Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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Shame Star Michael Fassbender Defends Celebrity Sex Addicts

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Sex addiction has become prevalent in pop culture in the past few years, though only in one narrow definition: Self-indulgent celebrities like Tiger Woods and David Duchovny who cheated on their wives because they could. But thanks to research for his new movie Shame, Michael Fassbender thinks he’s seeing a different side of sex addiction, one where it’s not just about powerful men cheating on their wives.

“I suppose, you know, like everyone else it seems to be kind of grey area, this idea of sexual addiction,” he told Bang Showbiz. “All of us were introduced to it through celebrity stories and I suppose the public perception is it’s sort of self-indulgence perhaps in that world.”

He’s right: We don’t feel sorry for Tiger or other offenders like Michael Douglas—especially when South Park‘s “Sexual Healing” episode lampooned that same self-indulgence. It is easy to assume that celebrities simply choose not to respect monogamy and hide behind the label.

But Michael Fassbender believes we’re looking at it the wrong way. Because instead of studying the celebrity cases on TMZ or E!, he spoke with average people who also suffered from sex addiction. And in some really method acting, he delved into the world of online porn, since his character Brandon can’t stop looking at the stuff even when he’s at work.

“People can stay inside for 72 hours on end watching it. They can’t have sex with their wives because they’re so obsessed with it,” he said. “What’s really interesting about it is that in the US alone, something like 24 million people claim to be sex addicts but the mental-health board hasn’t recognised it as an addiction.”

Part of what makes him believe that this isn’t just a celebrity trend is that the means to encourage these addictions are accessible to anyone: “It’s all too easy to go somewhere, to eat something, to drink something, to fuck someone. It’s all so easily available.”

This movie looks so good.

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The Daily WTF: My, What A Lovely Lady Gaga Zombie Tattoo You Have

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:08 AM PDT

“Okay, you guys, I’ve narrowed my tattoo choices down to three things: an anchor, a butterfly, or a giant Lady Gaga covered in festering zombified flash wounds. Which one should I get?”

“Well, the anchor’s pretty played out and the butterfly’s a little safe, so I’d go with zombie Gaga. But just to make sure your tattoo is totally original, how about you also get a second Lady Gaga, naked, drawn onto the back of the first Lady Gaga? Perfect.”

(via Vulture)

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Gallery: People Dressed Up Like Courtney Love For Halloween

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:55 AM PDT

Want to feel pretty sad about things for a little while? Then go ahead and flip through this gallery of people who dressed themselves as Courtney Love on October 31sts past. In a way it’s the perfect Halloween costume. I mean, is there anything more macabre than parading around as a woman whose struggles with addiction have rendered her a walking symbol of doom and death for more than a decade? Vampire zombie skeleton, you’ve got nothing on Courtney Love.

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Katy Perry’s Best Twitpics, In Honor Of Her 27th Birthday

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:57 AM PDT

The first thing that might come to mind when you think of Katy Perry is her outrageous wigs and outfits, from music videos like “California Gurls” to the MTV VMAs. But other celebrities usually match her for outlandish dresses and inexplicable accessories: Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Jessie J.

But there’s one way Katy outshines these other performers: She’s one of the most prolific Twitpic posters. Whole news stories have grown up around photos taken by or of her; it’s part of the reason she has such a big fanbase. So in celebration of Katy’s 27th birthday, we’ve compiled her best shots.

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Justin Bieber And Selena Gomez Adopted A Puppy Together

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:43 AM PDT

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are basically the human equivalent of puppies: cute and non-threatening, until they start yowling in your ear. Hence, it makes sense that they’d have a thing for that particular animal. Selena Gomez already has five rescue dogs at home (which are presumably being taken care of by someone else right now), but she missed them when she was on tour. So she did what any sensible person would do: she adopted a special tour dog, because dogs love hanging out in hotel rooms and buses all day long. Especially giant dogs that are part Husky. Which is what she adopted and named “Baylor.”

Via People Pets (yes, there is an entire offshoot of People devoted to celebrity pets):

Winnipeg animal rescue D’Arcy’s A.R.C. got a surprise visit from the young lovebirds, who stopped by for some canine therapy. “They spent a lot of time with the puppies,” the rescue’s chief executive officer, D’Arcy Johnston, tells PEOPLE. “I was told that [Gomez] was missing the dogs that she has at home…I wasn’t expecting her to adopt a dog while she was on tour and has a busy schedule.”

“Was told”? Does Selena Gomez refuse to speak directly to plebeians? And how about the underlying bitchiness in that last sentence? (Bitchiness which, for the record, I kind of agree with. Puppies are crazy intense to care for!)

