This past weekend at the box office was a veritable bloodbath not in the literal sense but speaking of the carob syrup variety. Scream 4, which was expected to be at least as successful as its predecessors, fell upon its own knife (and certainly wasn’t helped by David Arquette and Courteney Cox’s boner-related TMI) to draw only $19.3 million from audiences. The newest kid’s film, Rio, easily took first place with $40 million even though Hop (which nabbed third place) is still out there in circulation as well.
Of the remaining holdovers, the inspirational sports drama, Soul Surfer, grabbed fourth place; the Cate Blanchett sci-fi revenge flick, Hanna, took fifth; and Arthur slid way down to sixth place (because nobody likes poor live-action Russell Brand). On a more impressive note, The Conspirator (which Kaiser has already noted was pretty damn good) debuted with $3.9 million to land in ninth place; but don’t be fooled by the low place rank because that movie was only showing on about 700 screens as opposed to the 3800 and 3200 screens upon which Rio and Scream opened, respectively speaking. Of course, the film industry is now aghast at Scream’s poor turnout, and the analysis of why this happened has commenced with fury:
Before Scream 4 was released this weekend, tracking indicated an opening in the mid- to high $20sM for this 4th film in the Scream franchise which comes 11 years after the 3rd film. But after Friday’s so-so debut and Saturday’s declining grosses, it won’t make even the lower end of predictions. The Miramax/Dimension/Weinstein Co’s 15-year-old Scream franchise kept the formula that made it so popular in the first place — including producer/director Wes Craven, screenwriter Kevin Williamson who bailed mid-production because of Weinstein meddling, and orignal castmembers Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell — then added Hayden Panettiere and Emma Roberts (Julia’s niece and Eric’s daughter). Maybe the entire concept should have been reworked. The result is that Scream as a franchise has little life left in it even though the Weinsteins kept insisting that it had a lot.
It must be noted that the above tracking figures do seriously downplay the situation in favor of the Weinsteins. Box Office Mojo’s derby predictions were for Scream 4 to rake in $40.6, and that obviously didn’t happen by a long shot. Of course, one wonders why the Weinsteins bothered to release a horror movie in April when much of the target audience (teens and young adults) are preoccupied with seasonal activities such as prom and finals. There’s also the complicating fact that Scream actually saw a dropoff between Friday ($8.3 million) and Saturday ($6.7 million), which is actually the direct opposite of what happens with the horror genre (it’s a phenomenon that I’ve previously written about ad nauseumover at Pajiba if you’re interested). The thing about horror movies is that word of mouth matters so much during opening weekend, and a steep dropoff between Friday and Saturday could mean that audiences were disappointed in the movie and told other people not to go see it. Or, in the alternative, maybe very few people wanted to watch Scream 4 in the first place.
Another day, another Gooptastic interview. Gwyneth Paltrow sat down for an interview with The Daily Mail, and shockingly, she managed to get through the whole thing without giving a soliloquy about juice cleanses. Our little Goop is growing up! Not really, though. She's still a self-absorbed bitch, and we, the peasants, must cling to every Goopy morsel she deigns to toss us. The Mail interview is super-long, so you can read the whole thing here, if you want your eyes to roll a million times in ten minutes. (Sidenote: why is Gwyneth speaking to such a peasanty publication? Discuss.) Here are some of the highlights:
Life lessons from Brad Pitt's mother: 'My life can be surreal sometimes – like singing at the Oscars. I think, "What's going on?" It is so crazy. I've been doing way too much. But last week I was at home with my children in the kitchen, and I threw a tea towel over my shoulder – as soon as I do that I feel grounded. Funnily enough,' smiles Gwyneth, 'Brad Pitt's mum taught me that (Brad and Gwyneth were engaged during the mid 1990s). It's the best tip anyone's given me because it's always there while you're cooking. So I got chopping and put the pans on the stove. It's so tactile, I felt like I had just got back into my own body.'
