Funnyman shows no signs of sadness post-breakup when asked about how he’s holding up. By MTV News staff Russell Brand Photo: Getty Images If Russell Brand is feeling down about his split from pop star Katy Perry , he wasn’t showing it to reporters this weekend. Brand was out promoting his upcoming FX TV series, “Strangely Uplifting,” when he was asked how he was holding up after filing for divorce in December. According to People, Brand told them, “Quite well, thank you. Are you asking because of recent events? You are making the mistake of seeing time as linear. The brilliant American author Kurt Vonnegut, he’ll tell you that if you imagine reality as experienced simultaneously, events become redundant.” Brand went even further, replying, “Yes, I am,” when asked if he was happy. “Strangely Uplifting,” which premieres this spring, will be a personal project for Brand, centering on him discussing current events in front of an intimate audience. Promoting projects is sure to keep Brand in the public eye through a solid chunk of 2012. In addition to “Uplifting,” Brand will also throw his support behind “Rock of Ages,” the big-screen version of the Broadway musical, which co-stars Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise and Julianne Hough and opens June 1. Perry also seemed to be getting on with things, making her first public appearance since the split this week while filming a new Adidas commercial just days after she canceled a scheduled appearance at the People’s Choice Awards. The reasons behind the couple’s split are still only speculative, but sources told TMZ that there was tension due to Perry’s strict religious beliefs while the Daily Mail reported that recovering drug addict Brand was not fond of some of Perry’s friends. Related Artists Katy Perry
GEEEEEEET TFOHWTBS! In his first extensive interview since being fired, Paterno shared his side of the 2002 episode. He became a flashpoint for criticism in November because he did not contact the police about the suspected assault, which was reported to him by a graduate assistant. Paterno instead relayed the allegations to the athletic director and another top university official. “I didn’t know exactly how to handle it, and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was,” Paterno told The Washington Post. “So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn’t work out that way.” The athletic director, Tim Curley, and the university official, Gary Schultz, have been charged with failure to report the 2002 episode to police. They also are charged with lying to a grand jury about their knowledge of the matter. Paterno said that he had “no inkling” that Sandusky, who has been charged with more than 50 counts of sexual abuse against boys, might have been engaged in deviant behavior. Paterno declined to judge Sandusky or his other former Penn State colleagues. Which makes you just as bad as the rest of them, Coach Paterno. SMDH. Source More On Bossip! Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner: Here Are Some Current And Future Celebrity Stepdads Handling Their Biz With The Kids Out Of Pocket Old Heads: Mama Jones Starts Twitter War With Olivia???? Canada Dry: Tattoo Artist Claims That Drake Waited In His Car And Sent His Bodyguards To Confront Him Elsewhere In The World: J.R. Smith’s Sister Goes H.A.M. In The Stands At Chinese Game, Choking Out Broads And Catching Fade With An Old Head!
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Mickey (Michael Biehn), the paranoid building superintendent unwillingly responsible for allowing the characters in The Divide to survive the apocalypse, didn’t plan for or want company. And who can blame him? These people are awful . Like so many groups left in a survival situations (at least in movies, books and MTV reality shows), they shed their veneer of civilization with alarming rapidity as their lives take a turn for the worse. Written by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean and directed by Xavier Gens, who earned a place for himself in the New French Extreme movement with his 2007 Frontier(s) before heading to Hollywood to make Hitman , The Divide is a stylish and would-be shocking variation on a familiar scenario, in which the horrors isolated survivors inflict on each other turn out to be worse than those lurking outside. Gens has talent, if also tendencies to steer the visuals into the music video realm, but he treats the characters here like mobile props and nothing more — the curve of a shaved skull or a tear trickling down a cheek just another bit of nice art direction on the gradual path toward the inevitable destruction of everyone on screen. What happened to the outside world is left to speculation — what looks like a bomb hits the city in the first scene, sending the inhabitants of a New York apartment building scrambling downstairs in search of shelter. Eight people force their way into Mickey’s shelter in the basement before he locks the door. There’s angular heroine Eva (Lauren German), her whiny French fiancé Sam (Iván González), Delvin (Courtney B. Vance), Bobby (Michael Eklund), brothers Josh (Milo Ventimiglia) and Adrien (Ashton Holmes), and Marilyn (Rosanna Arquette) and her daughter Wendy (Abbey Thickson). Mickey has food and water saved up, though not enough — at least not after strange men in hazmat suits barge into the underground shelter, kidnap the little girl, and weld the door shut on the remaining inhabitants. Hell may be other people, but it can also be scenarios in which people endlessly bicker their way to certain doom (this is why I find The Walking Dead so hard to watch). Power games, alliances and divisions break out as time passes with no hope of rescue or an end, and as the characters grow more unstable and unhealthy, teeth falling out, hair growing patchy as they sit in the dark. Josh establishes himself as the alpha male, sharing Marilyn with Bobby in a scenario that