Sunday, September 30, 2012
Justin Bieber Vomits On Stage During First “Believe” Show (VIDEO)
Justin Bieber kicked off his "Believe" tour on Saturday night in Glendale, Arizona, and must have had his own case of Bieber Fever -- or something like that -- because he vomited on stage.
‘Homeland’ Premiere: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Watching Season 2 (GALLERY)
With multiple accolades — including an Emmy for Best Drama Series — under their belt, Homeland‘s sophomore season is undoubtedly one of fall’s most anticipated returning shows. This year, the Showtime series swept the 2012 Emmy Awards, nabbing acting awards for leads Claire Danes and Damian Lewis. What can fans expect from Sunday night’s second season premiere?...Read more»
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Jessica Alba, Ian Somerhalder Among Honorees at Environmental Media Awards
The 2012 Environmental Media Awards were held in Los Angeles on Sunday, honoring the year's best in TV and films raising awareness about environmental issues. Jessica Alba and Ian Somerhalder were recognized for their contributions to environmental issues, and stars like Julie Bowen, Paula Abdul and Emily VanCamp were also in attendance. Check out the arrivals in the photo gallery below!
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Zawe Ashton: 'You get such a film education as an usher'
The Fresh Meat star on working in a cinema in Hackney, growing up on British television and moving to LA next year
Zawe Ashton shows me the flip-down seat at the back of the Rio cinema in Hackney, east London, where she spent several years sitting in the dark. "The first film I ushered was Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar," says the 27-year-old actress, soon to appear in a new series of Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat. "I started at 18. Best job in the world. Blockbusters, indie films, classic matinees. I remember watching City of God three times a day for a fortnight. Anyone who's been an usher knows it's a training in resilience. But you get such a film education. And the popcorn's free."
She grew up a few roads away, the daughter of a mum from Uganda (her name, pronounced "Zow-ee", is Ugandan) and an English dad, both teachers before her father moved to work in TV. Ashton has acted since she was small, taking an early role as a road-crosser in a 90s episode of Desmond's (that week's storyline involved Porkpie becoming a lollipop man). She's been a writer since she was a teen, too, winning the UK Slam! poetry championship in 2000, going on to write prize-listed plays. "I've always known that I didn't want to be at the mercy of the phone ringing [for acting work]. If one day my face turns blue, I don't want suddenly to not be in the industry."
She's holding on. In Fresh Meat, a terrific, low-key comedy about student freshers that began last year, Ashton plays Vod, a slacker and habitual tenner-borrower who, in the new series, "finally gets a job". Last spring, she was in a Michael Frayn play, Here, at the Rose in Kingston and starred in Carol Morley's 2011 documentary Dreams of a Life. The film explored the life and death of Joyce Carol Vincent, whose decomposed body was found in her London flat in 2006, around three years after her death; Ashton played Vincent, silently and to some acclaim, in the documentary's re-enactment scenes.
Tall and pretty, a chuckler with a sly wit, Ashton worries she's never quite matched the job satisfaction she got from that young gig on Desmond's, her favourite TV show at the time. "I peaked. Oh! I peaked. Age eight." The future should still be interesting. She's just returned from Los Angeles, "doing a recce", inquiring into possible work. And? "I met a lot of people, got some smoke blown up my... blown where smoke is sometimes blown." She expects to move out there next year.
I'm about to say, hey, if all goes well one of her films might come to the cinema where things began for her. But that already happened when Dreams of a Life was put on. "And before that they showed one of my more classic film appearances." She refers to the little-loved St Trinian's 2, which was on at the Rio for a week in 2010.
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Christina Aguilera's 'Your Body' Video: Watch It Now!
In brand-new clip, Aguilera takes her bad-girl image to delightfully dangerous new heights.
By James Montgomery
Christina Aguilera in her video for "Your Body"
Photo: RCA
Based on early sneak peeks, we were pretty certain Christina Aguilera was going to revisit her previous in the brand-new "Your Body" video ... but, wow, we definitely weren't expecting this.
In the clip, Christina plays a candy-colored killer, one who delights in wooing well-physiqued men to their demise. She hitches a ride with one guy, seduces him, then sets his car ablaze (in electric-pink flames, nonetheless). Next, she hits a dive bar, shoots some stick, and lures her next victim into a bathroom stall, where she bludgeons him to death, leaving spatters of blue paint dripping from the walls. And finally, in one of the video's most striking scenes (literally), she uses a bat to bash a dude's brain in, showering the room in a mist of red confetti.
Of course, there's not actual violence shown; instead, director Melina Matsoukas — who's done equally eye-catching clips for the likes of Lady Gaga and Rihanna — fills "Your Body" with brightly-colored, almost surreal gore. In that regard, the video is reminiscent of Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," which, while plenty brutal, felt more like a cartoon ... you couldn't believe the carnage because it gushed forth in such hypnagogic hues (of course, "Your Body's" trailer-park trappings also bring to mind Beyoncé's "Party" clip).
There is also no shortage of junk-culture nods, like the old NES Advantage controller Aguilera jams on, the odd (and, one can assume, coffer-filling) cameos by psychic site Oranum.com, sugar-coated cereals, and trashy day-time television, to say nothing of Christina's wardrobe, loaded with leopard prints and Day-Glo accoutrements and very trailer chic.
