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Yesterday, we debuted our new feature, "A ... [A Call To The Bullpen]

Yesterday, we debuted our new feature, "A Call to the Bullpen," without much explanation. While this was intentional, we'll take the opportunity now to give you, the loyal Defamer audience, a bit of context about the vibe we're aiming for with it. "A Call to the Bullpen" is our humble attempt to break up the day's regular posting schedule with a weird or interesting (or weirdly interesting) celebrity photo, one that we'll pair with a song and a bit of caption. Basically, it's the Defamer equivalent to the Kiss Cam you tend to see at Dodgers or Lakers games, only instead of showing kids frenching to "What I Like About You," we'll show you a photo of Lindsay Lohan stumbling out of Villa scored with a Three 6 Mafia song or Spoon tune. That's it! With that, please enjoy the next installment...

Published: 2008-03-04 Provider: Defamer Keywords: A Call To The Bullpen

The Oscar Glass is Half-Full For Spike Lee [Snubs]

Knowing what we know about Spike Lee's constructively critical awards-podium jeremiads, we think the filmmaker doth protest too much this week about his lack of faith in the Academy Awards. Nevertheless, the sadist in us also appreciates his analysis of the vagaries of Oscar justice that we presume will embrace Lee one of these days: Al Pacino over Denzel? When Al doesn't win for Godfather I, Godfather II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon — they fucked him over at least five times, I know. Then he does Scent of a Woman. Denzel [nominated that year for Malcolm X] already won for Glory: "He's young, he'll be back, he'll be all right. We fucked over Al, we'll give it to him." [Whispering] "Denzel, we'll hook you up, we got you." Training Day! He wins for Training Day. So we don't get it for Malcolm X. It's like the makeup call in basketball. It messes everything up. ...If you don't get it when you should, it messes everything up. The problem is, you don't get it when you need to get it. And when you get the makeup call, then you're fucking somebody else over and it just keeps going on and on and on. Now I love Marty [Scorsese] — does he think Departed was the best film? Hell, no, he knows that, but would he give it back? Hell, no! Of course, there are alternatives to Lee's Makeup Rule: the Crash Rule of Hollywood's Conscience Elite concluding Oscar night with its long-rehearsed, autoerotic grand finale; the Three Six Mafia Rule of being the best alternative in a shitty year... We'd love to hear your own rules below. That said, Lee is a Makeup-Rule candidate all the way, positioning himself for that day 10 years from now when his risky collaboration with Diablo Cody, Mo' Batter Blues, results in his best work since 25th Hour. Spike Lee on Why He'll Win an Oscar in 2025 [Vulture]

Published: 2008-04-07 Provider: Defamer Keywords: Academy Awards, Martin Scorsese, Oscars, Snubs, Spike Lee

Power Lesbians: W Mag To Throw Coming Out Party For Rubyfruit Mafia

Today's Page Six previews W's upcoming story on the rapidly growing membership of the all-female Velvet Mob splinter group the magazine has dubbed the Rubyfruit Mafia, a faction whose influence grows each time one of the industry's power-lesbians makes the brave choice to step out of the closet: THE lesbians of Hollywood seem to be multiplying as they come out of the closet. "Call them the Rubyfruit Mafia," W magazine says in its latest issue. Movie producer Nina Jacobson said she didn't know of one other openly lesbian executive in Los Angeles in the early '90s when she told a colleague at Universal Studios, "I actually am not straight."Jacobson, who now has three children with her lesbian partner, said, "It was certainly an acceptable choice to be closeted then. Now, in Hollywood, it would be a little pathetic. You would only look afraid." W reporter Kevin West also names HBO's head of programming Carolyn Strauss, Fox 2000 executive v.p. of production Carla Hacken, Sundance Institute's Cynthia Wornham, and "The L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken. Chaiken succeeded in pitching the series to Showtime's development executive Mark Zakarin after describing the characters, their relationships and some of the "arcane sociology of lesbian life, like the hotly debated question of whether you have to buy a new dildo when you get a new girlfriend." While the piece will surely raise the Rubyfruit Mafia's profile in mainstream Hollywood, the Sapphic gang should further consolidate its power with a more dramatic demonstration of its potency. Perhaps it's time that Nina Jacobson, defying a direct order from gay-mob boss David Geffen, to finally put out that long-delayed hit on Disney chairman Dick Cook, serving an ice-cold dish of revenge for his delivery-room firing of Jacobson while her partner was giving birth. Such a chilling revenge-slaying would certainly deliver the message that fucking with any made member of the Rubyfruit Family carries severe consequences. H'WOOD LESBIANS O

