pop culture
06/06/2007
Akon: Caught on Tape (Again)
Don't let that sweet voice fool you -- Akon is a straight-up thug. At least when it comes to little kids. Less than a month after losing his Verizon endorsement deal for his raunchy dry-humping session with a 15-year-old girl at a concert in Trinidad, the Grammy-nominated ex-con (and proud polygamist) decided to rough-up another teenager onstage while camera phones were rolling. And it's pretty nasty.
Reports are circulating that police have tracked down the young (and, hopefully, former) fan and are considering criminal charges. We wonder what Akon would have done if the guy who threw something at him wasn't 98 pounds. Maybe he'll find out if he goes back to the joint. (For another clip of the fan-tossing, click here.)
03/09/2007
Perez Hilton on Stage at Christina Aguilera Concert
As for Christina, it seems like she was the wrong tree. In this shaky video clip from Christina’s recent show at the Staples Center, Perez is strapped into the stage looking somewhere between shocked and dumbfounded. Surrounded by a harem of leather-clad dancers, Christina was not afraid to abuse the power of whips and leather. But maybe, she should have found some male back-up dancers for this bit. Then, power-player Perez might have looked like he was actually having fun!
UPDATE: This video has been removed due to a copyright claim by Recording Industry Association of America
01/17/2007
Sacha Baron Cohen Makes Fart Jokes
This Monday the man behind Borat - and future People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive according to my mother - accepted the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Musical or Comedy). Cohen delighted and disgusted the audience to a behind the scenes tale of Borat's most notorious scene. In his speech, he truly proves to be the quintessential Jewish comedian - finding that perfect balance between the political, the psychological, and the scatological.
I am proud to have Sacha Baron Cohen as my generation's most venerable
comedian. It isn't often that someone this radically liberal,
fearlessly confrontational, yet still refreshingly sophomoric comes
along.
01/02/2007
Britney Spears' Boozy New Year's Eve Shout-Out
Oh Britney. We knew it wouldn't be long before you fell back into the cultural dialogue. Sure, the world recently beheaded a murderous dictator and lost a former president and the Godfather of Soul, but what's news without a little drunken, careening Brit-Brit to get one's blood rushing?
According to none other than Robin Leach(!):
Less than one hour into the New Year, pop-princess Britney Spears collapsed at the PURE nightclub inside Caesars Palace. Just 50 minutes earlier, she had hosted two countdowns to usher in the New Year...
Mystery now surrounds Britney's collapse early this morning. She had been seated on a VIP tented-cabana bed overlooking the dance floor at 12:50AM talking with one of her male dancers. She intimated she wanted to leave and as she stood up, "she went into a dead faint and just fell right to the floor."
The Spears camp is denying any alcoholic involvement in the fainting and instead asserts that Brit-Brit, like any new mother, was just too damn tired for NYE.
Whatever, both versions are fine by us; fainting is just so medievally melodramatic! To showcase our devotion, here's a thoroughly inaudible clip of the poptart just after she rings in the New Year and just before she hits the floor. Enjoy!
