Less than two full days into the WGA strike, Alexander, Ruler Of The World, the ruby red and fancifully appointed apartment complex situated directly across the street from Paramount’s WGA-targeted Van Ness service gate, appears at surface to be suffering from a concentrated bout of attention envy. Alexander, Ruler Of The World has, over the [...]
Nov
6
Van Ness Apartment Building Tired Of Picketers Hogging All The Attention [Strike-Adjacent Facade Watch]
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Nov
6
Ladies Of ‘The View’ Explain What The Strike Means To Them In 4500 Incomprehensible Words Or Less [Hollywood Strikewatch]
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If it’s strike carnage you seek, look no further than today’s episode of The View: Stripped of its guild-member producers pumping meaningful dialogue into their earpieces, a Hot Topics segment on the writers strike forced the hosts to explain the labor impasse using their own, barely coherent grasp of the issues. (Particularly immaterial was Joy [...]
Nov
6
Jennifer Connelly Takes the Keanu Reeves Co-Star Challenge [Trade Roundup]
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· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Can’t Blame the Writers For the Current Idea Shortage Edition: Jennifer Connelly–an actress we’d pay $14 dollars to watch knitting a sweater or making peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches–will join monosyllabic, paparazzi-punishing superstar Keanu Reeves in Fox’s remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. [Variety]
· Big Love polygamist [...]
Nov
6
George Osmond, father of Donny, Marie, Liesl, … [Passings]
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George Osmond, father of Donny, Marie, Liesl, Friedrick, Louisa, Kurt, Marta, and Gretl, has sadly passed away this morning at the age of 90. The family’s official website doesn’t yet have anything posted, but if you have even a passing interest in Mormon psychedelia, we highly recommend a visit anyway. [Fox News, osmond.com]
Nov
6
Artist Celebrates The Imagined Moments Of Their Celebrity Lives [Slip N Slides]
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Elevating the fun of celebrity lookalikes to the level of coffee-table art, photographer Alison Jackson poses the rent-a-doppelgängers in a wide variety of scandalous and humiliating poses in her book Confidential (examples include “Brad Pitt shaving Angelina Jolie’s legs; a jailed Paris Hilton paying another inmate to scrub her toilet bowl; and a masked Michael [...]