Beyoncé's 2008 album cycle began with the video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," a tasteful, pared-down black-and-white Fosse homage whose only special effect was the singer's nimble dance moves. Soon, she is to begin promoting her next album with the video for the up-with-women anthem "Run the World (Girls)," and has already Read More
Over the weekend, Charlie Sheen was booed in Detroit and had his career as a speaker revived in Chicago (such instantaneous pulse-taking on the actor's quasi-career as a public speaker is enough to make one regret baser elements of the Internet, which kick-started the nonsense in the first place). Entertainment Weekly, perhaps uncouthly, said Read More
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Lady Gaga can thank the team at Think Tank Marketing for her seizure of the Twitter crown from Britney Spears this week. Meanwhile, back on earth, Think Tank will take 1,700 square feet in the fashion district.
The digital marketing company's Web site says "in the digital age too many brands Read More
Debt-plagued photographer Annie Leibovitz recently shot Britney Spears as part of an ad campaign for the Candie's Only at Kohl's line of discount juniors apparel, and now the brand has unveiled the results. Leibovitz's fellow Candie's photographers include Conde Nast regular Mark Seliger and the perpetually sleaze-hip Terry Richardson.
Annie Leibovitz has photographed Britney Spears as part of a Candie's for Kohl's ad campaign.
Candie's is best known for brightly colored ads in teen magazines.
Britney Spears is best known for being the Ugg-booted incarnation of celebrity culture run amok.
Annie Leibovitz, Women's Wear Daily helpfully notes, is "best known for portraits in Read More
Britney Spears hasn’t exactly been everywhere lately. But in the universe of OK! magazine, the pop star rules. Her face is plastered all over OK!’s glossy pages and on their Web site: Britney returns from her European tour! She films an ad! She’s on a boat! None of these headlines were of great moment, Read More
7:30 p.m. "Singles Night Of Bull Riding & Beers" is hosted by Meet Market Adventures at Johnny Utah's: "home to the only mechanical bull in N.Y.C." At 25 West 51st Street. Dress code is "urban casual...and munchies will be provided." Admission price is $19.99. 7:30 p.m. American Organist Gail Archer Concert series kicks off Read More
Now that father Walter is in the spotlight for losing $7.5 billion to Bernard Madoff, stories about the five socialite Noel daughters are leaking out. For example: "While in college, four of the five sisters allegedly slept with the same handsome stud, handing him off as the months went by, one after the other." [Read More
Brad Pitt told Larry King that he didn't understand the public's interest in his life with Angelina Jolie and their children, though he would allow that his is an "interesting family. It's not your usual family." [Us Weekly]
Tricia Walsh-Smith, who you might remember from the Youtube tirade she directed at former husband Read More
Could There Ever Be Another Britney Spears?, asks MTV.com's Jennifer Vineyard.
It's a question whose time has come. Just as The Boston Daily Globe asked WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER GREAT WAR in April 1893, people have been wondering similar things for as far back as Google searches will allow writers to search Read More
Apparently, Britney Spears took a stroll on the streets of New York last night while her newsless, yet somehow touching documentary For the Record aired on MTV.
She updated her Twitter just a few minutes ago:
britneyspears I enjoyed a relaxing walk last night around NYC. Even though it was Read More
Supposedly sober soon-to-be ex-President George W. Bush drank a Pisco Sour (that's Peruvian brandy, lemon juice, egg whites, simple syrup, and regional bitters, for those playing at home) during his trip to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last weekend. [Andina.com via Cityfile]
Someone at OK! magazine will probably be fired Read More
Rolling Stone's Web site is offering a sneak peak of its next cover, which features a cleaned up, seemingly elated Britney Spears with the hopeful, Obama era slogan, "Yes She Can!" (Best to ignore the smaller coverline for "Skanky Brits.")
As you can see, the last time Ms. Spears was on the cover Read More
Ashley Dupre, whose much hyped Diane Sawyer interview airs Friday, told People magazine: "Everyone knows me as 'that girl,' but I'm not just 'that girl'...I have a lot of depth, a lot of layers." [People]
The Board of Elections, the head of which Tim Robbins called a "corrupt scumbag" after an Election Day snafu, Read More
Britney Spears' younger son, Jayden James, is "fine" after an allergic reaction required that he be hospitialized. [People]
British actress Kelly Reilly is not actually involved with Guy Ritchie, as was reported in the wake of his breakup with Madonna. In fact, she is engaged to someone else. [US Weekly] Read More
