Posted at 4:00 PM Dec 19, 2008
By Sharon Steel
The New Yorker's George Packer
brought our attention (in a delightfully snarky blog post -- Remnick, keep 'em at it!) to
Sean Penn's cover story for this December's
Nation magazine, which includes a lengthy, seven-hour interview with Raúl Castro, Cuba's new chief exec. Apparently, all that "best actor ever" praise went to Penn's head, and now he fancies himself a foreign correspondent.
This isn't surprising -- if an actor can
score a lucrative book deal without having actually put pen to paper, surely, you can interview world leaders and see your byline on the cover of a national magazine. But what is surprising is that, during the month of November, Sean Penn was posting
80-bazillion word excerpts/weird other versions of his
Nation piece to his own personal
Huffington Post
blog. Arianna, what gives?
Read more "Dear Diary, Sean..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Dec 12, 2008
By Sharon SteelFormer
US Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller is currently at work on some
secret comeback project that probably involves
the Internets. She doesn't, to our knowledge, have a personal blog...yet. But! She happens to have
a Twitter account, which she prolifically updates with gossipy nuggets several times a day (by web! by txt!). This week, Fuller had plenty to Tweet about concerning Jay Leno,
Twilight, Taylor Momsen, and Speidi:
Supersmart move by NBC -- Leno at 10. Why not? Now we can laugh at not- so- late at night -- yea Jay!
Read more "Dear Diary, Bonnie..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Dec 05, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Whoa, what's this? Lauren "Lo" Bosworth -- better known as Lauren Conrad's roommate and
The Hills BFF with the pert giggle and the ocassional diabolical streak -- is a writer. A published one, at that.
Magazines are folding daily.
Not even Condé Nast staffers are safe from the cut-backs. And newspapers? Those messy, inky things people use to wrap fish in? Nobody buys them,
except on November 5th, 2008! In such a healthy media environment, it's good to know a 22-year-old UCLA graduate and MTV star, who, well, we don't know what her day job is, really, can score a regular contributor's gig (a column called "The High Life With Lo!") scribbling for the luxury online guide
Pocket Change. The NYC and LA-focused newsletter presents "the city's most expensive goods and services for every
multi-millionaire on your list." Financial crisis? Pshhh!
Back on November 11th, Lo did what any writer with an Internet presence and a self-promoting blog would do.
She posted about her first story:
Read more "Dear Diary, Lo Bosworth,..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Nov 28, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Happy Day After Thanksgiving, Heartless Dolls. Have you pressed pause on family time and leftover pillaging to steal a moment alone with your pwecious Interwebs? Us too.
We popped over to Jenna Fischer's MySpace, and it looks like everything's all well and dandy since her
The Office co-star Rainn Wilson
kindnapped her in a vain attempt to turn his film,
The Rocker, into a blockbuster. At the moment Jenna has traded L.A. for NYC; she's shooting a new movie of her own
-- Solitary Man, with Michael Douglas, Susan
Sarandon, Danny DeVito and Mary-Louise Parker. How's she liking New York, considering her character, Pam Beesly, just left the city to head back to Scranton?
"It has been a total
blast!" she says.
Read more "Dear Diary, Jenna..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Nov 21, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Time to check back in with Courtney Love: last we heard, she was freaking out over Kurt's stolen ashes. But this past weekend, after she logged sixty separate MySpace posts, Perez Hilton went ahead and diagnosed C. Love as suicidal. Big mistake. On Monday, November 17, Courtney took to her blog yet again to refute the gossip blogger's charge and clear up with one of her trademarked rambling explanations:
Read more "Dear Diary, Courtney..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Nov 14, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Lindsay Lohan's main squeeze Samantha Ronson continues to blog up her own little DJ pundit shit-storm on MySpace. What do semi-content Obama supporters do now, while they wait for their guy to announce the rest of his Cabinet? Protest the things that didn't work out so well for them on November 4th, of course. Samantha's last post about Proposition 8 -- which would ban same-sex marriage in California -- offended some animal lovers after she noted that "i guess people care more about farm animals than they do their fellow man." The pissy emails came in droves, of course, and on November 7, Samantha addressed them all:
Read more "Dear Diary, Samantha..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Nov 07, 2008
By Sharon Steel
So, how bout that new President-elect of ours?! In the past two years, Barack Obama has done something few have the power to do. He's actually managed to inspire heaps of starlets, Z-listers, and random Interweb fame-whores to take a break and blog about issues and people besides themselves. Navel-gazing only goes so far online, right? One can only assume it'll get more intense from here on in.
The options were really endless for this week's Dear Diary: Pete Wentz, Kanye West, and even my favorite MySpace pundit Lindsay Lohan all weighed in -- both on the need to vote as well as the joyous outcome. But we've still got a lot of work ahead of us, and funny lady Margaret Cho kept her focus on the tasks ahead when she observed, on November 5th, that "The country is changing, and for the better."
