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Brian Grazer Deftly Avoids Divorce Bonanza, Hairdo Perfectly Intact
As previously reported in tell-all novel form, superproducer Brian Grazer has split from his wife of 11 years, The Starter Wife author Gigi Levangie. Well now the divorce is final and, because of an ironclad prenup, ol' Grazerhead wasn't taken to the cleaners. More » -
books
Amazingly, Gigi Levangie-Grazer Able to Step Into the Mind of a Rich Divorcée
Gigi Levangie, author of The Starter Wife, has so much of producer Brian Grazer's money after their divorce, that she can write books about her rich divorcée life just to piss him off. More » -
trade roundup
Nothing's Lost Forever
A SAG-sack returns, two beauties team up for impossibly beautiful lovemaking, Up graces Cannes, Kevin Costner is back, and so is Behind the Music. More »
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hugh hefner
Brett Ratner Barely Earns Hugh Hefner Seal of Approval
Hugh Hefner spent some time last weekend recounting his Hollywood obsession for the LAT. Conspicuously missing from his list: Brett Ratner, who is likely to direct a Hefner biopic in the years ahead. -
grazerhead
Deep Inside Grazerhead: The Hairdo Origin Myth
This year's Halloween festivities were made more terrifying than ever with the introduction of the printable Grazerhead mask, sending an army of superproducing ghouls down the streets of L.A. in search of delicious, Nobel Laureate-worthy brains on which to feed. Indeed, Grazerhead has given us so much, and asked so little in return, that it dawned on us recently that we might have taken it a little for granted. Surely it didn't just appear fully formed on the horizon, like some caveman-stupefying monolith built by an unseen extraterrestrial species. To be even more specific, what of the spiky outcroppings that line its crown, like the thorny needles of some exotic flora? Or, to put it more plainly, what's with the hair, dude? More »
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By SethComment by Kitten_Witawip: Gazerhead, a guy claiming to be his barber hit on me about 5 years ago at Nic's Martini Lounge. He... more » | Other threads
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russell crowe
Nottingham Lives: Mere days after we moved our old Nottingham files to the basement, leave it to Brian Grazer to revive talk of his presumed-dead Robin Hood retelling for another round of casting speculation. To wit: It'll make everything easier if Russell Crowe just plays all the roles himself. "[W]hat Robin Hood does is he sees Nottingham in battle very early in the movie and Nottingham dies," Grazer told MTV News. "And Robin Hood takes over the identity of Nottingham. That's how it plays out." Call it a spoiler alert, if films opening 10 years from now can have such things. [MTV] -
grazerhead
Grazerheadmania Grips Local Charity Event
Big ups to everyone who made it out to VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl Off at Lucky Strike Lanes last night. You can browse a gallery of them here, a Malta Summit of Z-lister statesmen and royalty including Corey Feldman, Bachelorette dumpee Jesse Csincsak, and Gretchen Bonaduce and Tiffany—posing in the same photo. (Denis Leary couldn't make it, but sent along a message saying that "knocking down pins with a big heavy ball is about as backwoods retarded as your stupid, lazy-ass kids.") But it's attendee Billy Morrison who most caught our eye, less for what we now know are his musical contributions to The Cult and Camp Freddy, but rather for channeling the unmistakable essence of a certain superproducer headshot worshipped 'round these parts like a Shroud of Defamer Turin. Click for your full, glorious view of what Grazerhead hath wrought. More »
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By SethComment by Forest4theTrees: He looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brian Grazer had a love child. more » | Other threads
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Defamer Costumes
Defamer Halloween Costume Ideas, Vol. V: The Maverick
It's your very own printable Grazerhead mask! Download the full-size version here. More »
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By SethComment by Forest4theTrees: I heard Walmart was carrying a very authentic Grazerhead mask with real porcupine quills this Halloween but had to pull... more » | Other threads
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tom hanks
The 'Da Vinci Code' Sequel Has Its Secret Weapon: Tom Hanks In a Speedo
Surely, Hollywood has entered a brand-new golden age of male objectification, whether it's the display of Jason Segel's flaccid member in Forgetting Sarah Marshall or Billy Crudup's irradiated super-schlong in Watchmen. Now, in an interview with USA Today about the Da Vinci Code sequel, Angels & Demons, producer Brian Grazer announces that the 52-year-old Tom Hanks will be the next male actor to bare (almost) all. While the scantily-clad Hanks won't be going full frontal (gotta keep that PG-13 rating!), Grazer promises the next best thing: More »
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Comment by taraniso: Hanks is looking more and more like Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life. 3 Responses | Other threads
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celeb divorce
Everything You Thought You Knew About The Grazers' Divorce Settlement May Be Wrong!
