Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Small Screen

Desperate Chuck Fans In Futile Sandwich Frenzy

11:37PM Hamilton Nolan | NBC went and sold the most blatant product placement in TV history in its show Chuck, and what do you know, it worked! Not for Chuck; that shit is getting cancelled. But for Subway, yes! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Who Makes Sad Attempts To Hide Their Drug Problem From Their Kid?

11:29PM Richard Lawson | Today we have a prudish girlfriend of an actor, a celebrity couple that has to hide their coke problem from their kid, a rude actress at a movie theatre, and a nasty breakup. More »
Small Screen

Jay Leno’s Best Sick Jokes

9:44PM Ryan Tate | Jay Leno’s rep says it looks like dehydration sent the Tonight Show host to the hospital last week. But Leno prefers to process his trauma by mocking Conan O’Brien and Ben Silverman. More »
Small Screen

And The Biggest Loser Is…

1:56PM Jess McGuire | The best competitive reality show we have on the telly these days (sorry, So You Think You Can Dance) finally wound up last night, and guess who took the title of The Biggest Loser? More »
Small Screen

Here’s A Little Bit Of Australian Idol Gossip For You…

1:00PM Jess McGuire | Hopefully it won’t be too long before Australian Idol hits our screens and fills the space left by The Biggest Loser, but perhaps you’re the type of person who is missing the talent show so very much that you urgently require some kind of hit from the Idol bong, yeah? Thanks to a kind reader, Defamer Australia can help you. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

9:01AM Jess McGuire | The other day I was chatting with Wes Cougar Carr on Twitter (well, kind of) and helpfully suggesting what the next single from his album should be. I told Wes Cougar Carr that I thought it should be Any Other Way because there aren’t enough Ricky Gervais inspired songs in the charts. Next thing I know, Wes is agreeing to cover the following song for Defamer Australia’s entertainment. More »
People

Bea Arthur’s Top 5 Contributions To Pop Culture

7:00AM Tracie | Actress Bea Arthur passed away on April 25, at the age of 86, from cancer. While she personally didn’t identify as feminist, her career made an enormous impact on the women’s movement. More »
Big Screen

Agent Stunned Man Has Nerve To Have Seizure During Film Screening

5:09AM Richard Lawson | At the Tribeca screening of wretched-sounding horror flick Tell-Tale, some lady in the back started shrieking, interrupting the screening and angering an agent. Why was the rude lady yelling? Her husband was having a seizure. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

The Only Ones Who Really Understand Us Are The British

2:02AM Richard Lawson | Sparkly movies about gays. The British really like sad American TV shows, while Maria Bello likes to fire people. Plus, Elmore Leonard. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Which Tween Star Got Hooked On The Coke?

12:00AM Richard Lawson | Today we have a drunken signer, a cheating British crooner, and a bunch of things about tweens—drunk ones, and miserly ones, and ones with coke problems. Plus, a bad mum. More »