Elizabeth Banks is disgusting….. She was the 35 year old bitch cast to play Miri in Zack and Miri make a porno….Totally unfortunate move on the part of the people who were behind the movie…because lets face it….if we’re watching a movie about a motherfucker making a porno with his friend he falls in love with…at least make the bitch someone I want to see fuck…. Now Vanity Fair has gone and put her in a one piece bathing suit, doing some Marilyn Monroe fat chick themed shit…. It is not her fault…she’s pushing 40…. Either way, Looking Good Sweetheart. Horrible.
Miley Cyrus isn’t one to dress conservatively, and, for that, the singer isn’t about to apologize. Quite the opposite, in fact. During an interview on Lifetime’s The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet ,” when asked about her the reception she’s received in the past for provocative attire , Miley said: “I take it as a compliment. Thank you for thinking I’m sexy!” Cyrus adds that she was shocked by the backlash when she started donning skimpier outfits, highlighted by outrage over a Vanity Fair photo shoot in 2008. “People are so scared of seeing a woman being like, ‘This is who I am and you’re not going to change it,'” she said. That attitude also led to the release of ” Can’t Be Tamed ” and its accompanying, R-rated music video. “Even just the title of that, for a woman to say she can’t be tamed… for a woman in the world with my face saying ‘I can’t be tamed’ when that’s really all people wanted to do, I think proves how sexist people still really are,” she believes. That’s certainly an interesting take. Miley, meanwhile, has found herself the talk of the gossip world again this week: Do you think she’s too thin ?
Genevieve Cook, an ex-girlfriend of President Obama, shares some intimate details about their relationship in a new book about the Commander-in-Chief. Barack Obama: The Story , by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Maraniss, is the most thorough account of the President’s life not written by Obama. Vanity Fair published excerpts Wednesday. While The Story contains no sordid, shocking tales of impropriety, it portrays Obama as extremely ambitious. Obama’s autobiography Dreams From My Father , while generally true, makes him look less calculating and motivated by his own career, in other words. Barack Obama: The Story also goes into much greater detail about his early life, including romantic relationships, such as that with Genevieve Cook. Using Obama’s writings and ex-girlfriends’ diaries, Maraniss paints a picture of Obama as an intense, conflicted and sometimes brooding intellectual. It was that intelligence that drew Cook to Obama after a chance meeting at that East Village apartment gathering, according to Maraniss’ book. The future President, who in 1983 was a recent graduate of Columbia University, began chatting up the assistant teacher at a party that Christmas. Obama apparently earned Cook’s endorsement, as they went on a date just days later and she spent that night at his tiny Manhattan apartment. While sitting on an orange beanbag chair, the two bonded over the time each spent in Indonesia as youths, then exchanged phone numbers. “I think maybe he cooked me dinner,” she wrote. “Then we went and talked in his bedroom. And then I spent the night. It all felt very inevitable.” Cook remembers that Barack Obama also used to spend Sundays in his room wearing a sarong, drinking coffee and solving crossword puzzles. She described the room as a “a mixture of smells that so strongly speak of his presence, his liveliness, his habits … running sweat, Brut spray deodorant, smoking, eating raisins, sleeping, breathing.” And while Cook wrote about Obama’s “sexual warmth,” she felt he sometimes kept her at arm’s length … and when she said “I love you,” he often responded “thank you” rather than “I love you, too.” Barack first met his future wife, First Lady Michelle Obama , in 1989. Follow the link for Vanity Fair’s full excerpt from Maraniss’ book .
Facebook.com – Become a Fan! Twitter.com – Follow Us! Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dakota Fanning, Diane Von Furstenberg, Ivanka Trump, Judge Judy, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg toasted the Tribeca Film Festival at the Vanity Fair Party at the State Courthouse In Lower Manhattan.
