Saturday, May 24, 2008
And Introducing Sherri Shepherd As Indinesha Jones
7:05AM Seth | · We’re sure Karen Allen is telling a very interesting story about how her involvement in the new Indiana Jones movie came about, but we’re way too distracted by Sherri Shepherd’s ghetto-not-so-fabulous sartorial homage to the legendary adventurer. [The View] ·The name’s Jonas. Nick Jonas. Codename: Mooseknuckle. [Just Jared] · LAist interviews local music legend—and Hotel Cafe Records artist—Jim Bianco. (Who we look like, according to about a half-dozen random people who’ve come up and told us so on the street.) [LAist] · Nailed’s EKG delivers a steady, ear-piercing shriek, as the production is shut down yet again. [Deadline Hollywood] · The LAT details everything they observed backstage leading up to Wednesday night’s historic American Idol finale. (Spoiler alert: They caught Syesha tucking in the men’s room!) [LAT] More »
Shayne Lamas Fish-Sex Tape!
6:16AM Seth | We love Dirt Sandwich, Defamer videographer and ToDoLogist Molly McAleer’s weekly exercise in gossip-TV trash-compaction, for so many reasons. Among them, it gives us a chance to spend some time with Harvey Levin and his team of dude-monkeys over at TMZ, who find not-very-funny things (dental floss, Howard the Duck 2) ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL!!! Also in this installment: Charlize Theron in Secrets of the Casting Couch! Shayne Lamas wields a rod! And more cancer! Enjoy. Watch Video More »
Charitable ‘Bad Lieutenant’ Director Wishes Hellish, Explosive Death on Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | The ongoing, skull-melting hallucination yielding visions of Werner Herzog micromanaging Nicolas Cage’s masturbation technique abated slightly today when, at a Cannes press conference for his new film Chelsea on the Rocks, director Abel Ferrara raised his first public objection to duo’s planned remake of his 1992 effort Bad Lieutenant: More »
Just Rolling Out The Chosen Two’s Rouge Carpet Will Cost Brangelina $20 Million Dollars
6:00AM Molly Friedman | In case you hadn’t heard, Europe is expensive. Coffee costs five bucks, the dollar is like a penny, and it takes a lot of money to look as cheap as Victoria Beckham. And apparently, having a kid over there will set you back about $10 million. That is, if you’re Angelina Jolie and you’re giving birth to the world’s most important children, The Chosen Two. According to Life & Style, Brad and Angie are set to push out their newest soccer team members in France, where they’ll spend up to $20 million dollars on “birthing costs,” including every new mom’s standard requirements like helicopters, villas on the Riviera, and a fleet of nine cars. The full breakdown on just how expensive it is to have a kid when you’re Brangelina, after the jump. More »
So Did You Hear The One About Jodie Foster And The 20-Something Endeavor Agent?
5:31AM Seth | As we combed through your touching condolences in the comments section under the post noting that Jodie Foster may have left longtime companion Cydney for Tell Me You Love Me showrunner Cynthia Mort, we came across one remark in particular that, while admittedly just a rumour, seemed to us intriguing enough a possibility to float among you, the all-knowing Defamer readership. It read: More »
Tarnished Tween Queen Miley Cyrus Caught Eating Her Clothes Off
5:10AM Seth | Having barely recovered from the aneurysm-inducing shock of seeing America’s Multi-Platform 3D Tween Sweetheart Miley Cyrus splayed nakedly across the pages of Vanity Fair—wet hair, Kool-Aid lips, and a look of seductive defiance that practically dares the observer to prove their stamina—emerges yet two more photos of a similarly suggestive, naked, and seemingly wanting-it-bad vein. In this suite—rumored to have been clearly marked “For Nick Jonas’s Eyes Only,” a restriction that went virtually ignored by the boundary-oblivious MySpace community—Cyrus gnaws hungrily on her own T-shirt. The intention? Clearly to drive its intended boy-band-member recipient, widely rumoured to be a rabid garment-consumption fetishist, wild with desire. More »
Be the First to Experience Brad Pitt Aging Backward in a Second Language
4:25AM Defamer Hollywood | What’s the only thing that could top a movie trailer featuring Brad Pitt aging backward? How about that same trailer featuring Pitt aging backward — en español? A sharp-eyed tipster today sends us our first glimpse of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the David Fincher-directed, Fitzgerald-inspired adaptation starring Pitt as a man whose life enters a complicated succession of romantic and historical phases when he ages in reverse. The English-language trailer is presently screening in advance of Indiana Jones 4, with an online launch expected in the weeks ahead; meanwhile, we’ll take our grainy, “proximamente” Oscar bait where we can get it. [YouTube] More »
Do Not Leave Jonathan Rhys Meyers Alone With Your Puppy. He Will Eat It.
4:10AM Molly Friedman | Tudors star and full frontal nudity club member Jonathan Rhys Meyers seems to have followed that old dictum: when in China, do as the Chinese do. Even when it means eating a hearty meal of juicy dog meat. As Radha Mitchell, his co-star in The Children Of Huang Sui, bloopered to reporters: Jonathan did the dog’s meat. We were in some restaurant and there was dog meat on the menu and there was someone next to us just sitting there with their Chihuahua in a handbag. I was thinking, ‘That could’ve been dessert.’ And naturally, PETA has taken the opportunity to sharpen their celebrity-hating claws once again.
Tom Cruise Image-Reclamation Campaign Targets Baby Stores, Google Users
3:32AM Seth | With his dreams of an eye-patched, SS-uniformed Oscar statuette slipping through his Hitler-hunting fingers, and his billion-year war bride having successfully sanded through her reinforced-leather ankle restraints and hightailed it to the Great White Way, Tom Cruise has responded to the steady unravelling of his meticulously constructed, intergalactic Camelot in the only logical fashion: by attempting to reclaim his own image. Beyond the “Take Back The Tom” campus marches planned around the country (ours meets at the Celebrity Centre quad at 10), the NY Daily News is reporting that reps for the UA minimogul have fired off a Scary Hollywood Lawyer letter to millionaire-baby-outfitter Petit Trésor. Claiming they told Life & Style that the couple bought Suri $400,000’s worth of high-thread-count swaddling cloths and ruby-encrusted platinum rattles (or enough to feed, heal, and clothe every child in Africa until 2069), the letter asserted that the sum was “simply false,” “violates our clients’ rights of privacy,” and that the couple would therefore “request that you no longer use our clients as part of your public relations and marketing efforts.” More »
