Japanese artist and the genius behind Akihabara Majokko Princess, Takashi Murakami, has gotten Britney Spears onto the cover of British Pop Magazine (above).
What you see is no standard photo series, however. Murakami purposefully made the photos to resemble scenes taken from the manga My Wife Is A Grade Schooler. The manga was used as an example of sexualized young-looking characters back when Japan was looking at banning such depictions (although My Wife Is A Grade Schooler is gag manga and its material was intended to be social commentary).
Murakami’s photographic recreations with Britney Spears are intended to show such manga as art. Murakami says “I thought it should be immortalized as an artistic event to be marked in history. I am an artist. Because of this, I did what artists do.”
IGN has put together a list of their top 100 Star Wars characters. You can check it out if you like (Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker took first place), but the real fun is in the video above.
You’ll hear celebs chat with varying levels of competency about who their favourite characters are. Most importantly, you can discover that supposed nerd mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer behind the likes of nerd film properties The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, is a fan of “Chewy-Bach.” Huh, must be an Expanded Universe creation.
Musician/woman hitter Chris Brown was recently spotted wearing the giant piece of Kirby bling you see to your left. Even from the perspective of someone who regularly wears a Mario hat, his fashion sense seems a little questionable.
The media hasn’t really known what to do with this important surfacing of a Nintendo mascot in mainstream culture. The Daily Mail‘s story on the topic has been edited multiple times, exposing shocking ignorance. They at first described the great inhaler as a “pink cat,” then changed that to a Pokémon, before finally settling on Kirby. Although they still seem to think Kirby is a cat. At least Perez got his name right.
Chris Tucker isn’t really in that many movies, but the man sure makes a lot of money. He took $20 million for Rush Hour 2 and $25 million for Rush Hour 3. Well, it seems Chris doesn’t exactly enjoy paying the taxes owed for that kind of income.
The Fifth Element star owes the Internal Revenue Service of the United States $11,571,909.26. An accomplishment almost as ballsy as screaming into Bruce Willis’ face for two hours.
The news hits about a year after the State of California came after Tucker for not paying $3,594,409 in state taxes.
Maybe we’ll luck our and get The Sixth Element out of this, but I doubt it. Bring on Rush Hour: Rush Harder and Rush Hour: Race Jokes Drift.
I’m not exactly certain how my source arrived at this conclusion, but somehow, WattPad lists Taylor Lautner as the most written-about real-life person in fan fiction. Yes, a man who many confused youngsters believe can turn into a poorly CGI’d werewolf is the object of more gross, usually sexual, penned fantasies than anyone else.
The rest of the list includes Megan Fox, Dakota Fanning, Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, and a bunch of people I’ve never heard of. 5/10. Am I old and out of touch yet? The full list:
We reported earlier in the week that Family Matters star Jaleel White was under investigation for allegedly punching his child’s mother in the breast. Well, the LAPD has found there to be an absence of evidence, no case will be pursued.
White’s representatives had been claiming the accusations were part of an anti-Urkel ploy designed to win a custody battle.
The news comes as a great relief to me. Urkel was a childhood hero.
August 29th, 2010 by 
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