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‘The United States Of Tara’ Badly In Need Of Change

3:54AM Seth | The United States of Tara, legend goes, was an idea that popped into the mind of Steven Spielberg, who then handed it over to screenwriting phenomenon Diablo Cody to flesh out into a half-hour pilot.

Canada: Your Friendly, ‘Dexter’-Obsessed, Decapitating Psychopaths To The North!

8:12AM Seth | You’ll have to forgive us for being a little too preoccupied with events going on in our own backyards and stateside to notice what’s been going on lately up in Canada. Let’s see: last we checked in, a Chinese immigrant on a Greyhound bus that boarded in Edmonton had decapitated and cannibalised another passenger on a desolate stretch of highway—definitely one of those instances where all the universal health care in the world isn’t really going to do much good. Now comes news of a Dexter-obsessed, suspected serial killer living in the same bloodcicle wasteland, named Mark Andrew Twitchell. More »

Will ‘United States Of Tara’ Confirm Diablo Cody’s Genius?

9:42AM Seth | Diablo Cody—Patron Saint of Former Strippers Who Did It Just for the Experience but Ultimately Aspired to Something More—is the writer of The United States of Tara, a new Showtime series previewed in the promotional package above. Starring Toni Colette and based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, much is riding on Tara and its tale of an American mum who just happens to suffer from dissociative identity disorder. Diablo defends her lighthearted treatment of the illness as such: More »

‘Californication’ Features Fictional Sex-Addict David Duchovny On A Fictional Defamer

6:00AM Seth | As if the borders distinguishing the fictional sex-junkie David Duchovny plays on Californication from the background-player-deflowering poon-addict he plays in real life weren’t hazy enough, along comes another wrinkle to further confuse the issue—and this one involves us! On last week’s Californication, Duchovny’s character Hank is in jail for assaulting a police officer, where he’s visited by ex-girlfriend Karen and their teenage daughter, Becca. At one point, Becca holds out an iPhone bearing his mugshot and says, “Check it out: You’re on Defamer.” Hank responds that he thinks it’s “a pretty good picture,” and we’d agree—though not nearly as good as some others we’ve run. If your brain hasn’t yet collapsed like a deflated beach ball from all the meta-ness, just wait until Tea Leoni stops by HQ to guest edit for a week. More »

David Duchovny Totally Into Internet Porn, If By ‘Internet Porn’ You Mean Banging Extras

3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | When Californication star David Duchovny announced he was checking into sex rehab, Fox News columnist Roger Friedman suggested it was due to an internet porn addiction — a theory that didn’t sit well with our commenters, who remembered a suddenly relevant blind item about a TV star who’d been following extras off the set for some very special “overtime.” Today, the NY Daily News rebuts Friedman and confirms the latter rumour, hearing from the National Enquirer that Duchovny’s wife Tea Leoni was on to his elaborate scheme to trade sex for SAG vouchers: More »