This is the new cover from Renee Zellweger's photo shoot for the November issue of Harper's Bazaar UK. She looks… stunning. And I had no idea who it was. Isn't the idea to look like a more stunning version of yourself? Maybe it's the black-and-white that is throwing me off - most of Renee's photo shoots are usually in color. Also, Renee gave some interesting quotes in a recent interview, and I think this may be from her Harper's interview. Apparently, Renee wants to tell all of those bump-watchers and busy-bodies (me) to back off. She says that motherhood "has never been an ambition" for her and that she doesn't care if she ever becomes a mother: "I never had expectations like… 'When I'm 19 I'm going to have done this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to have done that.'" Golf applause for Renee - if she really said this, then good for her. I love when celebrity women simply talk about their lack of desire for the Mini-van dream. Renee and Cameron Diaz get an A-plus.
Anyway, there's some interesting gossip floating around about Renee these days. Like this rumor, that is picking up steam: Renee in The Hangover 2? Could be:
Hollywood star Renee Zellweger is reportedly in talks to take on a role in boyfriend Bradley Cooper’’s new movie ”The Hangover 2”.
The 41-year-old actress, who is believed to have been dating the actor since last year, is interested in taking on a role in the sequel to the hugely popular comedy, Contactmusic reported.
“Renee loves the first movie and this just gives her and Brad a reason to hang out together on set. The funny thing is Renee looks like playing a girl the guys meet and one of them has a one-night-stand with her - only it’'s not Brad’'s character!” said a source.
Eh. And apparently the sequel takes place in Thailand. Yeah… because this is Bridget Jones 2. Right?!? But it might be the kind of career re-boot that Renee needs - Movieline made up a list of 7 Ways Renee Can Reclaim Her A-list Standing. One of the suggestions is to talk a funny quest spot in a comedy television show - but I think a supporting part in a comedy sequel film would qualify too.
As many know, I've never seen a Harry Potter film. I don't really care - it's not my thing. But over time, I have grown to love and adore Daniel Radcliffe solely based on how he comes across in interviews. He's very smart, very funny, and very liberal politically. He's engaged in politics and political issues, and he's made gay rights one of his main public causes. Dan - who identifies himself as straight, and I believe it - is one of the biggest straight advocates for gay rights out there. He's more than comfortable talking about his gay friends, being interviewed by drag queens, and how tolerance and acceptance should be a given. Over the past few years, Dan began working with The Trevor Project, an American initiative to offer support to homeless gay teens, and suicide prevention education amongst young, gay men and women.
So in the wake of a series of news stories about gay-bashing, hate crimes and gay suicide (like the incident of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide), Daniel has taken this opportunity to lend his voice again to gay suicide prevention.
When Tyler Clementi leapt from a bridge after his roommate posted a video of his tryst with another man online, and 13-year-old Seth Walsh hung himself after enduring relentless anti-gay taunts, their actions not only resulted in tragic deaths, they helped to serve as a wake-up call that LGBT discrimination, especially among young people, is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
Clementi and Walsh are just two of many gay teens who have recently committed suicide, and the wave of deaths has prompted high-profile names to speak out against anti-gay harassment and sparked grassroots efforts to curb intolerance.
“Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe is among many around the world saddened by the number of gay youth who felt the need to take their own lives rather than continue to deal with abuse from their peers. In an exclusive statement to MTV News, Radcliffe lamented the tragic loss of life and called for greater support for those who are struggling.
“Learning about the suicide deaths of Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Asher Walker, Billy Lucas and Justin Aaberg has been heartbreaking for me. These young people were bullied and tormented by people that should have been their friends,” Radcliffe said. “We have a responsibility to be better to each other, and accept each others’ differences regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ability, or religion and stand up for someone when they’re bullied.”
Radcliffe also urged people to reach out if they believe a pal may be considering suicide.
“When a friend is feeling depressed or says they’re thinking of killing themselves, we must take it seriously and get them help,” Radcliffe continued, before directing young people to the website of the Trevor Project, an organization he has championed that provides support for LGBT youth and runs a 24-hour crisis-prevention hotline.
