Step-daddy knows best… Mom-ager, Kris Jenner might be thrilled over her daughter’s relationship with Yeezy, but as the world marvels at the new power couple lknown as Kim-Ye, there’s one person who is far from happy with the Hollywood union… Kim’s stepdad: At a speaking engagement in Boston on Wednesday, Bruce Jenner told the crowd: “I’m not that excited, but we’ll see.” “Kimberly and I have had a conversation about them and their potential relationship,” said the former Olympian, who is thought to be most worried about the soon-to-be twice divorced Kim jumping into a relationship so quickly. Bruce’s cold reaction to the new romance is a sharp contrast to that of his wife, as RadarOnline.com previously reported, publicity-hungry Kris Jenner is thrilled about having the Grammy winner as a potential son-in-law. “She loves that they’re together and thinks Kanye is a huge step up for Kim after her marriage to Kris Humphries,” a source told RadarOnline.com. “Dating Kanye puts Kim in a whole new stratosphere. Kris was just a basketball player making a few million dollars a year, but Kanye is a world-wide multi-millionaire superstar.” Meanwhile, Kim’s little sister Khloe agrees with Bruce, and is concerned about Kim jumping back in too soon. “Khloe just wishes that Kim wouldn’t get involved with anyone for at least a year,” revealed an insider close to the family. “Kim isn’t even divorced yet and Khloe is extremely worried that Kris (Humphries) is going to try and attempt to use her new relationship as ammunition to score a bigger settlement.” Bruce has had to watch his infamous step-daughter go through a lot of heartbreak when it comes to men, do you think he’s right to air his opinions or should he just let his attention slorin’ seed do her thing? Source More On Bossip! Sorry Ye’: 10 Reasons Kim Kardashian Isn’t Even In Beyonce’s League You Can’t Be Serious: Kenya Bell Is Still Talkin’ Yang “I Didn’t Want To Hurt Evelyn On National Television” Freak Out! NFL Baller Jabar Gaffney Goes In On Ex-Wife, Rival Player He Wants To Beat Up And Taking YOUR Chick! What A Banger Looks Like?: Meet Cuban Triple Jumper “Yargelis Savigne” [Video]
I’ve just recently fallen in internet love with this Xenia Deli chick, her name still sounds like something you’d have your dermatologist lance, but she certainly knows how to get my attention. Here she is modeling some hot assed Fredrick’s Of Hollywood underwear and lingerie and all that good stuff. That’s pretty much all I’ve got, hot girls are kind of distracting to me and this one is…. What was I talking about?
Mattel has unveiled the first look at their Hunger Games -themed Katniss Everdeen Barbie doll ($29.95), available for pre-order today and on shelves in August, and the result is… kinda close to what I envisioned when I read Suzanne Collins’ novels. Not that District 12’s underfed hunter gal ever hewed that close to Barbie’s usual unattainably bosomy dimensions in most readers’ minds, but something in Katniss-Barbie’s face is appropriately feline, with just the merest hint of the full-lipped pout that Jennifer Lawrence brought to the screen. Still, I had to laugh at creator Bill Greening’s explanation (via EW) for how Katniss-Barbie, clad in her Games survival gear, was designed: “Hopefully Hunger Games fans can appreciate the attention to detail. The doll’s minimalistic style and details — such as her loosely braided hair and makeup-free look — also really embody the heroic character Katniss.” Adding eyeshadow, mascara and eyeliner to Katniss’s pre-bloodbath look isn’t exactly what I’d call “make-up free,” but at least Greening kept from sexifying Katniss up when it came to her outfit. Pure Eddie Bauer chic, modeled on her getup from the movie. (I’m sure Katniss’s flamboyant Capitol dresses are also en route to shelves for maximum styling options.) What’s more satisfying at first glance is seeing that Katniss-Barbie looks more like the Katniss I’d imagined when reading the books. Lawrence does stellar work in the role and is arguably one the best actresses of her generation who might’ve been up for it, but I’d always had a more ethnic-looking Katniss in mind. And while Mattel’s design is just ethnically-ambiguous enough, I’d say it runs closer to Katniss’s description on paper than the one captured onscreen in the film adaptation. Thoughts? [ EW , Barbie Collector ]
You’s a lying cheating son of a… Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino crashed his motorcycle on Sunday, and although he survived the near fatal accident; recent allegations about the his trifilin’ azz ways may have him wishing otherwise. According to the police report, which was published by the Arkansas Times, Petrino was not alone on his bike as he and the university had described. Arkansas released this statement after the accident: Coach Petrino was involved in a motorcycle accident on Sunday evening that involved no other individuals. He is in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery. Our family appreciates respect for our privacy during the recovery and we are grateful for the thoughts of Razorback fans at this time. Not so fast