End of yet another era
It happens so often these days it almost doesn’t feel like an event anymore. The latest casualty in this bricks-to-bits world is Blockbuster Video, which has announced it will close all of its...
View ArticleFrenemies: A Love Story?
Frenemies? Word has it that Gwyneth Paltrow, whose career was super-hot in the late ’90s and early 2000s, is after Claire Danes, whose career is super-hot now. Gwynnie apparently would like to do a...
View ArticleHugs from Shailene Woodley
The whole thing for me—with life—is truth. —Shailene Woodley It’s no secret that Hollywood is full of spoiled brats who have more attitude than talent, and who throw away whatever breaks they get with...
View ArticleThe foot, the mouth and Gwyneth Paltrow
She’s been in the news more than just about anyone else this past week, but probably for reasons she doesn’t like. Gwyneth Paltrow, self-anointed guru of … practically anything … saw her GOOP website...
View ArticleAnother down-to-earth celebrity: Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick is a hoot. I adore her, and I haven’t even seen that many of her movies. She’s just so effortlessly cool. She’s funny. For starters. Her Twitter feed is just about the only reason I might...
View ArticleFifty shades of Outlander
So many people feel smug about the terrible trashiness of the Fifty Shade of Grey enterprise, but I'm having trouble seeing the difference between that and the new Starz Outlander. Both are the old...
View ArticleReplay: “No time to read”
I hear this a lot. Often when someone hears I am in the process of writing a novel, they say something like, “Wow. That’s great.” This is unfortunately followed by, “I haven’t read a novel in [insert...
View ArticleFrenemies: A Love Story?
Frenemies? Word has it that Gwyneth Paltrow, whose career was super-hot in the late ’90s and early 2000s, is after Claire Danes, whose career is super-hot now. Gwynnie apparently would like to do a...
View ArticleIsolated
Kristen Stewart took the words right out of my mouth. The Twilight star says in a recent interview she and most actors feel isolated by their fame. She tells the new issue of Loaded magazine that...
View ArticleMaleficent
Since the hacked emails have surfaced, so many people are talking about how brutal and "bitchy" Hollywood is. Wow, seriously, you didn't know this? Did none of you see Robert Altman's The Player?
View ArticleBalancing fame
It’s adorable, really. A cherubic 15-year-old Claire Danes rollerblading around Venice Beach promoting her brand new TV show, My So-Called Life. Entertainment Tonight dug the video out of their...
View ArticleRejection
Before Claire Danes was famous, she was famous. But in-between there was a long fallow period where nothing seemed to happen to her career.
View ArticleLife
Most films make the unspoken assumption that their characters are defined by and limited to their plots. But lives are not about stories. Stories are about lives. That is the difference between films...
View ArticleWhere are all the stars hiding?
Wisdom used to be that "the small screen" was more suited to "human dramas." But that doesn't hold anymore. TV screens today are---or can be---huge, and they are wide, the same ratio now as movie...
View ArticleRose McGowan gets some wardrobe advice
I'm not exactly sure what happened, but what no one is denying is that there's definitely a casting couch, it's for women, and when one of them, a Rose by any other name, didn't want to lie on it, she...
View ArticleWhere stars stash their gold
Quick: tell me what movie won Best Picture three years ago. No, don't look it up. Tell me. From memory. Bet you can't. Who won best actor in 2013? Again, off the top of your head. Bet you have no idea....
View ArticleMonetizing celebrity
All this time I'm wishing they were as busy acting up a storm onscreen as off. Really, do we need more natural beauty products, artisanal soaps and skin-cleansing candle scents? No. We need more great...
View ArticleLonely and hurt
"I feel like I need to meet a guy, with all due respect, who has been living in Baghdad for five years who has no idea who I am,” Lawrence said in the interview, adding, "“I am lonely every Saturday...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence, meet Welsey Shaw…
Lawrence says it's hard to let people to get close to you when you're famous---something Welsey knows. "People start to feel a lot less guilty when you become bigger or have more money," she says....
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