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Nobel Prize Winner In Literature Afraid To Go Home To Romania

October 8, 2009 at 1:28 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

This must be the best day ever for all you Herta Müller fans! In case you're not caught up on modern literature, Müller is the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, announced this morning in Stockholm.

Müller lives and works in Germany now, but grew up in Communist Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and many of her books describe the plight of young people in a controlling regime. She revealed in an essay penned earlier this summer for the online magazine Sign and Sight that she is afraid to travel in Romania even now because she believes members of the government are still following her.

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Super World Travelers Look Bored At Oscar Fashions

February 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

We promised we wouldn't drop the r-word again, but something must have attacked Hollywood to end up with such a blah year for dresses. The color everyone seemingly decided on was white -- and its brothers off-white and cream -- which looks great on the red carpet (and the women who wore it!) but just didn't make us say "wow." Even the world's first couple, Super World Travelers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, went for that other award-show standby -- black. (She was in Elie Saab.) There wasn't a swan gown in sight, and we feel kind of bad about that.

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Can We Get This Award To Go?

February 9, 2009 at 11:09 AM | by egw | 5 Comments

A host of award shows brought some celebrities out, but not all of them: Gwyneth Paltrow attended the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in a sparkly Burberry number to support husband Chris Martin, whose band Coldplay performed with the backing of a marching band; Katy Perry, who was up for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (but lost to British singer Adele), performed in a Carmen Miranda-esque fruit ensemble.

Kate Winslet picked up a statue for Best Leading actress at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) in London, for which she was nominated both for her role in "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road." She posed on the red carpet with presenter Daniel Craig. Less than two weeks till the Oscars! And speaking of the Oscars, Jessica Biel appeared in Oscar de la Renta at the Academy Awards' Scientific and Technical Awards Saturday night to give out all the little gold men that don't fit into the telecast.

But award shows aren't always the trip worth taking: Angelina Jolie arrived at the BAFTAs after a visit to a refugee camp in Thailand for cyclone victims from Myanmar, proving she still thinks some things are important than her career. (She and fellow Super World Traveler Brad Pitt were both up for leading awards; Jolie lost to Winslet, above, while Pitt lost to Mickey Rourke.) And last year's Grammy darling Amy Winehouse, who performed via satellite when she was not granted a visa to travel to L.A. for the ceremony, skipped the festivities altogether: Rumor has it she is staying in Jamaica to record her third album within reach of, uh, "inspirations." Well, there's always next year.

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[Photo: JustJared]

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Heartless Killer Spotted Enjoying Sporting Event

Where: Avinguda Aristides Maillol, s/n, Barcelona, Spain, 08028
January 16, 2009 at 9:15 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Now there's a sporting son: Javier Bardem takes mom Pilar to a FC Barcelona football game at their home stadium Camp Nou for a game against Atletico Madrid.

At last year's Academy Awards, Bardem took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as the frightening Anton Chigurh in last year's Best Picture winner "No Country For Old Men." Classically, the Best Supporting Actor presents the next year's Best Supporting Actress trophy, but officially, no one knows if Bardem will show up--because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has opted not to release the names of any presenters besides host Hugh Jackman. That may be because last year's campaign to tie America's longest awards with non-nominee presenters like Miley Cyrus resulted in the lowest ratings ever for the Oscar broadcast.

Still, with Bardem garnering a steady stream of praise for his supporting turn in the Woody Allen movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," he might even find himself on the nominees list again. Oscar nominations are expected to be announced next week.

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[Photo: Faded Youth Blog]

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Traveling The Globe Instead Of Getting Globes

January 12, 2009 at 8:30 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Miss the big party? Why not? While Hollywood got all glammed up for the Golden Globes, some stars opted to stay away--but not stay home.

The choice was easy for Victoria Beckham, who schlepped her brood of boys to the Colosseum in Rome to have them pose with some gladiators. And surprisingly, "The Hills"' Audrina Partridge, herself not a nominee either, chose Cabo--but she didn't end up getting married on a whim there.

Mischa Barton continued her attempt to be more like us by posting bikini pictures of herself in the Indian beach getaway Goa. But Steve Martin probably didn't want those photos of himself bodysurfing in St. Barts to get out. Ditto with Rihanna, who covered her face to hide a rumored cold sore while out shopping in Dublin, Ireland on tour.

Ironically, it was the Super World Travelers who set their course for La-La Land--nominees Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took home no prizes except each other. And Pitt's mustache.

Big winners Sunday night at the Globes were "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," which nabbed prizes for best drama and best musical or comedy. Kate Winslet snagged two acting awards for her lead role in "Revolutionary Road" and supporting role in "The Reader"; Mickey Rourke, Sally Hawkins and the late Heath Ledger were also honored. But everyone at the water cooler will be talking about how "The Wrestler" director Darren Aronofsky flipped off the cameras faster than NBC was able to blur it during Rourke's speech. Oh no! The children!

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[Photo: Celebrity Gossips]

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Rihanna And Chris Brown Legally Joined (In Lawsuit)

December 4, 2008 at 9:15 AM | by egw | 1 Comment

They'll be bound together by the court documents: Chris Brown and Rihanna were served with a $1 million lawsuit in Florida seeking damages for theft and battery.

