From the monthly archives:
A few days before he was shot in the leg at Kanye West’s pre-MTV awards party, Suge Knight gave an interview with a journalist from XXL magazine. In it, he claimed "I don’t walk in fear."
Now, after the doctors have removed the bullet that he possibly shot into his own leg by accident, chances are he doesn’t walk at all.
Because games don’t have to be old to be forgotten…
If you told the moral guardians of the world to go away and write a list of what would constitute the most shocking video game they could think of, there’s a very good chance they’d come up with something similar to State Of Emergency, released in 2001. Short of nun-rape, it pretty much ticked all the boxes.
The opening level was set in a huge shopping mall during a riot. You had to blast, stab and bludgeon your way through a number of missions which involved exploding stores, shoplifting and killing. Morally unsound? Why, yes. Fun? Like you wouldn’t believe…
There’s nothing worse than someone saying "I told you so". Especially when they didn’t tell anyone so in the first place.
When it comes to being dumped by Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow is a veteran. She and Brad were engaged last decade, but it all ended badly. So you’d have thought that Gwyneth would have understood exactly what Jennifer Aniston is going through at the moment – maybe even offered her services as a shoulder to cry on.
Well, that’s not exactly what she’s gone and done.
Let’s see: Crazy hair? Check. Funny voice? Check. Ridiculous use of the word "Groovy"? Check. A song called Sail On A Rainbow? Check. An unnerving tendency to dress his son up as a mini-me version of himself? Check.
Let’s face it, it was never going to be a big surprise that Art Garfunkel liked to smoke pot, was it?
Tim Burton pretty much surprised everyone with Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. People were just starting to write him off as the lame-o director of the – let’s be honest – awful films Planet Of The Apes and Big Fish.
But then Charlie And The Chocolate Factory actually turned out to be pretty fantastic. Was it a fluke? Well, judging by the press for his new film The Corpse Bride, no.
The Corpse Bride is a Tim Burton animation in the style of The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s about a dead woman wanting to marry you (a situation we’re frankly already pretty bloody sick of) or something. Anyway, it looks good, and it stars the vocal talents of Burton mainstays Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
To promote the release of The Corpse Bribe, something called Bonymail has been invented. You can draw or write a message on an online mirror and then send it to your friends, who see it drawn by a spooky hand. You can write whatever you want, but if you’ve got the same white hot intellectual wit as we have, you’ll just draw a cock and write the word ‘shit’ underneath it.
But the fun doesn’t stop there. There’s also a Corpse Bride Ouija board to try out – in case you’re so hopeless at determining the course of your own life that you need to ask a pretend dead skeleton – and a creepy video in a graveyard to watch. Because we love you, and the Corpse Bride loves you.
Sharon Stone, star of such classic movies as Catwoman and Sliver, apparently endangered the life of Bono and Bill Clinton by leaving her apartment.
Ah, we’ve made it sound more interesting than it is again…
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The life of a TV star is a hard one. While moviestars are regularly chased down streets by swarms of hormone-crazed fans, the nearest thing to recognition most TV stars get is when an old lady at a bus stop says things like "You’re him, aren’t you? Thing. Off the advert".
However, next month the TV stars will get their time in the spotlight. The Emmy Awards are the TV Oscars, where endless trophies are handed out in a great big celebration of TV smugness. And where there’s an awards ceremony, there’s an opportunity to make money from it.
Until the ceremony takes place on September 18th, we’ll be profiling the betting odds of the nominees in some of the biggest Emmy categories. And today, with the help of the good ship Betfair.com, we’re finishing our look at the actors up for the Best Comedy Actor award…
A few months ago, you couldn’t move round these parts for rabid James Bond speculation. Who was going to play Bond? Pierce Brosnan? Daniel Craig? Clive Owen? MC Hammer? Dr Fox? Witchy Mary from Big Brother?
Truth be told, we’re still none the wiser. Although we’re pretty sure it won’t be Brosnan. But we’re kind of expecting the new Bond film – Casino Royale – to be relentlessly miserable and downbeat. Why? Because 007 producers have asked Paul Haggis – writer of Million Dollar Baby – to rewrite it.
