Jezebel: Harvey Levin

Lil' TMZ Playset Teaches Kids To Stalk Celebs

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:31:00 EDT

The Lil' TMZ Playset comes with everything kids need to play paparazzi and "catch your friends and family in the gutter." It's the perfect way to ensure that someday your tots will grow up to be just like Harvey Levin. More »

From The Hills To The Hill: TMZ Turns Its Focus To D.C.

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:40:00 EDT

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TMZ will soon be giving Lindsey Graham the Lindsay Lohan treatment, as the company sics its "reporters" and camera crews on politicians. Because if there's one thing Washington needs, it's more frivolous reporting. More »

Lindsay & Sam: Another Night, Another Fight

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Video: Samantha Ronson peels out of a Vegas club parking lot. A minute later, Lindsay Lohan emerges, saying, "Did she leave? She fucking left? Where's my car? I want my fucking keys now." [TMZ]

Critics: TMZ Is The New C-Span, 'Das Kapital.' It Sure Beats Tucker Carlson

Moe — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:00:52 EDT

Have you thought up an excuse for loving TMZ TV yet? Because the dilemma of loving a trashy syndicated daily show has the TV critics working overtime. Last week's Slate went with the tired "voyeurism" excuse that basically applies to pretty much everything on television; today's Washington Post compared the show to C-Span. I always figured the show was good because everyone who works there is too smart to be working there but had been forced by some absurd fluke of our market economy to do so. But it only during yesterday's commercial break that I realized the NY Times' Virginia Heffernan wasn't smoking crack when she called TMZ modern-day version of Karl Marx's Capital. Because here's the discourse on socialism that was going on over on MSNBC's "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson: More »

So Is Lindsay Officially Worse Than Paris And Britney Now?

Moe — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:07:10 EDT

"It was pretty much the worst night of my entire summer," says Ronnie Blake, a young man from Southern California, of the night of the latest Lindsay Lohan DUI bust, to TMZ founder and king of all media Harvey Levin. But was it the best night of Harvey's summer? Tough to say. Ronnie's story is that he and his friends Dante and Jakon had been invited by Lindsay to a party they then weren't allowed into, so they were just sitting in the car, chillaxin, and waiting for Lindsay's assistant's boyfriend to stop arguing with Lindsay's assistant when... suddenly Lindsay jacked their car, ran it over Ronnie's foot and up the Pacific Coast Highway at 100 miles an hour, occasionally uttering such charming statements as "I'm a celebrity. I'm not going to get in trouble," and "If you touch me, I'll sue you." When the cops finally caught up to them, Lindsay said "the black kid" had been driving — when she had just run over his FUCKING FOOT. More »

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 »

Paris Hilton, The Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Of Ill-Advised Media Mergers

Moe — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:36:09 EDT

When the history books are written about the the twenty-first century, Paris's childlike sketch to TMZ founder Harvey Levin will surely endure as a powerful symbol of the times. In the sketch, Harvey punditizes on Larry King Live. Both Harvey and Larry are, of course, essentially the property of the company formerly known as AOL Time Warner, something Paris understands on an intuitive or Mike Sitrick-aided level. And Paris's appearance on tonight's somewhat-hyped episode of Larry King Live will surely help drive sales for tomorrow's "exclusive" cover interview in People. Meanwhile, fledgling Time-Warner internet property TMZ has sustained minute-to-minute interest in the event with no fewer than 25 posts on the heiress since her release yesterday morning. Whole books have been written about the near-comic failure of the seven year marriage of AOL, Time and Warner. But as is so often the case in business journalism, the inherent fickleness of a market economy obscured the long-term compatibility of the players. In other words, perhaps this company is the Brangelina of all media, with Paris its first Shiloh, and her sketch to TMZ's Harvey Levin a piece of artwork he and Dick Parsons will cherish forever. More »