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The director of one of Corey Haim’s last movies has paid tribute to the former teen idol who died earlier today, aged 38, of a suspected accidental drugs overdose.
Michael Masucci directed Haim in the indie thriller American Sunset, and he revealed that the former Lost Boys star, who was upfront about his former drug problems, was always very professional and “a joy to work with”.
He said: “Corey was the ultimate professional.
“He was always very upfront and frank about his previous drug problems, but there was never any hint of it while he filmed American Sunset.
“There was no evidence of any drug or pill use on the film set, he was extremely hard-working.
“He always turned up on time, knew his lines and was friendly with all the cast and crew, he was a joy to work with.”
He added: “Corey was extremely talented and that showed through in his work and he will be sorely missed by me and a lot of people in the industry.”
Masucci also revealed that he had jumped at the chance to cast Haim in the lead role after hearing the actor wanted to make a comeback.
He said: “Like anyone my age I knew of Corey from the Lost Boys and those teen movies in the ’80s and early ’90s.
“I jumped at the chance to meet him…”
Masucci is hoping the movie will get a release date later this year.
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It looks like when he’s not breaking spirits on American Idol, the Earl of Exigency can be quite the charming and giving man, at least when it comes to his fiancée, Mezghan Hussainy. It looks like Simon Cowell spoils her every chance he gets, or so a source relates: “Red roses, French lingerie, Prada bags, you name it. He gives her something new practically every day. One particularly sweet surprise was private his-and-hers Swedish massages in their London hotel room.” It looks like she’s got it made… at least until they get married probably when Simon Cowell will unleash the full extent of his malefic genius. But until that time, it’s just the torture of innocent American Idol contestants for the Earl of Exigency.
Avatar actress Sigourney Weaver has put her youthful appearance down to pole-dancing.
Weaver, who played the role of Dr Grace in James Cameron’s hit film, said she took up the sexy exercise while shooting the new movie You Again.
She said: “I did a lot of training on how to pole-dance. Online in the movie, I don’t dance around a pole at all, I dance around a boy.
“It was actually a lot harder than I thought. I have a newfound respect for any girls out there who do that for a living.”
Weaver stars opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Bell and Patrick Duffy in the new movie.
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Farrah Fawcett was left out of the Oscars memorial to stars who died in 2009 because she was better known as a television star, the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said.
Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy, offered an explanation for the omission after the organisation was flooded with complaints after the ceremony.
Fawcett’s life partner Ryan O’Neal went on the record to question the decision, saying he and his actress daughter, Tatum, would write in protest to the Academy, of which Fawcett was a member for 40 years.
Davis said it was a difficult decision for the committe that creates the In Memoriam segment.
The AP reports Fawcett and actor Gene Barry were both omitted. Davis said he and his peers deemed the pair was best known for “remarkable television work” and would be more appropriately honoured by the television academy at the Emmy Awards.
Davis noted “an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters” died in 2009 and the Academy tried to honour many of them in the segment.
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Actress Charlize Theron has defended her choice of Oscar dress and said she “loved” the gown.
Theron, 34, wore a lilac dress to the recent 82nd Academy Awards with her bust decorated by two large roses.
The actress was criticised for the outfit, with The Orange County Register saying: “We hated the weird rosebud pasties on her strapless, flowing lavender and mauve gown. All the attention in the wrong place.”
However, the star was asked on the red carpet about the gown and she said to UsMagazine.com: “I just loved this dress!”
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A host of male stars poked fun at themselves in a hilarious post-Oscar sketch for the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night.
A-listers including Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Dempsey, Sting, Josh Hartnett, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ted Danson, Ethan Hawke, Keith Urban, Rob Lowe and John Krasinski all starred in the bit about an elite society for handsome men.
In the clip, the Handsome Men’s Club is presided over by portly late night host Jimmy Kimmel who founded the club and has the last say on who is deemed handsome enough to join.
His duties include telling Sting to put his vanity mirror down when he’s caught staring at himself.
“I’m sorry, Jimmy – I got lost in my own eyes,” says Sting.
When all the other members agree Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are handsome enough to join, Kimmel overrules the vote saying they’re just ‘cute’ and can’t sign up.
But afterwards, he faces a revolt from the members when McConaughey challenges Kimmel’s handsomeness with a vote to replace him as president.
When he loses, Kimmel leaves the club only to wake and realise it’s all been a nightmare – and he’s actually in bed with Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.
Affleck reassures Kimmel that he is handsome as Garner wakes, saying: “Ben, that’s enough – this is getting weird.”
