JOHN CLEESE is performing at his partially-free, partially-subscription web site.
FRANKLY, SCARLETT, Jared just doesn’t give a damn.
THIS JUST IN: Prince Charles’s household is “hierarchical and elitist,” according to a former personal assistant.
DESIGN OBSERVER: raves about the look(s) of The Incredibles. The family livies in “a kind of extraordinary dystopia, at once a celebration and an exaggeration of Eames-era modernism… Yet as the pace quickens and the action builds, the design does too. The villain’s lair is ” Fritz Lang‘s Metropolis meets Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Japan.” And Edna Mode’s design center is descibed thusly: ” from the Miesian lobby to the Bulthaup-inspired industrial kitchen (and let’s not forget the George Nelson benches) it’s an aesthetic travesty: design beyond reach.”
SLATE has a nice piece asking “How Often is Altlantis Discovered?”
ON THE PITCHFORK: GANG OF FOUR REUNION! UPDATE: CREAM REUNION!
HEY! I look much less like Tom Cruise now, thanks to my co-clerk Debbie and her digital camera. And special thanks to Adobe Photoshop.
THE CLINTON LIBRARY OPENS THURSDAY, so the Clintonites are having a big party Wednesday night at… Sticky Fingerz, which seems oddly appropriate, though I suspect Bill should avoid most of the menu for health reasons. The library opening has also inspired an Arkansas version of “Take Your Kid to Work Day.”
BILLY BRAGG rewrites a 1918 hymn paying tribute to the millions who died in the First World War as a politically-correct ode to socialism. IMHO, BB does better when he adds a dash of humor, as on “The Great Leap Forward.”
KIM JONG IL: Portraits of the North Korean dictator have disappeared from some public buildings in Pyongyang. I have a theory, but I can't tell you wihout spoiling the end of Team America: World Police.
CONDI RICE: Has she heard about this?
DAVID LEE ROTH is moonlighting as a paramedic in NYC.
VIBE AWARDS MARRED BY STABBING, MELEE: “Video footage taken during the ceremony shows several people shoving each other, fists flying and chairs being thrown around the room as people hurried for the exits.” Again, oddly appropriate, but do Dre and Snoop really want to come off looking like The Jerry Springer Show? Breathing a sigh of relief: the addled Anna Nicole Smith.
ABC apologizes for the racy intro to Monday Night Football, which featured Nicollette Sheridan of Desperate Housewives clad in a towel… for part of the intro. The NFL issues an “apology” which blames ABC, though Terrell Owens is not a desperate housewife.
GOING POSTAL: Stamps for the holiday that must not be named.
NOT MY KIND OF WILD TURKEY: Jake is disrupting traffic in Whittier, Iowa.
FORGOT TO MENTION: Sarah Vowell is one of the Incredibles.
ANOTHER R. KELLY HOME VIDEO becomes the subject of an extortion plot against NY Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield and his wife, DeLeon. News accounts note that the video showing DeLeon with Kelly and another woman was shot ten years ago. News accounts generally do not note that DeLeon has been a gospel singer since the age of three, which is another reason she would be a blackmail target.