George Clooney Handicapping People’s Sexiest Man Alive 2007 It’s that time of year again. In November, People Magazine will announce its annual Sexiest Man Alive. Am currently batting .500 – scored two months in advance with Johnny Depp four years ago, was screwed by dandy pansy Jude Law (WTF??) the year after that, predicted Matthew McConaughey six weeks By Lainey • Oct 25, 2007 03:16 am
LaineyBooks: How to Talk to a Widower Thrilled that many of you are enjoying the book section. Please do keep sending your recommendations. Am honoured to know what you are reading. Thank you, love you, owe you. And when the section is finally live, all past reviews will be posted to the page proper. Until then, this By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 10:57 am
Jessica Biel Shelf Ass Suddenly Shy??? Oh please. Coming from a tv girl who would still be living only off of Seventh Heaven residuals if not for the gratuitous pap photos of her ass and clinging fortuitously off of the Justin Pipsqueak, this is hypocrisy at its best. Check out Shelf Ass, coming from or going By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 09:41 am
Lindsay Lohan Tempting Sobriety No doubt another deal brokered by her exploitative mother that she apparently can’t back out of. Lindsay Lohan, fresh outta rehab, is supposedly contractually obligated to host a New Year’s Eve bender in Vegas at LAX. Vegas, end of the year – it’ll be total debauchery. And the By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 06:17 am
Where To Put It Warning – this is dirty and crass and, for some, not very appetising. So if you are the prudish type, prone to huffing and puffing your sanctimony through your nose…stop reading now. Otherwise, save your indignant emails. You’ve been cautioned. He is hot and hirsute and horny, has had By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 05:59 am
Keith Urban Defending Granny Freeze Poor Nicole Kidman. Since winning Oscar, her last several films have been total commercial failures. She is helping her husband battle substance abuse, not to mention his roving eye, she is struggling to maintain the façade of an arranged marriage, and she is valiantly fighting her 40s, blazing a trail By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 04:33 am
Jessica Biel Shelf Ass Produces Amazing what an ass and a Pip can achieve. Jessica Biel is now adding producer to her resumé and has acquired the rights to the film adaptation of the book Die a Little by Megan Abbott about “a schoolteacher whose life is thrown out of whack when her detective brother By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 03:38 am
Reese Witherspoon The Roman Holiday The UK Daily mail has published more photos of Reese and Jakey in Rome leaving no doubt that they’re a couple … and that they want you to know it. Because as adorable as they are, and they are very much so, they also have a movie to sell. And By Lainey • Oct 24, 2007 03:17 am
My So-Called Life Exclusive Giveaway!!! The show is adored by many, including my friend Du – a television screenwriter – who speaks of it with such reverence I expect her to be shouting down the phone at me in five minutes demanding a copy. My So-Called Life has been called groundbreaking, timeless, without equal…and on By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 08:00 pm
Viggo Mortensen Ryan Calls It In But first – all this drama about him dropping out of or getting fired from The Lovely Bones. Page Six said it was because he was intolerable to work with, aggravated the hair and makeup people, generally acted like a diva on set. Have not heard anything to confirm or deny By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 08:00 pm
John Mayer Rossum – would you rather??? Just when you thought it couldn"t possibly get more revolting, Emmy outdoes even her own Rossum. Attempting to pimp her sad excuse for a record Emmy puked her Rossum all over People the other day telling the magazine that she found the inspiration for her music in her By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 08:00 pm
Colin Farrell Philanthropic Colin Colin Farrell, Irish hunk of man hotness and current #1 on the Freebie Five, turned up in New York the other day participating on a panel discussing the new book Click featuring 10 best selling author contributions with proceeds going to Amnesty International. Also of note – the panel was moderated By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 08:00 pm
Kyle Chandler The Only Reason You Need There are many, many, many reasons to watch Friday Night Lights. The acting, the writing, the male and female hotness, the high school drama – the list goes on. It is quite simply the most outstanding show on television. And it is a straight up shame people spend more time on By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 10:20 am
Cate Blanchett The New Leader Cate Blanchett’s The Golden Age has not made the impact most predicted. As such, her performance is no longer being regarded as an Oscar favourite. Angelina Jolie’s role in A Mighty Heart is still holding up but the film was released early – back in June – and Academy memories By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 05:34 am
Natalie Portman Boleyn Sucks? At Book Club last night, we actually talked about heading to see it together - the film adaptation of a book we read and discussed a couple of years ago called The Other Boleyn Girl starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. Boleyn was supposed to be an Oscar contender, with a By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 05:04 am
Paul Mccartney In Your Dreams, Bitch Golddigging makes you delusional – see Kevin Federline’s recording career. This time, the Golddigging Delusions have hit the Master. And hard. Still at an impasse with Sir Paul on their divorce settlement, Heather Mills is now in America apparently negotiating a Hollywood film about her life. According to UK tabloids, By Lainey • Oct 23, 2007 04:38 am
