one of the biggest cases of false advertising ever:

I only get the newspaper on the weekends, so forgive me if this advertisement to your left has already left smudge prints on your fingertips. Perhaps you’re familiar. See, they’re now advertising the bleak sexual Holocaust drama The Reader by way of Kate Winslet’s huge PG smile and winner’s elation.

My memory is like a sieve so maybe this isn’t saying much but I can’t remember another Oscar winning film replacing their actual ads with Oscar ceremony stills. Furthermore, if you go into this movie expecting “the most uplifting experience of your life” you might be desperately suicidal afterwards (uh, thanks Rex Reed).

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STOP. COLLABORATE AND LISTEN.

ROB VAN WINKLE. aka Vanilla Ice
I went to Vegas two weeks ago. I got pulled up on stage to dance with a few other girls at this show.
Needless to say a few other things happened on stage that weren’t my fault!!
But I’ve met him before and this time being soaked/drunk/stupid I couldn’t get the camera to work so he grabbed it and took the picture for me!
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We love Margaret Cho. From her struggles with her body issues and feeling like an outsider because of her Korean-American heritage to her outrageous opinions on gay men and porn, she’s become something of the ultimate fag hag—a term she famously adopted for herself as a celebration of her love for the gays in her life.

As if we didn’t adore Margaret enough already, now she’s gone and accepted a gig as the co-host of the upcoming GayVN Awards in San Francisco alongside Janice Dickinson and special guest Alec Mapa.

We caught up with Margaret to find out what she’s got planned for the big night, who she’s been fucking with a strap-on, and which porn star is her favorite.

So let’s get on with the Cho, shall we?

You’re co-hosting the gay porn awards this year. Is this your dream come true?
Totally! I don’t know why I haven’t done it yet, but I’m thrilled to be doing it now. I’m pretty sure they asked me because I’m a big fan of porn in general, so it seems like the right thing for me. I think it’s going to be really cool.

When Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars, he used to start the show with song-and-dance routines about all the movies. How do you plan to get the party started?
I don’t know yet. I have to figure it out. I could do a song-and-dance. I mean, I really like songs about semen, and this would be the perfect venue for it. It’s essentially preaching to the converted—or to the perverted, as the case may be.

Have you seen very many of the nominated movies?
I haven’t actually. I need to be a member of the academy, so that I can get all that stuff for, um, research. Yeah.

Speaking of sexy award nominees, what was up with Sean Penn’s package in Milk?
Oh, my God! It was hot! He looked just like Harvey Milk—it was trippy. I think it was historically appropriate that his crotch was so big.

You’ve talked a lot in your stand-up about how gay porn has been part of your life. What’s your relationship to it now?
Well, now I’ve kind of gotten more into lesbian porn and kinky porn. Like, I hang out with a lot of the people from Kink.com, so they’re sort of my main porn friends now, but I need to get more into gay porn again. I wanna see more of the kinky leather stuff.

Speaking of Kink.com, have you tried out their Fucking Machine?
Yes! I tried the Sybian—not one of the real elaborate machines—just one of the basic ones. It was sort of like a kinky mechanical bull, which I liked. I would like to try some of the other machines, but I’m sort of scared they might go hay-wire on me, with all the smoke coming out and it would be really scary.

What are your thoughts on slow-mo cum shots?
I like them! You just know someone’s gonna make a movie called Cumdog Millionaire, and it’ll be nothing but slow-mo come shots coming at ya in 3D with really hot Indian guys and Bollywood music. I would totally watch that!

We know that a lot of chicks really dig gay porn, especially lesbians. What do you think that’s about?
I just think it’s hot. I think people can appreciate beautiful people getting it on no matter what. I think it’s the same kind of impulse that men have when they want to watch two women together. I feel like women are very visual, too, and the male form is very beautiful, so I think it’s wonderful.

You’ve been known to take your clothes off a good bit in recent years. If you were in a porn film, what kind would it be?
It would have to be like a hardcore leather movie. Or maybe rubber. I’m such a leather bear—I’m real like that.

