September 4, 2008

Lily Allen Versus Elton John: The Footage

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 4:39 PM on September 4, 2008

As mentioned earlier today, Elton John and Lily Allen enjoyed some sparkling banter whilst hosting the the GQ Awards. To summarise events, Lily drank an impressive amount of champagne and swore a lot, Elton made a joke about her boozing, Lily retorted "Hey old dude, shut up, I am young and have what is left of my career ahead of me!" (not an exact quote, of course), and Elton reminded her of the impressive cocaine snorting abilities he once had back in the day.

And now? Their banter in YouTube form, after the jump!


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YouTube Clip Of The Day

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 3:39 PM on September 4, 2008

Today's fantastic dance move extravaganza comes courtesy of Monkeys For Helping.

Move your boogie body, y'all!

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Spotted! Brian Jonestown Massacre Frontman Digs John Safran

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 2:08 PM on September 4, 2008

On Sunday night in Melbourne, our spies managed to spot John Safran having his ear chewed off (settle down, Dido fans) by Anton Newcombe at the Brian Jonestown Massacre after party. Apparently Anton is a massive fan of Safran and asked him to come to the show so the two could meet. But we suspect Anton Newcombe was too much of a conversational handful even for the likes of a veteran verbal jouster such as Safran after the ten minute mark.

JetstarGate: Our Source Speaks Out, Claims Jetstar Employee Was "Polite And Professional"

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 12:15 PM on September 4, 2008

carlabonner.jpgWill this story never die? Not while there's a chance of it winning me a Walkley, which is extremely likely considering it involves swear words, a Neighbours star, and minimal "investigationing" (that's the word journos use, isn't it? Ryan Shelton is a proper reporter, yeah?) on my part.

I contacted our source who claims to have witnessed Carla Bonner getting unreasonably surly toward a Jetstar flight attendant (something Carla Bonner denies) and urged him to speak up and tell me the truth. Had he embellished the story a little? Had anything not come across correctly in his first version of events, and is it possible Carla could rightly believe she'd been misrepresented? I mean, we may be a playful "online blog", but we have some sense of decency. If anything needs to be clarified and publicly amended, we're more than willing to do it.

Our source has just gotten back to us and admitted that there are a few things he'd like to change in his story. Gripped? Why wouldn't you be! It's JetstarGate!

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If You Insist She'll Have A White Wine Spritzer. Or Eighty.

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 11:34 AM on September 4, 2008

lilyallen2RUCKAS_468x398.jpgIt's been a while since Lily Allen has come up with the goods, so to speak, in the hilarious celebrity bad behaviour stakes, so this latest update pleases me immensely (after all, she's like Amy Winehouse but without the crushing sense of the imminent death of humanity and a bunch of cute fluffy kittens and babies): in short, Lily got shickered at the GQ Men of the Year Awards and pissed off nearly everyone in the room/entertainment industry. Even better, it was a cavalcade of bad manners as everyone's iffy behaviour inspired everyone else, and in the end Elton John and Mani from Primal Scream had joined the party (the latter exclaiming, on the topic of Elle MacPherson, "F-cking hell, a giraffe in a dress").

When Allen told the star-studded Royal Opera House audience "now we reach a very special point in the evening", Sir Elton sniped: "What, you are going to have another drink?"

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Should Anna Coren Stay Or Should She Go?

Australian Post Posted by Clem Bastow at 11:20 AM on September 4, 2008

Anna Coren concerned face.jpgThat title may seem like a rhetorical question (the answer being, one would expect, "Duh, go"), but it's par for the course over at Seven headquarters at present. One minute Coren was all set to vamoose the Today Tonight chair and Concerned Face™ to jump ship to CNN, and now it looks like she's not so certain the US is where it's at anymore. Where does this leave proposed replacement, Samantha Armytage? That's an issue that doesn't seem to be rating very highly on Seven's Care-Factor-O-Meter, as they're too busy to-ing and fro-ing about Coren, if Seven's current affairs honcho Peter Meakin's stance is anything to go by:

"I am scheduled to catch up with Anna tomorrow and everything will be laid on the table - we are going to start with a clean sheet," Meakin told Confidential last night.

