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Who or What Will Chris Brown Fight Next?

When you look at Chris Brown, what do you see? A bully with an entourage all too happy to start a dust-up over a perceived slight or a parking space? An emotionally crippled/stunted young man who is the sad victim of the cycle of domestic abuse? A wanton spreader of pink eye? The boo-hooingest cryba ... More >>

2012: The Year in Review

From a deranged Dirty Harry to the rise of Honey Boo Boo, it was a long, strange, sad, and silly trip

Q&A: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On Stephen Colbert, Ke$ha, And An Inadvertent Game Of Telephone With Lightning Bolt

Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne dreams weird and hard and big. What often starts of as a whimsical vision might just end up as a new world record (for the most live concerts in 24 hours) or a limited-edition vinyl release infused with the blood of other artists (as was the case for 2011's The Flamin ... More >>

Gawker And The Guardian Credit Me With Groundbreaking Anderson Cooper Reporting

CNN superstar Anderson Cooper came out yesterday, and I felt it was a major move, if such a long time a-coming that I've turned gray (and it doesn't look quite as dashing as it does on Anderson). In fact, Gawker's Max Read just did a history of Anderson coverage and noted the early importance of my ... More >>

Bullyville Has Taken Over Hunter Moore's Is Anyone Up? (Updated)

As of noon EST, Hunter Moore's revenge-porn site Is Anyone Up?, the subject of our recent cover story, has been shut down after being taken over by the website "Bullyville." The letter below is what's currently posted to the domain formerly known as Is Anyone Up:

Rightbloggers Hail Ann Romney, Declare Victory in the War on Women

In the past month, because they endorsed multiple (and sometimes bizarre) anti-abortion laws and denounced efforts to have contraception included in health insurance plans, conservatives found themselves advertised as making a "war on women." But last week they were able to turn the tables, because ... More >>

Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You

The hated revenge-porn profiteer says he wants to teach a lesson with his web site. How long before the 26-year-old learns one himself?

Gérard Depardieu Is Going To Play DSK

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's scandal has already inspired a Law & Order: SVU episode, but now it's going to become a film starring Gérard Depardieu as the former International Monetary Fund head. According to the AFP, director Abel Ferrara told Le Monde about plans for the film, which he said would sh ... More >>

Rightbloggers Prepare to Swallow Their Santorum and Root for Romney

Since the recent Iowa one-two finish by Romney and Santorum, there've been a couple more debates and a lot of palaver about the GOP Presidential race. But let us level with you: Despite all our jokes about The Next President of the United States of The Week/Month, it's become painfully obvious tha ... More >>

Kathy Griffin On Paula Abdul, Michele Bachmann, and Anderson Cooper!

Somebody's got to do the dirty dishes around here

Willow the Cat Meets Anderson Cooper

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player It's no great surprise that the story of Willow the cat, who went missing in Colorado five years ago and was just found on 20th Street in New York City, has captured the hearts and minds of Americans and beyond. After all, she's a cat -- peop ... More >>

Obama Buries Haters At White House Correspondents Dinner

Last night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Obama absolutely eviscerated Donald Trump, who sat there stone-faced, his melon-colored hair glinting obscenely as the president leveled zinger after zinger at him. In short, it was awesome. Obama also laid into Michele Bachmann, Tim ... More >>

Daniel Radcliffe Costars With Anderson Cooper

​I'm serious! I'm talking about How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the Broadway revival of the 1961 show about an ambitious young man tirelessly climbing the corporate ladder. (And no, he doesn't do it naked on top of a horse.) With Mad Men in the air, this is the third period ... More >>

The Ugliest Reactions to the Lara Logan Assault: Nir Rosen, NYU Fellow, Resigns Over Tweets

​CBS News announced yesterday that correspondent Lara Logan was attacked and sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square on February 11, amid celebrations following the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. The outpouring of support for Logan online was immediate, as news organizations, blogs, and T ... More >>

Brisenia Flores Murder Makes CNN, Still Nothing From the New York Times

​Why isn't the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, allegedly at the hands of anti-immigration vigilantes in Arizona, a national news story, we wondered on Friday afternoon. The trial of Shawna Forde, who prosecutors say led the raid of the Flores home to steal drug money, bega ... More >>

Barry Diller's Convenient Marriage Examined

​This is from Confessions of A Gay Anchorman, TV personality Charles Dabney-Perez's new book: "In 2001, Barry Diller married fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, a marriage that some reported was an attempt to put to bed rumors of his homosexuality. "Though he and Ms. von Furstenberg have ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got off their duffs?

Obama's "$200 Million A Day" India Trip Exposed! Then Debunked! But... Questions Remain!

