• Look! John Mayer's doing that thing every enlightened jock does where they copy the hell out of Borat. [DListed]
• Kate Beckinsale takes her kids to the fire station. Firemen undoubtedly hit on her. [PS]
• Rihanna has launched her own line of umbrellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Ellas! Can we stop hearing that song now, please? [ICYDK]
• Courtney Cox's daughter has play dates with Ben Harper. So, y'know, future pothead. [INO]
• "All girls feel like a ‘nottie’ some days." [Yeeeah]
• Men as pigs. Some of these photos are actually revolting. [CityRag]
• Obama's thoughts on the gays and the church and the Democrats and…just a whole lot of prevarication. [Queerty]
• Celebrity non-justice. [DListed]
• Dick in a cell. [EBG]
• More court dates than romantic dates makes Britney a crazy lady. [PS]
• Charity fashions! [INO]
• Dr Kevorkian movie. Killer. [ICYDK]
• Petra Nemcova at a charity event. Graceful. [HT]
• The 17-year-old virgin. [Yeeeah]
• "Benicio Del Toro or Wolf Man?" [CityRag]
Best Week Ever has compiled a list of the 10 Greatest Heterosexual Men of Our Time, and they've included some fairly interesting choices. Would you have chosen Gandhi? Perhaps MLK Jr? You would have been tremendously wrong.
See, BWE is basing their lists on sexual conquests. And even with the brow so low, I still think their choices are awful. Like, should Tommy Lee really be commended for bedding Pamela Anderson? And Carson Daly gets a nod for dating Tara Reid? I would consider that at least seven demerits. That's not behavior to be encouraged.
Adam Duritz is number one. His exes are alright, I guess. But he needs to cut those dreads. They look like shit. Literally. I'm not sure I could eat around them.
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• "The Friends Curse" is actually just everyone finally realizing Friends sucked. [PopBytes]
• Cheap shot of the day. [CityRag]
• Madonna's line at H&M. It's a commercial. Don't go out of your way unless you're really bored. Also, does anyone know why you can't shop for H&M online? [TheBosh]
• The Coroner from Law & Order dresses poorly. But, she's got a cute name. And that counts for something in my book. [GFY]
• Fault! Roddick, get your hands outta there. [TEB]
• Depp's daughter is better already. It was scurvy. They gave her some limes. Arrrrrrrrrrr! [JJ]
• I'm pretty sure that's Raphael Saadiq with Joss Stone. If so, that's great. Because Tony! Toni! Tone! was fantastic. [ASL]
• A real friends curse: "DListed, Hollywood Tuna, Egotastic, Derek Hail, I'm Not Obsessed, Celebitchy, Celebslam, The Bastardly, Popoholic, Horny Oyster and Concrete Loop are just a few of the sites hosted with the company Choopa, which is moving their servers today. Bloggers were told that there would be just a few hours downtime, but obviously this hasn't happened. They hope to be up again tomorrow and are sorry for the delay."
• Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox are going to kiss on Dirt. Frustrated 15-year-old boys, start your Tivos! [IDLYITW]
• The 20 greatest guitar solos ever, with videos. This'll keep your burnout friends busy for about half an hour. Just enough time to bogart their stash. [CityRag]
• Isaac Cohen's starting to stress as his fame clock ticks to about 14 minutes and 37 seconds. [ASL]
• Hollywood is wrestling with who's going to be most like the President in West Wing. Obama's a smoker like him, and I'd say black is more in vogue. Go with it, Affleck. [ABCNews]
• Nick Nolte hitting the bottle hard. [WWTDD]
• James Franco's not too bummed about Lohan. [Jossip]
• How come everyone's single? It's not you it's me. [NYT]
• Courntey Cox is always willing to help an out-of-work friend. [PopSugar]
• Suri is being kept in hiding, lest she get kidnapped…or Katie tries to escape. [DListed]
• Speaking of our missing Mrs. Cruise, you know all that shopping she did last year? Well, at Barney's it was something to the tune of $200,000. Tough life. [HollyScoop]
• Kurt Cobain really paved the way for that Fall Out Boy fight, only without being so lame. [CityRag]
• Scarlett really is the man stealing harlot women everywhere always assumed she was. [Us]
• Paula Abdul thinks of Simon Cowell like a lover. So she's into that demeaning stuff, eh? [ASL]
• Finally, an easy way to tell apart the Davis brothers. [GotA]
Seriously though, I have no idea why this photog was sitting on the ground when he took this picture. That, or I had no that Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox are reeeeaaallllyyyyy tall. The Arquette Brigade was also out this weekend to support Courtney Cox-Arquette's upcoming TV show Dirt. I'm not sure that ol' Court is wearing her dress correctly. Awkward. Helen Hunt was there too (in a leather dress? Looks…breathable)! Remember Twister? Good times.
