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the karate kid
Nicolas Cage In Yellowface And Other Mr. Miyagi Suggestions For The 'Karate Kid' Remake
Hollywood's steady death march to the Idea-Killing Fields continues with news today that Jaden Smith—smarmy hatchling of the dangerously in black love super-couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith—will star in a re-imagining of sacred 1980s cinematic text, The Karate Kid. Set to shoot next year in Beijing and other locations, the film won't be a straight-ahead remake, but will rather "borrow elements of the original plot, wherein a bullied youth learns to stand up for himself with the help of an eccentric mentor." With no word on who will play the pivotal role of handyman mentor Mr. Miyagi, we thought we'd offer some casting suggestions to go along with the logical "Ralph Macchio : Jaden Smith" equation: More » -
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'He Can Die in Hell': Werner Herzog vs. Abel Ferrara Moves to Round 3
We swear we didn't mean to throw a bucket of gas on the smoldering crash site where Werner Herzog collided a while back with Abel Ferrara, leaving the legendary auteurs fighting for their lives over Herzog's plans to remake Ferraras's 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage. But thanks in part to our revealing audience with Herzog last summer, the fire is back to uncontained levels today as Ferrara picks off his Bavarian contemporary one vicious shot at a time in Filmmaker Magazine: More »
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By STVComment by Juancho: True* Fact: Nic Cage sold off his comic book collection to finance this film. *not really As for Abel, I love you... 1 Responses | Other threads
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johnny depp
First Look! Disney Mule Johnny Depp Reviving Tonto For New, 'Lone Ranger'-Starved Generation
With infidel Mickey Mouse still in hiding after last week's death-sentence fatwa, Disney appears to be rolling the dice on a bold rebranding of sorts. Behold — Disney Depp (née Johnny), whose anchoring of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise yielded yesterday's news of not only Pirates 4, but also the star's attachment as Tim Burton's Mad Hatter in a live-action Alice in Wonderland and as Tonto in a revival of The Lone Ranger. The announcement was made Wednesday in Disney's marathon State of the Mouse Biennial, putting its jittery investors at ease, its fans in an uproar and the press into some kind of overwhelmed coma. Johhny Depp? As Tonto? In Josh Groban's incredulous words, "Really?!" More »
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By STVComment by OMG! Ponies!: Because enough people don't think "racial insensitivity" when they think Disney. 5 Responses | Other threads
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nicolas cage
Ready Your Pitchforks: While we can usually count on Nicolas Cage for his on-screen eccentricities, it seems that he can't even let a simple financial pickle pass without adding his own unique touch to the proceedings. According to Forbes, the actor has been caught deducting millions worth of personal expenses (simple things, like a Gulfstream 1159A turbojet) and now owes the IRS "substantial back taxes." Just how much does Cage have to fork over? The not-at-all ominous sum of $666,000. Looks like Ghost Rider's been taking that deal with the devil a bit too seriously... [Forbes]
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Comment by NoWireHangers: Maybe Nick can share a jail cell with Wesley. There's gotta be a screenplay in that scenario. 1 Responses | Other threads
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monday morning box office
Nic Cage, Thai Hooker
Forgive us. We're still a little hazy, having stumbled out in the wee morning hours from a Chateau Marmont bungalow, where the Jonas Brothers were reading bible passages off a stripper's ass at their official post-VMAs party. Good news: our virginity is still intact! Bad news: we wish we could say the same about our septum. More bad news: the box office crapped itself this weekend. Please enjoy this fittingly humdrum installment of Monday Morning Box Office: More » -
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Sarah Palin Superstar
· Let Lindsay Lohan, Albert Brooks, Jamie Lynn Spears, and Life Magazine introduce you to the GOP's great vice-presidential hope. More »
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By STVComment by atypicalxian: The Obamessiah can only do press conferences when he's rehearsed. I saw He Who Shall Not Be Middle Named... 3 Responses | Other threads
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nicolas cage
Movie Studios Give Up, Cede Weekend To NFL
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your weekly guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially nausea-inducing at the movies. If summer was really just a heady four-month industry bender of superheroes and the occasional Sex romp, then consider this week the hangover: The brutal post-Labor Day doldrums, when phoner-inner Nic Cage has the box office to himself, our underdog is an ethnic punchline, and we want to to do nothing but shut ourselves in with a few of this week's only slightly more intriguing DVD releases. So read on for a remedy; as always, our opinions are our own, but let's just assume we're all in agreement this time around. It's kind of hard to screw up a week like this. More »
