<![CDATA[Defamer: Year in Review]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/defamer.com.png <![CDATA[Defamer: Year in Review]]> http://defamer.com/tag/year in review http://defamer.com/tag/year in review <![CDATA[ Part IV: IggyGate, Incredible Picketing Babies ]]> strikebaby.jpgAnd so we come to Part IV, the final chapter of our Defamer 2007 Year in Review. May 2008 bring conflict resolution, good health, and love:

October
· Britney loses her kids.
· Charlie Sheen and his correspondences with ex-sad, jobless pig, Denise Richards
· David Letterman's classic post-jail Paris Hilton interview.
· Tell Me You Love Me introduces America to prop nuts and fake jizz.
· Danny Bonaduce piledrives Jonny Fairplay.
· Pamela Anderson weds the Paris Hilton sex-tape guy in Vegas.
· The path to war.
· IggyGate rocks a nation.
· That creepy thing about David Copperfield you could never quite put your finger on.
· The Great 2007 Fire of Everyfuckingwhere.
· The Great Strike Chair Dispute is a bad sign of things to come.
· Marie Osmond down n' out.
· Jerry Seinfeld demonstrates some Late Night hubris.

November
· The strike is on. (And on and on and on.)
· Ellen DeGeneres crosses picket lines.
· Shia LaBeouf's Walgreen's arrest.
· Fabio vs. Clooney.
· Michael Jackson's Ebony cover.
· Mickey Rourke's Vespa DUI.
· Dog the Bounty Hunter's gets caught N-wording on tape by his own son.
· The Incredible Picketing Baby: A strike star is born.
· Sharon Stone leaves little to the imagination.
· Matt Damon named the sexiest man alive.
· The hunkiest Bachelor ever refuses to play by The Bachelor rules.
· A live 30 Rock among the sweet spots in a bitter strike.
· Carson Daly's strike solution.
· Carrot Top scores!

December
· Kiefer's in jail :(
· Jodie Foster publicly thanks her life partner.
· Katherine Heigl puts her foot in it in Vanity Fair.
· Jennifer Love Hewitt's ass is a topic of much discussion.
· Dr. Phil's audience spared a taping of Dr. Phil.
· Quentin Tarantino horrifies early risers with his Golden Globe announcements.
· Steven Spielberg staying put.
· Jamie Lynn Spears is having a baby.
· A Return to Late Night.
· Last DUI of the year? Bet on it: Mischa Barton.
· Worldwide Pants the slacks of reason in the growing strike madness.

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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:03:29 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339284&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Part III: Coke Pants, Britney's VMAs Dance ]]> britney-vma.jpgWow—is it July already? Someone turn off this space heater and get us some sangria! It must be time for more Defamer 2007 Year in Review:

July
· The big fucking robots finally come—and conquer.
· Kwik-E-Mart's invade the area.
· Lindsay Lohan comes of drinking age.
· CAA assistants gather to greet Becks in the stairwell. He never comes.
· Live Earth's a dud.
· Rosie O'Donnell defiles Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
· Ed Limato squeezed out at ICM.
· Jon Lovitz's Andy Dick smackdown.
· Introducing, Herr Cruise!
· Filipino "Thriller."
· Lindsay Lohan: The Coke-Pant, Denalijacking arrest.
· McPherson to Silverman: "Be a man."
· Merry Miller's Holly Hunter interview disaster.

August
· Billion Dollar Ratner Week.
· Whoopi Goldberg arrives at The View.
· Lohan joins the Cirque.
· The Phil Spector trial field trip and he's greatest canine supporter.
· Big Brother's Amber is leery of Jews, and other BB intolerances.
· Merv Griffin dead, gay.
· John From Cincinnati drowns in an inscrutable riptide.
· Hey—it's Naked Leopard Man! (Thanks, Dave!)
· The Learning Channel not quite successful achieving its mission statement.
· Owen Wilson attempts suicide.