A member of Seleiber’s personal guard must have prodded her with the butt of his rifle, because she then added:

“Baylor probably would have had a bad life or a very short life. But he got rescued and brought to our shelter and is now going to live a very good life.”

This is probably true. I guess if I were Selena’s dog, I’d rather have a “good life” coordinated by assistants than live in a little cage until I got euthanized. And look, she’s already taken him to London! I didn’t know one was even allowed to do that.

(Via People)

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Video: Watch James Franco Tell You A Sexy Bedtime Story

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:11 AM PDT

Reading in Bed with James Franco from The Paris Review on Vimeo.

Nope, nothing weird here, just 20 minutes of James Franco reciting a story from The Paris Review while lying in bed, shot with a grainy, red video filter. James dramatizes Amie Barrodale's story "William Wei” as part of the magazine’s new series of fan readings.

The actor/artist/writer/student/musician starts and stops a couple times at the beginning, but he trudges admirably through to read the entire story. My favorite part is when James does the lady parts — I like to think that all the women in high life actually talk in high, breathy voices, like transgender Marilyn Monroe impersonators.

(via Celebuzz)

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Video: Now Even Anderson Cooper Is Obsessed With Courtney Stodden

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:06 AM PDT

Other CNN anchors might consider themselves way above covering the antics of desperate reality star wannabes, but not Anderson Cooper. In fact, he seems almost delighted for the chance to mock people like Kate Gosselin and now Courtney Stodden.

With each entry on Anderson Cooper 360 feature the Ridiculist, we can see that he really has a knack for this. Instead of doing the same shtick every time — that is, shouting no-holds-barred criticism at the fameballs — he pretends to take her side against the “Halloween haters” who kicked her and hubby Doug Hutchison out of a pumpkin patch for their excessive PDA and her excessive butt crack.

Watch out, Joel McHale—Anderson could probably take you on The Soup.

I want a .gif of him imitating Courtney.

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Church Of Scientology Investigated South Park’s Creators For A Year After They Made Fun Of It

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:50 AM PDT

When I first watched the Scientology episode of South Park called “Trapped In The Closet” back in 2005, I was simultaneously amused at what Scientologists believe, and frightened for Matt Stone and Trey Parker. You see, the church has a history of going after the people it deems its enemies, both by suing them in court and by more sinister means, and this episode was practically begging for retaliation. Sure enough, documents leaked in the past few days by former church official Mark Rathbun show that the church spied on the funny men for a whole year after that episode aired, trying to dig up information that could be used against them. It also spied on their friends and the writers who worked for them.

According to The Village Voice, the leaked documents contain detailed information on the church’s surveillance activities, which included “public record checks” and “special collections,” the latter of which basically means digging through someone’s trash for incriminating stuff. The people they did this to included Matt and Trey’s famous friends John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn, who were married at the time.

Via The Village Voice:

I asked Rathbun what kind of things OSA’s operatives would be looking for in the trash of Parker and Stone and their friends.

“Phone records. Bank records. Personal letters that expose some kind of vulnerability. They’ll read stuff into the kind of alcohol you’re drinking and how much. Prescriptions. They’ll figure out your diet. They can find out a lot about you through your trash,” he told me this morning by phone from his home in South Texas.

“You can see that the commanding officer is pissed off and not enough is getting done,” he says about the final lines from the OSA [Office Of Special Affairs] document. But additional documents show that the investigation did get going in a big way, and we’ll have more about that soon.

“Figure out your diet”? That’s some serious wackness, right there. “Breaking: Uncle Jesse eats Lucky Charms for breakfast!” Way to break a scandal, guys.

The church also tried to plant a mole of theirs in the writers room so as to get inside intel on Stone and Parker. It’s not yet known whether any of this proved fruitful, but the show seems to have continued on its merry, funny way, so I’m guessing they failed spectacularly. But even if they had gotten something on them, I’m not sure how it would have improved the image of Scientology. I mean, wasn’t the whole point of the episode that Scientologists are crazy, pissy, alien-worshippers who lash out at anyone who threatens their stranglehold on the rubes who fund their pseudo-church? Hiding in Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s bushes is sort of just proving their point.

UPDATE: And now they have issued a half-baked denial. Cool.

