Friday, October 31, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day III
4:47PM Jess McGuire | Three YouTube Clips Of The Day? THREE? Surely I’m taking the piss!
WELL I AM NOT, I AM FEELING SO ENERGETIC! I HAVE GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF ENERGY! MADE WITH LIGHTENING! REAL LIGHTENING! SCIENCE, ENERGY! SCIENCE, ENERGY!
Thanks to John for sending this in – I had to offer it up for your viewing pleasure on this painful Friday afternoon because hey, what if you need ENERGY LEGS to help push you into the weekend? More » 
Designer Wayne Cooper Pleads Guilty To Assault
3:28PM Jess McGuire | Fashion man Wayne Cooper has admitted he shoved his wife, who had just undergone surgery for bladder cancer, and was today given a good behaviour bond in Waverly Local Court.
Fashion designer Wayne Cooper has been placed on a two-year good behaviour bond for pushing his estranged wife Sarah Marsh during a domestic dispute.
Cooper, 45, today pleaded guilty to common assault stemming from an argument on June 19 at the couple’s beachside home in Tamarama, in Sydney’s east.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day II
2:18PM Jess McGuire | Hell, it’s a Friday – let’s have two Clips Of The Day, eh?
I have no idea what this nice lady is doing, but it looks rude. And weird.
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Memo To Richard Hind: Sleep With One Eye Open, Buddy
11:34AM Jess McGuire | It’s not often I find myself screaming with rage at my poor monitor, but that very thing happened yesterday when I read Richard Hind’s horrendous piece in The Age where he brutally slammed our BFF Sonia Kruger as though she were a tennis ball and he happened to be Mark Phillopousis during The Poo’s sporting peak.
An example:
If the statement in which Seven threatens to provide an “extensive coverage of the celebrities, glamour and fashions that define the Melbourne Cup carnival” is not enough to have you clinging to the remote with the trepidation of a Nazi general clutching a cyanide tablet as the Russians pour into the Fuehrer’s bunker, then two words should give you an idea what to expect: Sonia and Kruger.
He makes it sound as though Sonia’s role of delivering quips-for-simpletons during coverage of an event means she’s stupid and pointless. And anyone with half a brain knows that is definitely untrue.
The insults go on…
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And Now A Message From The Bipartisan Youth Choir Of Atlanta
11:00AM Seth | The Ron Clark Academy’s T.I. parody “You Can Vote However You Like” (sample lyric: “Stick wit McCain you gone have some drama”) is so frickin’ adorable we could just bite their little equal-time-honoring heads off. Breaking! King of the Hill’s butane tank has finally run dry. Jon Hamm will play Liz Lemon’s boyfriend on a 30 Rock arc this season. Don’t screw this one up, Lemon. Obama sprinkled his magical ratings glitter on cable too, giving The Daily Show and The Colbert Report their largest audiences ever. Apparently, there exist popular stereotypes that define residents of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Westwood and Holmby Hills, and Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, and Shannen Doherty are going to play them. We’ll let you match neighbourhood to actor. And finally, we’d like to introduce you to Troublemaker, the kind of Sulawesi black-crested macaque you just wanna kick back and have a beer with. More »
Hollywood PrivacyWatch Fonzie’s Birthday …
10:51AM Seth | Hollywood PrivacyWatch Fonzie’s Birthday Edition!— On Yom Kippur (10/9?) I’m driving up Sepulveda, near the Getty Centre. I’m stopped as people are crossing the street to make it to services in time, and who crosses right before my path? Worst attorney in the world, Mr. Barry Zuckerkorn himself, HENRY WINKLER. (According to the IMDB, he also played Fozzie in American Graffiti, where he jumped sharks). He seemed to be late, in a rush to atone perhaps, but it was still very cool. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.] More »Ricki-Lee Is Surviving Her Marriage Break Up, Unwilling To Shed Kilos For Pop Stardom
10:49AM Jess McGuire | Our dear friend Ricki-Lee Coulter appears to be doing okay following her split from husband of one year – a fellow who never appeared in gay porn – Jamie Babbington. Although it’s obviously a difficult time for the pop singer, she’s bravely soldiering on and promoting couture designed to help women hold in both their relationship troubles and their tummies. Bravo!
Her fashion role, as ambassador for Hold Me Tight shape wear, fits the curvy star’s fit-and-fabulous attitude to a tee. She has previously admitted battling depression, but those “dark clouds” haven’t returned after industry executive moves to have her lose weight.
Our Ricki-Lee? Needs to lose weight? I think not. Her shapely curves are both inspiring AND arousing. And I mean that seriously! Bitch is hot. I don’t know who is telling her to lose weight but they’re daft, daft I tells you! More » 
ABC’s New ‘Unleached’ to Prolong the Saucy Senior Magic of Cloris Leachman
10:32AM STV | Digging around our Otherwordly TV Programming inbox this afternoon, we found just the bit of ephemera we’d been praying for: a spot teasing ABC’s Unleached, featuring our experimental dance/comedy idol Cloris Leachman’s finest outtakes from her abortive journey on Dancing With the Stars. It’s all here — the sassy interviews, the heroic training regimens, her heaving bosom, and pretty much everything else preceding her pyrrhic-victory lap on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Alas, when contacted for additional information, an ABC could confirm only that we’d been duped by creative gag-reel editors from the inside. Cruel, and cruelly unfair at that; we’d watch three seasons of Unleached before watching another hour of CBS’s entire fall line-up. Are we wrong? [YouTube] More »
Hedge-Funders Take a Public Bath at Paramount
10:07AM STV | Today’s Hollywood Reporter points out “rare public evidence” of a looming crisis we first told you about seven months ago: Melrose I, hedge-fund financing that helped pay for a raft of underachieving Paramount films dating back to 2004, saw its investment grade plunge six notches recently in an assessment by Moody’s Investor Service. It was bad enough at the time for the money men to threaten Brad Grey with court — and even if the lawsuit never came, the day of reckoning did. More »
