Recently, we learned of the vast conspiracy to discredit the realness of Kim Kardashian's ass when Kim Kardashian fabricated the existence of such a conspiracy. And although no one asked her to, Kardashian tried to end the nonexistent controversy on her reality show last night by taking an x-ray that "proved" her the authenticity of her backside.
Here's a trailer for Brave, Pixar's first fairy tale—and first film featuring a female lead—which will hit theaters next June. Set in the Scottish Highlands, Brave tells the story of a little red-headed warrior princess named Merida and her courageous fight against the tradition of her land and a mysterious, menacing beast. And considering this is a Pixar film we're talking about, it shouldn't be long before Merida has the hearts of moviegoers everywhere.
Michele Bachmann officially launched her presidential campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa by accidentally comparing herself to John Wayne Gacy, the infamous gay rapist clown serial killer from the '70s. How serious was Bachmann's gaffe? According to David Letterman, who spent four minutes on Monday's Late Show obsessing over it before giving Bachmann a rambling bit of unsolicited campaign advice, very serious!
On Monday night's Last Word on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell paid tribute to legendary director Sidney Lumet, who died in April and was memorialized at Lincoln Center on Monday afternoon. He did it by playing clips from some of Lumet's most memorable movies, but when the tribute got to a scene of Philip Seymour Hoffman from Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the audience was treated to an unedited F-bomb—and a good one at that! Video of the entertaining oversight is above. [via Business Insider]
I thought we lived in a free country, where every man, woman, and Botox-plumped toddler was welcome to crisp themselves to their hearts' content inside an ultraviolet convection oven. But our hard-earned tanning bed liberties are in jeopardy, friends, as state lawmakers are mulling over a new law that would restrict their use among the high school-set.
On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert commented on the bill that legalized gay marriage in New York last week. Goodness gracious, what's next? Will we soon see women entering into gay marriages with their pet dolphins? That does seem to be a concern of Fox News buffoon Bill O'Reilly, as Colbert demonstrated on his show this evening.
Scientists have concluded that a woman's ability to tell apart gay men from straight men increases when they are ovulating, according to a study published this week in the journal Psychological Science.
A 13-year-old Australian boy instantly became the coolest kid at school after he survived an accidental whale attack over the weekend. Drew Hall was fishing with his parents on Sunday morning when a humpback whale swept its tail across their boat "from bow to stern," smacking Drew head-on and "sending him flying," according to his mother, who watched in terror.
No, that isn't Charlie Sheen's shoe closet. Running shoes stuffed with nearly five pounds of cocaine were discovered in an abandoned suitcase left at John F. Kennedy Airport last Thursday, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today.
If you thought Jon Stewart was done with his most recent war against Fox News, well, think again. After ripping the network for editing his recent Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace and then reading off a laundry list of Fox News lies, Stewart devoted even more time to Fox and Wallace on tonight's Daily Show. Check out the clip above.
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made her first public appearance on Monday since being shot in the head in January, standing and waving to the crowd at a NASA awards ceremony held at Space Center Houston. She didn't speak publicly, but "appeared to chat with people sitting around her, and laughed" at the introduction of her husband's crew. As encouraging as the appearance might have been, Giffords' staff has been attempting to manage over-optimistic expectations; her doctors have said that it'll be at least a year before they have a sense of the extent of her recovery. [ABC News]
We've always said, when drunk, that monkeys are the great untapped demographic of the 21st century. Well! Someone has finally listened: Advertising firm Proton has created the first campaign directed entirely at monkeys.
Police in Delaware, Ohio, were called to the Bridgewater Banquet & Conference Center early Saturday morning to handle a domestic violence call. What they found was Stephanie Robinette, 30, a charter-school teacher, who, while attending a wedding at the center, had "gotten drunk and struck [her husband] several times before locking herself in a car." Here is how Delaware County Sheriff Walter L. Davis III describes what happened:
Two tipsters (acting independently!) sent us some photos of Fox News host Glenn Beck gathering ideas for his show by watching tonight's showing of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps at Bryant Park in New York City. The movie, of course, is about a man who accidentally uncovers a network of spies, operating under the watchful eye of Van Jones. Beck was joined, apparently by his family; they sat (of course!) on an American-flag blanket. Seen someone interesting? Email it to stalker@gawker.com or post it yourself to #stalker.
We hear MySpace's Southern California offices are thick with rumors that the social network is planning some serious bloodletting this week. Scary as that sounds, some employees are apparently looking forward to the layoffs.
Artist (and comedian) Charlotte Young made this hilarious video that mocks not only herself but all the art school dropouts of the world. Her "artist's statement" uses the vocabulary and buzzwords of the traditional artist's statement, but she has cleverly put subtitles across the bottom of the screen to let us know what she's really talking about.
