April 2, 2008

YouTube Clip Of The Day

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 3:40 PM on April 2, 2008

Magic, people. Musical magic...


(The back story...)

Bang Bang, You're F--ked: Chopper Not The Only Convicted Killer Unimpressed With 'Underbelly'!

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 2:48 PM on April 2, 2008

0,,5885049,00.jpgThings are looking up for the producers of Channel Nine's gangland drama series Underbelly: not only does Chopper reckon there should be "more shooting less rooting" on the show, now Carl Williams has announced he's unhappy with the way the series has portrayed him!

Writing to his mum, from Barwon Prison where he is serving three life sentences, Williams complained that the show had painted him out as an idiot.

"I don't mind them telling the truth about me, but telling lies and painting me out like some kind of d**khead who is brain dead - well that's just bulls**t," he stormed.

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Nicola Girls Aloud's Makeup Range: No Darkies Allowed!

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 2:27 PM on April 2, 2008

Nicola Roberts.jpgHold your horses, politically correct types! Naturally, when we say "darkies", we mean "nothing darker than unbleached toilet paper or quartz sand".

Yes, Nicola, Girls Aloud's pale and fragile member (not the first time her milky-white limbs have made news, either), has branched out into the wonderful world of celebrity "product" and has launched a range of makeup specifically for lasses with paler complexions.

As part of an ITV challenge, Nicola apparently realised a "life-long dream" by launching the range of sun-sensible slap.

She said: "For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud. I was tall, skinny, with red hair and the whitest skin you've ever seen - standing next to to four of the most gorgeous girls in Britain.

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So You Think You Can Dance Australia Round-Up: Blame The Choreographers

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 2:01 PM on April 2, 2008

SYTYCDAus.jpgBooted So You Think You Can Dance Australia contestant and beanpole Anthony Ikin has come out sooking following his 'eviction', reckoning that were it not for dodgy choreography, he'd still be in the contest.

(We'd say something here about the INTENSE sexual tension between Ikin and The Bass on Monday night, but we think our picture - above - speaks for itself, particularly if you listen to Somewhere while you look at it. "Theeeeere's aaaaa plaaaace for uuuussss...")

Apart from a handful of solo performances, the former sport aerobics champion is peeved that he never really got a routine he could sink his teeth into thanks to some less than earth-shattering choreography.

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If You Live In Melbourne, Go And See Mark Watson's Show (Please)

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 1:49 PM on April 2, 2008

markwatson.jpgWe spent the morning gallivanting around Melbourne with comedian Mark Watson in an effort to help him train for his 24 hour stand up performance on Sunday night, with the idiotic results being broadcast on Triple J's breakfast show. Mark managed to charm various emo kids, some Yarra Tram representatives, and a grateful florist with his improvised gibbering, and we salute him for his efforts.

As Mark is a lovely and highly comic chap, we thoroughly recommend you go and check out his festival show Can I Briefly Talk to You About the Point of Life? at some point, and you may like to be in the audience for his marathon joke slog, called Mark Watson (and Friends) Take Control Of The World In 24 Hours too.

Vale Pebble Byrne-Denton

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 1:47 PM on April 2, 2008

We are sad to report that the Jack Russell terrier belonging to Australia's favourite clever clogs Jennifer Byrne and Andrew Denton - a pup named Pebble - sadly passed away after being struck by a car in Double Bay on Monday, despite the presence of TV vet Dr Chris Brown at the scene.

The TV vet was driving through Double Bay on New South Head Rd when he saw a Jack Russell terrier run across the road into the early morning peak hour traffic and be hit by a car.

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Elle Macpherson Claims To Have Phenomenal Breast-Assessing Abilities

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 1:11 PM on April 2, 2008

ellemac.jpgBig ups to Elle Macpherson, who has taken it upon herself to heap praise upon.. erm, herself... regarding her uncanny gift when it comes to judging a woman's bra size.

The supermodel - who has her own lingerie range Elle Macpherson Intimates - insists she has become an expert in guessing the bust measurements of ladies.

