This weekend belongs to The Avengers, which brought out crowds for midnight screenings overnight and sparked a Twitter backlash by Samuel L. Jackson against a NY Times reviewer. Those are among Friday morning’s highlights in Biz Break along with a BBC denial it’s banning Sacha Baron Cohen from its airwaves, a Clooney cash windfall for Obama and more.
Avengers at Midnight! Is This Hollywood’s Next Record-Breaker?
The U.S. debut follows the incredible success of The Avengers overseas in 41 countries with grosses totaling $281.1 million through its first eight days. In the U.S. no other big movie dared to open Friday against this mega-blockbuster which could spee past $160 million during its first 3 days of release through Sunday. Deadline reports.
Samuel L. Jackson Slams NY Times Critic for Avengers Review
Jackson picked a Twitter fight with A.O. Scott at the New York Times over his review of The Avengers, suggesting that Scott should find a new job. “Let’s help him find one! One he can actually do!” The Wrap reports.
Sacha Baron Cohen ‘Not Banned’ by BBC
The actor, who is promoting new film The Dictator, had asked to appear in character on a number of BBC shows – including The Graham Norton Show. But the BBC said they would prefer to interview Sacha “as himself”. Speaking in character, as fictional dictator Admiral General Aladeen, Baron Cohen called the rejection “an outrage.” The BBC itself gives its take.
Clooney Fundraiser Expected to Fetch $12 Million for Obama
The May 10 event has sold out and the expected $12 million raised for the president’s reelection coffers would be the largest in history. 150 are paying $40,000 each to dine with the president and George Clooney at his Studio City…
This young megastar has a secret kinky obsession with his actress girlfriend’s lingerie! The clean-cut teen, who likes to wear his sweetheart’s frilly panties under his low-riding hip-hop jeans, was recently caught going through his honey’s G-string collection. Who is he? (National Enquirer via Gawker)
Justin Bieber, stop going through Usher’s panty drawer! Don’t you have your own Frederick’s of Hollywood charge card?
This former A list tweener has had two abortions in the past year. Hopefully it does not add to her personal demons. (CDAN)
Justin Bieber, stop getting abortions! Didn’t Usher give you a bottle of chewable Flinstones morning-after pills? Or this could be, Domo Arigato Demi Lovato?
Which B list always movie actress was introduced to coke by her sisters who are also famous. Their favorite game was watching their not even teen sister get high on coke. That turned into an addiction which turned into a nose job. A not very good one, but her acting career has not suffered. (CDAN)
Elizabeth Olsen and those evil ass Trollsens?
Which Hollywood couple of nearly 10 years are headed for Splitsville? Hint: He arrived at the Oscars alone, while she stayed home with their two kids. (Star Magazine via Blind Gossip)
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher? If this is them, then Ryan Gaycrest is totally going to try to hire Isla Fisher as his next beard to get back at Sacha for ruining his little boy tux from Sears.
“Director Sacha Gervasi has tapped Scarlett Johansson and James D’Arcy to play Psycho stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Fox Searchlight’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Anthony Hopkins will play the iconic director, while Helen Mirren will play his wife, Alma. [...] Sources tell Variety that Making of Psycho has drawn comparisons to My Week With Marilyn, and that the role of Janet Leigh could lead to the same awards consideration for Johansson that the Marilyn Monroe role did for Michelle Williams.” [Variety]
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Sacha Baron Cohen is probably browsing Big & Tall’s Black Label Collection today, because he’ll have to find some new shit to wear to the Oscars on Sunday since the show’s producers have banned him from dressing up as his character from his new movie The Dictator. The Academy told Sacha that his ass is more than welcome at the Oscars, but he’ll have to leave his Kid ‘n Play chin wig at home. Deadline says those prim and proper hos of the Academy aren’t taking any chances, though, and have temporarily sat on Sacha’s tickets and won’t give them to him until he promises to not bring the promo fuckery to their red carpet. One of the mouths for the Oscars said this to CNN about Sacha’s stunt:
“We would love to have Sacha Baron Cohen at the Oscar show. We have expressed [to Cohen] that we don’t like our red carpet to be used as a promotional stunt. We’re waiting to hear from him. We’ve put the ball in his court.”
Oh yes, because the Oscars red carpet is sacred ground where nobody, I mean nobody, promotes anything. We never hear the words: “My dress is by Chanel, my earrings are Cartier, my bag is Judith Leiber, my tampon is Fendi and the platinum stick up my ass is Bvlgari.” We never hear that! I don’t know why those Oscar bitches care about Sacha Baron Cohen showing up in character when they obviously have no problem with Ryan Seacrest showing up as a straight journalist every year.
“Unless they’re assured that nothing entertaining is going to happen on the Red Carpet, the Academy is not admitting Sacha Baron Cohen to the show.” Previous succinct gems. [Deadline]
Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Sharon Stone will get maternal in Lovelace… Elvis Mitchell gets his close-up… Sacha Baron Cohen’s method… Ricky Gervais wastes no time scaring the Hollywood establishment… and more.
· Apparently People Magazine’s choice of Bradley Cooper as this year’s Sexiest Man Alive is drawing outrage in some circles, where the sanctity of the annual prize is in doubt after Ryan Gosling was passed over. A pro-Gosling Facebook page pledges a protest at People HQ, while another dissenter has enlisted scientific data to objectively prove Gosling’s SMA supremacy. Meanwhile, fans of Leonardo DiCaprio, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Idris Elba, David Beckham and numerous other sexy, sexy men have voiced their own displeasure with Cooper’s selection, and one site has put the matter to a simple vote. Huzzah! We are the 99 percent! Of idiots. [People]
· Speaking of People Magazine, is “Dakota Fanning: I’m Learning to Do Laundry” the best Web headline ever, or what? Learn faster, Dakota! Elle’s delicates aren’t gonna wash themselves! [People]
· OK, enough frivolity! On to the hard stuff: Sharon Stone has announced that she will play porn star Linda Lovelace’s mother in the upcoming biopic Lovelace. Amanda Seyfried was confirmed previously for the lead. [AP]
· What’s former Movieline critic Elvis Mitchell up to these days? Well, it’s complicated, but it all starts with holding the egg. [LA Weekly]
· “‘It was weird, working with Sacha [Baron Cohen]. You’re tempted to go up to him and say’and here Butterfield slips into a perfect Borat imitation‘“Is a-niiiice.”’ But during filming he was so serious, and everyone…
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If you ignore the heinous rubber foot mitts made from the crusty dildos of Lucifer’s sex slaves in the darkest dungeon in Hell on Sacha Baron Cohen’s hooves, then you can appreciate the entire look he’s working for his new movie The Dictator. Sacha shot scenes for that shit on the UES in NYC yesterday afternoon and judging by these pictures, I’m guessing his character was given the wrong instructions for how to master the art of dining and ditching. Or maybe he’s on that new Jillian Michaels diet where you can eat whatever you want as long as you do it while jogging. Something ZANY, obviously. I don’t know. But one thing I do know that Sacha made the right choice by styling his character after the accident baby of It’s Pat and Dawn Wiener Dog.
If you’re a child of the 80s, like me, then your mom most likely looked just like this at one time or another. But instead of CROCS, she wore baby pink Kaepas (with two pink triangles, thankyouverymuch) and DAMN she loved it. This takes me back. I can practically see my mom wading waist-deep in the pool with a protective cone around her neck after getting a perm the day before. Nothing makes me miss the 80s more than thinking about my mom screaming, “DON’T SPLASH, YOU BRAT! I JUST GOT A PERM!“
