crime and punishment
Filmgoer Gets Firing Squad For Talking During ‘Benjamin Button’
3:13AM STV | Like the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush, a Philadelphia moviegoer earned instant folk-hero status on Christmas by shooting a viewer who wouldn’t shut up during The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. More »
Farrah Fawcett Cancer Leak Probably Not Worth UCLA Worker’s Upcoming Years in Prison
1:45AM STV | It seemed like a good idea at the time, we suppose: Sneak celebrities’ medical records to the National Enquirer, collect $US4,700 and quietly go back to your day job knowing you helped a venerable journalistic institution uphold its mission of transparency and insight into the fraught conditions of Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and others. But that was then, and this — a guilty plea and a possible 10-year prison sentence for tabloid source Lawanda Jackson — is now. More »
Looks Like The “Dancing Without Pants” Defence Worked For Todd McKenney!
1:36PM Jess McGuire | While Defamer Australia knew Todd McKenney was innocent of any wrongdoing after the incident earlier this year which saw the Dancing With The Stars judge discovered unconscious in a park with over $400 worth of GHB in his pocket, it’s nice to finally see the legal system follow our lead.
A drugs charge against Dancing With The Stars judge Todd McKenney has been dropped, New South Wales Police confirmed today.
McKenney had previously indicated he would plead not guilty to one count of possessing the illicit drug GHB.
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South Park Presents: ‘Indiana Jones and the Pinball-Machine Rape of Doom’
6:00AM STV | We knew George Lucas had a taste for franchise-rape, but our relatively proscribed imaginations prevented us from conjuring the horror of Lucas and accomplice Steven Spielberg forcibly tag-teaming Indiana Jones not once, not twice, but three times in 30 minutes. But that’s what South Park is for, we guess, where the mandate to get tanked on Crystal Head Vodka™ and crossbreed cinema’s most notorious rape scenes with Indy’s own violation was thriving nicely in last night’s episode. We’ve culled one-third of the NSFW nightmare for your viewing pleasure after the jump; expect the filmmakers’ “He was asking for it” defence to arrive here later in the day. [Comedy Central] More »
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Blake Fielder-Civil Edition
9:59AM Clem Bastow | Ha ha ha, I love it when Amy Winehouse’s No Good™ husband Blake Fielder-Civil has to suck eggs, and since she seems to be mostly over him (or at least just too wasted/demented to remember she has a husband) these days, that means I get to enjoy it with delicious regularity.
In this instance, Amy forgot to show up at Blake’s sentencing! But his girlfriend did!
Tell ‘er what she’s won, Joe – a beautiful marriage!
Amy Winehouse didn’t turn up to see husband Blake sentenced today but his reported girlfriend was in floods of tears outside the court.
Blonde German model Sophie Schandorff, 21, was obviously distraught after the hearing, which saw Fielder-Civil sentenced to 27 months in prison today for grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.
Schandorff caused a stir at court in April when she was in Winehouse’s usual place to support Fielder-Civil and the couple were seen to mouth ‘I love you’ to each other.
Awesome, sounds like everyone’s getting along well, then!
Anyway, looks like Fielder-Civil will spend another four or so months in jail, if he behaves himself (and I have to say, he does look surprisingly healthy in his most recent mugshot), though he’s been sentenced to 27 months, yadda yadda yadda. WIN! More » 
5:40AM Defamer Hollywood | The good times keep a-rollin’ in Louisiana for the Stray Cat Gang — including Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and a smattering of crew members arrested at Saturday’s W wrap party in Shreveport. New reports allege Wright fielded at least one ethnic slur from an onlooker after being escorted out of the Stray Cat with unruly lighting technician Eric Felland. Brolin and company went down a little later when coming to Wright’s aid — i.e. “interfering with that arrest,” according to Shreveport police Cpl. Robert Elliott. Furthermore, “a rep for Brolin … didn’t say what the rehabbed actor was drinking,” according to Rush and Molloy. Next up for the group: An encore on Dec. 2, when all are due back in court. Meanwhile, chalk up another incentive for filmmaking in Louisiana — the only state where you can cast, scout and produce an entire movie faster than the legal system can prosecute its stars. [NYDN] More »
Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright Hauled Off by Cops in Lifelike ‘W’ Publicity Coup
3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | If we had just produced an entire feature film in about 12 days like the gang behind Oliver Stone’s W, then we, too, would probably have been in a bit of hell-raising mood when it was all said and done. We’re not sure if getting arrested would have been on the agenda, but we’ll grant newly shorn Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright the benefit of the doubt, anyway: The duo, who play President Bush and Colin Powell in the film, spent some time in custody early Saturday after coming to the aid of a rowdy crew member at a bar in Shreveport, La. More »
Todd McKenney Fought The Law – And The Law, Surprising Absolutely No One, Won
2:17PM Jess McGuire | The Gods (ie: a magistrate) have passed judgement on Todd McKenney following the Dancing With The Stars judge’s drink driving arrest last month, and have punished him thusly.
Dancing with the Stars judge Todd McKenney has lost his licence and been fined for drink driving in central Sydney. McKenney, 42, today pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court to one count of low range drink driving.
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