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Is Danny McBride really sexy to anyone else?
Gwen Stefani covers Elle: “I’m very vain… I love the visual”
Chris Noth: Charitable ass-and-grundle flasher
Garrett Hedlund will be the next guy to dump Taylor Swift over the phone
Jennifer Garner in Oscar de la Renta at the ‘Arthur’ premiere: blah or cute?
Ryan Phillippe takes Amanda Seyfried to Paris: serious or reacting to Reese’s wedding?
From The Desk Of Clive Owen: The Beret of Eroticism
K-Fed and his girlfriend announce they’re expecting a girl
Angelina Jolie hasn’t adopted, the 7th tattoo coordinates are Brad’s
Britney Spears debuts Armageddon-themed video for “Till The World Ends”

Is Danny McBride really sexy to anyone else?

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:56 AM PDT

I love Danny McBride. It's something that has come over me gradually throughout the past few years, but at this point, I would be perfectly willing to anoint him My Forever And Ever Dong and headliner of Hot Guy Friday, if not for the collective freakout it would inspire. Yeah, I know he's not technically hot. But whenever you see him - in photos, in movies, wherever - you start giggling, right? So Danny is the star of the new movie Your Highness, which I want to see very, very much despite the fact that it also stars James "I'm a Douche" Franco and Natalie "SmugFace" Portman. That's a sign of how much I love Danny McBride - I will still see his movie even with the other two a–holes in it. Oh, and Danny isn't just the star (the lead!) - he wrote it too. Score!

Anyway, Danny has a lengthy new interview in GQ. You can read the full thing here - I had to stop reading it a few times because I was wasting too much time giggling over it. Here are some of the choice highlights:

How Your Highness started: McBride’s explaining Your Highness, as best he can. How it all started as a joke. How he and his old film-school buddy David Gordon Green—who cast McBride in All the Real Girls back in 2002, directed him years later in Pineapple Express, and occupied that chair again on Your Highness—used to play this movie-nerd game years ago, where Green would throw out a title and McBride would start pitching him back “f-ckin’ retarded ideas for movies.” Green would say something like Face of Danger, and they’d come up with “some weird story about Steve Danger, who’s a plastic surgeon and he solves mysteries.” Your Highness was one of those. Green said it; McBride said, “What if I was in the Middle Ages fighting dragons and getting stoned all the time?”

On making flops: “I’ve been in movies that were made to appeal to everyone, and sometimes they appealed to no one,” McBride says, presumably making tactful reference to his role in Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost, a $100 million Flopasaurus rex. “It’s just more interesting to us to make the f-ckin’ weird, crazy movies that maybe some people go see.”

Your Highness is for an elite audience: “If you don’t like the Minotaur dick, you’re not gonna like our movie, and we’re okay with that.”

The inspriations: “We love Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” McBride says, “and how they approached not having the budget of a big movie. But David’s whole idea [for Your Highness] was that the joke would be that it’s not low-budget. We wanted to make it look as much like Harry Potter or Clash of the Titans as we possibly could, because that would make the joke that much better. Monty Python did the low-budget version, and they killed it. You don’t want to step on territory that other people have done amazingly. It’s like, where’s our place on the dance floor?”

Danny sees himself as a writer: “Honestly, at the end of the day, I f-ckin’ love writing the most, out of all of it,” McBride says. “Whatever goes on, I know I can come back to my f-ckin’ desk and put down some jokes and write something, and that honestly keeps me so content that if I never were to get another acting job again, I wouldn’t be heartbroken.” He’s always written on the side while working another job, he points out—it’s just that now the day job is movie actor rather than, say, night desk manager at the Burbank Holiday Inn. Really? I ask. If everything else fell away, that’s the one thing you’d choose to keep? “Totally,” McBride says. “Get rid of all the f-ckin’ flu. Keep it street. Just me and my word processor.”

[From GQ]

I love him. Keep it street! Seriously, if he wasn't already married, I would marry him right now, at this very moment. I sat here and couldn't stop laughing for a full five minutes as I wrote this up. Anyone who can make me laugh that hard gets a ticket to my panties.

Header photo courtesy of GQ. Additional pics by WENN.

