Let’s face it: Adam Lambert’s big breakout performance at the American Music Awards last week was oddly impressive. Sort of like watching a first-time race car driver rev the engine, go roaring off the starting line, and plow straight into a wall. Lambert still isn’t apologizing (exactly) for the incident, but at least [...]

Tonight’s TV fare offers a truly epic conflict of interest, because Quentin Tarantino (a fairly interesting person) will be appearing as a guest judge on American Idol (a show in which I’m violently uninterested). Even more disturbing, Tarantino doesn’t seem to recognize the dizzying level of cognitive dissonance in this combination. According to [...]

The more you learn about some celebrities, the more you realize you were happier knowing less. Anthony Hopkins, for instance. It would be nice to imagine that Sir Anthony is an elegant, sophisticated older gentleman, perhaps just a bit sinister. His only connection with pop culture might be a taste for re-watching [...]

Simon Cowell is a bit of an enigma. On the one hand, his comments to the aspiring pop stars on American Idol are rarely any worse than they deserve, and intermittently he’s even clever. On the other hand, he’s an integral cog in the American Idol machine, so it’s difficult to see [...]

This lovely protest-oriented graphic now qualifies as a shameless tradition:

We once again conclude our pictorial critique of western popular culture. Tune in tomorrow when Agent Bedhead artistically fries an egg on Brad Pitt’s Matt Damon’s Eli Roth’s* stomach.
* Hair product optional.

American Idol alum Clay Aiken is right up there with Tom Cruise and John Travolta on the list of got-to-be-closeted male celebrities. But now he’s putting those rumors to rest. In an interview with New York magazine, this generation’s Barry Manilow explained that he doesn’t even own a closet, and he wouldn’t know [...]

AI’s Simon Cowell has made a career out of crushing the egos of nobodies who hope to be somebodies (in the shallow, pop-singer sense of “somebody”), but it sounds as if he’s not above boosting his own ego with a little surgical enhancement. Louis Walsh, one of Simon’s co-judges on the wildly popular UK [...]

Heather Graham: Shag Well. Kiss Girls. (CityRag)
Zac Efron sucks. No, really. (Gabby Babble)
Lindsay Lohan might “write” a book after rehab. (Celebrity Smack)
Angelina Jolie reveals the exact number of men she’s screwed. (Celebitchy)
Chris Noth looks hot again (!), which means shooting for the SATC film has begun. (Daily Stab)
Jessica Alba, marbles, frozen poop, bathing suit. Hot. [...]