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Fey foe dead on the 4th of July...From NYT:
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.
The White House said that "America lost a great public servant and a true patriot today." Among the inimitable comments delivered by this great public servant:
That the University of North Carolina should be renamed "the University of Negroes and Communists;"
That black civil rights activists are really "communists and sex perverts;" and
That gayz are "weak, morally sick wretches."
I'll leave you with the true patriot's classic "Hands" ad from his racist 1990 campaign.
Our hero Amanda Lorber, star of MTV's surprisingly almost-completely-awesome The Paper has written an open letter taking on one of her critics: Alexandria Symonds, who penned this outrageous micharacterization of Lorbie for Columbia University's "The Eye."
Here's the highlight:
OMG, how I love that "(national television)" bit. The rest can be found here.I'm not saying I don't have enemies, obviously I do. You seem to be one of them, but as I write now, I'm starting to see where it's coming from. It's a different kind of jealousy. The type spewed from young women who resent teenage girls that get their names out there. You,
Ms. Symonds, are obviously a fundamentally bitter woman. You degrade the work ethic and academic values of a 17-year-old in order to cure your self-consciousness and upset at perhaps never being recognized for your work when you're through with "The Specator." In fact, if my staff hadn't been excitedly 'googling' every article written about our (national television) show, I would never had come across your disgusting piece.You should be ashamed, sincerely (and I do mean that), Amanda Lorber
postscript: I might have been "too young to subject" myself to doing this television show, but apparently, I'm not too young to be disparaged and intensely criticized by you.
Your fey friends are PROUD to announce our first congressional candidate endorsement of 2008!! It's brokeback hottie Scott Kleeb, who is running for the U.S. Senate from the great state of Nebraska. You might remember him from his smoking hot 2006 house campaign. I know I do! We will gladly approve his message...if you know what I mean!!!
Republican disaster Jeanine Pirro is getting her own judge show! "Judge Jeanine Pirro" is debuting next September and promises to deliver a "fresh face with a distinctive voice" to rise above the overcrowded judge show market. Usually a requirement for these kind of jobs is a semi-positive relationship with the law. Check and check. Pirro sure knows a lot about the legal system. The former Westchester District Attorney has been under state and federal criminal investigation for hiring former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik (remember him?) to arrange an illegal recording of her husband, who she suspected of adultery. Oops. But that was just one lapse, right?
In the 1990s, Al Pirro cheated on Jeanine and fathered a child out of wedlock! But to Jeanine, nothing says I'm sorry like tax evasion and a boatload of really expensive gifts. Al was convicted of income tax fraud in 2000 and spent 11 months behind bars. Jeanine, who was serving as DA at the time, signed those illegal taxes too even though she was let off the hook. Here are some details from New York magazine:
Though she co-signed several of the couple's joint tax returns, she has offered no explanations. Not about the Mercedes, which she drives each day past the $40,000 electronic gates of her $1.7 million Harrison home -- gates Al claimed as a business deduction -- or about the deductions of a $3,700 backyard awning; $10,000 in furnishings for a West Palm Beach vacation home; another Mercedes, for Jeanine's mother; cruise tickets; stereos; fine wines; cigars; toys; and even salaries for workers who baby-sat the Pirro children, picked up the dry cleaning, and took the family's pot-bellied pigs to the vet.
I, for one, can't wait to see Jeanine's "fresh" face again every weekday!
This is HUGE news: Jason Beghe, who was my fourth biggest crush when I was twelve, is NO LONGER A SCIENTOLOGIST! That's right, he has broken free, and in the process he has MADE HISTORY: He is the first MAJOR CELEBRITY to break from the Church to LIVE TO TELL about it!
He's definitely older now, and his sexy cowboy rasp has deteriorated into more of an emphysemic Harvey Fierstein/Ron Leibman gargle, but he's still Beghe to me.
Unfortunately, not one of Beghe's most amazing performances -- his sexy paraplegic in "Monkey Shines," his sexy Park Ranger on an episode of "The X-Files", his sexy military BF for Matt on "Melrose Place", where he got to act alongside our very own Mommy Thorne-Smith -- is available on YouTube. The best I could come up with was THIS CLIP from "Home Alone 4".
Welcome back, Beghe!
First Cindy McCain stole Percocet and Vicodin from the hands of veterans at a WAR VICTIMS’ CHARITY and now this! Almost fifteen years after Cindy’s painkiller thievery was exposed, the Huffington Post reports that Mrs. McCain stole recipes from the Food Network and dishonestly passed them off as her own!
On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you can find seven recipes attributed to Cindy McCain, each with the heading "McCain Family Recipe”…. some of the "McCain Family Recipes," were in fact, word-for-word copies of recipes on the Food Network site.
Yes, Cindy was taking credit for recipes concocted by the
amazingly bulimic chef Giada De Laurentis and
Shame on you, Cindy. No wonder your husband has such kind things to say about you.
This blind item has me worried about certain Feyfriends icons! I am not saying which ones; I just hope it is not true. Or maybe I hope it IS true. I can't decide. I just know that I have butterflies in my stomach from thinking about it!Are you a gay actor looking for a beard? Then look no further. This B/C list actress from at least two very hit television shows is willing to be your beard for a price. Apparently this actress has been approaching actors at parties who the public perceives as gay or are on the fence about and is willing to be their girlfriend for a price. The thing is it gets even better. She is offering more than just the services of a single woman in her 30's to act as a girlfriend. See, our actress is married and her husband is completely on board with the plan. Their idea is that any guy who can break up a marriage or at least appear to break up a marriage must be straight, at least in the eyes of the public. Meanwhile, the gay actor can enjoy fun times with our actress' husband who happens to like playing on both sides of the fence. This just has win/win written all over it doesn't it.
On one hand, WHOEVER this blind item is about is clearly a very disturbed person. On the other hand, it is also clearly a complete genius. On the other hand, does Hollywood's Wealthiest Actress really need the $$? On the other hand, wouldn't it be amazing if she was just in it for the THRILLZ???
(Via Gawker)
As many of you know, April 15th is a big day in this country. While some losers will be rushing to file their taxes, I will be sitting at home LOLing while watching the long-awaited return of Courtney Thorne-Smith to prime time television. Yes, According to Jim is finally back and according to JMZZ, Hollywood's wealthiest actress-turned-writer-turned-mommy-thorne-smith is going to be better than ever. Here's a sneak peak at what kind of hijinxxx we can expect next week:Oopsie! LOL. Thank god those writers are back at work!!Jim realizes that Andy has forgotten to use a gift certificate that he had bought him for his birthday. Not wanting to let his money go to waste, he heads off to a restaurant and treats himself to a hefty meal, and all seems fine until Andy remembers the gift certificate just hours before it's set to expire and invites Jim to share in the feast.
