Saturday, September 15, 2007
Colin Farrell Buys Homeless Man’s Love At TIFF
10:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Because we like to leave you to your weekend with uplifting stories of celebrity good deeds, we now bring you this story about roguish leading man and sex tape veteran Colin Farrell – whom, despite reports of being a dark twisted puppy, came off more of like a warm friendly one when he took a Toronto homeless man (apparently they have them!) on a shopping spree he wouldn’t soon forget: Stress, whose actual first name is Dave, was taken Tuesday afternoon in Farrell’s car to Europe Bound on Front St. E., where Farrell reportedly spent over $2,000 after encouraging Stress to get whatever he wants. Stress proceeded to fill up on a $500 jacket, some boots, pants, and socks. More »
Report: Emmys In Talks To Use Britney Spears To Goose Ratings
9:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Some measure of redemption for Britney Spears, whose disastrous VMAs performance was so universally derided that the one person on Earth willing to leap to her defence has become an international media superstar, may be just an uncomfortable, one-armed hug from Ryan Seacrest away. Us Weekly’s website is reporting that Spears is “in negotiations” to put in an appearance at the Emmys on Sunday night, where she can apologise to millions of TV fans for her nationally televised attempted euthanasia of her enfeebled music career: The source adds that while her appearance has not yet been confirmed, “the idea is to have her come on and apologise for the VMAs. She’s weighing the offer.” [...] More »
Tabloid-Friendly Larry Birkhead Makes His Private Grieving Moments Work For Him
9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As father Larry reportedly enters final negotiations with the E! network to co-star in a reality show with daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Colby Dexter Fortensky Birkhead, sources close to the events continue to cast the Genetic Sweepstakes winner in a sinister light. Beyond the strenuously denied blow-job bombshells, we now have the testimony of former Birkhead bodyguard Mark Speer, who tells the NY Daily News of the time Larry arranged with paparazzi to be photographed grieving at the grave of Anna Nicole’s son: “They had arranged to wait in some bushes at the cemetery. They took pictures of Larry pretending to be sad and emotional at the grave site. Only the Splash guys weren’t quite satisfied, so they asked him to do it again, and for me to get out of the picture. We did three takes. That was the first sign to me that Larry was in it for the money.” [...] More »Jake Gyllenhaal Probably Needs A Hug From Larry King Right About Now
8:45AM Defamer Hollywood | The above interview with Rendition star and dreamy-eyed justifiable-torture advocate Jake Gyllenhaal is a perfect example of why Hollywood appointed the more eloquent George Clooney its official spokesperson to the world for all complicated political issues sometime back in 2005; had it been Clooney sitting in that chair, by the time his two minute were up, we would’ve been booking a ticket on the next raft to Guantanamo, ready to lob Molotov cocktails in protest – but only after handing him some cash towards the purchase of a For Your Oscar Consideration ad in recognition of the psychological hardships he endured by being present for those harrowing waterboarding scenes. Even after several attempts at deciphering Gyllenhaal’s rambling answers, all we feel like doing is calling his publicists to scold them for sending him off to the vicious interrogators of Showbiz Tonight totally unprepared to defend himself against their notorious hardballing tactics. Jake Gyllenhaal – Showbiz Tonight [YouTube] More »
Trade Roundup: Magic Johnson Beats The Hillary Drum
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Not to be outdone by Oprah Winfrey’s lavish Barack Obama fundraiser – attended by the likes of Will Smith, Jamie Foxx and Chris Rock – lesser community-outreach deity Magic Johnson hosts one for Hillary Clinton at his Beverly Hills home. [Variety] Finally convinced it won’t lead to an assist-tent-city for Valkyrie crew members to work out their shoulder knots and lingering Hitler-thetans, Germany reverses its decision not to let the Tom Cruise movie shoot at a historical execution site. [Variety] Al Gore’s presence at this year’s Emmy awards has been confirmed, where he’ll be called upon to solicit an apology from Britney Spears for “squandering her one comeback chance and rendering polar bears extinct.” [Variety] Alyssa Milano will star in Wisegal, a Lifetime movie about a female mobster that will require her to tap into the brash street-smarts of a Samantha Micelli, and the steely business sense of an Angela Bauer. [THR] New Line hires the Ghost World screenwriting team of Terry Zwigoff and Dan Clowes to rewrite (and Zwigoff to direct) The $US40,000 Man, about an injured astronaut rebuilt as a bionic man on “a measly budget of only $40,000.” We’re seeing Will Arnett trying to catch up to a moving bicycle, accompanied by the familiar sound effect. [THR] More »Leave Britney Alone Guy: A Video Response Round-Up
