Hollywood Privacywatch: Francis Ford Coppola Not Impressed With Pauly Shore's Resume

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Microsoft's "Jackass" non-denial

In response to the rumor that Jackass star Johnny Knoxville is the new Microsoft pitchman, a company spokesperson emails: "Microsoft is planning a consumer advertising campaign with Crispin Porter & Bogusky. We have no other details to share at this time." More »

"Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville new Microsoft pitchman

Forget Justin Long as Mac and John Hodgman as PC. The latest computer pitchman could be Johnny Knoxville, star of MTV's Jackass series. A reader of the blog Cajun Boy in the City claims to have been in a focus group for an unnamed company he believes is Microsoft. Redmond's marketing execs recently hired ad firm Crispin Porter & Bogusky, the creators of Miller Lite's "Man Laws" campaign and Burger King's live-action "King." The reader writes:

Microsoft [is] in the midst of preparing an advertising campaign that would make it appear that its software and the PCs that run them are a younger, hipper product.

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New Microsoft Guy: Johnny Knoxville?

Now this would be an interesting potential genius move/ mistake: According to an unverifiable leak to Gawker-approved blogger Cajun Boy In The City, Microsoft might be thinking about Johnny Knoxville as its cool new answer to Mac's young annoying hipster spokesman, Justin Long. You'll recall that Microsoft recently hired a new, more with-it ad agency in a bid to stop getting humiliated in 30-second spots. Is this what they came up with? We've emailed the company for comment [UPDATE: Microsoft's PR firm emails us: "Microsoft is planning a consumer advertising campaign with Crispin Porter & Bogusky. We have no other details to share at this time." Thanks!]. After the jump, the entire email [via Cajun Boy] from someone who purportedly attended a Microsoft focus group and saw it all firsthand. More »

Johnny Knoxville's Plan To Get Luke Wilson Laid By Every Chick In Malibu Backfires

When not perfecting his pursuit of the anaconda-piledriving and scrotum-stapling arts, The Ringer star Johnny Knoxville enjoys mounting elaborate pranks: Who could forget, for example, the WeHo billboard featuring the image of Jackass Number Two director luring vacationers to a fictional gay cruise line. ("Sailors board me now!" the fake signage beckoned.) In keeping with that proud tradition, when Knoxville learned his best binge-drinking buddy Luke Wilson would be visiting Malibu's corporate celebrity-clusterfuck cabana, the Polaroid Beach House, he made special arrangements for his arrival. From Page Six: More »

Today In Sneaky Divorce Filings: Wayne Brady, Johnny Knoxville

· You know what's totally hot right now? Quietly filing for divorce on the Third of July. More »

Knoxville And Kimmel Sued For Literally Busting Their 'Windy City Heat' Actor's Balls

A trio of celebrated jackasses—tireless celebrities' rights activist Jimmy Kimmel, noted anaconda ball-pit wrestler Johnny Knoxville, and Adam Carolla—are being sued for $10 million by the starring dupe of the Comedy Central movie Windy City Heat. (For the uninitiated, Heat was an elaborate practical joke, in which the gullible Caravello is made to believe that he won the lead in a movie about "sports private eye Stony Fury," which might have played funnier if he didn't, as one prominent physician observed, appear to be suffering from moderate-to-severe brain damage.) Reports the AP: More »

World Cheers As Steve-O Conquers Crippling Pee-Shyness At 'Jackass' Premiere

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Unpleasant, Involuntary Physical Reactions Induced in Critics By 'Jackass Number Two': A Round-Up

Sure, the premiere served up all the old school Hollywood glamour we've come to expect from the bow of a Paramount Pictures production. But not even Steve-O, Bam, and Wee Man overpowering and then relieving their bowels upon Billy Bush before entering the Chinese Theater could have turned Jackass Number Two into a critical success: The movie would have to earn that on its own. The reviews are in, however, and based on a random sampling of the nation's film critics, what it lacked in narrative and character development, it made up for in its visceral, puke-inducing formal elements. A round-up: More »

Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Butterscotch Stallion A Generous Patron Of The LACMA Gift Store Arts

PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are now posted several times a week—so start sending them in more often! Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let everyone know about the time you spotted local tree-squatter Daryl Hannah roasting cosmic marshmallows by a Burning Man campfire. More »

