Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Linda Blair and Mark Hamill 1975
Japanese dialog in this vintage film Sara T: Portrait of a teenage alcoholic
WPIX in NY Chiller Theater Intro
This actually had a great sound clip too with a grungy voice saying "Chiller" but this version does not.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
NEW SHOW: WATCH IT!
SIX DEGREES
ABC/Thursdays/10:00 PM (60 min.)
Premiered: September 21, 2006
Show Category: Drama
They say that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person through a chain of six people, which means that no one is a stranger... for long. In this hour-long drama from the producers of "Lost" and "Alias," six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having on one another - yet. A mysterious web of coincidences will gradually draw these strangers closer, changing the course of their lives forever. Is it happenstance? Fate?--TVTOME.COM
My take, I like anything that has to do with serendipity, chance. And I love when weaving story lines come together in ways you don't see coming. In the premiere episode I was pulled in by the likeable characters, played by actors I all like as well. And it's in New York, which is wonderful.
Friday, September 22, 2006
In Pathetic News
The Motion Picture Association of America on Thursday unveiled its latest tool in the war on movie piracy: a pair of DVD-sniffing Labrador Retrievers named Lucky and Flo.
The MPAA, which represents the major U.S. movie studios in government and legal affairs, claims the illegal copying of movies and television shows on DVDs and other media cost them more than $6.1 billion in lost revenues in 2005.
Of that total, about $2.4 billion was lost to copying movies to videocassettes, DVDs or video CDs. In recent years, the organization has waged a vigorous battle against global piracy.
The job for Lucky and Flo will be to sniff out optical discs in luggage or other containers, and stop the discs from getting to manufacturing plants where they can be reproduced.
But before they begin their new job, Lucky and Flo will go on a world tour of cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore, just as movie stars go on tour to promote their latest films.
They will travel throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico and even visit Dubai in the Middle East to showcase their talents to customs agents and other officials.
Baby Dies in Bucket of Mom's Vomit
A baby died after rolling off a bed and falling into a bucket of her teenage mother's vomit at a homeless shelter, police said.
The mother, Savarin DeJesus, 18, was charged with criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child, and could get five years behind bars.
The young woman trembled and wept as she faced a judge Friday. "I loved my baby. I want you to know that," she said.
Authorities said DeJesus spent the evening of Sept. 15 downing gin and smoking cigarettes and then returned before dawn to the shelter where she lived with the 4-month old girl, Niah. DeJesus threw up into a bucket of cleaning solution next to her bed, then passed out on the bed, clutching Niah's legs, authorities said.
When she awoke about 10 hours later, she found the baby with her head in the bucket, which contained about six inches of liquid, according to court papers.
The cause of death was either asphyxiation or drowning, the medical examiner's office said.
DeJesus "loved her baby and would never hurt her," said her lawyer, Kenneth Gilbert.
The city's Department of Homeless Services said it was trying to determine if the East Harlem shelter had a crib. --ADAM GOLDMAN, AP
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Taking a Fashion Break During Acting Marathon
Scarlett's the shit. But at what, no one can tell. The 22 year-old actress can be seen in eight movies through the 2006-07 season, working with the hottest directors, actors and getting nowhere closer to an oscar nor the ability to earn one. The lips, the breasts, the big eyes, the innocence. She's got it all and has packed it in period costume and paraded it all around Hollywood. She's the actress that is the epidemy of "star." Not really a good actress, but after 32 entries in her IMBD entry, she shows no sign of slowing down. And who doesn't work the red carpet better than she?
Monday, September 11, 2006
Anna Nicole's Son Dies In The Bahamas
Daniel, 20, was in the Bahamas with Anna, real name Vickie Lynn Hogan, to share in the birth of his baby sister, born September 7th, when he passed away suddenly on the morning of September 10th.
According to a posting on Smith's blog, "We have yet to learn the cause of death but do not believe that drugs or alcohol were a factor." Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's attorney declined to comment.
Smith has not revealed who the father of her child is, and earlier this year won a US Supreme Court decision to collect her stake in her late husband J. Marshall Howard's fortune.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
I'm Just Saying...
Weren't we all subjected to photos of Lance and Reichen together all over the place before that People magazine cover exclaiming that Lance was, duh, gay?
How many times do we need to see half-naked photos of Lance and Matthew together before that issue of People hits the stands?!
