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Madonna at the American Airlines Arena November 19 and 20

Madonna's Top Ten NSFW Moments

Madonna is a dirty, old lady. And though she wasn't always old, the Queen of Pop has been a hot and proud taboo-smashing slut from birth. Even before becoming famous, Ms. Madonna Louise Ciccone was making thought-provoking egg porn. She's also burned through an insanely long line of famous and u ... More >>

Sean Penn Gets Called "Communist Asshole" in Airport Fight with Former Co-Star Over Hugo Chavez

​There's a reason we don't see outspoken actor Sean Penn visiting Miami more often. Probably because the Hollywood star who keeps warm company with the likes of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro would be accosted every time he walks down the street. Kind of like he was by former co-star and Cuban-Ameri ... More >>

Top Ten Cheapest Celebrity Tippers

When it comes to tipping, Tiger is under par.​It was reported by TMZ that President Obama "dropped over $200" on a burger lunch for he and a large group of campaign volunteers at Ted's Bulletin Restaurant in Washington, D.C. -- and that he "tipped more than 35%."However, not all famous people are ... More >>

What Happens When a South Beach Crackhead Breaks Into a Screening of The Tree of Life

​Terrence Malick's latest wandering epic The Tree of Life may very well lend itself to some chemically altered viewing. It is not however the kind of film that benefits from some sort of crackhead breaking into a screening and starting to shout things like "Tupac's back!" Welcome to life in South ... More >>

Cuban Cougar on the Prowl

Tomas Regalado Got Thousands in Free Tickets To Heat Games, Boxing Event

courtesy Al CrespoTomas Regalado and Sean Penn in a private box at a Heat game.​In Miami Beach, a storm is brewing over accusations that city officials strong-armed the New World Symphony to give them free tickets to concerts. But Beach leaders aren't the only politicians accepting free seats.Miam ... More >>

Letters from the issue of September 9, 2010

Wyclef Jean can save Haiti; Sean Penn is a loser

Luke goes to bat for the musician.

Sean Penn Doesn't Know Wyclef or What's Good For Haiti

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke goes to bat for Wyclef Jean.Wyclef Jean should have the opportunity to become Haiti's president. He should keep fight ... More >>

Hugo Chavez is in a Silent Cat Fight with Miss Universe

​Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loves celebrities. He was Oliver Stone's date to the Venice International Film Festival, could probably convince Sean Penn to agree to be held captive and perform a stage rendition of his parts in Simple Jack I Am Sam, and is perhaps the only known person on the p ... More >>

Crossing Over Is Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama.

Sean Penn, Expert Buzz Killer, Kills Mickey Rourke Oscar Buzz

Sean Penn bravely took time out of his busy schedule of giving back massages to Hugo Chavez (or as Robert De Niro put it, "respectfully advising world leaders"), and managed to kill all of our Mickey Rourke Oscar dreams while simultaneously reversing Proposition 8 in the process. Hooray Sean Penn, y ... More >>

Rourke or Penn? Everyone Has an Opinion

Fox Search LightThe Oscars are set to air this very Sunday! And finally we will get to see if our beloved Mickey Rourke walks away with a little gold man. We've already noticed FiveThirtyEight numbers God's prediction that Rourke will beat out his competition, Sean Penn, but other people who have so ... More >>

News Roundup

Esteban ''Steve'' Bovo and Marco Rubio are doing things that might raise a few ethical eyebrows? Who could have imagined? [Herald]"I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. Everybody look at me cause I'm sailing on a boat. I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. Take a good hard look at the Mother F*ckin' Boat  ..." ... More >>

Mickey Rourke and Bai Ling: A Match Made in Worst-Dressed-List Heaven

We know, we know. We've already met our Mickey Rourke post quota for the day, but when you commit to covering the phenomenon that is the Rourke comeback, you really have to commit. Seems Mickey may have found love or something like it with another confounding Hollywood phenom, Bai Ling. Officially L ... More >>

Rourke's Oscar Hopes Take One Step Forward with Globes Win, One Step Back with Steroid Rumors

Excuse me for covering this Best Actor Oscar race like a political election, but I need some horse race drama in my blogging life, and the 2010 elections are just so far --too far-- away. That being said, the Golden Globes are kind of like the 2008 Florida democratic primary. They don't really matte ... More >>

Mickey Rourke Campaigns for the Oscar by Calling Sean Penn a Homophobe

The Daily Beast obtained text messages by our favorite local comeback kid Mickey Rourke trashing Sean Penn's performance in Milk and calling him a homophobe. It's ironic that Rourke is freely castigating people as homophobes when he was the one caught on tape calling a reporter a faggot just a few m ... More >>

Mickey Rourke Is a Golden Globe Nominee! "Che"? Not So Much

Miami's very own actor/nutcase extraordinaire Mickey Rourke just got himself nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe for his work in The Wrestler. Hell yeah, we'll be drunk scooter-ing in celebration tonight! Rourke will be up against Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, and Frank Langella come ... More >>

Mickey Rourke Must Beat Two Fidel-Loving Dirty Communists

We haven't seen any of the performance that will likely be honored with an Oscar nod (except possibly Heath Ledger's Joker), but the race is tightening up. Local crazy person Mickey Rourke is still in the running for his turn in The Wrestler, but Sean Penn jumped into the lead with his performanc ... More >>

Dade Gets Shout-Out in Milk

In movies, Miami gets a bad rap. It's always cocaine smuggler this, and mafia murderer that. It's like come on, Hollywood. You're making us look bad.  So when Riptide heard Dade County got a cameo in Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, we bought some trans fat-soaked popcorn and got comfortable ne ... More >>

Twinkies and Milk

Until I saw Milk yesterday, the biopic starring Sean Penn as gay activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, I'd forgotten all about the Twinkie Defense. Fellow supervisor Dan White shot and killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone in their offices at San Francisco City Hall in 1978 and got ... More >>

Spicoli Brokers Obama-Castro Gitmo Hookup?

No, that headline is not just a hallucination brought on by the tryptophan-induced haze you've been stumbling around in since stuffing that turducken down your gullet yesterday.It's just, quite simply, the strangest post-Thanksgiving news on the planet. Somehow or another, Sean Penn, the liberal wun ... More >>

Gus Van Sant's Milk Spotlights Gay Rights

Sean Penn stars in what was originally an Oliver Stone flick.

Cannes: A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone.

Oscar-Starved

Wide-Open Spaces

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

Turning Tricks

DVD releases for the week of September 12, 2006

Live to Tell

This used to be Madonna's playground, but it's time for her to get off the swing

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction

Gore Wins! The Year in Carnage

Drunken Master

Sweet and Lowdown

Dead Zone

The Waiting Was the Hardest Part

Stone Cold

Game, Set, Match

Father and Child Reunion

Choose One: This Movie or the Death Penalty

Executioner's Song

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Al's Way

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