The Smoking Gun is tired of hearing claims that The Apprentice winner Bill Rancic built his internet-based cigar company into a mutlimillion dollar "empire." They've obtained a document from the company's sale, which shows a price of $425,000.
Wherein we attempt to translate the humpy gabber's gossipspeak into Standard American English:
In a bit of unexpected fallout from the coming NBC-Universal merger, Variety reports that NBC Enterprises chief Ed Wilson has left his position.
Poguego.com (a self-labeled gay blog, or "glog") gives their pics of the gayest films ever.
TBS is unveiling a $50 million campaign to rebrand themselves (slogan: "Very Funny") as the place to go for comedy programming.
If you're anything like us, you spend a good portion of your day staring at the stereo, wishing that there were more bands featuring celebrities. Your CDs —Keanu's Dogstar and Becky, Russell Crowe's Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, the Bacon Brothers—all have had more lasers run across them than Catherine Zeta-Jones' face.
The plot of the Friends finale is not being kept the huge secret that we might expect. Says executive producer/reputed taskmaster Marta Kauffman:
Miramax will handle the domestic distribution of The Aviator, the Martin Scorcese-directed, Leonardo DiCaprio-starring Howard Hughes biopic. The movie's set to be released Dec. 17th.
Jeff Goldblum's caught in the act with Tim Burton ex/model Lisa Marie (perhaps best known as the sexy killer alien in Mars Attacks!). Click the link below to see a lot more of Goldblum than you're probably ever wanted to see, and just the right amount of Lisa Marie. Water's pretty cold, eh, Jeff?
Morgan Spurlock, director of Sundance documentary darling Super Size Me, in which he eats nothing but McDonald's for an entire month, enthusiastically blogs about his first press junket:
A new report shows that representation of race and gender on network television is showing all of the diversity of your average NHL team. (Ed. note—NHL teams are overwhelming composed of white men, many of whom are Canadian.)
Think CBS couldn't top Janet Jackson's titty flopping out in front of the year's largest television audience? Tomorrow night's episode of 48 Hours will show pictures of a dying Princess Diana at the scene of her fatal car crash, according to the BBC.
Is Sony trying to gobble up MGM? Reuters reports that advanced talks are under way.
Page Six says that The O.C.'s sandwich-deficient star Mischa Barton has been banned from Fred Segal for calling the store "hell" and dissing the clothes as "high-end generic" and "not made with any love."
With the network upfronts (where the new Fall line-ups are announced to advertisers) just around the corner, The Futon Critic's Brian Ford Sullivan takes a very thorough look at NBC's potential schedule. In his "What They Did Wrong" analysis, Sullivan notes that NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker might want to invest in the adult undergarment industry:
Doctors are now offering what is sure to become the hottest surgerical breakthrough to hit Hollywood since the discovery of the breast-bazooming properties of silicone: "voice lifts." The surgery strengthens old vocal chords and has the patients sounding young again.