September
· Rita Cosby's outrageous Howie-on-Larry allegations.
· Bill Murray's drunken Swedish golfcart joyride.
· Jerry Lewis's gay telethon slur.
· Crazed Italian Brad Pitt fan-attack!
· The Britney Spears VMAs performance of a lifetime.
· Kathy Griffin: "Screw Jesus. This award is my god now."
· Acknowledging the Rubyfruit Mafia.
· O.J. Simpson's stolen-shit shakedown.
· An Emmys in the round.
· Kid Nation premieres, and homesickness abounds.
· Spector jury hung. Mistrial is declared.
· Sherri Shepherd admits she has no clue what shape the planet is.
· Leave Britney Alone!
· George Clooney's motorcycle accident.
· Kiefer Sutherland's U-Turn of Doom.
· Spielberg: "Completely Immaterial."

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Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:10:38 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338717&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Defamer's Top Ten Man-On-The-Street Videos Of 2007 ]]>
Yesterday, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer compiled for us the Top 10 Videos of 2007, a pastiche of sobbing talk show hosts, cold-hearted hunks, sassy Galileo revisionists, and delicious floorburgers. Today, she brings things a little bit closer to home—could we dim the lights please?—lovingly scrapbooking Defamer's Top 10 Man-On-the-Street Videos of 2007. We begin with the streetweary insights of Chinese Theater Spider-Man, schooled by Chewbacca in a little-known martial art called Qui-Gon Jinn, that he might more efficiently fend off countless molesty tourists hoping for a cheap grab at his webslingers. Enjoy.


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Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:24:37 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338655&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Defamer's Top Ten Videos Of 2007 ]]>

While we've been slaving over a year's worth of Defamer hot links, plucking only the juiciest for our Year in Review series, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer has been hard at work too, cobbling together this countdown of Defamer's Top 10 Videos of 2007, with interstitials set to a delightful hip-hop soundtrack.

We cannot express enough just how much joy we derived from reliving the greatest recorded moments of the year; some of them we've now seen dozens, even hundreds of times, and yet they still offer us new discoveries—such as Barbara Walters observing, "Well, you can do both," upon it being suggested to her that it's impossible to simultaneously feed one's children, and know that the Earth is in fact not flat. Oop! We've already said too much. From us to you, enjoy.

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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:34:41 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338283&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Part II: Thoughtless Little Pigs, Heiresses Behind Bars ]]> paris-crying.jpgJoin us, won't you, as we continue to skip down the cobblestone, empty blow-baggie-strewn paths of 2007 Memory Lane:
April
· The Captivity billboard campaign. (Did those ever come down?)
· Keith Richards admits to snorting his pa.
· Defending the Cavemen.
· A smiley Joe Francis is put away for a very long time.
· Larry Birkhead hates to tell us he told us so, but he told us so.
· Don Imus is Moonves'd.
· A Mischaesque harbinger of things to come.
· Sanjaya, out.
· Alec Baldwin's "rude, thoughtless little pig" tirade.
· Foul-mouthed infant landlord Pearl becomes a sensation.
· Rosie announces her departure.
· Jack Valenti dies.
· Stephen Hawking flies.

May
· Paris Hilton sentenced to 45 days.
· Hasselburger down!
· Bruce Willis's Sweary Night in Canada.
· Russell Crowe loses it rhapsodizing Brian Grazer.
· Chris Albrecht's bumpy night bumps him right out of HBO.
· Kirstie Alley the surprise hero of The Great Griffith Park Fires of 2007.
· Paris pardons Elliot Mintz.
· Who knew the Upfronts would wind up being a gigantic waste of time? (Ahem.)
· Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie zipline stunt.
· The Pinkberry question.
· An Idol winner.
· Rosie storms out of The View.
· Shhhhhh. It's sleeping Jakeypoo on a train.
· Lindsay Lohan's "usable amount of cocaine" DUI arrest.
· · Kevin Reilly is shitcanned, and a perfect storm rock star takes his place.
· Hey—remember that TB guy?
· Typo of the Year.

June
· Paris, In-n-Out-n-In.
· Isaiah Washington fired from Grey's Anatomy.
· The Jericho peanut campaign starts a new era of snack-food-based fan demonstrations.
· Rob Lowe commits birdiecide.
· Eli Roth's monstrous manhood.
· Clooney and Damon press their paws in Grauman's.
· Don't Stop Believin': The Sopranos is over.
· Paris finds God.
· Brian Grazer and Gigi Levangie call it quits.
· Innovative assistants have their benefits revoked, and quickly restored. Shmears for all!
· CAA needlessly sends its assistants for iPhones.
· Paris is released.
· How Studio 60 ended.

