We’re the YouTube Generation, living in the YouTube Era, in a YouTube World. And now we apparently have a YouTube Divorce.
Some prominent New York divorce lawyers couldn’t think of another case where a spouse - in this instance, the wife of a major Broadway theater operator - had taken to YouTube to spill the secrets of a marriage in an apparent effort to gain leverage and humiliate the other side.
“This is absolutely a new step, and I think it’s scary,” said Bonnie Rabin, a divorce lawyer who has handled high-profile cases. “People used to worry about getting on Page Six (the gossip page of the New York Post). But this? It brings the concept of humiliation to a whole new level.”
In a tearful and furious YouTube video with close to 150,000 hits to date, former actress and playwright (”Bonkers”) Tricia Walsh-Smith lashes out against her husband, Philip Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway.
She goes through their wedding album on camera, describing family members as “bad” or “evil” or “nasty,” and talks about how her husband is allegedly trying to evict her from their luxury apartment. She also makes embarrassing claims regarding their intimate life, and then calls his office on camera to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.
Famed divorce attorney Raoul Felder, called for comment on the video, termed the whole thing “funny, but there’s also sadness. This is a victim who is holding her head up. I think she comes off well.”
Then again, Felder allowed that he is now representing Walsh-Smith - though he wasn’t when she made the YouTube video.
As for Smith, his office said he had no comment and his lawyers said they didn’t, either - “other than that we’re kind of appalled.”
Here is a peek at the X-Files 2 Movie. Ok so the trailer isn’t the highest of quality but beggars can’t be choosers! The movie poster looks hot.
The film releases July 25th this year. The title is still in the works.
Fox and Chris Carter are still squabbling over it. “I know what I want it to be, but Fox has ideas of their own,” Carter told the Paley crowd. “I know what it should be.”
After swearing off recreational drugs and booze Steve-O is seeking the net to pull him through his issues that led him to suicidal thoughts. After claiming his mother gave him alcohol as a child, which is believable by the video below, he is seeking the path of sobriety.
On this path he decided to wax poetic about the world of astronomy and his choice to self rehabilitate.
It’s Time To Stop Lying And Cheating…
It’s time to stop doing anything that you don’t want
everyone, and I mean, literally, everyone, to know
that you have done. Call it a hunch, but, I believe
that the time for us humans to be seeing through only
two eyes and thinking with individual minds is
EXTREMELY limited (i.e. only until 2012, when the Age
Of Aquarius Begins). Here is something that I just
read on the Internet while doing Higher Power research
for rehab
“The time for us humans to be seeing through only two eyes…” How many freak-shows does he know that have more than two eyes?
What Others Said:
The Rad Report- Please! Take His Internet Away! Noooooo! Internet in rehab is baaaaad.
The commercial that threatened the well protected bubble of conservative television remains in tact. After Janet Jackson whipped out her floppy boob a few years ago the censors and rules of the game have become strict and raised the bar on boring.
Danica Patrick did a spot for GoDaddy that mentioned the word “beaver.” GASP! The commercial was rejected by FOX network for the slang terminology for lady bits. The ad featured stuffed beavers, as in the woodland creature, while Danica unzipped her jacket and giving the camera come-hither eyes. GoDaddy actually benefited from the axed deal. They managed to keep their spot and run the commercial solely on their website. The ad that aired on FOX directed you to the nearest internet access to get a full view. Being that we lack morals around here, we proudly accept beavers.
I hate to sound like an 80 year old man talking about the hazaa of the good ol’ times, but Super Bowl commercials just aren’t what the used to be. There was a plethora of mediocre ads that failed to make me get that warm tingly Super Bowl commercial love. However, there were a few worthy of mention.
“Mouse Trap”- Doritos
Finally something clever among the masses of crap. Who doesn’t love a guy in a giant mouse costume? Best of the commercials this year easily.
“Baby and a Creepy Clown”- E-Trade
Clowns totally freak my freak. Who knew E-Trading could be so….oddly funny.
“Students”- Bud Light
Foreigners are always funny. The advert was just one of many beer commercials.
“Jump Start”- Amp
Salt and Peppa! Can I get a holla! Seriously, nipples and a plump fellow getting his swerve on…yes!
“Will Ferrell”-Bud Light
Suck one! Priceless. I love the honky man-fro. This is actually one of those dual ads. Bud Light gets pimped along with Will’s new movie “Semi-Pro.”
“Justin Timberlake”- Pepsi
I enjoyed this one because…well…anyone getting racked in the sack (that is not you of course) is pure entertainment. The fact that it was Timberlake was just a little bonus.
“The Godfather”- Audi
It’s one of the more ingenious ads amongst the blah filled downtime of the football game.
“Carville and the Cokes”- Coke (As in Cola)
It is very James Carville meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
“Talking Stain”- Tide
It’s one of those things that is only funny because it is true. It also sounds Steve Carell in the form of a coffee stain.
“What Is Love”- Pepsi Commercial
This one is worthy due to the simple fact that Chris Kattan makes a cameo at the very end. While the ad itself is rather old hat and lacks a real Super Bowl commercial quality, everyone has seen “Night at the Roxbury.”
