Oprah Winfrey

Forget Cycling: Lance Armstrong's Complicated Legacy

Not to steal some thunder from Lance Armstrong before his big confession to Oprah is aired tonight--the Manti Te'o story has already done that--but I must make a confession of my own. I've got to get this monkey off my back. I've got to free myself of the burden I've been carrying around for so long ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Tapes Reported Mea Culpa with Celebrity Confessor Oprah Winfrey, But It May Not Be Enough

The final act in the Shakespearean drama of cycling great Lance Armstrong is about to begin, with the airing this week of his admission to who else but Oprah Winfrey--the celebrity confessor--that he indeed took performance enhancing drugs during his professional career. This is news only in that ... More >>

Yelling to the Sky

House for Sale

Sacha Cohen's The Dictator Character Endorses Mitt Romney

At a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, General Aladeen--aka Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator--unsurprisingly backed Mitt Romney for Prez. Explained the General: "He'd make a great dictator. He's incredibly wealthy but pays no taxes. And it's not much of a leap from firing people ... More >>

Tea Party Princess

Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics

Oprah Winfrey Rumored to Be Possible Host of Next Year's Oscars

​[Insert obligatory "And you get an Oscar! And you! And you!" joke.] Oprah Winfrey, ruler of Earth, is rumored to be a candidate to host next year's Academy Awards, although nothing is official at this stage in the game. Look, anything beats Franco and Hathaway. At the Oprah Oscars, winners won't ... More >>

Hey, Boo: A Cinematic Mash Note to Harper Lee and her Mockingbird

Ten Famous Guys Who Like Fat Chicks

Dan Weiss is the author of the blog Ask a Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks and he's profiled in this week's feature, "Guys Who Like Fat Chicks." He put together a list of ten males who appreciate larger ladies in Western mass culture because, frankly, there aren't all that many. Fat Admirers do exist, and ... More >>

A Near-Buddhist Reflection on the NYT Photographer in Bill Cunningham New York

What Will Keith Olbermann Tweet at 8 P.M.?

​Keith Olbermann, recently departed host of MSNBC's Countdown, is coming back to the 8 p.m. slot just three days after he signed off. Despite talk in this morning's New York Times of a gag order, in which Olbermann can not speak about his departure, he has promised a dispatch tonight on his ne ... More >>

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The Paris Review gets a makeover

New Yorkers Actually Drink Less Than the Nationwide Average. Really.

​There's a new New York City drinking survey out, and chances are, you're a drinker, because more than half of New Yorkers of legal drinking age are (congrats!). We were surprised and vindicated to find, however, that New Yorkers on average (53%) actually drank less than the nationwide average ... More >>

JIMI THINGS (LOTS OF THEM)

Hendrix tribute unites very accomplished fans

The Cure for Burn-A-Koran Day Is Here: Burn-A-Freedom

Click to Enlarge.Via Chris Mohney.​Chris Mohney -- the "Vice President of Content" at BlackBook Media [and full disclosure: my former "boss"] has proposed a way to fight Koran-Burning pastors in the press. He writes: "There's only one way to combat International Burn a Koran Day, and that's by ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: August 4 through 10, 2010

The Chelsea Clinton Wedding Lacked Oprah, Other Promised Famous People

​Even adults think their parents are a little lame. Sure, most grown people come to terms with their adolescent authority angst, but even little Malia and Sasha will probably never think Daddy is as ice cold as the rest of the world does. So what must Chelsea Clinton think about Bill and Hilla ... More >>

Will & Jada's Son Under Wraps

The Smiths in The Pursuit of Happyness​Jaden Smith is the talented star of the Karate Kid remake, and obviously his folks, Will and Jada Smith are OK with him doing that. In fact, Will produced the movie and reportedly nabbed him the part. And the kid previously starred with dad in the well r ... More >>

Barack Obama Was Really, Really Happy to Meet Pharrell Williams

God bless America. All photos via BBC.​And the award for best life this week goes to N.E.R.D's Pharrell Williams, who spent Monday night inducing Anna Wintour and Oprah to dance at the Met Gala after party, only to then head south on Wednesday to take part in the White House's Cinco De Mayo ce ... More >>

Proof That Anna Wintour Actually Danced During Diddy and Pharrell's Performance at the Met Gala After Party?

