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Did Leo DiCaprio dump Bar Refaeli so he could screw around with Blake Lively?
Stevie Nicks on Lindsay Lohan playing her “never going to happen”
ITW: Brad Pitt is mad about Angelina Jolie’s lesbian flings
Jennifer Lopez’s clown-butt pants & big hair: unflattering or unique?
Jesse James: “doesn’t really matter whether I [cheated] 10,000 times or once”
Benjamin Millepied twirls into the arms of another dancer
Camy Diaz covers Elle UK & Maxim, says marriage is a “dying institution”
Jennifer Aniston’s ex-lover talks to Star Mag, says Aniston prefers “bad boys”
Madonna hates Stella McCartney now too
Jodie Foster on Mel’s rages: “None of ‘that’ happened while we were shooting”

Did Leo DiCaprio dump Bar Refaeli so he could screw around with Blake Lively?

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:53 AM PDT

Bar Refaeli was at the Met Gala two nights ago, although she barely got any attention because of all of the A-listers there (sidenote: CB and I were discussing the craziness of the Met Gala, and I noted that they got a much better turnout than the Oscars… it's SO TRUE). Maybe Bar would have gotten more attention if she had shown up with Leonardo DiCaprio. Unfortunately for Bar, it seems like Leo wasn't interested. Not interested in the event, and not interested in Bar as a girlfriend anymore, maybe:

Leo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli could be heading for a more permanent split after they went their separate ways after the Met ball on Monday. While Refaeli attended the gala and the after-party at Crown, DiCaprio partied at the Top of the Standard with his boys, dressed casually in jeans and a baseball cap. The actor avoided fotogs and kept a low profile while mingling with Naomi Watts and Carmelo Anthony, among others. Sources say Leo and Bar have been “going through a difficult patch,” but they are trying to work it out. A rep for DiCaprio declined to comment. Refaeli’s rep was not available for comment.

[From Page Six]

Any other day, and I would state my allegiance to Team DiCaprio, just because I think Bar is kind of skeevy, especially with the way she's been Single White Female-ing Gisele for years. Leo has a type, sure, but does he have to shack up with the Budget Gisele? That being said, LaineyGossip had an interesting tip today - perhaps Leo is getting a little Blake Lively action? There's a rumor, a random eyewitness report or something. As you might remember, Blake was trying to get with Leo professionally and sexually when The Great Gatsby was being cast last year Blake lost the role of Daisy, but did she win the role of "Leo's Girlfriend"? There was a report about Blake and Leo in January too - interesting.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Stevie Nicks on Lindsay Lohan playing her “never going to happen”

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:37 AM PDT

Lindsay Lohan has made it known that she wants to play Stevie Nicks at some point and announced half-assed plans to buy the rights to Stevie’s story about two years ago. Back then, Stevie said that Lindsay would play her “over my dead body,” but seemed to think there was some wiggle room there. She added “She needs to stop doing drugs and get a grip. Then maybe we'll talk.”

Two years later and Lindsay is still strung out and she’s in even deeper trouble with the law. In an interview with CNN, Stevie was asked again about whether she would consent to having Lindsay play her in a movie, and she basically repeated what she said before - that Lindsay needed to clean up first:

“In Your Dreams" isn't just the title of Stevie Nicks’ first solo album in 10 years - it's also what she's saying to Lindsay Lohan, who reportedly wants to play the iconic Fleetwood Mac singer in a movie.

“She’s never going to," Nicks told CNN. "That’s never going to happen unless she cleans up her life and becomes the great actress I feel she can be. Everybody thinks I hate her, and it’s not that at all."

Nicks, who went to rehab twice (the first time for cocaine addiction, the second for pills) earlier in her career, said: "I just want her to get it together."

"I was completely messed up for a long time and I got it together," she went on. "She’s a very talented girl … if she could get it together, she could have a really big career and she could do great things."

