Eva Mendes, who entered rehab at Cirque Lodge in Utah on her own in January, is taking a bit of a break for personal reasons and will re-enter in a few days. Cirque is the same place that Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate Olsen have stayed, and where Kirsten Dunst has just entered.
Jennifer Lopez has admitted that she’s having a boy and a girl, and that the due date is about Feb 23rd. [PageSix.com]
The success of The Simpsons theatrical movie (2007) means that there’ll likely be a sequel. Except that the current WGA writers’ strike is delaying planning. In the meantime, watch for a special Valentines episode airing Feb 17th. [Buddy TV]
Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm TV series, will be in an as yet unnamed Woody Allen movie with Evan Rachel Wood. [Hollywood Insider]
Microsoft has dropped the price of the Xbox 360 HD DVD player down to US$129.99 in the US and Canada. [Engadget, Joystiq]
A few weeks back, a video surfaced claiming to show Penelope Cruz and her sister Monica making out. That was of course untrue. The other woman was a good friend Mia Maestro. Penelope and Mia were actually in a music video as a favor to her brother Eduardo Cruz. Now, Cruz will be seen kissing Scarlett Johanssen – voted to have the world’s sexiest body – in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, opening later this year.
The Allen film also stars handsome Javier Bardem of the award-winning No Country for Old Men (2007) and Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).
Here’s an interesting development. Amy Winehouse, who has an exceptional voice and has been looking healthy during a break from rehab, has been offered the chance to pen and perform the theme song for Bond movie #22, Quantum of Solace, which is currently shooting in London.
I know little about the film other than than current James Bond actor Daniel Craig says that the title is actually important to the plot. Oh that and that there might actually be two Bond girls: Olga Kurylenko (official) and Gemma Arterton (presumed), and that the new movie takes off from where Casino Royale left off.
Anyway, I think Winehouse will be perfect. (In fact, I can almost hear in my head a version of A View to a Kill by her.) But there’s one serious condition: she has to stay sober. Would that more celebs had this requirement. The only question I have, though, is that now that she’s moving in with the Osbournes, is she going to get any songs written with Ozzy around? I fear that either Winehouse might have to listen to Ozzy’s crazy stories about when he was still human. Or maybe end up doing a remake of Paranoid.
In the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar, yet another troubled celebrity, Lindsay Lohan, opens up about her life, the mistakes she’s made, how she missed her family, and what actually led her down the wrong path. As for the latter, believe it or not, she claims that she’s a homebody, and that running away from home led to her running astray. Read PageSix.com and US for more info.
Lohan will be in Poor Things and Dare to Love Me this year. Hopefully these will do better than I Know Who Killed Me (2007). (She certainly has the talent.) She’s also competing with Keira Knightley to be cast in the lead role in a Wuthering Heights remake.
Tom Cruise already has a public relations nightmare, thanks to the leaking of a Church of Scientology (CoS) video of him appearing to be quite loony. (I’ve read that the CoS claims that whomever leaked it edited it to make him appear crazy.) Now a tabloid spy says that Cruise is interested in converting troubled popstar/ actress Britney Spears into the Scientology fold.
Well, I believe in freedom of religion, but I draw the line at active/ persistent conversion. As Chris Crocker, below, might say, “Leave Britney alone!”
Cruise will be in Valkyrie this year, in which he saves the world from Nazis. Or was it psychologists?
(Warning: video clip contains lots of crying by Chris Crocker. Oh yeah, and the F-word.)
Jessica Alba has admitted to being moody during her pregnancy. But apparently she and fiancé Cash Warren have been arguing nonstop about childraising details, even what name to give the baby. Alba has been reported as kicking Warren out of the house repeatedly. Things came to a head and Alba has supposedly either dumped Warren or walked out on him (or both), and claimed she’ll never have another baby. Wow. Can you say “dog house”? (Any single female celebs – pregnant or not – can feel free to get in touch with me. I’m saving myself for Drew Barrymore and Alanis Morissette, but what the hey.)
Cash, this video’s for you. Can you say dog house?! (While I love George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Hank Williams does it best.)
You’ve probably seen recent pictures of Stepford Wife Katie Holmes, husband Tom Cruise and daughter Suri where they all have this weird identical bowl haircut. Now what if other celebrity couples started imitating each other? What if Brad Pitt, who supposedly threw a tantrum when Tom Cruise got a new Ducati motorcycle, started adopting Angelina Jolie’s hairstyles? You can see an example above, courtesy of Hair Mixer.
A couple of days ago, comedienne Sarah Silverman did a video (below) with Matt Damon, intended for her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night TV host. In the video, Silverman says, “I’m f***ing Matt Damon.” The video is apparently payback from Damon to Kimmel. If you watch Jimmy Kimmel, you probably already know why. I only ever watch the last 7-10 minutes of Jimmy Kimmel, and at the very end, he thanks all his guests then finishes off with “Sorry to Matt Damon. We ran out of time.” Or something like that. Every night, for however long he’s been doing it (at least a year). It gets kind of tired after awhile, and maybe Damon felt that way too and decided it was payback time.
Damon will also appear in Margaret this year. In 2009, he’s in Green Zone, The Human Factor, and The Informant.
Angelina Jolie, who’s keeping us all guessing as to whether or not she’s pregnant, was given the award for Performance of the Year at the SBIFF (Santa Barbara International Film Festival). This was for her performance in A Mighty Heart, as Mariane Pearl, wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan. The award was presented to Jolie by Clint Eastwood.
Jolie is appearing in Kung-Fu Panda, Wanted, Atlas Shrugged and The Changeling this year. Clint Eastwood is directing The Changeling, written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5).
Prince Caspian is the third book in C.S. Lewis’ classic Chronicles of Narnia novels. It is, however, the second movie in the series, reportedly due to some problems with the CGI work in the original second film. It’s set several hundred years later, at least on the Narnia side.
Starring Tilda Swinton, Liam Neeson, Ben Barnes, Warwick Davis, William Moseley, Georgie Henley, Anna Popplewell, Peter Dinklage, Eddie Izzard. Opens May 16th.
