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Time Whips Out the Ol' Red X For Bin Laden
Seth Abramovitch · 05/03/11 02:15AMTime magazine may have grown increasingly neutered with their choices for Person of the Year, but when it comes to their Dead Mass-Murderer of the Week covers, forget about it — they're balls to the wall. The issue, on stands this Thursday, gives Osama bin Laden their trademark "Red X" treatment — previously used on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Saddam Hussein, and, most famously, Adolf Hitler. Collect them all!
Nick Lachey Will Make You Learn What A Capella Singing is if it Kills Him
Mike Byhoff · 12/15/09 11:21AMOn NBC's new show The Sing-off, all of the contestants sing a capella. Don't know what a capella means? Let Professor Lachey show you by beating it over your head ad-nauseum until your dense, childlike mind can grasp it.
Nelson Mandela to Battle the Lovely Bones at the Multiplex
Richard Rushfield · 12/11/09 08:29PMAfter a slow build-up, Oscar season is coming in like a lion. Mandela! Tom Ford directing! An Alice Sebold novel! This weekend's got prestige written all over it.
Zombies and Rollergirls to Make Moviegoing Fun Again
Richard Rushfield · 10/02/09 02:01PMMaybe we used up all our bile last weekend, but no one is more shocked then we are to find ourselves actually looking forward to the movies this weekend. Maybe we're getting old...It can't be Hollywood's getting better, can it?
Massive Liberal Conspiracy Behind Fake Times
Ryan Tate · 11/12/08 11:06PMIt's true, as we reported this morning, that the the liberal prank group The Yes Men was behind today's spoof left-utopian Times. But there were so many more commie pinkos involved in the plot! The cabal sent out a press release tonight, revealing that their ranks include the Yes Men, protest group Code Pink (which disrupted the Republican National Convention and fought Marine Corps recruiting), Improv Everywhere (they did that tear-jerking little league thing), Anti Advertising Agency (the ad-sticker people) and a few others we're less familiar with. They want to make the headlines come true! So cute. After the jump, read the press release and find out which of their claims is being disputed by the Times.
There's The Right Way, The Wrong Way And The Scarlett J Way
Douglas Reinhardt · 08/04/08 03:25PMWhile walking the carpet at the Teen Choice Awards, popular singer/actress Scarlett Johansson bent over when she noticed that someone had dropped a stack of business cards on the ground. The Scoop star bent down in a ladylike manner to pick up the discarded business cards, much to the dismay of the surrounding lensmen hoping to score a gossip blog friendly shot. A group of men ahead of Johansson dropped another set of business cards, but Johansson just stared at cards, shook her head and moved her fingers using the universal sign for "naughty naughty."
Anthony De Rosa · 03/13/08 10:09AM
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Nick Denton · 01/03/08 02:58PMCharlie Sheen Paid More Than Any Sitcom Actor To Not Make You Laugh
seth · 09/28/06 02:16PMWhen happily divorced Charlie Sheen isn't hotly anticipating being on the receiving end of one of his basket-tossed, pigtailed companions, he's hard at work raising American morale with his weekly antics on Two And A Half Men. Realizing that his role of Charlie Harper is one of TV's great, iconic comic creations—forged in the grand tradition of Ralph Kramden or Archie Bunker, just without any discernible character traits, idiosyncracies, or gifts for physical comedy—the show's producers are finally compensating Sheen for his creative contribution by making him the highest paid sitcom actor on television: