Celebrity Muse

Concerned that Hollywood’s most interesting voices were being willfully ignored by the mainstream media in the aftermath of O.J. Simpson’s daring, if ill-fated, Las Vegas sports-memorabilia heist, we sent tireless Defamer videographer Molly McAleer to Grauman’s Chinese Theater’s intellectually vibrant public square to document the reactions of some of the insightful cultural pundits who tirelessly […]

“An Inside summary last Sunday about The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford misspelled the given name of the actor who stars in the film. He is Brad Pitt, not Bratt.” [NY Times via Maroon Voices]

With the dawning of a new TV season comes another cherished fall tradition: the Counting of the Gays, during which GLAAD tallies up the number of same-sex-having characters appearing regularly on the 2007-08 primetime schedule. In keeping with last year’s distressing trends, the Gays continues to wane:
In the 2007-08 TV season, broadcast series will […]

· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Unoriginality Is Easy As 1-2-3 Edition: Denzel Washington will star in director Tony Scott’s sure-to-be incomprehensible remake of The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, assuming a role originally played by Walter Matthau and not-so-memorably reprised by Edward James Olmos in a 1998 made-for-TV version. [Variety]
· NBC throws money at […]

Good news: Despite being involved in a Friday afternoon motorcycle accident that left him with a hairline rib fracture and his ladyfriend-of-the-moment with a broken foot, the quick-healing George Clooney was well enough to mesmerize Nancy O’Dell with his legendary charm. Meanwhile, AH partner Billy Bush’s impressive legwork reveals that the guy on the other […]