Golden Celebrity

· We’re impressed with Variety’s show of headline-pun restraint with this one: The plug has been pulled on Stopping Power, Jan De Bont’s planned action thriller starring John Cusack, after funding fell through at the last minute. [Variety]
· Conflicting with other reports, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution “thrilled” Venice audiences. One journalist asked if the graphic [...]

More Venice Film Festival color: George Clooney, dubbed “mag-nifico” by the local press for the way he pronounces the word in an Italian TV ad, was pointedly asked by a reporter why he does endorsements. After fumbling for an answer, he sarcastically replies, “Me? In commercials?” [Film Experience Blog]

Champ, the homeless, former fighter whose life inspired the LAT article that would inspire Resurrecting the Champ, is still homeless in Santa Ana, and has yet to see a penny from the production. [ocregister.com]

By now, we hang on every word of the thoughtful analysis of the charms of our nation’s steel towns that drip like honey from the lips of reticent, camera-shy starlet Sienna Miller. Thrillingly, The Sun reports that, while stumbling out of celebration for her clothing line’s London debut, Sienna was caught on tape delivering an [...]

If you, like us, have at times found yourself wondering what ever happened to Dessarae Bradford, author of I Fucked Alec Baldwin In His Ass (a Quality Paperback Bookclub Selection of the Month™!), guerrilla ambusher of Tonight Show appearances, and, with the recent publication of Colin Farrell: A Dark Twisted Puppy, quickly becoming one of [...]