Stop worrying, everyone. Even though Iran's election results have never been announced so quickly, and even though the loser has been placed under house arrest, the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was what the people wanted. A poll proves it!
Question answered: Bruno is bad for the gays! Some gay groups are beginning a campaign against Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming realityish comedy, about an Austrian fashion reporter who's a bit light in the loafers. GLAAD seems particularly unhappy.
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Oh no, "Skanks in NYC," the city's top craptastic Blogspot blog about the alleged skankiness of cover model Liskula Cohen, has been pulled from the internet in the wake of Cohen's ridonkulous lawsuit. Never forget:
Singapore's wacky totalitarian repression just won't quit! The country's attorney general is charging an editor at the WSJ's editorial page with contempt for "impugning the integrity" of the courts. Also illegal in Singapore: irony. [WSJ]
As long as college kids remain edgy, there will be college sex magazines. And as long as there are a few olds with no sense of mockery, they will be scandalized by them. Still!
War on art! A famous Japanese pop artist was doing just a little bit of vandalism down in the subways, and was arrested. Why doesn't Mayor Bloomberg just let people draw in the streets?
People in the UK got upset over this ad, because of drugs. Hold on there: it's an anti-drug ad, allegedly. The lesson is, ad people love to work while high. [via Adrants. Click to enlarge]
Well now, here is a crafty postscript to the humongous Yves Saint Laurent auction that saved the art world: a Chinese insurgent says that he patriotically sabotaged the bidding on the most controversial items.
You'd think so, if you paid attention to the crusty old American Medical Association, which is hopping mad that the dopey ladysad film prominently and frequently featured brand-name cigarettes. Though, none were ever smoked.
Well now, our vandalartist friend Poster Boy has become embroiled in an edgy art world to-do! He's out doing authorized vandalmixes of MOMA posters. Uh, or is he? Yes he is. Is that bad?
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch himself, the big guy, took the time to sign off on an uncommonly civil apology for the New York Post's racist cartoon. But Al Sharpton is still demanding actual actions. Whoa now!
The New York Post's 'apology' for the Sean Delonas cartoon has not satisfied Spike Lee, who calls it "pathetic" and "lethargic." As well as racist! Why won't this black man trust the New York Post?
Now that long-running musical Rent has closed on Broadway, the inevitable, awful high school productions have begun. Which is ruffling parental and administrative feathers across the land. But, really, what's the big deal with Rent?
Lost in all this controversy over NY Post cartoonist Sean Delonas' ham-handed monkey bigot hackery is this: will this national uproar hurt the sales of Delonas' kiddie book? That would be the real tragedy.
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Rev. Al Sharpton, having no other plans for the day, just held a protest outside the New York Post's headquarters to protest Sean Delonas' monkey cartoon. It's more outrageous than Don Imus, sez the Rev!
Remember yesterday there was a big to-do over NY Post cartoonist Sean Delonas' (pictured!) racist dead chimp cartoon? I could swear I heard something about it. But the Post, uh, doesn't recall that one!
The New York Post has been getting angry phone calls all day because of Sean Delonas' dead monkey cartoon. Especially the people of Page Six, where the cartoon ran. It's not their fault, angry people!