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- ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ teaser: truly intriguing or too dumb for words?
- Frank Langella’s book trashes dead celebrities including Newman, Taylor, JFK
- Uma Thurman drinks wine, shows off her big baby bump in St. Bart’s
- Lindsay Lohan crack-lied about the circumstances around her hit-and-run
- Michael Fassbender & James McAvoy at the Empire Awards: who would you rather?
- Lourdes Leon, 15, was photographed smoking a cigarette in NYC
- Gerard Butler probably hooked up with Lindsay Lohan at the Marmont
- Mad Men Season 5 premiere: Zubi Zubi Zu and other spoilers
- Have Rihanna and Ashton Kutcher been enjoying an eight-week fling?
- Prince William & Duchess Kate went on a romantic ski holiday in Switzerland
‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ teaser: truly intriguing or too dumb for words? Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:38 AM PDT Last Friday when my daughter and I headed to the theater to watch The Hunger Games, she secured the essential top-row seats while I stood in the very long line for popcorn. Once in the theater, she informed me that I’d missed the new teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 but that it was no big deal because she was “so over it already.” At first, I was a bit shocked by this statement since she’s firmly Team Edward and even has a cardboard cutout of His Sparkliness in her bedroom. Now I know what she’s talking about because this teaser trailer is really lame. Here it is, and we’ll discuss afterwards: Okay, so CB and I both think the part where Bella is stalking that poor little deer is pretty damn funny, but I can’t grasp whether or not Summit Entertainment intends this to be funny or if they’re actually trying to make this movie seem scary. After all, the promotional strategy of Breaking Dawn – Part I was much sharper than the movie itself — and it was the trailer’s blatant hilarity of a busted headboard and Jacob ripping off his shirt and wolfing out that led to a $138 million opening weekend. In contrast, this teaser features more “romantic” glimpses of Bella’s wedding/engagement ring, Edward making another one of his silly “romantic” statements, and Taylor Lautner nipping out as Jacob. Maybe the next trailer will have more campiness to offer since this one fails miserably, but if you’ve read the books, you know as well as I do that nothing of great consequence will happen in this installment unless Summit starts adding sh-t to the story. Although I do remain vaguely mused with the part where Bambi’s about to get it. Not that this will necessarily pull people into the theater. Screenshots from YouTube |
Frank Langella’s book trashes dead celebrities including Newman, Taylor, JFK Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:22 AM PDT
[From The Daily Mail] Oh no he did not disrespect John F. Kennedy, Liz Taylor and Paul Newman! Everyone gets tired at the end of the night, and Paul was human after all. People do not exist in this world just to entertain us. It’s not like it’s their job to regale us with funny stories and anecdotes for hours. After we get past a certain point in an early friendship, usually what happens next is that you exchange confidences, get to know each other, and do things together. The fact that everyone was such a massive bore to Langella suggests that he expected entirely one-sided relationships that others did not deliver on. In other words, he’s a selfish jerk. The stuff about how everyone was boring and self absorbed (pot meet kettle) was obnoxious, but I found it even worse the way he characterized his ex-lovers. He’s the one who decided to have relationships with these women. They couldn’t have all been so needy and desperate. He comes across as a user, who is now trashing women he took advantage of. He cowardly waited until they’d all passed away so that they wouldn’t be around to defend themselves. Langella also dated Whoopi Goldberg from 1996 to 2001. For those of you who watch The View, please let us know if she addresses this book by her ex at all. |
