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Americans Shocked to Learn They Were Supposed to See ‘Soul Men’ Because of Obama
3:28AM Kyle Buchanan | If you’re excited to read something terrible today, you’re in luck! The LAT’s Patrick Goldstein has taken time out of his busy, blogger-excoriating schedule to continue his second career as a one-man promo machine for the Samuel L. Jackson/Bernie Mac vehicle Soul Men, and today, he’s produced a real whopper. Periodically, Goldstein has used his column to check in with the film’s producer David Friendly (also a former LAT writer, and thus easy to get on the phone) to rebut rumours about Soul Men that you haven’t heard, but rarely have the results been this dunderheaded: More »
Brooke Shields Will Not Stand For You Slandering The Memory of Sophia Petrillo!
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Though no one cared enough to actually make it to her funeral, Golden Girls actress Estelle Getty was beloved in Hollywood, where actors and agents whiling down coke benders at 4 a.m. grew to love the misadventures of her sassy Sophia Petrillo during countless late-night Lifetime reruns. Still, that didn’t stop the sketch comics at Upright Citizens Brigade from trotting out their impressions of the actress — as well as those of the deceased Heath Ledger and Bernie Mac — during a 72-hour marathon at the theatre. According to the NY Daily News, celebrity panelist Brooke Shields wasn’t laughing: More »
The Curse Of Billy Bob Thornton Overtakes ‘Dark Knight’ Curse In Hollywood Death Toll
3:00AM STV | Bernie Mac’s tragic death sparked a surge of postmortems around the Web over the weekend, with many invoking his role as the bad-arse mall gumshoe opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa. But one perceptive observer commenting at Hollywood Elsewhere noted that the late comedian’s passing is the latest in a string of similarly untimely demises for other Thornton co-stars as well: More »
Bernie Mac Ain’t Scared Of Death, Motherfucker
2:56AM Seth | We interrupt your weekend to relay sad news: Comedian and star of TV and movies Bernie Mac succumbed to pneumonia early this morning at the ridiculously unfair age of 50. Mac seemed an unlikely candidate for crossover success: He never outwardly solicited an audience’s love, instead playing on his cannily conceived persona of the put-upon, working-class every-African-American. Despite his imposing size, booming voice, and those angry eye flares, the comedic hook, of course, was his blustery impotence—like a latter-day Ralph Kramden who insisted on referring to himself in the third-person, but who could give a shit if we knew that deep down he had a heart of gold. (We’d suggest he should have played him in The Honeymooners instead of Cedric the Entertainer, but that thing was such a piece of shit it wasn’t worthy of his talents. Motherfucker had an appointment with Clooney and Pitt, anyway.) Listen to the bit above about taking in his drug-addict sister’s kids—what would become the premise of his underrated Fox sitcom. Of the youngest he says,”That two-year-old—she the motherfucker. She the ringleader. She was sent here by the Devil. She works for the Devil!” Peace, Bernie. You’re gone too soon. More »
Christina Applegate, Bernie Mac Among Latest Celeb Hospitalizations
4:55AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s a bad day to be a celebrity: as Morgan Freeman recovers from a car accident that left him in serious condition, actors Christina Applegate and Bernie Mac grapple with health problems of their own. People has the Applegate scoop: More »
Trade Roundup: NBC Reportedly Looking To Raid Internet For Replacement Strike Programming
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · The writers strike could result in a windfall for Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who are reportedly in talks with NBC for the acquisition of blogtastic new online series Quarterlife, which is scheduled to premiere on the MySpaces on Sunday. If the alleged deal should fall through, forward-thinking network president Ben Silverman will announce that once he’s out of new episodes of Bionic Woman, he’ll run an hour of grainy YouTube footage of cheerleading-competition bloopers in its place. [THR] · Fox is trying to retain the services of Mark Wahlberg for a feature adaptation of the video game Max Payne, hoping that the star will be able to out-act his grizzled digital counterpart. [Variety] More »