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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:27:37 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338247&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Part I: Anna Nicole Gone, Britney Shorn ]]> e50f36d2b99aa009d6529755c785d18c.jpg2007: It was a year that started with a bang—would you classify Tara Reid unsuccessfully attempting to count backwards from 60 any other way?—and ended with one protracted, stalemated whimper, filled with not-so-shocking (and yet totally shocking!) deaths, outrageous pregnancies, and a visit from the transformative robots of our youth. Without further ado, we proudly present the first installment of our 2007 Year in Review:

January
· Tara Reid's endless New Year's Eve countdown.
· Vanessa Minnillo cusses her way into the new year.
· From Justin to Cameron: You're dumped.
· Welcome to the end of The O.C. era, bitch.
· Indy 4 gets a greenlight, and crystal skulls are still things you associate with a head shop.
· Gail Berman gets the ax, making Brad Grey the Emperor of Paramount.

· Welcoming the Beckhams.
· James Cameron settles on a project.
· Donald and Rosie still having relationship problems.
· Angelina Jolie assesses her feelings about the new white blob in her life.
· Golden Globes, top to bottom.
· The beginning of the end for Isaiah Washington.
· Sorky fights back!
· Dreamgirls, snubbed.
· The CAA Death Star opens for business.
· Nicole Kidman's Invasion accident. (Sooo not worth it.)

February
· The Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign has Boston under siege.
· With Lloyd Braun as her witness, Gail Berman shall rise again.
· Sienna Miller's Today show f-bomb.
· Chewie booked.
· OMFG: Anna Nicole dies. Eight great YouTube moments.
· Zucker ascends.
· Prince's Super Bowl demonschlong.
· Hey—remember that crazy astronaut in the diaper?
· They don't call Ralph Fiennes the Mile-High Mad Dog for nothing.
· Paris Hilton and Antonio Villaraigosa cozy up to discuss policy.
· Liveblogging Oscar.
· Britney shaves her head, and America really starts to suspect that something might be wrong.

March
· The Wolfgang Puck hepatitis A scare rocks canapé-noshing Hollywood!
· Antonella Barba: A star for the talentless, naughty-internet-photo generation.
· The first juicy-ish gossip item in the history of Hollywood sound mixers.
· Avert your eyes: Travolta is boogying in bikerwear.
· Steven Spielberg's stolen Rockwell.
· Fat Leto.
· Pax Thien put on Angelina's Black Card.
· Sly busted in Australia for possession of HGH.
· Britney in Promises.
· Richard Jeni's suicide.
· Brian Grazer presents The Los Angeles Times Currents Section: An Imagine Production canceled because of Grazergate.
· The amazing Lily Tomlin/David O. Russell Huckabees freakouts.
· Sanjayamania reduces us to tears.
· The Great Burbank Fire of '07.

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Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:01:17 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337789&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Defamer's Year In Review, Part 4: Borat Has A Moment ]]> borat-friend.jpgAh, the 90 degree weather and glorious autumnal foliage—still green, still on the trees. Yes, it must be fall in L.A. Let's continue on our skip down 2006 memory lane, shall we?
September
· The world meets Suri—a shaggy, kind of Asian looking baby.
· Tom Freston gets the boot.
· The Barney Greengrass brawl was one for the ages.
· Rosie's first day at The View.
· Anna Nicole Smith's nightmare begins.
· We can't decide if Sean Penn is a Player's or DuMaurier man.
· Studio 60 is pretty bad, but Defaker is way worse.
· Jim Carrey jumps to CAA.
· Banksymania!!! (Totally overrated.)
· Steve-O's red carpet tinkle.
· Let's make this simple: Here's all the Studio 60 you can handle, in one convenient link.
· Ditto, Anna Nicole.

October
· The importance of being Jack Foley.
· InSinkErator™ vs. Heroes.
· The Rosie Nip/Tuck sex scene.
· Mel Gibson has many dark Pop-Tart secrets.
· The McChokey vs. McSteamy chokedown!
· Black like Jolie.
· The Madonna orphan controversy begins.
· NBC 2.0.
· This is the dawning of the Age of Borat.
· Madonnah does Opra.
· The All-Star Media Titan Tom Freston Roast.
· Brian Atene, we are your bitch.

