<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, al gore]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, al gore]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/algore http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/algore <![CDATA[According to third-quarter donation reports,...]]> According to third-quarter donation reports, Hollywood is still lavishing cash at presidential hopeful Barack Obama, the candidate Oprah Winfrey recently dipped in honey, heaved into the money pile her friends built at her Montecito compound, and allowed to walk off with the three million dollars in donations that clung to his sticky, glistening form. But we suspect that most of those fickle little political starfuckers will be cured of their Obamamania and climb into Al Gore's hybrid bandwagon the minute the Oscar/Emmy/Nobel triple-threat announces he's running. [HuffPo]

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<![CDATA[Al Wins A Nice Nobel Coaster For His Oscar]]> gore-nobel.jpgWhile we at Defamer aren't typically in the business of reporting about any award that isn't voted upon by industry guilds or the George Lopez-Loving People, we nevertheless feel obliged to relay the news that former Vice President and Lifetime Friend to Prius-Driving Hollywood Types Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Prize today, along with his colleagues from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (You'll think us crazy, but we dreamed this would happen, in an epic nighttime hallucination involving Leonardo DiCaprio applying suntan lotion to Gore's back on a polar ice cap melted down to approximately the size of a manhole cover.) Leave it to the British, then, to acid rain on his Peace Prize parade:

One day before Friday's announcement that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore's global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," while "broadly accurate," contained nine significant errors.
The claim was originally filed by truck driver Stewart Dimmock, whose two children have not yet seen the film. [...]

The British claim was not the first time that the film's use in schools has been criticized...Frosty E. Hardison [of Federal Way, Wash.], a computer consultant and evangelical Christian, was outraged when he learned that the film would be shown in his daughter's seventh-grade science class. He sent an e-mail to the school board, declaring, "No, you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation — the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet — for global warming."

For some, no number of awards—not even Oscars and a Nobel, the Cadillacs of the trophy circuit!—will sway them from their dangerous views that they have been hand-picked by God Himself to plunder the planet to their whims, free to fill their bellies on polar bear snouts and panda ribs if they so chose. But while we fear the British, with their diesel-coughing double-decker buses and chips-oil saturated atmosphere may be beyond salvation, it's never too late to save ourselves: Perhaps the message would be more easily digestible by American audiences if Gore's efforts were fêted in a televised awards ceremony presented in the round and hosted by the immensely likable Ryan Seacrest, with the occasional cutaway to an LCD disco-ball every time the environmental crusader got a little too apocalyptic for Fox censors' tastes.

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<![CDATA[Emmys Telecast Flirts With Low-Rated Awards Show History]]> seacrest-emmys-dandy.jpg· Last night's Emmys drew the second-smallest TV audience in the awards show's history with an anemic average of 13.1 million viewers. No one, it seems, was tantalized by the sketchy possibility of Britney Spears showing up to apologize for destroying her career, or by the prospect of emergency host Ryan Seacrest breaking into song. Congratulations, America: you saved yourself over three hours of torture. (We were not so lucky.) [Variety]
· Tina Fey hopes 30 Rock's big win for Best Comedy Series will bring viewers to her show—obviously, she wasn't privy to the preliminary Emmy Nielsens when she made that crazy wish. [THR]
· AMC has an Emmy coming-out party, capturing four awards for Broken Trail. [Variety]
· Remember Pop-Up Video, the show that provided you with amusing, if useless, factoids about the "music videos" one used to be able to watch on VH1? It's coming back in a mobile format, allowing you to learn everything you ever wanted to know about "Hollaback Girl" by staring at your cellphone's tiny screen while stopped at a red light. [THR]
· Internet-creating former VP Al Gore doesn't even know the URL of his interactive TV network's website. [Update: Whoops, yes he does!] [variety]

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<![CDATA[Magic Johnson Beats The Hillary Drum]]> · Not to be outdone by Oprah Winfrey's lavish Barack Obama fundraiser—attended by the likes of Will Smith, Jamie Foxx and Chris Rock—lesser community-outreach deity Magic Johnson hosts one for Hillary Clinton at his Beverly Hills home. [Variety]
· Finally convinced it won't lead to an assist-tent-city for Valkyrie crew members to work out their shoulder knots and lingering Hitler-thetans, Germany reverses its decision not to let the Tom Cruise movie shoot at a historical execution site. [Variety]
· Al Gore's presence at this year's Emmy awards has been confirmed, where he'll be called upon to solicit an apology from Britney Spears for "squandering her one comeback chance and rendering polar bears extinct." [Variety]
· Alyssa Milano will star in Wisegal, a Lifetime movie about a female mobster that will require her to tap into the brash street-smarts of a Samantha Micelli, and the steely business sense of an Angela Bauer. [THR]
· New Line hires the Ghost World screenwriting team of Terry Zwigoff and Dan Clowes to rewrite (and Zwigoff to direct) The $40,000 Man, about an injured astronaut rebuilt as a bionic man on "a measly budget of only $40,000." We're seeing Will Arnett trying to catch up to a moving bicycle, accompanied by the familiar sound effect. [THR]

