Sideshow: Bald-faced bunkum about Bieber
It's all a big, fat, stinking lie, world. We refer to the idiotic #BaldforBieber Twitter hoax, telling millions that (a) Justin Bieber has cancer and has lost all his hair due to chemo (with Photoshopped photo of bald Biebs); and that (b) fans worldwide are shaving their noggins in solidarity. May not a single Bieber belieber be taken in by these trolls, and may all have the heads of hair they prefer. One person's LOL is another's cruelty.
It's all a big, fat, stinking lie, world. We refer to the idiotic #BaldforBieber Twitter hoax, telling millions that (a) Justin Bieber has cancer and has lost all his hair due to chemo (with Photoshopped photo of bald Biebs); and that (b) fans worldwide are shaving their noggins in solidarity. May not a single Bieber belieber be taken in by these trolls, and may all have the heads of hair they prefer. One person's LOL is another's cruelty.
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Some sayings have immortality thrust upon them. A 1998 quip by Rick Polito, then of the Marin Independent Journal in California, has busted viral. It's a one-line review of one of the most beloved films of all time. It made The Inquirer's "TV Today" feature on July 3, 2000:
"The Wizard of Oz. (8-10 p.m., TCM) - Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."
Excellent! Now the quip is everywhere. Websites such as reddit, BuzzFeed, Imgur, and Romenesko are relaying it all over the Web world. It's on the Turner Classic Movies page for Wizard, as well as on the authoritative IMDb page. Polito, who now lives the freelance life in Colorado, has earned a tiny but far-flung place in pop history.
Lil Wayne OK post-scare
Lil Wayne took ill while on a jet bound for California on Thursday night. After the pilot reported a passenger having a seizure, the plane made an emergency landing at San Angelo Regional Airport in Texas. Lil was treated in a hospital for migraine and dehydration, and was at home recuperating by Friday.
Do come, don't tell
What would SideShow be without another item about the wedding of resplendent Jessica Biel and splendid Justin Timberlake? Guests may have had to sign a "confidentiality agreement" - yes! a gag order! - so they would not reveal the Satanic goings-on, slaughter of infants, ravishing of virgins, etc. Normal thing these days at celeb weddings. Justin has already had to apologize publicly for an icky vid somebody showed at his party. What else could possibly have gone on!!!!?
Tiny widdle fishies . . .
Levi Johnston, ex-inseminator of Bristol Palin, will get married this weekend to his current ladyperson, Sunny Oglesby, on whom he sired daughter Breeze, born Sept. 12. . . . Donald Trump says it's "great news" that Taylor Swift has broken up with Conor Kennedy. We say, "Who cares what you think?" . . . Seen the Gangnam Style parody by Chinese dissident guy Ai Weiwei? It's great.