Using the porn star equation of your first pet’s name and the name of the street you lived on as a kid, what would your porn star name be?
Lucky Washington, but I think I would just rather be myself. I did burlesque for a little while, but I kept my own name because it gets kind of confusing to have two names.

When’s the last time you fucked someone with a strap-on?
Hmm, what day is this? It was Monday—either Monday or Tuesday. I have a good strap-on because it’s a modified double-edge dildo so that instead of a harness, one end of it sticks in you. It’s so good. Lesbian engineering lately has gotten so off the chain, so I’m really happy about that.

You’ve talked a lot about body image in the gay community and how it’s affected by things like the media. Do you think there’s a possibility for porn to combat that at all?
I hope that there is. I think there is potential for that. Still, a lot of it perpetuates the body tyranny of slenderness and fitness, but I think there’s an opportunity in porn to really educate people and change their minds about different kinds of shapes and sizes and how everybody can be sexy. I think people would buy that—I do. The thing that I love about the way that my friends at Kink.com do it is that there’s a lot of variety and they show different kinds of beautiful and different kinds of shapes and sizes and ages. I feel like in the gay community, outside of the bears, there is less of that kind of accessibility or freedom in terms of what they feel is beautiful. So it’s a little bit of a tougher situation—and probably a tougher sell—but you know the gay boys.

Who is your favorite gay porn star?
Jeff Stryker. I mean, honey please, he’s the one that you need to know.

Can you give us a preview of something you might be commenting on at the GayVNs?
Well, I’ve been doing lots of sucking, and I think there’s, like, no ergonomic way to give head. My neck is so sore—I have hooker whiplash. Also, when you fuck a lot of people, like I’ve been known to, you get a lot of different kinds of jizz. This one guy that I fucked, his cum was super-clear, like aloe—like you could put it on a cut and it would heal. So I’m going to be talking about stuff like that. I won’t be holding back at all!

Perfect. If you were cast in a porn movie, which of your co-hosts would you want to do a scene with: Alec Mapa or Janice Dickinson?
I’d like to do it with both of them. I love that! I would have to be the bottom—always and forever—and I think it would be really, really fun.

I see Janice as a top, but Alec?
Yeah, why not? It could happen! I think it would be hot. Maybe we could even win an award next year for best three-way!

You’ve got our vote!

The GayVN Awards will be held on March 22 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

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Palm Springs, CA – (February 27, 2009) Emmy winning actress and comedian Kathy Griffin will be honored with the 321st Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. The star will be unveiled at 172 N. Palm Canyon Drive at 1:00 pm on Saturday March 7, 2009. Robert Alexander, President of the Palm Springs Walk of Stars, will preside over the event and promises surprises. The public and media are invited to attend.

Kathy Griffin, a multi-faceted performer with rapid-fire wit, is probably best known for her four-year stint on the hit NBC sitcom, Suddenly Susan as Vickie Groener, Brooke Shields’ acerbic colleague. After moving west from her native Chicago, Kathy joined the famed Los Angeles Groundlings comedy improvisational troupe and began building her resume with guest starring roles on such hit TV series as ER and SEINFELD.

After her various TV guest spots, Kathy began gaining notice as a stand-up comedienne and landed her own HBO Half Hour Comedy Special. In 1998, HBO gave Kathy her own One-Hour Special, A Hot Cup of Talk. Kathy has supplied voices for characters on the animated series Dilbert and The Simpsons, and she appeared in a dual role on The X-Files as well as in Eminem’s video, The Real Slim Shady. Kathy has co-hosted The Billboard Music Awards three years in a row; appeared on numerous talk shows including Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Howard Stern, and The View, as well as being featured in the films It’s Pat and Four Rooms, among others.

Kathy has a great passion for reality TV. She participated in, and won, Celebrity Mole on ABC, and then hosted the NBC reality series, Average Joe, as well as the MTV series, Kathy’s So-Called Reality. Kathy has performed two very successful stand-up specials for Bravo; the first in 2005 called Kathy Griffin ….Is Not Nicole Kidman and the second in May of 2006 called Strong Black Woman. Kathy’s DVD stand-up special, Allegedly is in stores now. In August 2005 Kathy’s reality show, Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List debuted on Bravo to rave reviews, and has won her 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program. June 5th Bravo will air Kathy’s latest stand-up special and the third season of Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List.

