500 Days of Kristin, Day 200: It's Finally Here!!!

Allie Jones · 08/13/15 03:45PM

Like a C-student proudly delivering completed homework to the teacher for the first time all semester, Kristin Cavallari announced progress on her forthcoming book today, the 200th day of Kristin. One hundred days have passed since Defamer last evaluated her work on Balancing in Heels (formerly known as Balancing on Heels, Kristin’s original idea for the title), and today, we can officially state that Kristin has accomplished at least one item during that time period.

Ice Cube Has a Message For Bitches, Hoes, and Their Defenders

Rich Juzwiak · 08/12/15 03:49PM

Rapper/Are We There Yet? star/writer of lines like, “I once knew a bitch who got slapped / ‘Cause she played me like she was all that” Ice Cube reflects on the misogyny he and his former group N.W.A. have been accused of in Rolling Stone’s next cover story, on stands Friday. In a preview post on Rolling Stone’s website, his musing comes under the bolded heading “Cube laughs off N.W.A’s lyrical treatment of women (which, to be fair, got way worse after he left the group).” Cube’s quote is (and I hope you’re ready to laugh along with this nice man):

Utter Joy Is Deee-Lite Performing "Groove Is in the Heart" at Wigstock in 1990

Rich Juzwiak · 08/12/15 03:07PM

People.com points out that Deee-Lite’s enduring dance-pop staple “Groove Is in the Heart” turns 25 this month, which is insane because it means everyone is old. The song and its day-glo retro video brought club kid culture into heavy rotation for a period of time. The NYC-based trio were signed to a decent-sized label (Elektra) with major distribution (Atlantic) at an idealistic time when house music was starting to really break, and it seemed like the sky was the limits for the acts who were making it. (I mean, Uncanny Alliance were on A&M!) Record companies would soon discover the financial folly of their investments, as these club-oriented acts left and right proved to be one-hit wonders, if that. Regardless, some wonderfully enjoyable, often inventive dance-pop came out of it.

500 Days of Kristin, Day 199: #1 Cause of Stress and Weight Gain

Allie Jones · 08/12/15 02:43PM

In a new (free to access) post on the Official Kristin Cavallari App for iPhone and Android, future published author Kristin Cavallari reveals one of the fastest-growing problems now facing our nation’s Whole Foods class: “inflammation.” Inflammation—a word that, in the way Kristin is using it, means “feeling puffy”—is a plague that requires treatment by a professional. A professional Integrative Nutrition Health Counselor that is. Good thing Kristin knows one.

Which Fantastic Four Cast Member Told Its Director That His Movie Sucks?

Rich Juzwiak · 08/12/15 01:36PM

The latest Fantastic Four flick is an abysmal flop of such proportions that multiple outlets have run what-went-wrong-style pieces in its wake. Today’s comes via The Hollywood Reporter and it is utterly delicious. Kim Masters’s “Fantastic Four Blame Game: Fox, Director Josh Trank Square Off Over On-Set ‘Chaos’” tells the story of a spandex-hungry studio that made a superhero movie “for the wrong reasons” and a relatively inexperienced young director who was in over his head when tasked with crafting a blockbuster and, as a result, behaved like an utter maniac.

500 Days of Kristin, Day 198: Urgent Message From Kristin

Allie Jones · 08/11/15 03:05PM

ATTN: social media intern who runs the Twitter account for the shoe company Chinese Laundry–You have made a grave error from which you will never, ever recover. To make matters worse, it was Kristin Cavallari, lead designer of the Kristin Cavallari for Chinese Laundry shoe line, who discovered it.

Olsen Twins Sued by Intern Who Claims She Worked 50 Hours a Week for No Pay

Jay Hathaway · 08/11/15 11:40AM

A former intern for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s Dualstar Entertainment is suing the Olsens, claiming she worked 50-hour weeks under horrible conditions and was offered neither pay nor college credit in return. Shahista Lalani was in the nightmare position for four months in 2012, and says she and her fellow interns did the same work as some full-time employees.

