Monday, November 22, 2010

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Lindsay Lohan Will Be Spending Thanksgiving Here In SoCal

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:59 PM PST

Earlier today we learned that actress Malin Akerman has been cast in the Inferno role that Lindsay Lohan was fired from yesterday and right now we get to learn what L. Lo‘s Thaksgiving Day plans will be. Unfortch for her, Lindsay‘s request to leave the State of California so that she could spend Thanksgiving at her mother’s home in Long Island, NY has been DENIED so she’ll be forced to give thanks right here in SoCal. TMZ reports that Lindsay has been spending all week long in the close company of her father Michael Lohan so it’s likely they’ll be spending Thanksgiving together as well. Here is a photo of L. Lo and father grabbing a cup o’ joe at a local Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf this week and possible deets about her holiday plans this week:

Lindsay Lohan and her father Michael spent the entire week together at Betty Ford — and if Michael gets his wish … soon Dina will be joining them. Sources tell TMZ Michael arrived at BF on Monday and has been there throughout the week as part of their family week. We’re told in the early part of the week, Lindsay and Michael each went through therapy sessions … but not with each other. According to our sources, the two began doing sessions together on Wednesday. One session simply included the two of them and a counselor — another session involved a larger group. We’re told counselors at Betty Ford, as well as Lindsay and Michael, want Dina to join in on the sessions during family week next month … As for the rest of Michael’s week with LiLo… on Thursday night, Michael was spotted out with Lindsay — we’re told Michael treated Lindsay and a few of her friends from rehab to dinner.

Lindsay Lohan will not be allowed to leave the state of California during the Thanksgiving holiday — so she’ll be breaking bread with her father Michael on Turkey Day … TMZ has learned. As we first reported, Lohan was hoping to get permission from Betty Ford to head back to NY for the holiday, so she could be with her mother and the rest of the family. But we’re told BF wasn’t having it, so she’ll be in sunny California next Thursday. We’re told Lindsay will spend the day at a home where Michael is staying, close to Betty Ford. Michael wants Dina and the kids to come out and spend the day … but we’re told Dina’s not biting. So Michael’s Plan B is getting the whole clan together for XMAS.

At last … a punishment with bite! Lindsay will be forced to spend Thanksgiving with her father, how ghastly! Actually, it sounds like Lindsay and Michael have been getting along so … I guess this is good news. I’m happy to hear that the Betty Ford Center has some sort of standards and has denied Lindsay‘s request to fly off to NY on holiday while she should be rehabbing.

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No War Make, Love Make Instead

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:39 PM PST

Yesterday afternoon, David and I met up with Emma, Josh and co. for a bite to eat and hang out session at The Village Idiot on Melrose Ave. We hadn’t seen them in a while so it was nice catching up with them. We were joined by their friends Michael and Melanie and a grand time was had by all. Melrose is peppered with pretty good graffiti and I snapped a photo of this very cool Star Wars-inspired poster tacked up near the Village Idiot:


It’s cool, right? After dinner/drinks, David and I made our way to Hollywood to attend the screening of a movie that I can’t talk about just yet. I’ve written up my review and will be able to share it with all y’all in a couple of weeks. I cannot WAIT to share :D

Today David and I will be heading into the Valley to celebrate our good friend Angi’s birthday today!! It shall be a blast!

Happy Sunday, y’all … hope your weekends are going well. Wee!!

Les News, 112110

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:31 PM PST

Hot Dude Of The Day: Carlos Freire

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 12:07 PM PST

It is that time again, time to celebrate (as well as gawk and gander) at the Hot Dude of the Week! Today we get a bit of Latin flair from a young gent who was expertly photographed by Rick Day and who seems to have a penchant for horseback riding … or of riding of some sort. Say hello to Carlos Freire:


Giddy up, y’all! I’m not exactly sure what kind of ride Carlos here is lookin’ to go on but … it kinda looks like fun. Something tells me that Carlos might be the perfect kind of guy to go riding with … wouldn’t you agree? Enjoy!!