Check out Christina Aguilera's "Your Body" gif wall over at MTV's Buzzworthy blog!
And while Aguilera has certainly worn all manner of eye-catching get-ups in the past, here her costumes aren't meant to be standalone shock pieces; they all play into the larger feel of the video itself, which, sure, is grisly and garish, but also incredibly clever and visually arresting. It tweaks societal standards, plays to our baser instincts, and burns brightly across the brain. Once again, Xtina proves she's really good at being bad, but she's never done it with tongue so firmly planted in cheek (I love the "No Men Were Harmed in the Making of this Video" warning at the beginning). Subtlety isn't her strong suit, and so long as she keeps churning out videos as good as this one, we're willing to accept that about her. Then again, judging by the amount of bodies she leaves in her wake, it's not like we'd be willing to tell her otherwise.
What do you think of Christina's "Your Body" video? Tell us in the comments!
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Lady Gaga's Body Revolution Sends 'Wonderful Message,' Experts Say
Days after Gaga shares her struggles with an eating disorder, experts commend the singer for opening up a dialogue.
By Jocelyn Vena
Lady Gaga debuts Body Revolution 2013
Photo: LittleMonsters.com
Lady Gaga opened up about her struggle with an eating disorder this week when she launched her Body Revolution 2013 campaign. Her deeply personal admission came just as she was facing criticism for an alleged weight gain.
In the days since announcing the campaign, Gaga's Little Monsters flooded the site with their own tales of personal struggle. And according to experts, it's that type of catharsis that can help lead to healing, along with the right professional help.
"In terms of the fact that her reach is so huge, it's just a critical thing to have someone who is willing to speak out about really unrealistic standards and that incredible pressure to be thin often at the expense of health," said Susie Roman, director of programs at the National Eating Disorders Association. "From our perspective, it's really a step in the right direction when a celebrity like Lady Gaga is willing to do something like launch her Body Revolution campaign and really make statements to advocate for overall health as she did in her 'thank you' letter rather than focus on the pressure to be thin, which is just such a wonderful message for so many people who struggle with these issues in terms of developing healthier self-esteem and well-being."
"The biggest and most important thing is it really gets people talking and gets people focused on it," noted Laura Discipio, executive director at the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. "Talking about eating disorders, talking about body image, talking about how women are viewed in the media, whether you like Lady Gaga's music or not, it still at least gets attention for it. I think it definitely can help. It's getting people the chance to stop and think. She's talking about 'you have to be brave.' But we shouldn't have to be brave about this; it shouldn't occur."
While Roman notes the positive in having a safe haven to open up, she said it should also be a place that is "providing support to one another to pursue recovery and get professional help. Stories of hope can be incredibly powerful for people suffering, because eating disorders can be a really isolating experience. And so being able to connect in a responsible and healthy environment is great.
"I think when you have such a huge fanbase, as a lot of these celebrities do, they have the opportunity to provide much-needed education about the seriousness of eating disorders and encourage those to get help," she continued. "Recovery is possible from an eating disorder, and there absolutely is help available."
As for the criticism that Gaga received for looking curvier, Roman thinks it's an incredibly positive step that the singer is opening up about it. "It's so unfortunate that that continues to happen, but it's really fantastic when people like Lady Gaga are in that really public position [and] are willing to say something about it and point out the harm that it does and talk about it from a perspective from how it influences everybody," she said. "To have someone like Lady Gaga willing to step up and advocate changing our overall media landscape is incredible.
"I have no idea how much she weighs, but it's just sad that someone's going to sit there and think, 'Wow, look what people are saying about her. She's this great famous celebrity; she's smaller than me. What do people think about me?' " Discipio said, noting that while they may not be the person being criticized directly, "it really does affect people who hear it at the same time."
At the end of the day, Discipio has this simple advice for anyone with an eating disorder: "Go to somebody that you trust and get some help."
For more on body-image issues, visit the MTV Act Blog.
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: Reuniting At Mexican ‘Twilight’ Event
The heartbroken lovers will make their first public appearance together after the affair in a video thanking fans -- we're so excited to the them again!
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have not been spotted together since her shocking affair, but it has been revealed that the dynamic duo WILL be seen again to promote Breaking Dawn -- and we have the first date! Rob, 26, and K-Stew, 22, will be joined by Taylor Lautner in a farewell video that will be presented to fans at a November 7 Mexican screening by 40 Estadio Azeca, the organization reveals on their Facebook page. We bet fans will be THRILLED to see the couple together again -- even if it is just a video! Kristen recently spoke to Total Film about feeling ready to leave the Twilight series behind."Everyone thinks it's hard to say goodbye, but its harder to say goodbye to crews and casts that I've only spent five weeks with. This was four years. I'm ready to say goodbye. I'm perfectly fine. Once the story has been told, you feel like you've done all you can do. It's pretty easy to walk away. It's not like its going anywhere.
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
2 Days in New York; Moonrise Kingdom; Snow White and the Huntsman
"Vincent Gallo ate my soul!" Following up on the success of 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy once again proves herself a sly, witty and eccentric talent both behind and in front of the camera with the Allen-esque quirks and existential angst of 2 Days in New York (2012, Network, 15). Ensconced in the Big Apple with her radio DJ partner Mingus (Chris Rock, never better), Delpy's avant-garde artist Marion is attempting to mount a photographic exhibition while entertaining her troublesome French family abroad. With her man-eating sister and wastrel ex-boyfriend in tow, our somewhat highly-strung heroine negotiates a tumultuous 48 hours of paternal bonding (her real-life father Albert playing close to home), sibling rivalry and Faustian artistic pacts.
