It’s good to see Britney Spears hasn’t completely given up her Starbucks habit and paparazzi attraction. The former walking disaster hit up Robertson Boulevard yesterday looking better than expected, presumably because she missed the attention.
Experts and amateurs have been talking about how Oprah Winfrey’s support of Barack Obama might have hurt her ratings and damaged her standing as the reigning queen of daytime television. If this is true, was her Obama campaigning worth it? Two economists from the University of Maryland say yes — Winfrey apparently has superior mind control over one million of the people who voted for Obama.
Project Runway. Living Lohan. The Soup. That these are Anderson Cooper's guilty pleasures — and that he so freely trashes 14-year-old Ali Lohan — solidifies Blue Eyes as the most adorable television news anchor around. Kelly Ripa, meanwhile, holds on to her title as the most irritating.
Tyra Banks has finally fulfilled her wish of making Barack Obama’s run for the presidency all about her. In the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, TyTy poses as America’s First Lady (God help us if that ever becomes a reality) and discusses how Barack’s progress affected her.
When Barack won the nomination, I just started bawling. I started calling all these people, and everybody was talking to me like I was crazy. They’re like, ‘Well, he hasn’t won yet,’ but I’m like, ‘Yes, he has, because he’s gotten this far.’
And, because Tyra’s the authority on all things presidential, she offered up her inane advice to Michelle Obama (to which Michelle is hopefully like, “No thanks”).
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper told Gossip Girl Blake Lively she “smells good,” while co-hosting Regis & Kelly today. He sort of looked like he wanted to touch her hair, but then managed to restrain himself to have some girl talk about shoes, diamonds, Willy Wonka and other such things.
Goddamn, The South! Y'know, we really do try to cut you some slack – seriously, we do – but you just make detesting you so easy sometimes.
During a July 30 interview on talking face Glenn Beck's radio broadcast, Toby Keith, Oklahoman and the musical genius behind the hit pro-lynching anthem "Beer for My Horses," told Beck that he thinks Barack Obama is highly successful with black Americans because "he don't talk, act or carry himself like a black person." Keith then added that he thinks "black society" views Obama as a "Caucasian." HE SAID THIS ON LIVE RADIO WITHOUT ANY SHAME! (Listen for yourself up above.)
Michael Misick, the trouble-plagued prime minister of Turks & Caicos, might want to practice a little more discretion in his extracurricular activities, because his wife is famous, relatively speaking, she has a publicist, and she’s very angry. Lisa Raye’s rep just put about a press release announcing that Misick is having an affair with BET’s Rocsi.
There are just so many things wrong with the picture at left, which features this caption: “Pamela Anderson Does Lunch At KFC For The New Faux Chicken Sandwich on August 4, 2008 in Vancouver, B.C.”
Stephen Price, a senior reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat, was kicked out of the press area of a John McCain campaign event in Panama City, Fla., yesterday. The campaign said that he was asked to leave because no local press was allowed, although Price said that out of the many local reporters there, he was the only one McCain’s security detail asked to leave. He was also the only black person around. He thinks that might have something to do with it.
Colleen Kane spent many years editing Playgirl, and she’s taking the penis-loving magazine’s folding very hard. And deep - especially the lingering tension between the magazine’s lady-centric mission and gay-tinged image:
Speaking of things we can’t believe, human minstrel show Tiffany “New York” Pollard has once again been granted license to stymie the progress of civil rights with a crappy reality show, New York Goes to Hollywood.
This latest installment in the televised downfall of a human being follows Pollard on her quest for “legitimate, Hollywood fame.”
Neil Patrick Harris graces the latest cover of gay glossy Out. And, like the mensch we know he is, the dreamboat actor spread himself wide open - emotionally, that is - to reveal the quiet trials and tribulations of his otherwise well-documented life. A taste:
When Miley Cyrus was chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards, which was filmed last night and will air tonight, we’re unsure whether or not the producers expected her to hog the spotlight as much as she obviously did. Judging from the pictures, she treated the entire awards show like one of her infamous YouTube videos, including her BFF Mandy in most of her bits and ruining a perfectly good LL Cool J performance.
Finally - some closure in South Carolina’s “So Gay” advert scandal.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we all now have an inside view as to what went down after the State’s tourism officials first heard of the controversial ad, which had been designed and distributed in London:
During an ABC News interview in Liberia yesterday, Bill Clinton got "a little testy" with a reporter, as he is wont to do these days. She asked him if he had any regrets about anything he did while he was campaigning for Hillary Clinton. He said he does, but not the ones we think, which tells me he's probably still in denial about how he might have damaged his wife's campaign.
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