[Photo credit: Rick Day; Source]

Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi Celebrates Her Birthday With Lifestyle Condoms

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 11:52 AM PST

Nicole Snooki Polizzi, of MTV‘s Jersey Shore fame, celebrated her 23rd birthday a bit early in NYC last night at a party thrown in her honor … by Lifestyle Condoms. That’s right, you don’t get much classier than having a birthday fete sponsored by a condom company. Here are a few photos of Snooki and her Jersey Shore co-star/BFF Jenni Jwoww Farley on the red carpet of Pascha nightclub last night:

“Snooki is an advocate for safe sex, and so was happy to have them as her party sponsor. They’ll probably have a booth at the party giving out condoms to guests. But this party is really for Snooki’s close friends, and she is personally paying for most of it. She has turned down a lot of liquor sponsors because she doesn’t want her friends to drink cheap booze. Her message is if you are going to have sex, do it safely.”

LMAO!! There is no way in Hell that I believe that Snooki is “personally paying for most” of her own party, no way. I can appreciate the party line that Snooki chose to let Lifestyles Condoms sponsor her party out of a desire to spread the “safe sex” message but my gut tells me that they threw her a LOT of money for the privilege. And how much do I love that Jwoww showed up at the party wearing a black latex condom as her dress? Brills. Snooki + condoms = birthday party? Genius. I can’t think of a more fitting collaboration.

[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]

CNN Celebrates The Heroes Of 2010

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 11:36 AM PST

Celebrities and real life heroes convened at the Shrine Auditorium here in Los Angeles, CA last night to attend the taping of CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute which honors the people who have gone above and beyond to help those in need … our everyday heroes. The ceremony, which will air on CNN on Thanksgiving night this Thursday, was attended by Hollywood A-listers as well as real life heroes who have made an impact this year … including the 33 Chilean miners who survived a 69 day ordeal underground and were just rescued last month. Here are a few photos from the red carpet arrivals last night and some deets about the show itself:

A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. Anuradha Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com. CNN’s Anderson Cooper revealed the result at the conclusion of the fourth annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.” “Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity,” Koirala said earlier in the evening after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. “I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.” Koirala was introduced by actress Demi Moore, who along with her husband, Ashton Kutcher, created DNA, The Demi and Ashton Foundation, which aims to eliminate child sex slavery worldwide … “Since 1993, she has helped rescue more than 12,000 women and girls. Through her organization Maiti Nepal, she has provided more than a shelter for these girls and young women, she has created a home. It is a place for them to heal, go to school, learn a skill, and for some who are infected with HIV/AIDS, it is the place where they can spend their days surrounded by love.” Koirala will receive $100,000 to continue her work with Maiti Nepal, in addition to the $25,000 awarded to each of the top 10 Heroes honored Saturday night … The show opened with a salute to the 33 Chilean miners and five of the people who rescued them last month after the miners spent 69 days underground. “For 69 days we were amazed by these 33 brave miners,” Cooper said in welcoming the miners onto the Shrine stage. “Their ordeal was unthinkable; their rescue, unbelievable. No one has ever been trapped underground so deep for so long and survived. “They endured a nightmare, experienced a miracle, and in the end became each others’ brothers and heroes. On behalf of CNN Heroes, we salute all 33 Chilean miners.” After the miners sang the Chilean national anthem, two of them — speaking through a translator and holding the Chilean flag — expressed their appreciation. “We want to thank the world, and we want to thank God for your prayers,” Luis Urzua told the audience in Spanish. “Our families suffered. Our children suffered, too. But thanks to the prayers of the whole world, we could come out of this difficulty,” Mario Sepulveda added. “Some of our rescuers are here with us tonight,” Urzua said. “Thank you for bringing us home. You are our heroes.”

John Legend, Bon Jovi and Sugarland were among the musicians who performed on the show last night and celebrities including Halle Berry, Kid Rock, LL Cool J, Aaron Eckhart and the folks pictured above were on hand to present awards. I’m always so impressed and SO inspired by the real life heroes who are honored by CNN every year. There are so many unsung heroes who work tirelessly on a daily basis to help others and they do so happily and without any desire to be recognized for their efforts. It is very cool that this annual tribute seeks out those people and honors them, not necessarily for their personal glory but because those people shine as a beacon of human kindness and selfless inspiration. I’ll be tuning in this Thursday night to see these amazing people honored and I will surely be giving thanks for all the amazing work they do.

