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trade roundup
Hey Ladies! Now You Can Be Even More Jealous of Eat, Pray, Love
Today it's mostly just casting casting casting, as TV stars make movie moves and movie actors flee to TV. And Elizabeth Gilbert, I mean Julia Roberts, lands the Spaniard of her dreams. More »
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Comment by DahlELama: So is it wrong that I liked Royal Pains? To be fair, the chick from my favorite soap was on... 6 Responses | Other threads
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film schooled
Valentine's Day: What He's Just Not That Into You Hath Wrought
In February, thanks to a star-studded cast and aggressive marketing, He's Just Not That Into You made $94 million, despite being a gay minstrel show with "desperately needy" heroines and black people punchlines. Guess what? [Jezebel]
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By DodaiComment by baraqiel: Awwww. Love Actually has a huge cast and no real overarching plot, but it's so cute and has so... 19 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Julia Roberts Curses Like a Sailor
While she seems so nice in her movies, the real Julia Roberts works blue. At Sunday's Lincoln Center tribute to Tom Hanks the actress spoke last, and boy did she say fuck a lot.
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Comment by taraniso: Irrelevant. Can't open a film anymore. Seven years from now she'll have a skin-care product line on the Home Shopping... 4 Responses | Other threads
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monday morning box office
Monsters, Aliens Destroy Connecticut, Thousands of Sweaters Lost
This morning we bring news of the war between Nadya Suleman and Mexicans. Plus, the failing of Julia Roberts and a group of sad people in costume becomes our entertainment. More »
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Comment by hortense: I am only down with the Pals n' Gals adaptation if there is an interruption by an incredibly annoying Lil'... 7 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
When TV Stars Ruled the Earth
Cannibals will soon roam the earth, as will comedians. Jennifer Aniston and dogs are Mother Nature's favorite creations. Audrina Patridge will never, ever die. Your in-town-for-pilot-season friend will never, ever leave. More »
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Comment by WindowSeat: Battle Royale has set the bar pretty high for Teenage Fight To The Death flicks. 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
The Terminator Can Self-Destruct, But It Cannot Destroy The View
Everyone everywhere is mad about Terminator. Ashlee Simpson continues to plague us, as does The View. More film work for Tracy Morgan! And Julia Roberts too. More »
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Comment by fuzzywhat: Harpies that they be, I'll take The View's reign over the Jerry Springer era any day. At least their ridiculousness... 5 Responses | Other threads
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duplicity
From the Director of 'Michael Clayton': Clive, Julia, and Her Thong
Sure, sure, Titanic couple Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are reuniting on-screen in the upcoming Revolutionary Road, and that's great. Still, the romantics over here at Defamer HQ would prefer a reprise of the light and fluffy lovers played by Clive Owen and Julia Roberts in Closer ("You like him coming in your face?" "Yes!" "What does it taste like?" "It tastes like you but sweeter!"), so this trailer for their upcoming Duplicity will have to do. Oh, and what's this? A brand-new costar in the form of Julia Roberts's thong? How did the suddenly sexed-up Natalie Portman get left out of this Closer coffee klatch? The trailer, after the jump: More »
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julia roberts
Party like it's 1998! Julia Roberts made what E! is calling a "rare public appearance" yesterday, appearing onstage at the Stand Up for a Cure concert at Madison Square Garden. "Hello New York City!" she said to the audience. "I cannot tell you how excited I am to be in the greatest city in the world to introduce one of the greatest bands of the world." Then, strangely, Dave Matthews Band came out. [E!] -
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Meg Ryan Becomes Latest Member Of Reviled 'Fat Suit' Club
To say that Meg Ryan's career is in a free-fall would be to imply that her career hasn't already hit rock bottom. While it's true that she's poised for a potential comeback in this fall's remake of The Women, anyone with half a brain realizes that her star died the day the news broke that she was schtupping Russell Crowe on the set of Proof Of Life back in 2000. Making matters even worse for America's Former Sweetheart™, in Meg's newest (straight-to-DVD) movie called My Mom's Hot Boyfriend, she becomes the latest in a long string of actresses to strap herself into a fat suit only to magically "slim down" to win the heart of a handsome man — a trick which stopped being funny the second time that the Friends gang went to that well. While we're not about to get up on a pedestal and start going off about the offensiveness of fat suits, this news did prompt us to go back and take a look at some of the stars who have donned prosthetics to plump up on-screen in the past (rarely, if ever, to humorous effect). Play along with our latest round of Defamer Bingo after the jump. More »
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By Mark GrahamComment by TootieFields: But will Meg also be able to remove the Joker mask that has become her face after all the plastic... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Will Smith Up, Ladies Down on Forbes's Annual List of Stupid-Rich Stars
