Tournament of Champions
Who Will Survive Movieline's Celeb-Twitter Tournament of Champions?
[UPDATE: Round 1 and 2 voting is closed; check out Friday’s follow-up for continued smashmouth celeb-Twitter battles.]
The Twitterverse is stacked higher and deeper than ever with celebrity — maybe too high and too deep. This calls for a special edition of Movieline’s Tournament of Champions, our trademark exercise in Darwinian democracy designed to help streamline and improve your pop-culture intake. This week, in the hopes of desperately needed new-media herd-thinning, we ask you to vote on the best of the celeb-Twitterers above. Only one can survive to tweet another day.* You can thank us later. After the jump: Meet your contestants!
1. Jon Favreau (@jon_favreau)
PROS: Prolifically forthcoming about details of Iron Man 2 shoot.
CONS: What will he tweet about when the shoot is finished later this week? Ain’t nothing sexy about post-production.
SAMPLE TWEET: “Great day with Stark and Rhodey. Three days left.”
2. Diablo Cody (@diablocody)
PROS: Refreshing, down-to-earth source of (sometimes self-deprecating) Hollywood humor.
CONS: Maybe too easily accessible to followers, makes casual reading a slog.
SAMPLE TWEET: “Zellweger ‘packing it on’ for role, per People. That’s a little crude, right? What’s next, ‘Brad and Angie Jammin’ It In’”?
3. Elizabeth Taylor (@DameElizabeth)
PROS: She’s Elizabeth Freaking Taylor.
CONS: Hasn’t tweeted since July 6. Someone check on her!
SAMPLE TWEET: “I just don’t believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others. How I feel is between us. Not a public event.”
4. Jane Fonda (@Janefonda)
PROS: Occasionally revealing cultural and political insights, but…
CONS: You have to click through mostly self-promotional tweets to get to them. Also might post more often.
SAMPLE TWEET: “I wrote a piece in Huffpo on Community Based Doula program.”
5. Nicole Richie (@nicolerichie)
PROS: Collects an endearing, funny hodgepodge of 144-character slaps and giggles.
CONS: Dizzying and disorienting, prompting readers to lie down after about 10 seconds of viewing.
SAMPLE TWEET: “@XzOtiCCaNdY Sometimes you should lay off the self tanner”
6. Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus)
PROS: Offers an even more endearing torrent of odd, vivid life observations.
CONS: Readership feels creepily close to voyeurism.
SAMPLE TWEET: “Good morning everyone. Life is good. I am laying in bed with my mommy right now scratching her bug bites.”
7. Rainn Wilson (@rainnwilson)
PROS: Funny! Prolific!
CONS: Troubling imbalance between self-promotion and world-class point of view.
SAMPLE TWEET: “Dear mid 40s Russian-Israeli woman w fake boobs lounging 4 hours in the community kids pool, what made u decide on the tweetie bird tattoo?”
8. Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling)
PROS: Funny! Prolific!
CONS: Needs more Office gossip. Or any gossip.
SAMPLE TWEET: “Oh hello again, Virgin America plane. Your insides were designed to look like a childs retainer. And I love you! Don’t crash!”
Vote early, vote often and visit again tomorrow for Round 2! [UPDATE: Voting is now closed, but the finals are currently underway here.]
*: Or at least entitle him/herself to the privilege of bragging rights.
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Posted 15 Jul 2009, 11:07 AM
You should have the "Batshit Bracket" with Courtney Love and Kirstie Alley
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 1:42 PM
This is a good idea. And for you others who have suggested more alternatives, please know we plan do continue this with different folks down the line -- IF this one does well! So please spread the word...
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 3:33 PM
I fucking DARE you to do a commentors bracket tourney.
Posted 16 Jul 2009, 4:54 AM
Yet another good idea! What would you call your bracket?
Posted 16 Jul 2009, 6:01 AM
"The Molly McAleer Stalkers".
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 11:10 AM
Having to decide between Jon Favreau and Diablo Cody, is like being given the choice between brushing my teeth with a chainsaw or exfoliating my nutsack with a belt sander.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 1:14 PM
It's almost as bad as the Heigl/Pompeo bracket in my "nightmare sex dream" tourney.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 11:49 AM
I demand a write-in vote for @officialjonah.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 12:03 PM
When can we ban Emmy Rossum? She's never had a single interesting tweet.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 12:39 PM
Favreau? Really? Talk about obligatory and uninspired. Yawn.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 12:42 PM
Nicole vs. Miley is an impossible choice for all the right reasons. I actually have grown to like them both based on their Twitters (this, when learning someone has a Twitter usually goes in the debit column for me).
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 2:21 PM
Yeah, I voted for Miley just because she's so unselfconscious. She'll rub it in that she's at a French restaurant or San Tropez in one sentence, then say something about god or satan in the next.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 1:12 PM
Mindy Kaling deserves to blow up this entire tourney in a landslide.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 1:39 PM
Lindsay Lohan wins this hands down.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 2:50 PM
How about a "You Can Stop at Any Time" bracket; Kanye West, Kutcher/Moore. Or "They Don't But They Should"; Amy/David Sedaris, Robert Downey.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 3:59 PM
What about Kevin "Oh, yeah, I just boned my wife's pink/brown/green with the dick she pOwns for the eighth time this morning - while wearing a cape" Smith?
Except who the fuck would he be up against?
I'm not sure even Ron Jeremy twitters in such unnecessarily image-creating detail.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 4:42 PM
Put Adam Lambert in the mix and I just might consider participating. And yes, I am bribing you Mr. Vanairsdale.
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 11:37 PM
Haha...batshit bracket, I love it. I liked the little vote off. Do more, please! For what it's worth, Mindy Kaling is pretty high up there on my list of favorite twitterers(tweetists?tweeters?). She's insightful and funny as hell. I could only love her more if just ONCE she'd respond to one of my tweets. I'm just sayin...
Posted 15 Jul 2009, 11:40 PM
I met Jon Favreau while I was working on the crew for 4 Christmases. What a GREAT guy! Haha, my favorite memory of that was that he had to eat about 100 chicken wings then kiss Katy Mixon take after take...I felt sorry for both of them! BUT it was so funny! Those two had great chemistry! GOOOOO JON!!! More stories from my adventures in Hollywood follow me @lacibug!!!
Posted 16 Jul 2009, 8:01 AM
Emmy Rossum may be boring, I don't know I never read any of her tweets but, in my experience The Most Boring Tweeter award HAS to go to Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano)
Her tweets are a sure fire antidote to insomnia!
Posted 20 Jul 2009, 9:13 PM
Jon Favreau - the BEST!!!