Kanye West Throws Taylor Swift Under the Bus and the 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Harry Potter breaks more records... Google may purchase a royale with cheese... the Brad Pitt-starring Moneyball gets a release date... and more ahead.
· Raise a toast to the douche bag! Kanye West played an ultra exclusive sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York last night, and in addition to burning through his effusively praised new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from first track to last, he also had some more words for Taylor Swift and George W. Bush. "Taylor never came to my defense at any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it, that's the way I rode the waves of the Bush comment," Kanye told the crowd. Referencing the 2009 VMA incident again, West said, "If I wasn't drunk I would have been onstage longer." Expect Taylor Swift to respond with an earnest song within the hour. [Vulture, NYT/ArtsBeat]
· Accio, Galleons! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows broke the record for IMAX releases by grossing $16.1 million worldwide in the format. [Deadline]
· Further proof that Google is taking over the world: The company is angling to buy the digital rights for the 700-plus films in the Miramax library. Because you never can have too many ways to watch The English Patient. [NYO]
· Hey, Moneyball is happening! Sony has announced that the Steven Soderbergh Bennett Miller film will hit theaters on Sept. 23. The Brad Pitt film will open opposite Taylor Lautner's Abduction. [Box Office Mojo]
· Bad week for celebrity couples: Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh are getting a divorce, while Emmy Rossum and Adam Duritz broke up. The Counting Crows guy was dating Emmy Rossum? The more you know... [People, RadarOnline.com]
· Our good friend Michael Ausiello reports that Glee is talking to Katie Couric about appearing on the post-Super Bowl episode in February. [Deadline]
· Google Street View caught a woman giving birth. Of course it did. Check out the image below. [The Telegraph]
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The Counting Crows guy has dated EVERYONE, including Aniston. He must have hidden charms.
Or a really big dick.
Kanye West is a real a#*hole. Why do people still give him a forum to shoot off his filthy mouth?
agreeeeeed. ugh, he is SUCH a jerk.
K West may not have tact but he is correct. Taylor Swift does like playing victim whether it's West or an Ex boyfriend.
I have to come to Kanye's defense:
- He was drunk when he jumped on stage.
- There's no cure for terets.
- He's right; I stole someone's moment publicly and they didn't come to my defense and that was so rude of them.
Anyway,I'm raising a glass to you,
Nate
West does Swift wrong, publicly humiliating her before the entire world, literaly and expects her to defend him? He's lucky she wasn't trashing him nonstop to anyone who would listen. As it was, he faced no consequences except for everyone wearily sighing, "Kanye's being a jackass again. Yawn."
Is he the biggest wimp around or just the guy with the tinest prick?
terets? Oh you meant tourettes...
may be u shood finish skool
What is wrong with you Jackass. Leave Taylor Swift alone!!!!!
West = SCUMBAG, What a looser. I trashed all his albums and not looking at any new releases from the creep.
Kanye West is a little boy who talks like he is ten feet tall...If he actually had to face anyone or dare say fight anybody he would be on his knees crying like a little girl begging like the weak bitch he is...
Kanye West reminds me of those trick birthday candles. You keep blowing them out, but they annoyingly come back.
Kanye West is a douche and a racist.
Hey Steve, maybe you should finish school if you spell it with a K.
Bennett Miller has really tiny balls.