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By STVComment by Huge Tracts of Land: Nicholas Cage is...turning into Steven Seagal? Squint at the poster, and you too can behold this remarkable transformation. more » | Other threads
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nicolas cage
The 10 Most Bizarre Nicolas Cage Moments To Ever Hit the Screen
In the New Yorker review of Nicolas Cage's new film Bangkok Dangerous, film critic Anthony Lane complains, "The Cage of Wild at Heart and Leaving Las Vegas found life to be engrossingly weird, and treated it accordingly, whereas the Cage of Bangkok Dangerous intones a line like 'There’s a beer in the refrigerator' as if he were reading from the Book of Micah." To that, we ask: is this something new? Nicolas Cage has always been counted on to deliver insane line readings, bizarre physicality, and all around weirdness to his roles. Hell, isn't that why we like him? In the spirit of Cage's eccentricity (and with the help of videographer Molly McAleer), we've assembled a video that chronicles the ten weirdest on-screen moments of Nicolas Cage's career. To be fair, we only allowed one moment per movie — otherwise, you'd be looking at a played-out (but delightful!) highlight reel of The Wicker Man. Enjoy! More »
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nicolas cage
Thai Visitor Nicolas Cage Too Busy Fleeing War to Learn Directors' Names
It's altogether possible that Nicolas Cage's new film Bangkok Dangerous is among his finest — a lively, entertaining adventure recalling his early years romping through movies by the Coens, David Lynch and his uncle Francis Ford Coppola. Still, we relieved most of our illusions fairly early in Cage's appearance last night on Letterman, when the Oscar-winner-for-hire confessed both his inability to distinguish his twin-brother directors from each other and his time spent fleeing Thailand's recent coup d'etat with his wife and child. But then we felt a certain restorative surge of confidence, a sort of implied Method veracity that re-established our faith in his cockroach-eating batshittery of yore. So now we're just confused. But hey as long as it's not, like, Ghost Rider 2 or... Wait, what? Oh. So much for optimism. [CBS] -
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Daniel Radcliffe Tickled By Funny-Sounding Names
· Yup, that's it. And yet we can't help but get caught up in all the silliness, too. Wolf Blitzer? That sounds like a WWI machine gun! LOL! [Late Night] More » -
trade roundup
Sarah Jessica Parker Project To Contain Near-Lethal Estrogen Levels
· The Ivy Chronicles, a Sarah Jessica Parker project about an "upper-middle-class New York mother" who loses it all, has signed The Devil Wears Prada writer Aline Brosh McKenna take on the screenplay. And we just grew a set of ovaries typing that. [THR] More » -
valley girl
Like, This Is So Totally Embarrassing: Our Top Five Classic 'Valley Girls'
As THR reported recently, MGM is planning a musical remake of the cult classic Valley Girl, which became the epitome of everything the magical land of acrylic nails and gum chewing addictions stood for in the early `80s. However, the remake is ruffling the feathers of many an industry insider, mainly because the brains behind this project are less interested in revisiting the infamous twang and mall headquarters associated with girls from the Valley, a group the film arguably captured better than any successor. Instead, the epic soundtrack will serve as the reincarnation's primary subject. But whether or not the idea tanks, we're just happy to have the chance to round up our five favorite on-screen Valley Girls to ever gag us with a spoon: More » -
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AFI Recruits Storied Cineaste Jessica Alba To Deconstruct Film's Greatest Treasures
Everybody loves lists, right? Especially those mystifying annual tallies compiled by the American Film Institute, which lumps together 100 films by style or some other vague calculation of merit upholding AFI's profile in cultural irrelevance. Its latest list mixes things up a little, however, featuring a who's who of talent ruminating on the 100 best "genre" films — from Westerns to sci-fi to mysteries, 10 at a time. But for every Clint Eastwood commentary about The Searchers or Roman Polanski insight about Chinatown, we've got Sean Astin chiming in about Judgment at Nuremberg and Jessica Alba weighing in on... well, we've assembled the greatest hits after the jump. Let it suffice to say that Annie Hall is closer than you might have thought to Alba's self-described, "stomach-turning" neurosis and that Cher is... yeah, she's the best. [AFI] -
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Defiant Werner Herzog to Defamer: 'Who is Abel Ferrara?'
