Media Manipulation The guy who married Natalie Portman I wrote about Natalie Portman’s pregnancy and engagement yesterday. Click here for a refresher. In the article I referenced a curious and creepy Page Six post about Portman’s now fiancé Benjamin Millepied and how he appeared to be “obsessed” with her during production of Black Swan. He supposedly By Lainey • Dec 29, 2010 07:57 am
Weddings Reese Witherspoon’s engagement rollout Her people confirmed exclusively to Us Weekly yesterday that she will marry Hollywood agent Jim Toth. As repeatedly noted, celebrity gossip has a way of playing out over time. These are the shenanigans that make their sh-t so fascinating. Because two months ago, on October 22nd, Us Weekly announced the By Lainey • Dec 29, 2010 03:13 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Season’s Greetings from The Chosen One Like I said in the open, every time I’m offline for a day or two, or hop on a plane for a long haul flight, I live in fear of missing a big story, the biggest story being that the Brange will implode. It’s the Hollywood equivalent of By Lainey • Dec 28, 2010 05:48 am
Famewhores Who looks more uncomfortable? Joe Jonas hit up the Knicks game at Madison Square Garden last night fronting like he’s all manly man with the sporty sportos. Am very, very surprised that Ashley Greene isn’t hanging off him auditioning for a spot on the Knicks cheerleading squad. She doesn’t usually pass By Lainey • Dec 20, 2010 07:07 am
Famewhores Johnny’s Miami family weekend Last week Star Magazine accused Johnny Depp of cheating on Vanessa Paradis with some 19 year old trick on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 4. This weekend he was shot in Miami, taking his kid to the Justin Bieber concert (Bieber shouted him out during the show) and By Lainey • Dec 20, 2010 03:21 am
Girly Throw Downs Cover deals and corners Sandra Bullock and the Best (and worst) of 2010 cover the new issue of People Magazine, the final issue of 2010. As noted yesterday, despite paying for exclusive photos from the wedding, they shoved Nicole Richie in the corner. It’s a tricky business, deciding on a cover. Who goes By Lainey • Dec 16, 2010 03:10 am
Media Manipulation We need the foreign money Sometimes a movie sucks sh-t at the box office and it’s not fair. The quality was underappreciated. Sometimes a movie sucks sh-t at the box office because, well, it just sucks. Or it’s poorly marketed. Or its actors weren’t appealing. There are a lot of reasons why By Lainey • Dec 14, 2010 04:38 am
Media Manipulation Pippy’s asskissing favours Love these pictures. True Grit premiered last night in Hollywood. You know how it is. Any time the Coen Brothers make a movie it’s a major award season event. True Grit is said to be a strong contender. They were calling it a strong contender even last summer. So. By Lainey • Dec 10, 2010 06:30 am
Famewhores Shelfy’s stylin’ and she gets a job Last night Entertainment Weekly posted that Jessica Biel had just confirmed a new job. It’s called New Year’s Eve. It’s exactly like her other movie Valentine’s Day only on NYE. An ensemble, again with Ashton Kutcher too, and also directed by Garry Marshall. Jesus. Have you By Lainey • Dec 09, 2010 08:54 am
Hook Ups Ryan, Blake, Harvey Further to yesterday’s report that Blake Lively left Paris and Karl Lagerfeld, electing not to attend the Chanel Metier D’Art show in her new position as their bag model, to attend instead the Blue Valentine premiere and afterparty with Ryan Gosling in New York, seated beside him during By Lainey • Dec 09, 2010 03:02 am
Media Manipulation Just Johnny, no Jolie? Check out Johnny’s awesome shoes. He wore them on the carpet at The Tourist premiere but also earlier in the day with jeans and a plaid shirt around town, signing autographs, Johnny being Johnny – chill, enigmatic, gracious... but no one-on-one camera time with the Jolie? I have looked. I By Lainey • Dec 07, 2010 02:43 am
Media Manipulation Where’s Garrett? TRON: Legacy premiered in London last night. Both Olivia Wilde and Jeff Bridges were there to support it. Also several members of the Glee cast. But no Garrett Hedlund. With movie budgets these days, overseas markets are a big deal. The UK market is a big deal. And for the By Lainey • Dec 06, 2010 04:27 am
BFFs No Olivier, No Oprah... yet Halle Berry did not work the carpet last night at the Frankie & Alice LA premiere with Olivier Martinez. This is now serious campaign season. And as previously reported, Halle has been hustling for one, hard, accelerating the release schedule for eligibility and enthusiastically working the circuit. Maybe her people By Lainey • Dec 01, 2010 05:15 am
Media Manipulation Back to her old tricks? Surely The Italian Queen has some experience with girl on girl action for pay, right? What? Oh ok, you’re right. She’s all class and innocence. Elisabetta Canalis is currently promoting a movie called A Natale Mi Sposo. She wore leather pants to the photocall in Rome yesterday with By Lainey • Nov 25, 2010 08:16 am
Hook Ups December Boy goes on a date Taylor Swift performed Back to December last night at the CMAs. The song is widely believed to be about Taylor Lautner. They were dating around this time last year. And then, according to the lyrics, she was a bitch and broke his heart, even though he was really, really into By Lainey • Nov 11, 2010 02:47 am
Assy Style Down home GOOP Thank you to those who emailed your thoughts about this overnight. Especially Jonathan who went the extra step and gave me a written play-by-play. Remind me to do a poll about this during the liveblog today with Duana at Noon ET/9am PT. I’m sure Duana will have something By Lainey • Nov 11, 2010 01:39 am