Gwen Stefani covers Elle: “I’m very vain… I love the visual”

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT

Gwen Stefani is the cover girl for the new issue of Elle Magazine - it's their music issue, and Elle did an unexpectedly great job with the photo shoot and profiles. In addition to Gwen, musical stars like Willow Smith, Adele, Robyn, Nicki Minaj, Feist, Stevie Nicks and Aretha Franklin are also profiled and photographed (full slideshow here, at Elle). Gwen gets the long interview, and since she seems to be one of those women some of you love to hate, I thought I'd give you her interview excerpts. I think she comes across decently here - she cops to being vain, she gets a bit touchy when Elle compares her to Rihanna and Gaga, and she gushes about Gavin:

Gwen on vanity & performing while pregnant: "It was horrible. Certain songs would make me want to puke. You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard. I mean, I'm very vain. That would be my middle name. Of course I am, you know what I mean? I love the visual.”

On writing hits: "I do! Why wouldn't you want that many people listening to the songs that you wrote? There's no way to go back after you have had it. So the intentions of even the solo records were always about trying to write those guilty-pleasure albums that just get in your head and you can't get out. I'm not cool, I'm not into the B-sides. Prince, who is one of my idols, gave me some advice when I worked with him: "Have you ever just tried writing a hit? Like, don't just try writing a song, try and write a hit song." I remember him saying that and me thinking, Yeah, you're right. Why would you write anything else?"

On Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry: “I don’t see myself in those girls. I usually put pants on. I see these girls as more going for the sex-symbol thing. I was more, in the band, like a tomboy. Of course, I think every girl is sexy, so there’s going to be a little of that. But I see a lot of younger artists going more toward the sexy thing.”

On Gavin: “The first time we ever kissed was right around Valentine’s Day; we were in New Orleans on tour. I always think about that because it’s unbelievable that we’ve been able to stay together. I feel so proud of us. It’s one of my biggest achievements.”

On pop music: “When we were growing up, some of the hits were legendary ones that you hear your whole life. But certain songs, I don't know if you'll ever hear them again. Because that's what that music is, like a guilty pleasure, it's right at the moment. It's like fashion—it's now, then it's gone.”

[From Elle Magazine]

Aw, I don't hate her. I do think she probably has low self-esteem and yeah, she has a famewhore streak too. But the chick is talented - she's got pipes, and she writes her own music, and that's more than most pop stars can say.

Oh, I keep meaning to add this to a story, but I don't write about Gwen that often, so here you go - in an interview a few weeks ago, Gwen was talking about why she wears so much drag queen makeup and she said, “I wear make-up every single day. I like to wear make-up for Gavin and I don’t feel energized until I’ve put it on, then I’m ready to go.” She wears the drag queen makeup FOR Gavin? Discuss.

Photos courtesy of Elle.

Chris Noth: Charitable ass-and-grundle flasher

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:46 AM PDT

Last night was the annual charity event, "Dressed to Kilt". It's something to do with Scotland and wearing kilts and charity, all of which doesn't really interest me. I was looking through the photos, seriously hoping that my lover Gerard Butler had gone to the event, when I found these photos. Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland are currently starring on Broadway together in the play That Championship Season. So they (plus the other stars, including Brian Cox) decided to walk the "runway" for charity. And none of them wore anything under their kilts. And Chris decided to flash everybody! CB blurred Chris's ass (WENN blurred his grundle), so you can see the NSFW unblurred ass here.

Having seen the unblurred ass, I have to say that Chris is in pretty good shape. I can also say that Jason Patric's ass is totally gross, and not what you want to see first thing in the morning.

Anyway, this is just a reminder: Chris Noth is That Guy. That Guy who will moon a room full of Scottish people at a charity event. That Guy with the sense of humor of a 5 year old. I bet he dares people to eat bugs too. And he laughs every time someone farts.

