<![CDATA[Jezebel: Not Like Us]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Not Like Us]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/not like us http://jezebel.com/tag/not like us <![CDATA[Julia Roberts: "Manifest Destiny" Saved Me From Modern Hollywhoredom]]> Julia Roberts is on the cover of the latest Vanity Fair, in an interview you may have already heard about because she makes the requisite statements about how she wants to take in Britney Spears as a houseguest because she thinks it's such a pity what a cruel cruel world it can be out there and oh, heavens how Hollywood has changed. I read it, for a moment feeling myself transported back to the era that created the actress some moguls are convinced is the only female that can carry a movie, listening to Julia sunnily — and "proficiently!" the mag notes; someone doesn't need Britney's help here — change diapers and say things like ""spiritually speaking, I think that we do have our Manifest Destiny." It was an era, she explains, before celebrity culture turned into such a "grotesque circus sideshow"; before it all happened
too fast. Before, you could build a career over years and many movies. Now it's like you do one good movie and they throw a ton of money at you and a ton of attention at you.
And uhm, how much exactly did Julia toil before she was catapulted into the ton of money/ton of attention ranks with her role as the lead whore in a movie that grossed nearly half-billion dollars? She remembers: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322326&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Meet 'US Weekly''s Ken Baker. He'll Promote His Hot Nanny Instead Of You, Then Send The FBI To Your House]]> The jackass with Paris is Ken Baker, America's worst boss. We always thought there was something a little spooky about how mild and intelligent and reasonable Us Weekly editor in chief Janice Min came across in public, and now we know why: she has a horrible secret and it is not that she had reporters dig through Ben Affleck's trash, used scanners to intercept Britney Spears' bodyguards' communications or planted a reporter full-time at Cedars-Sinai (the hospital with the lock on the celebuspawn market). It's that she hired this guy to oversee all of this investigative journalism, and...Well. How to put... Baker was one of those bosses who thinks it is a good idea to involve the entire office in his speculation as to whether an employee's tits are real, encourages his underlings to sleep with paparazzi, hires the nanny he wants to see "pregnant in pigtails" as a reporter, and then, when suddenly someone catches wind and decides to do a story about it, snots all over your office:
On or about July 2005 BAKER entered JILL ISHKANIAN's office, closed the door and began to cry. During this conversation BAKER used up all of JILL ISHKANIAN's Kleenex to wipe his eyes and runny nose.
But it got SO MUCH MESSIER. More »
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