November
· Tom Cruise overthrows the tiny nation of United Artists.
· Universal plunks down $42.5 million for a Bruno movie.
· Reese Witherspoon drops some weight.
· K-Fed's Halloween horror.
· Doogie Howser likes men.
· Things go from bad to worse for Kevin Federline.
· Borat's big splash.
· Gaylancer 3: The Reichening.
· Daniel Baldwin's still kicking up crack-related trouble in Santa Monica.
· Something Brainwashed, Something Blue.
· If It Had Aired, Here's How The Planet Would Have Erupted Into Flames.
· Michael Richards: How Not To Make Friends, and Distance People.
· Goodbye, Robert Altman. Be adequite.
· Britney Spears jumps the shark.
· Lindsay Lohan: Unclean and (trying to be) sober.

December
· Apocalypto's red tide.
· Amy Pascal just one penis shy of being most powerful person in Hollywood.
· Lane Garrison's Can't Hardly Wait night could probably have waited.
· Lindsay's nutcase manifesto.
· Jennifer Aniston just can not keep a man! What gives?
· Year-end awards season mania kicks off. Leo and Clint double dip at the Globes.
· Ms. Nicole Richie's wild, Vicodin-and-pot-induced ride.
· The agency holiday giving season is here, with varying results.
· Rosie vs. Donald. Rosie on Donald.
· We got Pageant slut fever!

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Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:27:10 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=225108&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Defamer's Year In Review, Part 3: Mel's Mistake ]]> mel-mugshot - DefamerCome along as we continue on our journey through the year's events, moving into the lazy, balmy months of summer. (We're not really sure why we're working the seasonal theme—it's not like L.A. has any.)
June
· The Chosen One is born.
· Brett Ratner: Irresistible to old Chinese women and Courtney Loves alike.
· Michelle Rodriguez does 4 hours of hard time.
· Warner Bros. starts to get the Gay Fear about their caped wonder.
· People pays $4.1 million for the first shots of Shiloh Nouvel.
· Piven Vs. Dorff.
· Daryl Hannah! You get down from that walnut tree this instant!
· Remember when Matt Lauer was getting heat for just baring his ankles?
· Believe It or Not! 2006 found Jim Carrey having trouble getting his projects greenlit.
· Brian Grazer's brief foray into the singles' scene.
· Aquaman doesn't exist, yet still manages to blow Poseidon out of the water.
· Aaron Spelling: The final stroke.
· Superman Returns. No one seems to care, except Matthew Perry and Darren Star.
· Star Jones gets the ax.
· Tori Spelling: Her heart wrenching last moments, on an Us cover near you!

July
· Where's Suri?
· Hilary Swank tells the world Chad Lowe's ongoing drug problem really put a strain on the relationship.
· A good year for the Bruckaneer.
· Joe Francis takes one for the titty-flashing team.
· Adam Sandler and Kevin James go go-go boy crazy in WeHo.
· Nina Jacobson gets the news she was fired from Disney while in the delivery room.
· Haley Joel Osment does his former child star duty.
· Oprah Winfrey tells everyone her lady-lover Gayle is just her friend.
· Colin Farrell's Tonight Show stalker ambush.
· Lindsay Lohan's Morgan Creek letter and that creepy-ass fleshkini photograph.
· "I'M GAY"
· Ellen Pompeo's Big Fat Plate of Nothing diet.

August
· Well...Mel.
· Thanks for the add, World Trade Center!
· Director Vadim Perelman's busty bar brawl.
· Brian + Gigi 4-ever!
· More Mel.
· Naughty kinkajou!
· Ever get the feeling Robin Williams checked himself in for the material?
· Agent takes it all at the World Series of Poker.
· Andy Dick adds biting to the repertoire.
· Tom Cruise is booted from Paramount, and a Redstone vs. Cruise war for the ages begins.
· Survivor goes the race war route.
· Snakes On A Bomb.
· Tom Cruise gets backing from the loop-de-loop set.
· Emmy's Angels reunion.
· Les Moonves picking on Tom Freston never gets old.

