The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK has ruled that a new ad for perfume, created by designer Marc Jacobs, sexualizes children. The campaign features teenage actress Dakota Fanning posing with an oversized bottle of perfume between her legs. The fragrance is called “Oh, Lola!” and the name is a reference to the famous literary character Lolita. You know, the 12 year-old who had sex with a man four times her age.
Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, has been pressuring members of the Occupy Denver movement to pick a leader, “to deal with City and State officials.” So the protesters, in the most benign shove-it gesture imaginable, elected a three-and-a-half-year-old border collie. Named Shelby.
Afrikaans zef rap sensation, Die Antwoord, have released a statement on their website indicating that they have parted ways with their record company, Interscope – and that’s putting it diplomatically.
Ever since the first teaser trailer of The Dark Knight Rises hit the internet in July, fans have been scouring the online landscape looking for more sneak peeks to satisfy their insatiable desires for more bat-related awesomeness. Over the past weekend some lucky followers got exactly what they were hoping for.
As you know, Tiger Woods’ former caddie Steve Williams was recently asked why he had celebrated Adam Scott’s Bridgestone Invitational win in August so enthusiastically. When he replied that it was because his aim was to shove it up Tiger’s “black arsehole”, he was apparently not being racist. Woods himself forgave Williams by saying it was “just a comment he shouldn’t have made.”
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
Looks like the only bottles in da club for Lil Weezy will be the ones filled with mineral water. Following his recent conviction for drug possession, the rapper isn’t allowed to consume alcohol or associate with anyone knowingly engaged in narcotics – good luck. Let’s see if he can last longer than (Camps Bay) “twenty minutes my broda”.
When Gareth Cliff said on his show that “most 22-year-olds are laying on their backs with their legs open at 22, or else they are drinking” he wasn’t being a hater. This after the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) found him innocent of hate speech, following a complaint by a listener.
If this six-inch blade truly is the notorious murder weapon of the famed “Jack The Ripper”, than you can expect to see it fetch a pretty penny on auction. The knife was found in a stack of possessions belonging to Sir John Williams, the surgeon thought to be the infamous killer. A surgeon, with a surgeon’s knife? Never!
Jordy Smith (who recently signed with Buchulife) and Dusty Payne in Round 1 of the Rip Curl Pro Search in San Francisco get scared out of the water by a big shark. I think his name was Bruce. Follow the link to check it out. Video contains bonus footage of Jordy dancing and singing “Staying […]
Did I mention that his fiancee was in his address book as well? According to Ronaldo, he was attempting to delete the Dutch fan’s saucy snaps (which included her in numerous half naked poses in a shirt with “too hot to handle” scrawled on the front), but pressed forward instead. Clearly something broke his concentration.
Crowd funding allows the average guy on the street to invest in movies without having to spend millions. And the producers of a porn film based on the scandal surrounding the former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, are looking for such funders at the moment. The working title for the film is DXK. R500 buys your name in the credits and an invitation to the premiere.
Heidi Klum is really, really into Halloween. Which isn’t surprising, given that Halloween is when people dress up in revealing costumes for candy, and her career is pretty much dressing up in revealing costumes for money. Except she went non-traditional at her annual Halloween party in Las Vegas, dressing as a terrifying skinless body.
Jessica Simpson is clearly quite some way into pregnancy – in fact, a gynecologist estimates she’s around 26 weeks along. But sources say she has not been able to find a lucrative enough media vehicle to announce this to the world yet, because she’s lost her star power. This must be very depressing for poor Jess.
Yet another Tibetan Buddhist monk doused himself in fuel and set fire to himself in China yesterday. This brings to ten the total number of monks who’ve resorted to this extreme form of protest since March this year.
SA’s #1 surfer, Jordy Smith recently signed with Buchulife herbal health products! You will already know the brand well, as Buchulife (the water) is a 2oceansVibe partner and featured prominently in the background of 2ov TV‘s hit online TV show, The Compound. Durban-born surfer Jordy Smith is one of the most prodigiously talented and exciting surfers […]
Remember that 2005 episode of South Park where they satirized Scientology by neutrally describing their core beliefs? Well, Scientology does. Recently revealed internal documents reveal that they spent a good year investigating creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker for evidence that could be used to discredit them for making Scientology seem like a creepy cult.
I’m just going to kick off the article with a reminder picture I took in 2004, of everybody’s favourite SA band, Goldfish. Please enjoy Dom & Dave quietly dominating an entire corner at Baraza – a Camps Bay bar which subsequently closed down. This was back in the day when Blues restaurant was actually good. […]
That famous band that still gets pronounced awkwardly, Die Antwoord, is preparing to release a follow-up to their 2010 debut, $0$. They announced as much in an interview with Spin, saying that the new album – named Tension – is scheduled for a January 2012 release; they’ve also released the names of a couple of new tracks.
Do I really need to say more words to make you click on this link? It’s William Shatner. Singing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. In his Shatner voice.The video itself is pretty great, but that’s mostly because in the video, Shatner’s face is the sky. Fun fact: Shatner claims to have first heard Bohemian Rhapsody last year.
A group of four copycats told police they used techniques from his recent movie, “The Town”, after they were arrested for a string of 62 small time, New York robberies. In the film, a group of four friends rob a string of banks and always douse the scene with bleach, destroying any DNA evidence that may have been left behind.
When Apple released the statement announcing Steve Jobs’ death, it also set up a public email address, rememberingsteve@apple.com, where people could vent their memories and thoughts about Jobs. These have all been uploaded to Apple.com’s “Remembering Steve” page, a crowdsourced memorial to the company’s founder.
A tooth that used to reside in John Lennon’s mouth will be auctioned off next month. It is expected to fetch up to R130 000! Lennon gave it to his housekeeper’s daughter “as a souvenir” after he had pulled it out himself in his kitchen.
Susan Sarandon has really rubbed America’s largest Catholic civil rights organization up the wrong way. The actress raised eyebrows the other day when she referred to Pope Benedict as a “Nazi”, and the Catholic League is now lashing out at her. The league claims that what Susie said was positively obscene, showing “unparalleled ignorance”.
A guy from California is suing the Warner Bros. for copyright infringement, misappropriation of his publicity rights, and defamation, claiming that The Hangover II was based on a script he wrote about his own adventures in Asia. Which is crazy, because I thought The Hangover II was just The Hangover, but in Thailand.
We’re pretty sure that Lindsay Lohan doesn’t buy the court’s warning that she really will go to jail if she doesn’t get her act together. If Judge Sautner, presiding over her case, is not in a very good mood when she hears of the actress’ distinct lack of progress, LiLo could be locked up as early as next week.
Virgin Atlantic announced that their planes will soon be able to fly from London to Hong Kong on fuel that produces half the carbon of regular jet fuel – which is sort of huge news, given that flying is one of our most carbon-intensive activities, enough to offset any good otherwise done by unplugging unused appliances or whatever.
If you thought Madonna had a hard time adopting a Malawian child and getting through the forest of red tape that process entailed, it’s also going to be a much tougher task for foreigners to adopt a South African baby in the near future. Foreign parents hoping for adoption from South Africa are now required to prove their commitment to living here.
In another grand display of state the obvious, a brainy police spokesperson pointed out that a collection of loaded assault rifles found on the set of World War Z, were a “disaster waiting to happen”. A SWAT team recently raided the set, which was located in a warehouse in Budapest.
It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken national boundaries; ‘Operation Ubuntu’ has been set up to launch a simultaneous protests on the 15th of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.