February 2010
The Roots Jam is Grammy Week’s Best Party →
Back in the mid ’90s when The Roots were unknowns on the national music scene but already buzzing in the underground, they were criticized in the pages of my magazine. Even though we…
Grammys Fashion: Hits And Misses, And Plenty Of... →
It’s always been my understanding that the Grammys are Hollywood’s Halloween of sorts. For one night, all bets are off. You can stray from safe, bring the hem line up, and add an inch (or 5)…
Pink, Wet & Naked High Above The Grammy Stage... →
There was Gaga and there was Beyonce, there was Taylor Swift and there was the Zac Brown Band, but soaring high above the rest of the 2010 Grammy Awards was a woman whose performance…
Beyoncé At The Grammys: Everything Okay With Jay-Z... →
Um, how are things in the Beyoncé-Jay-Z household? Because I was getting some anger tonight. Winner for “Single Ladies” when she’s already got the ring, Beyoncé was also nominated for…
Michael Jackson’s Kids At The Grammys: Prince &... →
Michael Jackson received the 2010 Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by longtime friend Lionel Richie to Prince and Paris Jackson on their father’s behalf. The children…
Amazon and Macmillan Go to War →
Sometime Friday, Amazon stopped directly selling all books put out by the publisher Macmillan, due to a disagreement over future pricing of e-books. Let’s be clear, it’s not just that Amazon wasn’t…
Lady Gaga and Elton John At The Grammys: Two... →
The Grammys kicked off tonight with the union of two epic figures of music and fabulosity: Lady Gaga and one of the giants upon whose shoulders she stands on platform shoes, Elton John….
Jewish Girls Are Easy →
No, I’m not planning to prove that point any time but hear me out. A few things just came together in my mind and I wanted to share them with you.
In addition to my duties at Mediaite,…
Grammy Awards 2010: Beyonce vs. Taylor vs. Gaga,... →
Here’s the central question of tonight’s Grammy awards: Was Kanye right?
Is Taylor Swift all well and good, but did Beyoncé have the best video of all time — and the best record,…
January 2010
Roger Ailes Vs. Arianna Huffington On This Week... →
It was a news-making This Week on ABC today, as Barbara Walters took the helm for not just Scott Brown’s first big sit-down but an epic roundtable from around the political spectrum.
The two stand-out guests – CEO and President of Fox News
Democratic Gov. On Fall Elections: “I’m Glad I’m... →
Sunday morning on State of the Union with John King, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat whose term is coming to a close, was asked about the health of her party as the…
Scott Brown: If I Hadn’t Done Cosmo, I’d ‘Never Be... →
Newly-elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown made his Sunday morning show debut today, with a very Barbara Walters-like Barbara Walters interview on ABC’s This Week.
It gave millions…
Salinger’s Silence →
Inevitably, J.D. Salinger’s death prompts a question of the brow-furrowing, philosophical variety: If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, has it been writing…
The 7 Most ‘Awkward’ Crowdsourced Websites →
New blogs and websites built around crowdsourcing show up every day. It’s a simple concept – take a funny idea that everyone can relate to, have Internet readers send in their own…
Miss America 2010: Sarah Palin, Tiger Woods,... →
The Miss America 2010 Pageant is over, and aside from Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron, the winner in Las Vegas was hot-button pop culture references. Miss Alaska made a quick and cheery Sarah Palin
Scott Brown: If I Hadn’t Done Cosmo, I’d ‘Never Be... →
Newly-elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown made his Sunday morning show debut today, with a very Barbara Walters-like Barbara Walters interview on ABC’s This Week.
It gave millions…
CNN’s Candy Crowley On New Job: “Career-Wise, This... →
Veteran CNN correspondent Candy Crowley was named the 2nd anchor ever of Sunday morning show State of the Union today, replacing John King. She’ll also be the only female Sunday show…
Scott Roeder, Convicted Murderer, Cites Pat... →
This weekend, the eternally controversial Pat Robertson was again in the news, albeit obliquely, but in no more flattering a circumstance than has become routine in a month of dubious…
Should Papers Report On Game Change Despite Its... →
That’s the question poised in Clark Hoyt’s public editor column in the New York Times this Sunday, as Game Change tops the paper’s nonfiction best-sellers list. The “racy” stories of…
Candy Crowley Named New Anchor Of CNN’s State of... →
CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley, currently the #65 TV Reporter on the Mediaite Power Grid, has just been named the new anchor of CNN’s Sunday morning program State of…
Jon Hamm Shirtless! SNL’s Sexy Sergio Is Great For... →
Jon Hamm Shirtless! Sexy Jon Hamm Muscles! Sweaty Glistening Don Draper! SNL was kind to the SEO gods last night thanks to not one but two shirtless Jon Hamm sketches plus adorable …
Jon Hamm’s SNL Monologue Less Scary Than Martin... →
On last night’s SNL, the conceit for host Jon Hamm’s monologue was not for taking off his shirt — that was for two other wonderful, wonderful sketches — but about Hamm’s pre-fame roles, before he…
Obama Drops In On College Hoops Broadcast; Jokes... →
President Barack Obama attended a college basketball game between Duke and Georgetown Saturday, and found time to sit down with the CBS Broadcast announcing team Verne Lundquist and …
Jersey Shore Cast Re-Signs With MTV For Second... →
Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times reports that MTV emailed out a press release at 1:33 am Friday night announcing that the full cast Jersey Shore will be returning for a second…
James O’Keefe Mug Shot Lands On New York Times... →
