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Russell Crowe on why he uses Twitter - he’s bored
Screenwriter to Jessica Alba: Bitch, please.
Rachel McAdams in Lanvin at the ‘Morning Glory’ premiere: cute or tragic?
Raccoon McPantless wears a pushup bra & little else: take that, society!
Angelina Jolie wears a great black coat, gets groped by Brad Pitt
Dina Lohan talks “codependency” and Lindsay’s recovery
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart have a sparkly kiss while filming in Brazil
Lindsay Lohan leaves rehab for a movie outing, spends time with her dad
Two year-old Indonesian smoker has quit thanks to rehab
Katy Perry & Russell Brand walk their first red carpet as a married couple

Russell Crowe on why he uses Twitter - he’s bored

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:43 AM PST

Russell talks about Twitter at 3:20 in

Russell Crowe was on The Today Show this morning promoting his new thriller The Next Three Days, with Elizabeth Banks. This is actually the first I’ve heard of this film, by director Paul Haggis, and it looks pretty good, although familiar. Spoilers follow that are also in the trailer. They weren’t entirely clear on The Today Show what the film is about, but I looked up the trailer afterwards and Crowe’s wife, played by Banks, gets arrested for a murder she claims she didn’t commit. He then tries to break her out of jail several years later when she becomes suicidal. It has Liam Neeson in it too!

Crowe was good natured and humorous with Matt Lauer, particularly when Lauer said he was surprised that Crowe has been spending so much time on Twitter. I didn’t know that Crowe tweeted either, and like Matt I didn’t think he was the type. Big Russ explained that he’s been a stay-at-home dad while his wife tours with her band and that he’s had some time to kill without the longer stretches that would allow him to be creative. He then added a few obligatory sentences about how it’s cutting edge technology that allows him to talk directly to fans. You know he’s just bored. Russell also said he’d quit coffee and cigarettes - at the same time - and admitted that it took him a couple of months to feel normal again and be able to concentrate.

Russell Crowe, tweeter? That was one question Matt Lauer had during Monday’s interview with the actor on TODAY.

“I'm in this place at the moment where I'm basically being Dad,” said the man behind @RussellCrowe. “I'm at home, my wife's doing gigs and stuff with her band, she's promoting a record (’Calling all Magicians’). I take the boys to school in the morning, I pick them up in the afternoon, and then there's the bedtime, and stories … I find there's not a long length of time to get involved with anything creative,” Crowe said.

A recent tweet revealed that Crowe had given up two habits: “Blue Sky in NYC today. Haven’t slept a wink. It’ll make the interviews interesting, no cigs, no coffee and no sleep. Good luck Journalists,” it read. Lauer joked, “Do you realize there was a time when someone like me wouldn't sit across from you while you're giving up cigarettes and coffee at the same time?”

“I got cranky for some time,” Crowe conceded.

[From MSNBC]

Russell explained that he had the impetus to quit smoking when he “got caught smoking a cigarette by my eldest boy, Charlie [6]”

This guy is a hell of an actor and I like that he has a few pounds on him lately. Sure you can see a paunch when he’s sitting down, but he’s still sexy as hell - he’s Russell Crowe! I’ll take a guy with some weight on him over a skinny smoker any day. You guys can have Colin Farrell! (Kaiser!) After I saw him chain smoking on the In Bruges DVD extras I was pretty much over him.

Here’s the trailer for The Next Three Days, which has a lot of spoilers as mentioned above:

Russell is shown on 7/27/10 and with his wife, Danielle Spencer, on 5/21/10. Credit: Fame Pictures. Last photo below from 5/15/10. Credit: WENN.com

Screenwriter to Jessica Alba: Bitch, please.

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:32 AM PST

Last Friday, I covered Jessica Alba's Elle Magazine December cover and interview excerpts. The excerpts were especially notable, because Alba is such a f-cking idiot. Hand to God, she said this to Elle Magazine: "Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say." I took Alba to task, as did many, many others. As I said at the time, Alba's comment was a huge diss to screenwriters - Alba is basically saying that all "good" actors are so brilliant that they can ALWAYS come up with better lines than screenwriters. Anyway, as commenter Gloaming just pointed out, now screenwriters are reacting to Dame Alba's comments. Their response? A united "Bitch, please." Well… at this point it's just screenwriter John August, a reoccurring collaborator with Tim Burton - they worked together on Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is what August had to say on his blog:

Oh, Jessica

I have to believe she was misquoted, or excerpted in some unflattering way, because Jessica Alba couldn't have actually said this: "Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say."

