Colin Farrell Lands in LA For Oscars
Colin Farrell Lands in LA For Oscars
It’s arguably the biggest weekend for actors and actresses all over the world - Oscar weekend. And Colin Farrell was spotted de-boarding his plane at LAX airport yesterday, in town for all the festivities.
The “Phone Booth” actor was wearing an odd combination of a wide-necked, flowing long-sleeved shirt with a tight-fitting vest and some distressed jeans and a fedora covering up his ponytail.
And soon he’ll be filling in for the late, great Heath Ledger in an unfinished film called “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,” along with Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
Farrell told press, “It makes me feel uncomfortable to think about it too much and to get into it really here but it’s an incredibly painful honor to have, you know, and an honor I wish wasn’t bestowed but an honor none-the-less.”
He added, “It’s about getting Heath’s work out there, get his work out there, he’s too good for any of his work not to be seen, you know, and I’m really keen and looking forward to doing it and just doing the best job I can do.”
Mary-Kate Gets It On With Gandhi in a Phone Booth
You heard it here first: Oscar-winner Sir Ben Kingsley is now taking acting advice from one of the Olsen twins.
In the summer indie flick The Wackness, Mary-Kate Olsen plays a hippie stoner who takes a psychiatrist (Kingsley) into a phone booth for a quickie. But what happens next is the real shocker…
Kingsley admits that he turned to his young costar for counsel. “I asked her, ’You’re the boss. You guide the choreography of this scene, because your character needs to tell a story,’” he told News this week. “’You have to guide me.’”
The scene lasts only a few seconds in the film, but according to the film’s star Josh Peck, Mary-Kate became a real Sir Ben groupie behind the scenes. OK, hot-chocolate-drinking buddy, at least.
“[Ben’s] just about as pimp as it gets,” Peck tell us. “So he’s infectious when it comes to women, I think.”
Obviously, because he knows the golden rule: When it comes to phone-booth sex, let her lead.
Stars Come Out (on Tape) for Tom & Oprah, Part 2
Oh, so that's why some people gave a flying fizz about Tom Cruise's opinion on postpartum depression. He used to just be the hot guy (with pretty decent acting chops) in the movies.
Day two of the star's sit-down with Oprah Winfreyhis first interview with the daytime queen since he flipped his lid for Katie Holmesgot down to business in honor of Cruise's 25th anniversary as a cinematic leading man.
With the down-to-earth, "real guy" stuff having been hashed out already at TomKat's Telluride, Colo., getaway last week, today's installment of The Oprah Winfrey Show featured taped kudos from Cruise's past costars (Renée Zellweger, Jamie Foxx, Dustin Hoffman, Dakota Fanning) and miscellaneous superstar pals (cuteness alert: Posh & Becks saw Jerry Maguire on the night of their first kiss, and their future neighbor later gave David Beckham his "you had me at hello" jacket"and he hasn't taken it off since," Victoria said), as well as the star's own musings on a career well done.
Well, for the most part.
Some highlights:
- Why is Tom Cruise special? "You don't know…he just is," Zellweger says of her Jerry Maguire costar.
- Hoffman's fave moment on the set: "The fart scene" when he and Cruise are in the phone booth in Rain Manapparently a completely improvised scene thanks to whatever Hoffman ate before the cameras started rolling. "It's a tribute they thought you were handsome enough to be my brother in that film," the Oscar winner said before the camera pulled back to reveal Hoffman slurping soup and chatting with a life-size cardboard cutout of Cruise.
- Cruise does an utterly terrible Jack "You can't handle the truth" Nicholson impression.
- Of those he hasn't crossed paths with yet, Cruise named Robert De Niro and Al Pacino off the top of his head as a couple of actors he'd like to work with.
- Foxx dug Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July, while Steven Spielberg's a Magnolia fan.
- Each member of the studio audience took home 25 of Cruise's films on DVD, a box set you can't get anywhere. Whether you like the dude or not, that's just cool.
Stars Come Out (on Tape) for Tom & Oprah, Part 2
Oh, so that's why some people gave a flying fizz about Tom Cruise's opinion on postpartum depression. He used to just be the hot guy (with pretty decent acting chops) in the movies.
Day two of the star's sit-down with Oprah Winfreyhis first interview with the daytime queen since he flipped his lid for Katie Holmesgot down to business in honor of Cruise's 25th anniversary as a cinematic leading man.
With the down-to-earth, "real guy" stuff having been hashed out already at TomKat's Telluride, Colo., getaway last week, today's installment of The Oprah Winfrey Show featured taped kudos from Cruise's past costars (Renée Zellweger, Jamie Foxx, Dustin Hoffman, Dakota Fanning) and miscellaneous superstar pals (cuteness alert: Posh & Becks saw Jerry Maguire on the night of their first kiss, and their future neighbor later gave David Beckham his "you had me at hello" jacket"and he hasn't taken it off since," Victoria said), as well as the star's own musings on a career well done.
Well, for the most part.
Some highlights:
- Why is Tom Cruise special? "You don't know…he just is," Zellweger says of her Jerry Maguire costar.
- Hoffman's fave moment on the set: "The fart scene" when he and Cruise are in the phone booth in Rain Manapparently a completely improvised scene thanks to whatever Hoffman ate before the cameras started rolling. "It's a tribute they thought you were handsome enough to be my brother in that film," the Oscar winner said before the camera pulled back to reveal Hoffman slurping soup and chatting with a life-size cardboard cutout of Cruise.
- Cruise does an utterly terrible Jack "You can't handle the truth" Nicholson impression.
- Of those he hasn't crossed paths with yet, Cruise named Robert De Niro and Al Pacino off the top of his head as a couple of actors he'd like to work with.
- Foxx dug Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July, while Steven Spielberg's a Magnolia fan.
- Each member of the studio audience took home 25 of Cruise's films on DVD, a box set you can't get anywhere. Whether you like the dude or not, that's just cool.