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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Done Pretending To Like You

STV — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:55:58 EST

If you've spent any time second-guessing what exactly Gwyneth Paltrow is up to at her healthy-living passion project GOOP — and really, who hasn't? — the upstart Web proprietress has a word for you.

"Fuck the haters!" [Paltrow told Elle UK in an interview.] "I saw this blog of people writing horrible things about me and for a second your ego is so wounded. How could people hate me, my intentions or what I'm trying to do? I'm a good person and I'm trying to put good things into the world."

Well! After a thorough browse of our records we're relieved to know for once this isn't our fault. We liked Iron Man lots, and if we're being totally candid, her bowel detoxification regimen works like a messy charm! So yeah, haters, totally — cut it out already. It's not like she's Tina Fey.

Gwyneth Paltrow: Ef the GOOP Haters [E! Online]

Sylvester Stallone Now Just Enjoying HGH For Three Meals A Day

STV — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:33:27 EST

As loyal Defamer readers will know, there are a lot of reasons to be excited for The Expendables — joined now by the potential to watch Sylvester Stallone literally explode onscreen.

Tattoos aside, 62-year-old Stallone's human growth hormone-aided physique hasn't changed that much from that which took a merciless heavyweight pummeling three years ago in Rocky Balboa or punched enemy heads from their pencil necks last year in Rambo. But while we long ago gave up any hope of a less chemically cut Stallone setting an example for younger moviegoers, we're most worried now about the imminent influence on his more organically athletic Expendables co-star Jason Statham. Or, more dangerous yet, the Adonis that is Forest Whitaker; he's worked on that body way too hard for way too long to throw it all away on an old man's whim.

Stallone... 62... Cut From Granite, Inked & Ready For 'THE EXPENDABLES'!
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Terry Gilliam Curse Tempted Once Again as 'Dehydrated' Verne Troyer Rushed to Hospital

STV — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:45:00 EDT

Believe it or not, the last person we'd expect to perpetuate the Terry Gilliam Curse recently landed in the emergency room: Verne Troyer, soon to be seen as Mike Myers' tiny bad-joke magnet in The Love Guru, was reportedly dispatched to a hospital outside Vancouver while shooting Gilliam's near-doomed Heath Ledger project The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus:

A source close to Troyer, 39, says the actor was experiencing "flu-like symptoms."... Adds the source, "He's been working really hard on the film. They just wanted to hydrate him."

A rep for Troyer denied that he was treated for a drug-related problem. "Verne is fine and doing well and is back to work," the rep tells Us.

We wouldn't normally care to speculate about Troyer's potential for relapse here (he underwent treatment for alcoholism in 2006), but with Gilliam and Us Magazine both being who and what they are, we're not exactly choking on our grain of salt. Anyway, didn't new insurance regulations after Ledger's passing require all Gilliam principals to be under strict 24-hour supervision throughout production? And how much water does Verne Troyer really need in a day, anyway?

'Mini Me' Verne Troyer Hospitalized [Us]