Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Another Day, Another Child Pornography Scandal!

4:17PM Jess McGuire | Hot on the heels of the recent Art Monthly cover debacle (shame on you, K-Rudd! You made a little girl cry!) I am saddened to report that the seemingly endless and totally tedious Art World versus Moral Australia battle appears to be continuing, and this time Olympic champ Michael Klim is the villain! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS PICTURE, KLIM? THAT’S A NEKKID BEBBEH ON YOUR BARE ADULT CHEST! If you’re as outraged as I am, you can join the Facebook group “Protest Michael Klim’s Child Pornography Photo Shoot”, created by decency watch dog, Triple J breakfast host, and all round cheeky monkey Lindsay “The Doctor” McDougall. While you’re at it, you may like to also sign up to the “Oh DO Fuck Off, Hetty Johnson” collective as well. More »

Angie Hart: “I Feel A Little Tricked And Betrayed”

12:58PM Jess McGuire | Bloody hell. Yesterday I promised you exclusive audio goodness, but I can’t get the stupid audio clip thingos to work, and my head hurts, so there’s gonna be a slight delay, I’m afraid. However, because I wanted to give you something to read, I have lovingly transcribed the conversation I had with Angie Hart yesterday on the cutting edge topic “Neighbours versus Home & Away”. It is daft, and you can read it all after the jump. And if you’d like to win tickets to any of the East Coast Dave McCormack (ex Custard)/ Angie Hart (ex Frente) shows, just send a funny video link – anything you like – to tips at defamer.com.au, and mention which show you’d like to win a double pass for. That’s it! More »

Dangerous Pant- And Tree-Snakes Abound In Best Porn Intro Ever!

12:00PM Seth | You’ll likely have many questions after watching the Best Porn Intro Ever. We’ll likely not have answers. Still, that doesn’t detract from the fact that this is, without a doubt, the best. Porn. Intro. Ever. [YouTube] Mark Burnett is being sued for $70 million by Mr. Drummond. Oh wait—that’s Conrad Bain. Never mind. [ABCNews.com] Ladies and gentlemen: We proudly present the shirtless, out-of-work bartenders who’ll be standing around a kitchen island saying racist things on this summer’s tenth edition of Big Brother! [Yahoo] Something about Madonna’s return to gossip bad-girl status has sent her running back into the arms of her former stunt-lesbian tonsil-field-hockey-partner, Britney Spears, for comfort. Britney got a job out of it. [CNN] OMGZ! Some of David Lynch’s favourite restaurants are some of our favourite restaurants! (Actually we’re only sort of feigning surprise. We’ve seen him sitting outside Figaro about 12 zillion times.) [LAT] And finally, a hearty congratulations to our own videostronomer Molly McAleer, named by Urlesque as one of 20 “Bloggers We Want To See In Bikinis.” It’s her two-piece-rocking world. We just live in it. [Urlesque] More »

Now That Diamond Rings Are Involved, Lohan / Ronson Romance Takes New Life

11:20AM Molly Friedman | As the Daily Mirror reported yesterday, Lindsay Lohan’s personal assistant/roommate/rough sex partner Samantha Ronson decided to give her bestest girlfriend one highly suggestive 22nd birthday.gift: a Cartier diamond ring worth close to $22k. As these pictures show (closer look after the jump), Ronson picked up the pricey bauble on a sunny shopping trip with Lindsay over the weekend, and Lohan didn’t waste any time slipping the ring on the one finger where rings mean anything — the treacherous inch of skin on a girl’s left hand traditionally reserved for engagement gems. But this isn’t the first time Lindsay and Sam have projected their love via hand decor, and judging by the way this couple handled their first Promise Ring engagement, we’re worried Sam doesn’t know what we do: sentimental jewelry is not the way to Lindsay’s (still intact!) heart… More »

The Stanley Cup Had A Way More Fabulous, Celebrity-Filled Fourth Of July Than You Did