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Spectacular (Or Crap, Depending On Your Taste) Thursday Joke

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 9:39 AM on September 4, 2008

To celebrate the recent announcement that rap star Snoop Dogg will now be issued a visa allowing him into this fine land of ours to drop whatever it is he wants to drop regardless of its temperature, I would like to repeat a joke here that my friend Genny B told on air during the RRR Radiothon show for her program LiveWire. It is fantastic and awful but brilliant and it made me laugh til it hurt because I am a bit special sometimes.

Q. Why does Snoop Dogg always carry an umbrella?

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Fatherhood Finds David Spade

Posted by Seth at 9:30 AM on September 4, 2008

To all you naysayers out there who always insisted that David Spade would never find a nice girl, settle down, and fall right into life as a loving new dad, time to start eating some crow: Spade has accidentally impregnated a Playboy Playmate. So there!

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Australia's Favourite Gardening Gurus Have Turned On Each Other!

Australian Post Posted by Jess McGuire at 9:07 AM on September 4, 2008

I've always heard that gardening and spending quality time with plantlife kept you all Zen and shizz, but latest reports in the paper would indicate that's not the case. Oprah's new favourite plaything Jamie Durie and Australia's other top dude who digs stuff on a renovation show Scott Cam are bitching about each other with all the spite and venom one would expect from teenage girls. And I for one love it.

The gardening gloves are off, with Jamie Durie's former Nine co-star Scott Cam shaming the Seven personality for "offensive" comments he made which pitted Durie's new program against the makeover of Sydney survivor Lauren Huxley.

Uh-oh. Did golden boy Jamie actually say something offensive? Say it ain't so!

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Robert Downey Jr. Falls Deeper Down The Mustache Hole

Posted by Seth at 9:07 AM on September 4, 2008

Appearing before throngs of adoring Japanese movie fans accompanied by his ever-present quartet of Ironjuko dancers was the inimitable Robert Downey Jr., whose upper lip appears to have crossed the point of no return since last we checked in with the unabashedly facial-hair-curious actor. But the look has grown more severe now—the furrowed brow, the unkempt hair, the dark glasses, and constipated pout all seem to suggest another man's superstar aura entirely. Help us, won't you, get to the bottom of this Robert Downey Jr. mini-mystery, by voting in yet another of those Defamer reader polls you love so much. All aboard for mustache rides after the jump!

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'Whiner' Hillary Clinton Is One Role Susan Sarandon Would Prefer Not To Touch-A

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 9:05 AM on September 4, 2008

For most actresses, a complicated role like Hillary Clinton (or even Sarah Palin!) would be catnip — but not to Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. In an interview with The Advocate, Sarandon is asked for her thoughts on a Hillary Clinton biopic, and suffice it to say, the longtime liberal activist/trail mix smuggler doesn't mince words on the subject:

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Lindsay Lohan Flourishes as Pseudo-Pregnant Halfwit Type in 'Labor Pains' Trailer

Posted by STV at 8:55 AM on September 4, 2008

Maybe it's just that Don LaFontaine is dead, but we're more invested than usual in the spectrum of new trailers making their ways through the mourning cosmos The Voice left behind. In fact, it's his special touch that perhaps most conspicuously missing from this new spot for the Lindsay Lohan comedy Labor Pains: "In a world... where one of the biggest celebrities is among the least employable... an independent film gave her a chance... to dazzle audiences again... by faking a pregnancy..." Adding insult to injury, the standard "Coming soon" title card is subbed out for "Now in post-production," reminding us that the film has yet be picked up for American distribution. It'll happen though, don't you worry; this has straight-to-Flopz written all over it. Check it after the jump. [Cinematical]

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Russell Brand Offers Eva Longoria Parker a Water Sports-Soaked Threesome

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 8:50 AM on September 4, 2008

When we think of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, we picture a family-friendly forum where Republican candidates can come to read funny headlines out loud and maybe, finally, meet a real-life black musician. Lately, though, our G-rated suppositions have gone to hell as the lame-duck Leno has regaled the audience with stories about his interest in an underage Jessica Biel and his auto-erotic fantasies involving actress Scarlett Johansson. Into a more ribald chat show, then, does cheeky VMAs host Russell Brand walk — and boy, does he make the most of it:

