mysteries-solved

mark · 08/20/07 05:05PM

Our friends at LAist claim to have identified the Speedo-clad courier delivering scripts for Chris Pontius' Untitled Male Stripper Comedy we wrote about last week as actor Branden Williams, but it's still not clear to us if his services were a favor to a friend or part of a regular Strip-o-Gram gig so many struggling thespians use to pay the rent. [LAist]

'TNR' Blogger Reveals Himself, But 'Weekly Standard' Not Impressed

Doree Shafrir · 07/26/07 03:05PM

Today, the New Republic's Iraq soldier-blogger revealed his true identity—he's Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, of the Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division. (Questions had been raised as to whether the blogger was actually a soldier, and also whether the gruesome events he described were true.) So that's a huge relief for 'TNR' editor Frank Foer and his new online editor Ben Wasserstein, we're sure! But the Weekly Standard, those fun-loving conservative bastards, aren't letting TNR off the hook quite yet.