Ricky Gervais to Host Golden Globes Again
Obviously the Hollywood Foreign Press wasn't as offended by Ricky Gervais as they said they were, since they're picking him to host January's Golden Globes award ceremony.
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What seems like progress from the top-down may reveal the problem with Boy Scouts from the inside-out: its first official coming out party is still a microcosm of discord on gay acceptance, especially in Christian America, no matter what polls say today or the Supreme Court declares in a few weeks. Here's a survey of the reaction so far.
Obviously the Hollywood Foreign Press wasn't as offended by Ricky Gervais as they said they were, since they're picking him to host January's Golden Globes award ceremony.
State College Police Chief Tom King says that Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary's "discussions with police" about witnessing and stopping Jerry Sandusky's locker room child rape never happened.
Journalists, consider yourselves warned. "A bodyguard for presidential candidate Herman Cain got a little physical with a Postreporter at an event in Iowa on Tuesday," The Washington Post's Aaron Blake wrote Tuesday night.
If at first you don't succeed, try again in a couple of weeks.
A hardcore ex-porn star reading to first graders isn't the best idea, but apparently Entourage is just fine.
It's been the deadliest day since the anti-government protests began in March.
Mayor Bloomberg will be holding a press conference scheduled for 8 a.m. with NYC police pommissioner Kelly and Fire commissioner Cassano and Sanitation Commissioner Doherty this morning. We'll be following it live.
For Republicans, there is no shame in an AOL e-mail address.
Penn State's wounds are still fresh--a loss to Nebraska this weekend, the threats against and the administrative leave of coach Mike McQueary, and the embarrassing riots--but that hasn't stopped more news from Sandusky's Second Mile charity from unraveling or a new embarrassment for long-time coach Joe Paterno to shoulder.
The Players: Per-Arne Tuftin, a tourist official from Norway who isn't sold on the Finnish Northern Lights; Mervi Holmén, who works for the Finnish Tourism Board and hopes to bank off of their Northern Lights-gone-viral marketing success
The Players: Johnny Depp, a sometimes sell-out actor whose latter Pirates of The Carribbean flicks we forgive because it's easy to admire a guy who started on 21 Jump Street and given us What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood, and Sweeney Todd; Wichita, Kansas home to Wichitans who aren't ready to forgive Depp for The Rum Diary.
Or will he stop at two? Either way, the Texas governor is making a stop in New York City for a Letterman taping, reports Carrie Dann of NBC News.
What research firm Gartner describes as the $2.1 billion "personalization services" industry is known to everyone else as that unintelligible (is that Beyoncé?) sound coming from someone who didn't get the "your phone should always on vibrate" memo.
It's a convergence of two long-time New York Times crushes: Brooklyn and Bees.
In the world of polls, President Obama is having a great week, basically tying a "Generic Republican" in this morning's Gallup poll, after trailing the amorphous candidate by eight points last month.
The Dow dropped 389 points today to close at 11,780, while Nasdaq and S&P saw dives over 3 percent. The weakness is being blamed on Europe "as the realization sank in that Italy now must find a new political regime stable enough to implement painful cutbacks and tax increases."
The Oscars are starting from scratch.
The Players: Noel Biderman, CEO of Ashley Madison, a dating web site (12.2 million members and counting) whose slogan is: "Life is short. Have an affair."; "Jacqueline", a plus-sized model and porn entrepreneur who unknowingly appeared as the punchline of two of Ashley Madison's ads
The rage that has built up in your heart from the suddenly dark afternoons is understandable -- but before you go screaming into the Twitterverse, it might help if you were to have the facts straight. Message to the numerous tweeters who insist on getting it wrong (see our slideshow): this isn't Daylight Saving time -- it's standard time.
Berlusconi wins a procedural vote (but loses his majority), the Dalai Lama blames China, and Sadam Hussein's prison toilet will be headed to a U.S. museum.
Perhaps President Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy have a burn book as well.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the Cain allegations and the candidate's dwindling memory of them.
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty in Michael Jackson's involuntary manslaughter case today.
The Players: Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain, Conservative pundit and savvy blogger who doesn't want a "rock star president"; Newt Gingrich, Republican hopeful, distant third-placer in the Romney inevitability race and definitely not a rock star; Tucker Carlson, Conservative pundit and creator of the Daily Caller news site
Players: Dan Savage, creator of the It Gets Better project, gay rights activist, Rick Santorum's Google Nemesis and gay glitter-bombing barbarian supporter; The Dan Savage Welcoming Committee, "a member-less organization" whose only point of unity is accusing Dan Savage of hypocrisy.
Asked, "Do you think the Republicans are intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy to insure [sic] that Barack Obama is not re-elected?" a poll found that 34 percent of Florida conservatives said yes.
Maybe sexual harassment settlements don't really count as skeletons?
It's not like China or Russia are looking at your embarrassing purchases or the hours you spend watching cat videos--it's all about economics.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the world's population.
Gabrielle Giffords hasn't spoken publicly since the Tucson shooting, but in a little under two weeks, we just might hear from her.
Players: Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and a not-so-good, equal-opportunity impersonator; Donald Trump, billionaire and one-time Republican frontrunner who's been impersonated (well and badly) many times.
Lindsay Lohan is absolutely, positively, really going to jail this time, or so we're promised
Viktor Bout, who possesses (arguably) the world's most threatening nickname was found guilty by a federal jury.
Blaming James, family appointments with a psychologist over who succeeds Rupert, Elizabeth calling for the heads of Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton--it's all in Vanity Fair's preview of its December issue.
Players: Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times who's built his reputation on writing about poverty and human empathy; Kim Kardashian sympathizers who have empathy for the rich and talentless, plus the Turkish people.
You aren't the only one using search engines to diagnose your symptoms when you get sick (or have a bout of hypochondria).
Mark Block, chief of staff to Herman Cain, says yesterday's media frenzy over sexual harassment claims helped the campaign post one of its best fundraising days ever with $250,000 coming into the coffers.
Reporters challenged Japanese official Yasuhiro Sonoda to drink water from the quake-leveled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and today he did.
Concluding "The Obama Experiment Has Failed," the Republican National Committee's new ad capitalizes on President Obama's remark in interview with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos last month: "Well, I don't think they're better off than they were four years ago."
Cartoonist Tony Auth on Mitt Romney's wavering ways.
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