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While You Were Sleeping: The Accidental Porn Screening

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:57:00 GMT

Another day and another story indicating Al Franken is closer than ever to becoming Senator from Minnesota... five months after his election.

The pedestrian who died of a heart attack during the G20 protest in England is seen in a video just moments before his death being assaulted by police for the crime of not walking away fast enough.

Tommy Lee's porn-star-loving pilot had his license officially revoked after the Judge saw that blow job video...

Costa Rican police are investigating allegations made by the paparazzi that they were chased away from the Gisele Bundchen-Tom Brady wedding by gunfire.

David Allen Grier was voting off that dancing show about B-list stars getting their big break.

Fidel Castro asked how he can help Barack Obama's Presidency.

Meanwhile, Kal Penn has been hired by the Barack Obama Presidency.

A substitute teacher accidentally showed the regular teacher's porn tape during a geography class.

Moran Stirring Up Controversy By Suggesting We Need To Get Rid Of Obama

While You Were Sleeping: If Even Apple Is In Trouble...

While You Were Sleeping: Drunk Breastfeeding

Skinny Blonde Beer As Misogynist As It Is Gimmicky

Sarah Palin Porn Ain't Goin' Nowhere, No Ho Ho Ho

While You Were Sleeping: John Mayer's Penis

Sloppy Seconds: Lindsay Lohan's Car Crash

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:01:00 GMT

An Italian doctor performing brain surgery suffered a heart attack during the operation, but completed it anyway at the risk of his own life.

Amy Poehler's new show is in trouble already.

If the police can't stop a woman's stalker from harassing her on and off for a year-and-a-half, isn't she allowed to take the law into her own hands? Isn't it self-defense?

Lindsay Lohan was involved in her third car accident in as many weeks. Then she goes and says she never "drinks, do[es] drugs, or lie[s.]" We believe that, yep.

It was inevitable: Nevada plans to tax prostitution at $5 a pop.

Robin Williams is in Ohio, recovering from heart surgery.

Sometimes sex tapes are helpful: a guy recorded a prositute giving him a blow job, then used the video as evidence when the hooker and her boyfriend robbed him.

Turns out, those weren't nude photos of Australian right-wing kook Pauline Hanson after all. Oh well, whatever helped her lose the election is fine with us.

Wacko Right-Wing Politician Hit With Nude Photo Scandal

World Naked Bike Ride Takes Over the Southern Hemisphere

PETA Has Really Gone and Done it Now

While You Were Sleeping: The Harry Potter Murder Case Ends

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:08:00 GMT

If any of our L.A. readers are going to see Kirk Douglas live on stage, consider yourselves very, very lucky... and envied.

The days of rock feuds have returned: Win Butler of Arcade Fire vs. Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips.

Seems William H. Macy has always been babysitting Jeremy Piven.

If two Mexican drug cartels could set aside their differences, they could put a combined 100,000 henchmen to work against the United States... or take over the Mexican government, easy.

Horton Foote died at the age of 92. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright scripted the film of To Kill A Mockingbird.

Reader Art J. alerted us to the trial of a twin brothers accused of attempting to have sex with a corpse that looked hot in a newspaper photo.

A man was convicted of killing another man who appears in the next Harry Potter film.

Call us crazy but this looks like harmless fun to us.

And Robin Williams is in intensive care after complaining of shortness of breath. Gawker notes that his "older brother died two years ago from heart surgery complications..."

Bearded Men On Craig's List: Or, How We'll Get Scanner Emily To Move Back To NYC

Who Would You Rather: This Week's Newsmaking Naked Mens

A Very Important Annoucement from Scanner HQ or: Why Scanner Emily is No Longer on the Road to Becoming a Crazy Cat Lady

While You Were Sleeping: Hugh Jackman and Cleopatra

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:08:00 GMT

If you're going to the inaugural, here's the schedule of public events.

Perhaps young men will soon benefit from the genital wart vaccine.

Hopefully, you avoided the Kathy Griffin train wreck on New Year's Eve... although, if you did, you missed this unforgettable insult:

The year in LOLCats.

The appointment of Roland Burris could create such a legal spectacle and clusterfuck that Democrats will have no choice but to stand down on the issue.

Heart attacks are down in Colorado, thanks to a recent smoking ban. On the downside, New Year's Eve in Aspen was ruined when a series of homemade bombs had to be detonated.

Heard about the four guys who gang raped a lesbian? Thankfully, they've been caught. (Here's hoping they get an eye-for-an-eye in prison.)

The Girl With the One Track Mind, the world's most famous sex blogger, celebrated the five-year anniversary of her site.

Hugh Jackman appears to be dropping out of the bizarre Catherine Zeta-Jones-led Cleopatra movie.

And Taylor Swift, whose album has been #1 for three weeks, passed the 2 million mark after seven weeks of sales.

