Lindsay Lohan's Fetish For Boyfriend-Stealing
Strikes Yet Again [Addictions]

When it comes to the art of stealing boyfriends, no one does it better than Lindsay Lohan. As Star reports in their current issue, the blood-sucking barer of flesh successfully seduced her former slim fast buddy Nicole Richie?s fiance this weekend. And her timing is suspiciously awful, considering new mom Richie is said to be sorely missing her party girl past. As a source tells Star:

?Joel Madden spent a boozy night partying with Lindsay...Their heads were practically touching, and he had his leg over hers.?

As delighted as we are that recent gossip about Lohan has involved nudity and boys rather than drugs and DUIs, her fetish for robbing frenemies of their boyfriends is a long-standing Lohanism. We look back at some of her most classic crimes of passion after the jump.

We tend to think Lohan's habit of man-theft all started with that infamous catfight she had with Hilary Duff over Aaron Carter (yes, really, there was a time when he was the cat's pajamas) , who supposedly cheated on Lohan with the blonde teenybopper. But that one incident hardly justifies Lindsay's rap sheet since then:

May 2006: It's hard to feel bad for fellow seductress Paris Hilton, but her lovey dovey relationship with Stavros Niarchos (what ever happened to that guy by the way?) came to an abrupt end after Lohan was spotted "dirty dancing" with him at a club.
October 2007: After pissing off Paris, Lindsay took her fetish up a notch while in rehab, where she met and began dating snowboarder Riley Giles. The only problem? He was engaged to some poor girl in Utah at the time.
January 2008: And as recently as January, Lohan was linked to Adrian Grenier while big-bottomed girl Kim Kardashian was allegedly dating the Entourage star.

February 2008: Just one month later, Lindsay brought out her Paris-hating claws once again, managing to win the fight over girly song-singer James Blunt.

• NICOLE RICHIE CRUSHED AFTER CATCHING JOEL MADDEN WITH LINDSAY LOHAN [Star]

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Movies too personal to share with an audience

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In Steve Erickson's novel "Zeroville," a man with a tattoo of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" tattooed on his bald head arrives in Hollywood in the summer of 1969. Raised a Calvinist (not coincidentally like Paul Schrader, writer of "Taxi Driver"), his hunger for, and obsession with, movies has a religious fervor to it.

He develops protective feelings for a young girl in the Hollywood fast-lane (echoes Travis Bickle and Iris). He takes her to the Fine Arts for a revival of "A Place in the Sun." The audience laughs at some of the "dated" moments, and the girl (Isadora, who goes by Zazi -- as in "... dans le métro" by Louis Malle, 1960?) thinks it's silly. He is devastated. But one night she watches the movie, alone, on TV. It is a revelation to her.

"The thing is, that movie last night is a completely different movie when you watch it by yourself. Why is that? Movies are supposed to be watched with other people, aren't they? Isn't that part of the point of movies -- you know, one of those social ritual things, with everyone watching? It never occurred to me a movie might be that different when you don't watch it with anyone else. And that movie... [...]

"That's a movie you see alone and it gets into you. I've been up all night. I said it was silly when we saw it together, but that was way off. There's nothing silly about that movie. Twisted and deeply f---ked up, yeah... but silly, no. Too twisted not to be private, you know? I mean, five hundred or a thousand people or however many it is in a theater -- what are they going to do with a movie like that? There's too much common sense floating around the room, and what you have to do with a movie like that is give up your common sense, which is easier to do when it's just you alone. It just seems... radical, any movie that, like demands your privacy, because it's, you know... a movie like that makes common sense completely beside the point, and you're one on one with it, in the living room by yourself rather than the theater with all those people, and watching it is like being naked and you can't be naked like that with strangers, you can't even stand the idea of it, and you know that after you're finished with it, much more with a movie like that than any stupid horror flick, some deep dark shit is going to be waiting at the bottom of the stairs... so I just couldn't sleep. That movie's like a ghost. Watch it and you become the thing or person that it haunts. Last night, the movie became mine and no one else's."

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Video Interviews: Steven Spielberg and George
Lucas on Indiana Jones 4

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recorded video interviews for the EPK of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom for the Crystal Skull. You can watch the interviews below. (...)