there… According to the police report, 25-year-old Jessica Dorrell was on the back of Petrino’s motorcycle at the time of the crash. As if this development wasn’t curious enough, Dorrell, a former volleyball player, just started her job working as the student-athlete coordinator for the Arkansas football team a week ago. After being exposed for the low-down dirty lyin’ Razorback, Petrino released this statement after being put on paid suspension: “The state police report today provides an accurate description of my accident, which includes details that had not publically come to light prior to the report being issued. I regret that I have not publically acknowledged a passenger on the vehicle. I have been in constant pain, medicated and the circumstances involving the wreck have come out in bits and pieces. That said I certainly had a concern about Jessica Dorrell’s name being revealed. In my press conference, I referred to her simply as ‘a lady’. My concern was to protect my family and a previous inappropriate relationship from becoming public. In hindsight, I showed a serious mistake in judgment when I chose not to be more specific about those details. Today, I’ve acknowledged this previous inappropriate relationship with my family and those within the athletic department administration. I apologize to my wife, Becky, and our four children, Chancellor (David) Gearhart, Jeff Long, the Board of Trustees, University administration, my coaching staff, student-athletes and the entire state of Arkansas. I have been humbled by the outpouring of concern and get-well wishes. I apologize to the Razorback Nation for the attention my actions have brought to the University of Arkansas and our program. I will fully cooperate with the University throughout this process and my hope is to repair my relationships with my family, my Athletic Director, the Razorback Nation and remain the head coach of the Razorbacks.” Poor Becky! This piece of isht was busy getting his joystick played with by some twenty-something skanky swallywag on Sunday and has the nerve to call it a “previous relationship”?? You were just chopping down her athletically gifted cakes a couple days ago! Sorry, Arkansas fans your boy not only did his family dirty but the entire team. Source More On Bossip! Beyonce Releases NEVER SEEN VIDEO EVIDENCE OF PREGNANCY And “4-Year Anniversary To Jay-Z” Never Seen Pictures (20-Pics) [Video] Thickly Thick Goodness: Women That Looked Better When They Had The Extra Weight You Mad?? Bossip Confirms That Reggie Bush Has Been Thirsting For Kimmy’s Cakes For 6 Months, Bitter That She Chose Kanye Over Him! [+ Pics Of Kim And Kanye Today!] All Hail Sisqó! Celebrities Caught Out And About Rocking Thong Th-Thong Thong Thongs!
Neither the ladies nor the guys have emerged from the What to Expect When You’re Expecting marketing miasma unscathed, but at least now we can get all of our ensemble humiliation out of the way in one convenient new one-sheet. Amazing. The thing is: If we can convincingly fix James Bond up with a bottle of Heineken , then why can’t a major Hollywood studio convincingly Photoshop five stars in the same room? I just don’t get it . And the tagline? “It’s too late to pull out now”? Ugh . The mind reels, the skin crawls. [via Moviefone ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Besides William Forsythe , that is: “Director Martin Guigui is currently scouting for: YOUNG JAKE LAMOTTA . To play 14-20 years old, and already a tough bare knuckles fighter. He takes his father’s frequent beatings without a sound and makes money fighting much bigger opponents in back alley fights set up by his drunken, abusive father. Please submit over 18 to play younger OR emancipated. GUISSEPE [ sic ] LAMOTTA . Portrays 40s-70s, Jake’s father, a tough-looking Italian man, he’s a mean drunk who handcuffs and beats his son. He sets up the back alley fights with Jake and much older, stronger opponents. Later he refuses to help the grown-up Jake when he asks for money. Late in life, a frail old man, he reconciles with Jake just before his death. STAR NAME ONLY.” Good luck, Mickey Rourke! [ Moviehole via The Playlist ]
Man vs. beast, man vs. man, man vs. corporation, man vs. himself — The Hunter takes all these pretty ladies out for a spin, but can’t seem to decide which one to bring home. The set-up is so swift it could easily pass you by: Martin (Willem Dafoe) is contracted by a shady outfit to bag a Tasmanian tiger, presumed extinct, in the Australian wilderness. Rumor has it there’s one left out there, and what better reason to fully extinguish a species than in the name of pharmaceutical patent? Martin appears to have no particular feeling about this assignment; as long as his toiletries are properly lined up and he’s left alone, he doesn’t appear to have a particular feeling about much of anything. Martin’s inscrutability is both a key element of all the above-listed plotlines and the reason no one of them is fully realized. Billeted in a remote Tasmanian home with two young children who have a missing father and a grieving mother (Frances O’Connor) who dopes herself through the