500 Days of Kristin, Day 197: A Fun Question for Kristin

Allie Jones · 08/10/15 04:36PM

Kristin Cavallari recently consented to an interview with the beauty blog Byrdie.com, which resulted in the instant classic blog post, “How Kristin Cavallari Does It All (and Still Looks Amazing).” We’ve already discussed a couple questions from the interview, like “Where do you find inspiration for the content on your app?” and “What sites do you visit for health and beauty inspiration?”

Nicki Minaj Not Pregnant, Just Enjoys Calling People "Baby Father"

Jay Hathaway · 08/10/15 02:13PM

Nicki Minaj, currently letting boyfriend Meek Mill tag along on her world tour (whenever he’s not busy with his job as the punching bag at Drake’s home gym), sparked rumors that she’s also letting Meek’s baby tag along in her uterus when she called him her “baby father” at a show over the weekend. But Nicki was just kidding, according to TMZ, which reports she often lovingly refers to her closest dudes as “baby father.”

About That Twist in The Gift

Rich Juzwiak · 08/10/15 01:14PM

At one point in the middle of Joel Edgerton’s The Gift, I thought to myself, “This movie is playing me like a violin.” It is taut throughout and includes one of the most suspenseful cinematic scenes in recent memory. It’s gorgeously shot. It juggles potential misdoing among multiple characters for a good chunk of its running time, casting suspicion and then retracting it over and over again, up to the last frame. It does that vicariously infuriating thing that the best domestic thrillers do by making its ostensible antagonist’s harassment of the protagonists seem obvious yet completely unprovable to authorities. Maybe what I responded to the most was that it’s a throwback to one of my favorite sub-subgenres, the late-summer/early-fall domestic thrillers of the ‘90s like Single White Female and The Good Son (as well as What Lies Beneath, to an extent, though it doesn’t have that film’s supernatural bent). What sets it apart from those low-key classics is its firm social consciousness.

Superheroes for Dummies: Fantastic Four

Rich Juzwiak · 08/06/15 05:08PM

At one point early on in Josh Trank’s woeful reboot of Fantastic Four, Sue Storm (Kata Mara) tells Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), “I gotta say it’s fun having you here,” as she’s doing scientific things in the science lab she works in. It’s delivered directly and without irony, but it lands like a punchline; at this point in the movie, there’s nothing fun about Fantastic Four, and this is before the movie takes a maudlin nosedive. Once our superheroes accidentally obtain their powers, they spend much of their time complaining about them. Fun is, and remains, the last thing on anyone’s mind.

When a 15-Year-Old Fucks Her Mother's Boyfriend: Diary of a Teenage Girl

Rich Juzwiak · 08/06/15 01:59PM

Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl is astonishing in its audacity. It gives agency to its 15-year-old female protagonist Minnie (Bel Powley) when she has an affair with a man who’s 20 years her senior and also her mother’s boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), and then it dares you to contemplate her level of victimhood. It portrays the sex between Minnie and Monroe as enjoyable and hot. It finds humor in a fucked-up situation that might be portrayed as a tragedy in a less compassionate movie: One of the times Monroe announces he has to stop fucking her, Minnie gasps in offense, “Why would you say that? Do you think I’m fat?”

Jennifer Aniston Is Fine, Married

Kelly Conaboy · 08/06/15 12:30PM

It looks like Jennifer Aniston may be more fine than ever. TMZ reports the former Friends actor, who is fine, and her fiancé Justin Theroux, actor who played Carrie’s boyfriend on one episode of Sex and the City, have finally tied the knot.

People Expect a Lot from Kirsten Dunst, Says Kirsten Dunst

Allie Jones · 08/06/15 10:06AM

As she reveals in a new interview with Town & Country, life has been unfair to Kirsten Dunst. When I say “Kirsten Dunst,” I’m referring to the famous Spider-Man actor Kirsten Dunst, not some other Kirsten Dunst who might be in jail right now, or something. The famous Kirsten Dunst is exhausted.