A highly placed Defamer operative tells us TMZ has gotten the details of the Brian and Gigi Grazer divorce (he gets the freedom to personally pinch-test whomever he pleases, they say, she gets $1,000,042 a month)—wrong. For starters, they don't even own a home in New York. Read the details after the jump: More »
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By SethComment by derby: this is where i ask, in all seriousness, 'why the fuck should she get anything?' (ok... if they have kids... 2 Responses | Other threads
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dreamworks
It's Official: DreamWorks, Universal Hitched
The Dept. of Forgone Conclusions forwarded a memo this morning confirming that DreamWorks has settled with Universal as its new distribution partner for the next five years, officially ending months of speculation and finally slicing the last thread connecting the 'Works to its exes at Paramount. The partnership reinstates Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider's working relationship with their old friends at the studio, but far more more importantly, it sets up a potential blood feud with a nemesis no one dares face when push comes to shove. More » -
brian grazer
Who Gets What In The Brian And Gigi Grazer Divorce
It's been a year and four months since we learned of the dissolution of the marriage of Hollywood superproducer (and lesser-known rising sign) Brian Grazer to his screenwriter/author ex-wife, Gigi Levangie. And while the split was by all reports amicable—never once resulting in Grazer turning to his Cultural Attaché 2.0 in a moment of weakness, and uttering the words, "How about bringing me a Nobel laureate who can figure out a way for me to stop hemorrhaging alimony. Huh? Got one of those in your little idea bag, bigshot?"—the divorce proceedings have splayed open the couple's finances for all the nosy world (that would be you) to see. Details after the jump. More »
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By SethComment by kookla: $42 a month? Who says good help is hard to find? 3 Responses | Other threads
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short ends
Grazerhead Simpsonfied!
· None other than Museum of Hollywood Jerks inductee Brian Grazer stopped by The Simpsons again last night. We can hardly wait for his take on Everyone Poops. We smell Oscar! More » -
the dark knight
Vote Now in the High-Stakes Hollywood Joker-Alike Contest
After her latest round of plastic surgery, Joan Rivers has once again sparked concern that her postmodern facial sculpting has perhaps gone one operation too far. "My motto is, 'Better a new face coming out of an old car than an old face coming out of a new car.' Spend your money on you," the Daily Mail quotes her as saying, but clearly the stakes have soared beyond self-service satisfaction: Rivers is but the latest boldface name to join the increasingly cutthroat Joker-Alike 2008 competition, in which grinning celebrities and their psychotic celluloid doppelgangers square off for ear-to-ear supremacy. Have a closer look at the finalists — and vote for a (or nominate your own) winner after the jump. More »
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By STVComment by GoodBadNotEvil: Joan Rivers at this point appears to be of no discernable age, as timeless and terrifying as the Joker himself. 1 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Neil Patrick Harris, Sweatin' To The Oldies
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our millions of Defamer operatives. We'd like to remind you that this feature is powered by you, so if you want to see more installments of PrivacyWatch, then all you've got to do is to send us your sightings. 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 NPH getting all sweaty during a workout. More »
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By Mark GrahamComment by MrRewrite: The b.s. alarm just woke me up. publicist alert on jennifer lewis (who is she again?). Ditto on Nobu, as... more » | Other threads
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the dark knight
Early Joker Mock-Up Reminds Us of a Producer We Know
It's well-known that the conceptual period preceding The Dark Knight was an exceptionally fertile time for all involved — smooth Batsailing for a creative team responsible for reimagining the heroes and villains of Gotham City. Chief among those visions was The Joker, preliminary sketches of whom are now appearing in a new coffee-table book for the fanboy who has everything, The Art of The Dark Knight. An attentive reader points out today, however, how one of the early, nastier Joker mock-ups reminds him of an old friend of Defamer — a guy whose uncanny likeness would have no doubt stirred more controversy, trouble and tragedy than all the accursed Dark Knight infamy we've observed over the last year. More » -
russell crowe
Plump Russell Crowe, Weary Ridley Scott Implicated in 'Nottingham' Postmortem
As first noted here a few weeks back, ye olde stalled Robin Hood epic Nottingham is all but dead in the water now at Universal, where Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller were locked in to start shooting this month before a flurry of setbacks delayed it indefinitely. As presumed, labor woes and casting haggles were indeed among the pitfalls, but you have to know that an implosion of this magnitude can't simply stop there — as described after the jump, Crowe's weight, Scott's attention span, script haggles and other factors also conspired to keep Hollywood out of the forest this time around. More » -
