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Everyone In Showbiz Needs a New Agent, Except Joy Behar
It's kind of a sad news day for some. Mostly for actors who never quite took off the way some had hoped. But it's also good news for fans of Amy Poehler and Joy Behar. They're doing just fine. More »
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new in town
Renée Zellweger Taken As POW In 'New In Town' Culture War
Most midwinter dump-jobs are happy just to get some lukewarm reviews and, if they're lucky, $67 million in two weeks of release. But you're really on fire when you've earned a rarer-than-rare "anti-Minnesota" designation. More »
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By STVComment by whitekidinflatbush: There will never be a better set-in-Minnesota movie than Drop Dead Gorgeous. 7 Responses | Other threads
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film schooled
How To Market A Chick Flick: Add Heels & "Tug At The Ovaries"
There's an epic piece in this week's New Yorker that's worth your while, and reveals what Hollywood movie marketers think about you: [Jezebel]
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oscars
'Entertainment Weekly' Oscar Recall Forces Gwyneth And Renée To Declare 'No Takebacks'
The results of Entertainment Weekly's massive "Recall the Gold" project (in which thousands of industry insiders revote certain Oscar years to publicly humiliate past winners) are finally in! So which actors have been victimized? More » -
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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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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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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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celebrity diets
C-Listers Reveal Their Scarily Obsessive Weight Loss Methods
At this point we’re far more informed than we’d like to be when it comes to all the freaky diet methods celebrities use to shed pounds and pull off that whole homeless glam look Colin Farrell’s currently sporting. But while A-listers tend to either keep mum on the subject (like Katie Holmes and Renee Zellweger) or blab endlessly about being “obsessed with potato chips!” and eating “fried food every day!” (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angelina Jolie), the press-hungry lesser-knowns have yet to learn the rules. In the upcoming issue of TV Guide, ten small-screen stars commit major overshares about how their body obsession is weighing on their mindgrapes. Find out who dropped major pounds just because TMZ published pictures of her “very, very soft” stomach, who only vacuums in heels to tone her calves, and which former “fat baby” admits to working out for over an hour every day, after the jump. More »
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exclusives
Exclusive: Debunking The Marilyn Monroe 'Sex Tape' Hoax
Yesterday, news broke that an ancient sex tape allegedly showing Marilyn Monroe giving a blowjoy to an unidentified male had not only surfaced, but had also been sold to an anonymous New York collector for $1.5 million. The NY Post's Hasani Gittens broke the story after interviewing Keya Morgan, a memorabilia collector who claims to have brokered the sale of the 15 minute reel. However, what the Post failed to mention in their story is that Morgan is well-known within the tight-knit circle of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia collectors for being a sycophantic, press hungry namedropper (check out his likely self-penned IMDB bio) whose main objective is to promote himself and the Monroe documentary that he is working on. Not only has he been known to casually claim that he has dated both Mariah Carey and Renee Zellweger, he has thus far refused to disclose either the names of either the seller or buyer of the tape; additionally, he has not been able to provide evidence that this alleged sale even occurred. More »
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By j.dickinsonComment by maouse: My problems with this whole thing:#1 - would it have taken MM 15 minutes to get a guy off?#2 -... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Renee Zellweger's Inner Party Girl Breaks Loose In London
Of course we always enjoy seeing celebrities abandon their red carpet personas and let loose, but when they start emerging from nightclubs barely standing and sporting lipstick marks on their collarbone, we start to worry. After obediently posing for pictures at last night's premiere of Leatherheads in London, Renee Zellweger dove bob first into the party scene alongside a better-behaved George Clooney. And, as these pictures show, Zellweger may have downed one too many pricey cocktails across the pond. More »
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Renee Zellweger Coins New Term For Frozen Snot, Wins Back Our Love By Impersonating It
Renee Zellweger may have brought the va va voom factor to Letterman last night in her body-hugging red Old Hollywood dress, but one of her talking points was far from glamorous. While chatting with Dave about shooting Chilled In Miami in temperatures she claimed reached 57 below, Renee delves deep into the physical effects that kind of weather can have on the body, particularly the ways in which bodily fluids react to icy weather. And those effects do not look pretty in close-ups. But thanks to her sugary Southern accent and last-minute decision to impersonate her own snot for Dave, we're ready to forgive her for all that twitchy Hitchcock-inspired emoting she slaughtered us with last month. [CBS] More »
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botox gone batshit
British Press Continues Its Assault Against Celebrity Body Parts, Sinks Its Claws Into 'Bat Face'
Having devoured celebrity knees and lips in their quest to mock each and every imperfect body part they spot on the red carpet, the British press is now preying on something they've dubbed Bat Face, singling out Nicole Kidman as the epitome of Botox overload. Though the picture of Nicole they use isn't pretty, the bat is actually kind of adorable (at this point, we are far more scared of seeing Nic enter our room in the middle of the night than this cuddly little rat with wings). In fact, Nicole looks less like this animal than she does another: Michael Jackson. And she's not alone. Rather than naming the immobile facial trend Bat Face, we're thinking the look is more a symptom of MJ Syndrome, which also counts Renee Zellweger and Teri Hatcher among its victims. More »
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defamer
Diet 'Secrets' Of Celebrities Make Us Ache For Food As Fried And Fast As Possible
If you want to look just as scarily skinny as the likes of Kate Hudson and Renee Zellweger, the solution is simple: eat nothing but boiled eggs and water, develop a healthy addiction to caffeine and cardio, and devote your evenings to chain-smoking and reading Us Weekly on the john. The latest "news" on celebrity diet secrets comes to us courtesy of the Daily Mail, who asked a handful of trainers and nutrition experts what's in between the lines of all those helpful How Kate/Jessica/Reese Got Slim stories. And even if some of the answers don't exactly whet your appetite, guessing which celebs the so-called experts are outing is almost as much fun as biting into a Double Double. Take this nugget for example:"One of Hollywood's dirty little secrets is the 'IV diet', in which celebrities check themselves into hospital to get put on an IV so they can avoid eating altogether."
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hollywood walk of shame
Diablo Cody Wasn't The Only Former Stripper To Win An Oscar This Year
Haven't you heard? Stripping is back en vogue again (again)! Partly thanks to Ms. Busey-Hunt herself, the IdolStripperGate nonsense, and all those former strippers blogging away in support of the feminist cause that is taking your clothes off for money, our slideshow-happy friends at Us Magazine have dredged up the secret pasts of some other former private dancers. And though some may not surprise you (Courtney Love? NO! WAY!), there are also some Hollywood A-listers on their list. Find out after the jump which three Oscar nominees have, at one time or another, had to pull crumpled George Washingtons from their crotches after a long night of hustling. More »
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Comment by Bai Lingual: @TheStarterWife: When women who screw unapologetically get their very own Martin Luther King/Cesar Chavez. I for one can't wait for... more » | Other threads
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Hold The Phone: Nicole Richie Can Sing?
Casting a star in a Broadway production tends to either bomb disastrously (Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain, anyone?) or succeed spectacularly (Fantasia in The Color Purple, who killed). So when we heard the news that Nicole Richie is up for the role as Roxie in the long-running Chicago, we got nervous. Sure, she'll bring in the tweens, but can the girl actually sing? We did some investigating on that "debut album" Richie promised her public way back in 2005, and found a scratchy YouTube video featuring one single called "Dandelion" that may or may not have been planned for release. And we're no Simon Cowell, but we predict she'll breeze through "Funny Honey" much more smoothly than cringey-voiced Renee Zellweger did in the Oscar-winning flick. Judge for yourselves after the jump. More »
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trade roundup
The Coen Brothers Meet The Yiddish Police
· In what could be a dream match of creative team and quirky literary material, Joel and Ethan Coen will adapt Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union for Columbia, a "noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah" set in a Jewish settlement in Alaska. (Are we allowed to get pre-excited about this one?) [Variety] More » -
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'Vanity Fair' Hitchcock Portfolio Proves Renee Zellweger Did Not Overemote In Vain
