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Ronan Farrow tweets Woody Allen happy Father’s Day: “happy brother-in-law’s day”
Channing Tatum’s old stripper buddies say he stole their moves for ‘Magic Mike’
Prince Harry gets sweaty at a polo match with William, Kate & Lupo: hot?
Emma Stone’s pictorial for the July issue of Vogue: busted or beautiful?
Kim Kardashian’s wedding wasn’t for ratings: ‘We don’t do anything for ratings’
Lindsay Lohan went clubbing until 1 a.m. after being treated for “exhaustion”
Was Katy Perry’s costume change at the MuchMusic Awards inappropriate?
LeAnn Rimes tweets photo of Eddie Cibrian’s creepy birthday cake: trashy?
‘Rock of Ages’ performs terribly at the box-office: is Tom Cruise to blame?
Duchess Kate: “I am very well looked after, William is very sweet & kind of spoils me”

Ronan Farrow tweets Woody Allen happy Father’s Day: “happy brother-in-law’s day”

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:54 AM PDT

Ronan Farrow, Michael Moore and Mia Farrow, via Twitter

We’ve covered Ronan Farrow, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s 24 year-old biological son, just twice. Ronan is a good-looking and incredibly accomplished guy in his own right. The first time we covered him was to announce that he got a high level position in the State Department. Ronan is just 24 now, and he graduated from Yale Law School at 21 and was named a Rhodes Scholar last year. He describes himself on Twitter as a “Writer, human rights lawyer and diplomat, most recently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues.”

So he has an impressive resume and an important career. That doesn’t mean he’s immune to family drama, and his family drama is worse than most. The last time we covered Ronan the National Enquirer was reporting that he was “disgusted by [his dad] Woody [Allen] and his relationship with Soon Yi.” You surely know the background on this, but I’ll just quickly recap: Soon Yi was adopted by Mia Farrow and her ex husband, Andre Previn, when she was eight. (Here’s a link with more background on Mia’s family and her many kids.) When she was 21, it was revealed that Soon Yi was having a relationship with her mother’s then-partner of 12 years, Woody Allen. Woody and Mia of course split up, Soon Yi went on to marry Woody in 1997 and they’re still together. All of this has never sat well with Woody and Mia’s son, Ronan. He’s previously said of Allen: “He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression.”

In a new tweet, Ronan repeated that same sentiment. It’s clear he’s still estranged from his dad, and he’s poking fun at that.

Can you imagine your dad marrying your damn sister? There’s no free pass for that, other then legally (which I guess is all that counts to Allen), because she’s adopted. Hollywood forgives a lot of things that seem unforgivable, don’t they?

General Wesley Clark with Mia and Ronan

photo of Soon Yi and Woody Allen credit: WENN.com. Other photos via Twitter

Channing Tatum’s old stripper buddies say he stole their moves for ‘Magic Mike’

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:43 AM PDT

Channing Tatum has always proudly owned his former male stripper status, and now many of his (joyously sketchy) experiences have been folded into the upcoming Magic Mike movie by director Steven Soderbergh. Certainly, the trailer and its red-band counterpart look quite promising, but not all is well in the Magic Mike universe. Channing’s former stripper buddies are coming out of the woodwork to protest that the movie steals their moves and its titular nickname as well. TMZ has a photo of them all together, and Channing looks exactly the same as he does now; as for the rest of them … let’s just thank goodness for Hollywood casting. Are these dudes just trying to ruin a good time for da ladies, or do they have a point?

Two ex-male strippers who once worked with Channing Tatum claim his new movie Magic Mike is a giant SLAP IN THE FACE … claiming the actor stole THEIR stories and turned it into his own Hollywood gold.

FYI — Tatum doesn’t just star in the film, he’s also a producer — and has claimed the film is partially based on his real-life experiences as a dancer back in Florida.

But TMZ spoke to Thomas “Awesome” Austin and London Steele — both guys worked with Tatum back in his FL stripper days — who say the film is based more off their lives than his … even down to the title — Magic Mike — which is a name Austin says he coined for another dancer.

“Awesome” Austin tells TMZ … he and his former male dance buddies are a like a “brotherhood” and, while they’re happy for Channing’s success, they feel betrayed by the actor for not involving any of them in the film.

