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Lindsay Lohan “Still Learning” Time, Fashion
8:48PM Andrew Belonsky | Lindsay Lohan tries to explain her adventures in fashion. Britney Spears receives a dubious award. Joe Francis has no backbone. And we feel bad for Leona Lewis. Yes, it’s your Thursday gossip roundup. It’s chock full of nuts! More »
Top 10 Best Dressed Oscar Girls Of Yore
8:24AM Molly Friedman | For every swan dress there is a fire engine red body-hugger worn by the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, or one of those golden sparkle-y things that just melts all over Halle Berry’s body. To prove we’re not just big meanies when it comes to discussing Oscar outfits of yesterday, we’ve put together our Top Ten picks for the most exclamatory, drop-dead dresses ever worn on an Oscar red carpet, and even redeemed one member of the Worst Club by placing her at the shiny top of our Best-Dressed cake. More »
Trade Roundup: Is Exiting MTV President Norman Leaping Into Oprah’s Embrace?
8:17AM Mark | · Perhaps hoping that going the biopic route might help her find her way back into the Academy’s good graces, directionless two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank agrees to play Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair’s Amelia. [Variety] · Martin Scorsese selects Bob Marley as the next object of his music-documentary affection, but has yet to choose the Marley lyric or song that will serve as the project’s title. [THR] · Possibly sandwiched between the theoretically imminent end of the writers strike and a potential June 30 walkout by SAG, studios are rushing to get their high-profile projects into production during that slim window of opportunity, hoping to get enough movies in the can to fill out their late 2009 release schedules. Still on the studios’ limbo lists due to deadline-rushed scripts: Angels & Demons, Thomas Crown Affair 2, Fame, The Grind and Death Wish. [Variety]
P.S. Critics Hated This Movie: A Round-Up
9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | At long last, P.S. I Love You, a heart-string-tugging romantic fable about a gay Spartan warrior and a drag king boxer’s inability to make love work, arrives in theatres today. As promising as that setup sounds, the reviews are mostly terrible, with the Hilary Swank/Gerard Butler vehicle inspiring movie critics to some of their most creatively bilious work in recent memory: Everything about her is hard: her chiseled jawline, her abs – even her eyes, which can radiate fear and anger with such force, are incapable of softening enough to make her turn as Holly, who is supposed to be klutzy and lovably unfocused, believable. [Chicago Tribune] This movie doesn’t have enough fresh air to play on Oxygen. Its agenda might be epistolary, but its brain is covered in Post-its. [Boston Globe] More »
Trade Roundup: McLovin Rising
7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | · Breakout Superbad actor Christopher “McLovin” Mintz-Plasse takes the next step in his inevitable march towards Hollywood superstardom, signing on alongside Jack Black and Michael Cera (re-team!) for biblical comedy Year One. Judd Apatow is producing, but you’ve probably already guessed that part on your own. [THR] · Butching up a resume recently marked by turns as flouncey pirates and singing barbers, Johnny Depp is coming aboard hardboiled™ director Michael Mann’s Public Enemies for Universal, in which Depp will play notoriously ruthless, extravagantly well-hung gangster John Dillinger. [Variety] More »Short Ends: Ben Affleck’s Big, Corn-Suited Comeback
2:28AM Defamer Hollywood | · This is easily the best role Ben Affleck’s had since The Sum of All Fears. · Zachary Quinto may be close to signing on as the the token Vulcan aboard the bridge of JJ Abrams’ Enterprise. · And it looks like Iron Man has added yet another Oscar-winner to its star-studded cast, even if just for a supposedly top-secret cameo. We smell a big-time comeback on its way. · Katie Holmes Dark Knight replacement Maggie Gyllenhaal doesn’t seem all that concerned about filling the shoes her predecessor wore to sleepwalk through her role in Batman Begins. · Goya’s Ghost star Natalie Portman still frustratingly anti-nudity. More »
