The Entertation Index: June 23
Batman – The British pop website Redshirt has unearthed one of Batman’s trickiest situations, from an actual 1961 Batman comic. A joke here would just dilute the greatness. Yes, it’s lowbrow. But it is funny, from a “yesterday-to-today’s vernacular” standpoint.
Link: Batman, Issue 66: “Batman’s Greatest Boner” (Redshirt) – safe for work
Gambon, Sir Michael - 68 year-old Michael Gambon, best known these days for his role as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, has sired his second child with his mistress, of whom his wife is full aware. Looks like somebody has been drinking from “Wellesley Snoffenpot’s Offspring-Seed Elixir.” I made that last part up.
Link: Sir Michael Gambon is a Dad Again (The Sun)
Hilton, Perez - In the greatest attack on a reporter since Holly Gennaro McClane punched Richard Thornburg outside Nakatomi Plaza, internet annoyance Perez Hilton was smashed in the face by the manager of the Black Eyed Peas over the weekend after Hilton got into frontman will.i.am’s face and hurled gay slurs at him. Even more fantastic than a Hilton comeuppance is the supreme irony that GLAAD is now coming after Hilton, who is gay, for the slurs. Somewhere, Carrie Prejean has to be enjoying this “opposite bigotry.”
Link: GLAAD Asks Perez Hilton to Apologize for Anti-Gay Slurs Against will.i.am (LA Times)
Insult Comic Dog, Triumph the – Though many wondered if he’d make the transition cleanly from 12:30 to 11:30, Conan O’Brien staple Triumph made his Tonight Show debut on Friday, skewering the Bonnaroo Crowd. (NBC via MTV)
McMahon, Ed – The iconic Tonight Show sidekick passed away early this morning.
Link: Ed McMahon Dead at Age 86 (NBC)
Museum of Art, Metropolitan - Citing the “unavoidable consequence of the global financial crisis,” New York’s famed museum dissolved 74 jobs and completed its first round of layoffs on Monday. This explains why the cashier at my local grocery asked me if I preferred “paper, plastic, the lyrical abstractions of Andre Lanskoy or the critical successes of neo-expressionist James Ensor.”
Link: Metropolitan Museum of Art Completes Round of Layoffs (NY Times)
Or Not, Believe It – The Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum is bemoaning the fact that there just aren’t “A-List” oddities and freaks out there these days. Apparently, they’re not watching enough MTV dating shows or visiting my local Wal-Mart.
Link: Believe it or Not, a Shortage of Oddities Bedevils Ripley’s (Wall Street Journal)