They claim they took Tatum under their wings when he was a nobody and taught him all their special stripper-moves like “The Hot Seat” — which is featured in the film and Austin says he invented it.

The guys tell us, after seeing parts of the final product they feel slighted … claiming Tatum failed to consult them for accuracy and insist that, without them, he wouldn’t have any material.

Austin explains, Channing was an “amateur” when he met him and says “he only danced for 4 months. How many events could have happened to him?”

A rep for Channing had no comment.

[From TMZ]

This is a tricky situation because, while choreographed dance moves are indeed protected by copyright law, these dudes would have to register their “moves” before asking a court for relief, and I doubt they’ve sent videotapes of their routines to the Library of Congress to make things official in terms of U.S. copyright law. Can you imagine? And they’d have to trademark any nicknames as well before asking for monetary damages. So until there’s an actual lawsuit (which there probably won’t be), I’m going to assume that these guys either want some “shut up” money or are looking for publicity for their current stripping endeavors. On that last note, I can’t blame them for trying.

Photos courtesy of AllMoviePhoto and EW.com

Prince Harry gets sweaty at a polo match with William, Kate & Lupo: hot?

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:36 AM PDT

Yay! We finally got some photos of Prince William, Prince Harry, Duchess Kate and puppy Lupo at yesterday's polo game in England. "The Boys" were playing polo, Kate and her puppy Lupo were just watching with some of the members of the royal family. First, a comment about Lupo: he's supposed to be a cocker spaniel. I think he's definitely part cocker, but I have my doubts as to whether he's a purebred. He looks like a mix to me.

Now, can we just have a word about how HOT HOT HOT Prince Harry is in these photos? Of course I love him in a suit, of course I love him in uniform, of course I love him in casual clothes. But my absolute favorite version of Harry is where he's sweaty and rumpled from physical exertion. These photos of Harry are killing my concentration. Now all I can think about is flying to England to make this ginger boy my own. Oh, and Kate TOTALLY noticed how hot Harry looked too – my Twitter friend Prince Harry Watch retweeted this great photo of Harry and Kate looking like they were ready to make love in the polo field. They are SO attracted to each other. Know that it's wrong just makes it so much dirtier and hotter.

I do have to admit… William looks pretty hot in his polo gear too. Maybe I need to start boning polo players? I might have just learned something about myself. Sweaty dudes in polo outfits = I can't concentrate for the rest of the day. There are also some cute photos of William holding and kissing Lupo – you can see them here. William & Lupo = Sweaty Harry? Perhaps.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Emma Stone’s pictorial for the July issue of Vogue: busted or beautiful?

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT

As I previewed last week, Emma Stone covers the July issue of Vogue Magazine. I was surprised that so many of you hated the cover preview. I thought Emma looked good – and I still think that now that I've seen more of the photo shoot. They definitely used the best shot of her for the cover, because I'm not crazy about the rest of the pictorial. Especially the shot of Emma in the newsboy cap, which is maybe the most horrible, unflattering, flat-out tragic shot of Emma Stone EVER. Thankfully, Vogue hasn't released the whole Emma interview – I'm thankful because I don't have to sit here and read the whole thing looking for good quotes, which takes forever. Here's Vogue's preview of their cover story:

This summer finds 23-year-old Emma Stone dangling from the rooftops in her blockbuster breakout as Peter Parker's brainy blonde girlfriend in The Amazing Spider-Man—and gracing her first-ever cover of Vogue.

With photos shot by Mario Testino, Stone cultivates a persona all her own, an innate, antic glamour that's inspired as much by Diane Keaton's Annie Hall style as Lanvin and Giambattista Valli. And in July's profile, Nathan Heller encounters the actress at the cusp of a pivotal transformation in her young career, after earning her reputation as Hollywood's go-to girl for strong, spunky characters bridging unreconciled worlds, going brunette for Superbad and making her move from comedy to The Help.

"Working with Emma was like diving into a thrilling, twisting river and never holding on to the sides," says her Spider-Man costar Andrew Garfield. "From the start. To the end. Spontaneous. In the moment. Present. Terrifying. Vital. The only way acting with someone should be."

