Paris Hilton Sues ParisExposed.com as reported 4 days ago January 30, 2007
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Here’s the story just as we called it.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/30/people.parishilton.ap/index.html
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Paris Hilton Sues to shut down ParisExposed.com - Breaking News January 26, 2007
Breaking news from a good friend in the know. Paris Hilton”s lawyers will be busy in court on Monday. A civil suit is being filed along with a temporary restraining order against Bardia Persa the owner of the domain ParisExposed.com No mention on what the specifics of the case are just yet, but it should be interesting. Stay tuned.
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Eva Longoria’s Almost Naked Arena Photo Shoot January 22, 2007
Here are new pictures of Eva Longoria in Arena Magazine. Usually, I don’t have many nice things to say about Eva, however she does look pretty hot in this spread. Luckily for her, the Photoshop wizards at Arena did a fantastic job of reconstructing Eva’s face because normally we all know she looks like this. Anyway, I know most of you aren’t even paying attention to her face seeing that she’s almost naked so I’m going to just shut my mouth and give fantasizing about Eva’s lower half a try.
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Jessica Biel Gets Groped In Her Bikini
Hmm. There’s something about Jessica Biel that makes me think she may be a switch hitter. I can’t put my finger on it… but maybe it has something to do with the fact that she’s built like a dude and she’s always spotted doing testosterone-fueled sporting activities. Anyhow, draw your own conclusions. In the meantime enjoy these pics of her in a teeny bikini getting groped by some chick.
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Mena Suvari’s Topless Beach Pictures January 21, 2007
I haven’t heard much about Mena Suvari in the last while. I don’t even know if she’s still making movies or even working. However, I do know she doesn’t mind being topless in front of the cameras. Here she’s just chillin’ at the beach with her little boobies out for everyone to see. Aren’t they cute?
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Keeley Hazell Gets Baywatch Movie Role January 20, 2007
British pin-up Keeley Hazell is set to don the famous red swimsuit in the forthcoming Baywatch movie after wowing film producers. The 20 year old model was scouted by film producers after she appeared in the latest US edition of Playboy as Babe Of The Month. Source
When Hollywood does a remake of a TV show, you pretty much know what to expect – garbage. Remaking Baywatch is no exception. Take a bad show and make a worse movie. It’s the oldest trick in the book. Obviously the filmmakers are banking on the “Daisy Duke factor” by casting the magnificent Keeley Hazell in the film. Where Jessica Simpson was the sole reason people went to see the abysmal Dukes of Hazzard, Keeley’s ample assets will surely draw enough horny men in to allow the movie to at least break even. I just hope her acting chops aren’t all that great. The worse they are, the more skin she’ll show in future roles. Have you ever seen a sexy Oscar winning performance by a female? Neither have I.
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The Clip Show: Golden Globes And Rancid Bubbles
· The One with the Anus: Our Golden Globes breakdown. Ugly Maria. The Piv and America”s Next To Next Top Model. Helen Mirren”s first DP Globes. · The Adventures of Isaiah Washington”s Big, Stupid Mouth. · CAA”s new Century City Death Star. · Anyone who doesn”t like Studio 60 is just bitter because they”re poor. · Despite Paula Abdul”s completely incoherent explanation for her previous black out, American Idol still rules. But for how long, wonders Kevin Reilly. · One pill makes you bigger, and one pill makes you small, but blow and vodka Red Bulls just put you in rehab. · Jake Gyllenhaal fully conscious of which side of his bread is buttered. (The gay side.) · Lost“s network notes meetings last year usually started with, “We felt this episode had too much Michelle Rodriguez still alive in it…” · Once again: Donald Trump”s name is garish gold letters. · Anna Nicole Smith now looking at a formal inquest, and a possible cover-up.
Short Ends: Helen Mirren Is Just Teasing Us Now
· The cover of the new Los Angeles is really doing nothing but super-sizing our filthy Helen Mirren fry-dropping fantasies. · “Lindsay Goes to Rehab” is already the prohibitive favorite to take home Defamer”s Song of the Year prize. · Fun quiz time: What clothing company sponsored this blog post on what Lohan was wearing right before she checked into rehab? · Finally, an explanation on why Paris Hilton”s eye does that thing. Not the totally vacant stare thing, the drooping thing. · In last night”s liveblog, the Horny Manatee is confronted with a fetish she can”t satisfy.
