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Hollywood Forever: Long Live Jane Fonda’s Boobs
9:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Every group of friends has a Movie Nazi. You know this person: they buy the tickets a day in advance; they send the email two weeks beforehand, organizing everyone; they insist you get there at least a half hour early so you can get the best seats. You grumble, but in the end you are grateful for the Movie Nazi, especially when the movie event in question is at the Cinespia outdoor film series at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Follow along as we break down an evening spent with thousands of our closest friends for a screening of the ’60s camp classic Barbarella. More »
Did Prolific Robert Rodriguez Trade Rose McGowan for 22-Year-Old in His Latest Romantic Drama?
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Box-office bombs and Barbarella casting crises aside, we hear today that the Robert Rodriguez Girlfriend Roundelay may have simply been too crowded for Rose McGowan to keep her place during the couple’s bust-up. A tipster sends word that Rodriguez has moved on to 22-year-old Kat Dennings, the Charlie Bartlett ingenue currently shooting Shorts with the filmmaker in Austin; the duo has reportedly been seen at locales around town — including Rodriguez’s hot tub, we’re told — but for all we know that could just be a bit of refreshment after a long, midsummer day under the scorching Texas sun. More »Robert Rodriguez Salvages His Once-Promising Career By Relieving Rose McGowan Of Her Girlfriend Duties
7:00AM Mark Graham | Up until the point where filming began on Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez’s career was flying. Long considered one of Hollywood’s more prolific directors (11 directorial credits between 1995 and 2005), the auteur specialised in churning out FX heavy (yet, comparatively speaking, low-budget) B-films that ended up being very profitable for both himself and the studios that released his pictures. But Rodriguez’s life and career began to fall apart as he began an on-set relationship with his lead actress in Planet Terror, Rose McGowan, a relationship that not only ended up costing him his marriage but also one that seriously derailed his career. Most recently, he had been pushing to get studios interested in his $70 million remake of Barbarella which, natch, would star his new soul-draining harpy love interest. However, nary a studio in the world was willing to take a risk on a movie with that budget that had Rose McGowan as a lead (nor would they touch Red Sonja or Women In Chains!, two other projects he tried to secure financing for with his flame in the lead). Now, it appears that the friction between Rodriguez’s personal and professional lives landed the pair an all-expenses paid trip on the Splitsville Express. According to Page Six:‘Women in Chains!’ to Fill Networks’ Long-Standing Rose McGowan/Mud Wrestling Vacuum
10:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez have yet to shoot their planned Barbarella remake — which is going to start any day now if McGowan’s recent fantasy promise holds — they’re wasting little time moving forward with their next classy genre collaboration: Women in Chains! No, seriously, that’s what they’re actually calling it: More »
Stalled ‘Barbarella’ Remake Coming Together Nicely In Rose McGowan’s Head
3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In the latest flimsy edition of Barbarella Will Be Remade (No Really We Mean It) Quarterly, perennial cover girl Rose McGowan grabbed another opportunity to swear on a stack of imaginary scripts that she is super-seriously-definitely reprising Jane Fonda’s original role in the long-gestating Robert Rodriguez do-over. And it is a do-over according to McGowan, who gets her critical faculties (and probably a few tempers at Universal) in a lather just thinking about it: More »