“My deepest sympathies go out to the families and friends of these excellent young people. And to all the young people who are being bullied right now, you are not alone. Call the Trevor Lifeline at 866 4-U-TREVOR, because there’s always someone there who will listen and who can help.”
The Trevor Project is also a supporting partner of MTV, the Jed Foundation and actress Brittany Snow’s new Love Is Louder initiative. Love Is Louder — which is also supported by DoSomething.org, Reach Out, Active Minds and the Ad Council — strives to encourage young people and relay messages of love and hope to those who feel they have nowhere else to turn.
Dan isn't the only speaking out - gay celebrities like Neil Patrick Harris and Ellen Degeneres, and columnist Dan Savage have already spoken out as well. But Dan's one of the few straight celebrities speaking out, and I hope that more join him. This isn't an issue where just the gay celebrities should be putting their two cents in - I think part of the reason hate crimes is committed is because the perpetrators believe that people agree with them, especially younger kids who think beating up or bashing gay kids is somehow "funny" or "acceptable" - straight people lending their voice in support of gay rights is so important, and bless Daniel Radcliffe for his continuing support. Go here for The Trevor Project’s donation page.
Here's the video message from columnist Dan Savage and his husband:
Call me crazy, but I love when Sparkles has his grumpy bitchface on. It generally only comes out when he's pap'd, or when he's protecting his lady's honor. Both were true last night - Sparkles and Kristen Stewart decided to try to go undercover to an LA restaurant, Ago. I guess K-Stew made Sparkles run interference with the paparazzi while she sulked behind him, trying to hide behind Robert's frame.
What I love about Sparkles in particular - he should be an intimidating guy, especially if we're only talking about his size. He's a tall, broad-shouldered young man who is in decent shape. When he puts his grumpy bitchface on, the paparazzi should be scared. But that never happens. Maybe Sparkles is too polite and English?
Anyway, it's good to see them out. They've been undercover for months - save for a few paparazzi shots of them kissing and nuzzling. By all accounts, they're still going strong and they're happy together, which should make the haters and the conspiracy theorists nauseous. I used to the think the sex between them was probably pretty hot, but now I'm wondering. At this point, I think they probably just sit around, listening to music and getting high. Not a bad relationship, honestly, but it would be nice to see them as really sexy together.
Jesus. Christ. Vanity Fair's obsession with all things Kennedy and all things Marilyn Monroe has already gone way, way overboard. And now this - yet another cover devoted to their journalistic necrophilia. Another Marilyn cover! And this time it's all about her "secret diaries". Ooh, scandal! What other NEW information could possibly be covered that hasn't already been discussed and rehashed and masturbated to (journalistically!)? Vanity Fair excerpts from a NEW book about Marilyn, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe, edited by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment. So it's Marilyn in her own words? Of course not. There's still quite about to say about Marilyn, so Vanity Fair couldn't help themselves. Did you know that she was BLONDE?!?
She was always late for class, usually arriving just before they closed the doors. The teacher was strict about not entering in the middle of an exercise or, God forbid, in the middle of a scene. Slipping in without makeup, her luminous hair hidden under a scarf, she tried to make herself inconspicuous. She usually took a seat in the back of one of the dingy rooms in the Malin Studios, on 46th Street, smack in the middle of the theater district. When she raised her hand to speak, it was in a tiny wisp of a voice. She didn't want to draw attention to herself, but it was hard for the other students not to know that the most famous movie star in the world was in their acting class. A few blocks away, above Loew's State Theater, at 45th and Broadway, there was the other Marilyn—the one everyone knew—52 feet tall, in that infamous billboard advertising Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch, a hot blast from the subway grating causing her white dress to billow up around her thighs, her face an explosion of joy.
