MetaFilter posts tagged with gossip

Tracking, and now mapping, the entire world.

contraption — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:27:55 -0800

Remember They Rule, the now-stale site from 2004 that mapped connections between executives and corporate boards? OK, now remember NNDB, the constantly updated collection of unsubstantiated dossiers on "Notable Names" of all sorts? Behold the NNDB Mapper; a They Rule-like visualization tool that integrates the entire database of people and connections. It's fun for conspiracy theorists, gossip hounds and political junkies alike. They've even got some mefites. From Soylent Communications, the friendly people who brought you rotten.com [nsfw] previously NNDB They Rule

We're in ur magazeen, puttin werds on ur moddles.

Space Kitty — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:02:40 -0800

When Lolcats meets Go Fug Yourself, hilarity ensues. From the highly entertaining Jezebel. Oh, hai Anna!

"Flynt is arguably the greatest student of the American underbelly since J. Edgar Hoover."

amberglow — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:28:48 -0800

Vanity Fair sits down with Larry Flynt --his history and hits and misses, how much he pays for scandals involving hypocritical public figures, and a new (and limp) Nixon anecdote -- and tons of other juicy tidbits, of course).

Gossip of the Sewing Circle

maryh — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:32:30 -0800

Gossip of the Sewing Circle Profound cattiness from 1903. Learn to use such snarkily coded terms as embonpoint in everyday conversation. Need to shame a beautiful rival who hasn't produced an heir for her much older husband? Describe her in The Newsaper of Record as owning "an extremely clever parrot." PDF, link from the NYT Archives.

The store clerk, who had talked with Curtis, referred to him as “The Cross-Dresser” ...

amberglow — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:07:09 -0800

Closeted gay GOP elected official with an anti-gay voting record #756,394 --(Special Halloween Edition!) GOP Washington State Representative Richard Curtis says he’s not gay, but police reports and court records indicate the Republican lawmaker from southwestern Washington dressed up in women’s lingerie and met a Medical Lake man in a local erotic video store which led to consensual sex at a downtown hotel and a threat to expose Curtis’ activities publicly…. He resigned today.--Curtis is the third conservative lawmaker in just as many months to resign amid allegations of soliciting gay sex.
Bubbling up--and being sat on--by the DC Press Corps is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate.

Bat Boy, RIP

Yakuman — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:54:20 -0800

Bye Bye, Bat Boy! The Weekly World News is suspending publication.

don't miss the Nancy Reagan one!

amberglow — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:57:50 -0800

The 40 Best Celebrity Rumors Ever --from the editors at Nerve (and maybe nsfw, textwise). Sex, drugs, rock n roll, deaths, more sex, more drugs, etc. Dive in. But be careful. This stuff doesn't wash off.

Robert Harrison and Confidential

mediareport — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:13:41 -0800

The Hollywood moguls were appalled...Hitherto, Tinseltown had the police and politicians in its capacious pocket, yet here, landing like a ton of hot manure, was this crummy magazine from the east coast. A sharp look from British Journalism Review at the career of Robert Harrison, whose 1952 magazine Confidential single-handedly "opened the floodgates of tell-all sleaze." Seems Harrison branched out from publishing a long string of 1940s girlie mags after being inspired by the Estes Kefauver organized crime hearings that gripped early TV audiences in the U.S.A.

Payola Six, Paid $ix, gossip sleaze shocka!

snortlebort — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:47:26 -0800

Let the fur fly. The New York Post's Page Six is the latest pillar of the 'Forth' Estate to take heavy damage from scandal. Like the Judy Miller fiasco of 2005, except with virtually zero ramifications upon things that actually matter, no one looks good here. The tawdry gist: Billionaire Sleaze-Bag set up Gossip Freelancer Sleaze-Bag -- who supposedly was offering to trade positive Page Six coverage for money. The Gossip Sleaze-Bag is probably screwed, but now the other wolves are going in for theirs and (seeing a chance to rally, somewhat, around their own) it's the Billionaire Sleaze-Bag that they'd most like to get a piece of. The part about this that makes it all a Robert-Downey-Jr-movie-waiting-to-happen is that the story broke on the eve of Page Six editor Richard Johnson's wedding. Ah, yes. That's the stuff.

$220G? That's, like, 11,000 blink tags!

UKnowForKids — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:26:39 -0800

NY Post Go$$ip Writer 4 $ale! The New York Daily News is reporting that Jared Paul Stern, a prominent New York Post gossip writer, attempted to extort over $220,000 from a frequent target of the oh-so-classy Page Six column in exchange for "protection" against "inaccurate and unflattering items." If we can't trust our gossip columnists, who can we trust? (via Fark)

If The Journal and The Sun had a baby...

rush — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:15:56 -0800

Elizabeth Spiers, of Gawker fame, has a new site, Dealbreaker, which bills itself as "an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip blog." Content-free snark, with links to articles of interest to Wall Street fanboys? Oh, Elizabeth, you steal my heart. But, perhaps just mine.