Oh, Jessica. Where to start?

Scripts aren't just the dialogue. Screenplays reflect the entire movie in written form, including those moments when you don't speak. Do you know the real reason we hold table readings in pre-production? So the actors will read the entire script at least once.

Following your logic, you've never been in a movie with both good actors and amazing writing. That may be true, but it might hurt the feelings of David Wain, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.

You're saying your co-stars who delivered their lines as written are not "good actors." Awkward. You're setting dangerous expectations. So if an aspiring actor wishes to be "good," she should say whatever she wants to say? That's pretty terrible advice. Screenwriters can be your best friends. We are pushovers for attractive people who pay attention to us. I wrote that bathtub scene in Big Fish because Jessica Lange made brief eye contact with me. So if you're not getting great writing — and honestly, you're not — ask to have lunch with the screenwriter. I've seen you on interviews. You're charming. That charm could work wonders.

Again: I know that quotes often come out in ways we never intended. It's lacking context — though the photos are lovely. (Hi, Carter Smith!) I'm calling this out just so we can all hopefully learn something.

[From Deadline]

That's cute. He didn't get all pissy and mean, it's like he's chiding a very small, very dumb child. Which Alba kind of is.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Rachel McAdams in Lanvin at the ‘Morning Glory’ premiere: cute or tragic?

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:03 AM PST

In addition to the European MTV Awards, last night was also the big premiere of Morning Glory, the film everybody's mom wants to see. Personally, I've already had to promise my mom that I'd take her to see it, and I doubt I’m the only one. It's going to be epic - Harrison Ford as a curmudgeon, Canada's Sweetheart Rachel McAdams, and Diane Keaton doing her silly best. Now, while I think the trailer looks good, I don't really get how this film is being promoted. If I was in charge (if, if, if), I would be putting the emphasis on Rachel as the Everywoman, the next Julia Roberts/Reese Witherspoon type who can carry a rom-com on her own. I'd also add a dash of Oscar nomination "rumors" for Harrison, because he looks really interesting in this. What I would not do is encourage my leading lady, Rachel, to dress up like some kind of twitchy blonde bombshell. This premiere dress (Lanvin) and styling reeks of "trying too hard" and it makes me not like her. Plus, I just don't care for her as a blonde.

Harrison looked like hell too. I know he's Old and everything, but the hair and the earring… God, Harrison. Just slick back your hair and be the elder statesman that you are.

Diane looked cute though:

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Raccoon McPantless wears a pushup bra & little else: take that, society!

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:41 AM PST

Would you like to know how HARDCORE Raccoon McPantless is? She's so HARDCORE that she will wear a pushup bra and not even button her shirt the correct way. Take that, SOCIETY. These are photos from the European MTV VMAs, where Taylor Momsen and her band, The Pretty Reckless, made an appearance. A spectacular pantless appearance. I just feel for the middle-aged men in this band, I really do. Their lives must suck so hard, putting up with Pantless day in and day out. Here are a couple more photos of Raccoon giving the finger to "The Man". She's still 17 years old, by the way.

Other photos from the MTV thing… Rihanna wearing a parade float, Katy Perry looking like hell during her performance, and Miley Cyrus on and off the stage. She wore some kind of Gone With the Wind getup for the red carpet (we get it, you're Southern), and then another vadge-tastic leotard for the performance. Sigh…I fear for the future.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Angelina Jolie wears a great black coat, gets groped by Brad Pitt

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:12 AM PST

If I've been disappointed at all with the photos of the Jolie-Pitt family in Budapest, it's that Angelina Jolie hasn't been bringing the coat porn. I think very little of Angelina's general fashion sense - I like some of her sweaters, and the occasional dress, but the only thing I'm completely in love with is her awesome coats. Consistently, she's a coat whore. Consistently, the bitch wears fabulous coats. Unfortunately, while directing in Budapest, Angelina has been a crappy coat kick, wearing the same puffy parka in nearly all photos. But today is the day for a change - look at this coat! I almost bought a coat very similar to this over the weekend, only the one I was looking at wasn't this good. I ended up buying a rather fabulous grey coat - but now I'm thinking I should go back for the black.

