Today at Flavorpill, we met the incredibly adorable real life versions of Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King. We found it hard to believe that Method Man’s latest song is actually a commercial for Sour Patch Kids. We were glad to see that Bret Easton Ellis is still in rare form these days. We decided that we might keep tuning in to New Girl if it means seeing guest star Lizzy Caplan. We met 50 of the most powerful women in the New York art world. We refused to imagine Hung star Thomas Jane as Don Draper. We learned some interesting facts about Jonathan Franzen — like he was obsessed with Married … with Children back in the ’90s. We watched Rihanna take her pants off in a new spot for Armani. We came across 14 more wonderful words with no English equivalent. And finally, we wished that Ben & Jerry’s would consider making “I Just Blue Myself” — an Arrested Development-inspired creation dreamed up by Jon DeFreest — its next new flavor. We’d buy some for the packaging alone!

Earlier this month we held a hiddent talent contest inspired by HBO’s popular new series Hung. The idea behind the show — which was created by Dmitry Lipkin (The Riches), is executive produced by Alexander Payne (Sideways), and stars Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, and Anne Heche — is rather unique. Ray Drecker, a former high-school sports legend, is now a middle-aged high-school basketball coach. He’s divorced, struggling to support his kids, and virtually homeless after his house catches fire. That’s when he decides to take on a second job — as a gigolo.

But enough foreplay. We’ve gone through all of your entries and finally chosen our winners. For the record, you guys are a lot stranger (and more talented!) than we ever would have guessed. Read More »

Before he was creating popular TV series like The O.C. and Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz used to perform stand-up comedy as a student at USC. You know him as the force behind Star Trek, Alias, and Lost, but J.J. Abrams also composes music. Jenny Lewis had her artistic debut in a Jell-O commercial, and Beck works on collages and drawings with his grandpa, Al Hansen. Michel Gondry was the drummer in a band called Oui Oui back in the ’80s, and Stephen Colbert once fronted a Rolling Stones cover band. Read More »

If Jeff Goldblum didn’t cut it as an actor, he planned to pursue his other talent: jazz piano. You know Tom Wolfe as a best-selling author, but he was once a star baseball player who tried out as a pitcher for the New York Giants (before they left for San Francisco). While he’s more famous for his HOPE posters for the Obama campaign, Shepard Fairey also DJs. And before she was an Oscar award-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody was a stripper. She even wrote a book about the experience. Read More »