Friday, March 21, 2008
Margaret Cho Reveals Plans To Become 70-Year-Old Tattoo Lady
11:11AM Seth | On The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, Margaret Cho explains how she avoids the knife in favour of the needle. [Ellen] HBO orders a pilot from the Mr. Show guys. [THR] Is the Guitar Hero party over? [Idolator] Squint a little and you’ll get a picture of what Jakeypoo Gyllenhaal will look like in his 50s. [ONTD] You’d think someone 81-years-old with the wherewithal to build himself a “suicide robot” from the ground up would have something to live for. Also: Wouldn’t it be more accurate to just call it a “murder robot?” [Times Online] Behold the one Jared Leto poster that will not be adorning your 30 Seconds To Mars-groupie daughter’s wall. [moviesblog.mtv.com] More »
10:32AM Seth | Angela Bassett received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, and if her emotional speech doesn’t get you right there, well, you’re probably the CEO of a major media corporation or something: “Today my cup runneth over. I am crying now, I cried yesterday and the day before. Who would have thought that a little girl in pigtails from St. Petersburg, Florida, would grow up to find herself gazing at a star with her name on it, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? This day is so, so special to me.” Photo: Getty Images [Yahoo News] More »
10:32AM Seth | Angela Bassett received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, and if her emotional speech doesn’t get you right there, well, you’re probably the CEO of a major media corporation or something: “Today my cup runneth over. I am crying now, I cried yesterday and the day before. Who would have thought that a little girl in pigtails from St. Petersburg, Florida, would grow up to find herself gazing at a star with her name on it, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? This day is so, so special to me.” Photo: Getty Images [Yahoo News] More »
Owen Wilson’s Absence Makes Studio Hearts Grow Impatient
10:12AM Defamer Hollywood | The second Owen Wilson film to hit theatres since his suicide attempt last August, the new comedy Drillbit Taylor, is likewise the second consecutive — and for his employers, hopefully the last — film for which Wilson has skipped doing publicity and promotion. To wit, while John Horn and Gina Piccalo acknowledge in today’s LA Times that the teen bully-bodyguard film will probably find its adolescent boy market without Wilson doing the print rounds or baring his soul to the likes of Barbara Walters, their Great Moments in Publicity Awkwardness timeline suggests that date may need to occur sooner than later: More »
‘The Moment Of Truth’ Inching Closer To Delivering On Its Life-Destroying Promise
9:44AM Seth | The Moment of Truth–the bold Fox reality experiment that promised to pulverize real lives into a fine confetti by hooking average Americans up to a lie detector and having them answer brutally personal questions about their crotch-stuffing and philandering habits–has failed to really deliver on its promise. More »
Was Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Big Give’ A Big Ol’ Rip-Off?
9:23AM Molly Friedman | In case you hadn’t heard, Oprah’s Big Give special, which aired on ABC March 2nd, was a hit in the smashiest hit kind of way. The debut attracted 15.7 million viewers, which HuffPo claims was the highest rated primetime show that week aside from American Idol. While it’s no surprise that anything Oprah does is bound to reel in a massive audience, her latest profitable stunt may have been formulated under unethical circumstances. A Boston mother of four named Darlene Tracy is claiming Oprah stole the idea from a pitch she’d laid out for Oprah’s producers, a nearly identical idea called The Philanthropist, “in which contestants are challenged to help the needy.” And now she’s taking legal action. But after reviewing the history behind these series of unfortunate events, we’re putting on our thinking caps (boy were they hard to find!) to try and figure out whether or not Darlene has a case or not… More »
Brad Grey Insists Under Oath That He Didn’t Want To Know How The Pellicano Sausage Was Made
8:08AM Seth | There was little that could have come from Brad Grey’s testimony at the Anthony Pellicano trial today that would have matched the sensationalism of the last bombshell to emerge from this ongoing saga of backdoor Hollywood intrigue–i.e., the Chris Rock: Accused Rapist tapes. Still, there was plenty of opportunity for another Moment, the diminutive studio emperor having a sizable axe to grind with Garry Shandling, who pulled no punches on the stand in a brutally frank testimony against his former manager. (It would surely have included some waterworks had the Larry Sanders Show star not years ago had his face pulled tighter than a conga drum, effectively sealing every one of his above-the-neck mucus membranes tighter than Tutankhamen’s tomb.) As it turns out, Grey did not use the opportunity to take some public jabs at his nemesis, instead delivering straightforward statements relieving himself of all knowledge of Pellicano’s shadowy surveillance methods: More »
New ‘Mamma Mia!’ Trailer Plays Up Streep Slut Humor, Vaguely Swedish Noise
7:44AM Defamer Hollywood | No sooner did the Universal logo appear onscreen than straight men around the world shrugged at the sight of the new Mamma Mia! trailer, a glittering, sensory-overloading hint at this summer’s forthcoming tribute to the revolving institutions of ABBA, Meryl Streep, and general gayness. More »
How Britney Stole ‘Your Mother’
7:19AM Seth | After the chilling lessons of last night’s South Park, in which paparazzi and handlers carried on mistreating the surviving bottom-third of Britney Spears’s blown off head as if nothing at all was wrong, we thought we’d take this opportunity to instead focus on some of the more exciting and positive things going on in her life. For one, Britney released an album this year! It’s called “Blackout,” it’s available on iTunes, and mark our words when we tell you, this thing is going to pop up on more year-end Top Ten lists than you can shake a stick at. (We wish we were even kidding.) Moving along: More »