Here are some more photos from the event. I threw in a pic of Matthew Settle, because he's cute.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Garrett Hedlund will be the next guy to dump Taylor Swift over the phone

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:22 AM PDT

Oh, Swifty. Will you ever get it right? At least we can give Taylor Swift credit for trying, I suppose. Us Weekly reports this morning that Swifty and Tron: Legacy star Garrett Hedlund went on a date. Apparently, it was a "low-key dinner." If you remember the Jake Gyllenhaal debacle, you'll know that Swifty's favorite weekly magazine is Us Weekly, and that she and her friends/publicity team do strategic leaks to Us Weekly fairly often. After Jake and Swifty split, Jake visited Nashville and spent the night with Swifty, all of which was excessively documented by the magazine through lots of quotes and theories about Jake's qualities as a man. What I'm saying is that Garrett Hedlund was somehow roped into going to dinner with Swifty, and she and her team leaked this story:

Down-home date night! Taylor Swift had a low-key dinner wtih Garrett Hedlund in Nashville April 1.

“It was their first time going out,” a source tells Us Weekly of Swift’s evening with the Tron: Legacy and Country Strong star, 26, who has been in Nashville recording a CD.
“They’ve been emailing for a while, and she hinted they should get together.”

Hedlund joined his date at 8 p.m. and was back at his hotel by 12:30 a.m. Swift, 21 — who won Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards April 3 and will continue her Speak Now tour May 27 — is taking things slowly after her fast-track romance and breakup with Jake Gyllenhaal last fall. (Back in February, she went on an L.A. date with Glee hunk Chord Overstreet.)

“She has actually spent time getting to know Garrett,” says the insider. “He’s cute — and he’s into country music! [She] likes that he’s a normal guy.”

[From Us Weekly]

I've read a few interviews with Garrett and I've noted how he presents himself publicly, and… I really hope he's not into this. He comes across as a nice kid, but not really all that bright. Surprisingly "un-Hollywood" - he's not out there pimping every single detail about himself and his projects, and I get the feeling he's still got a lot to learn about the industry and how to present himself. I doubt he's ready to start dating high-profile girls just to get in the tabloids.

Swifty, however, is completely ready to promote a new relationship. The last guy that she "dated" was that Chord dude, from Glee. So… Garrett is totally a step up from a dude named Chord. Ugh. Swifty is so predatory. Mark my words. It doesn’t matter, though. Garrett will be dumping Swifty over the phone soon enough, and then she’ll have even more material for her next album, Jakey & Garrett: Two Princess Ponies I Shall Never Ride Again.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Jennifer Garner in Oscar de la Renta at the ‘Arthur’ premiere: blah or cute?

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:58 AM PDT

These are photos of last night's Arthur premiere. As you know, Russell Brand and Helen Mirren are the leads of the film, but Jennifer Garner has a supporting part - the "Susan" role. I guess Jennifer thought that because she wasn't the lead in the film, she should dress low-key? Because this is a really bad premiere outfit, especially for someone like Garner. She's 38 years old, but face-wise she could pass for late 20s. She could dress decades younger than this and still look appropriate. I don't care is the outfit is Oscar de la Renta - it's meant for Helen Mirren, or one of Dame Mirren's contemporaries. It's also disappointing because this is one of Jennifer's first red carpet appearances (for one of her own premieres) in a while. And this is her "comeback" outfit. Uninspired, to say the least. But I'll give her some credit - her hair looks good, and I like this darker brunette she's working. Her makeup is nice too - she never goes overboard with drag queen makeup, so good for her. I also think this bland appearance reinforces her "I'm a mom, that's my first priority" image. She looks like a middle-aged mom on a red carpet, because that's who she is in her soul.

So, that was the outfit that Mirren should have worn. Instead, Dame Helen wore this to the premiere:

I don't even know. This is a style fail, Dame Helen. You can do better than this. Borrow something from Jennifer!

Here are some photos of Helen and Russell Brand molesting each other on the red carpet. Russell is completely in love with her. And Garner's face is all "We should leave these two alone."

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Ryan Phillippe takes Amanda Seyfried to Paris: serious or reacting to Reese’s wedding?

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:49 AM PDT

Ryan Phillippe is currently in Europe promoting The Lincoln Lawyer, and it looks like he brought along his on-again new girlfriend, the lovely Amanda Seyfried. There are new photos of Amanda and Ryan out in Paris yesterday and now Ryan is in Berlin along with Matthew McConaughey. Both of these men are attractive to me although they’ll never be at Matt Damon or Leonardo DiCaprio levels. McCoaughey needs to gain ten pounds and Phillippe needs to shave that beard. He’s probably trying to fight that sweet baby face that will stay with him the rest of his days.