Johnny Knoxville's Big Gay Playlist

Though one might question whether a man who was recently outperformed by a group of mentally retarded actors will be good for Chelsea newsstand sales, Johnny Knoxville graces the cover of the new Out (the first issue under new EIC Aaron Hicklin). Knoxville, apparently eager to prove his pink chops, made a play for staff love by bringing his own gay mixtape to the photo shoot. What a brilliant way to win over the Gays — homos love to dance! The playlist: More »

'Jackass' Director Never Meant To Be Poster Boy For Gay Cruises

Paramount has much riding on Jackass: Number Two, with the hit-hungry studio praying audiences will show up for another heaping serving of its particular brand of inter-rectal Hot Wheels fun. Director Jeff Tremaine—whose face became familiar to West Hollywood locals when Jackass star Johnny Knoxville put it on a billboard promoting a fictional gay cruise line—spoke to MTV.com about his unwitting participation in the viral marketing prank: More »

Great Moments In Movie Marketing History: Jackass's Fake Gay Cruise Line

Collider noticed the billboard looming over the corner of Palm and Santa Monica in West Hollywood, which rather boldly touts something called "Rainbow Cruise Lines" and directs curious, prospective vacationers to check out the company's website. Gay shuffleboard enthusiasts will undoubtedly be disappointed to discover that the seafaring come-on is just a stunt advertisement for Jackass: Number Two, and that the movie's web presence is completely devoid of Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O's signature mututal cock-and-ball torture, adding to the sting of the promotional subterfuge. More »

Johnny Knoxville Tests The Outer Limits Of His Blond Fetish

It was the unlikeliest of pairings: She, a Kennedy, tireless founder of the Special Olympics, mother to the first lady of California, and 51 years his senior; he, a movie star whose career was launched on the popularity of his self-styled televised scrotum-stapling showcase. They met at a promotional event, and the attraction was immediate he was a sucker for her irresistible grin and flowing locks of snowy blond hair (his favorite); she, his dashing good looks and proper erectile functioning. Yes, he was married. But so was she. That just made it hotter. Before you knew it, it was every second weekend at the Cape for another "Ringer junket." More »

Knoxville and Wilson Prove Alcohol Is Packed With Stupid-Making Calories

Page Six has an eyewitness account of the recent blitzkrieg of downtown Manhattan by Luke "Fat Man" Wilson and Johnny "Little Boy" Knoxville, both fittingly bombed out of their gourds: More »

Gossip Roundup: Paris Hilton, Denied

• Is Paris Hilton banned from LA nightclub LAX for talking smack about her former BFF Nicole Richie? If so, it suggests that there might be some sort of karmic balance to that otherwise moira-less world. [Scoop] More »

Defamer Party Report: Tumbleweeds Blow Through "Jackass" Event

We'd never expect an event for Jackass to attract anyone in the alphabetical neighborhood of the A-list, members of which generally don't have a very high tolerance for the stapling of genitalia to stationary objects or the show-offy chewing of broken glass. But when nearly all of the wire photos of the night include pornstar/recall gubernatorial hopeful Mary Carey, things are not good. According to this report from an operative unlucky enough to have turned up to the party, the planners had a problem luring warm bodies of any kind to fill the venue, even with the promise of booze and food: More »

Leto Leaves Lohan Fastlane For Simple Hard Rock Life

It was to be the next great Hollywood romantic pairing our generation's Burton and Taylor, their tempestuous, larger-than-life passion bubbling over into unforgettable on-screen performances in historical epics. They were supposed to get married to each other possibly more than once! No more: fire-eyed demon of temptation, thy name is Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. More »

Johnny Knoxville Offends The Canadians

During a press event in Toronto to promote the upcoming release of The Dukes of Hazzard, star Johnny Knoxville proved himself to be a little delicate when it comes to questions about politics: More »

Media Bubble: Live From San Francisco, It's Al Gore

• Al Gore's cable network, which launches today, is apparently a tapas bar, says a San Francisco Chronicle writer. This is, we think, a good thing, mostly because we had some excellent tapas last time we were in the City. [SFC] More »

Gossip Roundup: Bill Murray Will Take His Crazy con Carne, Please

• At the after-party for the premiere of Broken Flowers, star Bill Murray jumped over a table and chased down an Interview photographer for taking his picture. Sadly, the party was sponsored by that very magazine, but you try telling that to a crazy man. [R&M] More »