Joseph Gordon-Levitt had quite a blockbuster 2012 with roles in The Dark Knight Rises, Lincoln and Looper, but he’s holding onto his indie big screen roots at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Aside from his feature directorial debut, Don Jon’s Addiction, which will bow in the festival’s Premieres section, the actor and now filmmaker has been tapped to host the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony.
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Gordon-Levitt is certainly no stranger to Sundance, having appeared in seven films post 3rd Rock from the Sun days including Mysterious Skin, Brick and (500) Days of Summer. He also debuted his directorial short Sparks at the fest in 2009 and his online production company hitRECord installed an exhibit in Sundance’s New Frontier in 2010, followed by a live performance in 2012.
Don Jon’s Addiction, which stars Gordon-Levitt as well as Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore, centers on what the festival describes as “a selfish modern-day Don Juan attempts to change his ways” (above is a still from the film). It is screening Out of Competition.
Last year, actress Parker Posey had been slated to host the awards show, but Sundance staff including festival Director John Cooper had to take over after she fell ill. Along with the overall festival, the awards are a harbinger of the year ahead for American indies and beyond. Beasts of the Southern Wild took last year’s Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic prize, while The House I Live In won in the Documentary category. Oscar short-listed docs Detropia, Searching for Sugar Man and The Invisible War were also among prize-winners last year.
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Latina buttocks activist Sofia Vergara’s boyfriend Nick Loeb was ixnayed from a Miami club early New Year’s Day after they got into some sort of physical altercation. There’s always one insane ass couple at the party bringing their bullshit to the club instead of to the therapist’s couch.
Page Six reports that Al Bundy’s wife from Modern Family was with her cokey sex addict at Miami club Story when he raged out because she was taking a photo with someone he didn’t know. “Pushing and shoving” ensued.
One witness told us, “Nick appeared to get really angry after Sofia took a picture with a stranger, and started screaming at her. Nick had to be pulled off Sofia by security. Her dress got torn in the melee. This happened right in front of everyone in the VIP section.
Apparently Ike didn’t like Tina up on someone else’s Instagram feed. Four security guards gave his bitch ass the bum’s rush out the back, and Sofia followed. Don’t eat the cake, Sofia. By the by, this dude once considered running for a Senate seat in Florida. He’s supposedly crazy rich, but no one’s sure what he does except he started a food-topping company called Onion Crunch. Suspect. Don’t end up being found dead in a vat of whatever
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While I pulled some Freaky Friday shit and took over Kathy Griffin’s body to try to give a faux beej to The Silver Fox, this photoboming dude in the middle of Kanye West and Kim Kartrashian acted on behalf of humanity by throwing a “Are you there God? It’s me, the face of humanity. For why did you allow this to happen?!” look of desperation at 1OAK’s New Year’s Eve party in Las Vegas on Monday night. Meanwhile, Kim is cackling up at the heavens, because she knows that in a few months she’s going to butt birth out the chosen spawn of Lucifer and there’s nothing God can do about it. I hope God gets the last laugh when Kim gives birth to a drooling cave baby that looks just like Kris Humphries.
While looking like thirty pounds of rotten smoked gouda wrapped in one of Cher’s old costumes, Kim continued her reign as Pimp Mama Kris’ most prized pig by hosting 1OAK’s New Year’s Eve party for a check. Kanye also showed up to the party, because he wanted to flash his smuggest smug face since his gay sperm fish has been where literally a billion different kinds of sperm fishes have been before (read: her baby making areas) and has done what none of them were
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Well, we actually made it through 2012 without being shot into space where Tommy Girl and John Travolta would cackle at us while zipping off to Xenu’s home planet in their space pods (which look like this). We made it! Although, Kim Kardashian is knocked up with the Illuminati’s golden child, so I’m sure the rapture will swallow all of us in 6 months when she gives birth to a swarm of locusts and four fishsticks-eating horsemen. But in the meantime, let’s all toast to the beautiful things that 2012 gave us like Mama June’s stack of Pringles chins and her Forklift Foot. 2013 is totally going to be a breakout year for Mama June’s Forklift Foot!
And I’m going to spend my New Year’s Eve rounding up all the roosters on the island (Seriously, Kauai is the island of roosters and not a second goes by when one isn’t cock-a-doodle-doodling up my asshole. That sounded sexy, but it isn’t.) and slapping Honey Boo Boo glasses over their eyes before getting them drunk on bottom shelf rum, so they’ll be too hungover tomorrow to wake my ass up at 4:30 in the morning with their yodeling. That’s what my ass is going to do.
Happy New Year, everyone!