The Worst Ad
Among the many, many candidates for this position is the Under Armor ad. It was like a better dressed version of “The Matrix.” I continually looked for Keanu Reeves to pop out and be like…”Neo’s back bitches! I always thought I looked fab in red.”
It really must suck to be so swarmed by photographers that you can’t even walk to your car because they’re physically blocking you. Well, that’s what bodyguards are for. Here’s Lindsay Lohan waiting for her car, stalked by the paparazzi. When one of them kick her, her bodyguard responds with a swift kick to the balls. Damn! Don’t mess with Lindsay.
Source: “Lohan bodyguard kicks cameraman in the balls” [Damn I’m Cute]
After she married Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes changed more than just her personal life. She’s changed in her professional life as well. Instead of signing up for the second installment of “Batman Returns” opposite Christian Bale, she opted for the wacky crime caper “Mad Money” opposite Queen Latifah. Hmmmm ….
I’m just sayin’, she gave up Batman for this box office bust? I just don’t get it. You can see the movie in its entirety January 18.
Source: “Watch Katie Holmes’ New Movie Trailer “ [Us Weekly]
A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop star Prince, sparking a lawsuit that could test the boundaries of U.S. copyright law.
Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family’s rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.
In the video, the child is seen bouncing and swaying for the camera, as, faintly, the Prince hit “Let’s Go Crazy” plays on a CD player in the background.
Twenty eight people, mostly friends and family, had viewed the YouTube video by June, when mom Stephanie Lenz said she received an e-mail from YouTube informing her that her video had been removed from the site at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, the recording industry’s largest label, and warning her that future copyright infringements on her part could force the Web site to cancel her account.
Then responds the mother:
The mother has filed a civil suit against the pop star, claiming they were abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by sending out reams of what are known in the industry as “take down notices” to Web sites like YouTube, claiming their artists’ copyrights had been infringed upon — when in fact, sometimes they may not have been at all.
source: The Home Video Prince Doesn’t Want You to See [abc news]
The video of Anna Nicole Smith, that disturbed me so much along with most everyone across the country, just grew in length.
Here’s more of the video, with her noticeably pregnant and drugged out of her mind. Not only was Howard K. Stern drugging Anna Nicole, but he relished in doing so while ignoring a nine year olds plea to help Anna.
The video is rather disturbing, so don’t watch it if this sort of thing will bother you.
Bill Maher has always been feisty, but I never thought he would leave his chair for an audience member. I was wrong. During a live taping of his show on Friday, Bill and his panel were talking about disease control when this dumbass in the audience started shouting about something unrelated. You can’t really hear what is being shouted, but it might involve 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Bill tries to ignore it, but security can’t seem to shut him up. So Bill takes it into his own hands. He says,
“Hey do we have some f—–g security in this building or do I have to come over and kick this guy’s ass?
And then he goes up there and pushes the guy out of the theater. When the shouter’s apparent female companion starts in too, Bill goes at it again:
Is it that hard to throw somebody out of a building?
I have no problem laughing at models falling because I have fallen many times and it’s just as funny. But this girl takes the cake. Here’s some advice, if you start to fall, just fall. Whenever you try to save it, the situation just gets worse.
Source: “When a Runway Model Falling Down is Funny” [YouTube]
Here’s the 3-minute commercial for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s new clothing line, “The Row”. It sounds really long, but it’s actually a pretty cool commercial with a cute girl, and I like the clothes. There’s something I never thought I would say.
After going on and on and on about being shafted at the VMAs and then appearing drunk on the Wendy Williams Experience exclaiming that he’s the number one human being, it appears Kanye West has a sense of humor about the whole thing. Or at least he’s pretending he does for the pub.
Here’s Kanye on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”, appearing as himself in a 106 & Park sketch in which he makes fun of himself after losing the Kid’s Choice Awards, the Nobel Prize, and hosting duties at SNL. He may be an arrogant crybaby, but it appears that at least he’s aware of that fact.
Source: “Kanye: ‘Give a Short Black Man a Chance!’” [TMZ]
Emmy Rossum is an actress, mostly known for her roles in “Poseidon” and “The Day After Tomorrow”. Unfortunately, she’s trying to sing now too. Here’s Emmy’s first single, “Slow Me Down”.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s a cute girl with a good voice, her song just sucks. It’s like Enya on speed. The redeeming part comes when she roles around naked in the sheets - you can’t see anything, but still.
The album is scheduled to be released October 23.
Source: “Emmy Rossum ‘Slow Me Down’ Video” [Right Celebrity]
“This is absolutely a new step, and I think it’s scary,” said Bonnie Rabin, a divorce lawyer who has handled high-profile cases. “People used to worry about getting on Page Six (the gossip page of the New York Post). But this? It brings the concept of humiliation to a whole new level.”
In the video, the child is seen bouncing and swaying for the camera, as, faintly, the Prince hit “Let’s Go Crazy” plays on a CD player in the background.
“Hey do we have some f—–g security in this building or do I have to come over and kick this guy’s ass?
