Thursday, December 6, 2007
New Video Clip From The Presets – ‘My People’
4:14PM Jess McGuire | The Presets are here with all of their people. Scream if you’re with them!
The clip features fetching cranial accoutrement and Serious Faces, and the lads appear to be multiplying with Federline-esque speed. We don’t recommend you watch it if you’ve taken acid recently.
In conclusion – WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! More » 
Baz Luhrmann Even Puts A Showbiz Spin On Putting His Back Out
12:19PM Clem Bastow | Baz Luhrmann is nothing if not a fan of the old razzle dazzle, so it’s probably not surprising that the director – currently filming Australia up North – saw fit to play up an on-set injury for all it’s worth, rolling around in a wheelchair on a Howard Hughes-esque night out.
Sadly, there were no rhinestones or Kim Mazelle tracks involved in his spill or recovery, but still. A man can’t be pulling out all the stops, all of the time!
The Aussie director is understood to have been injured about 10 days ago on the Fox Studios set of his labour of love, hobbling around with the aid of a walking stick since.
With production on the local blockbuster already behind schedule, due to weather delays and unexpected reshoots, Luhrmann has soldiered on with a noticeable limp.
But a sneaky snap of the Moulin Rouge master being helped into a wheelchair by a friend and wife Catherine Martin at the Park Hyatt hotel on Sunday apparently isn’t what it first seemed to be.
“That was just a bit of fun. He’s still got a bit of a sore foot (from the set spill), but the wheelchair was just him skylarking with a wedding party on the day,” his publicist, Maria Farmer told Confidential yesterday.
That crazy kid! Pretending to be in a wheelchair, what larks.
Yes, we too are struggling to work out how this became news. More » Our Nic Cops A Beating From All Corners
12:10PM Clem Bastow | You wouldn’t want to be Nicole Kidman right now: in the midst of various court cases, losing her “highest earning actress” spot to upstarts like Reese Witherspoon, facing the probability of receiving Keith Urban’s Greatest Hits for Christmas – now she’s being used as the postergirl for the Botox generation, by a magazine that made no mention of her name within its cover story on celebrity plastic surgery.
But that didn’t stop Radar plastering her all over the cover!
As if that wasn’t enough, she’s the feature of an embarrassingly patriotic editorial from this country’s Daily Telegraph this past week, on the topic of P***z H****n’s regular dressing down of the star:
America’s self-styled Queen of bitch Perez Hilton has launched an extraordinarily loathsome attack on Australian film icon Nicole Kidman.
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It’s Probably Safe To Say Fay Weldon Doesn’t Think Much Of The Spice Girls, Then
11:49AM Clem Bastow | Fay Weldon has opened up a scathing attack on the Spice Girls from within the Daily Mail, in a piece called “How the Spice Girls have killed feminism, subverted morality and embarrassed us all”.
In case the title didn’t sum it up for you, the noted essayist and writer comes out guns blazing against the girlpower exponents, and by the end of the article, we were begrudgingly agreeing with her (to the tune of the Greatest Hits).
In short, she thinks they’re rubbish, innit.
What chance did formal sex education have when faced with the catchy lyrics – written by men, of course – that told young girls to indulge in such things as “weekend love” and encouraged “playing games”? What it did of course was to separate love from sex.
The Spice Girls killed romance.
Their singable, suggestive lyrics took away the innocence of the playground – or at least what was left of it. And it’s never coming back.
They turned difficult love into temporary sex, and reduced female aspiration to a series of consumer choices.
They turned little girls into paedophile bait, and in doing so they helped destroy our concept of childhood.
And why am I embarrassed for myself? Because I admit I once rather liked the Spice Girls.
There’s much more than that in the lengthy editorial, including a moment where – in a seemingly giddy bout of schadenfreude – Weldon notes that chickenpox is apparently sweeping ‘Spice Force Five’, their rented 747 and flying creche/dressing room.
However, as much as she’s raining on the fivesome’s ripsnorting reunion parade, she makes some salient points, so read it with your lunchtime juice/muffin/Prozac and feel that little bit more enlightened.
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Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Breaking And Entering
11:34AM Clem Bastow | We’re beginning to think that we should just make a Winegums Watch online generator, which starts with the words “Poor Winegums…” and then leads into some story about her latest late-night misfortunes.
Because, really, you could set your watch according to her sorry state at the moment, such is the predictability with which she runs amok.
Currently she’s busy forgetting her keys, scrambling under her front gate like a lizard, and living on icypoles. Business as usual, in other words.
“It was bizarre,” one onlooker revealed.
“When she got out of the car she was visibly upset and started looking around for her keys.
“Then she sat down on the ground with her back against the gate, lopped to one side, lay on her back and crawled underneath the gate.
“I was surprised she managed to get herself under there but she managed to get through.
“After that she dusted herself down, opened the gate to get a bag from her driver and went inside.”
The extraordinary gate scenes are the latest example of the star’s increasingly erratic behaviour recently.
At 4.15am this morning she was pictured making a dash to a 24 hour store in Bow to pick up a giant box of ice pops.