Despite the narrative potential for overbearing cross-cultural wackiness, Delpy's direction keeps things wisely on the side of downplayed domesticity, meaning that even the most exotically contrived gags have their feet in recognisable reality. The midlife crisis observations are cute, the characters sharply drawn and the laughs more consistent than almost any comedy I've seen this year. The result plays like Nora Ephron with a surreal European twist – very warm, very funny and occasionally a bit weird. Lovely!
After the self-conscious smugness of Fantastic Mr Fox and the cod travelogue philosophy of The Darjeeling Limited, smart-cinema darling Wes Anderson partially redeems himself with his best film since The Royal Tenenbaums. While Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Universal, 12) may boast the kind of over-orchestrated clockwork visuals and hyper-stylised airs for which Anderson has become renowned, this nostalgic tale of two young misfit lovers on the run in a New England island-idyll has at its centre a tangibly beating heart that ultimately triumphs over ironic detachment.
Presented as a strange storybook escapade replete with resourceful Khaki Scouts, wicked social services witches (a true blue Tilda Swinton as Scary Mary Poppins) and biblical storm clouds gathering, Anderson's 60s-set caper juxtaposes the incongruous maturity of its young leads (Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, both excellent) with the emotional insecurities of a stellar grown-up cast including Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and a super-starchy trousered-and-toggled Ed Norton. It all adds up to an oddly enchanting fable pitched somewhere between Lord of the Flies and The Blue Lagoon (Anderson cites Ken Loach's Black Jack as an influence) and delivered with a deadpan face which all but hides its underlying tenderness.
With the glassy-eyed Mirror Mirror already little more than a memory, the fairytale revisionism continues apace with the troubled saga of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012, Universal, 12). On a visual level there's much to admire (or perhaps be distracted by) in this gothic romp, not least the spectacle of Charlize Theron's evil Ravenna emerging porcelain-like from the milky depths to chew the handsome scenery anew. The forest sets are eye-catching too, and the various physical confrontations fairly full-blooded. A shame, then, that beneath the surface there's no subtextual apple into which to sink one's teeth; The Company of Wolves this ain't.
Unfortunate also that the project was dogged by controversies, from the Little People of America organisation criticising the electronic diminution of "average height" stars to play the dwarves, to negative press about leading lady Kristen Stewart apparently scuppering sequels. In the light of which it's worth remembering what a horlicks Tarsem Singh made of Snow White in Mirror Mirror, and how much better (for all its many faults) director Rupert Sanders's effort remains.
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This week's new film events
Greater Manchester Film Festival
Not to be confused with the larger Manchester International Film Festival, this is the first small step in what hopes to become "the UK's premier independent film festival". There's some way to go on that, but there's still some enticing new and upcoming stuff here, like a taster of next year's Stone Roses-centric road comedy Spike Island. There are previews of new indies Girl Shaped Love Drug (a Manchester love story) and Day Of The Flowers (Eva Birthistle and dancer Carlos Acosta hit it off in Cuba). Plus film-makers present recent hits, such as Eran Creevy with last year's Shifty.
Odeon Printworks, Fri to 7 Oct
The Big Screen, London & Bristol
Possibly the most revered and comprehensively knowledgable film writer on the planet, David Thomson has always had the big picture in mind when it comes to the pictures, as evidenced by his authoritative Biographical Dictionary Of Film, or his earlier book The Whole Equation. This time he goes even bigger. The Big Screen (subtitled: The Story Of The Movies And What They Did To Us) is a typically eloquent and ambivalent study of art, life, how movies have taught us how to live and how they've stopped us having a life. He'll doubtless put it more eloquently than that at these special appearances. At the Watershed, Thomson also selects a few of his favourite films for this month's Sunday brunches, including Kiss Me Deadly and Blue Velvet.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Tue; Watershed, Bristol, Wed; Barbican, EC2, Thu; London Review Bookshop, WC1, Fri
Jameson Cult Film Club, Manchester
Taking a leaf out of the Secret Cinema playbook, these events provide enhanced settings for classic movies – except for free, thanks to the whiskey firm's sponsorship. This time it's James Cameron's original Terminator, and the appropriately raw, industrial spaces of Manchester's Victoria Warehouse lend themselves to transformation into the movie's 80s-tastic TechNoir nightclub. Expect smoke, neon lights, feather perms, multiple Sarah Connors, and – possibly – a giant, naked Teutonic robot bodybuilder. After the screening there's an appropriately 80s "techno rave" with "a famous Manchester DJ" (ideally not Bez).
Victoria Warehouse, Thu
Bicycle Film Festival, London
Cycling surely hasn't been this popular in Britain since pre-internal combustion engine days. We live in a post-Olympics/Tour de France world where Bradley Wiggins and Laura Trott are household names and the bike-centric thriller Premium Rush is in cinemas. So now you know your keirin from your peloton, discover a world of danger freaks, madcap inventors and cycle-centric artists. While New York Trinidadians create cycle-based soundsystems in Made In Queens, Toronto's Backwards Rider does just that, and Ghana's Bikelordz take BMX style to a new level. Alongside the mainstream sports, sample women's BMX, ice biking, and retro Italian road racing. The Dardennes' touching The Kid With A Bike caters to loftier tastes, or for the real-life Premium Rush, check out Line Of Sight, a headcam tour of traffic-dodging courier races around various cities.
Barbican Screen, EC2, Thu to 7 Oct
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Jake Gyllenhaal on Conan: Everyone Mispronounces My Name!
You've been mispronouncing Jake Gyllenhaal’s name. The half-Swedish End of Watch star appeared on "Conan" this week, and host Conan O'Brien took a crack at pronouncing the actor's unusual surname -- and nailed it.
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Inside Anne Hathaway’s ‘Rustic’ Million Dollar Wedding (EXCLUSIVE)
The wedding between Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman was a lavish affair with a white, pink and rustic theme — set against the romantic and sprawling backdrop of the Big Sur, Calif. coastline. 180 guests — 18 tables with ten people each — sat amongst more than $100,000 of flowers in a private marquee erected especially for...Read more»
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Is Kim Kardashian Pregnant?
"The Latest Pics Of Kim Kardashian CONFIRM IT... She's PREGNANT!!!" blares a headline from MediaTakeOut. The site writes, "With RATINGS of this season of Kim's reality show SLIPPING... you knew she was gonna do SOMETHING to get people watching again," adding, "And that SOMETHING... appears to be a BABY!!!" For real?
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L.A. Film Festival: A musical mystery in 'Searching for Sugar Man'
"Searching for Sugar Man" explores the story of a little-known Detroit-based singer-songwriter, Rodriguez, who was ‘bigger than the Rolling Stones’ in South Africa.
ROBERT PATTINSON Took KRISTEN STEWART Back Because “No One Else” Understands Him?
According to Hollywood celebrity gossip, ROBERT PATTINSON took his cheating girlfriend KRISTEN STEWART back because no one else understands him as well as she does.
But is that a good enough reason?
Even after getting his heart broken and being publicly embarrassed by his girlfriend’s philandering last July, 26-year-old Robert Pattinson agreed to move back in and work things out with 22-year-old Kristen Stewart.
So what encouraged him to finally give her a second chance?
A pal of the “Twilight” couple explained to Us Weekly:
“He started thinking nobody else would understand his life. His rational voice told him not to toss a three-year relationship for one infidelity.”
The friend added:
“Rob weighed his options. He wouldn’t even know where to start if he and Kristen were to break up for good. They have a very deep connection.”
Another source close to the couple commented:
“Plus, they’re young. All relationships at that age have drama.”
Even if Kristen managed to win Rob back, winning his protective family and friends over shall prove to be a more difficult task. Insiders reveal:
“They don’t want to see him get hurt again. But Rob has hope in their romance.”
As for their upcoming red carpet promotional tour for their last “Twilight” film, “Breaking Dawn-Part 2,” it looks like the couple is truly set to appear side-by-side but they are not in a rush to publicize their current dating status.
“They’re afraid of backlash, so they’re keeping things on the down-low. They’ll wait a few months, then announce they’re getting back together.”
You think this is the end of all the drama between Robsten?
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‘Revenge’ Season 2 Premiere: A New Murder Mystery, Plus 6 More Things to Expect (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
For its first season, ABC’s Revenge delivered on duplicity with Emily Thorne’s (Emily VanCamp) unflinching ability to walk into any room and be the person those already in there wanted her to be — all while plotting their demise in the background. The season unfolded with one hell of a murder mystery, an epic love triangle,...Read more»
Rupert Everett: the queen of mean
Rupert Everett's new memoir has landed him in hot water. Again. But he thinks we just need to lighten up
Poor old Rupert Everett thought he'd taken every care to say nothing in his first memoir that could upset his friend Madonna. Then the book came out, she threw a strop and stopped talking to him. His new memoir is less scandalously gossipy, so further fallings-out had looked unlikely – but before its release this week, he was already in hot water again. Everett can't understand it. "What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything."
But I'm not sure how much he really cares, and to my mind you'd have to be even more humourless than Madonna to hold anything against him. After reading Vanished Years, I didn't just want to buy the book but kidnap its author and gallivant about town with him for ever.
Not so much a kiss-and-tell as a love letter from Everett to a lost past, the book is nostalgic for a world in which big stars were big characters. He's a dreadful snob, really, but of the most adventurous kind, drawn to life's underbelly and in thrall to extremes, but bored to death by mediocrity. Now 53, still handsome but no longer the shocking beauty of his youth, Everett writes with a rare blend of wistful lament, comic observation and opinionated mischief – and in person turns out to be exactly the same.
Vanished Years opens with Everett's account of his ill-fated appearance on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, to which he'd agreed having never actually seen the show. Appalled to find himself on a testosterone-crazed team led by Piers Morgan, and overseen by a man he mistakes for Sid James but who turns out to be Sir Alan Sugar, Everett has a panic attack, bolts out of an emergency exit and legs it to the Ritz. Pursued by the production crew, he ends up cycling to King's Cross and escaping on a train to Norfolk. I'm not sure he's fully recovered yet.