Read more "Dear Diary, Margaret..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Oct 31, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Have I ever discussed my undying and inexplicable adoration of Ashlee Simpson on these Internet pages? Well, it's out, now: the lip-synching, Fall Out Boy-loving daughter of Papa Joe -- she of the crazy hair color experiments and seminal reality television program The Ashlee Simpson Show -- is my girl. Um, in my head, at least. (This is what happens when you think you "know" celebrities because you spend all your time reading their online diaries.)
Anyway, I don't understand how I could have possibly missed Ashlee's last MySpace post, which she put up way, way back at the end of August. But considering her baby bump is set to pop this week, now seems as good a time as any to reflect on her preggo woes:
Read more "Dear Diary, Ashlee..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Oct 24, 2008
By Sharon Steel
John Mayer has been slacking on the blog front these days, but on Friday, Oct. 17, he posted a brief missive about his fave singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne. He even made us all an iTunes mix! Perhaps Jay-May prepared it to re-woo Jennifer Aniston, the lady who might still think that his body is a wonderland:
Read more "Dear Diary: John..." >>
Posted at 1:51 PM Oct 17, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Lily Allen is hard at work on her new music-related projects (guess the lukewarm reception of her BBC show Lily Allen and Friends didn't exactly move her to consider a career switch). On Oct. 14, she decided to let everyone to know some exclusive shit has been going down.
shooting a video for "everyones at it " , here's a picture i took on my cellular telephone. we are having fun, can you guess who it is ? (no it's not me )
Yeah, the guy in the blurry cell-snap looks pretty much exactly like Prince. Good gravy, could it be? Prince and Lily? Developing!
Posted at 4:00 PM Oct 10, 2008
By Sharon Steel
It's been a busy year for Lauren Conrad! Between dating semi-duds from Laguna Beach that nobody remembers, designing new pieces for her eponymous fashion line only to have Whitney Port conveniently usurp her with her own label and MTV spin-off, patching things up with her BFF Audrina, and working at People's Revolution PR, it's a wonder she has time to clear up nasty rumors on her official MySpace blog. Thankfully, on October 3, in an entry titled "Here we go again" (just like the titles of each Hills episode -- synergy!) L.C. put aside a few minutes to set the record straight (again). Oh, good lord:
Read more "Dear Diary, Lauren..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Oct 03, 2008
By Sharon Steel
The Rachel Zoe Project premiered on Bravo a few weeks ago, and it's basically my favorite new fashion program this season. What's not to love? Rachel Zoe clutching Starbucks and barking at her minions to "figure it out," jet-setting to New York to preview exclusive collections, telling stories about her specially-made designer wedding gown, and being hyper-sensitive about everyone's criticisms!
You see, the Times's television scribe Ginia Bellafante penned a particularly scathing review of the Hollywood stylist's latest project, calling her a "pox on humanity." And on last week's episode, Zoe was brought to tears (tears!) in her make-up chair over a post on New York Magazine's The Cut, which called her out for missing Marc Jacobs' show because she was tardy! Fans wanted answers, and on her Bravo blog last week, Zoe provided some answers:
Read more "Dear Diary, Rachel..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Sep 26, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Moby's online journal goes all the way back to October 2000 -- that means he's been blogging for eight years, ya'll. Maybe that's why he's been laying off current affairs. And that tiny break must have thrown him for a serious loop, because on Tuesday, September 23, Moby was utterly baffled by John McCain's campaign strategy of befuddled old-man-ness:
Read more "Dear Diary, Moby,..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Sep 19, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Last week, Kanye West was arrested for smashing a paparazzi's camera, but that doesn't mean he's gonna stop writing his ultra-minimalist blog posts! Oh, no. Not Kanye! He has a job to do.
We back in the lab!!! I'm cool with the paparazzi. This guy wasn't cool. I gotta work now... I'll rant later!
Awesome, Kanye! Now how about you tell us about all the cool stuff you found on the Interwebs?
Read more "Dear Diary, Kanye..." >>
Posted at 4:00 PM Sep 12, 2008
By Sharon Steel
Was it just me, or did Cycle One America's Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry completely fall off the D-list radar after she and Christopher Knight finally got hitched? The fact that cameras aren't following her anymore hasn't stopped Adrianne from seeking attention: she's well known for dashing thoughtless screeds on her totally goth MySpace page. We decided to check in on her this week. On Monday, September 8, after quoting Led Zeppelin, Adrianne chose to focus on her ongoing battle against addiction:
Read more "Dear Diary, Adrianne..." >>
The New Yorker's George Packer brought our attention (in a delightfully snarky blog post -- Remnick, keep 'em at it!) to Sean Penn's cover story for this December's Nation magazine, which includes a lengthy, seven-hour interview with Raúl Castro, Cuba's new chief exec. Apparently, all that "best actor ever" praise went to Penn's head, and now he fancies himself a foreign correspondent.
