Now that the news has been affirmed that Reese & Ryan are over, now we are left asking ourselves why.  And don’t you know the rumor mill is already a-churning out some juicy ones.  The word on the street is that Ryan Phillippe cheated on wife Reese Witherspoon with several blondes while on location for Flags of Our Fathers.

I have more hope for Ryan than this, but that’s where the evidence is pointing as of right now.  Oh, Ryan, you little cheeky bastard. 

What do you think, did Ryan diss the Reese for some dumb blondes along the road?

 

There was a special screening of the new Clint Eastwood film Flags of Our Fathers Monday and it looks like we got a cute peek at Reese Witherspoon & husband Ryan Phillippe.

The New York City screening was presented by The Cinema Society and Zenith Watches, an interesting pair.  The event took place at the illustrious Tribeca Grand Hotel and saw many stars- from designer Donna Karan to Sara Jessica Parker.

Reese & Ryan always look an adorable couple, I love them together. 

Marilyn Manson & Paul Reubens:  Why does this pairing make so much sense to me?  Pee Wee Herman meets death, goth rocker Manson- just seems to fit.

Paul Reubens takes charge with his own camera to grab a moment with Marilyn Manson at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood Monday night.

The two were attending Tim Burton’s world premiere of The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D.  And that, too, makes sense for this odd but understandable pairing. 

Clint Eastwood & Steven Spielberg celebrated the premiere of Flags of Our Fathers in Los Angeles Monday.  It looks like Eastwood might have been able to pull off another good movie.

Everyone was attendance including Clint’s wife Dina and children Kyle & Alison Eastwood.  What’s funny about our man Clint is that he’s only been married twice, but has seven children from five different women.  Clint really got around didn’t he?  And then there was that airline hostess….

Hard Rock Cafe heir & Taco Pink owner Harry Morton just wants to take things slow with Lindsay Lohan.  After reports of their alleged engagement, the poor boy is feeling the media pressure hard. 

Harry speaks out, ”We’re just sort of taking a little breather right now and slowing things down.”

He adds, “A lot of people started saying we’re engaged and it put a lot of pressure on things. We need a little space… I’m a very private person. I’m sure she (Lohan) has dealt with it (publicity) for years but it puts a lot of pressure on me.”

Too true, too true.  But just go ahead & admit it, Harry.  You were in over your head & Lindsay scares you a bit, she does us too.

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Get under the covers & hide, Jackass Number Two hits theatres today.  Here are some pictures of Steve-O & Johnny Knoxville acting the jackass, surprise!  The two are celebrating the world premier of Jackass at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in L.A.

And yes, to answer your question.  Steve-O did piss all over the red carpet again this year.  Pictures here.

May you look at these pictures and feel better about your own life & personality.

Zooey Deschanel has beat out the likes of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan & Scarlett Johansson for the coveted role of Janis Joplin.  The upcoming biopic of the singer has been on the table for a while with just about everybody vying for the part.

Punk singer Pink was originally slotted to play the late Joplin, but pulled out of the film when the film’s producers turned the casting process into “some circus pop contest–who’s the ‘it’ girl who wants to play Janis.”

But the Almost Famous beauty, 24-year-old Zooey Deschanel, has signed up for the task in the movie upcoming film, The Gospel According to Janis, which starts filming in Philadelphia in November.

You know, I have to say I’m thinking that a Hollywood beauty is probably not the right casting for the role of Janis Joplin.  Kinda chunky, not so cute & died of a heroin & alcohol overdose in a Hollywood hotel room doesn’t sound so much like a Scarlett role.   Though Britney on the other hand, well that might be a different story…

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New York City’s Delacorte Theater has never seen the like.  Just minutes into Bertolt Brecht’s plat Mother Courage and Her Children, theatergoers had had enough.

Earlier this week fans got a sneak preview of the play starring Meryl Streep & Kevin Kline & they didn’t like what they peeked.  Despite many patrons waiting in line for hours to see the show, some became so bored during the long production they simply walked out.  Ouch, that’s gotta sting a bit. 

