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Barack Obama Reels From Scarlett Johansson Paternity Claim
3:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Congratulations go out this morning to Paste Magazine, winners of the race to reclaim Scarlett Johansson as the precocious nubile muse we knew and loved prior to this week’s grim news of her engagement to marry… never mind. What’s important here are her “Five Dads” pervily cited in the magazine’s new cover story — Woody Allen, Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and, ahem, Barack Obama. After the jump, if you have the stomach for it, see if you can match the pop culture father figure to Scarlett’s eyelash-batting, daughterrific praise. (Bonus points if you can accurately guess which one will give her away! It’s even harder than Mamma Mia!)
Video Reveals Tom Waits is a Decent Enough Muse For Scarlett Johansson
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s taken us most of the day to make heads and/or tails of this video for “Falling Down,” the first single from Scarlett Johansson’s album of Tom Waits covers. But as far as unintentional A-list homages to the meandering road-life videos of the ’80s go (remember “Kyrie”? No? OK, well, here), we have seen much worse. As intentional A-list homages to meandering, gravel-throated rock legends go, however, Johansson has her work cut out for her. By the time she gets around to her follow up, we’re sure she’ll have the earnestness bug licked and her ironic prime sprawling before her. Our money is on a full-length tribute to James Brown, but really, anything funkier than Tom Waits would probably do just as well. More »
