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“Dina Lohan gives a great cracked-out interview” links
Naomi Campbell flashes her tata, and an enormous “engagement” ring
Ethan Hawke could have been Batman, says Ethan Hawke
Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs Michael Shannon in the ‘Premium Rush’ trailer

“Dina Lohan gives a great cracked-out interview” links

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Dina Lohan's best interview ever. Well, one of the top ten. [Dlisted]
Ryan Gosling: The Anti-Brad Pitt? [LaineyGossip]
Rihanna, girl, what are you wearing? [Go Fug Yourself]
Rick Perry partied at NYFW too. Seriously. [Gawker]
Review of I Don't Know How She Does It: It's terrible. [Pajiba]
Charlie Sheen's Today Show interview. [The Blemish]
The teaser for Season 2 of Downton Abbey. It made me choke up! [OMG Blog]
Clive Owen, come home to me. [Pop Sugar]
Elisabetta Canalis wants you to see her sports bra. [Celebuzz]
Kat-Face Kardashian dresses up as Princess Leia. [Yeeeah]
Look at Paris Hilton's $375K Lexus. [Moe Jackson]
Coco is the picture of elegance and grace. [Evil Beet]
I've begun to out-right LOATHE Taylor Lautner's face. [I'm Not Obsessed]
Katie Holmes's bellbottoms. [A Socialite Life]
Khloe Kardashian looks good in this color. [Celebslam]
Posh Beckham changes Harper's diaper in the middle of Marc Jacobs. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
Steven Spielberg knew he shouldn't have altered E.T. [Videogum]

Naomi Campbell flashes her tata, and an enormous “engagement” ring

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 10:54 AM PDT

Naomi Campbell was in London last night, and these are some photos from her courtside seat at some runway show (London Fashion Week has begun). First, let me just say something: I've just spent too much time looking at Naomi's fully-exposed breast. You see the little tuxedo vest she's wearing? There's nothing underneath it, not pasties, not tape, nothing. When she left the venue, Naomi exposed her boob to the paparazzi, and one of our agencies has the photos and… her nipple looks very strange to me. The boobs are not bolt-ons or anything but… something's weird. So weird that I asked CB to look at Naomi's breast and she find the nipple situation weird too, but all that proves is that CB and I need to stop spending twenty minutes looking at Naomi Campbell's boobs and emailing each other comments like "It looks like a pencil eraser" and "I think it's engorged."

Anyway, as you can see in these (other, non-boob) photos, Naomi was flashing a gigantic diamond ring on left hand. This has caused there to be even more speculation about Naomi possibly being "engaged" to her lover Vladislav Doronin. The engagement rumors have been around for a while, and last year, Naomi was wearing an absolutely enormous cabochon emerald that many suspected was her "engagement ring" - see photos here. And now she's wearing a huge diamond ring? Interesting. We know how much the bitch loves her diamonds.

AFTER months of rumours as to her marital state - engaged or otherwise - Naomi Campbell gave us a big clue last night as she graced the LFW front row wearing what can only be described as an enormous sparkler.

Campbell has been dating Russian property billionaire Vladislav Doronin since 2008 and - although she hasn’t yet spoken about her rumoured engagement - she did move to Moscow last year to live with him.

The supermodel smiled and chatted with fellow front-rowers, including Olivia Palermo, before making a speech about Toni & Guy’s influence on the fashion industry at the brand’s show.

[From Vogue UK]

So, big diamond, living with him in Moscow, it all sounds like it's on, right? Just remember that Doronin is married, with kids, and that his wife isn't giving him a divorce any time soon. Doronin still spends holidays with his family, and the rest of the time with his mistress, Naomi. Still, Naomi isn't stopping anyone from referring to her as Doronin's "fiancée" - Naomi even told Oprah that she's engaged, so… does Naomi think that she's ever going to walk down an aisle with Doronin? I think she's being played, but only if she really does want to get married. I think he'll give her jewelry and go on vacation with her, but he's not going to marry her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ethan Hawke could have been Batman, says Ethan Hawke

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 10:09 AM PDT

As I mentioned before in the Uma Thurman post, Ethan Hawke has a new interview in Details Magazine. Now, I have a shameful crush on Ethan. It's a relatively new development, as in… he did nothing for me during the period of time when everyone else thought he was ratty-hot, circa Reality Bites. I HATED Reality Bites. And I've always known that Ethan is heavy with the douche, but somehow, over the past few years, he's just suddenly become really hot to me. So this new interview, while self-aggrandizing and eye-roll-inducing, is also kind of hot (to me). Basically, this is how I feel: "Ethan is so full of himself. I love him."

