Gerard Butler Might Still Escape From New York
Rumors of Gerard Butler’s (300) departure from the Escape From New York remake have been greatly exaggerated. Butler, who has been doing press for his new romcom P.S. I Love You, insists that he hasn’t dropped out of the project, but is taking a wait and see position. In October, New Line hired Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines helmer Jonathan Mostow in to rewrite, with an option to direct. The actor points out that no start date has been slated. If everything lines up again, Butler might indeed take on the character of Snake Plissken.
Originally Len Wiseman was attached to the project, and most recently, hack director Brett Ratner denied involvement in the project after weeks of fanboy protest over the rumored possibility.
source: NationalPost
Lucy Liu Digs Dustin
She plays a snake, and he plays a tiny red panda. She’s on Hollywood’s short list for kickass chicks, and he’s pretty much an acting legend. So what does Lucy Liu confess is her favorite flick from Kung Fu Panda costar Dustin Hoffman? Check the clip to find out.
Lipstick Jungle: Chapter Four: Bombay Highway
(S01E04) “People like us are easy targets.” - Hector to Nico
If we look at what Lipstick Jungle offers us, indeed, people in the movie, fashion, or magazine business are easy targets. Wendy’s ex-nanny wrote a book, Victory’s career was destroyed by one bad collection, and Nico had to face a fake lawsuit that had some truth to it (even Nico admits that what she did could be seen as sexual harassment).
This week’s episode closed the books on the lawsuit Kirby filed against Nico but it didn’t end their relationship. Why did he really do it? Even if Mike was the snake behind the ordeal, Kirby agreed to go forward yet all he wanted was Nico…
Even if at the end of the episode Kirby said that all he wanted was Nico, I still don’t get why he filed the lawsuit. At first, I thought it was to get back at Nico for having him be fired. Then, I added the usual “to make a few quick bucks with a settlement” reason but he trashed the check she gave him and turned down the magazine’s money offer. Why? Was it, like Hector said, to blackmail them in making him a photographer for the magazine? They didn’t offer him that but would he have accepted? I guess he was pissed at first and Mike appeared at the right time and right place, so Kirby agreed to file the lawsuit. Then, after seeing Nico again, he was reminded that he loves her so he dropped everything.
Nico didn’t hesitate much after he told her he wanted her. Would she have been so quick in jumping back in his arms if Charles hadn’t rushed to the phone to stop the message his student was leaving on the answering machine? Clearly, Charles is also having an affair and his can bring much more drama than Nico’s affair with 25-year-old Kirby. You can bet that we haven’t seen the last of Charles and his student. It will surely blow out soon enough, causing a rift between husband and wife and having them finally face what is going on between them: nothing much. Do you think Charles skipped the premiere to meet with his student?
It was interesting to see how Wendy and Victory reacted to the news that their other friend was sleeping with a hot young man. Wendy, who recently had to deal with her own scandal, was supportive yet was quick to tell her friend to sign the statement that Kirby was a predator so that everything would go away fast. Victory, who is not married, couldn’t understand why Nico did what she did.
In the end, no matter the ladies’ point of view, they were there for one another and patched things up. The trio’s relationship is the core of the show; therefore, it’s important that they stay strong together through the problems they each face.
Other tidbits of interest
- Even if the premiere didn’t go as Wendy micromanaged planned it, she was able to make the most of it and have the paparazzi take pictures of the star, thus having the press mention the movie. And she controlled everything in a way until the very end since she ordered the actress to remove the jacket and exit by the front door!
- Joe and Victory patched things up by implementing certain rules about seeing friends.
- Joe should have thought a little bit more before telling Victory what he thought of her dress. It was a very very bad move on his part because saying what he thought of the dress was almost as tricky as answering the “Do you think I’ve put on some weight?” question! Okay, maybe not as bad but since this was an important dress for Victory, Joe should have kept his mouth shut.
- Wendy’s facial expression when she saw the dress was priceless.
- I wonder if pictures from Wendy and Victory arguing on the red carpet will come back to haunt them.
Big Brother 9: Nomination Ceremony #1
(S09E03) Well, I didn’t write up the reviewcap for the last episode, but I still find it mandatory to say that Jacob is an idiot. There’s nothing worse than thinking your being cool and “stirring up the house” only to find that you’re actually a moron and stirring yourself out of the house.I thought that Jacob and his “snake” fiasco was the stupidest thing a person has done thus far in the Big Brother 9 house.
I was wrong. The stupidest thing was actually done by Jen when she decided to let Parker know that she was dating Ryan. A review of tonight’s Big Brother after the jump…
On second thought, maybe the stupidest thing was when Ryan decided to tell Allison that he was dating Jen. Either way stupid is as stupid does, and the secret is what ultimately caused the biggest uproar in the house tonight as we’ll see here shortly.
Before that, I have something extremely important to say. Man are Amanda’s shorts skimpy. There’s half a set of cheeks and almost a couple of other unmentionables poking out from those things at any given time. I’m pretty sure shorts that short are illegal where I reside. (I’m in Oklahoma.) I practically blush every time I see her walking around the house…and then I promptly rewind the DVR, watch her walk around some more, and then blush again. I love this show so much.
Speaking of Amanda’s cheeks, when the pictures were revealed on the wall she made it clear that she hated her picture. Now she didn’t hate her picture nearly as much as Jen did from last season, but Amanda did go so far as to say that she’d “rather have a picture of her booty up there instead of her face.” You and me both Amanda. You and me both.
