Nicole K. — Also out of Beta and none too pleased with things!
MSN – News – Gossip — Apparently every American likes gossip, especially about dipshit celebritiies. I think this is because we’re idiots. That said I have to admit (as a fellow idiot) that the writings of MSN gossip maven Kat Giantis is some of the slickest most nasty stuff out there. This woman is destined to be the next superstar of this sort of mean and compelling prose. You watch. Go to the site and read everything by her. Great stuff. Until recently this site was in beta.
A sample:
The New York Daily News says the suits at Warner Bros. are in a tizzy over Katie’s suddenly ubiquitous “Scientology adviser,” a young woman named Jessica who has been attending — and at times disrupting — the starlet’s “Batman Begins” interviews.
“Tom pays Jessica to ‘keep Katie on the path,'” an insider blabs to the paper. “She goes everywhere with Katie — she’s never more than a quarter-step behind her. When you ask her who she is, she says, ‘I’m Katie’s best friend.’ She’s known her for six weeks!”.
Creepy. Now I get the bit in the movie Bowfinger!
You know, for someone who bitches about our asinine celebrity gossip culture, you sure write an awful lot about it.
I do it for a number of reasons:
1) it always gets you riled up
2) Gives me an excuse to put up a pretty picture
3) the pretty picture attacts the men who rack up the numbers
I do NOT over-do this as you suggest. About one post out of 40 or 50
Speaking of pretty pictures, here’s an idea. Why not put those “pretty” pictures on a different server? That way we could block that server in Firefox but could still see the normal “work friendly” pictures you include on your site. I’m thinking maybe http://www.dvorak.xxx
I tried viewing your site without any pictures, but the “work friendly” pictures you choose tend to be either highly relevant or highly funny, so I wasn’t much fun to lose them all.
It’s just something to think about.
And by the way, I think ANY posting about celebrities is over-doing it. Celebrities are merely waiters and waitresses who were luckily enough to get a break. Think about that the next time you’re at a restaurant: There is a very fine line between that slack-jawed brainless excuse for a human taking your order and the slack-jawed brainless excuse for a human on the cover of People.
Hey, I though you said blogs were weak? Now you have one?
If I am not mistaken– ? — there was a time several months ago when the number of girlie pics spiked on the blog. At least that was my perception. At the time, I felt that it was a deliberate decision by JCD to increase readership. And I liked the decision.
But I guess I agree with Ima Fish about covering celebrity stories. Except, I’d still like to see the pics posted. 🙂
Nicole Kidman is really hot. I saw her again this week on DVD — “Eyes Wide Shut”. I always thought she was too good for Tom Cruise. She’s got class, I figure.
>> I always thought she was too good for Tom Cruise.
Even that brainwashed Scientology bimbo that Tom “Bad Hair” Cruise is imitating a chimpanzee over on Oprah is too good for him.
I don’t find there to be too many celeb stories on this blog.
This is a stunning photograph that is in no way pornographic. I can’t see any reason why a coworker would object, but that you’re reading about celebrities.
The real scandal is that Katie Holmes is totally star struck and is changing her religion for a man 16 years older than her. She was quoted as saying “I’ve wanted to marry Tom Cruise since I was a little girl.”
Add this to the Scientology stuff above, and this marriage is doomed. (Especially if Katie continues to kick ass at the box office like Nicole did. Or she could pull a Kate Capshaw and completely disappear.)
This celebrity post in particular had a soft, flaky crust and a meaty inside. Yum, yum.
Capshaw was never much of an actress.
I tend to run the celeb stories on Friday only.
