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Guilty Pleasure: David Copperfield Loves the Internet
Amanda Nachman | June 7th, 2012
Our most beloved magician, David Copperfield, joined Reddit this week to answer users’ burning questions from his first trick to why a magician would embrace the all-tricks-revealing Internet.
Viral Obama Video: Call Me Maybe
Amanda Nachman | June 6th, 2012
via flickr user jurvetson
My first thought: This video must have taken hours. My second: this is priceless. Check out the video…
Guilty Pleasure: Gwyneth Paltrow’s N-Word Blunder
Daily Download Team | June 4th, 2012
Gwyneth Paltrow has found herself in unfamiliar territory: At the center of a controversy.
The normally tapioca-bland “Iron Man” actress has come under fire, after tweeting a racial slur.
Guilty Pleasure: Billionaire Investor vs Rapper Drake
Amanda Nachman | June 1st, 2012
Via flickr user eastscene
Where on earth would rapper Drake and T. Boone Pickens, the chairman of BP have a conversation? Drake certainly didn’t headline a recent BP gathering. Instead we have Twitter to thank for bringing the two together.
Guilty Pleasure: The Problem with HBO’s Girls?–The Guys
Daily Download Team | May 31st, 2012
Actor James Franco drips with contempt for the HBO series Girls:
“The guys in the show are the biggest bunch of losers I’ve ever seen. There is a drip who gets dumped because he bores his girlfriend; a dad who hits on his babysitter; a bevy of wussy hipsters who are just grist for the insatiable lust of the too-cool girl with the British accent; and the king of them all, the shirtless dude who talks funny and hides his stomach all the time. I know this sorry representation of men is fair payback for the endless parade of airheaded women on the West Coast male counterpart to Girls, Entourage, which in turn was fair payback for the cast of male dorks on Sex in the City.”
Wow. He’s ticked off.
Guilty Pleasure: Rescuing ’50 Shades of Grey’
Daily Download Team | May 30th, 2012
A Florida library system had banned the S&M-themed novel as pornographic. But thanks to an outcry, it’s BACK!
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Kurtz & Sharon Waxman on Barack Obama, Hollywood Celebs and Bill Clinton
June 9th, 2012Does President Obama’s Hollywood hang time look different from L.A.? How about Bill Clinton’s political freelancing? The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman talks to Howard Kurtz in an East-West cultural exchange.
Fast Chat: BlackBerry’s Dominance Slipping in Last Bastion: D.C.
June 8th, 2012Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz are still addicted to their devices. But the percentage of BlackBerry users among government users is dropping dramatically. Could Washington become an iPhone town?
Ashburn & Kurtz: Obama Slight Favorite to Win, But Dems Are Panicking
June 8th, 2012Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz analyze the latest prediction from 538 blogger Nate Silver that the president has a 60 percent chance of winning—but economic bad news could change that dramatically. They also examine Eleanor Clift’s report in the Daily Beast that Democrats are starting to hit the panic button.
Is Mitt Romney a Narc?
June 8th, 2012Mitt Romney opposes marijuana legalization. We get it. But acting as a narc (short for Narcotics officer/tattle-tale) is an entirely different story.
Gawker reports that Romney, on a walk on the beach with his wife, confronted his neighbor, Mr. Quint, who was smoking marijuana. Later on an officer told Quint that his neighbors had complained about his pot smoking, insinuating Romney as the tattle-tale.
Bill Clinton Suffers in the Twitter Age
June 8th, 2012Bill Clinton is taking a lot of heat from Democrats. He’s on the hot seat for defending Bain capital and favoring an extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Even more concerning, Clinton’s words have somehow ended up in Mitt Romney’s press releases. What’s the deal, Bill?
