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Nicole Kidman Celebrates ‘Australia’ Premiere By Plotting Retirement
1:43AM STV | The first audience to see the finished version of Australia should be drunkenly stumbling out of the afterparty right about now in Sydney, where Baz Luhrmann’s $130 million epic held its world premiere today. Early reviews from the homeland are mixed (”While it will be very popular with many people I think there’s a slight air of disappointment after it all,” notes The Australian), putting Fox on edge for this weekend’s first American press screenings and underscoring downswung star Nicole Kidman’s red-carpet threat to walk away from the whole sordid business: More »
EXCLUSIVE: Clint Eastwood Likens ‘08 Election to Oprah Car Giveaway
7:40AM STV | Clint Eastwood took himself and his new film Changeling to its US premiere last weekend at the New York Film Festival. Just like we had for our audience with Mickey Rourke, we sneaked in via a film canister to check out the scene and lob a question his way; still, as lovely and reliably austere as Changeling is, we had more pressing issues on our mind than how little Eastwood rehearsed with Angelina Jolie (answer: hardly at all). To wit: How is a long-time conservative, former elected official and John McCain supporter like Eastwood getting his head around the Celebrity Election of ‘08 — Sarah Palin’s candidacy in particular? Was this a circus anyone could have foreseen 57 years ago when he joined the Republicans? More »
Not Even Oprah Can Resist The Power Of Swag
8:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Oh, celebrities – even though US Weekly says They’re Just Like Us!, they often seem to inhabit stratospheric heights. Take Oprah Winfrey, for example. She founded that school in South Africa. Her Angel Network raised money for Katrina relief efforts. And who can forget Oprah’s Favourite Things!, when she nearly sends hordes of teachers in her audiences into cardiac arrest by giving them free cars and red velvet cupcakes. More »
Inaugural ‘Celebrity Babymaking Month’ Sets High Affleck-Damon Standard For Years to Come
8:40AM STV | The pitter-patter of little feet is getting kind of annoying today at Defamer HQ, where news of not one, not two, not three, but four celebrity pregnancies and/or births have us hand-delivering sex-ed pamphlets to front desks everywhere from CAA to ICM. Even in this uncertain era of creative gas-rationing and looming SAG strikes, Hollywood seed is flying, and nowhere is it landing more conspicuously than in the always-competitive sphere comprising Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner; just when Damon and wife Luciana had welcomed Gia Zavala Damon into the cruel, cruel world, Garner confirmed her pregnancy with her and Affleck’s own second child. Then, as the rivals regrouped to plot their escalation, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale went and blobbed at Cedars-Sinai: More »
Does Judd Apatow Really Have This Man to Thank For ‘Superbad’?
4:10AM STV | You’re nobody in this town until you’ve been ripped off, and even then you’re just a little more bitter nobody until an actual, attributable success comes along. According to a profile today in indieWIRE, director Alex Holdridge can finally lay claim to both stages in his accelerating career arc: His funny, lyrical LA romance In Search of a Midnight Kiss opens theatrically tomorrow in New York (Aug. 22 in Los Angeles), several years after a less-auspicious development left him burned at the Sony gates. More »
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Career Paths
6:20AM Molly Friedman | Only three years ago, Blake Lively was just That Blonde Girl from The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants, and America Ferrera was just the Token Dorky Sidekick. Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn, on the other hand, were bonafide TV stars. My, how things have changed. With the film’s sequel debuting next month, we take a look at how each of the leading ladies has done career-wise since the original racked up nearly $40MM at the box office in 2005. While there’s a bit of bad news for the original’s biggest stars, there’s an alternate way of looking at this role reversal: any actress’ status as the perennial “buddy” can obviously change with one little show that could.
Resolution No. 4: George Lucas Sentenced to Prison For Continuing Rape of ‘Star Wars’ Franchise
5:35AM STV | WHEREAS, the Star Wars franchise comprises six films about the legend of Anakin Skywalker, his son Luke, a bunch of puppets and their exploits with the Force, and More »
‘Heidi Fleiss’ Doc Directors Recall Her Joys, Pleasures and the Pitfalls of Bird-Love
7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | One of the most stirringly batshit films we’ve seen this year, Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal debuts on HBO tonight after a successful premiere run at last month’s Los Angeles Film Festival. We’ve tipped you previously to some of the harrowing dynamics herein: Ex-madam Heidi Fleiss nabs a land deal in Pahrump, Nev., where she’ll attempt to make her comeback with an all-male brothel for women. Civic outrage, meth relapses and an inheritance of tropical birds conspire to scuttle her dream. Hilarity decidedly does not ensue. More »
Is Katie Holmes’ Severe New Bob A Stealthy Way To Extricate Herself From Her Marriage To Tom Cruise?
6:00AM Molly Friedman | In light of some breaking hair-related news involving future fugitive Katie Holmes, we must admit that we’ve underestimated the Scientology prisoner. As the Daily Mail reported over the weekend, Broadway’s least-alluring celebrity rookie recently chopped off even more of her already chin-grazing bob, and even dared to pull out those hair curlers in what could be the beginning move in a new strategy to finally flee the Knights of Hubbard. Though Kate’s “boyish” cut may backfire, it’s a clever plan nonetheless. Below, we provide five of the best examples of drastic ‘do-caused catastrophes directly linked to highly publicized breakups, from Jennifer Aniston’s self-conscious bob that led to Brangelina, to Cameron Diaz’s unfortunate goth dye job that failed to inspire any future sex or love sounds from Justin Timberlake: More »
