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Big Screen
Springtime For Hobbits And Hollywood
4:23AM Richard Rushfield | Its a day of rebirth — Hobbits, Wonder Woman, Barry Manilow. They’re all ready to become heroes all over again. It’s all in the trades. More »
Small Screen
Cameo-Laden SNL Season Finale Will Traumatise Lorne Michaels
1:00AM Foster Kamer | Last night’s Will Ferrell-hosted SNL season closer was a perfect freak-storm of cameos (Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Norm McDonald, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler) and nostalgia. The play-by-play, post-jump. More »
People
Julia Roberts Curses Like A Sailor
7:32AM Richard Lawson | While she seems so nice in her movies, the real Julia Roberts works blue. At Sunday’s Lincoln centre tribute to Tom Hanks the actress spoke last, and boy did she say fuck a lot. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Zac Efron Will Continue To Grope America
1:46AM Richard | Zac Efron continues his reign of mild terror, Freida Pinto is cool beans, George Lopez gets a talk show (shudder), and two fine actors will play two fine politicians in a flick about the Clintons. More »
Life Is Like A Box Of Reverse-Staling Chocolates
4:40AM Seth | Did something about Eric Roth’s screenplay for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button remind you of an earlier success of his called Forrest Gump? You’re not alone. More »
Vatican Amateurs Upstage Tom Hanks in ‘Angels and Demons’ Preview
2:45AM STV | GMA got in the Boxing Day spirit with an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse at Angels and Demons, featuring a nifty dramatic flourish we’re afraid may not make Ron Howard’s final cut. More »
A-List Faction Kindly Asks SAG Not to Totally Destroy Hollywood
6:29AM STV | A sturdy cross-section of topline Hollywood talent from Tom Hanks to George Clooney to René Auberjonois today urged SAG leadership to back down from its ‘09 strike threat. Maybe even more noteworthy: Who’s missing?
Spoilers for the ‘Forrest Gump’ Sequel That 9/11 Snuffed Out
8:05AM Kyle Buchanan | Sad news: on a day that has already seen the ignominious shitcanning of Hollywood’s best “cyborg dinosaurs rescue kidnapped children” franchise, word has emerged that screenwriter Eric Roth has quietly buried his unnecessary script for Forrest Gump 2 out by the old oak tree. While promoting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Roth told Slashfilm that the sequel just didn’t seem the same after 9/11 happened (what, those scenes of a digital Tom Hanks outrunning smoke and debris in Manhattan felt too soon?). The news reminded us that several years ago, your Defamer editor was at a talk where Roth revealed the Gump sequel’s surprise twist, which he told us not to tell. Guess it doesn’t matter now! Here’s your before-the-jump SPOILER ALERT… More »
2:35PM STV | Hollywood PrivacyWatch: 11/8 — Saw TOM HANKS, TOM FORD, RITA WILSON and unidentified older man eating dinner together at Giorgio Baldi. Seemed like an unlikely friendship. TF looked like his airbrushed self, TH was looking slimmer and Rita was looking good as well. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.au.] More »
