Thursday, October 22, 2009

People

Amy Winehouse’s Dad Thinks Her Knockers Are Great

9:20PM Azaria Jagger | Mitch Winehouse thinks Amy’s rack was worth the rumoured $US56,000 cost of silicone. Obama Girl is mauled by a light fixture at that one ubiquitous press junket in Jamaica. Welcome to today’s gossip! More »
Big Screen

Kanye West Spike Jonze Combo Irritatingly Unavoidable

6:24PM Anderson Evans | It feels like years since we saw our first inkjet printing of Kanye West taped to the office refrigerator alongside either our favourite ’80s cartoon character or freshest dead celebrity. More »
Small Screen

Vale Don Lane

4:21PM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia was sad to learn that entertainer Don Lane has passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

8:58AM Jess McGuire | We’re going to start today with some lovely bloopers from 30 Rock. You know why? Because season 4 has just started and I haven’t been able to (legally? Should I say legally?) download anything yet, and it’s killing me. I can’t even watch the old episodes I have because they’re back at home in Melbourne. More »
Online

Pretty Boy MySpace CEO Has Dumb Surrender Plan

8:54AM Ryan Tate | MySpace now says it is no longer competing with Facebook, the rival social network with far more users. No, now MySpace will focus on the niche of music and digital entertainment. And compete with Apple and Google. More »
Music

How Did Michael Buble Become The Biggest Star On Earth?

8:52AM Richard Rushfield | Last week he beat out the much-heralded return of KISS for the top slot on the album charts. This week, the Canadian crooner Michael Buble slam-dunked the biggest phenomenon in all entertainment: the Twilight series. More »
Big Screen

Lee Daniels — 

8:41AM Gabriel Snyder | — describing his approach to producing films and raising financing for movies like Cannes darling Precious, in an entertaining profile by Lynn Hirschberg that will run in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. More »
Big Screen

Twilight’s PR Campaign Threatens To Burn America To The Ground

7:16AM Richard Rushfield | With just weeks to go until the debut of New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series, Summit Entertainment, the film’s distributor, is clearly playing with fire. More »
People

The Press Is Gonna Have A Field Day

6:53AM Brian Moylan | [Michelle Obama competes in Jack Rabbit Slim's hula contest during a photo op on the White House lawn today to show kids that it's cool to exercise. Image via Getty] More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

A World Without The Internet

6:50AM Ryan Tate | Cracked.com has imagined a terrifying post-internet hellscape: Twitter via carrier pigeon, LOLcats on Broadway and the resurgence of porn shops. OK, so it’s not all bad. Via Anna Jane Grossman.