“gossip maven Kat Giantis”
Gossip maven almost sounds respectable. And there isn’t much respectable about anything Kat writes (or scratches) out with her claws. She’s merciless to people who are priviledged without any apparent justification. I almost get the feeling that she hates the fact that they’re there and she isn’t. And the only way she can scratch that itch is to slash and burn them the one way she can, in print. She may be protected–but protecting her is as wrong as protecting Flynt and Hustler and the rest. She mistakes liberty for license. JFR
Since I cannot find her email address or a forum of some sort in her “Undressed” column at MSN, here goes:
Dear Kat Giantis,
You have the most ridiculously inaccurate fashion critiques I’ve ever read. Some are right on, yet plenty are just so far-fetched every editor-in-chief, design director, and reasonable fashion writer would gloriously beg to differ. The suggestions made are ones that belong to the “safe” fashion pages of weekly tabloids but never, NEVER in legitimate international fashion bibles. Lastly, J F Riley has an excellent point!
Kat Giantass’s “reporting” on MSN is just plain mean. I also think it’s cowardly of her to write critiques of people she doesn’t even know without providng an opportunity for people to respond back to her directly. Boo, Kat Giantass, boo.
I’m only curious to see a picture of Kat Giantis as I can’t find any online or is that she breaks the lens with her beauty!!! If your going to toss mud, post your picture so we can see where all the crap is coming from……
Kat Giantis ————- Holy $%^& .
I want to see a picture of that …… columnist so anyone can tear apart her attempt at making a personal statement about her attire. Bet it is textbook WHATEVER
I wish she could publish photos about the celebs – and then just shut the $%^&*( up.
Get a job, write some words that matter Kat.
‘nother chance (im ammused).
my comment re lindsay…
it was that you are obviously bisaed.
(the comment was stupid, and way out of the times).
if i don’t get through this time, i’ll know what i know.
MacedonReader, I totally agree. Her wit is about as clever as an 8th graders, not to mention she gets attention with her pathetic attempt at ‘shock value’. Nothing about her writing is original and she spreads lies and rumors over the internet. Great job Kat, if you died tomorrow this planet would move along just fine without you. Thanks for not helping society progress in any shape or form.
Whats her last name again???….oh well, who cares.
(Now go back to embellishing stories and pretending you are somehow better than the people you insult)
MacedonReader, I totally agree. Her wit is about as clever as an 8th graders, not to mention she gets attention with her pathetic attempt at ‘shock value’. Nothing about her writing is original and she spreads lies and rumors over the internet. Great job Kat, if you died tomorrow this planet would move along just fine without you. Thanks for not helping society progress in any shape or form.
Whats her last name again???….oh well, who cares.
(Now go back to embellishing stories and pretending you are somehow better than the people you insult)
Kat is totally mean. Probably pulls legs off insects and then writes that they look freakish and walk funny. Get a grip. Imagine being “critqued” by that biotch… Make my day. MSN should pay us to read her crap.
Kat Giantis has a most wonderful, entertaining sense of humor. The people who criticize her need to “lighten up”.
Oh my GAWD! Kat’s writing is so funny! I laugh until I cry everytime I read anything of hers. Lighten up indeed. Celebrity worship is for people who have no life of their own and Kat puts them RIGHT where they belong. Hilarious! And hey, don’t any of you folks have a spell check on your computer?
Kat used to piss me off because she’s the one wasting her breath (or time i guess) complaining about these celebs. But now every time i read her stuff it’s like she’s reading MY mind. LOL, that girl is frickin hilarious.
I just read a critique by Kat Giantis about an outfit Lindsay Lohan wore and was so repulsed that I had to look Kat up. You know how some things can be repulsive, but you love it anyway? Well, this was just plain repulsive. I don’t even pay any attention to Lindsay or know much about her, but from what I read from Kat it seemed as if Kat was out to kill her. I do believe in karma and I believe the karma on that kind of writing is going to be really rough. My guess is that Kat Giantis may not even be his or her real name.
I don’t get what would make someone who has good vocabulary and good writing skills completely waste it on tearing human being to shreds, instead of just critiquing fashion in a way that actually shows off the writer’s talent and will gain the respect of the audience. I’m a big fan of satire – from The Onion to Borat, but this isn’t even satire or comedy of any form. I can’t respect when someone writes in a way as though they are getting every bit of anger they’ve had toward anyone in their past out on a person they don’t even know in the form of a fashion critique. Too cruel to be funny. It just leave the reader wondering what is seriously going on in the writer’s life that they’d stoop THAT low.
