playboy-related stories
Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:10AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Animation, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S21E05) I've been waiting all season for this episode. As a long-lapsed fan of
The Simpsons, it was beginning to look like someone had sucked the heart right out of Springfield's first family. Maybe they have, for the most part, but everything that made
The Simpsons such a great show 20 years ago was there tonight.
Maybe it was that we finally got to see Mr. Burns again; he was always my favorite. Yes, he only had a bit part, and in fact the part of maniacal boss was played by Carl instead of Burns, but his presence set up the stories of the entire episode. I'll go so far as to say everything about that episode worked, from Marge's sexy calendar to Ned Flander's role in the final moments.
Even the brief encounters with Bart at school fed the main story, and were handled perfectly. This is what
The Simpsons is capable of, and despite a few moments that were a bit more crass than I recall the
Simpsons of yore being, it was classic
Simpsons all over again.
Continue reading The Simpsons: The Devil Wears Nada
Posted Oct 19th 2009 8:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: The Simpsons, Reality-Free
Warning: the following might be NSFW, if your W objects to cartoon nudity.
We told you last week about
Playboy's new issue with
The Simpsons mom Marge on the cover. Well, she's also the subject of a pictorial inside (complete with a questionnaire) and now the images have made it online. After the jump, one of the pictures (
here are the rest).
The funny part is (and something I didn't really think about before) was that Matt Groening drew these pics himself.
Continue reading Here's Marge Simpson - nude!
Posted Oct 14th 2009 9:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
Apparently, I've gone over to the dark side and have somehow morphed into a person who watches the E! network. I've commented on
the Kardashians,
Leave it to Lamas, and
Chelsea Lately (which I love by the way). I've finally moved to the bottom of the barrel --
The Girls Next Door.
Here's the thing about this show. Who really knows what goes on when the cameras are turned off (or possibly, we don't want to know), but it seems like Hugh Hefner is a really nice guy. All of his girlfriends and ex-girlfriends have only good things to say about him, and they rave about how cool it is to live at the Playboy mansion.
And if you can get past the part where he has several girlfriends at the same time, and is, like, 103 years old creepily having sex with 19-year-old girls (if he can still have sex, that is), he just seems like a nice guy. The kindly grandfather girls have sex with. Oh, and he loves to scrapbook.
Continue reading Hugh Hefner is like the kindly grandfather girls have sex with
Posted Oct 9th 2009 3:27PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: The Simpsons, Reality-Free
Come on guys, admit it: you've wondered what Marge Simpson looks like naked, right? She has always had a great body for a cartoon character, looking great on the rare times that the Simpsons go out to a fancy dinner or party. Wait, is it just me that thinks that way? Never mind. Ahem.
Anyway, Marge is the cover girl for the November issue of
Playboy! I wonder if we'll see more of her than we've ever seen before.
[via
TMZ]
Posted Aug 13th 2009 4:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Animation, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Well, it's official:
Family Guy's little mastermind is gay.
There have been lots and lots of hints about Stewie Griffin, but in
an interview with Playboy (I read it for the articles - and also the pictures of naked women), creator Seth MacFarlane reveals that yup, the little one is gay. In fact, they had an episode written where Stewie comes out after a problem at school, but decided not to go any further because it's "better to keep it vague."
In other
Family Guy news for this season, Lois finds out she's Jewish, and Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove
will make guest voice appearances on the show.
Posted Jun 16th 2009 2:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Reality-Free
Actually, I've been thinking about this, and I wonder: is this really such big news? I mean, 2012 is a few years from now, and there's a good chance that
30 Rock will be over by then anyway. So Baldwin will probably be leaving the show when, well, everyone else is.
Still,
this interview with Playboy (highlights only - buy the mag for the whole thing) looks pretty interesting, with lots of quotes about his marriage, his contemplating suicide after leaving that phone message for his daughter, what he thinks of TMZ, Twitter, his possible political plans, and why he'll never go on
Today again.
Posted Apr 15th 2009 6:07PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Music and Variety, Short-Lived Shows, Children, Reality-Free
As a kid, my parents were totally cool with my television viewing habits, as long as it never became excessive or kept my face from being kissed by the light of day every once in a while. Not that they had anything to be worried about, of course, considering that all I was watching was
Nickelodeon.
While my fellow prepubescents were slowly but surely migrating to more grown-up programming on MTV (and Playboy, if you had a cable box), I spent the bulk of my time between 1992 and 1996 fully devoted to
Roundhouse, a 30-minute sketch show sandwiched between the more popular
Clarissa Explains It All and
Are You Afraid Of The Dark? on SNICK, Nickelodeon's Saturday night programming block.
Continue reading Reprise the theme song, roll the credits, and for the love of God, revive Roundhouse! - VIDEO
Posted Aug 28th 2008 1:01PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities
I've been watching
The Girls Next Door for a while and it presents such a quandary for me. I feel like I'm betraying the feminist movement every time I tune in. If I knew an old man who had relationships with multiple young girls and made them "kept women," I would think he's a sleaze ball and wouldn't want to have anything to do with him. However, I fully admit that I find
The Girls Next Door fascinating.
