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Hancock Will Rule The Weekend, Critics Be Damned
We all know that Will Smith is the King Of Independence Day, and his newest movie, Hancock, about a sort of anti-superhero in search of a new image, is said to be on track for a high-flying $115 million opening weekend...despite a chorus of negative reviews from the country's major movie critics. A quite loud chorus, soon to be drowned out by Mr. Smith's cackles as he laughs all the way to the bank. Which of you will see it? Which of you won't? Check out the reviews and weigh in, after the jump. More »
Women Scorned
Things Are Looking Up For The Women In Hollywood
Ever since Sex and the City turned out to be a money making juggernaut, Warner Brothers has decided to aggressively market The Women. "This is an about-face from the studio's earlier decision to leave plans intact for about-to-shutter Picturehouse to debut the chick flick in limited release and with a small P&A," says Nikki Finke, who has been following the fate of the Meg Ryan-helmed film for some time now (also starring: Annette Bening, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett Smith). If you'll recall, last year Warner Brothers' Jeff Robinov famously declared, "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Well apparently he's doing at least one movie with a woman in the lead, and while that's heartening, movies still have a long way to go. Looking at the just-released shortlist for Emmy nominations, however, shows that there are myriad plum roles for leading ladies on the small screen. Which leads me to wonder: why is there such an enormous disconnect between females on TV and the ones on the silver screen? More »
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
The Hancock Premiere Was A Summer Disaster
The tagline for the new Will Smith/Charlize Theron-starrer Hancock is, "He's not your average superhero." Isn't he, like, really surly or something? And that's his thing? Being surly? Well, anyway, the fashions on parade at the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre last night were, in fact largely uninspired and occasionally fug, despite the high-wattage stars (Charlize Theron, Amanda Peet, Minnie Driver, Queen Latifah and uh, Larry Birkhead) who made an appearance. All of them, minus Anna Nicole's babydaddy, after the jump. More »
Loose Lips
Oooh, Christie Brinkey's divorce from Peter Cook is gettin' ugly! Brinkley wants to keep the court proceedings open while Cook wants them closed, apparently because "Brinkley's side may reveal Cook's alleged interest in Internet porn and swinger sites," according to People. • More details on Amy Winehouse's continued hospitalization: the singer might have TB. Girlfriend needs a serious rest. • Did you know Ilan Mitchell-Smith, aka Wyatt from Weird Science is now a professor of medieval studies and the father of two? That warms our wee hearts for some reason. [People, The Sun, Dlisted]
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Naomi Campbell Is Guilty As Charged
- Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty to kicking and spitting at police officers after screaming foul words at a British Airways employee. Naomi was heard on the phone saying: "They have lost my fucking bags, get me another flight, get the press, get me my lawyer." What? Like you don't say that all the time. Please. [The Sun]
- Didja hear? Jamie Lynn Spears squeezed out a daughter named Maddie Briann yesterday. Good luck, kid! Er, kids. [E!]
- Not that you needed to know this but: JLS didn't have a C-section. [ET]
- Casey Aldridge was so nervous the first time he held his new daughter — birthed by girlfriend Jamie Lynn Spears — that he said he was afraid he's drop her. Aw. [TMZ]
- "[Jamie Lynn] is awfully young to be a momma, but that's what they make [grandmothers] for. They have to help. That's the way it is with our circle of friends." —JLS's distant cousin Margie Busby. [People]
- Britney might move back to Louisiana. [Us]
- Snoop Dogg's new country video is out! "Country music is the most underrated music in the world," Snoop, who dedicates the song to Johnny Cash, says. "It always has the test of time, it's great, it's heartfelt, and it touches people no matter what color they are or where they're from." [People]
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Breaking News: Matthew McConaughey's Flip-Flop Missing!
