If you turned this picture of Katherine Webb upside down, she’d look exactly like Ceiling Eyes right side up - Hollywood Tuna
My favorite gold digging stripper from One Life to Live is way too good for Adam Levine – Lainey Gossip
I’m pretty sure Jessica Simpson still doesn’t know that letting a peen shoot its frosting into your coochie hole can lead to pregnancy and you know Eric Whatshisname isn’t going to tell her (third baby = MORE MONAY!) – The Superficial
James Franco gets into it with Stephen Colbert and looks stoned and full of farts while doing so – Towleroad
Demi Moore is trying to get all the money from Ashton Kutcher, because booze and young peen doesn’t come cheap - Celebitchy
RiRi is turning into a really boring Heather Hunter – Drunken Stepfather
Holly Madison is popping those placenta pills now, because she just birthed out a daughter – IDLYITW
Ariel’s son looks like Rupert Grint on crack – The Berry
Nobody has told Jessica Chastain that gingers should proceed with caution when it comes to wearing red – Popoholic
I thought this was Courtney Stodden after a spray tan – ICYDK
The venue must’ve not cared about that rug if they let LeAnn Rimes rub her bare
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Full Story »Where was Jimmy Kimmel before the Oscars? Kathryn Bigelow could have used him. On Wednesday night, the late-night talk-show host gave a comic lesson in marketing when he showed this trailer for the DVD release of Zero Dark Thirty that re-positions the movie as a romantic comedy instead of a pro-torture CIA procedural. All it takes is a little voiceover magic and some creative editing to depict Jessica Chastain as a workaholic in search of “the man of her dreams.”
Pretty, pretty funny, as is the movie’s new title, Zero Dark Flirty, and tagline: “Sometimes it’s good to be a little bit Abbottabad.” For those who limited their consumption of Oscar-nominated based-on-a-real-story CIA thrillers to Argo, that’s the name of the town in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden’s compound was located.
Speaking of Kimmel, he should be the next host of the Oscars. Hollywood loves him, and he’s got the perfect tone for the evening. In fact, Seth MacFarlane left me with the impression that he was trying to be Kimmel on Sunday night. What do you think?
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According to the Academy Award pundits and even the Nate Silver-style numbers crunchers, Jennifer Lawrence will win the Best Actress Oscar on Sunday, but don’t start engraving her name just yet. Along with the recent surge — at least in publicity — for Emmanuelle Riva, another group of in-the-know moviegoers is predicting that Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain will bring home the little gold man: New York City taxi riders.
If you’ve never ridden in a NYC cab, the taxis here are equipped with passenger-compartment video monitors that attempt to amuse riders with local news casts, a taxi-edition of the TV game show Jeopardy that is geared for idiots, and over the last few weeks, an Oscar survey that covers the Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Animated Film categories.
In addition to casting their votes for Chastain, New Yorkers also aren’t buying into the Argo surge. They’re predicting a Lincoln sweep with the film, its director, Steven Spielberg and star, Daniel Day-Lewis, bringing home statuettes. Brave is also predicted to bring home the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
Sunday will tell whether New Yorkers were ahead of the curve, but, I suspect that their choice of Chastain for Best Actress has a lot to do with wishful thinking. Her “I’m-the-motherfucker-that-found-this-place” attitude and doggedness in Zero Dark Thirty is very New York. That’s how we take care of business in this town.
By the way, I’ve asked the TLC to provide me with an idea of how many riders took the survey. I’ll update when I get them.
[NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission]
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The quest to predict this year’s Oscar winners with the same mathematical precision that fivethirtyeight blogger Nate Silver called the 2012 presidential election has got a new contestant. The filmmaking website The Credits has teamed up with the social analytics and monitoring company Brandwatch, to create a predictive data visualization that it has dubbed “Social Oscars.” East Coast Editor Bryan Abrams says the algorithm, which was created by British quant Edward Crook, predicts the Oscar front-runners by focusing on the positive mentions that nominated films, directors and actors generate via critics and social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Abrams explains that the algorithm is created to filter out mentions that are negative or that don’t specifically pertain to a nominated film or an actor’s performance in it. “If there’s a positive story about Best Supporting Actress nominee Anne Hathaway having lunch at The Ivy, that’s not going to be counted,” he says.
The editor also estimates that, by the time the Academy Awards are handed out on Feb. 24, the algorithm will have evaluated more than a million mentions that it has evaluated on the Internet.
The Social Oscars works differently than, for instance, The Huffington Post’s Oscar Predictions Dashboard, which incorporates box-office results and Rotten Tomatoes critics and audience scores. For one thing, it predicts frontrunners via two categories: Public Choice and Critics Choice. So, for instance, as of Feb. 15, Robert De Niro is the Critics Choice favorite for Best Supporting Actor, while Christoph Waltz is leading in the Public Choice category. In the Best Actress category, Jennifer Lawrence is far and away the public’s choice, but she’s virtually tied with Jessica Chastain with…
Full Story »Part two of Zach Galifianakis’ Oscar edition of Between Two Ferns is out, and it manages to top part one. The best line of the segment is when Galifianakis asks Sally Field about the 25 pounds for her role in Lincoln. “How’d you do that, eat Anne Hathaway?” he says. After hearing that, I’ll think twice before ever asking another actor about the dramatic weight loss or gain they achieved for a role.
Once again, some of the best laughs come from the public-access cable-style Chyron tags that, for instance, identify Jessica Chastain as “Jessica Chestain” and Sally Field as a member of the rock band Linkin Park.
The last time I saw Bradley Cooper on Between Two Ferns, he got in a slap fight with his Hangover co-star, and they go at it again in a way that recall Cooper’s early freak-out scenes in Silver Linings Playbook (or “Silver Linings Cookbook” as the movie is ID’d on Zach’s show. ) The altercation takes place shortly after Galifianakis gives Cooper a speech he wrote for his supposed pal: what may be the first Oscar concession speech ever written.
And Chastain returns for the final punchline, managing to look both angry and alluring.
I’m crossing my fingers that a part three will be forthcoming. I’d love to see Galifianakis piss off Tommy Lee Jones and interview Joaquin Phoenix and The Weinstein Company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein at the same time. That one is guaranteed to end in a fist fight.
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Here’s a novel way to keep from getting worked up about your main Oscar rival: forget his name entirely. For Time magazine’s Great Performances video feature on this year’s Oscar nominees, Les Miserables co-stars and Oscar nominees Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman spend some time lauding their competition. Hathaway even praises the computer-generated tiger in Life of Pi. But watch what happens around the 2:09 when Jackman slyly raises the topic of Lincoln.
If you need any further proof that Wolverine a) can act and b) possesses a wit that’s as well-developed as his pecs, keep a close eye on his poker face as he claims not to remember the name of Daniel Day-Lewis, who, according to conventional wisdom, will emerge the victor when the Best Actor Oscar is handed out on Feb. 24.
“Lincoln is the movie, but the lead guy who I always forget…,” Jackman says to Hathaway without any hint that he’s having a bit of fun. In fact, it’s Hathaway who can’t keep a straight face as she jogs Jackman’s memory and he refers to Day-Lewis as simply “Lewis” — in case, I guess, any Academy voters will be deciding how to cast their Best Actor vote after watching this video. Jackman does admit that the actor whose name he can’t seem to remember is “awesome” in Lincoln though, and he also waxes enthusiastic about Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in The Master.
You can also access video interviews with Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, Sally Field, John Goodman, John Hawkes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Quvenzhané Wallis, Christoph Waltz and Naomi Watts at the Great Performances link above. In the meantime, here’s a compilation clip. Oh…
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