Check out Mini-WeSmirch for simple mobiles or WeSmirch Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:55 AM ET, October 14, 2008

WeSmirch

 Top News: 
Gina Serpe / Yahoo! News:
A Very Brady Druggie?  Maureen McCormick Spills  —  Los Angeles (E! Online) - Growing up Brady wasn't all it was cracked up to be.  —  Erstwhile Marcia Brady Maureen McCormick is telling all—and we mean all—about her formative years both on and off TV, revealing new details about her depression …
RELATED:
Peter G / Us Weekly:
Maureen McCormick's Memoir Details a Drug-Fueled Downward Spiral  —  In her new memoir, Maureen McCormick reveals intimate details about her secret life of binging on cocaine, trading sex for drugs and dating her TV sibling.  —  In “Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice …
Discussion: iVillage and Right Celebrity
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Angelina Jolie Shocker: I've Already Bought Maddox Some Knives  —  Like mother, like son!  —  Angelina Jolie says she is passing down her knife obsession to her seven-year-old son Maddox.  —  “My mom took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12,” Jolie says in the new issue of W magazine.
RELATED:
Christopher Bagley / Wmagazine.com:
One Week: Brad & Angelina  —  AS ONE OF THE MOST-WATCHED WOMEN IN THE WORLD, ANGELINA JOLIE, WHO STARS IN CLINT EASTWOOD'S NEW FILM, CHANGELING, HAS BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY THOUSANDS OF STRANGERS.  BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA IS HER PARTNER AND THE FATHER OF HER CHILDREN, BRAD PITT?
Courtney Rubin / People.com:
Amy Winehouse's Mother-In-Law Opens Up About Jailed Son  —  Amy Winehouse's jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil needs to be at home with his mother and not in a rehab center, his mother tells PEOPLE.  —  “I don't think rehab is the answer,” Georgette Civil tells PEOPLE of her son …
RELATED:
Lizzie Smith / Daily Mail:
Now it's cocaine candyfloss as troubled Amy Winehouse hits a new low
Gregory Katz / Associated Press:
Ringo Starr: No more fan mail  —  LONDON (AP) — Ringo Starr doesn't want to hear from you.  If you do write, your letter will end up in the trash.  That's the message from Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr.  After 45 years of stardom, he doesn't want to spend any more time answering mail or sending signed photos back to fans.
Discussion: OH NO!! and Gawker
RELATED:
BBC:
Ringo Starr tells fans to stop bothering him with fan mail
Discussion: Perez Hilton and PopEater
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson on the rocks after string of arguments … Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have hit a rocky patch in their relationship -  —  just weeks after going public with their romance.  —  The Hollywood pair, who have been inseparable for months …
Discussion: X17 Online
RELATED:
Jay Bird / Cele|bitchy:
Lindsay Lohan is dressing up as scary Sarah Palin for Halloween
Discussion: Pop Crunch
Libby Keatinge / Scandalist:
EXCLUSIVE: Girl Selling Her Virginity Will Get Up To $3.8 Million  —  Natalie Dylan, the 22-year-old girl auctioning off her virginity, will potentially rake in $3.8 million for the sale of her innocence.  Scandalist spoke with Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada, who is facilitating the auction.
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Holly Madison: Hef Having “Lots of Fun” With New Twin Girlfriends  —  Holly Madison isn't jealous that Hugh Hefner has already moved on with 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.  —  In fact, she tells Usmagazine.com, she introduced the three after she directed their Playmate pictorial this summer.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
Quentin Letts... / Daily Mail:
Fat Pig: Kelly Brook has a pencil waist and rabbit-thigh legs, but she is not a great interpreter of a role … Fat Pig (Comedy Theatre)  —  Kelly Brook, who is better known as a swimwear model and lads' mag dollybird than as a stage actress, opened last night in a big West End comedy.
Discussion: Egotastic! and The Bastardly
It's Trent / Pink is the New Blog:
Hugh Jackman Is Forty & Fabulous  —  Woot!  Woot!  —  Monday, October 13, 2008 1:59 pm  —  Hugh Jackman celebrated his 40th birthday at the Royal Motorboat Club in Sydney, Australia yesterday with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness.  Today we get to see a few pictures of a shirtless and wet …
Discussion: Pretty On The Outside
RELATED:
Cele|bitchy:
Hugh Jackman goes swimming
Discussion: Best Week Ever
TMZ.com:
Lindsay — You Missed a Spot  —  Orange you glad you didn't leave the house forgetting to rub self-tanner on your feet and ankles?  —  Despite LiLo's fashion foot pas, she still looks pretty good.  —  See Also  —  Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Beauty, Lindsay Lohan, Nurse!
Discussion: Gone Hollywood
Starpulse:
Gerard Depardieu's Son Dies Of Pneumonia  —  French actor Gerard Depardieu's son Guillaume died on Monday at the Garches hospital near Paris.  The 37 year old passed away after a severe bout of pneumonia.  —  He was filming new movie “L'Enfance d'Icare” in Romania when he suddenly fell ill …
Discussion: Backseat Cuddler
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Britney Spears Ready to Hit the Road  —  Britney Spears is one step closer to going on tour.  —  While the comeback pop princess revealed last month that she was planning on hitting the road next year, a source now tells me that things are getting serious.
less clothes:
wait ... thats not sarah palin  —  These are the first pictures form the Hustler produced porn movie spoof about Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.  It's getting lots of attention, and should be a big hit among people who wanted to know what it would look like if someone …
Discussion: Mollygood, Scandalist, Jossip and Defamer
RELATED:
Matthew Solarski / Pitchfork:
M.I.A.: “I'm Creating a Baby”  —  In case the big lovely bump in her belly up there didn't clue you in, M.I.A. has some news for us.  “I'm creating a baby,” she revealed to Pitchfork's Jessica Suarez in an interview just prior to her performance at Diesel's ridonculous xXx party in NYC Saturday night.
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Kenny Chesney Writes Song About Split With Renee Zellweger  —  On his latest album Lucky Old Sun, Kenny Chesney writes about the end of his four-month marriage to Renee Zellweger.  —  He tells Newsweek recovering from the split was “was horrible.  It took a while.  Years.  It's been since 2005.
Guardian:
The House Bunny, or how Hef suckered Hollywood  —  The House Bunny shows Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner to be a leading light of feminist rights.  New research reveals that the studio actually paid him.  Shurely shome mishtake?  —  Blonde ambition ... Anna Faris in The House Bunny
Discussion: Thompson On Hollywood and Defamer
Vaneta Rogers / Newsarama:
Guggenheim on the Green Lantern Movie & Rumors  —  Development of Green Lantern, the Warner Bros. film based on the DC Comics superhero who dons a green power ring, is “moving along at a pretty hefty clip,” said Marc Guggenheim, co-screenwriter of the film.  —  “It's pretty far along,” …
Discussion: AceShowBiz.com and Splash Page
People.com:
Lisa Marie Presley's Twin Girls Named Finley & Harper  —  Lisa Marie Presley and husband Michael Lockwood have picked out names for their newborn twin girls: Finley and Harper.  —  The couple's first children together were born Oct. 7 via C-section and weighed 5 lbs., 15 oz. and 5 lbs., 2 oz.
TMZ.com:
Brian Grazer's Got a Lot of Gs to Deal With  —  The curtains have been pulled back on mega-producer Brian Grazer's divorce battle — and let's just say working with Opie sure does pay.  —  According to docs filed by estranged wife Gigi's accountant, Grazer's cash haul per year is $28 million …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of WeSmirch at 9:55 AM ET, October 14, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
WeSmirch: site main
WeSmirch River: reverse chronological WeSmirch
WeSmirch Mobile: for phones
WeSmirch Leaderboard: WeSmirch's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
WeSmirch RSS feed
WeSmirch on X
 
