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‘Moneyball’ review: Brad Pitt’s best (and hottest) performance ever?
Linnocent is a crackie “model” in Milan for Philipp Plein: funny or just sad?
Justin Theroux bid $450K on a painting & Jennifer Aniston bought it
How horrible is the trailer for Katherine Heigl’s ‘One for the Money’?
Does Jennifer Lopez have two black eyes, or is it just horrible makeup?
Jennifer Garner talks babies & Ben, complains about her first trimester

‘Moneyball’ review: Brad Pitt’s best (and hottest) performance ever?

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 09:08 AM PDT

OK, I went to see Moneyball with my mother yesterday, and something really weird happened: my mother is now in love with Brad Pitt. She always sort-of liked him, as is she would say things like "He's very pretty and kind of talented, meh." But she was having a hot flash for him in Moneyball. It helps that all of a sudden, Brad looks a hell of a lot like Robert Redford. He's always been Redford-ish, and obviously, people have always made the Pitt-Redford comparison, but this movie… dear God, Brad looks good. So much of the movie is based on his face in closeup too - and you know what, Pitt-haters? He doesn't look like he's had any work done on his face, at all. His eyes are lined and baggy. His skin is sagging a bit. But he looks like what he is: a very, very attractive man in his 40s. My mom kept saying, "He doesn't look young any more. He doesn't look a pretty young guy now. He's filled out, and DAMN it looks good."

Of course, it helps that the movie was really, really good. The theatre I went to was packed, with men and women of all ages. I was surprised that there weren't more kids there - not little kids, but like 10-13 year-olds, because I could see this being a film that would be nice for a father to see with his tween son or daughter. It's a surprisingly clean, well-acted, charming story. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it too - it's not some art-house flick about math and a boring general manager of a baseball team. There are some funny lines, there's a lot of heart and sweetness, and the story was just told in a great way.

If you don't know the basics of the plot by now - it's just about Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, and how he challenged professional baseball by disregarding the traditional thinking of how to put together a team. Instead of listening to scouts and trying to buy the best known players, Beane hires Peter Brand, a young Yalie who convinced Beane to put together a team of misfits and undervalued players using computer analysis and cold, hard numbers. Jonah Hill (under)plays Brand brilliantly, and Joanh and Brad's chemistry is really sweet. Jonah really impressed me - I didn't know he could do this kind of understated dramatic role, and he just nailed it.

Other notables: Robin Wright's role (as Beane's ex-wife and mother of his daughter) was very simple, but she made an impression. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the A’s manager Art Howe, who… I hope wasn't this big of a d-bag. There were also a scene-stealing performances by Chris Pratt (who played Scott Hatteberg, a first-baseman who was scared of the ball) and Kerris Dorsey, who played Beane's daughter. She was adorable.

Oh, and if Brad doesn't get an Oscar nomination for this movie, I'll eat my hat. It was so wonderful to see him do this kind of mainstream, Robert Redford-ish film. I'm still giggling over one scene in which Beane, who is always eating, is anxious about a trade, so in-between calls he begins to panic-eat by shoving a handful of stuff (popcorn?) into his mouth.

Posters and promotional images from Moneyball.

Linnocent is a crackie “model” in Milan for Philipp Plein: funny or just sad?

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:32 AM PDT

These are new photos of Linnocent being cracked-out in Milan, Italy. She's there because, as we reported last week, Linnocent got a cracked-out "modeling gig" for Philipp Plein, and so she traveled to Milan to be launched as the new crack-face of the brand. This is the crack face that launched… a dip in sales? Because hiring Linnocent to be your brand ambassador is like taking out a full-page ad in every newspaper saying "If you buy my label, you'll probably get scabies." The photos of Linnocent in the sleeveless black, full-length gown are from the Milan AmFar benefit. The photos where she's wearing the black dress with the spiked cap sleeves are from her photo call "introduction" as the crack-face of the brand.

It's amazing to me that Linnocent was able to swing this gig - and that in between sucker-punching and throwing drinks and getting wasted and causing scenes at New York Fashion Week, she was actually managing to hustle up a job. And at the end of the day… it's probably smart that Linnocent is in Milan right now. Her dealer/enabler/boyfriend/john is probably ignoring her because his wife is town. It's best for her to be in another city, looking for new "clients".

