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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 »
Small Screen
Massive Layoffs At Access Hollywood
1:32PM the cajun boy | Well, it looks as though the economic downturn has found another media victim. A tipster tells us tonight that there’s been a “completely unexpected bloodbath” at Access Hollywood. More »
‘Access Hollywood’ Eager To Perv All Over Teenage ‘Twilight’ Star
3:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Meet 16-year-old Taylor Lautner! The Twilight star almost lost his role in the sequel unless he could massively bulk up. Now, the media wants to slobber over those results. Did we mention he’s 16? More »
Sally Struthers Doesn’t Mind Being Photographed, No Matter How She Looks
11:06AM Mark Graham | If there’s one thing you can count on in a world that’s wild at heart and weird on top, it’s that the celebrity infotainment shows will come up with at least a handful of moments every week that’ll make you groan, chuckle and hurl simultaneously. As always, we make Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer watch all of these shows so you don’t have to. Highlights/lowlights from last week’s tabloid television shows include Sally Struthers being blasted by The Insider and TMZ accusing Katherine Heigl of “calling in the gays” when she invited Grey’s co-star T.R. Knight over to her house. Enjoy! WATCH VIDEO More »
Defamer Debuts ‘Dirt Sandwich’, Your Weekly Romp Through Trashy Tabloid TV
9:12AM Mark Graham | There once was a land — a magical land — where a squarejawed titan named John Tesh and a leggy vixen named Mary Hart reigned supreme. Together, they blazed a pioneering trail in which the worlds of journalism and entertainment converged into 30 minutes of televised bliss each and every weeknight. But much like other creations that were born of the purest intentions (think: The Coreys, Britney Spears and Napster), copycat competitors soon entered the fray and everything quickly turned to shit. Today, the state of celebrity infotainment is at a crossroads, a crossroads at which the likes of Harvey Levin, Billy Bush and Mark McGrath are honored as the Father, Son and Unholy Ghost of the genre. As new celeb-centric shows spring up with greater regularity than lesions on Paris Hilton’s nether regions, we here at Defamer are proud to present a new weekly video feature that we are calling Dirt Sandwich. Culled together by Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer, each episode will place an unforgiving spotlight on the week’s lowest and highest moments (which, as you’ll soon discover, are often one and the same). Enjoy! WATCH VIDEO More »
HFPA Dissidents Upset At NBC’s Plans To Turn Golden Globes Press Conference Into ‘Access Hollywood’-Style Fiasco
4:10AM Mark | According to the LAT’s Gold Derby blog, some scandalized members within shadowy, buffet-decimating, kudos-proffering concern the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are livid that network broadcast partner NBC, hoping to salvage something from the strike-ravaged wreckage of the Golden Globes, intend to turn Sunday’s one-hour press conference announcing this year’s winners into an Access Hollywood-branded farce presided over by two of dinnertime TV’s most recognizable faces: HFPA leaders caved under network pressure only when assured that the TV show would be a serious press conference produced by NBC’s news division. They never thought they’d get stuck with “a puff show” with Billy Bush and Nancy O’Dell, says a source. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has enough trouble deflecting criticism about the freelance status of many members. It’s doubtful that the group would’ve agreed to this plan if NBC had been clear up front, is the sentiment I understand is now coming from the HFPA camp. “The show isn’t a real press conference,” a veteran TV producer tells me. “It doesn’t look like [the] journalists present will be able to ask questions of Golden Globe officials. They’ll be there as captives to watch Billy and Nancy read off nominees and winners in 25 award categories.” It’s understandable that some HFPA members would be galled by the puffery of NBC’s plans, which make a disturbing mockery of the organization’s normally sacred celebration of Hollywood. If the network had any interests but its own at heart, it would have made some attempt at incorporating the solemn ritual that usually begins each Globes ceremony–the consumption of Orson Welles’ transubstantiated body and blood in the form of filet mignon and stiff vodka-tonics– as a show of good faith, even if they ultimately insisted that the oppressively telegenic Bush and O’Dell serve as the officiants of the rite. Globes TV special now an ‘”Access” PR stunt’? [Gold Derby] More »Billy Bush Told All In Nicole Richie Knocked-Up Exclusive!
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | At long last, Nicole Richie has lifted the media blackout surrounding her pregnancy by Joel Madden – lead singer of seminal, early-Oughts angst-pop outfit Good Charlotte – giving Access Hollywood’s celebrity-baby-obsessed Billy Bush carte blanche to ask the not-burning questions we had zero investment in the answers to. Was it planned? Boy or girl? Has she picked a name? What’s her theory about children and tattoos? Virtually nothing is off-limits, and it’s all covered in the clip above. As always, enjoy–as if we even had to remind you to do that. Access Hollywood More »
Watch Britney Lose Her Kids: Live!
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | If you’ve truly given up all hope of living a productive and meaningful existence, we guide you now to AccessHollywood.com’s live feed from the court steps of today’s Spears-Federline custody hearing, where you can spend the next hour or so listening in on Tony Potts and Girl with Star-Shaped Microphone submit to an explosive bout of verbal, Britney-speckled diarrhoea. Once you’ve sated yourselves with their insights, you can then continue onto similarly fulfilling activities, such as follicle-by-follicle pubic depilatory sessions and seeing how many canned olives you can eat before puking. Access Live Stream: Spears-Federline Custody Hearing [accesshollywood.com] More »
