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Tom O’Neil Demanding Academy Women Empty Their Purses In ‘Quantum’ Screener-Leak Hunt
4:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Surely, everyone remembers when Bob Hope passed the Emancipation Proclamation, ensuring that even women would have the right to vote at the Oscars. Well, now you dames have gone and upset the LAT’s Tom O’Neil!
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | While these parts have been known to house a predatory cougar or two, nothing could have prepared us for the family of bobcats who have moved into a foreclosed home in Lake Elsinore. The brood — at least two adult cats and three kittens — have lived in the house for weeks, sunning themselves on an outside wall and hanging out by the koi pond. “They are great neighbors,” said local Scott Brown, “and as long as they don’t want to baby-sit my kids, it’s not a problem.” That’s how it starts, Scott, but before you know it, you’re forced to drag your autistic young brother through the house in a desperate attempt at survival. Be wary. [LAT] More »
In Young Hollywood, You’re Only As Big As Your Xbox Live Gamerscore
8:20AM Defamer Hollywood | The LAT ran a feature today on the newest male-bonding craze to consume Hollywood power players — and no, it doesn’t involve cocaine, Red Bull, or bottle service at Opera. Instead, it’s an activity dubbed “Nerd Poker,” and it offers almost 100 of Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes talents a weekly chance to socialize while playing video games on Xbox Live. Though many use it as a fun way to score meetings and network, it can also allow its members the sort of cathartic outlet they’d typically be arrested for: More »
Would You See This Man’s R-Rated Mormon Movie?
6:05AM Defamer Hollywood | The LAT ran a fascinating piece today on Richard Dutcher, the filmmaker who was anointed the father of Mormon cinema after his 2000 sleeper hit, God’s Army, ushered in a wave of Mormon-focused indie flicks. Now, Dutcher is releasing what’s being marketed as “the first R-rated Mormon movie” — and it’s a doozy, peppered with cursing, nudity and violence. Called Falling, it stars Dutcher as an amoral videographer attempting to figure out his life after repudiating his faith. It’s a concept Dutcher knows well, because the father of Mormon cinema is now renouncing his religion: More »
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Dog Days: By August 29, the struggling L.A. Times will have laid off 150 of its employees following job cuts announced last month. Exactly what does the paper plan to do with its diminished resources now that so many of its “non-essential” employees are gone? Why, run a 35-page “Stars With Puppies” slideshow, of course! The Elizabeth Snead-penned feature, entitled, “Do Hollywood stars look cuter with puppies?” (spoiler alert: yes) is full of penetrating insights like, “Ali Simms has never looked cuter than in this photo with a tiny teddy-bear-faced Yorkie puppy.” It’s enough to drive a terminated employee to drink — or at least eat penis. [Los Angeles Times] More »
Doom-and-Gloom ‘LAT’ Surveys Scenes From the Post-Apocalyptic Agency Landscape
5:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Seeing as the L.A. Times wouldn’t rush any story it couldn’t retract in disgrace a few weeks later, John Horn took his sweet time pounding out today’s analysis of all the dramatic agency-hopping exploits over the last week-and-a-half. There’s a little bit of a long view, here, however, and it’s decidedly ugly; for starters, could industry volatility force CAA reps to endure the horrors of — gulp — business class? Or worse? More »
‘LAT’ Comes Correct About Their Bogus Tupac Story
2:52AM Seth | After an independent investigation into yesterday’s stunning report by The Smoking Gun that the LAT had managed to be duped by a federally incarcerated Turtle-like, who forged FBI documents implicated Sean “Puffy” Combs’s entourage in the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at the Quad Recording Studios in Times Square (five bullets, including one through his head and one through his scrotum), the paper has now officially issued on apology: More »