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“I’m convinced someone is going to murder me”

‘I’m convinced someone is going to murder me,’ reveals Pete Wentz
Pete Wentz could have been the next Beckham, but gave it all up to form Fall Out Boy. Bad move? Well… he’s now a music and style icon who earns millions - and he even has a pop-star wife

By Jon Wilde

Last updated at 11:20 PM on 28th February 2009

Looking at the queue that snakes along New York’s Broadway, it would be fair to assume that thousands have turned out for a glimpse of Tom Cruise, the star guest on tonight’s David Letterman show. But then Fall Out Boy pull up in a limousine and, from the deafening cheers, it’s clear that most have come to see America’s coolest pop-punk band.

Band leader Pete Wentz leads the charge into the building. Diminutive at 5ft 6in, he looks every inch the rock star in shades and hip-clinging leather. In recent years, he’s become one of the most talked-about artists on the planet. He has bipolar disorder and hit the headlines in February 2005 after overdosing on prescription drugs. Further notoriety was achieved last year with marriage to singer Ashlee Simpson (Jessica’s sister) and the birth of their son, Bronx.

Born in Chicago, Wentz, 29, showed an early talent for football, but in 2001 he formed Fall Out Boy with guitarist Joe Trohman. Their breakthrough came in 2005, with the album From Under The Cork Tree selling 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning them a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Their most recent album, Folie à Deux, was released in December. Wentz also co-owns bars in New York, Chicago and Barcelona, and lives in Los Angeles

I refuse to answer my front door because I’m convinced someone is going to murder me.

I used to think that some day I’d end up murdering a close friend or relative. Now it’s reversed and I’m convinced it’s going to happen to me. That’s the way I’m going out, I’m completely sure of it. So I refuse to answer the front door – it greatly minimises that risk.

I never want to hear Jeff Buckley’s ‘Hallelujah’ again – it was playing when I overdosed in 2005.

It’s a hard song for me to listen to now, because it brings the moment back so vividly. It’s become such a popular song that it’s always on at parties these days, and I have to leave the room.

While I’ll always be bipolar, I find it easier to deal with now.

I remember being extremely happy at the age of four. I went to visit an aunt in Switzerland and remember feeling ecstatic the entire summer. But now is even better. With marriage and fatherhood, I’ve finally found two fixed points in my life. They’ve taught me patience. They’ve also taught me that I don’t need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

If I didn’t have a baby I’d have a chimp.

In 2007, my band did a video for the single Thanks For The Memories with chimpanzees playing the parts of the director and make-up artists. They were amazing to interact with. There was this one chimp that kept putting his arm around me like he was trying to tell me, ‘I want to be your buddy.’ I felt completely safe around them. Only later did the trainer tell me that he’d had his thumb bitten off by a chimp. Even so, I’d work with them again like a shot. They’re great company. I just hope I never get into a fight with one. Those guys are a lot stronger than me.

If I’d kept all the underwear that has been thrown at me on stage I could open a very large department store.

I never know if it’s used or unused underwear – I’ve never investigated it that closely. I’ve usually got better things to do after a show, like speak on the telephone with my wife.

Until I became a dad I never knew peace of mind.

In the past my brain would never stop. Now I’m a father the world no longer revolves around me. When I’m with Bronx, he’s got my complete attention. He’s the only thing that occupies my thoughts. It fascinates me to speculate on what he’s thinking and feeling at any given moment. I also love to speculate about what kind of man he’s going to become. He could be another Neil Armstrong or Christopher Columbus. Who is he going to fall in love with? What’s his hair going to be like when he’s 15? Then, while I’m fantasising about all this stuff, he’ll go to put his hand in his mouth and end up smacking himself in the eye. He’s the single greatest achievement of my life.

If you’re going to be my friend, you need to know the difference between the real person and the rock star.

Judy Garland used to say that people would go to bed with the actress and wake up with the person. I can relate to that. If I’ve learnt one thing it’s that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they’ve concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide and some people think I’m showing them the whole room. But all they’re getting is a glimpse. That’s all I want to show most people.