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Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:59:24 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224908&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Defamer's Year In Review, Part 2: Do You Believe In Miracle Babies? ]]> suri-birth-news.jpgOur ongoing recap of the Hollywood year that was continues as we ease into the warmer months of spring. Join us, won't you?
March
· The death of Brokeback jokes.
· Jeremy Piven 2: Electric Boogaloo.
· Anna Nicole goes to Washington.
· Joe Rogan's MySpace flame war: "You're an ugly, fat faced zero, and I'm a famous multi millionaire."
· Worst. Oscars. Ever.
· When Shmuger met Linde.
· Sharon Stone wants to kiss her way to Mideast peace.
· South Park kills Chef in just about the grossest way imaginable.
· Wide World of Assistant Beerpong Tournaments.
· The Roosevelt puts Amanda Scheer Demme and her gang of celebutard hooligans on the street.
· George Clooney declares war on Gawker.
· Ryan Seacrest puts his moves on Teri Hatcher.

April
· Katie Holmes gets ready to bite the binkie.
· John McTiernan is charged with lying to the feds about Pellicano.
· Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson catfight over Brett Ratner's affections.
· Payola Six rocks the gossip inhaling world.
· Aaron Sorkin's delicious crack recipe.
· Up close and personal with Gay Vito.
· Enter Suri.
· Charlie Sheen's dirty, prep squad laundry is aired by Denise Richards.
· Julia Roberts bombs on Broadway.
· Britney Spears still knew the whereabouts of her second baby.

May
· M:i:III's global premiere challenge has Cruise firing on all pistons.
· Mark Gill is given his Warner Independent waddling papers.
· Randy Quaid settles his Brokeback lawsuit.
· Teri Hatcher goes on and on about her gripples.
· A bad omen of things to come: M:i:III disappoints™.
· It's never too early for Kiefer's Christmas tree tackle!
· Upfronts sizzle with Studio 60 potential!
· Ride the rails on The Da Vinci Code express.
· Brian Grazer puts the "p" in prank.
· As far as we're concerned, this is the image of the year.
· Britney Spears angry poetry takes on a whole new level of couchhusband-dumping significance.
· Hugh Jackman and his horny sailor friends set a course for adventure.

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Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:51:20 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224569&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Defamer's Year In Review, Part I: You Were Either A 'Gay On A Horse' Person, Or A 'Racist In A Car' Person ]]> brokeback - DefamerSure, we brought you the up-to-the-minute, fully adequite Lindsay Lohan manifestos and Britney Spears cooch-flashing updates, but sometimes it takes a little perspective—like Al Gore showing an auditorium of Chinese meteorology students a slide of spaceship Earth—for us to really appreciate just how far we've come, and how precious our Hollywood ecosystem is. Therefore, in an attempt at making some sense of it all, we present Defamer's Year In Review:
January
· Viacom and CBS go their separate ways, and the golden era of Paramount lot CBS staffer slights is born.
· Remember when Lindsay Lohan still had an "asthma card" to play?
· Angelina Jolie reveals she is heavy with Chosen Child.
· James Frey sits upon a throne of memoirist lies.
· Chad Lowe gets Swank'd.
· Lionsgate starts plotting their Crash Oscars overthrow.
· The Golden Globes tell us all we need to know about where Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe are headed.
· Leif Garrett and Brad Renfro face the music.
· The Colin Farrell sex tape transcripts still crack us up.
· The CW is announced, still seems like a good idea.
· The only thing anyone remembers about Sundance starred Kettle One and strawberries.

February
· Brokeback Mountain and Oscar seem like a definite couple, but you know how that goes.
· Lee Tamahori: DGA member looks like a lady!
· Britney Spears was supposed to be the next Debra Messing.
· Werner Herzog is Joaquin Phoenix's guardian angel. (Yeah, we thought we had dreamed that one, too.)
· Tom Ford gives us a naked Scarlett Johansson, and yet no cleavage. Explain that one!
· New Line online marketing gives us a virtual Vera Farmiga, then invites you to eat her out until she "[COMES] her fucking brains out!"
· The Stacy Snider defection rumors swirl.
· Overdosing on Oscars hype.
· The split that never came gets the legal threats that never materialize.
· Jeremy Piven is crowned King of L.A. Nightlife. As if we needed Los Angeles magazine to tell us that.

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Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:04:34 PST Seth http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224342&view=rss&microfeed=true