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Corey Haim Dead of Overdose [Breaking]

Corey Haim , the 80s teen movie idol who grew into a cautionary tale of the perils of childhood fame, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose at the age of 38. TMZ broke the story , and it’s now been confirmed by the LAPD . Haim, best known for roles in The Lost Boys and License to Drive , and later for the reality show The Two Coreys (with Corey Feldman, who was far less troubled than Corey Haim), was found in his apartment early this morning: Haim died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. He was found unresponsive at an Oakwood apartment, near Burbank, police said. His mother was at the home at the time. Haim had publicly struggled with drugs for years. He told a reporter in 2007 that he had been taking up to 85 valiums a day at the height of his habit. [Pic via ]

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The Academy Awards: Clips, Pics & Commentary [Recap]

Did you miss the Oscars last night? Catch up on what you missed with clips of the 10 most memorable moments , pics from the red carpet , Gawker.TV’s five-minute Oscars highlight reel , and our official Oscars post-mortem .

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Oscars Exclusive: Stars Enjoy Cocaine [Drugs]

We interviewed two cocaine dealers—one who deals with young Hollywood and one who looks after the old-school connoisseurs. They both expected business to double, but for very different reasons. “Larry” (not his real name, unless it is and we’re double-bluffing) deals to the upstarts and whippersnappers and says he expects business to double this weekend because “lots of the young actresses like to stay wired all day. It’s like coffee to them.” He’ll clear five figures, he thinks. But then coke tends to the grandiose, so who knows? “You’d be surprised how much coke these people do out here. Way more than New York.” “Barry” (also not his real name, unless we decided that the rhyming real names were so implausible that it was better to use them) deals to the older, more world-weary set up in the Hills. He says they tend to restrain themselves for the rest of the year. “But this is Oscars fucking weekend. I don’t care who you are—if you win a fucking Oscar you’re going to celebrate.” He refused to put a figure on his increased take.

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Oscars Special: Stars Enjoy ‘Cocaine’ [Drugs]

We interviewed two cocaine dealers—one who deals with young Hollywood and one who looks after the old-school connoisseurs. They both expected business to double, but for very different reasons. “Larry” (not his real name, unless it is and we’re double-bluffing) deals to the upstarts and whippersnappers and says he expects business to double this weekend because “lots of the young actresses like to stay wired all day. It’s like coffee to them.” He’ll clear five figures, he thinks. But then coke tends to the grandiose, so who knows? “You’d be surprised how much coke these people do out here. Way more than New York.” “Barry” (also not his real name, unless we decided that the rhyming real names were so implausible that it was better to use them) deals to the older, more world-weary set up in the Hills. He says they tend to restrain themselves for the rest of the year. “But this is Oscars fucking weekend. I don’t care who you are—if you win a fucking Oscar you’re going to celebrate.” He refused to put a figure on his increased take.

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Why Apple Must Abandon Its War on Sexy

Apple has been trying to keep scantily-clad women out of the iPhone app store. It’s a completely hypocritical crackdown, with apps from Playboy and Sports Illustrated given a free pass. And it’s going to ruin the iPad for magazine content. Apple’s ongoing war on porn gets some notice in the New York Times today, with the paper pointing out that Apple has banned apps like Dirty Fingers, where a woman in a bikini “cleans” your iPhone screen, while allowing an app for SI ‘s annual swimsuit issue, and one from soft-core monthly Playboy . Here’s how Apple VP Phil Schiller tried to justify this double standard: Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration. “The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,” he said. This transparently weak explanation isn’t flying; even blogger John Gruber, a frequent Apple defender, couldn’t see how Apple’s inconsistent ban on “sexy,” in his formulation, was ” anything other than hypocrisy .” And Apple’s nudity fight is only going to get more self-defeating with the release of the iPad. The video above is excerpted from Sports Illustrated ‘s demonstration of its forthcoming tablet edition , which will let you can touch your way through videos of half-naked swimsuit models writhing in swimming pools and on swings. How is Apple going to explain allowing that while banning SlideHer, the puzzle app built from a still picture of a scantily-clad actress? That’s just the editorial; the advertising is often even worse, particularly with sexyholics like Condé Nast readying a bunch of iPad editions. Here are Wired staff showing how they’ll put print ads on the iPad and other tablets; here’s an ad from a Wired we had laying around: Gratuitous upskirt shot notwithstanding, that’s pretty tame compared to the content in other Condé Nast publications. Here’s a campaign from fashion magazine perennial Calvin Klein: Even the New Yorker can get racy: Welcome to the world of magazine publishing, Apple, where converting nudity into dollars is a tried and true — and wholly acceptable — practice. It’s time to give sexy free rein in the iPhone app store again. Heck, the company should consider going a step further, and opening a store for real porn. It’s how every other medium took off.

