Going to the gym can be as intimidating as the first day of school, especially if you're not already in shape. To fight that feeling, contemporary athletic companies like Planet Fitness advertise workout areas without judgement. Others like Downsize, in Chicago and Fort Worth, mandate that clients must be 50 pounds…
Umm... who's watching Burton and Taylor tonight? The 90-minute drama about the lives of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter premieres on BBC America tonight at 9/8c. It's apparently several steps above — okay, about five million steps above — the tragic Lohan version.
Specifically, Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West. Fun! Although the BBC tends to be a little bit more understated than, um, Lifetime, it still seems to have some camp to it. Which is only appropriate, considering White Diamonds-era Liz was camp personified. AND, as Vulture points out, like the Lindz version, someone …
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15-year-old Paris Jackson was rushed to the hospital yesterday after leaving a suicide note, taking 20 Motrin and cutting herself with a kitchen knife — according to a Jackson family lawyer, she is "physically fine." Authorities as well as people close to Paris have since clarified that they don't really think she was…
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Sometimes-actress, always-perfectly-symmetrical-faced-human being Jessica Alba wrote a book called The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You. She is marketing it as "like GOOP, but for Poors like you and me."
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Helena Bonham Carter — or, as Brad Pitt calls her on the Fight Club DVD commentary (which, just FYI, is WAY more entertaining than the actual movie), "the HBC" — has finally admitted that she's been living a lie — she cannot appear in major motion pictures AND raise Tim Burton's nightmare spawn, which means that the HBC…
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Poor troubled Terminator 3 actor Nick Stahl now has a glossy senior picture in the Paul Reubens Academy Yearbook: Stahl was arrested around dinnertime last night for jerking off in the private booth of a porn store in Hollywood. The LAPD booked him for a misdemeanor (lewd conduct) and he was released a few hours later. …
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Last night Real Live Movie Stars™ hit the red carpet at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, for the world premiere of Lay Miz. 'Twas a black tie affair, which means there were tuxedoes, but also: Weird bustlines, bare shoulders and crumpled taffeta.
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Here's a family portrait of Tim Burton, Helena Bonham-Carter and their two children at Disneyland Paris. Do you think Jack and Sally are the godparents?
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But the night sort of always does, doesn't it? Queen Helena Bonham Carter Of Darkness and Fingerless Gloves turned 48 today. Let's celebrate Ms. Burton with this clip, which is extraordinary for a) featuring the Pixies and b) being one of the most romantic endings to any movie in 1999. Man, who doesn't still kind of…
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We're not even one day into the new year and already dreams are being crushed: Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes spent last night partying in New York together. They flew in from LA on Friday and tried to stay low-profile by boarding the flight at separate times, but, yeah, like that's going to make any difference. And now…
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The BAFTA Britannia Awards were held in Los Angeles last night. (As an aside: Is there also like an American Academy of Film and Television Arts Americana Awards ceremony that is held once a year in London? No.) Helen Mirren AND Helena Bonham Carter showed up, and we are pleased.
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Mike Newell - who directed Enchanted April, Four Weddings and A Funeral and Donnie Brasco, among others — is currently working on a version of Great Expectations, with Helena Bonham Carter playing Miss Havisham. Mighty fine casting. Deadline reports:
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Kate Hudson has given birth to a baby boy. As you may recall, she did a pendulum test and felt fairly sure she was having a girl. She also said: "I'm carrying so differently than I did with Ryder." But nope! It's a boy and we don't know his name yet. Something Muse-worthy. [People]
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Very, very, very good indeed.
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This is what Helena Bonham-Carter thought of last night's QVC Red Carpet Style party. It's unclear whether HBC made this face on purpose or whether she just ate something weird-tasting, but I kind of hope she is just expressing her personal opinion of red-carpet bullshit. Or QVC.
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[Someone ought to do an hour special which takes place inside of HBiC's closet. Imagine the coats, dresses, hats, shoes! If you see Anderson Cooper live from HBoC's attic on 60 Minutes, just know that he stole that idea from me. London, February 14. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
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As seen on page 8 of the new issue of Life & Style, Freida Pinto is a ghost! Or Helena Bonham Carter's elbow is a deadly weapon. Or someone made a grave Photoshop/production error. Previously, sister publication In Touch amputated the arm of Heidi Klum's daughter. That was also sad. But honestly, we would not be…
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"Perfection on the half-shell" is one of my mom's many weird proprietary expressions. But sometimes, it's really apropos. And the red-carpet for the Academy Awards Nominations Luncheon was one such occasion.
