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Lady Gaga and Bill Murray: Date Night in NYC?

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Drake Bell may think Lady Gaga is “repulsive,” but the singer still has some very high-profile fans. Lady Gaga and Bill Murray on David Letterman Bill Murray, for example, wasn’t a scheduled guest on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, but that didn’t stop the legendary comic from showing up, crossing a few items off his bucket list, and getting friendly with the Mother Monster. Okay, so Murray and Gaga’s time together may not have been a “date,” exactly, but the two enjoyed each other’s company on Letterman so much that while they were still filming, the 28-year-old singer asked the 63-year-old actor to escort her to her show at NYC’s Roseland Ballroom just across the street. No word yet on whether Gaga made good on her promise to “sing some songs” directly  to Murray and Letterman during her concert. As for Bill’s bucket list he managed to cross off both “meet Ms. Gaga” and “take a selfie” over the course of the night, so it’s safe to say he can chalk the evening up as the latest in a lifetime of epic wins. As for Gaga, we’re sure Gaga still likes being submissive to Taylor Kinney when she’s at home, but she certainly seemed to enjoy the adoring attention of a couple aging icons last night. Gaga is currently performing a series of show’s at New York’s famous Roseland Ballroom. They will be the final events held at the venue which is scheduled to close in April.  28 WTF? Lady Gaga Photos Open Slideshow 1. That’s Lady Gaga For You Seriously. That’s Lady Gaga summed up in one photo basically. View As List 1. That’s Lady Gaga For You Seriously. That’s Lady Gaga summed up in one photo basically. 2. Lady Gaga the Muppet You never know what Lady Gaga is going to bust out with next. This latest outfit makes that abundantly clear. 3. Lady Gaga Topless, Masked A topless, masked Lady Gaga. HELLO! We can’t wait for her new album. 4. Lady Gaga Dope Cover Lady Gaga has released the cover for her new single “Dope.” It’s pretty … yeah. 5. Lady Gaga: Eyebrow Bleach Photo Lady Gaga appears to have no eyebrows in this tweet. Think she’s getting desperate for attention? 6. Lady Gaga Meat Bikini Lady Gaga can pull off a meat bikini like the best of them. Or like only Lady Gaga could. 7. Lady Gaga Writhes Lady Gaga writhes around seductively. Nice. 8. Lady Gaga on TV Lady Gaga performs here for a holiday special. Seems about right, doesn’t it? 9. Lady Gaga on a Horse Lady Gaga arrived at the American Music Awards on a horse. Really, what else is there to say? 10. Pantsless Lady Gaga Pants are really overrated. We’re glad Lady Gaga has come to this conclusion. 11. Lady Gaga Nude for V Lady Gaga is VERY nude in this photo. It was snapped on behalf of V magazine. 12. Lady Gaga Meat Dress Lady Gaga’s meat dress is something else. She is not a piece of meat, though, so don’t even think about describing her as such. 13. Lady Gaga Bikini Photograph Lady Gaga in a bikini on stage. That makes for a nice photo. 14. Gaga in V Lady Gaga in V Magazine. Looking pretty hot, albeit a little bit fake tanned. Okay, a lot fake tanned. 15. Lady Gaga Cleavage Alert Holy cow, that can barely even be called Lady Gaga cleavage anymore. It’s practically Lady Gaga topless at this stage. 16. Lady Gaga Topless: VMA Backstage Pic Lady Gaga in a thong and that’s it, getting a rub down backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards. 17. Lady Gaga Bikini Photo VMA That is one hot bikini photograph of Lady Gaga. Ariel would be proud. 18. Lady Gaga ARTPOP Cover Lady Gaga has released the album cover for ARTPOP. Not shockingly, she does not hold back! 19. Lady Gaga Topless Photo in V Lady Gaga topless in V Magazine. What a dirty, dirty girl she is. 20. Lady Gaga’s Nipple Slip The most deliberate nipple slip ever, but a nipple slip nonetheless. Thank you Lady Gaga. 21. Lady Gaga Thong Lady Gaga has got BACK up in this piece. Day-om girl. You gotta bring dat thang. 22. Lady Gaga Candy Cover Lady Gaga on the cover of Candy. Which is real, apparently. And shows her vadge. 23. Lady Gaga Nose Ring Lady Gaga rocking a nose ring in July 2013. Sure is a new look for the singer. 24. Lady Gaga, Burka Lady Gaga rocking a burka, several dead raccoons (or so it appears) and a handbag that reads C–T. Lovely. 25. Lady Gaga Twerking One of the better celebrity Twerk GIFs you’ll ever see, from Lady Gaga herself. 26. Lady Gaga Naked Photo Yup, Lady Gaga is naked in this self-released photo. Totally naked. 100% naked. Stare away. 27. Lady Gaga Selfie A cute, old school Lady Gaga selfie. She doesn’t look like this anymore, some say. Did she get a nose job? 28. Lady Gaga Makeup Free Look at Lady Gaga with no makeup. It’s almost hard to believe that’s her.

