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A Streetcar Named Occupational Health & Safety Disaster

2:53PM Jess McGuire | Last night my delightfully highbrow friend Jess went to the theatre to watch the STC production of A Street Car Named Desire. Not too long into the performance, she updated her Twitter account saying “STC streetcar stops, evacuation” and posted a photo of a confused looking audience. I was gripped. More »
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Is Cate Blanchett Pregnant AGAIN?

11:18AM Jess McGuire | My, Our Cate™ is a one woman Oscar winning baby machine! She’s already got three beautiful young lads with husband Andrew Upton – and now the Daily Telegraph suspects there may just be another bun in the oven. Hope that environmentally friendly Hunters Hill abode is big enough for y’all, Cate! What was Cate Blanchett’s husband Andrew Upton doing loitering in the obstetrics ward at a private hospital on Wednesday? This sounds decidedly sinister, but that may just be the use of the word “loitering” which traditionally belongs in articles about men who show their doodles in public, or drunkards. Or if it’s your lucky day, both! More »

Who Is The Gent Looking Remarkably Unimpressed With Cate Blanchett’s Dress?

9:45AM Jess McGuire | My friend Nadine was enjoying the fashion critiquing delights over at Go Fug Yourself and gazing at a picture of Cate Blanchett at the premiere of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button when she noticed something. Goodness, a man in the background holding a microphone and looking incredibly bored seemed oh so familiar. Who could it be now? More »

Cate Blanchett Closes In On Erik Estrada With Walk Of Fame Star

10:45AM Seth | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star Cate Blanchett was awarded with that most exclusive of all Hollywood decorations presented within spitting distance of a technicolor-wig store, the Walk of Fame star. There to share in the honour were producer Kathleen Kennedy, Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull director Steven Spielberg, and begoateed Button director himself David Fincher, who in his prepared statement likened Blanchett’s luminous beauty and staggering talent to “my second rimjob. My first wasn’t so hot, but the second one, I was like, ‘OK—I think I get it. Yeah—this is pretty awesome.’ That’s how I feel about Cate Blanchett. I just get it, and I think she’s pretty awesome.” [Photo credit: Getty Images] More »

First ‘Benjamin Button’ Reviews Break: ‘Historic Achievement’ or ‘Spoon-Fed Artifice’?

3:30AM STV | The studio fatwa prohibiting early reviews of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has ended, it seems, with Variety leading the critical charge online late Sunday. Prepare to be shocked by the general consensus: It’s good, and will surely be nominated for Oscars! Who could have seen this coming? Nevertheless, the film has its detractors, and we hear from them — along with those slobbering at its altar — after the jump. (Light spoilers ahead.) More »

Cate Blanchett On The Joys Of Spooning

12:58PM Jess McGuire | I adore Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton. I think they seem like a delightful and interesting pair, and I occasionally dream of hosting dinner parties where they attend and everyone gets sweetly shickered and enjoys some intellectual (but joke filled) banter over a couple of bottles of red. But that dream is between me and the security guards at the Sydney Theatre Company, ho ho! Cate has spoken to Oprah and revealed just why she and her husband Andrew Upton fit together so well. It’s because, well… they fit together so well! Cate Blanchett has revealed private details of what she looks for in a perfect bedroom mate, in a candid chat with Oprah Winfrey More »

Pamela Anderson Sinks Her Cruelty-Free Claws Into Cate Blanchett

8:40AM Kyle Buchanan | The notable celebrity feuds of late have all been between well-matched pugilists: take the Battle of the British Funnymen (starring Ricky Gervais and Simon Pegg) or the Jewish Comic Conflict of ‘08 (pitting Sarah Silverman against Jackie Mason). Now, though, word has broken about a feud between two stars so different, it’s hard to imagine them even sharing airspace: fulsome serial divorcer Pamela Anderson and Oscar-honoured Cate Blanchett. More »

Even Hours of Instant Messaging Can’t Help Us Make Sense of ‘Indiana Jones 4′

2:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has been unveiled at last for international critics, and with most verdicts coming in mixed to above-average, our discriminating tastes still found much left to be desired. Defamer editor Seth Abramovitch and senior editor S.T. VanAirsdale attended yesterday’s screenings in Los Angeles and New York, respectively, after which the slow process of psychological reckoning and franchise restoration began the only way they knew how: via instant messaging. More »

Cate Blanchett And Andrew Upton Welcome Another Little Boy Into Their Theatrical Family!

1:16PM Jess McGuire | Cheery news just in(ish)! It seems Cate Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton are a baby boy producing machine, with the couple welcoming a third young lad into their ever-growing brood of fancily monikered children. Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton welcomed Ignatius Martin Upton into the world yesterday. The boy weighed 3.6 kilograms The couple, who are the joint artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company, already have two sons: six-year-old Dasheill and three-year-old Roman. Defamer Australia offers our hearty congratulations to the Blanchett-Upton family. More »

Oscars 2008: Top Ten Best Dressed Women

2:30AM Molly Friedman | Compared to the last few years of beige, gold and altogether safe ensembles, this year’s Academy Awards carpet was delightfully packed with surprising silhouettes (Heidi’s exaggerated popped collar), feather detail that drifted nowhere near tackiness (Jessica Alba), and form-fitting strapless dresses that made actresses (gasp!) look like they have actual curvalicious figures (Cameron Diaz). Herewith, our glance at who we think stopped the show last night with their expertly picked dresses. More »