Oh to be a fly on the wall of this photo shoot for the gay friendly Southwest Airlines, which allegedly and not-so-gay-friendly kicked an actress off of a plane for kissing her girlfriend.

I worry (as someone who was an adult in the 1960s) that young people will see The Playboy Club and think that this is what life was like back then and that Hefner, as he also says in his weird, creepy voice-over, was in fact “changing the world, one Bunny at a time.”

So I would like to say this:

1. Trust me, no one wanted to be a Bunny.

2. A Bunny’s life was essentially that of an underpaid waitress forced to wear a tight costume.

3. Playboy did not change the world.

Nora Ephron, in this week’s Newsweek, on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club.

popculturebrain:

Here we go again…

“We’ve started that process and it is our sincere hope to shoot it this year and get it out this year,” Hurwitz said to Digital Spy.

“That’s what we’re hoping,” he continues, “but a lot of things have to fall into place for that to happen. …. I don’t like to toy with the affections of our fans. They’ve been so supportive and we’re so grateful, so I kind of hate to answer the question until I can say, ‘Yep, we’ve shot it, it opens next week’. Otherwise it feels like we’re toying with people and we do not mean to do that. It has just taken a while to get it going.

I’m having painful deja vu, once again I’ll say “I’ll believe it when I’m sitting in the theater and the credits are rolling.”

oh please please please please

NEWSWEEK: How often do you go tanning?
Snooki: To be honest with you, I haven’t gone tanning since the show wrapped. That was in September.

Is your skin pale?
Oh, no. I think I’m naturally tan.

So why go tanning?
Because you want to be darker than you already are, silly.

I’ve never gone tanning.
When you’re tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it.

Yes, this is a real interview, which will appear in Monday’s Newsweek.

gq:

The Year In Wang

Yet again—seven centuries and counting!—it was the male body part of the year. But in 2010, the penis truly blew up: junk as far as the eye could see. A semi-exhaustive list of cultural sightings. 

* A man pops wood after shaking Sarah Palin’s hand during a Mama Grizzly photo op.

* Cleveland Indians outfielder Grady Sizemore’s self, ahem, portrait—he’s nude except for a coffee mug in front of his tea bag—becomes the viral sports-blog photo of the year. Well, until that other sports-star self-portrait…

* The excellent five-hour Sundance miniseries about Carlos the Jackal is basically four and a half hours of star Edgar Ramirez’s flaccid penis.

* A cinematic first: Jerry O’Connell’s bitten-off penis flies directly at the four people who bought tickets to see Piranha 3D.

* A Miami woman who claims to have pleasured the Situation says his wee-wee is quite wee.

* John Mayer in Playboy: “My dick is like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock.”

* Good God, every damn episode of True Blood. And Spartacus.

* Brett Favre allegedly texts photos of his wang to a former Playboy model/ex Jets employee. He’s like a kid down there!

* Et tu, Kanye?

* Hung is, improbably, still a show on HBO. 

*Nwk Tumblr covering eyes and blushing.*

meredithbklyn:

gq:

Congratulations to nominees Jennifer Love Hewitt, Piper Perabo, Scott Caan and the peerless cast of Burlesque. They said this day would never come.

did they seriously nominate A LIFETIME MOVIE?!

Eesh. Here’s Newsweek’s 5 winners, losers and shockers.

And… we’re back. With the year’s top cultural moments, as interpreted by celebrity dolls. (Photos by the lovely Cara Phillips.)

nprfreshair:

NPR Music’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2010. Enjoy!

What was yours?

NEWSWEEK takes a tour through the late David Foster Wallace’s just-released archives. Read the story; see the photos.