The "I Have a Dream" Speech MLK Day Mash-Up

Matt Toder · 01/16/12 03:50PM

Here's a mash-up of some of the songs that have incorporated MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech either by referencing Dr. King's iconic words or by sampling the speech itself.

Tech Industry Buys Itself a Mouthpiece

Ryan Tate · 01/16/12 03:37PM

How did Silicon Valleys bigwigs react when their favorite trade publication adopted strict new conflicts of interest policies? They banded together to pay someone else to cover them.

How All the Big-Name Evangelical Leaders Became So Incompetent

Jim Newell · 01/16/12 03:09PM

America's aging class of socially conservative evangelical leaders finally gathered this weekend to pick a presidential candidate to rally around, and, crucially, to make each other feel important again. The 150 or so big-time fundies, including representatives from the Family Research Council, American Family Association, and Focus on the Family, ultimately chose Rick Santorum but came nowhere near a unanimous decision. Let's all congratulate these once-important gatekeepers: For the second straight presidential election, they've swooped in just in time to render themselves useless.

Crossfit Is Over

Hamilton Nolan · 01/16/12 01:52PM

Did you get a chance to do Crossfit when it was still hardcore? Did you get a chance to do 15 body weigh overhead squats followed by 400-yard sprints for time until you puked, or Tabata intervals until you puked, or sled pulling followed by burpees followed by box jumps followed by muscle-ups, until you puked? If you haven't done it already, it's too late. Crossfit is over.

Elton John and Madonna Are Fighting Again

Brian Moylan · 01/16/12 01:24PM

Elton John had a sour puss on all night at the Golden Globes, but it got even worse when Madonna's shitty "Masterpiece" won for Best Original Song over some crappy ballad Elton wrote for Gnomeo and Juliet. Then his husband started talking shit about Madonna on Facebook.

A Dreary Look Back at Jon Huntsman's Failed Presidential Campaign

Jim Newell · 01/16/12 12:23PM

It's a tearful day in the world of cosmopolitan magazines and television studios, as the infamously sane Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has dropped out of the race, due to a near-total void of interest in his campaign among Republican primary voters. How did this relatively competent-seeming person lose his support so dramatically? Well, he didn't; he never had any support. So let's remember his anemic campaign with a gallery of some funny photos and ludicrous screen shots.

Take a Stab at These Tempting Blind Items

Studio@Gawker · 01/16/12 11:59AM

The upcoming season of Syfy's supernatural soap Being Human is dripping with drama. And as tempting as it would be to drop a few spoilers, it's just so pleasing to be withholding. So while you wait for tonight's season premiere, you'll have to quench your thirst with these juicy blind items.

Lana Del Rey's Infamous SNL Performance

Leah Beckmann · 01/16/12 11:53AM

The perpetually pouty Instagrammed pout monster that is Lana Del Rey appeared on Saturday Night Live this past weekend and it was well, it was this. And this. And also this. Yes, LDR stunk up the joint and the Internet is going nuts over it. Apparently snarly lip curls and sleepy Benadryl eyes don't work in a live context like they do on YouTube.

Is Rooney Mara Aware She Is Not Actually Lisbeth Salander?

Maureen O'Connor · 01/16/12 11:42AM

Is Rooney Mara contractually obligated to dress like a monochromatic red carpet version of Lisbeth Salander for the duration of the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series? Or, over the course of playing Salander, did Rooney discover the starkly sexy killer swizzle stick within?

Which TV Show Cast Was Completely Out of Control?

Brian Moylan · 01/16/12 11:02AM

This cast had its share of partying and playing naked Twister on set. They even had a shy girl turned drama queen, an actor who slept with all his costars, a total druggie, and another guy who everyone hated. Sounds better than anything they ever put on screen.

Horrible Cruise Ship Capsizing Actually Sounds Sort of Funny

Max Read · 01/16/12 10:19AM

The cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized over the weekend, just off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio, killing at least six and terrifying the ship's 4,200 passengers. (All but 15 have been accounted for.) It sounds unbelievably horrifying. But also sort of funny.

Butt Have Our Backsides Bottomed Out? Let's Ass-ess

Hamilton Nolan · 01/16/12 09:36AM

Haha, get ready, media-savvy internet readers, because the august New York Times, the Grey Lady, the Paper of Record, has written a whole story about big butts (bottoms). Can you imagine the jibes that online rascals without a care in the world for decorum will come up with about this one??? Someone hide the children, other than the ones who like big butts and cannot lie—we're butting into your business butt good, regarding large butts!

Drunk & Disorderly: Faces Of The Golden Globes

Timothy Burke · 01/16/12 08:00AM

Awards shows are compelling because they're occasions for the rich, famous, and beautiful to go above and beyond to the apogee of glamor. The Golden Globes, however—mostly due to the mass quantities of alcohol and other substances in close proximity—are often the occasion for the glamorous to become beastlike in the blink of an eye. (Except Kate Winslet. She is never not absolutely fabulous.)

The Complete List of Golden Globes Winners and Other Assorted Tragedies

Brian Moylan · 01/15/12 11:45PM

Tonight the winner of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes were as obvious as they could possibly be. It was a collection of wacky cable television winners and all the expected Oscar favorites and big splashy celebrities from the movie world. And Ricky Gervais was so scary as the host. Here are all the victors.