Lena Dunham pokes a nice-sized hole in The New Yorker’s we’re-witty-not-funny facade with her promotional-film-within-a-film for the magazine’s new iPhone app.
In the first part of the clip, the Tiny Furniture filmmaker and Girls creator — who never lets her ego get in the way of good comedy — lolls around in a ridiculous pair of pants on a talk show hosted by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. After explaining to Hamm’s technologically retarded character just what an iPhone app is, Dunham does what every talk-show guest does eventually: urges him to play her clip.
Dunham stars as the New Yorker’s editor, despite bearing little resemblance to the publication’s actual chief, David Remnick. Girls cast member Alex Karpovsky also appears as her slow-witted assistant and offers up a series of slyly stupid reaction shots as Dunham then gives a so-rudimentary-its-funny demonstration of the app for those New Yorker readers who are really fighting the leap from print to digital. After breaking it down for the Luddite crowd, Dunham then suggests that she and her assistant have sex the following week.
Actually, that’s the one false note of Dunham’s short. Everyone who’s ever worked at Conde Nast knows that the first rule of The New Yorker’s Sex Club is that you don’t talk about Sex Club — until a fact checker vets your comments.
Check out the clip below, then write the New Yorker to suggest that Dunham, who has contributed a couple of smart pieces to the magazine, guest-edit a future special issue about anything she damn well wants. That kid is full of good ideas.
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If you’re on a flight from L.A. to NYC and Anderson Cooper is quietly drifting into a silver fox slumber behind you, you have to take a picture of it. It’d be the most IMPORTANT thing in your life. You’re taking care of a screaming baby and that baby refuses to shut up? Show that annoying baby a picture of Andy Coo sleeping and that baby’s eyes will be too busy getting lost in that picture that it will forget to cry. You’re eating delicious pancakes at a Denny’s and a fight breaks out (because that’s just what happens at Denny’s). Show all those fighting whores a picture of Andy Coo sleeping and their raging assholes will instantly cool and you’ll be able to enjoy your delicious pancakes in peace. You’re on a date with me and trying to get away without being too obvious. Whip out that picture and make your escape as I lick the screen. Yes, you’ll lose a phone since I’ll eventually shove it down the back of my chonies, but that’s a small price to pay. What I’m saying is that a picture of Andy Coo doing mimi times is THAT soothing and THAT hypnotic. But the Silver Fox wants no part of that shit and read a bitch his rights for trying to capture that magical moment on his iPhone.
On Kathy last night, Andy said that on his 6am flight to L.A., he was trying to sleep when a sneaky bitch with an iPhone
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“Russell Brand was NOT arrested for a misdemeanor yesterday … turns out it was a FELONY, and the late Steve Jobs may be to blame. We did some digging and just found out … in Louisiana property damage that exceeds $500 triggers a felony arrest. You’ll recall, Brand allegedly snatched a photog’s iPhone Monday night and hurled it through a plate glass window. The iPhone alone costs more than $500…Steve Jobs famously believed he could charge a lot for the iPhone — and did. And now Russell is paying dearly for it.” [TMZ]
Jude Law gives us a cautionary tale on the dangers of dressing while totally baked – Lainey Gossip
In a perfect, beautiful world, that iPhone fell into a portal and dropped out of the sky before landing on Chris Brown’s head. The circle of iPhone abuse would be complete. – The Superficial
Demi Moore is still douchematized – Celebitchy
Jessica Biel was into Barbie kink – (site NSFW) Drunken Stepfather
Methinks Lindsay Lohan’s cheeks are trying to escape out of her nostrils holes – Hollywood Tuna
But we already have one Khloe Kardashian – Towleroad
What a delicious looking ham wrap (I’m talking about the picture on the window, not Megan Fox’s toe) – Popoholic
Nobody does low-budget copy + pasting like the Chinese. Take note, Lady GaGa – The Berry
I think I see a surrogate winking at me when I stare deep into Beyonce’s Magic Eye pants – ICYDK
Peter Sarsgaard struts struts struts his ass in some wedgie makers – Popsugar
This is funnier if you read it as, “Hilary Clinton Urges Women Not To Take A Shit” – Jezebel
If you’re a pervert who looks through every bathroom peep hole, hoping that one day you’ll find Dominic West’s ass on the other side, here you go – OMG Blog
Brandon Flowers is looking hot! - Just Jared
Puck from Glee is looking turrible! – SOW
This is supposed to make me awwww inside, but it made me ewwwww inside when he sucked the baby out of her belly – The Daily What
Mickey Rourke for Peeled Paul, because I’m pretty sure he takes off his skin at night just like that – Videogum
24-year-old Christal Spann of Miami learned on Sunday night that the next time she wants to take a picture of Chris Brown with her iPhone, she should just take a picture of a torn off scab lying on the sidewalk instead. It’s more pleasant to look at and it won’t steal her iPhone.