Kat Giantis, whoever that is, should really take a step back and consider her (?) place in the world. I guess Kat gets paid for writing about celebrities and i had the misfortune of reading it posted in the corner of some webpage. Kat’s “writing” smacks of the type of shameless and groundless attack commentary against working actors and other people in the carnivorous spotlight that only the most bored and fat headed reader could relate to.
It is not funny. It is not true. It is mean. It is cowardice. It lacks all taste or class. It promotes dishonesty and dis-information.
A true bottom feeder, able to kick a person when they are down.
To try and make fun of someone in AA? Who is next, cancer victims?
If i were ever to read anything from Kat again I wouldn’t be surprised if it were about how the holocaust was a hoax or why whites are superior because groundless mean spirited dis-information will always follow the agenda of the twisted insecure coward.
Not only should Kat be ashamed, she should be stopped.
Oh good grief!
Kat Giantis is hysterically funny, witty, has a killer vocabulary, a grasp of the absurd and a handle on sarcastic humour. In short, I can’t wait to read her lampoons of the rich, famous and ridiculously overpaid people who spend their off time getting drunk, stoned, arrested and, in general, embarrassing themselves consistently – yet, are worshiped as gods by moralizing idiots, who obviously lack senses of humour, dictionaries, spell check, vocabularies and senses of perspective, historical or otherwise.
Do not trivialize the holocaust by remotely comparing it to self-centered, overpaid, self-destructive celebrities being roasted for their bad taste and even worse behaviour; that’s truly shameful. Kat Giantis’ jabs are entertainment. If you don’t like it don’t read it, but do not accuse her of being on a par with Hitler – that’s disgusting and you should be ashamed.Maybe a good anger management course would help.
Please get yourselves lives and climb down from your soapboxes. The moral outrage and ridculous rants are boring and make you look like Linsay Lohans – or Anna Nicole Smiths or even Tom Cruises. Gasp! That must make me a twisted insecure coward as well. Or someone who actually has a sense of humour!
Kat Giantis…whomever u r …wherever u r….
YOU ROCK! you are my hero…
I can’t get enough of your dead-on fashion/celebrity commentary!! I work in fashion and the entertainment industry, and I am always surprised how much information/observation you pack into your powerful little paragraphs. I think you are a true talent and a genius.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE reading “Undressed!”. It is THE STANDARD and only TRUE fashion commentary, in my opinion.
I tend to agree with randomhuman. I have read a few fashion reviews that Kat wrote and they seem to have less to say about the clothes than the unlucky celebrity she is bashing. She does not know the circumstance with which the picture was taken so how can she slam them so. I personally think Kat is a no-talent hack that needs to back.
I tend to agree with randomhuman. I have read a few fashion reviews that Kat wrote and they seem to have less to say about the clothes than the unlucky celebrity she is bashing. She does not know the circumstance with which the picture was taken so how can she slam them so. I personally think Kat is a no-talent hack that needs to go back.
It seems as though you have a little black spot on your heart for Beyonce. Why might I ask, is there some kind of cat like rivalry between you. I think that some of the things you say are very mean spirited and down right nasty. We don’t have to hate Beyonce to love Jennifer Hudson. The entire cast played their roles to the fullest and that’s why the world loved ‘Dreamgirls’.
Although she has moderatley funny sense of humor, 90% of the clothing she ignorantly dismisses as ugly are amazing pieces loved by all in the fashion world. It’s not that I don’t have a sense of humor, because I do find lots of the things she says to be funny, but my only problem with her is that she seems to have no apreciation for the fashion world, and seems to un-intentionally spread her ignorance.
I don’t care what anyone says….I think you, Kat, are hilarious!!! Anything that makes me laugh is good and I’m guaranteed that every time I read your articles. HA HA HA HA!!! See, I’m laughing right now thinking about something you wrote!!!