Saturday, October 25, 2008
Catfight of the Century
11:10AM STV | Did you hear the one about the View hosts who went at it backstage before denying the whole thing ever happened? Well, you have now. Aaaannd on your undercard, William “Shining Ego” Shatner vs. George “Psychotic Gay Bridezilla” Takei. Are Democrats better at political satire than Republicans? We wouldn’t be so sure about that; Elisabeth Hasselbeck killed with that McCain shirt. On the seventh day, the actual Sarah Palin went on Saturday Night Live. And for NBC, it was good. We said farewell to Mr. Blackwell and Dolemite, motherfucker. As this week’s drug stories went, it’s a photo finish between Carrie Fisher’s homo-making Codeine and Gary Busey’s canine-hooker coke-binge. Just for the record: That’s not a corpse in the Roosevelt Hotel pool — he’s just sleeping. We have lots of ideas for making the perfect celebrity PSA, and a <<a href=”http://defamer.com/5067924/richie-and-the-fonz-reunite-for-happy-days-the-obama-years”>i>Happy Days reunion is probably somewhere near the top. It was a tough week for new James Bond films and overcooked Guns N’ Roses albums. You be the judge: Did or did Sarah Silverman not bomb in London? And has Wheel of Fortune ever offered a dumber group of contestants than these three? Miley Cyrus’s naughty-photo hacker spoke out; her underwear-model boyfriend’s own naughty-photo leaker seethed with jealousy. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Moviefone Poll Suggests Voters Want Nation Run By Fictional Idiot Presidents
10:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Hollywood has done its fair share of preaching to the political electorate this season, so Moviefone polled 1.1 million of its users to return the favour by electing their favourite screen presidents. They rose to the occasion by selecting Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, and several tremendous idiots. The list, after the jump: More »
Weinstein Co. Dumps Four More Films; We Translate the Excuses
10:10AM STV | Harvey Weinstein today passed along the not-so-surprising word that four Weinstein Company films slated for release this fall — Crossing Over, Fanboys, Shanghai and Killshot — will in fact be pushed back to 2009. Harvey’s Friday News-Dump Massacre came by way of a phone call to Patrick Goldstein, to whom the schmogul spilled the details with all the crystalline logic we’ve come to expect — none of which, of course, has anything to do with the fact that he’s broke. Find Defamer’s handy Weinstein Excuse-to-English Guide™ for your convenience after the jump. More »
Fake ‘Flash’ Teaser Ruins New Comic Franchise Before it Begins
8:34AM STV | Dear Flash Fans: We heard Warner Bros. and DC Comics are preparing your favourite comic book for a live-action adaptation to be released in 2010. Congratulations! Until then, why not leave the filmmaking to the professionals and quit trying to set off the Web with dorm-room exercises masquerading as official teasers? Your mastery of Windows MovieMaker is impressive, but seriously, enough. This goes for you and you in particular, but maybe not so much you, with your adorable “HEROE” [sic] typo and TV outtakes. Thanks! xo, Defamer (PS: On the off chance that Warners/DC actually does have anything to do with this, viral marketing only works when the movie looks good. Demand helps as well. Toodles!) ‘The Flash’ Movie Teaser Trailer [YouTube] More »
8:11AM Seth | Tragedy In Chicago. Jennifer Hudson’s mother was found shot to death just hours ago in her Chicago home along with another man, which TMZ is identifying as her brother Jason, in what authorities are calling a “domestic” shooting. UPDATE: Now a 7-year-old nephew is reportedly missing, and police are searching for someone named William Balfour, who had lived in Hudson’s mother’s house in the past year. [CBS2Chicago] More »
Bastard Son of ‘Cheers’ Alum Wears Bra on ‘Today’ Because, Why Not?
7:41AM Kyle Buchanan | We’ve heard of casual Fridays and we certainly treasure the last day of the work week as a time to let loose, but rarely have we seen both concepts mixed with such bizarre fervor as they were on this morning’s Today show. After striking pay dirt with Marcia Brady’s syphilis stories this month, producers dug up another, pre-TiVo relic: Jay Thomas. The actor (who played Carla’s husband Eddie on Cheers) and his son John were on the show to discuss how the former gave the latter up for adoption twenty years ago. These days, though, John is the lead singer in a band, and in a bit of bald self-promotion, he stripped off his t-shirt and finished out the segment wearing a bra. As one does. Nice try, John, but you’ll have to work a little harder to top the image of our potential next VP attempting to drown Elaine to win the daytime surreality sweepstakes. Today [NBC] More »
Why Not to Miss ‘Synecdoche, New York,’ The Best Film of 2008
7:10AM STV | Charlie Kaufman’s directing debut Synecdoche, New York is the most inaccessible, challenging, infuriating, stupefying, heartbreaking film of 2008. It’s also the best American movie we’ve seen this year, and as noted here this morning, it’s required viewing this weekend for anyone who wants to be on our good side. Or history’s good side, for that matter — and here are five reasons why. More »
Friars Roast-Crashing Tom Cruise Reunited with Glib Tormentor Matt Lauer
6:40AM Kyle Buchanan | If Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise could patch things up after Cruise called her a pseudoscience-worshiping devil-thetan incubator (we’re paraphrasing), then surely, we thought, Cruise and Matt Lauer could eventually let bygones be bygones. You may remember how the actor and anchorman tussled back in 2005 when Cruise accused Lauer of not personally, personally understanding either Ritalin, postnatal depression, or why the son survived in War of the Worlds. Now, we hear, the Friars Club Roast of Lauer that just concluded in New York featured a surprise, couch-jumping guest. Says KTU reporter Paul Westcott: More »
5 Moments That Made Us Want To Curl Up And Die On Last Night’s ‘Celebrity Rehab 2′ Premiere
6:15AM Seth | We’ve been anticipating last night’s Celebrity Rehab 2 premiere for some time now—we’d been pestering the good Dr. Drew Pinsky himself about it as far back as June when taping had just begun, and as recently as Wednesday had excitedly teased an entertaining scene featuring Gary Busey unpacking a Samsonite case full of spare change, hair highlighter, and coke-flecked dog fur. We wanted to wait to watch the full opener in all its self-destructive glory on TV, however, which we did. It didn’t take long before we were clutching our knees to our chest, rocking back and forth, and repeating, “Why? Oh God, why?” We run down for you now the five most heart-sinkingly awful moments: More »
