Saturday, November 15, 2008
Rob Lowe: Live From Armageddon!
11:01AM Seth | Rob Lowe reported live from a burning Montecito on Oprah today, where 100 homes and a minimum 2500 acres have already been engulfed in the flames. The part where he carried Stedman and Mr. Man to safety on his back was truly inspiring. Joe Jonas responds to Taylor Swift’s “25-second phone-dump” smear campaign on his MySpace page: “A phone call can be pretty short when someone else ends the call. The only difference in this conversation was that I shared something the other person did not want to hear.” A fan rep issued this response: “JooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeIloveyouomigaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!” You were poked by: Raging Anti-Gypsysite Italian Neo-Nazi. poke back|remove We think we know just the thing to make you the hit of this year’s church pro-life bake sale! [via BoingBoing] Got my girlfriend to model for my car (PICS) More »
Ellen Page Is No Fun, Claim Marcia Gay Harden and Daughter
10:29AM Kyle Buchanan | Imagine acting in a film opposite Ellen Page; every day on set must be a bundle of Diablo Cody-scripted larfs, right? According to Marcia Gay Harden, not so much! Harden and her daughter play members of Page’s family in Drew Barrymore’s upcoming directorial debut Whip It!, and both told MTV that the Juno actress simply would not submit to their months-long campaign of laugh harassment: More »
10:08AM STV | Holding Out For a Hero? Here’s one for the End of Ideas Hall of Fame: The ’80s TV comedy The Greatest American Hero is being talked up for a feature-length film revival. Writer-producer Stephen Cannell and star William Katt tell the LAT it’s just a matter of time before their series about a schoolteacher-turned-bumbling crimefighter returns for a new generation. “We have a script,” Cannell warned. “We have a director. I’m in the middle of making the deal now for distribution. We have a bite now. It will happen. [...] I want all the 7-year-olds to be able to go and their parents will remember the show and want to share it with them.” It it OK if we just point them to the DVD set and call it good? Please? [LAT] More »
Five Bad Looks For Ryan Gosling
8:22AM Seth | 1. Backless Tee Gos Ryan Gosling was snapped yesterday strolling in L.A. in a Thrasher T-shirt with a giant, heart-shaped hole eaten into the back. For Gosling fans who can’t get enough of his creamy skin and rippling dorsal muscles, it was a rare treat. For everyone else, it was kind of gross. It got us thinking about some of the Lars and the Real Girl star’s other bold fashion statements, leading to this essential compilation we like to call Five Bad Looks For Ryan Gosling. Four more after the jump! More »
Wayans Family Threatens Comeback With Half-Funny ‘Dance Flick’ Trailer
7:50AM STV | We are shocked and pleased to report that the new trailer for the latest Wayans Clan spoof, Dance Flick, hints that the family has made its first legitimately funny film since… we can’t even remember. Or at least they’ve made 90 seconds of a legitimately funny film, with Amy Sedaris, locker-bound toddlers and a few serviceable sight gags redeeming the acute horror of its introductory jokes. It won’t make you forget the minor masterpiece that was Pineapple Express’s red-band riot, but it may yet portend the rise of director Damien Dante Wayans as the Nephew Who Would Be King. King of what, though, you’ll have to tell us. It’s hard not to look like you’re soaring after White Chicks. [MySpace via /Film] More »
7:15AM Kyle Buchanan | No Limitations! It only took twelve years, but the last week of The View finally put the program over the top to become the highest-rated show in daytime. In particular, the November 5 edition attracted the show’s biggest audience ever (6.2 million), no doubt fuelled by interest in Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s concession speech the day after Barack Obama’s historic presidential victory. When reached for comment, Hasselbeck responded, “William Ayers?” [Variety] More »
Second Bond Girl Reveals Superfluous Body Parts, Childhood Spent in Fridge
6:32AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that the Communist Party has gone after Bond girl Olga Kurylenko for becoming “movie kept girl of capitalist super stud,” the actress has been freed to divulge all about her humble, Socialist upbringing. Just how humble was it? Well, as Kurylenko tells Jimmy Kimmel, she was kept locked in a fridge until she reached maturity (in Soviet Russia, you see, fridge owns you). More »
Grazerheadmania Grips Local Charity Event
6:15AM Seth | Big ups to everyone who made it out to VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl Off at Lucky Strike Lanes last night. You can browse a gallery of them here, a Malta Summit of Z-lister statesmen and royalty including Corey Feldman, Bachelorette dumpee Jesse Csincsak, and Gretchen Bonaduce and Tiffany—posing in the same photo. (Denis Leary couldn’t make it, but sent along a message saying that “knocking down pins with a big heavy ball is about as backwoods retarded as your stupid, lazy-arse kids.”) But it’s attendee Billy Morrison who most caught our eye, less for what we now know are his musical contributions to The Cult and Camp Freddy, but rather for channeling the unmistakable essence of a certain superproducer headshot worshipped ’round these parts like a Shroud of Defamer Turin. Click for your full, glorious view of what Grazerhead hath wrought. More »
Thousands of Drunken Co-Worker Trysts in Jeopardy as Industry Cuts Back Holiday Parties
5:53AM STV | The odds that you remember the drunken, depraved glories of your employer’s past holiday parties are virtually nil, so most of Hollywood shouldn’t be too upset today to hear how the recession-to-be is affecting this year’s big industry fetes. Variety reports that Disney and Viacom won’t be celebrating at all, while other studios are scaling back their own events and even awards-season premieres to the extent their needy talent will allow. And if the global economic meltdown didn’t feel like a crisis before, wait until you hear how the caterers will be hit: More »
