Golden Celebrity

Should we be surprised that the largest visual Beowulf marketing placement in Tinseltown is a customized gift-wrap of the Public Storage facility squatting at the corner of Santa Monica and Highland? Nay! The well-researched placement is simply Paramount’s attempt to sequester a share of the eyeballs normally reserved for Apple’s longstanding “We are fucking [...]

The Smoking Gun, your one-stop celebrity mugshot superstore, has come through once again, being first up with Shia LaBeouf’s post-Walgreens incident booking photo. Our first reaction was one of concern–did the abandonment of his signature Guido hairstyle suggest he’d ceased to care about even the most basic grooming rituals? Upon further reflection, however, we concluded [...]

· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Reheated Edition: Sylvester Stallone is in talks to direct and star in an MGM remake of Charles Bronson’s 1974 vigilante-justice classic, Death Wish. Stallone’s reimagined version, however, will focus on an aging action star who seeks bloody retribution against studio executives who’ve collectively decided [...]

The image of the male conjurer has always been steeped so heavily in an aura of lady-loving machismo–from David Copperfield’s babe-netting trapdoor audience seating to the Pam-Anderson-bazoom-levitating prestidigitation of Hans Klok–that when J.K. Rowling revealed Prof. Albus Dumbledore to enjoy the, ahem, company of other wizards, even those of us with the most finely attuned [...]

We never expected the strike to yield its first casualty so quickly, but according to local news station KABC 7, a picketer was struck earlier this morning by a driver we’ll have to assume wasn’t particularly sympathetic to the Writers Guild cause. (”The guy basically said, ‘Get the ‘F’ out of the way, and then [...]