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Charlize Theron on Sean Penn: ‘I Really Didn’t See It Coming’

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date May 22, 2014

–Charlize Theron covers the June issue of Vogue, where she talks about dating Sean Penn after being friends with him for nearly two decades.

–Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets series will never get old. Up this time are Julia Roberts, Emma Stone, Matthew McConaughey and more – though Gary Oldman‘s reaction is the best.

-Also funny from last night: Hugh Jackman and Jimmy Fallon competed in a cooler scooter race.

–Skylar Astin has been confirmed for Pitch Perfect 2. Wait, was that ever in doubt? Because there’s no aca-awseomeness without Jesse!

–Emma Thompson talks about cracking penis jokes, hating Twitter and finding rich people’s conversations “exhausting” in a new interview with Vanity Fair. There is no end to my love for her.

-Oh. My. God. There is a very dubious (but very awesome) report about Chris Martin taking his kids to a fast food restaurant. I so want this to be true.

–Snooki says she “did every interview drunk” in her Jersey Shore days. How is that different from now?

–Will and Jada Pinkett Smith might be under investigation by Child Protective Services for that photo of Willow in bed with a grown ass man. I wonder if she soon be living with her auntie and uncle in Bel Air?

-Jimmy Fallon has a Stanley Cup bet going with the Montreal Canadiens, and it’s pretty great.

–Charlie Sheen got all pissy and wrote a Twitter rant against Rihanna because she declined to meet him when they both ended up at the same restaurant recently. Smart girl, that one.

–Rihanna and Beyoncé reportedly get $100,000 for attending fashion shows. Worth every penny.

–Jennifer Lawrence made a ill-conceived rape joke and now everyone’s freaking.

–Jen’s having a rough week: she also told that story on Seth Meyers last night about how she threw up at an Oscars after-party and Miley Cyrus told her to “get it together” – and then Miley said she was lying.

-Everyone in the Firefly cast is still awesome, just in case you were worried.

-Did anyone else cringe a lot while watching Brad Pitt dance at the Bruno Mars concert? I mean, it wasn’t Tom Cruise-levels of horrifying, but it was still kinda wince-y. When Michael Strahan was covering it on this morning’s GMA, he was all “what’s Brad doing with his hands? We need to work on that.”

–Lupita Nyong’o appeared on Mexico’s version of Sesame Street. It’s in Spanish, but I can only assume she’s being adorable.

–Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher are buddies. Who knew?

–Tina Fey and Amy Poehler roasted Don Rickles and it was glorious.

-Holy mother, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries just posted a new video even though the series ended a year ago. And it’s called “Bonus 1″. Does that mean Bonus 2, 3, 4, and 5 are coming?! This is giving me all the squees.

–Jude Law’s deep v is beyond disturbing.

–Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy were banned from using golf carts on the X-Men set because they kept getting into bloody accidents — but that didn’t stop them from roping Hugh Jackman and Nicholas Hoult into their shenanigans.

–Nikki Reed has filed for divorce from Paul McDonald two months after they announced their split.

–Jason Segel wrote a children’s book. Between this and his puppet obsession, he really is just an overgrown kid, huh?

-A burglar scaled the walls of George Clooney’s Lake Como villa and stole some wine from his cellar. Seems about right.

–Justin Bieber was spotted getting close with supermodels Barbara Palvin and Adriana Lima at Cannes because there is no justice in this world.

-I understand why AMC decided to break Mad Men season seven into two halves, but I still hate it.

-Sad: The Shield’s Michael Jace has been formally charged with murdering his wife.

-Who knew that Ron Weasley could sing?

-People were tweeting from the Blended premiere last night, saying that Andy Dick was stuck behind barricade yelling “get me the f in bro” to Adam Sandler.

-The Kimye wedding is this weekend, and her clan has already invaded Paris. Oh, and Kim has Jennifer Aniston’s hairstylist on call for the entire weekend.

-Meanwhile, Beyonce still hasn’t confirmed her attendance. heheheh

-I don’t watch American Idol but I tuned in for a bit of last night’s finale and was amazed how much I liked Jennifer Lopez (I think her interactions with Keith and Harry humanize her). The judges all performed together – as did Ryan Seacrest tried to sing, too.

-The trailer for the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself looks beautiful.

–Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def, canceled his US tour amid rumours that he was forbidden from entering the country.

-Why has everyone started posting bath selfies? From Miley Cyrus to Kelly Rutherford, I clearly have to start weeding out my following list on Instagram.

-If you don’t watch The Americans, you should really catch up over the summer. Last night’s finale was devastatingly good.

-The first teaser for season two of Masters of Sex is all about the love triangle.

-Here’s Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche in the trailer for Clouds of Sils Maria, which will debut at Cannes.

-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s Mommy is killing it in Cannes. Critics are raving about it and it might even win the Palme d’Or.

-I love and adore Emma Stone and Colin Firth, but watching them get romantic in Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight? I’m just not sure I can get on board with this.

