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The Young Actresses On The Cover Of Vanity Fair‘s Hollywood Issue Are Virtually Unrecognizable
The 1920s/art deco theme of Vanity Fair‘s Hollywood Issue cover is lovely, but it doesn’t do you much good if you can’t recognize Shailene Woodley or Elizabeth Olsen. More »
The Capitol’s Creepy Beauty Standards In The Hunger Games Movie Remind Us Of Hollywood’s Plastic Surgery Obsession
With each new photo of Elizabeth Banks as The Hunger Games‘ Effie Trinket that gets released, I’m more and more repulsed. More »
Fan Fiction: Occupy Hollywood, By Hollywood And For Hollywood
While the Occupy Wall Street movement blames corporations for America’s monetary woes, writer Jo Piazza over at The Huffington Post thinks the problem lies with the top-earning celebrities whose crazy endorsement deals are throwing everything out of whack. And we agree — Kim Kardashian, Snooki the rest of the celebu-1% are rewriting the economy of Hollywood. We won’t stand for it, so we’re endorsing this Occupy Hollywood manifesto*, for Hollywood and by Hollywood. More »
Here’s How You Make It In Hollywood: Post Your Short Story To Reddit
What a success story: Guy posts short story to Reddit, Hollywood makes it into a movie! More »
No More Hollywood Reboots, Please!
The planned Clue remake may have been nixed, but the reboot train keeps chugging forward, with 1986 robot classic Short Circuit next on the list. And once again, I am tearing my hair and yelling “noooooooooooo!” in response to a silly Hollywood decision. More »
Video: Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia Is The Number One Problem In Hollywood
You probably knew being a child star was majorly effed up. But did you know Hollywood was literally crawling with pedophiles? It’s true, according to someone who would know: former child star Corey Feldman. More »
Why Is Olivia Wilde Suddenly Afraid To Show Her Nipples?
It’s a well-known fact in Hollywood that nipples are magic. You can show the whole rest of your boob and everything’s fine, but as soon as a hint of the pointy center part shows, you are one of “those” actresses. You know, actresses like Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman…total C-listers! More »
Rebecca Black Leaks Her “My Moment” Music Video Early, But It’s Not Amazing
Even though it was supposed to debut tonight at 8 p.m. EST, the official video for Rebecca Black‘s new single “My Moment” has already hit YouTube — and it looks like Rebecca herself is the one who uploaded it, as she tweeted to her followers to check it out on her new channel. Sadly, it just doesn’t live up to “Friday.” More »
12 Hollywood Haunts and Unsolved Mysteries
For this weekend’s celebrity gallery, we’re going back a little further than we normally would– back to Hollywood’s Golden Age, to the Roaring ’20s and the ’30s and ’40s. These are the times featured in the game L.A. Noire, the latest offering from Rockstar Games, and what stylish times they are. Back then, old-fashioned movie stars may not have worn their problems on their sleeves the way celebrities do today, but problems were still something they had plenty of. Come on in and take a trip through some of the more notorious scandals, hauntings, and unsolved mysteries of Hollywood, and see what can be dug up– if you look hard enough for it. More »
Parting Tweet: Ryan Seacrest Joins, Quickly Unjoins Foursquare
Earlier today, Ryan Seacrest broadcast a Foursquare check-in over Twitter then deleted the tweet immediately. Oops. We checked the address and it’s a cluster of condos and hotels in Hollywood. Run now and maybe you’ll catch someone who saw someone who saw Seacrest! More »
Crush Links: Lauren Conrad Is Slowly Nearing World Domination
• Get the lowdown on Charlie Sheen‘s latest goddess, Megan Levant, from her former sorority sister. (College Candy)
• Even though Hollywood relationships are notoriously short-lived, it’s encouraging to see exes who manage to stay friends after the break-up: Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz, Penn Badgley and Blake Lively, and others. (gURL)
• Along with her makeup artist and hair stylist, The Hills‘ Lauren Conrad has launched a new website, The Beauty Department, with tutorials and daily inspirations. (Oh No They Didn’t)
• New couple alert? Emma Roberts may have been smooching Glee star Chord Overstreet at Coachella. (Celebuzz)
• It’s not all about William — Prince Harry, who’ll be the best man at his older brother’s wedding (aww!), just got promoted to Captain in the British Army. (Uinterview)
Are Movies on the Decline?
