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The 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers.

I was glad to see that insufferable Rocco DiSpirito made the list. I'm not really a gleefully mean-spirited girl (although Jewel and Renee Zellweger are the exceptions and definitely bring out my inner mean girl), but I became addicted to that show The Restaurant MERELY because of how AWFUL I thought Rocco DiSpirito was. I watched that show religiously, just to get furious. I YEARNED for his downfall. And now it looks like it has come to pass. He's on the list. And yeah, he is indeed loathsome.

Here's what it says in the article:

A few short years ago, Italian-by-way-of-Queens chef Rocco DiSpirito was the toast of Gotham. Young and handsome, classically trained, the mofo could whip up a wicked pasta fagioli. Then Rocco jumped at the chance to be the next Anna Nicole Smith, and viewers watched the behind-the-scenes story of how he and Jeffrey Chodorow opened Rocco's on 22nd St. Suddenly he was more interested in schmoozing Bay Ridge butterfaces and screaming at his sous chef than actually cooking. As a shrinking legion of fans looked on, Rocco and Chodorow's relationship sunk quicker than a chocolate soufflé too soon out of the oven, and before long the guy was legally barred from the restaurant that bore his name. The Restaurant was canceled, the restaurant was padlocked and Rocco was without a job. Now he's hawking Mama's meatballs and a cooking-in-a-vacuum contraption on QVC, and flirting with endomorphic Midwestern housewives on his AM radio program: another sniveling ex-hipster with a motor scooter, an overbearing mother and no real job to speak of. It doesn't pain us to say he deserves it.

"endomorphic Midwestern housewives"

heh heh heh

But you have to read the snippet on wild-child Lindsey Lohan who has, indeed, been tearing up the tabloids here with her exploits:

This auburn-haired celebutante trainwreck poisons America's gossip pages daily. Late-night sloppy barhops are followed by mysterious illnesses and insane diva tantrums. She refuses to rehearse and shuts down sets because she can't remember her lines. The most discordant detail in this grim Muppet show is that most of this happened while she was filming a movie called Herbie: Fully Loaded. What's her encore gonna be? Getting caught having crack smoke blown up her ass on the set of Lassie Y2K5?

HAHAHA

(got this from Dan)

Posted by sheila