Anyway, these are new photos of Angelina on set in Budapest, and Brad once again came out to visit. He even wore some really cute reading glasses! I think Angelina has made Brad the official photographer of the film, because he's always around shooting photos. Or maybe he's just always around for moral support and the occasional grope? Because Angelina went over to him while he was shooting photos, and they had a nice little grope, with Brad's hand seemingly permanently attached to that bony ass he adores (bless his heart). Hidden alternate option: Brad is hanging around the set so much because Angelina's leading man is hot, and Brad wants to keep an eye on things. A little bit of everything, perhaps?

UPDATE: I wanted to add a couple of photos of Shiloh playing with their bulldog at home too - she’s so cute. Lainey has more pics here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Dina Lohan talks “codependency” and Lindsay’s recovery

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:40 AM PST

Dina Lohan sat down with her nemesis (one of many), Matt Lauer. Dina was on the Today Show this morning, all to talk about her crackhead daughter and the alleged recovery. Before Lauer even began the interrogation of Dina, they put out a rather (justly) harsh recap of the events thus far, with some of Dina's crack lies, and many of Lindsay Lohan's crack lies, including the little fact that Lindsay was pleading poverty, yet she can afford to go on shopping excursions on rehab breaks. Here's the video:

Some of the highlights, courtesy of USA Today and my own transcription:

Dina says she spent "two weeks" at the Betty Ford Clinic, talking with other families who have experienced a family member with addiction issues. Dina also says that the Clinic was helping families deal with "the codependency". Smart. Next up should be "the enabling."

Dina on Lindsay's "state of mind": “Happy. Relaxed… She's just a different person. The Betty Ford Center is just an amazing place,” she added, calling it “life-changing” for Lindsay. “She’s been in a couple of facilities, but this one, to me, has really changed her. They get into your psyche and bring the problem to the surface."

Dina also says that it's a big deal for Lindsay to have Twittered that she has a problem, and Dina says something about how she hopes "it will help other families." Mother Crackhead is a role model, y'all.

Dina on whether Lindsay recognizes she's an addict: "YES. And this teaches you that you are. And she's young, and I thank God that he didn't incarcerate her, because that wouldn't have helped her. And being so young and admitting that, it can only help her sobriety in the future."

Dina on whether she could admit her daughter is an addict: "Yes. When I first came her initially, you know, that was for Lindsay to admit… I put her in rehab when she was 19… It wasn't for me, as a mother, to come to the world and - I mean, how many viewers do you have? - about her problem, that was for her do. I wasn't in denial by far, but I think it was for her to come to her own evolution."

Dina on whether this rehab stay will stick: “We’ll take it one day at a time. I don’t have a crystal ball. I pray hard and she wants to start her own facilities, help other children. She’s so public, we can only be positive and look to the future to help other families.” Something tells me that if Dina did have a crystal ball, she would smoke that rock like it was going out of style.

Lohan is due to stay in rehab - she’s out of the center and “in a home,” said her mom - until Jan. 3. Lauer pointed out that last time Lindsay got out early. Might that happen again?

“Lindsay wants to stay,” said Dina. “She’s learning the trigger points and why she turns to something - drugs or addiciton.”

***

Does anyone else just roll their eyes at this? Dina is such a f-cked up person, and she contradicts herself constantly. If Dina really felt like Lindsay had all these problems (and Dina was just protecting her addict daughter), then why allow Ali to basically live with her crackhead older sister? Why all the delusional denials? Why all the crack lies? It wasn't to protect Lindsay's image, or to make Lindsay come to some kind of crack epiphany - it was so Dina was protecting her own ass, just like she's doing now.

Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart have a sparkly kiss while filming in Brazil

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:06 AM PST

Kristen Stewart and Sparkles Pattinson are in Brazil RIGHT NOW. Hurry down there, Twihards! They're filming scenes for Breaking Dawn, and according to the photo agencies, not only are K-Stew and Sparkles staying at the same Rio de Janeiro hotel, they're staying in the same hotel room. Apparently, when they aren't filming, they just stay in their room (and get high, probably). Anyway, they were wandering around Rio yesterday, filming scenes, and paparazzi "caught" them kissing - for the film. Note Sparkles' makeup. He looks deathly, that's how you can tell he's in character. Still, I'm sure the Twihards will be happy today. Their lovers have been spotted, and all is well with the universe.

