By Drew Grant 1/25 4:14pm

Celebrity Twitter

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Best Responses to Shirley Temple Opening Pandora’s ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Box on Twitter

Poor Shirley Temple Black/person pretending to be Shirley Temple Black on Twitter (we believe nothing till an account is verified): The 84-year-old former pre-tween movie star was on Twitter less than one day before she was asked about cultural phenom Honey Boo Boo. The question, which came from Model Alliance’s Coco Rocha, could be taken as an insult–why ask Shirley Temple about the TLC star unless you consider Ms. Temple’s celebrity status to have been similar?–but luckily Ms. Temple was just confused. Confused enough to ask Twitter: “i have been asked what i think of ‘honey boo’, can someone tell me who that is.” The resulting answers were, for lack of a better word, fantastic. Read More

By Drew Grant 11/14/12 4:51pm

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Here comes Honey Boo Boo! (Bluewater Productions)

Honey Boo Boo Comic Book Intends ‘Not to Educate Society’

There is probably not a human being on this earth who believes that Honey Boo Boo is being given a healthy amount of attention with her TV show and constant face-slapping, president-endorsing appearances on the late-night circuit. We know, deep in our bones, or hearts, or whatever, that the blonde pageant star has another 6½ minutes left–at most–on the Andy Warhol clock. But is it really necessary to make a whole comic book about her upcoming irrelevance?

Bluewater Productions, the graphic novel version of TMZ.com, which has brought you stories on politicians, princes and Kardashians, thinks so. But even it is having a hard time defending its position. Read More