Don't you love how dirty she looks? And I mean "dirty" in the "she hasn't bathed in weeks" way. I also love her "I'm a sexy model" face - she's messed up her face so badly with injections and surgery and drugs, so now when she tries to pout and give the cameras a "come hither" look, she really just looks like a 40-something hooker who will take you to a back alley and rob you while her pimp beats you with a baseball bat. And by “pimp” I mean “Dina”.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Justin Theroux bid $450K on a painting & Jennifer Aniston bought it

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:30 AM PDT

As I mentioned last week, on Thursday night, Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston (JustJen) went to a charity auction of artwork donated to benefit Haiti. As it turns out, it was actually a double-date for JustJen, as they seemed to spend the evening with Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor. Ben and Jennifer know each other from Along Came Polly - and Ben and Justin know each other from Tropic Thunder. Basically, everybody has been friends for years. So, this is what went down at the auction: Justin Theroux "bought" Jennifer a piece of art that she wanted. Only he didn't buy anything. He just made a huge bid on a (probably already over-valued) painting, and Jennifer had to pay. But here's how that story gets twisted into "Justin is such a gentleman, he bid on a painting for his lady!"

He bids, she buys! Jennifer Aniston was the winning buyer at Christie’s glitzy “Artists for Haiti” auction in NYC on Thursday — where beau Justin Theroux did the bidding on her behalf.

Actor-screenwriter Theroux, 40, helped his love, 42, snag American artist Glenn Ligon’s “Stranger #44,” an abstract 2011 work of oil, charcoal and graphite on canvas that seems to match his downtown hipster tastes.

At the auction, “Stranger #44″ (pictured with artist Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem) was estimated at $150,000 to $200,000.

But Aniston helped shatter the record for sales of Ligon’s work, spending a whopping $450,000 on the 72″ by 60″ painting, an Artists for Haiti rep confirms to Us.

Reports Artinfo.com: “Aniston, who was in the room, clapped enthusiastically after [Theroux's] winning bid.”

Benefiting health and education initiatives for Haiti, The “Artists for Haiti” auction — artists donated their works for the cause — was co-organized by Ben Stiller, and raised $13,662,000.

After the auction, Stiller, 40, and his wife Christine Taylor hung out with Theroux and Aniston for a late dinner at Il Cantinori. “They seemed to be having a lot of fun with Ben and his wife, like old friends,” a witness said. “Ben paid for everyone,” the witness adds.

Stiller co-starred in Along Came Polly with Aniston and co-wrote Tropic Thunder with Theroux.

[From Us Weekly]

I guess we should assume that Jennifer really wanted this piece of art, and that she was simply too much of a poor little VICTIM to bid on it herself? Because I imagine the fun of bidding on a piece of art is really stressful and victim-making, and that's why Justin had to ride in on his stead and raise his hand over and over for the painting, like a gentleman? I don't even know. Maybe she bought it for him, and she just let her boy-toy pick out the piece that he wanted and she got it for him like an attentive sugar-mama? I'm not trying to say Justin isn't successful - he is. He does very well for himself as a character actor and screenwriter. But I doubt he has $450K to blow on a piece of art, which is why Aniston was there to purchase it. I guess what I'm saying is… he must be great in bed.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

How horrible is the trailer for Katherine Heigl’s ‘One for the Money’?

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:03 AM PDT

There isn't enough "NOOOOOOOOOO!"s in the world. The trailer for One for the Money is out, and… dear God, this film just looks AWFUL. I'm saying that as a once-devoted fan of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books, and I'm also saying that as a fan of films in general. What in God's name possessed Hollywood producers to cast Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum? What in God's name possessed them to put together this supremely ODD supporting cast? OK, if you feel like having a rage stroke, watch the trailer:

My thoughts, in no particular order:

* I like Debbie Reynolds. But she's wrong for Grandma Mazur. Grandma Mazur is more Cloris Leachman than Debbie Reynolds. You can't just stick some random old lady in that role. You have to cast an old lady who can play "I don't give a flying f–k" CRAZY.

*I actually love Jason O'Mara. He's sexy as hell, he's a wonderfully underrated comedic and dramatic actor, and he's lovely. But he's SO WRONG for Morelli. Morelli needs to be dark, broody and Italian, not spunky and Irish (which Jason is).

*Daniel Sunjata as Ranger? Hell to the no. NO. NO NO NO NO NO. (And I like Sunjata too, but NOOOOOO as Ranger.)

*Sherri Shepherd as Lula is the only bright spot as far as casting. She's perfect, and the only time I chuckled was when she was on screen.

*As for Katherine Heigl… NO. The hokey Jersey accent, the awful hair (Stephanie's hair is very specific, and this isn't it), and the ACTING. Look, I think Heigl is capable of being a decent actress, I really do. But I just don't like how she's interpreting the Plum character, and she simply doesn't look enough like the character for there to be this big of a discrepancy with the story. They've fundamentally misjudged WHO Stephanie is - part of that is the fault of producers and whoever adapted it. Part of it is Heigl's fault.

*The fact that this film keeps getting pushed back (it will now be released in January) doesn't give me any additional confidence that this is some diamond in the rough.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Does Jennifer Lopez have two black eyes, or is it just horrible makeup?

