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Kelly Bensimon Needs A Smell Test
8:14PM Andrew Belonsky | Kelly Bensimon has odour issues. Marge Simpson will have a three-page Playboy spread. Isaiah Washington’s still having a hard time finding work. And Nicolas Cage has a lot of money the government wants. Enjoy your Friday gossip roundup! More »
Isaiah Washington More Popular Than Hillary And Barack Combined, Thank You Very Much
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Isaiah Washington, now a member of Bionic Woman’s big happy family, is never too busy to shatter the deafening, one-day silence that followed his ouster from Grey’s Anatomy at the hands of a shadowy cabal of moustache-twirling gay foes. Speaking to Extra, the actor delivered a curiously roundabout answer to a question about whether or not potential Bionic viewers might be turned off by his year of very bad press: Extra: Did you ever worry about any negative feeling that might affect the ratings of this show? [...] Washington: I was just recently at the Congressional Black Caucus, this past weekend. And there was a gentleman there who was a member of those 43 members by the name of Sen. Barack Obama. And there was also two young women there – or, women there – one named Nancy Pelosi, and another named Hillary Rodham Clinton. More »
‘Creative Differences’ End NBC’s Romance With ‘Bionic Woman’ Showrunner
4:00AM Defamer Hollywood | The set of much-buzzed-about new NBC series Bionic Woman – eagerly anticipated by late-70s television nostalgists, the indestructible-heroine-loving Heroes set, and fanboys drooling over their weekly primetime appointment with star Michelle Ryan’s six million dollar rack alike – may be officially troubled™ – Var reports that “creative differences” (not the Mandy Patinkin kind, we’ll assume) have forced the network to part ways with showrunner Glen Morgan, and discusses rumours that the series might be taking a “getting its shit together” hiatus: There had been word around town that “Bionic” was also shutting down production, but an NBC rep said that isn’t the case. However, industry insiders believe it’s possible the show – which is now in production on its fifth episode – still might take a break for a while in order to give the writers a chance to focus on refining the show’s directions. More »
T.R. Knight Refuses To Provide Local Paper With Good Slow News Week Copy
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | While gabby Grey’s Anatomy gay-conspiracy victim Isaiah Washington finds himself running out of media outlets willing to let him break his silence yet again about the shadowy machinations that led to his dismissal from the hit show (really, once you’ve chatted with Star Jones in football metaphors, there’s nowhere left to go), reporters are begging Grey’s slur-survivor T.R. Knight to say something, anything, about the F-Bomb That Continues To Rock The World of Primetime Television Nearly A Year After The Fact. But not even a bottomless basket of garlic knots and untold glasses of honour-bar chianti at one of Venice’s finest family-style Italian eateries could entice the actor to abandon the high road he’s so committed to travelling, as the LAT discovered recently: Over the last 11 months, especially since Washington’s gabfest began, Heigl said, she has often wished her friend would speak up about so much more. But Knight is adamant that he has said all he will ever need to say, even as Washington was appearing on Court TV’s “Star Jones” show as Knight finished his ravioli at the C&O Trattoria. More »
Isaiah Washington Finding Creative Ways To Keep Victimhood Fresh
8:05AM Defamer Hollywood | On the premiere of her new Court TV show today, Star Jones invited Isaiah Washington to again discuss how a vast conspiracy behind the scenes at Grey’s Anatomy forced him to blurt out the term “faggot” at an inopportune moment, ultimately leading to his dismissal from the series. But just when you thought the actor’s serial silence-breakings had covered every angle, an all-new football metaphor helped to shed yet more light on the always scintillating subject of Washington’s victimhood: Washington: There’s a technique called the crack back designed to cut you off at the knees before you can respond to it. Jones: What happens when you do not evade the “crack back?” More »
Isaiah Washington Reveals How NBC’s Ben Silverman Swept Him Off His Feet
9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | By now, we thought that former Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington serial silence- breakings about the turbulent events of his recent career would be yielding diminishing returns, with nothing he could offer at this point possibly topping the virtuoso gay-conspiracy theories and McDreamy character assassinations to which we’ve been treated since his firing. But we were wrong. So very, very wrong. In an interview with EW.com meant to clarify the timeline of his controversial addition to the cast of Bionic Woman, Washington recounts the amazing speed with which newly installed NBC rock star Ben Silverman moved to adopt him into his network family once he discovered that the actor had been disowned by ABC. We pick up the narrative at the Chateau Marmont, where Ozwald “House of” Boateng, upon hearing that his buddy Isaiah needed a new job, set into motion the following series of completely fucking insane events:
Shonda Rhimes Still Feeling Good About Firing Isaiah Washington
8:45AM Defamer Hollywood | As Isaiah Washington continues to unleash a tsunami of silence-breakings upon a public that has long since ceased to care about the vast, gay-winged conspiracy responsible for his dismissal from Grey’s Anatomy, one key player who has succeeded in not speaking about the controversy was series creator Shonda Rhimes – that is, until yesterday’s press-tour panel for Grey’s spinoff Private Practice, when the EP was cornered by a pack of quote-hungry reporters who wouldn’t take “no comment” for an answer. According to an interview with TVGuide.com, the weary showrunner was on the same page as her ABC overlords when she made the fatal call: How difficult was it for you to let Isaiah go, on a personal level? Shonda Rhimes: It wasn’t. It was a decision that was a long time coming, and it felt like it was the right decision for all of us. [...] More »
Steve McPherson Vs. Ben Silverman: “Be A Man”
1:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Since there’s nothing like a burgeoning feud between two of the most powerful men in television to enliven a seemingly endless string of Television Critics Association-generated reports about the coming Fall season, we’re delighted to note that ABC president Steve McPherson has come out swinging about newly appointed NBC co-chairman/chime-bearer/rock-star Ben Silverman, whom McPherson apparently felt was a little less than honest in discussing his high-profile adoption of Grey’s Anatomy orphan Isaiah Washington and in the way he pleaded ignorance of the bloody execucide of predecessor Kevin Reilly that cleared the path for Silverman to take control of the Peacock. TVGuide.com relates McPherson’s comments about the Isaiah situation: Silverman told reporters at his July 16 session with the Television Critics Association that he had begun talking with Washington “before he became available” and said he was shocked when ABC decided to let him go. “When he told me he was available I was like, ‘You are? Wait, I don’t understand. What do you mean? You’re a huge star on a star television show.’” he said. “I don’t quite understand what had gone on there.” More »
Isaiah Washington Curious To Know How McDreamy Likes Him Now, Punk
3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | With the announcement that gay-slur-spouting primetime orphan Isaiah Washington was placed into Bionic Woman foster care by NBC rock-star/case-worker Ben Silverman, the actor’s mood went from a volatile Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It Anymore to Quietly Vindicated, But Still Wanting to Break My Silence a Few More Times. After a recent Larry King Live appearance in which Washington reassured America of his enduring admiration of Gays, the actor went on to explain to Access Hollywood how the real villain – aside, of course, from mastermind T.R. Knight, pulling his pink puppet strings from on-high – was Patrick “McEvil” Dempsey: “Patrick is… Patrick is Patrick Dempsey. And he protects himself well,” Isaiah said. “He did what he felt he needed to do and remained silent.” [...] More »
