In October 2010, The Observer’s Irina Aleksander made a bold prediction: that Justin Timberlake would someday quite soon be a movie star. It was right there in the headline: “Justin Timberlake, Movie Star.” It remained to be seen quite how well his performance in The Social Network might fare with audiences, critics, and Oscar Read More
Terry Richardson may have shot Mila Kunis for this month’s GQ, but the Transom saw him walking the red carpet for the actress’s casual-sex rom-com Friends With Benefits with a beautiful brunette of the totally opposite vocation. The mystery Read More
What is Frederik Eklund’s secret to landing all the bold-face clients, the Justin Timberlakes, Daniel Craigs and Jessica Albas?
The Times says it’s personality and skill:
Perhaps because of his upbringing in Sweden’s ruling class, he moves easily among other public figures. He runs with a glamorous set of Swedes, like Princess Madeleine, who Read More
It may seem like world-famous musicians intent on making it in Hollywood have a leg up on everyone else, but in many cases it’s the opposite. A preconceived notion about a certain rock or hip-hop star can spell doom for their chances on the big screen, simply because audiences will refuse to believe in their Read More
“The Facebook Movie in One Minute” gives us a condensed, hyper-sexualized version of The Social Network: After creating Facebook, a pint-sized Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin take the next logical step, which in this case turns out to be wild sex in graffiti-covered bathrooms. The NMA subtitles describe this as “allowing Mark and Eduardo Read More
As trends go, movies now translate to the Internet, and vice versa. The Social Network is the story of how Mark Zuckerberg, a nerdy, 19-year-old Harvard doofus with his face glued to a computer screen and all the personality and charm of road kill, invented a Web site one drunken night in 2003 that evolved Read More
The irony of MySpace hosting a screening and Q&A for the upcoming Facebook film, The Social Network, was not lost on the teenage audience in Union Square last night.
“This must be really weird for them, cause MySpace is like a social network too” said Amy, a 14 year old from the Upper East Side. Read More
Fashion’s Night Out drew a big crowd at Saks Fifth Avenue. People scurried about on the first floor: getting their make-up done, being sprayed with perfume and hand lotion, and, presumably, buying things.
On the second floor, designer Chris Benz stood awkwardly in front of a television with a sign next to it that read Read More
Justin Timberlake wants to write a book about golf! Sources say lit agent David Vigliano—who has recently repped books by celebrities like Shannon Doherty and Clay Aiken—sent editors a short proposal by the singer last month. Mr. Timberlake has been a golf fanatic for years, getting his first taste of the game as a Read More
Because we have an aversion to all things LC, we haven’t turned to MTV in quite a while. However, with the MTV Movie Awards airing last night, what better time to make an exception? And folks, what an eye-opener! At first we thought commercials for shows like 16 and Pregnant, Paris Hilton’s My BFF and Read More