When it was her turn to do an acting exercise focusing on sense memory, Marilyn took the floor in front of a small group of students. She was asked to remember a moment in her life, to recall the clothes she was wearing, to evoke the sights and smells of that memory. She described how she had felt about being alone in a room, years before, when an unnamed man walked in. Suddenly, her acting teacher admonished her, "Don't do that. Just tell us what you hear. Don't tell us how you feel." Marilyn began to cry. Another student, an actress named Kay Leyder, recalled, "As she described her clothes … what she heard … the words that were said to her … she began crying, sobbing, until at the end of it she was really devastated." Was this the real Marilyn Monroe: an insecure, shy, 29-year-old woman?
Now an extraordinary archive of Marilyn's poems, letters, notes, recipes, and diary entries has surfaced that delves deep into her psyche and private life. These artifacts shed light on, among other things, her sometimes devastating journey through psychoanalysis; her three marriages, to merchant marine James Dougherty, Yankee slugger Joe DiMaggio, and playwright Arthur Miller; and the mystery surrounding her tragic death at the age of 36.
Marilyn left the archive, along with all her personal effects, to her acting teacher Lee Strasberg, but it would take a decade for her estate to be settled. Strasberg died in February 1982, outliving his most famous student by 20 years, and in October 1999 his third wife and widow, Anna Mizrahi Strasberg, auctioned off many of Marilyn's possessions at Christie's, netting over $13.4 million, but the Strasbergs continue to license her image, which brings in millions more a year. The main beneficiary is the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, on 15th Street off Union Square, in New York City. It is, you might say, the house that Marilyn built.
Several years after inheriting the collection, Anna Strasberg found two boxes containing the current archive, and she arranged for the contents to be published this fall around the world—in the U.S. as Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The archive is a sensational discovery for Marilyn's biographers and for her fans, who still want to rescue her from the taint of suicide, from the accusations of tawdriness, from the layers of misconceptions and distortions written about her over the years. Now at last we have an unfiltered look inside her mind.
"Complete Subjection, Humiliation, Alonement"
Marilyn began taking private lessons with celebrated acting teacher Lee Strasberg in March 1955, encouraged by the acclaimed theater and movie director Elia Kazan, with whom she had had an affair. "Kazan said I was the gayest girl he ever knew," she wrote to her analyst Dr. Ralph Greenson in the last and perhaps the most important letter found in this archive, "and believe me he has known many. But he loved me for one year and once rocked me to sleep one night when I was in great anguish. He also suggested that I go into analysis and later wanted me to work with his teacher, Lee Strasberg."
She was living at the Gladstone Hotel, on 52nd Street off Park Avenue, when she began working with Strasberg and embarked upon the psychoanalysis that was de rigueur for taking classes at the Actors Studio. Founded in 1947 by Kazan and directors Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis, it was the holy temple of the Method—acting exercises and scenes that focused on sense memories and "private moments" dredged from the actor's life. Throughout the late 1940s and through much of the 1950s and 1960s, the Actors Studio was the most revered laboratory for stage actors in America. Its membership (one was not officially a "student" but a "member") included a roster of the most compelling actors of the day: Marlon Brando, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Julie Harris, Martin Landau, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Eli Wallach, Ben Gazzara, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley, Anne Bancroft, Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward—who all brought those techniques into film.
Strasberg, born in 1901 in Austria-Hungary and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was a genius at analyzing an actor's performance and a stern and often cold taskmaster. Short, bespectacled, and intense, he wasn't, recalled Ellen Burstyn, "one for small talk." For Marilyn, who grew up shunted from one foster family to another, not knowing who her father was, he became a beloved paternal figure, autocratic yet nurturing, and his acceptance of her as a private student bolstered her confidence and gave her the training to improve her acting, and turned her from a movie star (and punch line) into a true artist. But years later Kazan observed, "The more naïve and self-doubting the actors, the more total was Lee's power over them. The more famous and the more successful these actors, the headier the taste of power for Lee. He found his perfect victim-devotee in Marilyn Monroe."