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2010 Academy Award Winners:
Sandra Bullock oscar acceptance speech
Youtube Video:
Best motion picture of the year
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Mo’Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
Best animated feature film of the year
Up (Walt Disney), Pete Docter
Achievement in art direction
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
Achievement in cinematography
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Mauro Fiore
Achievement in costume design
The Young Victoria (Apparition), Sandy Powell
Achievement in directing
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Kathryn Bigelow
Best documentary feature
The Cove (Roadside Attractions)
Best documentary short subject
Music by Prudence, An iThemba Production, Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Achievement in film editing
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Best foreign language film of the year
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (“The Secret In Their Eyes”) (Sony Pictures Classics) Argentina
Achievement in makeup
Star Trek (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment), Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Up (Walt Disney), Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best animated short film
Logorama (Autour de Minuit), An Autour de Minuit Production, Nicolas Schmerkin
Best live action short film
The New Tenants, A Park Pictures and M & M Production, Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Achievement in sound editing
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Paul N.J. Ottosson
Achievement in sound mixing
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Achievement in visual effects
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Adapted screenplay
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Lionsgate), Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
Original screenplay
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Written by Mark Boal
Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock said she wanted to celebrate her win with a burger.
The star walked away with the Best Actress gong at the 82nd Academy Awards in LA on March 7 after beating actresses such as Dame Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep.
Asked how she wanted to celebrate, she said to reporters: “I just want a burger and I just want some food.
“I want to sit down, take the shoes off. I want to eat and not sweat it and not worry the dress will bust open. I just want to relax and… I’d like a nap, too.”
After finding out that she had won, her husband Jesse James whispered something in her ear but she wasn’t keen to divulge what he said.
She said: “I’d never divulge what Jesse says, unless he divulges it first. It’s between me and the man.”
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Oscar winner Christoph Waltz celebrated his triumph by starring in a bizarre comedy sketch that saw him apparently spinning a ukulele on his manhood and posing in lederhosen surrounded by sheep.
The Inglourious Basterds star, who won Best Supporting actor for his role as a ruthless Nazi, also simulated sex with a lamp and a phone to music in the spoof.
The sketch on US chatshow host Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars special was supposedly taken from a BBC documentary on the previously unknown Waltz’s background.
It featured Austrian Waltz explaining how a film called Der Humpink “defines him as an actor”.
Clips from the spoof film showed him dancing around and cavorting with the random objects, then smiling and saying: “Der Humpink”.
In his commentary to the bizarre scenes, Waltz said: “It could be the role of my lifetime.
“Everything I ever experienced in my life, everything I ever did as an actor, they pulled towards each other and it became Der Humpink.”
He added: “You have to understand, Der Humpink is not a metaphor. Yes, the ukulele is.
“I am communicating. The message is important. What part don’t you understand?
“We are all humpink. We need to hump together. The new age of humpink is dawning.”
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Here’s a fun idea: why not dig up the past in order to write a book that might cause some celebrities a heap of trouble? This probably what Jenny Paul thought when writing her book, “Brad Pitt and Angelina: The True Story”, where she relates about the actress’ alleged affair with Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones back when she was married to Jerry Hall. This is what Jenny Hall said about her book: “Hollywood will be rocked by these revelations about Brad and Angelina.” And somebody might get sued afterwards, right? Even Mick Jagger wasn’t really the free bird back then to actually be very clean from this, but then again, he always was a bit of a wild card, so at least he has an excuse.
Hollywood bad boy Mickey Rourke has boasted he bedded 14 women in one night during a trip to London.
The actor, 57, said the session was before he met his girlfriend Anastassija Makarenko, 24.
He said: “Forget Ashley Cole – his behaviour has nothing on a film star. WAGs get an easy time – they should try living with Hollywood hellraisers.
“I once spent a weekend in the UK and had 14 women in one night.”
Rourke added: “British footballers have got nothing on us when it comes to women. If you WAGs knew what Hollywood’s stars get up to, you’d think you were married to pussycats.”
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Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner has revealed he is taking his mum as his date to the ceremony.
Renner, 39, is up for the Best Actor gong at the ceremony on March 7 for his leading role in The Hurt Locker.
This is the first Oscar nomination the star has received and he is taking his mum, Valerie Clearley, with him.
Clearley recently said: “He keeps me calm. I’m the nervous one. He’s been to [award shows] before. I haven’t. It’s crazy!”
Renner took his mum to the recent Hollywood Reporter pre-Oscar party to give her a taste of what Sunday night’s ceremony is going to be like.
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Jessica Simpson sat down with Oprah to talk about how she feels about John Mayer publicly referring to her as “sexual napalm”. The failed country singer and actress must have been biting her tongue hard when she responded with “I’m not angry, I’m not angry. I’m — well, I’m a little bit angry … I’m a little bit angry. Um — well, I don’t want people to know how I am in bed. I guess it could have been a lot worse.” How much worse could it get? Just what other freaky things were you two doing together that he didn’t blab about that could have been worse?
Avatar director James Cameron has said he wouldn’t be bothered if there was a sketch about the movie at the upcoming Oscars.
There were recent reports that Borat and Bruno star Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out of presenting a gong after producers pulled the plug on his sketch about Avatar with Ben Stiller.
Producers were reportedly worried about upsetting Cameron as the film is up for a number of gongs at the ceremony.
Talking about the sketch, Cameron told E! News: “I don’t know anything about that… I don’t produce the Oscars. If they want to poke fun at Avatar Sunday, that’s OK by me.”
He added: “The Oscars are a celebration of movies… even the gaffes and out of bounds stuff are all part of the fun.”
There have been numerous reports about Simon Cowell and whether he’s engaged or not. But now, it’s confirmed that the American Idol judge will be walking down the aisle and it came straight from the bride-to-be. Simon and his fiancé Mezhgan Hussainy have yet to announce a wedding date but many believe that it will go down this year. Simon’s publicist Max Clifford said “They are very suited. She is someone who is independent and says what she thinks and feels, and he likes that. He’s probably the happiest I have ever known him in the nine years I’ve been working with him.”
Brüno star Sacha Baron Cohen will no longer present an award at this year’s Oscars, after his Avatar sketch was pulled from the ceremony, according to reports.
Cohen had been lined up to present a gong at the event on 7 March, but producers pulled the plug on his sketch with Ben Stiller because they were reportedly afraid it would upset its director James Cameron, who has been nominated for a Best Director award.
Cohen had allegedly planned to appear onstage as one of Avatar’s blue-skinned female Na’vi characters dressed in an evening gown, with Stiller alongside him translating his character’s interplanetary speech.
The skit was to reportedly end with Cohen pulling open his gown and revealing that he is pregnant with Cameron’s love-child, before confronting the director as if he were on Jerry Springer.
But the show’s producer, Bill Mechanic, didn’t want to upset Cameron and pulled the sketch, according to reports.
Cohen will not now be appearing at the upcoming ceremony and his spokesperson said: “I hate to use the term, because it’s so ubiquitous, but there were ‘creative differences’.
“Nothing acrimonious, but both sides felt that since they couldn’t agree, [Cohen] might as well remain in London.”
Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Woods is selling his $11 million, five bedroom home with a view of the Thames River in Chelsea, West London to pay for his divorce. The rock star bought the house less than two years ago at top price but is now lowering the price to $9 million to speed up the sale and dissolution of marriage to his wife of 24 years. Real estate agents Strutt & Parker said “We have had offers, but not close enough to the asking price.” Ronnie’s a douche so I hope his wife takes him out for all he’s worth.
Placido Domingo, an opera star and a member of The Three Tenors, recently had to undergo surgery after suffering abdominal pains while performing in Tokyo. The singer’s reps say that he decided to fly to New York from Tokyo for a physical where his doctors determined that he needed medically recommended preventive surgery. Placido’s rep did not described the surgery further and there’s still no news coming out how it went but said that Placido hopes to return to singing within six weeks. I hope the surgery was a success and that he recovers as quickly as he hopes. When it comes to health though, I also hope he doesn’t push it.
Sources are saying that Jessica Simpson will be appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show some time in March. Though the failed country singer and actress does have a new show all about inner beauty coming on VH1 to promote, I’m actually hoping that she would unleash her cat claws and rip John Mayer a new one for being the biggest douche bag on this side of the pond. And according to her reps, Miss Sexual Napalm, as John has called her, isn’t opposed to talking about being called as such. However, I’m not sure if Oprah is willing to turn her talk show into something that Maury Povich would do.
The rumoured attachment of Matt Damon to a slated Bobby Kennedy biopic has gained momentum.
Damon confirmed he has been in talks for the film but has yet to see a screenplay, Reuters reports.
The 39-year-old actor said: “I haven’t seen a script yet but I have been talking to [director] Gary Ross about that for over a year and we are both really excited to do it.”
Ross directed Pleasantville and Seabiscuit. The RFK film has no working title.
Damon was speaking while promoting his upcoming action film Green Zone. He added:
“You have always got to wait for the script. Gary is a great writer and a great director,
so I am confident that it is going to happen. The script is coming in next month.”
The Kennedy movie will be based on a biography by Evan Thomas titled His Life.
Kennedy was shot in 1968 while on the presidential campaign trail in Los Angeles.
