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10 Tour Rider Requests More Demanding Than Nicki Minaj’s

10 Tour Rider Requests More Demanding Than Nicki Minaj's
Van Halen
Mariah Carey
Katy Perry
50 Cent
Iggy Pop

Yesterday’s publication of Nicki Minaj‘s tour rider prompted many people to brand her an overly demanding diva, but I think it’s actually quite reasonable, especially for one of the highest grossing entertainers in the world. Between the scrambled egg whites, fruit plates, meat plates, fried chicken, salad, and silverware with which to eat it all, it seems like most of Ms. Minaj’s requests are a.) relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain, and b.) things she and her friends are actually going to use and/or consume. She’s certainly lower-maintenance than some of her peers. Here are ten tour rider requests much more extreme than Nicki Minaj’s. More »

Hazing Week: 8 Male Actors Who Drastically Lost Weight For A Movie Role

Hazing Week: 8 Male Actors Who Drastically Lost Weight For A Movie Role
50 Cent (Things Fall Apart)
Matt Damon (Courage Under Fire)
Tobey Maguire (Seabiscuit)
Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild)
Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting)

Later on during Hazing Week, we’ll be talking about the most hardcore on-set training that actors have undergone. But today we’re focusing on how specific stars have risen to the challenge of certain roles. You always hear about women like Renee Zellweger packing on weight to play Bridget Jones, but how about the men who drop to alarmingly low weights for their Oscar bait? More »

New Rap Feud? Game Says 50 Cent Is Gay

New Rap Feud? Game Says 50 Cent Is Gay

Game (who you probably remember by his drastically different former name The Game), known for his long-standing feuds with 50 Cent and G-Unit, is baiting a new group: The LGBT community. As part of the larger, pretty misguided statements Game made about closeted gay men spreading HIV, he also did something really bizarre: It seems like he tried to out 50 Cent on Twitter. More »

Possible Reasons That Ron Artest Is Changing His Name to Something Stupid

Possible Reasons That Ron Artest Is Changing His Name to Something Stupid

We don’t get it — it’s not like Ron Artest is a celebrity kid who was saddled with an awful name like Jermajesty. And yet, the L.A. Lakers player has just filed a name change request. Henceforth he would like to be known as — wait for it — Metta World Peace. (It’s not even an Internet-culture joke: “Metta” means goodwill, which makes his new moniker rather redundant if you ask us.)

Often when you hear about celebrities and name changes, it’s people like Allen Stewart Konigsburg trading in his mouthful of a name for Woody Allen, or Norma Jean Parker shedding her Midwestern past to embody Marilyn Monroe. That said, Artest is not the first person to take the leap for an inexplicably weird new name. While he hasn’t given any reasons for the decision, we’ve looked at other notable name changes for possible leads. More »

Emma Roberts Manages to Play a Better Version of Her Past Roles in ‘The Art of Getting By’

Emma Roberts Manages to Play a Better Version of Her Past Roles in 'The Art of Getting By'

Hollywood typecasting makes it easier to audiences to figure out what a movie’s about without knowing anything about its plot — thanks to actors who play the same roles over and over again, trying to recapture lightning in a bottle. With each role, they run these characters into the ground until they’re the most bare-bones stereotypes.

It becomes shorthand: Sarah Jessica Parker is a highstrung, Type A businesswoman. Sandra Bullock is tough-as-nails and uses a breezy attitude to hide her secret insecurities. Penelope Cruz played the same role in both the Spanish and American Vanilla Sky movies, with the second an awful remake of what had been a fantastic performance the first time around.

Emma Roberts‘ good-girl muse Sally in The Art of Getting By could have been just a worse rehashing of her radiant character in Twelve, but the combination of director Gavin Wiesen‘s script and Roberts’ own know-how elevates Sally to a better version of what we’ve seen before. More »

Gallery: The Best Celebrity Tweets for Twitter’s 5th Birthday

Gallery: The Best Celebrity Tweets for Twitter's 5th Birthday
Ashton Kutcher's account is first to get 1 million followers
Kim Kardashian outs a U.S. Air Marshall
Twitter meets Richter Scale
Gaga falls for a Twitter hoax
Tweets: More proof than a baby bump

Five years ago today, the first tweet was sent. What followed was a social media revolution embraced by some and derided by others, mostly over the notion of oversharing. But Twitter has also become a tool that breaks down the barriers between celebrities and their fans, and providing to-the-moment citizen journalism thanks to fast thumbs and Twitpics.

When it’s a celebrity’s birthday, we at Crushable usually come up with a gallery of the best photos of that person. So how do we ring in Twitter’s fifth year of giving celebs mouthpieces and bringing fans closer to their idols? With a gallery of the most TMI, unnecessary, astounding, controversial tweets! More »

“Historically Hardcore” Posters Compare 50 Cent, Bret Michaels to Famous Figures

"Historically Hardcore" Posters Compare 50 Cent, Bret Michaels to Famous Figures

Last week I posted some tweets from Columbia College Chicago’s Twitter page, where whoever was in charge of outreach used pop culture references to attract applicants to the school. The trend seems to be catching: “Historically Hardcore“, a series of posters by art director Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler, unites the accomplished men from your high-school history books with male celebrities found on reality TV and Twitter. More »

Parting Tweet: Gilbert Gottfried Gets Fired For Insensitive Japan Comments

Parting Tweet: Gilbert Gottfried Gets Fired For Insensitive Japan Comments

On Friday we pointed out an insensitive Tweet from rapper 50 Cent that mocked the devastating earthquake and tsunami that so crippled Japan. Turns out 50 wasn’t the only jerk tweeting “jokes” about the event — Gilbert Gottfried unleashed a stream of horrible comments over the weekend, which have resulted in AFLAC firing him as the voice of their mascot duck (and a nation takes out its earplugs). Gilbert has since deleted the tweets, but the damage has already been done. More »

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