Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery [...]

ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Hello, this is Walter Koenig calling. Is Warren available? Yes, of course.”
“Hi, Warren. Yeah, great. Listen, I appreciate all the press notices I’m getting for agreeing to stand in as George’s best man at his gay wedding – ”
“That’s okay, it’s his event, he’s the bride – ”
“No I didn’t.”
“Anyway, what I was wondering [...]

Defamer’s long-time editor Mark Lisanti is calling it quits, and I mention it because Defamer is one of the first blogs that I ever read with consistency and excitement. His style was always brisk, sarcastic, hilarious and insightful – everything I wanted to be when I decided, a couple years into reading his daily output, [...]

“What you can’t change, you’ve just got to ride out.” – Ennis Del Mar
It seems strange that upon the death of a young promising actor that we’ll hear so much talk about a wasted future and the impact on box office grosses, but there it is.
I am utterly amazed by the thought that someone, somewhere, [...]

In the creation of great fictional art such as movies and television shows, it’s a necessary evil that – in certain cases – something is constructed as to be extremely “real”, even though it clearly, obviously, reasonably to most functioning, thinking humans, isn’t. Soap opera actors have been known to receive donations when their characters [...]

Regardless of what you might read or hope, celebrities are not just like us. For example, when you visit a restaurant, a camera is never focused on each open-mouthed sandwich bite and thought-to-be-discrete nose-pick. And when you’ve popped into your local drugstore for a fleet enema to correct an intensely personal problem, you’re never confronted [...]

Hands-down, one of my very favorite actresses working today – or, truly, ever – has to be Keira Knightley. Her unique and fresh presence, exemplified by not only her dazzling and varied acting performances but also her stunning, natural beauty, should be an inspiration to other troubled starlets of Hollywood. And now we find out [...]