10:25AM Seth | The Stanley Cup—aka Canada’s Holy Grail, from which, legend has it, one sip of Labatt Blue renders the drinker immortal—took some time off from its current damnation home in Detroit to take in some local sunshine and glamour. Starting in Manhattan Beach at the home of former San Jose Shark Brad Stuart, the cup then bounced into its rental (a convertible Sebring) and hightailed it down to Chris Chelios’s place in Malibu. It stopped for breakfast at Coogie’s Beach Café, where a cup-struck Rob Reiner bashfully approached it and requested a photograph. But it was once it arrived at Bally’s gym owner John Wildman’s annual Fourth of July party that it really started getting caught up in the Hollywood fast lane, rubbing handles with the likes of Detroit’s own Kid Rock, David Spade, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Liotta, and Jeremy Piven. The Stanley Cup Journal blog reports: More »

Chivalrous Steve Carell Saves Anne Hathaway From Ex’s Voracious Italian Countrymen

10:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Anne Hathaway’s long road back from her oily-boyfriend, dog-abandoning private hell had one final hurdle Monday: The Italian premiere of Get Smart, where Raffaello Follieiri’s compatriots bared their red-carpet fangs at the actress — who apparently, despite her ever-expansive doe eyes, didn’t see it coming. Thank God, though, Steve Carell was there, defying his typecast incompetence in his helpless co-star’s service:

Christopher Ciccone’s Tell-All Only Serves To Reestablish Madonna’s Sorely Missed Bad Girl Rep

9:15AM Molly Friedman | Madonna’s epic reputation as a racy, sexual icon who lives life with “no regrets” has encountered a few speed bumps in recent years. The transition from Material Girl to Earth Mother circa Ray Of Life in 1998 marked the most significant rupture to her free-wheeling Erotica-encapsulated days of drugs, sex, and whispered rock ‘n roll, an “epiphany” she credited to Kabbalah. But after the ethereal schtick grew tired, the older but not necessarily wiser Madge launched a campaign to reclaim her It Girl Woman cred by slipping Christina and Britney some tongue, spreading her legs for Hard Candy, and using that handy Husband Emasculation method perfected by Katherine Heigl to resurrect her old identity as a shockworthy icon of sorts. And after hearing just what kind of “sordid” revelations await us in her estranged brother’s tell-all memoir Life With My Sister Madonna, we don’t think Madge’s reps should even bother issuing a denial about Christopher Ciccone’s book. Anecdotes about same-sex makeout sessions, drug parties with studio execs, and straight-edge Guy Ritchie’s alleged “homophobic” tendencies, all of which actually add up to a convincing pro-Madonna campaign…

Ajay’s (Legal) Weigh-In

9:11AM Clem Bastow | You’ll recall that a month or so ago it was revealed that Biggest Loser host Ajay Rochester was headed to court to face 23 charges of fraud (yes, 23). Well, she had her day in court yesterday, and it was good to see the Daily Telegraph bringing out the sizeist adjectives once more to describe “the larger-than-life personality” of Rochester: She is accused of receiving single parent payments for four years when she knew she was not eligible, Kim Arlington reports. Rochester was a no-show – believed to have been in Fiji – when her case first came before the court last month. But the larger-than-life personality appeared in person yesterday, with her lawyers telling the court she was formally pleading not guilty to the charges. More »

Camilla Yearns For The Good Old Colonial Days When Every Royal Had A Darkie To Call One’s Own

8:52AM Clem Bastow | When you’ve been called “The Rottweiler” by your husband’s beloved late ex-wife and you faced a massive PR battle to win over the public of Britain and convince them that you would be a suitable wife for their Prince, and you finally managed to do so, marrying the man of your dreams after an awfully long time, what do you think would be a good accessory to add to your carry-on luggage? A badge that says “I ♥ UK”? Or maybe a culturally insensitive throwback to the days of black and white minstrels? Duchess of Cornwall Camilla chooses the latter! Members of the Royal Family tend to avoid taking their lead from Prince Phillip on matters of cultural or colonial insensitivity. But the Duchess of Cornwall’s choice of Burberry bag accessory suggests he is not the only one capable of gaffs of this sort. Royal watchers were astonished to see – what appeared to be – a golliwog figure in the boot of her car, minutes before she was whisked away from the Hampton Court Flower Show yesterday morning. More »