David Blaine seems to have fully recovered from his Drop of Death Gone Wrong '08 and even scored himself an invitation to last night's NYC premiere of Milk. Seriously? The event hosted all of Hollywood's popular (and good-looking) leading men and David Effing Blaine was invited? This is an outrage.
Not only did Blaine cause the event to lose major street cred — he also adversely affected the attractiveness of every male in attendance. Seriously, what the hell happened to these guys? Even Chace Crawford, who is usually the prettiest girl at the ball, arrived looking like he had been beaten up in the school parking lot by a couple of hobos. Thanks for nothing, Blaine. Go back to your lair and don't come out until you've devised another fake stunt.
The Hollywood Film Festival awards gala was held last night in Beverly Hills, and we would have admittedly given our right arm to be there. Look at all those pretty men! There's Christian Bale, obviously, and Ryan Gosling, James Franco and Josh Brolin — and two newbies to keep your eyes on, Robert Pattinson (who will be starring in the upcoming Twilight film) and Chris Pine (who will play Captain Kirk in the Star Trek movie). We don't even care that Angelina Jolie made a surprise appearance to pay tribute to Clint Eastwood — there's too much pretty elsewhere.
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Heyo! Did you know over in Israel they created a beautifier machine that can take any picture of you and analyze your facial structure and then improve upon it as dictated by social norms of physical attributes?
And did you know that James Franco's face, when run through this program, does not reveal any differences whatsoever, meaning that the Pineapple Express actor is basically the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. It's true! Pretty sure that it's in the Bible somewhere that Jesus had a perfect jawline and eyes that were symmetrically far apart.
To be fair, the program's purpose was only to subtly change the composite of facial features, to show society that it doesn't always take extreme plastic surgery to improve your looks.
But guess which actor was actually made less attractive after being run through the beautification process?
Actor James Franco appears on this month's cover of Out to help hype his new gay flick, Milk. (He also did a cover for Interview magazine.)
The movie's story: Harvey Milk was California's first openly gay elected official and was later assassinated, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. Franco's starring opposite Sean Penn, who has not been doing press for the movie, which is a bit queer.
So, Franco's getting all this attention and people are loving him. Or hating him. It depends on who you ask.
• For those who spend a lot of time checking out Kim Kardashian's assets. [CityRag]
• Did Jennifer Aniston get her lips pumped? Does anyone care? [INO]
• Diddy thinks sex should be an Olympic sport. Naturally. [DListed]
• Jessica Simpson says she was bullied in high school — but only because people were jealous of how perfect she is. [ICYDK]
• James Franco says he hasn't done drugs since high school. [PS]
• Paris Hilton is being sued for failing to promote National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, not that she would have convinced anyone to actually watch that horrible movie. [Yeeeah]
• It's safe to say America Ferrera really hates Blake Lively. [DListed]
• Javier Bardem's mother proudly watched him strip before making it big in Hollywood. Um, OK? [ICYDK]
• Two of our favorite things combined. How did we not know about this earlier? [CityRag]
• Mmmmm, George Clooney. [PS]
• Matthew McConaughey plans to plant baby Levi's placenta in an orchard. In other news, we just vomited. [Yeeeah]
• James Franco should be President: "If you’re ever out of work, make a sign — 'Homeless, Please Help.'" [INO]
Last night was the LA premiere of James Franco and Seth Rogen's weed-filled Pineapple Express, which attracted a vast array of celebrities. Nobody quite knows for sure how Adrianne Curry was invited, but those in attendance were graced with the presence of Kanye West and his odd shoes. You win some, you lose some.
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James Franco, on his plans to attend graduate school at NYU:
I love being around people who are interested in what I'm interested in. That is the best way to learn. For me, being able to act in movies is not having it all. I am interested in other things, and I take my interests seriously.
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WHO'S PLAYING ELVIS? Our money's on James Franco: "Producers David Permut and Steve Binder have acquired screen rights to Alanna Nash's 2003 book 'The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley.' Permut and Binder will develop a feature titled 'The Colonel' based on the book about the man with shadowy origins who reinvented himself as the Svengali behind the world's most famous entertainer."
Sean Penn plays Harvey Milk and James Franco Milk's partner Scott Smith in the currently-in-production Milk. Milk was the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, so obviously his story had to include shirtless, man-on-man hugging.
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The slow but noticeable growth of the role of weed in Seth Rogen's movies – now culminating with an entire film dedicated to it – is quite similar to the way the drug gradually dominated some of our friends' lives over the years.
Just a warning, Rogen: most of them are still losers.
Well, here's that video footage Page Six reported on last week. Newsflash: Lindsay Lohan does drugs (hard to believe, I know), and some weaselly backstabber in her inner circle obtained the grainy, questionable evidence to prove it; and just 20 days after Lindsay had checked out of rehab.
