Two CollegeHumor employees meet to go over web site ideas. "IMDb, but no actors, just the movies." "So it's worse IMDb." "Yes." "No." Click through to watch.
We hear that Vh1 is currently casting a talent-competition show that's to be a mix of 'The Devil Wears Prada' and 'Ugly Betty' called 'American Ugly,' where girls who don't feel that just being a women's magazine editorial assistant is degrading enough on its own will get to be editorial assistants on T.V. They're still casting the hosts, though, and they're running into snags: Apparently, they'd like an "Anna Wintour type," who would ideally be the editor of a real magazine, with which the show would have a "Project Runway/Elle" type relationship. Aww. Dreams are cute! They'll be lucky if they can get the editor of Life&Style, whoever that is. Anyway, they're also casting an "Emily Blunt type" and a "that bitchy gay guy" type. Have your agent look into it!
Today we learned that Scripps Howard will start publishing Skirt, a free magazine for "educated and empowered women," this fall. Also, "as a part of the fun, men who appear in Skirt! must, in fact, wear a skirt in order to appear in the magazine." What... fun! Skirt joins Cocktail on our list of "why? WHY?" magazine names. Seriously, can you think of a worse name for a ladymag? Or a worse concept? Well, Panties.
"It's the ultimate reality series, the ultimate game show and the ultimate half-hour of intriguing storylines." How ultimate! We're intrigued! And then, suddenly— "The Ultimate Author is an awesome television program packed with entertaining, engaging and interesting events"—we're not. Seriously, can "Whose Paint Will Dry Fastest?" be far behind? The pitch is interesting, though, because of how poorly this wannabe-producer (a self-published author, natch) understands what it takes to be The Ultimate Author.
Veteran Hitchcock cribber homagist Brian DePalma is reaching back over two decades for his next project, following up 1987's The Untouchables with an origin prequel, The Untouchables: Capone Rising. MTV Movie Blog now confirms it's Nicolas Cage, in the latest in a string of bizarre career choices, who'll be stepping into Robert DeNiro's wing-tip shoes as the title mobster:
Quoth poor Joe Dolce: " I have to absorb the fierce opinions of more than 62 staffers — even when I really don't feel like hearing about them!" So yeah, he doesn't want to hear his staff's deep thoughts, but he has "decided to share these gems with you" because you so totally do, right? Especially when those thoughts are as genius as copy chief Angela Watford's. She's right: Brad Pitt IS hot! (Whoa, fierce!)
Dear Joe: you asked us to let us know our thoughts about this new feature without holding back ("I know you won't!") so here they are. No. Stop it. We read your magazine for the pictures of the hole in Pamela Anderson's weave, not the words. We don't care what your staffers look like, and we don't want to read canned quotes popping out of their photoshopped mouths. Drawing the curtain aside and revealing the little elves behind the analysis of Tori Spelling's cellulite is like watching sausage being made: you don't really want to know, and also, it's boring. Also, more 'knifestyles' please. Thanks!
We can't even begin to describe the amazing wonders inside Dirty Blonde, Courtney Love's new memoir/diary/hemorrhage of random life detritus. The woman basically stopped just short of including a used tampon with every copy sold. Seriously. Anyway, expect more Love from us in days to come, possibly in the form of a daily Zen koan from everyone's favorite devout Buddhist. (Ex: "What would the rose do?/Would the rose hire a publicist?/Let's be mountain junkies and breed/satanic mall rats.") But for today, we thought we'd just reprint an excerpt from an email conversation between Love and one of her acolytes: the one and only Lindsay Lohan. After the jump, soak up the learning.
Restaurant blog Eater reports that Jeffrey Chodorow's midtown eatery English Is Italian may be getting quite the makeover:
