Turns out
David Letterman has been 'sexing' the staff at his long-running talk show. With a blackmail threat hanging over his head, he chose to go public and tell his side of the story live on air. The best line from the recently married (to the woman he's been with for 20 years) Letterman? "Cold out, huh? You should see inside my house!" He’s an inspiration to us all.
Method Man got himself arrested this week for 'forgetting' to pay his taxes for several years. "You know, when you don't file [your taxes], that's what happens," he explained to nobody in particular. "Everybody [in jail] was cool, I live in Staten Island so it was nothing."
The plug has been pulled on
Kanye West and
Lady Gaga’s
Fame Kills tour, AKA the 'gay tour'. Apparently ticket sales for the 30 US shows were "fucked". Wonder why...
Quote of the week goes to
Justin Timberlake’s grandmother: "As far as we're concerned, he's always been single."
Swedish criminals have upped the ante with a bank heist that makes
Heat look like amateur hour. The ninja assassins used a helicopter to land on top of a cash depot before blowing through several floors with explosive and making their way to the safe. Police were unable to follow the helicopter as it made its escape because someone had left a bag marked ‘bomb’ outside the police heliport. Frankly, they deserve the money after pulling that off.
Seth Green (
Robot Chicken,
Buffy) was mugged in the carpark of an LA film studio earlier this week. Someone was kind enough to tape his subsequent freakout back inside the building. Why he didn’t just turn into a werewolf and fight off the attackers is beyond us.
Apparently a bunch of people have had their
Hotmail passwords 'hacked'. Or something like that. The most common password? 123456. Good work people, real secure... Also, who the hell uses Hotmail these days?
In other tech news, The honeymoon is officially over at
Google. Speaking with some media types, company founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt said employees should be grateful they have jobs and STFU about the ‘wrong kind of coffee beans’ and the lack of 'light rye' in the complimentary cafeterias. We’re paraphrasing, but you get the idea.
Former Treasurer
Peter Costello announced his resignation from Parliament this week – but not without taking a parting shot at former PM
John Howard. Those two REALLY didn’t like each other.
To celebrate
Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary
American Apparel is launching four limited edition tee-shirts featuring your favourite characters. Honestly, we could care less, we just wanted an excuse to run this clip from
Family Guy:
Gwen Stefani turned 40 this week... Yeah, we know.
The
ARIA nominations for 2009 have been announced. The Album Of The Year shortlist looks like this: AC/DC –
Black Ice, Empire of the Sun –
Walking on a Dream, Eskimo Joe –
Inshalla, Sarah Blasko –
As Day Follows Night, The Temper Trap –
Conditions. Also, people are excited because former Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy is up for seven nominations. We’re gonna play nice and keep our mouth shut about the ARIAs.
Elizabeth Taylor is still alive. Who knew? The film legend has been 'Tweeting' about going into hospital for some experimental heart surgery. According to
Wikipedia she’s, like, 77.
In other Twitter news, Tila Tequila’s threats to take her own life via the micro blogging site have gone ignored.
Apparently some guy in New York has been assigned
Vincent Gallo’s old telephone number and whenever girls call asking for Vince he gets all creepy and asks them to send photos. Frankly, that sounds EXACTLY like the sort of thing Vince Gallo would do.
In this week’s
Kardashian update, I 'won' a copy of Kim Kardashian’s
Fit in Your Jeans by Friday DVD. I don’t want it. It’s still shrink wrapped. PM me with an amusing anecdote (or just your address) and it’s yours.
LiLo made her Paris Fashion Week catwalk debut wearing her own clothing line. It didn’t go over so great.
Seinfeld is back. Sort of. To cut a long story short,
Curb Your Enthusiasm (starring
Seinfeld co-creator Larry David) has got an upcoming episode in which Larry tries to get the Seinfeld cast back together for a reunion. In other words, it features the original cast members playing (fake) real life versions of themselves... Does that make sense? Just watch the clip.
Finally. Dear
Hey Hey It’s Saturday, please go away and die. You were lame ten years ago when Channel 9 pulled the plug. This week’s reunion show was just embarrassing for everyone involved.