Second from the left, no? Credit: BBC​It's not quite Katie Couric busting the world's most unseemly move, but the above photo would seem to be evidence of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour's ability to clap her hands in a somewhat demonstrative and possibly even rhythmic way. Or is it just a lookalik ... More >>

Rielle Hunter is a Delusional Homewrecker!

​That's what Entertainment Tonight correspondent Diane Dimond thinks. Dimond's not buying the innocent act Hunter performed on Oprah yesterday--you know, how there was already trouble in the Edwards household when she came along and sprinkled her rancid pixie dust.

2009, The Year of the Snuggie: A Handy Timeline From "The WTF Blanket" to Weezer's Wuggies

The people behind the Snuggie know they are bugging the crap out of you, and it's working out pretty well for them. The cultural impact of the sleeved blanket, largely due to those unbelievably campy commercials by Allstar Marketing Group, might've exceeded that of any other "As seen on TV" produc ... More >>

Our 5-Point Plan to Save Tiger Woods from Ambulances, Porn Stars, Etc.

​Inc. magazine has a few PR pros advise (in absentia) Tiger Woods on how to "fix his image." Their advice is either too general ("Go through the short-term trauma and be done with it") or, given the world in which we live, out of the question ("I would recommend that he be real and authentic b ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Kristen Stewart, New Moon premiere. Twitpic via KriisStewart_. Our Man of the Week is Rudolph Giuliani. He started off with confused but belligerent comments about the KSM trial, making him look like a candidate for something. Then word leaked that he would not run for Governor, then that ... More >>

Studies in Crap: The Itchy, Whiskery Horror of Macrame

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Creating With Macrame Author: Suzanne Stiles Date: 1971 Publisher: American ... More >>

Twilight 2: Too Much Angst, Not Enough Saga

Sarah Palin Invites Levi Johnston Over for Thanksgiving Dinner

​She says his behavior is mean spirited, malicious, sickening and sad, and she doesn't like him getting naked for Playgirl. He says she's a greedy, dishonest hypocrite and a neglectful mother and he told People he's thinking of suing for custody. All the same, Sarah Palin told Oprah this wee ... More >>

Oprah and Gayle: Are They?

Gayle King photo by David Shankbone​They deny it, and naturally one doesn't want to fall into that old stereotype about how any two powerful women who hang together must be doing it. But Stedman never seemed that persuasive a force to me, and now Rosie O'Donnell has stirred the pepperpot by s ... More >>

Hollywood's Best Black Divas Of All Time

​A new book called Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film by Mia Mask examines five African American film icons, discussing: Dorothy Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era ... More >>

"World's Richest" Meet in Secret, Plot New World Order or Something

Get out your tinfoil! ABC today reports a heretofore secret meeting of "America's Richest Givers", including Mayor Bloomberg, Oprah, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Ted Turner, and other illuminati, were invited by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to a "window-lined private room" -- as opposed to one ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

Grant Achatz on Oprah

Chef Grant Achatz appeared on Oprah yesterday on a show focusing on medical mistakes. Achatz told how his tongue cancer went untreated and undiagnosed for three years despite his repeatedly asking dentists and doctors about a white spot on his tongue that wouldn't heal.He finally went to an oral sur ... More >>

Rejecting Allah-like powers, Obama vows end to 'dictating' in Mideast

Al Jazeera's morning report, proving once again that it's ridiculous censorship for U.S. cable outlets to not carry the Arab world's most powerful news outlet. Dick Cheney's dream of an imperial vice presidency lording over all the world's oil fields is now officially dead. President Barack Obam ... More >>

Red All Over: At Vermilion

A crazy quilt of Indian and Latin flavors goes flop

The Week of Obama Odes. Plus, Kool Keith, Still Batshit and Pervy

The 'Judge D'Amato' Show: Scenes We'd Like to See

WTF is Rachael Ray eating?

Outward Is Heavenward

Presenting gospel's modern sounds in praise and worship

Afrocentrifugal Force: Looking Blackward With Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Parade Fatigue

To march or not to march? That is the Gay Pride Day question.

Fuck Abstinence

How Bush's faith-based say-no-to-sex sex education is failing our kids

Moderate Rock

Enough with the news anchors running the debates—it's time to give Oprah a turn

Off Balance

Rohinton Mistry's 'Family Matters'

In the Inknight Hour

His-Uh Way-Uh

Girls, Uninterrupted

The Debut of ‘Rosie’ and ‘mary-kateandashley’

Clit Club

V-Day’s Charismatic Cuntism Rocks the Garden

A Conspiracy So Vast

Beat-itude