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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 »
Breaking Report Confirms AWOL Child Star ‘Mama Dakota’ is Safe, Still Working
7:53AM Defamer Hollywood | Having done our homework about dedicated Hollywood recluses over the last few days, we can assert with 100 percent certainty that despite her disappearance after the Park City clusterfuck that was Hounddog, Dakota Fanning is no John Hughes or Terrence Malick. Nevertheless, while this somewhat frightening video passed along by MTV (with its insistent English narrator positing: “Was she scared off by the negative press for Hounddog, or did she simply run and hide because she hit that awkward pubescent stage? Because it seems like all the little girl roles lately have been filled by others!”) helps allay our worst DakotAWOL fears, what replaces them is perhaps eerier than any exile we could have imagined. More »