I have a Sparkles side note, though: over the weekend, I decided I needed a laugh, so I rented Remember Me. Ugh… I remember when that film was being promoted, and everyone was saying that Sparkles was, like, the next James Dean, and that his performance was supposed to show that he had range outside of the "Sparkly Vampire" typecasting. Can I just say something? Sparkles isn't a very good actor. At all. Yes, the material for Remember Me sucked, but he made it suck even harder. The chemistry between Sparkles and Emilie de Raven was non-existent, their "romantic" scenes were hysterical for their awkwardness, and Sparkles really, really, REALLY needs to stop with the pursed lip, "I'm so angsty" posing. The only good part was Pierce Brosnan, who seemed to take the role of The Sparkle Father as some kind of excuse to delightfully chew the scenery. My verdict: I hope Sparkles is saving his money, because at this point, I don't see him having a long career beyond the franchise.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Lindsay Lohan leaves rehab for a movie outing, spends time with her dad

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:58 AM PST

Lindsay Lohan left rehab for the second time in under a week and was spotted at a bookstore and movie theater with two other women. The last time Lindsay was let out she went shopping a dropped a couple of hundred bucks at a Forever 21 store. She was also said to be seen regularly at a local Starbucks despite the fact that caffeine is banned at her facility, the Betty Ford Center. This if course begs the question of whether Lindsay is being given special privileges in rehab, where she’s been ordered to stay until January in lieu of jail. Lindsay is likely aware that it looks bad that she’s skirting around regulations. TMZ reports that she left the theater early once she was noticed. So how many other times has she ventured out of rehab and not been spotted?

Meanwhile, Lindsay’s dad is said to have reunited with her at rehab for the first time in months. The last time we heard from Michael Lohan he was holding a press conference to announce that he would no longer be talking to the press. He did of course, though, and granted an exclusive to Radar Online in which he gave details off the record of his reunion with Lindsay. Lindsay and Michael hugged and cried and talked for a few hours, after which they went shopping at a local mall. This was on Saturday, the same day that Lindsay was spotted out at the mall and the movies. So she could have started out shopping with her dad that day and capped it off with more shopping and a trip to the movies.

Lindsay Lohan has reunited with her estranged father Michael at the Californian rehabilitation clinic where she is receiving treatment for drug addiction, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

“It was an emotional reunion… there were hugs, kisses and even a few tears when Michael and Lindsay first saw each other,” a source with knowledge of the meeting revealed to RadarOnline.com.

It is a stunning and dramatic turnaround for the 24-year-old Hollywood wild child, who has perpetually blamed her one-time drug addict dad for her problems.

The pair met soon after 1pm on Sunday at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, we’re told.

“Lindsay met Michael at Betty Ford and the pair spent hours together… it was not a fleeting encounter, this appeared well-planned in advance,” the source said.

“They also went shopping at a local Palm Desert mall, where they were seen walking around together and at one point, were in a jewelry store.”

When RadarOnline.com contacted the Lohan patriarch for comment about the encounter, the 50-year-old dad-of-four remained tight-lipped: “I have pledged not to comment about anything relating to my daughter.

“However, what I will say is that I am an incredibly proud father tonight. My daughter is progressing extraordinarily well.”

A source close to the actress told RadarOnline.com that her father’s visit was at her invitation, while her mom, Dina, was back in New York preparing to appear on NBC’s Today Show.

“Michael turned up at Betty Ford with some gifts and items for Lindsay,” said the source.

[From Radar Online]

Michael also told Radar that he is willing to go to therapy with Lindsay, after which I’m sure he’ll leak details to whichever outlet will pay the most for his daughter’s personal information.

Lindsay’s mom Dina is going to be on The Today Show this morning. I can’t wait to see how botoxed and in denial she comes across this time.

Two year-old Indonesian smoker has quit thanks to rehab

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:49 AM PST

Remember that insane video of the two year-old boy in Indonesia who smoked up to four packs of cigarettes a day? It reached viral status and even Letterman was showing it as a gag frequently. Due to the uproar over that video, the little boy, Aldi, was flown to Jakarta and given five weeks of treatment with the Indonesian National Commission for Child Protection. After intensive play therapy sessions in a smoke-free environment, Aldi has quit cold turkey and has been returned to his family home, where they will hopefully keep the cigarettes out of reach.