In our cover story, Stone recounts what it's like to see her childhood dreams come true (appearing at the Oscars in February, hosting Saturday Night Live); confesses to a history of panic attacks and how she learned, growing up in Arizona, to channel that anxiety into laughter ("Comedy was my sport"); and reveals how she launched into acting at the age of fourteen (to convince her parents to let her move to L.A. to pursue her dream, she made a PowerPoint presentation). That may have been her first major performance—now, as Spider-Man leaps into theaters, we'll see her hanging from the precipice, perfectly poised for her next big moment.

[From Vogue]

How do you read Emma's relationship with Andrew Garfield? I know most of you aren't paying attention to them, but I love them, and I think they're really, really into each other. My read is that he's more into her than vice versa. Emma likes him a lot, I think. But I just get the feeling that Andrew kind of worships her. And that's really cool, because in so many of these Young Hollywood relationships, it feels like the girls are getting the short end of the stick with game-playing d-bags.

As for Spiderman… is anyone else worried? No, here's a better question: is anyone actually excited to see this film? I think the flaw is going to be that the studio tried to reboot the franchise too soon after the success of the Tobey Maguire-led franchise. People have Spidey-exhaustion, especially considering the simply fact that Spiderman isn't really the most interesting superhero.

Photos courtesy of Mario Testino/Vogue.

Kim Kardashian’s wedding wasn’t for ratings: ‘We don’t do anything for ratings’

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:29 AM PDT

These are new photos of Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Kanye West in Paris over the weekend. Because why not? Why not go on vacation with your boyfriend and your mother, and why not invite the paparazzi to document your every movement, including a very public car trip in the white Lambo you bought for your boyfriend? Oh, Kanye. I'm worried about you, dude. I think you're in too far. I think Kim is going to get pregnant and it will be a MESS.

Anyway, as I'm sure you've heard, Kim and the Kardashian-Jenner family had a sit-down interview with Oprah. Which speaks volumes about Oprah's efforts to save her failing OWN network, and how far Oprah has fallen. Over the course of the past five days, I've seen excerpts from the interview, but I didn't care much. So let's go through some highlights:

Kim on whether Kris Jenner is a "pimp": “I think that’s so ridiculous,” Kim said. “First of all, we have to hire a manager. So regardless, someone is going to get that [job]. No one will fight harder for you than your own mother,” she added. “She knows us. She knows all of our moods…We just get each other. We vibe. It works.”

Would the Kardashians be successful if they weren't “good-looking kids?”: “Well,” Rob started, pointing to his three older sisters. “They’re not, like, skinny women.” (Khloé, of course, put her little bro in check, asking, “Who are you?” and sarcastically telling him, “You’re so sweet.”) Then Kim said: “But I don’t think [our success] would’ve happened if we were all like skinny, pretty models,” Kim reasoned. “I think it has to do with us, the curves, the dark hair!” She also thinks that the sisters “helped broaden” the representation of Middle-Eastern women in mainstream media, giving them a niche role as they rose to fame.

On Kim's sex tape and how it started her career: “You know, I think that’s how I was definitely introduced to the world… It was a negative way, so I felt like I really had to work ten times harder to get people to see the real me. I have to live with the choices I have made. And I can’t dwell on it.” Shooting down the long-lived rumor she released the tape herself, she says she’s always been concerned about “humiliating the family.” When it was released, she said, she turned to her mom, panicked. It was a “really bad day” mom Kris Jenner recalls. “No mother ever wants to hear something like that,” Jenner said earlier in the interview. “I could tell she was in a lot of pain.” Still, she told her daughter, “We can get through anything.”

Whether or not her marriage to Kris Humphries was for ratings: “We have an amazing fan base that watches the show — we don’t do anything for ratings. I was in love: I wanted the life that I always pictured my fairytale life to be. I would’ve had an extravagant wedding anyway, to end that relationship was a risk in itself to lose ratings and I had to take the risk to be honest to myself.” She said that while everything was great in the beginning, the bloom quickly came off the rose after she and Humphries moved in together. “I saw how our relationship was,” she said. “I don’t want to get into the small things, but once we moved in, I knew he was not the one.”

