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Carla Bruni: Oui, I’m Pregnant
2:29AM Maureen OConnor | Just in case you feared the giant swell in her belly was a tumour, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has finally confirmed her pregnancy. The French first lady and anal play enthusiast says she doesn’t know the gender, and did not specify how many months along she is. More »
Run! ‘Knocked Up’ TV Marketing Campaign’s Giant Amphibious Sperms Will Kill Us All!
2:20AM Seth | Via the Copyranter blog, we bring you this ingenious, if kind of gross, marketing effort for an upcoming showing of Knocked Up on New Zealand TV. It mounts a living, breathing recreation of a sperm’s penetration of the oocyte using a diorama incorporating tadpoles and a fish food-stuffed egg-sponge. And while we’d hate to see what kind of baby results from sperms that look like that, we do think this adverquarium could have a lengthy second life as a handy visual learning aid for Sarah Palin, available to wheel out every time she needs to explain to the American public when life precisely begins. Click the thumbnail to view the marvels of science at full size. More »
Katherine Heigl Seeks Escape From Doomed ‘Grey’s’ In Search Of Big-Screen Stardom
6:10AM Molly Friedman | We’ve been poking fun at Katherine Heigl for months now, and with good reason: she just can’t stop saying the darndest things about her emasculated husband Joshua Kelley, she is completely lacking gaydar … frankly, this list could go on for hours. But after hearing the news that Heigl is pushing for an escape from the ratings-challenged Grey’s Anatomy following a fiscally successful contract renegotiation later made public, we’re inching towards Team Heigl for the first time. As a source tells MSNBC:
Newly Non-Sexist Judd Apatow Reaps Benefits of Wikipedia Whitewash
8:15AM Defamer US Edition | If you observe Judd Apatow’s pervy rom-com assembly line with even casual frequency, you probably don’t need a Wikipedia entry to remind you how accusations of sexism and misogyny have plagued the writer-producer-director over the years. At least we hope you don’t, because an eagle-eyed Defamer reader points out this morning how a loyal defender / relative / Universal publicist has spent the better part of the last week expunging the dirty little non-secret from the Wiki record. From Katherine Heigl to Mike White, follow the jump for a few of the latest line edits. More »
David Spade and Matthew McConaughey Probably Just Too Into Themselves To Wrap It Up
10:07AM Defamer US Edition | Right off the bat, let’s get something straight. We are ALL for pre-marital sex. In fact, if pre-marital sex didn’t exist, well … we don’t even want to think about a world where pre-marital sex doesn’t exist. But really (and we ask this out of curiousity more than anything else), does anyone else find Hollywood’s recent spate of high profile out-of-wedlock baby announcements the least bit peculiar? We know the WGA strike has freed up a lot of time for a lot of us, but that doesn’t explain why notoriously toxic bachelors like David Spade and Matthew McConaughey decided to throw caution (and their condoms) to the wind. So then, what can we attribute this (sorta joyous!) news to? As with most of ills permeating our society these days, we’re gonna place the blame squarely on the shoulders of Juno. More »
Katherine Heigl Loved Making ‘Knocked Up,’ She Just Didn’t Love The Movie Itself, Or Something Like That
9:45AM Defamer US Edition | Unlike Judd Apatow’s last movie, which was hailed by 40-year-old virgins the world over as being the first sensitive portrayal of their shared predicament ever committed to screen, Knocked Up was less embraced by potential knocked-uppees, who felt the female lead had greatly settled for a less-than-ideal lot in life. Star Katherine Heigl addressed her misgivings with some of her character’s choices in a recent Vanity Fair, a statement that sparked much debate, and one that she now feels the need to qualify: “It’s important to me to take a minute and clarify the quote about Knocked Up in Vanity Fair,” Heigl tells Usmagazine.com. “I was responding to previous reviews about the movie the interviewer brought to my attention. More »
Typical Man Judd Apatow Responds To Heigl’s ‘Knocked Up’ Complaints With Selfish Pragmatism
7:40AM Defamer US Edition | A Vanity Fair quote in which Katherine Heigl dared to offer her honest, not-entirely-glowing assessment of the movie credited with graduating her to full-fledged stardom instantly became the source of much debate: One faction – let’s just call them the “Apatow loyalists,” cried, “Katherine Heigl can’t say those things! Who does Katherine Heigl think she is? Doesn’t Katherine Heigl know Knocked Up made her, and Knocked Up can just as easily destroy her?,” while the other–let’s just call them “women” – simply replied, “You go, girl behind the questionably motivated character written so as to service the whims of a very peniscentric screenplay!” New York magazine’s Vulture blog approached the film’s lauded writer-director for his own take: “I think the characters are sexist at times,” he told us, “but it’s really about immature people who are afraid of women and relationships and learn to grow up.” More »
Katherine Heigl Admits That If It Were Up To Her, She Would Probably Have Aborted Seth Rogen’s Love Child
6:35AM Defamer US Edition | If you’re one of those Knocked Up audience members whose bullshit-sensing adrenal glands went haywire watching Judd Apatow’s blockbuster paean to chubby, jobless, weed-huffing types and the attractive, upwardly mobile women who drop everything to carry their accidentally conceived children to term, then you are not alone, as even the actress called upon to bring such an improbable scenario to life has expressed her own misgivings about taking the role in the current issue of Vanity Fair: “It was hard for me to love [Apatow's] movie” because it’s “a little sexist…” More »
Hollywood Women On Working In A Schlong-Obsessed Industry
7:00AM Defamer US Edition | In what is quickly escalating into a bitter, Riggs vs. King-esque volley played out on the cement courts of the media – first Deadline Hollywood Daily claimed Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov was scrawling “DEEP TURNAROUND” in pink hi-liter on any project with a female lead, then Robinov fights back by listing every chick-flick he’s ever made, will make, or hopes to remake for Variety – now Salon enters the fray, assembling an impressive panel of industry women to weigh in on the state of the Hollywood sexes. While the discussion takes several interesting turns, we join them in the midst of a lively debate over the feminist merits of beauty-and-the-schlub megahit Knocked Up: Kimberly Peirce: I just love when she’s having that mood swing. That is hilarious. Margaret Nagle: I totally believed her having sex with him to begin with. More »