Author Archives:

Heidi Fleiss Believes Lindsay Lohan Could be an Exceptional Call Girl

Sure, Lindsay Lohan lost the lead role in that Linda Lovelace biopic long ago, but notorious Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss believes it’s not too late for the beleaguered LiLo to make an honest living out of paid sex: “She’s hot. She would have made a great hooker,” Fleiss said on HLN’ s Showbiz Tonight . “I could have made millions off her.” Additionally, Fleiss says that Lohan’s decision to pose for Playboy is “brilliant.” This is exactly the kind of encouragement Fleiss needed on Celebrity Rehab . [ ONTD ]

Read more:
Heidi Fleiss Believes Lindsay Lohan Could be an Exceptional Call Girl

Watch Amanda Seyfried Throw Punches and Track Down a Serial Killer Solo in Gone Trailer

“I’ll sleep when he’s dead!” Amanda Seyfried declares in the new trailer for Gone , referencing the serial killer who has kidnapped her onscreen sis. You see, Seyfried’s character Jill is frustrated because no one in her small town believes that the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has now kidnapped her sister. That’s because they didn’t believe Jill’s story to begin with (and they’re probably bored with Jill’s cliched dialogue). So now it’s just Jill vs. a ticking clock vs. an unsupportive police squad who tries to convince Jill that this serial killer drama is all in her head.

Read the original here:
Watch Amanda Seyfried Throw Punches and Track Down a Serial Killer Solo in Gone Trailer

Friday Fun Time: Make Your Own Banal Skyfall 007 Set!

It seems like only yesterday that the team behind the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall tweeted the first photo from the first shot of Day 1: A camera slate in front of bathroom sinks that nevertheless stirred the imagination of what was to come from Sam Mendes’s 007 blockbuster. Today, however, comes a new photo of a Skyfall slate on Day 10 — and can you believe it’s even less enthralling than the first? Which is fine, I guess, but you can do better.

Read more from the original source:
Friday Fun Time: Make Your Own Banal Skyfall 007 Set!

This Weekend in NYC: Join Movieline and Being Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash at the Apple Store

Kevin Clash. You know him . You love him. Or at least you love Elmo, the enduringly, endearingly winsome Muppet whom Clash brings to furry red life for a living — an association profiled in the award-winning new documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey . But it’s just a matter of getting to know Clash, which will be easier than ever for New Yorkers who drop by the Apple Store this weekend. (And that’s not even counting our special guest. Ahem!)

Go here to see the original:
This Weekend in NYC: Join Movieline and Being Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash at the Apple Store

Herzog, James Among the Snubs on Academy’s 2011 Oscar Documentary Short List

Another year, another ruthless paring down of the Oscar-caliber documentary feature crop, with the acclaimed likes of Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss , Steve James’s The Interrupters , Asif Kapadia’s Senna and others falling by the wayside as the Academy whittled its 125 submissions to 15 shortlist contenders.

View original post here:
Herzog, James Among the Snubs on Academy’s 2011 Oscar Documentary Short List

Notes from the Jason Reitman-Directed Live Script Read of The Apartment

Part of the wave of initiatives in Elvis Mitchell’s rebooted Film Independent at LACMA programming is a series of live script reads directed by Jason Reitman ( Up in the Air, Juno ), who kicked things off last month with a star-studded rendition of The Breakfast Club . Last night’s second script read of the 1960 multiple Oscar-winner The Apartment , with Natalie Portman and Steve Carell in the Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon roles, respectively, demonstrated how the marriage of cherished movie memories, live theater, and fresh talent is such an inspired idea to begin with.

View post:
Notes from the Jason Reitman-Directed Live Script Read of The Apartment

New W.E. Trailer: Double-Living in the Material World

Madonna reedited her new film W.E. after its mostly disastrous premiere at the Venice Film Festival a few months ago, and now it’s in new trailer, her watercolored royalty tale looks sleeker, sexier, and — phew — just as ridiculous. In terms of Madonna paramours, W.E. just made the admirable jump from Vanilla Ice to Dennis Rodman. Now there is something colorful and electric about its freakish antics.

Read more:
New W.E. Trailer: Double-Living in the Material World

Scarlett Johansson to Make Directorial Debut with Truman Capote Adaptation

Variety reports that Scarlett Johansson will soon join the ranks of actresses-turned-directors with Summer Crossing , Truman Capote’s first novella, about a 17-year-old Manhattan socialite who breaks away from her family and has an affair with a working class parking lot attendant in the summer of 1945. The Avengers star had discussed her directorial debut previously this fall, but with backers and The Deer Hunter producer Barry Spikings it seems the project is actually happening. Yes, but will it measure up to Jen Aniston and Demi Moore ‘s cancer dramas ? Gauntlet dropped, ScarJo. [ Variety ]

Follow this link:
Scarlett Johansson to Make Directorial Debut with Truman Capote Adaptation

VIDEO: Cloris Leachman’s Panties Just the Tip of Last Picture Show’s 40th Anniversary Reunion Iceberg

It wasn’t quite a complete reunion for Peter Bogdanovich and the cast of his 1971 breakthrough The Last Picture Show last night at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; there was no Jeff Bridges or Ellen Burstyn in sight, but plenty of the other main players including Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, Cloris Leachman (who gives a funny anecdote about an underwear-related scene), and Eileen Brennan joined Bogdanovich to recount stories from behind the scenes of the adapted Larry McMurtry novel. Yeah, it’d have been nice for The Dude to stop by, but you’ll find yourself transfixed by Brennan very soon anyway. Mrs. Peacock in the flesh, yo. Video (featuring moderator Luke Wilson) after the jump.

Read this article:
VIDEO: Cloris Leachman’s Panties Just the Tip of Last Picture Show’s 40th Anniversary Reunion Iceberg

9 Milestones in the Evolution of Robin Williams

In this weekend’s Happy Feet Two , Robin Williams voices Ramón, a South American penguin lothario, and Lovelace, a deep-voiced love guru. So how did a self-described quiet child from Chicago transform himself into one of Hollywood’s most energetic Academy Award winners and skilled impressionists, who pulls double duty in Warner Bros.’s latest animated feature?

Go here to read the rest:
9 Milestones in the Evolution of Robin Williams