Add comedienne Rosie O’Donnell and veteran Harrison Ford to the growing list of celebrities joining Team Conan; both believe Jay Leno should hit the bricks and let his Tonight Show successor, Conan O’Brien, continue hosting the show.
(I still like Letterman’s idea of letting the guys share co-hosting duties….)
The former View moderator shared her view after [...]
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Harrison Ford, Rosie O’Donnell Weigh In On Jay/Conan Debacle
January 15th, 2010 |
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Jimmy Kimmel Jay Leno “Ten@Ten†[VIDEO]
January 15th, 2010 |
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On last night’s Jay Leno Show, Strong Jaw went one-on-one with Jimmy Kimmel, who impersonated Leno beneath a grey wig and fake chin on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night. In a word, Leno got murked.
Leno doesn’t appear to be winning anyone over with his move to retake The Tonight Show, as Jimmy [...]
Rosie O’Donnell New Girlfriend Tracy Kachtick-Anders
December 30th, 2009 |
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The dawning of a new year has brought new love for one former talk show host: Media maven Rosie O’Donnell is romancing artist Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a rep for the star said Wednesday. The news comes just a few months after the mother of four confirmed her split from wife Kelli Carpenter.
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Rosie O’Donnell Sun Comment Controversy
December 7th, 2009 |
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Rosie O’Donnell has been blasted by a cancer awareness group after declaring: “Exposure to the sun isn’t dangerous” to millions of daytime TV viewers.
The radio show host was sitting in as a co-host on The Rachael Ray Show last month when she revealed that she “lives to tan” and vouched for the safety of sunbathing. [...]
Rosie O’Donnell Nearly Hooked Up With Angelina Jolie & Petra Nemcova
October 28th, 2009 |
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Brangelina could have been Rosielina… kind of.
Now that she’s about to rejoin the land of singles, Rosie’s reminiscing about the good old days when she was in the running to be the leading lady of Petra Nemcova and Angelina Jolie.
Blabbing on The Howard Stern Show Monday, Rosie admitted that her relationship with Kelli Carpenter [...]
Brooke Hundley Fired From ESPN?
October 26th, 2009 |
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Brooke Hundley, the ESPN production assistant whose affair with baseball analyst Steve Phillips has been splashed across gossip pages for nearly a week, is no longer employed at the cable network. ESPN has revealed that Hundley no longer works for the company, but declined to say whether or not she was fired.
Steve, what were you [...]
T.R. Knight And Boyfriend Call It Quits
October 21st, 2009 |
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Splits are popping up all over Gay Hollywood this afternoon. Just as Rosie announced strife in her marriage to wife Kelli Carpenter, we received word that former Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight and his boyfriend of two years, Mark Cornelsen, have called it quits.
No word on what caused the parting of the ways, according to [...]
Rosie O’Donnell Kelli Carpenter Split?
October 21st, 2009 |
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Rosie O’Donnell is hinting at a possible split from longtime partner Kelli Carpenter, confessing in a new interview with USA Today that the couple, who wed in San Francisco in 2006 are working on their “issues.â€
“We’re a family. We will remain a family forever. And we are working on our issues,†the former talk [...]
Ashton Kutcher Broadway Debut “The 24 Hour Playsâ€
October 20th, 2009 |
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Ashton Kutcher will make his Broadway debut next month in The 24 Hour Plays – the Twitter king will star in a production written and rehearsed in a single day.
The former That 70s Show prankster is among an ensemble of actors, writers and directors who will produce six short plays for the ninth annual [...]
Symbiosis Gathering | 09.18 – 09.20 | Yosemite
October 3rd, 2009 |
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Words by: Tk Kayembe | Images by: Dave Vann
Symbiosis Gathering 2009 :: 09.18.09 – 09.20.09 :: Camp Mather :: Groveland, CA
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Yosemite, CA hosted the fourth annual Symbiosis Gathering. This year’s event was nestled in Camp Mather bordering the breathtaking Yosemite National Park. The lineup was overwhelming, the site was heavenly and the art installations were unbelievably imaginative; most seeming to be peculiar hallucinations. It was a celestial experience, and like most festivals, to fully comprehend its beauty you would have had to be there; to properly do it justice would take multiple pages and numerous pictures. So, that being said, here are a few highlights from the weekend.