"Seeing Morgan and Alastair [Campbell] and Ross Kemp was like a flashback to me of exactly why I peeled off from the mainstream in life so very early. Just feeling outside from groups of rugger-buggers at school; they just set off a kind of alarm bell in me. To me, Piers Morgan was a person who just reminded me, exactly, of all the people I was terrified of at school. I don't like how he is; I've seen him on a few other Apprentice-like things and he takes it too seriously. He's a killer. He's pathological.
"But, at the same time," Everett reflects, suddenly looking quite impressed, "I think how he's moulded himself into a new career – well, I love people managing to achieve things. I think it's quite clever. Also, he reminds me of Oscar Wilde, in a way. He could play Oscar Wilde if you put him in a long wig – he's so kind of slobby and elephantine. But I can't imagine him with poor Celia Walden [Morgan's wife]. She's gorgeous and very funny. I mean, she deserves to be fucked by a god."
Maybe she feels that's what she's getting? Everett considers this possibility doubtfully. "Maybe he is. I've always imagined him to be hung like a budgie underneath it all." He ponders the matter further. "Or maybe the penetrative act is not what turns her on. Anyway," he brightens, "it only makes it more riveting to me. I mean, the Celia factor does make it fascinating. I love his wife. So now that I love his wife, I'm rather confused about him. Because she's so chic-looking and he dresses like a school slob."
I tell him Morgan now has a personal trainer on each coast of the US, and that last time we met he made me touch his tricep so I could feel the results. Everett's face lights up and he leans in, enthralled. "Ree-aa-lly?"
It's this ambivalence about whether he's one of them or one of us that makes Everett such a divine chronicler of celebrity. "It's good to write things down, because I think everyone kind of colludes in misrepresenting show business quite often – from your side and our side. We both ask each other and answer each other the wrong questions, always. And the bullshit gets wiped back and forth. It's so boring. So we all collude in misrepresenting the nuts and bolts of a rather interesting world."
Or at least, a world that used to be rather interesting. "I'm very romantic about the past, really. So I think it's also a middle-aged book. I guess middle age is, well, probably every generation feels the world is ending, slightly, at that age – and it is. I guess every generation is kind of ending. But New York has really changed. I mean it really has changed, so it isn't just a middle-age whine – the old New York of the 70s really doesn't exist. Everywhere is the same place now; everything's been made into a Disney Street. If you look at books of Hollywood homes in the 70s, it's just amazing how humble they are; they're like little beach shanty houses with bric-a-brac furniture. Now, the smallest fucking brainless Hollywood producer lives in an Earth Wind & Fire Egyptian palace. It's just… It's become so tasteless, I suppose."
Everett is comically glum about the sanitisation of show business – the military schedules of early nights and abstinence enforced by po-faced publicists, and all the "hollow, vulnerable" parties that make him long for Studio 54's carnival of freaks. But then again, he's become uncharacteristically abstinent himself; a few years ago he noticed his libido had vanished, and he stopped taking drugs once the thought had occurred, "Oh God, I'd hate to have a stroke doing a line of coke." So it's not always clear if he's mourning a world that has passed, or the passing of his own gilded youth.
He was only 21 when his role in Another Country launched him into a turbulent career of heady triumphs and disasters. He'd more or less run away from his Catholic boarding school in his teens, to train at drama school in London, making ends meet by working on the side as a rent boy until general insubordination got him kicked out. Another Country propelled him to Hollywood, and the auspices of Orson Welles, but after success with Dance With A Stranger, his early promise began to unravel. Following some forgettable films and a bizarre stab at pop stardom, Everett ended up making TV in Russia, lolled around Europe, wrote a couple of novels, did some modelling and gradually inched his way back into Hollywood's gaze with comic turns in The Madness Of King George and Pret-A-Porter. In 1997, he starred alongside Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding and was suddenly red hot again, charming everyone with Shakespeare In Love and An Ideal Husband – until an over-hyped 1999 comedy co-starring Madonna, The Next Best Thing, bombed so badly that both their Hollywood careers were over for good.
Since then, Everett has rebuilt a reputation as an unpredictable but inspired elder statesman of the theatre, and in 2006 surprised everyone again with his recklessly indiscreet memoir, Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins. No one writes about failure more delightfully than Everett. The only downside to it all has been having to experience it.
"Oh, it's horrible," he says. "You've been lulled into being somebody very important in a business – and our business is all about status – so every idea you have when it's going well, everyone says, 'That is a great idea, Rupert, we've got to go and have a meeting about that.' You think it's because it's the most fantastic idea, but you have the same idea the next year and no one listens. So it's a character destruction. You have to die – it's dying. The disaster is holding on. You keep acting in the way that you were to those people to whom you are no longer who you were, and they go, "You're not that person any more.' And that's when you become really vile. That's what normally happens."
Everett has always blamed all his false starts and failures on Hollywood's prejudice against an openly gay leading man. Any suggestion that self-sabotage might have played a part, too, has made him terribly indignant in the past, but today, when I observe that at the very height of his My Best Friend's Wedding renaissance, he scandalised America by telling a tabloid about his days as a rent boy, he just lets out a guilty little laugh. "Did I? Oh."
By his own admission, he behaved appallingly towards the director of Dance With A Stranger when he was still far too young to have seriously expected to get away with it. And how could he have thought Madonna wouldn't mind being called a "whiny old barmaid" who played with her boyfriend's penis in public? For all the white heat of Everett's ambition, I'm not convinced he ever truly wanted the success he thought he craved.