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Luke Russert Disproving Those Nepotism Charges One Story at a Time

In your blizzardy Wednesday media column: Luke Russert does it the Luke Russert way, the NYT has no iPad comment, a new journalism moneymaking scheme, and David Remnick acts so haughty you’d think he runs America’s best magazine or something. Professional journalist Luke Russert says about the above Twitpic: “It’s not that bad, in fact being a correspondent in this weather is a day at the beach!” Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Whew. Even though the New York Times managed to make some money last year, they didn’t say a dadgum thing about the iPad during their earnings call ! The iPad is all that humans care about now NYT, get with the “program,” okay? The latest thing that a journalist is doing to try to make money and thereby not starve : a former religion reporter and a former con man are forming a business reporting venture in which they do investigative reporting on companies, then short the stock. Clearly, the money here will be made when they sell the odd-couple screwball comedy screenplay. David Remnick on whether the National Enquirer should win a Pulitzer: “I’m not a ridiculous prude about it, but: is that a great achievement of journalism?” Hello, pretentious. Who the fuck are you, Seymour Hersh’s editor?

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The New York Snow Day

Nothing has ever really happened until it’s happened in New York , so today marks the first big snowstorm of the year. Forget that DC bullshit over the weekend. This is the real-deal. Here are some photos documenting the historic event. Doesn’t look like much yet, but it’s piling up! via Flickr So many pedestrian accidents today. via Flickr “They like it because the snow hides their poopy shame.” via Flickr Looking at that guy, I am glad to be lying in bed right now. via Flickr GET IT?? via Flickr Isn’t this how The Brave One started? Watch out, Sayid! via Getty The gayest man in Times Square. via Getty Where’s his rifle? via Getty A job I am glad to not have. via Getty Who walks through Central Park in the middle of the day anyway? via Getty Kids have no school and they get stuck tromping around Times Square in a blizzard? Unfortunate. via Getty Auditioning for a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial. via Getty The storm gathers. via Getty Why owning a car sucks. via Flickr Weird stuff going down last night. via AP LaGuardia. You are never getting home. via AP

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The Lonely Faces of Five Minutes on Chatroulette

So have you checked out this Chatroulette thing? It’s like Omegle , sudden instant e-chats with a stranger, only this time there’s video and audio (which can both be turned off for anonymous browsing). Click, get a person, repeat. Curious about what the whole fuss was about, we spent exactly five minutes this afternoon (for this we are paid!) flipping through, and being flipped through. Who’s on the strange, sad thing? Well, your typical gay dudes looking for action. There are also a few depressingly cheap, Eastern Bloc-looking porn ads. But mostly it’s just lonely-looking people — in sweaters, wearing glasses, with dogs barking in the background, looking expectant, looking worried, looking bored. Chatroulette, to us, isn’t titillating in the way we thought it might be. Instead it’s just a sort of bleak, Alexander Payne-esque reminder of the tedium of life. It’s just people sitting, waiting for something to happen. And, you know, one guy jerking off. (Couldn’t get that screenshot fast enough, sadly).

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Which of These 6 Perversely Fascinating YouTube Memes Speaks to the Darkness of Your Soul?

NYT Magazine recently probed the psyche of YouTube’s falling figure skater meme, a commenter points us to hobby animators’ CGI snuff films . Among a cornucopia of cyber-Schadenfreude, which genre describes your innermost desires, fears, or fetishes? Let us analyze. Warning: Some of these videos are NSFLunchBreak. There is also a chance that none will appeal to you, in which case your soul is as clean enough to eat off. To view all videos on a single page, click here . Figure Skater/Stripper/Gymnast Falls Why It’s Appealing: NYT Magazine ‘s Virginia Heffernan on the appeal figure skater falls : There is something ominous in the juxtaposition of vulnerable and underdressed women, melodramatic choreography involving moves called ‘death spirals’ and ‘death drops,’ sharp steel blades and skull-cracking ice. … In portentously played scenes of pairs skating, especially, men drop women in bone-splintering spills. The phenomenon may be extrapolated to stripper and gymnast falls . At the top of her game, each woman represents a distinct female sexual ideal: The figure skater is the fluttering picture of grace, the stripper is the porn-ified whore, and the gymnast is the puberty-retarded nymph. To witness her fall is to live out a humiliation/destruction fantasy for her archetype. Also, falling is funny. If You Can’t Look Away: Female sexuality troubles you—it may be a threat, a point of jealous insecurity, or a source of intimidation. Alternately, you are a butt bruise fetishist. How do you feel about your mother? When You Tire of This Try: Diving board mishaps . [ Vid via GawkerTV ] Athletes Breaking Bones Why It’s Appealing: Though this genre overlaps with the previous category, it is a more classic form of Schadenfreude. The shocking realization that someone could be so fast/strong/physically enabled as to damage themselves so severely is also awesome. (Compare the above to the last time I injured myself, slipping on ice while toddling slowly across the sidewalk. Bo-ring.) If You Can’t Look Away: Sports fans, those who enjoy Discovery Channel Medical Mysteries , those who fear pain and enjoy torturing themselves. When You Tire of This Try: Contortionists . Big, Splashy Zit-Popping Why It’s Appealing: Way back in 2008, Jezebel documented this phenom, and editor Anna Holmes wrote a column tying it to social grooming, sadomasochism, symbolic orgasms, and the desire to excise one’s ugliest parts. I’ll add the joy of reveling in one’s own filth, and the satisfaction of obliterating minor enemies. (Have you ever burned a canker sore out with a finger full of salt? Exactly.) If You Can’t Look Away: OCD perfectionists and body dysmorphics can exorcise their demons here. Those who enjoy corporeal disgust—especially if you have ties to a religion that preaches mortification of flesh—will find comfort. When You Tire of This Try: Contortionists . Building Collapses Why It’s Appealing: Loud crashing noises and the glorious destruction of large-scale symbols of human endeavor. When it’s a planned demolition, you don’t even have to feel guilty. If You Can’t Look Away: Civilization strikes you as fleeting. Entropy and destruction give you joy. You’re the kind of guy who always kicks down the sand castle (jerk) and Freud has something to say about your feelings for phalluses. When You Tire of This Try: Car crashes . CGI Suicide Snuff Films Why It’s Appealing: Animation hobbyists say they’re merely experimenting with CGI gore. Staging suicide is a pragmatic necessity—staging murder requires two people, which you may not have. The meme gets creepier, though, when you realize its practitioners are almost exclusively teen boys (a worrisome demographic for depression and gun violence) and the YouTube descriptions sometimes treat “My Suicide” like it’s real. The web’s memory of various real (and hoax ) webcam suicides amplifies the horror. This meme animates our worst fears for social media and internet exhibitionism. If You Can’t Look Away: Technology both fascinates and terrifies you. You may be a fan of any number of dystopic sci-fi novels. (Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake kind of predicted this.) Cyberbullying worries you. When You Tire of This Try: Hole in My Hand , a gentler CGI experiment in self-erasure. Hat-tip to commenter Samtagious . Enormous Animals Giving Birth Why It’s Appealing: Miracle of life + Mysteries of the animal kingdom + Sick satisfaction of popping a zit + Cute baby at the end. The above documentary depicts a Balinese elephant giving birth, then reviving the baby. If You Can’t Look Away: Your heart leaps up when you behold the awesome forces of nature. Alternately, childbirth is a source of anxiety/fascination, and human ones are hard to come by and/or are more invasive to watch. You have a high tolerance for gore. When You Tire of This Try: Animals humping weird things . I actually thought the elephant birth was cool, but animal sex has always made me queasy. Apparently many consider it funny, though.

