“I#39;m not sure where I am going to be living in the next few months, so I have to get that settled first,” the actress, 46, tells InStyle when asked by a reader about her wedding plans. The Oscar winner may well end up in France, where she and her French fiancé can give Berry#39;s 4-year-old daughter Nahla a quieter life, away from the pressures of Hollywood. “It#39;s the appeal of privacy and a greater sense of safety for Nahla,” the Oscar winner says. “I don#39;t want her to grow up around
While there’s no shortage of burly action hero types in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty , it’s Jessica Chastain who’s front and center hunting down Osama bin Laden in the first trailer — and that in itself is worth noting as you mark your calendars for the December Oscar contender. I mean, how fantastically striking is the above image of Chastain, her shadow, and the American flag? Chastain plays a CIA operative attempting to locate the al-Qaeda leader, who was killed while in hiding in Pakistan nearly ten years after the 9/11 attacks. Chastain is joined by Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Chris Pratt, Joel Edgerton, and more in the tale of how a global network of operatives joined forces to bring bin Laden down. Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal’s research for the film had come under scrutiny by right wing watchdogs , though that flap has died down in recent months. Expect buzz to start back up again, only of the gold statue kind. Zero Dark Thirty hits theaters December 19. Watch it on YouTube Synopsis: For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar(R) winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man. [via iTunes ]
Nicole Kidman is no longer the shy woman of her youth. She makes that very clear in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar . Asked about husband/ American Idol judge Keith Urban, the actress tells the magazine: “He just gave me confidence through just being very kind to me and understanding me, opening me up to trying things.” Such as? “My sexuality, those sorts of things.” Oh. Okay then. Elsewhere, the Oscar winner touches on fashion, pregnancy talk and, of course, Tom Cruise: On her personality when married to Cruise : “In those early years, it was like, ‘I’m here and I’m clutching onto your arm, and it all feels a little overwhelming and really strange. And I was shy. Deeply shy. I didn’t feel comfortable at all. But I felt very comfortable at home.” On body image and pregnancy rumors : “All of that other stuff becomes less important. Like, I’ve always had a little belly. I mean, now that I’m 45, they don’t say, ‘Oh, she’s pregnant!’ as much. But I’ve got skinny arms and legs, and then I’ve got a little belly.” On red carpet fashion : “I make sure to wear comfortable dresses because I want to be able to go out afterward and, you know, bend.”
“I never spoke to her. I wish all of them well, but I was not involved in any of that,” Kidman, who weathered her own emotional split from the star in 2001, tells us#39;s Australian sister publication, WHO magazine, for its 20th Anniversary issue, which asked the Oscar winner to look back on her own past 20 years. Still Kidman, 45, looking resplendent in a five-page pictorial spread – and back to her natural red tresses – says she#39;s grateful for her 10-year marriage to Cruise, 50, because he
Did you just see that glass of water tremble à la Jurassic Park ? Could that distant rumbling be Harvey Weinstein barreling T-Rex style down the endless red carpet leading to the Kodak Theater in February? Indeed, with the announcement this week that Seth McFarlane will be hosting the 85th Academy Awards , Oscar season is now officially under way. Screeners and For Your Consideration ads shall soon be raining down upon us. So this seems as good an occasion as any to assess the buzz around Oscar hopefuls in the major categories. Prognosticating about the Oscars so early in the race, when many of the most anticipated prestige movies of the year ( Lincoln, Django Unchained, Les Miserables ) remain to be seen, may be premature, like discussing the prospect of a Gingrich/Perry 2012 ticket a year ago. But what self-respecting pundit waits to be fully informed? After all, the jockeying has already begun . BEST PICTURE ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Like last year, there could be as few as five and as many as ten nominees in this category. The locks so far are Lincoln (a biopic of Abraham Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg could be made with animated stick figures and it would still be a shoo-in—actually, I’d like to see that…); Les Misérables (a lavish, crowd-pleasing period musical that couldn’t be more upfront about its Oscar ambitions); and Argo (Ben Affleck’s film about a CIA hostage rescue mission in Tehran under the guise of a Hollywood production — Zero Dark Thirty meets Tropic Thunder ? — got a terrific jump out of the Telluride and Toronto gates). Silver Linings Playbook , a romantic comedy with just enough of a serious edge to please Oscar voters, also had a solid Toronto run. Ang Lee’s lyrical