Dorothy Gambrell, the creator of the exhaustive charts blog Very Small Array, has turned her attention to movies, and whether the past few decades have seen a big dropping off in moviegoers’ enjoyment of the year’s hits. Combining Rotten Tomatoes’ top-ten grossing films of each year from 1950-onward with lists of the top films on Wikipedia, Gambrell came up with the chart above. There appears to be a steady, continuous decline (with a major peak in 1999) with the highest percentage (say, 95%) related to 1950s movies and 2009 straggling with a lowly 58%.
And yet. More »
Darren Aronofsky Denies ‘Black Swan’ Body-Double Controversy
Last week a minor controversy rose up around Black Swan, when Natalie Portman‘s body double Sarah Lane claimed that Fox Searchlight had prohibited her from doing interviews before the Oscars so that voters would believe that Portman had done the majority of her dancing in the film. Portman’s fiance/baby-daddy Benjamin Millepied responded to the original article, claiming that the Academy Award winner had done “85%” of her dancing. Now, director Darren Aronofsky has issued a statement defending his star and himself. More »
The 15 Best Instances of Enforced Method Acting
Last week, I happened upon a fascinating article at TV Tropes that discusses the Hollywood practice of Enforced Method Acting. As opposed to when actors get really into their roles through Method acting, EMA is when directors/producers manipulate the circumstances of a movie or TV show — without the actors knowing — in order to get a more genuine reaction out of their stars. You could lose an hour reading through the list, but to save you time we’ve counted down the fifteen examples from film and TV that took us by surprise. More »
‘Black Swan’ Producers Won’t Acknowledge Natalie Portman’s Dance Double Sarah Lane
It was so easy to go along with the belief that Natalie Portman‘s lovely dancing in Black Swan was the result of a year of single-minded discipline, especially because contrasted with Mila Kunis‘ more laidback attitude, it gave us a lot to talk about concerning actresses and the signs of eating disorders. But now Dance Magazine reports that most of Portman’s dancing was done by a double, American Ballet Theatre member Sarah Lane — who wasn’t acknowledged in the film’s credits or at the Oscars. More »
James Franco’s Mom Betsy Gives Screenwriting Advice: “What’s to Lose?”
Anyone who has participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, every November) either as a writer or observer knows that ScriptFrenzy, the screenplay equivalent, is coming up fast. On April 1, thousands of Hollywood hopefuls will hunker down and spend thirty days on a movie or theater script, tracking their progress to 100 pages and cheering each other on along the way. The final product doesn’t necessarily have to be perfect — ScriptFrenzy is about getting started.
Betsy Franco, YA author and James Franco‘s mom, just wrote a piece for ScriptFrenzy’s Young Writers’ Program, sharing her experiences and urging first-time writers to take the leap. More »
Hot Shot: James Marsden Is Band Of Outsiders’ New Face
Hey, we think we slept with this guy once! Just kidding, that’s James Marsden, not that dude with the $400-a-month studio apartment by the Hollywood freeway* who thought that five crates of records and a dying cactus counted as furniture. Yes indeed, that’s James Marsden, Hollywood actor, living out some I-sleep-til-noon-and-then-I-talk-about-music-and-philosophy-at-the-coffee-shop-with-Scientologists fantasy like he’s trapped inside a Warren Zevon song. James Marsden, selling clothes by stealing the persona off of the dude who draws your portrait on a napkin at the bar while listening to his own band on his iPod, even though something totally good like The National or Warren Zevon is on the stereo.
Whatever — he’s still hot, and we’d still sleep with him (again). More »
Rubik’s Cube: The Movie is going to be a thing – Don’t ever let anyone tell you Hollywood’s out of ideas! Not with studio execs drawing inspiration from their own assistants’ desks. There had better be nerds in this film and it had better be in 6-D. (Videogum)
Video: Michael Bublé Dresses As Justin Bieber
What happens when a preternaturally mature easily listening artist dresses as the world’s foremost teeny bopper icon? Well, suffice it to say Freud would have a field day with the latest Michael Bublé video. Michael donned a hoodie and side-swept his bangs to appear as Justin Bieber in the vid for “Hollywood,” a song all about the price of fame. ($46 at American Apparel.) More »
Mischa Barton Loses ‘Crazy Bag Lady’ Title to Fearne Cotton
“Look lady, I don’t know how they do things over at the BBC, but here in West Hollywood, I’m the only star allowed to walk shamble around couture boutiques in a giant mumu. Well, myself and the Olsens.”
(Photo of Mischa Barton and Fearne Cotton via WENN) More »