2008 Defamer Editors' Choice [Year In Review]
As we wind down another year of mind-boggling Hollywood highs and lows, we thought we'd crack open the 2008 archives and bring you some of our personal favorites. Our choices after the jump:KYLE10 of my favorite posts:

This Week In Tabloids: Lots Of Baby Drama & Weight Loss Tips From Obama [Midweek Madness]
Welcome to the final Midweek Madness of the year, in which the tabloids inform us that we're all overweight Americans.This week, the mags are about 90 percent Celebrity weight loss stories and 10 percent entirely made up cover stories about stars who might get married, reproduce, or not reproduce in 2009. Below, we pick out the small bits of gossip sprinkled like confetti throughout the pages of Ok!, Us, Life & Style, In Touch and Star.Us It's unclear why the mag describes the 28 pages of blathering about C

2008: Thank God That's Over [The Clip Show]
For this, our final post of 2008, join Defamer in recalling the heroes, history and other Earth-shattering phenomena that raised the bar for years of pop culture to come.

David Archuleta, John Mayer, Vampire Weekend And More Give Us Their Favorite Albums And Songs Of 2008
Members of Death Cab for Cutie and Cobra Starship also participate in round two of our artists' year-end wrap-up.By James MontgomeryDavid ArchuletaPhoto: Steve Granitz/ WireImage Last week, when we published a list of artists' favorite songs and albums of 2008, we expected to get some feedback ... but what we couldn't have predicted is just how much of that feedback would come from other artists.Seems that everyone wanted to get in on the act, which meant that over the past few days, we've been getting even

Celebrity Scandals of 2008
Celebrities don’t always shine for their good deeds. Like every coin has two sides, every celebrity is cursed with a destiny that’s a mix of fame and scandals. There are a few exceptions, but then again, what’s a celebrity without some grey shades of scandals on his collar?! In fact, it’s the scandals that decide the luminosity of these shining stars. Each year we get to see a long list of celebrity scandals and 2008 was no different. From ugly divorce settlements to racy

'The United States Of Tara' Badly In Need Of Change [Diablo Cody]
The United States of Tara, legend goes, was an idea that popped into the mind of Steven Spielberg, who then handed it over to screenwriting phenomenon Diablo Cody to flesh out into a half-hour pilot.The pilot is now streaming at the Showtime website (type in TARA when prompted for a password). What Cody has come up with is Tara, a depressive housewife and muralist-for-hire, played by Toni Collette with the open-mouthed neediness she's capitalized upon since Muriel's Wedding. But unlike Muriel, there's nothi

The Big Winners of 2008
As my father says, "Some people just got it." While the rest of us are thrashing violently to keep our heads above water heading into '09, others are strutting and whistling across this year's finish line. Here are the winners of 2008, in no particular order. CONTINUED » Permalink | post a comment | Add to del.icio.us | Digg Post [...]

The Best of 2008
Yesterday, I posted the worst things about 2008 (and let us never mention them again).And now for the best of 2008THE BIG BANG THEORY - The funniest show on TV. (Reviewed here).CHRIS LILLEY - Who is this guy? Where did he come from? Why is SUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH the first time we are hearing of him? I think Chris Lilley is up there with Steve Coogan and Ricky Gervais as foreign comedians who should become megastars in this country, only probably won’t. THE OLYMPICS - From the opening ceremonies, Michael P

Fame Game Reveals Top Content And Search Trends Of 2008 - Via 24Olsen
SOURCE: Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Parties, and Nightlife * Top Movers and Shakers: High Profile Divorces and Child Custody Spats: 1) Christie Brinkley, 2) Ron Perelman, 3) Patricia Duff, 4) Blaine Trump, 5) Peter Cook, 6) Heather Mills, 7) Marie Douglas David, George David, 9) Carole Rome, 10) Todd Rome. * Top News Anchors/Media Personalities: 1) Katie Couric, 2) Barbara Walters, 3) Anderson Cooper, 4) Al Roker, 5) Bryant Gumbel, 6) Brian Williams, 7) Matt Lauer, Deborah Roberts, 9) Christ

Danity’s Top Albums Of 2008
As we draw near to the end of 2008, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the year past and daydream about what 2009 will bring. In late 2008, this website was born and going into 2009 we will celebrate our year in cyberspace. Not only has the year been full of drama-filled celebrity adventures, but most importantly my passion of music has grown. I have compiled the top ten albums, in my opinion of course, from 2008 and present them now to you. You may or may not agree with me…

Truth, Lies & Ted: The Hottest Gossip of 2008!
Where to even begin? The Jen Aniston’s public/naked therapy sessions? Lindsay’s half-assed coming out? Madonna’s $70 million breakup? Rob Pattinson, Miley and their army of sex-free teen heartthrobs? Or the funnest celeb of the year, Sarah Palin? Hit the clip to see what made the list of my top gossip for 2008, in the latest episode of Truth, Lies & Ted.

