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While You Were Sleeping: Paul Newman’s Gay Affair

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Free mp3’s from the likes of She & Him, Robyn Hitchcock, and Shawn Mullins can be yours if you donate so much as one dollar to save Paste Magazine.

We really feel bad for this woman who cried in her mugshot photo, even though she put up an ad on an elevator wall offering sex for money and gave out her real phone number.

Tom Hanks is upset his Angels and Demons sex scene was cut for the PG-13 rating.

John Mayer sends text messages that say “I want to tuck you in” when he really means a word that starts with “f” instead of “t,” according to the ever-reliable New York Post.

Hey Brits– the best breasts are in Yorkshire.

Gerard Butler has been charged with beating up a pap.

Shanna Moakler asked Carrie Prejean to “stop lying.”

And a new book claims Paul Newman and James Dean slept together. That seems believable– if we were forced at gunpoint to have sex with another man, it would have to be one of these two in their prime.

20 Most Amazing Coincidences... or Hoaxes?

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:46:00 GMT

This is an oldie, but when we'd never seen before: Daily Cognition's list of the 20 Most Amazing Coincidences. Some of them have to be hoaxes, as a few of these stink worse than a dumpster at the Pike Place Market, but the rest will blow your cynical little minds...

It's an epic story, requiring at least 45 minutes of your time to pore through, but here are the highlights:

1) James Dean's car went on to kill at least 2 more people and injure several others over the years. Parts of it went into other cars and the rest of it collapsed and eventually broke into nearly a dozen different pieces.

2) A man saved a falling baby on two different occasions. Same baby, same man's head that broke the fall. This one we can't seem to believe-- but the world used to be a smaller place...

3) A guy almost got shot in the face by his scorned lover's crazed brother. Instead of killing him, the bullet nicked his face and lodged itself in a tree. Years later-- and this is the part we don't believe-- the survivor decided to destroy that same tree... with dynamite. You see where this is going, don't you? Indeed, he blew up the goddamn tree-- causing the bullet to fire out, hitting the guy in the face, killing him instantly.

4) Two twins are separated at birth, both are eventually named James, grow up to enter "law enforcement" (a vague enough description to qualify as a coincidence), marry women named Linda, have sons named James Alan (or James Allan), get divorced, and remarry women named Betty. Also, they had dogs named-- what the hell-- Toy. We're guessing it might be true that our lives are preordained, although the fact that this story was published by Reader's Digest calls the whole truth of it into question.

5) Our favorite: when Norman Mailer was writing his widely panned novel Barbary Shore, he decided to randomly work in a Russian spy character. Upon the book's completion, the Feds conducted a major raid on his upstairs neighbor's apartment, arresting the top Russian spy working in America. Mailer must've known, damn it...

Check out the rest, including the book that predicted the Titanic up to and including the reason it would sink and the woman who discovered her childhood favorite book-- and her own copy of it-- half a world away...

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GQ: "James Franco Is A Douche"

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:13:00 GMT

This story was written by Sean Flanagan, who is guest blogging while Verena is at the Democratic National Convention...

Everyone loves James Franco, sorta.

Pineapple Express was hilarious. Franco was exciting and endearing-- and in a good movie. But, it turns out, if you haven't seen any of his films since 2001's James Dean, you probably wouldn't know that everyone in Hollywood thinks he's a douche.

GQ, as you will see, does nothing to shatter that image; in fact, they get right down to it in the opening lines:

He's sorry about the awful movies, sorry if he was a jerk on-set, sorry for trying to be the next James Dean. But now, with the chronically charming Pineapple Express and an Oscar-baiting drama coming this fall, Franco is making sure his future looks nothing like his past, even if it involves making out with Sean Penn...

After that, it only gets worse:

1) Judd Apatow call Franco ugly and stupid:

“What I remember about meeting James,” says [Judd] Apatow, “Was that he had this really big mouth, and he was very skinny, and very greasy... We had no sense that he was attractive— we just thought he was this, you know, wannabe cool guy, but it wasn’t quite working, a funny mess of a guy, the way he performed the scenes."

2) Franco discusses a gay cocaine threesome and "email vent" about how he was unhappy with the lack of time spent discussing art and poetry during his the days of being trailed for the cover article.

3) "To watch the complete works of James Franco, as I did, is for large stretches of time a dispiriting experience.... He seems more like a witness powerless to prevent the same crime being committed over and over again."

4) This one is too great of a quote to really make anyone look bad, though:

One time when he was deep into reading a particular text, Sean Penn told him, “You’re reading that book like you’re waiting for it to lie to you.”

Of course, since Scanner loves James Franco, we have to point out that we do not support GQ's position. There's something entirely lovable about a guy who has this to offer us about his first time kissing a man-- in this case, Sean Penn:

The ﬁrst kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside. It was a crane shot—I’m sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute. That’s a long time on film with everybody watching and, like, a fake mustache getting in your mouth. It was long enough that you couldn’t help thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I’m kissing Spicoli.’ ”

Scanner : james dean

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GQ: "James Franco Is A Douche"

While You Were Sleeping: James Franco and Sean Penn Go At It

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