Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Dannii Emerges The Victor In Fisticuffs With Renowned Battleaxe Sharon Osborne
1:51PM Jess McGuire | We were mildly surprised to learn today that Dannii Minogue has apparently managed to triumph over Sharon Osbourne – a woman we always suspected could hold her own with a vicious pack of hungry pitbulls if push came to shove – when the two clashed on the set of British talent show The X Factor. Sharon Osbourne said This Is It on the British talent quest The X-Factor after a feisty behind-the-scenes row with co-judge Dannii Minogue. Confidential understands tensions between Ozzy Osbourne’s outspoken wife and Kylie’s little sis had been simmering for weeks before boiling over at the weekend. Osbourne ended up storming off the set – just minutes after wishing Mini Minogue a happy 36th birthday. Officially Osbourne was miffed that two of her three acts were in the bottom two, but she is rumoured to be jealous of the attention her younger co-star has had since joining the show. Dannii is obviously much tougher than we ever gave her credit from. Perhaps she’s soaked up the scrappy catfight abilities left in Joan Collins Magical Wig Of Bitch Slapping Power which she has donned for her latest video clip? More »
Kevin, We Expected Better From You. Go To Your Room And Think About What You’ve (Not) Done For Our Queer Brothers And Sisters.
1:31PM Jess McGuire | THE GAYS: Kevin, you’re making it hard for us to get behind you! KEVIN RUDD: Erm… THE GAYS: Oh, stop it. You know exactly what we mean. Redundant to point it out, and a day or two late to boot, but this revelation is a little disappointing. Labor leader Kevin Rudd is sustaining discrimination by refusing to support homosexual marriage, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown says. Mr Rudd today said he would not change his mind on restricting marriage to heterosexuals, even if any of his children were gay and wanted to marry a same-sex partner. Speaking on the Austereo network today, Mr Rudd remained committed to his party line that marriage is between a man and woman, but admitted it was not a popular view in some circles. Under a barrage of questions urging him to allow homosexuals to marry, he said a Labor government would grant legal concessions to homosexuals, but not the legal status of marriage. “On the institution of marriage itself, our view is between a man and woman and it’s just been our traditional, continuing view,” Mr Rudd said. Asked if in the future this position would look as closed-minded as racist beliefs of the past, Mr Rudd said it was what he believed in. “I accept that. You asked me a direct question, what do I believe in, what do I stand for, what’s my party’s policy, and I have to be up front with you and say that’s it, and there is a reason for it.” (looks at watch) (waits for half-decent reason to appear) ED: We can’t really be buggered – so to speak – launching into too much details regarding our thoughts on gay marriage, but your editor once banged out a lengthy rant about the topic somewhere else so feel free to read it if you’re bored. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
1:18PM Jess McGuire | Big ups to the Christian Television Foundation who were the brilliant masterminds behind an eighties ad campaign/Jesus-jingle we can vividly recall over twenty years later which featured a tune called “Hello My God”. But let’s not just recall it. Let’s relive it today. After the jump, an alternate 1985 version we didn’t know even existed. More »
‘Lovely Bones’ Shocker! Ryan Gosling Accused Of Eccentricity
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Sensing that there might be more to yesterday’s announcement that Ryan Gosling’s sudden departure from Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones adaptation than a friendly disagreement over competing visions for the film, the sleuths of Page Six dig deeper into this new Hollywood mystery, unearthing disturbing allegations of personality clashes and actorly eccentricity. Egads, we say! THOSE old “creative differences” are to blame for director Peter Jackson’s firing of Ryan Gosling from “Lovely Bones.” “Peter couldn’t stand Ryan,” said one source. More »Meet Hillela Bernstein, Halle Berry’s Jewish Cousin
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Stopping by The Tonight Show Friday to promote Things We Lost in the Fire, Halle Berry brought with her a couple mementos she probably now wishes had also perished in the blaze: Having recently discovered the funhouse-mirror filters on Apple’s Photo Booth program – also employed to terrifying kaleidoscopic effect by Rosie O’Donnell – Berry pulled out several printouts of her morphing handiwork, including a big-nosed alter ego she described as “my Jewish cousin.” More »
Time To Start Hoping Wes Anderson Writes A Part For Jessica Alba
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Valleywag have made a potentially troubling discovery: Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited “prequel” Hotel Chevalier, in which Natalie Portman famously bares the naked form she’s so selfishly withheld even when toiling in arty, nonexplotatitve stripper roles, seems to have disappeared from iTunes. We know you’ve probably already long finished with it, but its disappeareance still must be vaguely saddening. [Valleywag] More »
David Chase Tells Pathetic ‘Sopranos’ Fans To Feel Guilty About Wanting Tony Whacked
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | With HBO subscribers understandably less engrossed in the mysteries with which the network now presents them on Sunday nights – such as whether or not Tell Me You Love Me’s Adam Scott employs an ejaculating stunt-cock or how much longer we have to wait before producers serve up that hotly anticipated sexagenarian-penetration scene – it’s inevitable that viewers don’t seem quite ready to end their speculation about what actually happened in The Sopranos final, endlessly discussed moment. Series creator David Chase, who once emerged from post-finale hiding to reassure us that he wasn’t fucking with America’s collective head with his creative choices, now returns (in the form of an interview in a new Sopranos book) to offer people a greater degree of closure. Reports the AP: “There WAS a war going on that week, and attempted terror attacks in London,” says Chase. “But these people were talking about onion rings.” [...] More »
Short Ends: An All-Gay-Dumbledore Edition
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | As if there’s any other story on everybody’s minds: Never has so fabulous a T-shirt design been made available so quickly after a zeitgeist-hijacking story first breaks. You go, gay wizard! We’re not saying the signs were completely obvious, but a little effort could have easily unscrambled “Albus Dumbledore” to read “Male bods rule, bud!” Let the Other Fictional Gay Characters list-making begin: New York fingers Fozzie Bear and Lando Calrissian (as if), while Radar gets a vibe from fudge-tunnel-voyaging Willy Wonka. He’s here. He’s queer. Yet some of us are having a hell of a time getting used to it. And finally, the requisite Gay Dumbledore Halloween costume. Oh wait–that’s Pimp James Lipton. Never mind. More »