She said: "I can instantly tell a woman's bra size just by looking at her."

But you'd be a simpleton just to label Elle Macpherson "The Tit Whisperer" and leave it at that. She's also very good at working out ways to earn delicious life-affirming moolah!

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Great Descriptive Quotes Of Our Time

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 12:39 PM on April 2, 2008

In the verbal jousting currently going on between Heath Ledger's family, specifically regarding his uncle Haydn Ledger's claims in the media that the late actor may have fathered a love child at 17 years old, we wish to point out (for those who may have missed it) an amazing quote from the aforementioned Uncle Haydn in response to claims the family infighting is over money.

"I couldn't give two knobs of goat shit about the money … We knew we were going to get nothing."

Two knobs of goat shit, eh? Check mate, haters.

Nation Shocked To Learn Gladiator Contestant Has Saucy Past

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 11:38 AM on April 2, 2008

Are we the only people who don't find the news one of the Gladiator contestants from Sunday night's program once appeared on a gay website terribly exciting? If he were one of the actual Gladiators, we could understand the hullabaloo, but hey - what do we know? The country appears to be going wild over the pictures that have emerged of Sam Brodie's time on Seduced Straight Guys.

Hit television show Gladiators has been implicated in an internet porn scandal after pictures of a Queensland contestant were found on a raunchy gay site.

Sheet-metal worker Sam Brodie was discovered on the gay porn website "Seduced Straight Guys" under the pseudonym Ben in several provocative poses, including wearing a Queensland Reds jumper. The pictures have been picked up by DNA magazine.

The 23-year-old describes himself on the site as "a bit of a ladies' man".

Oh, that's what they all say on Seduced Straight Guys... at first.

After the jump, a possibly NSFW snap from Sam's time online, thanks to the folks at DNA Magazine.

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Jay Leno Offers Audience His Most Apologetic Look

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 10:35 AM on April 2, 2008

After comments about Ryan Phillippe's role as a gay teen on One Life to Live earned Jay Leno more attention than any picket line-crossing or old car-driving ever could, the late night host has issued an apology. In a statement released to People, Leno takes the classic "I'm sorry you misunderstood me" route, saying:

"In talking about Ryan's first role, I realise that what I said came out wrong. I certainly didn't mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize."

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for a mea culpa on the scabbing and roadster-ing fronts (seriously — have you seen him out there with the aviator headgear and everything?).

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Coming To Theatres in 2015: Bill & Ted's Disappointing Career Trajectory

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 8:45 AM on April 2, 2008

Keanu Reeves, who hasn't made moviegoers go "Whoa" since he chose the red pill 9 years ago, tells MTV.com that a third Bill & Ted movie is still on the table. Revealing a heretofore unknown "decades" rule in Bill & Ted filmmaking, the actor said "The most serious we [Reeves and pal/co-star Alex Winter] ever got was a few years ago. I had once mentioned about doing it when we were 40. Now maybe the only shot we have is to do it when we're 50. Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esquire, at age 50? Bogus!

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Neil Patrick Harris Stares Down Doogie Howser Demons

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 8:20 AM on April 2, 2008


Even without going to the stunt casting well, last night's How I Met Your Mother managed to rate. Take a gander at the throwback tag that reunited Neil Patrick Harris with the giant-cursored royal blue diary screen and plonky soundtrack that made him famous in the first place. After an episode in which Harris' Barney revisits all the schemes he's employed to get women into bed, he thoughtfully types the evening's lesson:

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Swimming Australia To Its Charges: "No Facebook For You!"

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 8:05 AM on April 2, 2008

Stephanie Rice.jpgYou know, it doesn't sound like much fun being a professional athlete: you have to get up at all hours, swim for kilometres upon kilometres, eat Uncle Toby's muesli bars all the time, and if that wasn't indignity enough, now you can't post stupid photos on your Facebook, either, after swimmer Stephanie Rice's Facebook photos were raided by News Ltd.

Swimming Australia bossmen reckon some of the photos found in swimmers' Facebook albums were "distasteful" and have cracked down on the Dolphins' online activities.

