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Massive Prop. 8 Protest Galvanizes Gays, Allies, Random Celebs
2:28AM Kyle Buchanan | “NO MORE MR. NICE GAY,” read one of the many signs last night in Los Angeles as Defamer attended a huge anti-Prop. 8 rally that drew several thousand — then set them marching all over the city. (Your Defamer was also partial to another sign, referencing the easily-passed, animal rights-granting Prop. 2: “I Want What the Chickens Got!”) It was powerful, emotional stuff, and even more fireworks should erupt today at 2pm, when the crowd takes their fight to the Mormon temple on Santa Monica Blvd to protest the many millions the church sunk into passing the anti-gay Prop. 8. Until then, though, let’s relive the night the best way Defamer knows how: with celebrity spottings and silly anecdotes! You can see the Robert Rodriguez-less Rose McGowan protesting up above — who else was there, and who wasn’t?
Too-Wild Irish Rose: The producers of Rose …
8:40AM STV | Too-Wild Irish Rose: The producers of Rose McGowan’s new IRA drama 50 Dead Men Walking heard a strange ticking in their careers before calling in the bomb squad, publicly disavowing McGowan’s comments at Toronto that she would have joined the Republican cause in the ’70s if she had the opportunity. “Ms. McGowan’s views were private ones, and as such they greatly saddened the film’s producers,” they wrote in a statement, adding that they apologized for any distress incurred by the “people of Northern Ireland and particularly those who were victims of or caught up in the shocking events that existed during the conflict.” Still no apology from McGowan, however, who was reportedly busy preparing for Barbarella’s rumoured start in 2016. [THR] More »
Today in Comic-Con Hell: Rose McGowan Fellates Knife, Benicio Del Toro Stays Awake
8:25AM STV | As noted here yesterday, we missed the Fox PR Caravan to San Diego Comic-Con, but that shouldn’t suggest we don’t (or you shouldn’t) care about the geek gangbang unfolding as we speak. To the contrary, we’ve actually managed to find a handful of highlights worth passing along, from Rose McGowan’s overactive tongue to Benicio Del Toro’s narcolepsy to an all-Lego Batman — and more! It’s the next best thing to not being there, we promise!
Fake Love Is In The Air: Top Five Best Prom Scenes, From Bloodbashes To Rose McGowan ‘Eating Shit’
8:25AM Molly Friedman | If three makes a trend, then a new one is awkwardly dancing its way into Hollywood. First, Lindsay Lohan threw an 80s prom-themed party for her 22nd birthday, then we recently discovered some intriguing prom scene footage from that highly anticipated horny vampire flick Twilight, and now, Var is announcing that Miramax will produce a film based on “This Strange Thing Called Prom,” a piece published last month in the NY Times. Though we never had the (mis)fortune of going to one ourselves, due to prep schools’ distaste for tear-inducing, virginity-threatening functions, the infamous Prom Scene has always been a joyous go-to whenever a teen-themed movie needs a pretty way to transition into Act Three. Below, the five cinematic proms we wish we’d been invited to, from Buffy’s murderous rampage alongside easy rider Luke Perry to the moment Andrew McCarthy tells Molly Ringwald he loves her even though she’s wearing the ugliest dress in the history of ugly dresses. More »
Did Prolific Robert Rodriguez Trade Rose McGowan for 22-Year-Old in His Latest Romantic Drama?
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Box-office bombs and Barbarella casting crises aside, we hear today that the Robert Rodriguez Girlfriend Roundelay may have simply been too crowded for Rose McGowan to keep her place during the couple’s bust-up. A tipster sends word that Rodriguez has moved on to 22-year-old Kat Dennings, the Charlie Bartlett ingenue currently shooting Shorts with the filmmaker in Austin; the duo has reportedly been seen at locales around town — including Rodriguez’s hot tub, we’re told — but for all we know that could just be a bit of refreshment after a long, midsummer day under the scorching Texas sun. More »Robert Rodriguez Salvages His Once-Promising Career By Relieving Rose McGowan Of Her Girlfriend Duties
7:00AM Mark Graham | Up until the point where filming began on Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez’s career was flying. Long considered one of Hollywood’s more prolific directors (11 directorial credits between 1995 and 2005), the auteur specialised in churning out FX heavy (yet, comparatively speaking, low-budget) B-films that ended up being very profitable for both himself and the studios that released his pictures. But Rodriguez’s life and career began to fall apart as he began an on-set relationship with his lead actress in Planet Terror, Rose McGowan, a relationship that not only ended up costing him his marriage but also one that seriously derailed his career. Most recently, he had been pushing to get studios interested in his $70 million remake of Barbarella which, natch, would star his new soul-draining harpy love interest. However, nary a studio in the world was willing to take a risk on a movie with that budget that had Rose McGowan as a lead (nor would they touch Red Sonja or Women In Chains!, two other projects he tried to secure financing for with his flame in the lead). Now, it appears that the friction between Rodriguez’s personal and professional lives landed the pair an all-expenses paid trip on the Splitsville Express. According to Page Six:‘Women in Chains!’ to Fill Networks’ Long-Standing Rose McGowan/Mud Wrestling Vacuum
10:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez have yet to shoot their planned Barbarella remake — which is going to start any day now if McGowan’s recent fantasy promise holds — they’re wasting little time moving forward with their next classy genre collaboration: Women in Chains! No, seriously, that’s what they’re actually calling it: More »
Stalled ‘Barbarella’ Remake Coming Together Nicely In Rose McGowan’s Head
3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In the latest flimsy edition of Barbarella Will Be Remade (No Really We Mean It) Quarterly, perennial cover girl Rose McGowan grabbed another opportunity to swear on a stack of imaginary scripts that she is super-seriously-definitely reprising Jane Fonda’s original role in the long-gestating Robert Rodriguez do-over. And it is a do-over according to McGowan, who gets her critical faculties (and probably a few tempers at Universal) in a lather just thinking about it: More »Short Ends: ‘Indy 4′ Golf-Cart-Driving Secrets Revealed!
5:25AM Defamer Hollywood | The guy who took this video of Harrison Ford and George Lucas on the last day of production on Indy 4 is probably going to wind up hanging on a hook next to that loose-lipped extra in the Universal lot commissary’s meat locker. · He’s got the funny electric cars, the high-profile political and social causes, and the obligatory self-destructive streak, but the opening weekend failure of Michael Clayton has Slate wondering if he’s bad at the part of being a movie star the studios actually give a shit about. More »