DETAILS: You’ve acted in about two movies a year since 1985. Do you go nuts when you’re not working?
Ethan Hawke: You’re not even counting the theater! There aren’t many serious actors from my generation who’ve done as much theater as I have, and who have also published a couple of books, and who have also had four kids. I’ve always felt restless. Perennially, chronically unsatisfied. One of the reasons I do other things is so I can keep up the quality of what I do. If I didn’t write and act in plays, I would have been in, like, a hundred movies by now, and probably 97 of them would have sucked.

DETAILS: You appeared in your first feature, a sci-fi movie called Explorers, at 14, alongside River Phoenix. What was it like starting your career that young?
Ethan Hawke: I would actively encourage people not to do that. You’re thinking like a professional before you know yourself as a human being. The real job of an artist is bigger than being successful, and young people can’t see that yet. The road is littered with casualties. Look at River. He was one of the most talented actors of my generation, and then he’s dead on Sunset Boulevard.

DETAILS: You’ve said you envy Philip Seymour Hoffman’s career, the way he didn’t get precipitously famous.
Ethan Hawke: Phil and I came to New York around the same time, and he doesn’t let go of any scene. I think it comes from years of having smaller parts and wanting to maximize your screen time. He carried that into being a leading man. Whereas, when they offered me the lead in White Fang as a teen, I picked two or three scenes where I invested myself, but most of the time I was at craft services, trying to pick up girls or reading a book.

DETAILS: The first leading role you took after Reality Bites, the film that made you a Gen-X icon, was Before Sunrise, a small-budget indie. Did you turn down any bigger offers?
Ethan Hawke: Superhero movies. Batman. This was after Tim Burton’s, before the bad period. I just didn’t want to go to the Knicks game and have everybody go, “Wow, you were a great Batman!” That wasn’t my f–king goal in life. Now I wish I’d done it, because I could have used it to do other things.

DETAILS: Is that why you said yes to Taking Lives, the 2004 Angelina Jolie vehicle you’ve said you regret?
Ethan Hawke: You keep saying no, and they keep offering more money until it feels stupid not to do it. Look, I loved working with Angelina, but it’s a movie about nothing. I should pin it on me, really. Paul McCartney doesn’t write great songs because he’s trying to sell records, he does it because he loves them. Every time I try to sell out, I fall on my ass.

DETAILS: How did you handle the “Gen-X hunk” reputation? Did it make you uncomfortable?
Ethan Hawke: Now I think it’s kind of awesome, but back then I was suicidal. Maybe that’s too strong a word. I was writhing…

DETAILS: Really? You were a sex symbol at 24. Was this the decadent kind of despair, where you wake up wondering where the girl next to you came from?
Ethan Hawke: I wish! Back then, I thought fame was a disease. And I knew I wasn’t good enough yet to warrant it.

DETAILS: You and Uma Thurman divorced in 2004. Were there benefits to marrying another actor?
Ethan Hawke: The upside is that they relate to all your problems. The downside is both partners can put their professional ambition at the forefront. For two people who are used to getting what they want, to being idolized by the opposite sex, you can’t expect them to naturally figure out how to be in this enlightened state and create a home. Uma and I were, like, 26 when we met. We were both, like, little stars of our world. I think we did a damn fine job of trying to love each other and raise our two kids.

DETAILS: What kind of dad are you?
Ethan Hawke: Lots of divorced dads will tell you that one of the biggest enemies is guilty parenting: You only have them a couple days a week, and you want to make sure you have a good time. So you can risk being a pushover. I’ve never had any problems with my kids, though. The hard thing is how to co-parent.

DETAILS: You’ve been married to your wife Ryan for three years now. What does she do?
Ethan Hawke: She was working at the Doe Fund, a men’s shelter, helping people prepare for job interviews and things like that. Right now she has a newborn and a 3-year-old and she’s trying to figure out when she wants to go back to work. And she’s been helping me with my work, too, reading scripts.

DETAILS: Why did you choose to write both of your novels on a typewriter?
Ethan Hawke: I love things that are physical. I don’t like porn, I like naked girls. I like talking with people, I wouldn’t know how to date online. I love theater, the immediacy of it. Every time I see some kid on the subway watching The Godfather on his iPod, I think, “F–k it, I want to do a play.”

DETAILS: You’ve played a lot of pompous, self-absorbed jerks, including a tantrum-prone writer in the upcoming thriller The Woman in the Fifth. Do you need to find something you like in these guys to play them well?
Ethan Hawke: No. My character in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead? Talk about spineless! I wanted to kill him. A person with a problem becomes vastly more exciting to inhabit, because you don’t know what they’re going to do. Over the years, every now and then, I’d play a good guy, and I’d just be miserable.

