Friday, September 26, 2008
Sneak Peek- Top Gear Australia
5:13PM Kym Weathersten | We’re on the home straight (sorry couldn’t resist). With just 3 sleeps to go until Top Gear Australia graces our screens, another sneak peek has hit You Tube. If the preview is any indication, the local version of the popular UK program should make for entertaining viewing.
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How Did The Liberals Get Into This Mess, Pineapple Express (Etc)
2:55PM Clem Bastow | Alternative headlines: Mull Up Malcolm, A Big Turnbull On The Bong, A Sticky-Icky Situation For The Libs – hey, we could go on all day, and likely will, as you can see! In any case, to celebrate Malcolm Turnbull’s “shocking” admission, I’ve prepared a little tribute to an old favourite of the walls of teenage (and not so teenaged) boys the world over:
Sure to be gracing the pool rooms and college bedrooms of hip Young Liberals the country over before you can say “Pass the dutchie on the left-hand side”, I am sure. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Where Stylists Groan And Girls Chunder
11:40AM Clem Bastow | Generally speaking, tales of nightmarish celebrity excess – Rod Stewart getting a flask of semen pumped from his stomach, Stevie Nicks’ coke-up-the-bum, Ricky Martin and the golden showers – are, more often than not, complete twaddle. So it is that I take this Winegums-related tidbit with a grain or forty of salt, but then again, it is Winegums, so anything’s possible. The long and short of it is, think twice before lending Amy your favourite frock:
Our insider reveals: “Harvey Nichols loaned Amy £25k’s worth of silk and satin dresses. Unfortunately, while wearing one of the frocks, she went on an all-night bender.
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Robert Hughes Prepares Notes For Future Essay On Ian Thorpe’s Oeuvre
10:34AM Clem Bastow | The world of “celebrity” is filled with slashies, that is, people who can’t resist sliding a slash between their various careers. Actor/model, model/actress, muso/entrepreneur, gardener/male stripper – the list goes on. Well, Ian Thorpe is keen to become the first swimmer/pearl-necklace peddler/visual artist with his painterly effort for a charity auction, darkly entitled My Pain, My Gain, featuring a stylised Thorpedo – ahem – “powering through the water with tiny human figures all over him”.
“When I was a kid I used to imagine within my body there were all these mini people and the people in my goggles were the control room,” Thorpe said.
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Delta Goodrem’s Postmodern David Letterman Fantasy Comes True
9:54AM Clem Bastow | After much fanfare, Delta Goodrem has risen through the ranks of the US talk shows to the pinnacle, The Late Show With David Letterman (that show’s being the pinnacle is of course open to debate; I would’ve gone with Outrageous Celebrity Lookalike Behaviour Caught On Tape: 2, but there you go). In any case, Delts ended up the star attraction on the show after John McCain pulled out of his scheduled appearance. How did she go? Well, let’s watch it: More » 
Channel Ten Skips Breakfast
9:47AM Clem Bastow | Despite the fact that most ordinary humans (i.e. the Defamer Australia team) aren’t awake early enough in the day to watch it, breakfast television is probably second only to the Friday and Sunday night ratings in terms of one-eyed network rivalries. With Seven’s Sunrise and Nine’s Today currently in battle, and ABC2’s Virginia Trioli vehicle on the way, Channel Ten has stayed reasonably tight-lipped – and they’re sticking to that stance, despite word that they are about to enter the field.
A Ten spokeswoman yesterday denied the network was dumping its kids line-up for news entertainment. “We were shooting for the regular 6am bulletin. I don’t know where this talk of a breakfast program has come from,” a Ten news publicist said.
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First Look! Disney Mule Johnny Depp Reviving Tonto For New, ‘Lone Ranger’-Starved Generation
9:00AM STV | With infidel Mickey Mouse still in hiding after last week’s death-sentence fatwa, Disney appears to be rolling the dice on a bold rebranding of sorts. Behold — Disney Depp (née Johnny), whose anchoring of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise yielded yesterday’s news of not only Pirates 4, but also the star’s attachment as Tim Burton’s Mad Hatter in a live-action Alice in Wonderland and as Tonto in a revival of The Lone Ranger. The announcement was made Wednesday in Disney’s marathon State of the Mouse Biennial, putting its jittery investors at ease, its fans in an uproar and the press into some kind of overwhelmed coma. Johhny Depp? As Tonto? In Josh Groban’s incredulous words, “Really?!” More »
Harvey’s Peril Worsens as MGM Drops ‘Zack and Miri’ and Rest of Weinstein Slate
8:55AM STV | The three-year distribution match made in heaven the mildly optimistic spirit of convenience between MGM and the Weinstein Company was set to expire at the end of this year, but the Lion isn’t waiting around to box up the furniture. A day after Kevin Smith’s associates blogged that MGM had yanked its logo from the marketing materials for Zack and Miri Make a Porno — one of the few remaining titles it planned to distribute for the Weinsteins — new reports have surfaced saying that MGM has dumped everything but the Sam Jackson/Bernie Mac effort Soul Men back on Harvey’s lap. And yes, that includes The Reader, which Harvey wants for Dec. 12 despite his mortal mogul Scott Rudin’s insistence otherwise. Gasp! What now?
Remember yesterday when we told you Hugh …
8:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Remember yesterday when we told you Hugh Hefner’s pimp hand was weakening because two of his Girls Next Door were seeing other dudes while only Bridget Marquardt remained loyal? Well, scratch that last part. Apparently Bridget is seeing another dude too. We know she’s already married, but she’s been married ever since she started “dating” Hef, so that’s not the problem. What is a problem is that the New York Post says Bridget’s been “getting quite close with Nick Carpenter, Marisa Tomei’s ex-boyfriend. He directed her in a movie recently and apparently they ‘hang out’ whenever she can escape the mansion.” Damn, is Hugh Hefner gonna have to choke a bitch? [New York Post] More »
