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Worst Thing About He’s Just Not That Into You: The Cigarettes?

7:16AM Defamer Hollywood | You’d think so, if you paid attention to the crusty old American Medical Association, which is hopping mad that the dopey ladysad film prominently and frequently featured brand-name cigarettes. Though, none were ever smoked.

Julianne Moore Became A Better Person After She Quit Smoking!

12:22PM Jess McGuire | As someone who is attempting to finish up with my deadly tobacco habit – yes, again – and who also happens to be four days clean and feeling smug (well, as smug as one can be when also suffering from what feels like a fifth bout of cataids this winter, and coughing up a lung every two minutes), I felt an incredible bond with Julianne Moore after learning her decision to end her addiction led to her becoming the incredible person she is today, or something along those lines. Actress Julianne Moore credits her decision to quit smoking for an emotional awakening that has made her a better actress and person. More »

Amy Winehouse Round-Up: At Least She’s Not Smoking Crack

9:37AM Clem Bastow | Winegums may be attempting to get on the straight and narrow lately – outpatient rehabilitation treatment, apparently eating well, staying away from enabling friends – so we’re not surprised to see that she’s fallen down a little in her endeavours. However, we are happy to report that said stumble is nothing other than ‘aving a wheeze on a few cheeky fags – shame about Britain’s no-smoking laws, but. Where’s Good Blake when you need him? Oh, right alongside her. Amy Winehouse enjoyed a crafty cigarette in a no smoking zone on a shopping trip in London last night with her increasingly ‘good friend’ Blake Wood. The rejuventated Rehab singer, who appears to be winning her battle with drug addiction, hit trendy Carnaby Street with the American artist and photographer who shares the same name as her husband. … Both were dressed in black jeans, with Blake wearing a black cardigan and Amy in a black satin bomber jacket. The singer also wore a patterned Hilda Ogden style scarf wrapped around her beehive. Her freshly-made up face, and newly manicured nails were in stark contrast to the harrowing pictures of her seen last month, when she was caught on camera smoking crack cocaine. It’s true, she looks AMAZING. Remember, around the time Bad Blake started to look like a member of the living dead, when Winegums started to look like death warmed up, too? She looks fantastic now: Amy, whatever you’re doing – whether it’s yoga, Big Macs, detox tea or schtupping Good Blake – please, please, keep it up! More »

Katherine Heigl Tells Reporter To Butt Out

8:31AM Defamer Hollywood | Long suffering feminist crusader and smokey treat enthusiast Katherine Heigl wants you to know that she can quit smoking any time she god damn well pleases. “I can have just one (cigarette). I am not gonna get addicted. Then you start bumming. I’m bumming. I don’t buy my own packs. I’m not addicted.” It’s important to note, she gave this answer while smoking a cigarette. More »

Lily Allen Grudgingly Quits Fagging For, You Know, Sake Of Unborn Child

11:51AM Clem Bastow | Dear old Lily Allen. Never too far away from anywhere there’s a lager, “jazz cigarette” or a packet of Rizlas going begging, her large lifestyle has been brought to a screeching halt with the news she’s having a baby with BF Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers. What struck us, though, was her reportedly lassez faire attitude to the prospect of quitting all that; can’t you just imagine it set to a breezy faux-dancehall arrangement? A source said: “She’s over the moon and won’t mind giving up cigs too much.” Lily was spotted smoking as recently as December 4 but the spokesman told us she wasn’t aware she was pregnant at the time. She won’t mind it too much! We can’t wait to be a fly on the wall in 17 or so years’ time (which we will be able to, because by then nanotechnology and transporters ‘n’ shit will be real, and you’ll be able to make your dinner out of a single pill that you put in a microwave) when Lily is having a screaming fight with her growing bairn and pulls out the old “I GAVE UP FAGGING FOR YOU, YOU UNGRATEFUL CHILD!” More »

Trade Roundup: Mickey Mouse To Kick Two-Pack-A-Day Cancer Stick Habit

2:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Disney becomes the first major studio to kowtow to the anti-smoking lobby’s crusade against the innocence-corrupting depiction of smoking in films, banning the super-fun, status-conferring activity of enjoying a delicious cigarette from its family films bearing their flagship brand. They’ll also “discourage” their Touchstone and Miramax productions from showing the act unless, of course, shooting an actor languidly puffing away on a sexy-stick somehow enhances the vaguely dangerous appeal of their character . [THR] · As previously rumoured, Jim Carrey signs on to star in the Warner Bros. comedy Yes Man, the story of a guy who “aims to change his life by saying yes to absolutely everything that comes his way” burned off the easy joke about how he’s choosing his roles these days), which he hopes to shoot before disappearing into the parts of nearly every character in A Christmas Carol. [Variety] · Because we must: Variety dares to ask, “Could Lindsay Lohan’s troubles affect career?” [Variety] · Woo-hoo, indeed: Fox has won back the URL thesimpsonsmovie.com from a cybersquatter who was using the address to drive visitors to a site “that included sexually explicit depictions of several characters from The Simpsons,” a decision which now forces fans to find graphic images of Chief-Wiggum-on-Comic-Book-Guy action on their own. [THR] · Beware, comic fans, for the TV networks and studios have colonized this year’s Comic-Con. Telling quote from a Warner Bros. TV marketing exec: “It’s not just about fans of comic books. There are fans there of all kinds of entertainment. And these are people who communicate what they like through blogs and the Internet.” [Variety] More »

Anti-Smoking Activists Not Buying MPAA’s Lip Service

3:49AM Defamer Hollywood | Back on Thursday, MPAA head Dan Glickman attempted to mollify an increasingly militant anti-tobacco lobby by introducing a complicated algorithm for adjusting the ratings for films in which the filthy, “increasingly…unacceptable behaviour” of smoking is prominently depicted, which takes into account such factors as pervasiveness, historical context, and how many sexual partners a protagonist accumulates directly from the image-boost an omnipresent Marlboro affords him. Unsurprisingly, the MPAA’s token efforts have not satisfied the 31 state Attorneys General who know that each instance of smoking on the big screen creates thousands of helpless new tobacco addicts; today, they hit back at the industry by taking out full-page ads in the trades, shaming them for their indifference to the health of impressionable moviegoers. Should this warning shot fail to register with Hollywood’s influencers, they’ll follow it up with a dramatic two-page spread depicting the cherubic faces of the future lung cancer victims created by a single Brad Pitt drag from a Parliament in the upcoming Ocean’s 13. [Ad via Digital Variety] More »