Seeing how much fun we had grilling John Cusack last week, we decided one impromptu, inquisitive turn deserves another. Then, through some minor miracle/apparent PR botch, we found ourselves sitting across from Werner Herzog talking about his new documentary about life in Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World. We'll get to that as its release date approaches later this month, but for the moment, we're still wondering how hard our legs were just pulled as Herzog told us all about his mad vision forremakingcontinuing (or something) Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic Bad Lieutenant. More » -
the end of ideas
Charitable 'Bad Lieutenant' Director Wishes Hellish, Explosive Death on Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage
The ongoing, skull-melting hallucination yielding visions of Werner Herzog micromanaging Nicolas Cage's masturbation technique abated slightly today when, at a Cannes press conference for his new film Chelsea on the Rocks, director Abel Ferrara raised his first public objection to duo's planned remake of his 1992 effort Bad Lieutenant: More » -
defamer
Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog to Team Up For Either Best or Worst Remake Ever
We drank too much last night as usual, blacking out and then awaking from the strangest dream in a cold sweat: Werner Herzog was in New York remaking Abel Ferrara's infamous, NC-17-rated 1992 cop drama Bad Lieutenant and arguing with his star — Nicolas Cage of all people! — about the most tasteful way to replicate Harvey Keitel's full-frontal nude scene from the original film. Cage wanted a stunt penis, but Herzog, in his stern Bavarian accent, scolded Cage repeatedly: "No, no, no, Nic. That is cowardly and stupid. If Kinski were here..." At which point noted schlock producer Avi Lerner showed up out of nowhere to intercede on his director's behalf, reminding Cage that if Jason Segel could do it, then an Oscar winner could as well — ratings be damned. More » -
defamer
Nicolas Cage Officially No Longer That Oscar-Winner Who Stole a Chihuahua
Nicolas Cage's long, excruciating nightmare on the International Chihuahua-Thief Blacklist ended today in a British court, where his solicitor acknowledged a settlement between the Oscar-winner and rumor-slinging memoirist Kathleen Turner. The actress wrote of several newly disproven Cage exploits in her recent book Send Yourself Roses, including being "arrested twice for drunk-driving" and renting-to-own a Chihuahua on the set of Peggy Sue Got Married. Cage took his beef to court after the Daily Mail published the offending excerpt. Sadly, we've learned that the resolution will deprive us of some of our favorite apocrypha of contemporary literature: More »
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By STVComment by Whiteboyfunfark: She can still stalk him by telephone like she did Mink Stole in 'Serial Mom,' right? + Watch video more » | Other threads
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defamer
Nicolas Cage Slaps Kathleen Turner With Lawsuit Over Chihuahanapping Claims He Says Are False
We now return to the Everybody's Suing Everybody Day festivities with the ongoing feud between Kathleen Turner and Nic Cage, the former having accused the latter in her upcoming autobiography of having several DUI and dog-snatching marks on his personal record. An irate Cage quickly issued a denial, out of concern that Turner's tales might render his many impressionable young fans incapable of separating truth from fiction: The last thing the world needs is a spate of renegade Chihuahuanappings, or, heaven's forfend, a troubling new trend in which confused teens light their heads on fire before embarking on stolen-motorcycle joyrides. Perhaps to fully hammer his message home, Cage has now filed a "defamaton, libel and slander" suit against his Peggy Sue Got Married co-star in British court: More »
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By SethComment by WasatchMan: "...spending the rest of the afternoon letting out his frustration on a speed bag in his favorite bear suit..." Ha! ... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Nicolas Cage Is Many Things, Kathleen Turner, But A Drunk-Driving Chihuahua-Swiper Is Not One Of Them
Say what you will about Kathleen Turner—she gives good memoir. We're still reeling from her anecdote about Anthony Perkins' habit of sneaking a little whiff of poppers before every shot (though it did shed some light on that scene in Psycho III, where, apropos of nothing, Norman Bates starts making out with a taxidermied racoon). But it's her claims about Nicolas Cage being a drunk driver and convicted dognapping felon that seem to have caused the biggest stir since excerpts of her upcoming autobiography were leaked. Today, a spokesperson issued us this heartfelt statement from the National Treasure star: More »
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By SethComment by BeRightBack: @scroll_lock: Any friend of Les Nessman is a friend of mine. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Tell-All Shocker! Kathleen Turner Accuses Nic Cage Of 'Peggy Sue'-Era Dognapping!
