It was a busy weekend in the life of Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. The inseparable duo gallivanted around Paris, taking in the sights, enjoying the nightlife and being pelted by PETA-approved flour bombs. As you do.
Evidently some crazed French animal rights activist got all up in arms over a fur stole that Lindsay was sporting at a Paris nightclub, so she threw a bag of flour at the "actress" before running off down the sidewalk, Napoleon Dynamite-style. (You can watch the video here.)
Not to worry, though: Sam retaliated in the most effective way possible, by blogging about the incident on MySpace. Full rant after the jump.
PETA's again out to destroy the Olsen twins before the young, frowny things have the opportunity to destroy themselves.
Just in time for Halloween, the controversial animal rights group is giving away free ugly masks mocking the sisters, who the annoying-even-to-vegans organization has dubbed the Trollsen Twins.
Guess who showed up to ruin your weekend? The (Jewish) mother of all guilt trips, PETA, came to rain on the couture parade, surprising no one except people naive enough to think the organization had gotten over the tacky red paint guerrilla tactics they've been using since the 90s. A staple of FW as much Anna Wintour's bob blocking your view of the runway, the group repeated assaults on the same designer they targeted back in February. It's called variety, PETA:
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PETA is riding high on the crest of a potential backlash. No one wants to see animals abused, but at this point the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is your freshman year college roommate who's a vegetarian and a PoliSci major: She just found out about this new thing called tofu, and really really really encourages you to try it. That way you won't have to eat hamburgers all the time, which is just ground up cow intestines and not doing a thing for your figure, anyway. Ugh, PETA is a bitch.
So what are you supposed to feel bad about this week? Anjelica Huston, the Wes Anderson muse and Morticia Addams incarnate, has joined up with PETA to bring you some sad facts that will make you feel guilty for ever enjoying Ross' relationship with Marcel on Friends.
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What is the single most important issue to Mexicans illegally crossing the U.S. border? Not finding food and water, an under the table job, or paying off their trafficker, but eating a hamburger that might've been made from the inhumane slaughter of a cow!
PETA, the animal rights group about as delirious as the Parents Television Council, is hoping to plaster the Mexico-U.S. border fence with ads that alert jumpers that "If the Border Patrol Doesn't Get You, the Chicken and Burgers Will — Go Vegan."
Why the ridiculous marketing message? Says PETA: "We think that Mexicans and other immigrants should be warned if they cross into the U.S. they are putting their health at risk by leaving behind a healthier, staple diet of corn tortillas, beans, rice, fruits and vegetables."
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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.”
What does Verizon have in common with Snickers, Nike, and Heinz? It came up with an ad that it thought was super clever, but actually rankled more than a few consumers and activist organizations and, rather than defend its ad spot, pulled it altogether.
While Snickers, Nike, and Heinz fell victim to gay rights groups slapping their ads on the wrong side of homophobic, Verizon caught the wrath of PETA for this spot, which shows pit bulls chained up guarding a car lot where a young gentleman managed to lose his phone. After PETA got on the case, some 7,000 people emailed Verizon with complaints. So what got everyone so upset? CONTINUED »
PETA is always sticking its nose where it totally belongs, but isn't wanted. (Though sometimes it's not a mutually exclusive situation.) And while we're all for punishing puppy abusers, we're also all for anybody who swings their meatsticks back at the do-gooding preachers. Today, it is French Vogue's Carine Roitfeld. CONTINUED »
PETA, the animal rights organization that thinks Pamela Anderson is worth keeping around, is upset with The Dark Knight because Batman fights with Rottweilers. They seem perfectly fine with the way Bruce Wayne exploits bats, however. [Bloggasm]
On Friday, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen will turn 22 years old. We’re assuming you would like to send gifts to the twins, so PETA has a great suggestion: Cut off some of your hair and mail it to the girls with a note reading, “Please, use my hair instead of the animals’. Happy birthday.” Because that’s not creepy at all.
First she gained a lot of weight. Then Beyonce gave her title away to Tina Turner. Now PETA is going after Aretha Franklin:
Music lovers may think of you as a ‘queen,’ but to animal lovers, you are a court jester . . . Why not shed the old-fashioned look that adds pounds to your frame and detracts from your beautiful voice? Please consider donating your furs to the homeless as ‘queen of compassion,’ Mariah Carey, did. You’ll get a tax credit for the donation, and we at PETA will all sing your praises.
We usually find PETA irrational and demanding. But as Stereohyped put it, "that's a lot of fur."
