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Jay Leno Offers Audience His Most Apologetic Look

10:35AM Defamer Hollywood | After comments about Ryan Phillippe’s role as a gay teen on One Life to Live earned Jay Leno more attention than any picket line-crossing or old car-driving ever could, the late night host has issued an apology. In a statement released to People, Leno takes the classic “I’m sorry you misunderstood me” route, saying: “In talking about Ryan’s first role, I realise that what I said came out wrong. I certainly didn’t mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize.” Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for a mea culpa on the scabbing and roadster-ing fronts (seriously — have you seen him out there with the aviator headgear and everything?). More »

Conservative Film Scholar Concerned That Iraq-Based Films Are ‘Relentless Downers’, Would Prefer More Iraqi Ass-Kicking

3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Our condolences go out this morning to Paramount, whose sulky, twangy, denim-and-rippling-flesh marketing push for Stop-Loss couldn’t trick weekend moviegoers into checking out yet another Iraq War message movie. At Defamer HQ, the search for answers behind the disappointing $4.5 million gross — too many muscle shirts? Ryan Phillippe/Abbie Cornish babymaking rumors peaked too soon? — extended to the conservative journal Men’s News Daily, where crack industry analyst Greg Strange’s devastating Monday-morning hindsight is sharper than ever: More »

Breaking: Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are Expecting (To Put Lawyers on Fox Gossip’s Doorstep)!

2:26AM Defamer Hollywood | Resident Fox gossipmonger Roger Friedman outdid himself this morning with the “news” that romantically linked Stop-Loss co-stars Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are “apparently having a child.” You wouldn’t know it now, of course, with Friedman’s allegation deleted from his copy without any note or citation from his editors at Fox News. Thank goodness for the quick-thinking eagle-eyes at The Huffington Post, who nabbed a screengrab of the offending passage you can spy after the jump. More »

Jay Leno Tickled By Ryan Phillippe’s Former Role As Gay Teen

4:35AM Seth | On last Wednesday’s The Tonight Show, Towleroad notes, Ryan Phillippe popped by to promote Stop-Loss. Host Jay Leno–a man being courted aggressively by studios and networks, with promises of eight-figure contracts and brand new theatres bearing his name–opened the interview with questions about Phillippe’s first paying job on One Life To Live. More »

Are Ryan Phillippe’s Abs Enough To Convince Audiences To See An Iraq-Themed Movie?

9:40AM Molly Friedman | Judging from the TV ads and posters for Stop-Loss, the film looks as if it would be just another teen flick where pretty boys with pretty faces chase some equally pretty girls with equally pretty faces. However, director Kimberly Peirce’s first film since Boys Don’t Cry is actually a big, serious movie about the plight of soldiers fighting in Iraq. But before you go and tune out the film solely on the basis of it being another one of those dirge-like films, it’s worth noting that THR is predicting that this may be the very first movie centered around the War in Iraq that actually breaks through with both critics and audiences: “The recent boxoffice fate of Iraq movies has prompted Paramount to take a notably careful approach that downplays the war. The movie is being sold as an MTV Films picture with an attractive young cast (Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) that will lure people to theatres for other reasons.” More »

Apple/’Idol’ Partnership Produces The Prone-To-Breakdowns iPaula

6:51AM Seth | In an uncomfortable marriage pitting the coolest brands on the planet with, um, a lesser-cool brand, Apple has become a signature sponsor of American Idol. What does this mean for you, the Apple/Idol fan? iTunes carries show downloads, the iPod becomes the show’s “official digital music player,” and the company’s next top-secret product launch, the iPaula, will perform all the functions of the iPhone, but with improved wasted and weepy functionality. [Variety] Toshiba concedes defeat in the high-def war, giving Blu-ray the official win, and relegating HD-DVD to the obsolete technology junkpile. (Attention unnamed dance-punk bands: Blu-Ray Or HD-DVD is up for grabs!) [Variety] More »

Ryan Phillippe Urges You Not To Order That Abbie Cornish Voodoo Doll

8:59AM Clem Bastow | Ryan Phillippe has come out in defense of his alleged giirrrrrllllfriend Abbie Cornish – who was seen putting a Christmas wreath on her head in an effort to impress his children over the holidays – and says that, contrary to the belief of the gossip mag set, she was in fact not the reason he and America’s Sweetheart™ Reese Witherspoon broke up. Phillippe and Cornish have been sort of dating for a fair while now and we’re sure her tendency to wear topiary as hats has nothing to do with his reticence when it comes to officially confirming their relationship. He claimed the reason for the break-up from the mother of his two children was “far more complicated and far less interesting than it was made out to be”. “It was unfair for (Abbie) to be called the names that she was, because it wasn’t about that,” he said. Cornish was mauled by the American showbiz media over the rumoured role she played in wooing Witherspoon’s husband when the pair met on the set of Stop: Loss. But Phillippe said no other woman was responsible for his divorce. “I don’t think an outside person can ever cause a divorce. I had difficulties in my relationship and in my marriage long before I ever met (Abbie).” Well, that’s good then, because it was causing almighty tears in the space/time fabric of Australian women’s magazines – on the one hand, they wanted to call her “lovely”, “radiant” and “beautiful”, but they can’t use those words if she’s a marriage wrecking harlot, either, and lord knows the Weekly et al love to call a woman “lovely”. More »