"That's weird, because I'm playing Oscar Wilde at the moment [in The Judas Kiss], and people say about him that he sabotaged himself. And I don't know that you realise, yourself. I mean, obviously it's true, but whether it's just from being a silly fairy or from really, inside, wanting to sabotage things, I don't know." Which does he think it is in his case? "Both, probably."
He thinks Aids had a lot to do with some of his early diva-ish misbehaviour. "Having been such a slag and a slut in the 1970s, then Aids came along and I spent six years in sheer terror." A mosquito bite on set one day was enough to plunge him into meltdown, when he mistook the red mark for a lesion. "That was part of my landscape then, this terror that was always there. Nearly everyone I slept with was dying, you couldn't test until about 1986, and that was really the big period of my life. That's what all queens went through who'd been in those days beforehand, when everyone fucked everyone just as a matter of course, so I think that's what started everything off for me in a kind of weird, skewed way. Because terror makes you behave very strangely. People have forgotten about that. It was absolute terror. So living like that, if something niggled you, you could explode and be really difficult."
I ask if he's ever had therapy and he looks appalled. "No!" He has been to a hypnotherapist, though – "To get me to go to work with a more cheerful attitude" – and to his amazement it worked. He thinks he'll probably need to see her again, though. "Mmm. Old habits die hard."
These days, he's a brilliantly funny observer of celebrity tantrums – "screaming and throwing things and torturing assistants and complaining about the schedule of their next movie to various vassals in offices still open on the coast" – so I tell him I can't understand how he can write like that and still be capable of behaving like that. "Oh, because you behave like a diva when you get tired. For example, last week I was really nasty to the lady in the wardrobe of my new play about putting on my new wig – I was horrible to her. Well, I just was horrible, because I was incredibly nervous and this lovely lady who doesn't normally put on wigs was very nervous, and I was unsure. I loathed the wig, and result: sheer tsunami of divadom."
And in that moment it feels entirely justified? "Oh, absolutely, yeah. Female circumcision was about to happen." And afterwards, how does he feel? "Awful. Terrible." Yet never so bad that it won't happen again? He offers a carelessly elegant little mea culpa shrug. "But things happen, don't they?" He chuckles, then sighs. "Things happen."
His problem, he thinks, might be that he grew up in the 1970s with a misleading impression of what stardom would entail and demand. "That was when stars like Elizabeth Taylor said exactly what they thought, and my notion of being a star was that there was only one way it was valuable, and that's if you are yourself. Not these mirages – these ghost figures, untouchable, who don't allow themselves to be anything." I wonder if he thinks he might also have been just a bit too clever. "For acting? Oh, yeah. I'm much too intelligent. The best thing to be is bovine in acting – it looks best on screen. Yes, I think being bovine is definitely a plus. Because then, if you just go, 'Moo', everyone goes, 'Oh my God, that guy has got so much hidden depth' because they can put anything they want into the moo."
In many ways Everett must be the closest approximation we're ever likely to see of a 21st-century Oscar Wilde. He is capable of sincere appreciation of almost any activity, if skilfully executed; tabloid trickery is "genius", advertising is "genius", and when I point out that the Third Reich could also be described as genius, he looks pleasantly surprised. "That's the kind of thing I would say." But he's equally sincere about the charitable causes he's supported and gets worked up about everything from global poverty to the law that requires Jamaicans to get visas before they can visit Britain. "Just because, what, maybe some dealers are going to come over? We need dealers, to be quite honest. It's the English who want the drugs. It's so unfair." He adores the traditional high Tory old-fashioned values of stoicism and honour, while extolling a languid sort of affectless libertarianism – "People can do whatever they like, as far as I'm concerned" – and finds everything either wildly funny or deeply serious, sometimes simultaneously. Around his neck hangs a gigantic, diamond-encrusted crucifix, but his last words before we part are a baroque rant against churches.
"Why do queens want to go and get married in churches? Obviously this crusty old pathetic, Anglican church – the most joke-ish church of all jokey churches – of course they don't want to have queens getting married. It's kind of understandable that they don't; they're crusty old calcified freaks. But why do we want to get married in churches? I don't understand that, myself, personally. I loathe heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the fucking wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It's grotesque. It's just hideous. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster."
So I wasn't entirely surprised when, just a few days later, he landed himself in trouble. It was a throwaway remark to a Sunday supplement – "I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads" – and within hours the world's media was buzzing with letters from angry gay dads calling Everett a dinosaur. Like every other ding-dong to have ever come his way, it seems to have taken him by surprise, because he calls and invites me to lunch to explain what he meant.
"For me, being gay was about wanting to do the opposite of the straight world, so I think that's where my problems in this particular area come from. For me, personally, the last thing I would like in the entire world would be to go through cocktailing my sperm with my boyfriend and finding some grim couple in Ohio who are gluten-free and who you pay $75,000 to have your baby. To me it feels absolutely hideous. But that's me, just me. I'm not having a go at gay couples who do. I think if Elton and David want to have babies, that's wonderful. I think we should all do what we want.
"Isn't there a middle way, where you can just say, 'Not for me, but it doesn't matter'? But no, everything's sort of turned into al-Qaida. I'm sure I'm going to be nail-bombed. David Furnish is probably going to send Patrick Cox with a bomb and blow up the theatre." Beneath the expression of pained innocence, he looks rather thrilled.