McG Too Busy Empowering Next Generation Of Feminist-Freaks To Solve Middle East Crisis
This week”s TCA press tour events have already provided us with so many memorable moments, from ABC”s Steve McPherson”s enthusiasm for bumping off Michelle Rodriguez to NBC”s Kevin Reilly”s mental coping strategies for dealing with his Idol problem to Aaron Sorkin”s disdain for the opinions of the unemployed, that to add still more to the already lengthy highlight reel feels greedy. But a panel earlier today for The CW”s The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For the Next Doll, the fledgling network”s attempt to empower a new generation of feminists to nurture their inner, “Don”t Cha”-inspired freaks on national television, easily cracks our crowded TCA best-of list, as frustrated executive producer McG (you know him better as the visionary behind the Charlie”s Angels films) eagerly debated the assembled critics on the up-with-skanks virtues of his forthcoming series. Reports the Critical Eye blog:
“Not everything is going to solve the crisis in the Middle East,” he says, almost certainly not for the first time in his career. “Sometimes you want to have some fun … and women celebrating one another being beautiful, and, frankly, being appreciated by me, has been around for a long time. Under no circumstances is it shameful. And there”s even a position to take that this is, frankly, third-wave feminism. You know what I mean?”
The critics don”t know what he means.
One middle-aged critic asks how lyrics like, “Don”t you wish you were a freak like me?” celebrates women.
“You must understand the fundamental paradox of a gentleman of your age demo asking that very question,” McG says. “I don”t know if you two-way your friends on your Sidekick … It”s just saying, “Don”t you wish your girlfriend could be free and comfortable in her own skin and do her own thing like me?” That”s what we”re saying.”
In the interest of helping to settle this generational impasse over the meaning of the word “freak,” we turn to Urban Dictionary, pop culture”s up-to-the-minute lexicon, which defines the term alternately as “a person who likes to do kinky shit in bed or have sex a lot” and “a girl most likely that likes to act all innocent then she has sex with you and she is real freaky or kinky, she likes to have sex alot and do weird stuff.” If this non-two-way-Sidekicking relic from a demographically undesirable audience segment can”t see how the unabashed, televised pursuit of freakdom celebrates women, The CW isn”t the least bit interested in his viewership.
- McG vs. Critics: Aspirational or Skanks? [Critical Eye]
To Do: Your Weekend Of Lynchian Weirdness
Friday · Music round-up: Cold War Kids at the Silverlake Lounge; Reverend Horton Heat at the House of Blues; Subtle & Pigeon John at the Troubadour. · Allow French filmmakers Vincent Gérard and Cédric Laty to take you on a documentary journey with William Eggleston, the father of color photography, at the Getty. Saturday · Get on the bus with “Mike the Poet” for a magical tour of the city that you hardly pay attention to as you lose precious minutes of your life sitting in traffic on the freeway. · More music: E.A.R. at the Silverlake Lounge; Carina Round at the Hotel Café; Gabriel and Dresden do Giant at the Vanguard. · It”s your latest chance to compete to be the filthiest-minded comedy mind in the house at the UCB Theatre, with the return of the Dirtiest Sketch in LA contest. Sunday · David Lynch and Donovan team up for an evening of movie discussion, TM book-plugging, and music at the Kodak Theater.
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.
- Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are Fine, But Special Effects Assistant Critically Injured on Movie Set [WTOL.com via ONTD]
What Gay Celebrities And John Mayer Think About Isaiah Washington: A Round-Up
· Neil Patrick “other out gay actor on a network TV series” Harris, who recently stood alongside noted pink F-bomb detonator Isaiah Washington while announcing the People”s Choice Award nominations sans gay-slur incident, weighed in with his thoughts on the matter: “I was just sort of stunned that anyone would want to rehash any of that again. But I think the people, the classier people, handled it as they always do.” In case you”re still in the dark, “classy” is the new code for famous gays and their best friend co-stars who offer to beat up their homophobic tormentors on their behalf. [People] · Ellen DeGeneres focused on the word itself, telling Extra: “This particular word is thrown around all the time at the workplace, at the playground, on the sports field and no one gets outraged. Hopefully this incident will put an end to this and people will stop using this word and other hateful words once and for all.” Let”s hope the insanity stops here, and that Jorja Fox isn”t forced to drop by Ellen to tearfully recount the time Gil Grissom called her a “greedy rugmuncher” upon discovering she ate the last craft service banana. [Extra] · John Mayer addresses the controversy on his blog today, suggesting the most poetically just penance would be for Washington”s Grey”s Anatomy character Dr. Preston Burke to “come out to his friends and colleagues as a gay man!!!” (Extra-squealy triple exclamation marks his.) He then proceeds to script how that scene might play out, for what feels like an uncomfortably long, not particularly funny, length of time. [JohnMayer via Towleroad]
Quickies: Quotable Quotes January 19, 2007
“Victoria’s Secret Angels Appreciation Week” commences. (CelebFart)
Two black people winning Golden Globes still counts as “racism” in Matthew Knowles’ book. (Seriously? OMG)
Enough Angelina Jolie to “get you through the weekend,” if you know what I mean. (Use My Computer)
James Franco “just says no” to freckles and herpes. (Celebitchy)
Oprah just another “teen pregnancy statistic?” (Celebslam)
Petra Nemcova is “The Devil in a Red Dress.” (Gabsmash)
John Mayer has some new “plot ideas” for “Grey’s Anatomy.” (Spank Cheeks)
Britney Spears and David Lee Roth, “two peas in a pod.” An ugly pod. (Best Week Ever)
Julieta Prandi’s ass is “the Alpha and the Omega.” (The Bastardly)
Britney Spears, Lover of Words
Britney Spears made a quick stop into a convenience store last night for some Vagisil and powdered doughnuts (well, I don’t know that for sure, because I couldn’t see inside her bag, but it seems about right) and spent a few moments perusing the Wall Street Journal before checking out. Wait, did I say Wall Street Journal? Because I meant Us Weekly. She stood there, with the very same tabloid she tearfully proclaimed to be “trash” in that finger-quote-laden interview with Matt Lauer last year, and read up on her whirlwind romance with the artfully-bearded Isaac Cohen. And that right there, people, is why I devote my days to this line of work. Blogging, I mean. You see, the celebrities do care what is said about them; they do read the gossip blogs; and by God, if I can make Paris Hilton insecure enough to fix her wonky eye or Britney Spears sob her way through a yeast infection and box of Dunkin Doughnuts, then I’ve accomplished what I’ve set out to do. It’s good, honest work, much like cabinet-making or being a farmer. Or maybe it’s more like being a one-legged Turkish prostitue with boils. I vaguely remember hearing something about that. Well, anyway, it pays the bills.
Defamer Casting: If He Did It, This Is How The Casting Notice Happened
We imagine that a recent Law & Order story-pitching session went something like this: gather around the conference room table, flip open a newspaper, point at the big picture of O.J. Simpson, grunt in satisfaction at a job well done, order in some lunch, then call it a day. A tipster passed along the casting notice generated by the above feat of creative exertion:
LAW & ORDER “Murder Book” Exec. Producers: Dick Wolf, Nicholas Wootton, Matthew Penn, Peter Jankowski Director: Gus Makris Casting Director: Suzanne Ryan Casting Associate: Claire Traeger Shooting dates: 1/30 - 2/8
[J.D. TYNER] male, Caucasian, 33-37, “former baseball star & persona non grata since his murder acquittal.” Although found not guilty, most people believe Tyner murdered his wife. He has a “legendary temper” and a reputation of being arrogant and hotheaded. Now he”s a pariah - living a secluded and low-key life. Recently he”s tried to cash in on his infamy by writing a book on how he would have done it, had he wanted to murder his wife. He claims the book was only to provide money for his daughter”s trust fund and for charity. His publisher, Serena Darby, backs out of the deal at the last minute and then is found murdered outside of her apartment. Suspects come and go but McCoy has his sights set on Tyner. McCoy lost the first round against Tyner when he got away with murdering his wife…he does not want to loose round two. Tyner is brought to trial. LEAD
We probably shouldn”t be so dismissive of the L & O team”s efforts, which were apparently channeled into the story”s execution, rather than its selection: they did go through the trouble of making O.J. white, giving him a fresh set of initials and a new sport (which provides for the exciting possibility of much more grisly, Louisville Slugger-assisted bludgeoning deaths), and adding the element of the Judith Regan revenge killing. Once that lunch arrived, their creative batteries were clearly recharged.
