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Hollywood Is Out Of Ideas Part DCCCXCV

Dodai — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:40:00 EDT

The Smurfs movie's in production. Like Alvin and the Chipmunks, it will be a mix of live action and 3D animation; rumors are floating that John Lithgow plays Gargamel. Because ruining treasured memories is what Hollywood does best. [SF Gate]

The Saddest Music In The World

Dodai — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:40:00 EDT

Chris Brown and Rihanna are working on a duet. Ten bucks there's something in there about how "people just don't understand." [E!]

Oh noes! Following earlier reports that...

Megan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:20:00 EST

Oh noes! Following earlier reports that Megan's Nerd Crush Object Justin Long hooked up with Tila Tequila in Vegas at Halloween, Us Magazine asked Tequila about it. Sadly, rather than denying that it ever occurred, she pulled out the lame line, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and it should just stay there," and said she didn't recall it. We will now recommence pretending it didn't happen. [Us Magazine, NY Post]

Thandie Newton: Ruffles & Ribbons & Layers, Oh My

Dodai — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:15:00 EDT

[Los Angeles, March 25. Image via Splash.]

Thandie Newton's Sheer Sleeves & Short Shorts

Dodai — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:15:00 EDT

[New York, March 20. Images via Splash.]

Issues

Dodai — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:20:18 EDT

Yeah, we were having tech issues for a while. But you can't keep these good girls down! Thanks for your patience. We're back.

Women On The Verge Of A Financial Breakdown

dodai — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:00:00 EST

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to get your finances in order, consider this: A new UK survey shows that female graduates face 16 years of student debt, compared to the 11 years men face, reports The Guardian. Part of the problem is that women don't get paid as much — often as much as 20% less — and, some say, they're also more likely to take time off to have children. Higher education minister David Willetts says: "This shows that women get a raw deal in the labour market. Women's earnings are more intermittent and still lower than men's. This year interest rates on loans doubled from 2.4% to 4.8% and this shows that those debts hit women the most."

Argues Kat Stark, women's officer at the National Union of Students: "Women are taking longer than men to pay off their student loans because they are paid less, not because they are taking time off to have children. Within three years of graduating, over 40% of men are earning over £25,000, compared to just over a quarter of women." In addition, aren't young women entering the workforce expected to spend more money on work-appropriate clothes and grooming than young men? Don't we get set up for post-collegiate debt early on? And are you done paying your school loans? Yeah, neither are we.

Women Take Longer To Repay Student Loans [Guardian]

Sleeping Beauties

dodai — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:45:00 EST

Spooning and cuddling just got easier: The Love Mattress has a solid middle portion, but slats in the foam at the top and bottom so that couples' arms and legs can dip below the surface. That way, if your limbs are tingly, it's yearning, not lack of circulation. (Click the picture for another view.) [Inventor Spot]

Britney, Britney, Britney. Today she got...

Dodai — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:45:00 EDT

Britney, Britney, Britney. Today she got served. Her former manager, Orlando-based powerhouse Johnny Wright — who has also managed *NSync, Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake — is suing Ms. Spears because she stopped paying him commissions which she is contractually obligated to pay. She may be too hungover to read this but we'd like to say, "Get your shit together." Obvs. [TMZ]

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Hot Crazy Depressive Genius Writer Slut, Is Now 40

Moe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:00:14 EDT

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.A story in yesterday's Times about gratuitously hot Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel professed to be about how she's in law school now, but obviously the big news is that she is forty. Forty. Which makes her not only old, but older than 90% of her classmates at law school, so instead of being the hot ex-rock critic crazy party girl of Yale Law '08, she's sort of like that woman who grew up in a small town and had kids too young and then divorced her husband and raised them alone through some grueling 20-hour days while she worked three jobs and put herself through night school and made it through sheer triumph of the human spirit into Yale Law, only not inspiring. In other words, you know, she sorta looks forty, not that there's anything wrong with that. Oh, and also, she will be working to protect intellectual property, at the catchily-named firm WilmerHale.

Because now that anyone with a shady doctor and a Livejournal account (or, ha ha, a job actually doing this for a living) can spew out uppers-addled rants weaving together Amy Fisher and Madonna and cutting and crying fits and her own sad, sad, sad life as an incredibly hot and intelligent young writer, it's important we preserve the laws that seal her status as the very first? Because getting a 160 on her LSATs wasn't good enough for the ACLU? I don't know; suffice it to say this story was depressing, but in a kind of overall, non-specific way. That kind of feeling where you don't know quite what's wrong with all this, and that almost makes it worse, and then the whole thing becomes an unending spiral of "I hate myself because I hate my life and it's so hateful that someone like me should hate her life because I have no real reason to hate anything about it which oh god just makes it so much WORSE..." Anyway, there are supposedly drugs for that.

Coming Soon: 'Law School Nation'? [New York Times]

Michelle Obama Tells 'Vogue' Its Readers Are Too Cynical, Desensitized By Fashion Magazines To Vote For Her Husband

Moe — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:05:30 EDT

For September, magazine behemoth Conde Nast gives the his and hers treatment they gave John & Elizabeth Edwards to the Obama couple, which was a good thing because they were also profiled in the month's Vibe and Elle, and we had been fashioning a post on how that was sort of indicative of their chances of getting anywhere in this election, and quite frankly we reeeeallly would like to be wrong about that. So guess what? Michelle Obama is so comprehensively appealing it overpowers our distaste for both Vogue and writer Rebecca Johnson, who has been known to suck. Not only are there numerous shows of all the hardworkingness, modesty, frankness and aversion to all things unattainable blah blah Vogue-ey that endeared us to Michelle in the first place, she invokes the phrase "no harm, no foul" to brushes off Maureen Dowd's pissy column — and all the other Democrats who have already resigned themselves to a Clinton candidacy despite their reservations that someone who has forsaken so much in the realm of "happiness" can really honestly defend, you know, the "pursuit of" it. (Yeah yeah who are we kidding life is pain whatevs.)

She told a newspaper a few years ago that she sometimes thinks politics is a waste of time...I wondered if she regretted the remark. "No," she answered. "I think it's what a lot of peple feel but don't articulate. That's why they don't vote.

Long sigh. We were going to write something impassioned about why we like the Obamas so much beyond their appearances in our favorite gynomags and how he gives us hope for the future of peace, love and understanding and shit, but, uh, we have to catch a plane to Israel. For one of those seven-figure megaweddings. Yup. Don't worry we won't leave without one of those terrorism scarves.