Tuesday, August 5, 2008
When Tania Zaetta Is Not Drinking Lemon Detox, She Likes To Film Ninja Movies In Geelong
1:20PM Clem Bastow | After starring in the decade’s most memorable celebrity endorsement deal (”Accused of banging the entire Australian Army? Try Lemon Detox!“), Tania Zaetta has done what most would do in her situation and returned to work – however, her latest project is not another Bollywood hit, but an action movie – to be filmed in none other than Australia’s cultural, G-Banger.
Is Geelong the new Hollywood? Only time will tell!
Geelong film buff Rob Baard says he is close to securing $6 million from backers for his debut feature film, The Ninja.
The production will use North Geelong’s Mill Markets as a studio with scenes shot around the city’s streets.
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Daniel MacPherson Is The New ‘Dancing’ Host; Somewhere, Larry Emdur Cries Quietly
12:10PM Clem Bastow | After praying to God/Buddha/Gary Ablett that either Larry Emdur or Andrew O’Keefe (or, indeed, Tina Sparkle) would get the Dancing With The Stars hosting gig in Daryl Somers’ stead, the show has casually slipped itself back into the irrelevance folder (in the Defamer Australia household, at least) by announcing Daniel MacPherson as the host.
We’re so… whelmed that we’ll let Daniel do the talking, and isn’t this the most spontaneous and self-effacing quote you’ve ever read in your life:
“Professionally I thrive on challenges. For me, live TV is sort of the pinnacle of entertainment. You risk so much. You risk your personal and professional reputation every time you go out there, particularly in a vehicle that’s as huge as Dancing.”
Only last month MacPherson spoke of his disinterest in hosting a television series after The X Factor bombed in 2005.
“Drama has always been my true goal … Nah, I can’t see myself hosting in the near future,” he said in July.
Oh good! Can’t see yourself hosting, can you? Neither can we! And while you’re at it, get your hands off our Tina Sparkle, please.
Back to lighting candles in the vain hope that The Late Andrew O’Keefe will be greenlit, then. More » 
Chris Rock’s F*&%ing Night At The Roxbury
11:52AM Clem Bastow | Good to see Australian audiences keeping up our rep as comedy fans on the edge of the edgy: Chris Rock has caused an outbreak of the sooky la las after getting blue at a surprise gig in Sydney. What were they expecting, Adam Hills & The Cuddly Fun Nanna Hour (with Rove on warm-up duties)?
According to Confidential spies, the 25-minute routine featured the “f” word more times than a Ramsay cooking episode – playing fun with everything from Barack Obama to Australia’s origins as a convict country.
Ahead of his first tour of Australia, Rock, known for his no-limits, confrontational style, was accompanied by an entourage of seven and the star was dressed smartly in a black trench coat.
Roxbury Hotel staffer Chris Strickland said he thought the venue was being “punked” when Aussie promoter Artie Lang called on the night to arrange the secret slot.
The Saturday Night Live star did not explain his motives for the impromptu, preview gig, but it proved a cheap thrill for the lucky 100 in the pub on the night.
Ha ha, that use of “punked” in inverted commas says it all, really. Top work, Chris Strickland – to the top of the Jazz Randyboy class go you! In any case, now seems as good a time as ever to share one of my favourite Chris Rock Show highlights with you all, How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police – over the jump. More » Bad News For Reggie from Big Brother…
10:26AM Jess McGuire | Sad news – apparently former Big Brother winner Reggie “I done a poo!” Bird (well, her surname is now Sorensen but anyway…) is going blind. Reggie says she is suffering from retinitis pigmentosa (RP), an inherited, degenerative condition that affects just one in 3000 Australians. Reggie, 34, told Woman’s Day magazine it’s only a matter of time before she loses her sight completely. Poor Reggie :( More »
Madonna’s New Face Turns The ‘Volume’ All The Way Up To 11
10:20AM STV | Madonna’s publicist isn’t talking about what her clients like the Material Girl and Cher are doing to their faces (”I have never represented anyone who has spoken to me about plastic surgery. Nor have I asked them. I don’t want to know!”), but that doesn’t mean the doctors, the “dermatologists” and other illustrious characters in the pageant of A-list cosmetic surgery aren’t offering up a ghastly state of the union regarding their trade in this week’s New York Magazine. Which naturally includes Madonna, the issue’s cover girl and unauthorized representative of the New New Face — as opposed to the “Old” New Faces belonging to the mishandled likes of Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan. More »
Who’s Creepier: Joe Simpson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Or Hulk Hogan?
10:00AM Seth | · We think it’s the one who shows up to spring break with your professional beer-bongist Uncle Knobs in tow. [Brooke Knows Best] · We could spend all day reading the various captions beneath identical tabloid photos of Sylvester Stallone’s veiny forearms. [Daily Mail] · There’s something about Sawyer weighing in on the Chosen Blobs photos that kind of kills the whole Lost mystique—we just can’t put our fingers on what that is. [ET Online] · If we told you we had access to footage of Hitler singing one of the greatest TV theme songs of all time, is that something you might be interested in? [WOW Report] · “Molly McAleer is the cute, adorably sassy, camera-friendly personality on defamer.com. We are a website looking for our Molly McAleer.” We’ll trade her for a pack of Marlb Meds and a handicap parking pass. [Craigslist] More »
Hollywood Forever: Long Live Jane Fonda’s Boobs
9:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Every group of friends has a Movie Nazi. You know this person: they buy the tickets a day in advance; they send the email two weeks beforehand, organizing everyone; they insist you get there at least a half hour early so you can get the best seats. You grumble, but in the end you are grateful for the Movie Nazi, especially when the movie event in question is at the Cinespia outdoor film series at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Follow along as we break down an evening spent with thousands of our closest friends for a screening of the ’60s camp classic Barbarella. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:38AM Jess McGuire | Okay, okay, Rachael Leigh Cook! I won’t touch heroin, I swear to god!
(rocks back and forth)
She was much more jovial in Josie & The Pussycats. More » Helen Mirren’s Award Winning Abs
9:37AM Jess McGuire | Congratulations to Oscar winning sixty-something year old actress Dame Helen Mirren whose never ending hotness – remember? – has led to her enviably flat stomach being declared the third sexiest tummy on the planet, as judged by the makers of a “stomach flattening supplement” called AntiBloat (and can you imagine better folk to assess celeb torsos? I cannot…)
The 63-year-old actress – who recently wowed onlookers with her trim physique when she donned a bikini while on holiday in the Italian Riviera – came third in the poll.
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Britpop Flashback!
9:31AM Jess McGuire | I don’t think Sleeper was a huge band over in Australia, but I remember being in London in 1996 and hearing their track ‘Sale Of The Century’ on the radio and loving it very much.
Unfortunately I can’t find a clip to publish right here for your convenient viewing pleasure (embedding disabled, I hate you!) but click on the picture below and you can go soak it up in your own time.
Quite good, don’t you think? More » 