Golden Celebrity

For the next leg of her continuing tour of the hottest WGA picket lines in Hollywood, a journey that recently brought her to Paramount to witness the birth of the strike’s first sidewalk-theater group, we dispatched Defamer videographer Molly McAleer to today’s massive rally at Fox Plaza, as the gates of other studio headquarters were [...]

Friday
· Music round-up: MIA at the Wiltern, Joanna Newsom at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Of Montreal at the Avalon.
· John Waters, the Mozart of bad taste, signs DVD copies of his one-man show This Filthy World at the Grove Barnes and Noble.
· The Jack Oakie Celebration of Comedy in Film hosts Judd Apatow, James [...]

From an attendee of today’s Guild siege of Fox Plaza: “I was at the WGA rally. Assistants from CAA were out in full force with trays offering the writers pastries.” While it’s certainly generous of CAA to taks some time away from its regularly scheduled evildoing plans to service its striking clients, it’s not like [...]

Because we know that it’s probably been at least ten minutes since you’ve tried to kill some time at your strike-stalled place of business by looking at images of thousands of picket-sign toting, red-shirt-clad writers chatting up their new celebrity best friends, we’re happy to pass along these photos generously sent in by some readers [...]

The nonwriting staff of The Tonight Show has been told that they will be laid off at the end of next week, an announcement sure to send host Jay Leno’s compassionate Krispy Kreme expenditures soaring. But hope remains that they could be back on the job shortly: If they can find guests hosts (Andy Dick? [...]