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The Ulcer-Inducing Career Updates Of Lindsay Lohan
3:00AM Foster Kamer | Lindsay Lohan’s career brings out the worst in Jewish Mother impulses. Brad Pitt busts himself up on a motorcycle, LADIES. The Rock shows true colours: stone cold asshole. Sienna Miller, Roman Polanski, Gays, Musicals: presenting your Monday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
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Oprah’s Tyson/Holyfield Matchup, The Death Knell For Macho
6:27PM Andrew Belonsky | Macho men are not so in vogue these days. And, with some help from Oprah, the trend, once so prevalent in pop culture, may very well be dead. Or on its way, at least. More »
Nicolas Cage In Yellowface And Other Mr. Miyagi Suggestions For The ‘Karate Kid’ Remake
3:58AM Seth | Hollywood’s steady death march to the Idea-Killing Fields continues with news today that Jaden Smith—smarmy hatchling of the dangerously in black love super-couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith—will star in a re-imagining of sacred 1980s cinematic text, The Karate Kid. Set to shoot next year in Beijing and other locations, the film won’t be a straight-ahead remake, but will rather “borrow elements of the original plot, wherein a bullied youth learns to stand up for himself with the help of an eccentric mentor.” With no word on who will play the pivotal role of handyman mentor Mr. Miyagi, we thought we’d offer some casting suggestions to go along with the logical “Ralph Macchio : Jaden Smith” equation: More »
Dwayne Johnson To Battle Theme-Park Obsolescence Gnomes in ‘Tomorrowland’ Movie
9:05AM STV | Apparently looking to expand the modest scope that exploited its Pirates of the Caribbean attraction as a nearly eight-hour, $3 billion-grossing trilogy, Disney now plans to mine an entire portion of Disneyland for the franchise of the future. Literally: The studio has reportedly commissioned a pair of writers to develop the script for a film based on Tomorrowland, with Dwayne Johnson attached to star as a minimum-wage ride operator whose fantasies of updating Star Tours lead to a thrilling adventure through the Lucas/Disney black hole of bureaucracy. Or… something. If Disney knows, its overlords aren’t talking: More »
Which A-List Actor Yanked $180,000 He Promised For An African Child’s Surgery?
5:45AM STV | We don’t generally turn to inspirational humanitarian news for our gossip, but that’s where we found sort of an accidental blind item hiding in plain sight over the weekend. According to the OC Register, a 17-year-old Zimbabwean boy named Beloved traveled to the States last year for reconstructive surgery on his face; he had been disfigured in a land-mine explosion when he was 10. The cost: $180,000, which a charity administrator named Jennifer Trubenbach had reportedly wrangled from a “movie star, whose face is a common sight in celebrity magazines.” And why won’t she name him? Because the next thing she knew, the star yanked the cash: More »
