hilary duff

Hilary Duff Downgrades Faye Dunaway Standoff To Near-Peacetime Levels

2:05AM STV | Hilary Duff has reportedly blinked in the escalating Cuban Missile Crisis of Hollywood catfights, standing down from last week’s vicious retaliatory attacks against Faye Dunaway. More »

Hilary Duff And Faye Dunaway Kick Off 2009’s First Great Catfight

4:20AM STV | We’ve finally found the unlikely silver lining to Hilary Duff’s casting in the forthcoming Bonnie and Clyde update. Sadly, you won’t see it in the finished film. More »

Hilary Duff Spearheads Much-Needed ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ For Tweens

2:02AM STV | It’s been a while since we spotted the column of smoke heralding the End of Ideas train’s arrival at Pop Culture Junction. But apparently Hilary Duff needed a ride, so cover your mouths. More »

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Hilary Duff

4:45AM STV | 1/16 — Saw HILARY DUFF at The Delta Spirit show at the El Rey. Actually, she was out front smoking alone with her coven while the band was playing, and I was just walking to Ralphs, but whatever. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.au.] More »

Hilary Duff Agrees To Unlikely Appearance In ‘Barely Legal’

6:20AM STV | Seriously: NBC is developing Barely Legal, a half-hour comedy featuring Hilary Duff as an 18-year-old who becomes California’s youngest lawyer. Naturally, when it fails, Ben Silverman will blame Larry Flynt. [THR] More »

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ To Gloss Over African-American Ghost History

4:38AM Seth | DreamWorks is in talks with Clint Eastwood to direct ghost movie Hereafter, which Spike Lee will later decry as featuring only white ghosts. (”Where are the black spirits?! You mean to tell me sheets don’t come in brown? Another chapter of African-American afterlife history whitewashed by The Man.”) [Variety] The 18th Environmental Media awards (first we’re hearing of them, but we’re usually tied up this time of year at the Tire Fire Honors) singled out Into the Wild and 30 Rock, the latter commended for “its great strides in recycling older, less-overhyped sitcoms.” [Variety] Because there’s no better way to kick off the weekend than a gloomy economic prospectus, enjoy this collection of downward trends and projected fat-trimmings sure to make 2009 your liquor-store-robbingest best! [THR] After the jump: What surely-no-longer-virginal Disney Channel star is about to get her own show on a tanking network? More »

Anti-’That’s So Gay’ Campaign Sparks Fears P.C. Forces Will Target ‘That’s So Raven’ Next

8:40AM Seth | A new campaign launched today by the Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network seeks to educate American youth about the power of words to hurt—particularly when those words are: “That’s,” followed by “so gay.” Joining them in their crusade is the extremely so-gay Wanda Sykes, and the not-so-gay-but-so- gay-worshipped Hilary Duff. They star in two PSAs (both after the jump) in which they casually saunter up to some pricky teenagers, and point out that calling something gay—when they don’t mean it in the “fabulous” or “matter-of-factly enjoys engaging in sex with someone possessing similar genitalia” senses of the word—is just plain wrong. Its heart is in the right place, but we think the campaign would have been more successful had it suggested a less-destructive replacement expression, like—oh, we don’t know—”That’s so Seacresty,” or “That’s so Track.” More »

The Hot Accessory No Starlet Can Be Without: A Bad Dad

2:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Though Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff have been rivals for so long that no one can even remember how it began (wait, Aaron Carter? Really?), there’s at least one thing the two starlets can agree on this week: their dads each need a serious time-out. In fact, while Lohan took to the pages of MySpace to chastise her father, Duff’s received an actual sentencing: ten days in the slammer for poor parenting. Before we explore why, though, let’s begin with the latest in the Lohan family psychodrama, which reached its boiling point this week when a fame-hungry Michael Lohan took to the press to denounce the woman who his daughter has “gone gay” for: Samantha Ronson. That didn’t sit so well with Lindsay, who made a scathing rebuttal today on her Myspace celebrity blog: