Candice Swanepoel is Your Victoria’s Secret Model of the Year
In this photo, Candice Swanepoel is…1) Giggling at the absurdity of the modeling business2) Showing off an engagement ring from Leonardo DiCaprio
Biographies
Captain Beefheart is Dead
Don Van Vliet, the painter who became famous in the late 1960s as Captain Beefheart, died yesterday from complications related to multiple sclerosis. He was 69 years old.
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band’s most famous album is 1969’s Trout Mask Replica, produced by his pal and collaborator Frank Zappa. Captain Beefheart also sings on “Willie the Pimp” from Zappa’s album Hot Rats.
Five Most-Hated Christmas Songs
A holiday classic from 2009: five Christmas songs we wish would just go away.
“Who’s Gonna Tell Johnny Depp that He Didn’t Get the Part in ‘True Grit?'”
Johnny Depp poses with Angelina Jolie in Berlin at the premiere for the second-biggest movie of the holiday season.
Abe Lincoln’s Statue
I was in downtown Portland, Oregon today, and I took a couple of photos of this Abraham Lincoln statue that is in what the locals call “the Park blocks.”
Kathryn Bigelow Wins Best Directress
The Onion has the story.
Oral Roberts and the 900-Foot Jesus
TV preacher Oral Roberts died one year ago today.
Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter Will Tag-Team a Computer on Jeopardy!
Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of Jeopardy!’s all-time great champs, will compete against an IBM computer named Watson on the show in February.Jennings and Rutter could win a million bucks. If Watson wins, he gets a soothing oil bath.
Noomi Rapace Doesn’t Look Like What We Thought Noomi Rapace Looked Like
You probably know Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander, the hard-case hacker heroine of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two Swedish sequels.
Yogi Bear: Boo Boo Kills Yogi
Watch this moving clip that takes Yogi Bear and Boo Boo and puts them right into the Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: