Tinsley Mortimer

Tinsleytown

Judging from last week's comments, there are not many Kardashian fans here on Taki's Mag. Though the fuss was to be expected from our highbrow readership, every rag needs a gossip column. Sure, we could cover the upper crust of East Coast society and the European aristocracy, but you would grumble ...

Krazy for the Kardashians

Kall me krazy, but I love the Kardashians.  This is Kardashian Week if there ever was one. The fab family just signed a $40-million deal with E! for three more years of their reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians"€”making it the biggest deal in reality-TV history.  Last Thursday Kim ...

Rachel Maddow

Sue Me!

Remember when people used to say, "€œSue me!"€ if you complained about something they said or did? "€œSue me!"€ was one of my favorite expressions and I used it in grade school a lot, though I don"€™t think I"€™ve uttered the words in 20 years. It's worth saying twice because it is so ...

Frances Bean Cobain

Freeloaders and Bloodsuckers

Hollywood has a rule: If it's true, it's strange. Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love recently voiced parental concern for her hapless spawn Frances Bean via Twitter. Rumors had been circulating that former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl had been romantically involved ...

Donald Trump

Accolades for Acolytes

Welcome to Taki's Mag, all you do-gooders who"€™ve discovered us this past week! It's a big world, and there are people to save and hands to hold everywhere! Let us help all of you help everyone else! It"€™ll be like one big H-bomb of humans helping other humans. And then, after you"€™ve done ...

Bradley Cooper in The Hangover

Hollywood: Dysfunction Junction

At six foot nine, Kris Humphries may literally be the world's biggest ass. This giant goober-faced fool is a basketball player who was briefly married to pneumatic Armenian reality-TV star Kim Kardashian. As a frequent guest on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Humphries proved himself to be young, ...

January Jones

Bombs, Blockbusters, Babies, and Break-ins

This week brings a steamin’ hot plate of scandal, scandal, scandal"€”flour bombs, plastic babies, break-ins, drunk driving, Ecstasy, and placenta-eating. Be sure to save some room for dessert! The box-office receipts for The Hunger Games’ opening weekend were $2.5 million less than ...

Johnny Depp

More Acting and Less Activism, Please

Don"€™t you hate it when actors get involved in politics? I do, and not only because I usually disagree with their views. I hate it because it ruins the rich fantasy life that actors enjoy in my mind. That old maxim about how one should never meet one's idols is true. All the "€œcool"€ ...

Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian

Stars v. Jocks: The Great Dummy Derby

Who's easier to mock"€”athletes or celebrities? It's a neck-and-neck race, each one stretching to be more idiotic than the other. When celebrities and athletes come together, they multiply one another's idiocy. Consider Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, also known as KK&K. We will assume ...

Glitter From the Gutter

Not much is happening in the celebrity gutter this week unless you count the big pregnancy rumors from Snooki of Jersey Shore fame. Her boyfriend Jionni (nice spelling) LaValle is the baby-daddy-to-be, and her ex-boyfriend Emilio Masella told TMZ he hopes she miscarries because the Snook isn"€™t ...