Stephen Baldwin Protests Adult Store January 19, 2006
“Actor Stephen Baldwin doesn’t like pornography and says he’ll do anything to shut down a new shop on Route 59. Baldwin stood outside 28 Route 59 last night and photographed workers and their vehicles as they readied the adult entertainment store for business. Baldwin said he planned to stand outside the store every day and photograph the license plates of the store’s patrons in order to track down their identities. He said he would take out a full-page newspaper advertisement once a month to publish those names. ‘I won’t stop until it shuts down,’ he said, standing on the curb in front of the building that once was a car dealership… ‘I don’t want it this close to my house,’ said Baldwin, who lives about a mile away. ‘I’m personally not OK with pornography. I definitely think that it adds to the moral decay or our culture.’ Village officials have said they could not forbid such businesses, only regulate where they open… Clarkstown police responded to the property last night after Baldwin called them about 9:30 p.m. He said the workers were giving him a hard time for taking photographs.” — The Journal News (US)
When did it become legal to persecute the employees of a law-abiding business? Suppose you don’t like the Burger King or the daycare center across the street. You set up a Baldwin-style protest that includes harassment and intimidation. You publish the license plates of people eating hamburgers or shout slogans at parents dropping off their kids. Wouldn’t the police intervene and tell you to leave the place alone? Why should it be any different for an adult bookstore? So long as they both obey the law, the law should not discriminate in its treatment of them. Besides which, if you do want to protest, it’s ignoble to target the employees and not the ownership.
Then again, that’s the sort of dirty tactic typical of Jesus freaks. Certainly it is not property values but rather religious ones that motivate Mr. Baldwin in his crusade against that great scourge of free society, pornography. Evidently he is a born-again Christian — “we’re just a bunch of Christian guys making a video,” he once told some folks on a shoot. Maybe with God on his side Mr. Baldwin will be more successful in his crusade against pornography than he has been in his acting career, which has been a busy but undistinguished one.
In fact, maybe local pornophiles should set up a new protest. Suppose they hate Mr. Baldwin’s crappy movies. Why not stand outside his house, take pictures of him and his license plate, then publish it in the local newspaper with the headline, “No More Bad Movies!” The protesters should steel themselves to fight until Mr. Baldwin retires from the entertainment business — or at least until he leaves the adult entertainment business to itself.
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Madge, the vinter January 17, 2006
Like Star Jones, Madonna has cornered the market on several media outlets. Her latest venture will be peddling wine. It will have the mellow undertone of sweaty lycra with a pulsating aftertaste of hair- dye and Kabalah string.
The hot pink bottles will include Madge’s face on the label, with her gap-toothed smile and a British flag waving in the background. Music today, wine tomorrow. I hope she doesn”t crush the grapes with her own feet, that would be sick. Madonna is the new Andrew Firestone!
Fear not Kate Moss and other drug and or alcohol addicts, Madge has taken into consideration those friends who don’t indulge in the adult beverage arena and is producing a non-alcoholic wine as well. Thanks Madonna, for thinking of the little people.
Meawhile, daughter Lourdes wanted to try out for a role in the next Harry Potter film. She printed out the information and went to her mother filled with excitement mixed with fear. Much like Oliver Twist, she bowed before her mum and asked, “Please ma’am, may I try out for the movie?” only to have Madonna snatch away the paper and shake it in Lourdes’s face.
“There’s only one star in this family and that”s ME!” she growled. Gah, she”s like Joan Crawford without the scary eyebrows and wire hanger. But with Lotsa de Casha.
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Short Ends: Crowe To Be A Daddy, Again
· The chain of causality has been firmly established: Sneak a burger during an awards ceremony, get your wife pregnant.
· Despite our best attempts to ignore it, crazy-ass life goes on outside of awards season. For example, PETA is upset about what it considers subpar conditions for Michael Jackson”s menagerie at Neverland, yet doesn”t seem at all concerned about the abandoned packs of Cub Scouts roaming the grounds in search of food and living in the rusty ferris wheel.
· Still more lingering awards-related business: Army Archerd is stepping down as red carpet greeter at the Oscars. Seacrest obviously has incriminating photos.
· There”s no reason why a canceled ESPN show should make us feel better about life, but somehow the death of the ESPN Hollywood abomination does just that.
· Shatner daily double! Big Billy Style sells a kidney stone for charity, will host the Golden Groundhog Awards.