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Forget ‘Ghostbusters 3,’ Bill Murray Needs To Get Serious About Being Funny Again

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I just finished reading Brett Martin’s profile of Bill Murray for the January issue of GQ , and while the story and Murray are highly entertaining, I’m tiring of reading profiles in which Murray simultaneously demonstrates how funny and how aimless he is.   Martin observes that Murray has become a kind of “wandering, perpetual performance artist, everywhere and nowhere, wherever the wind or spirit carries him: indie movies, golf tournaments, college frat parties,  your  karaoke booth  right now.”  I appreciate that Murray likes being the Johnny Appleseed of meta-comedy, but I think it’s time for him to stop spreading joy to a handful of people at a time and get back to making thousands of people in cineplexes across the country aspirate Diet Coke because they’re laughing so hard. Here’s the passage in the story that most makes me want to chuck my vintage Ghostbusters wallet in the East River.  It’s Murray talking about how he’s thinking about  writing and making a funny movie again:

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Ghostbusters 3 Is ‘Closer Than Ever’

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ghostbuster fans have waited for what seems like an eternity for a follow-up, but the spooky adventure comedy is on track for a third apparition 23 years after Ghostbusters II hit the big screen. Speaking with Esquire , Dan Aykroyd said that he and director Ivan Reitman are “closer than we ever have been” to getting the project underway, he noted via Yahoo U.K. One obstacle though is that Ghostbusters I & II star Bill Murray may be a no-show, though Aykroyd and Reitman are holding out that he may just come on board in the end. “I’m not sure Billy [has to sign on] anymore, since he abrogated his rights by sort of saying, two years ago, ‘I don’t want to be involved,'” Aykroyd said according to Yahoo Movies U.K. “The picture company I think had some clause in there that if he actually passed on the third of fourth offer, he no longer has a view of the franchise.” But a Ghostbusters III sans Murray will not be a mortal wound should the likely re-do go ahead. The creative team, he notes, will even leave a space should all work out in the end. “We have to move on, but we’ll always leave a hole for him. He’s always there. He can always come back at any time and be rebuilt into it, as far as I’m concerned. That’s up to his lawyer and the picture company to work out, but creatively, he will always be a part of it.” Continuing Aykroyd added: “If it does not happen, the life of Dan Aykroyd and his family and friends will be quite full without Ghostbusters 3 .” [Source: Yahoo U.K. ]

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Natalie Portman Loads Gun, Penn State Doc En Route: Biz Break

