D-d-d-d-duh-duh-d-d-d-d–d-d-duh-duh-damn… Fabolous Offers Advice To Beyonce Over Instagram If yoyu follow rapper Fabolous on Instagram you’re used to seeing him post all kinds of pictures of his jet-setting lifestyle, usually accompanied by numerous hilarious hashtags. While gotten our share of chuckles out of the Brooklyn MC’s eComedy, this one might be his greatest iMoment to date. After seeing a pic of Stans’ Lord and Savior Beysus Christ on her phone while Hubby Hov pensively eye-hustles his her screen he decided to use his hashtags for the power of good and offer some advice to Beyonce that may help keep her marriage together. LMAO @ #StreetsIsWatchingAndHeIsToo That John Jackson is quite a character. Wonder where Julius was at this particular moment? Image via Instagram
One of these girls might just be the next black model to step into Naomi Campbell’s Louboutins! Last week Oxygen premiered the first episode of their new model competition show “The Face” which features supermodels Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rochas as celebrity judges. BOSSIP had the opportunity to speak with Devyn, Ebony and Sandra, the three black models representing for brown-skinned bangers everywhere with modeling dreams. So far Devyn is already a team favorite, with the three judges each vying for her to join their team. “It was a big shock,” the 21-year-old Bronx native tells BOSSIP of learning that she’d be able to choose any of the three supermodels as her coach. “I was confident in getting into the house, I had convinced myself I’d get in but I wasn’t expecting to be picked by all three coaches whatsoever. I was stoked, it definitely put a big smile on my face.” As a single mother of a two-year-old daughter, juggling several jobs to keep her family afloat, Devyn said that she was drawn to #TeamKarolina because she felt the model mom would better relate to her own struggle. “I wanted to be a place where people could understand my story and my struggle,” Devyn told BOSSIP. “I felt like Naomi would understand, but she wouldn’t be able to relate to it, where Karolina is a mother. She knows what it is to have a child, she knows the struggles, the everyday things like potty training. Naomi doesn’t have kids, she wouldn’t understand. My mindstate on the show isn’t about me, I’m doing it for my daughter. Karolina would be able to understand because she’s a supermodel doing it for her son.” It turns out that Devyn quickly found good company in teammate Ebony, who hails from Indiana and is also a single mother. “Ebony was one of the girls I got closest to,” Devyn told BOSSIP. “I still love her to death to this day, I still support and talk to her. The struggle we had was something we could relate to and we were each someone, we both could lean on, if she was feeling some kind of way and missing her kids I would comfort her. I had a panic attack over the craziness of the competition and not being able to speak to my daughter and she was there for me. Me and Ebony definitely hit it off.” “We have a lot in common, we’re both single moms, we both work really hard for what we have, so it was easy for us to be close,” Ebony told BOSSIP.” If you’ve been watching the show, then you already know that the reality TV drama starts very quickly, and 20-year-old Philadelphia native Sandra finds herself at the center of it from the second episode, which airs tonight. “It’s a competition, I really wasn’t trying to make friends,” Sandra told BOSSIP. “I was there to learn from the best that have done it and I was there to win. I could be cordial, I could be nice but I’m not there to make friends, I was there to work and do business.” We had to ask her if she at least found some comfort in having Ebony and Devyn along for the journey, but it seems that wasn’t the case. “I’m not going to say I got along with them,” Sandra said with a laugh. “I think everybody was moreso… How can I say this, they knew it was a competition and they knew I was there to get it. The girls in the house probably thought I was crazy, but I’m not crazy, i just wanted to chase after my dreams. I wouldn’t say I had arguments with them. I didn’t feel close to them though.” “Oh Gosh, Sandra…” Ebony said when BOSSIP asked her about her castmate. “The maturity level was different, that’s all it is. I didn’t really fight with her, we were on a different page in life. I’m a little older and didn’t have time for the added drama.” Hit the flip for more