Dumbest Person Ever? Pregnant Woman Gives Birth on Rollercoaster

Three Men Jump 12-Year-Old Girl, Beat Her Up, Call Her A Hooker... Then Arrest Her

Scanner Highs and Lows: An Orgy of Holiday Weirdness

While You Were Sleeping: Viva Bettie Page

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:05:00 GMT

A widely-publicized murder trial took a grimly hilarious tour when it was revealed the man in question had left a list in his FEMA trailer that detailed his plans for getting away with it. Best one: "Throw gun in river."

Eminem has released his first new song in ages.

Dr. Strangelove, like 1984, is becoming a reality: a single prank call almost started a war between India and Pakistan. Not funny, guys.

You wanna steal my husband? Well, says Shania Twain, I'm a-gonna steal yours...

A male babysitter was arrested for producing a sex tape involving a two-year-old girl.

We love myths, hoaxes and just plain idiocy: Strollerderby wants you to know that your vagina will not seal up if you don't use it for sex very often.

And Bettie Page, the now-85-year-old former pinup, had a heart attack over the weekend and is in critical condition, according to the New York Times.

The 50 Sexiest Movies of All-Time: 10-6

Dad Nobly Defends Son Against Rape Charges... Oh, Wait...

Mom Films Her Boyfriend Having Sex with Her 13-Year-Old Daughter

The English Are Still Too Prudish To Appreciate Nudity

The Saddest And Most Hopeful Story in Rock & Roll

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:55:00 GMT

We've wanted to tell you this story involving the Go-Betweens for a long time now, but never felt it had the ending it deserved.

The tale of this Australian band is one of the saddest in all of rock... and now, deservedly, one with a potential happy ending...

In 2006, we opened up a Village Voice and were stunned to learn that singer-songwriter Grant McLennan, founder of the band and one of its two absolute geniuses, had died suddenly, at 48, and just when things were turning around for him. After decades of baffling obscurity, with some of the catchiest singles since "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," Grant and his longtime collaborate, Robert Forster, were riding high on sales of their 2005 release Oceans Apart, which made many best-of lists and had built a word-of-mouth reputation.

On the night he was to propose to his longtime girlfriend, to bring some peace and stability to a life marred by family tragedy, poverty, and professional trials, McLennan took off his shoes and flopped out on his bed for a brief nap before the engagement festivities. Friends arriving for the party hours later found him having passed away, the autopsy revealing it to have been due to "a massive heart attack."

The tributes were immediate and reminded everyone why it was so shameful the public had ignored this man's songs for so long. Bono's U2 pointed out that Grant's first great song, "Cattle and Cane," was one of the greatest ever written, and likely the best Australian single ever.

We were crushed and unable to listen to anything, let alone the Go-Betweens, for days. It turned out-- so was everybody else, from Sleater-Kinney to U2 to Robert Forster, who was crushed more so than most. But just recently, something interesting began to happen: the Go-Betweens started to take off.

First, there was an Australian radio broadcast covering the Go-Betweens most essential release, 16 Lovers Lane, and a DVD of the broadcast. In the days following the program, Lovers Lane took off, landing at #2 on the iTunes download chart and setting off a wave of new stories about the band. In the midst of all this, Robert Forster's new album came out. We were surprised he could get it together to put something together on his own so soon after Grant's death.

Then we read this:

Q.: How did this all set in motion? Your press release said it was touch-and-go about whether you were ever going to make another record ever. If so, what made up your mind? What was the door opening?

Forster: No, no! I was always going to make an album. It was always my intent. Look, Jack, if even just to get out the Grant songs on the record — he and I were playing those songs. I wanted to make a record if only to get those three out to the world. “Demon Days,” “Let Your Light In, Babe,” and “It Ain’t Easy.” They’re the three that he had the music and the choruses to, and I’ve written the lyrics to, except the first five lines of “Demon Days” are his. The only thing is, I probably made the record a year earlier than what I thought it would be. Besides that, I always wanted to record. [Jesus, that's just beautiful friendship right there.]
Yes, after Grant died, I was in shock, and I was stunned, you know? But I knew I’d record, I just had to find my way out of the shock and the grief and just… I didn’t start playing with Adele [Pickvance, bassist] until like eight months after he died. It just took about that much time to do some songwriting. I was just very much within myself. And then I just phoned her up and we started playing. That was in February last year. But for seven or eight months, I was just taking my time... [Emusic]

And it was well worth it. Critics are already hailing the cuts here as among the best of the year, and the album, The Evangelist, is the year's subtle classic. So, in the end, the Go-Betweens may get their happy ending after all...

Cattle And Cane

Streets Of Your Town

Let Your Light In, Babe

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Sloppy Seconds: Olympic Horses In Doping Scandal

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:45:00 GMT

The Coltrane Kids are cooler than we were in the second grade, that's for sure.

A 20-year-old Wisconsin woman was arrested for her overdue library fines. Um, I thought we were supposed to be promoting reading among our youth...

Sienna Miller's house was vandalized last night. Some sicko left the following graffiti:

Jerry Seinfeld is leading a $300 million ad campaign to salvage Windows Vista.

