merv griffin
6:40AM STV | Maybe It’s Time For the Ed McMahon Sex Tape: Really, it seems like the only way out for the 85-year-old legend now that even Merv Griffin’s ghost is coming around looking for payback. The late mogul’s company filed suit recently to reclaim $100,000 that Griffin supposedly loaned to McMahon in 2005; the Griffin Group Inc. claims he still owes every cent (plus interest and attorney fees). It hardly seems fair under the circumstances, in which McMahon is reduced to rapping for his supper and the Griffin estate earns a few thousand dollars every time the Jeopardy! theme is so much as hummed, but business is business. All options are on the table, and let’s face it: If McMahon were a midget, this all all would have been settled a long time ago. [AP] More »
Reasons You Don’t Want Jerry Lewis Delivering Your Eulogy
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We probably felt the same way that you did upon reading this headline from USAToday.com: Could Jerry Lewis, America’s Clown Prince and host of countless muscular dystrophy telethons, have possibly uttered such callous words about recently departed friend and contemporary Merv Griffin? Well, yes – yes he did, but as in all headline-grabbing celebrity soundbites, context is everything, and what might have come off like the equivalent of fellow prostate cancer sufferer Lewis taking an intermittent pee on Griffin’s freshly filled grave was instead part of a larger interview, airing tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight, in which Lewis expressed frustration that Griffin didn’t immediately seek the medical care he required to beat the stubborn disease. More »
Short Ends: Paris Hilton: Business Genius
12:39PM Defamer Hollywood | · You think the insanity outside Kitson was an accident? Here’s 10 reasons why Paris Hilton is a business genius. · A gallery of pictures from today’s star-studded Merv Griffin funeral, including best fag-hag Nancy Reagan (in–gasp!–white), and a Seacrest-in-mourning, working the same fierce sunglasses as his blonde companion. · Join the crusade to halt filming downtown, possibly saving Nicole Kidman from untold injury. · We forget: Are The Buzzcocks playing the Giant Juiced Dong stage or the Glistening Tube stage? · And finally, enjoy this all-kitten reenactment of poorly received Body Snatchers remake, The Invasion. More »
Today In But You Knew That Already: Merv Griffin, Siegfried & Roy Gay
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s truly a day for the velvet-bound history books, for not one, but three entertainment giants harbouring some of the worst-kept secrets in showbiz have been thrust from their anally-arranged, glass-doored closets. First, in a eulogy appearing in today’s THR (it’s on pg. 9, but has gone missing from the website – screengrab of the blog version here), Ray Richmond matter-of-factly discusses Merv Griffin’s sexuality: [UPDATE: Via FBLA, Richmond discuss the pulling of the online versions of his piece here. OK, we know this is now getting unwieldy, but UPDATE 2: The piece has been restored on both Richmond's blog and the THR site. ] Merv Griffin was gay. More »
Our Money’s On Merv Griffin
9:15AM Defamer Hollywood | With celebrity glossies constantly one-upping each other by trumpeting ever more shocking and outrageous tales of drunken lesbianism and child tooth-whitening abuse on their covers, leave it to supermarket literature stalwart the Globe to trump them all: By simply taking the public’s morbid fascination with celebrity misfortune to its natural conclusion, their current issue features a giant, death-clock lottery for some of the world’s most recognisable faces. More »