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Stephen King: ‘Most people would like to see some rational controls on guns’

Post author By marc
Post date May 24, 2013

Stephen King, one of the most prolific and beloved horror writers of all time, covers the new issue of Parade. He’s promoting his new novel Joyland, which seems more like a crime thriller/pulp fiction rather than horror. King rarely gives interviews, which is sad because he’s an incredibly interesting guy. He actually reminds me a lot of the late, great Roger Ebert. Both men were and are talented writers whose interests were exhaustive, whose lust for life, knowledge and art appreciation were unquenchable. One of my favorite epitaphs for Ebert was “He was a bomb-thrower.” And he was. He loved controversy. He loved a debate. He loved a fight. I feel like King is the same way. Maybe I’m reading him the wrong way though. Anyway, here are some highlights from King’s Parade interview:

On the fact that Joyland, his new book, isn’t a horror novel:
“I’ve been typed as a horror writer … but I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist. With Joyland, I wanted to try my hand at the whodunit format.”

On his daily writing regimen:
“I wrote 1,500 words this morning. Five pages a day, that’s usually what I get through.”

On why he and his two novelist sons show their work to his wife, Tabitha:
“She’ll say, ‘Here, you’ve done this before. This sucks. This is dumb.’ There’s no soft landing with Tabby, and that’s fine. [My sons] both dedicated their first novels to her, so it means a lot.”

On the current TV shows he enjoys:
“Justified, Bates Motel, The Walking Dead. The best show of the year is The Americans. I don’t watch Mad Men. I think it’s basically soap opera, and if I want soap opera, I watch Revenge. That show is crazy, but they have great clothes.”

On whether he thinks he’ll be popular beyond his lifetime:
“Well, you really can’t worry about it. … Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books … because they’re set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant. So maybe things like Salem’s Lot and The Shining might last, the Dark Tower books. … The idea of posterity for a writer is poison. … You do the best you can.”

On his main reason to keep writing:
“The major job is still to entertain people. Joyland really took off for me when the old guy who owns the place says, ‘Never forget, we sell fun.’ That’s what we’re supposed to do—writers, filmmakers, all of us. That’s why they let us stay in the playground.”

On gun-control measure, a subject he also addressed in his essay, Guns, published as a Kindle Single on Amazon.com:
“I heard that [the background checks legislation didn’t pass in the Senate], and I thought, ‘Oh, my God, they couldn’t even do that.’ It infuriates me, because most people would like to see some rational controls on guns. I think we all understand that they wouldn’t entirely solve the problem. I mean, in Boston they built bombs in pressure cookers. But you’ve got a roadblock of probably most of the Republican Senate and four or five Democrats who come from rural areas, some of whom are up for reelection pretty soon, who stopped what the public wanted.

Background checks for gun purchases:
“Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell say, ‘Background checks won’t solve the problem because crazy people will still get guns.’ To me, that’s tantamount to saying, ‘Why bother to make it illegal for kids under 18 to buy cigarettes, because they’ll find a way to get them anyway?’ But we know that those laws, [while] they don’t stop underage smoking, inhibit it greatly. These people are so shortsighted — this is going to happen again.”

[From Parade]

Shall we discuss his thoughts on gun control? I think he sounds very sensible. I think – and the polling data suggests this too – that he sounds like the average American voter on this issue. He’s not calling anyone names, he’s making a rational argument and seriously, he’s right. That is all. Oh, I love that he watches Revenge, and that he’s all about the costumes! That makes me so happy.

King also has some lovely things to say about his mother, and how she influenced him as a writer. Apparently, his family didn’t have a TV growing up (until he was 10) and so his mom would read to him. King says, “She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.” Also: did you know he’s only 65 years old?! I thought he was older, for sure. I guess I thought he was older because he’s written about a bajillion books.

PS… Name your favorite King book! Mine is The Stand. I still love that crazy book and I still think about it so often.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, cover courtesy of Parade.

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Tilda Swinton Gets An Entire Theater Dancing

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date April 24, 2013

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Tilda Swinton was an honored guest at this year’s Ebertfest. The Roger Ebert Film Festival has been going on for 15 years now. Chaz, Ebert’s widow, hosted. Ms. Swinton, never one to do ordinary things, had a surprise for the audience. Chaz explained that at Tilda’s favorite film festivals in Scotland, they have a dance-along, in which the entire theater dances together. “[Chaz and I] are not dancing up here, we’re coming down to dance with you,” Tilda said. “Because if we dance up here you’re just gonna sit and watch us and laugh.” The audience laughed.

“This is a spiritual service,” Ms. Swinton declared, leading everyone to their feet. And then Barry White’s “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” started to blast and joyful awkward dancing ensued and I started to cry.

It will make you so happy. It’s like you’re, to quote Tilda, “Dancing with Roger.”

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Ben Affleck jokes that he’s Mr. Mom this summer: ‘I’m going to get back in the ring’

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date April 11, 2013

These are photos of Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and their daughter Seraphina out getting ice cream on Tuesday. In some pics these two look really annoyed at the paparazzi, which is understandable. There are photos of them out yesterday, with Violet, where they’re kissing and looking loved-up. I think they know when to turn on the charm when it’s needed.

