Golden Celebrity

When 75-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, married eight times to seven men, was asked in this clip from The Soup if she thought she might make it to nine before she died, the resulting squawk was instantly reminiscent of her announcement of “Glaaaaadiator!” as the 2001 Golden Globe winner for best picture.
Still, no one could [...]

While a story about how Los Angeles’s fun supply could be threatened by anti-narcotic crackdowns might ordinarily be an occasion to panic, we can all be comforted by the knowledge that the exciting innovations in smuggling technology being developed outside of U.S. borders could probably be adopted by domestic suppliers before a bottleneck brings our [...]

Is the idea of Britney Spears taking a bartending job really that crazy? If she’s going to spend all her time at drinking establishments anyway, she might as well be picking up extra cash to help pay her lawyers to get her babies back. And she’s already proven she has no natural talent for [...]

Charlie Sheen, author of the “go cry to your bald mom” e-mail suggesting his ex-wife Denise Richards might have more luck extracting sympathy from her cancer-suffering mother than from him, is painfully familiar with the sometimes irreversible consequences of indulging one’s impulses. Luckily for him, however, lasers can remove the patchwork of ridiculous tattoos covering [...]

· Hollywood Out Of Ideas, Feature-to-TV Recycling Edition: Demonstrating a company-wide commitment to reducing its new-idea-footprint, NBC Universal’s USA Network plans a TV series based on Thank You for Smoking, while its NBC flagship will try to adapt Outsourced into a primetime workplace comedy. [Variety, Variety]
· If this doesn’t stoke your interest in the [...]