“I feel like the real me is somewhere else…” Ethan Hawke is American writer Tom Ricks, flailing at a personal and professional rock bottom in the City of Lights. Kristen Scott Thomas is the mysterious widow with whom he strikes up an affair. But all in Pawel Pawlikowski’s moody thriller Woman in the Fifth (in select theaters Friday) is not what it seems; watch Hawke lay it all bare — in Scott’s bathtub — in Movieline’s exclusive clip. Based on Douglas Kennedy’s novel of the same name, The Woman in the Fifth marks the fourth feature from Polish-born writer-director Pawlikowski ( My Summer of Love ). Star Hawke has earned critical praise for his turn as the haunted Ricks, whose dark past throbs with menace. Full synopsis, courtesy ATO Pictures: American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter who is living with his estranged ex-wife. Completely broke, he accepts a job as a night guard for a local crime boss. Stationed in a basement office, his only task is to push a button when a bell rings. The tranquility of the night, he hopes, will help him focus on his new novel. His days become more exciting when he starts a romance with Margit (Kristin Scott Thomas), a mysterious and elegant widow who sets strange rules to their meetings: she will only see him at her apartment in the fifth arrondissement, at 5 pm sharp, twice a week and he should ask no questions about her work or her past life. When people suddenly start dying around Tom, he begins to believe that a dark force has entered his life, punishing anyone who has recently done him wrong. After the police accuse him of murdering his neighbor, Tom tries to use his weekly visits to Margit’s apartment as an alibi, only to find out that she hasn’t lived at this address for the past 15 years. The Woman in the Fifth opens in select theaters Friday. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
“I feel like the real me is somewhere else…” Ethan Hawke is American writer Tom Ricks, flailing at a personal and professional rock bottom in the City of Lights. Kristen Scott Thomas is the mysterious widow with whom he strikes up an affair. But all in Pawel Pawlikowski’s moody thriller Woman in the Fifth (in select theaters Friday) is not what it seems; watch Hawke lay it all bare — in Scott’s bathtub — in Movieline’s exclusive clip. Based on Douglas Kennedy’s novel of the same name, The Woman in the Fifth marks the fourth feature from Polish-born writer-director Pawlikowski ( My Summer of Love ). Star Hawke has earned critical praise for his turn as the haunted Ricks, whose dark past throbs with menace. Full synopsis, courtesy ATO Pictures: American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter who is living with his estranged ex-wife. Completely broke, he accepts a job as a night guard for a local crime boss. Stationed in a basement office, his only task is to push a button when a bell rings. The tranquility of the night, he hopes, will help him focus on his new novel. His days become more exciting when he starts a romance with Margit (Kristin Scott Thomas), a mysterious and elegant widow who sets strange rules to their meetings: she will only see him at her apartment in the fifth arrondissement, at 5 pm sharp, twice a week and he should ask no questions about her work or her past life. When people suddenly start dying around Tom, he begins to believe that a dark force has entered his life, punishing anyone who has recently done him wrong. After the police accuse him of murdering his neighbor, Tom tries to use his weekly visits to Margit’s apartment as an alibi, only to find out that she hasn’t lived at this address for the past 15 years. The Woman in the Fifth opens in select theaters Friday. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Oh yeah, somebody is comin’ out of their pockets for this isht here! Innocent Woman Get Her Head Spilt In Drake-Chris Brown Club Melee According to TMZ reports : An innocent female clubgoer was gushing blood last night … after she was struck by a flying bottle in the middle of the Chris Brown nightclub brawl … TMZ has learned. TMZ spoke with Hollie C. — a 24-year-old Australian tourist who went to club W.i.P. Wednesday night with some friends. Hollie tells us she was hanging out and having a good time when the brawl exploded between Brown’s entourage and Drake’s entourage. Hollie tells us, “Within a few moments of noticing glass being thrown around, I saw a glass bottle headed towards me; consequently hitting me in the head.” “I immediately started to bleed and proceeded to fall in and out of consciousness.” Hollie says … in the midst of the chaos, she was transported to a local hospital by herself where she received 16 stitches to close up the bloody gash. She also received a tetanus shot. Hollie was released from the hospital early this morning … and has since filed a police report … but tells us, “I had to take the subway home with no money or jacket. Nobody would even sit beside me. My friends were so scared because they did not know where I was.” Where dem dollas at?! Where dem dollas at?! Hit the flipside to see GRAPHIC IMAGES of Hollie’s injury.
