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 Look, these things start innocently enough. Our age addled memories of our idealized youth and the bands we loved lead us down a treacherous path of wishful thoughts of reliving those days. Do we dwell on the realities of questionable hairstyles, bad fashion, awkward fumbling moments in the back seat of a car and poor complexion? No, instead some 40′ish survey group out there showed some scant interest in the rebirth of New Kids On The Block. I can just see the record executives now dutifully reviewing the data to decide which derelict band from yesteryear they pull out of the closet, slap some lipstick and a bow on it and trot it out as this year’s prize hog. (By the way, if you took this survey you should die.)
If it stops here, I think we can all sleep at night, but if I see two or more members of *NSYNC or the Backsreet boys in one place, it’s time to gather the villagers and get some torches and pitchforks. (Do you ever wonder if Donnie Wahlberg cries himself to sleep at night huddled under a blanket, lovingly petting a Jordan Knight doll? Maybe it’s just me . . .)
After months of speculation, 80s boy band New Kids on The Block are planning a comeback, is reporting People magazine. The band’s website, nkotb.com, which had been offline for months, is now back up and running in anticipation of the official announcement, which the source insists will be made in the next few weeks. The site currently shows a television graphic with a fuzzy, flickering photos of NKOTB in their heyday, and a link inviting fans to sign up to their newsletter. The band enjoyed enormous success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group went on to sell over 70 million albums worldwide, generated hundreds of millions of dollars in concert revenues, and paved the way for acts like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. The oldest member, Jonathan Knight, now a real estate developer, will celebrate his 40th birthday later this year. Since the band’s demise, former members Donnie Wahlberg, 38, and Joey McIntyre, 35, have seen acting success, while Danny Wood, 38, has worked as a music producer and Knight’s brother, Jordan, 37, has continued to make music.
[Gossip Boulevard]
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How many weeks are we into the writer’s strike anyway? It must be like week 384 based on the hysterical wailings of just about every media source you can name. Apparently we should soon be visited by plague and pestilence unless the writers get another 0.3% of DVD royalties and a 10% discount on all Venti Soy Lattes at Starbucks (non-fat milk of course).
Now you might think, ‘Yes, but with the glamorous, jet set lifestyle at WOTDaily you don’t need TV. What about the rest of us?” As I’ve learned from both CNN and USAToday, nothing makes your point better than some large graphs and charts (take that writers, who needs you when we have 3D bar charts?)
Survey conducted by Pepperdine University
The good folks at Pepperdine recently conducted a survey to try to accurately measure how little of a crap the general public gives about the WGA strike. I can say from some experience that measuring crap giving in these small amounts is very difficult. Now, I happen to own a calculator and after intense analysis I have concluded that 95% of people are, at most, somewhat concerned by the strike. I may be going out on a limb, but when the most you can muster up is 16% somewhat concerned about an issue then its time to rethink your demands. I mean I was somewhat concerned how cold the toilet seat was going to be when I headed to the bathroom today, which is roughly 453% more concerned than I was with whether a new episode of According To Jim was going to be on.
Now to be fair, maybe the folks surveyed really hadn’t grasped the portent of the situation. I mean had they thought this through? Did they really know what this meant to their Monday nights in front of the TV? Apparently they did:
Survey conducted by Pepperdine University
Ok, so what is wrong with these pictures from the strike? Take a close look.
Are they going to camp or are they going on strike? Did that one girl bring a puppy? And I am pretty sure that 13 year old kid is not a union writer. (I won’t even mention the fat gal next to the Top Model poster, you can thank me later).
Here are a few tips for the strikers to gain a little more public support:
- Less girls in jean skirts
- Less puppies
- Less lattes
- More fire hoses
- More German Shephards
- More riot gear, tear gas and batons
If your strike isn’t worth German Shephards, riot gear, tear gas and batons, maybe it’s time to go home. Compare the WGA strike photos with this one from 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
. . . immigrants were striking against the newly announced law that cut the women and children’s fifty-six-hour workweek to a fifty-four-hour workweek. In addition, they also cut the men’s workweek to the same as the women’s. This new law was to be in effect on January 1, 1912. It doesn’t seem like this would create problems, but it did. To make up for the lost time, managers would speed up the machine process expecting the works to complete the same amount of work as they did before the hours were cut.
Photo: The Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
. . . and not a latte in sight.