- Matthew McConaughey went to Nicaragua to surf and ended up partying at a bar called the Iguana, standing on a table and screaming, "I've lost by flip-flops," after which he was seen "resting" in a ditch. Quoth Matt: "I'm STILL looking for my left flip-flop. So if anyone finds it floating around down there (it has 6:22 stitched into the side), please send it my way. There is a reward." [Rush & Molloy]
- Anne Hathaway's four-year romance with Raffaello Follieri: Dunzo! Could it be his company being probed by the New York State Attorney? Could it be that he was sued by business partner Ron Burkle? Could it be that the flames fizzled out? [Rush & Molloy]
- Joan Rivers has apologized for swearing on a live British TV show. "Yes, I swore, and I'm so fucking sorry," she says. [People]
- One of Nicole Kidman's bodyguards laid down in the street to prevent paparazzi from following Nicole and hubby Keith Urban. A photog says: "I've never seen anything like it. And after about five minutes, this guy just got up, wished us all a nice evening, and strolled off." [Rush & Molloy]
- Nicole Richie attended the Women In Film's Crystal and Lucy Awards, because she is such a huge movie star. [ET]
Dying To Be Thin
Janell Smith was hospitalized for an eating disorder which she battled for months and was left at 68 pounds and in need of a feeding tube to sustain herself. After a month of treatment, Janell's father claims that her insurance company, Magellan, discharged her prematurely, which resulted in Janell committing suicide a few days after her release. Her death was nearly five years ago but her father's case against the insurance company is still continuing. The insurance company claims that Janell discharged herself after they had said they planned to review her insurance case, and that she showed no signs of suicidal tendencies. The claims against Magellan and the fact that many insurance companies do not cover treatment for eating disorders may reveal the lack of understanding of the seriousness of eating disorders. Is it any coincidence that a disease not taken seriously is also most prevalent in young women? [ABC News]
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When Did Divorce Become The New Death?
Miscellaneous observations noted the day after seeing Sex & The City: The Movie and reading about YouTube divorcee Tricia Walsh-Smith in 'New York' magazine and the anxieties of the newly-slightly-less-rich in the 'New York Times', vaguely petitioning the godless void to find someone to marry me before I look like this.
•Divorce is the new Death. No one wants it, really, but for some reason everyone assumes its inevitability. But when it comes, what happens? Who's the greater fool? This can be prepared for, like the Afterlife. Contracts can be drawn, assets accumulated and shifted. Carrie says she came to New York in search of the two "Ls" — "love" and "labels." Of course, "marriage" is just another variation on "label," worn like an LV to designate oneself as superior, uncommon, discriminating somehow, dignified. Whatever that means.
•Tricia Walsh-Smith is the worst-case matrimonial scenario. If you don't get married, or if you botch your prenuptial agreement, or if he leaves you at the altar (a.k.a. Big) or sleeps with a random stranger (a.k.a. Miranda), you lose all dignity; all of it, gone. And without that dignity, what is left? Shoes. The end.
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Loose Lips
Kirsten Dunst says she went to rehab for depression, not for drugs. “I was struggling, and I had the opportunity to go somewhere and take care of myself," Kiki told Us. She added, "I am not dating Ryan Gosling!” • Kim Kardashian charges $25,000 a pop for public appearances. Do we have that much in the Jezebel slush fund? • Will Smith says that the secret to his marriage success is to remove divorce as an option. "It's really that simple," he told Ellen on her show this morning. "And I think that's the problem with L.A. – there are so many options. So a huge part of the success for [Jada] and I is that we just removed the other options." [Us, TMZ, People]
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Anna Nicole Biopic: As Delightfully, Trashily Watchable As Its Subject Matter
So it looks like Anna Nicole, the movie about our late, large-breasted embodiment of the American dream, might not get the theatrical release its producers were hoping for. However, the movie was leaked online and we got a chance to view it. It's kind of perfect in its stupidity, shoestring budget, and bawdy tone because while it's factually inaccurate (unintentionally, it would seem) you just know that a pilled-up Anna wouldn't be able to get the facts straight on her own life. It's about as organic as her breasts were. Rich from FourFour boiled the film down to what makes it so special in this clip above. Enjoy!
Everything Good In Anna Nicole [FourFour]
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Hillary Wins Another Primary!
