Gray Lady Lets Roland Emmerich’s Dildo Slide

Let's face it: Tuesdays can be a little dull. We've finished gossiping about last weekend's shenanigans, and we haven't yet started thinking about what we're doing next weekend. The new "Project Runway" is still a whole 36 hours away. And we can't even make any naughty puns like we can with "hump day"! So, left with nothing to do but catch up on our reading, you can imagine our surprise as we flipped nonchalantly through the New York Times' slideshow of movie bigwig Roland Emmerich's London home and saw a shot of his bedroom—complete with a bear daddy bedside portrait, an implicitly kinky punching bag, and a giant stainless steel dildo. Yeah, it's disguised as a digital clock, but it's still a dildo. Yet another sign of the studied hipness of the Gray Lady's Style section, or a sexy byproduct of some photo editor's failing eyesight? Click the thumbnail for a larger view and decide for yourself. • "Far From Conservative" slideshow and the related article, "A London Home to Shock the Neighbors", at NYTimes.com