Most important, this archive, far more deeply than the Inez Melson collection, made public in V.F. in October 2008, reveals a woman in search of herself, undergoing the harrowing experience of psychoanalysis for the first time, at the urging of Strasberg. The key players include Strasberg himself, her three psychiatrists—Dr. Margaret Hohenberg, Dr. Marianne Kris, and Dr. Ralph Greenson—and her third husband, Arthur Miller, whom she confesses to loving body and soul, but by whom she ultimately felt betrayed.
These poems, musings, dreams, and correspondence also touch on her great fear of displeasing others, her chronic lateness, and three of the biggest traumas of her shortened life: one buried in her past, and two that took place a few years after she began studying with Strasberg. But they also reveal her growth both as an artist and a woman as she manages to cope with memories and disappointments that threatened to overwhelm her.
In a five-and-a-half-page typed document, Marilyn looked back on her early marriage to James Dougherty, an intelligent, attractive man five years her senior. They married on June 19, 1942, when she was just 16, and in this document she describes her feelings of loneliness and insecurity in that hastily agreed-to union, which was less of a love match than a way to keep Marilyn—then Norma Jeane Baker—out of the orphanage when her caretakers at the time, Grace and Erwin "Doc" Goddard, moved away from California. (There has also been speculation that Grace wanted to remove Norma Jeane from her husband's too appreciative eye.)
Is any of this stuff new anymore? Not to me - but I read Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde, which was one of the most interesting "biographies" of Marilyn ever written. Of course people will be interested in this because it's "Marilyn in her own words" - but seriously, just let this poor lady rest in peace. She lived such a tragic life, and this mass fetish-ization has gotten out of control.
Unlike most women in the world, I believe that Keira Knightley has the kind of face where she could literally do anything with her hair, and it wouldn't matter at all. With that face, you could even go bald and you would still look stunning. So it doesn't really matter that Keira chopped off her longish (shoulder-length?) tresses into this new bob. It reminds me of something though… what is it? Is it Victoria Beckham? Yes, I think so. This hair is very "Posh".
Hair ye, hair: Keira Knightley has chopped off her hair. The sexy Brit, 25, debuted a sleek new 20s-style bob Tuesday at the Chanel spring/summer 2011 show during Paris Fashion Week.
“I had my hair bobbed about a month ago, then I had it freshly trimmed again this morning,” she told UK InStyle. The new ‘do wasn’t for a movie role.
“I did it for myself,” she insisted.
Next up for Knightley, who has described this year as a “whirlwind”? She can currently be seen in the indie Never Let Me Go. The actress — who earned a best supporting actress nod at the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for her West End role in The Misanthrope this year — also wants more stage time.
“I was very lucky,” she said, “and I’d love to do more theatre!”
It looks good - I prefer this to the longer hair she had, just because she didn't seem to know what to do with her longer hair. Some women just find shorter hair easier - I am not one of those women. For me, my long hair is the easiest style ever, and one I've had for years. I could never rock this bob style - when I had something similar a decade ago, I felt naked and self-conscious.
By the way, I love that this is one of the few Keira stories out there - she's really done a great job of talking herself out of the limelight for a year or two. She was getting too overexposed, and appearing on too many magazines, and it looks like she knew it and took a step back. Good for her.
Dina Lohan had a little talk with Barbara Walters ahead of yesterday’s View. It’s clear that she wanted to make it known that she has three other kids that are doing great and that they’re all going to visit Lindsay in rehab next week. Does this mean she’s kind-of admitting that Lindsay isn’t doing that well now that she’s in rehab awaiting additional jail time? That’s doubtful given all the delusional ways she’s tried to spin Lindsay’s last sentence, but at least she realizes that it’s a PR issue she needs to stay on top of. Ali, 16, is modeling now and Dina would love to get her into “the business.” Dina needs to make herself seem like a competent parent despite all the evidence to the contrary. Here’s what Barbara said on behalf of Dina:
There are three other children. The son just graduated summa cum laude from Ithaca. The son Michael is 22, daughter Ali, 16, and another boy of 14, all very responsible, terrific children. They are all going to visit Lindsay at Betty Ford where she is now. There is going to be a family week… she is supposed to be there for 30 days according to her mother, I just talked to her, she is doing very well. She has 24 days left and on October 22 the judge will rule on the misdemeanor violation and decide whether Lindsay goes back to rehab or goes to jail but in the meantime she’s trying very hard to work through her problems.