Guilt about being away from her kids: 'I don't feel guilty unless I am tipping the balance badly,' she explains. 'For example, before Christmas, I went away five times, just little trips, but it was too much for my son – he was very upset and started crying and acting up. I felt horribly guilty. He's little and he needs me. But I have just been with them for seven weeks solid, so I am fine with being away this week.'
Gwyneth on "fish fingers": They're always home-made. 'I make a batch and freeze them,' she explains. 'But I think the main thing for mothers is to not stress yourself out. I honestly think that even ordering a pizza and sitting down together as a family is great. You're not always going to have time to cook a meal from scratch. What I do at the weekend is make batches of stuff for the week, such as vegetarian chilli and spaghetti with meatballs. You can make a really delicious pasta or grill a chicken breast in ten minutes. We don't have family dinners every night,' she continues. 'When we're in London, sometimes I'll go out with friends or with Chris, but we always have a family dinner on Sunday night.'
Does Chris cook? 'No, I am the cook,' she smiles. 'But my son can perfectly crack an egg and Apple is into baking, which is good because I am a terrible baker.'
Gwyneth made her father's illness all about her own food drama: Gwyneth was distraught when Bruce was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, and she became obsessed with an extreme macrobiotic eating plan, hoping that, perhaps by osmosis, adopting a rigid diet would somehow save him. 'It's obviously ridiculous,' she confesses, 'but I didn't want him to die and the doctors said he had to be healthier. He literally had a hot dog before his surgery, and I was like, "Come on." So I started to read about how powerful the body can be if you do not poison it with processed food and white sugar – there are cases that show that sometimes people can heal themselves.' (Gwyneth reverted to a moderate diet when pregnant with Apple.) She tried and failed to get her dad to change his eating habits. 'After his operation, with his radiation treatment, he had a hard time eating, so I prepared a healthy lunch for him – gluten-free soba noodles. He took a mouthful and said, "It's like biting into The New York Times."' She looks emotional. 'Even before he got sick, it was always my worst fear that something would happen to him because he was my rock. He was so funny, just cool and awesome.'
Gwyneth on her dad's death: 'It was devastating beyond belief and I am still very traumatised at the memory. I still feel it in my nervous system.' She is quiet for a moment. 'I wish he was still alive and it's a real weight that I carry, like a black hole. My friends say, "He's always with you," and I say, "Oh rubbish. No, he's not, he's dead."'
She's interested in basically every fancy religion: 'I am interested in Jewish and Christian mysticism and Sufism. I'm also interested in cause and effect and karma and God. I don't feel my father around or anything. I don't know if I will see him again. He never got to see his grandchildren. That really sucks because he would have been the best grandfather.'
On having any more children: As we're talking, a young father walks out of the restaurant, an adorable baby in his arms. Gwyneth is smitten. 'It makes me want to have another one, he is sooo gorgeous!' Would you have another baby? 'I don't think so. I don't know if I can go there again, not sleep and be depressed for two years.' (She suffered a bout of postnatal depression which she says 'was terrible. I felt like a zombie.')
On winning her Oscar at the age of 26: 'You grow up wondering, "What if I get an Academy Award one day?" You get one and you are 26 and you think, "OK, now what do I do?" I worked really hard, and by the time I had children I was ready to leave acting for a while. There was a lot of freedom in accomplishing that early on.'
She's a 1950s housewife: 'I am traditional in a 1950s housewife way – cooking, making sure everyone's fed and everything's in order. I think a wife has a responsibility to make a home and to protect the family… I also believe that a wife should have the choice to work or not. My mother was a less traditional wife than me; she was working to support the family.'