PHOTOS: The OMG! fashion felonies of the year
Even Madonna, Katie Holmes, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Eva Longoria Parker, and yes -- Sarah Jessica Parker have styling disasters. A brief recap of this year's fashion misses and bigger misses. (Photo credit: Wireimage)

Year in Review: Vulture’s Greatest Hits 2008
Misty watercolor memories …2008 is nearly over, but before we break for the holidays (we'll be back Monday!), we'd like to take this opportunity to reflect on another banner year for our blog. In these past twelve months, we've celebrated victories, mourned defeats, made some new friends, and caught up with old ones. America may have picked the wrong Idol, we might've failed to save Cavemen, and the world may be hurtling toward total economic meltdown — but, hey, at least our traffic's up! After

Lil Wayne rules 2008
Britney might have made a comeback and Madonna rocked the tour circuit in 2008, but it's Lil Wayne who raked in the most money for album sales. His album, Tha Carter III, sold 2.88 million copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. Posted at 01:34 PM/ET, December 31, 2008 in Music news | Permalink

SAG ( SAG Awards) Nominations 2008 Announced
30 Rock and Mad Men have won the love of Emmy voters, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and now their peers: The quirky comedy and advertising drama continued their streaks Thursday morning with three Screen Actors Guild nominations each.Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey will look to defend their SAG crowns in the male and female comedy categories, while the Rock cast looks for its first comedy ensemble statuette. The cast will face off against those of The Office, Desperate Housewives, Entourage and Weeds.Fo

Party With The Stars This New Year's Eve
If you haven't made your New Year's Eve's plans yet, and have some money to spare, then maybe you can ring in 2009 with a celebrity!  Here's where some of them will be tonight. If you're in New York City and want to go to Times Square, singers Taylor Swift along with a few of The Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin, and Nick) will be performing. If you are in NYC but want to be indoors, Mario Lopez will be at Marquee.  You can join him for $150. On the west coast, Travis Barker and DJ AM will ring in the New Yea

2008 Year End Idol Sales and Chart Wrap-up
Here’s a brief wrap of of the Idols on the year-end charts.Ken Barnes of Idol Chatter has put together an amazing round up of numbers for all the Idols.  He’s sorted the Idols alphabetically, and listed their year-end stats for Billboard, Mediabase and Radio and Records.  Check it out HERE.Ken is moving on from Idol blogging, but hopefully, he keeps up with at least some of the Idol sales numbers in another column.  The info has been invaluable for us Idol obsessives…I’ve got my o

United States of Tara
Filmed in Los Angeles by DreamWorks Television. Executive producers, Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Diablo Cody, Alexa Junge; supervising producers, David Finkel, Brett Baer; producer, Dan Kaplow; director, Craig Gillespie; writer, Cody.   Tara, Alice, Buck, T - Toni Collette Max - John Corbett Charmaine - Rosemarie DeWitt Marshall - Keir Gilchrist Kate - Brie Larson   Despite the bold-faced names behind the scenes -- Steven Spielberg! Diablo Cody! -- it's the woma

Our queer year: Remembering April 2008
Our April 2008 issue is probably my personal favorite of the year. Not only did we have newly Oscar-minted Tilda Swinton on the cover, I got to watch the Out staff -- almost all gay men -- tackle the self-imposed task of a "transgender issue." With the guidance of guest editor T Cooper, the editors approached a slate of challenging, thought-provoking articles with a striking combination of curiosity and editorial rigor. They weren't in it to make themselves feel better, but to curate a collection of voices

Jill Brooke: Celebrity Divorces in 2008 Lasted Longer Than National Average
Who says that Hollywood marriages are always short? Not this year. After looking over the Celebrity divorces that were either filed or finalized in 2008, I calculated the median length of marriage for the 40 Break-ups we covered at the divorce site Firstwivesworld.com, and made a startling discovery. Divorcing celebrities stayed together longer than the national average. It's easy to say that actors, sports stars, and musicians are vacuous, self-centered egotists who don't value commitment and family. Bu

Year In Review: Like The Oscars Without The Oscar
Hey, we'll give credit where credit's due, but times are tough; there are no funds available for a big crusty trophy or laser-cut crystal paperweight. All the mentions are honorable, if not the intentions. After the jump, we reminisce over the last 12 months. 2008 saw a bumper crop of Celebrity Babies - Nicole and Keith had Sunday Rose, the other, littler Nicole and Joel had Harlow, Christina and Jordy had Max, and JLo and the living dead had Max and Emme - to name a few, but none could compare to the arriv

Idol Headlines for 1/01/09
Week Ending Dec. 28, 2008: America Goes On A Downloading Binge10. David Cook, David Cook, 101,000. The album returns to the top 10 after slipping to #13 last week. This is the album’s fifth week in the top 10. It’s also the fifth time in six weeks that the album’s weekly sales have exceeded 100,000 copies. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by “Light On” at #42.YahooChart Watch Extra: The Year That Songs Overtook AlbumsIn 2008, for the first time,

PopEater's Breakout Stars of 2008
Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, vampire heartthrob Rob Pattinson, British singer Estelle and 'Mad' man Jon Hamm are just a few of the stars who made an impact this year.