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Michaele Salahi Reveals She Has Multiple Sclerosis

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Real Housewives of D.C. White House crasher (and Movieline interview subject ) Michaele Salahi appeared on Fox & Friends this morning and announced she’s been battling multiple sclerosis for 17 years. Alongside her husband Tareq, Salahi explained why she only opened up about the illness now: “No one wants to be seen as sickly… And I didn’t want to be pitied.” I imagine this quote will fend off worldwide Salahi pity for, oh, ten minutes. [ Reality Tea ]

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Ryan Gosling Cops to ‘Phony’ Tough-Guy Accent

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Have you ever wondered why Ryan Gosling — a Canadian with extensive child actor and Mouseketeer experience — somehow talks in real life like he is a surly, New York teamster? “As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough,” he admits to W . “I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore. I’m going for the Madonna thing, the Lady Gaga thing — a phony accent that becomes your trademark.” [ W ]

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At TIFF: History Class is in Session with Robert Redford’s Conspirator (Just Don’t Fall Asleep)

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Behold the paradox of Robert Redford: Lauded as one of the most innovative, influential filmmaking advocates around, as a filmmaker he has acquired a reputation as a snooze and a scold. In turn, over the last decade especially, I have acquired a reciprocal Redford Reflex: When I heard that his as-yet-unacquired historical drama The Conspirator was screening at TIFF, I felt my eyelids droop ever so slightly, and my throat begin to dry. An independent project with a rich vein of history running through it could be double trouble or a revelation. Either way the Redford Reflex was in full effect; I knew my morning screening would require something large and violently caffeinated.

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Tim Gunn Outs Taylor Momsen As ‘Pathetic’ Diva

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Project Runway guru ( and friend to Movieline ) Tim Gunn is putting the “gossip” back in Gossip Girl . After filming a guest spot for the CW series recently, Gunn complained about 17-year-old Taylor Momsen, whom he shared a scene with. “What a diva!” he told E! News . “She was pathetic, she couldn’t remember her lines, and she didn’t even have that many. I thought to myself ‘why are we all being held hostage by this brat?” It gets better. As Momsen wasted precious crew time on her cell phone, Gunn rehearsed a hypothetical scolding. “I’d say, ‘You know young lady, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who are just as attractive and even smarter than you. Why are you acting like this show is a huge burden on you?'” [ E! ]

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Major Theater Chain Breaks ‘No Unrated Films’ Policy This October

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In an unprecedented move, AMC theaters have agreed to play the unrated version of Hatchet 2 this October, breaking with the chain’s long-running refusal to play NC-17 or unrated films. A week later the remake of I Spit on Your Grave will also go out unrated. Until now, major movie theater chains haven’t budged on this policy, which meant that studios for the most part refused to fund movies that might not get an R-rating. Could this move usher in a new era where American filmmakers aren’t afraid to make explicit movies for adults?

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Rent a Movie, Get a Tan

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I doubt many tears are being shed for the slow demise of Blockbuster’s overpriced rentals, late-fees, and huge selection of direct-to-video horror clunkers. But independent video stores are another story. Sure that snobby video clerk made fun of you for renting How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days , but that’s part of their charm! Plus that clerk was right. In any case, it looks like cinephiles can rest easy because local video stores have a new, sure-fire survival strategy: tanning beds.

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Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem Expecting

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Congratulations are in order for Spanish super-couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who are expecting their first child together. The pair’s rep confirmed this morning that the actress is four-and-a-half months along. The Oscar winners were married in July and should expect their ridiculously good-looking baby to arrive in early February. [ TVG uide ]

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A Single Man Home Up for Sale

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Good news for superfans of Tom Ford’s A Single Man : Architect John Lautner’s 1949 Schaeffer Residence — which was used in the film as Colin Firth’s home — is up for sale for the low, low price of $1,495,000. The two-bedroom, one-and-half bathroom home at the foot of the Verdugo Mountains in Glendale, CA, opens up to a surrounding oak forest. Perfectly tailored period costumes are unfortunately not included. [ Huffington Post ]

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TV Bites: Billy Crudup Will Be Too Big To Fail for HBO

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Also in this morning’s TV Bites: Comings and goings on Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova … ABC gets into the How I Met Your Mother business… many, many people watched the VMA s… and more ahead.

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Jean-Luc Godard, Piracy Defender

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Famed French filmmaker (and possible Academy Award Honoree ) Jean-Luc Godard is using some of the money he saved with his Hyundai purchase to fight the good fight against copyright laws. The filmmaker is donating 1,000 Euros to the defense of James Climent, who is accused of downloading 13,788 MP3 s illegally. In a statement about the donation Godard said, “There is no such thing as intellectual property.” Maybe Climent can just use the same defense Godard used when director Sam Fuller accused him of plagiarism: Downloading those 13,788 MP3 s wasn’t stealing, it was homage . [ Boing Boing via MCN ]

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