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I Am Underwhelmed By Lindsay Lohan’s Paris Fashion Week Debut
1:44AM Foster Kamer | Lindsay Lohan makes her big Paris Fashion Week catwalk debut. Beyonce dad is impregnating women and moving women to the left. Vincent Gallo: still awesome. Liza Minella, Michael Jackson, Padma, Diller, the High Line! Here’s your Sunday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
‘Hellraiser’ Summoned For Remake
5:17AM Seth | The End of Ideas: It’s Time to Redo Hellraiser Edition. French horror director Pascal Laugier is in final negotiations to direct a “re-imagining of Hellraiser” for Dimension. Laugier reassured Cliver Barker fans that he “would never betray what [Barker] has done,” and to look forward to a mostly faithful adaptation starring a new icon of horror, Velcroface. [THR] Barry Diller will vote YES on Obama, and NO on Prop 16, an initiative titled Eliminates Right of Media Moguls to Carry On Marriages of Convenience with Noted Fashion Designers. [THR] Robert Downey Jr. has agreed to star as Tony Stark in the next two Iron Mans and The Avengers, the last of which is scheduled for release on July 15, 2011, aka International Fanboy Pants-Crapping Day. [Variety] After the jump: Vince Vaughn is ready to tackle his most dramatic role since Norman Bates. More »Reflective Barry Diller Laments His City of Inbred Spawn
7:25AM Defamer Hollywood | After decades of sprinkling his virile mogul seed on lots all over town, cultivating muscular sprouts along the lines of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and others, inveterate media pollenator Barry Diller offered these wrenching words about Hollywood at this week’s D6 Technology conference in Carlsbad: “It’s a community that’s so inbred it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.” Ouch. He must have forgotten about decidedly toothless Sahara director Breck Eisner, whose father Michael got his start under Diller during his years at ABC. That said, we weep for the third generation, whose inability to type or mouse-click with their beflippered limbs will sink Diller’s digital empire once and for all. [Fortune, Photo Credit: Getty Images] More »
