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Silences Will Be Broken
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Owen Wilson, who in the weeks since his reported late August suicide attempt has communicated updates about his health to the public only through paparazzi photos, friends intimating that he’s “doing great,” and the occasional lawn mower ride, has granted his first interview to buddy/creative collaborator Wes Anderson. The catch: It’s being posted to MySpace at midnight tonight, so you’ll probably have to cancel your drinking plans (at least the out-of-home ones) to see if the duo actually address the suicide question or whether they spent they entire session plugging The Darjeeling Limited, knowing that gawkers will be hanging on their every word. [USA Today] More »
Owenwatch
6:40AM Defamer Hollywood | The weeklies continue to be quite generous about keeping everyone up to date on every inch of John Deere-assisted progress Owen Wilson is making on the path back to health, assuring the world that his recovery is proceeding slowly, steadily, and one lawn mower ride at a time. [People] More »
Owenwatch
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Like a butterscotch foal taking his initial, wobbly steps outside of the womb, Owen Wilson turned up at last night’s The Darjeeling Limited premiere last night, putting in one of his first public appearances since, you know, the situation. We’ll have our Stallion back soon, it seems. [CNN.com] More »
Owenwatch
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Things Owen Wilson displayed on a recent trip to Venice Beach that was exhaustively documented by paparazzi: a toned body, a “tired and dishevelled…but peaceful” appearance, and the possible first visible evidence of a recent suicide attempt. [Daily Mail UK] More »Short Ends: Laughing Through Tragedy
6:20AM Defamer Hollywood | You know how it goes: It’s late, it’s been a long shift on the overnight anchor desk, a weird little man rides across the bottom of the screen screaming about Uncle Hoe, and suddenly even a tragic celebrity suicide story seems hilarious. (They did, however, apologise for their poorly timed loopiness.) · We thought that Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t going to be as controversial a View co-host as Rosie O’Donnell, but she certainly surprised the ladies with her thoughts on the Michael Vick dogfighting mess on her first day on the couch. · Amazingly, Brad Pitt’s inclusion on People.com’s highly selective “Hollywood’s Secret Braniacs” list (requirements: getting at least within a couple of credits of a college degree) makes no mention of his love of architecture. · The Smoking Gun digs up the embattled Jerry Lewis’s tour rider, which seeks to guarantee that his live comedy appearances don’t get mixed up with MDA events. More »
Steve Coogan Finally Gets His Breakthrough Moment As Owen Wilson’s Enabler
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | At the height of Owen Wilson’s very public personal crisis, Courtney Love uncharacteristically offered up her own, highly opinionated views on the topic – suicide and hard drugs being two subjects that run, pun only partially intended, deeply in her veins. Suspecting she knew exactly who and what led Wilson to his act of desperation, the singer told Us magazine that the culprit was Steve Coogan: A far bigger star in the U.K. than in the U.S., Coogan gained fame overseas for his TV portrayal of dim-bulbed newsman Alan Partridge. (In this clip, he fittingly admits he has no idea who Kurt Cobain is, and is baffled over why he might have taken his own life.) Coogan and Love had a brief affair, which was rumoured to have caused a pregnancy, but that thankfully produced no illegitimate children – between Love’s body dysmorphia and Coogan’s English dental genes, the kid never stood a chance. More »
‘ET’ Amassing Celebrity Signatures For Giant Owen Wilson Get Well Card
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | If there’s one bright spot to the massive, black thundercloud hanging over Hollywood this week, it comes in the form of an outpouring of love and genuine sympathy for Owen Wilson – not just from his fans, but from fellow celebrities, who know first hand of the inner turmoil that can accompany being permanently strapped into the fame machine, and who would go to great lengths to inform Entertainment Tonight’s cameras of how much they are pulling for him in his time of need: “I don’t know what happened,” JANE SEYMOUR says of OWEN WILSON’s reported suicide attempt, “but I know he’s a great guy and this too shall pass…He has a great family and people who love him,” she says. “He’ll be okay.” More »
Owen Wilson: It’s Kate’s Fault! No, It’s The Royal Tenenbaums’ Fault! NO, It’s Steve Coogan’s!!
10:33AM Clem Bastow | As we all continue to clutch at straws regarding Owen Wilson’s recent misfortune, now Courtney Love has spoken out in support of Wilson – and reckons it’s all Steve Coogan’s fault. Glad to have cleared it up at last!
Coogan and Wilson appeared together in A Night At The Museum and apparently became party buddies, to the dismay of Kate Hudson – and, evidently, Courtney, who thinks Coogan’s hard-living ways are to blame. While Coogan’s peeps have already released a statement rebutting Love’s comments, the Mail reckons Love isn’t alone in her thoughts:
Wilson’s friends have privately placed the blame for Owen’s problems squarely on Coogan, who has battled his own demons.
The comedian, who starred alongside Wilson in several films, has admitted to drug-taking and being a serial womaniser – traits which his new friend has also been accused of.
All we need now in this sorry saga is for the Scientologists to come out and offer their support to Owen (whilst having a jab at the psychiatry he is no doubt receiving) and for Owen to be interviewed by Barbara Walters, and we’ll be able to sleep happily and soundly. More » 
Your Morning Owen Round-Up: Now With Searing Courtney Love Accusations!
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | You didn’t actually think you’d be able to start your day without one of those depressing Owen Wilson: After the Attempt round-ups, did you? No – we didn’t think so. This is “Kate’s Nightmare,” declares Us magazine’s cover in 450-point type, all but dwarfing the pink box above it reminding readers of Wilson’s tangential involvement. They report that “inner circle members” insist Hudson was forced to abandon Wilson because he was abusing both cocaine and heroin, a potentially lethal combination more commonly known on the streets as “dynamite.” (At least as recently as 1977.) [Us] How could the shaggy, suspiciously mellow Daily Show guest have gotten mixed up in the hard stuff? By hanging out with the wrong kind of people, of course, such as Courtney Love’s ex–British actor/comedian Steve Coogan. Says Love: “I went through it with Steve, “I was just out of rehab, and he was right there with the drugs. I tried to warn Owen. I tried to warn his friends. I hope from the bottom of my heart that Owen stays the hell away from that guy.” [NY Post An Us Exclusive!] More »
