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Big Screen
Battleship The Board Game’s March To Big Screen Now Unstoppable
1:16AM Richard Rushfield | • July 1, 2011. This will be the date when the world sees Peter Berg’s Battleship film, inspired by the Hasbro plastic peg board game. [Variety] More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Everyone Hates Katherine Heigl
10:15PM the cajun boy | Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow trash Katherine Heigl, Joe Jackson confirms Michael Jackson’s Norwegian lovechild, Britney mocks K-Fed’s weight gain, Robert Redford dislikes Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Simpson has an expensive new reality show and Sienna Miller needs love. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Will Gerard Butler Be The Next Man To Humiliate Jennifer Aniston?
10:10PM the cajun boy | Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are probably boning, Mischa Barton has a serious “medical issue,” Jon Gosselin’s new lady is a walking white-trash stereotype, The Hoff parties with Lady Gaga, Madonna has “bingo wings” and Robert Redford gets married. More »
If Chosen For Obama’s Cabinet, Angry Robert Redford Will Not Serve
9:00AM STV | When he wasn’t regaling Sundance press Thursday with his Chairman’s History of the Festival, he spoke candidly about his prospects for duty in a more arts-friendly Barack Obama administration. As in, zero. More »
Today in Sundance Hell: Shrinkage, ‘Hoo-Ha’ and Earth-Shattering Phone Calls
5:25AM STV | With a little more than 48 hours before our frostbitten arrival on the scene, we think it bears noting: Defamer is going to the Sundance Film Festival! Sadly, some news isn’t waiting for us: More »
Will Hollywood’s Gay Mafia Take Its Prop. 8 Anger Out on Sundance?
7:13AM Kyle Buchanan | After a week of attention-getting protests against Proposition 8, gay activists and allies are ready for their next big target — and some, like blogger John Aravosis, are suggesting a boycott of the Sundance Film Festival. Sure, the Prop, 8-pushing Mormon Church has no direct ties to Sundance, but the Park City fest could be affected by a growing movement to boycott not just Mormon-owned enterprises but the entire, caffeine-fearing state of Utah in general. So, should Robert Redford be shaking in his stylish snow boots? We think not, for these reasons: More »
When Paul Newman Made a Grown Man Cry
8:40AM STV | Appraisals and appreciations of Paul Newman haven’t been in especially short supply since his death last weekend; Robert Redford even got two chances at a eulogy, with his ABC rough draft giving way to an essay in the new issue of Time Magazine. We love a good Butch and Sundance/Sting story as much as the next grieving viewer, but nothing has yet proved as illuminating as Sam Mendes’s reminiscence rolling out in next week’s New York Magazine. The last man to direct Newman in a feature film, Mendes may not have acquired decades’ worth of personal dirt to dig through, but with veteran cinematographer Connie Hall on the set, he didn’t really need it: More »