I wonder what kind of deal Dina will work out with the paparazzi to capture these happy family reunion moments. Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun Times has some insider information on Lindsay’s rehab stay. He reports that she’s “stand-offish with other patients and staff” but is cooperative overall. She’s also said to have “offered to kick in funds to help the clinic pay for the additional security staff they need ‘to cope with all the paparazzi.” You know she’s doing this so that she can control who gets photos of her in rehab and subsequently demand a higher asking price. Zwecker reports that Lindsay has “ditched her cell phones and erased the contact information” for her “old heavy-partying crowd.” She’s hoping to show the judge that she’s changed and get off without additional jail time, but legal experts think that she’ll be sentenced to 30 more days on October 22. There are only so many ways the Lohans can spin this, and it’s obvious that rehab is a last ditch effort for Lindsay to avoid jail. I’ll be surprised if she stays on the straight and narrow for even a few more months.
Chelsea Handler, supposedly 35, is single again, having broken up with her boyfriend, the CEO of Comcast, right after she signed a three year, eight figure contract with E! (which is owned by Comcast). She’s since dated and broken up with a guy who works on Animal Planet. The acerbic comedian was spotted out on a date in New Orleans with none other than prolific foot-in-mouth twitterer, 50 Cent. TMZ has a photo of those two and it definitely looks like a date. What’s more is that 50 did an impromptu rap that night all about getting laid, with lines like “you can feel every inch” and “your sex drive can match my sex drive.”
50 Cent and Chelsea Handler went to a bar in New Orleans last night … and by the way they got up close and personal with each other, they gave some serious credibility to those dating rumors.
TMZ has obtained a photo of the two of them at the Blue Nile jazz bar in New Orleans — and one spy inside the joint tells us they were getting very hot and heavy with each other.
But before 50 got cozy with Chelsea, dude knocked out a live freestyle set with a local band at the club.
Check out the verse 50 busted out that night … it seems to be directed toward a special lady friend.
There are plenty of celebrities I don’t want to imagine having sex, with Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer immediately coming to mind. 50 Cent and Chelsea Handler are up at the top of the list now, though, and I’m grimacing as I write this. I dislike both of them, but they make sense in a way. Chelsea is a racist (although I’m sure she’ll use the “I have black boyfriends” excuse now) 50 Cent is a homophobe, and they both love dogs. I’m still making that “yuck” face, particularly in light of the topics that 50 has been tweeting about lately. Let’s hope these two either break up or try to keep their relationship quiet. Given Chelsea’s history, she’ll be making lame stereotypical jokes about 50 in no time. He’ll probably be flattered.
I'm not sure what's happening in these photos. I think it might be a film festival in the Cannes? And yet, it's not the Cannes Film Festival, it's called MIPCOM. I just looked it up - this is where celebrities, directors and producers go to sell or promote their work to buyers. Maybe they're trying to sell/promote Mad Men in the Europe. That's always a strange thought to me - that other countries would love or "get" American shows like Mad Men. It constantly amuses me that the UK is having a love affair with Mad Men - so why would it be strange that Mad Men would be popular the world over? Anyway, my lover Jon Hamm looks great, as always. I’m shocked that his girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt isn’t clinging to him in every photo - I don’t think she was even invited. Instead, we get Elizabeth Moss - she looks lovely. To irritate me, my mother always calls her "plain". I disagree - I like that she's pretty in a normal way. She seems like a cute friend who refuses to get a nose job because why would she want to look like everybody else? And I think that as the series goes on and on, Peggy has started looking cuter and cuter too - they've started styling her in such an adorable, mod way. I love it.
I won't do any spoilers for this week's Mad Men, I'll only say that it was good, and that they've certainly got enough balls in the air to make the last two episodes of the season very, very interesting. I honestly have no idea how all of this stuff is going to pan out, and I enjoy that feeling.
