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The Forbes Powerful Women Randomly Ranked List
12:35AM John Cook | In its maniacal zeal to crank out endless lists of arbitrarily arranged names, Forbes has ranked the world’s women by power. Did you know that Guler Sabanci, the chairman of Turkey’s Sabanci Holdings, is more powerful than Oprah? It’s true More »
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2:03PM Jess McGuire | Back in the day, I used to loathe Kyle Sandilands. I thought he was a disgusting, witless, talentless human being whose very existence proved beyond a doubt that there really is no God. In fact, I believe at one stage I described him as a “clod hopping, syphilitic arse hat” which seems excessively descriptive even by my standards! More »
Top Five Things To Throw At Kyle Sandilands
2:03PM Jess McGuire | Back in the day, I used to loathe Kyle Sandilands. I thought he was a disgusting, witless, talentless human being whose very existence proved beyond a doubt that there really is no God. In fact, I believe at one stage I described him as a “clod hopping, syphilitic arse hat” which seems excessively descriptive even by my standards! More » 
‘Entertainment Weekly’ Hates Directors Who Are Good, Foreign, Or Female
7:09AM Kyle Buchanan | Strap in, kids. Entertainment Weekly just put out their list of the 25 greatest active film directors, and here’s who isn’t on it: Woody Allen, David Lynch, or a single woman. So who is? More »
Are These The Top Five Aussie Films Of All Time?
12:20PM Jess McGuire | The Australian Film Institute recently conducted an online survey to discover what the folks of this fine country consider to be the best examples of local cinema ever produced. Naturally, the top five contains flicks featuring men in dresses, lovable bogans, and death.
Films about drag queens, World War I Diggers, an ABBA-loving wannabe bride, and a man whose home is his castle have been voted some of Australia’s favourite homegrown movies.
More » Sonny Bill Williams Is The Most Evil Man Alive.
9:38AM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! Slightly Delayed Newsdesk special report! I was quietly amused to see that those wacky folk at Zoo Weekly have decided that Sonny Bill Williams, the former star of the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby league team who recently packed his bags and ran off to France for a job where he’ll get paid loads more than he ever would’ve playing sport in Australia, is this year’s Top Villain.
And who did he beat? Well, 49 other horrible people. Including a mass murderer. But – and I say this with a great sense of perspective – ditching your team mates is heaps worse than anything a terrorist could do.
Rugby league deserter Sonny Bill Williams has edged out Bali bomber Amrozi to be named Australia’s most hated person in a notorious annual poll. Williams has topped men’s mag Zoo Weekly’s annual Top 50 People We Hate List, released today, The Courier-Mail reports.
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The Top 5 Failed Crossover Attempts by Olympic Stars
8:30AM STV | The 2008 Olympics literally have us 19 ways of excited at Defamer HQ, where we’ve retrofitted our dungeon workspace with one television for each of the NBC channels broadcasting the summer games. But don’t get the wrong idea — we couldn’t care less about the pole vault or women’s rowing. No way. We’re talent scouting, babe, in search of the next Olympian to break through the ranks as a Hollywood star. It’s kind of a ritual around here, really, going waaayyyy back to the days when our old-media ancestors at the Defamer Star-Courier foretold gold-medalist swimmer Johnny Weissmuller’s ascent to fame as Tarzan. More »
The Top 10 Female TV Characters Women Want To Be Like And Men Want To Be With
8:05AM Seth | You didn’t think we’d post last week’s Top Ten of the coolest male TV characters without following up with one dedicated to all the honeys, now, did you? And while our definitive men’s list—checked and rechecked by a panel of TV experts canvassed at various local correctional facilities and gourmet coffee outlets—surprisingly met with some vocal opposition, we’re confident its vagina-filled counterpart will please even the most persnickety of TV-lady lovers. There’s only one way to know for sure, however. Click play, and decide for yourselves. More »
Ten Hairy Hippies That Do Inexplicably Well With The Ladies
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | They’re one of Hollywood’s most glorious odd couples: pixie dream girl Natalie Portman and Manson-resembling folk singer Devendra Banhart. Still, despite the fact that Portman was game enough to appear as an octopus in one of Banhart’s videos, she still can’t seem to shake those naysayers clucking, “Is she really going out with him?” She is — and she’s hardly the first fresh-scrubbed starlet to fall for a charming, soap-eschewing bohemian. With the help of Molly McAleer, we’ve put together a Top Ten list of the world’s most loved-up hippie womanizers. Is it their devil-may-care facial hair, their free love attitudes, or their penchant for sharing necklaces that draws in Hollywood’s most beautiful ingenues? Burn some incense and meditate on the subject — we’ll be out back crafting a swingset out of hemp and spit. More »
Why Keira Knightley’s Newest Rival Will Never Be ‘The Next’ Pout-y Princess
9:50AM Molly Friedman | The Brits are always fond of reminding us of just how many stars they’ve discovered, sent our way, and watched dominate the last decade’s Best Actress Oscar pool. And Keira Knightley is certainly one of their most notable success stories. But as much as they love gushing over their own born-and-bred A-listers, whenever a newer, younger little Brit with potential comes along, they love yanking that shiny crown off the last pout-y superstar and placing it atop the unknown’s pretty-ish head. Which leads us to 16-year-old Georgia “The Next Kiera Knightley” Groome, the upcoming star of the irresistibly-titled Angus, Thongs, And Full-Frontal Snogging, hailed by The Daily Mail as Bridget Jones for teenagers. But after reading more about the film and its quirky dialogue (imagine a script co-written by Diablo Cody and Anthony Burgess), not to mention its leading lady’s disturbing ignorance on all things Johnny Depp-related, we came up with three reasons why Georgia will have a hard time filling Keira’s impossibly narrow shoes:
