excuses

‘Avid Sushi Eater’ Jeremy Piven Blames Spicy Tuna For Neuro-Muscular Dysfunction

6:21AM Kyle Buchanan | When Jeremy Piven dropped out of Speed-the-Plow today and cited a “high mercury count” as the reason, we wondered whether that excuse could possibly be topped. As it turns out, it could! More »

Colin Farrell Finally Comes Clean About His Sex Tape: ‘I Think I Was High’

9:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that a rehabbed Colin Farrell is sober and on the mend (and has put on some pounds since his “homeless dude outside Trader Joe’s” days), it’s time for him to pull a Britney and wonder aloud, “What the hell was I thinking?” Naturally, any investigation of his substance-aided antics would inevitably turn to the sex tape he made with Playmate Nicole Narain, and during a recent BBC appearance, Farrell attempted to explain away the indiscretion the best way he knew how. More »

Lindsay Lohan’s Oscar Dreams Frustrated By Media’s Obsession With Where She Parties Until 6 AM

2:27AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve long felt that the only thing standing between extravagantly talented actress and criminally mislabelled “party girl” Lindsay Lohan and a record-setting string of Oscar wins is the ongoing and coordinated efforts of the tabloid media to destroy her once-unimpeachable artistic credibility; for example, had the press not developed an untoward fixation with the sudden shrinkage and then re-bazooming of her her breasts, her subtle work in Herbie: Fully Loaded almost certainly would have received the awards attention it deserved. Lohan confirms our theory about the media’s frustrating interference with her professional development: “The thing about the press and why they need to leave me the [bleep] alone for a little bit is because I don’t want that distraction from my work,” she told the mag. “ More »