Another day, another sad celebrity mugshot. From the bedraggled hair to the mortified eyes to the general implication that the subject has been awake for days, these photos are all the same, and poring over them has begun to seem nearly as pathetic as starring in them. But Michael Jason Enriquez, an art director and advertising student, has found a way to make them aesthetically interesting again. For his Mugshot Doppelgänger series, Enriquez used what he calls the “eerie beauty” of 1920s Australian police photos as inspiration “to see what it would look like if you took modern day celebrity mugshots and turned them into something worth looking at.” Click through to see badly behaved celebrities like Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan, and Phil Spector given the time-warp treatment, and follow the project on Tumblr for more. … Read More
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Here’s a clip of Orbital and Stephen Hawking performing at the opening ceremony for the Paralympics, which just kicked off in London. Those Hadron Collider dancers might be our favorite part.
2. A Doctor Horrible sequel within the next year? We don’t know how Joss Whedon is going to find the room… Read More
10 Movie Stars We’re Ready to See Retire
A few weeks back, we took a moment to lament the absence of several stars who, for whatever reason, had opted to retire from the silver screen. But what of the inverse? Who are the stars we’d like to encourage to go ahead and enjoy a life of leisure, spending time with their families and their money, rather than continuing to flaunt their tired wares in the local multiplex? It’s a question that, for us, was brought on by this week’s release of The Expendables 2, wherein Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Norris, et. al. get into their Rascals and make yet another play for ’80s action movie nostalgia. After the jump, some thoughts on those fellows, and a few more film stars who are due to retire. … Read More
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1. Charlie Sheen has pledged to donate at least $1 million of profits from his new TV show Anger Management to the USO. It might be a calculated move in the name of image rehab, but at least it’s going to benefit a lot of American troops. [via ABC News]
2. We now… Read More
The Funniest Reviews of Charlie Sheen’s ‘Anger Management’
FX debuts its Thursday-night comedy lineup tonight, which means we’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Louis C.K.’s brilliant Louie is back for its third season; the bad news is that tonight also marks the debut of Anger Management, the sitcom that brings us Charlie Sheen playing yet another rogue named Charlie. This time, he’s Charlie Goodson, a former pro baseball player who’s now an anger management therapist — probably because everyone thought putting Sheen in a show called Anger Management would make for the world’s easiest ad campaign. While we don’t plan to tune in for the premiere, we are amusing ourselves with the terrible-to-middling reviews, which paint the sitcom as equal parts attention grab, public apology, and victory lap. After the jump, we’ve rounded up some of critics’ funniest observations on Sheen, Anger Management, and FX’s puzzling decision to program it alongside Louie. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Danny Boyle’s 86-track playlist for the upcoming Olympic opening ceremony in London has leaked, and it doesn’t feature anything from Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Elton John, but notably does include “God Save the Queen” by the Sex Pistols! [via Stereogum]
2. Curious as to what former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore’s… Read More
The Most Notorious Co-Star Feuds in Movie History
Everyone loves celebrity conflict, which is why we’re assuming our post a couple of weeks back on actor/filmmaker feuds generated such a huge response. It’s humanizing to see that cultural icons squabble about the same petty stuff that we do in the workplace. Performers and auteurs aren’t the only source of on-set friction however; the Hollywood history books are filled with cases of co-stars going after each other with everything they’ve got. After the jump, you’ll find a few of the most famed examples. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Scott Johnson, a 33-year-old drum technician for Radiohead, was tragically killed over the weekend when a stage roof collapsed during the band’s sold-out show in Toronto. Three other crew members were injured in the incident. “We have all been shattered by the loss of Scott Johnson, our friend and colleague,” reads a message on… Read More
Amusing Accidental Tweets from Popular Twitter Accounts
Twitter. It’s accessible on your computers, on your tablets, on your smartphones, on your dumbphones. Technology is making it easier and easier for us to be constantly tweeting, and with these advances comes the increased likelihood of frequent Twitter “accidents.” Y’know — publishing a public tweet that was meant to be private, posting from the wrong account, uploading the wrong photo. Twitter mistakes happen to the best of us, but if you’re a well-followed tweeter, you’re pretty much doomed to an Internet lifetime of pasted quotes, haunting screenshots, and silly lists like this. Let’s take a break from the pesky accidental Twitter antics of overeager politicians and focus on the humorous accidents of several celebrated Twitter accounts. Check ‘em out after the jump. … Read More
Celebrity Fight Club: 10 of Hollywood’s Bad Boy Elite
Jeremy Renner — who appeared in the recently released installment of long-running Tom Cruise action vehicle, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — was at a pub in Phuket, Thailand last night when a huge brawl broke out. Rumors circulated that the Hurt Locker actor might have been injured, but later reports confirmed that Renner left the bar unharmed as soon as the frenzy broke out. The star’s reps advised J.R. was “not involved” in the attack, but it made us wonder if his bad boy screen persona had any real-life influence when it came to the verbal assault that apparently started the whole thing. Renner’s not the only Hollywood actor who appears to be a little too comfortable in the part of troublemaker. Past the break, we list several other stars working today that probably belong to the celebrity fight club we’re not allowed to talk about (them’s the rules). Who’d you add? … Read More
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