Celebrity Kink

· Music round-up: !!! at Avalon; Klaxons at the Henry Fonda; Hello Stranger at the Roxy.
· Carol Muske-Dukes signs Channeling Mark Twain at Dutton’s, her novel about a newlywed “who becomes increasingly, and perhaps dangerously, involved with the female inmates who attend her jailhouse poetry workshops.” We’ve already cast Hilary Swank in the eventual feature […]

All the hard work that Tom Cruise and the Valkyrie team spent convincing a stubbornly indecisive German government to allow their film to shoot in the Bendlerblock, one of its most hallowed landmarks, was nearly squandered when a pranstker insensitive to their shooting location’s place in the country’s history decided to interrupt a respectful moment […]

CNN.com is reporting that Judge Larry Paul Fidler has just declared a Phil Spector mistrial, the hung jury still split 10-2. (That means there’s been three converts since the original 7-5, but we don’t yet know if favor of what.) We’re not sure what we’re supposed to be feeling right now; we’re mulling outrage, but […]

Just in case the poor, overexcited extra who unwisely spilled George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull secrets to his hometown paper last week was clinging to any crazy hopes that all would be quickly forgiven and forgotten, one look at this image jumping from studio inbox to […]

Perhaps concerned that the public might not be internalizing the post-incarceration “Paris Hilton is now a productive, selfless, and globally aware member of society” message they’re pushing as quickly as they’d planned, Hilton’s image-rehabilitation team is temporarily tabling those obviously ineffective Children’s Hospital drop-ins in favor of a more dramatic plan: a trip to Rwanda, […]