Farrah Fawcett, Rumored Again to be Near Death, Accepts Proposal From Ryan O'Neal

Farrah finally agrees to marry Ryan before she dies, FHM names Megan Fox the hottest woman in the universe, Paris Hilton finds a new animal to ride, Jake and Reese dress up alike and a Fox News divorce. More »

Did a Blind Item Prophesy Sean Penn's Sabbatical?

Sean Penn has pulled out of two films, Variety reports today. While he's saying he needs the time to work on his (continually) troubled marriage to Robin Wright, a blind item last week is fueling speculation that it's drug-related. More »

Brad and Angelina Are The Best Actors in All of Cannes

The Sun claims that Brad and Angelina are on the rocks and they're just pretending to love each other, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szhor partied together last night, a Gossip Girl spinoff is definitely in the works, and Patrick Swayze poses for a photo so everyone knows he's still alive. More »

Real Housewives' Kelly Bensimon Hates Being Kelly Bensimon

Kelly Bensimon comes to the stark realization that she was on a reality TV show, a Vogue intern gets a stripper's digits, and Brittney's still getting her cashflow juiced by everyone. More »

Sean Penn, Friend of the People: 160 Central Park S

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] May 12 @ 11am There's a work stoppage at the essex hotel. mr. penn happened to be there filming a movie, saw his brothers and sisters protesting. More »

One of These Top Gun Stars Is Gay. Well, One is Openly Gay.

Sean Penn and Rihanna are in the midst of breakups; Elizabeth Edwards is reflecting on her awful near breakup and Kelly McGillis found out she's lesbian after two marriages. More »

Sean Penn's Addition to Three Stooges Movie Does Not Make It Oscar Bait

Sean Penn will play Larry, alongside Jim Carrey as Curly and Benicio del Toro in the Farrelly brothers' Three Stooges movie. While some had assumed/hoped this would be a classy biopic, it's not. Just slapstick. More »

Sean Penn Wanted to Be Cut from a Film Because He Loves the Ayatollahs So

Sean Penn is in bed with the ayatollahs, as everyone, but especially the New York Post, knows. He loves evil Iranians so much that he had himself cut from a movie which depicted them negatively. More »

Mr. Popper's Penguins and Other Adventures

Michael J. Fox is working again. As is Rebecca Romijn. Sean Penn and Melissa Leo make post-Oscar plans, and a great stage vet gets a potentially good role. More »

Vanity Fair Oscar Party Obliterates Competition

The Vanity Fair Oscar party was, this year more than ever, the center of the celebrity vortex, devouring other party-throwers Prince, Elton John, Madonna and adorable twitterering couple Demi and Ashton. More »

Has Sean Penn Hired A Voice Coach To Master The Nyuk-Nyuk?

The Farrelly brothers' adaptation of The Three Stooges has been hit with about as many casting rumors as the upcoming, unwritten Batman sequel. Now, though, there may be proof that Sean Penn is suiting up. More »

Warring Oscar Hopefuls Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn Sign Historic Poolside Treaty

Having second-guessed his nearly disastrous decision to squeeze into a spandex battlesuit (as Oscar-poisonous as a latex fatsuit) and climb into the Wrestlemania ring, Mickey Rourke is now onto stop #2 of his redemption tour: More »

Katie Holmes' Chemical Moment With Sean Penn

Everyone's experimenting with a new crowd: Katie Holmes hangs with the bad boys; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie try a new neighborhood and Gene Roddenberry's remains enter a whole other orbit. More »

Paris Hilton's MySpace Man, New Sex Tape

Paris Hilton made out with the CEO of MySpace, everywhere, and maybe made another sex tape. Tom Cruise has wanted to kill since he was a child. More »

Kate Winslet Waxes, Sean Penn Wanes and Other Curious Golden Globes Implications

The Golden Globes' return to boozy, teary prime-time glory asked almost as many awards-season questions as it answered. After the jump: Five of our most burning inquiries. More »

Lindsay Lohan's Date With Sean Penn

Sean Penn could woo Lindsay Lohan with an Oscar invite and Graydon Carter can woo a Waverly Inn neighbor with a spot in Vanity Fair and museums can. Seduction is everywhere. More »

Some of Josh Brolin's Best Friends Are Assholes

A day after clearing his name in Shreveport and clearing his throat in New York, Josh Brolin wants to clear the air about where he stands with "asshole" former co-star Russell Crowe. More »

Sean Penn-Josh Brolin Lovefest Takes Turn For the Drunk

Sean Penn and Josh Brolin appeared together at last night's New York Film Critic Circle awards dinner, where their Milk characters' rivalry reportedly gave way to a more collegial, tipsy thaw.

Today in Awards Hell: 'WALL-E' Beaten Into Submission by Animated Israelis

In a timely, sort of surprising portent of things to come this awards season, the National Society of Film Critics chose the Israeli animated documentary Waltz With Bashir as its best picture of 2008.

