How, we wondered yesterday, could the Razzies have overlooked the tailor-made star bomb The Spirit for inclusion on their annual dishonor roll of nominees? We went straight to Razzies founder John Wilson for the scoop.

DEFAMER: So the nominees that emerged yesterday weren't official yet?
JOHN: What happened is we have press members on our mailing list, and this guy Larry Carroll from MTV's Movie Blog apparently misunderstood and thought that was a final list. And it kind of went viral for us.

So what was it, if not a list of nominees?
When we send out our nominating ballots, we also send out a list of suggested nominees—only because if you don't steer it somehow, you just get no consensus with as many people as we have voting. Those are likely nominees when the final ballots are tabulated and the actual nominations are announced on the 21st, but those are not the official nominees.

Are there any dark horses that could still emerge?
I'm assuming you're talking about The Spirit, which is getting a lot of write-in votes. One of the things that's happened ever since the Oscars jumped their show a month ahead is that we have to get our material out the week of Christmas, and anything that comes out on Christmas or later is not likely to make it out onto our ballot. [...] With Tom Cruise (in the Christmas-released Valkyrie), someone asked, "Well, how can Tom Cruise be on there if The Spirit wasn't?" And with Tom Cruise, the advance buzz was really awful. Although apparently the movie isn't that bad, so it'll be interesting to see if he does or does not get a nomination.

Well, one big star vehicle that seems to have supplanted Valkyrie as far as public ire is Seven Pounds, which a poll of critics recently voted the year's worst.
You know, I've seen that. It's weird, and it's an odd concept for a movie, but it's not quite to the standards of what we would consider for a Razzie. At least until the jellyfish part, which definitely belongs on the "nuke the fridge" list. Up to that point, it's a reasonably reputable movie, though I should admit that it also is getting write-in votes for screenplay. I don't think Will Smith is getting many votes for that, he's getting them for Hancock.

So what criteria do you consider for Worst Picture?
We look at box office—and big box office doesn't protect you from being Razzie-nominated—we look at the Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes, we pay attention to what's being said on the forum of our website. We look at the track record of the people involved. Like Uwe Boll—the guy over at Rope of Silicon was saying "duh." Well yeah, "duh"—it's the same thing as Meryl Streep getting an Oscar nomination! Uwe Boll is just as shitty a director as Meryl Streep is a terrific actress. They're kind of mirrors of one another, and nobody attacks the Academy for nominating Meryl Streep. Uwe's Boll's Postal...if you've seen it, you have my sympathies. I actually have, and it's right up there with Freddy Got Fingered as just an inexcusable, tasteless, unfunny, "why did anyone give this person money" movie. And Freddy Got Fingered is the only Worst Picture winner that I've actually hated.

Has there ever been any overlap with Oscar bait? One of our editors suggested Revolutionary Road this year...
Three times, I believe, the exact same thing has been nominated for a Razzie and an Oscar. And in all three cases, it didn't win either. The best known one is probably Amy Irving as Barbra Streisand's wife in Yentl, who was nominated as both Best and Worst Supporting Actress. I'm trying to remember if the song from Con Air, "How Do I Live," that also may have been nominated for both.

Well there are so many terrible Oscar-nominated songs! That's probably the category that deserves the most overlap.
We actually had a Worst Song category for years, and we had a lot of fun with it. Generally speaking, though, if a song gets a Razzie nomination it's probably one that won't get played a lot on the radio. Although I guess "I Want Your Sex" from Beverly Hills Cop II did win a Razzie!

So what do you think are the top frontrunners this year?
I don't think I agree with our members or the public about The Love Guru. I thought that it was stupid, but I didn't find it offensive. Still, it looks like it has the inside track to get nominated all over the place. I know that when this list went viral yesterday, a lot of the public was disturbed that we had bothered to nominate Rambo. Personally, I think Rambo was a violent, pointless, ill-conceived, badly-written, horribly-acted, badly-edited piece of crap.

Tell us how you really feel!
Eddie Murphy has the highest-profile box office bomb of the year in Meet Dave. I will be curious to see how many nominations—not if it will get nominated, but how many—it will get. He swept three characters at last year's awards, so I'm sure he'll end up with some. The one I'm hoping gets a lot of nominations is Postal. The real enigma about Uwe Boll is not why he exists but why he continues to make movies! Who needs the tax loss so bad that they can spend $50 or $60 million on these movies? I can't wrap my head around it.

