sex and the city

The Week in Gossip: Operation Winehouse

Friday, January 16th, 2009

They tried to make me go to a health spa, and I just crawled, crawled, crawled…Amy Winehouse, who is supposed to be detoxing at the Le Sport Spa in the Caribbean, is keeping a low profile—so to speak. Winehouse is so hard-up for a drink that she’s getting on all fours, crawling up to tables, and stealing drinks from other guests—which leads me to our quote of the week: A source at the resort told The Sun that they keep catching Winehouse “crawling past bars, or hiding behind chairs. She grabs guests’ drinks and runs off, like a squirrel with a nut.”

Question: Who packs an empty (but very real) grenade into his carry-on luggage? Answer: Johnny Jackass. LAX security officers noticed a suspicious-looking explosive in Johnny Knoxville’s bag yesterday and pulled him aside for investigation. No explosives were in tow, but a legit grenade was definitely on board. Ha. Ha. Ha. Knoxville was given a citation and promptly released to go make his flight. Special treatment much? [UPDATE: Knoxville says a wardrobe assistant had put the prop in his suitcase.]

Wanna see Ryan Seacrest get the cold shoulder from Brangelina at the Golden Globes? Pop some popcorn. This is good! (And in less important news: Kate Winslet was a big winner, taking home two globes. Slumdog Millionaire went all Michael Phelps on us too, with four globes. “30 Rock” kicked ass, as usual. And then there was Mickey Rourke.) For more serious coverage of the Globes, click here.

Who’s itching for a little more attention before the cool kid comes to town? I’ll give you one guess.

Spears and Poehler and Duff, Oh My! Sarah Jessica Parker reportedly wants Brit-Brit to partake in the Sex and the City movie sequel. Perhaps we should remind SJP that Brit’s last trip to the box office was for a little whoop-dee-doo called “Crossroads,” which proved to be a total flop. In small screen news, Amy Poehler will star in a new “Office”-inspired sitcom on NBC. The sitcom will follow the ins-and-outs of small-town government bureaucrats. Hmm. Finding humor in the incompetence of our government officials and administrators? Sounds more like the “Twilight Zone” to me! And here’s the real kicker: Hillary Duff will star in a new legal sitcom on NBC. Yes, that’s right—a legal sitcom. Duff will play a young lawyer in a Doogie Howser-ish sort of role. The name of the series? “Barely Legal.” And no, it’s not a porno.

TOP GUN OF THE WEEK: Chelsey B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, the “Hero of the Hudson.” Can I get a “W00t! W00t!” for the pilot who kept calm and kicked ass when his plane lost both of its go-go-gadget engines yesterday? Sully’s four decades of experience saved 155 lives, including that of an infant’s, when he managed to execute an impromptu landing in the Hudson River.  Bad. Ass.

And finally — Beyoncé, is that YOU? . . .

Hillary’s manhood problem

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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Sen. Hillary Clinton “makes Rocky look like a pansy,” according to the North Carolina governor. She has “testicular fortitude,” in the words of one labor leader. In contrast, she’s behind shirts with pantsuits on them.

Say what?

Feminism isn’t the same now in the wake of the Clintons. And the Hillary Clinton campaign is partly responsible for femininity’s evolution. Clinton changed the way we view women, but in the process has changed feminism: from equality between genders, to expectation among genders.

And what better way to crystallize this than the success, fanfare and excesses of Sex and the City the movie… to remind yourself that men come and go, but three sidekicks and a ludicrous wardrobe make life worth living while you traverse a swampy city.

But what Sex and the City hits on is a female camaraderie, that when one is down, another will be there for a pick up. The franchise is marked by an odd hedonism and materialism, but gentle female blood exists. As women are there to pick another up, it is the downtrodden women whose responsibility it becomes to never forget.

Like how they’ll never forget Peggy Agar.

Agar is a reporter in Detroit. She harangued Barack Obama, trying to get a question off about autoworkers while he was touring a Chrysler factory.

“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’ll do a press avail, thanks,” the Illinois senator said.

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