Kim was depressed: “I was in such a deep depression I thought I was going to back away from everything,” she said. “I stayed at home for almost four months and I’m a better person now, as heartbreaking as it was to go through. I loved him, obviously it hurt him, and it hurt me too. It was embarrassing, I don’t want to call it a mistake, it was a lesson.”

Kim on Kanye: “I always dated five years younger,” Kim, 31, said. “My whole thing was completely different, and now I just love that I’m with someone that’s a couple years older than me. I love that my friends are even sometimes 20, 30 years older than me.”

[Via Radar, People, E! News]

I'm okay with Kim's answers on the Kris Humphries questions – although Kim and her family profited heavily from the wedding and everything, I do think Kim is telling some version of the truth. My take has always been that Kim simply wanted to be married and she didn't care who she was marrying, and she didn't think Kris Humphries would end up being such a douche. I'm not defending her – she's an idiot. But I don't think she plotted this huge wedding debacle simply to get herself more attention.

But I am bothered by her dumb non-denial answer on the sex tape question. She always wants to see herself as the victim in that situation, and I don't think anyone is buying it.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Lindsay Lohan went clubbing until 1 a.m. after being treated for “exhaustion”

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:52 AM PDT

Before I begin, go here to The Mail to check out the latest photos of Lindsay Lohan on set. She looks bloated and crackie, per usual, if not more so in these photos. Unfortunately, we don't have access to any new LL pics. I would like to know what she looked like when the paramedics came for her on Friday. The Cracken and her publicist claimed that nothing was wrong, that she was merely "passed out" from "exhaustion" because she worked "85 hours in 4 days". Because of crack-math. Well, Us Weekly is doing some crack-math of their own, and their story is a portrait of a crackhead who can't even keep it together for three weeks during a Lifetime TV film shoot.

Lindsay Lohan may have been treated for exhaustion Friday after working a whopping 85 hours in four days, but that didn’t stop the Liz & Dick actress from partying in Hollywood Saturday night.

Spotted hanging at swanky L.A. hotspot Chateau Marmont Saturday, the 25-year-old appeared to have come straight from filming the Elizabeth Taylor biopic, with her brunette ‘do and cat-eye makeup still in tact.

Chatting with a group of five men, Lohan spent the night surrounded by celebs including Pretty Little Liars’ Ashley Benson, Busy Philipps and Haylie Duff.

“For someone so exhausted, it was shocking to see her out past 1 a.m.,” an eyewitness told Us Weekly of Lohan, who stayed until Chateau’s restaurant cleared out.

On Friday afternoon, a false report circulated that Lohan had been found unconscious and was rushed to an L.A. hospital. After her rep, Steve Honig, denounced the claims, Lohan herself took to Twitter to assure fans that she was OK — just tired.

“Note to self.. After working 85 hours in 4 days, and being up all night shooting, be very aware that you might pass out from exhaustion & 7 paramedics MIGHT show up @ your door… Hopefully they’re cute. Otherwise it would be a real let down,” she wrote via Twitter early Saturday morning. “Back on set,” she added.

Lohan’s rep confirmed that the actress — shooting Lifetime’s Liz & Dick opposite Grant Bowler in Marina del Ray, Calif. — indeed suffered exhaustion and dehydration, and tried to sneak in a nap on set when producers became concerned.

“She took a nap before shooting her scene,” Honig explained. “Producers were concerned when she did not come out of her room and called paramedics as a precaution. Lindsay was never taken to a hospital. She was examined and is fine.”

[From Us Weekly]

You've got that right – after working her little crack-fingers to the crackie bone, after keeping her nose to the "grindstone" (that's where she does lines), and after passing out cold from "exhaustion," Lindsay Lohan went out clubbing. These are all the things that happened within an eight-day period: she totaled her Porsche by being a f–ked up driver, she orchestrated a huge PR campaign of crack lies and dissemination about the car accident, SHE LIED TO THE COPS, she went back to work for several days, and she tried to call in sick only to have producers call her cracked-out bluff and send doctors and paramedics to her hotel AND THEN SHE WENT OUT CLUBBING.