Friday Top 3
1. Flying Lotus
Steve Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, along with his Brainfeeder label mates, seems to be running laps around the hip-hoptronic side of the scene. Fly-Lo’s beats are ingeniously crafted, emphasizing luring offbeat drum samples often tied together with foreign percussion atop jazzy tear-jerking piano, el-p, synth and bass sections. Over the course of his set, genuine bliss was plastered upon his face as he passionately pushed through “Melt” and “Roberta Flack,” dropping plenty of other beat junkie favorites from his collection. Watching the raw emotion he exudes while delicately mixing tracks in and out, fervently tugging at your heartstrings, you realize his music is truly a special gift to this world.
2. Mimosa
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Friday night was unadulterated crunk-hop mayhem. Per usual, Tigran Mimosa‘s set was a multicolored mob scene of freely flowing bodies. Onstage, he had a hoard of dancers, a ring of supporters, who ensured the intensity onstage matched the insanity of the crowd. He seamlessly cycled through originals and appeased the crowd’s hip-hop guilty pleasures with hyphy remixes of “I’m In Love With A Stripper,” amongst others. With queasy, throbbing bass dressed down with 909 claps, Mimosa’s soul penetrating sub-kick hits deep enough to shake your clothes off.
Anahata Pace rocked her Friday mid-afternoon Forest Stage set, coaxing the audience closer and closer towards the front of the stage as her performance took flight. Singing, dancing and sequencing throughout the set, the adorably quirky Anahata proudly maintained the attention of all while progressing through original arrangements. Her voice harbors a whispery calm as peaceful and gentle as a resting infant on a warm afternoon. When addressing her assemblage, she legitimately connects, offering humorous small talk as if we were all old friends catching up. Adorned in a fur cap, lens-less glasses and rose blush dotted cheeks, Anahata’s sound was like a big loving bear hug, squeezing us all.
Saturday Top 3
1. CocoRosie
The dreadfully curious, bizarrely eccentric CocoRosie unambiguously stole the spotlight Saturday afternoon. During the twosome’s set, the stage was a diverse mess of various instruments. An assortment of children’s toys, memorable from my early childhood – bells, shakers, etc. – were efficiently laid out upon a table for a face-painted Bianca (Coco) to meddle with. A few yards away, her sister and musical counterpart, Sierra (Rosie) was stationed beside her harp. Joining them onstage was bassist Josh Werner, human beatbox extraordinaire Spleen, along with a pianist who kept one hand on the keys and the other on a MIDI-keyboard. The quirkiness of “Japan” and haunting melodies of “K-Hole,” “Beautiful Boyz” and Kevin Lyttle cover “Turn Me On” sent chills down my spine, remaining with me for hours after the show was over.
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David Satori and Tommy Cappel of Beats Antique pulled out all the stops on their original handcrafted tilt-a-whirl sound at Symbiosis. Their stellar set stood out amongst others, the stage a busily moving spectacle as Tommy bustled back and forth between live drums and his laptop while David juggled guitar and fiddle lines standing in front of his Mac. Zoe Jakes, an improvisational belly dancer (also part of the Beats Antique troop) contributed her visual magic from the side of the stage. Other highlights included the boys dropping brand new tracks off their latest album, an impromptu duet with LYNX, and the masked dance troops bursting out onstage at the end of the set.
3. !Armageddon Prevention Team
A fun Symbiosis discovery I fell upon, the !Armageddon Prevention Team is a squad of top-notch DJ/producers/performers including (but not limited to) iLL Gates and Chris Sia. During their SG set, the artist collective completely filled up the main stage. The perfect nighttime music, !APT dropped dubby originals and smart remixes, ending their set with a clever mashup featuring an instrumental version of John Lennon’s “Imagine” pasted atop The Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion.”
