By Drew Grant 2/21 5:25pm

celebrities and drugs

David Cross (Getty Images)

David Cross Only Did a Little Bit of Cocaine at Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner

It would be hypocritical for us to wag a finger at David Cross for divulging to Playboy that he had snorted “a granule” of cocaine during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2009, because who hasn’t just fallen face-first into mind-altering substances during a celebrity-filled function before? It happens!

However, we do take issue with how self-righteous Mr. Cross–last seen slamming a producer for being the human embodiment of a negative Jewish stereotype–gets whenever talking about politics or narcotics. Combine the two, and it’s almost like listening to the Bizarro Glenn Beck. Read More

By Drew Grant 1/11 4:14pm

David Cross

David Cross in deep chip

David Cross Urges Viewers Not to See Chipwrecked, Complains About Jew-Personifying Producer (Video)

Last week at the Portlandia premiere, we made a crack to David Cross about Chipwrecked, the third movie in the CGI-rodent franchise that the actor has clearly always felt was beneath him. Maybe we should have held our tongue: apparently these comments cut deep, and cut crazy, to the point where Mr. Cross railed on Conan O’Brien last night about his hatred of the film, urging viewers to not see his movie. (Reverse psychology?)

And then there was the matter of the one of the film’s producers, whom he claimed was “the personification of what people think about when they think negatively about Jews.”

Yikes. Read More

By Drew Grant 11/30/11 4:32pm

Film

Daniel Radcliffe vs James Franco in a Ginsberg-off? Its possible. (Via Harry Potter and Howl)

Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg? A History of ‘Howl’-ing Portrayals (Video)

James Franco (and David Cross, John Turturro, et al) have reason to be worried: Harry Potter is about to smash your portrayal of New York beat poet Allen Ginsberg into dust. Daniel Radcliffe, fresh from filming the Victorian horror flick The Woman In Black has reportedly joined the cast of Kill Your Darlings (not to be confused with the 2006 flick with the same name) as the famous (and infamous) part of Jack Kerouac/Ginsberg/Lucien Carr trio. Read More

By Drew Grant 10/13/11 2:21pm

New York Comic Con

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Kevin Smith at Comic Con, obviously.

Your Guide to Stalking Celebrities at New York Comic Con [Slideshow]

Today is the official start date of  New York’s annual Comic Con, the sad stepbrother of San Diego’s way more famous nerd convention. Still, New York has its fair share of amazing graphic novel writers and artists (which was what Comic Con is all about, right?), and DC and Marvel have spent a good chunk of cash flying out some big name celebrities for panels as well. Read More

By Matt Haber 1/10/08 12:24pm

In Defense of David Cross

David Cross has no wife and no kids. The comedian and actor, best known for his role as Tobias Fünke on the little watched, but much lamented FOX sitcom Arrested Development and as co-creator (with Bob Odenkirk) of Mr. Show with Bob and David, an HBO sketch series that ran for four seasons back in Read More

By Rebecca Dana 11/21/05 12:00am

Emmy-Laden Sitcom Arrested Development Finally Bites Dust

In times of trouble, it’s sometimes comforting to look to the words of a television mom, the kind of woman you’d welcome into your heart, your hearth, your living room. A woman like Lucille Bluth:

“You don’t need an immigrant in mother’s old stirrup pants to be happy!”

 

Lucille screamed that in the Read More

By Rebecca Dana 11/21/05 12:00am

Emmy-Laden Sitcom Arrested Development Finally Bites Dust

In times of trouble, it’s sometimes comforting to look to the words of a television mom, the kind of woman you’d welcome into your heart, your hearth, your living room. A woman like Lucille Bluth:

“You don’t need an immigrant in mother’s old stirrup pants to be happy!”

Lucille screamed that in the middle of Read More