Are we going to see any love for M. Night Shyamalan this year?
It looks like it has the possibility, but if there's anything he's learned from the multiple Razzies that Lady in the Water won years ago, it's that casting yourself as a Jesus-like character in your own movie doesn't go over well. At least he isn't in The Happening. That was one that was a lot of fun to see with people when it first opened, because the audience doesn't know you're going to find out that it's bush—but not the President!—that's responsible for Armageddon. That twist he does in all his movies was particularly dunderheaded in this one. And I'm normally an admirer of Betty Buckley, but of all the elements in this movie that I hope get nominated, Betty Buckley as a crazy old lady who crashes her head through a window and screams at Mark Wahlberg is high on my list. That definitely deserves some attention from us!

PREVIOUSLY: Razzie Nominations Serve A Shocking Snub To 'The Spirit'

On Monday, Josh Brolin attended the New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony and picked up the Best Supporting Actor honor for his performance in Milk.

According to a number of reports, Mr. Brolin was on fire that night!

During his acceptance speech, Brolin had some choice words for the New York Times' Ben Brantley, who slammed his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of True West. Brantley apparently called Brolin's performance "flattening".

Said Joshy to the audience, "Ben Brantley - honestly I hate that motherfucker! And I don't think he's a good writer."

He also went on to talk smack about tubster Russell Crowe, who he worked with in American Gangster, while praising his Milk co-star Sean Penn, "Quite an actor Sean Penn . . . Amazing. Not an asshole like Russell Crowe."

We loves a man who speaks his mind!

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Because every excellent, original TV series must have an inferior ripoff on another network: forget Mad Men, the new advertising-centric drama is Trust Me. On TNT! Your new Don Draper: that guy from Ed.

It also stars Eric McCormack from Will & Grace! Trust Me is brought to you by a pair of real life ad industry veterans, so you know it's good. It replaces Mad Men's smoky 1950's vibe with a modern-day "top-ranked Chicago ad agency," staffed by, among others, the guys who were on Will & Grace and Ed.

You may recall that NBC tried to rip off The Sopranos with a miniseries called Kingpin, which, you know, did not go down as an all time classic. Using another show as a peg like that is a great way to sell an idea, but doesn't guarantee it'll be any good. I used to think that this was because HBO allowed sex and cussing and networks didn't, so network shows would always be inferior. But Mad Men is on AMC, so maybe there's a mysterious "actual talent" element at work here. Also, they make up for the lack of nudity with copious smoking. In any case here's a preview clip of the guys from Trust Me; the Draper-like sexiness fairly oozes from their pores:

Scarlett Johansson sat down with Harper's Bazaar to chat about her upcoming movie He's Just Not That Into You. She plays a character who can't get the guy, but in real life, she's happily married to Ryan Reynolds. They love to keep their personal lives private, but Scarlett opened up a little about his proposal, her new life as a wife, and her other main man, Barack Obama. Here's more:

• On having things her way: "You have to protect some things, even if it's a silly detail like who designed your dress," she demurs. "It was private, which is what I really wanted. I've never been the girl who thought of the big dress, the big ceremony. I'm more low-key than that. Most people want photographers at their wedding, and for us it was how do we leave them out?"
• On adjusting to married life:"I feel like everything is really normal, it's calm and natural, like the way it should be," she says. "I have no perspective on it because it's been such a short time. I would never try to profess some knowledge that I discovered. I'm happy and it feels very regular, which is good."
• On Ryan's proposal: "I wasn't surprised that it was happening, but anyone being presented with a beautiful diamond ring, as a girl, you just squeal with delight. You say you can't believe it, but of course you really can. I think all proposals are romantic. It was very down-to-earth and genuine. There was no crazy skywriting or anything like that, just nice words, and it was very sweet."

To more photos, as well as what Scarlett has to say about Ryan's marathon, Obama's victory, and her dream role, just

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• All charges were dismissed against Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright after they were arrested in a bar brawl with cops in Shreveport last July. — TMZ
• The woman who unknowingly acted as a decoy for Jamie Lynn Spears is suing the LAX police department for $2 million to compensate her for the "humiliation, fear and harassment" she felt after being swarmed by paparazzi. — E! Online
• The Travolta family is holding a memorial service for Jett tomorrow in Ocala, FL, and it will only be open to family and close friends. — Access Hollywood
• Pete Wentz wrote a post implying he is temporarily stopping his blog, writing out the definition of "unplugged" and titling it "just for awhile. see you soon." — Pete Wentz's blog
• U2 announced that they will most likely be releasing a rock and roll Spiderman musical on Broadway this year. The band said it has finalized some songs and might have the play open in New York. — The Sun
• ICYMI Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcomed a baby girl yesterday in LA. Her name has not been released yet.