Sunday Top 3
1. Crying Over Porcelain For No Reason
This may have been my favorite set of the entire weekend. OOAH and edIT of The Glitch Mob combined both of their solo downtempo projects for an exceptionally rare, intimate ante meridiem set. In addition to running the usual Ableton/laptop/MIDI-controller setup, the boys alternated between a heaping Rhodes keyboard as well as Gibson and PRS guitars. OOAH’s of Porcelain, a lot like edIT’s COPFNR, is dominated by tranquil piano chords, smooth harmonizing guitar licks, glitch-y backing drums, and minimal but sexy accompanying vocal samples. Both projects faultlessly capture the true feel of downtempo and are so emotional it can bring a tear to your eye. For nearly two hours the boys went back and forth, trading tracks. The hypnotized crowd fluttered about like untied balloons released into the air as the pair performed “Ants,” “Ashtray,” “You Are the Sun” and other heart-wrenching selections from Crying Over Pros For No Reason, essentially draining the entire album before walking off stage.
2. Random Rab
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The perfect way to start the day, Rab’s lulling tunes pushed the sun up higher into the sky faster than the words out of a coked-out auctioneer’s mouth. His set was deep and intensely seductive, and the enraptured crowd resembled a hulking pendulum swinging back and forth. I’ve never felt such a strong connection with Rab’s music as I had that morning. It was enchanting and drew me in as I enjoyed it thoroughly while fighting off the morning cold with a piping hot mocha.
3. Mala
From packed clubs in Brixton, England to the forests of Yosemite, Mala, one half of the Digital Mystikz, brought originally produced dubstep to the ears of many on Sunday morn. The veteran vinylist, needing nothing more than two Technics turntables, a mixer, and an armful of records, quickly had the air thick with dub breaks. His infectious bass had the early morning crowd twirling about like post-apocalyptic zombies feeding solely on the sound being choked out of the speakers. Quite a sight to see.
Conclusion
All things considered, Symbiosis Gathering was a monumental weekend – an all-inclusive sensory overload freakfest. I still can’t get over the astonishing lineup, plump with the best electronic artists currently touring. It sincerely made catching every set feel like an impossible feat. The Naked Lake will serve as a fond memory: every morning and afternoon the docks were packed with lovely, birthday suited people. A fascinatingly quaint Tea Temple in the vendor’s village sold assorted aged teas and had an adjoined walkthrough shrine with artifacts ranging from Nepalese monkey skulls to Virgin Mary statuettes. On the opposite side of the road lay a Zen Garden. A bit further down the way rested the bust of an enormous unicorn, made from metal scraps, marking the fork in the road between the stages. The people, the atmosphere, the music were all magnificent. The Symbiosis experience is something to be treasured. My only hope is that next year’s festivities will be at the same spot or another place as peaceful and inspiring as Yosemite was.
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Rosie O’Donnell: “Ellen Will Be A Better ‘Idol’ Judge Than Paulaâ€
September 12th, 2009 |
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Rosie O’Donnell predicts big success for Ellen DeGeneres as the Emmy-winning talk show host prepares to take over the fourth judge’s seat on American Idol.
“I think she’ll be very good at that show,†the outspoken comedienne, who is gearing up to host her own radio show on SIRIUS XM this fall, said during Fashion’s Night [...]
Rosie O’Donnell Star Jones Reality Show?
September 9th, 2009 |
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Rosie O’Donnell and Star Jones will not be taking the world of reality TV by storm, despite a report in the new issue of In Touch Weekly.
“They get along quite well and have a wicked sense of humor when they’re together. Everyone keeps telling them they need to capture it on camera and now they’ve [...]
Rosie Perez Jennifer Lopez Battle For Rights To Sotomayor Story
September 7th, 2009 |
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Jennifer Lopez and Rosie Perez are in a race against time to secure the film rights to the life of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina appointed to the US Supreme Court.
The Puerto-Rican actresses became fast friends while appearing as high-energy hip-hop dancers “The Fly Girls” on the FOX sketch comedy hit In Living Color in [...]
Should we cover up like the French?
July 23rd, 2009 |
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The French are putting their bikini tops back on – so should we follow suit? And how comfortable do you feel about semi-nudity anyway?
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Rosie, my 17-year-old, flies to Corfu with her friends this weekend for what I’m sure will be a wild teenage holiday. Will she, though, be sunbathing topless?
“Mum! Are you mad?” she asks. “Absolutely not! I’d never, ever sunbathe without my bikini top on. And before you ask, nor would any of my friends.”
Rosie is, in almost any other way you could think of, enjoying a far more liberal adolescence than my own. But when it comes to nudity, she is of a totally different mindset.
