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Spice Girls Show Why They Weren’t Booked For The Live Earth Concert

8:12PM Jess McGuire | Seems like the newly reformed Spice Girls have chosen to slip on their giant platformed sneakers and stomp around the globe leaving carbon footprints to rival Madonna’s with news emerging that the lasses plan on flying from show to show in a private jet each. The Spice Girls’ much-hyped reunion tour this year will be shadowed by five private jets, it has been revealed, just in case any of the old rivalry should spill over again. Rather giving the lie to the happy talk of reconciliation and camaraderie at the launch of the tour, record label Virgin will lay on a quintet of Lear jets big enough to carry each of the Girls’ entourages, not least their seven children and collective nannies. We can’t blame the girls for wanting to chillax during their travels without having to hear Mel B natter on and on about Eddie Murphy (”Wot’s he liiiike, then ay?”) or line up for the toilet every time nature calls because the heavily knocked up Emma Bunton can’t keep her legs crossed for more than five minutes before needing to find a lavatory quick sticks, etc. We enjoy this particular bit of brutality in the article. Fearing the ravages of time on what little talent the Spice Girls previously had, their vocals will be broadcast via computer software that will correct any bum notes in less than one-tenth of a second. Are they insinuating that perhaps, just perhaps, the Spice Girls are not a posse of vocally skilled feminists with a sharp sense of fashion and keen business acumen? Under the format, A-list celebrities from around the world including Elton John and Robbie Williams in the UK and P Diddy and Mariah Carey in the US, ask questions of the girl band during live crosses. Our imagination has already run wild. Robbie Williams: Where’s my career gone? Can I have that Red Bull in your rider? P Diddy: (waving arms in air) Spice Girls, Spice Girls! We love you! We respect you! CAN YOU TAKE US TO THE BRIDGE?! More »

Cameron Diaz Does Her Part For Environment By Passing On ‘Mask 3: Bride Of The Mask’

7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Saturday’s series of Live Earth concerts – billed as a green event, but really just an elaborate excuse for Al Gore and his all-dad garage band to clumsily perform their one song, a cover of “Smoke on the Water,” in front of a global audience – offered up for inspiration some ads featuring the eco-friendly daily habits of Hollywood A-listers. Above, Cameron Diaz selflessly decides to dispose of a stack of scripts for projects she’s passed on by dumping them in a recycling bin. It may not seem like a lot, but if every $US15 million-per-picture actress were to do the same, the cumulative effect would be enough to neutralise a weekend’s worth of emissions produced by a lesser-enlightened starlet’s commute to and from Winston’s in a Range Rover. Answer the call. Live Earth Commercial – Cameron Diaz [YouTube] More »

Defamer PSA

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Hurry, for you have only nine or so hours to come up with the $US5,400 it currently takes to win a dinner with Spinal Tap. Proceeds will benefit Live Earth, which promises to donate your bid to film Cameron Diaz promos with better production values for the organisation’s next event. [eBay] More »

Live Earth Manages To Raise Awareness Of The Need To Raise Awareness… About Something.

12:47PM Busty St Clair | Live Earth over the weekend proved gbjkghbdfjkgnfdjaghkazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… Oh sorry, we just fell asleep on our keyboard. Live Earth was, well, among many other things, another excuse for eighteen year old girls to wear their coolest slogan tees from Supre and drop E while dancing to Sneaky Sound System. Other than that, it was a bit of a snore. Call us, we don’t know, whatever you want – cynical perhaps, but we’re just not really turned on by pseudo-environmentalist musicians and celebrities telling us to “sleep with my missus instead of jumping on a plane” (Thanks for that tip, Tim “Rosso” Ross, does that also mean you should politely refuse next time the Spiderman 3 people offer to fly you to Japan for a film premiere?) As for the whole “message”, we here at Defamer think it may have got lost in the translation, especially when we read this on smh.com.au on Saturday arvo. Helen Price, 37, of Roseberry, said she bought tickets for the show as soon as they went on sale. Ms Price said she was conscious of the global warming issue but was not planning to make any changes to her lifestyle as a result of attending the concert. “It is more about raising awareness,” she said. So when the world explodes and we all die from CO2 poisoning, famine, drought or boredom from listening to Al Gore speak one too many times, at least we’ll know why we died, because it’s all about AWARENESS, right? Not action. No, just AWARENESS. And for the record, to all the inner-city folk who drive massive 4WDs, but wash their hands of their environmental responsibilities by donating money to carbon trading schemes, you’re not fooling anyone. Throwing cash at a problem does not fix the problem. It simply absolves you of your guilt. End rant. More »

Arctic Monkeys Begin Hating On Live Earth

4:12PM Jess McGuire | In a recent interview, British wunderbrats Arctic Monkeys revealed they think the Live Earth concept is a bit of a farce, and that’s why they won’t be appearing at any of the concerts being held around the globe on the 7th July. British rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists. “It’s a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world,” said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore’s charity concerts. “Especially when we’re using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It’d be a bit hypocritical,” he said in an interview before a concert in Paris. Bass player Nick O’Malley chimes in: “And we’re always jetting off on aeroplanes!” Large parts of the band’s home town of Sheffield, an industrial city in northern England, were flooded at the end of last month after a deluge of mid-summer rain that some blamed on global warming. Two people were killed. But the band wonder why anyone would be interested in the opinion of rock stars on a complex scientific issue like climate change. “Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield and it’s like ‘who cares what we think about what’s happening’?” added Helders. “There’s more important people who can have an opinion. Why does it make us have an opinion because we’re in a band?” We don’t like it when bands don’t appear to understand how integral a bloated sense of self-importance is to one’s showbiz career. You’ll never get to stand on a stack of telephone books next to President Bush whilst donning wrap-around shades and making a hip peace sign with your fingers if you keep that attitude up, lads! We think we’ve figured out the real reason why the Arctic Monkeys aren’t playing at Live Earth. The truth is, they LOVE global warming. They are gesturing emphatically at climate change in a way that screams “Bring it, bitch!” Because somewhere deep in their withered young hearts burns an unholy desire to see the ice caps decimated, the strength of the sun bearing down so furiously upon the poles of the earth that primates are able to move themselves there and live happily and healthily until the end of their days… and the time of the arctic monkey will have begun. (boom boom) More »

Hear Madonna’s Live Earth Track ‘Hey You’

4:49PM Jess McGuire | … and wince the afternoon away! There’s really not much more we can say. (Via the eternally fantastic Popjustice) More »