Saturday, October 11, 2008
10:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Doggone It: John McCain’s plans to appear on Late Show with David Letterman appear to be falling through, but the bottom half of his ticket may have finally firmed up her own late-night gig. According to Cindy Adams, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will definitely be appearing on Saturday Night Live at the end of the month. “She has already OK’d it,” Adams says confidently. “She’s booked. It’s confirmed. Done deal. Sketches are being sketched as we speak.” Adams says we can expect Palin to cameo on the Oct. 25 episode and that her rehearsal time has already been penciled in for Friday the 24th. Nor word yet on whether Tina Fey has been booked to appear, but if she’s too busy, might we suggest Betty White instead? [New York Post] More »
Sharon Stone’s Groceries Get the Glamour Treatment
10:00AM STV | After a couple of stellar installments spotlighting Kim Kardashian’s bad driving and Ryan Gosling’s puke aversions, we’ve been experiencing a bit of a drought on the PrivacyWatch front. And as much as we appreciate this week’s contributions — from Sharon Stone’s grocery adventures to Nick Nolte’s post-traumatic mocha therapy — we have to say: We are this close to discontinuing this feature unless we get some motherfucking sightings up on this motherfucking plane. So! For what we hope isn’t the last time: Hollywood PrivacyWatch is produced by Defamer readers for Defamer readers, so keep sending us your tips with “PrivacyWatch” “or “sightings” in the subject line. There’s no “u” in “surveillance” for nothing. More »
Unruly WGA Mob Protest ‘Project Runway’ Rodeo Drive Shoot
9:15AM Seth | A Defamer operative going about his daily Rodeo Drive chores let us know about a standoff that went down this morning between the forces of good (underpaid and undervalued reality show writer-producers) and evil (Heidi Klum, and anything—sorry Tim Gunn fans!—Heidi Klum-adjacent). He writes: More »
David Letterman on the ‘Squirrelly’ John McCain: ‘I Don’t Trust Him’
8:50AM Kyle Buchanan | As we watched David Letterman tear into John McCain with renewed vigor during last night’s Late Show monologue, we couldn’t help but think that this might make the rumoured negotiations for McCain’s reappearance a little awkward. Turns out, scheduling stipulations between the two camps had already turned contentious, as Letterman revealed when he sat down at his desk. Still, McCain’s loss is Letterman’s gain, because the talk show host gleefully continued to demolish McCain using some of his slyest, most cutting language yet. More »
7:48AM STV | Rape Sells! South Park beat George Lucas at his own pervy game Wednesday with its already-infamous “Indy rape” episode — the show’s highest-rated fall premiere in nine years. Paradoxically, this must mean Indiana Jones 5 will be green-lit within the hour — probably at the end of that crisis meeting rumoured to be unfolding today at Paramount. Sadly, bitterly, the cycle continues. [The Live Feed] More »
Hef’s 19-Year-Old Twins Also Enjoy Kicking Each Other In the Face
7:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Almost overnight, the new season of The Girls Next Door has turned into a must-watch; first, we learned that Hugh Hefner had replaced his three bunnies with 19-year old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, then it was revealed that both girls had a criminal record stemming from a beer bottle attack on their Wing House coworker. However, even more twin malfeasance has now been revealed by TMZ: when not engaging in psuedo-incestuous relationships with each other, Karissa likes to kick Kristina in the face! Priceless details from the arrest report (filed Nov. 5 of last year), after the jump: More »
Your First Glimpse At Robert Downey Jr.’s Little Tramp Detective, Sherlock Holmes!
7:10AM Seth | Here we have your first look at Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie’s SherlocknRolla take on Sir Conan Doyle’s classic creation. The director has apparently abandoned Holmes’s iconic deerstalker cap, cloak, and pipe in favour of a bowler hat, stripey vest, and gigantic Starbucks beverage. (”No foam skim latte, my dear Watson!”) More »
Drunken Dialects of the South, With Your Guide Dennis Quaid
6:40AM STV | Dennis Quaid completed publicity rounds for The Express last night with a visit to Conan O’Brien, who veered a ways off the script with a shout-out to Quaid’s sultry 1987 potboiler The Big Easy. We had forgotten until that moment how mesmerizingly awkward his New Orleans detective’s bastardized Cajun accent was, but with the aid of his unfailing actor’s recall and an apparent nip or eight of green-room white lightning, the one-time King of Mardi Gras stunned the audience silent with a garbled scat that makes his Express turn look cardboard in comparison. “That was kind of schizophrenic,” concluded the rattled O’Brien. Sure — that’s one word for it. [Late Night with Conan O'Brien] More »
Casualties Mount in Scott Rudin’s ‘Reader’ Implosion
5:45AM STV | If the plot isn’t exactly thickening today around Scott Rudin’s exit from The Reader, it’s at least sustaining a low, convoluted simmer. Still nobody knows for sure the specific reasons for Rudin’s move beyond the obvious, routine desire to gut Harvey Weinstein with a letter opener, but looking forward, a few new clues suggest the Oscar-season bloodbath has a while before it’s drained.
