oscars 08
Thinking 9/11, Moon Landing Faked No Obstacle To Oscar Glory
1:08PM Clem Bastow | Fresh from the “amusing things said before the glare of instant fame made such mouth-shooting-off probably inadvisable” category comes this corker from French actress Marion Cotillard, who just won the Oscar for Best Actress for La Vie En Rose.
Evidently Cotillard gave an interview last year in which she discussed, amongst other things, her belief that the World Trade Center attacks were just a cover-up so that the US government could demolish the “money-sucker” buildings and that, you know, man didn’t really walk on the moon.
Naturally, the press is now having fits. Here are some highlights from Ms Cotillard’s interview:
“We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated “money-sucker” that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
She said: “It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them.”
Well, we don’t know what the French are putting in their fromages at the moment, but we’re inclined to think that there are more efficient ways to demolish an outmoded city building than, you know, flying planes full of innocent human beings into them while the buildings themselves are still, you guessed it, full of innocent human beings.
Call us conservative, but that’s just how the Defamer Australia minds roll when it comes to matters of town planning! More » 
Tilda Swinton Brings Her “Intriguing” Love Life To The Oscar Press Room
9:40AM Clem Bastow | We told you not long ago about the British press’ fascination with Tilda Swinton’s love life; well, now that she’s an Academy Award Winner™, Swinton’s private life can more or less be considered public – as she found when the Oscars press room took it upon itself to ask her how things were going with her older partner, Joe Byrne, and younger lover, Sandro Kopp.
Naturally, she took it in her stride.
Swinton, 47, appeared taken aback when one reporter asked her about what the media had called her “unconventional” love life.
She responded that she was raising her children with Byrne while living with Kopp, her “sweetheart” of three years.
“I think it’s extraordinary that we’re all really close friends,” she said.
The actress chose to bring Kopp to the awards ceremony.
And presumably Joe was at home cheering her on with the twins.
Honestly, we know she pretty much comprehensively eschews ‘celebrity’ and everything, but we LOVE Tilda. She and her band of merry men are totally our new favourite “celebrity” relationship envy objects. More » 
Alex Perry Brings His Knowledge Of Filipino Hookers To The Oscars Coverage
12:35PM Clem Bastow | While Defamer is running our own live Oscars blog, we’re not immune to cruising the web to see what “the other half” are doing with cinema’s big day.
During our travels via the Vogue Forums we were most pleased to see that NineMSN had given our favourite Australian designer and hilarious Australia’s Next Top Model judge (”Those eyebrows have been raped”) Alex Perry his own live Oscars red carpet arrivals blog.
Feel free to browse by yourself, but we’ve collated some of Alex’s more considered moments of serious fashion commentary for you here:
11:51am:Calista Flockhart and her grandfather She’s looking a bit scary..
11:40am:Tilda Swinton It’s a great big bag what’s to LIKE. Don’t put any makeup on you albino!
11:35am:Jennifer Hudson sHE just unleashed a white gladiator dress, unfortunately the white jersey couldn’t contain her boobs, they look like white pointers one to the east and one to the west.
11:32am:Helen Mirren I can’t believe I’m seeing a dress that is red satin with white lace, it’s not friggin christmas honey and she looked so amazing last year, but this year she looks WRONG.
11:25am: Kimora Lee Can I also add she looks like a Phillipino hooker.
11:05am: John Travolta has a droopy suit on and too long sideburns, slightly Amish looking.
We’re willing to go out on a limb here and request that someone gives Alex a proper fashion commentary position at either Vogue or Harpers Bazaar, stat!
The Australian fashion world needs more talk of white pointer boobs, Amish sideburns and Filipino hookers. More » 
Oscar Ladies in Red
11:00AM Molly Friedman | Perhaps to inject the otherwise snoozy Oscars tonight (no parties! Stewart again! predictable winners!) with some pizazz, the actresses on the carpet went with red dresses in all shades: Katherine Heigl, sans Josh as far as we could tell, wore a fire engine red one-strap number; Miley Cyrus proved she’s still a girl, but not yet a woman, in a tight bright red dress to show off her underage, yet budding, figure; Helen Mirren proved once again that being a slightly more “mature” actress in no way means you can’t look sexy. Take a look at all the ladies who took red and made it work: More »
10:24AM Molly Friedman | While it remains to be seen whether or not Diablo Cody will be joining the likes of Cameron Crowe and Woody Allen on the list of Oscar-winning writers, one thing is certain: she’ll be wearing Million Dollar Shoes to the Academy Awards on Sunday. Tacky tastemaker Stuart Weitzman’s infamous Kwiat diamond-encrusted shoes will adorn the Juno scriptess’s feet as she walks the carpet. We are proud to report that this news marks Brook’s official jump from Former Stripper to Rental Footwear Prostitute. [SF Gate] More »
The Best Actor Nominees Are Some Of The Worst Dressers In Town
4:02AM Molly Friedman | Except for (maybe) George Clooney, the nominees for Best Actor at this year’s Oscars aren’t known for playing it safe on the red carpet. From Daniel Day-Lewis’s preference for tiny suits to Viggo Mortensen’s disdain for anything bland, we’re not accustomed to seeing plain penguin tuxes from this group. But judging from their track records, they all have ways of showing their true colors without actually wearing them all at once. So we reviewed their greatest hits and greatest misses to figure out which way they should swing on Sunday. More »
Winner Or Loser, All That Really Matters On Oscar Night Is Who Wore The Best Dress
3:14AM Molly Friedman | The question on the minds of the glossy mags isn’t who will take home little gold men on Sunday night, but rather who’ll make the biggest fashion faux-pas. And there’s no shortage of mistakes made by this year’s Best Actress nominees in the past. But we aren’t hoping for new additions to the Fashion Police Hall of Fame; instead, we went digging through the archives to find the biggest mistake all five actresses tend to make in the style department, and our suggestions for which signature looks they should keep in mind to achieve sartorial success come Sunday. More »
Paris Hilton Didn’t Want To Come To Your Stupid Party-less Oscars Anyway
6:25AM Molly Friedman | Paris Hilton spent millions of dollars on a dress for the Academy Awards and was totally looking forward to sleeping networking with industry players come Sunday night. However, according to England’s (not entirely reputable) Daily Star, Paris has been banned from the awards this year. She allegedly cried “hot salty tears” when she got the news, but we think that has less to do with missing out on the experience of seeing Jon Stewart read G-rated jokes off a teleprompter and more about not being able to cavort around the Governor’s Ball with whoever’s currently playing the Shirtless Young Poolboy on Desperate Housewives these days. However, with a little luck and the help of her infamous brown wig, she might just be able to crash the party after all. More »
Oscars Chasing Tween Tail By Enlisting Miley Cyrus As A Presenter?
6:16AM Defamer Hollywood | As we read over the list of Oscar presenters released this morning, one sparkly name took all our attention away from the otherwise predictable lot — Miss Miley Cyrus. Just last week, producers of the Grammy Awards dissed the Tween Queen by not asking the biggest star in the recording industry to either perform or present during their flatlining ceremony. However, now Miley is riding high after being scooped up by the typically snobby Oscars. So what gives? Looks to us like quirky duck Gil Cates has his eye squarely trained on the Nielsen numbers. More »