The New York Post reports that around 100 members of the 1,892-strong audience left early, with one member saying, “Meryl is brilliant, but the play itself is boring, tortuous–it needs judicious cutting.

“A number of people left after 20 minutes. Many didn’t return after intermission and then, three hours in, during a long song by Kevin Kline, they were pouring out.”

Arlee Kriv, the show’s publicist, was indignant of any cuts, saying, “The show is what it is–a long show.”

Kline took over the role of The Cook from Christopher Walken, who dropped out last month because he was able to recognize a sinking ship when he saw one.

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Just a quick Harry Potter update for all those fan out there, me included.  It looks like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set for a Thanksgiving, 2008 release.  Don’t worry, we can get through this long wait together.

Now all we need to find out is the director & cast for the sixth installment of the lucrative franchise.  And that info might be a while too, since Warner Bros. doesn’t even know.  Meanwhile I guess we’ll just have to wait for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix coming out July 2007. 

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Samuel L. Jackson is tickled pink that the anticipated summer action film Snakes on a Plane was called back for re-shoots so that movie execs could add more profanity & sex to the film.

Jackson felt that the mid-air thriller should be grittier & is delighted they added a mile-high-club sex scene.

Jackson states, ”There’s always the obligatory nude scene somewhere, where the guy’s creeping up on the people making love.

“In this instance we have the snake creeping up on two people joining the mile-high club.”

He adds, “This is the kind of film that I would have gone to the movies on Saturday, to the first screening, to see as a kid and I’d stay all day, watching it three or four times and me and my friends would have been freaked out.”

Until the third time you watch it & you think, “Gee.  This is just a simple-plotted movie about snakes on a plane trying to kill people.”

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It’s a bird.  It’s a plane.  No, it’s the box office soaring faster than a speeding bullet this weekend with Superman Returns as its prime breadwinner.  The much awaited movie hits screens with 4,065 engagements this weekend.

The Warner Bros. Pictures film sped into 3,915 venues in North America Wednesday & cashed in more than $21 million in gross ticket sales.  The Wednesday premier was number 11 on the biggest Wednesday opening, of all time, just behind The Fellowship of the Ring which took in $18.2 million, with Spider-Man 2 taking the cake in 2004 with $40.4 million.

Superman Returns marks the first time in 19 years that the blue leotard-ed man has graced the silver screen.  With newcomer Brandon Routh donning the red cape, blowing-away-in-the-wind Kate Bosworth as newsie Lois Lane & Kevin Spacey as villain Lex Luthor, this new take on an old take will be an interesting couple of hours. 

See you bright & early Monday with more rumors & tales.  Happy weekend!

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Nacho Libre star & new father Jack Black has challenged actor & all-around tough guy Steven Seagal to a fight.  Black is aiming to establish credibility in the ring, and assumingly gain attention for his new film about a Mexican wrestler. 

Jack states, “I just felt like it might be good to prove my mettle if I could take down a real fighter.

“I could go and wrestle Screech or something and that wouldn’t get me any points, so I wanted to take down someone real.

“Steven Seagal he is a real trained fighter, but he has gained a lot of weight lately.

“Nacho versus Steven Seagal–that would be a really good publicity stunt!”

Yes it would, Jack.  Yes it would.

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In a move to promote his new movie The Break-Up as well as to prove to us that he’s worthy of Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn filled in for TV host Regis Philbin this morning on Live with Regis & Kathy.

The Swingers star co-hosted the show alongside Kelly Ripa interviewing guests, engaging in idle chit-chat & of course, giving away prizes. 

It looked like Ripa was going to jump Vaughn’s bones as she said, “I can’t believe I’m sitting here next to a bona fide movie star. Now I can play footsie with you under the desk and no one can see!

“I thought for sure one of the producers must have had nude photos of you somewhere. I was like, ‘Wow! How did we get him?’”

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Well, the press have been released from their cages & the word on the street is The Da Vinci Code, the Ron Howard-produced film, sucks.  You know what I’m thinking is the reason?  Tom Hanks’ laughable hairdo, what the hell is he thinking with that recessed mop?

Howard screened his Da Vinci Code for the press at the Cannes film festival Tuesday night.  Critics apparently laughed their way through the full-length feature film, it’s the hair- I promise & received no applause, unless you count the crickets chirping.  Poor Opie.  Check out the review below: 

The Da Vinci Code drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world’s toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival. {Yahoo! News}
 
Even at two and a half hours, director Ron Howard’s adaptation feels cursory and rushed….[Tom Hanks] seems to have borrowed Rick Springfield’s haircut, circa “Jessie’s Girl,� and that’s his most distinctive personality trait. As sturdy and versatile an actor as Hanks can be, he can’t work miracles when he’s got nothing to work with. {NYP}
 
Opening the annual Cannes film festival, Ron Howard’s adaptation of the Dan Brown bestseller was described variously as “grim,� “unwieldy� and “plodding.� {Yahoo! News}
 
Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have conspired to drain any sense of fun out of the melodrama, leaving expectant audiences with an oppressively talky film that isn’t exactly dull, but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material… {Variety}
 
“The feeling moved quickly from one of great anticipation to one of, shockingly, great boredom…instead of the film building to a white knuckle conclusion, it was the audience fidgeting as Da Vinci passed the two-hour mark and unveiled the first of its half-dozen endings…by the time the big climactic moment of the film finally arrived, the audience burst out laughing, as if this were yet another classic bit of Tom Hanks comedy. As the credits rolled, not a single bit of applause was heard.� {Film Stew}
 
Da Vinci’s over-reliance on exposition drew jeers on several occasions toward the end of the screening and even prompted a few walkouts as it faithfully went through the motions of translating Brown’s elaborate puzzler of a book to the big screen. {E!}

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X-Men hottie Halle Berry has hinted at a fourth installment of the popular X-Men movies.  There may be more to come after the third film hits screens this summer, because fans are jonesing for more.

X-Men: The Last Stand was supposed to be, as indicated by the ‘Last Stand’ part, the final film of the sci-fi series but Berry is teasing us with more if fans will support a fourth or even tenth film.

Former Bond girl Berry is so taken with her role as ‘Storm’ that she would drop all future film plans to concentrate her efforts on any sequels to the sequel to the sequel to the sequel. 

Halle states, “There’s no real significant talk about it but I think if this one did well it would warrant a four. I’m sure the studio would be thinking that the franchise isn’t dead and people love X-Men and want to see another one and I think they would (do another one).

“I would (do it) as long as I could. I’ve got some projects now that should keep me busy for the next two or three years if I’m lucky. It’s a franchise that I love and a character that I love and now that I have a voice in the movie I really love it. If another great X-Men (film) came along I could probably change my plans.”

I’m looking forward to X-Men 27:  The Last Stand, We Promise.

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Well folks, when RottenTomatoes gives a film the ‘ROTTEN’ rating, you have to believe it’s true- but that did not stop me from seeing Michael Caton-Jones’s Basic Instinct 2 in the theatre this weekend, though it should have.

The sequel to the long-loved 1992 Basic Instinct that starred Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, failed to live up to the original film’s clarity and left the audience soft and wanting more.  Pulp author Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is once again a suspect in a murder, this time in London.  David Morrissey, who plays the leading man Dr. Michael Glass, is called in to interrogate the femme fatale Stone. 

Through scenes of driving off a bridge just to achieve orgasm, horribly over-the-top dialogue, gratuitous nudity and Stone’s disdain for underwear, the film entices yet does not deliver.  Rent a porn, you’ll have a better, if not a more private, time. 

To quote Matt Pais from the ‘Chicago Tribune’, “Stone’s physique has resisted sagging but the film droops immediately.”