According to E! Online’s Ted Casablanca, Lance Armstrong is Matthew McConaughey’s sugar daddy and that he paid all the bills for their expensive Miami vacation. People and “Entertainment Tonight” were said to have been tipped off that the pair was in Miami and told to cover it like they were two buddies hanging out.—"ah huh."
Once they are photographed wearing each other's spandex bike shorts, I'll be one of the one's that told ya so.
Lindsay's Stupid Bag Was Never Stolen
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said that officers were now happy that, contrary to initial reports, the bag was never stolen.
She added: "The incident is being classed 'recovered lost property'. The victim has confirmed that no items are missing and we can find no evidence of theft."
The 20-year-old actress claimed the orange Hermes designer handbag was stolen shortly after she arrived at Heathrow's Terminal One on Thursday night.
She made a desperate appeal for its safe return, saying it contained vital medication for asthma. But the man who recovered the handbag has told the Daily Mail how he came across it lying in a car park.
"I found the bag on the back of a trolley in a carpark near Terminal One on Thursday night," he said.
"I picked it up with the intention of handing it into police. I had no idea it was Lindsay Lohan's until I saw the news headlines on Friday morning. I contacted the police straight away and said I would drop it off at Heathrow police station."
Friday, September 08, 2006
Yey!!! Lindsay's Bag was Found!!
UK's Daily Mail reports that Lindsay Lohan's stolen handbag has been recovered by police! The bag, said to have contained a million dollars worth of jewellery, was stolen as she left Heathrow Airport. The orange Hermes bag was found in a car park at Heathrow by a member of the public, who then contacted police.
No-one has been arrested.
"A member of the public contacted us to say they had found it and brought it in," a police spokeswoman said. "We have not yet established what, if anything, is missing."
A police source said the bag contained "items", but it was unclear whether the valuable jewellery had been taken.
Can't Catch a Break
TMZ has learned that Lindsay Lohan became a grand theft victim at Heathrow Airport in London on Thursday. Scotland Yard tells TMZ a “theft of a bag at Heathrow Airport was reported to police by a 20-year-old woman.” Sources say the contents of the missing bag total upwards of $1 million.
They continue to say “it is alleged that as the woman exited the Terminal One building, she noticed that an orange Hermès handbag was missing from her suitcase trolley.” The bag, according to police, contained “a quantity of jewelry.” Lindsay’s rep, Leslie Sloane, confirms to TMZ the theft occurred and that Lindsay is extremely upset about the loss of personal belongings. “She is begging for the return of the items,” Sloane says. “She doesn’t care how she gets them back, she just wants her stuff back.” The Hermès Birkin bag that was stolen also contained Lindsay’s much needed asthma medication. Scotland Yard says they are investigating the matter but, as of yet, have no suspects.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Paris Busted for Susupicion of DUI
Sister Nicky Hilton picked her sister up from the slammer for suspicion of DUI, and Paris Hilton went into damage control by calling into the On Air with Ryan Seacrest show on KIIS-FM in L.A. this morning and said she may have been driving a little fast in her Mercedes McLaren SLR, but it was only because she wanted -- get this -- an In-N-Out Burger.
I know, I've been there myself a few times, although I don't own a car, so by walking too fast, wheather drunk or not, never gets someone arrested.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins Excerpt
I first met Rupert Everett at Gold's gym in 2005. He came in and for some reason made a bee-line straight for me. I was doing shoulder shrugs. He was on a mission. For some reason I went from shoulders to legs and for some other reason Rupert followed suit. It was also the very same week my magazine had done a cover story on him in promotion for his performance in Stage Beauty as King Charles II.
Rupert has a great new book coming out September 21st. In it he dishes about Sharon Stone, Madonna, Judi Dench, And Sir Ian McKellan among others. He writes with an abondon that shows no shame. Pick it up, from the mere excerpts I've been reading I can't wait to read the full text. That and run into him once again to comment on some of his exploits.
COLIN FIRTH
I got to know Colin Firth when we were making the film of Another Country in July, 1983. He had been cast in the role Kenneth Branagh played in the stage version.
At first I quite fancied him, until he produced a guitar and began to sing protest songs between scenes. ‘There are limits,’ said my friend Piers Flint-Shipman when Lemon Tree, Very Pretty began. Colin was visibly pained by our superficiality.
It took 20 years for us to become friends. The long and winding river of showbusiness, with its rapids and its stagnant pools, threw us together again in The Importance Of Being Earnest.
