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[Darth Vader approaches stormtroopers in the treacherous hive of scum and villainy known as Los Angeles. Actually, it's impersonator Chris Mitchell, protesting a crackdown on costumed characters. But wouldn't it be cool if it were actually Vader? Pic via Getty.]
Well, they say if you stick around in Hollywood long enough, your biggest liability will eventually turn into your most bankable asset. (Actually they don't say that, but they should.) It certainly was Aggro Batman's case, as his fist-shaking haranguing of Japanese passersby who snap his photo but fail to produce the…
Violating an unspoken Hollywood rule of engagement—no matter how undeserving or mink-clad you might deem them to be, you never, ever scribble indelible unpleasantries on a celebrity's Walk of Fame star—an unseen hand has written "FUR HAGS" beneath the names of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. An Olsen fan site attributes…
How excited was Glenn Close yesterday to earn immortality on the Walk of Fame? Excited enough to carnally plunge onto Hollywood Blvd., which we take to mean "pretty excited." Get a room, you two.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star Cate Blanchett was awarded with that most exclusive of all Hollywood decorations presented within spitting distance of a technicolor-wig store, the Walk of Fame star. There to share in the honor were producer Kathleen Kennedy, Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull…
There are tragedies and there are tragedies, and while we don't rank Absolut Vodka's purchase of a plaque on the Walk of Fame with, say, domestic Bat-violence, some fork-tongued marketing gnome still must have done a jig in his hot little corner of hell today as word of the sponsorship deal hit the LA Times. For a…
While most of you are no doubt well-acquainted with the Hollywood Walk of Fame—that urine-glazed tribute to some of the most beloved celebrities of the modern era, and Ryan Seacrest—you might not be aware that America's maple-shingled roof has a Walk of Fame of its very own. Established in Toronto a decade ago as a…
Angela Bassett received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, and if her emotional speech doesn't get you right there, well, you're probably the CEO of a major media corporation or something: "Today my cup runneth over. I am crying now, I cried yesterday and the day before. Who would have thought that a little…
While we never know exactly what to expect each time Defamer videographer Molly McAleer takes her camera to Hollywood Blvd. to have a chat with one of the Walk of Fame's Polaroid-proffering superheroes (for example: who knew that Reasonably Passable, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has such a hard time with handsy…
How in the great and powerful Oz's name it took this long to get the Munchkins a star on the Walk of Fame is beyond us, but today, that wrong was reversed, as seven of the nine surviving diminutive residents of Munchkinland were finally granted their rightful plot on Hollywood's legendary urine-stained road.…
Somehow finding the one red-costumed individual in this city patrolling a sidewalk in front of a Hollywood landmark with no interest in discussing the WGA strike, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer enjoyed a brief chat with the Chinese Theatre's Reasonably Passable, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, inviting the…
In the unlikely event that it's slipped your mind, today marks the official release of the most anticipated comeback in the history of music, Britney Spears' Blackout, a record that the erstwhile pop-star, her label, and the intermittently estranged children who want their momma to start earning a living again…
· OMGOMG. The strike's, like, totally going to happen. Did you hear about the chair thing?? [Variety]
· John Travolta returns to the action-movie realm as the lead subway-hijacking baddie in The Taking of Pelham 123, a role director Tony Scott "heavily courted" the actor for, and which he took only on the condition…
Ricky Martin received a star on the Walk of Fame today, the most illustrious Puerto Rican studcake to be bestowed with that greatest of purchasable Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honors since Eric Estrada flicked his trademarked thumbs-up for the gathered fan.
As we briefly mentioned on our way out the door on Friday afternoon, the Oscar-winning Jamie Foxx, star of such big-screen entertainments as Bait, Stealth, and critically acclaimed prophylactic-acquisition farce Booty Call, received his very own slab of Hollywood Walk of Fame immortality. Confident that Foxx's…
At first Jamie Foxx's Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremony proceeded classily enough, with Foxx noting the pride his deceased grandmother must be feeling over the honor in no way sponsored by Universal's The Kingdom, in a theater near you September 28th. Eventually, though, Foxx's famously irrepressible naughty…
In just moments, TV producing legend Vin di Bona, who built his America's Funniest Home Videos empire upon thousands of hours of viewer-submitted footage of frail grandmothers tumbling from porch swings and fortuitously camcorded incidents of unexpected testicle trauma, will receive a star on Hollywood Blvd.'s Walk…
We had always just assumed that the Walk of Fame was untouchable, and that the tourists of tomorrow, strolling down its glittering trails in rocket-boosted sneakers, would enjoy it for generations to come. But today comes the somewhat distressing news that the stars on the 1600 block of Vine—for decades where local…
Later today, angel-faced actor Matt Damon, his knees still lightly bruised from his humble reception of the gift of Grauman's immortality, will receive a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, an honor in no way connected to the imminent opening of The Bourne Ultimatum, in theaters August 3rd.