- Previously: Defamer Casting: Finding Adrienne Shelly”s Murderer [Defamer]
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Posh Go Home
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in at least as often as you floss. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put “sighting” or “PrivacyWatch” in the subject line) and let everyone know about the special post-appendectomy, pre-rehab moments Lindsay Lohan shared with Joe Francis.
In today”s episode: Victoria Beckham; Daniel Craig; Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard; Bruce Willis, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Allison Janney and Terry Bradshaw; Dustin Hoffman; Lindsay Lohan; Nick Stahl; Paris Hilton; Vanessa Marcil; Erik Palladino, Devon Gummersall and Barry Pepper; Eric Szmanda; DJ AM; Justin Berfield; Tom Green; Rickie Lee Jones; Kimberly Stewart.
· Talk about annoying! The woman is in this country for three days and she is already wreaking havoc for commoners trying to go about their business. The Grove was obviously not enough for one day. If it wasn”t bad enough that at 5pm on a weekday, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham is in Kitson with the door locked and the paparazzi all over the place, her bony, ego-maniacal, British behind caused a ridiculous backup of traffic on Robertson Blvd from before Beverly. Forget the plebs. Our wallets obviously are no match for Vic”s celebrity-mongering drive to be seen in her new hometown. Needless to say, my carefully planned errand to return a measly pair of shoes to Kitson was foiled. Guess I”ll have to just give Fraser a call next time to find out his schedule for hosting the menagerie of self-glorifying, snobbery in this town and their little camera holding parasites that follow their every move. Thanks for everything Vic! Hope you had a swell time!
· Work over in Century City (twin towers)… As I was walking back from the Westfield mall, Posh Spice is entering the newly opened CAA digs…1 down, 90000 more Posh sightings to go now that she”ll be everywhere in LA
· Today 1/18 saw Mr. James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, with girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell (thanks imdb!!) at Bristol on Sunset today around lunchtime. He is very easy on the eyes in person and was rockin” some great jeans and sunglasses. She was gorgeous- they make one nice-looking couple. Didn”t see what they picked as we checked out before them.
· Saw Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard at AMMO Thursday night (1-19) at 9 p.m. No babes–infant, Jake, or otherwise–put Peter introduced her fairly loudly to their two dining companions as “the mother of my child.” They seemed almost giddily happy, in much a way that I know I shall never be. I”m going to eat some Redi Whip directly from the can now. See ya.
· Went to the CUT (1-15), Wolf Gang Puck”s place at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. I saw a few people there, Terry Bradshaw (Pittsburgh Steelers), Allison Janney…But two tables down from me was Bruce Willis eating dinner with Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife. Not sure who was sitting next to Bruce/ Possibly Daughter.
· Today I was walking back from grabbing a late lunch at the Whole Foods on San Vicente in Brentwood and who crosses my path but none other than the legendary Dustin Hoffman. Walking quickly in the rain, (caught without an umbrella) he seemed to be flanked by a 25-ish hipster guy. He looks really great for his age, although shorter than I expected (aren”t they all?).
· I had a 7 day streak of being a celebrity pussy magnet, but unfortunately the only decent story I have is about semi-famous Nick Stahl“s dipshit friend. Does that even count? Stahl, going for the “too indie to shower” look and his hanger-on made eye contact with my friends and me at Winston”s. They whispered something, then walked over and said dipshit hanger-on grabbed my friend”s straw right out of her drink. She grabbed it back. He grabbed it again, dipped it into her drink, sucked up some liquid, deposited it into his mouth, then shimmied away. What the fuck was that?
