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Above is the first look at the Mach 5, the car from Andy and Larry Wachowski’s live-action version of “Speed Racer.”
The film’s producer, Joel Silver, says the movie will have a “retro future” look and will center on “Speed (Emile Hirsch) trying to make a name for himself in the racing world despite the efforts of corporate giants to foil his career.”
“Speed Racer” is due in theatres May 9, 2008, and co-stars Christina Ricci Trixie and Matthew Fox as Racer X.
Not to be outdone by the other girls ( and have the media forget she’s attempting a comeback ), Britney Spears updated her website today with a lengthy letter addressed to her fan(s) in-which she tries to explain her recent behavior. She basically blames the media and her manager for the world not understanding why she shaved her head and flashed her cooch.
You can grab yourself a bucket of extra crispy and a six-pack of Bud Light –awww hell, make that regular Bud y’all, then surf on over to Brit’s site and have a gander at the dang thing. Or you can just click below and have a look into the mind of a desperate ex-housewife.
Above is the email invite Nicole Richie sent to her guests for her Memorial Day holiday bash, the same party where former ‚Äö?Ñ??OC‚Äö?Ñ?? star Mischa Barton, passed out and had to be rushed to Sherman Oaks Hospital after suffering what is said to be an adverse reaction from mixing antibiotics with alcohol.
A guest at the party told In Touch Weekly that Barton mixed too many drugs, “She was rolling around on the ground…and then suddenly she began screaming that she was dying.”
I can just picture Richie’s get well text message to Barton:
Hey beotch, it’s Nic –ooooh girl, you need to learn how to hold your drugs, that was so not hot. Listen sweetie, sorry Lindz stole the spotlight away from you this weekend by nearly killing herself while driving on coke, but the media almost cared that you overdosed –almost. Anywho boo, just think of all the weight you’ll lose looking at hospital food. Ok gotta go, call me whore, let’s throw up lunch or something.
Above are some pics of Mischa and The Grim Reaper Nicole Richie, picking up some last minute things before Nicstock.
Sources: TMZ, InTouch Weekly
This picture made the front page of the New York Post today, it is one in a series of snap shots taken of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan at Teddy’s nightclub in Hollywood Sunday night, less than 48 hours after being arrested for crashing her Mercedes convertible into a curb while driving under the influence. Lohan’s publicity team are saying the actress, who appears to be very intoxicated in the photos, was not at all high, but witnesses who were in attendance at the club, claim Lohan was indeed “partying hard” and “wasn’t even aware of the flashes from paparazzi snapping the photos”, which also include shots of Lohan being helped up from the floor.
Lohan’s lawyer, Blair Berk, reportedly checked the 20-year-old actress into the Promises rehab facility in Malibu on Monday and sources say she will be a resident at the facility for possibly 30 days, “but her outpatient treatment will last much longer.”
On this morning’s episode of The View, guest host Whoopi Goldberg, chimed in on the matter, saying all adults in Lohan’s life, not just her parents, need to intervene and stop her self destructive path. Goldberg pointed out if Lindsay’s lawyers, agents, film producers etc, were to cut her off financially and she was no longer allowed to be part Hollywood’s “A list”, she would have no choice but to take time off and straighten her life out.
Good call Whoopi, but unfortunately I think many of the adults in Lohan’s life, including her mother Dina who reportedly parties just as much as her daughter, only see her as a big, fat paycheck. I don’t think it’s likely they’re going to let the goose that lays the golden egg slip through their fingers that easily.
Sources: New York Post, TMZ
For the photos of Lohan’s night at Teddy’s, visit X17 Online.
Miss USA, Rachel Smith, fell flat on her ass ( or fell on her flat ass –depending on how you look at it ) during the evening gown segment of Showgirls The Musical the Miss Universe pageant, televised live from Mexico City, Mexico, this past Monday night.
I love Smith’s expression of anger after she falls, almost as if cursing gravity for daring to defy her. Personally, I would’ve smilled, done a back-flip and landed in a split –making it seem like I planned it that way all along while at the same time showing those pageant bitches who the real Queen B is.
Smith, an intern at talk show queen Oprah’s Harpo studios, was booed by the Mexican crowd during the interview phase of the show, but shut their asses up by replying to the questions in spanish –quick thinking on her part, when in Rome do as the Mexicans do.
Miss Japan, 20-year-old Riyo Mori, won the pageant for only the second time in her country’s history –lame. Japan had previously won the title in 1959 when Akiko Kojima became the first Miss Universe from Asia.
Miss Sweden, Isabel Lestapier Winqvist, dropped out of the pageant early on because she was over it –well, sort of. She left due to pressure from her country claiming the pageant is degrading to women and weighed down by scandals –basically all the reasons these girls enter the pageant to begin with.
By the way, Oprah needs to stop throwing money away on her soccer mom audience and feed her interns.
Source: CNN
Although Woody Allen’s film “Match Point” was both a critical and financial success, giving the 71 year old director a much needed boost to his career, his follow up project “Scoop” proved to be a totally different story.
Despite an amusing plot reminiscent of Allen’s own “Manhattan Murder Mystery” and a stellar cast which included Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman, “Scoop” barely registered at U.S. box offices and failed to get distribution in the U.K., where the film was produced.
Now comes word that Allen’s latest cinematic endeavour, “Cassandra’s Dream,” didn’t fair too well at the Cannes Film Festival where it was seeking distribution, failing to gather any interest, not only from British distributors, but from anyone at all.
The film, which was not shown in competition at the festival, was rumoured to have had a deal in the works with a U.S. distributor during the event, but as of the festivals closing nothing concrete was finalised.
Described as “an even more sober affair than Match Point,” “Cassandra’s Dream” stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as brothers with serious financial woes, who become bitter rivals when they turn to a life of crime.