• Vanished Years, by Rupert Everett, is published by Little, Brown at £20. To order a copy for £16, including UK mainland p&p, go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop, or call 0330 333 6846.
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The Black Keys Rock New York's Global Citizen Festival
The Keys joined a lineup that included the Foo Fighters and Neil Young to help end Global Poverty.
By James Montgomery
The Black Keys perform at the 2012 Global Citizen Festival
Photo: Getty Images
NEW YORK — Given, well, everything about the Black Keys, they're probably not the first band that comes to mind when you think of "global ambassadors."
And yet, after a decade of grinding it out, and a string of hits that stretches back three albums — at least — they've become one of the most popular rock acts on the planet (even though they'd probably never admit it), which is why they seemed such a natural fit for Saturday (September 29) night's Global Citizen Festival, the culmination of the Global Poverty Project's campaign to end extreme poverty around the world.
Of course, in keeping with their blue-collar roots, they didn't use their time on stage to discuss politics. instead, they simply rolled up their sleeves (or, in frontman Dan Auerbach's case, tossed off his leather jacket) and tore through a set of searing, hard-riffing rock, one that had the 60,000 who packed Central Park's Great Lawn losing their collective minds.
Kicking things off with "Howlin' For You," the Keys ran roughshod through their back catalog, making stops at slow-burners like "Next Girl" and "Nova Baby," going full-throttle through chortling chuggers like "Just The Same Old Thing" and "Gold on the Ceiling," and letting things boil over on fuzzed-out hits like "Little Black Submarines" and "Lonely Boy."
Auerbach spent the set pulling elastic solos out of his menagerie of axes, and drummer Patrick Carney — who, organizers pointed out to MTV News, had just come back from his honeymoon — based with reckless abandon. Aided by their backing band, they blasted through muscly songs like "Moneymaker" and "Tighten Up," and, by the time their hour was up, had the throngs wanting more.
With a lineup that boasted sets from the Foo Fighters and Neil Young with Crazy Horse, they were sure to get even more. But for 60 minutes, the Black Keys held the thousands in their hands, rocked hard, and didn't let up for a single instance. Charity concerts should always be this awesome. And this unassuming.
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Leelee Sobieski Stuns in Red Coat Dress at Paris Fashion Week: Love the Look (POLL & PHOTOS)
Leelee Sobieski turned fashion heads on Friday when she arrived in Paris for the Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2013 show at Paris Fashion Week. The 29-year-old actress looked absolutely stunning in a red coat dress, accented with a silver belt and timber wolf pumps. Sobieski finished off her polished look with a simple ponytail, as fans...Read more»
This Week in Celebrity Twitpics (PHOTOS)
From riding a unicorn to wearing their best ’90s outfit, celebrities are never to0 shy about sharing their weekly activities with fans via Twitter. This week in celebrity Twitpics, Kylie Jenner gets ready for the fall season with a cute and hat and coffee in hand and Snooki shows off her long lashes. What famous...Read more»
Source: http://www.celebuzz.com/2012-09-29/this-week-in-celebrity-twitpics-photos-7/
Jared Followill & Martha Patterson Are Getting Married Today
The Kings Of Leon star announced the news in a funny tweet — congratulations to the happy couple!
Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2012/09/29/martha-patterson-jared-followill-wedding/
Say Halo to the future of gaming
A web-only film based on the Halo series (previewed below) is the start of something special
Given that both are such strong visual mediums, video games and films have endured a surprisingly fractious relationship. Yet it is one that neither seems willing to walk away from – the symbiotic allure at its heart is just too strong. The games industry brings ready-made scenarios, characters and a fanbase to movie producers, while exposure on the big screen feeds back into game sales.
Tempting, yes, but the relationship has been repeatedly tarnished, House of the Dead and Wing Commander being prime examples. Now, however, the very model of how film is made and distributed is being examined anew. In Microsoft's first foray into the market, it has chosen to debut its films based on the Halo games not at the cinema but in the form of a free-to-view online series that begins on Friday.
A Halo film was in the offing several years ago but the project was dropped, largely over disagreements about finances and the level of artistic control Microsoft wanted to retain over its franchise. Instead of revising its demands on Hollywood, the company has chosen to make Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, a series of five 15-minute live-action episodes that will air once a week on YouTube, the video game website Machinima and Microsoft's own Xbox Live platform. The story is presented as a prequel to the three existing Halo games and also a lead-in to the fourth: alongside the Master Chief, it will feature characters playing as recruits who will appear in the Halo 4 game, to be released in November, when 15 minutes more footage will be added and the whole will become a single feature, effectively the first Halo feature film.
Microsoft is not alone in taking this route. Warner Brothers recently aired a web-only series based on Mortal Kombat, as did Ubisoft with Assassin's Creed, the latter currently being redeveloped as a film without a Hollywood studio. It is not only games, either. A new series of Arrested Development is under way for online distributor Netflix, as is a remake by David Fincher of the British series House of Cards.
There remains a nagging doubt, however. Last year, the cyberpunk author William Gibson, revisiting his 1999 essay on digital technology and film, noted the "problem that a lack of broad theatrical release is still taken to mean that your film didn't really happen". Perhaps, with Microsoft premiering a high-end franchise such as Halo in the online market, that perception is beginning to change.
