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Bang Bang, You’re STILL F–ked: Victoria’s ‘Underbelly’ Gets The Pixel Treatment

1:00PM Clem Bastow | As though Channel Nine hasn’t been dragged back and forth over metaphorical hot coals and then metaphorically whipped with branches before being metaphorically urinated on when it comes to what was to be 2008’s saving grace, the beleaguered “real life” drama series Underbelly, the pity party never stops: now Victorians are finally able to see the show, which will begin screening this Sunday night, only they’ll be getting a version that the censors and Supreme Court have had their sticky paws all over. The face of an actor who plays an accused criminal will be pixelated. Victorians will see only the first five episodes of the 13-part series after a Supreme Court ruling yesterday. More »

Lindsay Lohan Kissed a Girl, and the Paparazzi Liked It

4:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps it’s just practice for the sapphic VMAs cameo that MTV wants her to make, but part-time actress Lindsay Lohan was snapped smooching Samantha Ronson in Manhattan yesterday. The development will no doubt please LAPD Chief William Bratton, who correctly intuited that Lohan “going gay” would somehow spirit her away from the more aggressive paparazzi in Los Angeles, though there is still no word on what father Michael Lohan thinks of the photo (we’re sure, though, that a statement is incoming). Meanwhile, Playboy has offered Lohan a series of less tender snapshots, and they made a surprisingly low first offer: