Are Justin Bieber's New Nude Photos the Latest Offensive in His Feud With Orlando Bloom?
Jordan Sargent · 08/05/16 05:51PMWhy Is the Associated Press Trying to Prevent Me From Receiving Up-to-the-Minute Entertainment Coverage? [Updated]
Ashley Feinberg · 08/05/16 03:34PMTiny Toilet Room With Partial Wall For Rent in Hong Kong
Peter Yeh · 08/05/16 03:00PMGet a Load of This Guy Running for Congress in Minnesota
Brendan O'Connor · 08/05/16 02:25PMDonald Trump Has All The Best Steves On His Economic Advisory Council
Gabrielle Bluestone · 08/05/16 01:53PMToday, Donald Trump released a list of the members of his economic advisory council. All of them are white, half of them are named some version of Steve, they mostly all have backgrounds in real estate and business, and none of them are women. “I am pleased that we have such a formidable group of experienced and talented [Steves] that will work with me to implement real solutions for the economic issues facing our country,” Trump said in a statement.
Hillary Clinton Lists Her Black Friends
Ashley Feinberg · 08/05/16 01:36PMFor the first time in months, Hillary Clinton has actually agreed to take questions from the press. Granted, this wasn’t an actual press conference but an appearance at the National Association for Black and Hispanic Journalists convention in Washington, as off-the-cuff as she’s likely to get. Which is why we got to hear two minutes of Hillary Clinton listing her many black friends.
Source: Jared Kushner's Cousin Might Run Against Donald Trump Jr. in 2017 NYC Mayoral Election
Brendan O'Connor · 08/05/16 12:45PMJohn Waters on Multiple Maniacs, Transgender Bathroom Laws, and the Potential End of His Film Career
Rich Juzwiak · 08/05/16 12:25PMYesterday, the Gawker office was graced with the presence of legendary director John Waters, who’s promoting the rerelease of his 1970 movie Multiple Maniacs. The delirious movie, which features Divine being raped by a giant lobster as its centerpiece, has been restored by the Criterion Collection and is being distributed by the illustrious Janus Films. Thus, the king of bad taste meets the epitome of cinematic refinement. Waters told me the seemingly unholy union made sense.
Who Is This Man Who Disarmed and Killed a Gun-Wielding Robber in Rio and Then Pretended to Be a Russian Diplomat?
Jordan Sargent · 08/05/16 12:05PMYesterday in Rio, a man shot and killed a mugger who tried to rob him while he was stuck in traffic. It would have been a fairly unremarkable story by Rio’s standards except that the victim-turned-killer—a man named Marcos Cesar Feres Braga—told police that he was a Russian diplomat, a tidbit that filtered up into news headlines.
Ira Sachs on Little Men, Gentrification, and the Value of a Movie That "Doesn't Work Economically”
Rich Juzwiak · 08/05/16 11:32AM“I have begun to think of this film as a metaphor for the place of personal cinema in our culture,” Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange, Keep the Lights On) told me one recent morning over coffee in New York’s Marlton Hotel. He was referring to his new movie, Little Men, which includes gentrification among its themes. When white married couple Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) inherit Brian’s father’s house in Brooklyn, they move there from Manhattan and face a tough decision: Should they allow the Chilean owner of the dress shop downstairs, Leonor (Paulina García) to remain and continue to pay rent that’s thousands of dollars below market value or kick her out? Since Brian’s an unsuccessful actor, his family could use the boost in salary that another tenant would provide. Complicating the plot is the quick bond Brian and Kathy’s 13-year-old son Jake (Theo Taplitz) forms with Leonor’s similarly aged son Tony (Michael Barbieri). The ensuing drama carefully props up each character’s situation on another’s, deliberately transmitting everyone’s motivation and dilemma to the viewer. To describe his movie succinctly in interviews, Sachs has been borrowing a quote from Jean Renoir: “The awful thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.”
Donald Trump Donor: "Donald Trump...Eats...People of All Races and Religions"
Andy Cush · 08/05/16 10:40AMHamilton Nolan · 08/05/16 10:30AM
Owning a Home Is No Goddamn Picnic Either
Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/16 10:20AMThe Only Woman Fit for President Trump's Cabinet Is Ivanka Trump
Ashley Feinberg · 08/05/16 10:00AMSpeaking to an NBC affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida, Donald Trump was pressed (by a former employee) to name a few of the women he might place on his cabinet when he ascends the throne. The only women Trump seems capable of naming on the spot? His beloved daughter, Ivanka Trump and—oh, I don’t know. How about you. Holding the microphone. Yeah, you’ll do.
I Ran the C.I.A. Now I Work For a Longtime Clinton Ally's Consulting Firm and Am Endorsing Hillary Clinton
Brendan O'Connor · 08/05/16 09:43AMOn Friday, the New York Times ran an op-ed penned by Michael Morell, a 33-year veteran of the Central Intelligence agency who served as its acting director and deputy director from 2010 to 2013. Contravening political conventions of non-partisanship, Morell not only endorses Hillary Clinton for president but even goes so far as to suggest that Donald Trump “may well pose a threat to our national security.”
Donald Trump Admits Mistake
Brendan O'Connor · 08/05/16 07:45AMAn incomprehensibly boring controversy emerged earlier this week after the Wall Street Journal published a poorly-structured piece about Iran involving the return of frozen Iranian funds in the form of cash, which coincided with the release four detained Americans. Naturally, this triggered Donald Trump’s paranoid imagination, and he began ranting about watching a “top secret” video, leaked by the Iranian government, of an airplane covertly delivering the cash. He described the footage as having been shot at a “perfect angle, nice and steady,” which could only have been the work of Iranian state media.