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1:30AM Defamer Hollywood | At Thursday afternoon’s Cinerama Dome celebration of the memory of late Motion Picture Association of America icon Jack Valenti, Steven Bochco offered these words of tribute: “He was the human equivalent of the iPhone. He was a small, sleek package with irresistible features.” It’s probably best that Valenti himself didn’t live to see the iPhone era himself, as he likely would have seen the device as “the Son of Sam of intellectual property theft waiting to blast away the young lovers of copyright as they make out in the front of a parent’s Oldsmobile, an infernal machine that infuriatingly allows the brazen pirate to call up his friends and brag about how easy it is to steal food from the mouths of hard-working Hollywood professionals.” [LAT] More »
Dan Glickman: We Are Living In A Golden Age Of Hollywood Crap
4:43AM Defamer Hollywood | To celebrate a summer movie season that has delivered an unprecedented, soul-crushing string of record-breaking pirate-, ogre-, and superhero-related sequels, MPAA spirit squad captain Dan Glickman has grabbed his pom-poms and megaphone and headed for the Huffington Post to lead the world in a call-and-response “Holly!”…”WOOD!” cheer, careful not to tear anything amid his flurry of ecstatic scissor-kicks. Glickman reminds us that the while the MySpaces and the YouTubes may have their place in modern life, nothing beats a wholesome trip to the multiplex to watch horny college girls get eviscerated by sadistic hostel-keepers for old-fashioned community-building: Popular Internet sites may be the flashy new kids on the entertainment block, but moviehouses rank among the original social networks. As a kid in Kansas, the local cinema was a centre of the community. Still today, when we ask teens how they prefer to see movies, over and over they tell us in the theatre with friends (apparently, we parents are too embarrassing to be seen with in public). It makes sense to a generation that perpetually seeks out community – whether it be online gaming, video-sharing or social networking. More »It’s S Day! It’s Finally Here!
11:54AM Defamer Hollywood | S Day is finally here, and Tim and Eric couldn’t be more excited about it. Really. Posthumous note to Jack Valenti: If you’re playing Truth or Dare with the 1991 Madonna, you always take dare. Always. · Ah, we knew there something wrong with the way Britney Spears dresses, and now we can put our finger on exactly what it is. [via goldenfiddle] · Worn down by months of unironic posts about Matthew McConaughey’s abs, Reese Witherspoon feeding parking meters, and Hyde’s guest list, a writer at TMZ finally loses her shit. ·Hey, unicorns! Flying ones! More »
