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Mike White Triumphs Over Rogue, Rolling Cheeses On ‘Amazing Race’
3:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Hollywood ambassador Mike White made his stateside Amazing Race debut last night—did he go down in reality TV flames, or did he register a win for screenwriters everywhere? More »
Mike White On Doing ‘The Amazing Race’: ‘I Felt Like Jason Bourne And His Old Gay Dad’
6:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Curious as to how Mike White (the multi-hyphenate behind films like School of Rock and Nacho Libre) ended up a contestant on The Amazing Race? White talked to Defamer about what exactly got him running. More »
Mike White & Dad Sign Up For ‘Amazing Race,’ Prepare Unsettling ‘Chuck & Buck’ Gambit
2:05AM Kyle Buchanan | As the screenwriter/actor behind School of Rock, Nacho Libre, and Chuck & Buck, Mike White’s oeuvre has always lacked one thing: rattlesnake stings on the soundtrack. Now, where he’s going, that won’t be a problem. More »
Diane Keaton: From Here to Obscurity?
9:15AM STV | No one around here really wants to have the Save-a-Fading-Hollywood-Icon conversation every day. But less than 24 hours after Ed McMahon’s sad, bought-and-paid-for declaration that “I am officially a rapper,” the quiet dumping of Diane Keaton’s new film Smother (or the fact that there even is a Diane Keaton film called Smother) leaves us no real choice. The Oscar-winner’s latest is her fourth consecutive Straight-to-Flopz™ effort since 2007, as well as the third during that time (alongside Because I Said So and Mama’s Boy) in which she’s portrayed a suffocating harpy mum. Worse yet — depressingly so — Smother is the first Diane Keaton film in our adult lifetimes that we didn’t even know existed until after it opened. Not. Cool. More »
2:10AM Defamer Hollywood | School Reunion: We’re learning more today about the tearduct-tweaking, franchise-ready School of Rock “reboot” that Mike White teased us with at the LA Film Festival; Variety has word about School of Rock 2: America Rocks, which Scott Rudin will produce and to which Paramount has attached Jack Black and director Richard Linklater. And as opposed to White’s cruel stonewalling last month, the plot is apparently now safe for public dissemination: Black returns as teacher Dewey Finn, who leads “a group of summer school students on a cross-country field trip that delves into the history of rock ‘n’ roll and explores the roots of blues, rap, country and other genres.” No word yet as to whether or not Black will exercise his newfound clout to add in an autobiographical narcotics-dabbling interlude, or if he and White will save that for the inevitable School of Rock 3: Rehab High. [Variety] More »
Newly Non-Sexist Judd Apatow Reaps Benefits of Wikipedia Whitewash
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | If you observe Judd Apatow’s pervy rom-com assembly line with even casual frequency, you probably don’t need a Wikipedia entry to remind you how accusations of sexism and misogyny have plagued the writer-producer-director over the years. At least we hope you don’t, because an eagle-eyed Defamer reader points out this morning how a loyal defender / relative / Universal publicist has spent the better part of the last week expunging the dirty little non-secret from the Wiki record. From Katherine Heigl to Mike White, follow the jump for a few of the latest line edits. More »
