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Director Pedro Almodovar, actress Penelope Cruz, and her husband actor Javier Bardem pose during the opening of the ‘Street of Stars’ in Madrid, Spain.
I just love them – I think they’re the cutest couple!
Photos: Fame
Shia LaBeouf appears on the August cover of DETAILS magazine in a photo shoot with Matthias Vriens-McGrath. LaBeouf has thrown as many punches as he has parties, he has a rap sheet as long as his filmography, and when he’s not pissing off studio heads, he’s messing around with another guy’s girlfriend. But the 25-year-old Transformers star might also be the most honest man in Hollywood. He lives by a code built on fierce integrity, recoils from material possessions, cherishes poetry and art, and despises all things phony. More than meets the eye? Damn right.
On getting into fights:
LaBeouf wishes he could handle such situations with more finesse. But then again, he doesn’t. “I would like to be George Clooney– diplomatic,” the 25-year-old star concedes. “I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. My bullsh*t meter is tuned very sensitive. The minute it starts kicking up, I get back to truth, and sometimes that involves, you know, ‘I don’t want to take a picture.’ And if that’s the case, am I an a**hole for being honest? Or am I an a**hole for being dishonest, smiling in your picture and I fu**ing hate being there? Which one is worse? These are the questions I ask myself that George Clooney doesn’t ask.”
The women in his life:
Asked if he hooked up with Megan Fox, LaBeouf nods affirmatively. “Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them,” he explains. “I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen.” When I inquire about Fox’s status at the time with her longtime boyfriend, Brian Austin Green, LaBeouf replies, “I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know . . .”—repeating the phrase exactly 12 times in various intonations, as if trying to get it just right. Finally, he says, “It was what it was.”
On his one date with Hillary Duff:
“probably the worst date either of us have ever had”
On “philandering around” with former co-star Isabel Lucas:
“It was sort of disastrous,” LaBeouf says. “Neither one of us, I think, were in love. Just sort of experimenting or whatever.”
On Carey Mulligan:
“I still love her,” he says. “I think she’s a fu**ing awesome person and an incredible actress. We’re still pals. I wouldn’t take any of it back, and I don’t think she would either. It just ran its course.”
Past movies:
On thinking it was Oliver Stone’s sentimentality that got in the way of Wall Street 2’s success: “He’s trying to play nice. But for a movie like Wall Street that had so much bite the first time around to come out without fangs and preach a message of hope wasn’t what people were looking for.”
Reactions to Shia giving a lukewarm review to Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull,
“When you drop the ball, you drop the ball,” he said at the time: “I got lambasted for that, and understandably so,” Shia says, smiling. “Because you can’t be an actor and be honest—that’s crazy!” Although LaBeouf tells DETAILS that Harrison Ford privately applauded his outspokenness, Ford recalls the conversation differently. “I think I told him he was a f**king idiot,” the famously reticent star says. “As an actor, I think it’s my obligation to support the film without making a complete ass of myself. Shia is ambitious, attentive, and talented—and he’s learning how to deal with a situation which is very unique and difficult.”
There’s that ring again! She and boyfriend Justin Theroux are wearing matching rings. She looks beautiful as always!
Photos: Fame
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a new comedy starring Nick Swardson (never heard of him), Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, and Stephen Dorff. Bucky (Swardson) is a small town grocery bagger, going nowhere in life – until he discovers that his conservative parents were once adult film stars! Armed with the belief that he has found his destiny, Bucky packs up and heads out to LA, hoping to follow in his parents’ footsteps.
It looks like it could be funny, but the preview didn’t necessarily make me laugh. The teeth are a BIT much.
I’d be surprised if this wasn’t a straight-to-DVD movie.
Maybe Christina Ricci owed someone a personal favor?
ANSWER AFTER THE JUMP! (more…)
Nicole Kidman was all smiles as she arrived in Sydney, Australia today with daughters Sunday Rose & Faith. This is Faith’s first trip to Australia to meet her family. In recent news Nicole is set to take over a role in “The Paperboy” after “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara had to drop out of the project.
Is that a birthmark on Faith’s head?
Photos: Fame
Wow, Katie looks great in her Contrarian midnight blue dress and nude Lanvin heels.
Unfortunately, critics are panning her new movie already.
The Hollywood Reporter claims it is scary – if you’re 9 years old.
The moral of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is that what scares you as a child doesn’t necessarily have the same effect on a grown-up. The very talented fabulist filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has in many of his best films, Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth, explored the heightened emotions and fantasies of very young people. Who knows but maybe this can be traced back, at least in part, to what he describes as the scariest movie he ever saw on television, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, written by Nigel McKeand and broadcast by ABC in 1973?
Now he has remade that telefilm into a feature, which he co-wrote and co-produced while handing directing chores to comics artist Troy Nixey (creator of Trout), making a feature debut. The result is a scary movie that is genuinely scary in parts, although an adult can’t help noticing this is set in the very worn and tattered territory of the haunted-house genre. Then when you get a glimpse of the CGI critters causing all the mayhem, the scares completely vanish. You spend the rest of the movie wondering why someone doesn’t just call a fumigator and get rid of those damn creatures.
The movie may still scare 9-year-olds when it gets released August 26, but anyone much older may laugh rather than shriek. Del Toro is by now a brand name so interest from his extended fan base as well as those from the world of comics should allow Miramax and FilmDistrict to enjoy a modest box-office success before this movie joins its predecessor as a late-night video.
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