Life of Pi delighted New York Film Festival audiences last week and there’s every reason to believe the Academy will be just as enchanted, especially since there’s a feeling Lee was screwed over when Crash was voted best picture over Brokeback Mountain in 2005. I’d be surprised if The Master didn’t get nominated for best picture, but Kristopher Tapley and Anne Thompson over at Indiewire point out that, while the acting and cinematography are spectacular, the film itself left many critics cold. Michael Haneke’s rueful rumination on love and death, Amour , which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a bit of a long shot since it’s in French. But if Weinstein, who is distributing the film in the U.S., can get a French silent film a best picture Oscar, as he did last year with The Artist , there’s no saying what he can do with a French talkie. Rounding out the frontrunners is the oneiric bayou fantasy Beasts of the Southern Wild, which could provide this Oscar season’s feel-good, indie underdog narrative. (NB: This category will be shaken up in December, when many major contenders will be released, including Django Unchained ; The Hobbit ; Promised Land ; Zero Dark Thirty ; and The Impossible .) BEST DIRECTOR Ben Affleck Back in 1998, we all made jokes about how Ben Affleck was the luckiest man alive for tying his fate to Matt Damon’s and winning a screenwriting Oscar. But Affleck, who’s proven to be one of the best mainstream directors of his generation, may well get the last laugh — in addition to a nomination for helming Argo . Spielberg’s seat at this table has been booked for years. The Master auteur Paul Thomas Anderson is a near lock, too. Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, who won this award two years ago for The King’s Speech , will almost certainly get recognition for his use of live-action singing, which, to believe the featurette Universal put out last week, has never been attempted before in a musical of this scope. The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow could get a shot at a repeat victory with Zero Dark Thirty . The same goes for Ang Lee, who took home the best-director consolation prize in 2005, and breaks new ground this year with his innovative use of 3D in Life of Pi . If David O. Russell’s reputation as an on-set tyrant hasn’t blacklisted him so far — and judging from his 2010 nomination for The Fighter, it hasn’t — there’s a good chance he’ll get a nod for Silver Linings Playbook . Rounding out the category are heavy hitters Robert Zemeckis ( Flight ), Peter Jackson ( The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ); and Quentin Tarantino ( Django Unchained ).
Monica Cruz is Penelope Cruz’s younger, hottter, less successful but thanks to that lack of success, and feelings of inadequacies, you know always comparing herself to her Oscar winning superstar sister, she’s willing to put up a fight to break down barriers, to get herself out there, so people know that the Cruz’s are more than just Penelope, and she’s doing that by partnering up with the hottest lingerie company around, Agent Provocateur, and is half naked in their latest campaign…all 1800s Jack the Ripper, hooker inspired, Syphilis ridden, septic filled streets greatness…..It’s pretty fucking hot, but I like all eras that aren’t this era…especially with half naked girls with daddy issues trying to outdo their older sisters to make a name for themselves…
Monica Cruz is Penelope Cruz’s younger, hottter, less successful but thanks to that lack of success, and feelings of inadequacies, you know always comparing herself to her Oscar winning superstar sister, she’s willing to put up a fight to break down barriers, to get herself out there, so people know that the Cruz’s are more than just Penelope, and she’s doing that by partnering up with the hottest lingerie company around, Agent Provocateur, and is half naked in their latest campaign…all 1800s Jack the Ripper, hooker inspired, Syphilis ridden, septic filled streets greatness…..It’s pretty fucking hot, but I like all eras that aren’t this era…especially with half naked girls with daddy issues trying to outdo their older sisters to make a name for themselves…
She stars in the biggest movie in the land ( Snow White and the Huntsman ), and also stars in what is bound to be the biggest movie in the land this weekend ( Prometheus ). But Charlize Theron is focused on the small screen. In a recent interview , the Oscar winner copped to being a MAJOR Game of Thrones fan, saying: “I am absolutely foaming at the mouth over Game of Thrones . I cannot get enough of that. When my son came in my life, that was a bottle feed because I couldn’t watch television; I used to watch so little. That was my TiVo feed every two hours – watching Game of Thrones . My mom was like, “Do you think it’s fine that you’re feeding your son while there’s like sword fights?” I was like, “It’s fine, Mom. It’s fine.” Would she guest star on the HBO epic? “I’d be totally open to it.” Game of Thrones , of course, is notorious for its sex and nude scenes. So, in other words series casting directors: Give Theron a call. NOW!
