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Kate Moss’ Cocaine Isn’t Safe When Amy Winehouse Is Around
10:12PM the cajun boy | Amy Winehouse reached into Kate Moss’ handbag and stole her cocaine, Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush break up, Madonna’s love faxes from the early 90s emerge, Tobey Maguire’s mum and brother get a reality show and Mischa Barton goes home. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Can Harry Potter’s Magic Cure His Co-Star’s Swine Flu?
1:00AM Foster Kamer | Karl Lagerfeld was told to STFU by Heidi Klum’s people. Courtney Love trashed a hotel room. Harry Potter cast members got Swine Flu! Presenting your Gossip Roundup! More »
Tobey Maguire Insists He Gets ‘Spider-Man’ Mornings And Evenings Off For Potty Training Duty
4:50AM Seth | The Spider-Man franchise has a reluctant protagonist in its star Tobey Maguire, who has now lived out more web-slinging adventures than quirky leading men twice his age, and who sounds more interested in watching his baby Ruby Sweetheart take her first earthbound steps than he is chasing The Lizard up the side of a skyscraper. Among the terms of his recent negotiation with Sony to shoot Spider-Man 4 through 5, he insisted, among the expected profit-sharing perks, upon a shortened schedule to accommodate for daddy-daughter bonding time, reports The Times Online: More »
‘Spider-Man 4′ Exclusive Accidentally Outs Closet Fangirl Nikki Finke
8:45AM Seth | While regular Nikki Finke readers know she don’t do geek, you’d be forgiven for assuming from today’s column that she occasionally dabbles in dweeb: Watch as she churns a Spidey Wiki’s worth of Peter Parker biographical material cross-referenced with the latest villain indexes into the mother of all Spider-Man 4 exclusives, its vital insider information fed to her in the basement of a Century City parking structure by an anonymous figure known only as Deep Flack. The basics: Spider-Man 4, based on a screenplay by Zodiac writer Jamie Vanderbilt, is a go, with Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire on board. Kirsten Dunst’s character is in the script, but hasn’t yet signed on. The “black costume” won’t return. They may shoot 4 and 5 back-to-back. As for villains, well, we’ll leave you now to Finke’s capable deductive services: More »
As Usual, Tobey Maguire is Just Good Enough For His Next Project
3:10AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve been meta-ed to within an inch of our lives this morning by news that upstart producer Tobey Maguire and resurgent Warner Independent Pictures have optioned rights to Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, Lori Gottlieb’s controversial article from last month’s Atlantic Monthly. A 40-year-old single mother’s admonition to take whatever you can get on the romance front (soon to be a book, natch, which won’t likely please our sisters-in-blog over at Jezebel), the story vaguely reminds us of a certain actor’s escalation to marquee status — a milquetoast, smoldering dork opposite A-listers like Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett. Any guesses? More »
Miley Cyrus Sleeping With The Enemy. Figuratively! (Praise Jesus.)
5:35AM Seth | Most Powerful Tween on the Planet Miley Cyrus manages to finagle her way out her billion-year Disney contract for one magical evening, headlining their blood rival Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. Still, she must return to Cinderella’s Castle in Anaheim by midnight, or her career will be turned into “a fucking Debbie Gibson state-fair-touring pumpkin, mark my words,” said her fairy Bob Iger-mother. [Variety] Tobey Maguire is attached to produce Afterburn, an adaptation of a futuristic comic about treasure hunters who venture into the half of the planet scorched by a solar flare to retrieve valuable surviving artifacts, like the Venus de Milo and Cher. [Variety] After the story about the kid who lived at his parents’ house who sold his first script to Ridley Scott for $650,000 vs. $1.1 million with Leo D. attached to star, we thought God had doled out all the screenwriter miracles for the month. Wrong! “A Staten Island tollbooth worker in desperate need of a car wrote a crime thriller spec titled Brooklyn’s Finest last year. Now he finds himself rubbing shoulders with some of Hollywood’s finest, including Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke and Antoine Fuqua.” Why do we get a feeling the next time our mum calls us at work, it’ll be to tell us she just sold her first spec to Sony “for mid-sixes?” [THR] More »
Behold Cerberus, Terrier Of Death Metal
12:02PM Seth | All it takes is some speed metal and a blowdryer to transform this mild-mannered terrier into the wire-haired Knight in Satan’s Service he truly is. [Break.com] The biggest breakout star of American Idol’s sixth season–Crying Girl–is back! And she’s brought her thoughts about Season 7 with her. (Preview: It isn’t as good.) [LAT] Tobey Maguire is a strong believer in allowing one’s infant child to pick up on the whole walking thing on their own, even if that means spending the first few years of their lives face down in a shag carpet. [Popbitch via Wendywayrad] “‘I’ve been a fan of One Life to Live since I was a baby,’ said Snoop.” [USA Today] Not On Our Watch, co-founded by George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, has given $500,000 to the United Nations World Food Program, but since it wasn’t presented in the form of a giant check on The Oprah Winfrey Show, it took a couple days for you to find out about it. [Reuters] More »
Trade Roundup: CBS Flouts Child-Buzz-Building Laws With ‘Kid Nation’ Screenings
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | · CBS has quietly set up preview screenings of Kid Nation at elementary schools in major markets for students, parents, and teachers, where families can come together and discuss the exciting child-labour-law issues raised by the controversial new series, as well as receive assurances from the network that no children were eaten by bears during the show’s production, even though that unlikely eventuality was covered by that now-infamous waiver. [Variety] · HBO Films greenlights a feature version of Grey Gardens, the 1975 crazy-cat-lady documentary that has also recently spawned a crazy-cat-lady Broadway musical, and which will star Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. [THR] In an onscreen pairing that will result in a dramatic showdown between the dreamiest and the sleepiest sets of blue eyes in all of Young Hollywood, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire are in negotiations to join Brothers, director Jim Sheridan’s remake of a Danish-language war drama. Our prediction: after their first shared scene, Maguire locks himself in his trailer, ashamed that his orbs will never sparkle like Gyllenhaal’s. [Variety] · Star Trek’s JJ Abrams chooses Zoe Saldana as the new Uhura. [THR] Huzzah! The Fall TV season is here! And while we didn’t watch the solidly rated premiere of Fox’s K-ville last night, it’s nice to know that we have finally something to neglect besides shows about remembering karaoke lyrics. [Variety] More »
