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Something weird happened on the season finale of America's Next Top Model: All-Stars last night — and for once, we're not talking about something Tyra Banks, the always-smizing host of the show did or said. Instead, it was the random disqualification of Angelea Preston, the tall, somewhat-beloved underdog who scratched her way to the top. It was strange that she was suddenly suspended from the show's competition. Even stranger was the way the situation was addressed on the show: Barely at all. In the clip above, you can watch exactly how the announcement — that Angelea had been dropped from the show — was handled, just as it aired on The CW last night. Pretty fishy, right? More »
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College Republicans at the University of California-Berkeley are making waves in the shape of a million eyes simultaneously rolled by charging customers at their bake sale based on their race and gender. More »
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Barnes & Noble recently took an unusual step — the bookstore chain required the magazine Dossier wrap its new issue in opaque plastic before agreeing to stock it. The problem with the cover? Nudity. More specifically, the nude torso of the famously androgynous male model Andrej Pejic. Barnes & Noble was concerned customers would mistake Pejic for a shirtless woman. More »
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H&R Block joins Taco Bell, GM, and Wrigley in pulling its ads from MTV's television show about teens, which isn't cool anyway. More »
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Remember how Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was accused of rape by a woman in Georgia that one time, and suspended by the NFL for a few games? Yeah, well, let's just put that all behind us now, okay? More »
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British artist Damien Hirst's latest work is a a baby skull covered with diamonds. On one hand, diamonds are a girl's best friend, but on the other, dead baby. Ow, my ladybrain. More »
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When an interviewer pushed him on the subject of public sexuality, the notoriously cagey Spacey got defiant, exposing a larger divide on questions of privacy. More »
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Let's hope not. Because that would just be cold. [EW, Forbes] More »
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Sarah Palin's former stylist is doling out money-saving (and incredibly boring) fashion advice, but there's one cheap-chic trick she forgot, and it involves a Sharpie. Is this a childish insult, or a clever disguise? [MSNBC & BuzzFeed] More »
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Last night, The Insider attempted to analyze Hillary's "controversial" statement ("my husband is not Secretary of State, I am") by having a body language expert and Ann Coulter opine on whether Hillary is cranky or angry. More »
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A new Lebanese magazine, Jasad, or "Body," may be causing controversy in the Arab world by promising to "deal with the forbidden," but is that in itself enough? More »
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A Toronto father argues that inclusion of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale on his son's reading list is a violation of schoolboard policy, citing the novel's "foul language, anti-Christian overtones, violence and sexual degradation." [Shameless] More »
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Remember back in April, when famed photographer Annie Leibovitz took some pretty pictures of Miley Cyrus draped in a sheet for Vanity Fair and everyone freaked the fuck out? Well Leibovitz was on the Today Show this morning promoting her new book, Annie Leibovitz At Work, and Matt Lauer asked about those controversial Miley pictures. Though Leibovitz refused to show the snaps of Miley on air, she defended her work. "The picture is strong, beautiful, direct, and on a lot of levels, innocent," Leibovitz says. "[Miley] was ready to take that picture and her audience was not. Maybe she shouldn't have posed for Vanity Fair." Clip above. More »
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People are really freaking out about the Miley Cyrus "topless" Vanity Fair photographs. Disney is blaming photographer Annie Leibovitz., saying that she and VF created a situation "to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines." Vanity Fair is standing by the images, emphasizing that Cyrus's "parents and/or minders were on the set all day," and Leibovitz is calling the photos "very beautiful." Cyrus has issued a public apology over the photos, but I guess what bothers me about the situation is not that a 15-year-old has been sexualized, its that the scenario has taken away her agency entirely. More »
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Excellent essayist and Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum weighs in on the Aliza Shvarts controversy and decides that our favorite art agitator isn't actually all that original, especially when compared to a batty Brit named Mary Toft. "Many artists, including photographer Cindy Sherman and multimedia artist Judy Chicago, have incorporated menstrual blood into their work. As for those maybe-miscarriages and their role in performance art, hoax or some combination thereof, Shvarts has nothing on 18th century Englishwoman Mary Toft. In 1726, Toft became a sensation when she managed to convince the public and much of the medical community that she was repeatedly giving birth to rabbits." [LAT] More »
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