Golden Celebrity

Remember all the “creative differences” this, and “he got way too fat” that flying around after Ryan Gosling abruptly left The Lovely Bones? That was all much ado about nothing, says he! It was simply yet another example of the director having gone too young: “I think, people are making it a far more interesting [...]

Friday
· Music round-up: UNKLE at the Echoplex, Rob Thomas at the Wiltern, Something For Rockets at the Getty.
· The venerable Greg Proops does his Chat Show thing at Largo.
· Catch a screening of documentary Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone, featuring a Q & A with the man himself, at the Paley Center.
Saturday
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Apparently Britney Spears is not having the greatest day at family court. This landed in our inbox: “When asked by an Extra reporter in the hallway outside a Los Angeles Superior courtroom as to how she was doing, Britney Spears shouted out, ‘Eat it, lick it, snort it, f*%k it!’ Spears walked back into [...]

The Trekkie unthinkable has come to pass: William Shatner–the die from which all subsequent Kirk-alikes were cast, the man who gave scores of marginally talented impressionists a bottomless! Source! Of! Material!–has not been asked to join the voyages of the next big-screen Enterprise outing. (Helmed, of course, by noted Lost architect and Cruise-wrangler, JJ Abrams.) [...]

Russell Crowe casually let it slip to an EW reporter, “You know, I worked with Leonardo when he was 17 on The Quick and the Dead. He was a virgin, and he’d talk about that constantly.” DiCaprio’s rep later laughed off the assertion, insisting the American Gangster star had gotten his wires crossed and that [...]