[From CNN]

As you know, Lindsay was sentenced to 120 days in jail for violating probation and still faces separate theft charges. Kaiser covered her braless appearance at community service, for which she was sure to notify the paps ahead of time. And as Kaiser reported yesterday, Lindsay may skate by without doing any jail time whatsoever and might simply have to wear an ankle bracelet and be confined to home. Lindsay’s people seem to be feeding a lot of stories to TMZ, though, and I’m hoping that someone will finally throw the book at her entitled ass. One thing is for sure, she’s a long way, if ever, from playing Stevie Nicks, especially if she expects to fund the project herself somehow.

Photo credit: Fame

ITW: Brad Pitt is mad about Angelina Jolie’s lesbian flings

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:22 AM PDT

I don't know why the tabloids didn't just do royal wedding stuff for their covers this week, but I guess they got those out of the way by doing special "collector's edition" issues. So for this week's tabloids, we get the same-old, same-old. In Touch Weekly is trying to convince us that Angelina is screwing around on Brad all the time… with ladies! Because Angelina goes with lady biscuits like peanut-butter M&Ms go with wine (really well). Basically, ITW thinks that Jolie and Pitt don't already have an understanding that Jolie gets a "free biscuit pass" forever:

Brad does all he can to keep Angelina happy and in love, but it seems she still can't contain her wandering eye!

Angelina Jolie has made no secret of her wild sexual past, and now it seems like she may be falling back into old patterns! InTouch spoke with a friend of the actress and reports, "Angelina harbors strong bisexual desires — and continues to have flings with other women behind Brad's back." Uh-oh!

Angelina apparently has a string of women she still hooks up with occasionally. "In her mind, it's just sex. And since she wouldn't fool around with a man, she doesn't consider it cheating." In fact, she will reserve rooms at the swank Roosevelt Hotel in LA for "just a few hours" according to a hotel employee just to have alone time. Hmmmm.

Angelina's first love was with lesbian model Jenny Shimizu, who frequently commented on her insatiable sexual appetite. Brad Pitt has had to work his hardest to make her happy, and allows her to be the dominant one in the relationship. "They're not violent, but Angelina likes it rough," says a source.

Though she would kill Brad if had an affair says the friend, Brad seems to put up with her dalliances — do you think he should leave?

[From Hollywood Life]

I feel like I've heard this story before. Several times. As for the veracity… meh. I've said before that I would buy that Jolie might have the occasional fling with a woman, and since I believe that, I also tend to believe that Brad and Angelina might have had some threesomes. And I believe that those threesomes are probably really F&#@^% HOT.

In other Jolie news, it seems like she's going to be producing (?) a film about Winston Churchill and FDR, and she wants Anthony Hopkins to play Churchill. Hopkins just gave an interview about it to MTV, which you can see here. Hopkins says Angelina is "terrific… She's one of the most beautiful women in the world and she's so smart and easygoing. No starry nonsense about her. I think the same with Brad [Pitt], they seem to be very nice people."

Cover courtesy of CoverAwards. Additional photos courtesy of WENN.

Jennifer Lopez’s clown-butt pants & big hair: unflattering or unique?

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:02 AM PDT

These are photos of Jennifer Lopez at a CD signing in Hollywood yesterday. Yes, those are maybe the most unflattering pants EVER. It's one thing to embrace your curves, it's quite another to wear a pair of pants that make your hips and ass look comically oversized. Jennifer has Clown Butt. She is Vesty McClownButt.

Didn't Kim Kardashian wear a pair of pants very similar to this? Only KK's pants had more draping around her biscuits, creating a "vagina drape" effect. These pants are just "hip drape" pants. Ugh.

