Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: Searching for Don Draper’s Backstory Whorehouse
Don Draper’s childhood whorehouse home has been located in the Angelino Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, just a hop and a skip from Dodger Stadium. The 1968 scenes of the house were CGI-uglified, with apartment buildings added in on either side; the actual home looks to be in pretty good condition. In the eternity between […]
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Afternoon Links: Two and a Half Men Come Out, in Japan
If you always felt that the erotic subtext of Two and a Half Men needed to be explored in the context of Japanese television, you’re not alone. The Out Couple! parody is ready to shed light on the story of “two men in progressive America” (you know, “badgers from the same hole”) and the “sparkling […]
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Lifetime’s Dirty Little Secret Is the Jodi Arias Made-for-TV Movie We Deserve
Lifetime movies have no allure to some people. They take 10 minutes to make and, in the case of the Jodi Arias legal saga and Lifetime’s filmic homage, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, sometimes begin production before the real-life story has ended (a new jury will be chosen for a second penalty phase in mid-July, […]
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Afternoon Links: Tough Week? John Goodman Knows How You Feel
Thought I was going to lead with Paula Deen, didn’t you? Nope! Gonna bury her down below and hammer your consciousness with almost five minutes of John Goodman losing his shit instead. This week’s been heavy on apologies and way too light on yelling and indignation. Damn! [wall punch.] Ha! [Head slam, wall punch reprise.]
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Afternoon Links: Stephen Colbert Says Good-bye to His Mother, Makes Us Emotional All Over Again
Oh, I see you’ve paused your Sopranos marathon and have stopped crying into your gabagool. What a great time to watch Stephen Colbert’s moving tribute to his recently deceased mother, Lorna: She had 11 children, taught her kids to stage fall, and said … oh no … she wouldn’t miss … Colbert’s … show … […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: The Bling Ring, This Is the End, and Rape Jokes
Once we get our obligatory Yeezus reactions out of the way (if you need Molly this summer, you can find her cruising down the PCH blasting “On Sight”), It’s time to dig into two of this past weekend’s releases, The Bling Ring and This Is the End. We take apart the privilege and problematic points […]
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Is There a Future for Televised Singing Competitions?
After The Voice crowned its fourth-season winner, 16-year-old Danielle Bradbery — the third Team Blake victor — a hush fell over the nation. American Idol doesn’t start auditioning its 13th season until July, and The X Factor, revamped with two new judges and minus a Kardashian, is holding its breath until the fall. It’s a […]
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Afternoon Links: Paula Deen Manages to Do Something Grosser Than Deep Frying Butter in Butter
Oh, PAULA. During a taped deposition last month, Paula Deen went on the record to admit that she’d used the n-word (“yes, of course”) and unfortunately, that’s not all. Radar Online reports that Deen wanted to hire black men to play slaves at a wedding, which is even crazier than eating deep-fried balls of butter […]
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Afternoon Links: Russell Brand Takes Over Morning Joe
The world’s boyfriend, Russell Brand, appeared on Morning Joe. The hosts were pretty tacky to him, referring to Brand in the third person and generally treating him like an “extraterrestrial.” Sure, the comedian rocks the casual chest hair, but harping on his appearance, asking for jokes on command, and complaining that he’s unintelligible on the […]
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Afternoon Links: Scott Disick, in the Role He Was Born to Play, Promotes Yeezus
In his latest Yeezus promotional projection, Kanye West re-creates the Huey Lewis scene from American Psycho with Scott Disick and Jonathan Cheban (nice casting, brah). Take a look at the garbled footage and then read about Kanye’s Kafkaesque imprisonment in the cell of his own celebrity: “As an artist, and as a critic of his […]