On Chris Martin as a parent: 'We co-parent. We do it together. I don't know what the word strict means; I expect them to have good manners and to behave nicely – sometimes it is such a war to get them to say thank you. The other day, while we were out having dinner, a waiter gave my daughter some juice, and she didn't say anything. I said, "Apple? Baby, where are your manners?" and she said, "I left them in my suitcase."' Gwyneth laughs. 'It was hilarious. I try to make life as normal as possible,' she continues. Can you actually go to the supermarket with all the attention? 'I just do it. I tune it out.' Are the children aware of their parents' fame? 'Some kids in Apple's class are starting to say, "Your mummy is a movie star," but I don't think she fully gets it yet.'
On how "civilized" England is: 'The children are at school there and I love London. It is a very civilised, beautiful city. I appreciate its parks so much and love the culture. There are also some great restaurants,' she says, returning to her favourite subject. 'I am obsessed with Tapas Brindisa (in Borough), which has some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life.'
On how privileged she is: 'They [her family] will all be up and waiting for me. I'll cook and we'll play in the garden with the dog. I'm aware that I'm a very privileged person and I'm very grateful,' she says.
On the idea of not being rich: 'I think it would be an adjustment,' she says with candour. 'Chris Rock, the comedian, said that men cannot go back sexually, and women cannot go back in lifestyle, and that's very true. But as long as I could cook good food and be with my family I think I would be absolutely fine.'
Honestly, I didn't find this interview as soul-crushingly smug as some of her ones last week. I mean, she's still a smug, elitist bitch - "I love London. It is a very civilised, beautiful city. I appreciate its parks so much and love the culture." Because no American city has parks or culture or beauty, right? I also found her comments about being a "traditional" wife and all of the stuff about Chris to be fascinating. I don't think her marriage is like that AT ALL, and I kind of believe that she's just flat-out making all of that up. I think she's really trying to promote an image of herself that she hopes the peasants will buy. She's aiming for the Jennifer Garner demographic - women, mostly mothers, who like Garner's wholesome, girl-next-door image. This feels like Gwyneth trying to do that and failing miserably, just because the real Gwyneth always comes out.
I’ve been watching Sister Wives trying to find something interesting enough to report on these past couple of weeks. Apart from Janelle revealing that her mom was Kody’s dad’s second wife there hasn’t been much. I guess that’s newsworthy in itself, because everyone seems to get along, the petty jealousy is minor and the cattiness is disguised as innocent questions and concern. (I loved when Robyn said last week that Christine was having a difficult time with her baby because it was harder to have kids when you’re older. That was so bitchy, but she made it sound like a question.)
This week we got to see Meri get a colonoscopy and get two non-cancerous polyps removed from her colon. Her sister died of colon cancer at 31 so she said she was very worried about it, and that was understandable. I didn’t need to see all that, but it reminded me that I need to get a colonoscopy so I guess it was useful.
The Browns had a party for their “non-polygamist” friends to kind of celebrate the fact that they’d come out as polygamists and to help the people they knew ease into the idea. Meri explained that she’s careful to hold people at arm’s length so that they don’t find out about her “lifestyle” and that this was a big deal for them. Janelle said she’d never told anyone she was a polygamist and that after it came out in the press she felt the fallout at work. “there was tons of gossip going on and people running back and forth to everybody’s cubicle and staring at me.” She brought a friend of hers from work who said he was “so excited” and thought it was “cool” that she was a polygamist. He was pretty funny. Other friends of the family talked about how they found out and how the Browns were just a regular family.
People is running with the angle that now-pregnant Robyn called polygamy a “girl party” and talked about how much fun it is to go to the store. She’s a dumbass and the female equivalent of Kody so she’s perfect for him. Janelle said she finds the other women embarrassing when they go out in public and act goofy, so that’s why she spends so much time at work. I think the real story here is what Robyn said about how it feels tense when Kody is there and how she’s coping with jealousy. She usually seems to do it by subtly putting the other women down, particularly Christine:
“When Kody’s not around… it goes better. It gets kind of tense when he’s around because we’re more careful about not hurting each other’s feelings and not stepping on each other’s toes, not showing him too much attention. We can get jealous he’s maybe giving someone more attention than the rest.