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:35 AM PDT

These are some new photos of Jennifer Lopez last night in Las Vegas, where she made an appearance at Pure nightclub. I think before that she performed in Vegas? The Mail has photos of her performance here - she wore this weird, red, feathered flamenco outfit that would make Carmen Miranda sigh dejectedly. As for these photos of J. Lo in white… ugh. The dress is fine, it's… whatever. Look at her makeup, though. WTF? Did Jennifer piss off her makeup person again? She looks like she has two black eyes! I don't understand how this style "look" is happening, at all.

In other Jenny from the block news, she's buying a new, gigantic Hamptons mansion:

Jenny from the Block is about to buy herself a whole city block right on the beach in the Hamptons — Jennifer Lopez is reportedly about to close on a 15,037 square foot home … listed at just under $18 million!

The seven-bedroom, 9.5 bath, three-story home has an elevator, seven fireplaces, a three-car garage, two laundry rooms … and a partridge in a pear tree.

Lopez already owns a Hamptons crib with estranged hubby Marc Anthony — so it looks like she’s ready to move on with an exclusive mansion all her own.

[From TMZ]

Sigh… beach house. Do I need seven bedrooms and an elevator? No. I would be happy with just some dilapidated beach shack, honestly. So… I'm jealous of J. Lo now. I'm just jealous of the money and the houses, I guess. And the diamonds. I don't want to look like her, especially not like this.

By the way, is anyone else surprised that she hasn't gotten a new boyfriend yet? I am. Jennifer loves her jumpoffs, and if she's got one, she's keeping him really low-key so far.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Jennifer Garner talks babies & Ben, complains about her first trimester

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:08 AM PDT

In a pre-taped episode of Ellen, Jennifer Garner is talking about being pregnant for the third time and how great everything is in her life. Which… I mean, I hope for her sake that she and Ben Affleck are a lot stronger than I think they are. I hope they both are looking forward to this baby. I hope they're both committed to their family. Garner doesn't confirm the gender of the baby, and she also makes it sound like she doesn't really care if it's a boy or a girl - contrary to reports throughout the years that Ben really, really wants a boy. Here's more:

Violet, Seraphina and…Daisy Duck? Expecting her third child with husband Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner opens up for the first time about her pregnancy — and its pitfalls — on Tuesday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“The first trimester is just yuck,” the Arthur actress, 39, tells Ellen DeGeneres. “Kind of an all day sickness.”

“But after that, [this pregnancy] is not a big thing except there is one big thing,” Garner says, “And that is, my bottom.”

Explains the star: “You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.”

Married for five years, Garner and Affleck, 39, have daughters Violet, 4, and Seraphina, 2; they confirmed they were expecting again in late August. “So the other day… [Violet] is in there with me and all of the sudden she went, Oh Mom, we have to have a talk…She said, ‘Mom, your bottom has gotten so big that your panties don’t even begin to cover it.”

The Alias actress cleared up the confusion with her eldest: “I said, ‘It’s called a thong, you wear it when you’re a grown up. She was like, ‘Uh, that is so gross!”

Meanwhile, Violet and her little sister Seraphina “have a lot of opinions” on their sibling-to-be, Garner says. “They don't really care about the gender as much as long as we name it what they it to be named.”

Some of the cuties’ suggestions? “Ralphie, Frankie, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck. Rosemarie.. Daisy Duck Affleck. I can see us going that way,” Garner cracked, laughing.

As for the Hollywood couple’s own hopes for their baby-to-be’s gender, “Obviously we’d be happy either way,” Garner says. “It would be so weird to have a boy and cool and different. And I’m sure it would be fun for Ben he likes baseball and all that stuff. But a third girl, three girls is a great way to grow up.” (Garner herself grew up with two sisters.)

For now, Affleck is content playing not baseball but “baby doll” with his little girls. “My husband plays a lot of baby doll. He is really cute,” Garner gushes. “I will walk in and he will be sitting on a little chair. He’s so tall! And he’ll have a baby doll and I’ll say, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘I’m watching Frankie (the baby doll) here.”

[From Us Weekly]

Oh, I could totally see Ben and Jen naming a third girl Rosemarie or Daisy. Either of those names would fit in perfectly with "Seraphina" and "Violet". So maybe that's the signal… she's having another girl? I think Garner would probably love another girl. And Ben would just have to deal with being permanently covered in glitter and doll hair.

Also - I'm thinking that Jennifer is doing Ellen's show because she's promoting her new film, Butter, where she plays the wife of Ty Burrell's character. Apparently, her character is less than sweet-as-pie, which Jennifer recently discussed with Entertainment Weekly. You can read the full interview here, but this quote was one I found of particular interest: "The whole point of being an actor is to play different roles. And I don't think that I've been pigeonholed — I feel like I've gotten to play a lot of different characters and do a lot of different things — but it did feel like, 'Oh, I am feeling awfully nice these days.' I'm ready to spin this around, you know? I'm a little over myself." Thank God. The Don of the Hollywood Mother Mafia is finally ready to shake it up a bit.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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