In almost every way, outside distribution, Forward Unto Dawn is a full-scale production. At the shoot on location in Vancouver last May, it was clear that the crew were industry professionals and that their attention to detail, with hardcore fans in mind, was high. There may be no cinema release but in every other sense this new media approach is happening.
Director Stewart Hendler, who recently completed the ambitious H+, another online series produced by The Usual Suspects' director Bryan Singer, has witnessed this first hand.
"I did my first web series two years ago and it was slightly unclear where the art form was heading," he says. "Now they're putting in real resources – these things are being made at the level of TV pilots and feature films."
Chris Symes, the supervising producer on Forward Unto Dawn, who has been making films since 1994, echoes this view. "There is," he says, "a real sense that this is the future, not a one-off. This will be copied as a business, film-making and distribution model."
It is also, of course, a marketing tool for the new game. But that is not to demean it. The attitude of British actor Anna Popplewell, who played Susan in the Narnia series and here takes the role of one of the recruits, was echoed by many others on set. "I don't mind how it is distributed, if it's a good product. For me, it's not so important how people watch this, it's more important that it's good."
Preview: Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
Setting Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is a prequel to the first Halo game, set at the beginning of an interstellar war between humanity and an alien alliance known as the Covenant.
Premise A section of cadets at the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) military academy are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the ongoing war with insurrectionists in the outer colonial planets. Cadet Thomas Laskycorrect struggles with his doubts about the war and his potential role as a leader until the arrival of the Covenant forces him to take action, taking inspiration from Halo hero the Master Chief.
How to watch Each episode will air once a week from Friday, available directly through YouTube.com, at youtube.com/MachinimaPrimeWaypoint, and athalo.xbox.com/ForwardUntoDawn. The special-edition full-length version will be launched when Halo 4, the game, is released on 6 November.
To view an exclusive preview of the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn series on our website, click here
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/30/halo-4-feature-film-online-web-game
New Pictures: Kristen Stewart Smiles in Paris — Is it Because of Robert Pattinson?
Kristen Stewart cracks a smile as she arrives at the Balenciaga spring-summer 2012 collection during Paris Fashion Week. (Source: PacificCoastNews.com) more pics » 
Kristen Stewart is all smiles in Paris (PacificCoastNews.com)
Now, there's no official word on the status of Robsten's relationship, but "sources" have said they're even living together again. All this comes just a couple of months after Stewart's cheating scandal was revealed.
Now, if they are back together, expect to see them cozying up together on the red carpet at the premiere of Breaking Dawn Part 2 in a couple of months. If they are broken up, it's possible that the whole cast will not be at the screenings. Or Pattinson and Stewart will just go awkwardly out of their way to avoid each other.
Our guess is that they have actually worked out their problems and are prepared to present a united front. It's best for the box office, after all.
What's your take? Do you think Stewart is back in her man's arms? Sound off in the comments.
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: New Proof They’re Living Together?
A moving van was spotted at Rob and Kristen's home, amid reports of the couple's reconciliation! Are they moving back in together?
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart haven't been living together in the Los Feliz home the two once shared since she cheated on him with Rupert Sanders. Amid reports of their reconciliation, E! News reports that a moving van was photographed outside the home on Thursday, Sept. 28! As you'll remember, a moving van was seen outside the house once before, back in late July. And there are reports that Rob, 26, has put the house up for sale. So, we have to wonder: Are he and Kristen moving back in to their former love nest, or are more belongings simply being moved out of the house? Since the affair, Kristen, 22, has been staying at her mother's Malibu beach house, while Rob has been staying with friends. What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Are Rob and Kristen moving back in together?-- Billy Nilles
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WATCH: Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy in Identity Thief Trailer
Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy is returning to the big screen in Identity Thief.
Source: http://www.gossipcop.com/identity-thief-trailer-preview-melissa-mccarthy-jason-bateman/
Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth's Loved-Up Juice Run
Embarking on a leisurely lovers' stroll, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth were side-by-side in Santa Monica on Saturday afternoon (September 29).
Still rocking her bleach blonde pixie hairdo, the former "Hannah Montana" star warmly held hands with her "Thor" actor fiance as they joined a few friends on a drink run while popping into a local juice bar.
Sounding as if she enjoyed quite the perfect day, Miley kicked off the morning by tweeting, "Waking up to sooooo many kisses. Loving my life ❤
Source: http://gossipcenter.com/miley-cyrus/miley-cyrus-liam-hemsworths-loved-juice-run-735428
Beyoncé Bounces For Jay-Z's Barclays Performance Front & Center!
Gotta love the love!!
Jay-Z performed at the grand opening of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night. And he had his beautiful Beyonce beam of support "front and center" for him!
Partying post-pregnancy rumors, sources say Bey was the life of the party.
The eyewitnesses reveal:
"Front and center, she went crazy singing [...]
Jay-Z performed at the grand opening of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night. And he had his beautiful Beyonce beam of support "front and center" for him!
Partying post-pregnancy rumors, sources say Bey was the life of the party.
The eyewitnesses reveal:
"Front and center, she went crazy singing [...]
Source: http://perezhilton.com/2012-09-29-beyonce-jay-z-barclays-brooklyn-performance
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