Having already offered you a glimpse at the making of the Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Hitchcock portfolio, including some of the most incredible fake-emoting from Renée Zellweger we've seen since Oscars cameras caught Keira Knightley trying to look happy about Reese Witherspoon's Best Actress win, we thought it only fitting to now show you the final product. We put a few of our favorites after the jump; the rest can be found here. Pay particular attention for one classic shot of Seth Rogen fleeing from a crop-duster that finally answers the age-old question, "What if Cary Grant was a paunchy, 20-something Canadian Jew?" More » -
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Renee Zellweger's 'Vanity Fair' Hitchcock Homage: Emoting Like You've Never Seen Before
Our appetites whetted with the release of the upcoming Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue cover featuring ten of today's most desirable starlets in a variety of glamorously uncomfortable poses (sooo much better than last year's shoot featuring four overexposed comedians and some hotly buzzed penguins whose careers quickly nosedived), we delved deeper into VanityFair.com's stash of preview goodies. It was there that we discovered Renée Zellweger starring in the most amazing piece of video that we've seen in at least the last twelve hours. More »
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By SethComment by Political Party Girl: Smile with your eyes, Renee! Has Tyra taught you nothing? more » | Other threads
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Having been burned countless times by the sensationalist tabloid press, Bee Movie star Renee Zellweger did her best to make sure that no baseless eating disorder rumors would distract from her latest project: "The Bridget Jones star refused to make any diva demands for food after a busy day of interviews promoting the film, instead she hunted down where a buffet was set out for journalists and filled her plate. Speaking at the film's premiere, the actress joked: 'Well the food is good in there, [journalists] always get the special food, I had to come and pick up the leftovers!'" [Breitbart] -
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Venice Film Festival Audiences Hold Off For Now On Planned Booing
· The Venice Film Festival opening film—a WWII drama starring Keira Knightley called Atonement—was screened to mostly positive word of mouth, a triumph capped by fest organizers allowing star James McAvoy to have full access to the controls of the Ceremonial Wrecking Ball. [Variety] More » -
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Zellweger To Be Sassy, Tough In Western
· Renee Zellweger will star with Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in the western Appaloosa, which we hope will provide ample opportunity for a spunky, bonnet-rocking Zellweger to fire a shotgun and exclaim, "You git outta my town, ya hear?" in the direction of the movie's "renegade rancher" antagonist. We love it when she does period gritty. [Variety] More » -
hollywood privacywatch
Clues To Tony Soprano's Fate Lie In Santa Monica Whole Foods
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the time Maya Rudolph's yakking ruined an outdoor screening of her boyfriend's porn-industry masterpiece. More » -
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'Indy 4': First Moving Images Of Spielberg And Lucas Wearing Hats Released!
· These are truly exciting times over at IndianaJones.com. Not only have they treated us to the first photos of Harrison Ford in a dusty fedora taken in nearly 20 years, they've now released exclusive footage of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drinking champagne and staring at a monitor. (Also while wearing distinctive hats!) Who knows what special surprises the coming weeks will bring cyber-savvy Indy fans? More »
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Tired Of Being Known As 'That Gay Guy Renee Zellweger Was Married To For Five Minutes,' Kenny Chesney Announces He's Straight
Kenny Chesney is widely credited with starting the "overly-groomed country radio guy of indeterminate sexuality that no one has ever really heard of marrying A-list Hollywood actress" trend currently sweeping the industry. He recently told 60 Minutes (in an upcoming, very special, "We Have Officially Run Out of Interview Subjects" episode), that the "fraud" Renee Zellweger listed as the reason she requested an annulment after four months of marriage to him had nothing to do with any lack on his part of a healthy appetite for the ladies: More » -
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Renee Zellweger Recommends Starring In Big Budget Movies As A Great Way To Keep Slim
Renée Zellweger—who has demonstrated an impressive ability to turn zaftig for a role in roughly the same amount of time it takes to adopt an approximation of an English accent, only to take the weight off as quickly as you can say "red carpet photographers"—explained to a reporter at the premiere for Miss Potter (Zellweger Plump British Heroine Index: 8.7) how she managed to return so effortlessly to the skeletal frame that serves as the blank canvas she can later fatten as required: More »
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nicole kidman
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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Short Ends: Get Into Renee Zellweger's Enormous Panties
· Deviant Renee Zellweger fetishists (really, are there any other kind?) will be thrown into a priapic tizzy when they discover that her Bridget Jones granny panties will be up for auction next week, though the erotic appeal might be slightly diminished by Hugh Grant's inconsiderate Sharpie scribbling. More »
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Renee Zellweger Suspects Nicole Kidman's Fiance May Have Workaholic Tendencies
As Nicole Kidman's attends to the final cloak-and-dagger preparations for her quickly approaching wedding day, her Cold Mountain co-star and confidante Renee Zellweger has been doing everything she can to dissuade Kidman from making the same, pretty-boy-in-a-cowboy-hat-espousing mistakes she made, says website FemaleFirst. More »
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trade roundup
Trade Round-Up: Crowe Tenderized, Zellweger Slumming, Perry Numb
· The ascendance of more militant leadership factions at the Writers and Screen Actors Guilds has Hollywood fearing that the unions may strike instead of just rolling over and accepting their usual buggering over residuals when their contracts are up. [Variety] More » -
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Stewardess Hands Out Salted Peanuts, Defends Chesney's Heterosexuality
Kenny "I Defrauded Renee Zellweger And All I Got Was This Lousy Wedding Band" Chesney had long faded into gay cowboy obscurity, quickly eclipsed by the much hotter spurs-and-chaps action of Brokeback's Ennis and Jack. Today, thanks to a Southwest flight attendant and Fox 411's Roger Friedman, Chesney's been yanked back into our consciousness and been declared not homosexual by virtue of cougar-humping. In perhaps the strangest story we've ever heard, Friedman happened to be a passenger on the flight where a fortysomething stewardess lit this overshare shoe-bomb in front of her captive, pressured cabin audience: More » -
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Zellweger And Chesney Officially Never Happened
It's been months since Renee Zellweger filed the legal papers to erase her marriage to Kenny "We Still Have No Idea Who He Is" Chesney, one of the briefest and most pointless Hollywood unions ever conceived, but something was still bothering us. Like the barely perceptible irritation of a long-ago-squashed pea under our mattress, the phantom itch of an amputee's missing limb, or the slightest whiff of an ex-lover's perfume on a frequently washed pillowcase, the aborted connection between America's favorite scrunchy-faced darling and the semianonymous guy in the black cowboy hat somehow persisted. Then, suddenly: nothing. No waking from nightsweats from reciting poignant dialogue from A Price Above Rubies, or from the uncomfortable tumescence of a REM reenactment of that erotic, groupie-sex-in-the-break-room scene in Empire Records. Finally, with a few strokes of a judge's pen on the annulment order, we have closure. More » -
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Julia Roberts Retains Money Title, Agents All Over Town Reassure Also-Rans That They're Still Pretty
The Hollywood Reporter has finally unleashed its annual list of the highest-paid actresses in the business, providing us with a handy metric that helps take the guesswork out of evaluating the true worth of the big screen's fairer sex. And in an utterly unsurprising non-development, Julia Roberts once again triumphs in the only contest that truly matters: More »
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By MarkComment by Malis in Wonderland: Why is Renee Zellweger's $10-15 million ranked higher than Cameron Diaz's $10-15 million? more » | Other threads
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defamer
Halloween Hangover: Even Stars Like To Play Dress Up
In perhaps the most elaborate Halloween costumes we've seen yet, Renee Zellweger absolutely nails the post-op tragedy of Meg Ryan, while Robert DeNiro Methods his way under the skin of an utterly convincing Goldie Hawn. More » -
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Short Ends: Brad Grey Fires Himself!
· BREAKING! Filled with bloodlust and lacking anyone else exciting to fire, Paramount's Brad Grey shitcans himself! Actually, Grey dismissed the heads of Paramount Classics, news (we heard the chatter earlier today) we find somewhat unsatisfying. More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Mike Myers To Shout In British Accent
· Further proving that his desire for camp knows no bounds, Desperate Housewives mastermind Marc Cherry is working with Chucky creator Don Mancini on a "suspense drama" pilot for ABC tentatively titled Kill/Switch. One thing is clear: Cherry's about to produce television's next great, overrated guilty pleasure! [Variety] More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Screener Piracy Season Unofficially Commences
· Sony Pictures Classics unofficially begins the Oscar season by sending out screeners of Junebug five months before the awards ceremony, ensuring that their little film will be forgotten long before any ballots are mailed. Meanwhile, no one seems to want to use Cinea's magic antipiracy DVD players. [Variety] More »
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