This Yellowpages and Searchboth sponsored gay heritage video is less a celebration of openly gay people as it is a brazen attempt at outing rumored closet case, Anderson Cooper. Either way, our not ambiguously gay younger brother is all over it. [Queerty]
This edition of On That Note is dedicated to any fellow backpackers who were left sans accommodations in Milan last week due to the flippin’ Rolling Stones tour.
• Wait, so that whole “Mariah Carey making good music” thing wasn’t just a fluke? Here’s to hoping her next album doesn’t have unicorns and rainbows on it. [Billboard]
• Foxy Brown is having some personal assistant issues . [Page Six]
• Here’s a ditty that’ll take you back to 1999: Eminem was charged with assault! Flash forward to the present: the charge has since been dropped. Nice to see he’s keeping his name out there. [Hiphop Game]
• Australians confirm they hate Barry Manilow even more than every girl named Mandy. [AP]
• Justin Timberlake was all set to make his big-screen debut, but the only place we’ll find his upcoming movie is on the straight to DVD rack. Ouch. [MTV]
Words we never thought we’d say: Keith Olbermann gives Tucker Carlson a run for his dirty talk money this week. Intern Wendy agrees; unlike Lindsay Lohan, this week’s quotes are so funny, they barely need an introduction. Happy Friday, folks.
• “I can’t bear it. I can’t bear it. I can’t. I can’t watch it. It’s just too difficult for me to watch.” —Barry Manilow, on the agony of watching American Idol auditions, Larry King Live, April 14
• “And I was just going to say, when I saw 70 percent, say they’re, you know, switching beer for religion. Doesn’t sound like my college days, unfortunately.” —Rita Cosby, wishing she were back in school, Hardball, April 14
• “Say this about him, he always still gives good sound bite.” —Keith Olbermann, on the press’ love for Donald Rumsfeld, Countdown, April 14
• “I would like to see you move to China.” Neil Cavuto, telling Bill O’Reilly to get the fuck out of our country, The O’Reilly Factor, April 17
• “I’m screwed.” —Keith Olbermann, Countdown, April 19
• “I can respect the guy who was protecting his beer.” —A.J. Hammer on football games, Showbiz Tonight, April 19
• “And ding-dong, door-to-door free breast exam man.” —Keith Olbermann, dreaming about his dream job, Countdown, April 20
• “Tucker, the idea of Madeline Albright in spandex doing leg presses will haunt my dreams forever and ever and ever.” —Willie Geist, The Situation, April 20