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500 Days Of Potter
2:48AM Natasha VC | Dumbledore could (and should) buy out the American auto industry. Madonna’s dry thrusting leads to tragedy. Google Images will explode within the next few hours. And everyone is mean to the writers! More »
Danny Boyle Sees His Shadow At DGA’s, We Get Three More Weeks Of Awards Season
1:55AM STV | Now it’s just getting ridiculous: Hollywood squandered its only shot at a competitive Oscar season on Saturday when the Directors Guild of America gave its top prize to Danny Boyle. More »
Sean Young’s Guide To L.A.’s Best Bars That Don’t Feature Boring Julian Schnabel Speeches
7:03AM Seth | We hope it’s not too soon to pronounce the once-flatlining Oscars fully recovered, tipped upright by an attending nurse, who then removed the IV needle that maintained his celebrity-malnourished frame from his golden arm. All this is wonderful news, especially in light of what was quickly turning out to be the most depressingly atrophied trophy season in Hollywood history–where something as trivial as a bored-to-drunken-action Sean Young being escorted out of the Hyatt Regency became the year’s most discussed awards show moment. Young, of course, has since exiled herself to a hecklers wellness facility, but her spirit lives on, particularly in this LAT feature: More »Young Vs. Schnabel At The DGA Awards: The Video
3:07AM Mark | By now, we’ve all read various accounts of Sean Young’s valiant attempt to inject some drama into this strike-plagued awards season, seen video of Les Moonves’s wife’s perky reenactment of the DGA ceremony’s disruption, and learned that the troubled actress has retreated to rehab to combat the demons that emboldened her inner acceptance-speech critic to give voice to her frustrations with the pacing of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schnabel’s humbly proffered thanks-yous.
Sean Young To Battle Awards Ceremony Heckling Demons In Rehab
5:20AM Seth | With news spreading of Sean Young’s Schnabel-shushing shenanigans at Saturday night’s DGA awards–a story you may have first read about here on Sunday, and that has now achieved critical mass thanks to a lively, first-person retelling by Julie Chen on The Late Show–the spent actress has achieved new rock-bottom depths in the annals of awards season gate-crashing. (Lower even than the time the Blade Runner star sent security on a cat-and-mouse chase throughout the topiaries of the 2006 Vanity Fair Oscar party.) Young has now checked herself into rehab, The Insider is reporting: More »
Julie Chen Shares The Story Of Sean Young’s Drunken DGA Awards Meltdown With Millions Of ‘Late Show’ Viewers
4:37AM Mark | Sean Young’s bravura, Julian Schnabel-taunting performance at Saturday night’s tragically untelevised DGA Awards is now officially the stuff of Hollywood legend; not only was the incident immortalized on Variety’s party-monitoring V-page today (a “spirited moment” of “tipsy heckling,” giggles the trade paper!), but it was openly shared with millions of David Letterman’s viewers Monday night by Big Brother host and Les Moonves trophy wife Julie Chen, who didn’t require any arm-twisting to cough up the name of “the well-known actress” who caused the now-much-discussed disturbance, or to take a game stab at recreating the slurred outbursts that led to Young’s ejection from the event. More »
Sean Young Ejected From DGA Awards For Being Overserved?
8:28AM Mark Graham | Stories like the one that you are about to read are the reason we REALLY missed watching The Golden Globes this year. While we weren’t at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza for last night’s DGA Awards, one of our loose-lipped Defamer informants just sent us the following tip regarding an incident involving an the one of Hollywood’s most unpredictable actresses, Sean Young. Yes, the same Sean Young who once appeared on The Joan Rivers Show decked out in full Catwoman gear in hopes of landing the role that would go to Michelle Pfieffer. Anyway, after taking time to hurl insults towards both Marion Cotillard and Julian Schnabel (the former en français, no less!), the scourge of James Woods’ life was (allegedly) booted from the premises by a security cop. Our tipster’s highly amusing recollection of the incident follows after the jump. More »
Hollywood Reacts To The DGA Deal
5:50AM Mark | · The DGA, as you undoubtedly heard just moments after puffs of white smoke were belched skyward from the chimney of AMPTP headquarters, reached a deal with the studios yesterday. While anxious WGA members are picking over the proposed contract to see if any writer-screwing provisions have been hidden in the fine print, a strike-weary industry reacts: “One thing that is very clear is that with all the bad blood between the WGA and studios, the writers can strike until the end of time and they will not do better than the directors did. It is time to stop this,” said a “veteran agent” obviously eager to start earning commissions again. Check out the full story to read quotes carefully chosen to make the WGA look totally unreasonable if they don’t fall hopelessly in love with the terms offered the directors! [Variety] [After the jump: more deal reactions! Zac Efron hearts Orson Welles! Primetime TV may soon offer nothing but celebrity circus shows!] More »
A Nervous Hollywood Asks: Where The Hell Is This DGA Deal Everyone Says Is On Its Way?
6:25AM Mark | · Warner Brothers allows its options on the Justice League cast to lapse, putting the project on “indefinite hold,” though the studio has assured its roster of mostly no-names that it still would eventually like to see what they all look like in their cute superhero costumes. [Variety] · Like Monday’s American Idol episode, last night’s installment was down in the ratings from the show’s 2007 season; still, the 30 million people who tuned in were more than enough to help Fox completely eviscerate its competition. [THR] [After the jump: Hayden is a cheerleader 4ever, the DGA-deal waiting game, and WB layoffs begin!] More »
