Saturday, November 8, 2008
Smile With Your Ears
11:02AM Seth | Tyra went to Disneyland to help Minnie and Mickey work on their runway walks and general fiercitude. That’s right, terrorists: Feast your eyes. Ain’t never gonna take this away from us. Ain’t never! Oprah will bring her long-running syndicated show to an end in 2011 to focus on OWN. But will she bring her ass-kissy expert panel of Ali Wentworth, Mark Consuelos and Gayle King along with her? On her marriage to Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman said, “I thought, I don’t deserve to be here. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, I’m here to support him. I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and to be seen and not heard.” She then grew profoundly melancholy for a moment, but you’d never know it from her forehead. Nice try, CNN. Those were tomograms, not holograms. Here’s a peek at Hollywood’s newest 24-hour post-partying eatery, called Our Colour Scheme Will Coax The Puke Right Out Of You Sweet Love Hangover. Uh—pardon us if we’re the last person on the planet to realise this, but Barack Obama has a Flickr photo stream. With, like, tons of backroom pictures of election night. Riveting. We wish we could just leap in there and restyle Michelle! More »
10:02AM STV | Pushing Daisies Cancelled? Word from an informant on the set of ABC’s long-struggling show hints that Daisies has baked its last pie. We can’t say we didn’t see it coming, but at least it died painlessly: The author who yesterday cited an anonymous sophomore series doomed by internal strife later assured us Daisies was not the victim — just another casualty of terminally ill ratings. Expect ABC to rerun the Obama infomercial in Daisies‘ slot indefinitely until an official replacement is announced. [The Film Experience Blog] More »
Dave Chappelle Shows James Lipton The Joys Of Being On The Biographical Ass-Licking Receiving End
9:39AM STV | Dave Chappelle’s most recent AWOL streak ends Monday on Bravo, when he will appear on the 200th episode of Inside the Actors Studio. Except, in a clever twist we’re presuming occurred only because Diana Ross was unavailable, Chappelle will interview Lipton for the whole show. More »
Courtney Love Reveals Her Confused, Anti-Gay ‘Yes on Prop 8′ Vote
8:38AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that California’s Proposition 8 has passed, many celebrities are decrying the anti-gay rights measure — and then there’s addled songstress Courtney Love. Your Defamer put in some time phone-banking for the “No on 8″ cause before the election, and often we discovered that people thought they’d be granting gay people equal rights by voting “yes” on the proposition, a misconception they needed to be hastily disabused of. Sadly, Love never got the memo, and she took to her Myspace blog to brag about her yes vote and celebrate the proposition’s passing: More »
8:23AM Seth | Black Sheep, Black Tie. Gossip Girl’s new ad campaign features a low-angle shot of rapscallion Chuck Bass, dapper in a tux with his face in shadow, and the tagline, “The price of winning could be losing his father’s empire.” They certainly have toned things down since the last campaign, which featured images of Blake Lively getting triple-stuffed by Chace, Ed, and Penn under a review pullquote reading, “If your child watches this, THEY ARE SODOMIZING BABY JESUS. -Leah Rozen, People.” Click for a full-size view. [Videogum] More »
Oscar Bloggers: Trained Pros or Douches in Clown Suits?
8:01AM STV | If there’s a hell, it might look, feel and sound like the slapfight between aggrieved Oscar bloggers Patrick Goldstein, David Poland and Tom O’Neil, who today aired their tired tussle for all the world to overlook. But with your awards-season intelligence at stake, you really mustn’t miss a minute of the wheezing action that so influences how Hollywood’s biggest prizes are distributed every year. Your highlight reel follows the jump.
Oprah’s Snot-Smothered Mr. Man Revealed At Last!
7:31AM Seth | At last! We meet one of Decision 2008’s most memorable and accidental heroes: Oprah Winfrey’s anonymous “Mr. Man,” her randomly selected human-leaning-pole and blubber-sponge throughout Obama’s historic Grant Park victory speech. Who was this stoic, liverlipped everyman? An intensive search for the mystery face in the crowd—the likes of which hasn’t been undertaken since the days of American Idol’s Sanjaya-lusting Crying Girl—unearthed unassuming family man Sam Perry, who appeared on her show today to a rapturously appreciative audience. [Oprah] More »
Great Moments In FCC Baiting Presents: ‘The Office’ Training Call
7:01AM Seth | On The Office last night, we learned that Dunder Mifflin customer service rep Kelly Kapoor threw an America’s Got Talent finale party, where she gave out personalised gift mugs featuring every worker’s face over a blue star. (In a nice touch, you can purchase said mugs at the NBC online store. We’ll take six Phyllises—something about her smile puts us in the mood for warm beverages.) More »
‘Grey’s’ Banishes Its Lesbian to The Parking Lot of No Return
6:39AM Kyle Buchanan | Grey’s Anatomy finally entered the final phase of its gaywashing yesterday, disposing of Brooke Smith’s Dr. Hahn in a scene as muddled and incoherent as Smith’s actual firing.