NBCMiami says that the Miami-Dade State Attorney has opened up a file with Chris Brown’s name on it after he stole Christal’s iPhone when she tried to take his picture outside of Cameo in Miami. If this was anybody else, I would use the word “allegedly” somewhere in there, but this is Chris Brown I’m blogging about. The only time I’d use the word “allegedly” in a post about Chris Brown is if it was reported that he was “allegedly” not acting like a first degree douche.
Christal tells police that she was inside of Cameo on Sunday morning when she saw Chris Brown and Tyga leaving the club through a side door (pictures below). Christal and her friends followed Chris to his Bentley and she started taking pictures of him with her iPhone while he was sitting in the car. Being the charming and eloquent gentleman that he is, Chris Brown snatched Christal’s phone away before screaming at her, “Bitch you ain’t going to put that on no website.” Chris then rolled up his window and drove away without giving Christal her phone back. The State Attorney’s office
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There’s something for everyone in the first trailer for The Three Stooges. Well, something for everyone who enjoys Sofia Vergara in tight sweaters, lobster-down-the-pants gags and Jersey Shore cameos. If any of those ideas interest you, click ahead to see the Farrelly brothers’ take on modern-era Moe, Larry and Curly.
After spending over a decade in development limbo, The Three Stooges finally arrives in theaters April 13 with Chris Diamantopoulos (Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Mork & Mindy’) playing Moe, Sean Hayes as Larry and Will Sasso (MADtv) embodying Curly. The bumbling trio, best known for their slapstick act that originated in 1925, are somehow transplanted to modern-day Earth for Bobby and Peter Farrellys’ film.
The movie chronicles the Stooges’ attempt to save their childhood orphanage and their accidental forays into reality television and murder mysteries. The supporting cast includes Jane Lynch, Larry David (?!), Jennifer Hudson, Sofia Vergara, Stephen Collins and at least four members of the Jersey Shore cast. In spite of the promising slate of actors involved (and the gratuitous shot of a hot nun in a sexy swimming suit), The Three Stooges looks to be another remake that audience members would have preferred never been made.
VERDICT: Why I oughta…wait until The Three Stages is released on Blu-ray.
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After a torrent of reports circulated the news that Avengers DP Seamus McGarvey shot portions of the $200 million Marvel blockbuster with an iPhone, the cinematographer (and especially Disney) rushed to claim he was misquoted by something called the Irish Film & Television Network: “I mentioned that the iPhone and the Canon 5d Mk2 were devices currently used on many Hollywood productions. I used the Canon on some shots on Marvel’s The Avengers movie. Unfortunately, this was edited to read that I shot some of the film with the iPhone. This is not true.” Disappointing, but come on. Did no one think to fact-check with Siri? [THR]
Ok gadget hounds, so this Siri thing is pretty neat. AND she/it has a built-in sense for movie geekery, so if you happen to ask her, say, what the meaning of life is. (Answer: 42, duh.) Or slyly refer to the shenanigans of that uber-intelligent, all-knowing other futuristic supercomputer, HAL 9000. Watch video of Siri in action (at the 5:15 mark) after the jump and stick around for more Buzz Break.
• “I spent most of my life just trying to humor people.” Sipping lemonade and puffing on a cigar circa 1998, the late, great Hunter S. Thompson explains how his first manuscript, The Rum Diary (written in his youth, published decades later, and made into this week’s Johnny Depp starrer) was eclipsed by his Hell’s Angels gonzo reportage and languished in his basement for years. [Movie City News]
• National Amusements is actually not amused by Universal’s Tower Heist VOD plan and has joined the fast-growing exhibitor boycott of the film. This thing’s picking up more steam than Occupy America. [Reuters]
• Samuel L. Jackson has joined Twitter, muthaf***ers. [@SamuelLJackson]
• The celeb hacker suspected of breaking into Scarlett Johansson’s email account and exposing her naughty self-portraits to the world has been arrested by the FBI in an operation apparently called, I kid you not, Operation Hackerazzi. [THR]
• Terry Gilliam, 70, is still trying to put Don Quixote together. “I’ve actually reached the point of not believing I’ll ever make a film again.” Sadface. [Independent]
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