Done and done and done and yup, even the Wall Street Journal thinks done. Hillary officially halted her frenzied schedule of telling the cable newsiverse how Good she feels and what a Good Time she's having and how Good it feels to be taking policy advice from Joe Sixpack etc. etc. And how did Obama do it? And how did Peggy Noonan know?? We'd rather talk about Burma and Putin Jr. and the insane San Diego fraternity coke bust, but Megan and I will try to talk "delegate math" and the surreal CNN comment that gave us both inexplicable sex dreams after the jump. More »
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Tricia Walsh-Smith to Move to 'Real Housewives'? [NY Mag]
Scorned "YouTube Wife" Takes Her Brand Of Crazy To The Insider
Tricia Walsh-Smith — the estranged wife of rich guy theater mogul Philip Smith, who has been posting highly entertaining video rants on YouTube about their breakup — has taken her fight to The Insider. She is auctioning off her wedding dress on eBay in order to cover a $5,000 donation that she made to a charity for "boys who have lost limbs and that in Iraq", a donation she can't afford to pay. She hopes that she makes "loads and loads" of money on the deal. The best news, though, is that she's rumored to be joining the cast of the next season of Bravo's reality show Real Housewives of New York City!Tricia Walsh-Smith to Move to 'Real Housewives'? [NY Mag]
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Pookie: The Magical Force That Bonded Tory Burch To The Misshapes
- Who is Tory Burch's elusive 23-year old stepdaughter Pookie? On Mondays, Pookie interns for Bruce Weber, and the rest of the week she works as the assistant to the president of Carolina Herrera, and she was (allegedly) responsible for the magical pairing of New York's leading faux-WASP ice princess with Princess Coldstare, but alas, we have scoured the Google and cannot find a picture of her. So this will have to do. [Fashion Week Daily]
- M.I.A has designed her own eponymous clothing line, which is really brightly colored so that, "if you lose it or someone steals it, you can see it from miles away and you can be like, 'Oy! Give me my shirt back!'" Oy is right! [WWD, 3rd item]
- Tinsley Mortimer, you see, is not a bad designer of handbags, it's just that she made the mistake of trying to sell them in Japan. "Japanese girls have no use for clutches because they just go to the clubs right after work. They are so different from New York. Stylewise, colorwise, stylewise. It's very youth-oriented. I'm designing for women between the ages of 20 and 40... But in Japan, after 25, it's like, basically, you're dead." [NYMag]
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Do You "Feel" Your Age? Does Anyone?
If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you feel? This is not a trick question, but one posed by WoWoWow, the website targeted at old ladies, ha ha ha. Columnist Peggy Noonan says she feels 37; gossip Liz Smith feels 28; Joan Juliet Buck says 11 — she works at Vogue so go fig — and my answer is obviously "not old enough" because for eight years now I have been unburdened by the desire to lie about my age, which is why I'm glad there are old comment-whores like Stella Lazar still on the lookout for blogger cons. "I like the age I am — in 25 days I will be 71 — NONE OF YOU WOULD ADMIT YOUR AGES — you all live in outer-space!," she wrote on the website, adding snarkily, "And, looking at your illustration with this question I think you are living in the last millenium — it looks dated and terrible as do your photographs which are so retouched and most of them look like wax figures from Tussauds." For the record, Peggy is 58, Liz Smith is 85, Joan Juliet Buck is in her sixties (I think), and I am 29 with the attention span of a four-year-old, the liver of a Korean War veteran and the musical taste of a late-blooming teenager. More »
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Fergie Releases Sex And The City Theme Song; Ears Everywhere Bleed
- So. Fergie has recorded the theme song for the Sex And The City Movie and it is fucking insane. Seriously. It's a fast-paced track that uses the original instrumental music from the show, with Fergie sing-rapping lyrics like: "Shopping for labels, shopping for love... Manolo and Louis is all I'm thinking of... Emotional baggage just replace them with Dior... Let's stop chasing the boys and shop some more..." It does not appear to be a joke. You can listen to the nauseating ditty here. Just a warning: You may puke or cry or both. [People]
- Heidi Montag won't be at the White House Correspondents dinner because Spencer Pratt got involved and demanded first-class tickets for both of them — even though he wasn't invited. When he was denied, Spencer canceled Heidi's appearance because the event "wasn't A-listy enough." Meanwhile, Pamela Anderson, Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz, Hayden Panettierre, Claire Danes, Rob Lowe and Donatella Versace will all be there. Aren't you proud to be an American? [Page Six]
- When Ellen DeGeneres asked Ashlee Simpson,"Are you or are you not pregnant?" Ashlee said: "Well, that has been going on for quite a while. That is something that I choose personally not to discuss." In other words, yes. [People]
- Colin Firth and Helen Hunt were shooting an intimate scene together when someone farted. [The Sun]
- Amy Winehouse got drunk and tried to headbutt some dude. [Mirror]
