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Perez Hilton: In My Defense, I Don’t Actually Write That Crap
4:09AM Ryan Tate | It’s an open secret that Perez Hilton can’t be bothered to blog all day long anymore. But for some reason he’s never copped to using ghost writers. Until now. More »
Small Screen
More On HBO’s Grey Gardens: “The Hallmark Of Aristocracy Is Responsibility”
6:00AM Tracie | HBO’s Grey Gardens — premiering stateside April 18 — satisfies the hunger fans have for more on the Beale women better than pâté, ice cream and hotplate-boiled corn. We know, cause we got a copy. More »
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Perez Hilton’s Birthday Party: The Sponsorship Pitch
4:19AM Hamilton Nolan | Yesterday was Perez Hilton’s 31st birthday! His star-studded birthday bash will be March 28th at LA’s “iconic” Viper Room. And here’s how his marketing firm is trying to sell people sponsorships of this once-in-Perez’s-lifetime affair: More »
Defamer Corners Sundance Sophomore Bobcat Goldthwait
5:36AM STV | His manic persona may have ebbed, and his profile may have lowered since the 1980s. All the better for Bobcat Goldthwait, one of the unlikelier Sundance darlings we’ve run into this year in Park City.
Surviving ‘Rosie Live’ And Other 2008 Memories: A Kathy Griffin Fireside Chat
2:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Kathy Griffin isn’t just a frequent subject of our fair site—she’s also a Defamer reader. And so, who better for us to interview to help make sense of the crazy Hollywood year that was 2008?
Director Stephen Daldry on Sex, Moguls and Surviving ‘The Reader’
2:28AM STV | The culmination of our dedicated coverage of The Reader — from Rudin/Weinstein blow-ups to Oscar prognoses to its sexual audacity — arrived this weekend when director Stephen Daldry phoned Defamer HQ. “Sorry, I overslept,” he said in his dignified brogue — a forgivable lapse under the circumstances, with his Kate Winslet film following his Billy Elliot stage adaptation by mere weeks on his late-’08 calendar. Nevertheless, we got him properly caffeinated and settled in for a rousing installment of Five Questions (plus one, just for appropriate awards-season breadth): More »
AUDIO: Lindsay Lohan FINALLY Confirms Relationship With Samantha Ronson
2:35AM Kyle Buchanan | After months of open canoodling with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan has stopped playing coy about whether the two of them are in a relationship, finally confirming the news on (of all places) last night’s episode of the radio show Loveline. And she wasn’t even prompted by the harsh interrogation techniques of Dr. Drew, either! No, Lohan — who had the phone passed to her after Ronson called in to discuss her hospitalized friend DJ AM — was caught flat-footed after an innocent question by Dr. Drew’s cohost, Stryker. More »
Exclusive Video: Comedy Genius Robert De Niro Dazzles Us With Best Performance in Years
2:25AM Defamer Hollywood | If Robert De Niro’s appearance at last night’s Meryl Streep tribute in New York is any indication, all those haters who ridiculed the actor’s agency switch last week might have another thing coming. To wit: De Niro killed. In a cruise-ship comic kind of way, perhaps, and filing through a fistful of index-carded one-liners, but still. This guy may yet pull down $20 million a picture if his timing keeps up, and he wasted no time soliciting his former co-star Streep to join him — if only someone at CAA would return his calls. Zing! Catch our exclusive video and a few more outtakes from De Niro’s repertoire after the jump. More »
