Wednesday, August 8, 2007
YouTube Clip Of The Day
4:54PM Jess McGuire | This made us unbelievably happy today.
… and that’s our choice. More » 
The Ultimate Guide To Ocular Well-Being (With Anthony Mundine)
7:46AM Jess McGuire | Outspoken Australian boxing champion Anthony Mundine is in the wars.
World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine has an eye infection which may end his career and leave his sight permanently impaired, his manager said Tuesday.
Mundine, 32, will spend at least a week to 10 days in a Sydney hospital where doctors are fighting to save the sight in his left eye.
“The infection’s that severe. They’re just going to have to fight that first before they can tell what’s going on,” manager Khoder Nasser said.
“He’s definitely going to be in hospital for at least the next seven-to-10 days, that’s a minimum.”
Mundine is thought to have suffered the infection last week when he cleaned a contact lens with his mouth.
Because he cleaned his contact lens with his mouth – one of the most bacteria happy places on the human body.
Let that be a lesson to you, kids.
Other Things You Should Avoid Doing To Your Contact Lenses!
- Rinse dust/small particles from them by urinating on them!
- Smearing your own faeces on them for luck! More » 
Charlie Sheen Claims Denise Richards Asked Him For One More Bouncing, Baby Bargaining Chip
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | If you were under the impression that Charlie Sheen’s recent betrothal meant that his ugly and very public divorce from Denise Richards was finalised, you’d be mistaken, as there are still a great many unresolved matters of asset division and child custody between the warring couple. There are also unlikely glimmers of reconciliation, however, as Sheen now claims he has documented proof that Richards wanted to conceive a third child with the actor even after she discovered the ugly, trampolining-cheerleader truth. From People.com: “There was a request for a donation,” Sheen, who is now engaged to Brooke Mueller, tells TV’s Entertainment Tonight, as reported on the Web site for its sister show, The Insider. More »
Trade Roundup: Zellweger To Be Sassy, Tough In Western
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Renee Zellweger will star with Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in the western Appaloosa, which we hope will provide ample opportunity for a spunky, bonnet-rocking Zellweger to fire a shotgun and exclaim, “You git outta my town, ya hear?” in the direction of the movie’s “renegade rancher” antagonist. We love it when she does period gritty. [Variety] · Fox’s apocalypse-quickening reality TV guru Mike Darnell consolidates his power within the network by signing a new multiyear deal, officially giving him more autonomy to launch unscripted programming without the interference of other executives who believe that shows like Are You Smarter Than This Recent Massive Head Trauma Victim? might push the envelope a little too far. [THR] · New Line’s Russell Schwartz is ankling as the studio’s head of marketing. We just hope that his replacement demonstrates a similar level of vision that will allow future, groundbreaking online promotions involving the performance of virtual cunnilingus on their movie heroes’ wives. [Variety] · Local news icon Hal Fishman, KTLA’s anchor of more than 30 years, dies at 75. [THR] · AMPAS is banning the mailing of For Your Consideration film score and song CDs, decreeing that the music needs to be evaluated in the context of the movie. Composers and studio music execs have begun the process of formally expressing their outrage, possibly by the mass burning of FYC screenplays in protest of the “out of context” principle that might limit voter access to their work. [Variety] More »Ryan Gosling’s Co-Star Already Earning ‘Best Supporting Sex Doll’ Buzz
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Following the “one for them, one for me” career strategy employed by more than a few talented Hollywood actors, Ryan Gosling’s follow-up to Fracture is another modestly budgeted, indie character study: Lars and the Real Girl pairs the dreamy star of The Notebook with an inflatable love interest named Bianca, whom he repeatedly boasts to his family works as a “missionary.” More »Awards Ceremonies You Can’t Be Bothered With
6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Justin “Dick in a Box” Timberlake and Beyoncé “Fistful of J-Hud’s Hair” Knowles receive the greatest number of nominations for the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, the network’s tribute to a once-vibrant art form long ago annihilated by 24-hour Real World/Road Rules Challenge and Yo Momma! marathons. [Yahoo News] More »
Study: ‘Baby Seacrest’ Training Could Produce Smarter Infants Than ‘Einstein’ Videos
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Normally, issues of child development fall outside of the purview of this Internets WebLog (unless we’re talking about the latest supermarket checkout line cry for help issued by Britney Spears’ pre-literate children), but today’s LAT story about a University of Washington study investigating the effectiveness of popular infant-education videos in actually producing baby geniuses caught our eye, mainly because of the radical alternate course of study proposed by the professor at the end of the article: For every hour a day that babies 8 to 16 months old were shown such popular series as “Brainy Baby” or “Baby Einstein,” they knew six to eight fewer words than other children, the study found. [...] More »
Google Working Hard To Make Your Celebrity-Stalking Lives Easier Than Ever
6:05AM Defamer Hollywood | Google, the search-engine Borg entity steadily injecting itself into every facet of your existence, has introduced two new features which should prove indispensable to fans looking for latest in free and easily accessible technologies with which to track their favourite celebrities. First, L.A. was one of four new cities outfitted today with the “Street View” option on Google Maps, giving users explorable 3-D photo environments that approximate the common celebutard experience of stumbling out of a West Hollywood nightclub in broad daylight, then trying to relocate one’s towed vehicle despite suffering from an extremely distorted sense of depth perception. More »
Michael Bay Takes The Stand, Maintains Innocence In Cocktail Party Snub Allegations
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Yesterday, Michael Bay made his much-anticipated cameo in the Phil Spector trial, taking the stand to dispute the defence team’s theory that the director’s alleged snubbing of Lana Clarkson at a Hollywood party drove the despondent actress to shoot herself in the home of a happy-go-lucky guy who loved to joke about how women “all deserve a bullet in their head.” Court TV reports that while Bay was initially a little uncomfortable, it didn’t take long for the director to break out some of the trademark, rapid-fire banter he always uses to lighten up any explosive spectacle he’s involved with: Dressed in a grey suit, blue shirt and patterned tie, Bay initially seemed nervous on the witness stand. After he offered jurors a list of his films, Jackson noted that he had forgotten one, “Bad Boys II.” “Oh, yes,” Bay said. More »
