The Torturing of Kirsten Dunst

Richard Lawson · 04/16/10 09:43AM

She's about to embark on a very difficult ordeal. Also today: a TV favorite gets a new role, the latest Zac Efron project sounds dangerous, theater news both exciting and terrifying, and bad news for Patton Oswalt.

Texas City Brings Back Paddling in Schools

Ravi Somaiya · 04/16/10 09:36AM

Temple, Texas, now allows — nay encourages — teachers in its 14 schools to paddle any unruly kids. Apparently in Texas, as in 19 other states, corporal punishment is not illegal. Those states are (almost) all southern.

Dogs Don't Like the iPad

nightintern · 04/16/10 09:30AM

Kids and cats love the ipad but it's a little different for man's best friend. At first, this Corgi is mystified by Apple's iPad, then, as fear sets in, he begins to panic.

Which Male Comedian Wants to Live as a Woman?

Brian Moylan · 04/16/10 09:22AM

He even has a lady's name picked out for himself. This teabagging actress is annoying her liberal costars. Another actress traded in her dancer's body for surgically enhanced curves. Oh, there's incestuous threeway orgy too! T.G.I. Blind Items.

Baby Jasmine Does her Best "Wendy"

nightintern · 04/16/10 09:05AM

This little girl is so cute that her version of Wendy Williams signature "How U Doin'?" is only made better by her 3-D glasses and handmade Wendy sign around her neck.

I Had a Super Time!

Richard Lawson · 04/16/10 08:57AM

[Disney Channel stars Demi Lovato and Nicole Anderson with their dates, Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas (who is very into this situation, you know, sex-wise) after a romantic date in Los Feliz. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

New Blackmailing Virus Publishes Your Browsing History

Ravi Somaiya · 04/16/10 08:56AM

And then asks for payment to take down a webpage filled with all those sites you were just on because you're researching a book that you didn't tell anyone about. It particularly targets those on explicit anime sites. [BBC]

Freeze Frame

Whitney Jefferson · 04/16/10 08:00AM

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Inside a Pirate-Proof Leisure Warship

Jeff Neumann · 04/16/10 06:33AM

You probably thought all of those Russian oligarchs were rotting in prison. Not Andrey Melnichenko, whose $300 million bomb-proof yacht will be obscenely hitting up the world's hottest beach spots this summer and spoiling less-rich men's vacations.

New Tea Party Faction: The Space Coast Patriots

Jeff Neumann · 04/16/10 05:44AM

Fiscally conservative Tea Partiers just can't seem to nail down a message. They hate government spending, but want Obama to shell out more money so astronauts can play with big, expensive toys in outer space. Maybe they're just bored retirees?

San Francisco Subway Cops Temporarily Lose Taser Privileges

Jeff Neumann · 04/16/10 04:15AM

After a BART cop fired a taser at a 13-year-old boy on a bicycle, the subway system's police force has been stripped of its electro-shock toys. From now on they should only be used on children under "exigent circumstances."