Thursday, January 18, 2007

Page 1 Consider (01/18)

  • Bend It Like Bono: I thought I'd spotted gender bender Chastity Bono getting married last year ... now it turns out she's doing the red carpet routine for Entertainment Tonight ... or is that Steven Cojocaru? Who really knows ... (WOW)

  • Double Standard: I've been foaming at the mouth for weeks now, but it seems Isaiah Washington's calling fellow "Grey's Anatomy" cast member T.R. Knight a "little faggot" is finally starting to anger others -- mainly because Washington has since denied the whole thing (after apologizing) and made a joke about it on the Golden Globes red carpet. F**k you, asshole. I hope you get fired, pronto. (ABC)
  • Roseanne Part 2: Following in the glorious footsteps of Tom Arnold, Kevin Federline will be appearing in a commercial for Nationwide Insurance on this year's Super Bowl. Don't act surprised, Britney: you're the one who shoved him down our throats ... now he'll never go away. Happy now? (AP)
  • 'Easy' PR: Anyone else find Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's publicity stunt "move" to New Orleans to be as nauseating as I do? If you're truly moving to the Big Easy then just move there and shut up about it. (RTE)

  • Bent Out of Shape: Why is David Beckham suddenly coming to America? Could it be because he's old and can't play anymore ... and no one in the "real" football clubs wanted him? He looks mighty good to me, but that's what his former team is now saying about him ... (EW)

  • Discrimination Suit: Aaron Charney, a fourth-year associate at one of Manhattan's top law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell, is suing the firm for systematic discrimination and retaliation against him because he is gay. Charney claims that beginning in 2005 several partners in the prestigious firm subjected him to "lewd and illegal conduct" and demanded that he be fired for having an "unnatural" relationship with another attorney in the firm, a relationship that Charney denies. Charney is seeking unspecified punitive and compensatory damages as well as a trial jury. (Advocate)

  • Better Off Dead? That pizza/funeral parlor freak who kidnapped two boys in suburban St. Louis is now considered the lead suspect in the disappearance of another Missouri boy 16 years ago, but based on the age-progressed photo of the victim, maybe it was just as well. (AP)
  • Big Brain Tumor: The son of "The Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. I'm not a forensic anthropologist myself, but I think I can solve this one: HIS PLANE CRASHED. (AP)
  • Boss-a-nova: Supremely gorgeous Diana Ross is making the rounds for her new album, "I Love You," and I couldn't be happier. Look for her on "American Idol" next. (AP)
  • 16 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    Not sure what you mean by "maybe it was just as well"...

    Anonymous said...

    Better Off Dead?

    did you REALLY mean that? If so...and you criticize someone for saying "faggot"?

    Hopefully I'm missing the joke.

    Anonymous said...

    "but based on the age-progressed photo of the victim, maybe it was just as well"

    Yeah, not so funny...

    Anonymous said...

    "If you're truly moving to the Big Easy then just move there and shut up about it."

    But they're not even quoted in the article - they are completely "shutting up" about it. I don't understand your bitching about it, so, no, I don't find it as nauseating as you do.

    Anonymous said...

    Angelina Jolie IS TOO quoted in the article, having just gotten back from "handing out presents to Colombian war refugees in Costa Rica" ...

    Derek said...

    Kenneth, what's up???
    You seem unusually mean with these posts... Hope everything is alright!!

    Anonymous said...

    "Angelina Jolie IS TOO quoted in the article, having just gotten back from "handing out presents to Colombian war refugees in Costa Rica" ..."

    The linked article was changed - that's not the same one as before.

    Anonymous said...

    The "just as well" comment is beneath you. I'm sure you know that the value of human life isn't measured by the beauty of the face.

    It's profoundly unkind - some might say monstrous. I hope you either change the post, apologize, or delete it and pretend it never existed and that we never saw it or complained (in some pseudo-fascistic oblique swipe at the Bush administration).

    -JT

    Anonymous said...

    "but based on the age-progressed photo of the victim, maybe it was just as well"

    Great blog...but that comment is really lame. So you are saying unless your "hot" your life isn't worth it.

    Dude, people and attitudes like you are the problem.

    Anonymous said...

    Hi, Kenneth.

    I understand and respect your point of view, but many of us who live in postapocalyptic New Orleans see Brangelina's move as a small positive in an otherwise negative situation. Every rare favorable development--even if it is an illusion--is most welcome here in the disaster zone.

    We are hungry for hope, I'd say. Perhaps this will supply some.

    Brangelina are (Brangelina is?) students at the Diana, princess of
    Whales, School of Public Relations. Di made a conscious decision to use her celebrity to spotlight worthy causes. And it would appear that Brangelina are applying the same tactics here in N.O. (A jokey aside: I suspect they targeted real estate in the City that Forgot to Care because
    no metropolis in sub-Sahara Africa was sufficiently gritty; we here
    specialized in gritty long before Katrina.)

    I see their motivation in stark contrast to those of Madonna, publicity whore par excellence. Madge is in it for Madge; Madge demands attention; Madge gets what Madge demands. (God, I feel sorry for her husband.)

    I hope you are doing well.

    With all best wishes,

    Mitch
    New Orleans

    Kenneth M. Walsh said...

    Mitch --
    You're probably right ... I think I'm more annoyed with the "news media" that thinks every move Brad, Angelina, Lindsay, Brtiney, Paris et al. makes is "news" vs. all of the real news that's going on the world that is barely mentioned.

    Anonymous said...

    Talk about facists ... don't you think you're reading into this a bit -- everyone's entitled to their own sense of humor, however dark (it is a JOKE, people). I love how being gay means thinking exactly like everyone else, anymore. Doesn't work that way, kiddies ...

    I think the real issue is why an "age progression" artist would turn an adorable little boy into a complete goon.

    Anonymous said...

    i think he's kinda cute for being dead for 16 years.

    Anonymous said...

    I think Ken needs to issue a formal apology to ALL computer-generated age-progression photographs around the world and then check into REHAB immediately.

    Anonymous said...

    You guys are such hypocrites-- you laugh and comment about every other non-politically correct comment posted here, but this crosses the line? Lighten up. That picture is funky looking!!! Kenneth- thanks for not bowing down to the big wussies.

    Anonymous said...

    " Why is David Beckham suddenly coming to America?"

    Uum, $250 million.