celebrity-science

Fat or Thin, Mary-Kate Just Can't Win

Brian Moylan · 09/01/09 02:24PM

Remember the prolonged outrage-masked-as-concern over Mary-Kate Olsen's shrinking body? Well, it's back, but this time its directed toward her fleshy frame. What's the poor thing gotta do to keep the tabloids off her back?

Twitter's Celebrity Suck Up

Ryan Tate · 08/24/09 11:27AM

Earlier this year, Twitter internally referred to Sean "Diddy" Combs and its other celebrity clients as a "distractionary element." When that swipe leaked, via a hacker, the microblogging startup went into full-on pander mode.

The Michael Jackson Memorial Clusterfuck

Hamilton Nolan · 07/07/09 09:40AM

Michael Jackson's memorial service happens in LA today. Is it a media circus out there? Check out the elephants! Eh? Seriously, it sounds like the media equivalent of the Superdome after Katrina. A brief rundown of the clusterfuckery:

You Will Never Unsee Mimi's Revenge

Alexia Tsotsis · 06/30/09 05:25PM

After ex-boyfriend Eminem took a potshot at her on his new album Relapse, Mariah Carey decided to beat the rapper at his own multiple-personality game, by dressing as him on the NYC video shoot for her latest single, "Obsessed" yesterday.