Thursday, September 9, 2010

Small Screen

Will Lindsay Lohan Go On Oprah Or The Today Show?

11:24PM Maureen OConnor | NBC’s Today show made a serious play for Lindsay Lohan’s first post-jail interview, but the troubled starlet may now be leaning towards the Oprah Winfrey Show, which is in its final season. Who can resist the lure of Oprah’s couch?
Print

Wall Street Journal Starting Book Review Section

11:21PM Hamilton Nolan | The Wall Street Journal is really taking this “anything the New York Times does we can do better” fantasy very seriously! The latest shot across the Times‘ bow: a Wall Street Journal book review section. Is the world ready for that? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Fashion’s New Favourite ‘Flaw’: Gap Teeth

6:01PM Max Read | Do you have a gap between your two front teeth? Don’t be ashamed! In fact you should run quickly to your nearest modelling agency! That’s right: Gap teeth are totally fashionable, right now. More »
Big Screen

Hey! I’m Good Lookin’ Here!

5:17PM Max Read | [Actors Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm gape helplessly, as hundreds of photographs are taken at the premiere of their movie 'The Town' at the Venice Film Festival. Pic via AP.]
Online

What Is The Stuff That White People Like, Really?

4:41PM Max Read | Dating site OkCupid analysed the profiles of 526,000 users to discover the “interests, hobbies, tastes and self-descriptions especially important to each racial group”. So, what do white people like? Tom Clancy, Van Halen, golfing and the Red Sox. Duh. More »
Music

LFO Frontman Rich Cronin Dies At 35

2:16PM Max Read | Rich Cronin, the lead rap-singer of boy band LFO – you remember “Summer Girls”, right? – died of cancer at age 35. He had been diagnosed with myelogenous leukaemia in 2005 and apparently passed away on Wednesday after suffering a stroke. More »
Music

PRESS RELEASE: AM8ER RELEASES NEW SINGLE WITH LIL KIM AND GETS LILY ALLEN’S APPROVAL

11:35AM Jess McGuire | PRESS RELEASE 9 September 2010 For Immediate Release AUSTRALIAN ARTIST AM8ER RELEASES NEW SINGLE WITH LIL KIM AND GETS LILY ALLEN’S APPROVAL! Lilyroseallen – catchy pop sheeeeeeet. Gotta love that song!!!!! More »
Music

MEDIA RELEASE: Short Stack Personal Appearances

11:27AM Jess McGuire | SHORT STACK SANITY PERSONAL APPEARANCES To celebrate the release of PLANETS, the first single from Short Stack’s white-hot second album This Is Bat Country, Shaun, Andy & Bradie will be signing copies of their new single at a Sanity store near you. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

It’s Press Release Thursday!

11:20AM Jess McGuire | I have just received two press releases regarding the activities of “artists” that I am rather well known for not particularly enjoying. But I am in such fine spirits today (who has two thumbs, speaks limited French, and is typing these words using their new MacBook Pro? THIS MOI) that I’ve decided not to mock them, but instead post them in their entirety on Defamer Australia without negative comment. More »
People

Britney Spears Sued For Sexual Harassment

10:50AM Adrian Chen | In a lawsuit, Britney Spears’s bodyguard accuses her of sexual harassment. In it he claims she made “repeated unwanted sexual advances” toward him. This would have been a good one of those fake “headlines from the future” back in 2000.