Anyway, Jennifer just launched a new video and single and it is… not bad. Here's Jennifer new video, "I'm Into You" featuring Lil Wayne:

Okay, I have to admit a few things. First, this song is much better than her first single, "On the Floor". I even like Lil Wayne's featured rap. Secondly, I have to admit to kind of liking the video. It feel like vintage J. Lo, like it's circa "Love Don't Cost A Thing". She looks really pretty here. And even though the half-naked dude is making a "Bitch, don't you even think about resting your tacky weave on my manscaped chest" face, there's a sexy vibe to it all.

Other thoughts, randomly: great manicure, I like the chain mail dress (A LOT), her body looks AMAZING, and I love all of the profile shots. Jennifer has a great profile!

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Jesse James: “doesn’t really matter whether I [cheated] 10,000 times or once”

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:59 AM PDT

I bought Jesse James’ memoir American Outlaw on iBooks yesterday and read the first 150 pages or so. Then I skipped to the part where he met Sandra Bullock and tried to explain and justify his terrible treatment of her. The beginning of the book has him telling the story of his childhood and teen years. It reads like fiction and it probably is. Jesse is always the hero, and he has a ton of tall tales about how he boosted cars, robbed restaurants, beat up rivals who had it coming, but still was the star player on the football team and won the girl. Of course the crimes that teenage Jesse was finally busted for were stealing a candy bar and lifting some cameras from a photo store. It’s actually a decent read, if you think of it like a work of fiction told from the protagonist’s point of view.

The part where Jesse describes how he met Sandra and wooed her at first through e-mail is actually pretty sweet, I’ll admit. There’s his self centered douchiness permeating his writing, but he seems to really care about her and you can tell that he loved her. He had a good ghostwriter and the story flows well and is pretty interesting. It really didn’t change my opinion of him at all though. Here are some of the parts that stood out for me.

On his attraction to Sandra Bullock
Maybe it sounds like a load a crap, but the truth is, from the start, being around Sandy made me want to be a better guy. Whereas with Janine I was always riding that wave of her attention, watching myself reflected in her eyes, with Sandy, I saw her watching the world, and wondering how she could contribute. The better I got to know her, the more I wanted to be by her side, doing the same thing.

On how he cried to Sandra about his childhood
“I… I grew up in a really hard situation,” I said. “I don’t tell people about it very often.”

Sandy looked at me deeply, with real sympathy in her eyes. “I promise you, if you want to confide in me, I will never judge you for it, Jesse…”

“I grew up scared shitless of my dad,” I continued. “He punched me and blacked my eye. When I was fifteen years old, he accused me of burning down our house and I got into such a big fight with him that we would have literally killed each other if we hadn’t been pulled apart.”

“Oh, Jesse.” Tears were starting to well up in Sandy’s eyes. “I had no idea.”

On how he asked her to marry him
“Hey,” I said to her, “I’d like to talk to you. Do you have a second?”

“Sure. What’s up?”

“Well, I… I just wanted to… I wanted to know if you’d marry me.”

She looked at me, amazed. “Are you… serious?…”

“Oh my God,” she said. “I… wow. This is a surprise. Yes… I will marry you. I love you.”

On how he ended up cheating
You’re trapped, I thought suddenly. It came out of nowhere, but you’re trapped pretty good, aren’t you?

Before I met Sandy, I’d romanticized the stable, calm married life: the idea of me finally growing up. But now I missed… talking shit, cracking jokes with my no-good friends. Too many people knew me now. I couldn’t escape…

Mentally at a loss, desperate for something to make me feel like I had some sense of freedom, I ran through the list of things I could do to assert independence over my life. Infidelity, unfortunately, was at the top of my list.

Glosses over all the skanks and strippers, doesn’t get into details
I’m into sex, but contrary to whatever biker stereotype got built up around me, sex is mostly a cerebral experience for me. If there’s no personal connection there, then it’s sort of pointless.

But with that said: I still did it. I screwed around behind Sandy’s back, and the whole world came to know about it.

Tries to justify his behavior, says he was a mismatch with Sandra
I can’t go back, and I can’t save my marriage. What I can do is try to understand why I did it….

As [Sandy and I] got to know each other better, I think we both came to realize that we really were a bit oddly matched. Sandy wasn’t rich [growing up], but she came from a middle class family - she’d grown up singing in a choir with her mom. I’d grown up with a dad who sent me hookers in the middle of the day…

The more important factor, though, was the fact that I’d grown up in an environment where love hadn’t been shown to me on a regular basis. My dad had torn me down every time he could, and my mom had been pretty absent. Now I had a great woman who was telling me she loved me, but that didn’t mean I was in any shape to believe her. Sandy was an actress, after all. I think in the back of my mind, I always told myself she was pretending…

I never really trusted Sandy… I felt like sooner or later, she was going to see the real me. And then she’d leave me. Well, figured, if I was going to be left, then I wanted to make the first break.

Acts like it didn’t matter if he cheated once or a bunch of times
I transgressed against the vows of my marriage, and it doesn’t really matter whether I did that ten thousand times or just once. Once you’ve lied, there’s no taking it back. There’s no way to erase the deceit that you’ve created.

Explains his Nazi salute photo
The photo had been taken at a party at my house ten years before: I’d been given the cap by a buddy of my dad’s, Barry Weiss. Barry rented a building in Gardena to a guy whose job it was to make costumes and uniforms for films like Schindler’s List and Band of Brothers. The cap was a reproduction, something he’d given to me as a joke. In a moment of stupidity, I’d put a couple of fingers over my top lip to form a Hitler mustache, and had thrown up a Sieg Heil. You could tell by the goofy expression on my face that I was anything but serious.

[Transcribed from American Outlaw by Jesse James]

Radar has some quotes from the book where Jesse admitted to Sandra that he cheated. When he broke the news to Sandra before it was about to come out in the tabloids he only owned up to one affair, not the handful of women who came out of the woodwork afterwards. She walked out of his office crying and he didn’t see or speak to her for weeks afterwards. I have nothing but respect for Sandra.

You know, I see this guy’s appeal, I really do. He’s the wounded bad boy looking for a savior. Only his stories are trumped up and he’s a lying S.O.B. To him it doesn’t matter if he cheated once or a bunch of times, and he never owns up to any of that anyway. He’s either the poor victim or the hero, just behaving as he knows how and never really admitting the things he’s done.

Photo credit: WENN

Benjamin Millepied twirls into the arms of another dancer

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:53 AM PDT

These are some new photos of Benjamin Millepied dancing and twirling in NYC yesterday. He was shooting an ad for Yves Saint Laurent, because Benjamin is Somebody now. He's a celebrity in his own right now that he's Natalie Portman's baby daddy. Anyway, Fame Pictures is trying to make something of these photos, like Benjamin is going to screw around on his pregnant girlfriend with this girl (dancer Jessica Saund) in the commercial. Fame asks: "Benjamin seemed to have a ‘moment’… isn’t this the same way Benjamin got Natalie to fall for him during the production of Black Swan? Should Natalie be worried Ben is unfaithful?!" I would think Fame is overreacting, but my first thought was along the lines of "I wonder if and when Benjamin dumps Natalie for another woman, if Natalie will think that 'that's on him' again?"

But it's certainly interesting to see that Benjamin isn't slowing down his career at all. While I don't really think Benjamin fit's the K-Fed-y parameters to really be considered "the Ballet K-Fed," he's certainly not opposed to using his new-found celebrity to make extra money and book extra gigs. It's also surprising to me that Benjamin and Natalie haven't got married yet. Do you think she's not doing a shotgun wedding on purpose? That she knows this junk isn't going to last? I'll tell you… if this was my fiance, twirling away on a NYC street, I would be rethinking things too. I'm just saying. Some ballet dancers can twirl in still photos and they still look amazing (Mikhail Baryshnikov). Some look like they're skipping through The Douchebag Parade.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Camy Diaz covers Elle UK & Maxim, says marriage is a “dying institution”

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:17 AM PDT

Cameron Diaz is going into promotional mode for Bad Teacher, so expect to see her on every magazine cover. She took the June cover of Elle UK, and the June cover of Maxim (you can see a low-quality shot of the Maxim cover here). In both interviews, Camy seems to be trying to lower people's expectations that she's sitting around, waiting for The Ring. She's talked about her ambivalence towards marriage before, but I guess people thought she had changed her mind considering she seems head-over-centaur in love with Alex Rodriguez.

Wedding bells aren’t ringing yet for Cameron Diaz, and they may never be. And she’s cool with that.

Asked whether she thinks marriage is a dying institution, the actress tells Maxim’s June issue: “I do. I think we have to make our own rules. I don’t think we should live our lives in relationships based off old traditions that don’t suit our world any longer.”

Diaz, 38, also talks marriage in the June issue of British Elle. “"Life is long. Why would you ever live in the past when you can live in the present, and allow the future to be bright and happy and exciting? There's no reason. I think people's mentality is, 'It didn't work out!' But, like, what didn't work out? What's supposed to happen? I think a lot of people are married to people they’re not romantic with any more,” she says. “I just didn’t ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on.”

“People are always asking me, 'Do you want to get married? Do you want to have children?' My family doesn't ask me that," she laughed. "They don't put that on me. They never have. They know that if I want to get married, I'll do it. They don't think I'm out there, stranded, without what I want. They see me as active in my life, balancing everything that's important to me, and if that's part of what I want, at any point in my life – and who knows, it might be in the future – then that'll be that."

Diaz – who is No. 4 on Maxim’s 2011 Hot 100, behind No. 1 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – seems quite content in her current relationship with New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Without going into detail, she tells the magazine, “It’s really awesome.”

So, what makes a relationship successful? “Guys need women who challenge them and don’t let them get away with their sh–,” Diaz says. “Women, conversely, need to not be crazy bitches who blow up when their guys tell them something that scares them.”

Diaz, who stars in the upcoming Bad Teacher with her ex Justin Timberlake, says she has a few girl crushes – “Mila Kunis is a little hottie. Natalie Portman is amazing … and the Victoria’s Secret girls!”

But beauty is more than skin deep, she adds. “Women who know who they are and are confident are the sexiest. I don’t find women who are looking for people’s approval to be sexy. I mean, it’s easy to seduce, but to be truly attractive, to bring people in and be sexy, I think that comes from the inside.”

[From People and Music Rooms]

I generally like Camy in interviews - she comes across as intelligent and realistic, but I tend to think she's probably a different person (monster) in real life. Especially when it comes to men and relationships. Remember how she hand-fed A-Rod at the SuperBowl? Yeah, that's what I think of whenever Camy is doing this "I'm such a strong woman" speech. It's just like… Dude, you were hand-feeding your boyfriend on national television and looking like his dong was the center of your universe. Meh.

Covers courtesy of The Fashion Spot. Additional pic by WENN.

Jennifer Aniston’s ex-lover talks to Star Mag, says Aniston prefers “bad boys”

Posted: 04 May 2011 06:37 AM PDT

Back in 2008, Jennifer Aniston was briefly linked to a grip on the set of her film Love Happens. Various sources claimed that at first she was trying to get on Aaron Eckhart, but she somehow ended up with this dude, Brian Bouma. There were some tabloid stories about how Brian and Aniston got close, briefly, in the tabloids, and they were even photographed together, exiting some Oscar party. If you're anything like me, your first thought went to Aniston's other seemingly random "boyfriend," that British cokehead model Paul Sculfor. This is not the same dude - Paul Sculfor was her 2007 (Hired?) Date, Brian Bouma was the dude she boned in 2008, in between sessions with John Mayer.

Anyway, this Brian dude has given an "exclusive" to Star Magazine (via Radar) about his brief fling with Aniston in 2008. I don't even know what this junk is about:

One of Jennifer Aniston’s ex lovers has broken his silence about their romance, offering a rare glimpse into the star’s life.

Brian Bouma, whose hookup with Jen was shrouded in secrecy, told the new issue of Star magazine that she aggressively pursued him on a movie set and prefers “bad boys.”

Bouma told Star that dating Jen,”was an overwhelming experience. I just want to set the record straight, she’s not the person people think she is.”

RadarOnline.com has an exclusive preview of Bouma’s cover-story interview with Star, and other than John Mayer’s infamous comments, he’s the first to detail what the Emmy Award winning Friends star is like out of the spotlight.

“She approached me,” he told the mag about the start of their fast romance.

Bouma was a lighting tech on the movie Love Happens when Aniston made it clear she was interested in him - only seven hours after spotting him on the set, he told the magazine.

“All that’s written about her being lonely is just ridiculous,” he told Star. “I didn’t spend time with Jen because she was famous or successful. I’ve been down that road before. It usually mean trouble with a capital T. It was because of the conversation that first time we spoke. She’s genuine, sincere and charismatic.”

Bouma dated Jen in 2008, meeting in Canada and then joining her in Los Angeles.

“It was an overwhelming experience,” Bouma told Star, explaining that Jen preferred ‘bad boys’ and he didn’t measure up.

“I guess she just wasn’t that into me,” he said. “She did tell me that I was too ‘Mr. Pure.’ She kind of made me feel and act like a young school boy.”

The breakup didn’t leave him bitter. “It would have been even better if I thought she was a jerk,” he told Star. “But she’s an amazing, beautiful and talented woman who’s sweet and kind and treats everyone, with respect.”

[From Radar]

His story sounds similar to that Us Weekly story about Aniston and Josh Hopkins - Aniston likes bad boy douches who treat her like crap, she loves to get laid, and she's a lot dirtier than the "girl next door" image she projects and profits from. Brian's story seems to be that Aniston is a nice person, that she is aggressive sexually, and that she tosses dudes aside for being too nice. Sure. I'll buy that.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Madonna hates Stella McCartney now too

Posted: 04 May 2011 06:07 AM PDT

Yesterday, when I was covering the fashion for the Met Gala, I noted that both Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow were wearing Stella McCartney dresses. I actually like Madge's dress more - I thought it suited her, it softened her, it was flattering and a lovely color for her. I disliked Gwyneth's dress because it looked like dated, budget Michael Kors. I also noted that considering Gwyneth and Madonna are no longer BFFs, the fact that they both showed up in Stella gowns probably caused some controversy. Lainey noted it too - and she thought that Gwyneth and Stella (and Kate Hudson, Rashida Jones and others) were hanging out at the gala and mean-girling Madge. All of it sounds like a potential powder-keg of Bitches Being Bitches. So… how did Madge retaliate? She told reporters that she felt fat! GASP.

Even the Material Girl feels less than perfect sometimes.

At the Met Gala in New York on Monday night, Madonna confessed to reporters that she wasn’t thrilled with the way she looked.

“I feel fat in my dress,” she said.

The 52-year-old mother of four looked extremely fit in her blue Stella McCartney dress. She paired the gown with Sergio Rossi heels and Cartier jewelry.

The chiseled star, famous for her macrobiotic diet and intense workout regime, even opened a Hard Candy gym in Mexico City and has plans to expand the franchise to more than ten locations worldwide.

[From Us Weekly]

Do you think Madge honestly felt fat, or do you think this was a cut at Stella McCartney? That's how I read it, honestly. This is Madge NOT defending the woman who designed her dress. This is Madge telling the world, "Stella McCartney does not make me feel beautiful." Which, in another leap says "Stella isn't as good a designer as she thinks." Or, “Stella makes women look fat = Gwyneth looks fat.” DOUBLE GASP!!!

Or it could totally be that Madge just has extreme body image issues. Thus, The Gristle. Thus, whenever she's not dressed up in Lola's clothes, she feels "fat."

Oh, and I still want to know exactly what happened between Madge and Goop. I think it started because of Tracy Anderson, but I don't think it's about Tracy anymore.

By the way, Stella McCartney really isn't all that. Look at what she made for herself.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Jodie Foster on Mel’s rages: “None of ‘that’ happened while we were shooting”

Posted: 04 May 2011 05:30 AM PDT

Sometimes, I just don’t know what to do with Jodie Foster. She complains about the downtrodden status of female directors in Hollywood yet refuses to reconcile that she willingly (professionally and personally) associates with those same male directors (who are part of the problem she is complaining about), some of which do very bad things. When confronted with the ultimate character of these men, like say Roman Polanski, Jodie simply states “That’s not my business.” And as we’re all quite aware, Jodie adores and worships Mel Gibson (“I will love this man for the rest of my life”), who believes that he can justify smacking Oksana Gregorieva with an “explanation.” None of this bothers Jodie, however, because she’s promoting her latest ill-fated directing and acting project, a tragicomedy about depression called The Beaver (starring Mel Gibson). As such, Jodie clearly rehearsed ahead of time what she was going to say about Mel to Moviefone:

This was a very emotional film, especially when watching Mel Gibson play such a tormented character. Sometimes I had trouble separating his role from what I know about him in his personal life. Did his personal life affect his performance?

Well, none of “that” happened while we were shooting. His relationship [with ex Oksana Grigorieva] was very happy at that point, and they had a baby during the shoot. I don’t think any of this stuff informed his performance. This is a movie about a man struggling, who wants to change. That’s a part of my life, and a part of Mel’s life. That’s why he can bring such a raw, honest performance to the screen.

I love that side of him – the complex side. He can also do the charming thing, too, like when he’s doing the lighter bits at the start of the film. We needed both of those sides. I don’t know if people can compartmentalize what they see on YouTube about someone’s private life, but I guess that’s up to the individual. Mel is witty, and he’s a good-natured guy. That’s not all he is – he’s incredibly literate, very sensitive, and very feminine in a lot of ways. That’s a side that people don’t see.

The trailer for ‘The Beaver’ differed greatly from the tone of the movie. It made it seem like a dark comedy – which doesn’t quite classify this film, and it’s rated PG-13.

[Laughs] I know. It makes it seem like a heartwarming family film, doesn’t it? I am not responsible for the trailer! [Laughs] My hat is off to Summit Entertainment, because this is the marketing challenge of the century. This is not a mainstream movie. What you don’t want is people going to the theater expecting a comedy, and then realizing it’s not. If people come with the wrong expectation, they’ll say bad things about it when they leave. Ultimately we want people to see the movie they expect to see.

It was amazing to watch the puppet transform – it was almost like it came to life!

That’s a funny thing. We didn’t shift and change the camera that much; we made some framing choices. But we didn’t change its eyes or anything like that.

It did shower though!

[Laughs] Yes it did! We had one beaver that was just for getting wet. We called it the ‘wet beaver.’

[From Moviefone]

Ha ha ha, d’ya hear that? The wet beaver. I bet the infinitely clever Mel came up with that one. You know, since he has so much inherent respect for beavers. Anyway, Mel is reportedly “expected” (although not confirmed) to show up for the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 17. Maybe he’ll bring the wet beaver along for the ride.

Seriously though, here’s what I take from Jodie’s latest words on Mel Gibson. She wasn’t there when “that” happened, and she never saw “that” happen, so essentially it didn’t happen. Because if “that” really happened to Oksana Gregorieva at the hands of Mel, then Jodie would have to admit her own hypocrisy against womankind. So “that” just doesn’t exist to her. Classy.

Photos courtesy of AllMoviePhoto and WENN

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