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Loose Lips Anne Hathaway's shady bf, Raffaelo Follieri, was reportedly just arrested for bouncing a $250,000 check. In addition, Follieri was just ordered to pay another $250,000 to a PR firm he stiffed. It sounds like he's really gonna need that PR right about now.• A poll of porn stars at a Bulgarian "erotic fair" shows that David Beckham is the star they would most like to bone. Should he change his last name to Feckham? • Did Marc Anthony buy J. Lo $2.6 million earrings as a push present? Rumor has it the expensive baubles have the letters "M" and "E" for their children Max and Emme engraved on them. [TMZ, The Sun, Dlisted]

the rich

Would "Push Presents" Be So Obnoxious If They Weren't Called "Push Presents"?

You know how sometimes, a man will give his wife a nice piece of jewelry or whatevs when she gives birth to a baby, just to be like, "Hey, sweetie, I know you feel a million kinds of gross right now and can barely focus on something as inanimate and utterly pointless — not to mention earlobe-depleting! — as earrings, but like, maybe if we make it through the next few years okay you'll be able to put these on at night and think about the guy who, when you were in pain, gave you something sparkly and grinned sheepishly until you popped out his spawn"? Well now this thing is called a "push present," according to the New York Times, and boyyyyyy were Anna and Jessica and a half gazillion of you tipsters offended by passages like this:
Chris Beggini, a 43-year-old mutual fund manager in Radnor, Pa., didn't know about the practice until his wife, Jennifer, straightened him out. "We talked about how she had nine months of difficulty, and 'Aren't I the good soldier?' blah blah blah," he recalled. So when the Begginis begat Abigail in 1999, Ellie in 2002, and Julia last year, Mr. Beggini responded with earrings, a bracelet and what he jokingly calls a "suffer ring."
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broadsides

Panic-Stricken Kim Basinger's Maybe Not-So-Healthy Heart

  • A recent study suggests that women who suffer from panic/anxiety attacks [That would be me! -Ed.] have a higher chance of suffering a heart attack or stroke later in life. [USA Today]
  • Can consensual sex become rape midway during the act? A Maryland court is trying to determine that in the case of a 18-year old woman who allowed a 16-year old boy to have sex with her so long as he stopped when she told him to. She claims she told him to stop and he continued for 5 to 10 more seconds. We know what Cosmo would say! [Baltimore Sun]
  • Salon's Rebecca Traister reviews Susan Faludi's new book and contrasts it with Springsteen's new album. Just go read it. It's that good. [Salon]
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