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• Reader Frank wore the Borat suit! I love it! [Berger's Bash]
• Madonna's back in the states to parade around her new baby. Look for her to infest morning talk shows this week. [DListed]
• Courtney Cox and Sheryl Crow dressed up as a couple for Halloween? [CityRag]
• Hey Brandon Davis, there's another firecrotch in town. [Celebitchy]
• Jared Leto: The highlight reel. [BWE]
• Justin brings SexyBack to Europe. Man, I'm sure he's not at all sick of hearing that joke. [PopSugar]
• Ivanka Trump keeps her father's name close to her heart, wallet. [A Socialite's Life]
• Denise Richards takes her kids for pony ride. Thrilling. [I'm Not Obsessed]
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan premiered in Hollywood, bringing out the funnies like Sasha Baron Cohen's girlfriend Isla Fisher who wasn't going to let her boyfriend's silly antics stop her from dressing up all pretty at his movie premiere, Will Ferrell, Rainn Wilson of The Office, Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Andy Dick with his trophy son he parades around everywhere these days, and Chris Kattan of Corky Romano (in my heart). Kanye West, whose fiance displayed perhaps the worst use of leggings I've seen since my own huskier late-elementary school days, was also out to catch the comedic shit show.
20th Century Fox, in trying to figure out how many eggs to put in Borat's crazy basket and not sure if the Internet hype will lead to box office gold or Snakes on a Plane, is opening the film on fewer screens than expected. Variety reports:
But Fox maintains standard tracking methodology doesn't apply. "This is a new genre of movie," said Jeffrey Godsick, exec VP of marketing for 20th Century Fox. "The awareness is beginning with a targeted audience. When you are breaking a new kind of genre, not everyone knows what to make of it."
And laffers are the hardest films to handicap through tracking: Hits like "There's Something About Mary" and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" performed better and longer than tracking numbers indicated they would.
Worried that "Borat" could become a phenomenon, rival distrib execs weren't eager to program against it.
The studio is setting up a slower rollout than originally expected. Pic will bow on around 800 screens — fewer than many expected — Nov. 3, and then broaden to a nationwide release as reviews circulate and awareness builds.
A rival studio distribution exec, who attended a recent "Borat" screening that was part of the buzz-building Los Angeles Blackcarpet screening series organized by MySpace.com, described audience reaction as nothing less than manic. Lines snaked around the block. Kids, dressed in Borat garb, took to a mic positioned in front of the auditorium to do their best impersonations.
Some skeptics pointed to the Internet-hyped "Snakes on a Plane" as a reason for caution, but others noted that while "Snakes" was slammed by critics, "Borat" has received glowing notices so far.
Either way, if you are a teenager, know teenagers, have friends who still act like teenagers, expect to get sick of their mediocre Borat impressions very, very quickly.
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• Lindsay and Harry know that the couple that wears aviators together stays together. [Faded Youth]
• Perhaps we should be impressed that Nicole Richie isn't falling down more stairs more often. [X17]
• Prepare to have the long weekend scared out of you: George Bush as a fairly convincing woman. [CityRag]
• To be fair, no one really nailed the joke gift that was Ellen and Portia's fender bender. [Junkiness]
• Victoria Beckham is officially pregnant. That, or David Beckham doesn't know how to speak Spanish. [Celebitchy]
• Celebrity Life is TransAm-fabulous, as demonstrated by Vince Vaughn and his basketball shorts. [DListed]
• Jennifer Aniston celebrates our not being able to see her toplessness anymore by lunching with Courtney Cox. Thrilling. [PopSugar]
• If only Jared Leto really was going through with a sex change operation. [OAN]
• Cindy Crawford proves that you don't have need a Greek shipping heir to slut it up at a St. Tropez nighclub, cause a scandalously cut dress will do the trick just fine. [PopSugar]
• The only difference between E.T. and Victoria Beckham: Posh would never eat Reeses Pieces. [The People We Love To Hate]
• Rachel Bilson looks oh so pleased to be found shopping at Target. [Bastardly]
• Geez, someone give Mary Kate Olsen a phone book to sit on or something. Between the size of that car, and the tint of those sunglasses, it's a wonder she's not mowing down small children. [Teddy and Moo]
• Courtney Cox wants another baby? Now she's just rubbing it in Jennifer Aniston's face. [Junkiness]
• To add insult to injury, the lucky bastard who gets to hang out with Penelope Cruz in St. Tropez is wearing manpris. [A Socialite's Life]
• Kevin Federline was offered the role a sleazy drug dealer in a movie. Hey, if the shoe fits. [DListed]
Coco Cox-Arquette has an awesome sense of humor. She also very clearly loves the paparazzi. The evidence lays in the NSFW Courtney Cox photo if you click on the picture above. Not a nipple slip so much as a child-induced exposure. Doesn't that kid look too old to want to be breast feeding? Kids reveal the dardnest things. Like their mother's boobs.
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