Big Apple Idolatry: Weather Experts Are the New Celebs While Ben Affleck Whines About Homeland

Drew Grant — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:15:30 -0400

– The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore (recently profiled by The Observer) was the main guest on Letterman last night after Kate Hudson dropped out. See, in a perfect world, you wouldn't have the guy who spent 24 hours in Battery Park during Sandy as the pinch-hitter for an actress whose biggest news right now is a cameo on Glee.

– Here's a roundup of all the celebs "affected" by Hurricane Sandy. And by affected, we mean "experienced minor inconveniences and/or electricity loss." Except for Donnie Wahlberg, who made emergency bacon but then found himself a foot deep in water that flooded his apartment.

– Jennifer Garner wouldn't let husband Ben Affleck direct an episode of Homeland, so he made Argo instead.

– NBC has moved this week's 30 Rock to tonight, which your DVRs are NOT prepared for! So go get them ready.

– And in La La Land, Kourtney Kardashian and Patrick Bateman Scott Disick are planning a televised engagement and wedding. Hey, if it worked for Kim ... (the marketing of your wedding for big $$, not the actual marriage, of course.)

Kardashians' Book Tour Stops Midtown Traffic

Drew Grant — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:09:26 -0400

We were trying to make our way down 5th avenue this afternoon when traffic was literally stopped for ten minutes on 46th street. We paid our cabdriver and walked into the throng of people outside Barnes and Noble. Was it some sort of Occupy Wall Street protest of giant book corporations?

No, just two of the lesser Kardashians.

As people spilled out into the traffic, we tried to get a straight answer on who they were waiting out in the rain for.

"Kim Kardashian is in there!" a young woman with a blue umbrella gushed at us.

Really? We thought she was in Australia.

"It's not Kim, it's the other two," an older lady said, leaning in conspiratarolly. "Khloe and Kathy."

"What book are they signing?" we asked.

"Hell if I know," the woman said.

We waited around ten more minutes as the throng of human bodies pulsed around the entrance. We Googled "Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian," because we were pretty sure there was no one in that family named Kathy.

It turns out the dynamic duo (?) were out promoting their new novel Dollhouse. Kim Kardashian also wrote it. So we guess that answers the question "How many Kardashian sisters does it take to hire a ghostwriter?" (The answer is, of course, all of them.)

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Big Apple Idolatry: Weather Experts Are the New Celebs While Ben Affleck Whines About Homeland

Kardashians' Book Tour Stops Midtown Traffic