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abalk · 07/30/07 11:20AM

Tom Snyder, whose bizarre and fascinating interviews captivated those able to stay awake after Johnny Carson (and later, David Letterman), died yesterday at the age of 71. [CBS]

Sir Ivan Has A Live-In DJ

Doree Shafrir · 07/27/07 03:50PM


Last night was the first showing of the Hamptons edition of the VH1 show "The Fabulous Life." Amidst all the predictable stuff about clubs and celebrities and what have you, was this delightful little mini-Cribs about Sir Ivan's house, where he throws simply wild parties and has a live-in DJ. Yup!

Lindsay Lohan Blames It On The Black Kid

abalk · 07/27/07 10:40AM


This morning's "Today Show" featured an interview with the young men who were in the car with unrehabbable starlet Lindsay Lohan prior to her arrest. What happened that fateful night? The boys tell all. Except, you know, what the hell they were doing with her in the first place.

Scenes From A High-Speed Lindsay Lohan Meltdown

mark · 07/27/07 09:57AM


Early yesterday, we discussed how fearless celebrity newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight challenged us all to question the Santa Monica Police Department-sanctioned version of events we'd been spoon-fed since Tuesday morning, daring us to plumb the dark places in our souls that seduced us into assuming that Lindsay Lohan was the driver of the assistant-pursuing Denali and the owner of the cocaine-laden pants that were the actress's undoing. This morning, however, TMZ has interviewed three men who were along for the ride—both literally and figuratively—during Lohan's DUI meltdown, who share the story of their harrowing experience as hostages of the road-raging starlet. The Today Show has condensed much of the story into an easily digestible video package (see the clip above), but you'll want to read TMZ's four-part epic, dramatic scenes from which are excerpted here:

Sam Champion Is The Weather Emperor Of Us All

abalk · 07/26/07 03:25PM


If you have a sexual fantasy involving Good Morning America's weather-boy Sam Champion being fanned and fed grapes by African-American children while reclining on some bizarre blue foam piece of furniture, today is like Christmas, Valentine's Day, and your birthday rolled up into one bizarre little package.

Midtown East

Joshua Stein · 07/26/07 01:20PM

There's a lot to unpack in Midtown East. A bunch of neighborhoods rolled into one, the area stretches from Gramercy Park in the south to the Upper East Side, from 5th Avenue to the East River. It contains the sadness of Murray Hill (AKA Murray Hell) as well as the triumph of Tudor City. If there is a vast media conspiracy, this is its home turf. We sent Joshua "Virgil" Stein and Richard "Doré" Blakeley to show you the way in this, the last installment of Gawker's User's Guides.

A Brave Holly Hunter Barely Survives Junket Nightmare

mark · 07/26/07 10:54AM



Generally speaking, the blame for most junket disasters can be assigned to the talent, as the punishing demands of nonstop press obligations often leaves performers a little sleepy or disoriented by a handful of jetlag helpers, suboptimal interview conditions that invariably lead to erratic results. But in the above clip, all of the technical difficulties seem to be affecting only the personnel on hand in the news studio, leaving a game Holly Hunter to suffer her way through four of the more uncomfortable minutes you're likely to ever see.

Lindsay Lohan: Unwitting Wearer Of Mystery Coke-Pants?

mark · 07/26/07 10:32AM



The truth-seekers of Entertainment Tonight, virtually alone in their principled quest to reject the anti-Lohan propaganda force-fed to the media by the Santa Monica Police Department, has started asking the uncomfortable questions about What Really Happened following the fateful high-speed chase of early Monday morning:

Lindsay Lohan, Victim

abalk · 07/26/07 09:40AM


"Entertainment Tonight" correspondent Gina Glickman (billed as a "Lohan family insider") blows the lid off a conspiracy so wide-reaching that it may never fully be uncovered. That's right, someone was out to get Lindsay Lohan, who "didn't even know whose clothes she was wearing" when she was arrested for DUI. Here's the whole shocking tale.

Holly Hunter And The World's Worst Interview

abalk · 07/26/07 09:00AM



We never thought we'd find someone who made chesty "internet personality" Amanda Congdon seem competent, but this "ABC News Now" interview with Holly Hunter is an amazing example of a celebrity fluff piece gone bad. You will not be able to look away, but, trust us, you'll want to.

Everything That's In Page Six Today And Where It Came From

Emily Gould · 07/25/07 02:20PM


Once in a while, every single item in Page Six except for the really obscure and favor-paybacky ones has either been reported elsewhere or is also simultaneously being reported everywhere. Today was one of those times, as this video, which was painstakingly spliced together by our fella Alex Goldberg, attests.

Lindsay Lohan: Those Drugs In My Pants Weren't Mine

mark · 07/25/07 10:22AM



When undisclosed circumstances of a personal nature prevented I Know Who Killed Me star Lindsay Lohan from fulfilling her promotional duties on the Tonight Show yesterday, the program's harried bookers turned to chameleon actor Rob Schneider, whose seamless transformation into the troubled starlet was so convincing that the studio audience seemed to have no idea that anything was amiss. Meanwhile, an embattled, post-arrest Lohan, beset on all sides by those willing to believe every lie spewed by the publicity-hungry Santa Monica Police Department before hearing her version of the story, reached out to the last fully adequite person in this accursed town: Access Hollywood b.f.f. Billy Bush. Her Blackberried words, as always, will move you:

The Littlest Paparazzo

mark · 07/24/07 07:22PM


While perhaps not the "let's just burn down the whole damn city and start over" call to arms represented by the Sunset Tan clip of the mom who spent $1300 to have her grade-school daughter Mystic-bronzed to a color that would help her really pop in her class photo, this Inside Edition piece on L.A.'s youngest paparazzo might at least make you feel like tossing a Molotov cocktail onto the patio of the Ivy. At just 14 years old, the precocious lil' pap is still probably a couple of years away from his first high-speed chase down Robertson Blvd., leaving hope that he'll find a new hobby before he has a chance to induce a crash with a peer like Emma Roberts or Dakota Fanning.

Chelsea

Joshua Stein · 07/24/07 02:15PM

Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows spoke for many of us when he sang, "Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me/Maybe in a month or two/Maybe when things are different for me/Maybe when things are different for you." His lyrics embody so very many of Chelsea's qualities: deadly, confusing, kind of dumb, a little gay. As part of our ongoing quest to document every single neighborhood in New York City, we sent Richard Blakeley and Joshua David Stein to report from the fields of Chelsea.

Zach Braff Named In Julia Allison Butt-Grabbing Imbroglio

abalk · 07/24/07 10:50AM


Star magazine editor-at-large Julia Allison sat down with the fine folks from Fox News horror-show "Red Eye" last night and brought her unique expertise to a subject rocking America's public debate right now: ass-grabbing. Turns out a certain celebrity (and thousands of complete nobodies) grabbed Ms. Allison's ample derriere at a recent social event! Who was it? To find out, you'll just have to watch the clip. Or, you know, read the headline above.