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Golden Globes Orgy-Ender: The Complete Awards Listing Round-Up
Today”s orgy of Golden Globes coverage has left us crumpled in a heap underneath our desk, feeling unsatisfied and more than a little used. (We can almost hear members of the HFPA swapping crude stories about the unflattering noise we make when someone nibbles on our earlobe.) Sure, you”re already aware of who took home the prizes, but no awards package worth its weight in garish, gold-plated statuettes would be complete without a round-up of various websites” lists of last night”s winners:
· Nominations & Winners (with backstage video!) [HFPA.org]
· Scorecard: Complete list of nominees and winners of the 63rd annual Golden Globe awards [LAT”s The Envelope]
· And the winners are… [Variety.com Award Central]
· 2006 Golden Globe nominations and winners [THR]
· Golden Globe Winners [NY Times/AP]
Special Golden Globes Bonus List!
Top Golden Globes Celebrity Presenter Nominee Mispronunciations
· “Antony Hopkins,” by Gwyneth Paltrow*
· “Tony Kirschner,” by Harrison Ford
· “Pierce Bronson,” by John Travolta
· “Laura Linley” by Jamie Foxx
· “Larry McMurshy” by Harrison Ford
[*Since Paltrow and Hopkins were co-stars in Proof, we will allow for the possibility that this obnoxious pronunciation was a sign of familiarity and not an error.]
- Golden Globes Awards Coverage [Defamer]
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Golden Globes Make World Safe For Gays
The Golden Globes, as it turns out, were pretty good to The Gays, with Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Transamerica taking home the lion”s share of the major awards. So welcome have these portrayals of the previously marginalized been–and in particular, Brokeback“s unflinching gaze upon two (ick!) masculine, sexually active men in love–that some are going so far as to call last night”s ceremony a “watershed” moment in the history of gay social acceptance:
Are this year”s Golden Globes a watershed?
Some people, like Joe Solmonese, president of the gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign, thinks so since six awards went to movies with gay or transsexual central characters.
“It was a historic night,” he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I think it says a lot about where we”re going as a country.”
“The more people live out and openly and honestly, the more we are simply part of the everyday fabric of Americans” lives,” he added. “I think that”s what not just the release of these movies demonstrates, but the fact that they won the awards that they did.”
It”s a touching image: Clusters of good ol” boys, huddled around our nation”s sports bar TV sets and throwing a near riot when the bartender tries to switch from the Globes to the Spurs game, lest they miss a single word of Felicity Huffman”s moving Transamerica acceptance speech. It”s not for nothing that the Globes should fall on Martin Luther King Day.
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To Do: A Bruckheimer, Some Music, More Patton
· Producer Bonnie Bruckheimer (yes, she was once married to The Brand, OK, glad to have that out of the way) sticks around for a Q&A following a Hollywood”s Master Storytellers screening extravaganza for Beaches at the ArcLight.
· Tuesday night music: The Editors at Cinespace, American Idol castoff Constantine Maroulis at the Roxy (please, Idol fans, no hate mail, it ain”t our fault he didn”t win); Golden State at the Troubadour.
· We”re going to continue listing Patton Oswalt”s shows (tonight at UCB with Andy Kindler, Todd Barry, Aziz Ansari et al) until his manager finally sends us that check for five dollars. But in case you”re tired of that kind of thing, there”s also this GenArt event at club/aircraft hangar Vanguard or the ongoing Master of American Comics exhibition at the Hammer and MOCA.
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No party for Kate
Happy Birthday Kate, but no party for you!
Kathy Hilton knows how to party sans bra!
Whitney knows how to smuggle the weed in her ratty hair.
A party just isn”t a party without Tara! She brings her own booze.
Do I even need to comment?
Tom Sizemore utilized The Whizzinator to pass his drug test. Not only is he crafty but he slept with Paris Hilton, when was the tape available for purchase?
Kate Moss has revoked the birthday party invite she sent out, fearing that I or some of the other guests would be smuggling drugs into the soiree. I hardly think Colon Blow is a drug so I was rather offended when she told me I was no longer welcome.
Kate’s party planner had put together a lavish 1950’s themed party to celebrate her 32nd birthday. It was going to be held at Steven Speilberg”s Los Angeles compound. I haven’t been there since Tom Cruise and I met up for dinner years ago. And I narrowly escaped the Emeter, but that’s a whole other blog entry. I was thrilled with the themed party idea, I was going to go as Marilyn Monroe, of course!- but then Kate decided to go with a low key dinner at the Olive Garden instead.
Ms. Moss feared that someone, Courtney Love or Tara Reid cough cough, would smuggle illegal drugs into the event. That”s probably true and Kate didn’t want the threat of crack in someone’s pockets to ruin her party. If need be, Tom Sizemore has a plethora of drug test tricks to beat the system. Party on Kate!
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UM, EW. WILLIAM SHATNER SELLS HIS KIDNEY STONE.
I love that William Shatner, what a fun guy. He just sold a kidney stone he passed last fall to the online casino GoldenPalace.com for $25,000. The money he made will be going to the charity Habitat for Humanity. According to Access Hollywood, along with the kidney stone, GoldenPalace.com will receive “the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone” and Shatner has said the stone was so big “you”d want to wear it on your finger. “If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond.” When GoldenPalace.com tried to buy the stone from Shatner for a mere $15,000, Shatner refused saying that the “
Star Trek” tunics have commanded more than $100,000.”
Beautiful.
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Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…
Kevin Federline frankly doesn’t give a beaded cornrow about what you think of him. He is just fine with his talent and his songs and his budding rap career. Hey, he doesn’t call himself the New Vanilla Ice for nothing.
Kevin wants people to know what he is about and who he is. I”ve long asked myself, who is the man behind the manpris? And now, like manna from heaven, droplets of Kevin Fed. knowledge will be raining down on us. Please douse me with all the information my brain can handle. I wanna get to know Kevin!
Inspired by the raspy voice of Journey frontman Steve Perry, Kev initially wanted to create a rock album, but kept coming back to his real love: not Shar, not Britney, not his three kids, but rap music.The melodious rhythm and soothing strains of Eminem convinced Kevin to go into the studio and record Popozao. Popo Wow!
Says Kevin, “I believe that no matter what, if it”s real and people feel it that”s what it is, it doesn”t matter.” Allow me to interpret what he is saying…what he means is that no matter what people feel and if that”s what it is, then that”s what you make of it and that”s what is real and it doesn”t matter then you can feel it and its not real then it doesn”t matter even if it”s real. Get it? Gosh, he is so deep! Ponder his words and feel your emotional growth blossom!
Even though he is busy hawking his single via Myspace and the Home Shopping Network, he hasn’t signed a record deal yet. Shocking, I know! He should totally form a boy band with Bobby Brown and MC Hammer. That would be awesome. Especially if he wore those super baggy low crotchy Hammer pants in a nice floppy satin.
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David Duchovny Not Afraid Of Straight To Video Hulk Sequel
Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee is probably at this moment luxuriating in a bubble bath in his Hilton suite, gleefully using his new best director trophy for a little round of Golden Globe submarine commander. These recent accolades are almost enough to erase the memory of his disastrous last effort, The Hulk, which Lee admits left him “depressed and shaken.” But while the production may have been a traumatic one for Lee, and a disappointment at the box office, it still made enough money ($245 million) for Universal to consider a Hulk 2–just don”t expect it to be playing anywhere besides a home theater near you:
PETER CUNEO, the vice chairman of comic book franchise Marvel, revealed Duchovny is the frontrunner to play the green giant in The Incredible Hulk 2 in a recent interview with AOL”s Motley Fool Radio Team.
He said, “Duchovny”s name has been bought up several times. He”s quite the fan too.”
Bana pulled out of the sequel when he discovered the plan was to release the film direct to DVD.
We can hardly blame Bana for pulling out of the project, seeing as it”s probably unwise to follow a much lauded, starring role in a “serious” Spielberg picture with an appearance in a Blockbuster Video bargain bin exclusive. But for Duchovny, whose recent work has amounted to some poorly reviewed indie features and video game voiceover work, Hulk 2: Return to Care Bear Island could be just the mean green comeback to reignite his once red hot career.
- DUCHOVNY SET FOR HULK ROLE? [Contact Music]
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Still More Globe Moments: Russell Crowe Goes Off The Menu
Tucked inside a bumper you probably fast-forwarded through between Walk the Line“s win for best musical or comedy picture and Lost“s dramatic TV series triumph was this blink-and-you-missed it shot of Russell Crowe chowing on a burger (shades of Hilary Swank”s iconic, celebratory post-Oscar Astroburger immediately came to mind–is there no “I”m just a regular person” awards show moment not tied to Ms. Swank?), a snack apparently delivered to Crowe”s table in a telltale, off-the-menu Styrofoam container. We”re relieved to see the legendarily roughneck actor enjoying a man-of-the-people nosh; after all–and we”re sure Crowe would be the first one to tell you this–the official Globes second course of Chilean sea bass is for the pussies sitting in the TV section.
