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People
In The Eye Of The Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
5:27AM Brian Moylan | At this very moment, Levi Johnston is undressing for a Playgirl photo shoot. But last night he was at The Box accepting an award from Fleshbot while a scrum of reporters poked and probed the Wasilla boy for a story. More »
People
Michael Jackson Still A Gigantic Celebrity — Except In New York
3:11AM Brian Moylan | Last night was the premiere of This Is It, and there were galas in 16 cities around the world. Most of them were huge, ornate affairs. Except in New York, where barely anyone noticed. More »
Small Screen
Tyra Banks’ Flash Mob Should Be Read The Riot Act
3:30AM Foster Kamer | Tyra Banks had some kind of bizarre flash mob in New York a few weeks ago to promote the season of her new show, Tyra Banks: Attempting To Make You Hate Me Even More. And now, there’s video! More »
People
The NYT Solves Sarah Jessica Parker’s Real Estate Mystery
10:15AM Foster Kamer | Speculation regarding Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick moving into ginormous Park Slope digs was wrong! Via some crack NYT investigative reporting, Brooklyn teasing, and reportage bragging, the occupants who ended up in it are just as interesting: Google Bazillionaires. More »
People
Tom And Katie Moving To The West Village?
6:40AM Richard Lawson | As previously rumoured, Katie Holmes and her dashing space bride Tom Cruise might be moving to New York permanently. (As permanent as movie stars move, anyway). The Village Voice thinks they may have tracked down their new pad. More »
Big Screen
Woody Allen’s Not-So-Triumphant Return To New York
3:56AM Richard Lawson | The director’s new film Whatever Works premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last night, marking his first New York-set feature since fleeing for Europe six years ago. So how did it fare? Not terrifically. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Drew Barrymore’s Dating Justin Long… Again
1:58AM Richard | Drew Barrymore’s dating Justin Long again, NYC film gets a tax break, plus movies about babysitters and killer crazy girls. More »
Americans Need Balls, Indies Need Buyers as Chilly Cannes Winds Down
9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Where are the big spenders this year at Cannes? After a 2007 buying spree that topped out with Universal snagging We Own the Night for a whopping $11.5 million, only one distributor has made any considerable investment in the current crop of selections — IFC Films, which made news Wednesday by acquiring the acclaimed Irish drama Hunger, its seventh buy in as many days. And even its other deals — an international mash-up including A Christmas Tale (France), Chaser (S. Korea) and the American indie The Pleasure of Being Robbed — are slated for minimal theatrical play as they funnel into IFC’s day-and-date on-demand circuit.
Resolution No. 1: Sarah Jessica Parker Censured for Complaining About Problems ‘SATC’ Helped Create
2:15AM Defamer Hollywood | WHEREAS, it’s not really our style to judge anyone before noon, especially on a Monday, but that’s when New York Magazine happened to publish its new cover story about Sarah Jessica Parker; and More »
Australia’s Next Top Model Actually On Her Way To Being Top Model; World In Shock
9:17AM Clem Bastow | Looks as though Alice Burdeu is the first winner of the Next Top Model franchise (both Australian and internationally) to really be proving she was a deserving winner – to wit, she looks set to actually become just that, a top model! No doubt the contestants in the upcoming fourth cycle of AusNTM are feeling the bar set just a little too high for them.
She has already shot a Vogue Australia cover, and the Napoleon Perdis campaign, not to mention a successful few months modelling in Singapore – now she is installed in New York City, where she (and her agency, Elite) had hoped she’d book a couple of Fashion Week gigs. Well, she got more than a few – including Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Marchesa – and the fashion world has sat up and taken notice.
Alice has been featured on the front page of Style.com (Vogue’s online incarnation), is still New York Magazine’s front page Fashion Week image (walking for Marc Jacobs), and – most excitingly (though it may not so much as raise an eyebrow in those who don’t follow the fashion world obsessively) touted as a Top 10 Newcomer on Models.com, which has rightly been described as “the NASDAQ of modelling”. Former MDC newcomers include current mega models Agyness Deyn and Coco Rocha – so to say they know how to pick the stars would be an understatement.
Go Alice!
Defamer Australia public service announcement: we will be interviewing Alice this week and want YOU, the Defamer family, to be a part of it all. Leave your questions for the leggy stunner in the comments and tune back in later to read her responses!
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