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Nine Throws Down The Oscar Gauntlet
3:30AM Dodai
Judi Dench! Penny Cruz! Nicole Kidman! Daniel Day-Lewis! Kate Hudson! Sophia Loren!!! And, uh, Fergie! And everyone is SINGING & DANCING. [YouTube]
Diablo Cody Takes Us to Cafe Triste
10:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Oh cruel fate, to learn today that Ellen Page was one deleted musical scene away from certain Oscar victory. Thankfully, the kind people at Amazon have righted the sitch (man, we’re getting Diablo’d just thinking about it), offering the Cafe Triste “Jub Jub” (not to be confused with the Ewok’s “Yub Nub”) song as a sneak peek at Juno’s DVD special content. More »
Visit Los Angeles: Home Of World’s Largest Marion Cotillard Stalker Shrine
10:29AM Seth | Via LAist: An admirer of Marion Cotillard has mounted the ultimate L.A.-tribute to the Oscar-winner: A mural, located on La Brea just north of San Vincente, quoting the French actress’s Oscar speech shout-out to her La Vie en Rose director Olivier Dahan, and written with the blood on the hands of shady Ground Zero contractors. There truly are angels in this city! More »
SAG Gets A Kick In The Pants From That Other Actors Guild
6:34AM Seth | OMG! AFTRA wants SAG to start negotiating with AMPTP ASAP! [Variety] What do Charlie Sheen, Rosie O’Donnell, and Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard have in common? Hint: Not talent! A year-old interview with the La Vie en Rose star reveals she’s a 9-11 conspiracist, too. Edifice sept! Edifice sept! [Variety] More »
Thinking 9/11, Moon Landing Faked No Obstacle To Oscar Glory
1:08PM Clem Bastow | Fresh from the “amusing things said before the glare of instant fame made such mouth-shooting-off probably inadvisable” category comes this corker from French actress Marion Cotillard, who just won the Oscar for Best Actress for La Vie En Rose.
Evidently Cotillard gave an interview last year in which she discussed, amongst other things, her belief that the World Trade Center attacks were just a cover-up so that the US government could demolish the “money-sucker” buildings and that, you know, man didn’t really walk on the moon.
Naturally, the press is now having fits. Here are some highlights from Ms Cotillard’s interview:
“We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated “money-sucker” that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
She said: “It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them.”
Well, we don’t know what the French are putting in their fromages at the moment, but we’re inclined to think that there are more efficient ways to demolish an outmoded city building than, you know, flying planes full of innocent human beings into them while the buildings themselves are still, you guessed it, full of innocent human beings.
Call us conservative, but that’s just how the Defamer Australia minds roll when it comes to matters of town planning! More » 
Party Roundup: It Was No ‘VF’ Extravaganza, But Elton John Knows How To Throw A Party
4:36AM Molly Friedman | Even though Hollywood’s A-List was deprived of a chance to eat and drink on Vanity Fair’s dime last night, two fiestas proved that celebrities will not let a little thing like tradition get in the way of a night of free booze and swag. Elton John’s Annual AIDS Foundation Oscar Party usually has a strong turnout of power players, but the star wattage at the 16th incarnation of the bash last night was a few standard deviations past the norm, thanks mainly to the absence of Graydon Carter’s soiree. Highlights included Tilda Swinton kissing her Oscar in some sort of Buddhist mating ritual, as well as the public debut of Hollywood’s newest power couple, Sean Penn and Petra Nemcova. We’ve got pictures after the jump. More »
Winner Or Loser, All That Really Matters On Oscar Night Is Who Wore The Best Dress
3:14AM Molly Friedman | The question on the minds of the glossy mags isn’t who will take home little gold men on Sunday night, but rather who’ll make the biggest fashion faux-pas. And there’s no shortage of mistakes made by this year’s Best Actress nominees in the past. But we aren’t hoping for new additions to the Fashion Police Hall of Fame; instead, we went digging through the archives to find the biggest mistake all five actresses tend to make in the style department, and our suggestions for which signature looks they should keep in mind to achieve sartorial success come Sunday. 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 »
