Defamer

Short Ends

Interrogation Expert Denise Richards Nearly Elicits Nephew's Masturbatory Confession

· It's hard for us to fathom what it would be like to be 13 years old and related to Denise Richards. On one hand, holy hot aunt! On the other hand, there's moments like this, when Aunt Denise forces you into a conversation about her on-camera romps with Neve Campbell and the time she posed for Playboy. Awkward! [E!]
· Long-time rivals Jeffrey Wells and David Poland bury the hatchet long enough for Wells to wish Poland congratulations on getting married over the weekend. Well, sort of. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
· Either Katie Holmes and daughter Suri just got back from a Parisian bistro or they've got a big interview lined up at Foot Locker tomorrow. [ONTD]
· Videogum said it best, so we'll quote them: "Has Batman ever danced with the Batman in the pale moon light?" The answer is, unsurprisingly, yes. [Videogum]
· Adrian Grenier will surely "blank" the "blank" out of whatever club is willing to pay him $50,000 for the honors of hosting his upcoming birthday party. [Page Six]

6:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Mark Graham
17,404 views, 38 comments

Latest by goldenmonkey: That was pretty gross. The nephew of Denise Richards looks a lot like her. Was he like whacking it to more »

The Cling

John Mayer Having A Hard Time Deciding Whether The Cameras or 'Clingy' Jennifer Aniston Is More Important

Sadly, not all girly song-writing musicians are as easily whipped into shape as Joshua Kelley Heigl. And Jennifer Aniston is discovering this pesky factoid the hard way. In an attempt to gather some overseas materials for her inevitable post break-up scrapbooking sesh, Aniston reportedly spent much of John Mayer’s Hyde Park concert “snapping pictures,” tapping her foot and showering him with over-enthusiastic embraces and forced PDA as soon as he got a moment to relax. In short? “Clingy” Jennifer is back, and it only takes one photo frighteningly reminiscent of Ben Affleck’s passion-void camera-centric “kiss” to Jennifer Lopez in 2003 to signal trouble on the horizon. More details surrounding Aniston’s steadily approaching familiar descent towards relationship desperation after the jump. More »

5:40 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Molly Friedman
6,812 views, 10 comments

Latest by Oban: John... I like you buddy. I really do. I have liked you since you showed me you have a real more »

brolin_stone_jail.jpg We Want A Pitcher, Not A Belly Itcher

Oliver Stone Turning 'W' Into Something Resembling 'Oil Fields Of Dreams'

As the clock ticks down to the planned (and totally insane!) October 17th release date of Oliver Stone's W, more details are emerging about the plot and structure of what we're still fairly convinced is some sort of elaborate April Fool's Day stunt. We've seen the teaser poster, and now, the Los Angeles Times' John Horn checks in on the film and reveals what could go down in cinematic history as one of the medium's most outrageous structural devices:

DRESSED IN a suffocating Rangers warmup jacket earlier on that scorching June day, Brolin kept running into an outfield wall, trying to make a heroic catch as part of the film's baseball-oriented fantasy framing device.
More »

5:20 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Mark Graham
2,803 views, 13 comments

Latest by Benovite: It's Neanderthal Bush! more »

b_affleck004-1.jpg A Call To The Bullpen

Dear Diary- I Shared An Elevator With Ben Affleck!!

More »
Most Popular Stories
  1. Corey Haim Peers Through The Defamer Looking Glass, Darkly (3,170 views, 29 comments)
  2. Lindsay Lohan's Pregnant Belly Is Fake, But That PDA Certainly Isn't (3,074 views, 10 comments)
  3. If I Stay Perfectly Still, Nobody Will Realize I'm The Guy From 'The Notebook' (2,764 views, 3 comments)
  4. The Quantum Of Cyrus (18 comments, 953 views)
  5. L. Ron Hubbard Middle School Not An Indoctrination Center, Says Scientologist Founder Will Smith (17 comments, 1,241 views)

4:53 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008

Dancing on the Ceiling

The Infamous Matthew McConaughey Flip-Flop Losing Incident: The Video!

It was the tribal rump-humping that would incite a beach-dwellers' Civil War. (OK, maybe not directly, but dotted-lines can be drawn.) In its path—a thousand Nicaraguan signoritas' hearts, mashed into a fine pulp. Of what do we speak? Why, Mashew McDonauhdgrl's flip-flop displacing Firewater Demon Dance of Handsy Pasión, of course! And thanks to the fee-meeting blurry-cellphone-video-producers at TMZ, we can finally catch the glimpse of the star of 8000 forgettable romcoms, caught red-handed as he...uh...kinda shakes his butt to the beat, sweats profusely, and doesn't come into direct contact with anyone else. Sssssscandalous.

4:35 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Seth
2,200 views, 7 comments

Latest by fractal_elves: Wow, it this his Anne-Heche moment? more »

To Do

Setting The Standard

Ah yes, The Standard Downtown. While lots of shenanigans have gone down there over the years, none of them have this good of a soundtrack. Enjoy as Molls and Ed bring you today's video of what's going down in Los Angeles tonight:
-Matt and Kim @ King King.
-Spider Problem @ The Silverlake Lounge.
-White Dog @ The Silent Movie Theater.

