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seven minute abs

A.C. Slater's Abs Make Us Reconsider Our Wayward Youth

Remember when A.C. Slater used to strut around The Max in his orange short shorts and sweat-drenched wrestling muscle tees? All while dousing the rest of the cast with the greasy goo dangling from his curly mullet? And how much it kinda grossed you out to the point where you decided from then on you would never, under any circumstances, be attracted to dimpled, mullet-wearing wrestlers? Well, Defamer would like to officially announce that things have changed. Mario Lopez is no longer a bicycle-pants wearing meathead, he's a bonafide contestant for Best Male Body In The Universe. And he's got a new workout book to prove it! But we decided to go ahead and compare the original AC to the new and improved Mario, just to clarify exactly how far he's come. The before and afters, in all their muscly glory, after the jump:

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2:07 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Molly Friedman
3,457 views, 11 comments

Latest by Whiteboyfunfark: It must be time to revive "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and let the world in on a little secret: with photoshop EVERYBODY has a six pack..... more »

fake threat dept.

Greenman V. Rogen: The Battle Of 'Superbad'

Inspired by the Canadian journalist who has successfully raised awareness of her knocking-up memoir by filing a lawsuit against Los Angeles-based comedy monopolist Judd Apatow, accusing him of stealing her unplanned baby and selling it to Universal, New Yorker writer and Superbad novelist Ben Greenman has issued an open letter to Apatow collaborator Seth Rogen, decrying the actor/writer/producer's re-appropriation of his original borrowing of some obscure James Brown intellectual property for his upcoming summer movie of the same name. An excerpt is above; fortunately for Rogen, no lawsuit is threatened, saving him the annoyance of having to fight off the kind of unhinged legal challenge that his allegedly womb-plundering friend is currently enduring. More »

10:21 AM on Fri Jun 8 2007
By Mark
1,288 views, 18 comments

Latest by Everybody Likes Pandas: @LickyDisco: Gingivitis is no laughing matter. more »

oprah winfrey

James Frey Looking For New Manager

James Frey bashing has quickly evolved into America's favorite new pastime, with millions gathering around the bean dip to catch its Super Bowl equivalent: a 60-minute Oprah inculpation so grisly, it might as well have been dubbed The Passion of the Frey. But once your tall-tale substance abuse memoir has been likened to Holocaust denial on national television, as America's Opinion Maker Oprah Winfrey nods her large, regal head in accord, is there really anywhere else this sport can go? Of course there is! Frey could be dropped by his "people" namely, his Brillstein-Grey literary manager Kassie Evashevski, who explained her logic to Publisher's Weekly: More »

11:04 AM on Wed Feb 1 2006
By Seth
208 views, 1 comment

Latest by MonkeyinDiapers: Oprah possibly behind Frey getting canned by agent? hmmm...sure sounds like our Oprah. A Chicagoland observer tells more http://www.laswansong.blogspot.com more »

oprah winfrey

Oprah Exacts Revenge On James Frey

We've still got about an hour before Oprah Winfrey's televised caning of Million Little Pieces embellisher James Frey airs on the West Coast. Winfrey, you may remember, recently threw herself between Frey and CNN's Larry King, defending her disgraced book club author from further brutalization at the hands of the skeletal softballer. Since then, the Big O's had a change of heart, and on today's show she finally gives Frey the what-for: More »

2:19 PM on Thu Jan 26 2006
By Mark
564 views, 17 comments

macaulay culkin

Macaulay Culkin's Novel Gets Its First Trashing

It's an exciting time for former Neverland Ranch VIP Macaulay Culkin. There are rumors he may be getting ready to marry for the second time, and that he is considering taking a spot on the next season of UK's Celebrity Big Brother. But it's his debut novel Junior, due this March, that is getting the most buzz. Its first critique, from Kirkus Reviews, came out today. Some highlights: More »

4:13 PM on Thu Jan 19 2006
By Seth
392 views, 2 comments

casting

Defamer Casting: A Million Little Fatones

The media shitstorm accompanying the revelation that A Million Little Pieces author James Frey embellished moments from his life to appear more bad-ass than it actually was (maybe that gunfight with three hundred Ohio cops was just a speeding ticket, but such is the subjective nature of drug-addled memory) has certainly thrown some heat on the big-screen adaptation of the book, currently in development at Warner Bros. Frey's allegedly mused about landing Tobey Maguire, Orlando Bloom, or Jake Gyllenhaal to play him, but if the producers want to eschew pretty starpower for a deeper commitment to physiognomy, we see a clear choice for the role: boybander-turned-actor Joey Fatone. More »

1:19 PM on Thu Jan 12 2006
By Mark
204 views, 8 comments

Latest by Tyler: Monkeyindiapers: Is the book you wrote any good? Why on earth should I care if it's true. Lordy, half the flims I watch have a framing device that claim "based on a true story." As if. more »

books

Random House Offers A Million Little Refunds

While Hollywood continues to gaze navelward in response to the recent revelation that certain too-juicy-to-be-true hit literary memoirs were precisely that, the flake-averse East Coast publishing world has perhaps unsurprisingly taken a much harder-edged, pragmatic approach to the matter: Namely, the fucker lied, so you get your $24.95 back. More »

12:06 PM on Wed Jan 11 2006
By Seth
233 views, 2 comments

movies

Frey/LeRoy Scandals Create Hollywood Philosophers

The Million Little Piecesgate shitstorm continues to rage you don't make Oprah, Queen of the Universe, look stupid without some serious consequences with threatening letters from legal pitbull Marty Singer flying (we feel your pain, Smoking Gun), the first brusque responses from accused memoir embellishist James Frey posted to his website ("I won t dignify this bullshit with any sort of further response,"), with further bullshit non-dignification to follow on his Larry King appearance tonight. And lest we not forget the JT Leroy scandal, which serendipitously (for trend watchers, at least) broke on the very same day: According to the NY Times, the supposedly HIV+ male truck-stop hooker turned memoirist and literary darling is a complete fabrication and played by a woman. With both authors' books in various stages of movie development, THR examines what effect the scandals will have on the productions, if any. In doing so, they stumble onto a fascinating philosophical dialogue on the ultimate nature of truth (as it applies to getting your movie made): More »

8:52 AM on Wed Jan 11 2006
By Seth
200 views, 2 comments

Latest by Charlie_Dont_Surf: Re: JT Leroymightbeawomanbutregardlessisstillnottalented WARNING - PERSONAL OPINION POST REGARDING HIS FILM BELOW: To those of you who either support/hate JT and are just edging to see to see "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" - I have seen this film - more »

agents

Pillowfighting With The Hollywood Girls Club

While we were ~~trawling for a high-powered sugar mama~~ perusing yesterday's THR list of the industry's most powerful women, we found ourselves wishing, nay craving a fictionalized examination of the Entourage-worthy shenanigans of Hollywood's Sex and the City-equivalent wild girls, preferably with a title accessible enough to suggest the fluffiest of Malibu beach reading while simultaneously explaining the concept in three words or less. Courtesy of the Publisher's Lunch book deal e-mail round-up, relief: More »

11:03 AM on Wed Dec 7 2005
By Mark
260 views, 12 comments

Defamer

Lindsay Lohan And The Case Of The Fur Burglar

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