Britney Spears, Bad Liar“Unfortunately I didn’t get the part.” —Britney Spears, on her claim that her recent umbrella assault was in preparation for a film role [Britney Spears]
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Vulture’s First and Only Post Dedicated to the Paris Hilton SagaPerhaps you heard? Paris is out of jail, and she’s capitalizing on the moment by asserting her saintly desires to do everything short of joining a nunnery. And though she’s not an actress, singer, or possessor of any kind of evident creative talent (despite her camp’s claims to the contrary), you can be excused for having at least a vague interest in the frenetic media goings-on regarding her release.
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AFI 100 List Takes ‘Manhattan.’ And Shoves It.The doddering American Film Institute has finally updated its list of the best 100 films (i.e., best big-studio fiction blockbusters made with white marquee stars and male directors in the good ol’ days of Kabuki pomposity like Ben Hur). For New Yorkers, the Los Angeles–based list is predictably awful, but still worse than the last: Do The Right Thing’s token inclusion at pitiful No. 94 stings worse than its omission in 1997