Golden Celebrity

Although we did recently declare a temporary moratorium on burger phone jokes, it is worth noting that a blogger who goes by the handle of Big Ross recently got his hands on a copy of Diablo Cody’s first post-Juno script, entitled Jennifer’s Body. Megan Fox (Transformers) and director Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux) are attached to [...]

[Warning: Some spoilers ahead.] There’s been an ongoing There Will Be Blood debate over here at Defamer HQ, with one faction having emerged from the P.T. Anderson masterpiece convinced what we had just witnessed wasn’t just a searing allegory encapsulating the epochal struggle between American capitalism and religion, but also some very kinky oil-prospector-daddy on [...]

· Music round-up: Vampire Weekend at Amoeba; The Pity Party at Spaceland; Pinhead Gunpowder at the Troubadour; Dan Crane (Air Guitar Nation’s Bjorn Turock) at the Silverlake Lounge.
· The proprietors of Barney’s Beanery are encouraging engagement in the political process through alcohol consumption, hosting a Super Tuesday Countdown Beer Vote event today and tomorrow during [...]

Despite seemingly insurmountable handicaps–the loss of his striking writers, an inability to find guests willing to risk being considered WGA-undermining picket-line crossers, and a hated timeslot nemesis working at full strength due to his own Guild side-deal, Jay Leno has, amazingly, continued to win the battle of late night since everyone returned to work in [...]

After a disastrous experiment two years ago that saw them toying with their rock-solid formula and instead letting Tom Ford indulge his creepiest, Scarlett Johansson-in-need-of-diapering impulses, Vanity Fair is back to doing what it does best: glamming up a small army of up-and-coming starlets and splashing them across the gatefold cover of their annual Hollywood [...]