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Sean Young’s Guide To L.A.’s Best Bars That Don’t Feature Boring Julian Schnabel Speeches

7:03AM Seth | We hope it’s not too soon to pronounce the once-flatlining Oscars fully recovered, tipped upright by an attending nurse, who then removed the IV needle that maintained his celebrity-malnourished frame from his golden arm. All this is wonderful news, especially in light of what was quickly turning out to be the most depressingly atrophied trophy season in Hollywood history–where something as trivial as a bored-to-drunken-action Sean Young being escorted out of the Hyatt Regency became the year’s most discussed awards show moment. Young, of course, has since exiled herself to a hecklers wellness facility, but her spirit lives on, particularly in this LAT feature: More »

4:44AM Mark | Cornered at an amfAR benefit and asked to comment upon The Only Interesting Thing To Happen In This Strike-Crippled Awards Season yet again, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schnabel offered only this controversy-defusing shrug to a disappointed stringer apparently hoping to get him on the record about Sean Young’s hasty retreat to rehab: “It’s fine… You know what? I didn’t have anything interesting to say anyway, so I should beg her to come with me wherever I go!” As far as we can tell, there was no disingenuous follow-up query about whether Schnabel planned to ask Young to be his Oscar date. [Us] More »

Sean Young To Battle Awards Ceremony Heckling Demons In Rehab

5:20AM Seth | With news spreading of Sean Young’s Schnabel-shushing shenanigans at Saturday night’s DGA awards–a story you may have first read about here on Sunday, and that has now achieved critical mass thanks to a lively, first-person retelling by Julie Chen on The Late Show–the spent actress has achieved new rock-bottom depths in the annals of awards season gate-crashing. (Lower even than the time the Blade Runner star sent security on a cat-and-mouse chase throughout the topiaries of the 2006 Vanity Fair Oscar party.) Young has now checked herself into rehab, The Insider is reporting: More »

Julian Schnabel Diving Bells The Butterfly Out Of Limey Reporter

7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schnabel tends to split cultural observers the way Hillary splits voters: half adore their ballsy confidence and think they’re really making a difference in their respective fields, while the other half kind of just wants to drive a knife into their paunchy tummies. The latter impulse almost sent a London Telegraph reporter to jail after spending time with the hairy-chested artiste for an interview out today. It seems Schnabel’s suggestion that the journalist, Mick Brown, was not famous enough to name-drop, coupled with Schnabel’s tendency to say “‘Cigarette, por favor’ to no one in particular” during their meetings was enough to send Brown over the edge… More »

Robbed Of Their Moment, This Year’s Golden Globe Victors Agree That It’s Just An Honor To Win

7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | After a disorienting Golden Access Globes Press Hollywood Conference Awards that left nominees and audiences alike utterly befuddled (we understand Sally Field was fished out of The Grove’s dancing waters fountain at 3 a.m. delivering an impassioned speech about bringing the troops home to two security guards on a golf cart), our traditional Globes parties post-mortem promised to be a similar mess. Still, if there were awards, and there were winners, by God there’s going to be a reactions round-up, even if it comes off sounding a lot like the ones you read after the nominations are announced: The Atonement crew toasted their win at a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, where the ghost of O.D.’d John Belushi smiled over their WWII romance’s win. [Variety] Marion Cotillard enjoyed her win for La Vie en Rose from the Four Seasons. “I’m enjoying so much what’s going on here, I can’t be disappointed in any way,” she said, convincingly masking her extreme disappointment. [Variety] Julian Schnabel learned of his Best Director win at New York City airport baggage carousel, upon turning his cellphone on: “It was very glamorous. It was one of those existential moments. I was extremely happy.” [USA Today] Like Ernest Borgnine’s bash, Sweeney Todd producer Richard Zanuck made it a family affair, taking in the press conference from his son’s home in Beverly Hills–which is nice, but not, like, seated next to Johnny Depp with lots of water glasses and fancy silverware nice: “I must say, it’s a wonderful thing to be seated at a table and all the suspense of that. All that was nonexistent (tonight), but it doesn’t take away from the honor.” [Variety] “Glenn Close, best TV actress/drama for FX’s Damages, was in a bar in New York’s meatpacking district with the show’s cast and crew. ‘It’s a wonderful way to watch — we were rooting for our team.’” She then mounted the counter at the Brass Monkey for a celebratory striptease patrons won’t soon forget. [ABC News] Best Actor in TV Series, Musical or Comedy winner David Duchovny went to see a movie while the winners were announced: “I kinda didn’t want to watch, it would just make me tense or nervous, so I went out to see a movie at four (o’clock) and I knew I wouldn’t be home until it was announced. I knew if my phone was ringing when I walked into my hotel room that I would have won. And it was. Nobody calls a loser.” And with that, this year’s ceremony wiped the snot from its nose as it checked its phone in vain for any congratulatory messages. [AP] More »