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So talk about kicking a guy when he is down, John Travolta came to Tom Cruise’s “defense” over last week’s video:
The much-discussed clip, still making the rounds on the Web, shows the Mission: Impossible megastar praising the Church of Scientology and saying that followers have “the ability to create new and better realities.” (His rep says the footage was filmed for a private church event in 2004.)
Travolta, 53, claims the intense media scrutiny has gone too far. “[Tom] has – we all have – the right to practice how we feel,” he told PEOPLE Saturday at Australia.com’s G’Day L.A. gala celebrating Australia Week 2008. “It finally becomes unfair.”
I mean, if you are Tom Cruise and basically just about everyone thinks you are nuttier than squirrel poop the last thing you really need is another fruitcake coming to your defense. That’s like Manson putting in a plea of leniency for OJ, or Paris Hilton vouching for your girlfriend’s chaste view on premarital sex, or falling off a boat and someone throws you an anchor, or . . . well you get the idea.
If you haven’t seen Tom’s video it’s basically too late - the Church Of Scientology folks have had it taken off of Google and YouTube. I had a copy of the video but the Scientology goons threatened to anal probe me and cleanse my Thetan if I didn’t take it down. I had my Thetan cleansed once in San Francisco for $40 but it wasn’t all that. Here is a cool link to all the videos that are no longer there.
via: People
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Ok, so Dario Franchitti of IRL and now NASCAR fame is a stud according to ESPN’s Terry Blount:
“I was just sitting in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal in my boxer shorts,” Franchitti said. “I looked up and some guy is standing in front of me. He just walked in the house.
“I really don’t think I was the one he was looking for, but the guy quickly turned around and ran out of the house. He got in his car and sped off. So what did I do? I got in my car and chased him.”
But Franchitti forgot one important thing in his quest to catch the intruder.
“The police caught up [to] the guy before I did,” Franchitti said. “And apparently some people in the Nashville media also heard on the [police scanner] about it, so they were there, too. They came up to talk to me about the time I realized I was still in my boxer shorts. I had to stay in the car the whole time.”
So, if you have seen this story anywhere else, they invariably had a dashing photo of Dario for the headline. Well, I don’t know what kind of homo-erotic sites you normally visit but let’s be clear - this story is about whats-his-name’s hot-ass wife - Ashley Judd. How did this Terry Blount from ESPN even get a job as a reporter with this type of interview? He probably went to some fancy journalist school where their idea of hazing is a group circle jerk around a Walter Kronkite doll.
Where are the hard-hitting questions about what Ashley was wearing at the time of the crime, or if their marriage is having any problems that could be solved by a dashing blogger? What does Dario really have to offer? Anyway, I hear what he lacks in technique, he makes up for in speed. (zing!)
via: AOL Sports
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So Lebron James gets tagged for doing 101MPH in the wee hours of the morning in Ohio and still makes it to his birthday party in Vegas that same day. I got stopped for a broken taillight in Kansas once and I got a pistol whipping and locked up in the town jail. In hindsight, the dead hooker in the trunk may have hurt my case a little. Anyway, nice to see that celebrity privilege is not completely monopolized by the LAPD because you or I would be spending some time downtown on that one.
LeBron James’ 23rd birthday started with the flashing lightbar of a state patrol cruiser in Medina County and ended with flashing cameras in Las Vegas.
The Cavaliers’ star was ticketed for driving 101 mph on Interstate 71 at 2:43 a.m. Dec. 30.
James, who lives in Sharon Township, was driving his 2008 white four-door Mercedes with vanity license plates ”KNG OF AK” southbound on the highway in Brunswick Hills Township when he was stopped. The speed limit on that stretch of highway is 65 mph.
via: Ohio.com Jalopnik
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Ah, the life of the rich and famous. No need to be troubled by the little things in life like trying not to cause a traffic jam.
So Britney Spears got a flat tire recently - we have all been there. Now in this situation many possible options exist for the rational. But did Britard choose any of these? (If you guessed yes then you really need to climb out from under that rock you’ve called home for the last few months and guess again.) No, Brit’s solution was to simply leave her gimp car blocking a lane of traffic on Sunset Blvd., hitch a ride home in a paparazzi’s car and head back out on the town.
The police did not appear to share Brit’s enthusiasm for this little solution to life’s problems and promptly towed her car to some privileged celebrity impound lot where you find your car detailed and freshly stocked with Crystal Champagne when you decide to pick it up. The LAPD is running a Lohan Special this month where they also remove all traces of the homeless guy you ran over last night and they swap out the Crystal for a pound of blow and some antibiotics.
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