Where this family is concerned, there’s always the question of whether they court the paps. I believe that they do somewhat, although I don’t think they can control them by any stretch. Let’s put it this way, if you leave food out and too many ants come in your house, should you keep leaving food out? That’s a bad, over-simplified analogy, but you get the point. They would have to move outside of LA to stop the daily photos at this point and that would involve switching their whole life around. They would have to change their daughters’ schools and move out of their mansion compound, etc. Plus we talk about them constantly when they’re photographed and that benefits their careers. The paparazzi ants are more like symbiotic creatures who are sometimes pests, or whatever.

Ben did a recent interview in which he revealed that he’s going to be taking care of their three kids on his own (with the help of nannies presumably) and he jokes that he’ll have to shape up for it, like Mr. Mom. Garner told The Telegraph earlier this month that they trade off caring for the kids – sort of. She said “I definitely work less because Ben is so busy but we have three kids, that’s just part of the deal… I’ve reserved this summer [for work]. It’s mine.” So Ben is stepping up:

Ben Affleck’s next leading role? Mr. Mom! The actor joked with reporters at the premiere of his film, To the Wonder, on Tuesday, April 9 that he’s preparing to be on daddy duty this summer while wife Jennifer Garner goes back to work.

“She told me to go to the gym, I’m preparing myself,” Affleck, 40, joked on the red carpet of the premiere, sponsored by Fiji water, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. “I’m going to take on some more of the burden.” (Over the past couple years, Affleck has worked on To The Wonder, Runner, Runner and the Oscar-winning film Argo, which he also directed.)

Aflleck and Garner, both 40, are parents to daughters Violet, 7, Seraphina 4, and son Samuel, 13 months. “She’s got a couple of movies coming up,” Affleck explained. “There’s going to be a little Mr. Mom action and I’m going to get back in the ring.”

[From US Weekly]

I haven’t even heard of Ben’s film, To The Wonder, which is out tomorrow in limited release. It’s a Terrence Malick film (Tree of Life, Thin Red Line) co-starring Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko and Rachel McAdams. The trailer makes it look like a treatise on love and life, which is similar to Tree of Life I guess. (I didn’t see it yet sorry! I did see that Roger Ebert called it one of the top ten movies of all time. Sidenote: they just released his redesigned site posthumously.)

Getting back to Ben being Mr. Mom, that’s cool and I’m glad he does that for his family, and wife. Ben said in an interview earlier this year that he doesn’t “want to be a stay-at-home dad. Work is very important to me.” I’m guessing that he’s only half-joking that he’s going to have to shape up in order to watch his kids this summer.

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Roger Ebert Dead: Film Critic Loses Battle With Cancer

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date April 4, 2013

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Film critic Roger Ebert has died after losing his fight with cancer.

Two days ago Ebert posted a blog about his cancer returning. He said he would be taking a “leave of presence” from his job as a film critic at Chicago Sun Times, where he had been working for 46 years. Ebert explains the term, “leave of presence”:

“It means I am not going away. My intent is to continue to write selected reviews but to leave the rest to a talented team of writers handpicked and greatly admired by me. What’s more, I’ll be able at last to do what I’ve always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review.”

Since Roger Ebert’s death was announced, his blog has crashed from the overwhelming number of visitors, and Twitter has an outpouring of fans showing their sympathy.

R.I.P. Mr. Ebert, you fought a long, hard battle.

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Roger Ebert Died Today

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date April 4, 2013

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EDIT: Not long after this was written, Roger Ebert passed away. He was 70 years old and completely awesome. We’ll remember him fondly for his writing, especially Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which if you’ve never seen, should be something that you do tonight. RIP Roger Ebert.

Roger Ebert has been through some shit when it comes to his health, having lost his lower jaw and salivary glands from repeated surgeries for complications of his thyroid cancer several years back. He’s since revealed that the hip fracture he recently suffered has been diagnosed as cancer and he plans to take a “leave of presence” from the industry.

From The Chicago Sun Times:

Of course, there will be some changes. The immediate reason for my “leave of presence” is my health. The “painful fracture” that made it difficult for me to walk has recently been revealed to be a cancer. It is being treated with radiation, which has made it impossible for me to attend as many movies as I used to. I have been watching more of them on screener copies that the studios have been kind enough to send to me. My friend and colleague Richard Roeper and other critics have stepped up and kept the newspaper and website current with reviews of all the major releases. So we have and will continue to go on.

At this point in my life, in addition to writing about movies, I may write about what it’s like to cope with health challenges and the limitations they can force upon you. It really stinks that the cancer has returned and that I have spent too many days in the hospital. So on bad days I may write about the vulnerability that accompanies illness. On good days, I may wax ecstatic about a movie so good it transports me beyond illness.

Ebert’s letter was much longer than that and worth a read. Cancer is such a terrible disease that I can’t believe we haven’t found a cure to yet – we really need to. Here’s hoping Ebert is able to overcome this second battle with the illness and get back to what he does best: reviewing movies in ways that are sometimes funny, sometimes awful and always a great read.

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