Amy Poehler has done her best to diffuse any potential feud between herself and Taylor Swift . With that singer telling Vanity Fair in its latest issue that Poehler and Tina Fey are bound for Hell after they mocked her love life at the Golden Globe Awards, the actress has responded in a chat with The Hollywood Reporter. “Aw, I feel bad if she was upset. I am a feminist and she is a young and talented girl,” Poehler said . “That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.” Point, Amy Poehler. What do you think of Taylor’s comments? Does she have a legitimate beef with Poehler and Fey? Yes, how dare they?!? No, she should learn to take a joke View Poll »
It’s safe to say that Lauren Silberman will not become the first female to play in the NFL. The former collegiate soccer player tried out over the weekend at a regional combine in New Jersey… and only managed to get two punts into the air – one traveling 19 years, the other 13 yards – before pulling up lame with a quad injury “I tried staying off [my injured leg] and waited for today,” said Silberman afterward. “I didn’t even take kicks in warm-ups. It’s pretty hard to know that you’ll be in pain and I wanted to work through it and I certainly tried to, but I just couldn’t do it today.” Rules prohibiting women from playing professional football were lifted in December 2011, with commissioner Roger Goodell making a rather strong argument in favor of the fairer sex having a shot: “Times are changing. The military is about to allow women into combat. If women are going to be fighting on the battlefield, how can we stop them from participating in football? It’s not fair.” True. But with Silberman making Tim Tebow look like a viable NFL player, it may be awhile until another woman gets a shot.
Emma Stone is not one to Tweet or talk about her personal life very often. So it’s hard to blame the Internet for getting worked up upon viewing a mysterious message from the actress over the weekend, as she wrote the following yesterday afternoon: nawder and islasehnce tsinggi ni a erte. The Tweet has since been deleted, but Perez Hilton was somehow able to decipher it as an anagram that spelled out: “Andrew and Shailene sitting in a tree.” Andrew Garfield is Stone’s boyfriend. Shailene Woodley is his costar in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 . Hmmm…. Stone and Garfield were spotted in New York City over the weekend, looking as cozy as ever. So there may very well be nothing to this rumor. But we’ll keep readers apprised if anything changes.
Lindsay Lohan’s attorney will be back in court Friday for a hearing in the actress’ latest criminal case, as discussions continue about a possible plea deal. The 26-year-old isn’t required to attend. She’s too busy partying . Just kidding. Although that may not actually be far off at all. The hearing is intended to deal with any issues before a March 18 trial on charges that LiLo lied to police about a car crash and was driving recklessly. Attorney Mark Heller has tried to bargain on his client’s behalf, but Lindsay rejected a plea deal that would have required she go to rehab for 30 or 60 days. Her reason for turning that down? She says she doesn’t have a problem, obviously – why seek help when you’re totally fine and everything’s great?! Clearly, Lohan and Heller are not in sync here. Heller alleges that cops didn’t read her her rights, which is BS, and wants to delay the case so Lohan can seek psychotherapy and set up her foundation. Lohan was on probation at the time of the accident and she faces additional jail time if a judge determines she violated her sentence in a 2011 theft case. Basically, barring another legal Hail Mary or willingness to go to rehab, she could be back behind bars. At least for 88 minutes or so like the last time. Would that even do Lindsay good, though? Maybe rehab would take this time, but she hasn’t shown much (any) effort to change her ways in the past, and clearly her “jail” visits don’t do much. She’s out of control and never takes responsibility for anything. Even ardent LiLo defenders can’t deny that. The only question is how to best help her. If someone doesn’t throw the book at her one of these years, will the pattern ever change? If the spiral continues, Lindsay – or others – could get hurt. Is legit jail time the only answer? Vote: Yes, that train wreck brat will never learn otherwise! No, quit trying to make an example out of her, haters! View Poll »
Guess now we know the real reason Katniss was so hungry. Jennifer Lawrence, smoking pot? We weren’t there, so we can’t say for sure, but one can assume that’s what she’s doing based on this photo. Check it out! Earlier, we posted a gallery of Jennifer Lawrence no makeup shots, showing the Best Actress Oscar winner kicking back with a friend and some wine. And apparently some herb! After the telecast, Lawrence dyed her hair brown and flew to Hawaii to resume production on Catching Fire , the much-anticipated Hunger Games sequel. The star said Sunday that she would have downtime in the Aloha State, however, and these photos taken on her hotel balcony certainly attest to that. J-Law can be seen drinking red wine, hugging a friend, talking on the phone, laughing, and passing a rolled-up cigarette that is most likely a joint. Not that we care, we’re just looking at the picture. Hey, it’s Hawaii and she just went through two months of award shows, interviews and epic falls . Girl’s gotta kick back sometime, right?