The photos have been a hit on the internet, with The Daily Telegraph online's Stephanie Rice gallery attracting more than 800,000 hits by 6pm last night.

Pictures of her poledancing in a white singlet alongside Bronte Barratt were taken at fellow swimmer Jessicah Schipper's birthday party in Brisbane last year, while photos of her in the police uniform were at an event called "BRW party".

Among the comments posted on Nick D'Arcy's Facebook page are remarks from Rice and her boyfriend Eamon Sullivan.

Rice described a picture of D'Arcy, Sullivan and Andrew Lauterstein as "hot boyssss", to which Sullivan replied "damn straight".

Sounds like pretty standard stuff, really - if anyone ever checked out Defamer Australia's Facebooks there'd be no doubt the Tele would be knocking on the door sooner rather than later.

But through all this, we'd just like to ask the Dolphins a question Facebook asked us when we tried to disable our accounts for a brief 'holiday': Have you considered updating your privacy settings?

Katie Holmes Haircut Turns Cruise Family Into Identical Triplets

Posted by Molly Friedman at 8:00 AM on April 2, 2008

Before her marriage to Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes was not considered to be much of a fashion chameleon. Her Dawson's Creek era hairstyle — an unassuming, just-out-of-bed look — matched her sense of style, and there was no reason for her to frequently change her look to keep up with the times. But then came Tom. And Suri. And Posh. And suddenly, Katie's "look" was something to be observed, altering rapidly with each life change, and now, her brand-new page boy cut is a certifiable oddity. We put together a montage of the various styles that Katie has undergone in the last two years; strangely enough, as her hair has gotten shorter and shorter, her transformation has resulted in an eerie resemblance to both Tom's silky cut and little Suri's bob.

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Herald Sun Readers Love War, Neo-Nazism And Violent Hitmen, Not So Keen On The Mentally Ill Or Stolen Generation

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 7:43 AM on April 2, 2008

Before you accuse our headline of slandering the good readers of News Ltd's plucky Melbourne tabloid that could, it's true!

Hun film critic Leigh Paatsch and the faithful readers voted and came up with their favourite Australian flicks of all time.

And they were:


Lantana (2001): 4% (43 votes)
Mad Max 2 (1981): 12% (110 votes)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): 3% (34 votes)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002): 2% (25 votes)
Romper Stomper (1992): 10% (90 votes)
Shine (1996): 3% (35 votes)
Gallipoli (1981): 23% (206 votes)
Muriel's Wedding (1994): 12% (113 votes)
Breaker Morant (1980): 6% (60 votes)
Chopper (2000): 19% (177 votes)

It should be noted that Paatsch collated the shortlist, which is why it's all a bit AFI-award-friendly. Had he not come up with these options, we have a feeling the list may have been more like this...

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Script Review Hints Oliver Stone's 'W' Might Just Be A Well-Cast April Fool's Joke

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 6:00 AM on April 2, 2008

The hyper-sensitive Defamer April Fool's Bullshit Scanner went off again moments ago as we browsed ABC.com's exclusive screenplay review of W, Oliver Stone's upcoming biopic about the transition of George W. Bush from spoiled drunk Texas asshole to election-stealing, malaprop-slinging, Jesus-loving Texas asshole. To this very moment, in fact, we can't verify the legitimacy of Marcus Baram's trenchant read-through whose very headline — "Daddy Issues, War Lust in Oliver Stone's W" — flirts with incredulity. To that end, we combed through Baram's script review in an attempt to determine the moments that seem authentic versus those that appear to be inexplicably hacky:

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'90210' Finds Its New Dylan

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 6:00 AM on April 2, 2008

The new 90210 has its first cast member, and (yipee!), he's got a blog. Here's what we know so far about 22-year-old Dustin Milligan, who previously played the CW series lottery with a starring role in Runaway:


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Brad Pitt Unfazed By Ex's 'Echo'