Aldi’s addiction was severe, but it’s not unheard of. Cigarette smoking is shockingly common among children in Indonesia, and The Today Show reports that there are almost no restrictions on tobacco advertising in the country. Cigarette packs feature kid-friendly images like racecars and smoking is such an accepted part of the culture that it’s easy to find children under 10 lighting up. Here’s more:

Aldi Rizal can barely speak, but he knows how to ask for a cigarette.

The 2-year-old Indonesian boy is best known as “the smoking toddler,” a moniker he earned when video of him chain-smoking cigarettes hit the Web this spring, shocking viewers all over the world.

So where does this story stand six months later? Well, there’s good news and bad. The good: Aldi has since been to rehab and kicked the habit. The bad: There are countless other kids out there, just like him.

I traveled to Indonesia to meet Aldi a few weeks ago. His family lives in a small fishing village in a remote region on the island of Sumatra. It took me 41 hours to get there, flying from New York to Jakarta and driving through rubber tree plantations.

We met up with Aldi in the market before heading to his home. He’s a local celebrity — as he walked through the stalls we heard lots of people calling his name, “Aldi, Aldi!” A crowd gathered around him when he stopped to eat. But Aldi’s famous for all the wrong reasons. The toddler started smoking when he was 11 months old — and within five months he was up to four packs per day.

When Aldi’s smoking video went viral, local government officials reached out to help, paying his way to the capital city of Jakarta where he received five weeks of intensive treatment with the National Commission for Child Protection. Aldi had to quit cold turkey, and his mother says he threw terrible tantrums. The nicotine withdrawal must have been brutal for the little guy. But he got through it and started play therapy, where he could focus on just being a kid.

Sadly, Aldi’s not the only smoking kid in Indonesia. The south Asian country has one of the worst problems with child smokers in the world. Government figures estimate that 25 percent of kids over the age of 3 have tried cigarettes and 3 percent are regular smokers. That means some kids are lighting up before they even start school.

My team had no trouble finding smoking kids in Jakarta. We came across a group sitting near a river bank enjoying an after school cigarette break. One of the kids, 9-year-old Ipan, has been smoking for a year. “I feel good when I smoke”, he told me.

Another child, 5-year-old Cipto, says his mother smokes with him.

So why is this happening? Mainly because of a lack of regulation. While I was doing research for this story, one of my contacts described Indonesia as the “Wild West” of tobacco regulation. There are virtually no restrictions on cigarette advertising on TV, radio, in print or on billboards

[From MSNBC]

At least Aldi has quit. That’s absolutely shocking to me that five year olds are smoking too. Now that this issue is receiving international attention, maybe there will finally be a crackdown on tobacco advertising in Indonesia along with more measures to stop kids from smoking.

Aldi before he quit:

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Katy Perry & Russell Brand walk their first red carpet as a married couple

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 05:45 AM PST

These are new photos of Russell Brand and Katy Perry at the European MTV VMAs over the weekend. It was their first red carpet appearance since getting married in India several weeks ago. So, how do they look now that they're married? About the same, really. Katy still doesn't know what to do with her hair, and she's got an ass cheek hanging out of her "ticket dress". Brand looks… eh. I mean, he looks happy and pleased with himself in some of these photos, but neither one of them really looks blissed out with a honeymoon glow. Perhaps they really did spend their honeymoon not having sex?

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brand hit the red carpet! Comedian Brand and his new bride Katy Perry made their first post-wedding public appearance Sunday, hitting the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, Spain.

Donning a slinky red sequined dress in the design of a cinema ticket, the “Firework” singer posed for photographers before jetting backstage to prep for her performance.

Brand was clearly thrilled to have his wife on his arm, telling awards show staff “I’m not worthy” when a crew member praised Perry’s look.

The pair — who first met in September 2009 — tied the knot Oct. 23 in an elaborate ceremony at an Indian tiger reserve.

“They make each other laugh,” a pal tells Us of the newlyweds. “They have a chill chemistry.”

Adds Brand: “The relationship is very important to me. It means growing up. Love between two people is the most spectacular, but ordinary, thing in the world.”

[From Us Weekly]

Maybe marriage does suit Russell after all, at long last. But I actually have a theory about this, and yes, this is based on a theory from the original Sex & the City series: I don't think this marriage was really about Russell and Katy finding each other and realizing they were soul mates. I think Brand was simply in a place in his life where he was ready to get married, where he was unfulfilled by a life of simply boning randoms day in, day out. I think "his light was on" and Katy was the just the first girl he met who he felt he could get serious about. Just a theory.

Photos courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

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