days, Dafoe’s character is prepped for a transfusion of warmer, more human blood early on. Sass (Morgana Davies) is the big sister with the foul mouth and matter of fact attitude, Bike (Finn Woodlock) is the mystical mute little brother who draws pictures of Tasmanian tigers (a striking mix of jungle cat and mountain wolf) and seems to know more about his father’s whereabouts than he lets on. Both are utterly irresistible, and with their mother MIA they launch a full charm offensive, even jumping in the tub with Martin after he finally gets a broken generator — and some hot water — flowing again. Scene by scene The Hunter , adapted from a novel by Julia Leigh, holds your attention like a pair of big, inquisitive eyes, or perhaps the point-blank scope of an automatic rifle. Director Daniel Nettheim finds a smooth, confident rhythm that almost carries the underdeveloped story (by Alice Addison and Wain Fimeri) across the finish line. In his new home Martin is assimilated into the children’s sprawl whether he likes it or not, and eventually he is moved to help their mother get back on her feet. In town he is inducted into the local dispute between the loggers and the “greenies,” a group of activists attempting to stop the exploitation of the land. Sam Neill plays a fixer of sorts, one with eyes for O’Connor’s fragile widow and a dubious connection to the company desperate for the Tasmanian tiger’s trophy glands. Strange things happen during Martin’s first trips into the wild: a shot is fired, a camera is rigged to monitor one of his traps, and a laser sight hovers near his head. The hunter is being hunted, but by whom? Martin’s moral awakening would seem to be the center of the story — “man” being the only constant in all of the available themes — where human attachments interfere with the mercenary thrust of science, progress, or just mechanical job-completion. And to an extent it is: He develops a protective interest in his host family, even searching for signs of their missing father, with whom he has more in common than it first appeared. But the self-reflective side of that process — specifically the point of Martin’s mission and his feeling about it — only gets cloudier the closer he gets to his target. And it’s not the good kind of fog, which is on ample display in the mood-enhancing veils of mist captured by cinematographer Robert Humphreys, among countless other gorgeously textured shots of the teeming Tasmanian landscape. The paradox of Martin’s character feels accidental, or at least unresolved: The more we evidence we get of a beating heart on the homefront, the more mysterious that heart seems out in the wilderness. Because the film alternates between Martin’s expeditions and furloughs, the contrast becomes starker as the film goes on, and it’s hard not to lose interest in a hunt whose stakes seem unclear to the hunter. The conflict that develops around the terms of his assignment is less convincing than it could have been, making for a rushed and unsatisfying, pseudo-nihilist climax. Still, Dafoe and Woodlock in particular have a few moments that transcend the plot holes surrounding them; in a movie with this much going for it there’s no shame in letting them take direct aim at your heart. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope plants a sloppy, moist kiss on the sweaty brow of geek culture’s premiere event. Where it stops short from also getting on its knees and offering a different sort of sloppy, moist service to the four-day San Diego affair is in the sight of one of the film’s subjects weeping in the audience of a panel entitled “Breaking into Comics the Marvel Way.” Comic-Con Episode IV is indulgent to a fault about everything that happens on the convention floor, but Spurlock makes the smart decision to shape the film primarily around subjects who have an economic stake in the goings-on. The doc makes sure to peek into the many different corners of the con, from the studio previews in massive Hall H to the cosplayers’ Masquerade to the toy collector sales to the portfolio reviews of would-be artists to the comic book dealers fretting over their fading profile, but the tangible goals being pursued by the main characters add a needed sense of urgency. Comic-Con may be heaven on Earth for fanboys and fangirls (“I want to die and go to Comic-Con,” insists one man), but that doesn’t mean everyone’s going to be able to make a living there. The concept of fandom gets a tough workout in Comic-Con Episode IV , which breaks up its exploration of the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con with interviews against a white backdrop with attendees both famous and not. Some of those interviewees were also involved in the making of the movie — the always charming Joss Whedon co-wrote the film, and also produced it alongside Stan Lee and Ain’t It Cool News’s Harry Knowles, ensuring its geek bona fides. While the love of all things convention-related gets directly addressed, with Seth Rogen confessing to toy collecting and Eli Roth addressing how it’s become acceptable to continue to treasure your favorite childhood franchises into