<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, birthdays]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, birthdays]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/birthdays http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/birthdays <![CDATA[Perez Hilton's Birthday Party: The Sponsorship Pitch]]> Yesterday was Perez Hilton's 31st birthday! His star-studded birthday bash will be March 28th at LA's "iconic" Viper Room. And here's how his marketing firm is trying to sell people sponsorships of this once-in-Perez's-lifetime affair:

His flacks are offering sponsorship of the party's VIP room—including naming rights!—for a mere $25,000. Let's hope Ex-Lax goes for that buy. They're also selling naming rights to the whole party for an undisclosed sum. It's a bargain at any price! The pitch claims that a single mention on Perez's site reaches more than 300 million people—more than the entire population of the US, in other words.

Yea.

Below is the entire "deck" they're sending around trying to sell this year's Perez party—last year's event was so star-studded, how could you resist? Half a billion "media impressions!" You'd be crazy not to pay to associate your brand, in the midst of a recession, with this...stuff:









]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5183934&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ IMDB is Finally Legal: We know where your...]]> IMDB is Finally Legal: We know where your mind probably went hearing that the Internet Movie Database turns 18 today. But despite the lovely note passed along by founder Col Needham, we're mostly just relieved we can finally throw it out of the house. So, IMDB, consider yourself emancipated — write if you get work, and don't forget to vote. [IMDB]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5065281&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Guilt, Power and Paris Hilton-Slaying: Happy Birthday, Joel Silver!]]> While the French and those who somehow love them celebrate yet another Bastille Day, July 14 has even more festive repercussions around Defamer HQ and Hollywood at large. To wit: Megaproducer/amateur publicist/career advisor Joel Silver was born on this day in 1952. The pride of South Orange, New Jersey, Silver made his first impact in 1970 as the co-creator of Ultimate Frisbee and never looked back. NYU Film School preceded his journey west, followed by an assistantship (and eventual partnership) with producer Lawrence Gordon and, before long, his own shingle — Silver Pictures, the epicenter of bullying, intimidation, projectile paperweights and bona fide blockbusters like Predator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and The Matrix. The flops came as well, including Hudson Hawk, Richie Rich and House of Wax — the latter of which is avenged in a little tribute video we cobbled together after the jump.

And while Silver might be hurting now, with his bomb Speed Racer flailing its way out of multiplexes at last, you can't keep a bombastic, Tang-suit-wearing, sport-inventing man down. That's why we scoured the Web for a bit of his wit, wisdom, contradictions and counsel on the occasion of the big 5-6. Joel, if we could be there with a cake, you know we would; we don't quite trust you around candles, however. Please let this suffice: Happy birthday, big guy! [Video by Molly McAleer]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=398516&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[In Honor Of His 46th, Tom Cruise In His Birthday Suit!]]>
We'd be remiss if we let the day slip by without offering some fond birthday wishes to not-quite-born-on-the-Fourth-of-July Tom Cruise, who turns 46-intense-years-old today. In his honor, we offer a revisiting of one of his most memorable, if uncharacteristic, screen turns, as a masquerade-orgy-seeking physician in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. In this trailer (homemade or Euro-cut, we're not sure), Cruise nakedly seduces his then-wife and naked-co-star, Naked Kidman. Happy birthday, Tom!

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397905&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan Celebrates Another Year Of Just Barely Keeping It Together]]> America isn't the only one having a birthday this week. Last night, Lindsay Lohan — everyone's favorite freckle-faced, raspy-voiced, psychologically-damaged, naked-picture-taking, gossip-column-filling, potential-half-sister-having, secretly-lesbian actress — turned 22 years old. It's truly mind boggling to imagine she's that young. Lohan's got so many miles of bad road behind her that I pegged her for at least 35. But no, 22— only one year past the legal drinking age which she's certainly never adhered to. So, how did Linds celebrate this momentous occasion? By throwing an 80's-prom-themed bash at Teddy's in the Roosevelt Hotel, of course. Check in after the jump for more party deets than you can shake a stick at.

"What luminaries attended this Capote-esque soiree?" you ask. Why only the brightest lights this town has to offer. We're talking Joel and Benji Madden (gasp!), Audrina Partridge (swoon!), Sean Stewart (who?), Evan Ross (double who?), Jamie Lynn Sigler (meh), and David Spade (WAY too old). Even E! reality stars Dina and Ali Lohan managed to sneak past the bouncers.

Yet, behind that velvet rope the party turned out to be pretty mild. Lindsay stuck to drinking Red Bull all evening, and according to People Magazine, "Just after midnight, Teddy's wheeled out a large pink sheet cake featuring a picture of Marilyn Monroe in her iconic wind-blown white dress. The entire lounge sang "Happy Birthday" and Lohan obligingly blew out the candles."