In frequently amusing excerpts from her upcoming autobiography now being published in the UK's Daily Mail, Romancing the Stone and Serial Mom star Kathleen Turner unloads both tell-all barrels into a number of her former co-stars, including Michael Douglas ("a wonderful friend and a terrible enemy"), William Hurt ("he loved those magic mushrooms"), and Anthony Perkins ("Everywhere he went, he carried a little bottle that I was told was benzyl nitrate. We'd rehearse a scene, then before the call to 'Roll camera', he'd take out his bottle and sniff it with each nostril.") But a special place in Turner's Hollywood-hardened heart is reserved for Peggy Sue Got Married castmate Nicolas Cage, whom she accuses of acting out so as not to seem like director/uncle Francis Ford Coppola threw him a spot on the call sheet purely out of nepotism: More » -
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For A Third Straight Weekend, America Succumbs To Nicolas Cage's Mysterious Charms
Hollywood's refusal to toss any new-release chum (with the exception of a single horror offering) into the waters of America's multilplexes just seemed to intensify the public's appetite for the stale Nic Cage/Will Smith/Chipmunk-flavored morsels already floating there. Your Monday morning romp through this weekend's box office results: More » -
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'Book Of Secrets' The 'Citizen Kane' Of American-History-Themed Bruckheimer Thrill Rides
With Father Time currently in lockdown after being picked up over the weekend for a parole-violating DUI, and the tragic discovery of the New Year's baby in a dumpster behind Bar Lubitsch (besides a crushed top hat and filthy sash, doing just fine), it seems as if the countdown to 2008 comes under less than ideal circumstances. Still, you can't stop the march of progress, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the weekend box office numbers: More »
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By SethComment by raincoaster: Alvin and the Chipmunks beat Sweeney Todd? Just shoot me. more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
Hollywood Offering Many Family-Avoidance Options This Thanksgiving
· Hollywood, always more than happy to turn the multiplex into a refuge from your bickering, turkey-stuffed, dysfunctional family, is putting seven movies into wide release this Thanksgiving weekend. Send the bratty kids to Enchanted while you watch Javier Bardem dispassionately slaughter everyone unlucky enough to cross his death-dealing path in No Country for Old Men. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by ginnypotter: Note to Tina Fey: "[Nic] Cage will play Speckles, a mole; [Steve] Buscemi will portray Bucky, a hamster; and [Tracy] Morgan... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Nicolas Cage Unharmed By Pantsless Trespasser
It seems like we only manage to check in with Nicolas Cage under extremely weird circumstances, like Transylvanian real estate transactions and visits to Japanese cooking shows, so it's with a measure of relief that we bring you the comparatively mundane story of the naked guy he found prancing around his house in one of his leather jackets: More »
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By SethComment by procrastinator, esq.: @scroll_lock: Oh, that was scary. But not as scary as the time Brett Somers hung out on my front stoop... more » | Other threads
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bad ideas
Nicolas Cage To Star As Al Capone In 'Untouchables' Prequel No One Asked For
Veteran Hitchcockcribberhomagist Brian DePalma is reaching back over two decades for his next project, following up 1987's The Untouchables with an origin prequel, The Untouchables: Capone Rising. MTV Movie Blog now confirms it's Nicolas Cage, in the latest in a string of bizarre career choices, who'll be stepping into Robert DeNiro's wing-tip shoes as the title mobster: More » -
defamer
Book Thrown At Nicolas Cage's Sticky-Fingered Ferrari Broker
When not taking the editors of Entertainment Weekly to task for daring to turn their noses up at examples of his populist, flaming-skull-laden mythic art, actor/thinker/star-of-the-people Nicolas Cage enjoys spending his leisure time amassing exotic sports cars. Three years ago, a crooked auto broker with an intimate knowledge of the market took advantage of Cage's unwavering faith in humankind, a breach of confidence for which he must now pay dearly: More »
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By SethComment by HwoodHills: Shit, that means I'm gonna have to pay him the dough I owe him for selling that crappy Mandolin he... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Not Even Japanese TV Can Faze A Cool Nicolas Cage
This clip, courtesy of BWE.tv, features a Zen-like Nicolas Cage on a Japanese TV show called SMAPXSMAP. Over the course of the interview, the actor professes his love for all manner of subjects—from Japanese cuisine to comic books to beautiful girls!—unaware that the actual point of the show is to induce a nervous breakdown in the celebrity guest by subjecting them to sneaky, sensory-overloading stimulation, such as a team of iron chefs, a loud beeping noise, two interviewers speaking simultaneously, and a low-volume song running throughout. The easy Ghost Rider never once raises his pulse above 50 bpms, however, or abandons his country-club-lockjaw delivery—an impressive feat, considering former guests Cameron Diaz and Madonna both left the taping restrained to hospital gurneys and mumbling random sushi varieties, to the hysterical laughter of the studio audience. More » -
defamer
Nicolas Cage Calls Out 'EW' For Its Snobbishness Over Works Of Art Featuring Hogs And Flaming Skulls