Nadya Suleman was paid another visit by the Los Angeles Department of Child Services amid fresh allegations that she is unfit to raise her 14 kids. Amazingly, this is unrelated to the Octomom topless strip club gig. Workers from the DCFS arrived at Nads’ home Saturday night after a former nanny complained that she’s been under the influence and her kids are suffering. According to the nanny, Octomom is on drugs, drinking heavily to the point of blacking out and forgetting key details ( reporting her kid missing when he wasn’t, etc). Moreover, Nadya Suleman lives in a filthy house, allegedly leaves her kids unbathed for days at a time and does not change their clothes for weeks in some cases. Weeks. DCFS made Octomom aware of the allegations against her , searched the premises and asked a ton of questions regarding her situation / condition before leaving. Apparently DCFS didn’t feel there was enough evidence to yank the kids out of the home – there’s a VERY high threshold for that – but an investigation is pending. The agency has been there many times before. Most recently, in April 2012, her hair stylist complained of horrendous living conditions and DCFS showed up. She was allowed to keep the kids then, miraculously. Will she be granted the same right this time? Or will officials finally decide that enough is enough? On the plus side … the Octomom porn recently won some AVN Awards. Actually maybe that’s not a plus in this case, but congrats just the same, Octo. You tell us, THGers: Should Nadya’s kids be taken away? YES! For their own good! NO! She’s their mother! View Poll »
Our national nightmare will not end for at least another three months. The day after Kris Humphries’ lawyer peaced out on his client and also trashed Humphries for claiming he can annul his marriage to Kim Kardashian, a judge has set a trial date for this pair to finally hash it all out. They will meet in court on May 6. Kardashian’s attorney fought for a date next month, but nothing was available until well into the spring. By now, everyone (unfortunately) knows the particulars: Kris and Kim were married for 72 days. Kim has been pushing for a divorce for well over a year. Humphries has been stalling and claiming the marriage ought to be annulled because he was duped into a union Kim knew was phony from the start. In other words: he’s holding out to embarrass Kim, irritate Kim or force Kim into giving him a ton of money. Or a combination of each. Oh, and a pregnant Kim Kardashian is expecting Kanye West’s baby. Good times all around.
Octomom Nadya Suleman spent Valentine’s Day giving South Florida strip club goers a topless show, and showing off her significantly heavier physique. It was the first three-night engagement at T’s in West Palm Beach, according to Gossip Extra , which got a couple of amazing pictures from the affair. House strippers apparently little pink octopuses in the packed club as bouncers stuffed a deluge of tips that rained on stage during Octomom’s show. “That’s how hard I’m trying to take care of my kids,” she said. Truly, she is nothing if not dedicated to their well being. She’s put on a considerable about of weight since the release of the Octomom porn in 2012, but that didn’t seem to be an issue for the crowd at T’s. There’s still time to head over there today and tomorrow. Check out a pair of (NSFW) Nadya Suleman photos after the jump and see what we mean … Octomom: Would you hit it? Oh heck yeah! Depends on alcohol consumption Not in a million years … View Poll »
Hey girl, did you know Los Angeles is big enough for two Ryan Goslings ? Meet Richie Calhoun, the adult actor who’s the porn industry’s go-to Gosling equivalent since he starred in the XXX parody of The Notebook , Diary of Love. Calhoun — at present, a smart blonde with big blue eyes, a degree from a top-15 U.S. News & World Report college and an address in L.A.’s very hip Echo Park neighborhood — is such a perfect match for Gosling’s lover/fighter/poet shtick that he was asked to play him again for the adult remake of Crazy Stupid Love (aka Crazy in Love ). “I understand, yes, that from a certain perspective it’s a huge compliment,” says Calhoun of being cast as the porn doppelganger for womankind’s dreamiest hunk of man meat. So the former improv comedian took the job seriously, studying The Notebook to mimic the way Gosling kisses, cries, and—yes—even dangles from a Ferris wheel. “I watched for the way he pauses during a speech, where he would look when he was talking. Just the simple little things that I needed to do to have some kind of vague resemblance to his character.” Then he boned his very own Rachel McAdams , starlet Presley Hart. No other man in Hollywood is as physically linked to Baby Goose , so in honor of the most romantic week of the year, Movieline seized