[Photo credit: Wireimage; Source]

Disney Will No Longer Produce Animated Films Based On Classic Fairy Tales

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 10:23 AM PST

Sad and very disappointing news to pass along today Disney Animation fans … according to the company itself, The Walt Disney Company will no longer produce animated/musical films based on classic fairy tales. Tangled, Disney‘s modern take on Rapunzel, hits theaters next week and altho the film will not be presented in traditional 2D animation, it will feature a classic fairy tale story (like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) set to a musical soundtrack (like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin) … and, sadly, it will be the last Disney animated feature to do so … at least for the “foreseeable future”:

Once upon a time, there was a studio in Burbank that spun classic fairy tales into silver-screen gold. But now the curtain is falling on “princess movies,” which have been a part of Disney Animation’s heritage since the 1937 debut of its first feature film, “Snow White.” The studio’s Wednesday release of “Tangled,” a contemporary retelling of the Rapunzel story, will be the last fairy tale produced by Disney’s animation group for the foreseeable future. “Films and genres do run a course,” said Pixar Animation Studios chief Ed Catmull, who along with director John Lasseter oversees Disney Animation. “They may come back later because someone has a fresh take on it … but we don’t have any other musicals or fairy tales lined up.” Indeed, Catmull and Lasseter killed two other fairy tale movies that had been in development, “The Snow Queen” and “Jack and the Beanstalk.” To appreciate what a sea change this is for the company, consider that a fairy tale castle is a landmark at Disney theme parks around the world and is embedded in the Walt Disney Pictures logo. Fairy tale characters from Disney’s movies populate the parks, drive sales of merchandise and serve as the inspiration for Broadway musicals … Over the decades, Disney has benefited from the ticket sales and licensing revenue generated by such princess-driven properties as “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.” The studio’s most recent offering, however, was a clear disappointment. Although critically acclaimed, last year’s “The Princess and the Frog” was the most poorly performing of Disney’s recent fairy tales. In the age of mega-franchises when movies need to appeal to a broad audience to justify a sizable investment, Disney discovered too late that “Princess and the Frog” appealed to too narrow an audience: little girls. This prompted the studio to change the name of its Rapunzel movie to the gender-neutral “Tangled” and shift the lens of its marketing to the film’s swashbuckling male costar, Flynn Rider …

The article excerpt continues, after the jump …

So why has the clock struck midnight for Disney’s fairy tales? Among girls, princesses and the romanticized ideal they represent — revolving around finding the man of your dreams — have a limited shelf life. With the advent of “tween” TV, the tiara-wearing ideal of femininity has been supplanted by new adolescent role models such as the Disney Channel’s Selena Gomez and Nickelodeon’s Miranda Cosgrove. “By the time they’re 5 or 6, they’re not interested in being princesses,” said Dafna Lemish, chairwoman of the radio and TV department at Southern Illinois University and an expert in the role of media in children’s lives. “They’re interested in being hot, in being cool. Clearly, they see this is what society values” … “You’ve got to go with the times,” MGA Chief Executive Isaac Larian said. “You can’t keep selling what the mothers and the fathers played with before. You’ve got to see life through their lens” … Bonnie Arnold, an animation veteran who most recently produced DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon,” said animated films must vie in the cineplex with effects-laden action films that a generation ago might have been considered more mature fare. “You see elementary school kids standing in line to see ‘Iron Man’ or ‘Transformers,’ ” Arnold said. “To be honest, that’s who we’re all competing with on some level.” In an effort to give the Rapunzel story a more contemporary feel, Catmull and Lasseter pushed the reset button in 2008 and brought in a new directing duo who had both worked on Disney’s animated movie “Bolt.” The Rapunzel film underwent a “total restart,” Catmull said: All the prior work was scrapped and the movie was reconceived as a musical with five songs by Disney’s veteran, multiple-Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken. The only surviving elements, Catmull said, were “the hair, the tower and Rapunzel.”