4:10 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Molly McAleer
1,912 views, 11 comments

Latest by hydeordie: ...if yall took the trolley down to the standard without me...well, you know what will happen. btw, edward is too sexy more »

Mother Of The Century

Dina Lohan, Mother Of The Century: ''Hot' Is Not In My Vocabulary'

Last night’s Living Lohan was all about Ali and her glass-breaking array of vocal talents. The happy family, which is somehow shrinking and growing simultaneously every day now, is still taking Las Vegas by storm as each member’s collective talents go into creating International Superstar-Turned-Trainwreck number two. Little Cody helps out by distracting Dina with adolescent silliness like concussions and that all-too-common need to be “loved,” Ali helps broaden the franchise by doing her best Daddy Left Us And I’m Gonna Record My Angst- And Nicotine-Laced Breakdowns For You! rehashing of Lindsay’s already perfected musical adventures, and Dina grants us with another round of must-have parenting lessons: More »

3:40 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Molly Friedman
3,135 views, 6 comments

Latest by Molly McAleer: @LLH: You really think so? I mean, I thought he was selfish and perhaps a bit immature, but can you more »

mclovin.jpg Hollywood Issues

'Vanity Fair' Nominates McLovin As A Rising Star Of Tomorrow

Burned once by the infamous Class of 2000, upon whom they bestowed their Vanity Fair ® Fresh Faces™ Seal of Approval—only to see each and every cover subject's careers offed in increasingly elaborate, Final Destination-esque death sequences—the celebrity-fellating periodical of record is taking no chances with its current "Hollywood's New Wave" issue: Virtually every actor below the age of 18 to earn so much as a single line of dialogue on an episode of iCarly has been profiled in their Bright Young Hollywood portfolio, each posing seductively in their very own Annie Leibovitz "just fucked" portrait. Among the inductees is Superbad star Christopher Mintz-Plasse. We shit you not: McLovin gets to answer his own Pimply Proust Questionnaire:

CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE Age: 19. Hometown: West Hills, California. Breakthrough role: "McLovin" in Superbad. Upcoming film: Little Big Man. First "Hollywood" moment? "Well, I'm a Jessica Alba fan, so the first time I met her kind of blew my mind because she was a huge fan of me. I was like, 'Really?' "
More »

3:10 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Seth
4,269 views, 18 comments

Latest by kylo4: Are they crazy? Like Napoleon Dynamite or Steve Urkel, he'll always be remembered for that role. He's going to have more »

bookthumb.jpg We Are All On Drugs

We Reveal 'The Curious World' Of Celebrity Drug Users So You So You Don't Have To Buy The Book

A new book claiming to unveil "fun, fascinating facts" about celebrities and their drug habits may just be a collection of ancient quotes and anecdotes. As the NY Post reports today, The Curious World Of Drugs And Their Friends promises sordid tales involving Lindsay Lohan and details from her substance-fueled evenings before cokepants and trees put them on the back burner, but the story they cite from a "friend" sounds eerily familiar to one of our favorite classic Lohanisms from over a year ago. And the celebrities quoted as being "unable to talk to anyone without a nose full of cocaine," and having "spent the first 35 years of my life in a fog" due to drugs have either kicked their habits long ago or already (endlessly) confirmed to the world that they were once big league nose candy fans. The stars "featured," and exactly how dusty these quips are, after the jump. More »

2:40 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Molly Friedman
8,315 views, 14 comments

Latest by Good Crazy...: @Little Mintz Sunshine: Zing'd the Zinger! Still gotta get through my noob status here to figure out quoting someone... more »

Mentors

Michael Bay Pays Tribute To His Shit-Blowing-Up Forebears

"On Sunday, June 29," the web-blurb legend goes, "Shootout aired a 'Best of' episode on Summer Blockbusters. Guests Jon Favreau, Michael Bay, and Brett Ratner shared their experiences working on major summer spectaculars." And so it was written, and so it should come to pass, that through the magic of repackaging, three of Hollywood's most venerated fauxteurs should share reminiscences and insights with Variety's Peter Bart and Peter Guber. Highlighted above, an exchange with Transformers director and unwitting spondylitis spokesperson, Michael Bay: Acknowledging Bart's observation that he was born into box-office brothels, Bay goes on to pay loving tribute to shlock-piloting cicerones Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. (Note their imposing, circa-Days of Thunder publicity-shot in high-contrast B&W.) Without them, not a single extraneous helicopter explosion or lingering shot of Megan Fox's ass-crack would ever have been possible.

2:10 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Seth
769 views, 5 comments

Latest by TheQuestion: All I know is that if there had been a lingering shot of Megan Fox's ass crack in Transformers the more »

PDempsey062908_18_X17-1.jpg A Call To The Bullpen

Hey Good Lookin', Whatchu Got Cookin'?

More »
anne2.jpg Never Trust A Dame

Did Anne Hathaway Hand Her Slippery Ex To The Feds Like A Freshly Fileted Halibut?