The source of the video revealed some other striking news:
"When she is on coke, which is most of the time, all the attention has to be on her. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched as she stripped naked in front of everyone. Then she loves to check herself out in the mirror as she parades around with her boobs hanging out."
But Lindsay is not only addicted to booze and drugs, she is also hooked on sex with some of Hollywood's hottest men, says our insider.
"She has told me that she has slept with James Blunt, Jude Law, Calum Best, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Jared Leto and James Franco," admitted the friend.
"She loves Brits and has told me she has slept with the singer James Blunt a few times over the past month.
"The last time was on April 15 after another house party. I think they went back to a hotel together afterwards. She is very protective over him and when she heard I had met him she sent me a text saying, ‘Stay away from him Bitch, he is mine.'"
More so than the fact that she does drugs, I find it shocking to discover that Lindsay actually argues over James Blunt.
PS If this news is at all "shocking" to you, you're sadder than and underage starlet blowing huge rails off of toilet seats with "her boobs hanging out."
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Perhaps Kirsten has a reason to drink and Tobey has a reason to be pissed: Spider-Man 3 is shit!
Of Maguire, the New York Times writes, "…simply widening your eyes to attract attention does not cut it when you’re over 30," and of the movie in general, a friend of mine who saw the midnight showing last evening says, "…there is no excuse for the shit that was spewed at my eyeballs for the last two hours." Ouch!
With great hype comes great letdown.
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Scott Storch—one time b/f of Paris Hilton, head of Tuff Jew Productions and a slightly weaselly looking Canadian—has been bummed out hard following the lack of starlets at his recent b-day bash.
Scott Storch is a hot record producer, but some of his lady friends are cold. Storch had a birthday party for himself last month in Miami at the nightclub Mansion. A friend tells us, "He's upset that none of his famous female friends - Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears - bothered to show up. And he even gave Lindsay $1 million in diamonds over New Year's! Kelly Rowland was supposed to come and sing a special 'Happy Birthday' to him and she was a no-show, too." A rep for Storch said, "Scott was not upset at all - he had Derek Jeter and Ludacris there, and a naked girl even popped out of the cake."
Derek Jeter and Ludacris aren't Paris and Britney, man. Everyone knows you need girls at the party.
Also, in case you glanced over it, this guy gave Lindsay Lohan $1 million in diamonds! WTF?! And how does she repay him? She yells at him in his own Bentley in front of photographers and falls in love with James Franco, thereby proving that money can't buy love.
I guess Scott missed the memo about how you have to play hard to get with famous girls. You can't throw yourself at girls who most other men would throw themselves at. Dig it? That makes you common, Scott. Famous girls don't like common. Now, take off the shades at night and stop giving 20-year-old children millions of dollars in diamonds.
• 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]
According the the New York Daily News, Lindsay Lohan may owe her passing out in a hallway and this subsequent stint of rehab to an unrequited crush on better-looking-than-he-is-at-picking-decent-roles James Franco.
The handsome “Spider-Man” star rebuffed her at Prince’s Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Monday night, reducing Lohan to tears, a fellow guest tells us.
“She came with her manager, Jason Weinberg, and a girlfriend, but she was mostly solo for the whole night,” says our source. “Most people were in a good mood — except for her. She seemed lost. She was trying to get James’ attention, and he wouldn’t give her anything. She was smoking a lot, not drinking in front of him, and then she went into a bedroom. From there, she went back to trying to get James’ attention again, and he was ignoring her. She ran out crying, with the girlfriend following her.”
Rush and Molloy also say that, several months ago, Franco refused to accept an expensive watch from Lohan, which she now tortures herself with by wearing it around. Masochism? Check. Drinking to ease the pain? Check. Mom's being gross? Check. Broken heart? Check. This adds up to a perfect storm of hellish sadness that could drive anyone into rehab.
Last night, the Chateau Marmont in LA was crammed to the gills with beautiful women (and one dude, well, there were more, I guess) out to attend Dolce & Gabanna's charity auction to raise awareness for The Art of Elysium. That was a mouthful. The event was hosted by Penelope Cruz and attended by much of young hot Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan even stumbled downstairs dressed up like Angelina Jolie to show her sobersober face. Hell, Mary Kate Olsen didn't even hide in 39 yards of fabric. It's a D&G miracle–none of the girls looked an ounce of bad. Is it wrong that whenever I see Sharon Stone at one of these events I wonder how she wandered in? She could kick my ass.
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Blech. I hope you've eaten. As if Sienna Miller in that hein wig wasn't sick enough, now she's kissing James Franco with her mouth full. To thnk, she kisses Jude Law with that thing. If this is a scene from the movie, Camille, she's filming in Canada, remind me never to see it. I've got a weak stomach, especially when Sienna Miller is involved.
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