(Via Runnin Scared)

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The 30-Year-Old Man’s Guide To Gossip Girl: The Two Finger Rule

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:46 AM PDT

I wrote last week about my love of Gossip Girl episode titles and the respect I have for whoever thinks them up, but this week's title has me stumped. “The Two Finger Rule”?  Trusty Google gave me three possible answers:

a)     A way to create a visual reference when lining up a pool shot.

b)    Sound advice for preventing back injuries (If it's too heavy to lift with two fingers on both hands, get help).

Or

c)     In plastic surgery, the idea that pulling your face back with two fingers does not give a patient an accurate preview of a facelift's results.

These are all great and useful rules, especially the third, but I don't understand how any relate to events in episode five. I could make something up, but I'll spare you that. This isn't a college English class, after all.

It's appropriate (and planned, I'm sure) that this episode took place on Yom Kippur, the Judaic High Holy Day of atonement and repentance. After behaving terribly for the last few episodes, Serena handled most of the atonement and repentance, apologizing to Blair for neglecting their friendship, and making amends with Dan for her actions in her quest to option his novel. Rufus also realized it was time to forgive Dan after witnessing Blair's mother support her daughter as she defied Louis' overbearing family. I'd argue that Dan's the one who needs to do the forgiving in this situation, but what do I know?

Manipulation was also one of this week's major themes. Charlie/Ivy took advantage of her relationship with Lilly to gain access to the Bass family secrets, Beatrice used Loius' love for Blair in an attempt to force him from the line of succession, and Elizabeth Hurley revealed she'll go to any length to obtain a twenty-year old (she'd say ten-year-old) picture of herself from a wall safe. Other observations:

  • For the first time, Nate is compared to JFK Jr, and for once I agree with a Gossip Girl characterization. Both Nate and JFK Jr. are intellectual lightweights saddled with high expectation. For Nate's sake, I hope this is where the similarities end.
  • Do you think Gossip Girl accepts advertising? She'd be a fool not to.  Here's her pitch: "I deliver thousands of unique daily impressions to the wealthiest residents of New York City, the majority of whom are between the ages of 16-23. I also provide an unprecedented level of brand interactivity that will insert your products into the lives of these high earners." Damn, Gossip Girl! Hire me; I'll make you rich! But I guess there's a good chance you already are.
  • For the first two-thirds of this episode, I thought I was witnessing the return of the old Chuck. He met the unrealistically attractive psychiatrist, decided he wanted her, and used his charm and his money in an attempt to have her.  But once she reduced his existence to a few tired clichés, he folded and decided he needed to be "fixed." Chuck, my man, there's nothing wrong with you. Every guy I know would kill to be you. Don't you dare dismiss that.
  • If Dan's agent thinks public television is the "last bastion of the intellectual," she's obviously not watching Jersey Shore.
  • "If he/she is really your friend," is the most loaded phrase in the English language. If somebody says these words to you, watch out. They want something.
  •  I love Wallace Shawn and it's inconceivable that anyone would feel otherwise.  If you didn't catch that reference, check YouTube immediately and then punch your own face.
  • Serena confirmed that Blair's pregnancy is three months along. For those keeping track (I'm keeping track), she's at the end of her first trimester, yet in this episode, her waist looked trimmer than ever. This is either sloppy work by the writers or Blair isn't actually pregnant. Remember, you read it here first.

 

  • When Nate laments that he and Chuck can't switch places to solve their respective women problems, Chuck dismisses the idea by saying they're "not in a Jason Bateman movie." Ouch! Jason just got brushed off the plate.  I hope he doesn't charge the mound.
  • Somebody, I can't remember who it was, maybe Serena's boss, called Dan F. Scott Fitzjackass. God, I wish I'd thought of that one. Later on, his novel was referred to as "Gatsby for the social media age."  That makes me want to fight everybody. Seriously, what are you looking at?!
  • Louis' learned the true identity of Blair's baby's father, and calling Chuck's new psychiatrist makes me believe even more that Chuck is the father. Wait, how would Louis know that Chuck had been seeing that women? Oh, Gossip Girl, you always keep me guessing.

It looks like Gossip Girl is taking a break next week so we can all celebrate the secular High Holy Day that is Halloween, so it'll be two weeks before we have a new episode.  I'll spend that time researching two finger rules and realistic expectations for facelifts.  It's for a friend. I swear.

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The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Barbie Recap: Release The Hell Beasts

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:34 AM PDT

Monday night's episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills showed the ladies getting pampered in true Beverly Hills fashion. It also showed them fighting like hell beasts, which is what we're really tuning in to see, right? The Kyle-Kim-Brandi saga seems to be settling down, but we could just be in the eye of the storm. Here's a look at "The Opposite of Relaxation" dramatically reenacted by Barbies.

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