This girl is either crazy like a fox or just full-on crazy at this point. Lindsay Lohan has rejected a plea deal that would have kept her out of jail in her lying-to-cops case, opting to take her chances at trial. Why, you ask? Because she’s totes innocent and doesn’t have a problem, OBVI! Her lawyer, Mark Heller, has been trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat this week, and was close to a deal with Santa Monica and L.A. City prosecutors. They insisted that the actress accept a significant amount of time in a residential rehab facility – and NO JAIL TIME – but Heller still wasn’t having it. Prosecutors even bent a little and offered somewhere around 30 days rather than the 60 they initially wanted her to be in rehab, still Heller didn’t accept. The deal fell through, however TMZ sources say ” negotiations are ongoing .” As expected, Lohan and Heller are reportedly not on the same place here. He’s willing to accept a deal that involves counseling and rehab, even BS’ing that she would undergo extensive psychotherapy and set up a youth foundation. To Lindsay, though, this is all just “punishment for something I didn’t do.” Always in denial, never taking responsibility. Not that we’re surprised, but Heller said earlier this week that she had finally seen the error of her ways. Guess that’s what happens when you try to speak for Lindsay Lohan . In the end, prosecutors aren’t worried if they can’t strike a plea bargain, because they like their chances if it comes down to trial, beginning March 18. Lohan is charged with lying to police regarding her June car crash, and for violating her probation as a result. Both aspects could land her in a jail cell. Take the plea deal and go to rehab, girl. For your own legal sake as well as your life expectancy and that of anyone who happens to live near you.
I come to praise Lindsay Lohan , not to bury her. Yes, you read that right. Just a few months ago, I had declared the 26-year-old actress a lost cause who had swapped a promising career for a rap sheet. And then Paul Schrader let me see The Canyons . ‘The Canyons’: A Porn Star & A Miniscule Budget Before I focus on Lohan, let me say this about the film: Despite the drawbacks of working with a miniscule, crowd-sourced $250,000 budget, and a cast that included porn star, James Deen , as its leading man, Schrader has made a taut, visually gripping movie that says some really smart things about the movie business and the Los Angelenos in their 20s who populate it today. It’s an unsentimental West-Coast Girls , done as tragedy instead of comedy. Lindsay Lohan In ‘The Canyons’: A Career-Saving Role? Anchoring the movie is a performance by Lohan that should mark the beginning of the 26-year-old actress’s path to professional redemption. Lohan plays Tara, a former struggling model/actress who’s made a Faustian bargain for a more comfortable life, and under Schrader’s shrewd direction, she gives an acrid, wounded performance that is going to change the minds of quite a few people who have written her off. “A lot of people are going to be asking, ‘What happened to the girl from Parent Trap ‘?” Schrader told me. “It’s really tough with young performers. By the time they’re 16 or 17, they have been taught that they are perfect and that everything in the world belongs to them. And then about three years later, somebody comes to them and says, ‘Okay, you have to start over again. And nothing you earned before is going to help you.’” Lohan has endured a lot of misery — much of it self-inflicted — since the giddy heights of her America’s Sweetheart days in Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, and, like Tara, she’s made some regrettable compromises, too, but her performance in The Canyons shows that she is really good at using the drama from her life to inform the character she’s playing onscreen. Her performance in The Canyons is more than a reminder that she’s got real talent: it’s an announcement that she’s ready to play complicated women instead of older ingénues. Paul Schrader Compares Lohan To Ann-Margret “This is her Ann-Margret Moment,” Schrader told me, referring to the 1960s bombshell who graduated from fizzy romantic comedies and musicals by portraying a woman in an abusive relationship in Carnal Knowledge (and earned an Oscar nomination in the process.) “When we were working, I kept noticing that Lindz was this blowsy, tough girl who, at times looked like Gena Rowlands, who, at times, looked like Ann-Margret and at times looked like Angie Dickinson.” That’s quite a compliment from the writer of Taxi Driver , The Last Temptation of Christ and the director of Auto Focus and Affliction (which he also adapted from Russell Banks’ novel) — especially since Schrader was reluctant to cast Lohan in the first place and then, as a lengthy piece in The New York Times Sunday Magazine r eported, the actress behaved like a diva on the set. But Schrader’s praise is leavened with some tough love: After noting that Lohan has got the the chops and a “mesmerizing” quality that can’t be taught in acting school, he adds: “Unfortunately, you also have to have self-discipline. And so, if she can organize her life better, I don’t see why she can’t have a career. A lot of people want to hire her. It’s just that she’s not helping them do that.” Is A Career Comeback Out Of The Question For Lindsay? In other words, it doesn’t matter who’s rooting for Lohan to make a comeback. It ain’t happening unless she gets her act together. And her track record is not exactly encouraging. As Schrader knows too well, there’s also a very loud and distracting contingent of blogosphere voices that envision only failure for Lohan. Their caustic response to Times story, which was snarkily titled Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan In Your Movie , almost dashed his attempts to secure a distributor for the picture. Schrader says the cruelty of the comments leveled at Lohan and his movie surprised him. “I think that largely because of the Internet, it is now possible to publicly say things that used to be said in bars and locker rooms. We’re seeing a manifestation of vindictiveness and a viciousnessa cruelty — that’s also become evident in our political rhetoric, by the way — that was not acceptable at an earlier time.” The filmmaker says he feels “vindicated and legal” now that IFC Films has acquired rights to the picture and will release it theatrically and via VOD in the summer. Lohan could end up feeling vindicated, too. Nothing speaks louder than asses in seats, and if The Canyons finds an audience — and Lohan’s new lawyer Mark Heller keeps Lohan from going back to jail — Schrader will have given the actress her last best hope of resuming an acting career worthy of her talents. The rest is up to Lohan. And I’d like to offer this quote from the America’s original Sweetheart, the late Mary Pickford, for inspiration: “What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” [ TMZ , The New York Times ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter . More On Lindsay Lohan & ‘The Canyons’: Lindsay Lohan In ‘The Canyons’ — The Preview Looks Pretty Terrible Lindsay Lohan: ‘The Canyons’ NY Times Piece On Making Of Paul Schrader’s Film Lindsay Lohan In ‘The Canyons’ Teaser Trailer — LiLo & James Dean Get Retro
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Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress at the Oscars Sunday, and arguably won Best Dressed as well thanks to this strapless Dior Haute Couture gown. The Silver Linings Playbook star stunned on the red carpet: The 22-year-old star looked amazing in a white strapless Dior Haute Couture dress, with Chopard jewels, a Roger Vivier clutch, and Brian Atwood shoes. Her hard work getting ready paid off, but she paid a price. “Today was stressful. I had no time to eat. I’m starving,” she said, then got visibly excited as Ryan Seacrest said he thought there was food on the premises. She’s the best. We could watch Jennifer Lawrence fall on those stairs 1,000 times, because she just falls further into our hearts with each passing day. The actress, who also made headlines by flashing the middle finger in the press room for unknown reasons, later changed outfits for the Vanity Fair party. Jennifer swapped her pale pink red carpet dress for a slinkier silver plunging Calvin Klein number at Sunset Tower in L.A. Check out more pics of both! Between this and Jessica Chastain’s Oscars dress , we saw two strong candidates for Best Actress and Best Dressed. Well done all around, ladies!
