Thursday, October 16, 2008
Did Billy Bob Thornton Break Up David Duchovony And Tea Leoni?
3:54PM Jess McGuire | Wow, this is confusing. When it was announced Californication star David Duchovny and his wife of A Rather Long Time, actress Tea Leoni, were splitting up, I assumed it would have something to do with David-related misbehaviour, considering he’d recently entered rehab for sex addiction.
But no, says the Daily Mail. It’s actually because Tea and Billy Bob Thornton have been participating in a few Warney-esque text exchanges!
X Files star David Duchovny and his actress wife Téa Leoni have split up after he discovered explicit text messages on her mobile phone sent by actor Billy Bob Thornton.
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Madonna And Guy Ritchie Officially Split
1:21PM Jess McGuire | Our American cousins speculated just twelve hours ago that “all public signs indicate this is finally it” for Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s marriage after a report in British tabloid The Sun declared it believed the couple would “officially divorce” before the end of the year, and they were right.
Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie are divorcing, the US singer’s spokeswoman has confirmed.
The couple married in 2000.
The announcement of the divorce of Madonna, 50, and Ritchie, 40 comes after months of rumours that the London-based couple planned to split.
Interestingly, reports say that a certain Hollywood chum of Madge’s urged her for months to stay with Ritchie for the sake of the kids. Who was it? More » Australian Idol Contestant Spewing About Missing Out On Son’s Birth – Stoked About Being A Dad But, Hey?
11:42AM Jess McGuire | Congratulations to this year’s Australian Idol ocker of choice Luke Dickens (his facial hair takes Shannon Noll’s flavour savour to whole new levels) who became a father on Monday after his partner delivered their first child a little earlier than expected. Unfortunately, Luke missed the birth itself as he was busy being better than Thanh Bui.
With the baby boy making an early appearance – he was due in December – the show had to go on for girlfriend Brooke Rodgers, who delivered during Monday’s live verdict show.
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TurnbullMalcolm Is Bored @ Work
10:37AM Jess McGuire | That Malcolm Turnbull is a tech-savvy bastard, isn’t he? God bless him, he’s just discovered Twitter and is happily informing the nation of his comings and goings like it’s going out of style.
What sort of thrilling stuff is he up to, I hear you ask?
GIRLFRIEND, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT! More » 
Robert Duvall on Obama: ‘We’ve Got To Keep This Guy Out of the White House’
10:05AM Kyle Buchanan | Robert Duvall may have been one of the few Hollywood Republicans to avoid the cinematic turkey that was An American Carol, but that doesn’t mean the venerable actor isn’t willing to speak out about his political opinions. This week, Duvall attended a $US1,500-a-head GOP fundraiser where he was tasked with introducing vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and the actor let loose with a series of left-bashing statements that would place him firmly on the elder side of the McCain/Letterman War of ‘08: More »
Will ‘United States Of Tara’ Confirm Diablo Cody’s Genius?
9:42AM Seth | Diablo Cody—Patron Saint of Former Strippers Who Did It Just for the Experience but Ultimately Aspired to Something More—is the writer of The United States of Tara, a new Showtime series previewed in the promotional package above. Starring Toni Colette and based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, much is riding on Tara and its tale of an American mum who just happens to suffer from dissociative identity disorder. Diablo defends her lighthearted treatment of the illness as such: More »
Hold Onto Your Vodka Martini: ‘90210′ Creators Demote Lucille Bluth
9:40AM Kyle Buchanan | The Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise has historically not been kind to the elder relatives of its nubile teens, which is why we were a little confused when producers of the new 90210 reboot announced that they’d be casting not just parents but a grandmother. Would there really be room on the show for a regular over sixty, we wondered? Then, they hired Jessica Walter for the role and announced she’d essentially be reprising her Lucille Bluth character from Arrested Development, and suddenly all the Shannens and Jennies in the world paled in comparison. Sadly, EW’s Michael Ausiello says that Walter’s contract has now been slashed: More »
Wise Blogging Advice From The Mercury
9:15AM Jess McGuire | Hot Rock Photogroper TM Daniel Boud and yours truly were interviewed by the lovely folks from Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury about blogging. I was asked to give some tips to would-be bloggers, and I believed that during my phone interview with the lovely journalist I had answered carefully, wisely, and thoughtfully.
Then I was sent a scan of what went to print. More » 
9:02AM STV | Harvey Calls in Sick: The beleaguered Harvey Weinstein dropped out of his scheduled keynote interview today at the Dow Jones/Nielsen “Media and Money” conference in New York, reportedly deferring to brother Bob and Weinstein Company COO Lee Solomon while he attended to a “personal matter.” On the agenda: “[W]hat is Weinstein’s view on the future of the film business and his company?” We hear his proxies stayed positive in the face of Harvey’s conspicuous absence, noting that they have a sure-fire Oscar hopeful on their hands for December and that charitable giving is up a million percent from 2007. [DHD] More »