When I was a teenager, however, I would think nothing of sunbathing wearing only bikini bottoms. In fact, I think my friends and I would have seen it, back in the early 80s, as almost de rigueur. It felt so good, taking off your top and lying half-naked in the sun on the beach: free, liberating, warm and, hey presto, no bikini-lines. Being on holiday wasn’t being on holiday without a bit of topless sunbathing.
Fast-forward a quarter century and yes, I’m still at it. But it’s a lot harder these days. First, thanks to the fact that I’m now a mother of four, I’m a lot more likely to be found on a beach in the West Country than in the Med – and it’s usually a bit nippy in Devon without a fleece, never mind without a bikini top.
Second, my family – all four daughters, plus their Scottish Presbyterian father – seem to have a deep-seated prudishness. On a holiday to Mallorca just a couple of years ago, I decided to strip off for a midnight swim in the pool – only to have all the girls, and Gary, shriek at me to cover up. And this was in the dark, in the middle of the countryside, with no one else around.
But I assert my right to sunbathing, and swimming, topless. After all, no one bats an eyelid when men wander around resorts without a T-shirt on – and, heaven knows, these days some of them have bigger breasts than most of us. Personally, I think there’s quite a strong case for getting over-endowed men to cover up – if you’re going for the eww factor, there’s plenty of it there.
Women’s breasts spend far too much of the year hidden away in often uncomfortable bras. We have to ask ourselves whose agenda it is to get women to keep their breasts covered, and why. My rather uncomfortable hunch is that this is a debate which is driven by the desire of men to keep a part of women’s bodies that they (mistakenly) believe is only for them, covered up. And this, it seems to me, is why our society is shot through with all sorts of unhealthy problems about breasts and their raison d’etre.
So, in an age when the young seem to have decided to kowtow to the male agenda and cover up, it seems to me that it’s all the more important for we fortysomethings to be flying the flag for feminism. If there’s a half-decent sunny day in Devon this year, I think I owe it to the cause to get my breasts out.
Joanna Moorhead
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Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that now, when barely anybody wears clothes at all, when the Americans have a phrase for drinking in a bar without your top on (“raunch culture”), when nobody has sold a cardigan in Newcastle since they stopped mining coal, that the young people of France have decided it is no longer cool to sunbathe topless.
Sunbathing topless is a French thing, while wandering around entirely naked is a German/Austrian thing. There is no functional difference between the two states of undress – one is not more revealing than the other. Come on, if you cannot guess what is going on under a G-string, then you need to retake your beach Baccalaureat, pal. It’s not like, stripped only to the waist, you have more protection from the sun, or you would be better placed to deal with a shark attack.
There is, however, a world of difference in meaning between total nudity and top-arf-only. The first is a statement of hyper-pragmatism, a bullish: “What do you mean, organs of sex? These are just more body parts, waving robustly for their vitamin D.” Don’t get me wrong, I am no big fan of this kind of nudity either. But in its favour, it lacks vanity. It is all about the fresh air.
Toplessness is not about practicality, it’s about glamour. I emphatically don’t mean “glamour” as in “glamour model”. I mean glamour in the old world sense that one’s own judgment is unimpeachable. If one is topless oneself, toplessness is what’s required. After all, what kind of a person would stare and point and laugh? An unsophisticated person. Probably an English person.
Of course, it would be way more sophisticated if we English could all take our tops off and pretend that didn’t remind us of sex. I’m not saying the French are wrong. I’m just saying that it’s a bit of a coincidence that a sartorial (or anti-sartorial) habit – a cultural more, if you will – makes them look sophisticated and gets them an all-over tan at the same time. It’s all very convenient.
And while we’re on all-over tans, I have never seen the sense of them. OK, let’s imagine that you’re all-over-tanning for your fellow beachgoer. This would only be noticeable if you were topless in the first place. That’s nuts. You might as well shave your head for an all-over head tan.
Yeah, this is all an elaborate excuse; the real reason I deride toplessness is that small matter of what I actually look like. Perhaps it’s unsisterly to say so but taking your top off does rather draw attention to your attributes – and they had better be good.
With toplessness, my first and insurmountable objection is a “how do I look?” thing (“better with a top on” is the answer). This isn’t a gravity thing. I cannot blame the ravages of time. I had this conversation with myself on my French exchange aged 14, and I think the decision I reached was the right one.
Zoe Williams
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