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Britney and Mel's Excellent Costa Rican Adventure
[Pinky And The Brain]

post from Defamer on 16 May 2008 01:15:00 PM. © Defamer

Back in March, we heard Malibu?s own Ken and Barbie, Mel Gibson and Britney Spears, were aligning their forces of stupidity for the greater good. But it was tough to figure out whether or not they were on a date or set to co-produce a new film starring each and every one of their split personalities. But thanks to recent reports, it sounds as though the partnership was neither love- or business-bound. They?re just two confused drunks trying to stay clean together! Master of sobriety Mel recently flew both Britney and her owner, father Jamie Spears, down for a vacation at his Costa Rican clam shack for some R&R. But why now? And more importantly, why does Britney keep hiding her newly rotund tummy from the paparazzi?

After being spotted at a health clinic just before her jaunt to Mel's, rumors circulated suggesting the healing poptard might be pregnant yet again. Coupled with the fact that Spears has recently favored camouflaging her baby-making area whenever the paparazzi swarm, the theory seemed plausible. But it was merely wishful thinking — the clinic in question specializes in (yawn) sports injuries. As a source tells The Sun, Spears just feels chunky after going cold turkey on her ADD meds, and being force-fed cuisine by her drug addict-turned-chef dad: "She has put on a lot of weight in recent weeks...she is extremely paranoid about her body at the moment." We just hope Mel doesn't accidentally erupt in another sexist spat and address her as Sugar Tits before grabbing her and passing out.

[Photo credits: X17, Splash]

BRITNEY SPEARS AND DAD HEAD TO MEL GIBSON'S COSTA RICAN RANCH [Us]
BRIT TESTS STOKE BABY RUMOURS [The Sun]

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What's the last movie you went with your parents
to see

post from Film Experience Blog on 16 May 2008 01:01:00 PM. © Film Experience Blog

Just wondering.

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Portia De Rossi-DeGeneres The Happiest Girl In
The Room [Big Announcements]

post from Defamer on 16 May 2008 12:50:00 PM. © Defamer

In the wake of yesterday's landmark ruling that stated gays living in the state of California would now be afforded the same basic rights and mutual-tattoo-application opportunities as Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, Ellen DeGeneres became the first celebrity to announce wedding plans to girlfriend Portia de Rossi. Addressing her studio audience yesterday for the show set to air today, a beaming DeGeneres declared, "I would like to say now, for the first time, I am announcing I am getting married."

The crowd—which including a wet-eyed de Rossi—instantly lept to their feet and cheered. After a rough year enduring the angry taunts of picketing writers, it's nice to see some harmony and happiness return to the Ellen set, with the only thing whipped at her face as she exits the building being handfuls of rice and blown kisses. All that's left at this point is to hammer out the event details—what is surely to be the most spectacular celebrity wedding of the year, with virtually no expense spared on the brides' custom-tailored tuxshedos and giant, Iggy-shaped ice sculptures.

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John Phillip Law, 1937 - 2008.

post from GreenCine Daily on 16 May 2008 12:31:00 PM. © GreenCine Daily

He was a youthful 70, still handsome, still a very young guy in spirit and hadn't lost any of his professional ambition. He was always auditioning, checking his car phone for messages from his agency; he loved to work...

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'Prince Caspian' Rides Into Multiplex to Vanquish
Everything In Sight [Defamer Attractions]

post from Defamer on 16 May 2008 12:25:00 PM. © Defamer

Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to what's new, noteworthy and potentially toxic in weekend moviegoing. Today we survey the victims of Prince Caspian's box-office menace (including a particular race-car driver still convalescing from last week's pile-up), pick our first-ever foreign-language Underdog and browse the DVD shelves for potential Sunday-morning-hangover alternatives. As always, our opinions are our own but they are also 100% accurate, so plan accordingly!

WHAT'S NEW: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is guaranteed to knock incumbent champ Iron Man from its box-office perch, with most observers predicting the second installment of the Disney franchise to muscle into first with as much as $79 million. And with merely five days before Indiana Jones 4 wheezes into multiplexes internationally, Disney is no doubt hoping that even that number is somehow on the low end. We don't think so; even without major counterprogramming, $74 million seems a little more reasonable what with holdovers Iron Man, What Happens in Vegas, Made of Honor and even Speed Racer still pulling in viewers who are just fine waiting for the DVD. Also opening: a light week overall, with the America Ferrera vehicle How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer and the acclaimed Norwegian drama Reprise playing small-ball in Caspian's shadow.