degrades into violent sexual slavery — Arquette deserves either kudos or condolences for the degree to which she surrenders to a role that finds her being chained up, continually degraded and humiliated, treated like a dog, and smearing makeup on her face like some kind of crazed goth dolly. Eva is forced to protect Sam, who’s at the bottom of the totem pole, though she’s drawn to Adrien, who holds on to his sanity as the situation falls apart. These characters are at best doodles, and none of the performances are able to tease more depth out of them — the hints at history between them, like how Sam and Eva met, or the strained relationship between Josh and Adrien, are so sparse that when they’re thrown in they confuse more than they illuminate. The sprinkles of political relevance are clunkier and more problematic. Any film these days that includes the destruction of the New York skyline is going to calls up echoes of 9/11, but The Divide strongly suggests that Mickey was a firefighter working that day whose issues and isolation are all related to that trauma, from his convictions that “the ragheads” are responsible for bombing the city to his creation of the underground bunker, decorated with an American flag. (Admittedly, Gens makes the Frenchman the least likable character — if the film’s a rough metaphor for a world in decline, the U.S. isn’t alone in taking on the chin.) At two hours, with its elegiac tone and deliberate pacing, The Divide may lose gorehounds before it gets around to the finger chopping and corpse dismemberment. While there certainly are moments that will have the sensitive covering their eyes, the film’s most disturbing imagery isn’t actually related to carnage. A segment in which Josh heads outside to attempt to figure out what the suited-up soldiers are up to has a hallucinatory, medical nightmare feel to it, rich with the promise of terrible things going on just beyond our comprehension. Later, two characters shave their heads and eyebrows and transform themselves into near-alien figures out of a Matthew Barney video. Gens’s deftness with these visuals, and with the claustrophobic glide of his camera through the dim warrens of the underground space in which The Divide is almost exclusively set, is undeniable. It’s his apparent disinterest in the people filling it that makes the film such an uphill battle, in which the world ends and you can’t wait for the survivors just kill each other off already. Follow Alison Wilmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Which one of the Mowry twins looked more banging at the People’s Choice Awards??? Tia and Tamera looked beautiful as usual at last night’s Awards. The melanin count was really low (or maybe the photogs just didn’t take many pics of “us”) for the night but we picked a few choice flicks we thought y’all might like. Have a gander below… P.S. Is it just us or is Kelly Osbourne looking OLDER than her mom with that gray/lavender hair??? WENN/SplashNews More On Bossip! Blue Ivy Ain’t The Only One: More Stars With Guts Full Of Human Ready To Pop In 2012 Love Triangles: A History Of Men Fighting Over The Same Woman Knocked Up??? Is Eva Longoria Carrying Around A Gut Full Of Penelope Cruz’s Brother??? [PICS] What’s Wrong With This Picture? Look At All The Beckys That Make Up “The World’s Most Perfect Woman”
For country music fans, Faith Hill‘s performance of her new song “Come Home” was the highlight of the 2012 People’s Choice Awards Wednesday night on CBS. Granted, Taylor Swift won Favorite Country Artist, and deservedly so, but there’s no doubt Faith helped pave the way for such crossover stars like T-Swift. Last night, Hill returned to the national spotlight for just the third time in recent years, singing the song that she debuted at the CMA Awards in November. With the emotions of the song heavy on her face, Hill immersed herself in the ballad. “Come Home” is the lead single from her upcoming, untitled new album: Faith Hill – Come Home (Live at People’s Choice Awards)
It’s totally on between two of the hunkiest actors on television. Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, brother typically at odds with each other on The Vampire Diaries , both walked the red carpet of the People’s Choice Awards in Hollywood last night. And while each can agree he’s happy co-star Nina Dobrev took home the trophy for Favorite TV Drama Actress , that’s where the pleasantries end – and the showdown begins! Compare non-tied grey suit below with his opponent’s rolled up sleeves and darker outfit and decide, hard as it may be: WHO LOOKED BEST?
Kids: Killing social lives since the beginning of time! Friends With Kids is a comedy centered around a close-knit circle of pals and a time in life where everything changes. The last two singles in the group, observing the effects that children have on their friends, begin to wonder if there’s a better way. Therefore they decide to have a kid together … and date other people: Friends With Kids Trailer The hilarious-sounding cast features Jennifer Westfeldt, who wrote the script, Adam Scott, Megan Fox, and Edward Burns. Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd and Jon Hamm – who all worked together on Bridesmaids – also star! Mark your calendars for March 9.
Kids: Killing social lives since the beginning of time! Friends With Kids is a comedy centered around a close-knit circle of pals and a time in life where everything changes. The last two singles in the group, observing the effects that children have on their friends, begin to wonder if there’s a better way. Therefore they decide to have a kid together … and date other people: Friends With Kids Trailer The hilarious-sounding cast features Jennifer Westfeldt, who wrote the script, Adam Scott, Megan Fox, and Edward Burns. Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd and Jon Hamm – who all worked together on Bridesmaids – also star! Mark your calendars for March 9.
