Golden Celebrity

When Napoleon Dynamite exploded into the pop culture universe back in the summer of 2004, more people than we care to remember walked around sporting “Vote For Pedro” t-shirts. In the wake of that film’s inexplicable success, Jon Heder went back to work (albeit mostly unmemorably) while Efren Ramirez, better known as Pedro, seemed content [...]

Via our friends at BoingBoing, we bring you The 10 Star Wars Toys that Unintentionally Look Like Other Celebrities, a highly amusing gallery of action figures and their accidental doppelgangers that’s guaranteed to entertain. Meanwhile, fanboy memorabilia collectors who can’t wait until the end of spring for The Dark Knight merchandising to hit store shelves [...]

· Music round-up: Black Mountain at the Troubadour; Dead Meadow at Echoplex; Aimee Mann at Largo.
· Gawker Media’s own, Deadspin editor and sworn Chris Berman nemesis Will Leitch, will be at Book Soup to sign his new book, God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in The Third Person, and The Occasional [...]

We never pictured the normally calm-as-a-cuke Brad Pitt as the hissy-fit type, but TMZ is reporting that the actor “threw a tantrum” when he learned the first Ducati Desmosedici RR motorcyle (retail price: $72,500) had been snapped up by another A-Lister. Namely, longtime Ducati enthusiast Tom Cruise (who had been promised the bike by Ducati’s [...]

Via our friends at BoingBoing, we bring you The 10 Star Wars Toys that Unintentionally Look Like Other Celebrities, a highly amusing gallery of action figures and their accidental doppelgangers that’s guaranteed to entertain. Meanwhile, fanboy memorabilia collectors who can’t wait until the end of spring for The Dark Knight merchandising to hit store shelves [...]