Uma Thurman drinks wine, shows off her big baby bump in St. Bart’s Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:45 AM PDT Uma Thurman went from "Is she pregnant?" to "OMG, she's extremely pregnant" in about six weeks it seems. Uma announced her pregnancy (by Arpad Busson) at the end of February. I'm guessing that by then, she was probably… like, four or five months along. These are new photos of Uma in St. Bart's over the weekend, where she is vacationing with her baby-daddy, and with her two kids by Ethan Hawke, Maya and Levon. That's little 10-year-old Levon kissing his mom's hand, it looks like. Isn't he adorable? Anyway, Uma looks very pregnant, which is why I'm assuming that she made the February announcement when she was already far along. Uma looks healthy and comfortable. She's also sipping a glass of a wine, something that may be slightly controversial. Some people think an odd glass of wine during a pregnancy is no big deal. Some people say no alcohol EVER while pregnant. Isn't it true that you really should avoid alcohol consumption in the first trimester, but later on in the pregnancy, it's not as potentially harmful? Or is that an old wives tale? So… whatever. Uma looks great. I hope her pregnancy is healthy, happy and uncomplicated. I hope she and Busson stick with each other. I hope that one day I can have this kind of fun-looking vacation. |
Lindsay Lohan crack-lied about the circumstances around her hit-and-run Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:43 AM PDT I was surprised that last Friday's Lindsay Lohan post wasn't one of the most commented-on posts of the day. Are you tired of the Cracken and her incessant crack drama? Don't feel bad for her. She's not worth your pity. Anyway, as we discussed on Friday, Lindsay's hit-and-run victim is an Iraq War veteran, and he's apparently asking for a $100,000 payoff from the Cracken. So far, neither this dude – Thaer Kamal – or Lindsay have cooperated with the LAPD. It's like they're playing a game of Chicken. Cracked-out Chicken. Anyway, crackie has made sure that both Radar and TMZ lead with details about Kamal "changing his story" and "looking for a payoff" and anything else the family Lohan can throw at him to discredit him. Unfortunately, it seems like the Cracken has some credibility problems too. Shocking, I know. Who would have thought little, innocent Lindsay Lohan would be a cracked-out liar?
Damn. It sounds like Radar has seen the surveillance video, right? And I'd be willing to bet that this is close to the truth too – I've been wondering why there were no paparazzi photos of Lindsay on the night of the incident, especially considering the fact that she claims she was being swarmed. So where are the photos from the "swarming"? They don't exist. Because she's a crack liar and a drunk driver. Oh, and I totally believe Lindsay said "f–k you" to Kamal before she hit him with her car. It just sounds so Lohan. I'm surprised she didn't throw a cocktail at him from her car as well. |
Michael Fassbender & James McAvoy at the Empire Awards: who would you rather? Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:44 AM PDT You're not going to believe this, but I almost missed these new Michael Fassbender photos. I KNOW. You'd think that SOMEONE would have said something to me about my boyfriend being in London for last night's Empire Awards. Y'all are some mean bitches. Especially you sluts in London. Can I get some real-time alerts from you London girls when Fassy is in town, for the love of God? What, do you think you can keep him all to yourselves?! YOU CAN'T. So, Fassy was at the awards show, and he even won! He received the "Empire Hero" Award, and when he accepted his award, he said, "Well, this is kind of unusual, because I always wanted to be a superhero. The first job I wanted to do was be Superman, so a hero award makes it official now, thanks to Empire. It’s a magazine I actually always did read and follow as a film fan. And Jameson is my favourite whiskey, so this is pretty special!" *taking notes* Chris O'Dowd was there. I love this Irishman too, but seeing as how O'Dowd is coming in the wake of Fassbender, I'm not really hot for him. I think it's the pants. OMFG JAMES MCAVOY. Jesus, he looks GREAT. I would hit it. Hard. I'm not a big Tom Hiddleston person, but he looked really hot last night too. He knows how to wear a suit. And you know I love a ginger. Gary Oldman won Best Actor for Tinker Tailor Spy… I don't think I would hit it, but I do enjoy him. |
Lourdes Leon, 15, was photographed smoking a cigarette in NYC Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:16 AM PDT Madonna's oldest kid, Loudes Leon, is a smoker. Lourdes is only 15 years old! Damn. We don't have the photos, but you can see them here at The Mail. Lourdes holding a lit cigarette, looking very young and like she's trying to be so cool. I smoked my first cigarette when I was 17 years old… 17 is different then 15, in my opinion. Lola can't even drive yet, but she can get her hands on cigs?
[From The Mail] I was wondering about Madonna smoking too – her latest video for "Girl Gone Wild" is full of cigarette smoking. I remember that Madonna used to smoke, like, way back in the day, but I wasn't aware that she was still doing it, or back to it. So maybe Lola got her cigs from Madge? I hope Madge nips this in the bud… although… Lola has at times seemed "too grown-up" for her age for several years now. When she was 13 years old, she was wearing pot-motif'd clothing, and when she was 14, she already had dyed hair, a face-full of makeup and her own press conferences for her fashion line. This girl has grown up very fast, and Madonna seems okay with it so far. |
Gerard Butler probably hooked up with Lindsay Lohan at the Marmont Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:49 AM PDT These are some photos of Gerard Butler last night at the Lakers game. Um… dear God. Gerry does NOT look like the picture of health, does he? I've been saying this ever since he got out of rehab (after only three weeks): the man isn't interested in being clean and sober right now. Right out of rehab, he was back at cocaine-soaked Hollywood parties, doing the rounds and looking increasingly bloated. Reports indicate that he's been seen out, "sweating profusely" and "slurring". And look at him in these photos – bloated, unhealthy, gross. Ugh. Damn, Butler! This is what happened when I left Gerry for Michael Fassbender. He went to a very dark place. An even bigger indicator that Gerry is not on a good path? He's spending time with Lindsay Lohan at the Chateau Marmont, which at this point is pretty much LL's ho stroll. Now, this is not the first time the Cracken might have been Butler'd – there were rumors about a Butler-Lohan hookup in 2009 (at an event in Morocco), as well as 2010 (partying and hooking up in LA). And now this…
[From People Magazine] Ugh, it's like The Butler and Terry Richardson are the same person at this point. Gross. So… I'm completely over Gerry. I feel bad for the guy, I guess, but my patience and my pity for the man has pretty much run out. He doesn't seem like he's serious about getting clean, and he definitely doesn't seem interested in dating women with any kind of quality. Lindsay is the very definition of "low-hanging fruit" in LA. Oh, and it's said that Gerard invited his parents to LA so that they would keep their eye on him - several days ago, the family Butler was photographed at the Farmer's Market: |
Mad Men Season 5 premiere: Zubi Zubi Zu and other spoilers Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:21 AM PDT ******This entire post is full of SPOILERS for last night's season premiere of Mad Men. After an epic 16-month haitus, Mad Men returned last night with a two-hour premiere. I was literally counting down the minutes, so you can imagine how happy I am to simply see my Mad Men people, regardless of story. At one point, I was trying to figure out when the season began – yes, it's Memorial Day weekend, but what year is it? It's 1966, right? Right. So… the story has skipped along to about a year from when we last saw these people. What's happened to them? Don Draper has married his secretary, Megan, and made her a junior copywriter – Peggy is her boss, right? Because Peggy is pretty much Don's second in command. It doesn't seem like Megan is an amazing copywriter or anything, but she's also not actively bad, and it seems like Megan and Peggy are trying to be friends with each other. As for Don and Megan's marriage – you get several wildly different impressions of the marriage throughout the two-hour premiere. At first, I was like, "Aw, that's nice – Megan is a great step-mom to Don's kids, that why he married her." Then it was, "Ew, they come to work together every day and Don seems really different now and Megan's not that awesome at her job." And then after the party, I thought, "Oh, great. He married another woman who is absolutely clueless about what embarrasses him and what he thinks is appropriate." And finally, in that last sex scene… g-ddamn. Megan KNOWS him. She knows what makes him tick. Don and Megan understand each other in a different way than we're used to. After that sex scene, I kind of love Megan. Oh, and Don has told her everything, did you notice? She didn't even blink when she said "Dick Whitman." As for the other characters… Roger is still being an a–hole, but Roger gets some of the best lines, right? He's out of sorts, he's trying to steal Pete Campbell's leads, and it's like… Roger doesn't know how to do any of this. Oh, and he hates his wife. And she hates him a little bit too. As for Pete… did they put some kind of pillow on his body? In some scenes, he was looking fluffy. Pete and Trudy both looked middle-aged – and they're not! They're barely 30 years old, right? I also love that Pete's storyline was "He misses living in the city." He hates the suburbs. He loves the noise of the city, and he misses it terribly. He and Don Draper have traded lives in four seasons. Pete's house even looks like Don and Betty's old house. But my absolute favorite part of the premiere was Joan, Joan, Joan. This is 1966 – before "maternity leave." You find out that Joan did have Roger's baby (a little boy named Kevin), and that she "promised" to come back to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce after she had the baby. It was nice seeing Joan with the baby, it was great to finally see her mom (who is a piece of work, just like Joanie), but the best part was when Joan brought the baby to work for a visit, and to make sure she still had a job to come back to. I absolutely LOVED her scene with Lane Pryce. It was magic! Lane is such an odd creature, but he said absolutely everything Joan wanted to hear, and he showed her a kindness and gentleness that I was not expecting from him. He made her feel… needed, but in a professional sense. And he even made a fuss over the baby, which was cute. Did you notice that all of the men in particular made a fuss over the baby? Don, Lane and… Roger. Was this the first time Roger saw his son? Is Roger helping Joan pay the bills? So many questions. There's a lot of other stuff to talk about, but I don't want to go on and on. Peggy is still with her journalist boyfriend. VietNam is heating up. The civil rights movement is upon New York. Megan singing and dancing was… interesting. I was embarrassed for her, that she put herself out there like that. It also reminded me as to just how young she is… but she’s going to stick with it, I think. I'm not sure how I feel about the tone of 1966 – only Megan and Peggy feel like the "young people" in the office, everybody else seems prematurely aged, and like they've skipped past the summer of love and have just resigned themselves to 1970s ennui. Like, half of the characters are still living in a John O'Hara novel and have of them are living in a Rick Moody novel. |
Have Rihanna and Ashton Kutcher been enjoying an eight-week fling? Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:40 AM PDT Last week, Rihanna was spotted visiting Ashton Kutcher’s bachelor pad for four hours and departing at 4:00 in the morning. The logical conclusion is that these two were banging, and even though the idea is a head-shaking one, it’s rather believable because Rihanna has terrible, horrible, no good taste in men. Still, the possiblity of Ashton is more appealing than Rihanna hooking up again with the fists of Chris Brown. In the comments, some of you suggested that RiRi might actually be using Ashton’s place as a cover to hook up unnoticed with Chris, which would make sense because Ashton is still supposedly dating screenwriter Lorene Scafaria. I hope Rihanna isn’t dumb enough to get with Chris in any way, but who knows. And I can’t even begin to guess whether or not it’s actually true that Rihanna and Ashton have been seeing each other at all, let alone for a few months, as The Sun now reports:
[From The Sun] That’s quite a strange little detail about Rihanna allegedly wanting to join in with the Kabbalah stuff, and if it was true, that would mean that RiRi foresees a serious thing with Ashton. Of course, I wasn’t sure whether Ashton would continue his affiliation with the (other) celebrity cult after he and Demi split, but here he is (according to Fame/Flynet pictures) outside the Los Angeles center last week. Naturally, he’s wearing all white because only douches do that. In other Rihanna news, RiRi posted the following images on her Twitter account with the following captions: “Gangsta goth geisha #thuglife #princessofchina.” She tries so hard to look tough, right? Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Twitter |
Prince William & Duchess Kate went on a romantic ski holiday in Switzerland Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:26 AM PDT I told you this would happen! I said it would happen last week, and my predication came to fruition. As soon as Prince William arrived home from his six/seven-week training exercise in the Falkland Islands, William and his wife arranged for yet another vacation. Now, I actually understand why they felt the need for a vacation this time around – William is probably tired, and he wanted to spend some quality time with his wife. As for Duchess Kate… well, she worked her fingers to the bone while William was away! I'm only being partly factitious too – she had two to three public events a week while William was away, and that's the most work she's ever done. She needed a vacation too! The only thing that surprises me is that it sounds like they just went away for a weekend – I would have expected something longer.
A royal source told the Daily Mirror: “William missed Kate terribly when he was away. They spent Valentine’s Day apart and he has been thinking for some time how to make it up to his wife. He wants a reunion in the most romantic possible fashion. They’ve had some brilliant times skiing, and William decided a getaway in Switzerland, where they can wear goggles and hats and go around unnoticed, would be perfect. Kate was delighted when he eventually told her about his plans and cannot wait for the pair to spend some quality time together.” So maybe it's not just for a weekend? Maybe they'll be spending a week or so? As I said, I understand why this vacation, why now, etc. I'm sure they did miss each other, and I think it's sweet and lovely that they are prioritizing spending time together. But… Kate and William take SO many vacations. They always have! In their nine-year courtship, I swear, they took about a dozen vacations a year. Substantial, two-week vacations at a time, which add up to quite a lot of “downtime”. |
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