Sean Penn Is One of the Most Homophobic People Mickey Rourke Knows

Mickey Rourke can't give himself a break. He finally mounts a comeback with The Wrestler—they're talking Oscar...nomination—but he has to go and ruin it by starting shit with his main competition, Milk's Sean Penn. More »

Mickey Rourke to Sean Penn: 'No, YOU'RE the Homophobe'

As this year's Best Actor race begins to winnow down toward a Mickey Rourke/Sean Penn face-off, Rourke has cleverly masked his one misstep—calling a journalist a "faggot"—by casting texted aspersions toward his rival.

Is Sean Penn Palling Around With World Leaders Who Are Allergic To 'Milk'?

A political pundit who sometimes acts, Sean Penn won widespread admiration for finally appearing likable on-screen in the Oscar-buzzed Milk. Now, though, some are calling his political associations anti-gay.

'Milk' Spoiled With NY Critics' Award For Best Picture

For members of NY Film Critics Circle, an average morning before its awards vote goes like this: 1. Order breakfast. 2. Refresh memory on last month's releases. 3. Review LA Critics' awards the day before. More »

Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning

• Christopher Buckley is writing a tell-all book about his parents William F. and Pat Buckley. "This book is going to land hard in some quarters," he said. Not unlike endorsing Barack Obama. [P6]
• Alex Rodriguez and Madonna aren't even pretending it's just a coincidence they were in Mexico City at the same time. [AP]
• The Brits are very disillusioned the Britney Spears sullied the good name of televised music competition by lip-syncing on X Factor. [Daily Mail]
• Sean Penn doesn't want to be cast in gay kissing scenes when he could be cast in full-on gay sex scenes. [P6]
• No record labels signed up to buy Paris Hilton's second album, but that didn't stop her from recording it. [Scoop]
• Peaches Geldof's husband: "I'm bored of all this." [Sun]
• Amy Winehouse's husband feels bad about turning her into a junkie. [National Enquirer]

Vince Vaughn, Nicole Kidman Share Their Turkey in Hollywood Charity Tradition

Welcome back to a special holiday edition of Defamer Attractions, your weekly guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or stillborn at the movies. And this Thanksgiving, we're grateful for a slate of Wednesday releases granting us a reprieve from another day of Twilight chatter. Not that any of them will surmount last week's blockbuster, but we have a quick and dirty forecast for long weekend's hits, sleepers and subplots, including a glimpse at the biggest disappointment and underdog to come. As always, our opinions are our own, but are easy to bake for that last-minute dessert idea. The full recipe is after the jump. More »

Defamer Spills 'Milk': An Instant Review

The year-end demolition derby that is Oscar season is ramping up, and among the next big films to face the gauntlet is Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk. Already the recipient of oodles of pre-release buzz (so there, says Focus Features), its release Wednesday will cap a period of real-world gay activism that has unmistakable parallels to the events in the film. Senior editor S.T. VanAirsdale and associate editor Kyle Buchanan have already seen the movie and are ready to share their thoughts; so which editor wanted to see more James Franco, and which wanted to see more of James Franco's stunt phallus? Read on to find out! More »

As The Gays Prepare For Battle, Could 'Milk' Have Made The Difference?

Here's a warning to anyone who voted to strip gay Californians of their rights to wed, and 18,000 already-married same-sex couples of their licenses: You don't want to see a ticked-off Mr. Defamer. His eyebrow arches even higher than usual, and he's been known to accidentally fumble that intern-monitored mug of 140 degree chai latte into a nearby face. We, meanwhile, are busily polishing our pitchforks and stocking up on 99 Cents Only-brand torches for tonight's Prop 8 protest rally (7 p.m. on San Vicente Blvd between West Hollywood Park and the Pacific Design Center). More »

Tolerance Preaching 'Milk' Inspires Oscar Blogger Bloodbath

For a movie that the religious right hasn't even gotten around to touching yet, Milk certainly has caused its fair share of controversy this week. First, a questionable THR column on the movie's marketing earned the ire of Focus Features, and now that the film had its first public screenings last night, the reactions range from rapturous to...fight-inducing? Let's take a look! More »

'Milk' Marketing Meltdown Pits Studio Boss Against Press

An angry Focus Features is doing a bit of air-clearing this morning, the day after it premiered its Oscar-chasing biopic Milk to an adoring hometown crowd in San Francisco and offered its first screenings to press in L.A. and New York. But it's a few people who haven't seen the film who are of particular interest to Focus president James Schamus, who all but firebombed Hollywood Reporter headquarters Tuesday in a letter to the editor denouncing its coverage of his film — a screed conveniently CC'd to the rest of the Internet as well. More »

Studio Fires Back: Milk Is Very Gay

As supporters of California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative picketed last night's San Francisco premiere of Milk, producers of the film fired back at allegations that Focus Features is hiding their spiritual follow-up to Brokeback Mountain because it's too gay to promote during an election season. In a letter to The Hollywood Reporter, Focus chief James Schamus slams the report, citing the film's "most explosively received and appreciated trailer in the history of our company" along with a litany of gay tie-ins. More »

Is Milk Too Gay Or Just Bad?

