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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam

Faux Charity Fashion’s Night Out Only Raised Imaginary Moneyplots

3:21AM Brian Moylan | Girl, we’re still in recovery from Fashion’s Night Out. Too bad the charitable arm of Anna Wintour’s Make-People-Like-Me Tour 2009 didn’t translate into cash for retailers. But nobody cares because the party was that fierce. More »
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
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 »
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

‘H&K’ Vs. Poehler/Fey, Defending Bette Midler, and Other New Movie Dilemmas

7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Deciphering your moviegoing options for the third week running, Defamer Attractions returns today with a look at the final weekend before the studios spill summer in our lap. Today we gauge Tina Fey’s chances for box office superiority, corral the highest-profile dog since 88 Minutes (that was only last week? Really?), recommend a certain Oscar-winning actress’s directing debut and scan the new arrivals shelf for DVD’s of notice. As always, our opinions are our own, but they’re also right. You can thank us later! More »
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Friday, October 12, 2007

Bette Midler: Tree Hugger, Tree Murderer

5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | What better way to ring in T.R. Knight-endorsed National Coming Out Day than with this TMZ TV tribute to hinge-jawed songbird, actress, and gay icon, Bette Midler. In it, she’s first called a “tree murderer” – we’re offered several scintillating details about a scandal involving Hawaiian zoning laws and driveway construction – only to have the accusations of arborcide retracted seconds later, in a touching endorsement of Midler’s ahead-of-their-time “tree hugging” efforts, strikingly depicted by Midler humping one like a lemur in heat. Thankfully, however, the crack-filled IV drips to which the TMZ editors are permanently hooked had fully drained before they could accomplish an animation depicting the star of The Rose fertilising her park-revitalisation project using nothing more than what Gaia gave her. TMZ on TV More »
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