“Meri and I have a really great relationship. Christine and I have a great relationship, it’s like best buddies. [When] Kody comes in, it no longer is Meri and I just focus on each other, it’s like all of a sudden we’re both focused on him. I can get jealous for sure. He and I are close and we love each other, but I know he loves Christine and Meri and Janelle too. There’s days when I can tell that he’s been talking to them or that he’s felt a closeness with them [ed note: sex], I have to be really secure with myself and with he and I for that not to bug me sometimes.”
So it’s a “girl party” when Kody isn’t there, but when he is they all have to watch it and be careful that they don’t hog the one doofus they’re all sharing or get jealous that he’s paying one of them more attention. There’s a sure way to get Kody’s attention - get pregnant and have another kid. Robyn seems to be on board with that strategy. I doubt the other three care as much about impressing him at this point as she does.
These are photos from Cate Blanchett's appearance yesterday on the cover of the New York Times' Style Magazine. Lovely, beautiful, epic Cate. Cate makes every photo shoot special. Cate can pose her ass off. Cate looks unique and different in every photo, ever.
I haven't gotten a chance to read every word of Cate's interview with the mag - it's a really long article! You can read it here, and I'll probably get a chance to read the whole piece later today. I'm looking forward to it! Surprisingly, Cate is not really what I consider to be a "good interview." She's not dumb, and she doesn't say stupid things because she can't help herself. She's not full of herself, and she consistently comes across as a normal working mom who is a bit eccentric. She doesn't enjoy talking about herself, she's not a self-obsessed narcissist, and she seems to insist on keeping areas of her life private. All of that makes her a good person, a role model, a wonderful actress, but a boring interview. Here are some quick highlights:
*She's a dignified, pre-red-carpet star caught in a celebrity-tweeting culture, with the result that she's learned how to promote her role of the moment — in this instance, that of a ruthless C.I.A. agent in the thriller "Hanna," directed by Joe Wright — without seeming to be promoting anything, least of all herself. I dutifully bring up the subject of the film and mention that I found it beautiful looking but disappointing. Blanchett says she took "Hanna" on "because it was the best first 20 pages of any script I'd read — brutal, terrifying and suspenseful." And then she's happy to move on to other matters. It's an art all its own, this straining toward the shadows of self-effacement when you've been shoved into the limelight, there's no doubt about that.
*Blanchett does admit to liking clothes — "I love dressing up," she says, "although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run".
She goes through her paces like a trouper, despite her fatigue and having suffered through a spider bite, investing each shot with a narrative arc, calling on the skill she puts into delivering information on screen about characters as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I, Charlotte Gray, Veronica Guerin, the elf queen Galadriel, Katharine Hepburn and Bob Dylan. Blanchett seems patient and unfussy but also keeps at a slight remove from the proceedings in her regally self-possessed way. (When I asked her whether she felt nervous about giving an award at the Oscars, she answered with a simple "No.")
So, over soft-boiled eggs (Blanchett orders a side of spinach) the next day, I bring up the biceps issue and the more general one of her svelteness. Blanchett doesn't admit to dieting (wouldn't it be nice if someone other than Carrie Fisher did?) but does avow how she doesn't have a big sweet tooth. She also explains that she and her husband gave each other running shoes for Christmas and have renewed their commitment to exercise; Blanchett spends a half-hour on the elliptical trainer four days a week. "I don't enjoy it," she says, "but I certainly have more energy." We go on to talk of other things, of the perils of performing versus writing (Upton is a writer as well as director), the limitations of psychotherapy (she's never been in "very intensive" therapy), how death doesn't solve anything ("I'm not interested," she says, striking a rare note of annoyance, "in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor — it's grossly opportunistic") and the crucial importance of timing, especially when it comes to romance. "Don't you think like most things, like comedy, like sex, like anything, it's about timing? I think we collided with each other," she adds, referring to her husband, "at what turned out to be the perfect time. We knew each other socially and we didn't get on and we played poker one night and I don't know how we ended up kissing but we did and he asked me to marry him about three weeks later and we got together in the same spirit. . . . Maybe I've got a lack of consequence," she adds, "a healthy lack of consequence."
