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“Jennifer Garner & the Dimple Parade return after a brief hiatus” links
Natalie Portman’s Black Swan ballet double won’t back down any time soon
Courteney Cox says David Arquette can’t hug her without getting a boner
Mark Ruffalo is adorable, sweet, lovely and amazing in Details Mag
Brooke Mueller probably fell off the wagon again, tries pawning stuff

“Jennifer Garner & the Dimple Parade return after a brief hiatus” links

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Jennifer Garner & the Dimple Parade return after a brief hiatus. [LaineyGossip]
Lady Gaga's "Judas" is leaking. Hear it now! [Dlisted]
My girl Doutzen Kroes is out of this world. Literally. [Yeeeah]
Aw, my little girl brain can't comprehend this! [Pajiba]
The Kate Middleton jelly bean! Er, I actually do see it. [Agent Bedhead]
Jodie Foster's Beverly Hills real estate porn. [Gawker]
Hilary Duff's maxi dress & bangs trauma. [Go Fug Yourself]
Penelope Cruz in leather pants! WITH PRINCE! [Pop Sugar]
Sparkles wants to start a family. Aw… [Celebuzz]
I love that Padma Lakshmi's baby got her dad's coloring. You would expect the baby to look slightly Indian, but no. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
Todd is ranting about Glee again. [IDLITW]
The dance version of Apocalypto Britney. [I'm Not Obsessed]
Joey McIntyre got old. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
Pillow-fight! Hailee Steinfeld, etc play around in Vogue. [Evil Beet]
Condoleezza Rice is going to be on 30 Rock. [ONTD]
Jessica Lowndes wears a see-through dress. For Jakey, probably. [PopEater]

Natalie Portman’s Black Swan ballet double won’t back down any time soon

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:51 AM PDT

I don't know why these new photos of Natalie Portman and Benjamin Mille-whatever are making so happy. Usually in candids of Natalie and Ben, she's the one who is extremely covered up and he's the one who is like "Pose. Turn. Pose. Blue Steel. Clench." In these pics, he looks like the Unabomber and she's all "Oh, it's just Perfect Me, out with my Perfect Baby-Daddy!"

Speaking of Perfect Natalie and how she does Everything Perfectly, Forever, there's a new chapter in the ongoing saga of "Who the hell did the dancing in Black Swan?" I know, you thought it was over, right? I'm not even going to recap everything, just know that Natalie's dance double Sarah Lane has been claiming for a month now that she did all of the big dance sequences in Black Swan, and everybody else from the film has been like "No, Natalie is Perfect!!" The last chapter we had was Natalie Portman finally saying something about the controversy - and referring to it as "nastiness". Because Sarah Lane = NASTY to Perfect Natalie. Well, Sarah Lane sat down for an interview with ABC News… and she makes some good points:

Some quotes from the article, here at ABC News:

“[A producer] asked if I would please not do any more interviews until after the Oscars because it was bad for Natalie’s image,” Lane said. “They were trying to create this image, this facade, really, that Natalie had done something extraordinary. Something that is pretty much impossible … to become a professional ballerina in a year and half. Even with as hard as she worked, it takes so much more. It takes twenty-two years, it takes thirty years to become a ballerina.”

Jess Cagle, the managing editor for Entertainment Weekly, agreed, saying, “they diminished what Sarah did by telling Sarah to shut up and not talk and don’t let anyone know.”

Portman’s face was superimposed onto Lane’s body through special effects called “face replacement” in pivotal dance scenes to make it appear as if it were Portman executing technically sophisticated moves.

“Full body shots with actual dancing is me. That’s why they hired me,” Lane said.

In a written statement, “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky said, “Here is the reality. I had my editor count shots. There are 139 dance shots in the film — 111 are Natalie Portman untouched. Twenty-eight are her dance double Sarah Lane. If you do the math, that’s 80 percent Natalie Portman.”

“It’s possible if you’re counting the close-ups of her face as actual dancing shots. I don’t call close-ups of her face actual dancing,” Lane said.

“Black Swan” editor Andy Weisblum agreed to take a closer look for “20/20.” “There are about 35 shots that are full body shots in the movie. Of those 35 shots, 12 are Natalie, and then the rest are Sarah,” Weisblum said. “But over the overall film, Natalie did a lot more than that. I mean, she did most of the other shots. It was sometimes hard for me to tell the difference as the editor, it was so close.”

Lane said her feelings about being credited changed late last year after Portman received an Oscar nomination for best actress and the movie’s backers began an aggressive campaign on the actress’s behalf.