That, of course, would be the giraffapig

jonson — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:44:32 -0800

What Would Tyler Durden Do is the latest home for Brendon, the one time head writer over at celebrity gossip sites thesuperficial.com & idontlikeyouinthatway.com (while his writing remains sharp & inventive, the domain names of the sites he writes for are getting longer & less original with each move). The usual content (updated several times daily) involves photographic embarassing invasions of celebrity privacy and absurdist writing.

Oh, I almost forgot - for the undoubtedly small percentage of the reading audience interested in watching Colin Farrel have sex with a playboy playmate, a digital copy of the illegal tape stolen from Farrel's house is the lead post on wwtdd.com currently.

Ben Stiller is as funny as a dead christmas puppy

jonson — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:21:32 -0800

I Don't Like You In That Way is a celebrity mocking gossip blog written by the former head writer of TheSuperficial.com; very similar in style, layout & sense of humor. May not be everyone's cup of tea, but it frequently makes me laugh out loud.

Gallery of the Absurd

ColdChef — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:57:33 -0800

Gallery of the Absurd Gossip Fueled Art

Gawker Media Launches Drudge-type blog

Duck_Lips — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:05:13 -0800

Sploid.com , a new tabloid style website aimed at the Drudgereport, is launched by Lockhart Steele founder of Gawker Media, home of Gawker and Wonkette. Looks a lot like the recently relaunched National Enquirer (Will 'enquiring minds' accept The Equirer's move to New York and British editorial makeover?

FridayGossipFilter, Part infinity

amberglow — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:13:25 -0800

Hey kids! Guess who's first cousins with our new Secretary of State? why, it's Vaginal Creme Davis! Juicy tidbits from the multitalented first cousin Ms. Rice would rather you not know about, and who wishes that Ms. Davis wouldn't mention to anyone. Very juicy, and NSFW probably. : >

Who's a worse threat than terrorism?

amberglow — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:32:36 -0800

Outing Closeted Republicans, part 1,574 --Ken Mehlman, the leading contender to become the head of the RNC, and one of the architects of Bush's anti-gay election campaign, has some secrets, it appears. And it was supposed to come out during the convention: Two New York newspapers received calls from the Bush-Cheney campaign during the Republican National Convention urging them not to run a story suggesting that the campaign manager and public face of the campaign was gay, RAW STORY has learned.

Prosecutor who attacked Kerry admits lying to boss

Postroad — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:12:51 -0800

Prosecutor who attacked Kerry admits lying to boss Liar, liar, pants on fire--"Clackamas County prosecutor Alfred French, who called Sen. John Kerry a liar in a political commercial, acknowledged Thursday that he lied to his boss when confronted about an extramarital affair with a colleague. ...

Black. Duncan Black.

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:31:19 -0800

The true identity of the "mysterious" Atrios has been revealed.

Celebraties turned Politicians

Rastafari — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:42:00 -0800

Top 25 Celebrities Turned Politicians

Whip 'n Chain Club vs. Britney

troutfishing — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:44:10 -0800

"It was a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling" Jeri Lynn Ryan, "Star Trek: Voyager" actress and former wife of Illinois Republican candidate for US Senate Jack Ryan says Ryan pressured her to have public sex in S&M oriented clubs. Compare and contrast with this example of the advantages of power, Britney Spears' mother runs over Paparazzi : "....As Britney was leaving a pet store where she had just bought two new puppies, mother Lynne...struck photographer Calum Reavley [ note : with an auto ]......Britney was so hysterical that paramedics actually tended to her first, and left Reavley on the ground writhing in pain."

How could you do that!?!?!?

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:32:10 -0800

Dr. Laura Schlessinger renounces Orthodox Judaism: Although Schlessinger said she still "considers" herself Jewish, "My identifying with this entity and my fulfilling the rituals, etc., of the entity — that has ended." I'd link to the show in question but it appears to be available by subscription only.

Pie-slinging

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:47:48 -0800

With the accusations of mudslinging already underway in California, this morning the pie slinging officially began.

Fake celebrity gossip in UK

wibbler — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:03:52 -0800

As our own Royal Family slams them, can we be certain of anything reported in the British press? Celebrity gossip is king: if an unpopular public figure isn't ruined, then they're dragged through the gutter by an amoral PR guru. Celebrities mysteriously go out with other celebrities, until their single reaches number one (usually they're with the same PR company). It happens all the time. And models have sex videos 'stolen', only for one newpaper to 'find' out and charge people to look (and trailers suddenly appear on Kazaa). Is nothing real?

Musto

adrober — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 21:36:59 -0800

Who the h*ll is Michael Musto talking about when he writes these columns? [And, furthermore, why do I read them?]