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Corey's Stuff Sold On eBay; Jessica Simpson: "I Don't Brush My Teeth"

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:00 EST

Someone claiming he co-starred with Corey Haim in the 1985 NBC Movie of the Week A Time To Live is selling Corey's belongings, including gym shorts and t-shirts, on eBay because the Haim family can't afford the funeral.

Critics Say Cashmere Mafia Has Polyester Quality

Jessica G. — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:30:00 EST

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The long-awaited and scandal generating Sex and the City knock-off Cashmere Mafia from SatC creator Darren Star will premiere this Sunday, and reviewers have already taken out a hit on it. Just like in Sex, Mafia centers around four women in the big city, but these women are more interested in boardrooms than bedrooms...or something. Lucy Liu plays the Carrie Bradshavian lead, Mia, who works in publishing but on the business side. The other three characters do other business-y type stuff but their descriptions bored me to tears, so I'll just mention that one of them is flirting with lesbianism. Anyhoo, the critical reception of Mafia has been uniformly terrible (reviewers have called the characters "parodies", "caricatures" and "stereotypes"), save for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, which calls the show "slick and exquisitely cast." (Maybe they've let all that Florida sun bleach their brains.) Check out the rest of the critical carnage after the jump. More »

Is It Possible To Make A Show Worse Than Sex & The City?

Moe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:00:09 EST

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Cashmere Mafia is a new TV show premiering next Monday. It's supposed to taste like Sex & The City because it's made by Sex & The City, or at least one of its makers, Darren Star. (The other maker of SATC, Candace Bushnell, is also making a next-new Sex & The City, which is why Candace and Darren are no longer speaking, but that's another story.) Anyway, the official New York intelligentsia verdict from New York Magazine fashion reporter Amy Larocca is in, and it is OMG BAD. Most of the characters are so unsympathetic!! They lie and they cheat and they "suggest that a balanced, reasoned existence is something thoroughly impossible to attain" — how not like New York at all!!

Sex and the City felt like New York. Its characters were ironic, self-deprecating, and funny... Watching it made me think about an early Sex and the City episode in which Miranda realizes that she's a smart-lady beard for a serial modelizer, trotted out to assure his friends he's not shallow. She's invited to dinner parties and ditched the second Lotus opens. It was about the push and pull between beauty and brains, and a city that values both but sometimes gets confused.