“There’s so much emotionally that goes into motivating yourself and being able to physically push yourself to reach a certain level, that you have to reach to be a professional ballerina with one of the biggest ballet companies in the world and to sustain that standard over a whole career,” Lane said. “It really hurts for someone to say that, they got a personal trainer and they became what I spent blood, sweat and tears doing every day, all my life, in just a year and a half.”

“A lot of the campaign was focused on the physical preparation, the transformation,” Cagle said. “The Academy loves it when an actor does something besides act in a movie. There was in a lot of the marketing materials for “Black Swan,” certainly the implication that Natalie became a great world class ballet dancer.”

Lane acknowledged that while Portman trained hard for the film, her dancing technique was nowhere near as good as hers.

“I’ve been doing this for 22 years, and to say that someone trained for a year and a half and did what I did is degrading not only to me but to the entire ballet world,” Lane said.

Wendy Perron, editor-in-chief of Dance Magazine, a choreographer and a dancer, said she knew of Lane’s role in “Black Swan” and wondered why a soloist ballerina whose technical skills were vital to the complicated dance sequences was being cast out of the limelight.

“She’s an artist,” Perron said. “It’s not just that it was difficult. It’s that she brought an artistry to it, and Natalie Portman is a dramatic artist, a film artist. But Sarah Lane is a dance artist, and she helped make the movie what it was. … It bothered me. I think she should get credit for it.”

Perron wrote her opinion in a blog that was soon picked up in the national media, and “Black Swan” filmmakers moved swiftly to defend their star.

Portman has continued to decline to comment on the controversy, and told E! News last week, “I had a chance to make something beautiful with this film, and I don’t want to give in to the gossip.”

For Lane, the silver lining in this controversy may just be that ballet is taking center stage in a national discussion. An unanticipated opportunity to share the commitment and dedication of all ballet dancers.

“I have so much respect for this art form and the people who are able to do it so beautifully and I want to stand up for that,” she said. “I want people to know how hard we work as professional dancers. What is not necessarily, really portrayed in the movie, is the beauty that ballet can create. How it can reach across oceans, and how it can bond countries who are completely at war.”

[From ABC News]

I was over this controversy weeks ago, but I'm giving Sarah Lane credit for not shutting her mouth and going away just because everyone is falling all over themselves to defend Perfect Natalie. I think Lane had a point back then and she still has a point. And I personally don't think the "Natalie won her Oscar for her acting, not the dancing" argument holds water. Natalie won her Oscar for the entirety of the performance on film, and there was a concerted effort to make it sound like Portman did more of her dancing than she actually did. And yes, I'm talking about the actual dancing, not just the little constipated dance faces Natalie made while flapping her arms in close-up.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Courteney Cox says David Arquette can’t hug her without getting a boner

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:30 AM PDT

When I heard this story I thought it was old news, because didn’t David Arquette just tell Howard Stern that he tried to make a pass at Courteney Cox while they were on a family trip to Disneyland but got shot down? He did say that, but it was on Tuesday and as E! reports he was sitting in on Howard’s show all week. Well Courteney paid him a visit yesterday on the show and she confirmed that story that David tried to get in her pants but she turned him down. She also claimed that she hasn’t had sex at all since their split. Now why is she palling around with all those fine men and going on vacation with them? What is the damn point? Whether she was telling the truth or not, David believes her. What’s more is that Courteney said that she and David broke up because he couldn’t just hang out with her without getting a boner and wanting sex. They must have gotten old after 10 freaking years.

In an interview with Howard Stern yesterday, the estranged couple discussed their sex life at length, leaving little to the imagination.

When probed by Stern regarding Arquette’s reported advances on Cox during a trip to Disney World with their daughter Coco, 6, the actress said frankly, “It was early in the morning. This is one of our problems in our relationship. Whenever I would need consoling from David, he could not literally put his arm around me for one second without completely getting a boner.”

Cox told Stern that, despite her husband’s admitted flings following their separation, “I have not had sex,” since the split, denying that she is romantically involved with her ‘Cougar Town’ co-star Josh Hopkins.

While Cox had said just weeks before of her ex, who recently celebrated his 100th day of sobriety, “He looks the best he’s ever looked. He’s doing great. He’s just awesome,” she admitted that she was hesitant to become intimate with him again. “I don’t want to confuse the issue,” she said. “We’re going through a hard time.”

“I’m always ready for [Courteney],” said Arquette. “I know I’m more in touch with what she needs now…She takes one sort of thing and she clumps it [and says] that’s what happens all the time in our relationship. It’s not really true.”