It's that time of year again, when Hollywood's biggest stars harvest their multiplex crops, drop the hammer on their mums and size up their places among Forbes's annual list of highest-paid movie stars. As we've come to expect, it's Will Smith's world, with the megastar and noted Scientology-school patron raking in $80 million since last June; the remainder of the list comprises mainstays like Johnny Depp ($72 million) and Leonardo DiCaprio ($45 million) along with slip-sliding shockers including Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, each tied at $55 million thanks in large part to the Shrek franchise's enduring success. More »
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defamer
The Anti-Joys Of Screen Sex With Julia Roberts
British actor Dominic West has made his biggest impression playing roguish Detective James McNulty on The Wire, but he's also find some success on the big screen: he played Renée Zellweger's lover in Chicago, and was soon after cast opposite Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile. In an interview in today's The Guardian, he recalls the illuminating, grueling, and sometimes extremely annoying experience of working with Hollywood's highest-paid actresses: More » -
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Josh Hartnett Latest In Long List Of Celebs To Make Ill-Fated Decision To Dabble In Theater
Radar reports that our favorite box office trailblazer, Josh Hartnett, has finally given up hope of nailing zingers on 30 Rock or appearing in a mildly successful movie and moved on to simpler pursuits: the London theater. In a role that will certainly pay homage to Tom Cruise’s former career as an actor, Hartnett will appear as Rain Man’s Charlie Babbit opposite a less-heartthrobby Brit filling Dustin Hoffman’s pigeon-toed shoes. Most interesting of all? Hartnett manages to say, “It has always been my intent to work on the London stage,” without laughing. But the bigger question remains (ahem, Katie Holmes): why do movie stars assume tackling the theater will be a breezy little side-job guaranteed to build acting cred? The track records of Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, and David Schwimmer beg to differ, after the jump. More »
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Comment by SteamyMcFirecrotch: (PRODUCT PLACEMENT ALERT!) Hartnett manages to say, "It has always been my intent to work on the London stage," without... more » | Other threads
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blind items
Blind Item Guessing Game: Banging Groupies Officially Less Cool Than Being Totally Gay!
The good news about this blind item in today’s NY Daily News? So many clues! Details and hints abound, from gender to marital status to what the estranged stars claim they “do” for a living. The bad news? Even when a blind item seems so specific and easy to see through, the gossip itself just doesn’t make sense. Case in point: More »
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the women
Embattled 'Women' Director Will Keep Chick Flicks Going, Warner Bros Be Damned
Keeping in mind all the optimistic overdrive before and after Sex and the City's $57 million opening weekend, the putative Chick-Flick Revolution should probably feel a little more dug in right now than it actually is. But such is life for the accidental genre, which received another once-over on Sunday at the LAFF when writer-director Diane English discussed (and briefly previewed) her troubled updating of the 1939 all-female ensemble dramedy The Women — a/k/a "Unreleaseable Meg Ryan Project," the subject of its own endless drama and speculation as Warner Bros. determines how it plans to bury it. More » -
katherine heigl
Before They Had Stylists: A Look Back At Stars' First Time On A Red Carpet
Like the heady mix of pride and elation that fills you as you witness your own flesh-and-blood pulling themselves up by their lonesomes to take their first wobbly steps across the living room floor, witnessing some of your favorite stars' first times on the red carpet—as compiled in this Us Weekly gallery—is an experience worth savoring. Pictured above, writer's room taskmistress Katherine Heigl presents herself to the world at the 2000 premiere for The Beach in an ensemble that makes several endearing first-timer mistakes: 1. At this early point in your career, showing anything more than 3/4 inch of leg runs the risk of making you look trampy. 2. Flashbulbs' x-ray effect often reveal more about your foundation garments than you'd like to the world to know. Always match your bra to your dark-chocolate turtleneck, lest you want the world to mistakenly assume you're a Mormon. 3. The movie's about a tropical Eden in Thailand, not what happens when your trying-to-be-hip mom is convinced by a Barneys saleswoman that "Fall is all about the Annie Oakley look." Dress theme-appropriately. More » -
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Frosty Box Julia Roberts Refuses To Indulge Letterman In Stroller-Pushing Small Talk
David Letterman and Julia Roberts were reunited on last night's Late Show, and it didn't feel so hot. The self-exiled Most Powerful Actress in Show Business seemed to us unnecessarily hard on the host and gushing dad, who was trying to make some point about celebrity baby-math (something about exponential levels of household chaos, not the old adage about knocking $5 mil off the opening weekend for every pregnancy). He was swiftly made to look the buffoon by the Charlie Wilson's War star and her rigidly literal-minded interpretation of family-sizes. And no one makes Dave look the buffoon—well, except maybe Julia. [Late Show] -
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Katherine Heigl Seeks Escape From Doomed 'Grey's' In Search Of Big-Screen Stardom