Source: Teletext News
Update: May 31, 2007
Good news for Woody Allen fans, according to The Hollywood Reporter, The Weinstein Co. has obtained U.S., Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to “Cassandra’s Dream.” No release date has been set.
Gus Van Zandt’s fictional account of two disturbed teen-agers who plot and carry out the massacre of their fellow high school students, owes as much to Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” as it does to the events of Columbine which so clearly inspired the film’s tragic story.
From the long, Steadycam shots of the students walking down the fluorescent lit hallways of the doomed high school to the black and white titles announcing the beginning of a new scene, Van Zandt cleverly mimics and draws frightening parallels to Kubick’s masterpiece of modern horror.
My rating: 3 out of 4 stars.
Official site: elephantmovie.com
The ex model turned actor ( “Kiss Me Guido” ) and star of the Style network’s reality show “New York Nick”, was hanging out at Stereo night club with a small group of friends –on gay night.
Of course that doesn’t mean anything, straight guys hanging out at gay clubs in New York City are a common, every day occurrence –typically accompanied by a lot of tequila and the lines “my girlfriend never gives me head” or “I only tried this once before, in college”.
We’ll just file this one under “things that make you go hmmmmm.”
Party girl and occasional actress, Lindsay Lohan, has been arrested by Los Angeles police and may face criminal charges for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs following the crash of her Mercedes convertible into curb on Sunset Boulevard at about 5:30AM last night.
TMZ reports that Lohan, 20, admitted herself to Century City Hospital immediately after the accident where she was treated for minor injuries involving “something to her upper chest area,” –an “air bag” injury no doubt. Two unidentified passengers in the car with Lohan at the time of the accident were not hurt. Officials tracked the actress down at the hospital and charged her, but was not taken into custody so she could continue to receive treatment.
E! news reports that additional felony charges may be added after officers recovered a “usable amount” of “additional contraband” preliminarily identified as cocaine in Lohan’s car.
Eyewitness reports indicate Lohan had been partying all night with the two friends and was speeding down Sunset Boulevard when she lost control of her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 convertible.
Rosie O’Donnell has decide not to return to The View following her on-air spat with fellow View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck this past Wednesday morning. O’Donnell, who was due to leave the show in mid-June, asked for, and was given, an early termination to her contract.
During her eight-month stint on The View, O’Donnell turned out to be ratings gold, boosting the show’s sagging ratings to some of the highest in the show’s history. Those ratings however, were due in part to O’Donnell stirring up controversy, her feud with Donald Trump is now infamous and she often used her time on air to express her personal political opinions, sparking several, heated, debates with her staunch, ultra conservative co-host, Hasselbeck.
According to the New York Post, O’Donnell’s writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly escorrted out of the building on Wednesday after drawing mustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck in “The View” studios.
On Thursday O’Donnell posted messages on her blog indicating she might not be back.
“When painting there is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done,” she wrote. “Any more would take away.”
The View’s creator and co-executive producer Barbara Walters issued a statement, saying “I brought Rosie to the show. Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at ‘The View.’ I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change.”
In her statement, O’Donnell said, “I’m extremely grateful. It’s been an amazing year and I love all three women.” Below is a video of the argument which ended it all.
Update 05 26 07: Rosie O’Donnell took the time to respond to fans on her blog this morning, regarding her early departure from The View. One fan asked O’Donnell why she was leaving so early, to which O’Donnell replied “split screen, below my standards”. Another asked if she had spoken to Hasselbeck since the incident, O’Donnell responded saying “no, but a small email thing we did. It’s ok.”
This seems to indicate things between the two co-hosts are ok and O’Donnell’s decision to exit the show early was due to ABC’s handling of the on-air squabble more than it had to do with O’Donnell and Hasselbeck being at odds with each other.
The cross-dressing star of The Brady Bunch movies and her own VH1 talk show “The Rupaul Show”, performed a quick number at Arena night club in Time Square last night, to promote her upcoming camp flick “Starbooty.”
Ru seemed somewhat dazed and confused as she faced the crowd and sang, not once cracking so much as a smile. Many of the patrons were left in a state of confusion themselves as she quickly exited the stage after one song, leaving no indication the show had ended. Hopefully this isn’t a sign that the fast-paced life of a “supermodel” is taking it’s toll on the drag diva.
Among the many spectators at the Suzanne Bartsch hosted event, was Village Voice gossip columnist and E! channel corespondent, Michael Musto.
It looks as if the long-awaited Sex and the City movie will finally get to see the light of day. MTV reports that Emmy winner and SATC executive producer Michael Patrick King, will direct the big-screen adaptation of the popular HBO series.
The movie is tentatively scheduled to start filming this fall, but series regular Mario Cantone revealed that none of the stars have signed on thus far. “They called me about my availability, but nothing’s negotiated,” says Cantone. “HBO’s just gotta give everybody what they want. It better get done cause I want to do it.” Cantone said that his character, Anthony Marantino, plays a major role in the movie’s plot.
Source: MTV
Sex and the City isn’t the only long-awaited project to finally go into production this week, legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis and Universal Pictures have snapped up Robert Rodriguez (”Sin City”, “Grindhouse”) to direct an all new adaptation of Barbarella.
This is not your parents Barbarella however, writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (”Casino Royale”) are said to be penning a completely new adventure which takes it’s inspiration from Jean Claude Forest’s 1960’s comic books rather than the campy 1968 Jane Fonda sex romp.
Director Rodriguez is said to be very excited about the project, having been a big fan of Heavy Metal magazine which published new installments of Barbarella’s adventures in 1978. Plans are to have the new film out sometime next year to coinciding with the original version’s 40th anniversary.
Source: Aint It Cool
