Christoph Waltz, best known as "the Jew Hunter" in Inglourious Basterds, is perhaps not the first person who comes to mind when you think of grown-ups who love Sesame Street. There's quite some dissonance between the serious Austrian actor and sunny days and/or everything being A-OK. So you'd be surprised how chipper his version of the show's classic theme song is.
Most reasonable people take the decline of spray-on deodorant as a mark of progress. Not so the Unilever Corporation, which has plans to revive spray-on deodorant as a popular item. If you must use this hissing, scented menace, at least do it with proper courtesy.
Zoe Fennessy, who suffers from a rare condition called musicogenic epilepsy, doesn't particularly dislike Ne-Yo's music, it's just that whenever she hears it, she freezes up and begins vomiting uncontrollably. In June, the 26-year-old had brain surgery in an attempt to ease her symptoms, but it didn't work.
Two things you remember from the '80s that now look completely different, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Radio Shack, have joined forces to sell you batteries. The only way you can tell we haven't stumbled through a wormhole to 25 years ago is that they're also trying to sell you flying drones.
Muhammed "Max" Maqsood fended off a machete-wielding masked bandit from robbing his convenience store in Sunderland, England last week with a metal shutter pole. The 63-year-old shop owner lost part of his middle finger in the battle and the accused attacker is at large.
Noted Kim Kardashian wannabe Naya Rivera (of Glee "fame") possibly trashed Kim on Instagram last night because eh, who knows. She pulled the Mom Card. If screenshots are to be believed, Naya commented this on Kim's pic of her naked Paper cover:
President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced from Beijing today a groundbreaking joint plan for both countries to cut carbon emissions ahead of the global climate treaty expected to be finalized next year. The pact is China's first-ever pledge to stop the country's carbon emissions from growing.
"I love sharing my world with people,' Kim Kardashian says in this month's issue of Paper, also sharing with people a photo shoot intended to remind the world that she, too, has an ass.
In the fall of 1964, the New York Herald Tribune ran a story with the headline, "FBI Chief Calls Martin Luther King 'The Most Notorious Liar in Country.'" J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, had found himself on the defense after King, perhaps the most prominent civil rights activist of the 1950s and 60s, accused the bureau of not enforcing civil rights law and using Jim Crow-era tactics to suppress blacks. Hoover's real reasoning for labeling King a "notorious liar," however, was based on information he and few others were privy to: the details of King's sex life.
Jonah Lehrer, a disgrace and a bullshit artist, has gotten (another?) book deal, because white men fail upward. Lehrer, who was revealed to have fabricated quotations in his 2012 book about Bob Dylan, as well plagiarized himself and others for the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Wired, the Boston Globe, and the Guardian is working on a book with a UCLA professor about "how we think and behave differently on screens." (How do we behave, Jonah?)
Yesterday, Gawker asked readers about any attractive veterans they knew—either public figures or their own families. This post is dedicated to submissions we received for family members and friends—boyfriends and girlfriends, fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, and anyone else in-between. (You can read our earlier post for public figures here.)
