Remember that Alex Rodriguez guy that plays 3rd base for the Yankees? It turns out that the media really likes to talk about the quarter billion dollar man. And, it seems, that it’s all important news. But we just don’t have the time or patience to deal with it all. So a quick summary of what the media has been saying lately about the A-Rod / Madonna / Cynthia Rodriguez situation:

The New York Daily News says that A-Rod's buddies are speaking out and they say that he's been asking for a divorce for some time. … Read More

Remember when that crazy woman went on YouTube and accused her husband of doing crazy stuff? And then some people were like: that was sort of funny but she's crazy the crazy one. And the husband was like: that wasn't very nice and don't film this in stuff in my home no more. And other people were like: this is not going to help her win her divorce case. Well, maybe everyone was a little right. According to The New York Post, Phillip Smith was granted a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on the grounds of her shabby … Read More

And you thought your ex was crazy.

New York magazine has a story this week about the YouTube divorcee, one Tricia Walsh-Smith, who took out her anger at her septuagenarian ex in the most modern of ways. This spurned wife is protesting his impending eviction of her from their Park Avenue apartment by howling on videos that the magazine says 4 million people have been watching.

Tricia plays out her grievances -- who gets the Park Avenue apartment, who gets the house in Florida, who controls the half-a-million per year she's entitled to in her prenup -- … Read More

Anyone see this lady excoriate her soon-to-be ex-husband on YouTube? She’s a washed-up Broadway actress. He’s a Broadway executive, and, according to her, quite a yutz. She calls out family members and airs copious amounts of dirty laundry. She then gets her husband’s assistant on the horn and tells her a thing or 3 about her boss. The whole clip plays like a missing scene from Bette Midler's divorcesplotation comedy, The First Wives Club.

Evidently, the Broadway couple signed a pre-nup, so this has to be more about catharsis than the settlement (though sleeping with his best friend may have been … Read More