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- Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia! [Disasters]
We're not really sure why this is happening (other than these people being weird), but Mamma Mia! is huuuge in the UK. Like, top-grossing film of all time. Beats Titanic, even. That's what we read... - Caroline Kennedy May Want to Reconsider This Senate Thing [Politics]
Caroline Kennedy, do you seriously want to be a Senator? Don't you know people are going to start asking uncomfortable questions about, say, your marriage? The Enquirer's already testing the waters.... - Liza Minnelli Greets Her Fans [Open Caption]
[That's not Liza! That's Bronx Mowgli's (yes, the Bronx Mowgli) dad Pete Wentz in Washington Square Park today; image via INF] - Third Person in the Room Named in Scott Ruffalo Case [Mysteries]
The name of the third person possibly involved in the sad, strange case of Scott Ruffalo, the brother of actor Mark who was shot in the head and killed earlier this month, has been revealed. A man... - Bernie Madoff's Impossible 'Investment Strategy' [Crime]
Everybody knows what Bernie Madoff did—hustle a lot of people out of $50 billion. But nobody's really explained how he did it. Now we're finding out his purported "strategy" was obviously fake.... - Con Game [Crime]
Raffaello Follieri will pay back millions! Oops, he's broke. [NYP] - Did Blago Actually Break the Law? [Corruption]
A week into the scandal, this question's catching on: exactly how criminal was Rod Blagojevich's behavior? Or was it just tacky? We first saw it from Jack Shafer on December 10. Slate's cantankerous... - Time Democrat Defector Was Not In The Tank, Says Other Time Democrat Defector [Liberals]
Time's Washington bureau chief Jay Carney became Joe Biden's spokesman yesterday, but he's definitely not a biased liberal, according to Time editor Richard Stengel—an even bigger confirmed... - The Hills: The Wedding! The Moving! The Crying! [Recaps]
newVideoPlayer("/HillsDec1508.flv", undefined, NaN,""); Last night was the finale penultimate episode of The Hills' fourth season. There was a big departure and a big wedding. If you're curious about... - A Black Eye for Bush's Mouthpiece [Shoe Attack]
Aside from the shoe thrower himself, the other victim of Sunday's shoe attack was White House press secretary Dana Perino, who returned to the White House yesterday with a black eye. Apparently,... - Eliot Spitzer Wanders Into Media Party, Thinking It Was Something Else [Love Guv]
Slate columnist and randy ex-governor Eliot Spitzer showed up at a Slate party last night at—get ready for this, guys—Happy Ending, a former rub-'n-tug spot. Oh, you! Then he gave this... - War on Christmas Hits France! [War On Christmas]
Bomb in Paris Department Store leaves secular godless French baffled—how much more coddling do these terrorists need? A group calling itself the "Afghan Revolutionary Front" called up the AFP... - Desperate For Human Flesh, Padma Lakshmi Gnaws Off Own Arm [Open Caption]
[The "Top Chef" host, whom we're marrying off, at a film premiere last night; image via INF] - Baghdad Shoe Thrower Will Be Rich, If He Survives [Heroes]
Oh dear: it seems that Muntader al-Zaidi, the heroic Baghdad Shoe Thrower, is being treated just about as well as we expected in custody. But there is a bright side: "Muntadar al-Zaidi has suffered... - Which 'Squeaky-Clean' Young Actress Is Hiding a Dark Past? [Blind Items]
Today we have a secret sex tape, a secret life as a sex swinger, a secret shame, and a secret bad reputation. All secret until now! 1) "Which daughter of a sports legend made a sex tape with two... - Court Infringes Big Tobacco's Right To Kill, Ignore You [Marketing]
The liberal portion of the Supreme Court says that average jerks can sue cigarette companies for fraudulently marketing their light cigarettes—which kill you—as safe. Conservatives say... - In Real Life, Tom Cruise Foils the Saboteurs [Gossip Roundup]
It's reconciliation day: Letterman invited Leno, Madonna offered to visit Guy Ritchie and even Marc Jacobs dropped the drama. Tom Cruise is still kind of a bastard, though. Tom Cruise reportedly... - Lil' Gordon Ramsay Ups the Lil' Parody Ante [Shouting Heads]
The only people who can get jobs in media now are small children who can sound and vaguely look like obnoxious TV personalities, while swearing. Lil' Gordon Ramsay will go far. This kid's... - 'No One Gets Drunk Anymore' In New York [Drinking]
Last week the Times started a booze blog! Who knew? Today contributor Susan Cheever weighed in with a provocative, some might say intemperate, thesis: There are no more drunks at New York parties.... - Anna Wintour's Princess Leia Dress: Time's Worst Outfit of the Year [Fashion]
Anna Wintour's sequined, seahorse-looking Karl Lagerfeld dress was controversial back when the Vogue ruler wore it to the Costume Institute gala in May. Time's final verdict is another slap to the... - Blago a Huge Nixon Groupie [Monsters]
In 1980, a vacationing Rod Blagojevich camped in front of Richard Nixon's home, with a friend, until the pariah ex-president emerged and this picture was taken. What the hell is wrong with this guy?... - A Funereal Fashion Week? [Economics]
Crazy old Betsey Johnson can't afford a runway show during New York's big February Fashion Week, nor can Carmen Marc Valvo. Meanwhile, black is the new black. Depressing. - Fox's Vindictive Flacks from Hell Hate Christmas [Flackery]
With this "holiday" card, Fox is again on the wrong side of the "War On Christmas" it's so worried about. And apparently this is supposed to totally make up for smearing all those reporters: Tim... - The Pathetic Fate of 'the Sin Eater,' Celebrated Outlaw Detective [Crime]
Private investigator Anthony Pellicano broke many laws covering up and smearing for clients like Tom Cruise, Chris Rock and Mike Ovitz. After a trial that became a media sensation, he's quietly... - YouTube Bike-Shove Cop Indicted [Bad Cops]
Good news! The cop who shoved the guy off his bike in Times Square then arrested the cyclist and filed a false report claiming the cyclist rode into him has been indicted! It is a felony, to file... - Prussian Boo Hoo [Lil' Monsters]
Why won't ShopRite make Adolf Hitler a birthday cake? [LHL] - Obama's Office Did Nothing Wrong, Obama's Office Finds [Politics]
So Barack Obama's transition team finished its official report on the Blago scandal and it turns out that no one did anything wrong, hooray! Obama's office's official review is all done, and Obama... - MacMillan Laying Off 4% after Announcing Pay Freeze [Books]
A few weeks ago, MacMillan CEO John Sargent sent out a memo to the publisher's employees saying, basically, "no raises for anyone this year—but Me