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5:20AM STV | Are You Mick Jagger? SAG Has Your Money: A recent scan by Sharon Waxman of the Screen Actors Guild’s Web site yielded the only slightly staggering discovery that the union is holding more than $25 million in unclaimed funds for almost 67,000 members. The majority is dead (Katherine Hepburn, John F. Kennedy, Buster Keaton), but no small number is still alive and working, including Michael Douglas, Mick Jagger, Patrick Dempsey and even Eric Bogosian — who last week was elected to SAG’s board, making its official “we can’t find these people” excuse all the more baffling. On the bright side, Assaf Cohen is on his way. Changes will be made! [WaxWord] More »

The Easter Bunny No Longer Prime Suspect In Minnie Driver Baby Daddy Mystery, But Who Is?

7:50AM Molly Friedman | Thus far, Riches star Minnie Driver has given the public three wildly different answers to anyone inquiring who knocked up the card-carrying member of that annoyingly massive Celebrity-Slash-Singer subset. Among the potential baby daddies she’s flung out into the media’s clutches? The Easter Bunny, musician Craig Zolezzi, and yes, God him or herself. And six months into her pregnancy, Driver has defiantly and coyly kept her lips sealed, until now. In a recent interview with the UK’s Independent, she finally released two very telling details: the guy is British, and “sort of in the same business.” Our guesses lie after the jump, but we leave it to you, loyal Defamer readers, to solve the mystery: More »

7:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Guardian reporter Sean Michaels has discovered a sort of epistolary parallel universe in which A Clockwork Orange is a late-’60s time capsule from hell: A recently unearthed letter from the period propositioned director John Schlesinger — presumably between his Oscar-winning films Darling and Midnight Cowboy — to helm the film with Mick Jagger in the lead. It gets better: The Beatles were reportedly interested in contributing songs. Alas, Schlesinger evidently had a problem with novelist Anthony Burgess’s infamous ultraviolence; “the film’s extreme delinquency wasn’t ‘the sort of subject I particularly want to tackle,’ ” the director told executive producer Si Litvinoff, thus opening the door for Stanley Kubrick’s dystopic 1971 masterwork starring Malcolm McDowell. Michaels spends a few minutes fancying the alternate Jagger/Beatles version, but really, we’d rather not imagine this at all unless… no. Just no. Sorry we even brought it up. No. [The Guardian] More »

7:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Guardian reporter Sean Michaels has discovered a sort of epistolary parallel universe in which A Clockwork Orange is a late-’60s time capsule from hell: A recently unearthed letter from the period propositioned director John Schlesinger — presumably between his Oscar-winning films Darling and Midnight Cowboy — to helm the film with Mick Jagger in the lead. It gets better: The Beatles were reportedly interested in contributing songs. Alas, Schlesinger evidently had a problem with novelist Anthony Burgess’s infamous ultraviolence; “the film’s extreme delinquency wasn’t ‘the sort of subject I particularly want to tackle,’ ” the director told executive producer Si Litvinoff, thus opening the door for Stanley Kubrick’s dystopic 1971 masterwork starring Malcolm McDowell. Michaels spends a few minutes fancying the alternate Jagger/Beatles version, but really, we’d rather not imagine this at all unless… no. Just no. Sorry we even brought it up. No. [The Guardian] More »

Supportive Mick Jagger Publicly Recognises Martin Scorsese’s Struggles as Actor

4:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Because our Sunday wouldn’t have been the same without at least four hours committed to work, Defamer crashed yesterday’s U.S. press conference for the new Martin Scorsese/Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light. It’s not half-bad for Stones or Scorsese fans, with a rangy set list and intoxicating camerawork that both might run a little long for the average viewer. Not easily starstruck, we nevertheless felt a mild succession of twinges upon the band and their director’s entrance (”Holy shit, Keith Richards really does look like that,” etc.), none more acute than when a Paramount publicist, clearly by accident, let us sneak a question in. More »

Mick ‘N’ Keef Advise Against Drug Use; The Ironing Is Delicious

10:25AM Clem Bastow | Ho, ho, ho, those crazy old Rolling Stones, there’s no keeping up with them these days! Just what will they think of next? Well, it turns out, they’re having a Pat Cash moment, and are advising younger musicians – or just younger people, period – not to indulge in drugs to the prodigious levels that they and their bandmembers did during their heyday (or, in Keef and possibly Charlie’s cases, still do). We’d like to believe that Keith Richards gave his quotes while sucking on a Camberwell carrot. “When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects,” Mick Jagger said at the premiere of a film showing the band in concert. “In our time, there were no rehab centres. Anyway, I didn’t know about them.” Jagger, 64, experienced international notoriety when he was briefly jailed in 1967 for possessing drugs, but he is better known now for his devotion to fitness. He prepares for tours by running 12km a day, swimming and kick-boxing. Keith Richards, the band’s guitarist and a former heroin addict, warned that if Amy Winehouse, the 24-year-old singer famous for songs such as Rehab and Addicted, did not give up drugs she could end up looking as wrinkly and wasted as he did. “She should get her act together,” said Richards, also 64, whose reputation for drug-fuelled antics led many to believe his joke that he had snorted his father’s ashes. Jagger had previously expressed concern about Winehouse’s descent into alcohol and drug addiction, saying: “I’m worried she might die if she goes down the road that she has taken.” Last year, Ronnie Wood, 60, another of the Stones, who once snorted so much cocaine that he damaged his nose, encouraged Kate Moss, the model, to break up with Pete Doherty, the drug-addicted singer. Wood said Doherty “wasn’t exactly very good for her, was he?”. Aww, they care! Bless their wrinkly little hearts. Although, we think Keef at least may be onto something – we don’t imagine many of these hot young druggy stars being particularly enamoured with the idea of turning into him once they pass 50, particularly the female ones. Perhaps they should start putting him on the fag packets? More »

Is Mick Jagger Set To Start Wearing Daggy White Tracksuits And Hanging Out With Guy And Ashton?

8:48AM Clem Bastow | The Rolling Stones have never been particularly interested in religion beyond the daffy hippyisms of She’s A Rainbow and their wacky dabblings in dark mysticism and apparent Satan-worship during the late-’60s, and for this we thank them. However, that looks set to change with news that Mick Jagger has allegedly been seen getting about with one of those Kabbalah “red string” bracelets around his wrists (which he apparently stopped waving about long enough for someone to get a shot of them) – and the gossip rags reckon it’s all for love. Sir Mick, 64, seems to have shown more interest in the spiritual side of life after getting together with L’Wren Scott. Last month, the couple stayed at the 347-room Indian palace home of the Maharaja of Jodhpur and collected mystical trinkets for their £10million Chelsea mansion. Last year, when the Stones were on tour in South America, Sir Mick took time out to have his “auras cleansed” in a smoke ceremony conducted by a roadside shaman. Well, it could be worse – it could be ScientoLOLogy. Really, the only foolishness involved in getting into Kabbalah (which is not-for-profit, despite its many “recommended” accoutrements) seems to be the shelling out of ridiculous amounts of cash for $9 bottles of holy water. And, obviously, the whole “men wear white tracksuits” thing. We just can’t see Sir Mick getting down with that (though we’re sure he could wear it well). More »