Saturday, October 27, 2007
Owen Wilson Apparently Not Ready To Answer The Owen Wilson Question Either
8:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Those sneaky MySpace folks, after teasing that their Exclusive! First! Owen Wilson! Interview! Since, You Know, The Incident! would be getting a terribly inconvenient midnight world premiere, have (thankfully) snuck the video online several hours early. And? The clip contains talk of monkeys, the inoculations you need to film in India, and other good-natured chatter overwhelmed by the unbearable tension that Anderson will at some point finally break from the small talk to turn to his old friend and ask, “Will you just fucking tell everyone you’re OK so we can be done with it?” (A moment that never arrived, but you’ve probably figured that out already.) Now you can safely head out to whatever boozy plans you had for the evening without having to feel like you were going to miss out on the kind of teary, revelatory moment the Hollywood’s troubled stars usually reserve for Barbara Walters or Diane Sawyer. See you Monday. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson [MySpace] More »
Please, He’s Been Neck-Deep In Starlet Ass Since ‘Gilbert Grape’
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Russell Crowe casually let it slip to an EW reporter, “You know, I worked with Leonardo when he was 17 on The Quick and the Dead. He was a virgin, and he’d talk about that constantly.” DiCaprio’s rep later laughed off the assertion, insisting the American Gangster star had gotten his wires crossed and that DiCaprio was “referring to skydiving at the time. He’s been happily fucking models since he was 13.” [Page Six] More »
JJ Abrams Leaves William Shatner At The Enterprise Docking Bay
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | The Trekkie unthinkable has come to pass: William Shatner – the die from which all subsequent Kirk-alikes were cast, the man who gave scores of marginally talented impressionists a bottomless! Source! Of! Material! – has not been asked to join the voyages of the next big-screen Enterprise outing. (Helmed, of course, by noted Lost architect and Cruise-wrangler, JJ Abrams.) He doesn’t seem to be taking the news too well: “I couldn’t believe it. I’m not in the movie at all. Leonard [Nimoy], God bless his heart, is in, but not me,” Shatner, 76, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I thought, what a decision to make, since it obviously is a decision not to make use of the popularity I have to ensure the movie has good box office. It didn’t seem to be a wise business decision.” [...] More »
Watch Britney Lose Her Kids: Live!
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | If you’ve truly given up all hope of living a productive and meaningful existence, we guide you now to AccessHollywood.com’s live feed from the court steps of today’s Spears-Federline custody hearing, where you can spend the next hour or so listening in on Tony Potts and Girl with Star-Shaped Microphone submit to an explosive bout of verbal, Britney-speckled diarrhoea. Once you’ve sated yourselves with their insights, you can then continue onto similarly fulfilling activities, such as follicle-by-follicle pubic depilatory sessions and seeing how many canned olives you can eat before puking. Access Live Stream: Spears-Federline Custody Hearing [accesshollywood.com] More »
The Lovely Gosling
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Remember all the “creative differences” this, and “he got way too fat” that flying around after Ryan Gosling abruptly left The Lovely Bones? That was all much ado about nothing, says he! It was simply yet another example of the director having gone too young: “I think, people are making it a far more interesting story than it actually is,” he says. “The age of the character versus my real age was always a concern of mine. Peter and I tried to make it work and ultimately it just didn’t. I think the film is much better off with Mark Walhberg in that role. Peter Jackson is an incredible filmmaker and I’m here to tell you that he has things up his sleeve that are going to blow peoples’ minds. I’m going to be the first person in line to buy tickets.” Do the bones dance? Is there a giant-ape/T-Rex battle? Who cares! We’re there! [Parade] More »
Short Ends: Season Of The Witch
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Talk about seamless segues: Paris Hilton’s nonexistent trip to Rwanda is not, we repeat is not for a reality show. She sincerely cares about the mission of compassion she isn’t undertaking. “Scarlett Johansson gave boyfriend Ryan Reynolds her wisdom tooth for his birthday.” Run, Ryan, run! Before she turns you into a gnat! Kate Beckinsale won’t be reprising her role as a vampire Death Dealer in Underworld 3, presumably because she’ll be too busy riding around on her broomstick in tight-fitting clothing. More »Steve Carell Learns The Hard Way That Being A Movie Star Sometimes Subjects You To Rachael Ray
7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | We know Steve Carell came equipped to the Rachael Ray Show with his best “Juliette Binoche and me starring in a romantic comedy – whodathunk it?!” material, but we think the true odd-couple pairing that needs to be spotlighted here is Carell and Ray herself. Nothing quite unsettles us like the shimmering cackles of the easy-meal munchkin – who, we like to imagine, spends her commercial breaks power-smoking Lucky Strikes before gargling a handful of driveway gravel. Sadly, even her interpretive hand-gestures – we think she’s mushing Carell and Binoche together like a large wad of pizza dough? – fail to prevent Carell’s Funny Soufflé from falling. RachaelRayShow.com More »All Hail The Hero’s Return: The ‘Rambo’ Trailer Goes Live
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Back in May, the internet-leaking gods gifted us with some hyperviolent footage from a project then-titled John Rambo, starring sexagenarian superstar Sylvester Stallone, eager to prove that after a nip/tuck here and a human growth hormone injection there, he was more than up to the task of hunting down yet another yellow-skinned army through a reptile-infested jungle using nothing more than his trusted bowie knife, a pocket flamethrower, and his bare hands. More »
The Great Chair Dispute Signals Impending Strike Apocalypse
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | We now bring you another dispatch from the front lines of Hollywood Strikewatch, the ugly showbiz labour dispute making such little headway, at times we simply want to throw up our arms and curse the day God ever gifted us with things like language and producers. For the time-pressed, Deadline Hollywood Daily digests the latest developments into a resounding “not pretty.” (Well – not pretty to most of us; scab superstar Alex Perez is sitting prettier by the minute. And we hear he’s single!) But if you have a moment, you may want to read their discouraging account of an argument over seating: Talk about childishness: Today’s session started off stupidly with a heated argument over chairs – yeah, that’s right, chairs…Today, when AMPTP’s Nick Counter showed up at the WGA’s bargaining venue trailing twice as many people as writers’ negotiator David Young had planned, the guild didn’t have enough seating. More »
