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Defamer's Week in Review: Dakota made new friends, Barbara made new enemies, we made 10 critics stars, and someone simply... made. Remember the magic after the jump! More »

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Short Ends

'And I'm Jeff Rossen. Go Fuck Yourself, New York.'

· There's some hilarious, Anchorman-esque bickering going down between the members of this NBC morning news team. More »

06:14 PM

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Comment by GoneElsewhere: And to add to the WNBC awkwardness above: the woman in the middle's (Darlene Rodriguez) husband is a NY cop... more » | Other threads

Awards

Critics Choice Also-Ran Mickey Rourke Still Manages To Grip His Trophy For The Cameras

No one leaves the Critics Choice Awards empty-handed, especially not when he's having a year like Mickey Rourke's. We're just surprised to learn where he keeps his runner-up prize. More »

06:00 PM

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Comments of the week

Our Commenters Of The Week Win One Ghost-Channeling Boob!

This week's comments were so great that compiling Comments of the Week involved a lot of difficult choices. Thus, the winners have a hard task, too: divvying up their prize of one clairvoyant breast each. More »

05:32 PM

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Comment by BasicallyLost: A booby prize to be proud of! more » | Other threads

To Do

Your Weekend Of Tonguing And Grooving

Friday· Friday Night Music: Gram Rabbit at the Troubadour, L.A.'s The Little Ones and Montreal's Plants & Animals at the Natural History Museum, Zomby at the Echoplex. More »

05:07 PM

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Defamer Transcripts

'They TAZED Me, Man': The Josh And Jeffrey Shooting Script

We can't believe an artifact like the Josh Brolin/Jeffrey Wright squad-car exchange actually exists, so hilarious is their post-tazing chemistry. The buddy comedy of the year inspired us to type out the whole damn thing. More »

04:45 PM

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Comment by PlasticFantastic: The unintelligible portion of Wright's dialogue definitely includes some mention of looking for pizza at 5 in the morning. Something... more » | Other threads

Oscars

'Entertainment Weekly' Oscar Recall Forces Gwyneth And Renee To Declare 'No Takebacks'

The results of Entertainment Weekly's massive "Recall the Gold" project (in which thousands of industry insiders revote certain Oscar years to publicly humiliate past winners) are finally in! So which actors have been victimized? More »

04:15 PM

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Hollywood PrivacyWatch

PrivacyWatch Special Edition: Robert Pattinson on Two Continents at Once

A celeb-sighting controversy has engulfed Defamer HQ, where our careful vetting of your PrivacyWatch tips has yielded an international hunky-vampire crisis. After the jump, help us settle Robert Pattinson's whereabouts once and for all. More »

03:50 PM

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Comment by everfade: He was in both places. He used his puffed up ego to gently float across the ocean and be spotted... more » | Other threads

Celeb Weddings

Ewwww! Dexter Married His Sister

Look, for three seasons now we've humored Dexter on his bloody little vigilante campaign to rid the world of murderers, rapists, dine-n'-dashers, and the like. But now he's overstepped the boundaries of serial-killer good taste. More »

03:26 PM

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Comment by sephtical: Gay people can't get married but siblings can? MADNESS! 3 Responses | Other threads

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway Indulges In Naughty Fire-Extinguisher Innuendo On 'Kimmel'

Are you happy now, Mary Hart? After Anne Hathaway was bashed by the ET anchor for the cardinal sin of knowing things, Hathaway popped up on Kimmel to crack some decidedly more lowbrow jokes. More »

03:03 PM

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Comment by icallthebigonebitey: You know, as good as "Rachel Getting Married" was -- tedious musical interludes aside -- I'm beginning to realize it 3 Responses | Other threads

Watch, TiVo, Kill

Will Fake-Carrie End Up With Bootleg-Big?

"This is the end / My only friend, the end." Not sure if Jim Morrison penned those words about Lipstick Jungle, but tonight could be the conclusion (or not) of your favorite female-empowerment hour. More »

02:50 PM

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Crosspromotion

Heidi, Spencer, and Kim Kardashian To Guest Star On 'How I Met Your Famewhore'

As Fox Studios throws its enthusiastic support behind How I Met Your Mother by tripling its stars' salaries, the laugh track-enhanced CBS sitcom returns to the tabloid slophouse for some ratings-goosing stunt-casting.
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02:34 PM

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Comment by dinalohan: I'm stuck trying to pick the most loathsome- Heidi, Spencer, Kim, or the dumbass who hired them. more » | Other threads

Sienna Miller

Ridley Scott finally sheds some extra Nottingham weight. [NY Post]

02:03 PM

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watchmen

Shocker: 'Watchmen' Settlement on the Way

The day after heartfelt if hopeless pseudo-legal judicial appeals from Watchmen co-producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin, Fox and Warner Bros. today hinted at a more binding resolution in their copyright case. More »