Fox News also has an interesting piece about the Cracken situation and whether Lindsay is "headed back off the tracks". You can read the full piece here – it includes some quotes from Lindsay's unnamed enablers (Dina). For example, "The paramedics call was just an overreaction. She's exhausted from working so much and still sore from the car accident. It was a combination of both those things. Lindsay has been working really hard." Sources tell Fox News that Lindsay "knows" that this is "her last chance at a comeback" so she's really, really trying, y'all. One of my favorite quotes from the piece is where a source is asked WHY producers called 911 on Lindsay: "Sometimes if actors or actresses are late for their call times, and have been so a few times, producers make sure they nip the behavior in the bud. If that's the case with Lindsay, I don't think she is going to fall asleep and be late again." So, basically, Lifetime was calling her cracked-out bluff.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Was Katy Perry’s costume change at the MuchMusic Awards inappropriate?

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:50 AM PDT

I'm not a prude. I know that's the first thing a prude would say, so maybe I should just own it and move on. I'm not one of those pearl-clutchers who thinks that exposing children to a nip is some devastating, awful act. That being said, Katy Perry's "act" continues to piss me off. It's not that she's exposing her body – it's the way in which she exposes herself, and the way she combines very cartoony, kid-friendly imagery with very adult and inappropriate imagery and themes. It bothers me that she combines everything.

These are photos of Katy at last night's MuchMusic Awards in Toronto. I've looked through all of the photos, and I've gotten a sense of what the vibe for the show was like – much more kid-friendly than, say, the MTV Music Awards. The MTV Music Awards are for teenagers – MuchMusic is for tweens and younger. Justin Bieber was there, as was Carly Rae Jepsen, Selena Gomez and whoever your Canadian tween cousin would want to see.

Now, Katy changed outfits several times. One dress for the red carpet (the black and gold Vawk gown) is fine. She wore a few different outfits during the show, and then THIS happened:

Is she too exposed? Am I just overreacting to a concentration of crotch bedazzles, which give the shadowy effect of beav? No, I don't think so. The Mail has more photos from the show, and it becomes clear that Katy's bodysuit was WAY too see-through for a kids' show. So… am I overreacting? Did Katy do this because she's desperate for attention? Did she just not realize how inappropriate her costume was?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

LeAnn Rimes tweets photo of Eddie Cibrian’s creepy birthday cake: trashy?

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:31 AM PDT

LeAnn is another Twitter rampage. On Sunday, she tweeted the above photo with the message "Just two happy people loving life". Why so try-hard? LeAnn had so many extra duties to do this weekend! It was a combination of Father's Day and Eddie Cibrian's birthday – both on Sunday. And of course LeAnn celebrated the only way she knows how – on Twitter. In addition to tweeting photos throughout the weekend, she also crack tweeted this:

I am so BEYOND fortunate to have had many men in my life I’d call dad thank you to each and everyone of them. @darrellbrown @mantis7jewels you are two of them. I love you both so much! Love you daddy, and my bonus daddy TED….so many who have truly been there for me. LOVE YOU ALL

Happy DADDY’S day @eddiecibrian
You are an amazing father who sacrifices a lot for two beautiful boys. I love watching the way you love and raise them. It brings me such joy to see the respect and love between you three. We all love you so much. We are all lucky to have you in our lives.

[Via LeAnn's Twitter]

Sigh… I mean, if it was someone else, someone less of a Twitter-addicted famewhore, I might think those messages of love were sweet. But all I can focus on is how LeAnn needs to stop putting all of this out there for public consumption. Still, it's always nice of LeAnn to tweet lots of photos that we can jack and make fun of. Speaking of, here's the birthday cake that LeAnn got for Eddie. A cake of the two of them in bed, with the kids at the bottom of the cake? OF COURSE. Because that's not creepy and inappropriate at all.

Here's a photo of Eddie and his father. Cibrian Senior looks like Nigel Powers.

She also managed to tweet this photo of one "her" boys too:

Of course. And finally, LeAnn linked to a blog called "The Evil Stepmother Speaks" with is some kind of infomercial-like thing for step-mothers who think that they rule the world. Which is fine – being a step-parent is an important and often overlooked job. But LeAnn is hellbent on getting herself SO much attention for looking after her step-sons. Oh, and people are getting upset about LeAnn's link to the post because there was some kind of reference to dealing with "that nasty ex-wife". I don't know… I'm not going to get into it. The Brandi versus LeAnn flame-war gets too minutia-oriented at times. You can read more about it here and here.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and LeAnn's Twitter.

