barnesgonzo: April 2013

Chris Brown: Why He Released Rihanna Diss Song

What caused Chris to suddenly lash out at Rihanna through music?

Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/04/30/chris-brown-i-cant-win-about-rihanna-diss-song/

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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart At Marcus Foster Concert — New Pic

Rob and Kristen are certainly making the most of their time together — they took in a Marcus Foster concert on April 17 after a long weekend at Coachella. One fan said there were glimpses of ‘love and tenderness.’ How sweet! Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were both spotted by fans during a romantic night [...]

Source: http://www.zimbio.com/Robert+Pattinson/articles/4tOADZAe0ea/Robert+Pattinson+Kristen+Stewart+Marcus+Foster

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Sofia Vergara in Cosmopolitan: Loving Nick Loeb & Working, Not Saggy Boobs

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/sofia-vergara-in-cosmopolitan-loving-nick-loeb-and-working-not-s/

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Which Late-’90s Boy Band Did You Worship?

Ah, the late-’90s-slash-early-’00s. Bubblegum pop reigned supreme. These were the years of Britney, Christina, The Spice Girls — and, to a lesser extent, Jessica Simpson, Ricky Martin, and Mandy Moore. And then there were the larger-than-life boy bands: The Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync, and, sure, we’ll throw 98 Degrees in there for good measure. Now...Read more»

Source: http://www.celebuzz.com/2013-30-04/nsync-bsb-98-degrees-showdown-poll

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Ben Affleck's Good-Natured Coffee Stop

Joking with the pesky shutterbugs, Ben Affleck stopped by a coffee shop in Santa Monica, California on Tuesday (April 30).

The "Argo" star looked rugged in a red vest, plaid shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers, as he gestured at the paparazzi on his way inside.

Recently, the Academy Award-winning director was asked to close out the 38th season of "Saturday Night Live."

Airing on May 18th, the 40-year-old actor will team up with musical guest Kanye West for his fifth appearance, earning him a coveted spot in the "Five-Timer's Club."

Source: http://gossipcenter.com/ben-affleck/ben-afflecks-good-natured-coffee-stop-847850

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Robert Pattinson Reuniting With ‘Cosmopolis’ Director For ‘Maps To The Stars’

David Cronenberg recruits ‘Cosmopolis’ stars Pattinson and Sarah Gadon for the indie ghost story.
By Jocelyn Vena

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Photo: WireImage

Source:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706012/robert-pattinson-map-to-the-stars.jhtml

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Source: http://www.zimbio.com/Robert+Pattinson/articles/bkF4tfaOPy9/Robert+Pattinson+Reuniting+Cosmopolis+Director

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Jessica Sanchez Brings Her Bangin’ Bod & Boomin’ Voice To Extra!

We knew Jessica Sanchez had it going on, but we didn’t realize she had it ALL going on!
Seeing the gorgeous former American Idol contestant out and about at The Grove has us wondering how it's possible that she didn’t win the show!
The petite darling with the larger than life voice was at The Grove filming [...]

Source: http://perezhilton.com/2013-04-30-jessica-sanchez-filming-extra-at-the-grove-promoting-album

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L.A. Film Festival: Kazan, Dano mix business with pleasure in 'Ruby Sparks'

Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan answered questions about their new independent film "Ruby Sparks" after a surprise screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The movie is the latest from the directing team behind "Little Miss Sunshine."

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/06/ruby-sparks-zoe-kazan-paul-dano-la-film-festival.html

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Reese Witherspoon Is Back in Atlanta

Reese Witherspoon on Monday returned to Atlanta, the city where she was arrested April 19 for disorderly conduct, to continue shooting scenes for her upcoming movie The Good Lie. The 37-year-old Oscar winner looked ready to put that whole mess behind her as filming got underway at Atlanta International Airport. In other words: Yeah, this...Read more»

Source: http://www.celebuzz.com/2013-04-30/reese-witherspoon-is-back-in-atlanta/

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Gatsby may be great, but F Scott Fitzgerald is greater

Baz Luhrmann's film of The Great Gatsby looks set to entertain, but it's Fitzgerald's life story that has to be seen to be believed

You can't open a newspaper these days without finding someone writing about F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I'm not complaining. Gatsby is the novel – almost a prose poem – I reread every year, and I never tire of its backstory. Although everything I've seen about Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming film fills me with anxiety, I'll be among the first to go and see it. Cinema and Fitzgerald could make an ideal marriage. Why shouldn't a movie director re-imagine 1920s West Egg and give us his reinterpretation of what Fitzgerald christened "The Jazz Age"? It can't, or won't, be the novel, but it might capture something of the madness in which Fitzgerald found himself.

The writer was great that way. A party animal with a line in champagne zingers; endlessly quotable; completely at one with the zeitgeist; a literary artist whose obiter dicta became the soundtrack of his times. For instance: "There are no second acts in American lives." And: "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." And perhaps most famous of all, the last line of The Great Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

We're going to read a lot of Fitzgerald quotations these next few weeks. Fitzgerald's admirers will be delighted that he is getting some long overdue recognition, but sad, too, perhaps. When he died in Hollywood in 1940, Fitzgerald was almost completely forgotten. His funeral was attended by just 30 people, including his editor Maxwell Perkins. Sales of his books had virtually dried up. His publishers, Scribners, still had unsold stock from the first printing of Gatsby. He had lived the American dream, and it had turned into a waking nightmare.

But perhaps Fitzgerald's life and work is compelling precisely because it answers, in an archetypal way, what we, the reading public, expect the career of a genius to look like. Consider the bare bones of his story. Comfortable beginnings in St Paul, Minnesota, the heart of the midwest. His mother reports, appropriately, that the boy's first word was "up". First stirrings of the writer's ambition. He moves into the fast track of his society, pursuing literary goals, and goes to Princeton University. Drops out; falls in love and is rejected; writes a novel that's turned down; goes to the battlefields of France; returns to the USA with no prospects. Then ... 1919-1920: his annus mirabilis. Revises his unpublished work. This Side of Paradise is accepted by Scribner, and is published to huge acclaim. Now his sweetheart, Zelda Sayre, agrees to marriage.

Scott and Zelda lead rock star lives in the Manhattan of the 1920s. Burning with ambition for his art, Fitzgerald completes a book whose many rejected titles include Trimalchio in West Egg, the novel the world knows as The Great Gatsby. There's an added myth about its publication: Gatsby did not flop, as is often claimed; it just didn't do as well as had been hoped. TS Eliot, for one, wrote: "It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James." It was only in comparison with Fitzgerald's astounding debut that it seemed to fail.

Thereafter, Fitzgerald went into a long tunnel of decline, a decade he later described in a controversial sequence of Esquire articles as "The Crack-Up", a rare text recently republished by Capuchin Classics. In search of that elusive "second act", he moved to Hollywood, published Tender Is the Night, a novel that baffled the critics, and began his final unfinished masterpiece, The Last Tycoon. Then dies, aged 44; is forgotten, but lives on through Gatsby. It's a literary life for the ages.

In outline, the F Scott Fitzgerald story is the movie you might want to see. Baz Luhrmann's version will be entertaining. It won't be Gatsby, the novel. But never mind. Many new readers will be inspired to discover the miracle of Fitzgerald's prose, and the strange subtlety of his vision. In 1925, Gatsby was ahead of its time, and almost too prescient. Now, it seems perfectly in harmony with the deepest and darkest chords in American life. That's why, for some, including this writer, it remains the greatest American novel of the 20th century.

Robert McCrum

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/29/gatsby-great-scott-fitzgerald-greater

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