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PETA has stepped up its game against Donna Karan. Last week we spotted the anti-fur protesters outside the designer's Greenwich Street studio, when she was exhibiting her DKNY line. And while you can be sure PETA has their signs waving there again today, for Donna Karan's namesake collection, they went so far as to trespass Karan's Central Park West home Wednesday night.
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Ah, so this is what those sign-holders were protesting when we jogged by them yesterday on Greenwich Street. Donna Karan's collection doesn't show until Friday at 3pm, but according to our vantage point, it appears PETA is getting a jump start on things.
Always willing to get naked for money, Steve-O is a new spokesman for PETA’s anti-fur campaign.
Apparently, Britney Spears isn’t capable of raising a dog, but Steve-O, who made a career out of vomiting up goldfish, is an animal rights activist.
Looks like PETA would rather have publicity than standards.
In a pathetic attempt to stay relevant, PETA has written an open letter to Kevin Federline asking him to take of Britney Spears’s dogs.
For the sake of your children and the animals who are at risk while in Ms. Spear’s custody, we hope that you will do the right and best thing for all involved and purse a custody order for the animal so that your sons can continue to have the company of the animals they’ve grown to adore.
Did PETA miss the news that Federline’s children broke the leg of one of the animals they so adore? Besides, it would be cruel to take away Britney’s only source of unconditional love right now.
With nothing to do during football season, Michael Vick took an 8-hour course at PETA in animal empathy and protection. Vick had “never before been exposed to this kind of information,” which is totally explains why he would engage in dog on dog brutality.
Did you think you'd heard the last of adulteress jet-setter Maria Bartiromo (a.k.a. Money Honey, a.k.a. Bank Skank, a.k.a. Erin Burnett 1.0?) Well, think again! Because the misbehaving she-anchor can apparently add animal cruelty to her repertoire of shady journalistic ethics, wild 80's hair and husband-stealing.
MARIA Bartiromo has People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals screeching after she posed in a $3,695 Michael Kors wool coat and gushed about its fluffy fox-fur cuffs. In More magazine's September feature on fashionable female movers and shakers over 40, CNBC's "Money Honey" is seen smiling seductively in a skin-tight Celine matte jersey dress and the Kors coat. She raves: "Chic, sexy clothes are the real me . . . The coat is spectacular; the fur cuffs give it just the right amount of glamour."
All of which would be rather ho-hum if it weren't for the amazing retort from PETA spokesman, Michael McGraw.
• PETA is pissed at Anna Wintour for traumatizing innocent peacocks, not inviting PETA to her fancy costume gala.
• Judge disappoints pervy jurors, NYDN by refusing to allow details of Peter Braunstein’s “raunchy sex life” into evidence.
• Only eight legitimate protestors show up to the "Free Paris" rally; everyone else just shows up to laugh, awkwardly watch.
• According to Mayor Bloomberg's new green plan, dogs are free to roam leash-less in city parks from 9pm to 9am. Which is great news for dog-owners, and horrible news for park-dwelling bums.
• All of New York’s 13,000 cabs to be outfitted with touch-screen computers. Drivers reportedly pissed at the additional expense, afraid Big brother will catch them not picking up black people.
• Mickey Rooney is the new Brooke Astor.
• Britney Spears classes things up with a quick booting in the bathroom.
• It's not that DJ AM misses Nicole Richie. He just misses her access and her headlines.
• Jessica Simpson recalls her disasterous Dolly Parton tribute.
• Judge orders Anna Nicole Smith to find out whose baby daddy rightfully deserves her drama.
• The pope might be gay? That men in robes might like other men in robes is never the most shocking bit of news.
• Miss Nevada loses crown over photos showing her exposed boobies and tongue in other girls' mouths. The pageant assocation dismisses the scandal with a note about "this sort of thing happens all the time."
• It's not just about the minks and chinchillas: Singer Pink joins PETA to boycott the unethical treatment of sheep.
• What's the one thing celebs can not live without? That's right, folks. Their bikini waxers. [NYM]
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are still trying to get the world to love them again. [TMZ]
• And they are getting absolutely no help from the likes of Moby. [Scoop]
• PETA is so devoted to saving animals, that they really just don't have time to care about it when people die. Especially people who work with animals. [Us]
• It's a little disturbing that there really are Paris Hiltons all over the world. The situation is then made funny, however, that the Indian Paris Hilton looks most like America's WASPY-est heiress. [Radar]
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