Despite a star-studded cast and a high profile director, Focus Features' new biopic about the first openly gay pol in California history isn't getting any push from the studio before its Dec. 8 release. Focus' last spectacularly gay-friendly film, Brokeback Mountain was a major winner, so call the development puzzling. Focus execs are spinning that they want the film to gain word-of-mouth slowly, but Occam's razor gives us a better explanation: Milk just isn't very good. More »

Michael Phelps' Love Life Involves Barbara Walters

• Michael Phelps is dating Barbara Walters' assistant "Marina," with whom he went to college. Wait, that's a fake name right?? Is someone playing a trick on poor old Cindy Adams? [Cindy Adams]
• What pairs well with xenophobia and shouting? Jay McInerney knows! At Benoit, "McInerney and his wife, Anne Hearst, had to calm down political commentator Robert Zimmerman, who'd just had a fierce on-air tangle with Lou Dobbs. Jay prescribed Zimmerman a bottle of 1991 Côte-Rôtie La Turque Domaine Guigal." Frog-loving traitors, all of them. [R&M, second-to-last item]
• Good Morning America defeated Today to score a live Britney Spears performance, leaving NBC suits "fuming," according to the NBC News-haters at the Post. Meanwhile, the singer is sane and cognizant enough to be terrified she's bungled one court case so badly she may go to jail. Her handlers take this as a positive sign!
• Alec Baldwin loved (second item) Sarah Palin's behavior off camera at Saturday Night Live, but Chevy Chase was less charitable about what she did on-camera: "She cannot improvise herself out of a paper bag."
• Elizabeth Taylor, 76, likes to be wheeled into a West Hollywood gay bar, where she drinks tequila shots and Apple martinis. They call them the golden years for a reason, people. [P6]
• Sean Penn is Venezuela, just hanging out, committing some light treason. [P6]
• Tom Cruise is a huge Tina Turner fan. In a very straight way, of course. [P6]
• Breaking: David Geffen still hates the Clintons. "They are vindictive, and people were afraid of being excluded." [R&M, third item]
• Sting's wife said she totally called the Madonna-Guy Ritchie divorce. She also allowed it to happen, by introducing the couple. So, uh, nice work, detective. Gwyneth Paltrow, meanwhile, is behaving like a real well-publicized celebrity friend.
• No one, and I mean no one, pisses in Shannon Doherty's bathroom unless her name is freaking Shannon Doherty. And don't ever forget it! [Daily Star]

Venezuelan President Wonders What Happened To Spicoli

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5 Celebrities Who Really Hate the Paparazzi

Actor Tobey Maguire has had another confrontation with the ever-dogged paparazzi, this incident ending in bloodshed. Apparently, his friend punched some photographer and was hauled off to jail. This is the second such outburst for the Spider-Man star, but he's not the only one to lash out at the wicked, prying photogs and their gaggle of flashing lights and inane questions. After the jump take a took at five other celebrities who have stood up and barked "No!" at the insidious rabble. More »

Grazerhead Simpsonfied!

· None other than Museum of Hollywood Jerks inductee Brian Grazer stopped by The Simpsons again last night. We can hardly wait for his take on Everyone Poops. We smell Oscar! More »

Everyone Randomly Texting Their Exes

• Sean Penn kissed a man for a movie, and for some reason sent an excited, rhyming text message to Madonna about it. [Fametastic]
• David Spade also sent a text message to his ex-girlfriend, Heather Locklear, because he wanted to make sure she's OK after her drunk driving arrest, and nothing says "I care" like a "U OK? LOL!" [Us]
• Jude Law told everyone he was in London vacationing with his kids, but really he was holed up in his New York hotel room with a dancer for days on end. Like he can't do that anywhere. [P6]
• Angelina Jolie confirms she is demanding more babies. Brad Pitt just looks so exhausted. [Mail]
• Do not offer Tom Arnold a Diet Coke, unless you're some sort of undermining monster. The man's in recovery. [Daily Star]
• Paul McCartney wrote a very special song for Heather Mills. [P6]
• The Philadelphia woman hired by Oprah to run her South African girls' school is suing the talk-show host for defamation. Oprah is accused of saying on TV that the woman covered up abuse at the school. [People]
• Courtney Love supposedly had "gastric band surgery" because she thought she was fat. [Hollyscoop]

Fire Up Your Oscars: Here Come Da 'Milk'!

Here it is: The trailer for Milk, Gus Van Sant's retelling of the swift rise and violent and untimely fall of America's first openly gay elected official, set against a backdrop of the swinging San Francisco of the late '70s. Everything here seems note-perfect, from Sean Penn's Horshackian (with base notes of I Am Sam) vocal inflections, to the meticulously executed period gayfros, to the Anita Bryant file footage (here's some more of Bryant getting a banana cream pie in the face; ah—that never gets old), to the portentous-but-not-too-portentous tagline: "His life changed history. His courage changed lives." You thought a pair of lovelorn cowboys shot in silhouette were enough to nudge the Oscar envelope? Just wait until Sean Penn's Best Actor clip—featuring the actor entwined in James Franco's naked folds and delivering a stirring monologue on answering one's higher calling—shows the Academy how one really gays their way to the gold. More »

Bitchy NBC Newsers Now Jealous Of Luke Russert