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re confident that by now you have familiarised yourselves with the work of Leave Britney Alone Guy, who, in the space of one tear-drenched and venomous j’accuse launched via YouTube at the entire Poptard-Flameout-Savouring Industrial Complex, has seen his viral Q-rating status climb to levels Jim Carrey would kill for. As any internet sensation – even one coming from as truthful and waterproof-mascara-coated a place as this one – is bound to inspire legions of online parodists to greater heights, we offer in their honour a Leave Britney Alone Guy video response round-up: We begin with the above message, from MySpaceTV and E-goading Entourage villain Seth Green, who channels his inner party monster to beg America to leave the tormented, Britney-worshipping club kid alone. More »
Week In Review: A Very Britney Week
8:05AM Defamer Hollywood | Britney Spears: The performance of her career. The critical consensus. Sympathy comes from the least likely of places. The post-mortem. An Emmy apology? Dannielynn gets a party fit for a princess, a reality show fit for a Smith, and a father who grieves for dollars. If you want him to yell, “Victory!” that’s extra. Rosie Lit: Donald the Slug, breaking her own fingers. The Creative Arts Emmy is Kathy Griffin’s god now. Jake Gyllenhaal weighs the torture pros and cons. Kiefer Sutherland restores order to a holy Romanian movie set. Ben Silverman: The perfect TV suit storm. Nothing is Private is apparently even more disturbing than Kevin Spacey masturbating in a shower. Amy Pascal enjoys cake and Rye. Behold, the Rubyfruit Mafia. All it takes is some HGH and a dream. More »‘American Idol’ Losers Flying Without Wings On County Fair Circuit
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | We’d always assumed that freshly voted-off American Idol also-rans were mercifully slaughtered backstage and later ground into the Simon’s Sloppy Joe filling served at each Friday’s Idol-themed lunch at the Fox News Cafe, but according to TMZ TV, the losers suffer a far more degrading fate: immediate assignment to the county fair circuit. We bet that after a week or so of warbling bittersweet renditions of “This Is My Now” to a warm up a dozen or so people for the hot-dog-devouring and pig-measuring thrills that await them, most of the fallen Idols find themselves praying for the sweet release of the Fox meat-grinder. TMZ TV [TMZ] More »
Getting To Know Ben Silverman IV: A Perfect Storm Of A TV Executive
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | When last we checked in with party-positive NBC co-chairman-cum-rock-star Ben Silverman, he was at the Chateau Marmont, about to sate his munchies with a piece of a delicious cake depicting the newly installed programming chief as an avenging peacock whose talons would soon eviscerate his better-rated network competition. Today, a preview of a piece in the new issue of W continues to fill in the Silverman backstory (fun fact: at the age of 22, he was promoted three times – assistant to manager of development to director of development – on his very first day at the fledgling production company of a former CBS executive) while advancing the narrative of Silverman’s inevitable march to TV domination, and we now join their story in progress (unfortunately, it’s not online) at an NBC photo shoot a few days into his tenure: Following the photographer’s directives – “Lean forward! That’s cool!” – Silverman, after changing into a charcoal suit sans tie, ends up contorted into a coy little ball, his chin resting on his knees. Suddenly a mobile phone begins to bleat, its ring tone a refrain from one-hit rapper Mims: “This is why I’m hot. This is why I’m hot.” The crew members eye each other nervously – Who forgot to silence his phone? – until Silverman languidly slips out of his kitten pose and answers his mobile. More »