brian grazer
Brian Grazer Stars As Brian Grazer in Brother's Unsettling Home-Movie Tribute
A reader today passes along what looks to be Defamer's final epic installment of the Grazer Family Fun Trilogy, a series previously comprising megaproducer Brian's shirtless likeness and a heartwarming follow-up outlining the love-hate relationship between the megaproducer and his troubled actor-producer brother Gavin. Now we finally have the ending for which we've waited months: The Other Brother, a touching (if unsettling), decades-in-the-making home-movie mash-up directed by Gavin and featuring Brian as a sun-kissed resort god who makes middle-aged women squeal ("Oscar-winner!") and can cheat even the most formidable ocean current with his bare arms. Listen closely for Gavin's cameo ("You ever see Armed & Dangerous? He did that."), and gawk along with the rest of us at the 8mm magic of a little Grazerhead in the making. They don't make them like this anymore. [YouTube]
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By STVComment by gwiliandre: Wait a second!!! Hey! That guy, Brian Grazer, told me he was an agent @ CAA. A married CAA agent.... more » | Other threads
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sienna miller
Revisionist 'Robin Hood' Adds Sienna Miller to His Stash For the Poor
Announced in April as approximately the 20th collaboration in development between Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott, Nottingham promises the duo's stylish, "revisionist" take on the Robin Hood legend — produced by Brian Grazer, natch, thus establishing the film as a sure-fire front-runner for the 2011 Oscars among people who keep track of these things. They're out there, and we hear them twittering a little louder this morning as Sienna Miller is officially so! thrilled! to be attached to portray Maid Marian: More »
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By STVComment by gwendemarco: I thought we'd run out of bogus, junior high school, pulled out of fissured asses, lost-a-bet-playing-quarters-at-Evans'-ho... to-make-it-now ideas last year,... more » | Other threads
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homecomings
A Return To Grazerheads
According to a press release in the Defamer inbox, Hollywood superproducing entity and non-recovering idea-addict Brian Grazer will be the recipient of the Mary Pickford Foundation Award at the USC School of Cinematic Arts 2008 graduation tomorrow—an honorarium presented by Disney head Bob Iger, and awarded to "men and women of USC who have made an indelible impact on the entertainment industry." This is obviously exciting news indeed, and we encourage any proud parents in attendance to send along video of the mogul-rich milestone. But were that all, for what lifted this publicist-penned correspondence beyond the realm of the commencement-speech-announcement mundane was a file attachment, accompanied by eight little words that shot a volt of pure ecstasy through our spine: "Have also attached a photo for your use." Oh. My. God. Are they kidding us? Just this once: Grazerhead has come home. More »
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By SethComment by raincoaster: @heidiho: Agreed. Smells like ... Deadspin? Jezebel? one or the other in here. I remember the days when this was the... more » | Other threads
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defamer
In Search Of The Next Grazerhead
A helpful operative happened to notice a Banksyian homage to everyone's favorite cultural-attaché-seeking (or maybe seeking no longer? We'd love a hiring update!) superproducer-entity, Brian Grazer. They write in to explain: More »
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By SethComment by KateNonymous: Or maybe it's what Pacino's mugshot would look like today. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Knowledge Junkie Brian Grazer Seeking New Thought-Pusher
Brian Grazer has made little secret of his helplessness over his knowledge addiction: The superproducer's cravings have become so extreme, he can regularly be found shivering in the alley outside the Imagine offices awaiting his cultural attaché, who arrives bearing a bindle of high-grade Blue Insight for Grazer to cook up over a bare lightbulb and inject directly between his concept-hungry toes. But with his trusty idea-pusher having decided it was time to move on, the unusual job listing for his replacement has been making the Hollywood rounds. The New Yorker reports: More »
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By SethComment by TheSometimesWhy: I can't bear to look at Grazer ever since that day that I served him and Brandon Tartikoff lunch. ... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by InkStainedWretch: @TheStarterWife: I remember! Don't ever change, StarterWife! more » | Other threads
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power lists
The Smart 50: Entertainment Weekly Declares That There Are At Least 50 Intelligent People In Hollywood
