Saturday, June 30, 2007
Britney Spears Serves Her Mother Trailerside With Scary Lawyer Letter
1:49PM Defamer Hollywood | Realising the same camera-equipped menaces tailing her every baby-fumbling, crotch-flashing, and head-shaving misstep might actually be of service to her, troubled pop icon Britney Spears enlisted the help of the paparazzi to locate Lynne Spears, in order to personally serve her estranged mother with a threatening legal letter. The elder Spears’s crimes: “Gettin’ all naggy n’ stuff” about her daughter’s hard-partying lifestyle, while cozying up to former pimp/dependent, K-Fed. The entire exchange – not at all staged by the public histrionics enthusiast for the benefit of the lurking video cameras – somewhat fittingly played out on the steps of a trailer. From the NY Post: The singer’s bodyguards had asked some of the fotogs who camp outside her Beverly Hills home if they knew the whereabouts of Lynne Spears. When the shutterbugs said the elder Spears was holed up nearly an hour away at a TV studio in Valencia, the singer grabbed her two kids – Sean Preston, 21 months, and Jayden James, 9 months – and hit the road in her Mercedes. More »
‘Access Hollywood’ Exposes The Truth About Paris Hilton And Drugs
1:39PM Defamer Hollywood | Viewers of Wednesday night’s friendly chat between Paris Hilton and CNN softballer Larry King will recall the interview’s one marginally tense moment, when King’s spit take of disbelief following his subject’s repeated claims that she’d never done drugs showered the heiress in the host’s black coffee, ruining her best “prison has made me a better, more compassionate person” outfit. More »
Britney Spears Latest To Expose Hollywood’s Shameful Fauxhab Secret
12:52PM Defamer Hollywood | Yesterday, Isaiah Washington revealed that gayhab exists only in the same mythical realm as [spoiler alert] Tinkerbell and the Tooth Fairy, thereby throwing into question everything we thought we knew about celebrities’ seemingly sincere efforts to better themselves after precipitating a very public and catastrophic blow to their careers. Unfortunately, this appeared not be an isolated incident, as Britney Spears is alleging that her recent Promises stay was yet another case of the fauxhab epidemic currently sweeping Hollywood. Reports TMZ.com: More »
iPhone To Force Hollywood Trendwhores To Adopt Two-Phone System
11:47AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though LA’s Apple and Cingular stores will be overrun today by loyal assistants authorised to murder rival line-waiters if it means their bosses will be able to show off an iPhone over tonight’s power-dinners, the miracle device’s incompatibility with the corporate e-mail servers that power the industry’s longtime status symbol/technological shackle, the Blackberry, means that fad-horny Hollywood will have no choice to adopt the douchebag affectation popularized by lightly fictionalised Entourage agent Ari Gold. Reports Variety: More »
Exclusive First Assistant Report From The Beverly Centre Line!
10:44AM Defamer Hollywood | Phalanxes of assistants willing to kill or die for the satiation of their employer’s iPhone lust have already marched on LA’s Apple stores, hoping that a triumphant return to the office with the shiny treasure will earn them a slightly less intense late-afternoon lashing. A Defamer operative posted at the Beverly Center has just submitted our first report from the battlefront, offering us the vicarious thrill of a glimpse into the shadowy and dangerous world of industry line-waiters: We’ve entered the mall, just steps away from technological bliss and peer envy. We hold our golden tickets close to our bodies, fearful of falling asleep and being robbed. More »
The Complete Guide To The Series Finale Of ‘Studio 60′
10:41AM Defamer Hollywood | You may not have realised it, but at just a couple of minutes before 11 p.m. last night, the final credits rolled on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, ending Aaron Sorkin’s bold, ill-fated experiment in melding the light-hearted Hollywood world of late-night sketch comedy shows with the absurdly high geopolitical stakes of his Emmy-winning White House drama, The West Wing. And while a lesser showrunner recently chose to cloak the last moments of his beloved series in frustrating ambiguity, Sorkin was confident enough in his creative choices to allow a metaphorical Man in the Members Only Jacket to wander the halls of the darkened studio, bringing each storyline to a satisfying conclusion with a bullet to the back of every character’s head. Because we suspect that many of you missed the series finale, we’re happy to run down how each of your favourite players finished up his or her primetime existence. [Warning to the DVR users whose selfish insistence on time-shifting the show kept it from reaching its Nielsen potential: There are spoilers ahead.] More »Coming Attractions
8:06AM Defamer Hollywood | Wonder what Tom Cruise has been up to recently besides scrapping with the Scientology-hating Germans who want to stop him from killing Hitler? Fighting with Meryl Streep, apparently, in Lions for Lambs. [Moviefone] More »
Trade Roundup: Rat Vs. Willis
6:29AM Defamer Hollywood | After a summerlong run of sequel-clogged weekends where the eventual winner of the box office battle was all too obvious, the outcome of the upcoming Die Hard vs. Ratatouille fight seems up for grabs. We’re not betting against Pixar, even though we’ll probably wind up watching John McClane blow shit up. [Variety] · Oh yeah Die Hard made $US9.1 million on Wednesday, its first official day of release. Is that a lot? We’re not good with midweek box office record data. [THR] Universal signs up erstwhile Biggest Comedy Star In the World Jim Carrey for Sober Buddies, one of those magical projects with a title so concise that we don’t have to waste any time explaining it. (OK, OK, Carrey is a Sober Buddy who falls off the wagon while helping an alcoholic pal on a business trip in Vegas. Hilarity ensues, etc etc.) [Variety] · 3.2 million viewers tuned in to CNN to for Larry King’s post-jail interview with Paris Hilton. While this was King’s highest rated show since 2005, consider that three times more people watched So You Think You Can Dance on Wednesday night if you’d like to feel a little better about the public’s TV-watching taste levels. [THR] We would never ask you to start thinking about the Oscars in late June. That’s just sick, really. [Variety] More »