The company feels that the use of fairy tales, a tradition upon which Disney Animation feature films was founded on back in 1936 with Snow White, has “run its course” and that they must focus on new stories to win “wider appeal”. I personally think this is bullshizz. While I LOVE new, original stories like Toy Story, Up!, Monster’s Inc., etc. I really feel that the heart and soul of Disney animation (and animated films in general) comes from the retelling of classic fairy tales. Fairy tales resonate within all of us … they are ancient tales that spark archetypes in our collective psyches and give us all a familiar point of reference to respond to. I don’t understand why there needs to be a complete cut off of that spark. The new animated films are fantastic, yes, but I’m really bummed that classic tales will be thrown by the wayside in order to appeal to a wider audience. Why can’t they alternate new and old stories? Why can’t they, at the very least, put out a classic fairy tale every other year … every 5th year, something? IMHO, the new stories told by Disney/Pixar have a decidedly Western feel to them (like Cars) … while classic fairy tales (like Aladdin, for example) have a much wider appeal. I dunno … this news just really rubs me the wrong way. What do y’all think … are you bothered at all by this news? Do you think telling fairy tales has “run its course” or do you, like me, believe that there is still merit and entertainment to be had in modern retellings of classic fairy tales?

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Courtney Love Shares Another Attention-Grabbing Photo On Twitter

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 09:51 AM PST

Early last month Courtney Love posted a personal photo of herself on her official Twitter profile that featured her in a semi-nude and provocative pose. A few days later, Courtney announced to the world that she was “quitting” Twitter because she mistakenly posted that personal photo for all the world to see when she meant for it to only be seen by her boyfriend. Courtney‘s retirement from Twitter didn’t last long because a couple of weeks later, she started posting photos on Twitter again … particularly of the new boyfriend she presumably loves sending sexy photos to. Late last night, C. Love posted some new and equally provocative photos on her official Twitter profile, one of which looks very much like the first photo Courtney claims she “mistakenly” posted online:


As you might imagine, the photo is pretty NSFW so if you’re gonna wanna see what Courtney has got going on … er … well … between her legs, you’re gonna have to check out the photo after the jump …


It *looks* like that spherical object between her legs is some sort of fancy (and likely very expensive) purse … tho I suppose it could be some sort of bejeweled sex toy … or something. It’s unclear if the photo above or this other photo …


… are meant to be seen by the world at large or not but … well, there you have it. IMNO, neither photo is particularly sexy so … I don’t really get it. It’s possible that Courtney may quit Twitter again for a few days in the wake of the release of these new photos … or, you know, maybe not. One thing’s for sure, if she keeps posting photos like this on Twitter, my guess is that many other people will be quitting Twitter just to preserve their sanity … and eyesight.

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Malin Akerman Will Play Linda Lovelace In ‘Inferno’

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 08:57 AM PST

Yesterday we learned the news (which, IMHO is great news) that Lindsay Lohan had been fired (or she quit, depending on who you believe) from appearing in the upcoming Matthew Wilder biopic Inferno which will tell the tragic life story of the late porn actress Linda Lovelace. Later in the day, Deadline revealed which actress has already been cast in the Lovelace role to replace Lohan … and that actress is Malin Akerman:

Malin Akerman (Couples Retreat, Watchmen, 27 Dresses) is now confirmed to replace Lindsay Lohan in Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. from director/writer Matthew Wilder’s script which made the 2008 Black List. “My understanding is that Lindsay was dropped as she’s impossible to insure and the producers loved Malin,” an insider emails. Malin’s upcoming credits include Wanderlust (Paul Rudd, Jen Aniston) … She is also attached to star opposite Ethan Hawke in The Numbers Station. The Lovelace project … is based on the novel Ordeal: An Autobiography by Linda Lovelace with Mike McGrady.

Naturally, in the wake of the news of Lindsay being uncast from the film, her people have been telling everyone that it was her decision to quit the film while folks on Team Inferno insist that she was fired. Deadline has an impeccable reputation for reporting actual facts and is always right about these sorts of things … if they report that Lindsay was “dropped” then I’m more inclined to believe them. STILL, no matter if she was fired or if she quit, I think it is FANTASTIC news that Lindsay will not be playing a hardcore substance abuser and porn star in her next film. The girl needs to focus on her sobriety, period. Malin Akerman hasn’t really impressed me in anything I’ve seen her in … except for Watchmen. She was decent in the role as Silk Spectre II … does that mean she’s got the chops to bring Linda Lovelace to life on the big screen? That remains to be seen … I do believe, tho, that she is a better actress than Lindsay so … this recasting news sounds like a good thing for everyone involved.

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