 
 More News: 
Choe Sang-Hun / International Herald Tribune:
South Korea links Web slander to celebrity suicides
Fred Topel / E! Online:
Mark Wahlberg to Marry—Sure, Why Not—in August
Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed and OH NO!!
Anthony Lane / New Yorker:
INSIDE JOBS  —  “Filth and Wisdom,” “RocknRolla,” and “What Just Happened?”
Discussion: Faded Youth Blog and OH NO!!
Lucy Cockcroft / Telegraph:
Walt Disney's Bambi voted best ‘tear-jerker’ of all time
Discussion: Shine and Jezebel
 Earlier Picks: 
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Talking Fisher-Price doll accused of promoting Islam
Discussion: Stereohyped
Mike Fleeman / People.com:
Tony Romo & Jessica Simpson: No Engagement, No Pinky Promise
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Anita Singh / Telegraph:
David and Victoria Beckham's housekeepers arrested for ‘theft’
Hollywoodtuna:
Audrina Patridge Maxim Magazine Pictures
Hollywoodtuna:
Fergie Is Old And Grey!
Suzy Menkes / International Herald Tribune:
Sofia Coppola: Discreet, chic and grown-up
Discussion: Lifeline Live and fashionologie
Courtney Rubin / People.com:
Vanessa Paradis Opens Up About Her Romance with Johnny Depp
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now