Thursday, August 9, 2007
Here’s A Beautiful Video Clip For You To Watch
7:41PM Jess McGuire | It’s for the new Angie Hart single Cold Heart Killer and as our UK correspondent Will so aptly put it when he saw snaps from the shoot, “It’s the gayest thing she’s ever done! Feathers! Dancing! Sparkles!”
Which means it is excellent.
We are going to attempt to leave countless threatening MySpazz messages in broken English on her page until we can force her to grant Defamer Australia an idiotic interview, but this may take a while. In the meantime, go request the song on JJJ as per these handy instructions. Thank you. More » 
Howard Finally Says Sorry!
2:20PM Jess McGuire | Turns out our nation’s beloved Prime Minister doesn’t suffer from a strange genetic condition leaving him physically incapable of forming the word “sorry” after all.
Exactly what issue prompted such a rare display from our fearless leader?
Prime Minister John Howard says he is sorry about the interest rate rise. Official interest rates rose to their highest level in 10 years yesterday to 6.5 per cent. Mr Howard has told Macquarie Radio he has taken a hammering about the Reserve Bank decision this morning.
“Sure, we’ve had an interest rate rise and I’m sorry about that – I regret it,” he said. “I didn’t want an interest rate rise. But one has come about because the Reserve Bank, in its independent judgement, has made the call that the economy is so strong the best thing in the long-term interest of the economy is to adjust interest rates.”
Interest rates. Of course. More » 
‘Sexy’ To Finally Return To Australia
12:39PM Jess McGuire | Be still our beating erogenous zones. Pants man and consummate entertainer Justin Timberlake is bringing his Jackson-esque dance moves and Timbaland flavoured funk to our fine shores!
Pop star Justin Timberlake is heading Down Under for the first time in three years as part of his FutureSex/LoveShow world concert tour.
The singer will play Rod Laver arena on November 5 in an extravaganza involving a split-level stage with 360-degree views, a 11-piece band and a team of dancers.
He will play his own hits as well as those written for Nelly Furtado and Missy Elliott, among others.
Timberlake’s most recent album debuted at number one on the Australian charts and has gone on to sell double platinum in the country.
Absolutely nothing in the world could stop us from going to see JT in concert!
Tickets will range from $145 for a premium seat to $98 for arena seating and will go on sale August 24 via Ticketek.
Except ticket prices. Put us on the guest list, Timberlake! More » To Do: Patriotism, PJs and Crocs
10:10AM Anna King | • Music round-up: Support home-grown bands 67 Special, who launches their album in places big and small, Midnight Juggernauts in Tassie, and British India in Newcastle and Sydney (their Tie Up My Hands clip above) • Every night across Australia, 36,000 children and young people are homeless. Drag your friends along, sleepout and freeze for a cause. • Catch Rogue, the latest offering from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean, which stars a very yummy Michael Vartan and premieres in Darwin this Saturday. More »
Amy Winehouse Latest Victim Of Exhaustion Epidemic
10:05AM Busty St Clair | There appears to be a “severe exhaustion” epidemic sweeping through the world in which celebrities live. Amy Winehouse is the latest victim – apparently her skeletal frame has had just about enough of holding up that enormous bee-hive of a hairdo, because the toothless wonder has been carted off to hospital suffering from the dreaded affliction. Winehouse, whose hits include Rehab, was taken to University College London Hospital on Wednesday morning and discharged hours later. She had been due to appear at the Oya music festival in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday night. The set is a latest in a string of several gigs the singer has recently cancelled, citing exhaustion or ill health. The “exhaustion” excuse is also the latest in a string of cases involving celebrities ditching their commitments. To be fair, it is apparently a legit Medical Condition, but for Christ’s sake, surely getting pissed every night, eating nothing but sushi and protein shakes and then having to work, like every other person in the world, doesn’t allow them to qualify? More »Cleo Gives Paris, Nicole And Lindsay The Flick
9:03AM Busty St Clair | Kudos to CLEO magazine, which has finally decided to drop train-wreck celebrities from its covers. For the first time since November 2000, the No.2 young women’s magazine, CLEO, is sacking celebrities from its cover in favour of less familiar models, gambling readers are ready for fresh faces. And thank god for that. We’re somewhat tired of seeing the same celebrities on the covers. It’s as though they’ve got Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, Mischa Barton and Cameron Diaz on rotation. The September issue, on sale Monday, has Gunnedah-born Miranda Kerr on the front, and editorial director Paula Joye and editor Nedahl Stelio say they hope to use models from now on. “Particularly with young women, we have been looking at the glorification of the Paris Hiltons and the Nicole Richies,” Joye says, naming two ubiquitous stars who have built considerable fame on negligible achievement. “But if you look at what is happening to these girls, they are in drugs, in car crashes, in arrests, in jail. There’s not a lot of reason to put them on the cover of magazines. I’d go so far as to say it’s irresponsible when you are looking at the young women’s target market.” Fair point. Why stop there though? Other things CLEO should consider banning – ridiculous celebrity diets, real-life stories entitled “I Was A Prostitute For A Night”, features on why plastic surgery is so hot right now, and anything that promotes the wearing of leggings and neon t-shirts. More »Short Ends: And Starring Lindsay Lohan in ‘I Know Who F’d Me’
8:55AM Defamer Hollywood | · We take it back: she’s clearly got acting talent in spades. · Meet Rob Weiss, the real-life inspiration for the abrasive, egomaniacal director character who’s gotten way too much screen time in the past two seasons of Entourage. But a fun fact: 24’s Louis “Edgar” Lombardi was his Turtle. · RIP, WWN. · The only thing that could be more fun than a giant Lego Man washing ashore on a Dutch beach is if the mysterious plastic figure had been riding a Lego unicorn. More »
Scarlett Johansson: The Struggling Actress Version
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Sure, it was cute enough to click around Us Weekly’s little online game showing what a handful of actresses would look like deprived of their “beauty trademarks,” like Angelina Jolie without her lips, or Kirsten Dunst minus that adorably weird mouthful of razor-sharp baby teeth. But it’s just wrong what their Photoshopping sadists did to the most spectacular cleavage of a still-maturing Hollywood generation. Even putting that image in people’s minds for as along as it takes to move on to the next photo is a reckless endangerment of Scarlett Johansson’s acting career. Nice work, Us sickies. Beauty Trademarks [UsMagazine.com] More »
Inside Maddox’s Magical Sixth Birthday Party
8:20AM Defamer Hollywood | One set of celebrity children who will likely never stare back at you from underneath a magazine headline reading HELP! is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s multicultural brood – unless, of course, the story in question seeks to expose how the doting parents are suffocating their orphan collection with too much love. The new issue of Life & Style boasts 10! pages! of exclusive! pics of the weekend-long celebration of Maddox’s sixth year, which no less a source than Brad himself is said to have declared the tyke’s “best birthday ever.” More »