[From Details]

The thing is that I know what Ethan is trying to do - he's trying to emphasize how UNCOOL he is, he's trying to name-drop people that he thinks are better than him (Philip Seymour Hoffman, River Phoenix, etc), and he's trying to be honest about his own self-loathing and ego-driven urges. But you can tell he has a healthy ego. You know how I know? "Superhero movies. Batman. This was after Tim Burton’s, before the bad period. I just didn’t want to go to the Knicks game and have everybody go, 'Wow, you were a great Batman!' That wasn’t my f–king goal in life. Now I wish I’d done it, because I could have used it to do other things." Who the hell says stuff like that? It's one thing to mention a specific project that you were offered (that's enough of a taboo in Hollywood, and seriously, BATMAN?!?), but to end it with the idea that you should have done it because then you would get to do more important work? Rat-boy, please. God, I love him.

Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs Michael Shannon in the ‘Premium Rush’ trailer

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:14 AM PDT

Bike messengers are an interesting breed of bravado and insanity all wrapped up in one wiry package. Of course, I’ll date myself by admitting that I first became aware of their existence while watching the adventures of Puck Rainey on the third season of MTV’s “The Real World.” Still, it’s a real profession that serves a real function in large cities where hiring a messenger is faster than battling traffic on one’s own to get a package delivered in a timely fashion. Now, we can watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s portrayal of Riley, the messenger on a dangerous mission in Premium Rush, where he must deliver an envelope while attempting to evade reliably dastardly Michael Shannon, who plays a crooked cop that’ll do anything to stop the message from arriving on time. Talk about a double shot of understated sexiness.

Here are a few photos from the set of Premium Rush. I know that Joe is something of an acquired taste, but he’s just so appealing. Of course, I can’t even fully describe what makes him attractive except to say that he’s got the ideal combination of boyish charm and manly voice going on.

Gordon-Levitt also appears in the October issue of Elle to promote the upcoming 50/50, in which he plays a cancer patient alongside Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, and Bryce Dallas Howard. Here are a few excerpts from the interview:

On The Press: Interviews in general — I’m looking forward to a different experience with you — in general the truth is they’re all really pretty much fiction. I don’t mind. It’s sort of the thing; it’s what it is. And occasionally there are exceptions. I think it’s good for readers of magazines to know that. I think actors especially … a lot of liberties are taken with artists, because it’s a little less consequential than, like, politicians. Although I imagine if you ask government officials they’d say the same thing. Press is basically a created story. It’s all just stories.”

On Playing A Cancer Patient: I spent a lot of my time — most of my days — thinking about what it would be like to be facing death while I was shooting. But, to be honest, I think about it all the time anyway.

On Why He Created hitRECord.org During College: “Nobody wanted to hire me — I can see where they wouldn’t want the kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun. I came to the conclusion, I’m not going to wait for somebody to tell me that I’m allowed to be creative. The metaphor of pushing that red button sort of became my symbol for that kind of self-started creativity.”

On His Snail-Shell Necklace: “They aren’t just shells. There are different hames for it: the Fibonacci spiral, the golden ratio … The spiral in a snail’s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spiral in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. You know that Leonardo da Vinci drawing of the human body, Universal Man? That ratio is all over there. There are certain patterns and repetitions and connections in my world, and througout all of creation, that lead me to believe that there is a connection and there’s a unity and we all — everything are all one thing all at once.”

That’s some pretty deep thinking from a Hollywood actor, right? Joe’s last statement there almost makes me feel bad for ogling him in a sexual way. Almost.

Meanwhile, JGL’s Premium Rush co-star, Michael Shannon is the subject of some booty shots from the set of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel reboot. While Shannon previously likened his casting to being on acid, it seems that the costuming process has brought him down to Earth. Apparently, Zack promised Michael that he wouldn’t have to wear a silly motion-capture suit because Michael insisted, “It’s going to be really hard for me to be intimidating if I have to wear one of those silly suits.” Then, Michael showed up on set and learned that he does have to wear a grey motion-capture suit (pictured here) during much of the filming for Man of Steel. I can see why he’d be discouraged by having to wear that thing because getting into a real costume certainly helps one get into the state of mind of playing an otherworldly supervillian. Also, CGI costumes are really getting a deservedly bad rap after the Green Lantern fiasco earlier this summer. Luckily, Michael does get to wear an actual Zod costume during part of the filming. Check out the Zod booty!

Photos courtesy of Fame and Elle. Zod photos courtesy of Facebook.

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