We've made no secret of our love for Hollywood power lists, as hierarchical inventories of which players are currently swinging the biggest dicks (and that doesn't exclude the ladies who occasionally creep into the rankings!) in the entertainment industry briefly bring order to an otherwise confusing show-business world. In a twist that threatens to redefine everything we thought we knew about putting numbers next to famous names, the iconoclasts at EW have decided to substitute "smart" for the vanilla, outdated notion of "power," a decision that has catapulted burgeoning comedy monopolist Judd Apatow from an already-impressive #13 on Premiere's old-timey 2007 index to the top spot in Hollywood's New Smart Order. More »
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By MarkComment by chuchobaby: What? I'm not on here? Someone's ass is about to get FIRED. more » | Other threads
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davinci code
Now that Imagine's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have had blockbuster Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons put off indefinitely by the strike, we think we've identified a perfect fill-in project that could hit on many of the controversial religious themes that made Da Vinci such a huge success: The 13th Disciple, a planned "fantasy-adventure" film about Jesus Christ's reincarnated evil twin. We've already cast longtime Grazer muse Russell Crowe in the heretical leading role. [Reuters] -
defamer
Brian Grazer: Something Special In The Air
A Defamer operative browsing the fine in-flight literature in his seat-pocket library just sent in this blurry cameraphone image of the current edition of American Airlines' ON magazine, where he was understandably startled to find superproducer Brian Grazer's face smiling back at him. (Click the pic for a bigger version; if you still have trouble reading the text, it says: MOVIE MAKER: What do a mermaid, an astronaut, and a Harlem drug lord have in common? Brian Grazer.") More »
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By MarkComment by BabylonSister: @Sweet Panda Love: The Grazerhead violated TSA regulations. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Brian Grazer Would Trade His Hollywood Kingdom For A 'People' Cover
Despite having earned untold millions from his incredibly successful superproducing career, won an Oscar for his shepherding of a buddy comedy (with heart!) about a math-loving schizophrenic and his favorite imaginary friend, and having recently dragged a troubled, $100 million passion project out of development hell and into a lucrative box office run all by himself, Imagine's Brian Grazer is still tormented by feelings of Hollywood inadequacy. In today's NY Times, Grazer, his signature hair-spikes seemingly wilting with each anguished word, laments that for all of his show business accomplishments, his name is still relatively unknown by the middle-American moviegoers to whom he delivers Russell Crowe-starring cinematic delights every couple of years: More »
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By MarkComment by SugartitsMcFirecrotch: @Sweet Panda Love: Hmmm, I think of him as more of a Potsie or Ralph Malph type myself. Although, with this... more » | Other threads
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brian grazer
As it turns out, the script for Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons that screenwriter Akiva Goldsman rushed in to beat the pre-strike deadline wasn't as shoot-ready as Sony had hoped, forcing the studio to indefinitely postpone production of Ron Howard's next crowd-narcotizing blockbuster: More » -
monday morning box office
Brian Grazer's Tireless Superproducing Work Pays Off In 'Gangster' Triumph
On this gloomy Monday morning, take a moment to review the weekend'sstudio strike fundbox office results, allowing yourself to momentarily ignore the coordinated chants of the picketers outside your place of employment. More » -
trade roundup
In Denial About The Coming Labor Apocalypse, Hollywood Keeps Announcing New Projects Like Nothing's Wrong
· In a badly timed announcement of blockbuster-derived profits, Viacom crows about the "phenomenal success" of "new global brand Transformers" that helped lift their net income by 80 percent, forgetting to transfer the revenues to a balance-sheet loss column and publicly lament that "there's no money to be made in this dying business of ours." [Variety] More » -
defamer
The Heartwarming True Hollywood Story Of The Brothers Grazer
Portfolio's Hollywood Deal blog writes touchingly of the once-strained relationship between Imagine Entertainment superproducer Brian Grazer and black sheep sibling Gavin, whose reciprocal appearances at each other's recent New York movie premieres (Brian's the troubled $100 million blockbuster he brought to the screen by sheer force of will; Gavin's, a somewhat less expensive , surrealistic Anthony Hopkins art project) were indicative of a closeness that long eluded brothers on the opposite end of the spectrum of Hollywood success. You need to read the entire story to appreciate their long journey towards reconciliation, but we've excerpted a couple of the piece's feel-good moments here:Grazer's stature as the younger, struggling sibling of big-shot, Oscar-winning, and occasionally hyper-intense producer Brian Grazer is well-known in Hollywood but will have its first real public airing in Slipstream. Writer-actor-director-producer Hopkins (dubbed "SIr Realist" by one paper) chose to call Gavin's character "Gavin Grazer"; Brian Grazer considered a cameo as the character's unnamed brothers but couldn't schedule it.
