Wednesday, June 20, 2007
YouTube Clip Of The Day
3:37PM Jess McGuire | This is rather brilliant and hypnotic.
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Happy Birthday, Nicole Kidman!
3:27PM Jess McGuire | Baz Luhrmann muse and all round Top Aussie Sheila Nicole Kidman has hit the big 4-0, and we’d like to wish her a very happy birthday.
… by posting this amazing pic from yesteryear.
Our dear pal Taw once summed up the above image by saying “thats fuckin gross… only made sadder by the complete lack of boozies” but he is a bad man and un-Australian.
More » Photo Caption Fun II – How Quickly News Ltd Forgets
3:10PM Jess McGuire | While Fairfax were absolutely on the money with their identification of Earth’s Supreme Emperor – and even managed to spell his incredibly difficult name correctly – it seems the man’s own company News Ltd can’t quite recall how to spell his son’s name.
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As Hinch might say – shame, shame, shame. More » For Those Of You Who Can’t Recognise The Ruler Of The Universe…
3:02PM Jess McGuire | … Fairfax have thoughtfully pointed him out for you in their photo coverage of James Packer’s nuptials.
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Of course, they’re not afraid or ashamed to publicly say they’re not one hundred per cent sure on how his name his spelt, but happily their concerns were unfounded.
A well-deserved A+, Fairfax! You win today’s spelling bee! More » “Net Reveals ‘Kaera’ Living Dangerously” OMG ETC
9:41AM Jess McGuire | Obviously Defamer Australia isn’t the place to turn to online if you’re looking for information regarding the fatal shooting in Melbourne’s CBD on Monday. It’s just not how we roll.
But we thought it worth pointing out, much like when the two Victorian “emo” school girls Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier committed suicide, just how much the MySpace pages of the women involved in the drama have been mentioned in the press.
“Net Reveals ‘Kaera’ Living Dangerously” screamed Fairfax excitedly. Oh, really?
Vivacious and naughty, an online snapshot of the life of shooting victim Kara Douglas shows a woman who enjoys living dangerously and “anything fast”.
You can tell she’s into living dangerously and “anything fast” because she’s, erm, listed “anything fast” in her General Interests*. She also includes “eating out” in that very same section so if we’re going to make a story out of nothing, let’s turn her into a speed-freak lesbian!
But the barely-clad photos of her online friends show a different side of the model and travel consultant, who says she earns $250,000 a year.
Do the barely-clad photos of her friends really show her dark and dangerous side? Okay, sure – a lot of ‘em are decked out in their best underwear and not much else, but all we can really conclude from this is that her pals are a bit trampy. Whatevs. So are our friends.
Mark “Chopper” Read is in Kara’s online network of contacts, although this doesn’t imply she is close. The site allows people to link themselves to celebrities, with former Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, singer Jewel and porn star Jenna Jameson all listed as “friends”.
Well, we’re MySpace friends with Chopper Read too. As are about fifteen million other people. Personally, our money is on Jewel having introduced Kara Douglas to Melbourne’s seedy underbelly. Your hands may be small (we know), you Alaskan gangster moll, but they’re quite capable of mischief nonetheless.
Still, good Googling all round. 10/10 to Fairfax!
Autumn Daly-Holt, currently in hospital after being bashed outside a Melbourne nightclub just before the shootings, also has a MySpazz page the papers have tracked down.
It’s here, and it’s a private profile. The Age lists a few of the highlights from her profile.
Ms Daly-Holt also provides an intimate insight into herself on her MySpace site, only her site is set to private. On her site, Ms Daly-Holt reveals that she is “bi”, and a complex person with a lot of contradicting traits.
“Some people could say that I’m conceited, simply because I may walk around with an air of confidence about me, but I say don’t buy before you try!
“I can’t stand people who are so quick to judge … yes, you know who you are!”
She describes her main interests as fashion, and dancing to keep fit.
“Love dancing … on the dance floor, in my boudoir, on a stage, on a pole, on a podium, in my dreams, with my girls, with my man, on my own or with a stranger!”
She says she loves any music and lists her favourite movies as The Sound of Music, Drop Dead Fred and Wayne’s World and expresses an interest in porn.
“Had to curb my addiction to that! You don’t meet many chicks with a porn addiction, do you?
“Really, I’m just a friendly, fun-loving chickadee with a big heart who loves people, loves fashion and loves to love life!”
And what does all of this tell us? Does it explain the reasons behind the tragic events that unfolded on Monday? No. But it does tell us that if the Australian media ever need to turn their attentions on you, for whatever newsworthy reason, your MySpazz account will more than likely be the sole resource they use to define you.
