Friday, December 5, 2008
Highlights From Last Night’s EG Awards
10:29AM Jess McGuire | For some reason, I am still alive. But my head hurts.
Here are some highlights from the evening in no particular order.
· Julia Zemiro hosted, and was as charming as you would expect her to be. Kicked off proceedings with the line “The best thing about being the host of RocKwiz is being asked ‘What’s it like being the host of Spicks and Specks?’” – she had the audience in the palm of her hand.
· Little Red played. Drummer Taka is quite literally the happiest creature on the planet when he’s playing music. If you can YouTube footage of them live, see for yourself.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:27AM Jess McGuire | This one is from Monkeys For Helping. Which is a brilliantly amusing blog, by the way.
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Kathy Griffin/Clay Aiken Encounter Leaves One Wounded
9:03AM Kyle Buchanan | When Hollywood’s best and brightest finally look for signs leading up to today’s stripper-consuming, Dark Lord-producing Pop Cultural Doomsday, we have a feeling they’ll find a trail of dark psychic energy leading all the way back to the day before Thanksgiving, when NBC aired a televised ritual of evil incantations known as Rosie Live! It was here that the stage was no doubt set for our destruction, and accordingly, comedienne Kathy Griffin adopted a “what the hell” attitude and attempted to mend fences with longtime foil Clay Aiken backstage. Sadly, even the impending end of the world couldn’t produce warm feelings from Aiken: More »
The Saxing of the Seventh Walrus, And Other Passages From ‘Revelation’
8:23AM Seth | Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Rev 5:2 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. Rev 6:8 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Rev 8:1 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev 13:17 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev 2:10 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Rev 18:7 More »
‘I’m No Wallflower,’ Katie Holmes Instructed to Say
8:15AM Kyle Buchanan | On a day that has seen its fair share of horrors, the suddenly, comparatively innocuous couple of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes couldn’t have picked a better day for news of their upcoming dual cover story for the NY Times magazine to leak out. After we’ve witnessed Satan himself emerge onto Sunset Blvd. to announce a series/collagen installment plan for Lisa Rinna, what damage can be done a creepy story like Cruise’s revelation that he bought Holmes an engagement ring after their first date? With the black smoke coursing through our city, who can choke out a laugh at Holmes’s insistence that she hasn’t become a Stepford wife? Oh wait, we can: More »
Hey–What’s That Transforminator Doing In ‘Terminator: Salvation?’
8:01AM Seth | ET has been pumping its first look of Terminator: Salvation this Tuesday, to be presided over by none other than the world’s most recognisably uni-named pop-spectacle-overseer himself, McG. (Eat his dust, Tarsem.) Today, however, we bring you the promo to the promo. It’s as fitting an exclusive as we are likely to find for you on this, Pop Culture Doomsday: A fourth sequel to a picked-over Schwarzenegger franchise about a battle for human survival after a nuclear annihilation. Doesn’t get any more apocalypto than that! More »
Hollywood Xmas Cont’d: ‘THR,’ ‘People Mag’ Staffs Slashed
7:40AM STV | More bloodshed from the Doomsday trenches: Nikki Finke has word that “as much as half of the Hollywood Reporter staff” faces downsizing today, with TV writers Barry Garron and Kimberly Nordyke already pink-slipped alongside editors Harley Lond and Randee Cohen. And a tipster just sent a memo confirming that People Magazine has upheld its bicoastal execution orders issued a month ago, concluding 18 buyouts and/or “staff reductions” right on schedule with the pop-culture apocalypse. Nice. The memo follows the jump. More »
‘Ellen’ Guest Goes Into Labour, Welcomes First Baby of the Apocalypse
7:29AM STV | No catastrophic cultural implosion is complete without a Doomsday Baby, and we think we might have gotten ours when pregnanter-than-pregnant Biggest LoserUS host Alison Sweeney went into labour during today’s taping of Ellen. Even Defamer’s office of Fact-Checking and Devil’s Advocacy seems to stand by the veracity of the accompanying video, which features Ellen coming out of a break to greet the contorting, hyperventilating Sweeney with every expectant mother’s favourite question, “Are you kidding?” To which Sweeney replies in the negative with all her searing underworld might. Uncanny! More »
7:20AM STV | Mountain Men: The Sundance Film Festival broke out its non-competition selections for 2009 this morning, a starrier, funkier twist on yesterday’s slate of barbershop docs and Pierce Brosnan weepies. At the top is Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor’s gay prison romance I Love You Philip Morris, which we’ve been anticipating since first spying Carrey’s frolicsome South Beach sojourn. Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle will be around for the cop drama Brooklyn’s Finest, while Billy Bob Thornton is bringing two films — the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation The Informers (also with Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke — stay off the slopes, guys!) and the crap-salesman comedy Manure. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Spacey, Zooey Deschanel and Kristen Stewart bring up the rear; here’s hoping Winona leaves them their.gift bags. [SFF] More »
