• By popular demand: The other clip of Sarah Palin's Saturday Night Live appearance. [Yeeeah]
• Jennifer Aniston is reportedly pregnant with John Mayer's baby. We'll wait until the National Enquirer confirms this before we believe it. [INO]
• Guy Ritchie on sex with Madonna: It's like "cuddling up to a piece of gristle." [CityRag]
• Tara Reid reminds us of the dangers of too much plastic surgery. [ICYDK]
• Suri Cruise tries to make a run for it after Tom forces her to pose for pictures. What a dad. [DListed]
• Dakota Fanning performed with her high school cheerleading squad over the weekend while her new movie debuted at the box office. Just like us! [PS]
• Britney Spears really doesn't need that much retouching, does she? [DListed]
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson confirm they are a couple, because nobody had any idea. [PS]
• Whitney Port officially gets her very own Hills spinoff, set in NYC. As long as it's not Speidi, we're on board. [ICYDK]
• All the celebrity nip slips you could ever want. [CityRag]
• For everyone who was concerned: Kim Kardashian fits in her size 26 jeans. [Yeeeah]
• Dakota Fanning continues her reign of perfection by making her school's cheerleading team. [INO]
So last night I was invited to the premiere of Hounddog, the film that caused a lot of controversy a while back because it features a Dakota Fanning rape scene. After watching the movie, I can safely say that the fuss was overblown, but that's probably obvious at this point.
On to the good stuff: The red carpet! Where my spot along the velvet ropes was labeled "Whittle Little, Jossip.com." Awesome. CONTINUED »
Which naive actress didn't make any excuses as she sat in her party dress and sniffed cocaine off her mate's hand in the middle of a party?
Sure, it's probably not Dakota Fanning, but that picture was the only way we could add even a hint of spice to yet ANOTHER blind item about drugs. Can we please get over this shock at young celebrities doing drugs, world? Yes, famous people do drugs. Yes, there's probably better things they could be doing with their time. Let's move on.
Does everyone else agree, or have we just been in New York for too long?
13-year-old Dakota Fanning, whose spiteful eyes are second only to her spiteful grin in severity, has reportedly already learned to be a vain diva, and her younger sister, Elle, is following suit.
According to Variety, Dakota and Elle withdrew from the drama My Sister's Keeper after they learned the role required Dakota to shave her head. Unacceptable!
Add this to our accumulating pile of evidence that Dakota Fanning has the mark of the beast somewhere on her body.
Holy shit! When did Dakota Fanning grow from a borderline-irritatingly precocious young girl into a borderline-irritatingly trendy old girl? Is she mature enough now to do rape scenes without you guys going nuts, Christian Right?
• Dita really knocking the women's movement on it's ass. [DListed]
• Kim Kardashian really does have a sex tape. Ray J really does have a penis! [Jossip]
• Lost is back. Never seen it. [Glitterati]
• I didn't even know Tila Tequila was a real person. I thought she was like Princess Zelda. [IDLYITW]
• Bush Sr. going in for a wet one with Teri Hatcher. Sick! [ICYDK]
• Tom Cruise sends tracking device, oh, I mean "cell phone" to Dakota Fanning. WTF?! Who gives cell phones as gifts to other people's kids. You're off the weird charts again, Tom. Tone it down. [ASL]
• Wilmer? Really that upsetting? [CityRag]
• Brad Pitt moves to Berlin and immediately reinvigorates their "master race" ambitions. [JJ]
• So she adopts the baby and then doesn't bring him out? Greeeeeaaaaat, Madonna. Way to silence the critics. [DListed]
• Kids are bummed Gwyneth's not Britney. I'm bummed she named her baby Apple. [PopSugar]
• Janice Dickinson says Mick Jagger's whole body is small. Yes, she goes there. [CityRag]
• Can you believe it? It's difficult to carry on a convo with Jessica Simpson. [IDLYITW]
• If celebs were on American Idol (it would probably suck worse). [INO]
