The fairly explicit posters for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are just the tip of the iceberg: Daniel Craig says the film is “as adult as you can possibly make it.” Director David Fincher showed him an early cut of the flick, and James Bond freaked:”Fincher, he’s not holding back. They’ve given him free rein. He showed me some scenes recently, and my hand was over my mouth, going, ‘Are you fucking serious?’ It’s not that he simply showed me footage that was horribly graphic. It was stuff that was happening, or had happened. And somehow you don’t see it… There’s more than one way to sense violence. Much more powerful ways than seeing it step-by-step.” [Contact Music via Esquire, USA Today, Independent ]
And now, food for thought — and thoughts about food — from Gwyneth Paltrow. “I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can,” she says. And: “It may not be the healthiest of indulgences, but cheese, really beautiful, well-made cheese, has to be one of the best things on the planet. Give me a slice of Camembert over chocolate cake any day.” [Showbiz Spy]
Finally! Suri Cruise will appear in a movie. Her silver screen debut will be a cameo in Rock Of Ages, the movie in which her daddy plays a rockstar. This is only the beginning, you guys. Next she’ll be the star, then the producer, then the director, then a studio head. [Perez]
James Spader has indeed joined the cast of The Office. Hopefully he will wear white linen suits, let cigarettes hang from his lip, and try to break up Jim and Pam, snarling, “That girl is, was, and will always be nada.” [EW]
Here is a picture of William and Kate poking at a burned out car in the Alberta town of Slave Lake, which was hit hard by wildfires in May. [People]
- The Situation has quit Jersey Shore. Repeat: The Situation says “It’s over.” [The Superficial]
- Meanwhile, Snooki was spotted dancing with a plant. [TMZ]
- This picture of Adrian Grenier when he was 16 is headsplodingly amazing. [Perez]
- Ben Affleck once lost $400,000 to Universal Studios president Ron Meyer in a backroom poker game. A fellow card player says: “Ben busted big… He drummed up a giant tab, and then all of a sudden he disappeared from the game. He wasn’t seen for months… He’d had a string of bad movies and didn’t have any big projects on the horizon, and everyone was wondering, ‘Is Ben broke?'” Don’t worry, everything turned out okay: “We knew that he couldn’t stiff a businessman like Ron Meyer. That would be ‘career over’ in Hollywood. Suicide. Eventually, Ron got paid and Ben started turning up to the games again.” Phew! [Radar]
- Excuse me while I kiss the sky and shake it like a Polaroid picture: Andre 3000 might play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic. [Bossip]
- Did Olivia Wilde sign some kind of paperwork promising not to open her eyes on this Marie Claire photoshoot? [ONTD]
- Shia LaBeouf met his civilian girlfriend in a karaoke bar. [Just Jared]
- Unsurprising: Charlie Sheen is a juggalo. [TMZ]
- Confirmed: Natalie Portman‘s son is named Aleph Portman-Millepied. But if you really want to annoy her, go ahead and call him Alfie Hershlag. [Daily Mail]
- Check out Lindsay Lohan doing her best sexyface in Italian Vanity Fair. From what we can tell, the stuffed bear represents childhood and the skull represents death, and Lindsay sits between them, embracing them both, wearing a feathered evening gown, all dressed up and nowhere to go. Deep. [Daily Mail]
- Taylor Swift has canceled some shows this week because she has bronchitis. [AP]
- Is Whitney Houston dating Tyrese? [Perez]
- Dammit Gary Dourdan, get your shit together. [TMZ]
- “I don’t regret that… It was a blast… I will tell you this one if you’ve not heard me say it yet, getting married [was] some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life… we loved it so much… It was that much fun.” — Kid Rock on his marriage to Pamela Anderson. [Contact Music]
- “I love what I do. But unless it’s worth it, I’m not going to spend time away from my daughter. Before I had her, work was all I had. Now it’s not.” — Jessica Alba. [Showbiz Spy]