Saturday, September 1, 2007
Week In Review: Say It Ain’t So
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Owen Wilson attempts the unthinkable. Miss Teen South Carolina gives what could likely be the worst answer in pageant history. K-Fed becomes The CW’s new secret weapon. 50 Cent becomes Britney’s. Posh Spice gets a job. Bruce Cutler abandons Phil Spector. Celeb stalker/crackpot Dessarae Bradford plugs her projects. Jim Carrey sends one from the heart. The Hoboken Beach Diet Bandit terrorises Paradigm. Andy Dick does Andy Dick. US Big Brother’s Amber goes from Head of Household to head of the free world. 1 out of 1 mums asked love Kid Nation. Cavemen drops the pretense. More »
Sienna Miller Photo-Op Marred By Ugly Accusations Of Camera-Rape
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | By now, we hang on every word of the thoughtful analysis of the charms of our nation’s steel towns that drip like honey from the lips of reticent, camera-shy starlet Sienna Miller. Thrillingly, The Sun reports that, while stumbling out of celebration for her clothing line’s London debut, Sienna was caught on tape delivering an elegant stream of nuanced social commentary at the throng of waiting photographers: She shouted: “F*** off, you f***ing ****s. “See you in court, you f***ing rapists.” More »
Did Larry Birkhead Swap Dannielynn For $78 And A Tootsie Roll?
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | OK! magazine’s dramatically unspecific allegations yesterday that Larry Birkhead is not the upstanding, profoundly moral soul we’d expect an Anna Nicole Smith ex to be left us to speculate on our own about his torrid secrets. Now, TMZ dumps lighter fluid and a match on the smoldering coals with suspiciously well-timed rumours that MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby’s dishy Anna Nicole tell-all – conveniently available Sept. 4! – claims Birkhead slipped Howard K. Stern something entirely different: Rumours are swirling about the book, Blond Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death, due out next week. TMZ has heard Cosby will say she has documents that prove Larry Birkhead essentially bought the baby from Howard K. Stern. The publisher is mum until next Tuesday. More »
Steve Coogan Finally Gets His Breakthrough Moment As Owen Wilson’s Enabler
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | At the height of Owen Wilson’s very public personal crisis, Courtney Love uncharacteristically offered up her own, highly opinionated views on the topic – suicide and hard drugs being two subjects that run, pun only partially intended, deeply in her veins. Suspecting she knew exactly who and what led Wilson to his act of desperation, the singer told Us magazine that the culprit was Steve Coogan: A far bigger star in the U.K. than in the U.S., Coogan gained fame overseas for his TV portrayal of dim-bulbed newsman Alan Partridge. (In this clip, he fittingly admits he has no idea who Kurt Cobain is, and is baffled over why he might have taken his own life.) Coogan and Love had a brief affair, which was rumoured to have caused a pregnancy, but that thankfully produced no illegitimate children – between Love’s body dysmorphia and Coogan’s English dental genes, the kid never stood a chance. More »
Short Ends: Introducing Paris Simpson
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | What happens when a Photoshop contest asks entrants to combine half of one celebrity’s face with half of another’s? You will likely never sleep again. “Club: Andy Dick groped, offended, urinated.” Your point? You didn’t think we’d let you get away for your long weekend without letting you know what Chad Michael Murray thought about K-Fed, did you? He likes him! Fine, so maybe Terrence Howard has some strange preoccupation with feminine hygiene and baby wipes. He also saved a Los Angeles magazine reporter from choking to death on a piece of sushi with the Heimlich manoeuver. (But then insisted she dispose of the offending Unagi morsel with a hermetically sealed Wet-Nap.) There’s something bothering us about Hillary Clinton and we just can’t put our fingers on it. More »
Celebrity Stalker Dessarae Bradford Back With A Deeply Unsettling Vengeance
6:05AM Defamer Hollywood | If you, like us, have at times found yourself wondering what ever happened to Dessarae Bradford, author of I Fucked Alec Baldwin In His Ass (a Quality Paperback Bookclub Selection of the Month™!), guerrilla ambusher of Tonight Show appearances, and, with the recent publication of Colin Farrell: A Dark Twisted Puppy, quickly becoming one of the most prolific celebrity-stalking fruitcake authoresses in recent history – well, then, this is your lucky day. A press release has landed in our inbox from Dessarae herself, updating us to the various exciting projects in development at her production company, based out of an air conditioning exhaust vent behind the 99¢ Only store at Wilshire and Fairfax. A mere taste: More »A Lost In Translation Moment
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | More Venice Film Festival colour: George Clooney, dubbed “mag-nifico” by the local press for the way he pronounces the word in an Italian TV ad, was pointedly asked by a reporter why he does endorsements. After fumbling for an answer, he sarcastically replies, “Me? In commercials?” [Film Experience Blog] More »
Trade Roundup: John Cusack’s Action Hero Dreams Dashed
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re impressed with Variety’s show of headline-pun restraint with this one: The plug has been pulled on Stopping Power, Jan De Bont’s planned action thriller starring John Cusack, after funding fell through at the last minute. [Variety] Conflicting with other reports, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution “thrilled” Venice audiences. One journalist asked if the graphic sexual sequences were real, to which the director responded, “Have you seen the film?” Funny – we always felt what The Hulk could have used were some Brown Bunnyesque elements. [Variety] ABC orders a script for The Fixer, about “the most powerful woman in New York.” We knew it was only a matter of time before Leona Helmsley’s dogwalker had her own show. [Variety] NBC and Apple have a parting of the ways, with NBC’s content disappearing from iTunes as soon as December. Why can’t Steve Jobs and Ben Silverman just iron this bullshit out over a couple of primo bong hits? [THR] Giovanni Ribisi is pulled in by the CAA Death Star’s tractor beams. Run, Giovanni! They’re nothing but a greedy and secretive institution that want to have undue influence over your life decisions! [THR] More »Someone Here Has The Key To The Next Cabbage Patch
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | We admit that our knowledge of the choreography world is extremely limited – we cite So You Think You Can Dance finalist Danny Tidwell’s ode to a Grecian goddess and the “Thank You For Being a Friend” Dancers as some of our major influences – so we’ll just have to take our Defamer videographer’s word that the attendees of The Carnival “Choreographer’s Ball,” held last night at the Key Club, are some of the biggest figures in the hip-hop dance arena. If you’ve ever wondered where the latest, outrageously named dance crazes are launched, apparently it’s right here at this star-studded showcase, where even K-Fed has been known to make an appearance, showing off his ridiculous Toe Wop, Aunt Jackie, and Chicken Noodle Soup games. [DMKWorld.com] More »
