As MSNBC’s Jeannette Walls, formerly of E!’s The Gossip Show, stresses repeatedly in Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip, our desire for tittle-tattle has now reached pandemic proportions, seriously damaging our ability to distinguish real news from entertainment. ”Whenever the ‘legitimate’ media swears off gossip,” she writes, ”another medium comes along to fill the void.” Slithering its way from print to television and now onto the Web, gossip has demonstrated an almost bacterial knack for survival. Read More...
You know what goes together like birds of a feather? The Jonas Brothers and Vegas, that’s what! On Friday, the band of brothers announced their upcoming residency in Las Vegas at the Park Theater at Park MGM, kicking off Wednesday, April 1. The group shared the news via Twitter, writing: “Let’s get it! Let’s gooooo!! We’re headed to VEGAS for a brand new residency at Park Theater at Park MGM April 1 – 18! Read More...
If you thought the hero of the 1984 film The Karate Kid was Daniel LaRusso, think again. A new video argues that Daniel (Ralph Macchio) is actually the film's top bully, a "violent sociopath who moves to a California town and begins tormenting a local boy and his friends." Granted, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) is a "flawed hero," but it's Daniel picking all the fights with him and his Cobra Kai pals. Read More...
