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Do We Really Need Two Linda Lovelace Biopics?
Maureen O'Connor · 12/20/11 03:05PMWhy does Hollywood do everything in duplicate? After Lindsay Lohan dropped out of Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno, Amanda Seyfried announced she would be playing Lovelace. Shortly thereafter, Malin Akerman announced she would replace LiLo as Lovelace. Why are there so many mixed signals in the casting of this role, I wondered.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: White Party Problems
Brian Moylan · 12/20/11 02:10PMThere are those moments where your life changes in an instant and you don't see it coming: a mugging, an accident, the phone call that a family member has died. You were just having a wonderful day and then—slam—something snaps and all the gears come tumbling out of the watch in a comical and tragic disarray. That's sort of what happened to Taylor and Russell last night. The carousel finally stopped.
HBO Cancels All the Good Shows, Renews the Crappy One
Brian Moylan · 12/20/11 01:23PMGhost Rider 2: It's Nicolas Cage Against the Devil
Leah Beckmann · 12/20/11 12:01PMThe trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the sequel to the 2007 cinematic masterpiece, Ghost Rider, has it all: creepy precocious child actors, talking skeleton demons all ablaze, the devil taking on human form, a guy with blond hair. Topped off with the ultimate coup de grâce that is Nic (insert facial tic) Cage. Already we see him on a motorcycle, we see him cracking jokes, we see him doubled over, his body racked with sobs. Ah yes, right where we left him.
Which Billionaire's Daughter Is Paying for a Married Celebrity's Company?
Brian Moylan · 12/20/11 10:02AMThe Dark Knight Rises: Batman Does Occupy Wall Street
Brian Moylan · 12/19/11 02:45PMHere it is, the big moment you've been waiting for, the trailer for the last of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies. Apparently it's about a bunch of villains fomenting revolution to put awful rich people in their place. Uh, a bunch of Hollywood fat cats are going to make $17 bajillion off of Occupy Wall Street? Great!
NYU Professor Claims He Was Fired for Giving James Franco a D
Brian Moylan · 12/19/11 01:05PMWhich Musician Had Gay Sex to Get a Record Deal?
Brian Moylan · 12/19/11 10:08AMJack the Giant Killer: A Boy Learns About Beans, the Magical Fruit
Leah Beckmann · 12/16/11 04:00PM
Jack the Giant Killer, from X-Men director Bryan Singer, is the latest in a string of classic fairy tales darkly adapted for the screen. The problem with these is that they try so hard to avoid the kiss of box office death that is the for-kids-and-adults genre, that they end up being a silly, self-conscious incarnation of the anti-family flick and up looking like a Twilight afterthought, aesthetically anyway. And thus we have Jack, a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring Nicholas Hoult, the kid from the British Skins.
Britney Spears Is Engaged to Surprisingly Normal Jason No. 2
Leah Beckmann · 12/16/11 01:57PMBritney Spears is engaged to a normal (though how normal could he be, really?) named Jason Trawick. According to TMZ, Jason was poised to pop the question tonight, but after a mysterious status update cropped up on Le Spears' Facebook wall earlier this afternoon, it would appear that the engagement took place last night.
R. Kelly Is Selling His Home, Closets Included
Leah Beckmann · 12/16/11 12:40PMWhich Latina Legend Is Being Cheated On?
Leah Beckmann · 12/16/11 10:00AMExtreme Makeover: Home Edition Has Moved Its Last Bus
Brian Moylan · 12/15/11 06:14PMExpendables 2: All The Action Heroes You've Ever Known
Leah Beckmann · 12/15/11 11:59AM
Like the first in this explosive, guns and skull ridden movie, the Expendables sequel is all about the cast. This ensemble group of all stars comes together in one throbbing, heaping helping of testosterone, making this about as actiony a movie as an action movie can get. It's a caricature of the ultimate action flick, like a Snakes on a Plane meta-movie in that everybody- viewers, actors and filmmakers alike- are all in on the joke. If Hollywood were a box of toys, each of these guys is an action figure from a different comic book or TV show that you love, who come together in the sandbox for the ultimate showdown. Chuck Norris is in this for God sakes.
Here Are This Year's Golden Globes Nominees
Brian Moylan · 12/15/11 11:00AMIt's officially awards season now that the secretive geniuses at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have announced the nominees for the Golden Globes, Hollywood's self-love and booze fest. The Artist appears to be the big winner, but that's not surprising at all. However there are some shocks to be had.