It’s a big week for the literary world: Traci Nobles, the recipient of the infamous Anthony Weiner wiener messages, announced that she will, in fact, publish her adult memoir, I Freinded You (the misspelling is intentional), about her relationship with the congressman. Thank goodness! Here we were thinking she was walking away from it all with only a handful of steamy Facebook messages. But, no — Nobles instead is acting in what has become a grand American tradition of cashing in on her 15 minutes of peripheral scandal fame in the most obnoxious fashion imaginable. After the jump, join us in reminiscing in some of the most outrageous media circus famewhoring. Maybe you can help us decide if we should be disgusted or impressed with these slippery folks’ refusal to leave the spotlight.
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Brooklyn-based video artist Ben Coonley — who you might recognize from previous viral hits Valentine for Perfect Strangers (which is one of the creepiest cat-related things we’ve ever seen) and the more recent Thank You Doctor Zizmor — has done a parody Tiger Woods’ infamous I’m-a-sex-addict press conference as his “Artist Statement” for P.S. 1. Who knew it was possible to make the disgraced golfer’s public apology sound even more ridiculous?
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1. Maggie Grace — whose character Shannon was killed off in season two and viewers last spotted in season three — is returning for the final season of Lost. [via Vulture]
2. Just in time for tomorrow’s big press conference, Spike TV has announced a new golf-themed series featuring a sex-addicted character named Tiger. [via THR]
3. You’ve already been treated to some crazy stills, but don’t expect to see Lady Gaga‘s “Telephone” video until March. [via ONTD]
4. Meet Jerome Neuner, the director of the MoMA’s department of exhibition design and production for the last three decades. He’s kind of like the Wizard of Oz. [via NYT]
5. This interesting: John Hughes wrote a film inspired by the Cure‘s “Lovecats,” but it’s unclear what happened to the script. (Also, Hughes is getting a special Oscar tribute.) [via TwentyFourBit]
Over the last few months, the Rubin Museum has invited various artists, writers and other famous creative types (think Alice Walker, David Byrne, John Adams) to interpret images from Carl Jung’s The Red Book with the help of a psychoanalyst. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner took to the stage over the weekend with analyst Morgan Stebbins; after the jump find out what the ensuing conversation revealed about his creative process and the upcoming season of everyone’s favorite TV drama.
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The decade has certainly been a scandal-filled one, but hey, what decade isn’t? Celebrities get boozy, get violent, get away from their wives and get caught, and everything gets aired out on the national stage. The question is, though: do scandals actually affect sales? Did T.I. lose album sales after he was thrown in jail for buying machine guns? Is Charlie Sheen’s recent family violence enough to knock down ratings on his hit TV show? We found out! After the jump, revisit some of our favorite disgraced celebrities and see whether their careers were unaffected, threatened, or bolstered by their indiscretions.
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1. Roman Polanski has relocated from the clink to a cute snow-covered chalet in Gstaad. [via Vulture]
2. Sales for the science book photographed in Tiger Wood‘s wrecked car — Get a Grip on Physics by John Gribbin — have jumped in recent days. [via The Independent]
3. Do artists have the legal right to protect their public work from destruction? A court case in Chicago could have national repercussions. [via Chicago Reader]
4. Leonardo DiCaprio will voice “a twist on the Jack Frost character” in a new animated movie for DreamWorks. [via Variety]
5. Thanks in large part to her “very modern and fresh tone,” the plagiarism case against Stephenie Meyer has been dismissed. [via ArtsBeat]
Bonus link: 25 Most Under-rated Records of the Decade as Determined By Scientific Method
Today’s headlines that shouldn’t be funny — but are. Send your funny news submissions to us here.
1. “Obama’s New Pup Gets Portrait Done” [via NYDN]
NOT funny:”Economy shmickonomy, when I say Bo is getting a portrait, then dammit, the family dog is getting a portrait!”
Funny: Look at that face and the mouth! So cute!
2. “Typo cuts drug offender’s prison term” [via CNN]
NOT Funny: Who’s ready for some cocaine, baby???
Funny: “The form is unclear, and we cannot determine what the jury understood ‘ten one hundred (100) grams’ to mean.” Ten one-hundredths is a lot different than one hundred. Read More »
1. For starters, there’s the David Rohde kidnapping story that nobody picked up because the New York Times said so. [via Gawker]
2. Some drunken U.S. Open fans turned on Tiger Woods. He was playing out on Long Island. [via Newsday]
3. Moneyball — a Steven Soderbergh-helmed baseball drama starring Brad Pitt and Demetri Martin — has been canceled in the final moments before filming because of a bad script that lacked emotion. Heh. [via Reuters]
4. Steve Jobs — whose failing health has had shareholders in a tailspin since January — has reportedly received a liver transplant and is slated to return to Apple at the end of this month. [via WSJ]
5. Anne Hathaway is terrified of playing Viola in the Public Theater’s Twelfth Night, but does a good job; New Yorkers, this is also your friendly reminder that Shakespeare in the Park begins this week. [via NYT]
