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Top 10 Best Dressed Oscar Girls Of Yore
For every swan dress there is a fire engine red body-hugger worn by the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, or one of those golden sparkle-y things that just melts all over Halle Berry's body. To prove we're not just big meanies when it comes to discussing Oscar outfits of yesterday, we've put together our Top Ten picks for the most exclamatory, drop-dead dresses ever worn on an Oscar red carpet, and even redeemed one member of the Worst Club by placing her at the shiny top of our Best-Dressed cake. More »
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Is Exiting MTV President Norman Leaping Into Oprah's Embrace?
· Possibly sandwiched between the theoretically imminent end of the writers strike and a potential June 30 walkout by SAG, studios are rushing to get their high-profile projects into production during that slim window of opportunity, hoping to get enough movies in the can to fill out their late 2009 release schedules. Still on the studios' limbo lists due to deadline-rushed scripts: Angels & Demons, Thomas Crown Affair 2, Fame, The Grind and Death Wish. [Variety]
· After 17 wildly successful years helping to narcotize the youth of America with TRL, The Grind and 72-hour Real World/Road Rules Challenge marathons, MTV president Christina Norman unexpectedly steps down from her post, possibly to join forces with Oprah on the new OWN cable network that will eventually make everyone involved incredibly wealthy. [THR]
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The Return Of Kiefer Sutherland
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about the time you spotted Adrian Grenier possibly consoling the dead bird out of some weepy blonde girl:
In today's episode: Kiefer Sutherland; Clint Eastwood and Zooey Deschanel; Ryan Gosling; Hilary Swank; Orlando Bloom; Shia LaBeouf; Jason Schwartzman; Laurence Fishburne; Adrian Grenier; Sarah Michelle Gellar; Christina Applegate; Wentworth Miller; Justin Chambers; Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani; Bradley Cooper; T.R. Knight; Tom Verica; Danny Bonaduce; John Hensley; and Danny Pintauro.
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P.S. Critics Hated This Movie: A Round-Up
At long last, P.S. I Love You, a heart-string-tugging romantic fable about a gay Spartan warrior and a drag king boxer's inability to make love work, arrives in theaters today. As promising as that setup sounds, the reviews are mostly terrible, with the Hilary Swank/Gerard Butler vehicle inspiring movie critics to some of their most creatively bilious work in recent memory:
· Everything about her is hard: her chiseled jawline, her abs—even her eyes, which can radiate fear and anger with such force, are incapable of softening enough to make her turn as Holly, who is supposed to be klutzy and lovably unfocused, believable. [Chicago Tribune]
· This movie doesn't have enough fresh air to play on Oxygen. Its agenda might be epistolary, but its brain is covered in Post-its. [Boston Globe]
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McLovin Rising
· Breakout Superbad actor Christopher "McLovin" Mintz-Plasse takes the next step in his inevitable march towards Hollywood superstardom, signing on alongside Jack Black and Michael Cera (re-team!) for biblical comedy Year One. Judd Apatow is producing, but you've probably already guessed that part on your own. [THR]· Butching up a resume recently marked by turns as flouncey pirates and singing barbers, Johnny Depp is coming aboard hardboiled™ director Michael Mann's Public Enemies for Universal, in which Depp will play notoriously ruthless, extravagantly well-hung gangster John Dillinger. [Variety]
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Famous People Love Them Some Arcade Fire
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about the time you saw Andy Dick sober.
In today's episode: Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi, Nate Corddry, BJ Novak, and Rainn Wilson; Hilary Swank; Eddie Murphy, Jessica Alba and Dane Cook; Kiefer Sutherland; Diane Keaton and Ron Popeil; Frances McDormand; Jeanne Tripplehorn; David and Victoria Beckham; Sharon Stone; Donald Faison; Kevin Bacon; Kim Basinger and Slash; Donald Sutherland; Billy Crystal; Keith Urban; Adam Goldberg; Will Arnett; Michael Cera; Christina Ricci; Tim Meadows; Seal and Heidi Klum; Andy Dick; Laura Prepon; Mark McGrath and Bonnie Franklin. In China: Josh Hartnett.
