Saturday, December 1, 2007
All Hail Reese Witherspoon, Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Non-Male Performer
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Today, all the world will bow before the awesome earning power of 2007’s Most Expensive Female Movie Star: pointy-chinned romantic comedy juggernaut Reese Witherspoon, whose ability to command in excess of $15 million per picture can’t even be compromised by ill-advised on-screen dalliances with her lower-grossing, dreamy-eyed, alleged in-flight soulmate. The Reporter has just released the list of Hollywood’s best-compensated actresses, its annual reshuffling of the names of the only 10 ladies who get offered roles more satisfying than “allegedly homely best friend” or “youngish mother of a sassy teenager”: More »
Fake?
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Hoping that the public will believe that those paternity-claiming text messages InTouch paraded out yesterday are as authentic as the misspelled pleas for sexual companionship you drunkenly send your friends from your gag HornyLohan69 Hotmail account, “a source close” to alleged Britney Spears sperm-donor JR Rotem is claiming the supposed evidence is “faked.” [UsMagazine.com] More »
Conan Clause
8:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Though they did last a little longer than the mid-November date initially threatened by NBC, about 120 staffers at The Tonight Show were laid off today. On the bright side, the freshly pinkslipped employees were handed early Christmas bonus checks courtesy of Jay Leno; still, at least one disappointed now-former employee found themselves wishing they worked for Conan Claus instead: “We haven’t heard from him since the second or third day of the strike. He called on speakerphone while we were in our daily meeting and said, ‘Don’t look for other jobs, no one’s going to lose their house, we’ll get though this.’ Two weeks ago, we got the heads up that we had two more weeks (of pay) and that’s it. Everyone wondered, ‘Is Jay going to come through?’ And nothing happened. Conan makes less and he said, ‘I’m going to pay for my people.’ ” [Scribe Vibe/Photo: Franklin Ave] More »Audience Video Offers Kathy ‘Suck Me, Jesus’ Griffin The Way She Was Meant To Be Seen
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | If you found yourselves camped in front of the TV last night watching Kathy Griffin’s latest stand-up special, Straight to Hell, and wondering what it is about the comedian that sends her loyal, mostly gay audiences into hyperventilating fits of laughter over an act comprised of mostly warmed-over showbiz insider gossip, perhaps the above video will help: More »Love-Refusing Bachelor Brad Womack Runs The Daytime Talk Show Gaunlet
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Remember Brad Womack, the slab of The Bachelor man-beef who ripped out America’s heart, doused it in Old Spice, and then set the still-beating organ aflame by failing to pretend he’d fallen for either of the two contestants who’d survived weeks of televised culling? Of course you do. That stuff only happened a week ago! Anyway: after giving him the what-for on yesterday’s program, today Ellen DeGeneres invited Womack to her show so that should could get some fucking answers to questions she felt weren’t adequately addressed during the post-finale interrogation that repeatedly stole the breath of a studio audience scandalized by his inability to let love heal his tortured soul. More »
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | As a fitting companion piece to EW’s 50 Smartest People in Hollywood, we now present for you the Top 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood (shouldn’t that be “Most Dumbest?”). If the other list left you feeling like a bit of an outsider when you failed to instantly identify the name of the industry’s top digital colorist, we believe the highly recognisable names on this veritable boob’s who of showbiz’s most intellectually and creatively challenged will help you feel much more on your game. [NY Daily News] More »
Short Ends: The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping Really, Really Fast
7:40AM Defamer Hollywood | · Superclapper! Paris Hilton brings further shame upon her family name by haggling at a Japanese pawn shop: “We told her we’d give her another 5 percent off, as well as the tax reduction we’d already made. I figured I wouldn’t always get a chance to get this close, so I asked her for an autograph. She’d said she’d give it to me, but wanted another 5 percent discount if she signed her autograph for me.” [via Kaiju Shakedown] Surviving the 2005 tsunami has made that Victoria’s Secret model into an adrenaline junkie. After all, what are the odds that she could live through clinging to a tree in raging waters for hours while 200,000 other people were killed, but then die two years later when her parachute failed to open? · Self-awareness is really what landed Will Smith in the top ten on EW’s Smart List. More »
Trade Roundup: Rupert Murdoch Not Going To Let The Strike Ruin His Xmas Party Plans
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | · Tom Cruise’s career as a studio mogul is off to an inauspicious start, as poor box office results for Lions for Lambs suggest he hasn’t quite cultivated the hitmaking instincts MGM believed he had when they handed him United Artists. Next up: Tom tries to kill Hitler! [Variety] · Cameron Diaz’s Christmas wish is granted as Shrek the Halls puts up “socko” (translation: huge) Nielsens Wednesday night, ensuring that future generations of children will be spending the holidays with their favourite Santa-ogre. [Variety] More »