‘Rock of Ages’ performs terribly at the box-office: is Tom Cruise to blame?

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:25 AM PDT

I was fully prepared to concede that the box-office prowess of Tom Cruise had prevailed once again after the opening of Rock of Ages, but something strange has happened — the movie proved itself to be an utterly terrible performer and has earned a mere $15 million over the weekend. For a movie with a $75 million budget, that’s pretty dismal news, and ROA even landed in third place after Madagascar 3 and Prometheus, which took in $35 million and $21 million, respectively, during their second weekends. Of course, I don’t feel badly at all for the latest Adam Sandler movie, That’s My Boy, landing in fourth place since kind of Adam’s overdue for a serious flop because he makes such crappy movies.

In retrospect, I wonder if Tom’s people suspected that Rock of Ages wouldn’t fare so well in theaters because of (hidden) poor tracking data. That could explain why — after going all out a month ago in that embarrassing W mag shoot — Tom wasn’t really promoting the film over the past few weeks aside from solo appearances at the premieres and a few half-hearted interviews. There was no huge “family man” photo op over the weekend and, in fact, Tom skipped town and headed to Iceland with Suri. It seems like Tom wanted to distance himself from the movie after his team figured out it would be a disaster. Is it fair to assign any blame to Tom for ROA‘s poor showing? While it was an ensemble movie, it was certainly marketed as the movie where Tom Cruise rocks out. Here’s a brief analysis of what went went wrong with Rock of Ages:

[T]his weekend’s newcomers each should have earned over $20M because of their star power. But New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages (3,470 theaters) fell to earth with a thud. Which Hollywood expected because the pic had been tracking poorly for weeks (and even went down at one point week to week). The studio felt the 1980s period piece was a hard sell to younger moviegoers. I suspect the problem was casting. Russell Brand has been repellant to moviegoers, while Tom Cruise as iconic rocker proved just too incredulous for audiences. The PG-13 musical is looking to open to only $15M this weekend after taking in just $5.3M Friday and $5.4M Saturday. Given that the pic was based on the Broadway warbler, it did worse than the studio expected and far worse than Mamma Mia which with the same pedigree opened to $27M. Warner Bros was holding out hope for this $75M-budget pic, thinking that a good CinemaScore could generate great word of mouth and therefore great legs for the film. It didn't materialize: audiences only gave Rock Of Ages a mediocre 'B'. There’s just no way to save this s(t)inker with hack director Adam Shankman at the helm: in fact, weekend gross may fall below $15M by Monday.

Columbia/Sony’s That’s My Boy> (3,030 theaters) starring Adam Sandler also was bottoming. An actor who reliably takes in $30M to $40M every opening weekend and then dropping to $13M after grossing only $4.5M Friday and $4.8M Saturday can’t go unchastized. Especially if he hurt his brand with his most recent pic, that execrable flop Jack & Jill. (How much you wanna bet Andy Samberg is rethinking that SNL exit now?) No one will be surprised if weekend gross falls below $13M by Monday.

[From Deadline]

So does the financial failure of Rock of Ages mean anything in the grand scheme of Tom Cruise’s career? Not really. MI4 has proven that people will still watch Tom perform crazy-ass stunts in an action movie, so he’ll have that option at least for the next decade or so. Still, this news does mean that studios will rethink casting Tom in out-of-his-norm roles like Clint Eastwood’s upcoming A Star is Born remake, and that silly Les Grossman movie probably won’t happen now either. Small mercies, folks.

As for Deadline passing a lot of the blame towards Russell Brand, he obviously appeals only to a certain demographic. In animated movies where he can show off his voice work (Despicable Me, Hop), he’s financially viable, and the stoner audience loves him in in movies like Get Him to the Greek, but for anything more outside-the-box for his persona (Arthur), he’s not a box-office draw. Rusty will be fine. He’s got his new FX show coming up and will probably host a zillion more MTV Awards shows, so I’m not worried about him. Likewise, Alec Baldwin will be okay because he’s got his television work to fall back on as well. Julianne Hough, however, probably won’t have too many more movies in her future, so she might want to contemplate heading back to “Dancing with the Stars” because, honestly, that seems like a great gig.

