Spin Cycle presents another installment of “All the News That’s Fit to Razz.”
It’s being reported that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are planning to turn their wedding into a week-long event.
A week long, coincidentally, is about the duration of Kardashian’s last marriage.
Dumb Starbucks, a parody coffee shop mocking Starbucks, opened recently in Los Angeles, serving coffee beverages like “Dumb Caramel Macchiato,” in sizes ranging from “Dumb Tall” to “Dumb Venti” (and for free - now that’s really dumb), as well as selling “Dumb Norah Jones Duets” CDs.
Starbucks is checking into suing Dumb Starbucks on the grounds of, well, grounds.
The animated Warner Bros. The Lego Movie, based on the popular toys, stacked up a $69 million opening weekend.
At pitch meetings right now in Hollywood: Tinkertoy Movie. Jenga Movie. Lincoln Logs Classic Edition Frontier Cabin Movie.
Saturday Night Live alumnus Chris Kattan recently was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence following a crash on a Southern California freeway.
This is not Kattan’s first accident. After all, he starred in A Night at the Roxbury and Corky Romano.
The waterfront mansion where Al “Scarface” Capone died after his release from Alcatraz is back on the market.
The $8.5 million, 10,000-squarefoot home includes a main house with seven bedrooms, five full baths and two powder rooms; a two-story guest home; pool; cabana house; private sand beach; and endless tortured hauntings by a syphilitic gangster ghost.
A French paparazzo, Pascal Rostain, claims that singer Beyonce and President Barack Obama are - ooh la la! - having une affaire, and he said the proof would be reported in the next day’s The Washington Post (it wasn’t).
So begins - and ends - Bootyiciousgate.
Los Angeles news anchor Sam Rubin upset actor Samuel L. Jackson during a live interview for mistaking him for another black actor, Laurence Fishburne. Jackson said: “We don’t all look alike!”
To which Sam Rubin said, “I know you are, but what am I?” No wait, we’ve confused Sam Rubin for Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens. They do kind of look alike.
A celebrity boxing match between acquitted Florida murder suspect George Zimmerman and troubled rapper DMX has been canceled.
Perhaps the promoter realized neither is a celebrity.
Michael Sam, defensive lineman from the University of Missouri, has come out about his homosexuality publicly, and could be the National Football League’s first openly gay player.
Wait, you mean retired legend Joe Namath - wearer of that “fabulous” fur coat during the recent Super Bowl coin toss - is straight?
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Style, Pages 45 on 02/16/2014