01:55 PM

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Defamer Friday Funtime

Fill In The Blank: Robert Pattinson Wants To Lick ______ All Day Long

By now we think you know how this goes: We give you the censored gossip item, you fill in the missing word. On today's show: Twilight and PrivacyWatch star, Robert Pattinson. More »

01:34 PM

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Comment by btr7: truck nutz 2 Responses | Other threads

Trade Roundup

Cobie Smulders Pulling Down $100k A Week

· When you're done looking up her name, feel free to discuss the fact that Cobie Smulders and her castmates now make between $90,000 - $120,000 per episode of How I Met Your Mother. [THR] More »

01:15 PM

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Hollywood PrivacyWatch

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Hunky Vampire Edition, Part 2: Robert Pattinson

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Trailers

Rape-Revenge Classic Updated With Terrifying Score By Starbucks

There's ultimately no point in dreading the remake of Wes Craven's vicious, still-shocking 1972 thriller Last House on the Left, even despite a new trailer bringing to mind torture porn by way of Restoration Hardware. More »

12:45 PM

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Comment by StreetCloud: As long as they keep the forced pussy eating and pants pissing of the original, i support the remake.... 1 Responses | Other threads

Hollywood PrivacyWatch

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Hunky Vampire Edition, Part 1: Stephen Moyer

12:28 PM

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hospitalizations

Patrick Swayze misses TCA's Beast panel, hospitalized for pneumonia. [THR]

12:15 PM

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The View

'We Administer Earth-People Pills When Absolutely Necessary,' Reassures Tom Cruise

Now that Tom Cruise's appearance on The View has aired, we can bring you the whole, Scientology-defending Jett Travolta conversation without any delightfully premature interruption by the Us Weekly bumper. More »

12:00 PM

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Comment by DarkKnightShyamalan: Of course Scientologists don't reject medicine. Why, Tom Cruise himself takes at least three doses of Straighterol (TM) per 1 Responses | Other threads

Awards

'Slumdog' Yawned Best Picture At Critics Choice Awards

Congrats — again — to Slumdog Millionaire director and Critics Choice Award winner Danny Boyle, just about the nicest guy you've ever wished would please take his Oscar and end awards season, already. More »

11:35 AM

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Antiheroes

Confused 'Watchmen' Fanatics Mob A Terrified Michael Jackson At Local Book Store

Spotted at a Hollywood book store yesterday buying a boxed-set of his own music, Michael Jackson doused rumors he's gravely ill by sporting only a skimpy, single-layer face mask and bogeyman cloak. More »

11:17 AM

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Comment by dinalohan: I can't understand those "death door" rumors. He looks great! 3 Responses | Other threads

Australia

Nicole Kidman Adds Her Voice To The 'Australia' Pile-On

You don't kick a dingo when he's down (or maybe you do, to dislodge the baby from its jaws? We always forget), but Nicole Kidman has done just that by piling on the beleaguered Australia. More »

10:50 AM

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Comment by Mark Sherry: I am an Aussie living in the US. And I loved the movie. People sitting in the same row as... 2 Responses | Other threads

Hollywood PrivacyWatch

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Warren Beatty and Annette Bening

10:29 AM

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bruno

'Bruno' To Highlight Best of Spring/Summer Urban Crucifixwear

True—horrifying Southern socialites by wielding a bag of your own feces at a dinner party might be a showstopper, but what to do for an encore? That's the dilemma facing Sacha Baron Cohen. More »

10:02 AM

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Comment by FuriousD1: I think the whole "Jesus" stunt is a sign that he's run out of ideas. more » | Other threads

Celeb Jurisprudence

Arrested Josh Brolin Engages in Game of Kissy One-Upmanship

The W. DVD is going to have some killer double features. First, video was leaked of the violent arrest of Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, and now TMZ has their surprisingly funny squad car banter. More »

09:40 AM

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Comment by dinalohan: This is the worst episode of Cash Cab I've ever seen. 3 Responses | Other threads

Hollywood PrivacyWatch

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Leonardo DiCaprio

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Defamer Atrractions

'Bride Wars' Battles More Conventional Horrors in Box-Office No Man's Land

Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to everything new, noteworthy and shoved down your throat at the movies. This week: Bride Wars commence, Gary Oldman slums, and Clint Eastwood expands. More »

08:50 AM

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Comment by TruthAndTheory: Bride Wars? First, the movie is off season. Second, it's the usual mindless chick flick starring white women aimed at an all-white 3 Responses | Other threads

Ridley Scott finally sheds some extra Nottingham weight. [NY Post]

Patrick Swayze misses TCA's Beast panel, hospitalized for pneumonia. [THR]

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