I think Seyfried is gorgeous, I found her kind of captivating in that glurge fest Dear John, (she looks like a cartoon character with that hair and those giant eyes) but we know she has piss poor taste in men. From most reports Ryan has been stringing her along, but maybe he’s ready to play it serious now that his ex wife has so spectacularly moved on. (Or not, depending on your perspective.)

You get the sense with Ryan that he’s never quite satisfied, that the one he has on the hook will never be as interesting as the random girl in the bar, that he tries to suppress it and then feels guilt when he finally strays, when that itch gets too persistent not to scratch. (I went on too long with that, I know.) Or maybe he really does love and respect Amanda and he’s ready to show it. I doubt it, he also brought Abbie Cornish to events with him and he was stepping out on her all over the place.

Compare how Amanda looks while she’s out with Ryan to how she looks while she’s alone. It’s probably not fair to judge though as the paparazzi probably aren’t hounding her as much in the shots where she looks happy.

Photo credit: WENN.com

From The Desk Of Clive Owen: The Beret of Eroticism

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:26 AM PDT

FROM THE DESK OF CLIVE OWEN:

Hello, my darling biscuits. Today you are going to get a special treat! Please don't yell at me, but somehow my (fine) ass got roped into wearing a beret on this movie I'm filming, Hemingway & Gellhorn. Sure, on ME, the beret is a tool of eroticism. On other (lesser) men, it is quite cheesy and wrong. Will you still love The Clive when I've got this funky pornstache AND a beret? Of course you will, my darling muffins.

Imagine this beret grazing your thighs. See? It's not completely terrible.

And if The Erotic Beret weren't enough of a pleasurable sight, I give you Rodrigo Santoro drinking and pissing in Nature's toilet, a field with paparazzi. Rodrigo is very handsome, isn't he?

And of course, my partner in crime (on this film, anyway), Nicole Kidman. I still think this is a fantastic wig on her. By the way, can any of you darling biscuits explain what is happening to Nicole's lips? When we're doing closeup scenes, her lips are kind of crazy. None of you ladies do that junk to your lips, alright?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

K-Fed and his girlfriend announce they’re expecting a girl

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:18 AM PDT

We heard a couple of days ago that hyper fertile Kevin Federline knocked up up his girlfriend, former professional volleyball player Victoria Prince. Many of you wondered whether he would marry her, and whether that might jeopardize those fat checks he gets from his ex, Britney Spears. Reports earlier this year have K-Fed still receiving $20,000 a month in spousal support and $15,000 a month in child support, with the spousal support continuing until he dies or remarries. So chances are slim that he’ll make it legal with Price. Given this dude’s track record, he’ll probably find another girlfriend and knock her up within a year or two anyway.

Anyway K-Fed and Prince are expecting a baby girl, which would be his second daughter and fifth child. (He has a daughter and son with the woman he cheated on while she was pregnant to hook up with Britney, Shar Jackson, along with two boys with Britney.) They posed for a super cheesy pregnancy portrait (you can see it here) and announced the baby’s sex to Us Weekly.

New album (Femme Fatale) for Britney Spears — and new baby for Kevin Federline!

“We’re having a girl!” her ex-husband Federline, 33, tells the new Us Weekly, out Wednesday.

Federline confirms to Us that his girlfriend of two years, volleyball pro turned special-education teacher Victoria Prince, 28, is five months pregnant with their first child.

The baby will be named Jordan.

Explains Federline to Us of the name choice: “[Victoria] said that if we were going to have a little girl, she wanted to name her Jordan. And then, we actually thought that it was a boy, but we stuck with the name Jordan because, you know, it fits both ways.”

He adds: “We just found out the other day that we’re having a girl. So it worked out!” See more cute shots of Kevin and Victoria.

She’ll be Federline’s fifth: He and Spears share sons Preston, 5, and Jayden, 4, who are “superexcited” about becoming big brothers, Federline tells Us; he and ex-girlfriend Shar Jackson have a daughter Kori, 8, and son Kaleb, 6.