He’s about to embark on his ambitious one-man Mark Twain show , and soon enough Val Kilmer will also be a doctor, courtesy of William Woods University ! Kinda. “It’s embarrassing if you have a brother with a real doctorate. [Laughs.] I called him up without thinking — I was so excited! — and said, ‘You won’t believe it! They called me out the blue. I’m going to be just like you! Dr. Kilmer.’ There was a long pause, and I immediately realized what a mistake this phone call was.” [ Vanity Fair ]
It was so worth it, right Christopher Chaney? The 35-year-old Florida man, who admitted to hacking email accounts belonging to Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguilera (among others), is due to plead guilty in federal court Monday to nine felony offenses. He’ll receive a lighter sentence in exchange. Christopher Chaney was facing more than 100 years in prison for identity theft, unauthorized computer access and wiretapping that affected roughly 50 victims. He is said to have hacked into the accounts and attached a bug that allowed him to receive a copy of every email sent by the unaware user. Not shady at all. He would then shop some the goods, such as the Scarlett Johansson nude photos , to celebrity websites. Fortunately, the FBI eventually tracked him down. Johansson, for her part, kept a sense of humor about the whole thing, telling Vanity Fair , “I know my best angles.” Does she have any not-best angles? Chaney, who is free on bail, albeit wearing an ankle monitor and prohibited from using computers, still will likely face prison time despite the plea deal.
Are you two related by any chance? One look at Lady Gaga’s mom, Cynthia Germanotta, and it’s clear where the pop superstar got her looks. Both Gagas attended the launch of their Born This Way Foundation, an anti-bullying and teen advocacy group, at Harvard University. Here’s a comparison of Cynthia Germanotta, 57, and Stefani Germanotta, 25, using one of the rare Lady Gaga pictures in which she appears au naturale: Lady Gaga has talked publicly about how close she is to her family, and credits her mother with inspiring her passion for style … even if hers is a little bit tamer. “I was very much like my mother [growing up],” the “Bad Romance” chanteuse told Vanity Fair . “She would do her hair every morning and dress so nicely.” “I just liked to be glamorous. It made me feel like a star.” For her part, it seems Germanotta is equally as admiring. “She’s a great businesswoman,” Germanotta told The Daily Beast about starting the Born This Way foundation with her daughter. “I’m learning from her now.”
J. Lo? More like J WHOA! That was the reaction many Oscar viewers had last night when they watched Jennifer Lopez saunter out to the stage and stand alongside Gwyneth Paltrow to present… the awards for something. We can’t exactly remember, considering the distraction of Lopez’s cleavage, as demonstrated both by her Academy Awards dress (left) and the gown she donned at the Vanity Fair post-party (right). Now, Mariel Haenn – the stylist for this American Idol judge – has come out and tried to silence talk that his client exposed her nipples to an audience of millions. “The Oscar dress was custom made for JLo…The dress fit perfectly to her every inch,” Haenn Tweeted. “There were cups built in and in NO chance that there were any, how do you say? ‘slips.’…jokes on everyone who thought they saw something.” J. Lo, of course, is no stranger to creating headlines for her fashion taste. Remember this catsuit on New Year’s Eve 2009?
That’s not a metaphor — in the sea-bound thriller Dark Tide , Halle Berry makes her return to the spotlight as a diving expert convinced to come face to face once again with the kinds of Jaws -esque sharks that traumatized her years ago. This means the one-time Bond girl’s back in a bikini, if you care about that kind of thing. Watch the trailer after the jump and decide if this is going to re-energize Berry’s career. Dark Tide is helmed by Top Gun actor-turned-filmmaker John Stockwell, who previously directed Blue Crush and Into the Blue (not to mention Crazy/Beautiful , Turistas , and others). One look at the trailer for Dark Tide and it’s apparent Stockwell is in his wheelhouse; not only is this yet another lady-fronted watery tale, a la Blue Crush , it’s also a glossy exotic travelogue of sorts, a la Into the Blue . The film stars Berry and real-life flame Olivier Martinez as a couple of divers paid the big bucks to take a client out for shark dive sans cage. But when they agree to it, things start to unravel. Someone’s getting pruny fingers! Verdict : Looks to rank a smidge above direct-to-DVD. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Today, of course, we know Bérénice Bejo as The Artist ‘s irrepressible movie sensation Peppy Miller and as a contender for this year’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But back in 1997, she was just another young actress paying her dues in France. Which apparently led to… this . David Poland points us today to the short film Enceinte Ou Lesbienne? , featuring Bejo as a daughter who tests her family’s domestic idyll with that tough question perennially on every young lady’s lips: Pregnant or lesbian? It’s your typical early-career case of everyone involved doing the best they can with what they have; Bejo’s fine. But as a coming-out method, I can’t say I’d recommend it? But you tell me. [via The Hot Blog ]
