“Me love you long time–” the quote comes from a Vietnamese prostitute in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, but 2 Live Crew made it infamous in the song “Me So Horny.” Fergie, Nelly Furtado, and Mariah Carey have all used the line or variations of it in their songs, but do they know that it’s considered a racial and sexual slur by many? Probably not. MTV talked to some prominent Asian Americans, some of whom have to regularly deal with “Me so horny; me love you long time” being yelled at them on the street, about the line and what it means to them when they hear it.
Sure, John McCain blasted Barack Obama’s international popularity earlier today, but that doesn’t mean he’s above name dropping. Take, for example, a 1999 speech he delivered to New Hampshire high school students, who McCain’s clearly trying to impress with a tale about bonding with his then 15-year old daughter:
In pursuit of that, a few months ago I went to the MTV awards. What a guy, huh?In New York — I now know who Puff Daddy is; Busta Rhymes, he was wearing a dress that night. I’m going to try and borrow it from him for part of this campaign. And who here likes Nine Inch Nails?
I knew you’d like Nine Inch — well, I kind of lean towards the Back Street Boys. Thank you very much. Obviously, a woman of taste and class.
Anyway, we had a great time at the time MTV awards.
It’s worth noting that Britney Spears performed at those particular awards.
The Matt Grant edition of The Bachelor wasn’t any more entertaining than every other season, but the breakup is proving otherwise. Former fiance (and constant famewhore) Shayne Lamas told People magazine about her plans for the engagement ring, purchased by ABC: She’s keeping it “safe and clean and in a glass box — like a glass slipper.” Also? Matt is totally on board with the idea and even “wants to come over and look at it.”
Naturally, the magazine then got a response from Matt, because this is middle school and two adults can’t just decide what to do with a piece of jewelry without using the media as a go-between. And, of course, Matt says he never spoke with Shayne about the subject.
Here we go! The latest and greatest Obama attack ad out of John McCain’s camp not only juxtaposes the Democratic nominee with wearying tarts Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, it also resorts to one of the oldest scare tactics in the book: reminding everyone that Obama wants to raise taxes (possibly to fund his wife’s Black Panther arsenal? Nobody knows!).
It’s still only July, kids.
Wow! Is Nickelodeon finally returning to its glory days and giving adults a reason to watch TV with their kids? This hasn’t happened since The Adventures of Pete & Pete went away*.
We were warned. Wrigley’s publicly unveiled its new gum jingles today with Chris Brown pimping Doublemint (forever!), Ne-Yo cheesing with a pack of Big Red, and country singer/ballroom dancer Julianne Hough posing with her Juicy Fruit.
Gossip Girl costars and roommates Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford can’t get enough of one another’s company:
The twosome showed up at a recent show by Brit popsters The Ting Tings, and a spy says “they were never more than a foot apart. It was freaky.
John McCain has been complaining about the media’s love affair with Barack Obama since the Democratic candidate’s whirlwind overseas trip, which members of the press were clamoring to cover. Not only do McCain’s protestations contradict what seems to be the general opinion about the media’s treatment of the Arizona senator himself, it also contradicts a recent study. Complain all you want, McCain, but the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University has found that CBS, NBC, and ABC have been tougher on Obama in recent weeks. An example: all of this ridiculous business about whether or not the surge worked, as if admitting that the surge was effective somehow means McCain is right about everything and Obama is wrong.
Halle Berry is suing the paparazzo who snapped pictures of her four-month-old daughter recently. The photo captions said that mother and daughter were “out and about,” but they were actually in Berry’s garden. Berry is accusing the photog of trespassing on her property in order to get the shots; in California, that’s a criminal offense.
Nike’s done good. The athletics company received queer jeers last week after unveiling the ad above, which many took as a slight to the gays - and, possibly, Larry Craig. Fearing a lavender backlash, Nike has now decided to yank the ads:
One of the most annoying things about TMZ is that the Web site regularly posts the most insignificant and mundane videos of all time. Seriously, nobody cares to see Britney Spears‘ lawyer driving down the street for 30 seconds. But this video is one we did enjoy, thanks to John Mayer and his self-deprecating humor — and the fact that he makes fun of TMZ throughout the clip just makes it that much more watchable.
Ann Coulter relaunched her campaign against John Edwards today.
You’ll recall that the right-wing authoress took a shot at Edwards last year, when she called the politico a “faggot.” Well, Coulter has done it again, this time calling him “faggy” while discussing his alleged affair. Said Coulter:
I wonder if Lil’ Kim knows that after Simon & Schuster gave her a $40,000 advance to write an novel in 2003, they turned around in 2005 and gave Foxy Brown, of all people, $75,000 for a memoir called Broken Silence, which I’m going to take a wild guess was meant to be about her sudden hearing loss.
Once upon a time, free cigarettes were handed out at Congressional Black Caucus events and Rep. Edolphus Towns was referred to as “Marlboro Man” as a nod to his campaign contributions from Big Tobacco. None of this goes on anymore, but the CBC still has a complicated relationship with the tobacco industry, which makes the recent flavored-cigarette ban a sticky problem. Many think that the bill, which bans all flavored cigarettes except for menthols, which are disproportionately smoked by blacks, has racial implications. It’s causing a rift in a CBC already divided over the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton drama.
There are treasure troves of art and there are castles full of priceless antiques…and then there’s The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We’re not telling you anything new, of course. Taking up more than one city block, holding court on 79th street, above Central Park, and featured in countless media, almost everyone in the Western world has caught wind of the Met. We were a little surprised, then, that the venerable institution held an after-hours party exclusively for the gays, complete with top shelf booze, Britney Spears remixes and loads of attractive young gents. And, as the pink icing, they managed to wrangle out City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, around whom a flurry of security and lackeys swooned. So, what gives?
We love watching Chelsea Handler conduct interviews because she always asks the questions that are on everyone else’s minds and other reporters are afraid to ask. She invited Madonna’s “short and paunchy” brother, Chris Ciccone, onto her show last night and immediately started the interview by asking, “Why did you throw your sister under a bus?” He proceeds to be as annoying as ever, but we actually sat through the entire segment, which is more than we can say about his stint on Good Morning America.
You probably don’t want to revisit this, but remember when Dustin Diamond tried to get the public to help pay his mortgage by purchasing autographed T-shirts online? And then when that didn’t work, he attempted to profit from starring in a sex tape? That was naturally followed by two stints on Celebrity Fit Club, and yet he still hasn’t had enough public exposure.
After the brouhaha that surrounded the New Yorker’s cover of Barack and Michelle Obama, pundits and journalists alike said that Barack Obama, perhaps unfairly, was nearly impossibly to turn into a caricature or a political cartoon without negative consequences. A quick google image search of “Obama caricatures” and “Obama cartoons” proves otherwise.
It would take the most naive of hip hop listeners to believe every word that comes out of a rapper’s mouth. Exaggeration is one of the elements of their craft. But it’s always amusing to see an rapper’s past directly contradict some part of a his lyrical persona. Take Dr. Dre, for instance. You might not have known that before he adopted an austere wardrobe and a permanent scowl for N.W.A., he was a member of the glittery World Class Wrecking Cru. After the jump, check out a few rappers who know what happens when an icky thing called “reality” encroaches upon their music personas.
South Carolina’s “So Gay” ad scandal continues to stink.
State tourism officials claim the ad, which they refused to fund, was approved by a “low-level employee.” Advertising agents in the know, however, tell a very different tale:
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