Blackfilm.com reports that at a recent press conference for his flaming-skulls-and-motorcycles movie Ghost Rider, Nicolas Cage started things off by demanding to know if any of the gathered reporters were from Entertainment Weekly, "clearly indicating that he's not a fan of their magazine." Pressed further for what EW—who generally demonstrate an "up with movie stars!" editorial bias—might have done to earn the ire of the Inscrutably Hairlined One, Cage instantly launched into a diatribe about narrowmindedness and the nature of true art: More »
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By SethComment by YourFaithfulServant: I catch myself wondering if Nic will wind up pulling a Margo Kidder on us sometime soon . . . more » | Other threads
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defamer
Trade Round-Up: CAA Assimilates Reese Witherspoon
· Want to read more about the Dixie Chicks' big night at the Grammys? Of course you do. [Variety, THR] More » -
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Short Ends: Brad Pitt, International Embezzler
· Note to aspiring embezzlers: If you are going to download an image for a fake ID that you plan on using in the commission of a theft, make sure that image does not belong to one of the most famous men on the planet. More » -
jerry bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer's Toothy Movie Star Formula
Superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer knows a movie star when he sees one: he's at ease in front of the camera, has an elusive magnetism, and, most importantly of all, has a set of teeth so huge, ivory, and gleaming that they'd make Mr. Ed faint dead away from jealousy. As for the first two qualities, well, you're either born with them or you're selling used Toyotas in Cerritos. But the third? Yeah, Uncle Jerry can help you out with that: More »
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By MarkComment by King of All Hacks: Bruckhead would get orgasmic watching the racist Japanese caricatures that were de rigueur from those WWII propaganda films. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Nicholas Cage's Baby Of Steel
The first glimpses of the product of Nicholas Cage and his sushi waitress bride Alice Kim's loins, Kal-el, have hit the internets, and we are thrilled to report the adorable little tyke has inherited none of his father's perpetually mopey features. Not moments after his delivery, the aptly named Kal-El Superman's Kryptonian name began showing superhuman signs, yanking off his own umbilical cord and flying directly out of the nurse's hands and onto his mother's nipple. Above, Kal-El is dressed for a Beverly Hills outing in his trademark baby blue costume (not pictured is a red diaper with yellow elastic trim); when mom got a little too friendly with the hostess at a local cafe, baby K used his newly discovered super breath to blow the chatty serviceperson away. More »
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By SethComment by MonkeyinDiapers: Isn't it time to send lil' Kal-El by rocket to the planet with the yellow sun? A doggie crate on a... more » | Other threads
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Short Ends: Pregnant Britney May Have Screwed On Camera, Whatever
· On any other day, i.e. one without Tom Cruise's fake baby, Lindsay Lohan's accident, and the Simpson-Lachey fiasco, rumors of a Britney Spears sex tape might get more traction. Today? Meh. More » -
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Short Ends: Thank God I'm A Country Cuckold
· We have no idea who Chris Cagle is, but through the magic of public statements, we now know that someone else knocked up hiswifegirlfriend. In case he doesn't know who the real father is, we think we can safely eliminate Kenny Chesney. More » -
defamer
Annals of Retarded Celebrity Baby Names: Superbaby Edition
Nicolas Cage has finally made a clean break with reality, saddling his newborn son with the name Kal-el. As in Superman's Kryptonian birth name. We're genuinely concerned for the baby boy's future safety, and not solely because the tyke will almost certainly return from school each day wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants. No, we fear that whatever drugs Cage ingested before naming the baby also make the proud father believe that the infant's been imbued with superpowers, leading to a tragic incident in which the actor realizes too late that little Kal is not, in fact, bulletproof. More » -
defamer
Nicolas Cage: Behind The Overacting
Courtesy of WireImage's e-mail summary of the day's publicity junket video clips, we embark on yet another five-second journey through the mind of an actor: More » -
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Nic Cage Probably Doesn't Want To Have Sex With You
Celebrity Justice reports that someone has appropriated one of Nicolas Cage's former e-mail addresses for the purposes of fraudulent naughty-talk, and is sending Cage's pals and business associates filthy e-greetings: More » -
gossip
Defamer In Rehab; Emergency Guest Editor Arrives
Your devoted and talented Defamer editor, Mark Lisanti, will be "on vacation" this week. (Incidentally, Mark writes this site all by himself, for those of you who think there's a team of crackheads over here at Defamer HQ. Nay! Mark does all the crack by himself! That's why his publicist would like you to know he is suffering from "exhaustion." Just like Whitney and Lil' Lohan! So fancy!) Anyway, I'm Choire Sicha, and I'll be filling in for him as we all vaguely pretend to work throughout this unholy week. More » -
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Monday Morning Box Office: Nic Cage Still On Top
Awaken from your three-day turkey coma and head towards the light of the weekend box office numbers. (These are three-day weekend estimates, not super-sized five-day grosses.) More »
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