gone! rosie quits the view!

after her highly publicised fight on air with hasselbeck on wednesday, rosie o'donnell quits the view. read the whole story here.

btw, these are the last words on her blog:

when painting
there is a point
u must step away from the canvas
as the work
is done

anymore would take away

UPDATE 5/29:

[after a long weekend, barbara walters addresses rosie's departure from the view]

fight! fight! fight!: rosie and elisabeth on the view

after stating that she won't be fighting with elisabeth hasselbeck (due to her pregnancy), rosie o'donnell drops her verbal embargo on the view and well... it gets darn ugly.

photo op: W presents - the naomi diaries

though naomi has denied that she planned to transform her week in community service into a photo op, the fact that photographer steven klein was around to document the whole thing makes it kind of suspect. but at least she looks fabulous!

check out her diaries of that particular week.

from the frontlines: men in black (an animated account)

The War In Iraq: A Soldiers Perspective
"Men In Black"
check out this four-minute animation based on the blog accounts of former Army infantryman Colby Buzzell. His story about an ambush in Mosul has now been animated for the PBS show Operation Homecoming. Pretty harrowing stuff, even as drawings.

awesome article: new york magazine exposes how NY society was held captive by a blog for a year

this is a total plotline for a movie or tv series (writers get writing!), but in reality, the now defunct blog socialite rank held NY society under complete captivy for a year with their weekly chart of the top 20 socialites in the city.

but what blew the blog over the top was a letter they posted a few months back allegedly written by newbie socialite olivia palermo practically begging to be recognized by the IT girls.

you can't even make this stuff up. check out the whole juicy story at new york magazine's website.

update: with socialite rank down, the blog that has taken over the reigns is the soft peddling park avenue peerage.

end of an era (in 2010): lost announces end date

abc announced today that there will be a proper end to lost in the year 2010. the plan now is to create three seasons of 16 episodes (the average series runs 22 eps a year) culminating to what they promise to be a 'shocking' finale.

if you've been watching these last few episodes of series 3, lost has rebound extremely nicely with some of the best hours of tv around.

read the full story here.

interviews we love: suchin park meets janice min (US weekly)

check out this interesting lx.tv interview about janice min, editor in chief of US Weekly. plus suchin park says 'bullshit'!

news flash: paris sentenced to 45 days in jail

not sure what else to say, paris drove around town with a suspended license and countless violations, then had the gall to say she didn't know and that she's 'sorry'. of course remorse came in the form of shopping with her mother kathy after the sentencing... her date with the orange jumpsuit is scheduled for june 6.

the celebrity blogs like perez hilton and tmz are going to have a field day with this one...

here is the news report.

end of an era: gilmore girls ends on a bittersweet note

after seven years of witty banter, inter-generational adoration (plus dysfunction) and a wonderfully heartfelt cast of characters, the CW network announced that the much loved gilmore girls is finally calling it quits. entitled 'bon voyage', the series finale will involve a wedding proposal for rory, an answer to the lorelai/luke romance and a guest appearance by CNN's christine amanpour.

it has been an honor for us fans.

read the report here.