TMZ isn’t a classy site; in fact, TMZ isn’t even a klassy site. But it really is the perfect site for your inner idiot—meaning the part of you that lives for a little schadenfreude at the expense of celebrities. Looking for the Lindsay Lohan’s Red Bull and Vodka-crazed insane Black-berry message? Check TMZ: Chances are they will have the entire transcript posted on the Internet within hours of LiLo having sent it to 100 of her best (and most trustworthy) confidantes.
TMZ (an acronym referring to the “Thirty Mile Zone” around Hollywood) is basically Reuters for celebrity gossip. All the gossip blogs link to it daily, and it’s updated with “news” stories as fast as they happen. They have reporters on the scene and those reporters are filing stories…stories like “Preggers Tori Practices on Pug” or “Brit Ditches Clothes to Celebrate Mom’s B-Day.”
TMZ’s biggest bangs, that is, the stories it’s famous for breaking, include transcripts of Mel Gibson’s infamous drunken and anti-Semitic tirade last July and footage of oil heir (and Paris Hilton cohort) Brandon Davis leaving an L.A. club and screaming obscenities about Lohan’s nether regions. Apparently, Paris and Lindsay are, as the tabs say, frenemies. At the time of this incident, their relationship was apparently more enemy than friend. Not the stuff of legend, but the stuff of Hollywood, and that’s the way I like it.