Ben Stiller reportedly flipped out over his Oscar script the day before this year's show. But the Joaquin Phoenix impersonation he came up with as a replacement was hardly original. Frank Coraci had done the same bit just the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards, Page Six reminds us. Stille...

A tipster sent in what may be the antecedent to Morrissey's baby-toting artwork for his forthcoming album Years Of Refusal, the cover for various DVD and video editions of the 1992 John Woo flick Hard Boiled . (Notes on the film itself: 230 people die! There is a "cheesy" sax and keyboard-heavy scor...

We understand the insatiable need for the media to compare Obama to Lincoln, we really do. There's no need to rehash the potential similarities all over again, because Newsweek is devoting their cover story this week to doing exactly that. On one hand, comparing a president-elect to a another guy fr...

Hey, Julia Allison's on the cover of once-important lifestyle rag Wired! Ms. Allison, who's moved beyond the "dating columnist/celeb talking head" thing to become a noted dater-of-rich-nerds, is the subject of yet another of those interminable stories about becoming Internet Famous in Three Easy Ste...

Good news and bad news. The bad news: The New Yorker has made yet another cartoonist uncomfortable by running a cartoon eerily similar to someone else's work. The good news: This time it's not Harry Bliss! Bliss, you'll recall, is the cartoonist who came under fire twice in May, once for an uncredit...

A University of Wisconsin professor believes the New Yorker ripped off famed comic book illustrator Jack Kirby with the cartoon on the right, which was used for the magazine's popular back-page caption contest. So the professor dug out the Kirby comic on the left and started complaining. The New Yor...

Matt Haber at the Observer points out that Emily Gould isn't the first Times magazine poster child for a generation shaped by technology. Joyce Maynard played the same role in 1972 as an 18-year-old whose cohorts were "the first to take technology for granted." The technology in question was televis...

Matt Haber at the Observer points out that Emily Gould isn't the first Times magazine poster child for a generation shaped by technology. Joyce Maynard played the same role in 1972 as an 18-year-old whose cohorts were "the first to take technology for granted." The technology in question was televis...

Today, the New York Times profiles Gary Stern, the owner of the last pinball-machine manufacturing company in the world. "To most," Times profiler Monica Davey says, "the story seems familiar." Well, it seemed familiar to us! Because in March of 2005, BusinessWeek profiled Gary Stern, the owner of t...

WOW Report notices a theme in actor Jeremy Piven's ads for shoe company Johnston Murphy: "Hand inside suit feeling nipple – check. Finger quirkily pulling down on earlobe – check." After the jump, the "jerk hot" co-star of HBO's Entourage taunts both fans and haters who wish they could lay hands...