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Big Screen
The Defamer Guide To Saving The Oscars
6:30AM Richard Rushfield | The show may or may not get higher ratings than an Idol finale, but the subject of who will host and produce the 82nd Academy Awards telecast remains Hollywood’s perennial obsession. More »
Music
50 Cent Squashes Beef With Pubescent Tween Dis Master
6:48AM Hamilton Nolan | Canadian tween ‘Pruane2Forever‘ is best known for calling out 50 Cent for having no street cred, in a YouTube video, filmed in Pruane’s South Park poster-bedecked room. Now 50 got him, for real. Click to watch and learn (PR). More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Spencer Pratt, Aka ‘The Great White,’ Makes ‘Music History’
8:49PM the cajun boy | The Hills’ Spencer Pratt’s hot new rap single drops on iTunes, Britney sports a two-piece, Hayden Panettiere’s tattoo artist can’t spell and fucked up her new ink, some crazed Idol fan attempted to strangle Simon Cowell’s ex-girlfriend outside the show’s studio after the finale, and Amy Winehouse is in the hospital AGAIN! More »
Online
Everyone’s Real Fake On Twitter
6:56PM Owen Thomas | How do you know all those tweet-happy celebrities are the real deal? 50 Cent, Christopher Walken, and Britney Spears are just a few of those with questionable Twitter identities. More »Informal Polling Reveals Kanye West Outpacing 50 Cent In Local Sales Race
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Publicity averse hip-hop artists Kanye West and 50 Cent, as you may have heard, have mutually agreed to participate in a “feud” over the sales of their just-released albums, wherein 50 has promised to retire if West’s CD outsells his, and West has pledged to suffer a marginally more intense conniption of wounded self-regard at the next awards show that fails to recognise his greatness if outdone by his rival. As we’re deeply invested in the outcome of this competition, we dispatched Defamer videographer Molly McAleer to Hollywood’s Amoeba Records for an update on the early results of the local sales race and some incisive analysis of the rapping frenemies. Kanye Leads 50 Cent in CD Sales Face-Off [AP] More »