- Previously: More Globe Moments: Dennis Quaid’s Chick Flick Joke [Defamer]
- Oscar Hangover: Hilary Swank Eats Real People Food [Defamer]
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Jiblets: Operation save Nicole Richie begins
• Can D.J. AM“s rescue mission save Nicole Richie? Maybe if his rescue mission includes milkshakes and muffins. [Star]
• Whatever you do, don”t piss off Harvey Weinstein. [Page Six]
• Lloyd Grove is still hanging out with celebrities. Just so you all know. He hangs out with celebrities. You got that? [Lowdown]
• Maybe Eminem and Katie Holmes can start an “I”ve been brainwashed” support group? [The Scoop]
• Weren”t you all paying attention to today”s earlier lesson. Journalists get things wrong every day. It”s all good. [Fishbowl NY]
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Everybody relax, Defamer found Jake Gyllenhaal
So, we weren”t alone in our desperate concern for Jake? Not that we”re surprised, his lack of presence was undoubtedly the disappointment of the Golden Globes.
We wondered where the hell he was, and thanks to the L.A. gossip mongers, he has been located and returned to safety. According to a Defamer spy, Jake Gyllenhaal was spotted at former gay Mexican turned hipster bar, Cha Cha Lounge.
See, Jake, all those L.A. people are complaining about you. Come to New York, where every bar is filled with a “cluster-fuck of mostly straight hipsters,” but the gay Mexicans are obviously still welcome.
AWOL At The Globes: Jake Gyllenhaal Alive And Well At Former Gay Cowboy Bar [Defamer]
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SWANK SAYS STILL HOPE FOR A HILARY & CHAD REUNION.
Good news for fans of Hilary Swank & Chad Lowe. The kids ain”t over yet. As headlines of “Chad and Hilary Separate!” were splashed all over the tabloids last week, Hilary Swank was a bit more diplomatic while being interviewed on the red carpet of last night”s Golden Globe awards. I don”t know about you, but I screamed when I heard Isaac Mizrahi, who was doing some of E!”s red carpet interviews, ask Hilary a question somewhere along the lines of, “now that you are single, do you get all dressed up when you go out?” In what could have turned out to be a very embarrassing moment, Hilary, gracious as ever said, “Hey, hey, I”m not single. I”m trying to work on my marriage.” Good girl. That”s why we like her. In other Hilary news, she was the first person announced today as a presenter for this years Academy Awards taking place on March 5th. Source
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We give them money
Who”s the richest kid on your block? Well, Forbes has nothing else to talk about and (sadly) neither do we.
Their list of the top richest young celebrities includes athletes, actors, and people that born rich. Here are Forbes” top young and loaded celebs, their ages, and how much cash they”re raking in:
1. Amanda Bynes, 19, $1.5 million
2. Hilary Duff, 18, $15 million
3. Paris Hilton, 24, $6.5 million
4. LeBron James, 21, $22.9 million
5. Adriana Lima, 24, $4.5 million
6. Lindsay Lohan, 19, $11 million
7. Frankie Muniz, 20, $8 million
8. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 19, $21million (combined)
9. Maria Sharapova, 18, $18.2 million
10. Ashlee Simpson, 21 $5.3 million
11. Serena Williams, 24 $12.7 million
Well, someone needs to cover this stuff while all the real journalists are busy with the freezing, starving children in Pakistan.
The World”s Best-Paid Young Celebrities [AP]
Best-Paid Youn Celebrities [Forbes]
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Behind The Golden Globes Music: The GG’s “Don’t Cha”
It”s not that the special Golden Globes remix of that Pussycat Dolls song that kicked off the ceremony was too hard to understand to make an accurate transcription. On the contrary, the starving studio musicians (please tell us that the Dolls aren”t already starving to death) that NBC forced into this ritualized awards show humiliation were admirably intelligible as they warbled tributes to the arriving stars. Our failure to scribble down the altered lyrics had more to do with the fact that we were so distressed by the odd sensation of the warm trickle of blood that issued forth from our eardrums after realizing they really did sing “Don’t ya dig the bling on the robes tonight?” that we went looking for a towel to stanch the flow, aborting our mission before it even began. Luckily for everyone, blogger Josh Horowitz”s auditory canal is made of heartier stuff:
I know it’s Globe time
I know it’s Globe time
Here’s how I know
Here’s how I know
I know we won’t see this many stars at any other show
Desperate Housewives…
These Desperate Housewives…
…are matched pearl to pearl
Here is Capote and Johnny Cash
And his name is Earl
Don’t ya think that Jaime looks hot tonight?