the chance to ask Calhoun about Gosling’s seduction secrets and the probability of getting sex-drenched remakes of Drive and The Mickey Mouse Club. Alas, Gosling’s latest flick, Gangster Squad did so poorly at the box office that it won’t get a vintage-styled XXX salute. But Calhoun isn’t waiting around to see if The Place Beyond The Pines rates a remake. Ever the heat-seeking missile, he recently dyed his hair red to play the Sergeant Brody character in the porn parody of Homeland , which just picked up three Golden Globes . Movieline: Are you aware that Calhoun, the last name you chose for your career, is the same last name of Ryan Gosling’s character, Noah Calhoun, in The Notebook ? Was that a subliminal way to get women to like you? Calhoun: I’m aware of that now. I was not aware of that at the time. You’ll have to take my word on it. The origins of my last name were sort of random. I just like that name and I think it has a masculine sound to it with out being too bludgeony, too blunt. When I discovered [that it was the same as Gosling’s character], I realized that people would wonder what you’re wondering, and I don’t care. If you had done it on purpose, it’d have been brilliant. Yeah, but it’s not the tone I was going for with the name. I didn’t choose Timberlake or Swayze or Bieber — although people wanted me to choose Bieber and I thought about it, to tell you the truth. I considered it very seriously just because it would be provocative and funny. But ultimately, I realized that there would be a lot of under-aged girls searching for “Bieber” and I just wanted to play fair. Had you seen The Notebook before you were cast? I hadn’t. I wasn’t necessarily avoiding it, I just don’t watch a lot of movies. So I watched it once for research. I didn’t cry, although I did find it emotionally affecting. I was paying a lot more attention to Ryan Gosling’s mannerisms, so my appreciation of it was probably blunted. Could you see why that role is such a crazy turn-on for women? Sure. I could understand why that’s true of almost every role he’s taken. He does a very good job with his choice of projects: he’s a complete dick who’s actually the sweetest guy on earth. That’s pretty much every movie he’s ever been in. I think that’s a recipe for success in becoming a heartthrob—if that’s your goal. Diary of Love uses some of the same names of characters in The Notebook and even some of the same dialogue. What is the legality of that? Well, it’s certainly an area of the law that is evolving. There are parodies, and then there are remakes or homages. I think when you slip into homage, certain parody-related laws don’t apply anymore. It’s tricky. Tell me about shooting some of the iconic scenes: “Say I’m a bird!” or your big breakdown in the rain where you tell Presley you wrote her a letter every day for 365 days. I think that Presley leaps onto me probably ten times in the movie. We did a lot of that at construction sites, at the beach—those were easy to shoot. Then I had to start talking and it got harder. For the bird scene, we just marched out onto the beach and found a random hunk of beach that we could use. We got this shot where a train almost hit us. The rain scene was cool because that was actually at the end of the whole thing. We’d been shooting all day and we were hurrying because the light was changing and we were making fake rain. It was cold and we were freezing and wet. We couldn’t stand still—we were just freaking out and jumping around—so that added a lot of energy. Does your version of The Notebook envision the kind of sex those characters would have had? I think the dynamic that Presley and I have is slightly different than theirs. You’d probably get closer to the real thing if you did an animated version, though I would say Tommy Pistol [the star of Horat: The Sexual Learnings of America for Make Benefit Beautiful Nation of Kaksuckistan ] does an amazing job of getting inside his characters. I think there’s a certain similarity between me and Ryan Gosling and people can project fantasies onto whatever they’re watching. But I think, ultimately, every sex dynamic you watch is unique to those people. I wouldn’t presume to say it’s like watching Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams having sex. Did you know they were a real-life couple when they shot the movie? I didn’t know that! I think that’s charming. That’s a great move for producers and directors to try to engineer something like that. If it works, then you’ve got a legendary romance movie on your hands. You’ve also shot the Ryan Gosling role for Crazy in Love , in the porn parody of