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Hollywood PrivacyWatch: 'Hot Fuzz' Boys The Toast Of Cahuenga Blvd.

seth · 04/24/07 04:26PM

PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in as soon as they happen. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the day you learned that even living legend porn stars have to gas up their Saturns just like you.

The four comedy video sites you haven't laughed at yet

Nick Douglas · 04/19/07 03:38AM

NICK DOUGLAS — There are two ways to do internet video. Either let everyone throw up whatever they want and hope the good stuff sticks, or demand a little quality. Of course, by quality I don't mean your videos won't still be about swearing babies and fart jokes, but they'll be funny babies and farts. The following sites all have real comedy (not, like, guys lip-synching to the Backstreet Boys) and let anyone send in material. They all also have some more "official" material. (Weirdly, they all have black backgrounds.) And they all prove that "user generated" doesn't mean "suck."

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Jack Black And Kyle Gass Cause Giant Potholes On Los Feliz Sidewalk

seth · 11/17/06 04:24PM

PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are now posted several times a week (well, most weeks)—so send them in like your lives depended on it. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let the world know about the time a Borat screening at the Grove afforded you a front row seat to a "before and after" David Hasselhoff experience.

Spooks, Spells, And Spandex: A 'Hollyween' Round-Up

seth · 10/27/06 07:52PM

You'd think that in a town where a significant percentage of the population spends the other 364 days of the year slicing, injecting, and restuffing themselves beyond recognition, by the time All Hallow's Eve rolls around, they'd have no energy left for yet further modifications—but you'd be wrong. Something about L.A.'s highly plasticized nature, paired with the bloodcurdling showbiz tales of terror we all know so well, make Hollywood and Halloween a nearly perfect complimentary pairing, resulting in a holiday of heightened horror: Hollyween. In honor of your pre-Hollyween weekend festivites, a round-up:
· The LAT details how the studios have been cashing in on a healthy chunk of what has become a $5 billion-per-year industry, through the licensing of their characters to costume manufacturers. Long ago having outgrown the Disney character kiddie-sector, you can now buy fully authorized costumes of all your grown-up screen favorites, including a Nacho Libre Spandex get-up sure to give everyone at your office party love-handle-related nightmares for weeks. [LAT]

Trade Round-Up: Studio To Assist Michael Bay In Ruining Your Favorite Horror Movies

mark · 10/06/06 03:07PM

Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company signs a three- year deal with Rogue Pictures, enabling the shingle's sacred mission of producing completely unnecessary, ill-advised remakes of beloved horror films on the cheap. [Variety]
Google is reportedly in talks to buy YouTube for $1.6 billion, eager to take on the challenge of defending a newly acquired online property from billions of dollars in copyright infringement lawsuits. [THR]
NBC gives Heroes, its hybrid superhero drama/instructional garbage disposal safety series, a full season pick-up. Meanwhile, the network might stash less-successful newcomer Kidnapped on Saturday nights, where no one will notice when it's quietly cancelled. [THR]
With the costs of television series always increasing, the networks look to bleed international TV buyers of every last Euro to help keep themselves rolling in cash. [Variety]
Universal buys the rights to the NY Times article "In College Football, Big Paydays for Humiliation" for Jack Black to produce, the story of football teams who accept huge sums of money to have their asses kicked by more successful programs. The eventual movie, it should go without saying, "would be a lighthearted take." [THR]

Oh, Come On, The Joke Was Waiting To Be Made

abalk2 · 07/28/06 12:25PM

Blogger cityrag points us to Celebrity Skin, a site that allegedly "sells various bodily samples (fecal matter, skins cells, bacteria, etc) from famous people." Whether or not this is some bizarre marketing stunt or an actual example of how completely over the top America's obsession with famous people has become, we couldn't help but notice this:

UPDATE: Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Scarlett Johansson Takes Cab

Seth Abramovitch · 06/16/06 03:26PM

PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers. Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let everyone know about the time you saw Dylan McKay brooding in the Target toy department.

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Jaywalking Aaron Sorkin Fascinated By Posters

Seth Abramovitch · 04/28/06 03:45PM

Hollywood PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers. Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let everyone know about the time you overheard Winona Ryder confide in a Barneys salesperson about her addiction to doing laundry.

CelebrityNuptialsWatch: Black Elopes, Desperate Housewife Engaged

mark · 03/14/06 05:22PM

Just in case you ever wonder about which stars move tabloid product and which ones paparazzi probably wouldn't cross the street to photograph if they were on fire, today's pair of wedding-related announcements speak volumes: ET Online notes that bonafide (if US Weekly neglected) star Jack Black eloped with girlfriend Tanya Haden, a union that took the celebrity-industrial complex about two weeks (says our source) to notice. Meanwhile, you will probably not be able to go within fifty feet of a supermarket checkout line without knowing every detail about the engagement ring fifth-string Desperate Housewife Nicolette Sheridan's received from Unfrozen Caveman Soft Rock Balladeer Michael Bolton. We're going to guess that the Muzak royalties for "I Want To Know What Love Is" "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" could provide for a rock big enough to topple Teri Hatcher when she tries it on for size on the DH set.

Trade Round-Up: Conan And Andy Reunite

mark · 03/07/06 01:59PM

Fox captured the online market for Adderal-abusing teens with its MySpace purchase, leading NBC Universal to pay $600 million to try and enslave the internet's female population by snapping up iVillage. [Variety]
Pick this one up, NBC, and the sins of Emeril and Good Morning Miami will be forgotten: NBC greenlights a pilot for Andy Barker, P.I., starring Andy Richter and co-written by Conan O'Brien, about an accountant who becomes a detective. [THR]
Jack Black joins Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Noah Baumbach's follow-up to The Squid and the Whale (the Best Picture of our hearts, not that it matters) for Paramount Classics. [Variety]
Phillip Seymour Hoffman gets his first post-Oscar gig (hopefully with his fancy new post-Oscar salary), starring with Laura Linney in The Savages for Fox Searchlight. [THR]
In case you weren't one of the chosen 130,000 few who got a screener—or even someone with $15 bucks to drop on the DVD— Crash will be re-released on 150 screens starting this Friday. [Variety]

Jack Black Has Two Mommies

Seth Abramovitch · 02/07/06 02:36PM

Whether or not you're a fan, there's something about Jack Black's particular brand of crazy-eyed, bouncing-off-the-walls appeal that can't be denied. But what are the mitigating factors that turn what is essentially a doughy, short, non-descript white guy into a "bow before me, I am the Zeus of Rock"-boasting scene stealer? Page Six offers some clues:

Defamer Comic-Con Report: Jack Black, King Kong Of Geeks

mark · 07/18/05 03:08PM

The just-appointed Defamer Special Correspondent for Comic Book Conventions files this report from this weekend's Comic-Con geek-orgy, in which Oscar-winning stars like Adrien Brody and Jamie Foxx are forced to face Q & A panel humiliation while Jack Black is worshipped as a god: