Yawn. What? Right. Here’s the gossip round-up for Nov. 23, 2008, Thanksgiving Friday and possibly the slowest news day ever.
An eight-months-pregnant Nicole Richie and her friend, the society disc jockeyess Samantha Ronson, volunteered at a Hollywood soup kitchen yesterday.
Jennifer Aniston recently attended her 20th high school reunion at Rudolf Steiner Read More
Natalie Portman is insecure at times, the 26-year-old actress said in an interview with MTV, where she also talks about the consequences of her poor professional choices. “I might think I won’t be able to do something, but I’ll do it anyway, because I’ve sort of known that failing isn’t that bad. Especially Read More
Fresh-out-of-the-package lovebirds Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal ran into a little paparazzi action last night while celebrating boo-day with Ms. Witherspoon’s wee tots. Hard as he may have tried, Mr. Gyllenhaal didn’t fool the camera-toting celeb-stalkers with his full-body gorilla suit. The Rendition star’s decidedly less-hairy girlfriend was much easier to spot, however, in a Read More
Adam B. Vary of Entertainment Weekly asks why Hollywood hasn’t put out a gay-themed film since the commercially and critically acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain."
Brokeback was more than a movie. It was a phenomenon that commanded the cultural conversation for months, from Jay Leno to YouTube to the cover of The New Yorker. More Read More
RENDITION
Running Time 120 minutes
Written by Kelley Sane
Directed by Gavin Hood
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Alan Arkin
Powerful, shocking and mandatory, Rendition is a disturbing film that should be required viewing for every school and civic group in America, and then the world. Read More
Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble, from a screenplay by Coleman Hough, extends Mr. Soderbergh’s convulsively experimental career that took off with his first film, Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), a sensational hit here and abroad. He bombed with his second, Kafka (1991); rebounded with his third, King of the Hill (1993); bombed again with the failed film Read More
While I was trying to decide how I would introduce my customary list of the past year’s achievements and non-achievements, I consulted what I wrote last year—and I was struck by how applicable it was to this year. So simply by changing a few numerals, I can repeat last year’s introduction, secure in the knowledge Read More
The already-famous hot gay cowboy sex arrives fairly early in Brokeback Mountain. Without spoiling any of the cowpoking—and really, not since The Crying Game have genitals played such an important and odd role in a plot—it’s safe to share that it’s really fairly graphic and accurate. For Bound, the Wachowski siblings had to recruit sexpert Read More
‘It’s Good to Be the King’: Richard Lewis on Alan King
That was a Mel Brooks line, and it couldn’t have a better meaning nor a better fit than for the comedic master who just retired into immortality. Right up front, my deepest condolences to his family and thousands of friends who really knew and Read More
