With a little more than 48 hours before our frostbitten arrival on the scene, we think it bears noting: Defamer is going to the Sundance Film Festival! Sadly, some news isn't waiting for us:
Perhaps cognizant that very soon they wouldn't have George W. Bush to kick around anymore, the ladies of The View brought the crazy shouting and insane assertions big-time this morning.
Fox has canceled Prison Break, its "OK, we just broke out of the prison. Now what? Oh, what the hell, let's go back in" serial. Fox president Kevin Reilly's justification is hilariously blunt.
How excited was Glenn Close yesterday to earn immortality on the Walk of Fame? Excited enough to carnally plunge onto Hollywood Blvd., which we take to mean "pretty excited." Get a room, you two.
Samantha Geimer, who last year seemed to be totally over that whole drugged-sodomizing-when-she-was-13 thing, is the latest voice calling for the dismissal of Roman Polanski's 1977 rape conviction.
1/12 — MICHAEL CERA sat next to me today during lunch at the Mustard Seed Cafe in Los Feliz. He was sitting with two guys and I did overhear the Arrested Development movie being mentioned a few times, though details were unfortunately out of ear-range. He was wearing a plaid shirt tucked into some pants that were far too short, and when he was done with his sandwich, he rode off on a bike, making me think he truly is as awkward and adorable as the characters he plays. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]
Conflicting reports emerged late Monday from SAG's emergency national board meeting, where at least one member says Doug Allen is out as the union's chief negotiator.
· Funny — from the way Ann Coulter makes it sound, you'd think she thought her latest work's comparisons to Mein Kampf are accidental.
1/11 — I saw the incredibly talented NEIL PATRICK HARRIS with his cutie-patootie partner DAVID BURTKA at Katsu-Ya in Studio City last night dining at the sushi bar. They make a handsome couple and I fought every urge to fawn over his amazing year, since he came out so gracefully, rode a unicorn in that crappy Harold and Kumar sequel, and cracked me up with his performance in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. [And... skipped the Golden Globes, evidently? A curse for seven years! Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]
The networks have emerged from hibernation, and there is an absurdly large amount of new television tonight and the rest of this month. We hope you weren't planning on getting off the EKTORP anytime soon.
