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Mary-Louise Parker, Man Thief?

8:45PM Andrew Belonsky | Gossip types are absolutely atwitter over the news that Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker has a new boyfriend, singer Charlie Mars. But not everyone’s celebrating. In an email entitled “Cougar Goes Too Far”, one irate tipster claims Parker’s a man-stealing tart. More »

Versatile Mary-Louise Parker To Play Woman Attracted To Michael Douglas In ‘Solitary’

5:27AM Seth | Mary-Louise Parker will star opposite Michael Douglas in Solitary—a May/Whatever-Comes-Three-Facelifts-After-December romance. Jenna Fischer, Susan Sarandon, and Danny DeVito round out the cast. [THR] Defamer favourite Natalie Portman, meanwhile, will star in Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, based on a book about “a young woman who finds the key to recovering her marriage in her relationship with her precocious stepson.” Don Roos will direct. [Variety] David “Bud Bundy” Faustino will produce a loosely autobiographic web series for Sony’s Crackle.com called Star-ving, which instantly raises the question: Can the web cancel a series? [Variety] After the jump: Why is Gus Van Sant about to drop gobs of acid?! More »

Martha Stewart’s Secret To Getting Celebrities To Open Up Lies In Her Very Sharp Knives

7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Can we safely confide in you that the one person we’ve been able to rely upon this holiday season, there to comfort us daily with homemade butterscotch eggnog recipes and the proper shade of Krylon with which to gild our manteltop wreaths, is our rock, Martha Stewart? More »

Short Ends: Simulating Britney Spears

7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Because we know you’re still starved for Britney Spears parody videos even a week after her VMA appearance, here’s another one. SimBrit loses some accuracy points, however, for being less dead-eyed than the real Spears. Gimme more, you say? OK, if you insist. Britney’s manager drops her like she’s hot. (The kids will get that reference, right? We’re a little out of our element.) Ed Burns realises that the Woody Allen schtick got old a long time ago. Mary-Louise Parker has adopted an African orphan, but her publicist has not yet disclosed whether the new little girl is from the Madonna or Angelina Jolie lines of adorable, Hollywood-ready infants. More »