Oh yeah, somebody is comin’ out of their pockets for this isht here! Innocent Woman Get Her Head Spilt In Drake-Chris Brown Club Melee According to TMZ reports : An innocent female clubgoer was gushing blood last night … after she was struck by a flying bottle in the middle of the Chris Brown nightclub brawl … TMZ has learned. TMZ spoke with Hollie C. — a 24-year-old Australian tourist who went to club W.i.P. Wednesday night with some friends. Hollie tells us she was hanging out and having a good time when the brawl exploded between Brown’s entourage and Drake’s entourage. Hollie tells us, “Within a few moments of noticing glass being thrown around, I saw a glass bottle headed towards me; consequently hitting me in the head.” “I immediately started to bleed and proceeded to fall in and out of consciousness.” Hollie says … in the midst of the chaos, she was transported to a local hospital by herself where she received 16 stitches to close up the bloody gash. She also received a tetanus shot. Hollie was released from the hospital early this morning … and has since filed a police report … but tells us, “I had to take the subway home with no money or jacket. Nobody would even sit beside me. My friends were so scared because they did not know where I was.” Where dem dollas at?! Where dem dollas at?! Hit the flipside to see GRAPHIC IMAGES of Hollie’s injury.
We’ve seen CHLOE SEVIGNY SUCK DICK IN A HORRIBLE MAINSTREAM MOVIE , now we get to see her rocking a dick for the third time in a mainstream TV Show in the UK. I like that the mainstream is going more twisted, perverted and creepy thanks to competing with the internet, it is good for my future….but I don’t like seeing my women rocking dicks… Luckily for me, Chloe Sevigny isn’t my woman….if anything I am not even sure if this raver hipster fashionista party kid is a woman or not, and I didn’t need this “Prosthetic” dick to make the whole thing confusing…..I was confused enough after seeing her get AIDS in kids….it is the Gay disease…. She was hyped in the 90s, I never got it, and I still don’t….but I’ll still look at her naked…even when doing his tranny shit….that I bet she’s taking a liking to and ends up bring shit home with her to practice on her homo fashion raver hipster friends….
We’ve seen CHLOE SEVIGNY SUCK DICK IN A HORRIBLE MAINSTREAM MOVIE , now we get to see her rocking a dick for the third time in a mainstream TV Show in the UK. I like that the mainstream is going more twisted, perverted and creepy thanks to competing with the internet, it is good for my future….but I don’t like seeing my women rocking dicks… Luckily for me, Chloe Sevigny isn’t my woman….if anything I am not even sure if this raver hipster fashionista party kid is a woman or not, and I didn’t need this “Prosthetic” dick to make the whole thing confusing…..I was confused enough after seeing her get AIDS in kids….it is the Gay disease…. She was hyped in the 90s, I never got it, and I still don’t….but I’ll still look at her naked…even when doing his tranny shit….that I bet she’s taking a liking to and ends up bring shit home with her to practice on her homo fashion raver hipster friends….
Surprise, surprise. Royce Says Relationship With Dezmon Briscoe Is Over We all watched as Royce got her cougar on and fell head over heels for 22 year old baby baller Dezmon Briscoe of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on this most recent season of VH1′s “Basketball Wives”. However, just when Royce seemed to think her relationship with Dezmon was ready to go to “the next level,” it was revealed that Dirty Dog Dez was still very much involved with his child’s mother in addition to another woman while also involved with Royce. Though we never got to see the drama play out on this season, Royce recently took to her Twitter to clear the air and let everyone know that she and Dezmon are no more. We’re glad she came around. Hit the flip to read what Royce had to say and Dezmon’s response.
Jane Fonda shows up so infrequently in movies these days that it doesn’t matter if they look potentially good or dismal: Even when the performances (not to mention the movies around them) don’t quite work, Fonda always gives you something to watch. That’s certainly true in Bruce Beresford’s Peace, Love & Misunderstanding , an aimless if good-natured picture that casts Fonda in the role of a Woodstock-dwelling, ugly-art-making hippie-dippie mom who welcomes her estranged and very uptight daughter – played by Catherine Keener – back into her mother-earth arms. Her goal: To get her offspring, and her offspring’s offspring, to loosen up and start getting it on. What’s that you’re saying? You really don’t want to see Jane Fonda in twirly Grateful Dead skirts and dreadful ethnic earrings, urging the younger folk to get in touch with their inner Alex Comfort? Neither did I. But the more I think about Peace, Love & Misunderstanding , the more I marvel that anyone would even cast Fonda, the most iron-willed of actresses, in this sort of role. None of it quite works, but it seems Beresford did his damnedest to try to pull it off. As the movie opens, the marriage between rich city people Diane (Keener) and Mark (Kyle MacLachlan) is clearly on the skids. Mark is the kind of guy who proclaims at a dinner party that all of Eugene O’Neill’s plays could easily be cut in half. How anyone could share a bed with this boob, let alone not murder him in his sleep, is beyond me, but Diane is crestfallen when Mark asks her for a divorce. She packs up the couple’s two teenage kids, awkward adolescent Jake (Nat Wolff) and luminous alien child Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen), and heads to her mother’s house upstate – even though, we soon learn, she can’t stand the woman who raised her, a