<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, defamer 2007 year in review]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, defamer 2007 year in review]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/defamer2007yearinreview http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/defamer2007yearinreview <![CDATA[Part IV: IggyGate, Incredible Picketing Babies]]> And so we come to Part IV, the final chapter of our Defamer 2007 Year in Review. May 2008 bring conflict resolution, good health, and love:

October
· Britney loses her kids.
· Charlie Sheen and his correspondences with ex-sad, jobless pig, Denise Richards
· David Letterman's classic post-jail Paris Hilton interview.
· Tell Me You Love Me introduces America to prop nuts and fake jizz.
· Danny Bonaduce piledrives Jonny Fairplay.
· Pamela Anderson weds the Paris Hilton sex-tape guy in Vegas.
· The path to war.
· IggyGate rocks a nation.
· That creepy thing about David Copperfield you could never quite put your finger on.
· The Great 2007 Fire of Everyfuckingwhere.
· The Great Strike Chair Dispute is a bad sign of things to come.
· Marie Osmond down n' out.
· Jerry Seinfeld demonstrates some Late Night hubris.

November
· The strike is on. (And on and on and on.)
· Ellen DeGeneres crosses picket lines.
· Shia LaBeouf's Walgreen's arrest.
· Fabio vs. Clooney.
· Michael Jackson's Ebony cover.
· Mickey Rourke's Vespa DUI.
· Dog the Bounty Hunter's gets caught N-wording on tape by his own son.
· The Incredible Picketing Baby: A strike star is born.
· Sharon Stone leaves little to the imagination.
· Matt Damon named the sexiest man alive.
· The hunkiest Bachelor ever refuses to play by The Bachelor rules.
· A live 30 Rock among the sweet spots in a bitter strike.
· Carson Daly's strike solution.
· Carrot Top scores!

December
· Kiefer's in jail :(
· Jodie Foster publicly thanks her life partner.
· Katherine Heigl puts her foot in it in Vanity Fair.
· Jennifer Love Hewitt's ass is a topic of much discussion.
· Dr. Phil's audience spared a taping of Dr. Phil.
· Quentin Tarantino horrifies early risers with his Golden Globe announcements.
· Steven Spielberg staying put.
· Jamie Lynn Spears is having a baby.
· A Return to Late Night.
· Last DUI of the year? Bet on it: Mischa Barton.
· Worldwide Pants the slacks of reason in the growing strike madness.

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<![CDATA[Part III: Coke Pants, Britney's VMAs Dance]]> britney-vma.jpgWow—is it July already? Someone turn off this space heater and get us some sangria! It must be time for more Defamer 2007 Year in Review:

July
· The big fucking robots finally come—and conquer.
· Kwik-E-Mart's invade the area.
· Lindsay Lohan comes of drinking age.
· CAA assistants gather to greet Becks in the stairwell. He never comes.
· Live Earth's a dud.
· Rosie O'Donnell defiles Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
· Ed Limato squeezed out at ICM.
· Jon Lovitz's Andy Dick smackdown.
· Introducing, Herr Cruise!
· Filipino "Thriller."
· Lindsay Lohan: The Coke-Pant, Denalijacking arrest.
· McPherson to Silverman: "Be a man."
· Merry Miller's Holly Hunter interview disaster.

August
· Billion Dollar Ratner Week.
· Whoopi Goldberg arrives at The View.
· Lohan joins the Cirque.
· The Phil Spector trial field trip and he's greatest canine supporter.
· Big Brother's Amber is leery of Jews, and other BB intolerances.
· Merv Griffin dead, gay.
· John From Cincinnati drowns in an inscrutable riptide.
· Hey—it's Naked Leopard Man! (Thanks, Dave!)
· The Learning Channel not quite successful achieving its mission statement.
· Owen Wilson attempts suicide.

September
· Rita Cosby's outrageous Howie-on-Larry allegations.
· Bill Murray's drunken Swedish golfcart joyride.
· Jerry Lewis's gay telethon slur.
· Crazed Italian Brad Pitt fan-attack!
· The Britney Spears VMAs performance of a lifetime.
· Kathy Griffin: "Screw Jesus. This award is my god now."
· Acknowledging the Rubyfruit Mafia.
· O.J. Simpson's stolen-shit shakedown.
· An Emmys in the round.
· Kid Nation premieres, and homesickness abounds.
· Spector jury hung. Mistrial is declared.
· Sherri Shepherd admits she has no clue what shape the planet is.
· Leave Britney Alone!
· George Clooney's motorcycle accident.
· Kiefer Sutherland's U-Turn of Doom.
· Spielberg: "Completely Immaterial."

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<![CDATA[Defamer's Top Ten Man-On-The-Street Videos Of 2007]]>
Yesterday, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer compiled for us the Top 10 Videos of 2007, a pastiche of sobbing talk show hosts, cold-hearted hunks, sassy Galileo revisionists, and delicious floorburgers. Today, she brings things a little bit closer to home—could we dim the lights please?—lovingly scrapbooking Defamer's Top 10 Man-On-the-Street Videos of 2007. We begin with the streetweary insights of Chinese Theater Spider-Man, schooled by Chewbacca in a little-known martial art called Qui-Gon Jinn, that he might more efficiently fend off countless molesty tourists hoping for a cheap grab at his webslingers. Enjoy.


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<![CDATA[Defamer's Top Ten Videos Of 2007]]>

While we've been slaving over a year's worth of Defamer hot links, plucking only the juiciest for our Year in Review series, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer has been hard at work too, cobbling together this countdown of Defamer's Top 10 Videos of 2007, with interstitials set to a delightful hip-hop soundtrack.