adulthood, the time the film spends with subjects who are there solely as fans — James Darling, who intends to propose to his girlfriend Se Young Hang during the Q&A at the Kevin Smith panel — is actually its most grating. The codependent couple spend their entire days in Hall H, as the guy tries unsuccessfully to get a few minutes to himself to surreptitiously go pick up the ring he had made by a jeweler who’s also in attendance. (The proposal, when it does happen, is admittedly sweet.) It’s through Chuck Rozanski, the owner of Mile High Comics, that Comic-Con Episode IV gets at one of the major changes to the event, which is that its shifted away from its comic book foundations to a become a major marketing tent-pole for blockbusters and video games. Chuck’s been coming for 38 years (the comic book panel-inspired interstitial graphics designate him “The Survivor”) and has watched the crowds slowly drift away from his booth. This year, he’s brought along his prized copy of “Red Raven #1,” an incredibly rare comic that he hopes (and may need) to sell for $500,000. (“There’s three billion women on the planet and not a lot of good comics,” he explains to his protege about how romance should never come between a man and his collection.) The quiet distress with which Chuck acknowledges his initial low sales is palpable — there are downsides to having your business and your passion been one and the same. The same goes for Skip Harvey and Eric Henson, who tote portfolios of their art to different publishers hoping to be contracted for work — the two have very different expectations of what will happen, and one is pleasantly surprised while the other is heartbroken. Spurlock knows his way around a pop doc, and Comic-Con Episode IV moves limberly between subjects and areas of the convention and its history, an entertaining watch even as it feels a little unnecessary in documenting one of the year’s most photographed, liveblogged, tweeted about and videotaped cultural gatherings. It’s the urge to create that ends up proving more interesting than the one to collect or to observe — seen not just in Skip and Eric’s stories, but in the work of Holly Conrad, who with her friends has designed insanely intricate costumes based on Mass Effect 2 , hoping that the attention they’ll get will lead to paid work. They’ve constructed in their basement an animatronic head for the person dressed as the alien Urdnot Wrex that could be professional quality, and the crowd is adoringly appreciative of their efforts. It’s not until the credits are rolling that Comic-Con Episode IV touches on any real negatives of the convention, and even that’s done in the most genial way (“It’s real, the stink is real!”). While the film deserves credit for not taking the fond freak-show route of many docs about subcultures — though can Comic-Con really be seen as such anymore? — it’s really a slow softball pitch. There’s little delving into the rise of the Twilight fandom and none into the hostility they’ve faced, or into the other competitive and regressive aspects that are part of the dark side of geek culture. No, Comic-Con Episode IV is a valentine to an event and a group of people so in ascension they don’t really need it, but it’s still a pleasant thing to watch. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . 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Woman Lies About Winning Mega Millions A lie’s a lie no matter who tells it. The wacky Baltimore woman who claims to have one of three winning Mega Millions tickets now says it’s hidden somewhere in the McDonald’s restaurant where she works. Marlinde Wilson, 37, coyly wouldn’t reveal whether she HAD stashed the slip of paper behind the McFlurry machine or under the all-beef patties. And she’s apparently not worried about the Hamburglar — or any of the employees who say she’s trying to stiff them out of a pool jackpot — making off with her one-third share of the record $656 million multistate payout. “I’m waiting for things to calm down so I can go back to McDonald’s and get it. The people [at McDonald’s] are too excited. I want their heads to cool down before I go back,” she said. “That’s impossible. She didn’t come back here” after she purchased the ticket, Layla said. Another employee suspects Wilson stole a page from arch-rival Burger King and cooked up a whopper. “I don’t believe her. I didn’t believe her from the beginning, she’s always been strange,” the woman said. “She’s an attention seeker. She likes to have all the attention on herself.” All of this sounds Filet O’ Fishy, don’t you think? This woman is probably telling a $300 million lie and she’ll get caught and embarrassed in no time. Sit her down somewhere. Source More On Bossip! Itty Bitty Waists: These Ladies’ Cakes Look Even Bigger Because Their Waists Are So Tiny/span> Must Be The Money: The Most Regretful Celebrity Advertisements Of All Time Shady Swirl Hookup Gone Horribly Wrong: Ashton Kutcher Is Beefin’ With RihRih Because She Let The Paps Catch Her Creepin’! Video Emerges Saying Beyonce’s “Blue Ivy Is A Doll And Isn’t Real” And Footage Of Her Being Swarmed By Paps! [Video]