As for Spears, 30, who is cordial with Federline for the sake of their sons: “Britney is happy for him. She knows he's a good dad,” says a source

[From US Weekly]

Jordan is a cute name for either a boy or a girl. They might get her name mixed up with brother Jaden, though. It sounds confusing to have both a “Jordan” and “Jaden” at home. We heard a couple of years ago that K-Fed was putting out a clothing line for boys and potentially working on his own reality show, but all he did was go on Celebrity Fit Club and then gain the weight back. If his girlfriend’s pregnant he has a good excuse. He makes $420,000 a year just for having kids with Britney Spears so it’s not like he’s motivated to do much. Still, he’s a decent dad and he’s obviously good at making babies.

Remember what he used to do?

Kevin and Victoria are shown out at Jaden’s baseball practice on 3/18/11. Credit: Fame Pictures

Angelina Jolie hasn’t adopted, the 7th tattoo coordinates are Brad’s

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:02 AM PDT

Yesterday, we talked about Angelina Jolie's trip to the Tunisian-Libyan border, where thousands of Libyan refugees have poured through the border, causing one of the latest refugee crises. As we looked through the photos of Jolie meeting with refugees, our focus was pulled away from the crisis and we ended up focusing on Jolie's arm tattoos. Over the past several years, Jolie has covered up her old "Billy Bob" tattoo (with the snake) and added latitude and longitude coordinates for each of her six children's birth places. Commenters noted Jolie's new seventh line of coordinates (seen in the photo above), and many of us wondered if Jolie had perhaps adopted again, or was preparing to adopt. I also think she's looking kind of pregnant - she looks somewhat "fuller" than she usually does.

Well, Angelina has heard our questions, and she has answered. Sort of. A "source close to Jolie" tells People Magazine that "all adoption speculation is false" and that people should "not read too much into her skin art." In Touch Weekly has another explanation for the seventh line:

When Angelina Jolie recently showed off a seventh line tattooed on her arm, just like the ones she has for each of her six children, many wondered if she had secretly adopted another baby. But In Touch can now reveal that the new ink actually bears the longitude and latitude of Brad Pitt's birthplace, Oklahoma.

For Angelina, the tattoo is more serious than a wedding ring. "She got the seventh line right around the time she and Brad moved the kids back to LA," says an insider — and the timing is very significant.

After dragging their kids around the world, Angelina, 35, has finally agreed to Brad's long-standing request to settle down. But in return, she demanded a permanent commitment — the tattoo, which "signifies family unity." In other words, Brad is part of Angelina's family now — tied to her forever. And she's acting differently as a result.

On a recent visit to New Orleans, where Brad, 47, was shooting Cogan's Trade, she texted and visited him on set so much that a distracted Brad asked her to go home. As great as commitment is, Angelina should know that everyone needs some breathing room — even family!

[From In Touch Weekly]

So, perhaps the tattoo is the coordinates of Brad's birth place. I guess that would make sense - you can see a close-up of the coordinates here, at PopSugar, if you want to try to figure out the mystery. What doesn't make sense is that In Touch is still pushing this ridiculous story that Brad just wants to settle down in one place and Angelina is so evil because she likes to travel. Why is the story "Angelina finally agrees to settle in LA" when Brad is currently filming a movie in New Orleans? Brad enjoys traveling for work and for pleasure just as much as Angelina.

Photos courtesy of the UNHCR.

Britney Spears debuts Armageddon-themed video for “Till The World Ends”

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:37 AM PDT

Last night, Britney Spears tweeted the link to her new music video for "Till The World Ends". It's Armageddon Britney! Armageddon Britney still has a busted weave, but at least the weave is busted for good reason - the apocalyptic sewer dance club! In Armageddon Britney's video fantasy, when the End of Days comes, we will all be wearing studded leather in the sweaty, strobe-light infested sewer dance halls and we will be dancing to cheesy Britney Spears music as the world burns. Quaint. Here's the video:

Ke$ha wrote this song for Britney, right? I would be interested in hearing Ke$ha's version of it, honestly. But the video isn't too bad. I think it's much better than her last video for "Hold It Against Me". Even though that one had $500,000 worth of product placement, the whole thing felt cheap, especially with all of the too-fast cuts to and from Britney, as if she couldn't maintain a veneer of sobriety and lucidity for more than two seconds. In this video, at least we get to see her dance a little bit (although the cuts away from her are still fast).

Oh, and her body looks great! I saw a quick shot of her booty and it looks fantastic.

Screencaps from the video.

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