We cannot express enough just how much joy we derived from reliving the greatest recorded moments of the year; some of them we've now seen dozens, even hundreds of times, and yet they still offer us new discoveries—such as Barbara Walters observing, "Well, you can do both," upon it being suggested to her that it's impossible to simultaneously feed one's children, and know that the Earth is in fact not flat. Oop! We've already said too much. From us to you, enjoy.

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<![CDATA[Part II: Thoughtless Little Pigs, Heiresses Behind Bars]]> paris-crying.jpgJoin us, won't you, as we continue to skip down the cobblestone, empty blow-baggie-strewn paths of 2007 Memory Lane:
April
· The Captivity billboard campaign. (Did those ever come down?)
· Keith Richards admits to snorting his pa.
· Defending the Cavemen.
· A smiley Joe Francis is put away for a very long time.
· Larry Birkhead hates to tell us he told us so, but he told us so.
· Don Imus is Moonves'd.
· A Mischaesque harbinger of things to come.
· Sanjaya, out.
· Alec Baldwin's "rude, thoughtless little pig" tirade.
· Foul-mouthed infant landlord Pearl becomes a sensation.
· Rosie announces her departure.
· Jack Valenti dies.
· Stephen Hawking flies.

May
· Paris Hilton sentenced to 45 days.
· Hasselburger down!
· Bruce Willis's Sweary Night in Canada.
· Russell Crowe loses it rhapsodizing Brian Grazer.
· Chris Albrecht's bumpy night bumps him right out of HBO.
· Kirstie Alley the surprise hero of The Great Griffith Park Fires of 2007.
· Paris pardons Elliot Mintz.
· Who knew the Upfronts would wind up being a gigantic waste of time? (Ahem.)
· Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie zipline stunt.
· The Pinkberry question.
· An Idol winner.
· Rosie storms out of The View.
· Shhhhhh. It's sleeping Jakeypoo on a train.
· Lindsay Lohan's "usable amount of cocaine" DUI arrest.
· · Kevin Reilly is shitcanned, and a perfect storm rock star takes his place.
· Hey—remember that TB guy?
· Typo of the Year.

June
· Paris, In-n-Out-n-In.
· Isaiah Washington fired from Grey's Anatomy.
· The Jericho peanut campaign starts a new era of snack-food-based fan demonstrations.
· Rob Lowe commits birdiecide.
· Eli Roth's monstrous manhood.
· Clooney and Damon press their paws in Grauman's.
· Don't Stop Believin': The Sopranos is over.
· Paris finds God.
· Brian Grazer and Gigi Levangie call it quits.
· Innovative assistants have their benefits revoked, and quickly restored. Shmears for all!
· CAA needlessly sends its assistants for iPhones.
· Paris is released.
· How Studio 60 ended.

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<![CDATA[Part I: Anna Nicole Gone, Britney Shorn]]> e50f36d2b99aa009d6529755c785d18c.jpg2007: It was a year that started with a bang—would you classify Tara Reid unsuccessfully attempting to count backwards from 60 any other way?—and ended with one protracted, stalemated whimper, filled with not-so-shocking (and yet totally shocking!) deaths, outrageous pregnancies, and a visit from the transformative robots of our youth. Without further ado, we proudly present the first installment of our 2007 Year in Review:

January
· Tara Reid's endless New Year's Eve countdown.
· Vanessa Minnillo cusses her way into the new year.
· From Justin to Cameron: You're dumped.
· Welcome to the end of The O.C. era, bitch.
· Indy 4 gets a greenlight, and crystal skulls are still things you associate with a head shop.
· Gail Berman gets the ax, making Brad Grey the Emperor of Paramount.

· Welcoming the Beckhams.
· James Cameron settles on a project.
· Donald and Rosie still having relationship problems.
· Angelina Jolie assesses her feelings about the new white blob in her life.
· Golden Globes, top to bottom.
· The beginning of the end for Isaiah Washington.
· Sorky fights back!
· Dreamgirls, snubbed.
· The CAA Death Star opens for business.
· Nicole Kidman's Invasion accident. (Sooo not worth it.)

February
· The Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign has Boston under siege.
· With Lloyd Braun as her witness, Gail Berman shall rise again.
· Sienna Miller's Today show f-bomb.
· Chewie booked.
· OMFG: Anna Nicole dies. Eight great YouTube moments.
· Zucker ascends.
· Prince's Super Bowl demonschlong.
· Hey—remember that crazy astronaut in the diaper?
· They don't call Ralph Fiennes the Mile-High Mad Dog for nothing.
· Paris Hilton and Antonio Villaraigosa cozy up to discuss policy.
· Liveblogging Oscar.
· Britney shaves her head, and America really starts to suspect that something might be wrong.

March
· The Wolfgang Puck hepatitis A scare rocks canapé-noshing Hollywood!
· Antonella Barba: A star for the talentless, naughty-internet-photo generation.
· The first juicy-ish gossip item in the history of Hollywood sound mixers.
· Avert your eyes: Travolta is boogying in bikerwear.
· Steven Spielberg's stolen Rockwell.
· Fat Leto.
· Pax Thien put on Angelina's Black Card.
· Sly busted in Australia for possession of HGH.
· Britney in Promises.
· Richard Jeni's suicide.
· Brian Grazer presents The Los Angeles Times Currents Section: An Imagine Production canceled because of Grazergate.
· The amazing Lily Tomlin/David O. Russell Huckabees freakouts.
· Sanjayamania reduces us to tears.
· The Great Burbank Fire of '07.

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