meg ryan
Britney Spears Fan Karl Lagerfeld Stuns Meg Ryan at Awards Show
4:23AM Kyle Buchanan | Here at Defamer HQ, we’d agreed that no recent video packed so many delightful moments into so short a time as Stephen Colbert’s rendition of “Peace, Love, and Understanding (f. Feist, Toby Keith, and a bear),” and then, a challenger emerged! Sure, there was lots of talk this morning about yesterday’s Britney Spears performance at the German ceremony known as the Bambi Awards, but precious little of that discussion centred on Spears accepting her award from eccentric designer Karl Lagerfeld. We’re at a loss to pick our favourite moment: is it Lagerfeld telling Britney, “[You are] coming back not only as a phoenix, but as a bird of paradise”? Is it Britney’s “Y’all, double-u-tee-eff?” reaction? Or is it the random cutaway to a totally confused Meg Ryan? You be the judge — the clip is after the jump: More »
Dennis Quaid Thinks Meg Ryan Has Got Some Mouth On Her
7:40AM Kyle Buchanan | After Meg Ryan spiced up her press tour for The Women by dropping infidelity bombs about ex-husband Dennis Quaid, the only question was whether the actor would decline a rebuttal, instead letting his patented “constipation face” speak volumes. Instead, Quaid spoke out to the NY Daily News, and though he didn’t deny the allegations, he did attack Ryan for dredging up the past: More »
Meg Ryan Gives Dennis Quaid Lip: ‘Not Faithful to Me for a Very Long Time’
4:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Since her new, critically reviled remake of The Women pivots on the plot device of an unfaithful husband, Meg Ryan has decided to mouth off on similar rumours that plagued the dissolution of her marriage to actor Dennis Quaid. Ryan’s affair with Proof of Life costar Russell Crowe had been blamed for the divorce — an allegation the actress once took right on the kisser. Now, speaking to InStyle, Ryan points the finger at Quaid’s infidelity, an accusation that will surely plump the issue up to new levels: More »
Vote Now For ‘Oprah Winfrey Ryan’ and 8 Other Celebrity Baby Names of the Future
7:25AM STV | You might not guess it at first, but in the schema of exotic celebrity baby-adopting, obtaining the child is often the easiest part of the whole endeavor. Especially for Meg Ryan, who regaled David Letterman’s viewers Friday night with her tale of baby procural in the farthest-flung reaches of China. As she navigated the teeming metropolis of her daughter’s birth, at the mercy of maternal instinct and Google Maps directions 12 pages long, she fielded one e-mail after another recommending potential baby names. Among the most intriguing was a note from an unnamed “bipolar” friend who offered the brilliant suggestion “Oprah Winfrey Ryan.” Sadly, after a month of deliberation, Ryan went with “Daisy” — tired, we know, but not for lack of inspiration. We think that celebrity offspring named after celebrities is an idea whose time has come. Hear Ryan’s story after the jump, and join us in selecting the top celebrity-celebrity baby names of the future. Help us help her to not make the same mistake twice. More »
Critics Insist ‘The Women’ Sets Back Chick Flick’s Rights Several Hundred Years
4:22AM Seth | There’s no good parts for women, the old Hollywood saying goes, and apparently that even holds true for a chick movie featuring only parts for women called, uh, The Women. Hitting theatres tomorrow, the updating of the 1939 classic hasn’t exactly electrified the critical community: Its current Rotten Tomatoes score—hovering there like a pair of neglected ovaries—is 00%. Here’s what some of nation’s reviewers are saying about it: More »
Remember An Innocent Time, When Children Were Children And Meg Ryan Loved Russell Crowe
11:51AM Clem Bastow | In this fast-paced world we live in, sometimes celebrity love affairs that once burned bright are relegated to the scrap heap of entertainment industry gossip, only to pop up again on VH1 specials in the future, or in “hey, remember me?”-style women’s magazine interviews, to remind us that – for example – there was once a time when we thought that “Our” Russell Crowe was going to be IN LUV 4 LYFE with one Meg Ryan. Well, thank you, Meg, for reminding us, and for explaining why things didn’t work out with Fightin’ Russell.
“Russell was incredibly gracious to me during a really hard time and in the aftermath.”
More » 
Madonna’s New Face Turns The ‘Volume’ All The Way Up To 11
10:20AM STV | Madonna’s publicist isn’t talking about what her clients like the Material Girl and Cher are doing to their faces (”I have never represented anyone who has spoken to me about plastic surgery. Nor have I asked them. I don’t want to know!”), but that doesn’t mean the doctors, the “dermatologists” and other illustrious characters in the pageant of A-list cosmetic surgery aren’t offering up a ghastly state of the union regarding their trade in this week’s New York Magazine. Which naturally includes Madonna, the issue’s cover girl and unauthorized representative of the New New Face — as opposed to the “Old” New Faces belonging to the mishandled likes of Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan. More »
Meg Ryan Becomes Latest Member Of Reviled ‘Fat Suit’ Club
7:50AM Mark Graham | To say that Meg Ryan’s career is in a free-fall would be to imply that her career hasn’t already hit rock bottom. While it’s true that she’s poised for a potential comeback in this fall’s remake of The Women, anyone with half a brain realises that her star died the day the news broke that she was schtupping Russell Crowe on the set of Proof Of Life back in 2000. Making matters even worse for America’s Former Sweetheart™, in Meg’s newest (straight-to-DVD) movie called My Mom’s Hot Boyfriend, she becomes the latest in a long string of actresses to strap herself into a fat suit only to magically “slim down” to win the heart of a handsome man — a trick which stopped being funny the second time that the Friends gang went to that well. While we’re not about to get up on a pedestal and start going off about the offensiveness of fat suits, this news did prompt us to go back and take a look at some of the stars who have donned prosthetics to plump up on-screen in the past (rarely, if ever, to humorous effect). Play along with our latest round of Defamer Bingo after the jump. More »
Does Landing The Cover Of People’s ‘Most Beautiful’ Issue Come With A Curse?
9:40AM Molly Friedman | Today, People has revealed that Kate Hudson will appear as the cover girl for their 2008 Most Beautiful People issue, and we’d certainly like to send out a hearty congrats to the recently divorced single mum who’s currently nursing Owen Wilson back to health. But after taking a look back at the list of stars who’ve previously nabbed the annual issue’s cover spot, we fear there may be a curse accompanying the glossy honour. Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) and Julia Roberts (2000, 2005) haven’t slipped up since having their smiley visage top the list, but a sizeable chunk of the winning alumni eerily saw their public and private lives undergo a downward spiral following their appearance on the issue’s cover. We took a closer look at the possible curse-laden honour after the jump: More »