Cox told Stern that in the past, Arquette had supported her through difficult times, including her father’s death in 2001, but she seemed far from ready to get back together. After Arquette accused her of being “over it,” Cox admitted, “The truth of the matter is that we love each other so much. We have such affection for each other but we are very different.”

[From Popeater]

You can hear a clip of that at TMZ. David said that “I’m always ready for you,” but as Popeater noted above he claimed that she was overgeneralizing.

Can we believe Courteney, did she really not bone any of those hot guys from her show? David is buying it, but it’s obviously not helping their relationship much. I get the impression that she just doesn’t want to tell him it’s over for good and is hoping he’ll figure it out and come to terms with it on his own. She may think she’s doing him a favor but it looks to me like she’s just stringing the poor guy along.

Image below credit: HowardStern.com Other photo is from 6/1/10. Credit: WENN.com

Mark Ruffalo is adorable, sweet, lovely and amazing in Details Mag

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:30 AM PDT

Do you have any idea how much I love Mark Ruffalo? So, so much. I've loved him since the first film I ever saw him in - You Can Count on Me. That was more than a decade ago, and his films are at times hit or miss, but I never hold it against him. He just brings me joy, because he's a really talented actor, he's cute as a button, and he seems like a genuinely sweet man. Anyway, Mark has two major interviews out this week, the biggest being this cover of Details! Can you believe it? After years of toiling in the industry, doing consistently good work, and winning the respect of his peers, Mark is finally a cover boy for a major magazine? Isn't that awesome? Anyway, if you'd like to see his Details photo shoot, go here, and if you'd like to read the whole Details piece, go here. Here are some highlights:

Mark Ruffalo appears on the May cover of DETAILS magazine in a photo shoot with Matthias Vriens-McGrath that took place in New York City. Disgusted with Hollywood and mourning the loss of his brother, Ruffalo quit acting (again) for his hideaway in upstate New York. But a funny thing happened on the way to irrelevance—the movie he thought would be his last earned him an Oscar nomination and made him a bona fide leading man. Now the 43-year-old in-demand actor is making his long-awaited directorial debut with this month's Sympathy for Delicious and suiting up to be the next Hulk. Strange how busy retirement can be. "You don't interview Mark Ruffalo—you converse with him," said writer Jonathan Miles. "The standard Hollywood ego is nowhere to be found. By the end of the interview we were just talking fishing and politics like every other guy in the bar."

On quitting acting in 2009: "I'd had it with L.A., and I really had it with the business side of acting, the machinery of it all. You're an artist, but then all of a sudden you're a product at the same time, and there's this company that's sprung up around you. I got depressed. I was losing my love for it. So I said, 'I'm done.' I fired everybody and moved my family out here (Callicoon, NY). I had to make a radical move." He goes on to say, "The Kids Are Alright was my swan song. I didn't know what I was doing next."

On struggling to make it as an actor: "It was brutal. The years are stripping away, but when you talking to anyone from home, you're saying something like 'Well, I'm just working on my craft right now,' when the truth is that I can't get a fucking job because no one will hire me. It was humiliating."

On deciding to continue acting: What brought Ruffalo back this latest time was sitting in the audience at Sundance, where The Kids Are Alright made its debut in 2010, and, after the first peal of laughter, "watching everyone's jaded, supercool Hollywood identities melt into the communal experience of filmmaking and storytelling. It reminded me: I'm an actor, and my whole life has been geared towards being an actor."

On acting in The Avengers, a computer-generated style movie: Ruffalo makes the counterintuitive connection between motion-capture acting and the theater. "It's the absolute perfect marriage because it relies on your imagination, your ability to project outside of yourself, to be the watcher and the watched. A stage actor has to be able to do that, because you're telling the story with your body as much as your face and voice."

On not training to be The Incredible Hulk: "No, no, no. Look, I'm eating guacamole and potato chips….You think Tom Cruise does this?"

[From Details]

He sounds really good, and I would definitely recommend reading the whole Details article. The problem is that he's just so nice and sweet and professional, there aren't any juicy, eye-rolling quotes.

Mark also did a big interview with The Advocate, which came out earlier this week. It's mostly about his career and his involvement with LGBT issues and why he feels so strongly about human rights issues. The full interview is here, and here are a few highlights:

Why have you taken such a personal interest in gay rights?
We have a lot of friends who are gay couples with kids. When my son would go to his friend's house down the street, where his friend's parents are a married gay couple, not once did he come home and say, "Why does he have two papas?" That didn't occur to him, because their house is no different from ours. I've seen the human face of the issue, I've seen the pain gay couples are going through, so it was important for me to add my voice to the fight. Fortunately, my voice reaches much further than a lot of people's. I was trained as an actor that we have a responsibility in our community to stand up for what we believe in and to use our voice and our art to teach people and push those beliefs.