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By MarkComment by Polyh3dron: Before Click: Little Grazerhead After Click: BEHEMOTH GRAZERHEAD GAH! more » | Other threads
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defamer
Hollywood Dreams Of Labor Peace, Internet Porn, And Starter Wives
· The trades discuss yesterday's big strike news that's allowing Hollywood its first glimmer of hope that a walkout might be avoided. (Please, no one say anything about the internet and digital downloads and ruin the town's brief buzz.) Also, THR unveils its stunning, strike-related news logo (at left). [THR, Variety] More » -
hollywood privacywatch
Superproducer Brian Grazer Superwoos Clint Eastwood Over Dinner
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dark nights of the producing soul
Brian Grazer Puts 'American Gangster' On His Back, Carries It Into Theaters Himself
When roughly $22 million worth of Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington fans show up at the multiplex on long-gestating, twice-aborted Universal feature American Gangster's opening weekend, not even the succession of credits reading "Produced by Brian Grazer," "Based On An Idea By Brian Grazer To Do A Movie About A Magazine Article About A Drug Kingpin From The 70s" and "A Ridley Scott Film Shepherded By Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, Who Simply Refused To Let This Crazy Dream Die" will give moviegoers an adequate appreciation of the Herculean efforts undertaken by the spikey-haired superproducer to finally bring his passion project to the screen. The LAT chronicles the mogul's heroism in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles (budget overruns! eight-figure kill fees! cost-controlling script rewrites that ripped the very soul out of the story!), here recounting the dark moment when a momentarily defeated Grazer had to tell original director Antoine Fuqua that Gangster had been shelved: More » -
defamer
Brian Grazer Hits The Beach
We at Defamer realize that a layout issue in our recent redesign has somewhat reduced our ability to shock you with the unexpected deployment of Brian Grazer's official headshot (the Grazerhead™ to regular visitors), and so in the interest of putting you back on edge, we're bringing out the nukes: this screenshot of a shirtless Grazer, who was cornered by a TMZ video camera this weekend at the Polaroid Malibu Beach House after presumably trying to superproduce an anonymous blonde's phone number by casually mentioning that she'd be perfect for the Splash sequel he's been wanting to do for twenty years. More »
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By MarkComment by I-heart-Rien: he looks like every sad 45 year old gay man at a circuit party trying desparately to pass for 39.... more » | Other threads
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defamer
"Grazer's ex-wife Gigi also showed up at L.A.'s Museum of Natural History for the party, and when photographers called her 'Mrs. Grazer,' she corrected them, saying, 'It's "Miss" now'. 'And I'm really rich,' she added as she stepped into her car." [Open All Night] -
defamer
Competing agencies scoff at CAA's surprisingly progressive program in which it pauses from scorching the bottoms of its assistants' feet with a hot fireplace poker long enough to allow them to pitch projects to clients (which recently resulted in a comedy sale to Imagine superproducer Brian Grazer), fearing that such humane shenanigans could interfere with the call-rollers' development into perfect killing machines. [THR]
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By MarkComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: Any bets on how many times the sentence "Yeah, he may have sold a script to Imagine, but the loser trainee... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by I-heart-Rien: Can we get a SGH making cumshot face? it would be so repulsive you would have to look. ... more » | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Lindsay Lohan Rings In Her 21st At Chateau Haunted By Personal Demons
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