Ooh, she works out! I would love to work out with her. I imagine she would be a cool workout buddy. And I love what she says about her father's death - it's so refreshing to see an actor who is unwilling to whore out personal tragedy for the benefit of their "craft". I love her.
These are photos from the Australian premiere of Thor, that film starring Australian nobody Chris Hemsworth, and directed by Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh. The film has a really good cast, actually: Natalie Portman, Jeremy Renner, Idris Elba, Anthony Hopkins, and Renee Russo are all in it too - but none of them is showing up to promote the damn movie, and so now I'm thinking that the film is a train wreck. Maybe I won't even have to learn anything about Chris Hemsworth, because his career will be over after this. Just in case, here are the basics: he's Aussie, he's the older brother of Liam Hemsworth, best known as Miley Cyrus's on-again/off-again boyfriend. Here's what else I know about him: he's very pretty. Very, very pretty. Too pretty for my tastes, but I suspect that he's got the kind of prettiness that CB enjoys in a man.
So as I was glancing through the photos from the Australian premiere, I caught sight of Kenneth Branagh too. Ken is looking… really good, right? And this is my problem: if I was given the choice between Ken and Chris, I would go home with Ken. He's infinitely sexier to me than some blonde Aussie pretty boy. What is wrong with me? Am I the only one so skewed on men?
We have some exciting royal wedding news! And please, don't start in on me on how no one cares about the royal wedding. While I think Prince William and Kate Middleton are two extremely boring people, their wedding and everything around the wedding is fun and interesting. Take for example the "break with royal tradition" regarding who pays for the wedding. While every other royal wedding is paid for - in full - by the royal family (the taxpayers?), Kate's parents are being allowed to contribute to the cost. We've heard that before, and now we have some (speculative) data. According to British reports, the Middletons are contributing 100,000 pounds (about $160,000). The Middletons' seem to be paying for all of the dresses for the bridal party, plus hotel accommodations for the bridal party. People Magazine also has a good story on where Kate and William might be going on their honeymoon (hint, not Mustique or Scotland):
Kate Middleton, who spent a few years of her childhood in the Middle Eastern country of Jordan, may now heading back there – for her honeymoon.
The historic site of Petra and the valley of Wadi Run are said to be on the travel itinerary for Prince William and his bride for a week after their April 29 wedding.
Camping out in the desert and swimming in the Dead Sea would definitely appeal to the sporty, outdoors-loving pair, and they would certainly receive a warm welcome from two of their wedding guests: King Abdullah and Queen Rania.
Palace aides won’t comment on the claim, made in the Sunday Telegraph, saying that the couple’s post-wedding break will be private.
Those close to them tell PEOPLE they’re hoping that wherever the couple end up (and the Seychelles, Mustique and even Corfu in Greece have been mentioned), they will be left alone to enjoy the vacation without intrusion from the media.
The Telegraph says Jordan is the couple’s “preferred option,” and they are “believed” to have booked a special tour of the historic sites in a week-long trip. It also suggests that William, 28, and Kate, 29, will enjoy some time in the U.K., possibly at one of the royal estates such as Balmoral.
Kate lived in Amman, Jordan for nearly three years, beginning in 1984, and she attended nursery school there. When the palace and the Middleton family released a set of family pictures, one showed Kate and her father Michael relaxing on an outing in the country.
Petra and the valley of Wadi Run were also used as locations in the David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia, and Steven Spielberg used the dramatic landscape of Petra as a backdrop for Indiana Jones.
Wow, that sounds like a really nice honeymoon. That sounds like the kind of honeymoon someone like me would enjoy, so obviously, I doubt it will happen. They're so boring! They won't do anything this interesting for their honeymoon.
Let's see, what other news is there? Well, a British official wants to change the rules of succession so that if Kate and William's first-born is a girl, that daughter will not be "overlooked" in favor of male heirs, like a younger brother. Oh, and British writer Martin Amis kind of hates the royal family, so obviously the British tabloids are saying that he hates his country. Ha! One last thing: The Lifetime movie Will & Kate comes on tonight at 9 pm!!! I'm so excited.
The Daily Mail has one of their lengthy speculative pieces on Kimberly Stewart’s pregnancy after some kind of fling with Benicio Del Toro. You can tell they’re drawing their own conclusions about the situation, but they make some good points in that bitchy wordy way of theirs. (Takes one to know one.)
They note that Kimbo’s dad Rod Stewart hasn’t issued a statement about his daughter’s pregnancy and won’t respond to requests for comment. This is telling since Rod even issued a statement when his son Sean got engaged to a woman he met at rehab. They also report that dad Rod pays both Kimberly, 31, and Sean, 30, £12,000 a month (or about $19,500 USD) “through gritted teeth because he feels they are grown up and should be taking care of themselves.” Neither of Rod’s children from his first marriage has any career to speak of and he just recently bitched about it to the press.
What’s more is that Kimberly got knocked up by Benicio when she went home with him after they met at the Chateau Marmont hotel. The Mail reminds us that this is the same hotel where Benicio screwed Scarlett Johansson in the elevator. (Allegedly, he doesn’t confirm or deny this but seems to take pride in the rumor.)
Benicio is a total playa From what her friends can gather, their encounter took place at his Hollywood apartment after a meeting at the Chateau Marmont hotel. It seems to have been casual.
Del Toro, who is rumoured to have made love to actress Scarlett Johansson in a lift at the same hotel after an awards ceremony, has a rather unsavoury reputation in this area, which he is at no pains to dispel.
He told Esquire magazine: 'Did I ever have sex in an elevator with Scarlett Johansson after an awards show…let's leave that to somebody's imagination. Let's not promote it. I'm sure it has happened before. It might not be the last time, either,' he smirked.
He is, then, a toxic bachelor and proud of it. He calls his bachelor pad a 'cave' and, asked why he's never married, he said: 'Why do I have to get married? So I can get divorced?'
Kimbo has no career and this pisses off her dad However, it seems the chief problem is that Kimberly has reached the age of 31 without finding her métier in life. She has worked, but — as is customary in the world of Hollywood socialites — only here and there. She toiled in a LA-based clothes shop for a few weeks, worked as a model on and off for several years, and had a little-watched reality TV show.
She even started her own clothes label when she was 19, but it foundered because she couldn't get the supply chain to work.
Rod pays for his kids and complains that they’re not working He joked that he and wife Penny Lancaster would definitely stop having children, as that brings his total by various women to eight. 'Otherwise I will be touring until I'm 90 to pay for them all,' he chortled…
He is thought to pay Sean and Kimberly, his children by actress Alana Hamilton, £12,000 a month in living expenses between them, and there is a sense he does so through gritted teeth because he feels they are grown up and should be taking care of themselves.
But now Kimberly is starting a family herself — and she doesn't even have a career to take a break from. Does Rod regret being so indulgent?
'I bloody well am strict,' he said last month. 'I grew up in a house a fifth the size of my gym. I believe in tough love . . . but I wish one of them would get a job. It'd be nice to see another wage slip coming into the house.'
Buried in all that is the rumor “that Kimberly has been offered another reality TV series, this time about bringing up the baby as a single mum on Rod's estate.” She’s staying at Rod’s mansion in LA while he’s in England with his third wife, Penny Lancaster and their two children, Alastair, 5, and Aiden, 2 months. The Mail reminds us that “Rod has always refused to let the children film on the property [in LA]” although I could see him being less strict about that if it saves him $20k a month. Kimberly will probably get some kind of child support from Benecio, but it’s not going to be as high as the amount her dad is paying her.
