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Spoilers for the ‘Forrest Gump’ Sequel That 9/11 Snuffed Out

8:05AM Kyle Buchanan | Sad news: on a day that has already seen the ignominious shitcanning of Hollywood’s best “cyborg dinosaurs rescue kidnapped children” franchise, word has emerged that screenwriter Eric Roth has quietly buried his unnecessary script for Forrest Gump 2 out by the old oak tree. While promoting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Roth told Slashfilm that the sequel just didn’t seem the same after 9/11 happened (what, those scenes of a digital Tom Hanks outrunning smoke and debris in Manhattan felt too soon?). The news reminded us that several years ago, your Defamer editor was at a talk where Roth revealed the Gump sequel’s surprise twist, which he told us not to tell. Guess it doesn’t matter now! Here’s your before-the-jump SPOILER ALERT… More »

Haley Joel Osment Is All Grown Up and Ready to Join the Hitler Youth!

8:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Since 2003, former child star Haley Joel Osment has done most of his acting off-camera, occasionally content to add the occasional videogame voice-over or alcohol-addled car accident to his resume. Recently, though, Osment has reappeared in the public eye, preparing for his Broadway (and cuss word) debut with a vigor that would put even Dakota Fanning 2.0 to shame. Now, Osment shares with MTV the next phase of his career comeback, and it involves the Hitler Youth: More »

Sometimes There’s So Much Booty In the World, It Feels Like Kevin Spacey Can’t Take It

4:15AM Defamer Hollywood | As Esquire once famously teased, “Kevin Spacey Has a Secret,” and now, finally, that secret has come to light: he’s a good samaritan! Already notorious for a well-intentioned, late-night dog walking that turned ugly in the most homoerotic way, the actor was snapped this weekend in Croatia enacting a “pay it forward” so unorthodox that it would make even a newly R-rated Haley Joel Osment blush. Says The Sun: More »

Haley Joel Osment Learns ‘F’ Word in Preparation for Upcoming Broadway Debut

2:30AM STV | The A-list movie-star incursion on Broadway this fall just got a little B-listier with the addition of Haley Joel Osment to the cast of American Buffalo, David Mamet’s 1976 play set for revival in November. And we can’t wait: For sheer envelope-pushing, neither Daniel Radcliffe’s full-frontal horseplay nor Katie Holmes’s Dawson-ization of Arthur Miller is likely to compare to their fellow ex-child star’s profane verbal tussles with castmates Cedric the Entertainer and John Leguizamo — a duo whose characters entangle Osment’s young, broke schemer Bob in a bluer-than-blue cascade of “cunts,” “fucks” and other Sixth Sense-era unutterables. And all it’ll cost Osment, 20, is the low, low price of a semester behind at NYU: More »

The Top 25 Child Stars -Or- How to Turn Your Kid Into An F’ed-Up Commodity

4:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Some people think that agents, executives and Anthony Pellicano are the most evil people in Hollywood. But watch Vh1’s I Know My Kid’s a Star for ten minutes and you’ll see who the real villains are: Stage parents. More »