Time had worked wonders on us both. He was no longer the grim Guardian reader in sandals; he no longer took the missionary position on everything. And I was perhaps slightly less brash, less nasty, less self-obsessed.
So after all that time, I found him to be one of the most delightful actors to work with. We hit it off straightaway and laughed our way through a beautiful English summer.
Practical jokes and schoolboy pranks were the order of the day, and I played one really good one. As part of my research, I was smoking a lot of pot during The Importance Of Being Earnest. Strictly for the role, of course.
I was always trying to persuade Frothy, as I now called him, or Collywobbles, that he would find the day less boring, and Oscar’s bons mots less laborious on the lips, if he had a puff or two.
He always refused, until finally, after a long hot afternoon at the end of the shoot, he came into my trailer just as I had constructed a big wind-me-down joint. We settled down for one of those long waits that inevitably punctuate the filming day.
I didn’t bother to offer Frothy the joint — his abstemiousness was legendary by then — but he suddenly asked for it and paced around the trailer, smoking. He soon became giggly and unusually animated (in other words, camp).
There was a knock on the door, and he opened it with a flourish, exhaling a huge gust of smoke and holding the joint up by his face like a character from a Noel Coward play. In clambered the producer Harvey Weinstein with a school of executives.
Poor Collywobbles was caught in the act. During the brief explosion of chit-chat that ensued, the mutual compliments, the casual discussion about the marketing strategy, we all looked at Frothy, wondering what he would do next.
He was determined not to be shown up, and was quite giddy at the same time, so he defiantly took another couple of puffs, as he chatted to a bemused Harvey, before handing the joint to me. ‘Here, Rupert. Do you want this?’ he said in his coolest voice.
‘Actually, no thanks, Colin,’ I replied in my most understanding voice. ‘I’d love to another time, but I just can’t do it while I’m working. I wish I could. I’m so envious that you can get high and still work.’ Colin was like a cartoon character who had just overshot the edge of a cliff. After Harvey left we laughed until our eyes were red from crying and our stomachs hurt.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
Cher's Having an Estate Sale in Malibu
Following a trend set by fallen rock star Elton John, Cher is selling off nearly 800 items from stage costumes to gem encrusted jewelry, works of art, used Kleenex, panties, furniture and even a huge Hummer car in an auction expected to raise more than $1 million.
"This is a garage sale. Apart from the dresses and jewels there are Old Masters and architectural drawings," said Darren Julien of Julien's auctions.
"She has a following, a huge gay one." he told Reuters as some of the items went on show in London on Monday ahead of the sale in Los Angeles on October 3-4.
The sale is being jointly organized by Sotheby's New York office and Julien's of the United States.
"CRIKEY!" Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, is Killed
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim as TV's khaki-clad "Crocodile Hunter," was killed by a stingray barb through the heart while filming a new documentary on Monday.
Irwin, 44, tangled with some of the world's most dangerous animals but he died in an extremely rare attack by a normally placid sea creature while he was diving on a reef off Port Douglas in northern Queensland.
"He came over the top of a stingray and the stingray's barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart," Irwin's shocked manager John Stainton told reporters in Cairns, south of Port Douglas.
A helicopter rushed paramedics to nearby Low Isles where Irwin was taken for treatment, but he was dead before they arrived, emergency officials said.
"It became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries," Dr. Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, told Nine Network television.
"He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing," he said.
Irwin's death was likely only the third recorded fatal stingray attack in Australia, experts said. They said stingray venom was agonizingly painful but not lethal, although the barb was capable of causing horrific injuries like a knife or bayonet.
"It's not the going in, it's the coming out," Australian Venom Research Unit deputy director Dr Bryan Fry told Reuters.
"They have these deep serrations which tear and render the flesh as it comes out," he said.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Helen Mirren in The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren's performance as the Queen has drawn rave reviews from critics at the Venice Film Festival.
She is tipped to pick up the best actress award at the festival - and is considered a certainty for Oscar nomination.
Hollywood critics heaped praise on the 61-year-old British actress for her role in The Queen, which is directed by Stephen Frears and set in the week Diana, Princess of Wales died in a Paris car crash.
She received a five-minute ovation when the film was screened on Saturday.
"Helen Mirren's beautifully nuanced performance as Queen Elizabeth II is likely to be crowned with a host of awards nominations," said influential trade publication Screen Daily, which described her performance as "brilliant... ultimately complex and moving".