There was a moment when conservative vigilante videographer James O’Keefe was a man of the web — making a name for himself online, most notably at Big Government, but also on the sites…
Cuban Blogger: Writers Fired For “Improper Use of... →
Cuban blogger Orlando Luis Pardo reported earlier this week on citizen journalism portal All Voices that award-winning writers Manuel García Verdecia and Rafael Vilches…
What Does Rush Limbaugh Look For In Miss America? →
Rush Limbaugh was a judge for the Miss America Pageant this evening, looking rather dapper in a tuxedo as he sat in judgment of a map’s worth of young lovelies vying for the crown. When asked by…
Sn00ki Returns to SNL: “We Are Hotter Than A Dog’s... →
The world cannot get enough of Jersey Shore. They’ve been re-upped for a second season, the cast’s appearance fees are off the charts, they’ve got kazillions of followers on Twitter,…
SNL’s Sexy Jon Hamm as Sexy Scott Brown →
For all of you who wonder how Scott Brown could have possibly snuck in and taken Massachusetts from under the nose of the legacy ruling-power Democrats, well, this sketch is your…
SNL’s SOTU: Bashing….Martha Coakley? →
Tonight SNL opened with the biggest piece of news all week: President Obama’s State of the Union address (it edges the iPad by a hair). The optics were good — Fred Armisen looked very…
Comedy Central Covers The White State Of The Union →
After Keith Olbermann’s post-SOTU j’accuse of a bevy of conservative talking heads, in which he equated their cries of “arrogance” with the racially inflammatory “uppity,” many…
Jessica Coen, Et Al.’s Gawker Media Take Two:... →
Gawker in 2005, featuring Denton, Coen and Johnson
New York magazine lost two high-ranking employees this week, as announcements surfaced that deputy editor Hugo Lindgren would …
Fiddler On The Roof: In Japanese, As The Hebrew... →
Things that tickle me enormously: Checking out Google Zeitgeist and seeing that “Fiddler on the Roof” is not only trending, but is volcanically hot. I am not sure why everyone is…
More Tawdry John Edwards Revelations Score Huge... →
Last night’s 20/20 featured an exclusive interview by Bob Woodruff with Andrew Young, a former John Edwards aide and author of the upcoming tell-all The Politician. 8.1 million…
Saturday Night Live Sports Special To Be Hosted By... →
Saturday Night Live’s sports special, SNL Presents: Sports All-Stars, airs Sunday at 9pm, and will be hosted by two of the newest recurring SNL sports-related characters: Pete Twinkle…
I Am Disgusted By CBS And Its Homophobic... →
You know, I had no problem with Tim Tebow’s pro-life Superbowl ad. It was fundamentally about choice – about the choice of a mother to keep her baby, which is a choice that resulted in a…
Obama Drops In On College Basketball Broadcast;... →
President Barack Obama attended a college basketball game between Duke and Georgetown today, and found time to sit down with the CBS Broadcast announcing team Verne Lundquist and Clark…
Fair & Balanced? Fox News Anchor Praises GOP’s... →
At a certain point — years ago, probably — the Fox News slogan “Fair & Balanced” became a tongue-in-cheek challenge to detractors. Men lie, women lie, politicians lie — numbers don’t, and…
Google Phasing Out Old Browser Support: Sayonara,... →
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Palin On National Tea Party Convention: “You... →
The Tea Party movement got a lot of play on last night’s On The Record with Greta Van Susteren. Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee voiced his support for the group in populist tones,…
Huckabee Legitimizes Tea Party Movement, Sounds... →
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee joined Greta Van Susteren on Fox News yesterday to discuss what will become of the Tea Party Movement, lending legitimacy to a group that has…
Soundbite: Obama’s State Of The Union Soared…... →
“President Obama’s State of the Union address soared — right over a familiar cliff.
The president simply couldn’t seem to escape his professorial past, to convey his passion and…
Charles Krauthammer: #1 Obama Fan! →
A few days ago, Charles Krauthammer was not so impressed with President Obama. He was vain. He was a mediocre one-term president. His SOTU was strained and unctuous, not to…
Moment of Zinn: “Democracy Is In Dissent” →
I spent some time tonight getting caught up on Howard Zinn, historian, author and activist who died yesterday, and whose death triggered a similar, if quieter, sort of outpouring as did…
Charles Krauthammer: #1 Obama Fan! →
A few days ago, Charles Krauthammer was not so impressed with President Obama. He was vain. He was a mediocre one-term president. His SOTU was strained and unctuous, not to…
Doppelganger Week! Facebook Helps Us Get Our... →
It’s Doppelganger Week! (Doppelganger? I don’t even know ‘er!) Just kidding, of course you do — she’d the celebrity everyone’s told you looks just like you! Now you should tell the world!…
VH1 Completes the Celebreality Circle of Life →
In the beginning, there was Behind the Music, an intimate and comprehensive look at celebrities grappling with the overly clichéd lifestyle of “sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll.”…
NBC’s $250m Vancouver Loss – and What It Could... →
Maybe it’s because I’m still pretty bitter about how the Conan thing went down and unnecessarily picking on NBC, but I want someone to erect a giant ticker on Rockefeller Plaza that…
A Tourist’s Guide To Davos, Switzerland →
This week has been a busy one, what with your iPads and your people dying and your speeches. But we must not let those things obscure what should be our real focus: the World Economic…
Giving Context To Pres. Obama’s State of the Union... →
“The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away. No wonder there’s so much cynicism out there. No…