Finally, we get a glimpse of all the death and destruction the guidos of Jersey Shore bring to Florence for their fourth season. It's like the Fellini movie that we always wanted. It's time to get excited, everyone!
Someone just accosted Rupert Murdoch during his testimony before Parliament, apparently in an attempt to throw a pie in his face. He doesn't appear to have been injured. His wife Wendi played bodyguard, catapulting herself toward the attacker with arms and nails flailing. His son James just stood there.
Is Ryan Phillippe robbing the cradle of an actress half his age? Is J. Lo divorcing because she's too controlling? Why did Ed Westwick hide from the paparazzi in a tree? Elin Nordegren's new boyfriend: super sleazy, or super-duper sleazy? Tuesday gossip has questions.
The FBI investigation into the hacking collective Anonymous is still plodding along. Ten FBI agents raided three New York guys and took away their computer stuff.
Rupert Murdoch and his son James have been testifying this morning before a British Parliamentary committee investigating the wide-ranging criminality of basically everything they've done for the past 20 years.
One of Charlie Sheen's scratchposts says she used to have an affair with an Oscar winner. This young actress got pregnant by another star. And this photo agency is buying cocaine for Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mueller. Damn, even after leaving Charlie these girls are trouble.
In the olden days before the U.S. economy devolved into a pure gold-and-canned-goods bartering system, Wall Street guys were the ones who rented all the gaudy, overpriced good apartments. Now that Wall Street's been decimated, who will the real estate industry turn to, to unload all those new condos with "Wii rooms?" Oh, they will sell these pricey spaces to "bloggers," it says here. Hahaha.
Ukrainian feminist activist group FEMEN turned up at the Georgian consulate in Kiev yesterday, topless, bearing fake cameras and wearing panties emblazoned with the word "PRESS." This was all in the name of protesting the arrest of two photojournalists on spying charges, you see, which is why all those photographers turned out, I imagine. Alas, an embassy thug comes out and starts smacking everyone around—topless faux-photographer and shirted real photographer alike!
News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch arrived a few hours early at the Houses of Parliament to face questioning over his tabloid phone-hacking scandal, but his driver quickly drive off after being mobbed by photographers. In one of the pictures we're not so sure he's even alive. Have a quick look while you gear up for today's main event.
Long gone are the days of tipping cows to wile away summer nights in rural America. Now it's all about doing stupid shit so you'll get Tasered. An Emmitsburg, Maryland man named Ronald L. Divel is facing charges of burglary and failure to obey a lawful order after he stole a man's tractor, put his juvenile accomplice in the wagon, and took off into a corn field. And, according to court documents obtained by the Frederick News Post, he resisted arrest in the cornfield because he wanted to be Tasered. Why not, right?
So it turns out that yappy little accessory dogs actually might be good for something! In today's wacky animal video, security camera footage from Ace Smoke Shop in Altadena, California shows armed robbers being chased out of the store by the shop owner's raging Chihuahua. The robbers did manage to make off with some cash, but the LA Times notes that it was "less money than they could've gotten."
Congratulations to Justin Werner, a 21-year-old from Topeka, whose recent tonsillectomy produced a rare and wonderful thing indeed: a pair of the world's largest tonsils, as verified by Guinness.
History was quietly made Monday evening on the Senate floor, as Paul Oetken was confirmed by a vote of 80 to 13 to become the first openly gay male judge appointed to the federal bench. He was confirmed "without a word of objection," the Washington Post reports, with even far-Righties like Tom Coburn and John Cornyn casting votes in his favor. How far The Gays have come!
"Birds should not have to suffer for donuts." So argues vegan blogger Annie Hartnett, who has penned a petition protesting a menu offering at Brooklyn's Do or Dine restaurant: the foie gras doughnut, a high-end dessert running $11 per fatted-goose-liver-filled fritter. (To be clear, Do or Dine don't claim to have invented the foie gras doughnut, which has been popping up on restaurant menus around the country for several years.)
Tomorrow, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks will testify before Parliament about their knowledge of the News of the World hacking scandal that has rocked Britain for weeks. But on tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert—much like Steve Doocy on Friday's edition of Fox & Friends—had a much less serious take on it all. Video of Colbert's segment is above.
Well, at least they didn't have to pay for a photographer. Tammy Lee Hinton, a 50-year-old woman from Florida, was arrested Saturday — at her own wedding in Michigan, on a felony identity theft warrant. On a more uplifting note, the cops had the decency to wait until vows had been exchanged before immediately taking her into custody. She's currently registered with the Michigan Department of Corrections and Pottery Barn. [The Smoking Gun, mugshot via TSG]
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart spent all the time he didn't use interviewing Daniel Radcliffe talking about the never-ending debt ceiling negotiations between President Obama and Republican Congressional leaders. So what's the holdup? As Stewart explains in the above video, it's because Republicans hate Obama—but not because he's black. They hate him because he's a tax-hiking crazy person!
