On June 1st Andrew Koppel, the son of TV news anchor Ted Koppel, was found dead in his New York apartment. His autopsy results were released today and it was revealed that Andrew died from a drug and alcohol overdose. In his system was found an insane combination of heroin, cocaine, generic Valium and other prescription pills, as well as a whole lot of liquor.
Koppel, who lived in Queens with his girlfriend and baby daughter, began a drinking binge around noon on May 31 at a bar in Hell’s Kitchen where he befriended Russell Wimberly, a 32-year-old waiter, according to reports.
The two drank all day and arrived together at Wimberly’s friend’s Washington Heights apartment late in the evening. “[Andrew] wasn’t even really walking. He wasn’t making sense,” the friend, Belinda Caban, told PEOPLE.
A few hours after putting him to bed, Wimberly and Caban discovered Koppel wasn’t breathing and called 911.
There are a lot of sad things about this story, but what stands out to me is that Koppel didn’t get that fucked up alone. Normally when we hear these stories it’s about someone who died while experimenting during a particularly dark time (Heath Ledger, DJ AM.) This guy went and found a bad influence friend at a bar in the middle of the day and now some little girl’s father is dead. I’m not saying that Wimberly was responsible for Koppel’s death, but there was no way that he was completely ignorant to his drug usage.
Hang out with good people who don’t let you do stuff like this, guys. It makes a huge difference.
I would think that after being one of the biggest rappers in the game, having several of his own television shows and more merchandise than you can even imagine that Snoop Dogg wouldn’t still resort to doing things for the paper. First there was “California Gurls” and now we have a rap about that show True Blood. This song, “Oh Sookie” is basically just a three minute add for that vampire show and even if Snoop’s a legit fan, it’s pretty uncool.
The “Oh Sooki, take this MJ cookie” line is hilarious, though. I’ll give him that.
After her SCRAM bracelet went off at an afterparty for the MTV Movie Awards, Lindsay had to go to court to explain herself and take some urine tests and so on and so forth. Lindsay claimed that someone spilled a drink on her ankle (I was going to make fun of that, but then I remembered that I’ve definitely had the same thing happen to me and now it’s not funny so much as it is sad). It turns out that she was telling the truth, because according to Lindsay’s lawyer, her urine tests were negative.
So she’s hasn’t been drinking, and it looks like she’s going to be caught up with her alcohol education classes by her hearing on July 6th. Since she’s been doing everything she’s supposed to, she might not have to go to jail. And that’s absurd. Since when does a few weeks of not breaking a handful of specific laws make up for a few years of rampant drug use and DUI’s? Oh, that’s right, when you starred in a Parent Trap remake twelve years ago and released a shitty album a few years after that. Looks like you lucked out, Lindsay, that’s a really specific loophole.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m totally with the guy in the right of the above photo.
His solo art show opens on June 23rd in New York, and there is no doubt in my mind that it will be a brilliant assault to the senses.
The show, titled “The Dangerous Book Four Boys,” has a little bit of everything: there are sculptures, photographs, drawings, and video (including home videos of Franco as a child). Wall Street Journal got the chance to talk to Franco and the show’s curator, Alanna Heiss, about the show’s subject matter:
“The Dangerous Book Four Boys” addresses boyhood and the “sexual confusion” of adolescence, as Ms. Heiss put it. Short films focus on demolition, showing burning or bullet-riddled structures like a plastic toy home or a large wooden rocket (the exhibition contains originals or replicas of these). Another work explores a romantic encounter between “Star Trek” characters Spock and James T. Kirk.
And don’t for one second think that James Franco is just being a pretentious celebrity. He’s actually ridiculously well-educated, so he kind of knows what he’s doing. He’s a stoner/scholar/movie star/inspiration, and don’t you forget it.
So, Snooki, at 4’9″, claims that she weighs 110 pounds. Now, I’ll be honest: I’m not a good estimator when it comes to height-weight ratios, but I think that sounds pretty accurate for someone of her stature. She’s not a tiny, skinny-scrawny little thing, and because she’s as short as she is, it shows.
And … because of that, Snookers claims that she’s going to try out the Cookie Diet in an effort to lose those extra ten pounds that she claimed arrived around the time Jersey Shore initially debuted. Snooki speaks exclusively to Us Magazine and states that she’s really serious about cleaning up her figure:
“I used to be fit,” she tells UsMagazine.com. “Now I look at myself, and I’m like, What the hell happened? … I would like be back to 100 lbs; I’m 110 right now.”
Cookie diet? Snooki diet? There’s a lot of fun things you can do with this, but I’m just too jaded by the Shore kids to even dream anything that glaringly good up.
The girl’s growing on me. Honest. But I’m still going to rip the performance. I was far, far more stoked to see Michaels perform (again!) than I ever could be for a Miley performance. Not to mention, and yeah, I know it’s a live show, but she was wicked flat throughout a lot of the song. But yet, this song made the final cut to her latest album, Can’t Be Tamed. Who knows.
Miley also interviewed this morning on GMA, and discussed various topics including her coming-of-age-ness and her fans:
“You have to be who you are to the full. There’s nothing that I’m holding back. And that’s what I want to give to my girl fans. Just be who you are … It’s always going to be hard because there’s so much stuff you’ve got to get through before you an get to the stuff that’s real. There’s all the people that are like, ‘Yes! It’s gonna be great! You’re the biggest thing ever!’ when really, I just want the truth.”
“There are people that are negative just to be that way. You’ve got to push through all that and just be like ‘This is my life.’ ”
Good words, Miley. Not a terrible interview. But just “damn” on today’s singing. You’re pretty talented, but this was definitely one of those off-days.
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