While it’s certainly embarrassing to have your sexual encounter secretly video taped and subsequently released, it’s even more embarrassing when your sexual performance is questionable, and it’s even worse when that sexual performance is with your best friend’s wife. After all, if you’re gonna gift your goods to your buddy’s wife, let’s hope you put a bow on top. According to recent reports, Hulk Hogan will be suing Bubba the Love Sponge for “invasion of privacy.” As for Hulk’s poor choices, I’ll cut him slack since this was filmed while he was still married, and everyone knows that no one thinks clearly while in a relationship. As an aside, I still partially believe Hulk was in on this, so until I see the papers filed on TMZ, I’m suspicious.
Brad Pitt’s Chanel No.5 Commercial — A Smelly Turd?
Movie Review: Argo
Written by Dan O’Connell, Contributing Writer
In the early days of the Iran Hostage crisis, six Americans in the Iranian Embassy escape to the Canadian Ambassador’s house, and CIA Operative Tony Mendez (Affleck) comes up with the only feasible plan to get them out. He plans to enter the country under the pretense of being a Canadian filmmaker scouting locations for a Hollywood film, and he’ll have the hostages pose as his movie staff. Once there, he’ll take them out as a team. His stateside helpers include: members of the CIA (Cranston, most notably), a gruff veteran producer (Arkin, signing on as a fake producer to make the story more believable) and a cheerful makeup artist (Goodman, who also helps to sell the Hollywood ruse). Once Mendez enters Iran, the problems arise. It’s not nearly as easy as it seems, and the story unfolds in one of the most suspenseful films in history.
Affleck’s winning streak as a director continues, armed with great performances, terrific dialogue, outstanding music cues (Van Halen’s “Dance the Night Away” for the win), and the best late 70s period design since “Boogie Nights” — right down to the Warner Bros. logo that opens the movie (a KILLER touch). Though I wasn’t thrilled with Affleck’s decision to underplay his role, by the third act it’s irrelevant. This film is an easy contender
for multiple Oscars.
RATING: 5 DISHES
Taylor Momsen is Naked . . . Intentionally
I once took an acting class during a moment of madness, and though I quickly ditched the idea, my teacher’s lecture on making creative choices has always stuck with me. “Stand out,” she said. “And do it by making choices no one has ever seen.” I thought of this very profound lecture while watching Taylor Momsen’s new lyric video, “Under the Water,” where she can be found predictably naked while wearing lots of eyeliner, reciting some very disturbing lyrics likely meant to cause an arbitrary stir. Perhaps she should have a conversation with OK Go about originality.
Tabloid Gossip — Get Your Celebrity News Weekend Rundown
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- Is Lamar Odom upset with Khloe Kardashian over X Factor? WetPaint
- Colin Farrell is sober. OK! Magazine
- Is Jon Hamm’s lady love putting on marriage proposal pressure? Opposing Views
- Is Kelly Clarkson close to marriage? Inquisitr
- Alexis Bledel debuted her new Mad Man. Pop Sugar
- Whitney Houston’s daughter might be engaged to her “brother.” ICYDK
- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are friendly exes. Us Magazine
- Christie Brinkley and her ex-husband still hate each other. Radar Online
- I feel terrible for Lindsay Lohan. The Stir
- Tori Spelling almost died giving birth. E! Online
- Reggie Bush is having a baby — and it’s not with Kim Kardashian. TMZ
- American Idol’s Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo are actually getting married. Digital Spy
- Amber Tamblyn & David Cross got married. Who says age matters? Daily Mail
- Jack Osbourne got married.
- Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman are separating. People
- The Bachelor’s Courtney Robertson is dating The Bachelorette’s Arie Luyendyk Jr. LA LATE
Emily Maynard and Jef Holm Broke up? NOOOOO!
Well, it’s not “official,” but where there’s smoke . . . . According to gossip blogger Reality Steve (who is rarely wrong), Emily Maynard and Jef Holm broke up this weekend. And Since Reality Steve suffers from excessive-copy-syndrome, I’ll summarize his post. Their break up was predicated on many of the tabloid reports about her indiscretions (i.e. cheating), and they are preparing to make an official statement. There you have it. A broken franchise, and The Dishmaster’s broken heart. Has love died?!
Movie Review: Seven Psychopaths
Written by Dan O’Connell, Guest Contributor
It’s Meta time as screenwriter Martin (Colin Farrell) is blocked, so he decides to write a script called “The Seven Psychopaths.” When he’s not writing (and we’re not seeing what he’s writing acted out for us), we’re treated to a look at his off-kilter friends, including Billy (Sam Rockwell), a kidnapper of dogs who, along with his pal Hans (Christopher Walken, in all his glorious, glorious Walken-ness), gets them all in over their heads when they abscond with a Shih Tzu that belongs to sociopathic gangster Charlie (Woody Harrelson).
Writer Director Martin McDonaugh (who previously worked with Farrell in In Bruges) doesn’t have a solid handle on tone – the action veers from absurdly gory to flat out dull, often within the same scene. But was that intentional? Using Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation start-up kit, McDonaugh (through the vessel Farrell) is comments on the action, but the ratio of success is pretty much 50-50. Regardless, no one has a way with a line of dialogue like Walken, who may have evolved into self-parody years ago, but is still a true original. Some welcome faces pop up in brief cameos, and between Walken, Harry Dean Stanton, and Tom Waits, it fulfills its “grizzled character actor” quota and then some. Overall, it’s clever enough to recommend, but curb your expectations and you’ll enjoy it.
Rating: 3 Dishes
Macallan Masters of Photography: Annie Leibovitz Edition — Stars Arrive
The stars came out to NYC’s Bowery Hotel in honor of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz for the US Launch of “The Macallan Masters of Photography: Annie Leibovitz Edition.” Check out some pictures below.
Stacey Kiebler rocking the red carpet without her Clooney arm candy
Annie Leibovitz and Stacey Kiebler looking happy and beautiful
Kevin McKidd looking pensive and attractive
Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel, making their first public appearance as a couple.
John Legend and fiance Chrissy Tiegen
Playback Kills It With “Rich Girl” — Will Simon Cowell Win X Factor?
This group astounded me, and I hate boy bands. You can see Simon Cowell smirking during their performance at all the money he’s about to make while simultaneously patting himself on the back for being a genius. As for Marc Anthony’s disinterest, all I can say is he’s a performer and not an A&R executive — and it shows. Watch their performance below.
Rolling Stones Release New Single — The Dishmaster Approves — LISTEN NOW
After reading some startlingly negative remarks about the Rolling Stones new single, “Doom and Gloom,” I assumed the worst. But it’s damn good. It’s true to their sound, and it’s catchy. Plus, it’s great that a band that has no financial need to release original material is still doing it — and doing it well. Listen below.