Last week the RHOC left off with Vicki speechless after learning that Briana eloped . This week, Vicki has Briana in tears, and they don’t appear to be tears of joy. Find out what happened in THG’s +/- review! Vicki and Tamra meet up at a lingerie store for bra fittings. Vicki’s bra fitter thinks she’s a FF. Tamra’s a 32D, which she feels is impossible given recent surgical de-enhancements. Tamra suggests that Vicki get Briana some bridal lingerie for her honeymoon. Minus 30 for the gross factor of your mother buying you lingerie. Ew. EW EW EW. Vicki thinks Briana’s eloping is disrespectful and wrong and is upset that it robbed her of all of the wedding planning “fun.” Minus 10 for being selfish, Vicki. This isn’t about you. I’ll give you a Plus 5 for realizing this isn’t about you and knowing you have to suck it up. But ONLY 5 because I don’t trust you to follow through with this. Slade’s getting ready to go for a ride on his bicycle and Gretchen’s getting ready for lunch with Tamra. Gretchen just wants everyone to get along. Slade just wants to get married to Gretchen. He meets up with Gretchen’s dad on his ride and asks for her hand in marriage. Plus 10 for being the gentleman Ryan wasn’t when he eloped with Briana. Slade doesn’t know if Gretchen’s ready, but he at least wants to let her know that those are his plans. Pops says he sees a wedding off in the distance and says that Slade needs to clean up his image before he gets the seal of approval. Then they ride off together into the sunset. Gretchen and Tamra meet for lunch and cocktails and Tamra tells Gretchen she’s thinking of starting her own business. She wants to open a fitness studio and she’s telling Gretchen first (after Eddie, of course). Something tells me this won’t make Vicki happy. Then Tamra asks Gretchen what’s up with Gretchen and Slade. Gretchen says she supports Slade in everything he does, but the past three years have been tough. Slade has debt issues and if Gretchen marries him, his issues become her issues. She’s financially sound and doesn’t want to ruin that. Plus 10 . And Gretchen doesn’t think she wants to get married because of unresolved issues from her previous marriage. Something tells me she and Slade are going to have an interesting conversation. Vicki’s getting ready for a party. She and Tamra are launching a wine company. They’ve decided the party should be a formal party because people in Orange County never get dressed up. Ever. (Uh, The O.C. told me differently, Vicki.) And she’s going to make the announcement that Briana’s married. Because this is a big deal that everyone is going to freak out over, right? Minus 10 , Vicki. This announcement is more about you than it is about anyone else, including Briana and Ryan. From the one-on-one, it seems like Briana has issues with the fact that Vicki’s divorce isn’t final but she’s dating Brooks already. Hmmm, pot? Kettle? Vicki’s planning to introduce Brooks to her kids at the party when she knows that Briana’s not ready to meet Brooks. I can almost feel the fireworks already, can’t you? The flashbacks from previous seasons show just how delusional Vicki is regarding Briana and their relationship. Tamra and her son arrive at the launch party for the wine club first with Vicki and Brooks close behind. Tamra thinks Vicki’s headed for a nervous breakdown. Gretchen and Slade and Heather and Terry arrive and the only wife we’re missing is Alexis. Plus 5 for that! Tamra has an impromptu consultation with Dr. Terry about having her tattooed wedding ring removed as a surprise for Eddie. Brooks cracks the lamest joke in the history of jokes when he introduces himself to Michael, Vicki’s son, as Brooks and Dunn. Minus 20 . Brooks tells Michael that the two of them have a lot in common and thanks him for supporting Vicki in the past year. He tries to chat to Michael about Briana’s new marriage. Awkward.
Cher has never been one to mince words. Still, it was a little surprising to see just her pummel presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney out of the blue via Twitter Tuesday, only to delete a couple of the more inflammatory Tweets hours later. What did the iconic pop star and Oscar winner say? “If ROMNEY gets elected I don’t know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters,” she Tweeted. That remark by the 65-year-old attracted a variety of responses , many shocked, and some more profane and negative than others. Cher replied to one hater: “Nice Mouth ! U learn that at Church, Gun Show,or how to press your Klan costume Klass?” (That, and the nasty tweet directed at her, are still up.) To another user who called her an “atten.whore,” Cher fired back, “Actually I’m Not & if u Dislike Me SO.. Get Off My Site it Cant B Fun 4 U !” Another Cher tweet that disappeared, however, was this: “TOO HARSH? That’s me Holding BACK! They care nothing about the POOR The OLD The SICK The HUNGRY CHILDREN & People striving 4 a Better LIFE!” A number of fans chimed in to support the Oscar winner, as well, some apologizing for those who were giving her such a hard time and some inquiring why she was re-tweeting some of the nastiest messages sent to her. Her message later in the day: “Hi Lovelies!hope U R having GREAT Day or Nite! Sorry I Let The Dogs Out, But I Should Have Remembered 1 must watch what They Say These Days!” When asked if she was saddened by people’s crass comments about her political views, she replied, “No Sweetheart Just ‘STRONG ENOUGH’!!” After a tough primary fight, Romney is expected to clinch the GOP nomination for president and face off with Barack Obama in the 2012 election. Somehow we’re fairly convinced which way Cher is voting.