free spirit named Grace (Fonda) who lives on a ramshackle but very expensive bit of hippie real estate adorned with hideous sculptures (which she makes herself, natch) and roaming chickens. Diane is a high-strung lawyer type who resents her mother for not having given her enough structure, guidance and security while growing up; Grace – who also, incidentally, sells pot on the side – just wants her daughter to chill out. She also doesn’t think it would be a bad idea if Diane got together with the local hottie, a woodworker – yes, ladies, a man who works with his hands! – played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. But that’s not all: Grace also wants her grandchildren to enjoy the pleasure and freedom of human sexuality, and there are several mildly embarrassing scenes in which she counsels the young ’uns on how to get things cooking with their respective crushes (played by Marissa O’Donnell and the unnervingly good-looking Chace Crawford). If the van’s a rocking’, don’t come knockin’. Grace is the kind of woman who not only keeps chickens, but allows them to wander into the house. It must be said, though, that these are very clean, pretty chickens, and next to Fonda, they were my favorite part of Peace, Love & Misunderstanding . To watch Jane Fonda cradle a speckled puff of tawny feathers, all the while radiating a sort of businesslike affection – well, that’s something to see. But the rest of Peace, Love & Misunderstanding doesn’t go down so easy. The script, by Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert, wanders along very familiar trails, and even though Beresford tries to keep things clicking at a reasonable clip, the thing moves like a pair of too-long bell-bottoms dragging in the mud. Keener, an actress who’s usually great fun to watch, can’t seem to muster much enthusiasm for her extremely constrained character, and can you blame her? But again, at least there’s Fonda. Fonda’s last two movies, Garry Marshall’s 2007 Georgia Rule and Robert Luketic’s 2005 Monster-in-Law, were ridiculous little things, though there’s some faint hope looming ahead in the form of Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming show The Newsroom . Meanwhile, in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding , we need to reckon with the idea of Fonda as a woman who lets it all hang loose – which, as brilliant an actress as Fonda may be (and her radical politics aside), is a pretty big stretch. Still, this stroke of miscasting is fascinating to watch by itself. Fonda isn’t soft enough to play this kind of character, but she wraps herself around the task like an anaconda. When it comes to letting her freak flag fly, she’s damn serious.
Casey Anthony’s getting a new look on Lifetime. A week into the filming of the network’s movie Imperfect Justice , the role of the woman acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter has been re-cast. Holly DeVeaux has dropped out of the project and has been replaced by Virginia Welch, whose resume includes several independent films and commercials. According to a source close to the production, the decision for Holly DeVeaux to leave the production was mutual as both sides felt it wasn’t right. “Holly moved on; they recast the role ,” says a source close to the upcoming production. “This is one of those decisions that happens all the time.” “Holly was good and very talented; it just didn’t work.” Think Welch (above), will make a better Casey Anthony than DeVeaux (below)? We’ll have to wait and see, but the physical resemblance is there. Casting also includes The Office ‘s Oscar Nunez as defense attorney Jose Baez. Kevin Dunn and Marina Stephenson Kerr will play Anthony’s parents. Rob Lowe will play prosecutor Jeff Ashton. “It’s flattering,” Ashton recently joked. “They clearly weren’t going for someone who looks exactly like me.”
Transgender Woman Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald Gets 42 Months In Male Prison For Stabbing Man To Death Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald admitted Monday that an inner rage brewed long before an exchange of words that ended with the deadly stabbing of Dean Schmitz outside a bar in south Minneapolis last year. The pressures of being transgendered — namely, fear of rejection and of hostile reactions from others — resulted in spite and hatefulness, said McDonald, who is transitioning from a man to a woman. That pent-up fury exploded on the night of June 5, 2011, during an argument when McDonald stabbed the 47-year-old in the heart, killing him instantly. But McDonald, who on Monday was sent to prison for 3 1/2 years, said the responsibility for what happened is mutual. “I’m sure that to Dean’s family, he was a loving, caring person,” McDonald, 24, told Judge Daniel Moreno. “But that is not what I saw that night. I saw a racist, transphobic, narcissistic bigot who did not have any regard for my friends and I.” McDonald will initially be housed as a man at the St. Cloud prison, corrections spokeswoman Sarah Russell said Monday. Then the state will make its own determination of McDonald’s gender, an assessment that will involve reviewing “any and all collateral documentation and a physical and psychological evaluation,” said Russell. In the meantime, the state will house McDonald based on the inmate’s safety and the well-being of others, she said, adding that dealing with gender uncertainty among inmates “is not a unique situation” for the department. As of late January, there were 10 inmates in the state’s corrections system who have been clinically confirmed by the state as having “a gender identity disorder.” Thoughts on this? Should CeCe be in a men’s prison, especially since they say she is “transitioning” from a man to a woman?? Source
