Today at Flavorpill, we loved Slate’s interactive guide to all of the “best movies of the decade” lists. We learned about the differences between a douchebag and an asshole from a brilliant Gawker commenter with way too much time on his hands. We found out what happened to Hermione Granger once she left Hogwarts. Hint: It’s inspired by the plot of Dangerous Minds. We gawked at some crazy menorahs (27 to be exact). We were creeped out by Stalker Santa, especially the part where he took his shirt off. We couldn’t believe that James Franco has a pretty little brother who’s also an actor and will be on the upcoming season of Scrubs. Genetics! We visited the Midwest and then launched ourselves into Hyper Space. And finally, we wanted to order a baby simulator. Wouldn’t it be funny to just keep one lying around the house? It looks like a Glo Worm doll.
Gawker.TV just launched today under Gawker Media’s ubiquitous umbrella. Longtime readers of Gawker know that video production has been a large part Gawker for the last few years. With Gawker TV, the videos are the ones people send you all day, which makes it “either hyper-relevant or totally useless.” That about sums up our sentiments. After the jump, meet the team, and find out what we can expect.
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1. It’s allegedly full steam ahead for the MTV drug-intervention reality series that DJ AM worked on before his death. [via THR]
2. Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart are suing Gawker for more than $1 million and demanding that they pull down the couple’s sexy tape. [via The Daily Beast]
3. Stanley Tucci, Cher, and Christina Aguilera will star in Burlesque, a big screen musical to be directed by Steve Antin. [via Variety]
4. Michelle Phillips says that daughter Mackenzie is lying about the incestuous affair with her father. [via Showbiz 411]
5. Lily Allen has quit her battle against illegal downloaders… and the music industry. [via NME]
Bonus link: The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Time
Richard Lawson, recapper extraordinaire, started off at Gawker in the ad sales department. Doubling — unbeknownst to anyone in office — as a Gawker commenter via online alter ego Lolcait, his comment contributions (in part thanks to a slight lapse in etiquette by Foxy Brown) caused a veritable internet sensation. When Lawson eventually revealed his identity, he rose through the Gawker ranks: first selecting “best comment of the week,” and later plucked from sales into editorial. Since his holy ascension, the epic recaps he has crafted of Real Housewives, Real World, NYC Prep, The Hills, Gossip Girl, et al. have been an enormous success. Showcasing brilliant farce and sweeping narrative, Lawson has inspired inappropriately loud guffaws in offices across the land. He has recently left Gawker for TV.com, and has taken Sereenz, Garbanzo Bean, and Ol’ Crackerjacks with him. Read More »
James and Karla Murray’s monograph Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York made quite a splash on the blogs earlier this year, and their current exhibition with Gawker Artists, MOM & POPism, puts a new spin on the couple’s documentary streetscapes with a little help from curator/artist Billi Kid and 27 of his graffiti and street artist cohorts.
Click through to see a slideshow of images from MOM & POPism
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Reports are rolling in from across the internet that artist Dash Snow died from a heroin overdose Monday night at Lafayette House hotel in New York. Gawker broke the story, citing a Twitter post from Snow comrade Earsnot, a.k.a. Kunle Ira, as well as several confirmations from friends. Snow’s grandmother, Christophe de Menil — a major art collector in her own right — confirmed the news to the New York Times ArtsBeat blog, adding that he had been trying to stay clean following a rehab stay in March. Read More »
That’s the word from Gawker, who obtained a memo that Terry Schwadron of News Technology sent to Newsroom Twitter users.
We are seeing a growing number of complaints from people with computer performance problems that have been traced to TweetDeck, an application that some have installed on Times workstations and laptops to follow Twitter messages. Though still in beta and not officially released, TweetDeck is indeed a handy tool for high-power Twitter users to keep track of multiple threads simultaneously. Read More »
Bouncing back from the alleged “Gay Fish” charges, Kanye West, in a valiant display of unrelenting humility, stars alongside himself in his new video for “Paranoid.” Rihanna appears to be an uncredited extra. The video begins with a dozen flickering mirages of a smoldering Kanye, doing his best Robert Pattinson-meeting-a-mirror impression. “Why are you so paranoid? Don’t be so paranoid,” sings Kanye, as Rihanna wakes up in bed, drives a car nervously, and prances around in black lingerie. This is the exact scenario of the Chris Brown scandal, but without Chris brown. And depending on how you look at it, this may or may not be more frightening. Read More »
Back in January I told you about the launch of The Rumpus — an exciting new literary magazine that plays by the Internet’s rules — and I’ve been a big fan of Stephen Elliott’s online baby ever since. But a Web site cannot subsist on quality cultural content alone, which is why Stephen is joining forces with Smith Mag and McSweeney’s to bring us You Are Not Alone, an evening of comedy by Todd Barry and Eugene Mirman; music by Matthew Caws of Nada Surf and Amanda Palmer; and readings by Anthony Swofford, Jessica Anthony, James Hannaham, and Amy Tan; all at the Highline on May 30. After the jump Stephen chats about why he’s giving away copies of his upcoming book for free, what still irks him about Gawker, and why he’s not so worried about the future of publishing. Read More »
Woody Allen’s Larry David-helmed comedy Whatever Works — his first New York-based flick in years — kicked off this year’s Tribeca Film Festival last night with what can best be summarized as a critical meh. (Read reviews here, here, and here.) While our festival pass isn’t fancy enough to get us access to the opening night gala, Flavorwire will have troops on the ground covering a slew of “highbrow meets no-brow with everything in between” (the New York Times’ words, not ours) films over the next week and a half. While you anxiously await our dispatches, entertain yourself by checking out a list of free and public TFF events; Arts Beat’s opening night slideshow; and indie film guru Matt Dentler’s festival tweets for Gawker. Oh, and if you’re free tonight consider joining Leah and Andy for some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and pizza as part of the Tribeca Drive-In series.
