The American Idol Contestants' Enormous Dream Mansion

Richard Lawson · 03/09/11 04:01PM

What's an extra cruel way to tease the American Idol finalists with wealth and fame only to tear the dream out of their hands one by one until no one is left? Put them in a seriously huge, $100,000/week rental mansion, so they can feel like kings and queens (mostly queens) for a day or two before they are sent tumbling, so so far, back down to miserable wannabe obscurity.

Gawker.TV: The Best Videos Ever of the Day

Whitney Jefferson · 03/09/11 04:00PM

Today at Gawker.TV, see Zach Galifianakis and Andy Samberg's SNL promos, an update with Ted Williams, Michelle Rodriguez has gone batty, Stephen Colbert celebrates Mardi Gras and the just-released trailer for the new season of Real Housewives of New York!

The Great Bike Debate

Brian Moylan · 03/09/11 03:57PM

Why is everyone so damn worked up bike lanes, those green strips of pavement that have been popping up all over New York (and causing disputes) in the past few years? A New Yorker scribe is virulently opposed to them, and now everyone seems opposed to him.

The Iraqi Version of Tron

Richard Blakeley · 03/09/11 03:20PM

Los Angeles filmmakers Fahim Anwar and Aristotle Athiras attempt to comically recreate Tron with whatever they can find around them.

What We've Learned from the Spider-Man Debacle

Richard Lawson · 03/09/11 03:09PM

Not only is director Julie Taymor supposedly leaving Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, but the whole production plans to shut down for a few weeks. Yikes! An unmitigated, unprecedented (no show in Broadway history has ever run this many preview performances) disaster. Well, only creatively for now, but one would think the finances will eventually suffer. That said, is there any knowledge to be gained from this whole mess? Yes, a few things!

Stephen Colbert Celebrates Mardi Gras and International Women's Day

Marie Bardi · 03/09/11 02:50PM

Yesterday marked the occurrence of two somewhat contradictory holidays - how does one reconcile the breast-flashing and "regrettable self-exposure" of Fat Tuesday with the strides women have taken towards gender equality? Says Colbert: "Flash me your advanced degrees, LADIEEES!"