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Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne

STV — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:23:11 EST

2/15 — Saw SHARON AND OZZY OSBOURNE in the lounge at the Chateau Marmont. They both looked terrific, dressed in black of course, and dined with some other rocker types. My friends in town from Minneapolis were impressed, but were hoping for a LiLo sighting. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: 10/21 — So...

STV — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:44:18 EDT

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: 10/21 — So I’m at the lab next to the CitiBank in Burbank, minding my own business, and I look out the window at the parking lot, and there’s this guy who looks like Ozzy Osbourne getting into an Audi station wagon, and I’m saying to myself, you know, that guy looks like Ozzy, but he’s moving kinda well, no shaking. And then I see Sharon Osbourne getting into the back. And there was Kelly Osbourne in a Mercedes behind them. No carpooling in this family, evidently. Sorry, but that was cool. See? Post-production has its rewards. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]

WGA Issues Fatwa Against Cheapskate Producers of 'Osbournes' Variety Show

Seth — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:49:58 EDT

On the heels of the Tyler Perry's House of Payne labor controversy—in which WGA heads Patric Verrone and Michael Winship filed an angry grievance with the National Labor Relations Board, demanding restitution for "an abused writing staff forced to churn out sitcom dialogue with a pistol pressed to their temples by the world's wealthiest, union-busting grandma-with-a-dick,"—comes yet another fiery piece of rhetoric from the militant duo. This time, they target Fox's planned Osbourne family variety show, for which producer FremantleMedia is hoping they can get their snappy repartee wholesale. An excerpt from their letter:

Fox has ordered a primetime comedy-variety show featuring Ozzy Osbourne and his family, and has engaged FremantleMedia North America, the company behind American Idol, to produce it. Because they wanted to hire WGA members to write the show, Fremantle contacted the WGAW to see if we would agree to a sub-standard contract. Attempting to pay as little as possible to the writers on the show, Fremantle asked to treat it as “half-scripted” and pay greatly reduced writing fees to those writers who wrote skits, interview material, intros, and “outros.”

We refused to agree to such a deal because it would drastically undermine hard-won minimums and standards. [...]

Accordingly, WGA East and West members may not write for the Osbourne variety show (working title: The Osbournes: Loud and Dangerous). Any members who perform writing services on that show do so at their own peril as they will be violating WGA Working Rule 8 and could be fined up to 100% of their compensation for that work.

We agree, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our variety-show-patter-writing brothers and sisters. If they're going to conjure up golden nuggets like:
"Sharon: Say goodnight, Ozzy.
Ozzy: Grfbbbllhlrhhh.
Audience laughter"
then they sure as hell should be paid fairly for it!

To Our Fellow Members, [WGA.org]

'America's Got Talent' Impersonator Fools Even World's Foremost Ozzyologist, Sharon Osbourne

Seth — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:45:00 EDT

Whether gathering the family 'round to marvel at the sheer Coors-can-devastating force of Busty Heart's exercise-ball-sized melons, or simply gasping in amazement as octuple-jointed youngster Victoria braids her limbs into a human challah bread, you never quite know what form America's talent will take on America's Got Talent. On last night's show, for example, we were treated to that Las Vegas showroom mainstay—the celebrity impersonator—effecting the guise of addled Godfather of Metal, Ozzy Osbourne. So chillingly spot-on was the performance that Ozzy's own wife, Talent judge Sharon Osbourne, admitted not even she could tell the impostor from her own husband. She then insisted he drop his pants and proceeded to examine the contestant thoroughly; satisfied he bore none of Ozzy's distinguishing cigarette burns or The Catheter Bag of Darkness, she was happy to move the doppelganger onto the next round of competition.

America's Got Talent [NBC]

Sharon Osbourne Bringing A Knife To A Crazy Gunfight

Mark — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:41:50 EDT

· We understand why Sharon Osbourne was all whooped up on Ellen, but our money would be on Courtney Love if their feud ever came to blows. If Osbourne had ever taken a look at Love's batshit MySpace blog, she'd know she'd be the one fighting out of her crazy-class.
· This is what happens when you trust a guy named the Sultan of Sleaze with your money.
·We're probably no more than three days away from the announcement that Chris Tucker will star in the remake of Escape from New York.
· A magnificent cock moves on, filling us with indescribable sadness.