The Real World: Brooklyn?

Seriously?

Look. I’ve lived in Brooklyn. And, while I found it to be lovely and the people to be extremely friendly, it’s a lot farther from the glitz and glamour of Manhattan than the infamous F train would lead you to believe (20 minutes to Manhattan? Sure, after you’ve waited 30 minutes for the train. Which is running on the G line tonight. Without any notice. So you’re actually going to go to Queens first, but don’t worry, you can pick up the 7 at Court. The smelly man playing the bongos will direct you when you get there. That’ll take you to Grand Central, where you should be careful, because there’s a bag of human feces in the elevator. What? What’s the problem? It’s totally only 20 minutes to Manhattan.).

Brooklynites tend to have moved there for a reason: to avoid the insanity of Manhattan, and all the annoying, drunken, dolled-up, stupid twenty-something famewhore wannabes that come along with it. And then MTV is all like “Don’t worry, Brooklyn! We’re bringing stupid back!” And they’re pissed.

JUDGING by the crowd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music the other night, locals are none too thrilled that MTV’s “Real World” plans to move in. When Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz – while introducing the film “American Teen” at the opening of Sundance at BAM – welcomed the “reality” show, the response from the audience was an emphatic “Boo.”

Man, I remember this one time, in college, we were driving down to Mexico, because, ya know, we could drink legally there. We must have been pretty stoned. We were trying to think of fun places for The Real World to be held. My boyfriend at the time was like, “Definitely Chiapas. The Real World: Chiapas.” We laughed about that for, like, the next two years. It seems less funny now, but, at the time, it was like the funniest thing that had ever been said in the history of mankind. I need to smoke more weed, I guess. I’m getting dull in my old age.

Although Sarah Jessica Parker was assured the dress she wore to the Sex and the City NYC premiere had not been worn publicly by anyone else, that turned out to not be true at all.

The Nina Ricci gown designed by Olivier Theyskens had been worn by socialite Lauren Santo Domingo at the Met ball less than a month earlier, and Lindsay Lohan wore it for a Harper’s Bazaar shoot.

Gasp!

Says Sarah:

“In the big picture, this is not important, but there is a relationship between the entertainment industry and fashion,” Parker said on Thursday evening, adding. “We’ve watched sales dwindle and we’ve watched people be less inclined to spend money on clothes.” To Parker, these are reasons for companies to take particular care with their relationships. “Look, my affection for the dress hasn’t changed,” she said, “but what they did was so short-sighted. It’s just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again.”

Actress Tatum O’Neal, age 44, was busted on Sunday on the Lower East Side, trying to buy crack and cocaine.

“When the police approached, she asked them, ‘You know who I am, right?’ ” one source said.

“Then she said, ‘I’m researching a part – I’m doing this for a part as a junkie.’ ”

The source said detectives found a pipe on O’Neal, daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal. The pipe and screen were clean.

“Then she said she’d been clean for two years, and that she’d just came out today,” the source said.

“Can’t we just forget about this?” sources said she begged the detectives.

Uh, Tatum? Researching a role as a junkie? Hasn’t, like, your entire life been that research?

Tatum was booked on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance and is expected to spend the night in jail.

Aren’t you getting a little old for this shit, Taters?

The reclusive fashion icon passed away on Sunday at the age of 71. The cause of death has not been released.

Is this just what happens to anyone who stands next to Sarah Jessica Parker, or has Katie Holmes put on a good deal of weight in the past few months?

I mean, don’t get me wrong, she looks healthy, but, still. She used to be a stick, and now she actually looks like a woman.

This pic was taken backstage at the MTV Movie Awards. There are 8000 more pics from this event after the jump.

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Jessica Simpson gets excited for her kid sister at the opening of the Palms Place spa in Vegas.

Also there: Sarah Larson, putting on a brave face sans George; Linda Hogan and a dude who is definitely not her estranged husband; LaToya Jackson and the remains of her face; Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth, in a dress she shouldn’t have come within ten feet of; and Verne Troyer, looking sexy as fuck.

Sex and the City brought in a whopping $55.7M this weekend, nearly twice what analysts had predicted.

Indiana Jones slipped to #2, bringing in only $46M in its second weekend.

The film put up numbers never before seen for a movie aimed mainly at women, who do not tend to rush out in huge numbers for opening weekends the way males do. In fact, it had the best debut ever for an R-rated comedy.

Congrats, ladies!