Also, earlier that week - saw Lindsay Lohan (pre-rehab, post-appendix liberation) sharing a table with titty guru Joe Francis. I can”t even imagine the STD that those two sleeping together would hatch.
· Back from visiting LA… saw a drunk Paris Hilton late Saturday night (1/13) at Area. She was stumbling across the dance floor as her security entourage pushed aside the gaggle of poseurs as she left.
· Saw Vanessa Marcil at Cobras and Matadors on Beverly Tuesday. She is TEENY TINY. She seemed nice, though, so my companions and I didn”t ask her about her relationship with Brian Austin Green, the existence of which she has denied despite the fact that they have a child together.
· 1/17 Larchmont was filled with b-listers. At Peet”s… Erik Palladino hanging out with the guy who played the sensitive guy on My So Called Life (not Wilson Cruz, the gay one, but the other kid who liked Claire Danes) [Devon Gummersall]. Barry Pepper also came in for a few minutes to chat them up.
· 01/17 I just saw Eric Szmanda (Greg from CSI) at the Starbucks at Olympic and Sawtelle sometime around 1PM. He was wearing plenty of blue (top, jeans, shoes) and looked a little older and meaner than he does on the show. Pretty skinny. No chit chat…just paid for his drink (I think it was bottled water — imagine that), grabbed some napkins, and almost ran out of the store.
· 1/17 - I saw DJ AM, nee Adam Goldstein, at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Sunset and Fairfax. He drove his little silver Prius in, was very polite to the baristas, and then sat talking shop with a blonde guy for about half an hour.
· I was with some friends on Catalina Island recently. Everyone is rockin and nazzing to the music in a bar El Galleon (i think) and it got to be a pretty wild scene. When 1am rolls around a girlfriend and I look up to the upper level of the bar/resturant because there was a group of people who were acting even more insane and loud than the lower level crowd below. Then we realized that in the center of that group was Justin Berfield (that cute, but hottie in person punk brother from Malcolm in the Middle) and he was clearly getting his lips licked by someone clearly older than him and he was the only one acting sober. Everyone downstairs starting chanting. To make things even more surreal we were told that all of our drinks for our group of girls had been bought by him when we went to sign our bill hours after he had left. YOU GO REESE, get that MILF!
· Tom Green is having lunch with an agent type at Frida in Beverly Hills. Looks serious and balding and dishevelled. Perhaps negotiating for work? What does he do these days in L.A…I thought he was back in parents basement in Ottawa.
· Lunching 3:30ish 1-17 at Victor”s: Rickie Lee Jones.
· Not sure if she really qualifies as a celebrity but just saw Kimberly Stewart at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on North Beverly Dr in Beverly Hills. She was wearing an ankle cast and made her getaway in a white Range Rover. There was a lone paparazzi hanging around outside waiting to photograph her. I suppose the lone paparazzi pretty much clears up my uncertainty about her level of celebrity.
Awards Round-Up: Art Directors Need Recognition, Too
· The Art Directors Guild chose fifteen nominees in three categories–period, fantasy, and contemporary–with awards to be presented Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton. With Children of Men, Pan”s Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean, Superman Returns, and V for Vendetta in direct competition, the fantasy ballot alone is likely to send fanboys into a locked, upstairs bathroom to “examine” it more closely. [Variety] · The Cinema Audio Society awards none other than longtime Oscars producer Gil Cates with their Filmmaker Award. (He”s a filmmaker?) Congratulations, Gil, for demonstrating excellence under your many hats of “director and producer in feature films, television and theater.” And don”t forget blogger! [THR] · Borat“s Ken “Rancid Bubble” Davitian recently took some time to appreciate his good fortune as he made his way through a Golden Globes gifting suite: “I”m a short, fat and bald guy living the good life after an overnight success that took 30 years.” [LA Daily News] · Unless you”re a meth addict, morning show anchor, or triathlete in training, you”ll probably have to set your alarms in order to be up in time to watch the Oscar nominations announced live, Tuesday morning at 5:30 am. [The Envelope] · And the “For Your Considerationy” for Most Adorable Tiny Internet Ad goes to… [Universal Pictures Awards]
Advertiser Worship, Plus Friday Poll Fun Time!
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Trade Round-Up: Redford Drops By Utah Mountain Resort During Tom Cruise Movie Downtime
· Al Pacino will play flamboyant artist Salvador Dali in Dali & I: The Surreal Story, a project which should provide the actor with an exciting opportunity to dramatically wave around a paintbrush while shouting, “Melting clocks! Hoo-ah!” [Variety] · Robert Redford “came out swinging” at Sundance”s opening press conference, taking shots at the Bush administration and decrying those who would use his swag-suite-riddled festival as a film buyer”s market instead of a pure time for appreciating independent moviemaking, then jetted off to shoot his Tom Cruise movie. [THR] · United 93“s Paul Greengrass will write and direct movie about life in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion for Working Title and Universal, right after he finishes up the latest Bourne flick for Uni. [Variety] · ABC and CBS score big ratings numbers on Thursday with Grey”s Anatomy and CSI, Smallville, while Fox gets a reminder about the disaster that is their non-Idol schedule, landing right back in the Nielsen toilet on a night without Simon Cowell. [THR] · Var”s Peter Bart takes the temperature of Hollywood”s pol-fuckers, looking at the state of Obamamania, Hillarymania, Edwardsmania, and Goremania. [Variety]
Cirque Du Anna Nicole: More Unpaid Bills And A Possible Cover-Up
Chapter headings continue to pile-up for the yet-to-be-written bestseller entitled My Nightmare Year: How I Lost a Son, Gained a Daughter, and Found True Love, by Anna Nicole Smith (as told to a ReganBooks-appointed ghostwriter). The Bahamian inquest into the death of her son is set for March 26. TMZ reported earlier this week that 20 witnesses, including Smith and Howard K. Stern, are being called to testify, and that another will testify they saw Stern give Daniel the methadone that killed him, then “[flushing] the remaining methadone down the toilet after Daniel died.” Now, a Bahamian law firm Smith hired shortly after the death to handle her affairs is suing her for their fees:
Callenders, based in Nassau, secured an injunction from the Bahamas Supreme Court forbidding Smith to reduce the balance in her local bank accounts below $125,000.
Attorney Tracy Ferguson said Smith had repeatedly failed to pay fees due her company. […]
In an affidavit, Ferguson said she believed Smith had the funds to pay “but that she has a total aversion to paying her bills and that she will seek to avoid paying the fees by any means that occur to her, including by sending her money within this jurisdiction abroad.”
This wouldn”t be the first time Smith has failed to meet her financial obligations: As her fingernails carved a trail of deep grooves into the door frame of the Bahamian estate from which she was being forcefully carried out, Smith insisted that the home was a gift from an ex-boyfriend. In the case of these unpaid legal bills, however, the “But the lawyer man said if I bounce on him for a couple weeks we could work something out!” defense will probably prove even weaker this time around.
- Bahamas law firm sues Anna Nicole Smith [Reuters]
Hollywood Succumbs To Obamamania!
Perhaps souring on Hillary Clinton”s further political ambitions because she seems “not president-y enough” among Hollywood types trying to imagine casting her in the role of the nation”s highest office, the industry is surging behind Entertainment Weekly“s 2006 Must Guy To Have Sitting Next To You On A Panel About Something Important, Like That Darfur Deal, Illinois senator Barack Obama. Yesterday”s NY Daily News reported that Endeavor”s Ari “My Brother Rahm Totally Parties With Barack!” Emanuel will be throwing an event for Obama in February, while the LAT“s Cause Celebre column today notes that he may have already sown up the industry-kingmaking Gay Mafia vote of Velvet Potentate David Geffen:
Geffen”s name surfaced immediately as one of Hollywood”s early major supporters of the young senator, a significant snub to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton”s (D-N.Y.) possible presidential bid. Although Geffen — once a powerful Clinton ally — has not yet spoken publicly on the matter, his longtime friend Arianna Huffington believes the message is clear: “David Geffen has already declared for Obama, and many other Hollywood power brokers, who are not ready to go public yet, are making it known in private that they are in the ABH (Anyone But Hillary) camp,” Huffington wrote recently in a Los Angeles Times column. […]
Geffen was once considered one of Bill Clinton”s strongest Hollywood allies during his presidency, and then the friendship started to fracture. “They grew apart,” said one Hollywood insider who declined to elaborate. “I won”t even speculate on all the issues that go into any complex relationship.”
