An American in Paris
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The New York Daily News reports Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen were allegedly having real sex during the lovemaking scenes in Factory Girl.
“It’s not simulated,” an insider tells us. “They’re really doing it.” At the movie’s premiere on Monday, director George Hickenlooper would tell us only: “Sienna and Hayden grew close during the filming. It was an emotional experience for all of us.” As for the sex, he said, “We tried to portray it tastefully.” And was congress actually in session during the shooting? “I can’t comment,” Hickenlooper answered. “You’ll have to ask Sienna about it.” Yesterday, Miller’s publicist said the sex wasn’t bona fide: “She’s just a really good actress.”
And after the premiere for Factory Girl Monday night, Sienna Miller changed into this thing for the after-party. This isn’t like her caught between changing, this is the actual final outfit. This is the result of her changing. Can you imagine what she was wearing before this? It must’ve been like dead animals stapled to a cardboard box.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

· The Film Experience blog compiles a list of people you’re probably going to be pretty sick of by the end of 2007.
· The LAT examines the Spoof Movie Fart Joke Mystique.
· A question to which we don’t care to ever know the answer: What’s Up With Brit’s Necklace?
· Rachel Zoe to reveal the utterly mysterious ways in which she transformed many of your favorite troubled starlets into stylish, stick-thin zombies.
· A fun thing for film nerds to discuss: Martin Scorsese’s use of X’s in The Departed.
· And the award for Best Sneaky Use Of A Network Catchphrase In A Publicist’s Statement goes to this Bravo flack for working “Watch What Happens” into her response to the Top Chef spoiler flap.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Just in case you haven’t yet had your fill of stories about the backbiting between Paramount emperor Brad Grey and the sneaky studio usurpers crouching not-so-quietly inside the DreamWorks Trojan Horse he bought a year ago, the LA Weekly’s Nikki Finke reports that skeletal Viacom executive presence Sumner Redstone may have signed Grey’s death certificate by letting slip at a cozy power-player dinner party a rather impolitic comment about why Dreamgirls found itself without a Best Picture nomination. Clasping your hand to your mouth while trying to suppress an outraged “Oh. No. He. Did. Int!” is completely optional as you read on:
Sumner told the gathering that Brad told him that the reason Dreamgirls wasn’t nominated for an Oscar was because “everyone hates David.” As in Geffen, the producer of Dreamgirls. “Does Brad have a death wish?” an insider asked rhetorically this morning. Indeed, few have taken on David Geffen and lived to tell the tale. (Just ask Robert Towne, John Branca and Mike Ovitz.) That the Viacom boss would be so indiscreet in such a public setting defies belief. To be fair, Grey made his comment in a private setting.
While the indiscretion of letting such a comment slip does seem careless on the surface, the immortal Redstone didn’t scratch his way to the top of the industry over a four-hundred year career by not being a shrewdly calculating operator; a more plausible explanation is that Redstone has had a change of heart since impulsively giving Grey a lifetime appointment to his Paramount job, and rather than go back on his word, took the more passive approach of airing his underling’s potentially fatal anti-Geffen grievances, hoping to wake up to a grisly front page story in Variety about how his studio chief mysteriously choked to death on a Dreamgirls Academy screener the night before the Oscars.
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
· Taylor “Mr. Helen Mirren” Hackford (don’t call him that–he gets touchy) hosts “Shorts!” at the Samuel Goldwyn–not a celebration of the latest in Bermuda, hoochie, board, and cargo styles, but a program featuring the ten Oscar-nominated films in the animated and live-action short categories. [Variety]
· For those of you feeling cheated out of an Oscar fashion show, however, here’s a clip from the Andre Leon Talley event we mentioned a few weeks ago, in which Vogue intern and star of MTV’s The Hills Whitney stumbles down some stairs modeling Hilary Swank’s backless number. [BWE, Reuters]
· WGA West’s Animation Writers Caucus is giving Jules Feiffer a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Writers Guild Awards. The longtime Village Voice cartoonist also wrote Carnal Knowledge and Popeye. [Variety]
· We know who won Sundance, but what about the satellite festivals? Dylan Verrechia’s Tijuana Makes Me Happy picked up Slamdance’s top narrative honor, while the Slamdunk Film Festival awarded best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders. [THR]
· Our friends at The Envelope have very generously offered to run your office Oscars pool. [The Envelope]
· The Carpetbagger visits the SAG awards, abuses the fans in the bleachers, and demonstrates a preoccupation with tasers and tasering. And it’s all on video! He also concludes that the Oscar is “worth millions per inch.” [NY Times Video, The Carpetbagger]
· Gwyneth Paltrow has found that winning the Oscar at age 26 proved to be something of a curse. Now the BAFTA, on the other hand, now that’s an award that can do no wrong! [Reuters]
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Our pals at Us Weekly are reporting that American Idol producers have contacted Courtney Love about possibly replacing pill-popping Paula Abdul on the show.
Inneresting!
Besides C. Love, who do U think would be a good replacement for the speech-slurring Abdul???
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Us Weekly reports that Paula Abdul is being replaced with Courtney Love on American Idol. Courtney says that American Idol’s executive producer Nigel Lythgoe called her office last week inquiring if she’d be interested in sitting in as a judge.
“He called,” Love tells Usmagazine.com. “He was wondering if I was interested. I thought it was kind of weird but brilliant.” But a source tells Usmagazine.com that Lythgoe was considering having Love “replace Paula.”
Doesn’t replacing Paula Abdul with Courtney Love sort of defeat the purpose of replacing Paula Abdul? It’s like getting bit by your pet dog and deciding to replace it with an angry polar bear that hasn’t eaten in two weeks. Yeah, Paula Abdul is usually drunk and incoherent, but if they put Courtney Love on the show she’d spend 90% of the time crawling on the floor crying and calling up old boyfriends to take her back. Then she’d start dry humping a trashcan before throwing up and muttering about how embarrassed she is as she falls asleep.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007


January 29, 2007: Jessica Simpson and John Mayer are swamped by oversized bags as they leave their hotel in Pensacola, Florida. The pair wrapped up to protect themselves from chilly weather as they made their way to a nearby auditorium for the latest date on Mayer’s US tour. Simpson has been with her new boyfriend since the opening date of his tour in Miami last week. The couple have been travelling the country between dates on his tour bus.
Monday, January 29th, 2007



Let’s focus on the positive, shall we?
Britney spent time over the weekend at a dance studio. Perhaps rehearsing for some surprise show!
Then, after a grueling couple of hours sweating it out, the Toxic singer headed to McDonalds for some nutritious food.
Yay.
Positivity rules!!!!
(Gag us with K-Fed’s baby cock, please.)
[Images for use on PerezHilton.com courtesy of our pals at Celebrity Babylon.]
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Kevin Federline’s Nationwide Insurance commercial has been released and it’s actually pretty good. Not the rapping. Oh, no, not the rapping. But the commercial itself made me chuckle, and you gotta give K-Fed props for being able to laugh at himself. It’s gotta be a pretty nice break from his usual sobbing. Plus I like how they spliced in footage from his documentary at the end.
Thanks to everybody who sent this in.
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Actress Katie Holmes is having problems finding work because of her marriage to Tom Cruise and his belief in Scientology, according to Hollywood insiders. The 28-year-old has reportedly asked her agent to relaunch her career following her break to marry Cruise and have their daughter, Suri.
But studios are said to be wary of the negative publicity surrounding her conversion to Scientology - and Cruise’s outspoken statements about his religion, which have included an attack on the use of antidepressants by Brooke Shields. “Studios may be gun-shy of her new status as a tabloid fixture,” one movie insider told the Wall Street Journal yesterday. “And her expectations may be raised as the new Mrs Cruise. Stars of much bigger stature, including Meg Ryan and Demi Moore, have found it tough to regain their momentum after taking time off.”
Cruise’s beliefs are also said to be considered ‘a box-office liability’, which may be why he was dumped by the Paramount studio last summer. Miss Holmes could not strike a deal to appear in the sequel to Batman Begins, despite starring in the original, but will co-star in the forthcoming comedy Mad Money opposite Queen Latifah.
Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Two of our favorites in one!!!
We can’t stand it!
Our beloved Mika was recently a guest on BBC radio. And, in addition to giving a fantastic interview - where (among other things) we learned that he is dyslexic and that his diplomat father was once held hostage for several months - he performed a few choice songs.
In addition to Mika’s original material, he also decided to do a cover of our girl Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie.
You can just hear Mika having so much fun as he reinterprets the song. It’s infectious!
You’ll be missing out if you don’t….check it out
I can’t see the player!
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Wanna see Mischa Barton’s boyfriend naked???
CLICK HERE to see Whitestar rocker Crisco Adler in the nude!!
P.S. He literally has the BIGGEST balls we have ever seen.