Kind of boring, eh? Well to make up for such an uneventful evening, we feel it is our duty to tell you that Star Magazine is reporting that Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan have been seen buying sex toys together! Feel a little more titillated now? Good. That's what we're here for.

[Photo Credit: X17]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397850&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Diablo Cody's Birthday: Bunnies, Bouncy Castles And New Kids On The Block]]> On June 14, our girl Diablo Cody turned the big 3-0. Being the Gemini minx that she is (she shares a star sign with Anna and Dodai, who were born on the 19th and 3rd, respectively), Diablo, the brunette in the center of this photo, couldn't let such an occasion pass without a truly bitchin' party to mark this momentous date. So she secured the Playboy mansion as the site of her debauchery, declared the evening to be pirate-themed, and erected a bouncy castle in her own honor. Though we could not make it to L.A. to attend the party, we sent a Jezebel mole in our place to snap some pics. Courtney Love performed, Lily Allen partied, the New Kids preened and the Grotto was probably peed in. Check out more photographic evidence after the jump!

Even though she appears to be wearing a diaper, Courtney Love is so cool whilst performing that she pulls it off. To quoth the bard Sandler: If peeing your pants is cool, Courtney's Miles Davis!
Joey McIntyre of NKOTB continues to be a font of cuteness in a world gone mad. Does he have some Dorian Grayish deal with the devil?
The infamous Playboy Mansion Grotto! It looks relatively tame here, but those rocks have seen things that are illegal in at least 40 states.
It's not a party without the star of a network tv sitcom present! Here's Chuck's Zachary Levi with an unidentified party-goer.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018905&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hollywood Salutes the Jews!]]> Hollywood stars gathered (electronically) in Times Square Tuesday to celebrate the 60th birthday of one of their dearest friends—the nation of Israel! Celebrities from Ben Stiller to Billy Crystal (and some gentiles!) appeared on two huge screens delivering their best birthday wishes for the little nation that could. You'll never guess who was behind the surprise outpouring of goodwill: "Francine Raubvogel, Chief of Staff at the Israeli Consulate, spearheaded the project with Nancy Spielberg, sister of director Steven Spielberg." Also there are banners, and a parade! The banners feature Israeli citizens with flags both from their county and ours. Our nations are inseparable! BFFs! Next month, all the Muslims in Hollywood will throw their own celebration, with Omar Sharif sending a telegram that will be read aloud on public access television. [JPost via Heeb]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390877&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Creepy Men Who Define Themselves Through Their Associations To Anna Nicole Celebrate Her 40th Birthday]]> e50f36d2b99aa009d6529755c785d18c.jpgHad she lived, Anna Nicole Smith would have been 40 years old today; she'd also very likely be disoriented, naked but for a set of lipstick cat whiskers, and wandering around the lobby of a Florida Hard Rock hotel with a nearby Howard K. Stern capturing every pratfall on Hi-8. As ever-tabloid-present in death as she was in her drug-addled years on Earth, Entertainment Tonight commemorates the posthumous milestone by approaching the two most essential mapping points on the love-polygon that defined much of her life—Stern and Larry Birkhead:

Today, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT spoke to Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead as they shared their continued grief for Anna Nicole Smith on what would have been her 40th birthday.
Stern, whose own birthday is tomorrow, told ET, "My only wish is that Anna is celebrating her 40th birthday with Daniel and Howard (Marshall) in heaven and that they are able to experience the beautiful development of Dannielynn from above. Then I know that she would truly be at peace. She was more extraordinary than words can describe. I will never stop loving her."

Birkhead reveals that he plans to commemorate Anna's birthday with Dannielynn, "We will have a private family celebration to remember Anna. Time still hasn't healed the wound of her untimely passing, as she truly was one of a kind. We miss her dearly."

If we know Birkhead, this "private celebration" is sure to be no less spectacular than the one he threw for Dannielynn's first birthday—a three ring circus swarming with clowns, magicians, and ET cameramen, with more little-girl pearls than you can shake a pink ballerina tutu at. Stern's commemoration, however, promises to be much more subdued, involving two individual cupcakes sitting at opposite ends of a dining table at her empty Bahamian estate, with her clown video looping in the background as the wistful lawyer savors the carefree, Anna-drugging days of yesteryear.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=327575&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tabloid Baby Milestones: Dannielynn Turns One]]>
We thought we'd take a moment to put aside the scurrilous claims of videotaped, babydaddy-on-executor action being made in Rita Cosby's tell-all, and instead focus on this Insider footage of a 1st birthday party thrown for Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead by doting pop Larry. (In Cosby's defense, between the "pink ballerina tutu" and "little girl pearls," this party was pretty gay, even for a one-year-old girl's birthday.) We know it's a cliché to say, but it really amazes us how quickly highly exploitable children grow up: It seems like only yesterday that The Insider was showing us exclusive images of Dannielynn being pried out of her mother's stomach in their heartwarming C-section birthing video.

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