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<![CDATA[Al Gore's Kid Arrested In Eco-Friendly Drugmobile]]>
By far the most amusing detail to emerge from the Wednesday morning arrest of Al Gore III, son of the Oscar-winning ex-Vice President behind eco-porn masterwork An Inconvenient Truth, is that the young Gore was driving a Prius; no matter how upset Dad was by the phone call revealing that his child had been popped for the possession of marijuana and enough prescription drugs to sedate a typical Orange County housewife for a week, he had to be at least a little bit proud that his boy is doing his part to reduce the dangerous vehicle emissions that have brought our planet to the brink of environmental disaster.

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<![CDATA[Trade Round-Up: Bruckheimer Getting Serious About Blowing Shit Up]]> · Generally satisfied to produce movies that explore the lighter side of blowing shit up, Jerry Bruckheimer (and Disney) have acquired the movie rights to Mark Bowden's Atlantic Monthly terrorism article "Jihadists in Paradise," plunging Bruck into much darker explosion-related territory. [Variety]
· The team behind Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight continues to make impeccable casting decisions: after allowing Katie Holmes to "walk away" from reprising her character from Begins, they're close to signing up Aaron Eckhart to play Two Face. [THR]
· Al Gore will attempt to reverse global warming through a single day of simultaneous, worldwide rock concerts, a solution that climatologists have already dismissed as rooted more in the former Vice President's passion for the music of John Mayer than in proven science. [Variety]
· Various Fox entities (FX, 20th Century Fox TV, Fox Broadcasting) team up to shower Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy in cash for his showrunning/developing services. [Variety]
· Var thinks that Fox News Channel's right-wing Daily Show knockoff The 1/2 Hour News Hour feels like something "enterprising high-school kids with a video camera could replicate." [Variety]

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<![CDATA[Win A Date With Al Gore's Global Warming Movie]]> We're a couple of days too late to put in a bid of our own, but a lucky, deep-pocketed eBay bidder spent just under $3000 to win a private screening of Al Gore's global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, on the Paramount lot. The price includes seats for 20 guests and personally dedicated copies of Gore's book of the same name. Unfortunately, the winner and his pals have to pay their own freight to the Melrose lot, and Gore will not attend—though for three grand, the former Vice President should wander the theater with a bucket of cold water, occasionally splashing it on the viewers to vividly demonstrate just how unpleasant the melting of the polar ice caps and subsequent, cataclysmic coastal flooding will be.

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<![CDATA[Trade Round-Up: Global Warming Could Be Hotter]]> al-gore.jpg· Audiences already seem tired of Al Gore telling them of the cataclysms that await us because of global warming. Maybe they can add a meteor the size of Texas hurtling toward Los Angeles in the second act and revive interest. [Variety]
· J.K. Rowling announces that at least two main characters will die in the seventh and final Harry Potter book, and that their names are "Harry" and "Hermione." OK, we made that last part up because it's probably going to wind up being Ron Weasley's twin brothers once her publisher offers her $250 million to do one more book. [THR]
· Halle Berry teams with writer Angela Nissel to develop
an HBO comedy series about "a biracial woman and her two friends as they tackle racial and financial issues post-college." We're not even going to try and make that sound more interesting. [Variety]
· Hell's Kitchen wins Monday night for Fox, beating NBC's Treasure Hunters. We should note that we're officially changing our allegiance from Team Busty Grad Students to Team Busty Miss USA. [THR]
· The director and writer of The Devil Wears Prada film will reteam to adapt further chick lit evil for the big screen, this time for a I Don't Know How She Does It movie. [Variety]

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<![CDATA[Media Bubble: Live From San Francisco, It's Al Gore]]> &#8226; Al Gore's cable network, which launches today, is apparently a tapas bar, says a San Francisco Chronicle writer. This is, we think, a good thing, mostly because we had some excellent tapas last time we were in the City. [SFC]
&#8226; Katie Couric is a diva, but not one who throws lamps, says Ken Auletta. Not that we can actually get to his article online. [NYer]
&#8226; While her husband is on vacation, Judy Miller gets jail visits from journos. [E&P]
&#8226; TV on the web is perhaps finally here. Which comes as great news for your friends who worked at Pseudo five years ago. [NYT]
&#8226; GQ really, really likes The Dukes of Hazzard. [NYT]
&#8226; As if things were looking so rosy for media companies in the first place, now a global ad slowdown is expected. [NYP]
&#8226; Ten bought-out employees had their last days at the Times on Friday. [Romenesko]
&#8226; Apparently there's a clever guy in Los Feliz running a smart and funny blog about Hollywood. Who knew? [LAT]

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