Golden Celebrity

· Ang Lee takes home the Golden Lion for Lust, Caution at the Venice Film fest, the movie you may remember as the recent victim of the MPAA’s dreaded NC-17 rating because of its “graphic, artsy-fartsy depiction of fucking.” [Variety]
· Gus Van Sant attaches Sean Penn and Matt Damon to his long-in-development biopic of openly [...]

In a shocking–just shocking!–development in the Vanessa Hudgens Nudie Photos Scandal, a “source close to the situation” says that the High School Musical libertine sent the racy images to Drake Bell…star of Nickelodeon’s Josh and Drake. We know! Already-enraged Disney Channel execs will be additionally livid about Hudgens’ disloyal decision to show her body to [...]

What is left to say when one of the most anticipated VMA performances in years bombs so badly, it causes Kid Rock and Tommy Lee to very nearly come to fisticuffs trying to one up each other trading “Yo Britney” jokes, while finally justifying Sean “Diddy” Combs’s single, painfully confused facial expression? A round-up of [...]

Today’s Variety officially awards its Showmen of the Year honor, the most coveted recognition in all of showbiz trade journalism (and yes, that includes Var’s Billion Dollar Director Day celebration), to Sony’s Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal, an occasion necessitating the purchase of full-page tribute ads by any talent, producers, or agency ever hoping [...]

In the end, there would be no baby dolls dropping from the rafters, giant Jacuzzis filled with writhing background dancers servicing a fading pop star’s exhibitionistic sexual needs, or even a female albino python with which Britney Spears might share a same-sex, cross-species kiss to open last night’s VMAs.
There was just Britney, looking as [...]