Crazy, Stupid, Love . Did you do the Dirty Dancing lift? No, we didn’t! And actually, lifting my partner in it would have been easy as pie. The Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone storyline in the porn is minimized compared to the older couple’s story, Steve Carell and Julianne Moore . Our romance didn’t occupy that much of the space, but I think the best parts of the film are Gosling as a foil to Carell—they’re sort of both ridiculous, and shooting those with Steven St. Croix were really fun. Okay, I can see how you could play the Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love and pull off being sexy. But how do you manage it when you’re playing the Steve Carell character? Well, he is sexier than Steve Carell. That’s the way porn works. Someone might not have a fantasy about the Penguin from Batman having sex with Catwoman. But if you make that porn movie, then he’s a little slimmer, he’s got abs, [but] he’s still the Penguin. True, but it’s perilous. I saw a still of James Deen dressed as Quagmire in the Family Guy porn parody, and now I’ll never be able to find him attractive in anything. In an adaptation of Drop Dead Gorgeous , I played the creepy judge with the comb-over and the Member’s Only jacket, and it was the same thing. My character is not sexy in the original—and he’s not really sexy in this film—until suddenly the sex scene, and then hopefully it’s sexy. To tell you the truth, I think you can do certain things to try to ensure that you’re projecting a sexy image versus a comedic image, but comedians do serious roles and then they go back to comedy and nobody goes, “I don’t find him funny anymore!” Interestingly, Ryan Gosling is one of the few Hollywood actors to shoot a sex scene that was deemed too hot by the censors: the NC-17 Blue Valentine . I haven’t seen Blue Valentine , I should check it out. Who’s the girl? Michelle Williams. I’m on board. Good work, sir. What other Ryan Gosling films would make good XXX features? They’ll probably do Drive . But I guess it would be hard to do all the driving sequences on a porn budget. He came of age doing the Mickey Mouse Club in the same generation as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Would you want to play Gosling in a porn parody of that? I don’t know that that’s mainstream enough to make a lucrative porn movie. I would think not. Furthermore, there are difficulties creating pornography that portrays anyone under 18. You could do the Smurfs because everyone assumes the Smurfs are adults, but if you did Goonies , you would have to age up the characters because you can’t portray 14-year-olds in braces having sex with each other. You’d have to make them 18 and in college. How good of a pick-up line is, “Hey girl”? I think it works just fine. I think a pick-up is everything that’s not that: whether a person is attracted to you and the rest of your dementia that would sell the line or not. But say, “Hey girl,” and then just don’t have anything else prepared—that’s a good way to do it. How do you react to being called Baby Goose? Baby Goose! That’s funny. That’s his nickname. Whose nickname!? Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling’s! I thought you were calling me a baby Gosling. I think that’s a really funny nickname. If a girl whispered that in your ear, how would you react? Am I having sex with her at the time? I wouldn’t mind. I think most people are flattered to be told by people of the opposite sex that they look like someone, if they can hear in their voice that they find them attractive. Even if it’s, “You look like John C. Reilly !” and then they kind of swoon a little. Okay, I’ll take that. I don’t know if it works the same with girls in the reverse direction, but guys, we know how to take a compliment. We’re like: “Fine. If it turns you on, that’s your business.” Do you have aspirations to cross over into mainstream acting like Sasha Grey and James Deen? Not in particular, no. Working on television for a corporation like ABC or Disney sounds like a nightmare. There’s a certain behavior contract that is formed in something like that. You can try to work a bad boy angle like Colin Farrell who just does whatever the fuck he wants. But though I like acting and acting is fun, it’s not as important to me as I think it should be for someone who’s an actor -actor. On top of that, what doesn’t appeal to me is the public scrutiny and the expectation of good behavior. I have no interest in behaving. Amy Nicholson is a critic, playwright and editor. Her interests include hot dogs, standard poodles, Bruce Willis, and comedies about the utter futility of