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HOLEHEAD08Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)

Jon Knautz's Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is a funny, sexy, throwback to the entertaining horror comedies of the 1980s?think Evil Dead (1981), Gremlins (1984), A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), Re-Animator (1985), Weird Science (1985), The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988)?back when it was fun to be scared and the participatory imagination of audiences hadn't been leached dry and rendered anemic by overdone CGI effects or politicized torture porn. Admittedly, Elm Street's Freddy Krueger?introduced to Knautz at the tender impressionable age of six?was a direct taproot for Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. The role of comedy in setting up the next scare became a vital influence.

When Todd Brown first began commenting on the project at Twitch roughly a year ago, he hoped this Canadian production with its inventive practical effects (by makeup/creature FX creator David Scott and his Form & Dynamics crew) would be "the next hope for a wriggly, oozing success" and singled out the film's creative website, "loaded with production design sketches and a series of fourteen behind the scenes videos tucked away in the Jack's Journals section." The trailer finally arrived in August, the film was picked up at Slamdance by Anchor Bay in January of this year, an incredibly hot poster came out in February, at which time Todd finally got around to watching and reviewing the film at the Berlinale. He emphasized that?when it's done well?"the world of foam latex monsters and buckets of blood is an enduring cult favorite" and "an awful lot of fun."

Much of that fun is due to Robert Englund's Professor Crowley who?as Cinema Fromage states it?"steals the show as he waxes demonic" and turns into something of a "purposely cheesy" Jabba the Hutt. Englund admits, "It was fun for me at my age to do some physical comedy and crash around and set up the mutation at the end of the film." As for the film's sexiness, much of that is due to a young cast headed by Trevor Matthews whose transformation from "a slacker whipping post to a bad ass"?inspired by Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" no less?holds an attractive erotic charge. In his hands monster slaying becomes the ultimate form of anger management. His girlfriend Eve (Rachel Skarsten) is likewise easy on the eyes (though hard on the ears). Lest he be pigeonholed as a hunk icon, however, Matthews does double duty and plays the forest troll that kills his family in the film's opening camping sequence.

Scott Weinberg at Fear.Net describes Trevor Matthews' Jack Brooks as "a short-tempered misfit who's prone to unpleasant outbursts, but Matthews also brings a lot of quick wit and pulpy swagger to the material. If Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer had been made twenty years ago, it would have starred Bruce Campbell in the title role?and obviously that's meant as compliment (to both actors)." Bloody Disgusting agrees: "Jack Brooks, played by Trevor Matthews, ? could possibly become the new Ash for horror hounds looking for a replacement (since we all know we'll never see an Evil Dead 4). And although no one will ever replace Bruce Campbell's character, Jack Brooks carries similar charisma, energy and toughness that could transform him into the latest horror icon." At the very least, Bloody Disgusting argues, "Monster Slayer is only the birth of Jack Brooks and I pray we'll see another dozen of these films in the future." Variety's Joe Leydon likewise predicts Monster Slayer's potential as "the kickoff for a horror-comedy franchise." Cinema Fromage bills it as "a great origin story in the vein of comic books" and?as if to prove the point?one of the keen perks of the film's website is a comic book adaptation whose pages you can click and turn!

Cross-published on Twitch.

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Billy Ray Cyrus Is The Hillbilly George Clooney
[A Call To The Bullpen]

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In the continuing fallout from his daughter's recent Vanity Fair scandal, Billy Ray Cyrus decided to change up his image to reflect a more sophisticated lifestyle. Cyrus felt that one of the reasons that Miley was taken advantage by Vanity Fair was their perceived image as yokels. In order to combat this misconception, Cyrus has decided to step up his appearance and quickly has become the smoothest and best dressed man in Tennessee. Cyrus said, "If you look rich, people will think you're rich. And when you're rich, people might think you're smart and hopefully won't persuade your boy crazy daughter to take her clothes off."

