Saturday, September 22, 2007
Week In Review: O.J. Simpson And The Kingdom Of His Motherf***ing Sh*t
8:02AM Defamer Hollywood | Like all long-delayed sequels, this one doesn’t quite live up to the original. The Emmys: At least our blogging extravaganza wasn’t forced by Fox’s pro-war censors to cut to an lcd disco-ball every time we mentioned how fucking unwatchable it was. Kid Nation’s homesickness-plagued premiere teaches us the next generation’s poo-making priorities aren’t nearly as out of whack as we had feared. News of K-Fed’s contracted death greatly exaggerated. A naked-and-drugged lifestyle inspires a judge to compose The Britney Rules. Stalemates: Phil Spector’s hung jury. Jeffrey Katzenberg yanks a Viacom CEO’s weave defending Spielberg, as Brad Grey swallows the possibility-of-losing-Steven pain. Leave Britney Alone Guy not likely to leave you alone any time soon. More »
Redstone, Geffen, Spielberg Again Make Forbes’ List Of The Obscenely Wealthy
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As we can think of no better way to kick off the weekend than by contemplating the staggering wealth of the Hollywood multibillionaires who can buy and sell all of us like so much cattle, we spent some time with The Forbes 400, the magazine’s ranking of the absolute richest of the American rich, to check in on how some of the industry’s best-monied overlords are growing their intimidating cash hoards. More »
Trade Roundup:Brad Pitt To Form Ab Dream Team With Mark Wahlberg
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | · It’s a Hollywood abs-off! Extravagantly six-packed superstar Brad Pitt is in talks to replace Matt Damon and appear opposite famously washboarded former underwear model Mark Wahlberg in the Darren Aronofsky boxing drama The Fighter. Shirts will be doffed, and stomach muscles menacingly flexed! [Variety] · NBC orders four episodes of the Christmas-themed reality show, Clash of the Choirs, in which celebrities return home to assemble armies comprised of their towns’ best amateur singers, then pit these muscial warriors against each other in a primetime TV deathmatch. [THR] · In perhaps today’s most touching news, Katherine Heigl options the rights to adapt bestseller Lost & Found, a project she will produce with the very same mother who didn’t believe she would win that Emmy. [Variety] · Light-fingered sometime actress Winona Ryder joins the ensemble cast of the big-screen adaptation of novelist Bret Easton Ellis’s The Informers. [THR] · And this one is going right on our Season Pass list: VH1 is planning the series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, where the Loveline physician will help former reality stars get off the drugs and back to dealing with their semifame in a more healthy manner. [Variety] More »
A Very Brady Sapphic Awakening
7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Some months ago, titillating news of a Brady Bunch porn led us to indulge our wildest combined-’70s-sitcom-family fantasies, as we shamefully revealed for you the most outrageous Brady-on-Brady coupling our filthy minds could conjure: Jan taking out years of frustration on her more popular sister with one sweaty, unhinged hate-fuck. Were we only to know just how close to the truth we were: [Maureen] McCormick’s tell-all, Here’s the Story, won’t hit bookstores until 2008, but publishers are already buzzing about the big reveal. A source tells The National Enquirer, “The most explosive comments will be how the then blonde, blue-eyed cutie developed a crush on Eve Plumb, which led to some sexual play. More »
Paramount’s Brad Grey Also Refuses To Admit That Losing Spielberg Will Emotionally Cripple Him
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | The emotional feud touched off when Viacom CEO Phillippe Dauman tried to preemptively break Steven Spielberg’s heart by telling the world that the national treasure’s possible departure from Paramount would not send the executive into a Valium-overdosing tailspin of despair (and which incited outraged DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg to publicly attempt to claw out Dauman’s eyes) spills into the pages of today’s LAT, where studio emperor Brad Grey was induced to comment on HolyShitWhatIfSpielbergLeavesUsGate. For his part, Grey – who convinced boss Sumner Redstone to buy DreamWorks in late 2005 so that his studio might actually have some movies to release the following year – seems to be toeing the company line: “The deal for us has been highly profitable and is ahead of schedule,” Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey said in an interview Thursday. “It would always be better to have Steven and DreamWorks with us, but of course we’ll be OK” if they leave. [...] More »Short Ends: O.J. Decides To Pull One Last Job
6:50AM Defamer Hollywood | A Vegas casino. A high-stakes heist. A supremely smooth operator. You just had to know it wouldn’t be long before the O.J.’s Eleven parodies started rolling down the interpikes. · Remember when Britney Spears hit that car in that Petco parking lot? (Think past the custody fight, the VMA meltdown…there, you’ve got the right tabloid incident now.) Yeah, well, she’s like totally being charged with a hit and run and junk! · Related: Leave Britney Alone Guy’s 15 minutes have not yet expired. Brad Pitt is progressing from orphan-addict to orphan-pusher. · It’s still in its online infancy, but we think My Roommate is Such a Dick is going to grow into a winner. Especially if they keep posting photos of post-hookup naked people. More »Inside The O’Quinn Fashion Show At Falcon
6:43AM Defamer Hollywood | As regular readers of this site already know, we are so shamefully fashion-obsessed that we waste a good half-hour each morning fretting about whether the tattered pair of boxers we’ve chosen to wear to “the office” that day properly complements at least one of our mismatched socks. Accordingly, we dispatched videographer Molly McAleer to the O’Quinn Fashion Show at Falcon last night, instructing her to return with footage from the event that might inspire us to even greater sartorial heights. Previously: Working The Carpet At The Maxim Style Awards [Defamer] More »
Amber Reminds Us Not To Hate The Jew, Just Hate The Jewish Player
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As much as we hoped it might happen, we never really anticipated US Big Brother 8 breakout anti-Semite/anti-Manhattanite Amber Siyavus would be subjected to a montage of her greatest hate-mongering hits on Tuesday night’s finale. Still, we assumed reporters would have jumped on the opportunity to get her to further clarify her theories about the “money-hungry” peoples, easily identifiable by their noses, surnames, and love of the Mets. Only Reality News Online, however, was successful in getting Siyavus to address her Gibsonian sentiments: RNO: Is there anything else you want to tell us about your time in the Big Brother house? [...] More »
Socrates Was A Big Pussy
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Shouty mogul Barry Diller gets defensive when interrogated about having once made former Universal head Stacey Snider cry. Accusations of manipulative drama queen antics follow! “Oh please! Stacey Snider cries for effect in whatever room she might be in. I mean, I didn’t make Stacey Snider cry! Stacey Snider wanted to cry for her own demonstrative purposes. But, there’s no question that our process, my process, is one in which I believe that in order to get to the truth of something, you have to argue it passionately. It’s not a Socratic process by any stretch.” [Portfoilio] More »