• Women can be funny, too. But still mostly moody and difficult to speak with when sad. [Slate]
• Fashion's more dramatic than Hollywood, and it has 100 per cent less Dakota Fanning rapes (if you don't count those Marc Jacobs ads, which are just exploitation). [NYT]
• Derek Jeter's not with Jessica Biel anymore. He's rumored to be seeing Gabrielle Union. I'm not sure if this is interracial dating. [NYP]
• Breslin VS. Fanning. I'm going Breslin 'cause she's cute chubby and she's OK with it. [BWE]
• Lohan's texting all her friends from rehab and saying she's the happiest she's ever been. Seriously, good for her. [People]
• Ryan Reynolds is like a handsomer Dane Cook. Deal with it. [INO]
• Federline wants Britney in rehab. I'm inclined to agree. [IBBB]
• I really want to wear glasses. [Source]
• "There's so many trashy pictures of Paris Hilton it's gross." —My roommate summing it up. [Egotastic]
Apparently, a MollyGood posting from July of last year has people buzzing once again as the movie it mentioned—the Dakota Fanning drama Hounddog—premiered at Sundance this week. Everyone's grossed out because Dakota Fanning's character gets raped in the film. Mouthpieces for the always rational religious right are even boycotting it.
"Hounddog" is the story of Lewellen, a girl played by 12-year-old Dakota Fanning, who is growing up in the 1960s South. She is a free-spirit obsessed with Elvis Presley and has little supervision by her abusive father and alcoholic grandmother.
Even before the first screening of "Hounddog" at the Sundance Film Festival this week, a Christian film critic, citing Fanning's age, decried the movie as child abuse, and Roman Catholic activist Bill Donohue called for a federal investigation…
The disturbing scene lasts a few minutes but is not graphic. There is no nudity, the scene is very darkly lit and only Fanning's face and hand are shown.
"…It's not really happening," Fanning said of a [sic] rape. "It's a movie, and it's called acting. I'm not going through anything…"
How sad is it when the 12-year-old girl is the voice of reason? In this instance, I'd say only mildly, because depictions of child rape are pretty hot topics for adults who feel the need to protect vulnerable children. But if she's OK with it, and her parent's are OK with it, shouldn't the Religious Right be as well? I'm not saying the idea of a scene of Fanning getting raped isn't horribly creepy, but it damn sure doesn't demand a federal inquiry.
How much you wanna bet that if Dakota got killed in this movie nobody would've batted an eyelash?
[Source]
• Lindsay Lohan, more defamation of character, false accusations, blah. [GotA]
• These Dakota Fanning for Marc Jacobs photos would be a lot less creepy if they didn't have that caged child forced to dress up like a doll trying to escape feel to them. [PopSugar]
• Kate Hudson finally cut her son's hair…kind of. [DListed]
• Listen Ewan, if you don't want us to stare at your shoes, don't wear such ridiculous ones. [OAN]
• Ashton Kutcher hates his ghosts of Christmas past: Young male models. [HollywoodRag]
• Tori, how about I just give you a couple of bucks from time to time and you don't have to give me anything in return, because this is just getting awkward. [BWE]
• Michelle Williams wants having kids young to become cool again so she won't feel so bad about having to go home early from dinner to take care of her own. [A Socialite's Life]
• Tucking your shirt right into your underwear: Kindergarten chic. [Yeeeah]
• Don't forget to get your "Be Adequite" T-Shirt. It would look nice framed on your wall.
The lovable little Dakota Fanning was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for next month's Vanity Fair. The shoot is pretty cool, but I'm mostly impressed that old Karl was able to wrap his mind around anything outside the huge decision making process that is his deciding what to wear every morning.
Now, let's get back to watching Dakota go through puberty. Just thinking about having to be in the spotlight during that time of my life gives me hives.
