When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

Showing posts with label celebrity culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity culture. Show all posts

09 February 2008

Of *course* Sammy Hagar has his own line of tequilas...

A-list celebrities don't really pimp food products. It's like doing TV commercials—it's okay in Japan, out of sight, but it seems far beneath the likes of Tom Cruise or Russell Crowe to do something so gauche in America. The exception is Paul Newman, whose vast food empire is about more than releasing a quickie, crappy product. The A.V. Club's Tasha Robinson has had a bottle of Olympia Dukakis-brand salad dressing (brought to you by the same defunct company that once foisted Erik Estrada corn chips on the world) on her desk since 1999: Inspired by that, we dug up some currently available products endorsed by marginal celebs.
Nectar of the demigods: B-list celebrity-endorsed foodstuffs (The A.V. Club)

Flowchart: Should you watch the Grammy Awards?

Service journalism from New York Magazine's Vulture blog.

Excerpt:

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Ask Vulture: Should You Watch Sunday Night's Grammy Awards? (7 February 2008)

14 January 2007

You're probably gonna turn gay, and that's only expected of you.

You could do great things; cure cancer, win multiple academy awards, sell ten million records, become the president of Zimbabwe. But when you completed any of these achievements, the headline in the newspaper the next day would read "Boy Who Swam Next To Alba Did Good."
An open letter to the kid in the background of the Jessica Alba bikini photo (DoubleViking.com.)

Hat tip: Cityrag.