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Vote Now in the High-Stakes Hollywood Joker-Alike Contest

5:35AM STV | After her latest round of plastic surgery, Joan Rivers has once again sparked concern that her postmodern facial sculpting has perhaps gone one operation too far. “My motto is, ‘Better a new face coming out of an old car than an old face coming out of a new car.’ Spend your money on you,” the Daily Mail quotes her as saying, but clearly the stakes have soared beyond self-service satisfaction: Rivers is but the latest boldface name to join the increasingly cutthroat Joker-Alike 2008 competition, in which grinning celebrities and their psychotic celluloid doppelgangers square off for ear-to-ear supremacy. Have a closer look at the finalists — and vote for a (or nominate your own) winner after the jump. More »

Play Along at Home with the Defamer Imploding Film Industry Scorecard

2:05AM Defamer Hollywood | A range of problems persist this morning for movie distributors large and small, with the Weinsteins predictably suffering the karmic retribution for Fraggle Rock: The Movie and another round of threats, invective and spin making the rounds elsewhere. As such, we’re spending a little time this morning cleaning up our Imploding Film Industry Scorecard. Tell us if your results vary: