jezebel

Why Sarah Palin Needs Levi Johnston

Brian Moylan · 09/03/09 10:38AM

The PR push for Johnston's article in Vanity Fair started yesterday and people are already hating America's babydaddy and rooting for Sarah Palin. But her reality-television-turned-politics spectacle was getting stale and nothing reinvigorates an aging soap like a good rivalry.

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?

In Praise of Television's Bad Mothers

Brian Moylan · 09/01/09 11:39AM

While we weren't loving last night's uneven season finale of Weeds, we were loving Nancy Botwin's parenting skills—or lack thereof. Who wants to be raised by a boring stroller-pusher when you can have someone to bring the crazy?

DJ AM Found Dead

Ryan Tate · 08/28/09 07:12PM

Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, the nightclub disk jockey who not one year ago narrowly escaped death in a jet crash, was found dead in his New York apartment. He was 36.

Dominick Dunne, Author

Pareene · 08/26/09 04:33PM

Dominick Dunne, chronicler of crime, celebrity, and the intersection of the two, has died at 83. Dunne had been suffering from bladder cancer.

How Miranda Priestly Saved Anna Wintour

Brian Moylan · 08/25/09 12:47PM

We thought the Late Show portion of Anna Wintour's Make-People-Like-Me-Before-My-Contract-Is-Up Tour 2009 would be a disaster. Until Letterman asked about The Devil Wears Prada. Then we knew she was safe, because she could never come off worse than Miranda Priestly.

How Grace Coddington Stole The September Issue from Anna Wintour

Brian Moylan · 08/24/09 01:40PM

When Anna Wintour agreed to the Vogue documentary The September Issue, she probably thought it would be the greatest stop on the Make-People-Like-Me-Before-My-Contract-Is-Up Tour 2009. Too bad she is cast as the villain to Grace Coddington's triumphant hero.

David Copperfield's Island of Horror

John Cook · 08/20/09 01:03PM

A Seattle woman has accused magician David Copperfield of luring her to his remote private island in the Caribbean, raping her repeatedly, and threatening to kill her if she told anyone. Her complaint reads like a horrifying pulp novel.