It's probably because the life that's portrayed is so far beyond my frame of reference that I can hardly believe that it's real. In any case, I've been a semi-regular viewer and I've found myself even rooting for the girls. I want Bridget to finish school, and yes, I've even been rooting for Holly to get Hef to marry her. Well, I believe Bridget has gotten her Master's degree, and it seems like Holly may even get her wish too.
Bridget was recently overheard dishing about a "huge wedding" coming up on the show.
Continue reading Will The Girls Next Door end with a wedding?
Posted Jun 20th 2008 11:41AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E03) Consider this episode of
Swingtown a case of being betwixt and between. The Millers have been in their new home all of two weeks and so much has happened to shake their foundation; Susan especially seems like the song "caught in the middle with you." Does she want to be the good wife going to church and being satisfied with the way they were, her and Bruce, back in the old neighborhood? Or is she ready to embrace swinging?
She's at first drawn back to Janet and Roger and the old ways. Because she's still perturbed by the business card she found in Bruce's pants from the Playboy Club, the one from Sylvia suggesting a get together, Susan drags her family to Sunday services for a little God-time. Impulsively, when chatting with Janet, Susan announces that she's having a housewarming and wants Janet's help. It's like she's clinging to a simpler past.
Continue reading Swingtown: Double Exposure
Posted Jun 11th 2008 4:41PM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Episode Reviews
Screener Hell is an semi-regular feature in which lead blogger Keith McDuffee tries to fry my brain with the worst TV has to offer. (S02E01/S02E02) Do you have any idea how bad a show you have to be to include several scenes of gratuitous nudity
and still be boring!? I love nudity. The more unnecessary the nudity, the better. My favorite kind of nudity is that mid-'90s Cinemax nudity where the main character, despite her ongoing undercover investigation into the exotic world of high-class prostitution, decides to take a shower for 20 minutes for no good reason at all. I'll watch pretty much any kind of claptrap if it includes
that kind of nudity.
But not this show. Not
Foursome. There is no amount of tanned, taut Californian wannabe-actress flesh that could get me to watch another minute of this show. Please, don't think this is because I'm maturing; the show is
just that bad...
Continue reading Screener Hell: Playboy TV's Foursome - VIDEO
Posted Jun 11th 2008 12:38PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Super Skank Wednesday
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
Miss Rap Supreme,
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make VH1 the network it is today.
Notice how I've changed my introduction? I almost added
Living Lohan and
Denise Richards: It's Complicated but I realized that would compromise my integrity. I did, however, watch both of those shows Sunday night. I'll tell you about them and the finale of
Miss Rap Supreme after the jump.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: Dina, Denise, Byata, & Rece - VIDEOS
Posted May 9th 2008 9:01PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Enterprises, has given his consent for Miley Cyrus to pose for the magazine that is the cornerstone of his empire. This is only once she's of legal age of course.
Miley Cyrus is the 15 year old daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and star of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana. She is already well on her way to becoming a billionaire and I don't think she needs the publicity.
Continue reading Hef requests a favor from Miley
Posted Jul 12th 2007 2:30PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: American Idol, Celebrities, Alumni
American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee is giving acting a shot. She has been cast as a sorority girl in an upcoming Adam Sandler-produced movie that does not yet have a title.
According to
Entertainment Weekly, McPhee will "co-star" alongside funny girl Anna Faris, who plays a Playboy bunny who has been evicted from the mansion. Faris becomes a den mother to a super lame sorority, of which McPhee is a member. Rumer Willis also has a role. It will reportedly begin shooting late this summer.
Katharine has a background in acting-- according to her
official bio, she studied at the Boston Conservatory and the California State Summer School for the Arts. She even had a role in an MTV pilot that never made air. What I'm trying to say is... the girl has been groomed for this kind of thing.
Posted Jun 30th 2007 10:21AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities
Scott Baio has a new reality show coming to VH-1 called Scott Baio Is 45...and Single. The only problem is, Scott Baio isn't really single. This story says that the former Happy Days actor is actually in a long-term relationship with former Playboy Playmate Renee Sloan.
Baio has supposedly been dating Sloan for a couple of years, including during the filming of the reality show. Sloan also used to be Pam Anderson's stunt double on Baywatch. Baio dated Anderson too. It all gets kinda tricky. Was Sloane Anderson's stunt double in her private life too?
Continue reading Is Scott Baio really single?
Posted Mar 12th 2007 1:28PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: American Idol, Contestants, News and Gossip
What's up next for our recently ousted
Idol contestants?
According to
AOL's exit interviews, Antonella Barba WILL NOT be posing in
Playboy. She did, however, tell
People, she is "not opposed to acting or modeling or something." And she wants to "do pop music," but would add her own style to it.
Meanwhile, Sundance is heading back to Texas to get a band together. He told
People, "I'm going to throw down everywhere I can do it and just be a road warrior."
Sundance doesn't hold a grudge against Sanjaya, whom he thinks will "go far" especially if he gets some "confidence in his vocals."
Sabrina Sloan and Jared Cotter also went home last Thursday night. They both told
AOL that they were shocked to be going home so soon. To read more of the
Idol exit interviews with the ousted contestants,
click here.
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