[Source]
• Handbags of horror!! [Radar]
• Dakota Fanning knows that the thumbs up is a way more rad red carpet stance than that lame peace sign. [DListed]
• Need a last minute costume? All you need is a blanket, some sunglasses, and an infant shaped object. [CityRag]
• Listen to K-Fed's whole album! Seriously, go do it and get back to me so I can fulfill my duty to the site without actually making my ears bleed. [BWE]
• Anne Hathaway is happy to appear naked, just probably not alone with you in your bedroom. [Junkiness]
• I'd be willing to bet that lots of people want to feed Brad Pitt's "hungry bum." [I'm Not Obsessed]
• Alicia Silverstone just loooooves her physical fitness. [A Socialite's Life]
Who has the more vacant child star (present or former) eyes, folks? Our rehabutante waiting to happen Dakota Fanning or Maybe This Lip Injection Was A Bad Call Jessica Simpson?
Voting Finished. Wheeeee!
Dakota Fanning: 45% (661 Votes)
Jessica Simpson: 55% (793 Votes)
Winner: Jessica Simpson
This poll, and all other first round voting, will be shut down at midnight EST.
New to the Dead Eye-Off? Full story here.
Nope, there's nothing intensely creepy about this Teen Vogue photoshoot. I'm not scared that Dakota Fanning is somehow a real female version of The Omen kid. I'm not going to lay awake at night when I think of the implosion that will occur when she turns 18 and is allowed to make her own decisions which, try as she might, will most certainly not be healthy and odds are will involve drugs. Not at all. Shiver.
I do think, however, she's a contender to win my Dead Eye Off (which I am totally planning, BTW).
[Source]
• Rachel Weitz makes motherhood look very very hot, and that adorable munchkin doesn't hurt either. [Splash News Online]
• Flavor of Love is back, and so are the crazy ass bitches that somehow want to touch Flavor Flav, like intimitely. Thank god for the open bar. [DListed]
• Play naughty Scientologist in Tom Cruise's wardrobe from A Few Good Men. [CityRag]
• Nick Lachey really caught himself a doozy with Vanessa Minnillo. The girl looks like she loves herself some booze. [I'm Not Obsessed]
• Trouble in Brangelina-dise? Even in separate bedrooms they're still pretty smoking hot. [A Socialite's Life]
• Sigh, we may never get to see Dakota Fanning's rapey movie. [BWE]
• Finally, Mel Gibson has issued a formal apology to the real victims here: the erotic cake industry. [Huffington Post]
It's Christmas for pedophiles: Dakota Fanning will appear nude in an upcoming movie. Eeewwww.
Well, apparently it's Inappropriate Child Actor Joke Day on MollyGood. And what better to follow up Haley Joel Osment's tragic car accident than raping Dakota Fanning? Only in a movie, of course. I do not actually advocate rape of Dakota Fanning, or anyone for that matter.
Seems that little Dakota has more acting balls than many actresses twice her age–she's willing to go nude and get (fake) raped for the sake of the craft. Now, lets just see whether those scenes make the final, and fucking disturbing, cut. The New York Daily News reports:
The screenplay for "Hounddog" - a dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South, written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier - calls for Fanning's character to be raped in one explicit scene and to appear naked or clad only in "underpants" in several other horrifying moments.
Fanning's mother, Joy, and her Hollywood agent, Cindy Osbrink, see the movie as a possible Oscar vehicle for the pint-size star. But despite Fanning's status as a bankable actress - whose movies, including last year's "War of the Worlds," have earned more than half a billion dollars since 2001 - the alarming material seems to have scared off potential investors from the under-$5 million indie project.
"The two taboos in Hollywood are child abuse and the killing of animals," a source close to the situation told me. "In this movie, both things happen."
Child abuse, animal killing, ya know, same difference. What about animal abuse or child killing? Smooth sailing.
I watched a lot of Dakota Fanning fan videos before deciding to post this one. Do I feel creepy? Slightly. Did the array of music choices make me cry laughing? Most. Certainly. It's Friday, so I thought you deserved something better than Daniel Powter, though I must say I was tempted. Who makes these fan videos? Because any time I'm feeling down I just YouTube search any celeb and voila, instant joy.
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