As you may have heard, President Obama has made a trip to India, and it's costing taxpayers a bazillion dollars because he brought the entire Seventh Fleet and thousands of campaign contributors. Oops, sorry, that's not true -- it's only $200 million a day and he only took 34 warships. Oops, that's ... More >>

Sneak Peek at 42nd Street's Gay Urban Resort

Big, lavish complex planned—hotel, dance club, spa. Y'all come!

Fashion Week: DVF Courts Anderson Cooper, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Editorial Warfare; Erin Fetherston Goes Out of Africa

Stacey AndersonSarah Jessica Parker spends another Sunday in church​Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the fashion PR houses when they plan the front rows; it must involve the most strategy since storming Normandy. Sunday's celebrity lineup at Diane von Furstenberg was the master class, conspicuou ... More >>

CNN Anchor's Hezbollah Hollaback via Twitter Costs Another Media Job

​Things People Say That Cost Them Their Media Jobs, CNN Edition: In the great and recent tradition of White House Press Correspondent Helen Thomas, and Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, for the third time this summer, someone has said something that has more or less cost them their job once ... More >>

More on George Rekers, The Latest Anti-Gay Crusader to Love Massages From Men

George Rekers, looking straight as hell​Please excuse most of the forward-thinking, tolerant world for being a bit excited and snide about the news of Baptist minister and public homophobe George Alan Rekers' taste for hiring men to touch him. Each and every time this sort of thing happens, it ... More >>

Jason Lee and Scientology: Juicy Allegations by Lee's Ex-Wife in 'Enquirer' Story, 'Hollywood Cult Confidential'

​Last week's series on Scientology by Anderson Cooper was so effective at lulling us to sleep, we overlooked a nice pick-me-up from, of all places, the National Enquirer. How's this for a time-release bomb? Jason ("My Name Is Earl") Lee divorced actress Carmen Llywellyn in 2001, but only now ... More >>

Anderson Cooper's Epic Scientology Smackdown, Part 1

Marty unloads on DM​Tonight, Anderson Cooper sat down with Marty Rathbun, formerly the second-highest ranking member of Scientology, for an interview. Marty, as usual, comes off as calm, cool, and credible as hell. But Cooper's big piece can be summarized thusly:

Jason Beghe Tells Me to Shut the Hell Up About Anderson Cooper's Scientology Special

Beghe, right, and Marty Rathbun, a man who should figure prominently in Cooper's special.​Just had a great conversation with Jason Beghe, the actor who famously defected from Scientology two years ago. He understands the point I made yesterday -- that it irks me when Anderson Cooper announces ... More >>

Kathy Griffin Addresses Anderson Cooper's Sexuality!

Gaga for Gaga! And that Steve Buscemi—what a character!

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

Is Precious, With Mo'Nique, The Movie of the Year?

Plus sizing up other leading ladies, nightlife crime, and Tony hopefuls.

Why Bears Are The New Twinks!

Hairy times also with queens, Basterds, and Hamptons royalty.

Inside the Heads of Obama's Health Care Town-Hall Rowdies

More Michael Jackson Reactions

In death, Michael Jackson gets Baba Booeyed. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York eases on down the road of The Wiz: "As is well known, Michael Jackson was most happy in his fantasy lands -- and the New York of The Wiz is pure fantasy. The city that inspired it is gone. Michael Jackson is gone. Roger E ... More >>

Rightbloggers: Don't You Dare Laugh At Our Teabagging!

Last weekend The Volokh Conspiracy did a three-part series on "the Nazification of the Bush Administration," recalling, TigerHawk said, the "tastelessness, shrillness, and sheer unhinged insanity" of liberals who called Bush a fascist. "As Obama Derangement Syndrome and condemnation thereof rise in ... More >>

Way More Important Things to Worry About

How politics changed how we thought about music, if we thought about music at all

Perez Hilton Dishes on Anderson Cooper

Attention, bottom-feeders: This column ends with blind items.

Obama-Be, Obama-Bop

Celebrating a historic night with once-cynical jazz heavyweights

Why Tyler Perry Isn't Doing a Woman, Plus Harry Potter Horses Around

And Mamet books Broadway revivals, and several people reveal altered states.

Valerie Bertinelli on "Spitzer's Dick"!

No more governor, so it's full speed ahead with Valerie Bertinelli and Kerry Butler

Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?

The Golden Years

Chatting with Legally Blonde's Orfeh. Plus: Outtakes from the urban-myth closet.

Anchors a-Gay

Straight talk from CNN's Roberts about his molester—but not a word about his boyfriend

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Famous

NYC celebs take over Fontana's, Annex, Slipper Room, Corner Billiards

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The News at Dusk

The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

Earth to Bush: Get Out!

Alien vs. Predator

What the McGreevey mess means for closets, corruption, and casting couches

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My Brilliant Career

Life-swapping your way into a new reality

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