Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman makes a pilgrimage to the local newsstand and buys the latest issues of Ok!, In Touch, Life & Style, Us and Star. Together we "read" the "news" so you don't "have" to. This week: Nicole Richie is "scary skinny;" everyone hates The Bachelor; and new fashion it girl Kendall …
Retirement has not agreed with Even Stevens star Shia LaBeouf, who announced his exit from the world of arts and culture only two weeks ago due to completely valid and well-grounded criticism of his plagiarism and general skulduggery what he perceived to be vicious attacks on his artistic integrity. LaBeouf will soon…
In today's Tweet Beat, John Mayer is back with a vengeance, Khloe Kardashian and Evan Rachel Wood are listening to TLC (but not together), and Judy Gold and Jay Baruchel have gas (but not together).
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Amanda Bynes spent a week at a fitness camp, where she paid several thousand dollars to lose five pounds. E! reports that Bynes was dropped off at camp by her parents and used the week there to give herself "a lifestyle makeover." It may be easy to snark on the fact that the article focuses mostly Bynes' quest to lose…
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Welcome back to Midweek Madness! Every Wednesday, Callie Beusman ventures out to the newsstand and picks up the latest issues of Ok, In Touch, Star, Life & Style and Us, so that together we may inhale the aromatic fragrances of gossip. This week: a Defense of Duck Dynasty; Her Majesty The Queen of England weighs in on…
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Get into it: RuPaul's Drag Race Season Six begins airing next month, and this new trailer is sickening, hunty.
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With a new baby, a new bikini body, a drug addiction, two paternity scandals, and two divorces, the Kardashians had a great 12 months worth of gossip. But how did they hold up against all of Jennifer Aniston's imaginary pregnancies? Or the royal baby? Who won the tabloids this year?
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Today in "whaaaaaaaat," feminist icon Ani DiFranco has cancelled her four-day "Righteous Retreat," a songwriting workshop for women. It was cancelled because it was going to be held at the Nottoway Plantation — one of the largest former plantations in the South, which now functions as a museum in which the horrors of…
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Kate Winslet has threatened to sue fathers' rights group Fathers4Justice after the organization issued an ad campaign targeting her children's living arrangements.
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In today's Tweet Beat, Anna Camp tries to turn the concept of catcalling on its head, Stacy London receives an apology from Jacques Torres and please stop gossiping about a certain Kardashian sister and a certain famous comedian.
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Welcome back to Midweek Madness, your foray into the dangerous wilderness of the celebrity tabloids. Every week, Callie Beusman heads to the newsstand for the new issues of In Touch, Ok!, Life & Style, Star and Us, and together we forage for "news." This week: Justin Theroux is pulling old bedpans out of the trash to…
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Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy have decided not to change for Hollywood. According to a report, the two have formed a pact: Stay large and in charge.
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Oh dear. Just like all dogs go to heaven, all Kardashians get divorced. And apparently it's Khloe's turn.
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Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter held its 22nd annual Women in Entertainment breakfast, and talented ladies gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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The Kardashian/Jenner family's annual Christmas card is barely recognizable, missing some parts, and all fucked up from fame. Just like Michael Jackson's face. (And that, too, was shot by David LaChapelle.)
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Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which we sit at the dining room table of celebrity gossip and smile politely at all the horrible things that Us Weekly, Star, inTouch, Life & Style and OK! have to say. This week, O.J. Simpson is Khloe Kardashian's Father; Taylor Swift ate a salad at a gastropub; and Kim Kardashian is …
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Tuesday was Kris Jenner's birthday. Happy Birthday Kris Jenner! The Kardashian/Jenner Family matriarch apparently celebrated her birthday not by eating her young in an effort to stay youthful forever, but but consuming cupcakes decorated with her own floating head. She was also showered with love by her offspring, in a …
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It's safe to assume that Lamar Odom's drug problem was never intended to be a storyline in the eighth season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, but after his "issues" became a tabloid fixture this summer, culminating in a DUI and a reported failed intervention and subsequent separation from Khloe, it would be…
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Former NBA Lakers coach Phil Jackson has taken it upon himself to try to explain what's going with Lamar Odom, but spoiler: he doesn't know. So instead, Jackson has decided to speculate that Odom's current state of who knows what's going on is partially to blame on the Kardashian family, for enabling Odom's addiction…
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Welcome back! Every Wednesday, we do Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman heads to the newsstand and buys the latest issues of Ok!, Us, In Touch, Life & Style and Star, so that together, we can read them and weep. This week: Beyoncé is labeled a "diva" for wanting to have peanut butter backstage; Miley Cyrus is…