THE BIG LOSER: Iron Man may drop another 50% from weeks two to three, but with Speed Racer forecast to pull in less than $10 million in its own second week — potentially accumulating less than $30 million domestically in 10 days of release — the indignities just never end for the Wachowskis, Warners and everyone involved.

THE UNDERDOG: Back when Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of my Blood) was known as Padre Nuestro, its Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival all but assured it the fest's long-suspected "best picture curse." But we knew at the time it was a remarkable debut feature for writer-director Christopher Zalla, whose identity-theft thriller about a pair of Mexican stowaways transplanted to New York was misread as everything from a globalization allegory to an overreaching effort at social realism. In fact, Sangre is all and none of these things, nothing more so than a riveting glimpse at two immigrants' reinventions: Villainous schemer Juan (Armando Hernández) and his "papa," cash-hoarding dishwasher Diego (Jesús Ochoa). The latter's tentative warming to his imposter son — while real son Pedro (Jorge Adrián Espíndola) scours Brooklyn for any clues to both men's whereabouts — is as dynamically acted and observed as any first film you'll see this year. And despite its precarious limited release, you should seek it out, and you should see it. Fuck the Sundance curse.

FOR SHUT-INS: Highlights among new DVD releases include Francis Ford Coppola's mind- (and patience-) bending comeback Youth Without Youth; Denzel Washington's late '07 Oscar bait The Great Debaters; the Diane Keaton/Katie Holmes/Queen Latifah trifecta Mad Money; the Criterion Collection's Louis Malle tandem The Lovers and The Fire Within; and — finally, thank God — Two and a Half Men: The Complete Third Season.

Does anyone want to go out on a limb for or against Prince Caspian's weekend reign? Did we miss anything on a sluggish week for new releases? Can you explain Youth Without Youth in 50 words or less? Don't be shy; the floor is yours.

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What's Indy Up To Secrecy Shrouds 'Crystal Skull'

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News on 16 May 2008 12:11:45 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News

CANNES, France (AP) - Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings. Director Steven Spielberg has tried to keep chapter four of the archaeologist's big-screen adventures, ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,'' under wraps as tight as an ancient mummy's.[...] Read more!

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New Book Dives Inside Actors' Trousers To Reveal
The 'Donkey'd,' The Perv And The 'Biggest Ever Seen' [Sword Fights]

post from Defamer on 16 May 2008 12:00:00 PM. © Defamer

Like it or not, nerd-turned-comedy-mogul Judd Apatow has tapped the fleshy center of the zeitgeist once again by unleashing Jason Segel?s manhood unto the world. And now, it looks like there?s a very hard hardcover release to look forward to in which Hollywood?s most legendary male assets are celebrated and outed — and we?re not talking shockers like Milton Berle. Among the nuggets revealed in Hollywood Babylon: It?s Back include the actor that's been called ?donkey?d? by his female co-stars, the 1950s poster boy?s package was well-known in the prepubescent boy community, and who once posed nude for artists, earning himself the whisper, ?It was the biggest I've ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil.?

As the NY Daily News reports today, Johnny Depp is the actor who once had the "donkey'd" reputation among those female stars lucky enough to learn for themselves, and Sean Connery had already made it big by dropping trou for art students before breaking out on-screen. As for the alleged pedophile, the tome claims James Dean had an ongoing fling and obsession with a 12-year old boy. Legend Elia Kazan, not exactly an altar boy himself, apparently once remarked, "I've known many actors who have been twisted up in their sex lives, but never anybody as sick and unhealthy as Dean was." We can only wonder what the Streetcar director would have had to say about Apatow's dirty-talk flicks reigning over the silver screen today.

FRONTAL ASSAULT ON HOLLYWOOD [NYDN]

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Screen Shot Quiz #37

This one seems like it is too easy but thats probably because its directed by one of my favorites.[...]

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Screen Shot Quiz #36

This one seems like it is too easy but thats probably because its directed by one of my favorites.[...]

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Prince Caspian Movie Review [Movie Review]

The Narnia films seem to have a strange affect on me. I see them a first time, and I like them. However, I don?t consider them best-of-the-year material. However, with the first one, I wanted to watch it again. This alone is a good sign for a film. For someone ...

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