By the way, guess who else was there? Luke Perry! And look what he's wearing!
These are photos from last night in New York City. Halle Berry stepped out with a Mystery Dude who is rather hot. He seems like her type, doesn't he? Chiseled white dude, tall, handsome - he looks like the budget version of a Gabriel Aubry/Olivier Martinez love child. Of course, they could just be friends. Mystery is beeping on my gaydar ever so slightly - but that doesn't mean anything, Aubry beeps on my gaydar too. Anyway, no one know who this guy is. But we all know that Halle rocks a pair of leather pants, right?
Halle Berry is all smiles as she steps out in the rain to dine at Nuela with a male companion in New York City, NY on October 4, 2010. With rumors abounding that Berry is involved with Olivier Martinez who is this new male dinner partner?
[From Fame Pictures]
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - even though Halle and Olivier are boning (and my God, is that hot), I doubt Olivier is Halle's only piece. I think at this point, she's got pieces all over the world, probably in every port. So don't worry about Olivier the Womanizer breaking poor Halle's heart. She's getting hers, and then she flies to a different city and gets hers from someone else.
Halle and Mystery on October 4, 2010. Credit: Fame.
First let me sing Betty White’s praises for her hysterical turn on the second season premiere of one of my top five shows, NBC’s Community. Betty played a smack-talking anthropology professor and she was excellent. Unfortunately she wasn’t on last week’s second episode, but I just checked her IMDB page and she’ll be back this week! Yeah!
Betty is pretty busy lately, and stars in the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland along with the new film You Again, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver. As part of promotion for You Again, the stars appear on the cover of AARP Magazine. The accompanying interview has some gems from Betty, including details on her crush on Robert Redford, which she’s mentioned before. Betty talks about sex and says she’d love to get some if she had the right mad. She also has a lot of sweet things to say about her husband, who passed away in 1981.
Betty White scoffs at the question.
“Does desire melt away with age? I’m waiting for that day to come,” the 88-year-old tells AARP Magazine in its November/December issue. “Sexual desire is like aging,” she continues, pointing at her head. “A lot of it is up here.”
White, who shares the magazine’s cover with two of her You Again costars Jamie Lee Curtis and Kristin Bell, tells the magazine that her first marriage was totally physical. “I married my first husband because we wanted to sleep together,” she says. “It lasted six months and we were in bed for six months.”
After a disastrous second marriage, White met game show host Allen Ludden. She says they were a match made in heaven – even though she wasn’t initially interested. “He bought me a beautiful ring and I threw it back at him,” she recalls, “so he wore it on a chain around his neck. He said, ‘I’m going to wear it until you put it on your finger.’ ”
It worked, and the couple walked down the aisle in 1963, and stayed together until his death in 1981. “The secret to our marriage was enthusiasm,” White says. “When I knew Allen was coming home, I would freshen my makeup and put on a new blouse.”
And the sex was apparently great, too. If Ludden were alive today, White thinks they’d still be sleeping together. But if he were unavailable, White has a second choice. “I don’t have a fella,” she says, “but if Allen – or Robert Redford – were around, we’d have a very active sex life.”
That’s really sweet! Robert Redford recently married his longterm girlfriend, so he’s out of the running, but Betty could use a hot boyfriend who dotes on her. It must be very hard at her age to meet someone worthy. She’s got a better chance though, now that she’s made it known that she’s looking.
CoverAwards has more quotes from Betty from this interview, and she complains about hanging out with women. This is pretty damn funny: “I'm still bleeding over losing Ruesy [the late actress and Golden Girls costar Rue McClanahan], who was my dear friend. But as much as I love my friends, I wouldn't think of going out to lunch with a woman. I can't think of anything less interesting, except hen parties and showers — and I avoid them like the plague.” Oh Betty, you just need friends who can keep up with you!
Betty is reportedly writing her memoirs and has a two book deal. Her first book is due out next year, and I can’t wait to hear more about her life.
Here’s Betty with her departed husband, Allen Ludden.
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