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While You Were Sleeping: The Next Major Blockbuster Is...

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Has the Senate ever been this entertaining? Between Dick Cheney swearing in a shit-eating-grin-sportin' Joe Biden to Roland Burris, barbarian at the gate?

Aubrey O'Day will receive one half million smackers to allow her boobies to appear in Playboy.

We have to admit, we're skeptical the "safe sex" soap opera can convince teens of anything.

This will either be worse than Rocky V or even better than First Blood: Part Two.

How the hell do you win the lottery 21 times? Probably by buying all the tickets.

According to Forbes, the most boring big city in the country is in... Arizona. Runners up include... cities in Arizona.

The next big movie event involves Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. Oh, and don't forget Tintin.

Will Ferrell is about to kick off his George Bush spoof on Broadway.

Did you hear about the woman who set her husband's nuts on fire? She killed him and burned her house down, and now she's being charged with murder, having confessed to her neighbors that she did it because if she couldn't have his dick, no one could.

Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton died. At least we can say we saw them twice...

And in Virgina, a six-year-old boy missed the school bus, so he did the next best thing, as his grandfather would've instructed: he ~~walked~~ stole the family car, with predictable results.

Top 10 Rich People Who Look Poor

Emily Farris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:45:00 GMT

When we were growing up, our mom always said "just because we're poor doesn't mean we have to look poor." But over the last few years we've seen people dressing like they're poor no matter how much money they have. Here we've compiled the top 10 rich people who look poor.

10. Peter Jackson
Producer/director Peter Jackson looks like he should be driving his El Camino (unironically) through the Burger King Drive Thru on his way to work at the video store. However, we do have to admit that this picture is old and he's looking much better these days; in fact, we'd probably make out with him now.

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9. Penny Marshall
While it actually kind-of works for her, Penny Marshall doesn't exactly dress like she's raking it in from her big-time directing jobs.

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8. Tom from MySpace
Seriously, this guy sold MySpace to Rupert Murdoch for how many millions of dollars? You'd think he might want to change out of that t-shirt and put up a new picture. Maybe he could even afford a digital camera with a better DPI? Stop trying to be "one of us," Tom (if that really even is your name). You sold out a long time ago, and now MySpace sucks. The ads make it soooo sloooow. Do you have any idea how long it took us to grab this picture?

7. Si Newhouse
The Chairman and CEO of Advance Mags/Conde Nast is often spotted around 4 Times Square in "a well worn sweatshirt." While we could not secure photographic evidence of said sweatshirt, our many sources inside Conde Nast have confirmed this to be true.

6. Either of The Olsen Twins at Any Given Moment
While they're starting to grow out of it, the Olsen Twins defined hobo chic or boho or homeless chic or whatever the hell you want to call it. And if you've ever seen them wandering the streets of New York, you, too, may have mistaken them for malnourished homeless people who spent their $6/day sweatshop salaries on Starbucks.

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5. Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty's look seems to always scream (or whimper) "Please sir, may I have some more?," whether he's asking for food, clothes or heroin.

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4. Nick Nolte
We don't think anyone will ever again think of Nick Nolte without thinking of this picture.

3. Britney Spears
There are just some things no amount of money could ever fix (though the Fiji water is definitely expensive, as far as bottled water goes).

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2. Trust Fund Hipsters
These kids spend a lot of their parents' money to look like they're forced to shop at the Salvation Army. The expensive coke also helps with the "too poor to buy groceries" look.

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1. Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse is worth at least £10 million. She tops our list because not only does she look poor, she smokes crack, just to keep it real.

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Runner Up: Courtney Love
We know Courtney Love is supposed to be all Seattle rock grunge or whatever, but we really just want to give her some eye make-up remover and take her on a shopping spree (except we can't, because we really are poor).

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2009 and 2010 May Bring Even More Hobbit Love

Bryan Christian — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:27:00 GMT

Last we'd heard on the prospects of a Hobbit adaptation coming to the big screen, Peter Jackson had basically gotten himself kicked off the project by raising a fuss over his cut from those three other Tolkien movies he did a while back. But no, today comes word that all is well-and-good-ish between Jackson and New Line, and that Jackson will go ahead and exec-produce a two part, four hour version of the Lord of the Rings prequel. Jackson will be taking in 50% of the profits, which sounds bonkers to us, but maybe New Line couldn't find the upside to doing a Jackson-less version, lest the fanboys rebel in droves, and just threw money at him.

You know, the Lord of the Rings movies were on TNT this weekend, all in a row, and although we really like the second movie, we couldn't help but feel nervous as the third one started wrapping up. Not because of the high stakes, big battles, or whatever -- because we were trying to figure out when to turn it off to avoid all the hugging Hobbits at the end. Seriously, what was that? One minute you're fighting an epic throwdown with Orcs and Mastadons vs. Elves and Zombies, and the next thing you know, it's a half-hour Hobbit slumber party? Just get on the damn boat or whatever! Thankfully, as we remember The Hobbit, it's a pretty lean adventure story, and there aren't too many other citizens of the Shire in it besides Bilbo Baggins, so maybe we'll be spared so much Hobbit-on-Hobbit subtext this time?