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The Judd Apatow Repertory Players Take In A Screening Of 'The Room'
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about the time you spotted The Office's Toby exactly the way he should always be seen—nearly naked and sopping wet.
In today's episode: Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Kristen Bell, and Edgar Wright; Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver; Vince Vaughn; Hilary Swank and Brad Garrett; Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins; Ryan Gosling; Mary-Kate Olsen; Joey Lauren Adams; Kiefer Sutherland; Kate Bosworth; Matthew Perry; Michael Eisner; Van Hunt; Eva Longoria; Julie Newmar and Judd Nelson; Cheryl Hines; Norm MacDonald; Shane West; Jay Mohr and Nikki Cox; Paul Lieberstein; Fred Armisen; Joel McHale; Rumer Willis; and Sean Preston Federline.
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· This is easily the best role Ben Affleck's had since The Sum of All Fears.
· Zachary Quinto may be close to signing on as the the token Vulcan aboard the bridge of JJ Abrams' Enterprise.
· And it looks like Iron Man has added yet another Oscar-winner to its star-studded cast, even if just for a supposedly top-secret cameo. We smell a big-time comeback on its way.
· Katie Holmes Dark Knight replacement Maggie Gyllenhaal doesn't seem all that concerned about filling the shoes her predecessor wore to sleepwalk through her role in Batman Begins.
· Goya's Ghost star Natalie Portman still frustratingly anti-nudity. (second item)
Ben Affleck's Big, Corn-Suited Comeback
· This is easily the best role Ben Affleck's had since The Sum of All Fears.
· Zachary Quinto may be close to signing on as the the token Vulcan aboard the bridge of JJ Abrams' Enterprise.
· And it looks like Iron Man has added yet another Oscar-winner to its star-studded cast, even if just for a supposedly top-secret cameo. We smell a big-time comeback on its way.
· Katie Holmes Dark Knight replacement Maggie Gyllenhaal doesn't seem all that concerned about filling the shoes her predecessor wore to sleepwalk through her role in Batman Begins.
· Goya's Ghost star Natalie Portman still frustratingly anti-nudity. (second item)
hollywood privacywatch
Bed Bath & Beyond Hosts A Swank-Lowe Reunion
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the time you spotted Ryan Atwood quietly plotting his next career move at a Venice eatery.
In today's episode: Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe; Jack Black; Colin Farrell; Dustin Hoffman; Michael Bay, Seth Green, Joshua Jackson, Lance Bass, Efren Ramirez, Josh Henderson, and Ben Lyons; Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach; Tom Freston; Cybill Shepherd; Wentworth Miller and Tia Carrere; Adam Brody; Benjamin McKenzie; Jonah Hill; Wayne Newton; Peter Cambor; Sanjaya Malakar and Phil Stacey.
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'Indy 4': First Moving Images Of Spielberg And Lucas Wearing Hats Released!
· These are truly exciting times over at IndianaJones.com. Not only have they treated us to the first photos of Harrison Ford in a dusty fedora taken in nearly 20 years, they've now released exclusive footage of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drinking champagne and staring at a monitor. (Also while wearing distinctive hats!) Who knows what special surprises the coming weeks will bring cyber-savvy Indy fans?
· Things that Barbara Walters considers "beneath her": interviewing Paris Hilton once she gets out of jail. Things that Barbara Walters is OK with: reading aloud on The View a transcription of a conversation she had with Paris Hilton about finding God while she was still in jail.
· Does no one have the heart to tell Renee Zellweger that boinking a CAA agent is so Hilary Swank in the summer of 2006? It's tragic, really.
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There Is No Sating Hollywood A-Listers' Hunger For Artisanal, Thin-Crust Pizza
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the time you spotted a grocery-shopping Larry Birkhead getting a head start on Dannielynn's food-dependency issues. More »
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Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Jessica Simpson And Charlize Theron Haven't Abandoned The Killers Yet
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, and your tenth sighting gets a free selection from our pastry case! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and give Macaulay Culkin's My Girl love interest Anna Chlumsky serious cause for concern. More »
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· When the end is nigh, there will be sneezing pandas. And, of course, terrible Hilary Swank movies.