Sounds about right; we once moved into a flat that was previously tenanted by a junkie who’d skipped town. Still hanging around the house were long clumps of black hair, deodorant cakes, Centrelink “red bills”, and a lone shopper docket featuring peanut butter, cordial, icy poles and pens.
In fact, we’re beginning to think we might’ve moved into Winegums’ pad! More » Nation Relieved To Discover Claudia Karvan Is Still A Hot Tamale After Babies
9:10AM Jess McGuire | Lately it seems we’re living in a world where celebrity mothers are proving to be revolting creatures in the eyes of the hard to impress journalists of the world’s tabloids. Yes, we’re looking at you, Britain’s Daily Mail. Specifically your recent “piece” on Cindy Crawford where you actually used lines like – AND WE QUOTE – “even supermodels suffer from the unsightly signs of motherhood” and “Motherhood has taken its toll on the supermodel” because the 41 year old mother of two happens to be the owner of a couple of stretch marks.
So we were glad to wake and discover that our very own spunky Claudia Karvan (and, more importantly, her post-baby body) has earned rave reviews from the Daily Telegraph.
We loved her way when she was filming along the coastal hot spots in Sydney.
But it was Melbourne’s turn to get a good long look at yummy mummy
Claudia Karvan’s sensational bod as she filmed at a tourist spot this
week.
The
working mum left Audrey, 6, and Albie, 1, with carers while she paraded
around Wilsons Promontory in her bikini shooting a scene for the
upcoming psychological thriller Long Weekend.
Phwooooooar! Thank god a photographer was there to capture her beachside glory.
LIFT YOUR GAME, WOMEN OF THE WORLD, OR YOU TOO WILL FEEL THE WRATH OF THE UNFLATTERING CAMERA ANGLE!
Etc.
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Darren Hayes Should Hold Off On Getting A Quickie Divorce – Anthony Callea Has Been Spotted “About Town” With A New Fellow!
8:50AM Jess McGuire | Only yesterday we were positively frothing at the mouth at the idea of Anthony Callea potentially falling for Darren Hayes should the pair ever stop quietly admiring each other and get on with the task of recording a duet (hey, it worked for Delta and The Potato, didn’t it?) but it seems we may have been too hasty.
National Bingo Night host Tim Campbell is said to be
helping the pop prince get over his break-up, with the two lads seen
hitting the town this week.
After we reported their stroll around the Tan together on Monday
night, a spy revealed the pair were at South Yarra bar the Botanical on
Saturday night.
It’s believed the two became friends last month in WA, where they were both performing in the stage musical Rent.
Campbell has since moved to Anthony’s hometown of Melbourne to play the lead role of Australian rocker Johnny O’Keefe in Shout.
Callea’s manager yesterday maintained his star and the former Home and Away regular were friends.
“To suggest Anthony and Tim are anything more than colleagues is totally untrue,” Wayne Pilkington said.
WE WILL CERTAINLY BE KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS, ANTHONY! Especially since you spent a good couple of years claiming to be a vagina hunter. But you wouldn’t lie to us now, surely? More » Golden Tonsils To Derryn Hinch – “You’re A Despicable C—!”
7:32AM Jess McGuire | It seems retirement is really agreeing with John Laws – he’s finally free to say what he feels how he likes whenever the mood takes him. And running into fellow radio star Derryn Hinch in a Sydney restaurant yesterday proved the perfect opportunity for some straight talkin’…
Hinch said Laws barged into the restaurant, leaned on the table where he was lunching with radio legend Bob Rogers, and barked: “You two are both despicable c—s.”
“He was so bitter. Reptilian is the word I would use to describe him,” Hinch said.
Reptilian, eh Derryn? Do go on…
Hinch said Laws’s verbal assault took him by surprise.
Laws: “Look at you, you’re a failed alcoholic.”
Hinch: “I guess you’re a successful one.”
Laws: “No, I’m not.”
Hinch: “Then you’re a good actor.”
Laws: “You’re such a hypocrite.”
Hinch: “I don’t think you can talk about people being hypocritical.”
Laws: “When have I been hypocritical?”
Hinch: “Take ‘cash for comment’ for starters.”
Hinch said the confrontation ended when Carlton convinced Laws to leave.
Good old Mike Carlton – truly the United Nations of radio jocks.
We hope this is just the first target in Lawsie’s post-radio career hitlist. Bring on verbal fisticuffs directed toward Alan Jones and Steve Price, says Defamer Australia! More » 
Leave Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Ass Alone!
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Following yesterday’s penetrating discussion in which The View’s couchbound thinktank dissected the “hang” and cellulite-to-dimple-free-tissue ratio on display in some unflattering paparazzi photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s bikini-clad ass, we’d hoped that Whoopi and the gang the matter to bed for good. This week’s People, however, gives the embattled rump no quarter; in a cynical, sensationalist move, the magazine has splayed the unfairly persecuted size two’s cheeks across its glossy cover, a cynical, sensational move that ensures that the “LOVE HEWITT’S TRUNK: SEXY AND HEALTHY OR TOO FULL OF JUNK? ” debate will rage on at least until the supermarket checkout racks are replenished with new tabloid product next Wednesday. People [People.com] Previously: The Ladies Of ‘The View’ Debate Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Ass [Defamer] More »