existence. Follow Amy Nicholson on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Two-time Dancing with the Stars champion Julianne Hough doesn’t have to shimmy for her supper in her latest movie role. Her leading-lady role in the latest Nicholas Sparks movie, Safe Haven , represents her first straight acting gig – no dancing or singing required! Hough was the guest of honor at the premiere that Self magazine hosted on Monday night in Manhattan. (The actress is also the magazine’s March cover girl.) Co-star Josh Duhamel was also on hand and told me that men ain’t afraid of no chick flicks: “Guys are sensitive beings too who just want to see a good movie,” he said. According to Gavin DeGraw, who performs on the Safe Haven soundtrack, stylish facial hair is also a plus. He said it was Ryan Gosling’s “really cool beard” that made him a fan of The Notebook. I also got to ask director Lasse Hallstrom , who’s recent Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was nominated for several Golden Globes , why the industry doesn’t take romance more seriously. He responded that “romantic movies tend to push it a bit too far into sentimentality…I try to counter that by trying to be real with those performances.” Check out my full red carpet interview below: Follow Grace Randolph on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Southern goth-chic gets a swoony supernatural makeover in Beautiful Creatures , a teen franchise-starter that suggests what Twilight might have looked like with a reasonable budget, a competent script and halfway-decent special effects, but still saddled with next-best source material. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s book, the first of four, reps a calculated synthesis of proven YA-lit elements and recent publishing success tactics, which makes for ingratiating storytelling on the page. Fortunately, writer-director Richard LaGravenese has jettisoned most of the novel and refashioned its core mythology and characters into a feverishly enjoyable guilty pleasure, unapologetic in its mass-market rebel ‘tude. Though Beautiful Creatures has what it takes to support a series — a “gifted” girl, a smitten guy and powerful evil forces determined to keep them apart — the film could face trouble winning over cynical young auds who view it as the latest shameless attempt to cash in on the fantasy craze, which of course it is. And yet, now that the Twilight and Harry Potter series have run their course, the timing seems right for a soapy romance in which a sensitive small-town hunk (Alden Ehrenreich) falls hard for the new girl in town, not really minding that she’s a witch — or “caster,” as they prefer to be called here. With a dark-haired, pale-skinned look more likely to inspire 1920s audiences than today’s supermodel-obsessed tastes, Alice Englert ( Ginger and Rosa ) brings a refreshingly relatable quality to the role of 15-year-old Lena Duchannes, who’s moved to dead-end Gatlin, S.C., after things got out of control at her last school. Lena wants to keep a low profile while counting down the days until her 16th birthday, when a family curse predicts she will be “claimed” as a dark witch, but Ethan recognizes her as the mysterious girl he’s been dreaming about for months, and insists on getting to know this melancholy stranger. The best young-adult offerings tap into deeper themes that resonate with teens, but this one trades mostly in dopey wish fulfillment, granting magical powers and a devoted admirer to girls who imagine themselves as outsiders. It’s about feeling different, having a secret and discovering that special soulmate in whom one can confide. With his heavy brow knit in an expression of deep concern, Ehrenreich looks the way a young Orson Welles might if cast on a CW series, with a plucky Southern accent in place of a sonorous radio voice. Though the film preserves the idea of Ethan as narrator, it ditches the novel’s off-puttingly snide tone, allowing the popular girls — led by self-righteous ex-g.f. Emily (Zoey Deutch) — to damn themselves, while saving the amusing putdowns for Gatlin. Nearly everything about the book has been streamlined for the screen, which may rankle fans (who are likely to miss the ethereal song that binds Ethan to Lena, at least), but it makes for a far cleaner plot. While Lena spices up a traditional teen courtship with doses of magic — as when she caps a date by conjuring snow out of thin air on a muggy December afternoon — her powerful dark relatives (a vampy cousin played by Emmy Rossum and shape-shifting undead mom Sarafine, played with lip-smacking relish by Emma Thompson ) arrive