Posts tagged as Celebrity
People Most Likely To Die In 2012, According To A Death Pool
Once again: For this particular annual death pool (now in its fourth year!), points are awarded for each “correctly” chosen person at a rate of 100 minus age at death. This may account for some skewing youthward. There were 31 entries this year. READ MORE
The "Louie" Bubble: Making Louis C.K. Human-Sized Again
First in a series of two essays today on Louis C.K. Next: Super-Stud in Divorceland. READ MORE
Exquisite Corpse
“The so-called 'tasteful' Playboy pics will be... a classic tribute inspired by original Tom Kelly nude pictorials of Marilyn Monroe.... According to sources, Playboy began taking Lindsay Lohan photos last week, while she was juggling other duties like ordering cupcakes to the morgue.” READ MORE
Celebrities And The "Rape" Of Photography
Johnny Depp took his reputation for eccentricity a little too far last week. Interviewed in the November issue of Vanity Fair, the actor appeared to let his guard down when discussing photo shoots with writer Nick Tosches, a long-time friend and a godparent to one of Depp’s kids. “Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow,” the actor said. “Raped. The whole thing. It feels like a kind of weird—just weird, man. Weird. Like you meet people and they say, 'Can I have a picture with you!' And that's great. That's fine. That's not a problem. But whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like—you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.” READ MORE
What It Feels Like to be Kanye West is What It Feels Like to be American
So how do you feel if you're Kanye West (or at least "Kanye West," Twitter personality)? Well, you know you're amazing and no one feels worse about it than you. You're a superstar and no one could possibly be more alone. Acknowledging this, your heart swells like you're becoming a better person while all the time you remain convinced that you were already awesome anyway. Self-pity mixed with delusions of grandeur—the identifying marks of a very particular type of asshole who feels like he should be congratulated simply for meaning well. READ MORE
People Most Likely to Die in 2011, According to a Death Pool
N.B. For this particular annual death pool, points are awarded for each "correctly" chosen person at a rate of 100 minus age at death. This may account for some youngward skew. 51 total entries were received. READ MORE
Political Celebrity Currency After the Election: Where's Palin Now?
While the House adjusts to the new dichotomous reality, it’s time for us to take a tally of the stars and the has-beens of the midterm election. READ MORE
Egos, Eggheads and Erections in the Steel Cage of American Politics: A History of the Celebrity Candidate
I want to be President of the United States. In fact I have already written my acceptance speech. The first thing I’ll be doing is announcing that I am bringing back Prohibition. READ MORE
'The Social Network': The Old Constructing Heroes For The Young
Each day I pass the glossy posters vaunting that actor's face who I recognize from somewhere as a prettified stand-in for the CEO of that company that's supposed to be changing the way I think, his visage of slack-jawed moronism a lame-ass stand in for profundity as decided by some group-tested marketing-teamed tautology of whatever it is that passes for brainstorming nowadays, covered in words that purport to represent the names he has been called by his (or my) peers, to be played by earnest, attractive actors who also call up feelings of vague recognition, actors conversing intently with each other in topical settings that show the world I inhabit in roughly the same way that "Jersey Shore" shows the actual Jersey shore, words whose variety and brevity (Punk. Genius. Douchebag.) claim to indicate the strength of emotional response generated by this simulacrum of somebody I have never met and give, at best, a damn about, I feel intensely ticked-off and spurred to action both, to a degree that hits and surpasses the level of guileless eagerness to shell out $12.50 that the film seeks to find in me and so wholly misses, in tandem with my sheer fed-up-ness with the presumption that this is what I most deeply care about, and hand in hand with the suspicion that not only are they missing the point, but that this shit blows. READ MORE
Celebrities Behind Bars! A Comprehensive Study of Bad Behavior and Forgiveness
As reliable as March Madness or a fall fashion issue, every year the American public is rocked in its mores by several extremely high-profile displays of bad behavior on the part of our own faithfully erected idols. When one of these events occurs-say, the dramatic exposure of Janet Jackson's nipple during the most watched television event of the year, or the release of blood-curdling phone conversations with Mel Gibson-there are always two competing impulses: outrage and tolerance. Over time, as both the celebrity and the public go on about their lives (and the publicists go on about their damage control) and the full nature and context of the mishap settles in, one of these impulses wins out over the other. Either tolerance creeps in ("It's just a nipple") or the stubborn embers of disgust refuse to die out ("He's a monster!"). READ MORE