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 5:10 AM on April 2, 2008

· Brad Pitt's shingle, Plan B in name only (we're looking at you, Aniston), buys rights to David Grann manuscript, "Lost City of Z," for Pitt to produce and star in. [Variety]
· Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer replace Meryl Streep and Anthony Hopkins in Tolstoy biopic The Last Station, putting the production down two Oscars but up two Golden Globes (wink!). [Variety]

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Massacred Film Critics Have a Friend in Scott Rudin

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 4:35 AM on April 2, 2008

The film-critic deathwatch we launched here way back in January (and continued yesterday) hit The New York Times this morning, when part-time Oscar gadfly and inveterate media observer David Carr surveyed the carnage from the sidelines. It's not a story we haven't been hearing for years, but Carr's essential access to insiders from Scott Rudin to Michael Lacey — the bloodthirsty boss of the New Times chain currently decimating New York's Village Voice — hints that conventional wisdom among film and publishing types won't be reconciled any time soon:

"For those of us who are making work that requires a kind of intellectual conversation, we rely on that talk to do the work of getting people interested," said Mr. Rudin, who produced No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, two Oscar-nominated and critically championed films last year. "All of the talk about No Country, all of the argument about the ending, kept that film in the forefront of the conversation" and helped it win the best picture Oscar. ...

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Jennifer Aniston To Launch New Production Company, Armed With Revenge Fantasies And Cinematic Sneak Attacks

Posted by Molly Friedman at 4:15 AM on April 2, 2008

As Jennifer Aniston announced her plans to launch a new production company called Echo Films with longtime producing partner Kristin Hahn (formerly partners with Aniston and Brad Pitt at Plan B), we couldn't help but notice a running theme associated with the majority of their projects in the works. It seems that recent disses from Angelina Jolie and those gushy rumors in all the weeklies claiming she's fallen for (yet failed to nab) co-star after co-star have inspired Echo to pursue production of a number of Women Seeking Revenge Against Men themed films. These flicks will provide Aniston with the opportunity for Aniston to use the power of cinema to address everyone in Hollywood who has labelled her as a Pity Party Girl. After the jump, we take a closer look at the projects they've lined up to get a sense of what kinds of stories Aniston wants to tell moviegoers.

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Dawson is 'Mother's' Latest Stunt

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:23 AM on April 2, 2008

Despite reports that How I Met Your Mother has already ridden the Britney ratings train to fourth season security, the show can't ... stop ... stunting! In a season that's already given us the varied guesting talents of Enrique Iglesias, Mandy Moore, Heidi Klum, Vanessa Minnillo, Sarah Chalke and, of course, Miss Spears herself, E! is reporting that James Van Der Beek is now paddling himself out of the increasingly swampy confines of Obscurity Creek and into the Land Of Laugh Tracks.

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Breaking Down The SAG / AFTRA Squabble

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:00 AM on April 2, 2008

There's nothing inherently sexy about the ongoing labour disputes between producers and writers, producers and directors, producers and actors and whatever other banal kerfuffles you care to conjure. But the SAG/AFTRA square-off pitting actors against producers and themselves is quite a tentpole-ready disaster in the making, setting up a showdown that could torch yet another slate of projects on Hollywood's horizon:

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Were Madonna's Muscles Too Masculine For The Cover Of 'Vanity Fair'?

Posted by Molly Friedman at 2:40 AM on April 2, 2008

Have the airbrushing elves at Vanity Fair gotten a little too nip-and-tucky in their April cover story on Madonna? As those nitpicky Fleet Street Brits over at The Daily Mail suggest, photos from inside the mag that show the nearly 50 year-old legend contorting herself into all sorts of quasi-sexy poses to prove her flexibility, barely resemble actual pictures taken of Madonna in real life. Madge was happy to show off her massive muscles at this year's Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, and she rarely attempts to cover up when snapped venturing in and out of the gym, so why would the art directors at VF feel the need to smudge away each and every sign of her taut muscles? A mag spokesman claims they simply did "just a little work on skin tones and blemishes," but we decided to compare the real Madonna to the magically morphed piece of art seen in this month's issue after the jump:

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