No one cares much about this girl, but the fact that she’s knocked up with Benecio Del Toro’s baby definitely makes her more interesting. The Mail quotes her as saying at some point that she wants kids and a career “I'm going into that next stage in my life of being really grown-up. I know what I want now. A nice husband, good career and babies.” Maybe she sees a baby by a movie star as her gateway to a “good career” the Kardashian way. It’s almost as if she planned it.
Here’s Kimbo at Coachella last year, 4/17/10. She’s also shown on 12/3/09. There aren’t many recent photos of her but now that she’s pregnant we might see some. I forsee a Robertson Boulevard outing in her near future. Rod Stewart is shown performing on 4/2/11 in Toronto. Benicio is shown looking like ass on 12/7/10. He looks like such a slimeball. Credit: WENN.com
As we heard over the weekend, Nicolas Cage was arrested for generally being a drunken dumbass early Saturday morning in New Orleans. He was so drunk he didn’t know where he lived, and instead of listening to his wife tell him that he’d picked the wrong rental house, he argued with her and dared some cops who were called to the scene to arrest him. They charged him with domestic violence (for allegedly grabbing his wife by the arm) and disturbing the peace and took him into custody. Cage wasn’t in with the general population and was just kind of hanging out there at the station. He was eventually bailed out by Dog The Bounty Hunter, who issued a statement showing his pride at having such a famous client without revealing much about Cage’s state of mind or how blotto he was. Cage was surely sobered up at that point anyway, Dog’s wife Beth tweeted that their latest client had been in “jail” for 8 hours, as if that’s not typical in New Orleans. It’s probably not typical for their clients to get to hang out behind the counter with the police officers, either.
Nicolas Cage received the help of an unlikely ally after his arrest in New Orleans this weekend – Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Reality star Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman posted the actor’s $11,000 bond after he was charged with domestic abuse and disturbing the peace Saturday in the French Quarter.
“I am a truly dedicated fan of Mr. Cage and will not be granting any interviews about my client as I wish to respect his privacy,” Chapman, 58, tells E! News in a statement.
“I performed my duties as a bail bondsman and not in connection with our show. This is what I do for a living. There are two sides of my job: I release my clients after they have been arrested; and pick them up if they don’t show up in court. I do not believe the latter will be the case for Mr. Cage.”
At some point before taking a cab to a house he mistakenly believed he was staying at, Cage, his wife and some buddies went into a tattoo parlor. TMZ reported that Cage was “throwing his clothes around” there and “demanding” to get a tattoo. They’ve since posted the surveillance video without audio and you can see Cage’s wife pleading with him (probably to go home). He keeps arguing with her and at some point they seem to make up because she goes upstairs with him, presumably while he gets a tattoo.
You can see Cage’s “mug shot” on TMZ and Radar. It looks like a cell phone pic and they didn’t even make him stand up against a white walll. Cage is scheduled to appear in court on May 31 for these charges. He’s in New Orleans making his latest POS movie, The Medallion. Dude still has to pay for all those castles, exotic pets, dinosaur bones and luxury cars he blew all his money on.
Update: People has more on the night in question, and it paints a pretty vivid picture of just how much of a belligerent drunken out of control ass Cage was:
The couple were fighting over which house they were renting in the French Quarter, and Peter Bennett, a local street performer who lives near the property, tells PEOPLE he came home to two cop cars on each end of his block.
“Apparently he had mistaken the house of my neighbors for the other house up the block that he is actually renting,” he says. “His wife was trying to persuade him from disturbing the elderly couple who do in fact live in that house.”
Cage is actually renting the house three doors down, according to Bennett. When cops arrived, the barman says the actor started to get into the back passenger-side door of the police car.
“But the cop got out, walked around, and Cage ran a block south toward the river, where he tried to get into a cab,” he says. “There was a woman outside with a baby in her arms shouting, ‘Please don’t hurt us.’ ”
You know you’re out of control when your wife is telling you you’ve got the wrong house and women with babies in their arms are pleading for their lives.
