from the pound. Double puppy snuggles! [Huffington Post]

Barack Obama Elected President Again!

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:30:00 EST

Enough states' electors have cast ballots for Obama by now that, today, he was officially elected President of the United States. [MSNBC]

John Edwards, Ted Stevens And Everyone Else Are Hypocrites

Megan Carpentier — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EDT

If the National Enquirer weren't relentless hyping its as-yet pictureless story about John Edwards' baby, we could just spend the whole morning talking about Republican hypocrisy, the new poster child for which is Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens. Good old Interwebs Ted was indicted on corruption charges, so we talk about that, his ass-grabbing Alaskan colleague (hint: it isn't Senator Lisa Murkowski), Olympic-sanctioned censorship, late apologies, Al Sharpton on the importance of admitting one's mistakes, and John Edwards' hush money that isn't hushing everything. God, it's like everyone's a hypocrite but me and Moe, and that might just be because nobody knows yet. More »

The Oh, Hell No Afternoon

mcarpentier — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

New York City police arrested Al Sharpton, Sean Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, and hundreds of other protesters today for staging prayer sessions at the exits of Manhattan in protest over the acquittal of the cops that shot Mr. Bell. Because, obviously, inconveniencing others to protest the loss of life means you should spend time at Rikers. Why did they have to make me like Al Sharpton? [NY Times]

Hillary Wins Another Primary!

Moe — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Done and done and done and yup, even the Wall Street Journal thinks done. Hillary officially halted her frenzied schedule of telling the cable newsiverse how Good she feels and what a Good Time she's having and how Good it feels to be taking policy advice from Joe Sixpack etc. etc. And how did Obama do it? And how did Peggy Noonan know?? We'd rather talk about Burma and Putin Jr. and the insane San Diego fraternity coke bust, but Megan and I will try to talk "delegate math" and the surreal CNN comment that gave us both inexplicable sex dreams after the jump. More »

John McCain's Totally Hot Great Grand- Er, Son!

Moe — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:00:55 EST

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Hottie alert! Meet John McCain's son Jack McCain. He enjoys surfing, cooking, poetry, some weird Japanese drag racing subculture they made into a Fast & Furious sequel you definitely didn't see, and being in the U.S. American armed forces like dad. He's momentarily taking over campaign blogging for his sister Meghan, who is sick. (She "went to the doctor today and had it confirmed." Pregnant sick? Let's vote "no" for poor Meghan, but "yes" for the country?!) Anyway, we're presenting Jack to you because he is cute but moreover because we scoured his profile and could find absolutely nothing that brushed up upon any of those finely tuned Sixties Sensors so beloved by the Boomers. And while we can't exactly be thankful we got laid last night, we certainly can be thankful that it is starting to look like America is for the very first time EVER going to have an election that has nothing to do with the sixties! That and school shootings, Danny Ortega's valentine to Barack Hussein Obama, with me and Megan as usual etc. etc. so you know what to do just JUMP! More »

Iowa Caucuses Tomorrow! And Al Sharpton And Michael Moore Are...Fat Blowhard Pussies

Moe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:30:00 EST

OHMYGODOHMYGOD, it's almost January 3! Do you live in Iowa? Hillary has an underage baby-sitter for you. Go to college there? Barack Obama has a bus waiting to take you back so you can exhibit your youthful delusion that a black man could be voted president in this terrible country. Today is a very exciting day, because both Al Sharpton AND Michael Moore, pillars of the fat ugly blowhard hater lefty establishment we all so love, have finally chosen to weigh in on the Democratic candidates, and their choice is...well they're still on the fence. Here is a theory: the candidates are all too pretty for them. I mean, would you even do a double-take if you saw Elizabeth Kucinich walking down the street with Barack Obama or John Edwards? After the jump we discuss beauty, socialism, whether the country is irredeemably racist, and somehow, professional basketball, for your voyeuristic pleasure! More »

Al Sharpton? Yeah, It's Hard Out There For A Pap

Anna — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:10:00 EST

TMZ's Harvey Levin Loves Himself A Hooker

Moe — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:10:26 EDT

You may have heard of Harvey Levin, the bene/malevolent deity to whom Paris Hilton appealed while in prison. He started the gossip website TMZ, which likes to coin new terms such as "celebuspawn", or the other day, in reference to a Matrix-y dress worn by Beyonce, "roboho." To which Rev. Al Sharpton got all: "WAIT A MINUTE HE SAID 'HO'!" So what did Harvey do next? Try and correct the little mix-up by explaining that the term was actually not a reference to the types of Ludacris-supported college basketball playing "hos" but actually an entirely unrelated play off the fashionista terms "boho" and its corollary "foho," both of which are also often invoked to characterize dresses? Fuck no! He bought a flag, propped himself in front of it and made us believe in liberty again with the most spirited defense of publicly shaming those who dress like prostitutes since the First Amendment was first signed into law. More »

Isaiah Washington Needs To Stick A Sock — Or Some Other Implement — In It

Jennifer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:10:11 EDT

Isaiah Washington — for the love of God — please keep your mouth shut. The latest from everyone's favorite fired homophobe? That ABC lied when saying that he had gone to rehab since "there is no rehab for homophobia." (Thanks to Slut Machine for this awesome graphic.) [People]