To get our son to sleep we play him Bob Dylan’s ‘You Belong To Me’.

Or a little Sinatra. My boy’s probably the last person in the world to appreciate my singing voice. Although I wrote a lullaby especially for him – you’ll find it on our new album if you look hard enough – it’s a hidden track. We had so much fun doing it I’m going to put out an album of songs for children.

My recurring nightmare is finding that Johnny Depp has joined our band.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy’s work. But imagine being in a band with someone who’s a million times better-looking and charming than yourself. I wouldn’t stand a chance. Same goes for Barack Obama. How could I say no if he wanted to join the band? Maybe he could do some dancing at the side of the stage. That would be cool.

Fame Kills Friendships

A lot of famous people have said that it’s not they who have changed, but the people around them. You’ve just got to look out for the ones who love the hotel suites more than you. Some people happen to be pretty adept at mimicking love and true friendship. Sometimes you have to let friends go, and it’s never easy. But my coat-tails are only so long. They’ll only take so much weight.

I’m more comfortable on stage in front of 40,000 people than having a conversation with two people I don’t know too well.

Hell to me is walking into a room full of complete strangers. I don’t like any kind of attention that I’m not in control of. That’s not easy to avoid when you’re in a successful band.

I’d sooner go bald than get fat.

And I’d never settle for the Bobby Charlton comb-over. When it’s time for the hair to go, you can’t fight it. Let it go gracefully. Also, I’m not likely to grow a beard any time soon. The Beatles had the best beards in rock. They reached beard nirvana. There’s no point trying to compete.

I finally found a reason to respect George W Bush.

It was after the shoe-throwing incident – when those shoes came at him, his reflexes were so impressive. It made me think that maybe he wasn’t a great president, but he’d be fun to go out with for a few drinks.

My most prized possession is a set of 7ft tall Simpsons characters.

My wife got them, and when my family’s away they keep me company. The only thing I’d prize more is the typewriter on which Jack Kerouac wrote On The Road. I’d love to write on that thing. I’m sure I’d write at a genius level.

Football was an easier option for me, but I chose music because it felt like more of an adventurous walk into the unknown.

If I hadn’t become a musician I’m sure I could have carved out a decent career as a footballer. I loved playing the sport and there was no feeling that came close to scoring a great goal or going on a great run down the
right wing and putting over a perfect cross. Doing things with the ball was a natural instinct for me. I was pretty good at it until I got bitten by the music bug. To really make it as a professional footballer, you need to be completely single-minded. Music won out in the end.

I feel a real affinity with Darth Vader.

Villains are just more interesting to me. Most of the time I’m a good villain. I’ve got a loud bark and a soft bite. I’ve got a villainous streak, but I’m no Mussolini. Even on a bad day I draw the line at fascism.

Fall Out Boy’s album ‘Folie à Deux’ is out now.

For UK tour details visit falloutboyrock.com
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For the TL;DR Crowd:
Pete Wentz is a crackhead. -The end.
Seriously if you have the time read it!!!

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it’s a movie poster post!

~click on the movie titles for the trailer

An American Affair | American Violet

Bart Got a Room | Battle for Terra

The Burning Plain | The Caller

Closed for Winter | Crank 2

Crossing Over | Benjamin Button (i love this poster)

Disgrace | Echelon Conspiracy

Everlasting Moments | Evilution

Explicit Ills | Franklyn

Grace | Hannah Montana

A Haunting in Connecticut | Helen


The Horsemen

Hunger | I Love You, Man

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | The International

Lymelife | Mary & Max

Must Read After my Death | The Objective

Observe & Report | Phoebe in Wonderland

Pontypool | Private Lives of Pippa Lee (julianne moore should be the focus of the poster, tbh)

The Reader (i forgot to see this) | Red Cliff


Sherman’s Way | Sin Nombre

Sleep Delayer | Spinning into Butter (poor carrie bradshaw)

Summer Hours | Pelham 123

Tokyo! | 12 Rounds

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it’s a movie poster post!

