Saturday, December 15, 2007
Surprise Lindsay Lohan Radio Interview Made Better With Vegetables
9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | You’ve perhaps caught wind by now of news that Lindsay Lohan has emerged from her post-rehab media-blackout cocoon in the most unlikely of places: A phoned-in interview to Las Vegas radio show Mark and Mercedes in the Morning, who were offering a pair of Hannah Montana concert tickets to anyone who could convince a celebrity to call them. (Lohan obliged for a friend’s kids, apparently having used up her last favours with Ticketmaster the time she demanded a block of 4000 seats to a Stevie Nicks concert, and failed to show up.) But while you can admittedly find this audio in countless spots across the internets, it’s only at Defamer where you can experience Lohan’s innermost thoughts on McDonalds, Tila Tequila, urban pop, and planned trips to Africa accompanied by a soothing, lightly psychedelic slideshow composed entirely of random images of vegetables, as envisioned by our own Molly McAleer. Enjoy. LLRocks.com More »
Contrary To Internet Rumour
8:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Jessica Simpson’s latest movie, Dumb Blonde or something, won’t be getting a straight-to-video release. It’s going to be in theatres, like a big star’s movie would! How many screens? 8, all in the greater Texas area. Congrats, Jess! [ET Online] More »Artist Formely Known As Sean Combs Made To Answer For His Aliases At ‘The View’
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | P. Diddy plopped on the couch for a round of Earth’s most inane kaffeeklatsch earlier today to promote – what, exactly? Mase’s new mixtape? Leather hooded Sean John parkas? The concept of Puffy? As they tend to when an unmuzzled Sherri Shepherd participates in them, the chat meanders idiotically until Joy Behar goes to the timeless comedic wellspring of Mr. Daddy’s many silly names.She lists all 26 of them, Puffy chalks it up to “evolution,” and an irate Sherri leaps from the coach and removes her earrings while shrieking, “Oh no you did NOT just use that word up on my show. They didn’t just evolve; the name ‘Puffy’ is obviously the work of an intelligent designer!” (The theories will be taught side by side in Kansas public schools.) The View More »
‘Forbes’ Ranks Hollywood’s Most Powerful People In Nappies Who Aren’t Sumner Redstone
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Hot on the heels of their merciless takedown of Tinseltown’s most overpaid, the intrepid list-makers at Forbes are turning to the tots as they ask: Who’s really the most influential drooling, mute, self-soiling celebrity baby? Lest you think this is some sort of metaphor, let us present–Hollywood’s Most Influential Infants. You might think that ranking babies is too insane to be quantifiable, but rest assured that Forbes used an infallible algorithm in their computations: “To determine which tykes were tops, we looked at both Web presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list offspring (5 years old and younger) over the course of a year. More »
Striketime Caroling With Fred Savage And Friends
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As we hunker down for the bleakest™ Hollywood holidays ever, a steady fall of finely shredded scripts lightly dusting the ground, we take a moment to give thanks for what we do have: YouTube of Christmas carols with strike-apropos lyrics, sung by major stars like Justine Bateman and a bunch of actors from that superhero show that was really good first season, then got bad, then just started getting good again when it abruptly went dark.While their toe-tapping take on “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” was an indisputable hit with onlookers, nothing compared to the moment a solemn Kevin Arnold donned a white robe and angel wings, mounted a barricade made of discarded picket-signs, and belted to the tune of “O Holy Night,” “No more we write/Nick Counter is a Wiener!” in his stirring, pitch-perfect mezzo-soprano. Studios Can’t Kick Us Around! [YouTube] More »
Short Ends: When David Became Liza
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Why doesn’t this surprise us: As his ex-wife recovers from a fainting spell, David Gest is standing in the wings, ready to take her place. Alec Baldwin pledges to hold the Golden Globes at his place this year, with a deli spread to rival anything those fancypants Wolfgang Puck-types could come up with at the Beverly Hilton. “Sources: George Clooney Looking Good” Katie Holmes spills all of Tom Cruise’s turn-ons to In Style, including the platinum Harry Winston ankle-shackles he had specially made for the couple’s first anniversary. More »
7:38AM Defamer Hollywood | An interesting debate has erupted over at our East Coasted sibling site Gawker over the relative merits of Juno, the hippest, sassiest, teen-pregnanciest movie ever! While we don’t get it at all–it was twice as adorable as Little Miss Sunshine, at least–you still may want to take a look. And for counterpoint, we offer director Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, providing commentary over a scene that helps you understand why it all works so well. [Gawker, Slashfilm] More »
More American Gladiators
7:18AM Defamer Hollywood | Mayhem: We told you Isaiah Washington would land on his feet. [AmGlad] More »
Bodybuilder Sues ‘Conan’ For Gifting Him To Clay Aiken For Christmas
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Conan O’Brien’s parent company NBC Universal has been just been sued over a Clay Aiken gay joke. (Is specifying “gay” joke a waste of typing?) The catch: the suit hasn’t been filed by Mr. Aiken. This one comes straight from bodybuilder Dennis “The Menace” James, the Idol also-ran’s punchline lust-object: According to the complaint, filed by attorney Steven Sokoloff in Los Angeles Superior Court, O’Brien “showed a Christmas Card which featured the face of 2003 American Idol runner-up, Clay Aiken, smiling on the right side of the card, and the phrase ‘All I want this year is a White Christmas’ on a fold out flap on the left side of the card. More »