· The latest Chinese version of the Idol franchise will be called Boys Happy Voice (or Happy Boys Voice—the piece seems confused on the matter), strive to "maintain a happy atmosphere" and feature judges "prohibited "from mocking or humiliating contestants." In short, it is going to suck. We hope someone sends a Chinese Sanjaya to destroy it from within.
·We'd hate to give Kate Beckinsale a complex, but yeah, she'd look better with Queen Latifah-sized "gigantic real breasts."
·Despair, Hills fans: This LC person says there is no tape of her getting in on with that other guy, contrary to other reports.
· "All we're asking them to do is to treat smoking in the movies the same way they treat fuck."
Short Ends: A Reaping, Gigantic Breasts, Happy Boys Voice
· When the end is nigh, there will be sneezing pandas. And, of course, terrible Hilary Swank movies.
· The latest Chinese version of the Idol franchise will be called Boys Happy Voice (or Happy Boys Voice—the piece seems confused on the matter), strive to "maintain a happy atmosphere" and feature judges "prohibited "from mocking or humiliating contestants." In short, it is going to suck. We hope someone sends a Chinese Sanjaya to destroy it from within.
·We'd hate to give Kate Beckinsale a complex, but yeah, she'd look better with Queen Latifah-sized "gigantic real breasts."
·Despair, Hills fans: This LC person says there is no tape of her getting in on with that other guy, contrary to other reports.
· "All we're asking them to do is to treat smoking in the movies the same way they treat fuck."
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CNN.Com Highlights Box Calls 'The Reaping' A 'Terri'-Fying Tale With 'Script' And 'Plot'!
We suppose that fairness would dictate that we at least read the damning review condensed into such efficient, ticket-buying deterrence by CNN.com's tireless Story Highlights editors before making a knee-jerk judgment to skip a movie, but in this case, we think Hilary Swank would be better served if we just quit after that last bullet point and Netflixed up some Freedom Writers instead. More »
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Short Ends: Jealous That They Get All the Attention, Tara Tries To Strangle The Girls
· You can say all the mean things you like about Tara Reid, but you can never take away the dignity that comes with trying to cram a pair of mammoth, surgically enhanced breasts into a too-small bikini top.· Also: Looks like Reid lent Courtney Love her old stomach.
· Hilary Swank fondly recalls the time she got out of a speeding ticket because she was a Good Samaritan, not because the officer in question was a starfucker.
· Starbucks cups revealed to be an excellent place to stash your drugs without detection.
· The KITT up for auction's not street legal, but it's still a total pussy wagon if you can lure an aging Knight Rider fan back to your garage.
· Bravo decides it's still too soon for old Anna Nicole jokes.
· Can't someone do a good horse-fucking movie without getting all socially responsible about it?
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Trade Round-Up: Hilary Swank Still Happily Signing Off On Just About Every Deal Put In Front Of Her
· Hollywood SwankWatch: Freedom Writers and The Reaping actress Hilary Swank is developing (and likely producing and starring in—she really can do it all!) a remake of Patrick Leconte's Intimate Strangers for Paramount, about an actress whose career seems to have no discernible direction since winning two Oscars. [Variety]· Spiderman 3 will debut in China a day before its North America premiere in hopes that some Chinese moviegoers will rush to theaters to see it rather than wait for the pirated, 25-cent copies that will be widely available just hours after the release. [THR]
· Keep your stunguns at the ready, put your forensic accountants on speed dial, and lock up your overlong directors cuts, because the Weinsteins are back, baby! [Variety]
· Paula Abdul signs with APA, who hope to "work with her on developing multigenerational, international lifestyle branding opportunities" and who will refuse to take her calls the second she's no longer hosting American Idol. [THR]
· In reflecting upon the ICM/Endeavor Richard Abate defection debacle, Var's Peter Bar proposes that agents hire their own agents to orchestrate their career moves. But what about agents for an agent's agent, and a team of agent-managers to steer the whole ship? Soon, getting anything done will require penetrating fifteen nested levels of rep-representation. Where does the madness end, Mr. Bart? [Variety]
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