Dog and his wife are shown on 3/19/10 and 11/29/09. Nicolas Cage is shown on 2/22/11 and on 7/12/10. Credit: WENN
I cannot stress enough how much Robert Pattinson needs to take a class on red carpet posing. The boy always looks unhinged and ridiculous on red carpets, because he's always making crazy faces. I get that he thinks it's funny (maybe), and sure, I had a giggle when I was sifting through all of these photos, trying to find pics of Sparkles where he didn't look like "ZOMG SPARKLEDONG CODE RED". He needs a class. Or just someone should sit him down and say "Dude, there are millions of photos of you on the red carpet where you look like an idiot."
Anyway, these are photos from last night's premiere of Water for Elephants. Reese Witherspoon wore a lovely Jason Wu cocktail dress (with beading!) that I kind of love. Yes, it's a look that we've seen from Reese before, but there's a reason she comes back to this silhouette time and time again: it really, really works on her. Reese told People Magazine that it is "great" being married again, but that Sparkles still hasn't sent her a wedding gift: "Not yet and I am waiting… Tell him tick-tock, I am waiting!” Reese also let her Twihard come out a bit, telling People on the red carpet that she was "so lucky. We had great time. Not only is he super sexy and obviously incredibly handsome, but he’s really a lovely, nice person.”
This is maybe my favorite photo of the day:
More photos from the premiere, including the other Oscar-winning star, Christoph Waltz:
I don’t watch Teen Mom 2 and have guilt about that as I enjoyed all the sad too-real drama on the original Teen Mom, but there are only so many shows I can keep up with. I’ve seen a little of it though, and from what I’ve heard Leah is the “good girl” on the show and tries to do the right thing and keep a sunny disposition. She has twin daughters and reunited with her babies’ father Corey and married him six months ago. That lasted a hot second, because Leah just filed for divorce and there are photos and footage to document it. The tabloids have been all over this lately, with In Touch claiming in late February that she was seeing another guy and OK! reporting just this week that she was dumped by Corey. Whatever happened, she’s going to get the maximum publicity out of it. Here’s a report from US Weekly about the divorce:
Six months after Teen Mom 2’s Leah Messer wed Corey Simms, the 18-year-old mother of two has filed for divorce, Us Weekly has confirmed.
Though the MTV star filed papers in Kanawha County between April 8 and 15, fans of the show shouldn’t be too surprised to see the two split. “Everything Corey and I have done has happened so fast,” Messer recently told Us.
After all, the pair dated for one month, found out they were expecting, split up just after the 2009 birth of their twin daughters, then reunited six months later. From there, it took just weeks for them to move into together and for 20-year-old Simms, a certified water-distribution operator, to propose.
“I didn’t want to jump into something else and be like, ‘Oh, s**t! What did we do?’” Messer told Us. “Three years ago, back before I was pregnant, I never thought I’d be married now. I was scared because a lot of people who marry young end up divorcing within a year.”
After all, Messer had seen it happen within her own family. “My mom and dad married, divorced, remarried and divorced again,” she said. “I don’t want my girls [Aliannah and Aleeah, 16 months] to go through that. My mom talked to me because she wed at 16 and didn’t want me to go through a divorce like she did.”
Despite the divorce proceedings, friends of the couple hope to see the newlyweds reconcile.
“They are not in a good place right now,” a source tells Us. “Their friends are hoping they find a way to make it work.”
It sounds like they were too young and moved way too fast, maybe just out of a desire to do the right thing for their daughters. It probably didn’t help at all that they were in the spotlight on MTV. They’re going to have to be in each other’s lives as long as their daughters are minors so they need to work out a way to peacefully coparent.
There are photos of Leah walking around with the divorce papers, reading them to a friend and crying as MTV cameras film her. I think that just about says it all. Her wedding just aired on the show and we saw her October wedding photos three weeks ago and now she’s calling it quits.
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