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Also in this afternoon’s edition of Biz Break: Woody Allen’s next adds another actor to its growing ensemble, Kathryn Bigelow picks up another cast member of her own for Zero Dark Thirty , and more… Penn State Doc Gets Green Light From A&E Indie Films Amir Bar-Lev and John Battsek, the director and producer who previously collaborated on The Tillman Story and My Kid Could Paint That , will re-team for the just-announced A&E Indie Films project Happy Valley . The documentary will look back at the trials and tribulations of the titular community during the child sexual abuse scandal that rocked its beloved Penn State football program. Production begins this month. Around the ‘net… Natalie Portman/Lynne Ramsay Western Stirs Buzz at Cannes A bidding war is underway for Jane Got a Gun , screenwriter Brian Duffield’s tale of a woman who turns to an ex-lover for protection when her outlaw husband returns home nearly dead from gunshots. Portman would play the lead with director Ramsay ( We Need to Talk About Kevin ) behind the camera. THR reports . Cannes Auteurs Take a Shine to Americana In related news, while studios may embrace the world downplaying American culture in order to win global box-office cash, auteurs outside the studio system are embracing the United States’ cultural flavor in such Cannes offerings as Lawless, Mud and Beasts of the Southern Wild . LAT’s 24 Frames reports . Mark Duplass Boards Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty The filmmaker ( Jeff, Who Lives at Home ) and actor ( Your Sister’s Sister ) will have a “key supporting role” in the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Deadline reports . Bobby Cannavale Added to Woody Allen Project He’ll star along with Cate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper and Alec Baldwin in the comedy, Deadline reports .

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Take the Bill Murray Tour of the Moonrise Kingdom Set

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

After debuting at Cannes , Wes Anderson ‘s latest offering Moonrise Kingdom hits limited release in New York and Los Angeles this week. You’ve seen the twee snippets previewing the tale of young puppy love in flight, circa 1965. You’ve pored over the visual charm assault that is its poster . Now let co-star Bill Murray be your guide — wearing patchwork madras pants, with a little bit o’ rum in his belly — through the New England set of Moonrise Kingdom . Among Murray’s observational insights: Anderson’s characters wear their pants flooded because that’s how the director dresses himself! It’s all clicking into place. “He likes everyone in the film to wear their pants really short to look just a little bit like the kind of person you’d like to mug.” Wes Anderson Chic, whittled down to its base elements. Moonrise Kingdom is really quite lovely and charming and sweet, but then I’m a sucker for Wes Anderson and angsty adolescents and little girls who listen to Francoise Hardy. The synopsis: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.

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Bill Murray and the Moonrise Kingdom Cannes Tween Dance Party

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ain’t no party like a Bill Murray dance party? Vulture had a front row seat at Cannes : “At the request of [ Moonrise Kingdom co-star Jared] Gilman, who just had his bar mitzvah and has a taste for dub-step, Bill Murray led the troop onto the dance floor, where the four kids and their accompanying man-child wiggled and jumped around with abandon. It was a scene of such next-level adorability that nearly everyone in the immediate vicinity pulled out a camera phone. ‘We’re just chilling! We’re just chilling!’ Murray shouted out as he put the kibosh on each video in turn. Then he’d go back to more happy wriggling to songs like ‘I’m So Excited.'” [ Vulture ]

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Great Moments in Baseball: The Ring’s Sadako Throws First Pitch at Japanese Game

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

This is officially the most brilliant ceremonial first pitch gimmick ever staged, just narrowly beating out that time Bill Murray ran the bases and slid into home at Wrigley Field: Yesterday at Japan’s Tokyo Dome, Ringu/The Ring villainess Sadako (who’s coming back for more in Sadako 3D , in Japanese cinemas this May) trudged to the mound to throw the first pitch before the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters battled the Chiba Lotte Marines. Somehow she managed to see through her signature wall of scary horror hair to toss a decent looper before the ghostly spirit took over and…well, just watch for yourself. Yep. Just about the best thing ever. (Sadako entrance at 1:30.) But wait — does this mean everyone who throws the first pitch after her is cursed? [ Movie Collection via TwitchFilm ]

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Memo to Hollywood: Don’t Mess With Louis Vuitton