Don’t ya think that Reese has a shot tonight?
Don’t ya?
Don’t ya?
If you haven”t had enough, the rest of the song is here. We haven”t the strength to continue on with you.
- Make the bad sounds stop! The Globes have begun! [Better Than Fudge]
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Overheard in L.A.: Jennifer Aniston being a bitch
Mere minutes after Jossip relayed the info to you that it was Jennifer Aniston“s fault that we stopped wanting to draw hearts around Brad Pitt“s face, one of our readers directed us to this posting on bitterwaitress.com.
Location: Los Angeles
Celebrity: Jennifer AnistonI had just started my shift around 5pm and I was waiting on this one family when I saw Jennifer Aniston came in the restaurant with a man. I went to the hostess and I asked her if she could sit Jennifer at one of my tables, because my daughter loves her and i thought that maybe I could ask her for an autograph. So the hostess did what I asked her to, and i was really friendly and of course attentive.
So after the two were done eating, Jennifer asked me for the bill and before I went to get it I asked her if she could please sign a piece of paper for my daughter and she just grabbed the paper and pen that i held out for her out of my hands without replying. So when went back to the table to give her the bill she still hadn”t signed it so I left it there for her to do.
When I saw them leaving I went back to the table and I saw that she had drew a weird looking cartoon on the paper! on top of that she only left me $3.57 on a $58.39 bill!
Of course this is totally unverifiable gossip, and it may not even be true. But if you send it (most likely) we will run it. Especially if it proves (unverifiably) that Jen An is a bliatch.
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Worst Dressed! Drew Barrymore at the Golden Globes
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Drudge du Jour
We told you racism was all the rage today.
Only on Drudge Report, kids. Only on Drudge.
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Chinese nanny state takes root in US [BBC]
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We’re Not Even Going To Ask What They Do With The Vegetable Juice
Asked to reveal the secret of what keeps Goldie Hawn frozen in a state of permanent sexpot desirability, even as she quickly approaches her discounted movie ticket-buying years, the actress recently revealed that much of it is due to creative roleplaying in the bedroom with life partner/jockey Kurt Russell:
Goldie Hawn has revealed the secret of her svelte body - it”s down to plenty of sex and fresh vegetable juice.
The Death Becomes Her star let Closer magazine into a few secrets about herself and long-term partner Kurt Russell, revealing:
“I”m very turned on by Kurt… he thinks I”m a racehorse. And when you”ve got a racehorse, you”ve got to run it.”
No one knows this better than Star Jones, who recently described her own able lover Al Reynolds in equine terms, writing in her inspirational tome Shine, “He”s got the legs of a stallion.” With this new trend of animalistic, unbridled (or, perhaps in this case, bridled) celebrity lovemaking, it”s no wonder Jones has instantly dropped 170 lbs and Hawn remains eternally youthful. Unenthused, however, are celebrity household staffs, who gripe they aren”t paid enough to have to constantly refill feed buckets with macrobiotic oat compound and clean their bosses” stalls while turning a deaf ear to the ecstatic whinnying coming from within their boudoirs.
- Goldie Gets The Hawn [Ananova]
- Previously: Star Jones’ Husband Al Is Legged Like A Hetero Horse [Defamer]
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Jared Leto Really Lets Himself Go For a Movie Role
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More Globe Moments: Dennis Quaid’s Chick Flick Joke
Anyone who sat through last night”s Golden Globes telecast felt crippling, vicarious embarrassment on behalf of presenter Dennis Quaid, whose soon-to-be infamous “chick flick” joke will surely go down in the storied history of awards show misfires. Our transcription of Quaid”s doomed introduction of Brokeback Mountain:
QUAID: “Our last nominated drama tells the story of two young cowboys who met in the summer if 1963 and forge an unexpected, lifelong connection that proves the endurance and power of love. It”s a controversial film. It”s…let”s just say it rhymes with “chick flick.”"
[SFX: CRICKETS too confused to muster much chirping.]
[SFX: Barely audible, grudging LAUGHTER.]
