Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

Ignorance Among Hollywood Conservatives

I could"€™ve written this column a week ago, before the National Geographic Channel's "€œKilling Jesus"€ had even aired, and still used the same opening sentence: "€œKilling Jesus killed in the ratings, scoring record numbers for the network, and delivering more viewers than any program in NatGeo's history."€ Bill O"€™Reilly? Best-selling book? Palm Sunday? Frasier? Everyone knew the three-hour epic TV movie would be a hit. And the ratings proved everyone right. "€œKilling Jesus"€ drew 3.7 million viewers, setting a NatGeo record. In an interview with HitFix a few days ...

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin Sticks His Foot up His Ass Again

The double-edged sword called the Internet spreads and then debunks myths at head-spinning speed. So despite attempts on all sides to erase the evidence, we know with absolute ...

Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg

Burning Yachts and Burning Money

BREAKING NEWS (well, sort of"€”it happened over a month ago)"€”The world's largest sailing yacht has caught fire. Barry Diller's Eos, named after the Greek goddess of the ...

Snoop Dogg

Dope Doggy Dogg

I"€™ve often felt that the War on Terror was the best thing that happened to globetrotting drug addicts since the days before bags were inspected at all. After 9/11, the ...

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Celebrity Schadenfreude

Tom Cruise received a most unpleasant 50th-birthday present: His wife of five years Katie Holmes has filed for divorce. Cruise was apparently blindsided by the news. The tabloids ...

Paris Jackson

Billionaires, Bimbos, and the Black Brady Bunch

London's big scandal this past week involves a rapper, a Rothschild, and a handsome son of the late businessman James Goldsmith. The British tabloids have been going bananas ...

Madonna, Don”€™t Preach

Always one to court controversy in lieu of talent, Madonna recently projected an enormous image of right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead à ...

King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain

Royal Rake

The delightful readers of Taki's Magazine have spoken! I hereby declare this week's column to be a Hollywood-free zone. There will be no look into director Joel Schumacher and his ...

Tinsley Mortimer

Tinsleytown

Judging from last week's comments, there are not many Kardashian fans here on Taki's Mag. Though the fuss was to be expected from our highbrow readership, every rag needs a gossip ...

Krazy for the Kardashians

Kall me krazy, but I love the Kardashians.  This is Kardashian Week if there ever was one. The fab family just signed a $40-million deal with E! for three more years of their ...

Rachel Maddow

Sue Me!

Remember when people used to say, "€œSue me!"€ if you complained about something they said or did? "€œSue me!"€ was one of my favorite expressions and I used it in grade ...

Frances Bean Cobain

Freeloaders and Bloodsuckers

Hollywood has a rule: If it's true, it's strange. Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love recently voiced parental concern for her hapless spawn Frances Bean via Twitter. Rumors had ...

Donald Trump

Accolades for Acolytes

Welcome to Taki's Mag, all you do-gooders who"€™ve discovered us this past week! It's a big world, and there are people to save and hands to hold everywhere! Let us help all of ...

Bradley Cooper in The Hangover

Hollywood: Dysfunction Junction

At six foot nine, Kris Humphries may literally be the world's biggest ass. This giant goober-faced fool is a basketball player who was briefly married to pneumatic Armenian ...


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