I say that because Amanda is definitely a “butter face” meaning everything on her is top notch to look at…but her face. Ha! Ha! Ha! (I have to admit I stole that phrase from an episode of Dexter. I’m definitely not clever enough to have thought that up on my own.)
Moving on, Allison threw out an ultimatum very early in the episode where she basically told Jen that she’d tell the house about the secret if Jen was disrespectful to her at any point in the game. Is it me or does Allison seem way too defensive about the Jen and Ryan relationship?
I get that Allison has developed a bit of a crush on Ryan (waaaaaay too early I might add–she’s known him like 24 hours), but I think she’s letting her little crush cloud her judgment. The way I see it, she’s in a secret alliance that no one else in the game knows about. It could very well take her to the end of the game. Why is that a bad thing exactly? Two heads are better than one. By my assessment, that makes four heads better than two.
I understand it prevents her from playing the game the way that she wanted to play it, but who cares? Stuff happens, things change. Get over it and go with the flow. I think her making a big deal about it is going to be a bigger detriment to her game than anything.
Anyhow, is Ryan not in the most tragic position in Big Brother history? Not only does he have to stay loyal to his girlfriend, he has to stay loyal to his pretend girlfriend Allison, who I’m beginning to think is a bit on the insane side. One girl is hard enough to please but two girls? He should probably just tie some weights to his feet and jump into the deep end of the pool AJ Soprano style. He’s dead and he doesn’t even know it.
At this point we jumped to a sequence where Amanda tells a group of people that her father hung herself when she was 21. He suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, he was bipolar, and he was also depressed. Ouch. He also left her a message on her cellphone that said, “Hey, I’m about to kill myself and couldn’t get a hold of you. Thanks.” Yikes. Now I feel bad about talking crap about her early in the review.
I’ve officially instituted moratorium on my typing anything mean about Amanda…for you know, at least an episode or two.
Wow that was a heavy segment to have to endure this early in the season. Let’s move on to something with a little more levity.
The First HoH Room Reveal
Just kidding. Despite Amanda and Alex’s room being very cheerful and having a Hawaiian theme, that’s where the happiness ended.
I’m officially not allowed to talk bad about Alex for a couple of episodes either. He lost his dad during 9/11. Sheesh, what a downer of an episode this has been so far. Amanda also ended up getting a copy of her dad’s favorite Al Green CD which caused her to cry, which caused several other people in the room to start crying.
Then, out of the blue we finally arrived at that levity I’d been craving all episode, but it wasn’t quite what I had in mind. In fact, after watching this next segment, I’ve decided I’d much rather listen to a story about how Parker’s cat has feline Leukemia or that Natalie has a nubbin and was ridiculed about it from junior high school through adulthood until she decided to take the nubbin into her own hands and remove it with a pair of scissors. No such luck.
Instead, we learned that Adam’s nickname is “the hooded warrior” because he’s un-nipped/un-tucked. In other words, he’s uncircumcised and all the girls (and some of the guys) found it to be pretty amusing. On the contrary, I found it a little nauseating. Not so much that he’s not circumcised, which I’m guessing isn’t all that rare. Instead, I was disturbed that the house guests were even having a conversation about it. I mean, how did this conversation come up in the first place? “Hi guys, what are we going to eat tonight? Did I mention my friends call me the hooded warrior because I’m not circumcised?” What in the world?
Here’s a quote from Adam about showing his hooded member to Jen.
“I gave her a glimpse at it. I didn’t give her the one-on-one on how to operate it, but I gave her a little idea of what it works with.”
Then he gave this expression:
Couldn’t have summed up that sequence better myself.
Then the drama went down.
Jen and Parker had a conversation where they decided to remove Allison’s trump card and opted to tell Matt and Alex that Jen and Ryan are a couple. They also told Amanda and Natalie.
The next 20 or so minutes of the show revolved around one group or another finding out about the secret. Not much else to say about this except a couple of the house guests decided to make everyone swear on top of a Bible as to whether or not they know someone else outside of the house. This was over-the-top silly but all in all I’m mostly just shocked that there is a Bible in the Big Brother house.
Two more things of import before we hit the nomination ceremony. Allison and Sheila decided to become a lesbian couple. They told Joshuah that they were in a relationship with one another. Of course, Joshuah completely believed them and ran to tell his boyfriend about the “new secret”. The information trickled around the rest of the group and we’ve now got a new twist in the house that wasn’t initiated by the house. Interesting indeed.
Finally, the big blow up between Sheila and Adam was painful to watch. Sheila is so hideously awful to Adam and as far as I can tell he hasn’t done a single thing to her aside from call her “Ma” a few times. Their entire argument was pointless and seemed to be her overreacting (unless we’re getting a one-sided edit of the situation - what’s Jackie telling you guys? I try to steer clear of the livefeeds). In short, I’m ready for Sheila to go and the other roommates appear to feel the same. It’s unfortunate for Adam, but that’s just the way things go sometimes.
The Nomination Ceremony
Long story short, Amanda and Alex put up Jen/Parker and Allison/Ryan. It was a totally predictable move, but also the smartest thing they could have done.
As stated earlier, the biggest blunder in the house thus far was Jen and Ryan letting their relationship slip out. They are totally responsible for getting evicted should things go down that way. Of course, things could completely change once we get to the first Power of Veto competition. See you all then.