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I hesitate to even pass along word of the luxury fashion purveyor’s ongoing litigiousness lest this site land in its hungry crosshairs, but: Have you heard about the lengths to which Louis Vuitton is going to keep its brand safe from the grubby likes of The Hangover Part II ? Or how another, recently resolved court victory has possibly shored up its case against the film’s studio Warner Bros.? Memo to Hollywood: Either get your clearances up front or do not even think of messing with these guys. This has been going on for a while , but THR Esq. now offers up the bone-chilling latest: On March 22, a judge granted a summary judgment victory to Louis Vuitton over a Super Bowl TV commercial produced by Hyundai that featured for approximately one second a basketball that bore resemblance to a flower-like symbol on chestnut-brown background design that was trademarked by Louis Vuitton. The French brand says that the judge’s decision two weeks ago shows why it should be able to go forward with its claims against Warner Bros. for infringing and diluting its trademark by showing for one brief moment in [ The Hangover Part II ] Zach Galifianakis telling someone who pushes his bag, “Be careful, that is … that is a Lewis Vuitton.” In mid-March, Warner Bros. responded to the lawsuit by telling a New York judge that it had a First Amendment right to feature trademarks and incorporate real-life references to brands without getting the consent of owners. The studio added there wasn’t any confusion, and if there was, it was de minimis and/or the responsibility of the company that had actually produced the knock-off handbag. Meanwhile, the designer isn’t backing down, arguing in a court filing (with its victory versus Hyundai in mind) that “Louis Vuitton’s ‘aggressive’ enforcement of its trademark rights and prompt action against those who misuse its trademarks are necessary concomitants of its exclusive rights in the brand.” Fine, but to what end? Is “the brand” — and apparently its business — so fragile that millions of dollars in legal expenses are themselves necessary concomitants of relevancy in 2012? Or is this just the more socially permissible way of shoring up the market share that all those knock-off merchants in Lower Manhattan have eroded in recent years? Either way, to all you screenwriters and studio legal departments alike: Maybe stick to Samsonite? [ THR Esq .] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Posted on April 10, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I hesitate to even pass along word of the luxury fashion purveyor’s ongoing litigiousness lest this site land in its hungry crosshairs, but: Have you heard about the lengths to which Louis Vuitton is going to keep its brand safe from the grubby likes of The Hangover Part II ? Or how another, recently resolved court victory has possibly shored up its case against the film’s studio Warner Bros.? Memo to Hollywood: Either get your clearances up front or do not even think of messing with these guys. This has been going on for a while , but THR Esq. now offers up the bone-chilling latest: On March 22, a judge granted a summary judgment victory to Louis Vuitton over a Super Bowl TV commercial produced by Hyundai that featured for approximately one second a basketball that bore resemblance to a flower-like symbol on chestnut-brown background design that was trademarked by Louis Vuitton. The French brand says that the judge’s decision two weeks ago shows why it should be able to go forward with its claims against Warner Bros. for infringing and diluting its trademark by showing for one brief moment in [ The Hangover Part II ] Zach Galifianakis telling someone who pushes his bag, “Be careful, that is … that is a Lewis Vuitton.” In mid-March, Warner Bros. responded to the lawsuit by telling a New York judge that it had a First Amendment right to feature trademarks and incorporate real-life references to brands without getting the consent of owners. The studio added there wasn’t any confusion, and if there was, it was de minimis and/or the responsibility of the company that had actually produced the knock-off handbag. Meanwhile, the designer isn’t backing down, arguing in a court filing (with its victory versus Hyundai in mind) that “Louis Vuitton’s ‘aggressive’ enforcement of its trademark rights and prompt action against those who misuse its trademarks are necessary concomitants of its exclusive rights in the brand.” Fine, but to what end? Is “the brand” — and apparently its business — so fragile that millions of dollars in legal expenses are themselves necessary concomitants of relevancy in 2012? Or is this just the more socially permissible way of shoring up the market share that all those knock-off merchants in Lower Manhattan have eroded in recent years? Either way, to all you screenwriters and studio legal departments alike: Maybe stick to Samsonite? [ THR Esq .] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Moonrise Kingdom Cast Gathers For Frowny ‘Vintage Team Photo’

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

You’ve seen the trailer . You’ve parsed the poster . Now study in the stern countenances awaiting you in Moonrise Kingdom , Wes Anderson’s Cannes-opening reverie for which a new “vintage team photo” is making the rounds. To my knowledge, this is the first and probably only time we’ll get Anderson’s ensemble — including Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and the young campers of New Penzance Island — in one place before the film hits theaters next month. Except for Tilda Swinton, I guess; “Social Services” just gets a picture frame. And Snoopy R.I.P.? Nooo! Whatever. It’s better Photoshop than this . [Click for bigger; via Focus Features] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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