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Apr 09

Media Fabricates Discord Between Russell Brand and Kristen Bell

The media is at it again.
As I mentioned yesterday, Russell Brand is maintaining a low profile this week, hidden away in Italy and busy at work on the follow-up to his best-selling memoir, My Booky Wook.
This leaves the media at loose ends. Let’s face it: Russell Brand sells newspapers and brings [...]

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Apr 09

Friday Night Video: Russell Brand’s Vanity Fair Photo Shoot

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Russell Brand posed as Charlie Chaplin for a recent Vanity Fair photo shoot for an article on Comedy’s New Legends. Here is some video of the shoot as well as a post-shoot interview:

 

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Apr 09

I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

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No, really, I couldn’t have, and I know, because I’ve tried.
Since learning about the broadcasting incident that rocked the BBC late last year, I’ve tried to make sense of it and to get to the core of all the reasons it stirs such strong emotion for me. I’m not a UK citizen, [...]

06
Apr 09

Scooping or Snooping?

I was a bit ticked off by Robert Crampton’s article published in TimesOnline the other day, Russell Brand on Sex, Sachs and Self-Improvement.
Brand invites this man into his home and the guy snoops around his private residence, even going so far as to publish a personal note scribbled on his kitchen chalkboard, which in my [...]

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Apr 09

Tweet People With Kindness

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Self-described celebrity gossip Holy Moly recently named Russell Brand the “top celebrity narcissist on Twitter.1 He bestowed the honor based upon a concocted formula derived from the ratio of the number of followers a celebrity has versus the number of people the celebrity is following.
According to Holy Moly, “Twitter is supposed to be interactive; [...]

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Apr 09

G20 Protesters Demand Economic Reform

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Political leaders and chief financial officers from the top 20 industrialized nations met in London yesterday at a summit to discuss international finance matters.  Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the city to demand worldwide economic reform, including more focus on fighting poverty, inequality and global warming.
A long-time activist, Russell Brand attended the G20 [...]