[Photo Credit: INF Daily]

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Everybody Wants Some In 'Sex: The Revolution'
[Sex]

While the Michael Hirschorn era at Vh1 will likely be best remembered for bringing pop culture talking heads (I Love The..., Best Week Ever), washed-up celebs (Surreal Life) and horny musicians (Flavor Of Love, Rock Of Love) into millions of homes, there is one program from his tenure that was just as critically acclaimed as it was popular. Back in the summer of 2006, a four-part documentary called The Drug Years aired to rave reviews — Variety called it a "fascinating insight into the growth of the counterculture and ... its eventual hangover" — and arguably became the first series in the channel's history that was equally appealing to pop culture enthusiasts and intellectuals. Now, after nearly two years worth of research and production, the same creative team that put The Drug Years together has returned with a brand new four-part doc entitled Sex: The Revolution. Defamer recently sat down with series writer Martin Torgoff and executive producer Brad Abramson to talk about the series that, as Torgoff explains, puts its focus on "how the sexual revolution fed into the dynamic of what became the Culture Wars in the United States."

The series, which began airing on Monday night, puts its focus on the years between the advent of the birth control pill in 1960 and the time of the Reagan administration's first public acknowledgment of the AIDS crisis in 1987. Much like TDY, the show's narrative sweep is driven by interviews with key observers of the sexual revolution, including influential participants (Hugh Hefner, Susan Brownmiller, Helen Gurley Brown) and savvy cultural critics (David Allyn, Gay Talese). And although the timeframe the doc covers mirrors that of TDY, it diverges from the way that series was structured in that each episode does not revolve around the activities of a particular decade. As the series' Executive Producer Brad Abramson told Defamer, "There's so many more threads here. The Drug Years was more of a straight ahead story. Here, we have the story of sexual liberation, the story of gay rights and feminism, and the challenge was how we could do all that stuff and keep it together."

"Sex is one of those subjects where people have wildly divergent notions of what the 'important' stories are, relative to other stories," Torgoff added. While that may be true, the series is successful at tackling a broad swath of topics in a manner that is both smart and entertaining. It traces the evolution of Americans' attitudes toward sex from '50s era sexual repression through the "free love" Sixties and concludes with the hedonistic "Me Decade" that was the 1970s and its aftermath. But while the story is largely driven by talking heads, the manner in which the episodes are scored using both music and wonderous archival footage helps this doc remain compelling throughout its four-hour runtime.

And while the series concludes in the Reagan era, the creators of the series readily acknowledge that our culture continues to grapple with issues pertaining to sex to this day. And while the media's fascination with sex has not slowed, the manner in which the stories are covered certainly have. "In terms of coverage, it feels a lot more cynical and hypocritical these days," Abramson explained. "Be it Dateline or whoever, they will do a story on the latest outrage while they are laughing all the way to the bank. It allows them to 'tut-tut' and have some distance."

Some critics have argued that the show presents a biased and left-skewing perspective on the sexual revolution, the creators are quick to point out that it's not for a lack of trying. As Torgoff told us, "For the record, let me just say, that we contacted numbers of the most prominent conservative pundits and commentators in this nation — like James Dobson of Focus On The Family — and they did not want to participate. I think that they have their own agenda and are not interested in engaging in a debate on the subject."

That said, plenty did come to talk. In particular, Hugh Hefner gave one of the more extensive (and, frankly, more lucid) interviews he has given in a number of years in this series. And we can't forget Danny Glover, whose anecdotes about the Haight-Ashbury scene will forever change the way you think about Sergeant Roger Murtaugh.

And although you may have already missed the first two installments of the series, the series continues through Thursday night (and, because it's Vh1, you know you'll end up watching a four-hour marathon while you're hung over on a Saturday afternoon in the not too distant future). If you loved The Drug Years as much as we did, we have zero doubts that you'll be disappointed in this doc that's equal parts entertaining and educational.

• Sex: The Revolution [Vh1]

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Neuromancer Going Ahead: With William Gibson

I was ripe with disappointment when this time last year, I discovered that William Gibson’s[...]

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Blindness at Cannes

Opening at the 61st annual Cannes Film Festival tonight will be a film by Brazilian director[...]

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The Edge of Love Trailer

Raise your hand if you’re a Keira Knightley fan. Ok ok, me neither. But let’s be[...]

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Coco Chanel Poster

First look at the marketing poster for the upcoming biopic on famous designer, Gabrielle Chanel[...]

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