Published: 2007-09-12 Provider: Defamer Keywords: David Geffen, Disney, Gay Mafia, Nina Jacobson, power lesbians

Not So Hard To Kill Dept.: Steven Seagal Thinks The FBI Should Apologize For Killing His Career

Steven Seagal, star of such three-word-titled, aikido-enhanced blockbuster entertainments as Above the Law, Hard to Kill, and Out for Justice, thinks that the FBI's overzealousness in drawing him into the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century (you may or may not remember the claims that he had something to do with the intimidation of a reporter who was working on some stories the actor may not have thoroughly enjoyed) is to blame for his career never reaching the stratospheric heights achieved by early 1990s peer Jean-Claude Van Damme. Seagal reaches out to the LAT with his hopes for an apology from the feds: "False FBI accusations fueled thousands of articles saying that I terrorize journalists and associate with the Mafia," Seagal, 56, said recently in his first public comments on the case. "These kinds of inflammatory allegations scare studio heads and independent producers -- and kill careers."Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman, said she could not comment on Seagal's demand for an apology or on questions about the case. They "relate to an ongoing investigation which we are not at liberty to discuss," she said. Seagal was past his prime earning years even before the Pellicano scandal broke in 2002. His career peaked in the 1990s with such blockbusters as "Under Siege." His last hit, "Exit Wounds," was released in 2001. Since then, he has made a dozen films that generated an estimated $25 million in total DVD sales, a fraction of what his movies used to take in. "This controversy made the studios very nervous," said longtime Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman. "Let's be honest: Steven Seagal was no Harrison Ford when this happened. But these accusations certainly hastened his decline." While Seagal might think wistfully of the huge piles of money potentially unearned during that "decline," he shouldn't discount what he's been able to accomplish in his mainstream Hollywood downtime--not only have his straight-to-video adventures allowed him the opportu

Published: 2007-08-17 Provider: Defamer Keywords: Gawker, not so hard to kill dept., Steven Seagal

Molls Could Never Be Your Woman [To Do]

newVideoPlayer("/todowoman_def.flv", 506, 423,""); Despite what you read in the fishwraps, working from home for a gossip blog doesn't mean that you get to live like a slob. Quite the opposite, in fact, if you ask Defamer's resident glamourpuss/videographer Molly McAleer. As she attests in tonight's installment of Defamer To Do's, living in today's ultra-competitive world means that you have got to stay on point if you want to remain on top. Yes, that means wearing makeup and stunning dresses at all times — even when you're scrubbing toilets — so you can be ready to jet off at a moment's notice. If you spend the next few minutes with Molly, you'll not only learn what's going on in LA tonight, but you'll also be able to empathize with what it means to be a woman in what undoubtedly is a man's, man's world. Enjoy... · Bob Dylan @ Santa Monica Civic Center. · Three 6 Mafia @ House Of Blues. · Maude Night @ UCB.

Published: 2008-09-03 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do, Clips, Molly McAleer

Today On 'Feeling Zoila': Giving Danks For Breakfast [Short Ends]

newVideoPlayer("jeffcoffee_def.flv", 506, 423,""); · Forget gay marriage—we're waiting for domestic/employer marriages to be legalized, so that Flipping Out's Jeff Lewis can finally make an honest woman out of his frittata-serving lifemate, Zoila. [Bravo] · Jerry Seinfeld's lawyers are now accusing cookbook author Missy Chase Lapine of craftily switching lawsuit terminology from "comedian" to "actor" to help her defamation case, which to us suggests they're getting desperate. [AP] · Charlie Sheen feels just awful about using the N-word in some voicemails he left Denise Richards three years ago. He would also like to stress that that doesn't at all lessen his desire to see her nudged off the side of a hot air balloon basket. [ET Online] ·Ah, UTA Joblist, how far you've tumbled: Paradigm is now slumming it on Craigslist in search of assistants. [Craigslist] · A moose head in your bed will be the least of your problems when you cross Canada's ruthless Salmon Mafia. [CNN]

Published: 2008-06-19 Provider: Defamer Keywords: Short Ends, Clips, flipping out, jeff lewis, jerry seinfeld