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Posted by STV at 8:45 AM on September 4, 2008

Poltergeist Enemy No. 1: After a forcefully (and surprisingly) angry appeal to God himself, late child star Heather O'Rourke is perched on the edge of her cloud bank today with an eye on Vadim Perelman, the director of self-serious melodrama including House of Sand and Fog, The Life Before Her Eyes who'll next helm MGM's planned remake of the 1982 horror/sci-fi classic Poltergeist. Production EVP Cale Boyter hours ago confirmed rumours that had been circulating since the weekend, issuing a statement saying: "We are excited to have Vadim direct Poltergeist, a title which already has a built-in movie-going audience. With his established track record, we look forward to having him lead the creative direction on this new character-based horror project that will utilise the original film as a jumping-off point." We, too, have contemplated higher, more fatal jumping-off points of our own at the thought of a remake. Still, our faith in young O'Rourke — who immortalised the original with her catchphrase "They're heeeere" before tragically passing away in 1988 — should, must win out in the end. Watch your arse, Perelman. [MGM]

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Thai Visitor Nicolas Cage Too Busy Fleeing War to Learn Directors' Names

Posted by STV at 8:35 AM on September 4, 2008

It's altogether possible that Nicolas Cage's new film Bangkok Dangerous is among his finest — a lively, entertaining adventure recalling his early years romping through movies by the Coens, David Lynch and his uncle Francis Ford Coppola. Still, we relieved most of our illusions fairly early in Cage's appearance last night on Letterman, when the Oscar-winner-for-hire confessed both his inability to distinguish his twin-brother directors from each other and his time spent fleeing Thailand's recent coup d'etat with his wife and child. But then we felt a certain restorative surge of confidence, a sort of implied Method veracity that re-established our faith in his cockroach-eating batshittery of yore. So now we're just confused. But hey as long as it's not, like, Ghost Rider 2 or... Wait, what? Oh. So much for optimism. [CBS]

Posted by Seth at 8:31 AM on September 4, 2008

Comeback Comeback: Britney Spears's ongoing flirtation with this year's VMAs has progressed past the stage of hanging out near an elephant while Russell Brand played Itsy Bitsy Spider up her inner thigh. She's going to open the show—though great care is being taken not to have a repeat of last year's performance, a still of which now appears next to the word "train·wreck" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Instead, MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler said it will be something "fun and unexpected." Britney said in a statement, "MTV has long played an important role in my career. How can I not be there to kick off their 25th VMAs? I'm excited to open the entire show, to say hi to my fans and to be nominated." [AP/Yahoo]

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Fire Up Your Oscars: Here Come Da 'Milk'!

Posted by Seth at 7:45 AM on September 4, 2008

Here it is: The trailer for Milk, Gus Van Sant's retelling of the swift rise and violent and untimely fall of America's first openly gay elected official, set against a backdrop of the swinging San Francisco of the late '70s. Everything here seems note-perfect, from Sean Penn's Horshackian (with base notes of I Am Sam) vocal inflections, to the meticulously executed period gayfros, to the Anita Bryant file footage (here's some more of Bryant getting a banana cream pie in the face; ah—that never gets old), to the portentous-but-not-too-portentous tagline: "His life changed history. His courage changed lives." You thought a pair of lovelorn cowboys shot in silhouette were enough to nudge the Oscar envelope? Just wait until Sean Penn's Best Actor clip—featuring the actor entwined in James Franco's naked folds and delivering a stirring monologue on answering one's higher calling—shows the Academy how one really gays their way to the gold.

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Inside Alec Baldwin: A 'Nudist,' A 'Homosexual,' A Rock Music Aficionado, And a Tormented Soul

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:25 AM on September 4, 2008

Though we'll miss you for the next half-hour, reading the New Yorker's brand-new, 8,168-word profile of 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is most certainly the best thing you could do all day. Entitled "Why Me?", it's the story of a manic, magnetic actor having a mid-life career resurgence obvious to everyone but Baldwin himself. Though everyone around the actor tries to convinces him that his stint as Jack Donaghy is the role of a lifetime, Baldwin can't quite settle down and enjoy himself; in fact, he initially wanted to do no more than six episodes of 30 Rock per season. That NBC wanted (and eventually got) him to sign up for more earned this hilarious, My Name is Earl-lacerating monologue from Baldwin:

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'Watchmen' Studio Death Match Coming in January to a Court Near You

Posted by STV at 7:00 AM on September 4, 2008

The Watchmen copyright squabbles plaguing Fox and Warner Bros. will go in front of a judge next year on Jan. 6, exactly two months before the graphic novel adaptation is scheduled to open in the US. The good news for Warners and the fanboy community mouthbreathing in anticipation: Fox's quest to block the film's release is unlikely to come through that close to opening day — which in turn relegates that Wolverine boycott/piracy revenge threat to the Dustbin of Unnecessary Ideas once and for all. Alas, a trial date means someone's probably getting busted — which is where the bad news comes in.

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Vote Now in the High-Stakes Hollywood Joker-Alike Contest

Posted by STV at 5:35 AM on September 4, 2008

After her latest round of plastic surgery, Joan Rivers has once again sparked concern that her postmodern facial sculpting has perhaps gone one operation too far. "My motto is, 'Better a new face coming out of an old car than an old face coming out of a new car.' Spend your money on you," the Daily Mail quotes her as saying, but clearly the stakes have soared beyond self-service satisfaction: Rivers is but the latest boldface name to join the increasingly cutthroat Joker-Alike 2008 competition, in which grinning celebrities and their psychotic celluloid doppelgangers square off for ear-to-ear supremacy. Have a closer look at the finalists — and vote for a (or nominate your own) winner after the jump.

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Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 5:20 AM on September 4, 2008

Breaking News: Jennifer Aniston is a desperate, man-obsessed stalker...on a fall episode of 30 Rock, shooting right now in New York! The former Friends actress will play Claire Harper, a "free-spirited, Fatal Attraction-like stalker" (and ex-roommate of Tina Fey's Liz Lemon) who falls for Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). After his efforts to rebuff her finally sink in, "Claire" will go a bunny-killing rampage that coincidentally claims the lives of Aniston enemies John Mayer and Wendy Williams. "No one told you life was gonna end this way," she will sing, before the clap-clap-clap of her handgun brings the scene to a close. [Us]

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New 'Tarzan' To Have Biggest Vines Ever!

Posted by Seth at 4:45 AM on September 4, 2008

· Noted shlockteur Stephen Sommers will write and direct Warner Bros.'s splashy Tarzan remake, set to push the flimsy-loincloth envelope further than any version to come before. [Variety]
· Ravenous Spanish pantry-pirate Gwyneth Paltrow has hopped aboard a space skiff and escaped the CAA Death Star, having signed on with UTA on Tuesday afternoon. The direct implications this has upon your day-to-day lives should be negligible. [Variety]
· Ted Danson has been cast in HBO comedy pilot Bored to Death, playing the "pompous but articulate magazine editor" mentor to Jason Schwartzman's "struggling Brooklyn writer with a drinking problem." [THR]
· The Wonder Years writer-producer Bob Brush has been given a very strings-attached pilot order of Lost in the '80s, pitched as what happens when "Fast Times at Ridgemont High meets The Ice Storm," then sleeps with The Ice Storm's best friend Square Pegs, accidentally getting her pregnant and producing a son named Ordinary People. [THR]
· Surprise! SAG and the AMPTP are fighting. The latest: SAG sent a 12-page letter to members outlining their problems with the producers' final offer, which they characterize as "one-sided and filled with misrepresentations." [THR]

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Seth's Rogenitals Not On Display In 'Zack And Miri' Redband Trailer

Posted by Seth at 4:25 AM on September 4, 2008

At long last we get an unobstructed view of Zack and Miri Make A Porno, Kevin Smith's little, "Hey—Let's Put on a Donkey Show and Save the Community Center!" comedy, with this redband trailer. We were hooked quite early into the proceedings, with Justin Long's cameo as an adult male video star. (Come to think of it, the Mac guy has the perfect name to adorn a Falcon DVD sleeve.) Landing upon the perfect theme—Star Whores (maybe chief LucasArts licenser Howard Roffman could lend them a few creamy-skinned boys from his stable)—Zack, the lovely Elizabeth "Miri" Banks, and friends go upon the business of making if not the greatest porn of all time, at least the greatest erotic home video to incorporate the use of magical queef bubbles. Enjoy the filth!

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How to Get Into Anne Hathaway's Pants: 'Vaccinate Some Kids, Build a House'

Posted by STV at 4:05 AM on September 4, 2008

Beyond the impressively reported (if eye-glazing) details of Raffaello Follieri's shady dealings with everyone from the Catholic Church to Ron Burkle, the accused con man and Holy Beancounter's lengthy profile in the new issue of Vanity Fair features essential insights into how one might court his ex Anne Hathaway. For starters, thick Italian charm and a dozen roses go a long way to balance out being an hour late for your first date. Manhattan penthouses are OK, and six-figure vacations are especially sexy — especially those including an audience with the Pope and/or a stiffed host suing to collect rental fees. Forget all that, though; at the end of the day, nothing gets Hathaway hotter than a humanitarian:

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But What Daniel Radcliffe Really Wants to Do Is Play Hermione

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:45 AM on September 4, 2008

It isn't as easy as you might think to be Harry Potter — sure, there's all that tween-supplied dough to roll in, but whenever your film gets delayed, you know that some crackpot from Fox News will blame it on your private magic wand. Small wonder, then, that Harry portrayer Daniel Radcliffe wants to forgo that magic stick entirely in his next role (or at least tuck it somewhere so hidden you'd need a summoning charm to get it out). Says Details:

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Matthew McConaughey's Surf Heavies Charged With Pap Battery

Posted by Seth at 3:25 AM on September 4, 2008

Charges have been filed against two surfers who rose to the defence of their brah-in-arms, Matthew McConaughey, when they felt his groove was being unfairly threatened by encroaching paparazzi at Malibu's Paradise Cove last June. From the Reuters report:

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David Letterman Thinks NBC's Late Night Plans Are Just Plain Goofy

Posted by Seth at 2:50 AM on September 4, 2008

Sitting down with Rolling Stone for a rare interview, David Letterman opened up on his two-step process of alienating and courting some of his most famous guest-emies—towering pop culture figures like Madonna, Oprah, and Richard Simmons—as well as his own plans for retirement. ("I would like to go beyond [my contracted] 2010, not much beyond," he told them.) He was also asked to weigh in on the curious scheduling shift going on at his old network NBC, where top ratings-getter Jay Leno is being forcibly vacated to make room for new The Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien, and his Late Night successor, Jimmy Fallon. No one is more confused about the changes than Letterman:

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Quirky Love Story 'Juneau' Eyes Another Award-Season Run

Posted by STV at 2:30 AM on September 4, 2008

You knew it was bound to happen: Oliver Stone's gauntlet-throw to chronicle a sitting president by Election Day would be one-upped by an ambitious upstart determined to develop, produce and release a film about a campaigning candidate by the same time. And just like that, from a Defamer operative, comes Juneau, the untold story of Bristol Palin, her babydaddy and one Alaskan governor/vice-presidential hopeful to rule them all. Who knew the sleeper hit of the season would come out of the GOP Convention and not Toronto? Even Roger Ebert is into it! Let the bidding war begin.

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'90210': Meet the New Brenda, Who Can't. Stop. Smiling!

Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 2:10 AM on September 4, 2008

Perhaps you've heard, but a little show called 90210 premiered last night on the CW (to record ratings) and nobody is happier about it than lead actress Shenae Grimes, the smilingest girl who ever smiled. Though she's ostensibly playing the show's Brenda Walsh archetype, Grimes eschewed Shannen Doherty's near-goth hauteur to deliver two hours of the biggest, widest, most non-stop smiling since Denise Richards grinned her way through Starship Troopers. With the help of videographer Molly McAleer, we've assembled a montage of Grimes compulsively flashing those pearly whites; whether she's flirting with the school bad boy, bantering with a terrifyingly well-preserved Lori Loughlin, or wondering, "Gee, doesn't this high school seem like it came out of a generic Anytown, USA rather than a truly decadent Beverly Hills," Grimes simply can't stop beaming. Shenae, we're sorry — but like bad-girl blogger Silver, we're simply speaking the truth. Don't worry, we're still BFF's. Catch you at The Pit? [The CW]

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