We've been poking fun at Katherine Heigl for months now, and with good reason: she just can't stop saying the darndest things about her emasculated husband Joshua Kelley, she is completely lacking gaydar ... frankly, this list could go on for hours. But after hearing the news that Heigl is pushing for an escape from the ratings-challenged Grey's Anatomy following a fiscally successful contract renegotiation later made public, we're inching towards Team Heigl for the first time. As a source tells MSNBC: More »
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Comment by gwendemarco: Big GBut fan as this town needs a manly man but sadly, he hasn't lit the BO on fire. Saw... more » | Other threads
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Comment by Tacobelle: George: Having an escort attend this event is nothing less than an egregious lack of decorum on your part. Inviting... more » | Other threads
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box office panic
Julia Roberts Can't Open! (And Other Crises Setting a Shattered Hollywood on Edge)
OK, OK, Hollywood Reporter — we get it. The trade paper today took 1,600 words, three pie charts, two line graphs, and a half-dozen adorable floating-head info boxes to confirm the long-suspected word on the street that — are you ready? — the star system is dying. Jim Carrey can't open! Brad Pitt's last film did $4 million! Julia Roberts hasn't broken $70 million since 2001! Shriek! More »
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By STVComment by cerebralcat: I have a another take on this. With the advent of the internet, press junkets, magazine interviews and more mixing with... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Imagining The Top Five Films In Eliot Spitzer's Netflix Queue
In case you hadn't heard, recently resigned NY governor Eliot Spitzer likes call girls. A lot. And while we're still busy casting the inevitable movie of the week, our slideshow-obsessed friends over at Us dove into their archives to reminisce on the hooker-laced pasts of Hugh Grant, Eddie Murphy and escort king Charlie Sheen, who've all been caught with their pants (and dignities) down. But call girls don't always come in the form of silicone sketchballs straight out of the Bada Bing. Sometimes they have hearts of gold and charisma as thick as the air on the 101! If they're played by stars, that is. We dove into our own archives and selected our top five films that revolve around the World's Oldest Profession, flicks that will surely be making their way onto Eliot Spitzer's Netflix queue in no time. More »
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defamer
Just How Big Will 'The Chosen Two' Make Angelina Jolie, Anyway?
It's been nearly two months since we first heard about The Chosen Two's impending arrival, but judging from the size of Angelina Jolie's widening waistline, we suspect Brad's super sperm went into baby-making action a bit earlier than that. Seen yesterday shopping for books in Austin, Texas, Angelina's belly seems to be expanding at an exponential rate not yet seen in celebrity pregnancies. Which got us thinking, what if we saddled Jolie up next to J. Lo and Julia Roberts just before they burst? That way, we can begin to suss out just what size muumuu to FedEx to Casa Brangelina come spring. More »
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lists
Not Every 'Hot On-Set Hookup' Turns Out Like Brangelina, You Know
While AOL has put together a rosy list of the "hottest on-set hookups," complete with lusty make-out pictures and lovey-dovey tales from between the sheets, we feel obligated to point out that not every "hot" and heavy on-set romance leads to a fairy tale ending. In fact, a few of these couples' choices to get busy in between scenes wreaked havoc on both their personal and professional lives, leading some to lose their spouses, their reps and, in Angelina Jolie's case, a tattoo or two. We put together our own list of the top five most ill-fated on-set hookups, mainly to remind these bed-hopping stars that sometimes it's best to just say no to illicit trailer sex. More »
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Comment by fembot: so these 'hottest hookups' on aol mainly consist of men cheating on their wives with young skanks - classy.. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Top 10 Best Dressed Oscar Girls Of Yore
For every swan dress there is a fire engine red body-hugger worn by the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, or one of those golden sparkle-y things that just melts all over Halle Berry's body. To prove we're not just big meanies when it comes to discussing Oscar outfits of yesterday, we've put together our Top Ten picks for the most exclamatory, drop-dead dresses ever worn on an Oscar red carpet, and even redeemed one member of the Worst Club by placing her at the shiny top of our Best-Dressed cake. More » -
defamer
Oscar Nominee Cotillard Cashing In With Depp/Bale Gangster Flick
· La Vie en Rose Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard tries to parlay some of her awards-season heat into a role alongside Christian Bale and Johnny Depp in Michael Mann's Public Enemies, playing gangster John Dillinger's "torch singer girlfriend." [Variety] More » -
defamer
All Hail Reese Witherspoon, Hollywood's Highest-Paid Non-Male Performer
Today, all the world will bow before the awesome earning power of 2007's Most Expensive Female Movie Star: pointy-chinned romantic comedy juggernaut Reese Witherspoon, whose ability to command in excess of $15 million per picture can't even be compromised by ill-advised on-screen dalliances with her lower-grossing, dreamy-eyed, alleged in-flight soulmate. The Reporter has just released the list of Hollywood's best-compensated actresses, its annual reshuffling of the names of the only 10 ladies who get offered roles more satisfying than "allegedly homely best friend" or "youngish mother of a sassy teenager": More » -
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defamer
Everyone's Reteaming!
