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1:05PM Richard Rushfield | Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been picked to jointly host the Academy Awards telecast.
Top Ten Moments of the Oscars
7:57PM Defamer Hollywood | An on-stage musical extravaganza. Two epic gay rights speeches. Sean Penn’s upset win for Milk. The 2009 Oscars were easily the gayest yet. More »
A Potential Bad Omen For ‘Pink Panther 2′
3:57AM Seth | We know he survived the US Airways crash and plays a mean banjo, but is Steve Martin ever going to cease pulling career-surprises out of his magic hat? On second thought, never mind. [Yahoo News] More »
You Know You Want It: Steve Martin And Martin Short Splashin’ Around In St. Barts!
8:18AM Seth | Because you’ve been good, we thought we’d throw your way a skin-heavy gallery of comedy giants Steve Martin and Martin Short in the St. Barts surf. Take that, Kim Zolciak! No, but seriously—enjoy. More »
8:35AM Kyle Buchanan | Dog Poop Lawsuit, Settled! Yesterday, we brought you the news that comedian Dane Cook was refusing to vacate the apartment he was evicted from, claiming that if he moved out, he would lose the spiritual influence of former tenants John Belushi and Steve Martin forever. Perhaps sensing that his argument was flimsier than the plot of My Best Friend’s Girl (though more original), Cook’s lawyers have now appeared in court to state that Cook has abandoned his appeal. He also has agreed to pay his landlord an undisclosed amount stemming from the original argument that prompted the eviction: that Cook never picked up the his pet dog’s excretions. To be fair, who would ever expect Cook to be well-practiced at shoveling shit? [TMZ] More »
Dane Cook’s New Dog Poop Lawsuit May Be Funniest Work of His Career
8:30AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s been a rough weekend for Dane Cook: after being publicly shamed by our own Molly McAleer, the comedian saw his romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Girl tank at the box office. Now, TMZ is reporting that thanks to his incontinent dog, Cook has been evicted from his apartment — though his attempt to fight the ruling may have provided us with the beleaguered actor’s first amusing work in years: More »
Steve Martin And Diane Keaton To Bicker At A Cineplex Near You
5:30AM Seth | Paramount bought Steve Martin’s pitch From Zero to Sixty, which legend has it he apparently sold with three words: “Steve. Diane. Lamborghinis.”[Variety] Will & Grace star Megan Mullally returns to sitcomdom playing opposite Alicia Silverstone in ABC sitcom pilot Bad Mother’s Handbook. [Variety] American Gladiators tanked in the ratings, leading the order, “Skimpier costumes! NOW!” to reverberate out of Ben Silverman’s office. [THR] CBS gives that show with Christine in the title and How I Met Your Mother full-season pickups. [THR] ABC is only ordering two new series, including a final, 13-episode order for Boston Legal. More »
Steve Martin Uses Patented Tongue-In-Cheek Technology To Rip Strike Scab Jay Leno A New One
4:02AM Seth | The decade’s best Oscars host Steve Martin (we still cherish his Best Actor intro line, “gay poet, crazed artist, a shipwrecked victim, a roman gladiator….but enough about me…”) stopped by the Late Show with David Letterman last night to catch up with his old friend. Touching upon the topic of the writers strike, Martin, like so many of his fellow scribes, suddenly found himself with an abundance of free time, which he chose to fill by “writing movie scripts and TV pilots…and then I would sell them to the studios.” Martin saves his more sardonic barbs for Letterman’s scab-encrusted nemesis–after the jump! More »