Photos courtesy of AllMoviePhoto

Duchess Kate: “I am very well looked after, William is very sweet & kind of spoils me”

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:23 AM PDT

Honest question: Is Duchess Kate patting her husband’s crumpets in this ^^ photo? WHERE IS HER OTHER HAND?!? Everyone needs a good goose every now and then, even if you're a prince, and even if you're standing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in front of thousands of people.

Anyhoodle… obviously, Duchess Kate has gotten very comfortable in her royal role. I tend to think that Kate has been babied ("infantilized") for nearly two years, like she was a meek, unsteady child unaccustomed to walking on her own or speaking to strangers, when really she came into the institution of the monarchy at the age of 29, after a decade as a "royal girlfriend". She already had a university education and a little work experience (a few months here and there). My point? The royal courtiers were coddling her, probably in the hopes of lowering expectations so Kate could easily meet (or exceed) those expectations. When Kate has made public appearances, she's fine. Are there still kinks and little mistakes to be worked out over time? Of course. But she hasn't made any major blunders, and she hasn't made news for the wrong reasons. There's no reason to think that Kate wouldn't be able to handle working as a full-time member of the royal family – meaning dozens of public appearances a month.

As I mentioned yesterday, Kate has been doing so many appearances over the past few weeks, and she's been meeting and exceeding the low expectations so far. One of her weekend appearances was on behalf of the "Expanding Horizons" program, which saw her doing a mini-camping trip with some underprivileged city kids. While she was hanging out with the kids, she was asked some questions about becoming a duchess, and her answer was… interesting.

Even when she’s roughing it in the woods, Kate Middleton still manages to look effortlessly chic. Bonding with 28 eight- and nine-year-olds from the King Solomon Academy Primary School, based in North Westminster, London Sunday, the Duchess of Cambridge rocked a $500 pair of leather-lined Le Chameau wellington boots, Zara jeans, a Burberry shirt and a Really Wild sleeveless jacket to tour a campground in Kent.

Visiting an Expanding Horizons primary school scheme at the Widehorizons Margaret McMillan House in Wrotham, Kent, Middleton, 30, marveled at the tipi tents the inner-city kids had created. “This is marvelous,” she told the children. “Thank you for showing me your bedroom.”

Later, Prince William’s wife chatted with the schoolchildren around a campfire, and offered them a glimpse into her home life with her husband of one year. “Well, it’s been very busy and great fun…but I am very well looked after,” she said when asked how she’s adjusted to her new status as a royal.

As for married life behind closed doors? “William is very sweet and kind of spoils me,” she told another child.

Prince William and his brother Harry have long supported ARK Schools, the group which organized the weekend, which is aimed at allowing inner-city kids the chance to develop their confidence and teamwork skills in an outdoor setting.

Showing off her keen maternal instincts with the schoolchildren, Middleton and her husband hope to conceive their own child before next summer.

“There’s a window in place,” a royal insider confirms in the new Us Weekly, out now. Hoping to get pregnant between the last leg of their royal tour in September 2012 and summer 2013, the couple would love to make a New Year’s announcement.

Once Middleton hits the three-month mark in her pregnancy, “the pregnancy will be announced,” says the insider. “It won’t be hidden.”

[From Us Weekly]

Hmm… "I am very well looked after… William is very sweet and kind of spoils me." Fascinating. I'm not being facetious either. Those two statements really are fascinating. They speak to her character, and how she approaches her role, right? Giving her the benefit of the doubt, I think maybe the "I am very well looked after" part is Kate trying to tell people that they shouldn't worry about her, that she's surrounding herself with smart people who help her out, and that she's not overwhelmed or anything. But taken with the "he kind of spoils me" thing, I'm getting an image of her life and how her husband treats her. Is it possible – is it probable – that William babies her and coddles her and the royal courtiers follow his lead?

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Cele|bitchy

Cele|bitchy

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