Brüno recently did a photoshoot for the latest issue of GQ in which goofed around with L.A.’s Birmingham high school football team. Now the school superindendent is angry about it because… uh… it takes the attention away from the fact that most of his students can’t read?
The stunt has incensed Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, adding fuel to a debate over whether Birmingham, in Lake Balboa, should be allowed to convert to a charter school. The charter conversion is up for a vote before the school board Wednesday. “This recent GQ thing has not helped matters,” Cortines said today. “We’ve allowed our students to be used, and not in the most glamorous circumstances, either.” [LATimes]
Actually, the students used you. Namely your jerseys. Wait, what’s this about charter school?
[Birmingham HS] has broken away from the nation’s second-largest school district. The move came one day after officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District disciplined two administrators over violating the district’s policy on using the school’s name in the film. The charter proposal ends the district’s authority over school employees, so the disciplinary action will be moot. [Yahoo]
Wow, so a school gets one magazine spread and suddenly it’s too good to hang with the schools it grew up with? Sounds like L.A. alright. Stay tuned for next week, when Birmingham High develops an eating disorder and f*cks David Spade.
The current issue of GQ has a feature and photo spread on Evan Rachel Wood - whom you may remember from The Wrestler, Thirteen, and her pervy Marilyn Manson video - and they were kind enough to send over some photos. They say...
Evan Rachel Wood is that rare and ruinous combination of innocent girl next door and kinky neighbor down the street. [...] Recently, she was linked with her Wrestler co-star, the 56-year-old Mickey Rourke. “There was no truth to it, and it was so annoying,” says Wood, now 21, who is back with Manson after “taking some time” away from the relationship. Of Rourke, she says: “The friendship was intimate and nice, and this makes it weird.”
I say: I like this picture where she’s kinda spread eagled the best. It makes me picture her vagina for some reason. I guess I’m old fashioned like that.
Seth Rogen is on the cover of this month’s GQ “Comedy Issue” (Hey, you know what’s funny? Wearing designer shoes and secretly liking men! Gun fingaz!). Despite being on the cover of such a lame magazine, Rogen proves to be a man after my own heart by dissing both Michael Bay and Entourage.
First the funnyguy says that he’s the reason—or at least part of the reason—his pal Jonah Hill turned down a role in director Michael Bay’s Transformers sequel. "I can see if Steven Spielberg’s calling you, asking you to do something, how that’s hard to turn down," Rogen tells writer Alex Pappademas. "But what I said to Jonah was, ‘You want to make a movie about fightin’ robots? Make your own movie about fightin’ robots. You can do that. That’s on the table now.’ "
It sure is, right next to the bong shaped like a cock.
The 26-year-old Rogen, who stars with James Franco in the upcoming stoner flick Pineapple Express, also takes a shot at Entourage. Sounds like he still may have some hard feelings toward HBO because years ago the suits at the cable network rejected a pilot that he wrote with Jason Segel and a pre-The School of Rock Jack Black. "I just remember feeling really bitter," Rogen says. We thought the stuff we were writing was funny—and it’s pretty much the exact same stuff that we’re doing now—and it just seemed crazy that no one else liked it. You start to question your own sanity. Like, ‘Our HBO pilot isn’t funny, but Entourage is?’ "
I love that he’s ripping Entourage, and the fact that he’s doing it in GQ is pretty ballsy, considering the ultimate life goal of 70% of GQ’s readership is wear expensive clothes and be friends with a famous person.