Which means we’d totally screwed, what with the strange and completely wrongtown in-jokes on our profile, the hilarious pictures of cats with stupid captions, and totally sleazy messages of affection exchanged between friends.
IN THE SPIRIT OF GOOGOURNALISM – SOME COMMENTS LEFT BY AUTUMN DALY-HOLT ON VARIOUS FRIENDS’ MYSPAZZ PAGES, OUT OF CONTEXT AND RELEVANT TO NOTHING IN PARTICULAR, AFTER THE JUMP!
*We do hope that if anything dicey ever happens to us and the public want to know about it, five page long articles are written which focus entirely on our MySpace interest “telling people they have nice tits in flawless Norwegian”. More » 
O.J. Simpson’s ‘If I Did It’ Makes Its Long-Delayed Internet Leak Debut
9:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Some exciting news for those among you disappointed at never having gotten a peek inside If I Did It, leisure enthusiast O.J. Simpson’s disclaimer-heavy memoir outlining how one might, say, brutally stab one’s wife and her friend to death outside a Brentwood condo, hypothetically speaking. TMZ.com has obtained a copy of the unpublished manuscript – rights for which were recently awarded by a federal bankruptcy judge to Ron Goldman’s family – and republished excerpts. Among them, a paragraph in which a hazy Simpson assesses the post-double-homicidal-scuffle scene: Then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can’t tell you exactly how. I was still standing in Nicole’s courtyard, of course, but for a few moments I couldn’t remember how I’d gotten there, when I’d arrived, or even why I was there. Then it came back to me, very slowly: The recital-with little Sydney up on stage, dancing her little heart out; me, chipping balls into my neighbor’s yard; Paula, angry, not answering her phone; Charlie, stopping by the house to tell me some more ugly shit about Nicole’s behavior. Then what? The short, quick drive from Rockingham to the Bundy condo. And now? More »
Travolta Vampirism Shocker! ‘I Like To Fly At Night,’ Says Creepy, Undead Star
9:30AM Defamer Hollywood | In a shocking interview airing later tonight, Guantanamo-quality Extra interrogator Jerry “Dr. Answers” Penacoli inserts a series of bamboo shoots underneath Hairspray star John Travolta’s exquisitely manicured fingernails until the enigmatic actor comes clean about his controversial bedtime, unexpectedly admitting under the duress of Penacoli’s punishing, Geneva Convention-violating techniques that he is, in fact, a vampire: “I fly sometimes at night. I catch up on all sorts of business I have to do…I do my work out at night.” The full press release after the jump, for those strong enough of constitution to learn the truth uncovered by Extra, yet too impatient to wait until dinnertime. More »
Me: A Real Hollywood Director; You: Hot, Smart, Willing To Believe I’m A Real Director
9:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Defamer is committed to bringing together real directors of real movies with real celebrities hard up for fake dates on the biggest nights of their lives, and so in the interest of furthering our mission of faux-romantic mercy, we spotlight this anonymous plea for companionship from Craigslist, the internet’s leading escort service for industry professionals desperately seeking non-embarrassing arm-candy. Posts our seeker: director needs a (fake) date for a (real) movie premiere – m4m – 33 As bizarre as this sounds, I am looking for a date for a movie premiere. I directed a movie and it’s premiering the last week in June. I want to go to the premiere with a date. Yes, there will be celebrities and industry weirdos at the premiere. Yes, there is a big party afterwards. Yes, I really am the director. Yes, it really is a real movie with real celebrities at a real premiere with a red carpet and everything. More »
Isaiah Washington Still Loved By At Least One Gay
9:06AM Defamer Hollywood | While Isaiah Washington’s dishonourable discharge from Grey’s Anatomy may have been greeted with silent, satisfied approval from a significant portion of Hollywood’s velvet community – comforted in the knowledge that their telekinetic Gay Death Rays were still functioning at maximum, career-annihilating capacity – other members of the LGBT community were less than pleased with the outcome. Lesbian and African American blogger Jasmyne Cannick, for example, strongly feels Washington’s termination was just the latest example of a racist shitcanning trend emerging at ABC: Cannick, who worked with Washington on the Pan African Arts Festival, said she’s infuriated ABC booted Washington from the show’s upcoming fourth season for calling Knight a “faggot” during a scuffle on the set and believes it smacks of racism. So she’s launched a petition – which had 1,233 signatures as of last night – to get the actor his job back. More »