Of course, both politics and Hollywood are dirty, dirty businesses, and Obama surely won”t delude himself into thinking that a Geffen endorsement won”t come without strings attached. When the senator arrives in L.A. in the thick of February”s Oscar frenzy to solidify his showbiz base, he”ll be expected to dedicate a few moments of any media appearance to discussing how Geffen”s Dreamgirls is the “most important movie of the century,” and offer over-reaching, crowd-pleasing promises that if it takes home the Best Picture trophy, he”ll personally guarantee an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Great Moments In Network Exec Sitcom Cameos: Kevin Reilly On ‘The Office’
Blink and you may have missed him, but that was indeed NBC president Kevin Reilly making a quick cameo on last night”s episode of The Office, flexing his programming-executive-level acting jobs by effectively communicating his confusion at Dwight”s multiple resumes without a single line of dialogue. While brief, the promising appearance could lead to a bigger role on future shows now that Reilly”s proven his chops to the producers; don”t be surprised to see the aspiring thespian return later in the season, offering another wordless performance to rival the scene-stealing turns achieved by the Staples MailMate shredder or his corporate parents” own Trivection Oven.
- NBC”s Reilly guests on “The Office” [Variety]
Golden Globes Hangover: Diddy Vs. CAA
Guests lists at industry parties are a tricky matter, and their convoluted politics become even more complex when one”s throwing an exclusive post-awards show orgy, as hosts try to balance the ratio of talent to the behind-the-scenes types hoping to fellate them: invite too many famous faces and they might end up wandering the party looking vaguely lost, frustrated as seemingly every eager reveler is already engaged in the act of servicing someone else; invite too few, and guests will mob the talent, greedily clawing at the overattended VIPs for some celebrity-pampering time. Things become more tangled still when personal histories are involved, and the defiant uninvited show up, determined to test the superhuman power of fame over velvet rope and clipboard, as demonstrated by today”s Page Six item about an alleged confrontation between Sean “Still Diddy This Month” Combs and the CAA gatekeepers trying to keep the boldface interloper out of their post-Globes party at the Sunset Tower:
When Diddy became “verbally abusive and started yelling at security,” said one witness, hotel owner Jeff Klein came out and “kindly asked Puffy to leave.” Combs shouted, “What are you going to do - call the police?” Klein said, “
Yes!” Combs shouted back, “Just try it - I”ll spend the rest of my life hunting you down!” But he left soon after. A source claims Combs has been blacklisted from CAA parties since an incident years ago when he lost his temper with an assistant to CAA co-chief Bryan Lourd, who was hosting an Oscar party. “He showed up uninvited and threw a fit when he wasn”t let in,” a source said. “He wasn”t invited then, either.” Combs is now said to be banned from the Sunset Tower. A CAA rep said, “There is no ban on Puffy officially or unofficially. He just wasn”t invited.”
Going unreported is Diddy”s less confrontational attempt to gain entrance to the event by offering a plump, juicy baby, freshly abducted from the Cedars Sinai nursery, to the hosts; while the infant”s scent quickly wafted into the party and drew to the door of the venue a throng of CAA staffers reflexively salivating at the prospect of soon sinking cocktail toothpicks into its supple flesh, the bribe was summarily rejected, prompting the regrettable, angry words.
- DIDDY DELISTED FROM PARTY [Page Six]
Katherine McPhee Au Natural
In response to the rave reviews I gave myself on the Katherine McPhee “massive rack” post from Wednesday, I’m bringing you yet another glimpse of the “American Idol” singer today — the “naughty librarian” side. She’s not even wearing makeup and she still looks sexy. No photoshop either. You know you’re hot when you can saunter down the street sans makeup, in your glasses, without a computer geek blending and cloning and airbrushing you up. Another good way to tell if you’re hot? A massive rack. And the only thing I can say to that is, “check and check, baby!”
More sexy spectacled McPhee after the jump.
