Year: 2006 (Page 195 of 228)

“Dammit, Jann, we are NOT holding the party in your pants!”

February 21, 2006 /

Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Jann Wenner has fired his magazine’s publisher after a spat about where to hold an upcoming party celebrating the publication’s 1,000th issue. Publisher Steve DeLuca was understandably upset when, after securing advertising commitments based on a Rockefeller Center location, the swank affair was moved to the cachet-challenged Hammerstein Ballroom.

Upon explaining to Wenner that the venue change might cause upstanding sponsors like Clearasil, Southern Comfort and Marlboro to take their already-declining ad dollars elsewhere, DeLuca was shown the door. Associate Publisher Ray Chelstowski has stepped in to fill DeLuca’s shoes in the interim, but the twenty-year publishing veteran will presumably be permanently replaced by a nineteen-year-old contestant from Wenner’s new reality show.

The money saved on DeLuca’s salary will then be spent overpaying for exclusive stories and photos of increasingly irrelevant aging classic rock stars, buxom yet mediocre songstresses, and future Wenner flings.

News

It’s Zooey, not Lindsay who’s my real It girl

February 21, 2006 /

The lovely Zooey Deschanel is getting quirky again in another flick with Will Ferrell. It’s called Winter Passing and in it Deschanel plays a drug addict. I’m all for it. I’m all for Zooey. My top three tasty actresses would certainly be Zooey, Scarlett Johansson, and Jessica Alba, in no certain order. You could make the most perfect gal out of all three, but I’d much rather have them as separate babes.

Actresses, News

We wish we knew how to quit Jake, too

February 21, 2006 /

Hot off the success of its nubile naked nymphs cover, Vanity Fair has now offered up something for the ladies: B-roll video footage of Annie Leibovitz’s photo shoot with Jake Gyllenhaal for the Hollywood issue.

The camera lingers on Gyllenhaal’s sad-puppy eyes as he strikes a variety of pensive, manly-yet-sensitive poses to background music presumably cribbed from Sade’s long-lost porn soundtrack. Jake wears a black t-shirt and jeans, and then, in a dramatic shift, switches to a white t-shirt and jeans. He tousles his glossy, glossy hair at least a half-dozen times — aiming for “adorably disheveled bedhead” and nailing it like a pro.

And, speaking of nailing it like a pro, the images and soundtrack alike will undoubtedly feature heavily in the future fantasies of teenage girls, lonely housewives and closeted cowboys the world over. Well done, Jake.

Actors

The church of Scientology about to declare war on Cuba

February 21, 2006 /

Defamer points out that while Tom Cruise’s legal attack dog Bert Fields is planning an offensive against “Life & Style” magazine so massive that nothing will grow on the site of what will soon be the remains of their former headquarters for hundreds of years, a conversation took place in another corner of cyberspace that will certainly make e-meters all over southern California explode with fake righteous indignation. Yep, Cuba Gooding Jr. his bad self is telling it like it is. From blackfilm.com:

BF: You were in “Jerry Maguire.” Do you still keep in touch with Tom Cruise?

CGJ: I do.

BF: What do you think of him and Katie as a couple?

CGJ: I heard they weren’t a couple. Are they a couple or not? Good lawd. I showed him “Shadowboxer.”

The eye of Sauron sees all, Cuba, so beware: the lawyer orcs are surely coming.

Actors, Gossip, Movies, News

DVD shuffle: 02/21/06

February 21, 2006 /

New on DVD this week:

1) The Weather Man – BUY: One of the more underrated films of the year, “The Weather Man” missed my Best Films of 2005 list by only one spot. The DVD is less-than-spectacular, but its definitely worth seeing for Nic Cage and Michael Caine’s performances alone. In fact, you’ll enjoy it so much that you’ll probably end up owning it.

2) Rent – RENT: We all saw that one coming, but seriously, the film adaptation of the award-winning musical just isn’t good enough to lay down twenty bucks for. The music is mostly hit-and-miss, but it’s nice to see that director Chris Columbus kept most of the original Broadway cast intact. A strong film you should see at least once, but nothing more.

3) First Descent – RENT: Since when have documentaries been considered for a mainstream theatrical release? Well, when you have a superstar sports teen like Shaun White starring in it. “First Descent” delivers gnarly snowboarding footage, but it goes for much too long. The DVD material isn’t all that great either, but this is a must-see for extreme sports enthusiasts and moviegoers with big screen TVs.

4) Domino: RENT: Ok, so maybe Tony Scott’s semi-biographical look at model-turned-bountry-hunter Domino Harvey wasn’t as great as it could have been, but fans of Keira Knightely will definitely want to check this out for her lap dance sequence. I could watch that on a loop all day long. Drool…

Also out on DVD this week are Special Editions of “All the President’s Men” and “Midnight Cowboy,” as well as the third seasons of “NYPD Blue” and “3rd Rock From the Sun.”

Movie DVDs, Movies

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