Sandra Bullock, my new BFF
By Rachel Krueger
Sandy B clearly expected to walk home with a shiny gold man on Sunday, rocking a metallic Oscary dress and buffing her hair to a high Oscary sheen, and it comes as no surprise to the guess-makers and sayers-of-things-about-movies that she made good on her nom for Best Actress. But as honorable a [...]
Lady Gaga makes sense, blows minds.
By Rachel Krueger
The big buzz around the gossip-o-nets lately is that Megan Fox may have used a thumb-double in her terrible Superbowl commercial (*yawn*) and that John Mayer’s johnson is a white supremacist (*gnash*). This makes it almost heart-stoppingly refreshing to see one of the biz’s young rabble-rousers use her celebrity for good, and not for [...]
If we stand on the shoulders of the dead, we can make millions!
By Rachel Krueger
If 2009 was The Year When All Those Famous People Died, 2010 is shaping up to be The Year of Chronic Grave-Robbing (where the “grave” is metaphorical and the “robbing” is more like “exploiting”).
Mind-bogglingly unsubtle fame-whore and living manga doll Tila Tequila (who is famous solely for throwing herself repeatedly and frantically into [...]
The Alaskan Fox Goes Rogue
By Rachel Krueger
I love me some bias and hyperbole, which is why I’m such a fan of Fox News. JUST jokes! I like my nonsensical news sources to be a little more upfront about their nonsensicalness (all of whom are, I’m sure, rubbing their hands in unfettered glee at this newsy tidbit). But I may [...]
James Cameron: 2, You: 0
By Rachel Krueger
This will come as a surprise to exactly no one, but Avatar is hella awesome. I know! Breaking news, right? But despite its fancy director and budget and cast (Sigourney! Weaver!), Avatar is actually something of an underdog.
I mean, think of ALL THE THINGS about it that are stupid! It’s essentially Dances with [...]
The Write Huff
By Rachel Krueger
An infinite number of bloggers on an infinite number of netbooks blathering for a handful of years have produced an entirely new face for marketing. Whereas widely-spread opinions could once only be held by those with credentials, now anyone with dial-up can wax judgmental about any old thing. And it’s driving some people [...]
Tiger beat
By Rachel Krueger
Alright, to save time we’re going to go ahead and take a head-count. If you have slept with Tiger Woods, I’m going to need you to go ahead and raise your hand. Yes, the young lady in the pink, I see that hand. Yes, ma’am, you and your daughter, check. [...]
The end of Oprah? Not likely.
By Rachel Krueger
Oprah Winfrey has announced that she is quitting while she’s ahead, and putting her immensely popular talk show to rest. For real this time. Not like in 1997, when she said she was done, but was just psyching us out. Or like in 2004, when she did it again. [...]
Go wild
By Rachel Krueger
An interview with my Current-Self re: Where the Wild Things Are (the film), conducted by my Previous-Self (who had not yet seen it).
Previous-Self: I am nervous about this movie. I carry my generation’s obligatory love of the book, and the trailer looks terrible. Speak to my nervousness!
Current-Self: Calm [...]
All Glee’d Out
By Rachel Krueger
It’s the middle of October, 2009, and I don’t think it’s too soon to ask the ultimate question: Has Fox’s “Glee” jumped the shark? Eight episodes in?
Because if the pilot seemed to be telling us anything, it was that this was a Regular school with Regular kids who lived Regular, socially striated [...]