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Friday, May 22, 2009
Small Screen

Fox News Barely Contains Its Excitement Over Obama Vs. Cheney Duel

2:31AM Gabriel Snyder | Our favourite part of the way the US cable news nets are hyping Barack Obama and Dick Cheney’s “dueling” national security speeches? The super-sized all-caps crawl that Fox News broke out during Obama’s speech: “AHEAD: VICE-PRESIDENT CHENEY REMARKS ON TERROR & SECURITY.” What no exclamation marks? More »
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Brooke Hogan on Dick Cheney: ‘Who’s That?’

7:10AM Kyle Buchanan | When we solicited thoughts on VP candidate Sarah Palin from reality star Brooke Hogan, Brooke’s naive response of “Who’s that?” initially echoed in our hearts as a poignant reminder of the bygone, pre-Palin media era. You can imagine our confusion, then, when Hogan appeared on today’s Howard Stern show and as the subject of the now-notorious Defamer video came up, she coolly denied that we’d ever asked her about Sarah Palin in the first place: More »
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Saturday, May 10, 2008

‘W’ Gets Weirder as Lionsgate, Oliver Stone Agree to Outrageous Five-Month Turnaround

5:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Oliver Stone’s drive to get his Bush biopic W in front of audiences before Election Day acquired new momentum on Thursday — if you can believe it. And we guess we have no choice but to wait and see if the director and Lionsgate, which yesterday picked up the film’s North American distribution rights, can place their prismatic presidential quasi-drama on screens by their proposed Oct. 17 release date. Oct. 17! Stone hasn’t even cast Dick Cheney yet — for a film that starts shooting Monday. Not a problem, insists the filmmaker, who’s still spinning on the big picture: More »
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