~click on the movie titles for the trailer

An American Affair | American Violet

Bart Got a Room | Battle for Terra

The Burning Plain | The Caller

Closed for Winter | Crank 2

Crossing Over | Benjamin Button (i love this poster)

Disgrace | Echelon Conspiracy

Everlasting Moments | Evilution

Explicit Ills | Franklyn

Grace | Hannah Montana

A Haunting in Connecticut | Helen


The Horsemen

Hunger | I Love You, Man

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | The International

Lymelife | Mary & Max

Must Read After my Death | The Objective

Observe & Report | Phoebe in Wonderland

Pontypool | Private Lives of Pippa Lee (julianne moore should be the focus of the poster, tbh)

The Reader (i forgot to see this) | Red Cliff


Sherman’s Way | Sin Nombre

Sleep Delayer | Spinning into Butter (poor carrie bradshaw)

Summer Hours | Pelham 123

Tokyo! | 12 Rounds

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Ville Valo Interview with Metal Hammer
Today’s edition lets you know what you can expect from the return of HIM.

“We’re in the songwriting phase, but I always am so it never stops,” explains HIM frontman Ville Valo. “The idea is to write number one hits songs… 13 of them,” he adds with a wry smile. “We’ll figure out who’ll produce it and head into the studio in March or April. Hopefully we’ll be done by the festival season and be able to play new songs there. If the album doesn’t come out in autumn or winter 2009, it’ll be early 2010.”

So what can we expect from the new HIM album?

“I haven’t talked to the band for long yet, but I want to keep the songs all under five minutes and make them really punky and direct. When I say punky I don’t mean sounding like punk, I mean punk in feel. Not so much ear candy. I love over-produced albums but we’ve never tried a more stripped-down, simple approach in a Search And Destroy Iggy Pop and the Stooges type vibe. It’ll still be wanky and melancholy and have all those HIM elements, but just not so much ear candy. Venus Doom was quite a proggy album for us so I’m thinking of doing the opposite with this one.”

And as he explains, being sober has brought out his inner bastard, which we will hear on the new material: “I’m more pissed off and more aggressive. There’s no buffer between me and the real world so I’m the proper cunt I was meant to be.”

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Cancer-stricken British reality TV star Jade Goody raises doubts about Shilpa’s victory in her autobiography Jade: Catch A Falling Star. She mentioned in the book that the win was planned. Jade who has slurred Shilpa on the show had the impression that the producer of the show had some coordination with Shilpa.

"I got the impression that the producers jumped through hoops for Shilpa Shetty. This was magnified in my mind because in the house she informed us of certain things (obviously none of this was screened, though)”, Jade wrote. "Shilpa specifically told us all she had insisted on certain clauses in her contract. One was that if she went into the diary room and asked for something (within reason) she would get it,’" the autobiography further read.

Jade in her book further acknowledged that she had passed some dirty comments to Shilpa. "Yes, I said those things and they are nasty, but I am not a racist… I shouldn’t have done that," she apologized. After the show, Jade went into depression and was admitted to rehabilitation centre. She was also diagnosed with cancer when she came to India to participate on the reality show Bigg Boss in which Shilpa was the host.

Post Big Brother, both Shilpa and Jade became friends and Jade even invited Shilpa to her wedding.

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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody left her home yesterday to go to a nearby hospice after suffering from hallucinations.

The 27-year-old emerged for the first time in days side-by-side with new husband Jack Tweed at around 5pm. Despite obvious discomfort, she managed to slowly walk to her car unassisted, even waving to waiting photographers.

Sucking on a pain relief stick and dressed in a loose white sweatshirt and trousers, Jade told photographers she would be ‘going away for a few days’.

She then made the ten-minute journey to St Clare Hospice, where she was driven to a back entrance to be met by nursing staff.

The hospice offers both in-patient care and day therapies for patients with serious illnesses, such as cancer.

The reality TV star’s admittance came following an earlier visit from a specialist cancer nursing team.

Her publicist Max Clifford said she would spend the weekend at the hospice to get her pain medication adjusted.

‘She was in a very frail state,’ he said.

The terrifying hallucinations, caused by her medication, left her ’shaking like a leaf’ and asking: ‘Where am I?’.

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