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Welcome Clay and Lindsay, Your 2008 Gay Homecoming Royalty!
9:35AM STV | Forget it — we’re not even bothering with happy hour tonight. We’re going straight for our Dirt Sandwich, a heaving helping of all the entertainment news and scandal that’s fit to consume from the busy week behind us. This episode features the uniquely robust flavor of Clay Aiken’s truth and consequences, the savory zing of Lohan/Ronson revelations, and a soothing aftertaste of Emmys, Dancing with the Stars and swimsuit legend Sarah Palin. How about some extreme face time with Joe Biden? Hungry yet? Fine — you can have the whole thing, crafted from scratch by Defamer’s resident video-delicatessen wizardess Molly McAleer. Bon appetit! More »
Prince Shia LaBeouf to Lay Waste to Elders, Minorities and the Poor at the Box Office
2:05AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your indispensable guide to what’s new, noteworthy and/or totally doomed this week at the movies. Today we welcome Shia LaBeouf and his million-dollar pinkie back to theatres alongside Spike Lee, Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Charlize Theron and Kirk Cameron (!), while facing a robust litter of potential arthouse underdogs and DVD release for the agoraphobes among us. As always, our opinions are our own, but if Josh Groban can steadfastly see it our way, shouldn’t you as well? More »
DreamWorks Assistant Thinks ‘Rosh Hashanah’ Is Newest Hollywood Power Broker
4:20AM Kyle Buchanan | As connoisseurs of Hollywood and its related spiritual practices, we at Defamer would expect you to be familiar with the traditions of American Jewry, so here’s a pop quiz: is Rosh Hashanah a multi-day event commemorating the start of the Jewish New Year, meant to celebrate the creation of the world? Or is it what this DreamWorks assistant thinks it is? 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 »
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star’s Chimp Romance Exposed!
8:30AM STV | We don’t know about you, but were starving. And nothing hits the spot at the end of a grueling week in the mines like a Dirt Sandwich, crafted with loving, homemade goodness by Defamer videographer Molly McAleer. This serving is stacked high with homoeroticism, slathered with Blonsky sauce, dashed with a hint of Sarah Palin and squeezed between two hot slices of Mario Lopez. Garnish with a sprig of Ellen Pompeo/primate-makeout mystery, and serve hot! Now that’s living. And because we’re generous like that, we’ll even share a bite after the jump. Enjoy! More »
Defamer Predicts the 2008 Emmys: Comedy Edition!
3:40AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s just two days before television’s biggest event (that isn’t the American Idol finale, the Oscars, or a political convention speech), and we at Defamer are gearing up to fulfil all your Emmy needs — at least, the ones that don’t involve white linen slacks. Don’t forget, we’ll be blogging the Emmys live from the East Coast starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT (West Coast spoilerphobes, beware: the Emmys air here tape-delayed). So who do we expect to be taking home the hardware? After the jump, get our official predictions in the Emmys’ comedy categories (for dramas, head right here):
Police Brutality Strikes Keira, Kate and Dakota at the Box Office
2:00AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your official tastemaking Bible for everything new and noteworthy at the movies. The second week of the fall season offers another mixed harvest of Oscar bait, multiplex placeholders and indie hopefuls, none more eagerly anticipated than the historically skeevy Dakota Fanning 2.0 drama Hounddog. But we’ll get to that momentarily, along with this week’s worthwhile DVD releases and an all-call for your own recommendations. As always, our opinions are our own — in times like these, who really wants to share? More »
Meet Abu Dhabi’s $1 Billion Media Man: ‘We Won’t Be Making ‘Borat 2”
10:25AM STV | The inflow of foreign cash to Hollywood may look stalled with the DreamWorks/Reliance deal held up in all these fashionable new bank implosions, but as discovered earlier this month, the oil barons of Abu Dhabi have enough stashed under their mattresses to greenlight some $1 billion worth of film projects over the next five years. The guy the emirate brought in to spend it, ex-Disney overlord Edward Borgerding, has hinted at a few of his more modest goals in recent weeks — “[Abu Dhabi Media Company] is fulfilling its ambition to become a global player in the media industry,” he told the Financial Times — but only finally spelled out his real plot for world conquest in a new interview with Sharon Waxman: More »
Uncannily Palinesque President to Be Assassinated in New NBC Miniseries
4:20AM STV | Perhaps we spoke too soon emphasizing Tina Fey’s status as our go-to Sarah Palin doppelganger, but we never really spotted an alternative that signaled the same hair-up, hockey-mum charm radiated by the Alaska governor. Until today, that is, and how’s this for context: According to NBC’s Web site, its fall miniseries/video game adaptation XIII “begins dramatically as the first female U.S. President is shot dead by a sniper during her Veteran’s Day speech.” It was a classy-enough touch to anticipate Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, we suppose, but casting Mimi Kuzyk as doomed Palin-lookalike Sally Sheridan was just prescience gone spectacularly wrong. The enlarged photo follows the jump. More »
