Today at Flavorpill, we looked at some insane bottoms, courtesy of American Apparel’s massive search (do yourself a favor, and read the quotes from each submitter). We made our way through the 17 most awesome Lego creations of all time. We said goodbye to Ronald Howes, the inventor of the Easy-Bake Oven. We wondered what kind of guy would want to wear pants with a faux penis in the crotch. We loved MacKenzie Fegan’s video response to the sexist Dodge Charger Super Bowl ad. We found it funny that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are getting Sacha Baron Cohen’s sloppy seconds. We enjoyed this interview with Julie Klausner, author of I Don’t Care About Your Band. And finally, we found it hard to believe that this is Conan O’Brien kissing a dolphin. He looks so wild in the photo — but after all he’s been through, we can’t really blame him.
1. Madonna is plotting a collaboration with visual artist Marilyn Minter. [via NYDN]
2. Bigger, better images from Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox [via Slashfilm]
3. Casting news for Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet: Nic Cage in talks to play the villain; Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen’s love interest. [via Variety]
4. Jay-Z’s new song from his upcoming album The Blueprint 3 will drop this Friday and feature Rihanna and Kanye West. [via Ace Showbiz]
5. Will Sacha Baron Cohen follow up Bruno with a serious role in a Scorsese film? [via Daily Mail]
We hate to say it, but it looks like the eight month delay (Eight months! Drat you Warner Bros.) may have been a good idea — Harry Potter dominated the weekend, with the largest world-wide opening of any film. Ever. And some of that money was ours. This week’s other newby, (500) Days of Summer debuted in twelfth place, which may not make our list, but considering that it only opened in 27 locations and is expanding, we expect to see it up here very soon. We’re so happy for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Read More »
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Bruno opened in the number one slot this weekend, but signs may not be so good for its future. Transformers:RotF fell to third place under the consistent Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The only other new offering of the week, I Love You, Beth Cooper, came in a weak seventh place. Sadly, we didn’t even know it had come out yet. Read More »
1. Bruno‘s performance peaked on opening night and had a huge drop the rest of the weekend, finishing with $30.4 million. [via Yahoo!]
2. Brooklyn band TV on the Radio isn’t as popular with fans in the UK. [via NME]
3. “A made-for-tv gun battle erupted outside a Brooklyn baby shower for the wife of a star of the HBO crime series The Wire Sunday, killing one teen and wounding two men, cops said.” [via NYDN]
4. Green Day’s drummer would like to have Banksy tattoo rats on his chest. [via NYP]
5. Why is Target afraid of being associated with Anna Sui’s Gossip Girl-inspired collection? [via NYDN]
1. Pirate Bay — one of the world’s popular free file-sharing sites — has been bought for around $7 million and will got legit. (The four men behind the site are currently sentenced to a year of jail time and $3.6 million in damages.) [via Reuters]
2. Hermione is going to Columbia this fall. [via NYDN]
3. New Yorkers watched a new production of Phèdre (which stars Helen Mirren) thanks to the first live broadcast of a stage production from the National Theater in London. [via NYT]
4. Sacha Baron Cohen got Bruno’ed at the Australian premiere of his movie. [via Daily Mail]
5. You can now hear the new joint project from Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot a week early. (Our review of the LP here.) [via NME]
Kanye West and Spike Jonze made a short film together. According to Videogum, the film, which premiered yesterday at the LA Film Festival, was originally meant to be a music video for 808′s & Heartbreak. And then somehow it became all about a day in the life of Kanye — VIP rooms, beautiful women, and bathroom vomit scenes. [Insert lame Where The Wild Things Are joke here.] Read More »
1. Governor Schwarzenegger decides against defending Prop. 8 in federal court; meanwhile, Rob Reiner and a small band of political filmmakers are launching a gay marriage challenge with their sights on the U.S. Supreme Court. [via LAT, Reuters]
2. Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi, a seven-track rock album featuring lyrics by David Lynch, is due out later this month. [via Pitchfork]
3. Tony award winner August: Osage County will close on June 28 after a nearly 20-month run. [via NYT]
4. Will HD indie films via IFC’s VOD service kill art houses? [via Nikki Finke]
5. Sacha Baron Cohen’s leather ensemble at the London premiere of Bruno leaves little to the imagination. [via Daily Mail]
Today at Flavorpill, we found it funny that scientists are tracking penguin poop from space, but even funnier that a woman is suing Sacha Baron Cohen for some stunt he pulled as Bruno in a bingo parlor. We studied the ergonomics of notebooks. We fell in love with this new Tumblr: Seriously, that’s your Twitter pic? We vowed never to use a public restroom in Switzerland. We wanted to vomit all over Francis Ford Coppola for being such a big fat loser — but then he’d make his poor wife clean it up, so what’s the point in that? We adjusted our old SAT scores so that we could compare them with our interns’. We couldn’t believe that New Line owes the Tolkien Trust $220m worth of Lord of the Rings profits. And finally, we’ll bring it back to penguins with the news that a gay penguin couple in Germany has adopted a penguin baby. Mazel tov!
Well it is for now, according to The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman, but there’s still plenty of time for Universal to tone things down in time for the July release. Per her post: “Among the objectionable scenes is one in which Bruno — a gay Austrian fashionista played by Baron Cohen — appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor.” Read More »