The series of events that led up to the arrest of Anne Hathaway's con-ex Raffaello Follieri by the FBI has the NY Daily News wondering—as voiced by an unidentified, freeform-hypothesizing "pal"—if perhaps the Get Smart star had colluded with the Feds in exchange for a "get out of jail while we book your crooked boyfriend for scamming God out of his savings"-card. They report:

A pal of jailed wheeler-dealer Raffaello Follieri suspects the starlet spoke with the FBI shortly before they arrested her ex for an alleged $6 million con job.
More »

1:15 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Seth
3,982 views, 10 comments

Latest by Benovite: It was called A Night at the Roxbury. more »

jessthumb.jpg Catfights

Jessica Simpson Adds Pamela Anderson To Long List Of 'Bitches' And 'Whores' Who Despise Her

After proving she had little to contribute to the film or starfucking industries, Jessica Simpson finally realized she should keep her pretty-but-pretty-dumb mouth shut for the time being and instead let her t-shirts do the talking, angering PETA in the process. Though the feisty baby seal saviors have their fair share of enemies, they've also impressively managed to get celebrity spokespeople like Alec Baldwin and Eva Mendes to embarrass themselves in public by demanding the public do drugs (Baldwin) or taking off their clothes in the name of fur (Mendes). So naturally, Simpson's public cry for attention irked PETA's most compassionate celebrity nudist, Pamela Anderson, who called her fellow talent-challenged blonde "a bitch and whore" on a radio show. But this is far from the first time Jessica has ruffled another starlet's feathers just by being Jessica. We took a look back at the many ways Simpson has made herself a household name not by selling records or movie tickets, but by starring in her own personal Catfights franchise. More »

12:45 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Molly Friedman
5,778 views, 12 comments

Latest by the sieve: Meh. Nothing a mud pit and a coupla bikinis can't settle. more »

best of both worlds

The Quantum Of Cyrus

We're still flipping through "The New Classics" issue of Entertainment Weekly that hit newsstands about two weeks ago. And while we feel that, on the whole, the staffers over there put together a pretty thorough examination of the last 25 years of pop culture, we do have a few qualms with their list. Chief among them is the inclusion of Casino Royale, the 2006 rebooting of the Bond franchise, which came in at #19 in their list of Top 100 movies. While it was certainly a serviceable action thriller, we've never quite been able to understand Owen Gleiberman's fascination with the film (he also rated it the top movie of 2006). Sure, the opening sequence was pretty cool if you've never seen Banlieue 13 or The Bourne Supremacy, but for us, the rest of the film was pure, uncut meh. After all, it couldn't have been just us who fell asleep during that interminable card game of Uno* that took up the entire third act of the film, right? But we're getting off track here. What we meant to be discussing all along is the new trailer for JB22, aka Quantum Of Solace, which we have for you after the jump. More »

12:15 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Mark Graham
2,335 views, 21 comments

Latest by DrFeelgood: Looks good.I will see it.At home, on cable, two years from now. more »

new.jpg Hives

L. Ron Hubbard Middle School Not An Indoctrination Center, Says Scientologist Founder Will Smith

As we noted last month, the New Village Academy is a private school in Calabasas set to open its doors Sept. 3, founded by Will Smith and wife/appearances-upholder Jada Pinkett Smith. It has become a source of much controversy for having several Scientologists on its staff, who espouse a number of L. Ron Hubbard-advanced learning concepts in the curriculum: among them, the meaninglessly designated "study technology" programme for effective and complete child mind-absorption. The Smiths—still not public with their Scientology affiliations—claim to only be committed to creating "an ideal educational environment." But Carnegie Mellon University professor David S. Touretzky, who has dissected study technology like a rusty E-meter and found it to be about as useful, warns parents away from this particular learning institution, lest they want to find themselves helping with homework essays entitled, "What I Did on My Billion-Years of Servitude Vacation." From the LAT:

Touretzky said many phrases and concepts on the school's website are specific to Scientology. For example, the school lists a "Director of Qualifications" and another teacher who is an assistant in the "Qual" department. The "Qual," said Touretzky, is where people who have completed a Scientology counseling, or "auditing," session or a course in the Church of Scientology are tested by a qualifications teacher.
More »

11:45 AM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Seth
2,673 views, 19 comments

655787-1.jpg A Call To The Bullpen

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

More »
feedback

Corey Haim Peers Through The Defamer Looking Glass, Darkly

It's rare that one feels as though they can make a difference on this Big Blue Marble—even more so when that difference directly affects an internationally beloved movie star who's fallen upon hard times. And yet there Defamer was, driving a harrowing sequence from last night's The Two Coreys. At first, we were paralyzed by the "He knows we exist!"-effect that occurs when any lowly Movable Type drone is acknowledged by an eight-times undefeated Tiger Beat Fantasy Boyfriend of the Month. But we soon enough regained rudimentary use of our limbs as we observed Haim being guided by new assistant Nelle to our post about his "I'm ready to work" Variety notice—already considered a masterpiece of the self-perpetuated-comeback trade-ad genre. More »

10:50 AM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Seth
24,660 views, 100 comments

Latest by rachcornell: One more thing Corey, listen to constructive criticism not to degrading messages. Those people are worthless and miserable and not more »

« next »