to demonstrate what happens when witches go bad. The film goes out of its way to forge memorable character introductions, which will serve the series well, should sequels follow (more confusing is a scene toward the end when Ethan, a sophomore in the book, is shown leaving for NYU). By granting LaGravenese the freedom to refashion the novel as he sees fit, Warner Bros. gives Beautiful Creatures an edge over other recent hit fantasy-series adaptations, which have often shown stiff, gospel-like fidelity to their source material. By contrast, this project comes across as downright blasphemous — and not only against the potboiler that inspired it; LaGravenese’s script takes on Bible-beaters, book-banners and all who invoke God to justify small-minded prejudice. In one particularly campy scene, Sarafine goes head-to-head with Lena’s guardian ( Jeremy Irons , the picture of drawling Old South gentility) in the local church, dabbing holy water behind her ears like perfume as she dismisses the superstitious townsfolk’s notions of religion. Considering how little it takes to get certain groups riled up about what their kids are reading, the film goes awfully far out of its way to align itself with blacklisted literature, offering up Viola Davis’ voodoo “seer” (and resident librarian) as its high priestess. Garcia and Stohl clearly saw To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye as models for the series, although Beautiful Creatures demonstrates few of their insights into human nature, hewing closer to Judy Blume and Twilight fan fiction. Likewise, while Ethan and Lena turn one another onto Vonnegut and Bukowski, throwing their names around for punk credibility, either writer would surely recoil to see himself quoted in this context. The film ultimately plays like so much teenage girl poetry, heavy on the angst, endearingly naive in its notions of love and yet brought vividly to life by a game cast, evocative locations (both indoors and out) and stunning anamorphic lensing. Louisiana works nicely for Civil War-obsessed Gatlin, suggesting a tween-friendly True Blood . RELATED: ‘Beautiful Creatures’ NYC Premiere: Twi-Hard With A Vengeance? Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Reality star and author Brandi Glanville hasn’t given up hope that she, ex-husband Eddie Cibrian and his new wife LeAnn Rimes may all live in peace one day. In fact, she says she’s ready to move on with her life … seriously. “I’m ready to put it behind me,” the outspoken Drinking & Tweeting author said. “This is my final chapter. This is me closing to door on our public fight.” “I want it out of the media . I’ll deal with it as best I can with them.” Say what now? The 40-year-old conceded, “We don’t have the best communication or relationship now but, I’m hoping we can change that.” What might do the trick? “I don’t think we’ll be friends, but I hope we can coexist peacefully,” she said of LeAnn Rimes, who Cibrian first cheated on her with back in 2009. “Once she has a child of her own, I think that she will understand boundaries and what’s respectful to do and how to handle things a little better.” One of Brandi Glanville’s frequent complaints is the country singer referring to her sons as “my boys” and being all like nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, I got your family . Sharing custody of Mason, 9, and Jake, 5, is hard, she admits. “They’re my children. I know what’s going on only 50 percent of the time that they’re with them,” she explained. “My children are my life. They come first.” Despite their differences and his past, Glanville says she really believes Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes have the children’s best interests at heart. “I don’t want anything bad to happen to him because he’s the father of my children. I want him to work and flourish … I want him to stay with LeAnn forever.” The model adds, “I don’t want my kids to go through another divorce or breakup and I want to make sure she’s stable and happy.” Team LeAnn Team Brandi View Poll »
The Selena Gomez leg show continues again today, and tickets are still available. I know it’s just a phase she’s going through, but I really hope Selena keeps it up. Because even though I’d never paid much attention to her legs before, now I’m starting to become a huge fan. And apparently I’m not the only one either. What, you really think Lance Armstrong over here took that picture for his kids? » view all 11 photos Related Articles: Selena Gomez’s Cuteness Gets Molested Selena Gomez Gets Her Cute On Selena Gomez Is A Nice Young Lady Selena Gomez Is A Sexy Babysitter Photos: Fameflynet
