It appears that Ricky Gervais has taken Simon Pegg’s weight-related criticism to heart, as the Oscars-eschewing star has begun slamming the overweight in the press, causing some controversy. And he’s…

Subscribers to Britney Spears’s official Twitter feed (yep—Brit’s Twitterin’!) have grown accustomed to updates like “I love Japan! I think all the tiny cars are so cute!”
But not even the…

1/2 — Dan Tana’s. Friday night. CAMERON CROWE having dinner. That guy looks the same as he did when he [wrote] Fast Times. KEVIN CONNOLLY in the bar area alone, but looking like he was waiting…

Reactions to Jett Travolta’s death on Friday surged forth over the weekend, with paramedics, publicists, anti-Scientology advocates and the usual exploiters lending voices to the noise. We sort…

Last night, VH1 finally aired the Charm School reunion show where Sharon Osbourne and contestant Megan Hauserman got into a fight so epic, it sent Hauserman to the hospital (and to the LAPD).
In the…

The Holidays™ are over. We hope yours ended on a lighter note than ours did—curling up with a 60 Minutes story about a seven-year-old girl decapitated in the back of a limo by a drunk…

Defamer’s Week in Review: Artie was enshrined, Tara rehabbed, shots were fired, 2008 ended, and much more — after the jump. Have a great weekend!
· We remembered 2008: The videos. The…

2009 started off like many others, with unimportant programming limping along until mid-season replacements, Super Bowl commercials, and the dreaded American Idol. Here’s to 11 more days of an…

Thanks to the truncated holiday schedule, this special edition of Comments of the Week actually honors the last two weeks. But what a prize: a beloved blogspot with few tears or scratches! So, who…

newVideoPlayer(”/spirit_consid.flv”, 506, 423,””); · The Oscar race may be all over the place, but at least the Razzies have a clear front runner this year. Still, a slickly packaged FYC spot…

· Aaron Beaumont at Hotel Cafe, and George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic are at Club Nokia.
· You just have a few more days to catch It’s a Stevie Wonderful Life, which sets the…

newVideoPlayer(”/crank2trailer_io9.flv”, 506, 423,””);We’d say the new redband trailer for Crank 2 is NSFW, but let’s face it: You’re not at work today, and even if you were, it’s Friday viewing the…

The first tragedy of 2009, and an especially sad one: TMZ reports that Jett Travolta, 16, died today while on vacation with his father John and mother Kelly Preston.
Neither the cause of death nor…

While today brought good news for crime-accused Hollywood celebrities, how did Hollywood-adjacent folk heroes like Benjamin Button shooter James Cialella fare?
As you may recall, the heavily…

With at least one major exception, it’s been a relatively modest cycle for manufacturers of Oscar-season buzz. But one day into 2009, the new “hybrid quote” looks to revolutionize the Fine Art of…

Via Towleroad, we bring this production still from The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, in which John Travolta is upstaged by two doomed cowboy lovers who appear to have wandered into the wrong movie.
Still,…

Happy New Year, folks—or, as English-torturing songstress Courtney Love might blog it, “HAPPPPPY happy yr NEW happy.” Love has posted a brand-new pair of wildly accusatory Myspace entries. Can…

Jewel heist survivor Paris Hilton was spotted around Christmas getting cozy on consecutive nights with George Clooney, according to a shocking report from the Centers for Disease Control….

After Viacom went blazingly public Wednesday with its threat of an MTV/Comedy Central/Nickelodeon blackout on Time Warner Cable, an 11th-hour truce settled the matter just in time for 2009.
The…

12/28 — VINNIE JONES of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties in full soccer kit at an IHOP in West LA with Hollywood United F.C. teammates. You heard me,…