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M. Night Shyamalan to Play Himself in Eagerly-Awaited ‘90-Minute Paranoia Movie’

7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s been nearly two years since we last detected the whimperings of M. Night Shyamalan, who followed Lady in the Water (and the pouty studio exile that preceded it) with a quiet retreat to his shrouded, moated enclave in the Pennsylvania wilderness. But the LA Times’s Susan King smoked him out in advance of his return to theatres this summer, reviving the classic Manoj Twist for a readership craving every word: More »

W Mag To Throw Coming Out Party For Rubyfruit Mafia

5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Today’s Page Six previews W’s upcoming story on the rapidly growing membership of the all-female Velvet Mob splinter group the magazine has dubbed the Rubyfruit Mafia, a faction whose influence grows each time one of the industry’s power-lesbians makes the brave choice to step out of the closet: THE lesbians of Hollywood seem to be multiplying as they come out of the closet. “Call them the Rubyfruit Mafia,” W magazine says in its latest issue. Movie producer Nina Jacobson said she didn’t know of one other openly lesbian executive in Los Angeles in the early ’90s when she told a colleague at Universal Studios, “I actually am not straight.” More »