Jessanne Collins: The Truth About 'Playgirl' and Levi Johnston @2:30 PM
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of having Levi Johnston's penis thrust into my consciousness every time I read the news. And believe me, I've got a high tolerance for explicit visuals—I was Playgirl's managing editor until the print magazine folded last year, leaving in its place the softcore subscription website that's been publicly courting Sarah Palin's would've-been son-in-law for months for a shoot that's scheduled to take place later this week. It's not that I'm bitter. More power to Playgirl if it can ride the brawn of a small town teen father back into the limelight, and more power to small town teen fathers who can make their mark on the world with their undeniably virile genitalia.
Really, I'd be happy for both of them if I weren't so alarmed at the way history is being rewritten in the midst of the media shitstorm surrounding this moment—and the fact that no news outlet has accurately reported who's really behind Playgirl's big comeback. READ MORE 39
'Avatar' Pre-Buzz Goes Wildly Over the Top with Sam Worthington 'Esquire' Cover @10:05 AM
We're only something like four months prior to the opening of James Cameron's Avatar, which is apparently the most important movie of our generation (what if it sucks though!?), and already the pre-buzz has put bricklayer-hot Australian actor Sam Worthington on the cover of Esquire. (Perhaps you remember Worthington from such movies as that last Terminator mess, and, um… that episode of Jag? Or, uh, doing Macbeth in Melbourne?) The magazine describes him, very weirdly, on the cover, as "The Greatest Actor of Our Time?" Because you know, when someone finally says that about you, do you really want it to be ending with a question mark? Is this just some weird cover-line uptalk? Is Esquire just girls? Also in the two photos of him in the magazine, Sam Worthington is wearing "cotton jeans by Dolce & Gabbana" and "cotton jeans by Levi's." Um, in case you did not know, here is the deal with jeans: they are made out of cotton. 11
