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Megan Fox on Dicks, Disney, and the Female Stripper Who Broke Her Teenage Heart
8:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Though the upcoming Diablo Cody thriller Jennifer’s Body may cover up more of actress Megan Fox than people were expecting, at least Fox makes up for it by exposing herself in the latest edition of GQ. Few subjects are left untouched in the wide-ranging interview, whether it’s her boyfriend’s penis (”Who’s given a hand job since seventh grade? Not me”), Disney (”Fuck Disney”), or her Transformers director (when asked if the Transformers sequel will give the actress more to do, Fox flatly responds, “Transformers 2 is directed by Michael Bay”). Still, most tongues will wag when Fox recalls the female stripper she fell in love with at LA’s full-frontal emporium The Body Shop when she was just 18:
9:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Bogus: According to TMZ, shoegazing director Michael Bay was the victim of a home burglary last night in New Mexico, where he’s staying while filming Transformers 2: Rise of the Finger-Splinticons. No criminals have been apprehended (we’re looking at you, Scarlett Johansson clone!), but at least the story provides us with a terrific excuse to run this photo of Bay at a Playboy party two years ago. Check out that rack! [TMZ] More »
The Death of ‘Austin Powers’ (And Six More Hobbled Franchises Worth Putting Down)
3:00AM STV | After the unfortunate reception for The Love Guru, it’s just too easy to write off New Line’s prospective Austin Powers revival (which Mike Myers is reportedly working on for New Line with former series collaborator Mike McCullers) as yet another ill-advised folly belching the black smoke of Myers’s career. In fact, taken as merely a part of the larger phenomenon we at Defamer like to call The End of Ideas, the Powers franchise is but a speck of the shit on Hollywood’s collective bathroom wall — a tableau diligently studied today by the haz-mat crew at Entertainment Weekly.
Shia LaBeouf Concerned The Business Is Losing Its Drunk-Driving -Actor Magic
2:18AM Seth | Shia LeBeouf continues to recover from hand surgery after some spectacular Bayian stuntwork at the corners of LaBrea and Fountain early Sunday morning, resulting in an overturned pick-up truck, plus a massive fireball after the frazzled actor exhaled a gust of 80-proof breath while trying to light a cigarette. We’ve already explored his conveniently timed Details interview, in which he spoke freely of hard-partying father-son bonding moments, and his inability “to have one drink.” ET has video (above) of the interview, in which he charms a giggly off-camera reporter with flippant observations about his renegade drugstore exploits (”Walgreens is a formidable foe, let me tell you guys right now. It was the battlegrounds of my life. The coliseum where all the rumbles happen.”). He also openly longs for a time when “actors were magical. Now that paparazzis are rampant the business is losing the magic a little bit. You always feel like people know too much.” More »
Megan Fox’s Parrot-Tonguing Exploits Delight Niche Publication
8:30AM Seth | Megan Fox—whose coin-slot-baring performance in Transformers was egregiously overlooked by nearly all the major Hollywood awards (she did take Best Actress at the Golden Spankbaits)—is featured in this month’s Paw Print Magazine. It’s a publication for those who feel a little fenced-in by the rigid constraints of Dog and Cat Fancy, as demonstrated by the wide array of exotic photoshoot costars on display. Not only does she grace the cover with a stunning specimen of her babejective namesake, but inside, we’re introduced to Fox’s own, Paris Hilton-worthy menagerie. Pictured above is beloved parrot Bay, in sheer ecstasy as he’s cupped and caressed by the attentive actress, clearly anticipating the next hot n’ heavy tonsil-hockey session with his smoking keeper. *Correction: We’re told the parrot is in fact named Bowie, not Bay, and apologise for any confusion. Megan-Fox.net More »
At Last, Even Michael Bay Admits Michael Bay Is Full of Shit
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Further refining his sophisticated public persona from “egregiously self-aware Hollywood hack” to “egregiously self-aware Hollywood hack with a Web site,” Michael Bay teased his regular readers Monday with the suggestion that he’s making up Transformers 2 news as he goes along. “Sorry everyone, everything you are reading (other then we are shooting in Philly) is false,” he wrote in a message-board forum after an open audition call yielded rampant story and script speculation. “We are going to give so much disinformation on this film to confuse everyone.”
11:20AM Seth | Kevin O’Connell, the Susan Lucci of the sound-mixing set, is nominated for an Oscar yet again, this time for his work on Transformers. That makes 20 nominations, 0 wins. (7 more and Katherine Heigl plays him in the movie of his life! Rimshot.) Little Gold Men caught up with O’Connell, but judiciously failed to bring up the infamous Sound Mixer Smackdown from last year’s Oscars, when his nemesis Michael Minkler, who shared the statue for his work on Dreamgirls, callously observed, “I think Kevin should go away with 19 nominations … I have to wonder … Kevin is an OK mixer, but he should take up another line of work.” [VF Daily] More »
Little Richard, Tina Turner Fail To Save Grammys From Nielsen Disappointment
6:25AM Mark | Network executives are trying to make sense of the brave, new, post-strike world they suddenly find themselves in, either taking this unprecedented opportunity to blow up their development system, or shrugging it off as a “blip” and going back to the old, comfortable ways of doing business (i.e., throwing a bunch of money at talent and pilots). Also, tough decisions need to be made about which series should be rushed back into production to finish up this abbreviated season, which should be put off until the fall, and which should be put out of their misery after losing their momentum. [Variety] Unsurprisingly, utterly fearless NBC perfect storm Ben Silverman (motto: “Let’s do stuff!”) is seizing the chance to shake things up inside the Peacock Family by shuffling around some executives and eliminating its largely vestigial current series department. [THR] More »
8:50AM Seth | It seems the towering structure at Sunset and Vine, an accursed building that’s fallen victim to fires and a tragic Transformers mega-billboard mishap last April, is finally getting some windows–but according to a Defamer operative, its biggest disaster is yet to come, and happening slowly before our eyes: “Having taken it down to the structural steel, they’ve started to put glass on it. There’s just one problem: it’s LEANING. Go check it out – very noticeable.” Before any frantic Chicken Littles run into Amoeba Records to pronounce the sky is falling, we’d first like to throw it open to Defamer readers in the area to send us photographic evidence. And no Photoshop shenanigans–Giant Fucking Buildings Are Falling! More »