CUT TO: Heath Ledger REACTS with a sliver of a smile, wishing he could swallow down his shame like his Brokeback character, Ennis Del Mar.
Always a pro, Quaid took the stifling silence in stride and continued his recitation of Teleprompter copy. But the damage had been done, as millions of people around the world were bumped out of the moment, finding themselves wondering what pronunciation of “an uplifting, emotional tour de force about the incredible, but sometimes tragic, power of love” can be made to rhyme with “chick flick.”
- Previously: Golden Globes Hangover: Melanie Griffith Clings To Her Daughter, Past [Defamer]
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Letter From Finland: Conan The Campaigner
Our special Defamer diplomatic envoy to Finland weighs in with a full report on the Conan O”Brienmania currently sweeping the land of smelt and cellphones. As we mentioned yesterday, Conan”s delightful sense of the absurd has gotten a bit out of hand of late, with the Late Night host throwing his considerable celebrity influence behind current President and O”Brien lookalike Tarja Halonen”s re-election bid.
Well, Conan better get his skinny just-had-baby butt over here to Finland right now. He”s talked the talk… and yes, maybe he has done his bit to influence this Finnish Presidential election. Butt…
… I”m an ex-pat UK journalist and have lived here in Helsinki for 2 years. Live with my Finn long-term lady see and oooh, like very many people in Finland, we”ve been watching Conan and more recently Tarja and the Finnish elections for… damn, seems like forever…
And… as a very curious outsider, it”s hard to believe… but Conan has livened things up here these last months. Because yes, the Finns do love their U.S and U.K comedy (The Office, Lost, Desperate, O.C, 24… Ok, we get it all) and late night talk show TV (Conan we mean you) and yes, the tabloid culture is alive and well in this relatively unknown but Scandinavian-next-to-Russia landscape and yes, every time Conan does the Tarja schtick thing here, it makes the front page in the tabloids (all two of them).
But, let”s get this straight right now… the Finns are amused that a NY talkshow bouffant is getting a woody because he thinks he looks like a 60-something female Finn president but ha ha, a topic of amused conversation it has been for a few months now, but noooo, suddenly it is full-on winter right here this mid-January. That means… sense of humour still alive, but there is too much university education and impressive alcoholic consumption and mild depression going on here right now in this snow and darkness and sub-zero nastiness to take it all too seriously.
So, hey, the Finns (and us Finglish) love to get our names mentioned in any International / U.S press/ TV, but Conan…. if you want to keep this beautiful US/ Finn relationship going, you”d better get yourself and the new young”un (and the other kid) and the good lady over here pronto if you really know what good international relations mean. There are a a bunch of Finns who would love to have a chat and take you out and get you well pissed. Hear me now… you have influenced - just a touch, this election thing. Now is the time to get on a plane and… for God”s sake, bring Max with you.
–An amused Englishman in Helsinki.
- Previously: Will Conan O’Brien Affect Finnish History? [Defamer]
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On That Note: Joaquin Phoenix walks the stage
• Walk the Line was the big winner last night in the Golden Globes “Musical or Comedy” category. Despite being the most depressing movie ever. We wonder: does it really count as acting when Joaquin Phoenix actually believes he”s Johnny Cash? [Billboard]
• Michael Jackson is equally abusive to little boys and his pets. Unfortunately, the kids don”t have PETA on their side. [The Scoop]
• Ani DiFranco revives a Gothic church in attempt to revive her career. [AP]
• Citizens of San Paolo, Brazil have no problem spending their lives savings on U2 tickets, but they really don”t want to wait in line. [MSNBC]
• Are Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown really splitting up? How ever will they decide who gets custody of the blow? (Can we get a “heeell no?) [Lowdown]
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Lindsay Lohan dates Sean Lennon
The still young and skinny Lindsay Lohan is dating John Lennon’s son Sean, according to America’s New York Daily News newspaper.
Lindsay and Sean have been on a second date just two nights after they were first seen dining out together at New York restaurant Bette. It seems the pair met when Lindsay was researching for her new movie ‘Chapter 27′, about Sean’s father’s murder.
Lindsay Lohan’s new romance has denied rumors she is still dating on-off boyfriend Jared Leto, who actually plays Mark Chapman, John Lennon’s killer in ‘Chapter 27′ alongside Lindsay.
Meanwhile, last month, Sean sent out a desperate plea for women to date him, saying that he was “completely miserable” and wanted a lover with a high IQ, aged between 18 and 45. Could Lindsay Lohan be that woman?
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