According to Forbes.com, where rich businessmen gather to discuss how good lying feels, Nicole Kidman was the most overpaid actress in Hollywood last year. On average, Kidman's films earned just one dollar for every dollar she was paid; The Invasion actually lost almost $3 for every dollar in Kidman's salary.
A reminder: a schoolteacher, police officer or AIDS researcher would probably find it difficult to get work if they failed so majorly so consistently.
After the jump, the rest of the top 10.
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YET ANOTHER FREAKIN' BABY "Actress Cate Blanchett has given birth to her third child in Sydney, her spokesman has confirmed. The Australian star, who is married to writer Andrew Upton, welcomed Ignatius Martin Upton into the world on Sunday."
STRIKE TWO? "…the big disappointment, and I hate to say it, was [Jon] Stewart. When he last hosted in 2006, he made a great anti-host for the Oscars, slipping in bits and remarks that sent up the conventions of the awards show itself, making him an ally of the TV audience rather than a sycophant to the stars. This time, he was just an Oscar host–sometimes a funny one, but a pretty conventional one, whose routine was loaded up with kiss-up softballs about how hot Colin Farrell is, what range Cate Blanchett has and what a tomcat Jack Nicholson is. (Not to be morbid, but how will they even have an Oscars when hosts can no longer make Jack Nicholson jokes?)"
We hear word that some oddly popular event happened last night in Los Angeles. We're not really sure what it was all about, but we've got pictures of some of the self-congratulatory, insular men and women in attendance after the jump.
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We're going to fess up to getting goosebumps when the theme song kicked in because we trust you'll be as forthcoming.
There's not a single human feature more skeletal and yet more highly coveted than prominent cheekbones. People are disgusted if ribs or elbows linger too close to the surface of the skin, but if you've two protruding juts on either side of your face, morons everywhere point and longingly ask, "Are you part Indian?" What gives?
• Thanks, Fergie, for explaining that one. [Yeeeah]
• What a difference a day makes. [DListed]
• Let's ban "fug." [CityRag]
• Models are kinda trained to be carefree with their bodies—that's how they can stand middle aged Austrian photographers lifting their arms and pushing their thighs. This can't faze her. [HT]
• Posh at 18. [ICYDK]
• For once, pics of Lohan at LAX the airport, not the club. [PopSugar]
• Kool-Aid pickles! At last, something black leaders and Jewish leaders can agree on. [NYT]
Here's a lesson in absurd, tabloid scare tactics. On the left is a photo of Cate Blanchett being run in the Daily Mail directly beneath a headline that reads "Skeletal Cate shocks at New York fashion gala." On the right is another photo from Cate, taken at the same event and untouched. One can't out-and-out call an organization a bunch of Photoshopping snakes—our litigious society has spoiled the God-given right to libel people for their libelous bullshit—but feel free to draw your own conclusions from the comparison.
Granted, she doesn't look as beautiful or healthy as she did just two months ago at the Academy Awards, and people should have the right to say, in print, that they believe someone looks sickly and anorexic. But doctoring photos to skew the truth is so bad even Karl Rove is shaking his head, going, "What the fuck is up with that, guys?"
Oh. He smolders. Smolder McSmolderalot.
Sure, there were other heads at the Babel premiere, but they weren't nearly as Brad Pitt-y. He's so serious and intense these days. You can just tell that while he may be fancy pantsing it up in Los Angeles, there are starving children on his mind and in his heart. That, or how his delicately mussed up hair looks.
Ms. Regal herself, Cate Blanchett, as Bob Dylan. Do you see the resemblance? Someone sure did, because in the new motion picture biopic about Bob Dylan's life, the role of Dylan will be played by multiple actors, one of whom is Cate.
Cate Blanchett will play Bob Dylan in his "androgenous phase" (sic) in a new biopic of the great poet-songwriter's life, it was announced, as Dylan turned 65.
I don't know Dylan well enough to be able to say when he went through said androgynous phase, but now that I'm looking at these two pictures side by side, I can play along. It will be interesting to see Cate sing like a man, especially in the uniquely raspy voice of Dylan himself. She's a beautiful lady, hopefully Dylan is happy with the choice. Not that he has any shortage of pretty women around him these days.
Dylan has clearly shrugged off retirement age, taking on a new job as a radio DJ, publishing a selection of his memoirs, musing in a Martin Scorcese documentary, authorizing a stage musical with his songs — and appearing in an advert for the Victoria's Secret lingerie store chain.
And on Dylan's birthday, the Hollywood press reported that Blanchett would be among several actors — also including "Brokeback Mountain" star Heath Ledger and Richard Gere — to portray the great American folksinger in a film.
Those Victoria's Secret ads are a bit unnerving, but this movie may take the weird Bob Dylan cake. It's a thin line between genius and disaster. A line this film sounds like it may very well be treading.
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