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The Stripper Party Pics the Google Elite Didn’t Want You to See

Google engineer and San Francisco partyboy Orkut Büyükkökten’s wild housewarming may have been packed with internet billionaires like Sergey Brin last Saturday, but online pictures were reportedly forbidden. And yet here are snapshots of strippers and nude sculpture. Google co-founder Brin and search products VP Marissa Mayer helped christen co-worker Orkut’s tenth-floor penthouse on San Francisco’s Mint Plaza this past weekend, as we reported yesterday . It turns out co-founder Larry Page may have been there too; his model/Ph.D wife Lucy Southworth certainly was. At the time, we couldn’t obtain more than one picture of the event, in part because, according to two tipsters with knowledge of the party, social network founder Orkut told guests not to circulate pictures online. That no doubt had something to do with the ” several billionaires ” reportedly in attendance. Inevitably, though, some shots have emerged from the dark corners of Facebook, the Google rival that seems to have something of a lock on the world’s most interesting information, at least to gossips like us. (Thank you, tipster who emailed us most of these pics.) It would appear Orkut wasted on time breaking in his ” custom-built party loft ,” complete (we hear) with elevated dance floor, poles, disco balls, dance lights and an indoor waterfall. There were the male and female strippers, who we’re told were professionals. There was a male nude that appears to be an ice sculpture (or maybe glass?). There was a shimmery metal see-through curtain thing, like you might see used as a room divider in a lounder. And there was a logo devoted to Orkut and husband Derek Holbrook. It was an effort befitting Orkut, whose past fabulousness has included opening Prada , going to BFF Mayer’s Sex And The City party , staging disco parties , and appearing in more forbidden pictures , sometimes with strippers . Why he wants to keep all this fun a secret is beyond us. Didn’t he hear privacy is dead ? Saturday’s party: We’re told these adult dancers are professional. And they’re in a professional venue: The poles, stage, lights and disco ball are an integral part of Orkut’s new penthouse party pad. Orkut’s husband Derek, on the pole. Oh my. So it looks like either there was a second lady stripper, or a guest decided to join in the fun. The guest on the left is Mayer’s husband Zach Bogue, only recently taken off the market . In other words: He can look, but he can’t touch. On the right, Orkut’s brother. The nude (ice?) sculpture, shot one, from Facebook. The nude (ice?) sculpture, shot two, which we found yesterday on Twitter but weren’t sure it was from this party. D erek & O rkut. Awwwww. Now back to the strippers! Ya, it’s blurry. But you try taking a surreptitious stripper shot at a party you don’t want to get thrown out of. “Dancer for money, do what you want me to do…” Metal curtain for the full “club” effect. Hubby Derek with Larry Page’s model/Ph.D wife Lucy Southworth, far right. This guy is Rhett Butler. Like, literally . The host, center, with two guests. ( Names ?)

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