Thursday, December 18, 2008
Attention Class: Please Study This Video Closely
1:20PM Jess McGuire | Because we will be discussing it – and the stars contained within – shortly. Have your notes ready. And thanks to holidaying Melbourne radio icon Fee B Squared for the inspiration.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
10:41AM Jess McGuire | Today’s clip proves just how patient pets can be.
I seriously thought the cat was on the verge of snapping for a while there!
Via b3ta’s newsletter. More » Mimi Macpherson Faces Bankruptcy!
9:37AM Jess McGuire | I can’t work out what’s worse for Mimi Macpherson – that she’s in deep financial trouble, or that her star has dipped so low, the Herald Sun feels it necessary to use her sister’s name in the headline of the article where her money woes are listed for public consumption.
Mimi Macpherson, sister of Elle, may be known for a raunchy blackmarket video, but she could lose her shirt permanently this week if she is declared bankrupt. The property entrepreneur and award-winning businesswoman is on the verge of bankruptcy after failing to pay a six-figure design bill relating to one of her company’s property developments.
It continues: More » Andrew O’Keefe Would Never Set Out To Deliberately Offend Anyone
7:37AM Jess McGuire | Although it was Andrew WK who once sang “When it’s time to party, we will party hard!”, it seems it is Australian game show host extraordinaire Andrew O’Keefe who is actually living the dream.
Presenter Andrew O’Keefe is embroiled in a scandal involving him allegedly caught out on a video at the centre of a bitter spat between networks Seven and Nine. Channel 9 has claimed rival Channel 7 forked out a large sum of money to keep secret a video of its major star misbehaving.
Ooooer! Today in the Herald Sun, Andrew O’Keefe has spoken up about being sprung “flat on his back with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth” and then later “seen crawling along the footpath before struggling to his feet and heading off along the footpath with a blonde female friend” (which incidentally seems like a standard night at Revolver – from what I’ve heard, of course). More »
EW.com’s Reports Of Lena Horne’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
7:33AM Seth | We’ve already enjoyed a hearty laugh at Variety’s expense for confounding the two crazy Tracys. A slightly gaucher gaffe, however, comes to us via EW.com, who accidentally went live with Lena Horne’s pre-written obit. More »
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Evan Rachel Wood
7:30AM Seth | 12/16 — When I was going to my parking garage after work, I saw a pristine Chevy Tahoe in Valet awaiting an entourage of scenester short dudes and EVAN RACHEL WOOD dressed like Cruella DeVille. They were dining at Chaya Venice. Swanky.” [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.au.] More »
‘Righteous Kill’ Curse Spreads To England With Cries Of Tagline Insensitivity
7:30AM Seth | While we’ve already long forgotten Righteous Kill—and the onerous sins of its one-sheet—England is only now becoming acquainted with its Pacino/DeNiro double-bed-shitting pleasures. It can’t even seem to get an in-your-face tagline right. More »
Will Smith Donates ‘Seven Pounds’ to Us, Six Figures to Scientology
7:15AM Kyle Buchanan | With the premiere of his new film Seven Pounds just around the corner, Will Smith should be ostentatiously fake-laughing all the way to the bank. So why isn’t he?
Yentazilla Ellen DeGeneres Won’t Stop Until Every One Of Her Celebrity Friends Is Gay-Married
7:15AM Kyle Buchanan | When did Ellen DeGeneres turn into such a lesbiyenta? More »