· A mere nine years after the first X-Files film surfaced in theaters, Fox announces that the second of Mulder and Scully's big-screen adventures (a reteaming, if you will) will arrive on July 25, 2008, a project that will begin shooting in December in Vancouver, far away from the picket lines of Los Angeles. [Variety] More » -
hookers, victims & doormats*
Hollywood Always Loves A Harlot
*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories
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apologies
Julia Roberts' Womb Might Need A Better Publicist
On the occasion of the birth of her third child, we at Defamer would like to offer an apology to Julia Roberts, for we've been so consumed with one-time dabbler in biological reproduction Angelina Jolie's every orphan-collecting whim that we've allowed ourselves to fall tragically out of touch with the Most Powerful Womb in Hollywood, forgetting that Roberts was even pregnant. This oversight on our part is especially embarrassing, as Roberts, unlike Jolie, has never publicly commented on the overprivileged blobbiness of her "real" children or used the press to work through any complicated feelings about the difficult decision to choose her empty uterus over crowded Third World orphanages, a noble commitment to privacy that deserves far more media attention than it currently receives. We promise to do better with the next pregnancy, assiduously tracking it with our finest gigantic red arrows from the earliest Us Weekly baby-bump to eventual exclusive People announcement of its healthy birth weight. More » -
trade roundup
Coens, Abortion, Gyllenhaal Huge At Cannes
· Cannes update: Films receiving early praise at Cannes include the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men, the abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and Zodiac, which feels like it was released in America three years ago. You may now return to not caring about what's going on in France (unless it involves Jerry Seinfeld in a bee suit. That was so awesome!) [Variety] More » -
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Report: Famous People Escape Harm From Accident They Weren't Present For; Non-Famous Person Not So Lucky
No need to panic, Hanks/Roberts fans and Universal executives! The above-the-title talent wasn't even on set when that anonymous special effects assistant was critically injured, greatly reducing the chance of the bodily harm seemingly threatened in the above headline supplied by the website of Toledo's News Leader. To their credit, they seem to have run the rest of the AP wire report unaltered, refraining from trying to create an additional hook for the story of the tragically injured assistant by combining it with the recent news that Hanks is currently the second most popular movie star in America and Roberts one of its richest famous ladies. More »
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trade roundup
Trade Round-Up: Comedy Central Takes Another Hit From 'Blue Collar' Crackpipe
Julia Roberts will produce and possibly star in an adaptation of the Lolly Winston novel Happiness Sold Separately, about a suburban wife whose husband, forgetting that he's married to Julia Roberts (perhaps things will be complicated by the character's mousy hairstyle, clunky glasses, and dowdy wardrobe), starts banging the nutritionist at his gym. [Variety] More » -
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Nicole Kidman Ascends To Top Actress Earner Status Despite Interesting Career Choices
The Hollywood Reporter has released its annual list of Hollywood's highest-earning actresses, many of whom have never once allowed themselves to be photographed without panties exiting a Mercedes SLR on their way into Hyde—an admirable stance that can only have contributed to their enigmatic allure and hefty asking prices. The top 10 as listed by a press release are: More »
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trade roundup
Trade Round-Up: Brad Pitt Just Wants To Be In The Julia Roberts Business
Record companies, TV networks and studios still can't decide if they should view YouTube as a copyright-infringing agent of evil or as an ally that could potentially make them boatloads of money. In the meantime, Google has its army of lawyers ready to fight claims against its shiniest new toy. [Variety] More »
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defamer
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Butterscotch Stallion A Generous Patron Of The LACMA Gift Store Arts
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are now posted several times a week—so start sending them in more often! Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let everyone know about the time you spotted local tree-squatter Daryl Hannah roasting cosmic marshmallows by a Burning Man campfire. More » -
julia roberts
Oprah Pays Julia Roberts A Sympathy Call
Julia Roberts is reportedly down in the dumps, after her mostly panned Broadway debut (the NY Times likened her to a "lamppost") failed to provide her with an instant legit pedigree. To the rescue comes legendary support-giver-to-the-very-famous Oprah Winfrey, who showed up on the actress' doorstep with Oprah's Best Friend™ Gayle King for an "Up With Julia!" party: More »
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By SethComment by EvilMinion: Poor Jennifer Aniston. Who is going to keep hosting her pity parties now that Oprah has moved on to... more » | Other threads
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