The Hollywood Reporter said: "Mirren is superb in finding those telling moments where the royal mask drops to reveal the flesh-and-blood woman."
Swank Still Not Living Like A Lesbian
There's a new man in Hilary Swank's life - and they weren't shy about showing their affection during a romantic Italian holiday last week.
Oscar-winner Swank, 32, has been linked with agent John Campisi since she split from her actor husband of eight years Chad Lowe in January.
The pair have repeatedly denied that they are anything more than friends, but they shared tender moments as they wandered around Rome's atmospheric Piazza Navona.
The actress flung her arms around him and they shared a kiss, before the agent slipped his hand below her waist to give her an intimate squeeze. Campisi, 37, who is one of Swank's representatives at powerful Hollywood firm Creative Artists Agency, also stopped to buy her a necklace from a street stall.
Campisi, who reportedly split from his wife in recent months, has never been rumored to be gay, so chances are this is simply a friendship afterall.
Uninteresting Child-Abuse Story Starring Ginger Spice
Geri Halliwell's three-month-old daughter is focus of a police investigation into allegations of abuse after being found covered with bruises.
The former Spice Girl called the police after leaving her baby with a temporary nanny while she went for a walk with friends.
When she returned, she was horrified to find her daughter, Bluebell, screaming in apparent distress and with bruising on her arm.
Furious, she then shouted at the nanny: 'What's happened? What have you done to my baby?' and was alarmed when the nanny refused to answer. The incident happened while Halliwell, 34, was staying with two friends at a luxury cottage in the grounds of Liphook Golf Club, in Hampshire, last month.
Halliwell gave birth to Bluebell in May but no longer has anything to do with the baby's father, Sacha Gervasi, a 40-year-old British born screenwriter who lives in Hollywood.
The couple were introduced by Robbie Williams and soon embarked on a six-week affair during which Halliwell conceived.
Oopsie, Ellen has a Bender
Fender bender that is.
The collision occurred just before 4 p.m. on Sunset Boulevard, Buscarino said. The talk-show host stopped her 2006 Porsche Carrera at a light, followed by a 2002 Buick Le Sabre with two men in their 20s.
A 2002 Porsche Carrera driven by a 52-year-old woman slammed into the back of the Buick and caused a chain reaction, police said.
“She had a little neck and back pain, but it doesn’t look like it was anything serious,” said Sgt. Ken Buscarino of the Los Angeles police said after Friday’s accident.
The woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and had minor cuts on her leg, police said. The two men in the Buick suffered scratches.
DeGeneres’ passenger, a woman in her mid-30s, complained of minor back pain. DeGeneres’ car sustained moderate damage.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Drove my Chevy to the Levy
In a recent interview with Hollywood Gold's Gym stalker, Rupert Everette, he comments on his new book, his life, and how much more successful he would have been if he'd stayed in the closet.
"Everything Hugh Grant does, I could be in. I am not saying I am better than Hugh Grant or Colin Firth but I am the same."
It may be Everett's flamboyance, his recklessness, that frightens producers. His hilariously honest autobiography, Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins is a kind of rake's progress.
The earlier scenes in the book, from childhood to unruly adolescence, to drama school are shocking and hilarious. His (triumphant) sexual pursuit of Ian McKellen is theatrical folklore.
While Rupert's early sexual adventures become ever wilder, his poor mother, to whom he is close, is constantly trying to keep him on the straight and narrow. At one point, this conventional upper middle-class woman thought she had found her son a lodging in Chelsea while he was actually plying his trade as a rent boy in Earl's Court.
Later he moved to Paris and into a world of nightclubs and transvestites.
And while the convention for film actors is to be ostentatiously keen on women while hiding gay relationships, Everett does the reverse. He talks elaborately about his boyfriends and then discreetly mentions the fact that he has had affairs with a series of high-profile women, including the actresses Beatrice Dalle — who he briefly thought was pregnant with his child — Susan Sarandon and the late Paula Yates.
—Article stolen and re-editied from U.K.'s Daily Mail
Christina's Inspirational "Erotic-style" Video
Christina Aguilera had a vision. Emulating both her blues-inspired new album "Back to Basics" and Madonna's Erotic video, here's an unreleased promo video for which Youtube claims to be a cancelled 2004 tour promo. It would be quite shocking if not for the desensitizing of America from this type of sexy imagery. I honestly thought it was a look-a-like until they got to some of the tight shots of her face.