Despite the film’s disappointment, Stone remains an interesting individual in my eye.  In a recent ABC story, Stone is drawn as a sexy, vibrant and brave woman.  At 48 years old, Sharon Stone emits a strong sexuality that few women half her age achieve. 

When asked by reporters she, at the age of 48, would want to appear in Basic Instinct 2 completely naked she stated, “I thought it would be intriguing to do the nudity in a way that is just quite brazen.  People are going to have this moment where they think, ‘Oh, she’s not 20 and naked.  She’s 40-something and naked and what do I think about that?’  Because we’re not used to seeing that in movies.”

The first Basic Instinct was filmed over 14 years ago and was a racy film to hit theaters, but Stone wanted to push the envelope a little bit more this go-round.  “I wanted a lot of sex in the sequel, and I wanted more nudity.  I was coming from a really kinky place.”  Can I come visit this place with you, Sharon?

So, I’ll keep Stone and you can drive the Basic Instinct 2 flop of a film off a cliff and see if it can then cause a rise in our pants.

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I checked out Defamer’s Sharon Stone post today which made me crack a few laughs.  In honor of Basic Instinct 2 appearing in theatres this weekend, enjoy this little post to get your excitement and anticipation going.

“In honor of Sharon Stone’s courageous contribution to the pantheon of ridiculously bad movies gay men will quote frequently, we offer a round-up of today’s scathing Basic Instinct 2 reviews :

“· “It should come as no surprise that “Basic Instinct 2,” the long-gestating follow-up to Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 blip on the zeitgeist screen, is a disaster of the highest or perhaps lowest order. ” [NY Times]
· “At this point, there are inflatable toys that are livelier than Stone, but how can you tell the difference? “Basic Instinct 2″ is not an erotic thriller. It’s taxidermy.” [NY Post]
· “What we may very well be looking at here is another “Showgirls,” a drag camp-fest for the “Baby Jane” crowd, fabulous fodder for future cabaret acts, and a pleasure probably best enjoyed in a crowd — preferably a vocal one.” [LAT]
· “The plot has no credibility. The goings-on are not suspenseful, despite a series of gory slayings.” [USA Today]
· “Absurdly overheated and unforgivably dull, “Basic Instinct 2″ is the accidental comedy sensation of the year to date, and while some of the people involved seem to be in on the joke, director Michael Caton-Jones isn’t one of them.” [Boston Globe]
· “It doesn’t help that co-star Morrissey — who serves as the audience point of view and has most of the screen time — is a charisma-challenged non-entity. Clearly, the producers could not induce a male star of any stature to take on the thankless role.” [Seattle PI]
· “Where is the suspense part? There is no suspense part. Suspense demands clarity of motive and action, and this screenplay never provides it.” [Washington Post]”"

Wishing you all good weekends full of fun and lacking stabbing ice picks.  See you Monday with my own Instinct review & the Sharon Stone is a Sexy Old Lady post.

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I know exactly what I’m doing May 19, and it’s not scrubbing the floors. The Da Vinci Code, a Ron Howard directed movie, is set to hit screens this coming May. From the man who directed Willow, Apollo 13 & A Beautiful Mind- I trust the director to do justice to the Dan Brown novel.

Tom Hanks is taking the lead as Robert Langdon & his counterpart will be played by the lovely French actress Audrey Tautou, who won fans and smiles alike in Amelie. The spirited actor Sir Ian McKellen will be playing the role of fitful Sir Leigh Teabing. With such a talent-ridden cast & fun book, I think anyone could direct this baby and make it sing.

The basic plot line of “The Da Vinci Code” fiction book surrounds a murder in the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years — which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

The trailer is now available for your viewing pleasure, with no spoils attached. There is some spoiling, however, for the author Dan Brown who has been involved in a lawsuit for the majority of this year. Two writers have stepped forward accusing Brown of stealing their ideas. Well, at least he didn’t call it a memoir.

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