Why don't more celebrities show your level of support?
Throughout history, it's always been the artists who express progressive views, and there has always been an attack on artists who speak out against culture wars and military actions. I've seen the right-wing media campaign to discredit people who speak out against their agendas, and it's been chillingly effective. I've seen it happen with the war in Iraq and I'm seeing it happen with marriage equality.

Up through 2005, you'd periodically appear in light rom-coms like Just Like Heaven, Rumor Has It…, and 13 Going on 30. Now that you've gotten an Oscar nomination, are those days officially over?
I don't know. I've found that rom-coms are rarely romantic, rarely comedic, and rarely a combination of both in a satisfying way. But I liked those movies I did because they were funny, but they had nice messages and real heart at the same time. Lately, I just haven't had many rom-com scripts come across my desk that I thought were really good.

[From The Advocate]

He also talked about being hired to play AIDS activist Ned Weeks in the upcoming Ryan Murphy film The Normal Heart. Mark said something rather beautiful about playing the real-life gay man, and it actually made me stop in my tracks and say "Damn, he has a point." Mark was saying that he didn't want to play this gay character at first because he thought that a gay actor should take the role. When asked why a gay actor should take it, Mark said: "It just should be. It's time. At what point did they finally let an African American play an African American? There comes a time in our culture when Marlon Brando shouldn't be playing a Japanese guy." That's an interesting way of thinking isn't it? I love him.

Photos courtesy of Details' slideshow.

Brooke Mueller probably fell off the wagon again, tries pawning stuff

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 08:00 AM PDT

TMZ has video of Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen’s most recent ex, trying to sell a watch and a stereo for cash at a pawn shop. As they mention she makes $55,000 a month from Charlie in child support and got a divorce settlement that was at least $750,000. (The ‘multi-million’ settlement that TMZ mentions in that article is not accurate based on known details of her prenup.) Still, Brooke is a wealthy woman by most people’s standards but she’s trying to pawn off some stuff for cash.

Brooke wasn’t able to sell the watch or the stereo as she didn’t have ID. Most people are saying this points to her falling off the wagon again. You never can tell when Charlie is involved though. Maybe he’s not paying his child support. Or maybe he’s not paying his child support and Brooke needs money for drugs. Radar sums up this story, and they reveal that Brooke has been trying to get friends to give her some pee so she’ll pass a drug test (as if she has any friends with clean pee) and that she’s been dropped from that reality show with Paris Hilton. That’s got to hurt:

Thursday was the day from hell for Brooke Mueller, sitcom star Charlie Sheen's soon-to-be-ex-wife.

It started with frantic calls to friends for drug-free urine, continued with a failed attempt to hock an expensive watch in a sleazy Inglewood pawn shop — and it ended with friends believing Mueller is hitting rock bottom.

A RadarOnline source said worried pals have been trying to reach the 33-year-old Mueller all day but have not been able to connect with her. The spy added that Mueller is believed to have attempted to pawn one of Sheen's expensive time pieces – even though she gets $55,000 a month from the former Two and a Half Men actor.

Mueller's habit over the past few months was to return calls from associates immediately. That stopped Wednesday.

Brooke Mueller ‘Pee-Gate’ Fallout: Charlie Sheen Could Seek Twins’ Full Custody

"Brooke seems depressed," the friend said. "We're worried for her safety."

In addition to her pending divorce from Sheen, Mueller is said to be desperate to become famous. But her best chance at it — a starring role in a soon-to-be-premiered reality show with hotel heiress Paris Hilton — fizzled when most of her scenes were left on the cutting-room floor.

Another source told ROL that Mueller, who like Sheen has battled addictions to booze and drugs, is complaining of money trouble.

On Wednesday, Mueller missed a red carpet event in Hollywood. And she was dropped from Friday's TV-trade presentation of The World According to Paris, Hilton's new Oxygen network show.

[From Radar Online]

Brooke has gone to “outpatient” rehab several times, most recently in March after Charlie Sheen kicked her off a private jet when he was headed to the Bahamas with his other two girlfriends. (Here’s a happy photo of them all together before the falling out.) Brooke is probably back on the sauce yet again though and Charlie is making sure the press hears about it. I bet he’s hoping to get custody of his twin boys back so he can bring them with him on his crazy tour. No judge will allow that though, and for now at least they’re safe with Brooke’s mom. Those poor kids.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

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