Look, I dislike Sarah Palin for a vast number of reasons. But if you are gonna heckle Bristol Palin in bar, be prepared to answer questions as to why you hate Mama Grizzly bear. Bristol was riding a mechanical bull for scene in her upcoming reality show when a hostile shout-out occurred. It wasn’t very nice, by any stretch of the imagination.

Miss Bris went right over to the man to confront him, asking:

Is it because you’re a homosexual and that’s why you hate her?

The angry guy responded:

Pretty much … and why’d you say I’m a homosexual?

Bristol replied:

Because I can tell you are.

He swears a lot, calls Sarah a liar and a whore, and Bristol stays calms the whole time, asking for examples. She is one cool cucumber.

But Bristol, there are lot of straight people who don’t care for your mother.  Next time you might ask that question to someone who isn’t gay, and doesn’t care for your inference. Because sadly there plenty of those in LA, too.

The whole ugly incident–and I don’t just mean Bristol’s sweatshirt–was captured on video.

Karl Rove was suddenly cut off an interview with Sarah Palin’s BFF Greta van Susteren Wednesday night when he repeatedly called into question the skin-thinness of the kinda-sorta-maybe-running-but-haven’t-made-up-my-mind-yet former partial term governor of Alaska:

Look, she is all upset about this saying I’m trying to sabotage her in some way. And how dare I speculate on her future. If she doesn’t want to be speculated about as a potential candidate, there’s an easy way to end the speculation. Say, ‘I’m not running. It is a sign of enormous thin skin if we speculate about her, she gets upset. And I suspect, if we didn’t speculate about her she would be upset and try to find a way to get us to speculate about her.

End the speculation by saying, ‘I’m not going to be a candidate.’ Until then, I would recommend she might get a slightly thicker skin. If she has this thin a skin now when people are saying, ‘I think she might be a candidate,’ how is she going to react if she does get into the campaign and gets the scrutiny that every candidate does get?

All of a sudden, FOX cut to ” breaking”news: Steve Jobs was stepping down as Apple CEO, something that had been announced hours earlier. Now who’s thin-skinned?

[ht Crooks & Liars]

The hairstyle that launched a thousand comedy sketches is getting its due. Or at least the designers of said up-sweep are. The Beehive Beauty Shop in Wasilla, owned by Palin fan/local glam squad-cheerleader Jessica Steel, is the focus of a two-part reality show, Big Hair Alaska on TLC, the same channel that brought us Sarah Palin’s Alaska. (No word yet who is producing; Palin was the executive producer for three episodes of  her own reality show, with Survivor producer Mark Burnetr responsible for the whole run.)

Ah, the possible drama if Levi Johnston comes in for a trim! And even now on their Facebook page there’s  TLC-level excitement: The shop just got in new feathers (for that ghastly trend of feather weaves) and were too busy to answer the phone so someone couldn’t make an appointment!  What if Willow wants to get a platinum blonde mohawk behind her mom’s back?  The yet-to-be filmed show already has its own FB page.

The press release describes the show as going

inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, Alaska, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create.

The Beehive’s Facebook page has several ecstatic mentions about the production, and really, good for them. With Mad Men returning to cable and upcoming network shows like Pan Am and The Playboy Club, retro-dos are all the rage, and supporting small local businesses is important in this economy.

Let’s just hope they weren’t responsible for this:

Tim Gunn visited the George Lopez Show and decided to mashup politics and fashion. Sad fail. I love Tim Gunn, but seriously not funny. He declared Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin to be the same person (the old, not funny joke got a slow, weak build of applause), then went on to say about Hillary Clinton:

She’s the secretary of state, she’s the former senator from New York, she’s the former first lady. Why must she dress that way? I think she’s confused about her gender. All these big, baggy menswear tailored pantsuits. No, I’m really serious…If the pantsuit didn’t stop an inch above her ankle you could hide the cankle….I have great respect for her intellect and for her tenacity, and for what she does for our country in her governmental role. I just wish she could send a stronger message about American fashion.

When is it okay to make fashion about a person’s gender, Tim?  Props to you for being who you are but totally uncool. And you’re in the Smurfs movie. Nuff said.

Math is hard, and statistics are made for spinning, but I kinda think overall Horrible Bosses did better…

On July 17th, Trevor Drinkwater, CEO of ARC which distributed The Undefeated told The Hollywood Reporter:

We expect word-of-mouth to keep ticket sales strong and we will definitely expand the film to a wider national audience.

This past weekend saw an abrupt drop-off; The Undefeated, while opening on four more screens, only averaged $1,713 per venue. Whoops! Total box office as of Sunday, July 24 was $101,000.

Time for Plan B: Video-on-demand and DVD, a tried and traditional route for any indie film.

ARC Entertainment, the distributor of “The Undefeated”…announced today that beginning on September 1st the film will be available to 75 million homes via Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View access through national and regional cable and satellite operators.

On October 4, ARC will release the DVD in an initial pressing of 250,000 units.

Glenn Bracken Evans, the film’s producer said:

This title is absolutely perfect for Video-on-Demand and Pay-Per-View backed by a traditional and significant marketing campaign. We are incredibly excited about having this film made available to the entire country earlier than expected. A traditional windowed release would not have allowed us to maximize viewership of this highly sought after film.

Look, independent movies have a hard time turning a profit, let alone documentaries, and political documentaries even more so. The Undefeated is a niche product. I wonder how The Undefeated filmmakers feel about the IRS argument made in a US Tax Court trial this March that

filmmaker Lee Storey could not deduct business expenses pertaining to her film Smile ’Til It Hurts: The Up with People Story because the primary purpose of her film (and by inference all documentary films) is to educate and expose, not to make profit, and that therefore documentary filmmaking is a not-for-profit activity

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[HT Clusterflock.org]

Bristol Palin told Dr Drew she doesn’t want to

be named as an abstinence preacher…I’m not out there saying don’t have sex. I hate that kind of stuff. Birth control needs to be used effectively each and every single time if you’re gonna be having sex.

wishes she had stuck to abstinence, but that

I’m not advocating it for everyone else…Kids are gonna do what they’re gonna do.

Bristol compares he work to that of former gang members who can explain to kids why gangs are bad; she has the experience of being a single, teen mom and wants to share that.

three or four days.

stolen

In California, that would be a rape. Is it the same in Alaska?

I’m not accusing Levi of date rape, or rape at all, but I am just looking back with the adult eyes that I have now and just thinking that was a foolish decision. I should have never been underage drinking and I should have never gotten myself into a situation like that.

Dr. Drew didn’t let it go. When Bristol pointed out that she stayed with Levi after that wine cooler-fueled night of amnesia, he gently said:

Now remember what kids do is they try to make it right by justifying what happened.

Bristol justified to Dr. Drew that she kept having sex with Levi because, well, she already had done it, and believed she would marry him.

Dr. Drew observed that, based on her affect and exposition, it seemed like Bristol’s self-expression was stifled, that she

cover[s] a lot of heavy feelings behind a lovely smile…it’s okay to be angry…you’re not allowed to talk about feelings it seems like…

I had planned to watch Dr. Drew tonight–thank you TiVo–so it was a very Los Angeles moment when I walked into Mozza for dinner with friends and saw the man himself, Dr. Drew sitting at a nearby table with his family.  One of the kids was playing with his iPhone during the meal, but he may have just been Googling reactions to his dad’s show.

Academy Award nominated actress Julianne Moore told MTV News that

It was hard, really, really hard

playing former Alaska governor/2008 GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the upcoming  Game Change, directed by Jay Roach and based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann‘s 2010 bestseller of the same name.

I had a great director, Jay Roach who was incredible. I adored him, [he was] so supportive, so smart. I did a lot of research, I worked really hard. It’s hard to play someone who is very present in people’s minds, who’s on television, very idiosyncratic,  I did my best. We’ll see, I hope we pulled it off.

The HBO movie stars Ed Harris as John McCain, and Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt, Larry Sullivan as Palin’s deputy chief of staff Chris Edwards, Jamey Sheridan as McCain’s speechwriter and senior campaign advisor Mark Salter.

We’ll get to see behind the scenes with Palin family, too: Melissa Farman plays Bristol Palin, David Barry Gray appears as Todd Palin, and Justin Gaston as Levi Johnston. The film follows the 2008 McCain campaign from the candidate’s selection of Sarah Palin as running mate to their defeat on election night.

Moore worked to get her character’s accent down:

I had to listen to it over and over again. My son was embarrassed because [Palin's speeches were] all that was on my iPod. He said, ‘Where’s your music?’ [I told him] I erased all my music.

The film, shot in Maryland, was reported to be responsible for employing 160 local crew and 1,800 residents as extras. But that kind of job creation wasn’t on Palin’s mind when she spoke to Sean Hannity about Game Change. She wondered why she wasn’t get some money for her kids’ braces. Um, Sarah, haven’t you made millions off your books and TV appearances? Maybe Bristol could help you out with her windfall if you’ve spent all yours!

Johnny Depp will make a Revolutionary midnight ride, and hopefully set the record straight about Paul Revere now that his production company Infinitum Nihil has signed a deal with Disney to produce a film about the silversmith-turned-American hero.

As we were recently reminded in a roundabout way by Sarah Palin, Revere sped to Lexington via rowboat and horseback to alert the militia that the King’s troops were on the march looking to arrest John Hancock and John Adams.

Also in the deal, a movie based on the 70′s supernatural crime drama Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

[H/T Deadline New York]

photo: Ben Spark, creative commons

Oh. My. Gods.

One high point: The woman who says

We still have the government invading our houses, and you know, so we woman stand up and start invading the government.

Plus Andrew Breitbart!

Note the anti-establishment, rebellious tone, the surging, galloping music. Oh I would drive to Orange County to see this!

But I am confused. Why is it called The Undefeated, when she and John McCain lost the 2008 presidential election?

Ashton Kutcher  who made his some of  fortune playing dumb guys but is actually pretty darn smart–he’s a former biomedical engineering student and a current investor in Silicon Valley–took to his early-adopted Twitter–to voice his opinion about the release of Palin’s email:

Wife Demi Moore retweeted her support as well:

Well at least it’s a distraction from Weiner. But there might be something important in those emails. Joe McGinniss thinks there are all sorts of clues to all sorts of things. And reminds us that 2,500 pieces have been redacted.