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Oh, Lily, you're so cheeky! And fucking stoopid!

Running at the mouth again, the petite singer says in a new interview, "The only story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you - you will become a prostitute, a rapist or a dealer. But that's not true. I know lots of people who take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work. But we never hear that side of the story. I wish people wouldn’t sensationalise it. Some people are just bad at taking drugs."

Lily admitted that the drug itself teaches its own lesson. "I felt like a lonely child, when everybody else was doing it and I wasn’t. That’s why I took cocaine when I didn’t even like it."

But she doesn't appreciate the lessons of Christianity. "I was brought up in a Catholic school and they told me gays, adultery and drugs were bad. All my mum’s friends were gay, my dad was having affairs and there were drugs in the house when I was a kid, so it was a bit cruel."

Nor does she appreciate the recession recording industry, complaining about her earnings, or lack thereof. "Twenty years ago, I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with five grams of cocaine on my table and 10 bunches of flowers. Some new clothes. A chauffeur on 24-hour call. Now I’m lucky to get an Oyster card. I ask for a hotel in Paris and I get a two-star place in the eighth arrondissement on my own. I’m like: 'Do you want me to get raped and killed?'"

Now Lily, that kind of spoiled attitude will get you into trouble!

Idiot!!!!!!

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Some very lucky Katy Perry fans will get the opportunity to join her on stage….at the Grammys!

How cool is that???

Katy is set to perform at the Grammy Awards, which will air on February 8th. And fans can now compete to perform alongside Perry at the awards.

Those interested can upload a video of themselves singing a part of Katy's hit song I Kissed a Girl onto this site.

We've already done it!

The Recording Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow says, "We are very excited that this year's installment of My Grammy Moment allows numerous online fans to be an integral part of a performance."

Eager fans can submit videos up until February 6th, just two days before the love broadcast on the 8th.

CLICK HERE to watch our entry and VOTE FOR PEREZ!!!!
CLICK HERE to watch our entry and VOTE FOR PEREZ!!!!
CLICK HERE to watch our entry and VOTE FOR PEREZ!!!!

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Comedian Ricky Gervais - who calls himself a "fucking fat bastard" - says that people who get liposuction and gastric band operations are, and we quote, "lazy fucking fat pigs."

In his audiobook, The Ricky Gervais Guide To Medicine, Gervais continues, "I really don't know why a doctor under a hippocratic oath takes the risk of something going badly wrong, sometimes with general anaesthetic, because someone can't be bothered to go for a fucking run."

He might have a point!

What we can't stand is when celebs lie-tell about "eating healthy and working out" to drop dress sizes and then later admit that they had a little surgical - or coke - help!

He also says that in order to help him lose weight, people shoud drop the PC and call him "Fatty" on the streets, so he'll be shamed into dropping the pounds. And to assist others in losing weight, he recommends that "in supermarkets, the really fattening stuff should be behind a really thin door. Shops should be full of salads, but if you want to get to the pies and cakes, you've got to crawl through a little tube."

Sounds like he and Karel Lagerfeld could be best anti-fatty friends!

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Hillary Clinton still has a $6.3 million presidential campaign debt to payoff before she takes the reigns at the State Department.

So, Jon Bon Jovi has just stepped up to the plate to help her pay that shiz off!

The music man is performing at a fundraiser for Hills on January 15th in Manhattan.

The event is being billed as "a final evening in support of Hillary Clinton for President Debt Relief."

Ticket prices range from $75 to $1,000.

Once Hills becomes Secretary of State, federal ethics rules will prohibit her from actively soliciting campaign contributions.

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Hey, let's inject relationship drama into the high-stakes world of box office projections. Oh boy! Jennifer Aniston's Marley & Me opened on Christmas day against her ex-husband Brad Pitt's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In spite of all logic and reason, Jennifer's movie actually had the top B.O. for Jesus' birthday and went on to take the rest of the holiday weekend, according to Variety:

Twentieth Century Fox's canine comedy "Marley and Me" was the surprise pick of the litter at the crowded Christmas box office -- grossing a hefty $51.8 million for the long weekend -- but there was plenty of coin to go around in one of the most prosperous holiday seasons ever for Hollywood.

Somewhere, Brad Pitt is being forced to wear the gimp outfit by Angelina Jolie. "You lost to the dog movie?! I'd close my vagina permanently if there weren't babies falling out of it. Speaking of - *foosh* MADDOX! Sell your Xbox to buy some diapers for mommy. Now, what we're we talking about?"