It was 10:30 on a recent and particularly chilly Wednesday morning in Red Hook. Inside F & M Bagels, a cozy and plainly ornamented old-fashioned deli in the ground floor of a two-story brick building at the intersection of Van Brunt and Coffey streets, Eugene Orefice, a co-owner of the establishment, was taking time from Read More
Alex Rodriguez is now (weirdly) insisting that he and Madonna are "friends–that’s it." Maybe this means they’ve already broken up? [People]
The Daily News‘s Rush & Molloy, who are moving their gossip column from the daily edition to the Sunday issue, have compiled a roundup of some of their most interesting famous Read More
Samantha Ronson has once again taken to her Myspace blog to make her opinions known. Now she’s lashing out at the anti-fur activist who threw flour on girlfriend Lindsay Lohan: "The girl who threw [the flour] acted like an animal herself… I take that back, it’s an insult to animals to group her in with Read More
"Pier 41 may be their home but it is not a house. It is a ‘set’ in a commercial warehouse. This space hosted the Will Smith movie ‘Hitch’ in 2004." ["Details on The Real World Red Hook!"]
Monday
Is the impulse that drives viewers to A&E’s reality series Intervention charity? Or what the newspapers used to call "human interest"? Or is it just Schadenfreude? Either way, the show, which chronicles those confrontations between self-destructive people and their families and friends brokered by "intervention" specialists, certainly doesn’t play for laughs. What you’re seeing Read More
For those of us of a certain age, MTV’s The Real World was, like, the coolest thing ever: Pedro vs. Puck, that Irish guy Dom from the second season, the year it took place in London with the, like, 16-year-old dating the 14-year-old. Fascinating slice-of-life stuff when viewed from the suburbs.
And, then, for a Read More
Did The Real World beget Facebook? That’s the theory put forth by Details‘ Jeff Gordinier in his think piece on MTV’s ur-reality series which is in its improbable twentieth season.
After explaining how the series created "a New America," Gordinier writes:
In 1995 a paperback titled The Real Real World was published Read More
MONDAY
There should be something wrong when high-schoolers in Florida start to sound like their geriatric counterparts in Boca Raton. But when it’s the stars of MTV’s The Paper [10:30 p.m.], it’s downright heartwarming. Though society seems to be “heading to the Internet and to virtual whatnot,” 17-year-old Amanda Lorber, an editor on The Read More