5 Americans were arrested for merely putting up the words "Free Tibet" in Beijing.

A trio of swingers are dead after a triangle went real, real bad.

Jean Reno, star of Leon, aka The Professional, is in the hospital after suffering a serious heart attack.

Coldplay is already gearing up to release another album, produced by Brian Eno, tentatively scheduled for next year.

The equestrian competition at this year's Olympics was thrown into turmoil today following these shocking revelations:

The four horses were found to have been given capsaicin, a substance prohibited because of its pain-relieving properties.
The horse Camiro, ridden by Tony Andre Hansen, was part of Norway's bronze-medal line-up in the team show jumping.
The other three horses are Ireland's Lantinus, ridden by Dennis Lynch; Brazil's Chupa Chup, ridden by Bernardo Alves; and Germany's Coster, ridden by Christian Ahlmann.

These people should be jailed for giving drugs to horses. Jailed in China. (That'll teach 'em.)

Video of the Day: How Not to Fake a Courtroom Heart Attack

Emily Farris — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:07:00 GMT

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He just looks too good, right? Maybe he should have peed his pants or something.

Sloppy Seconds: Only a Hairy Mole Can Save R. Kelly Now

Emily Farris — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:44:00 GMT

Rock pioneer Bo Diddley is dead at 79. What do you mean you "don't know Diddley?" [Us]

Actor Kelsey Grammer suffered a heart attack while paddle boating recently. But it's said to be mild and he should be out of the hospital soon. [FameCrawler]

Tom Cruise has apparently "banned" Victoria Beckham from talking to his wife, Katie Holmes, about dieting. We agree Posh is too skinny, but really? The first time a man "bans" us from doing anything, we'll probably end up in jail. [GabbyBabble]

Hey, why don't you sell some of yourself to get through the recession? We're thinking of selling our pee, but only because we're considering sobriety for the month of June — you know, just to see what it's like. [DivineCaroline]

Angelina Jolie's fake assistant told a fake story to the press about Jolie giving birth last week. Man, if we had even a fake assistant life would be so much easier. [Jossip]

So Brad Pitt is in the hotel design business now... in Dubai, apparently. [People]

Okay, we don't know if it's hairy or not, but really, only R. Kelly's mole (or the lack of it in his alleged sex tape) can save him now. [Yahoo!]

Previously: Rumor Denied: Angelina Jolie

Were the New Kids on the Block Always Such Bad Singers?

Emily Farris — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:54:00 GMT

Don't get us wrong; we love the New Kids on the Block. Always have, always will. They could be terrible singers and we'd still kiss our Joey McIntyre poster every night before bed (obviously). And maybe it's not so much that they're bad singers, but that they're just getting old, and it probably gets harder every year to jump around and sing at the same time.

But we had a tough time watching this Friday's Today Show clip in which the NKOTB performed a medley of their top hits from the early 90's. We were kind-of worried one might have a heart attack, by the way they were breathing. Maybe they're just out of practice, and we have to hand it to them: all five of the New Kids on the Block are still alive and none of them are fat. And as far as we recall, none have been incarcerated. Pretty good return rate, no?

Though might we suggest cutting the dancing to focus on the singing next time around?

Previously:

Oh Snap, We Thought the NKOTB Reunion Was Supposed To Be All Ironic and Stuff

New Kids on the Block Are Back and They Know What You Did With That NKOTB T-Shirt

Life Imitates Art: Actor Has Heart Attack During Heart Attack Scene

Emily Farris — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Talk about method acting, an actor collapsed on stage at the exact moment his character was supposed to have a heart attack and die.

So obviously it took people a little while to respond to the man's needs.

Steve Dineen was taken to hospital after he keeled over during the dramatic finale of Mike Leigh's famous comedy Abigail's Party.

In the play, lead character Laurence dies of a heart attack in the final minutes and Dineen was moments away from acting out the death.

So when he fell suddenly to the floor, the audience at Musselburgh's Brunton Theatre thought it was just part of his impressive performance.

But co-star Alice Selwyn noticed Dineen's struggle was genuine and came out of character to ask for a doctor.

The actor was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and kept in overnight for tests.

The theatre's marketing officer, Paul Brunton, said last night: "It was very traumatic at the time because it coincided with the exact moment where Steve's character was about to have a heart attack.

"It was almost like real life imitating art.

"Thankfully, Steve is going to be OK. We've had lots of phone calls from the audience to check on him, which has been nice."

It's almost like how every time we call in sick to do something fun we actually end up getting sick. But that's probably just psychosomatic guilt kicking in.

[The Daily Record: Actor collapses on stage for real during heart attack scene]

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Game Show Host Who Suffered a Heart Attack

Emily Farris — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:47:00 GMT

Who is Alex Trebek?

Best Week Ever is right: the saddest news we'll hear all day is that Alex Trebek had a heart attack. While we're glad to know he's "resting comfortably," we can't help but wonder why he ever took a topless picture. Anyone?

[BestWeekEver.tv]