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Defamer Does L'oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: Day Three
Posted by Clem Bastow at 4:18 PM on March 6, 2008
Defamer Australia's fashion correspondent reached something resembling nirvana at last night's installment of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival when someone claiming to be from NW Magazine requested to take our picture. It took us until approximately 3pm this afternoon to recover from this even vague degree of separation from "Amy & The NW-ettes", hence your missive arrives from fashland a little late, but better late than never, eh? Read on...
· While not quite as awesome as when The Simpsons pulled the same trick, we think this reimagining of the Star Wars title sequence by way of Saul Bass hits most of the right notes. [
It's hard to believe it's taken six years for the Feds to bring their case against wiretapper-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano to court. Along the way, the promise of dirt the likes of which Hollywood has never seen was dangled before us like a Sprinkles cupcake lowered by fishing line in front of Kirstie Alley, only to then be cruelly snapped away: The investigation turned up nothing juicier than 
While most of America has shown only a passing interest in Semi-Celebrity Apprentice (an interest that 
All those magic spells and curses are evidently no match for a good old fashioned psycho - it seems Daniel Radcliffe has really arrived as a celebrity, thanks to having been issued 
The photo you see at left at greatly diminished capacity is apparently a snap of Carson Kressley and his "down under lover", who Sydney Confidential were keen to 
For the first time in recorded history, we actually felt sorry for poor chubster Kevin Federline yesterday. After all, as 
While Hollywood has yet to spark to David Sedaris quite as enthusiastically as they have his sister Amy (why we've yet to see the movie based on that Barrel Fever story about the adopted Vietnamese hooker is beyond us. And they say there aren't enough great parts for women. Hmph!), we're certain the NPR-listening and book-reading factions among you are already familiar with his work. 
We apologize for being a little behind the curve on the story of Thelma Dennis, the 50-year-old woman who tormented British police and emergency workers for 24 years by obsessively phoning in fake bomb threats to 999, the U.K.'s version of 911. Apparently, not even a court-mandated electrode therapy, "which left her screaming in pain every time she dialed the third '9' of 999" seemed to break the crank-calling cycle. We'll leave you now to gaze into her mischief-making eyes as you assess such imponderables as, "What about a court-appointed taking of her phone away?" And if you're still looking for the Defamer angle to all this, well, we think there's a TNT Original in here somewhere. No need to thank us--an Associate Producer credit will do. [
If you saw 2007's instant classic doc King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters (which, btw, was totally hosed by those n00bs at the Academy), you'll certainly agree that Steve Wiebe is probably the greatest human being ever to walk the Earth. But if you saw the film when it was released on DVD about a month ago and poured through the extras as religiously as we did, you likely learned that Wiebe's Donkey Kong world record was broken by cinema's most dastardly villain, Billy Mitchell, in June of 2007. Well, to that end, our friends over at 
Ah, Hollywood--you damned, dirty ape. Every time we're just about ready to throw in the towel, convinced the entire L.A. basin is nothing but a giant, detritus-clogged drainage pipe filtering humanity's run-off, you come along with a story so improbable, so life-affirming, so gosh darned wonderful, it makes us want to hop right in our cars and collide into the first motorist we see. Today, that story comes to us via Scriptland, LAT's love letter to Hollywood's hard-working Final Draft-miners, and stars 
Realizing the truth about his 
We suppose some might dispute Nasser Entertainment's bold claim that Anna Nicole is "the most anticipated motion picture of the year." Still, after watching Bad Girl of Pop Willa Ford's complete and uncompromising transformation into the nonagenarian-sexing bombshell, we will concede that the movie has just shot up our 2008 Must-See List. Something about the way Ford captures Anna's baby-gurgle voice in the line, "I wanna be the next Marilyn Monroehrmphuh," coupled with the movie's Showgirls-on-no-budget production values, makes us feel like the bigwigs at Nasser really nailed this one, producing the kind of instant camp-o-tainment Anna Nicole herself would have starred in had she not been taken from us too soon.
After turning their swarthy disdain for 
· It's official! E! has picked up eight episodes of Living Lohan, a realitainment showcasing the highs and lows of everyone's favorite momabler, Dina Lohan, as she moves the family from Long Island to Las Vegas for little Ali's career. Ali records an album, the two live in a suite at the Palms (coincidentally owned by exec producer Phil Maloof), and we get a shattering glimpse into the heart of momabling darkness. Be afraid. [
The Kutcher-Moores grace the pages of the April issue of Harper's Bazaar, in which the First Family of Cougardom weigh in on a number of topics, including how they manage to keep their Kabbalic faith after other celebrities have moved on to even trendier catalogue-order religions. But it's the subject of Moore's ex-husband and Rumer-fatherer Bruce Willis, who maintains an improbably cozy relationship with his Gen Y usurper, that 
Dannielynn Hope Birkhead, now 18-months-old, has been named sole heir to the Anna Nicole Smith estate by an L.A. Superior Court judge yesterday, as well as the beneficiary of a newly established trust. Larry Birkhead and estate-executor Howard K. Stern are--you guessed it--the co-trustees, a new responsibility which we can only imagine will further prevent them from putting 
Unlike other, more culturally acceptable Hollywood race-swapping depictions--say, Rob Schneider's exciting work in the
Sad news to report. Patrick Swayze, the always charming, dirty dancing, clay massaging late '80s acting stalwart (and star of everyone's favorite SNL skit), has allegedly just received news that his previously diagnosed pancreatic cancer has spread. According to the National Enquirer, doctors have told him he has approximately five weeks to live: 
The good news is that there's a possible Gisele Bundchen/Tom Brady sex tape floating around Manhattan. The bad news? Only a handful of restaurant staffers at New York's highbrow Philippe restaurant have seen it (for now, at least). Thanks to 