Photographer Luis Santana was trying to get a picture of the glam yet much-tattooed couple in St. Petersburg outside their limo when bodyguards chased him off. Not satisfied with that, they allegedly followed him, beat him up and stole his $3,000 camera. And now Santana wants the singers to pay up or else.

Neither Chris nor Rihanna have commented on the lawsuit but her publicist urged that newsmakers "give attention to the positive things in the world," even invoking the recession as a reason the lawsuit wasn't news. How about the fact that neither star was nominated for a Grammy, passed over for Leona Lewis and the Jonas Brothers?

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[Photo of the couple at the MTV Video Music Awards: Celeb Wohoo]

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Red Rover, Red Rover, Let Roman Polanski Come Over

Where: Los Angeles, CA
December 4, 2008 at 8:45 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Have you seen this man? A documentary about his flight from justice may not have made the Oscar shortlist this year, but Roman Polanski may be trying to return to the U.S. 30 years after he first left the country.

Polanski moved to Paris shortly after being convicted of statutory rape but before his final sentencing. Having served about half of a 90-day prison sentence by that time, he apparently feared re-imprisonment enough to go into exile, where he has remained even while he picked up his first directing Oscar for 2002's "The Pianist." Now, his lawyers have filed a motion for his case to be dismissed on the grounds of judge misconduct as was shown in "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired."

Marina Zenovich's documentary, which focused on the Polanski case and included interviews with his victim (who approved of the movie and even attended its premiere), didn't make the Academy's shortlist for Best Documentary Feature despite getting great reviews at Sundance. And it seems unlikely to sway the current district attorney, who would still require Polanski to surrender to Johnny Law on his re-entry. But maybe it's time to let the Pole stop traveling. Maybe they could fake-arrest him at next year's Academy Awards and allow him to miraculously escape into the audience.

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[Photo: The Dishrag]

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Post-Oscars Travel: There Will Be Partying

February 26, 2008 at 9:00 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

You thought that because Vanity Fair canceled its Oscar bash, that all the stars would just go home? Ha! There was much merriment, starting backstage in the press room where Marion Cotillard sang a Piaf song for the waiting reporters.

George Clooney told everyone at the Governor's Ball that he was a loser (not true!) while James McAvoy stuck to "Atonement" costar Saoirse Ronan's side--but in a brotherly way, mind you!

And Viggo Mortensen was allowed to pat the pregnant belly of the great past winner Cate Blanchett. If she had seen "Eastern Promises," she might not be so loose with her favors!

Over at Elton John's party, the recently separated Sean Penn showed up with his new girlfriend--model and Boxing Day tsunami survivor Petra Nemcova. Seal took a million photos of wife Heidi Klum.

And at Prince's pad, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz watched some exotic dancers while Orlando Bloom took flack from Sean "Diddy" Combs. Partying for a living is hard! Don't miss newy minted Oscar winner Diablo Cody's sign-off.

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[Photo of Paul Thomas Anderson, Rebecca Miller and Daniel Day-Lewis: PageSix.com]

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Oscars Postmortem: "No Country" Cattle Guns the Competition

February 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

The 80th Annual Oscars began with a whimper but went out with a bang--specifically, the bang from Anton Chigurh's scary-ass weapon, as Joel and Ethan Coen picked up three statuettes for their Western thriller "No Country for Old Men."

Javier Bardem, who played Chigurh, grabbed Best Supporting Actor in a foreigners' sweep of the acting awards--only the second such occurrence in Oscar history. Bardem was joined in the winners' circle by Brits Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor, "There Will Be Blood") and Tilda Swinton (a surprise Best Supporting Actress winner for "Michael Clayton"), as well as French actress Marion Cotillard, who cried out "It is true there are some angels in this city!" after taking Best Actress for "La Vie En Rose."

Water-cooler trivia you need to know: Host Jon Stewart played Wii, mocked montages and ceded some of his time for Best Song winner Marketa Irglova to give her thanks. "The Bourne Ultimatum" clobbered "Transformers" in the editing awards. Gary Busey got all crazy on Jennifer Garner on the red carpet, and Best Original Screenplay winner Diablo Cody wore a very ugly leopard-print dress.

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[Photo of 2007 Best Director winner Martin Scorsese handing the torch to the CoBro: clackamasreview.com]

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Last-Minute Travel: The Oscars Are Back On!

February 13, 2008 at 9:15 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Here's something worth flying standby for: The WGA has overwhelmingly voted to end its strike, which means the Academy Awards will go on as planned! We bet second-time host Jon Stewart already has his tickets.

The WGA has been on strike since November 5th, converting the Golden Globes into a glorified press conference and throwing the remainder of this television season--as well as next year's pilots--into jeopardy.

If you never want to travel again, at least keep yourself busy at home with this list of all your favorite TV shows, including the ones which are going back into production right away ("Gossip Girl," yes!) and the ones that are being threatened with cancellation (critical fave "Friday Night Lights" among them).

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VMA Post Mortem: Kid Rock Tommy Lee Fight Video

September 10, 2007 at 8:44 AM | by pbb | 0 Comments


Just when you thought MTV's Video Music Awards couldn't get more ridiculous, this year's VMAs--in Vegas for the first time--came through big: Sarah Silverman cracked dirty jokes, Kid Rock and Tommy Lee scuffled and Rihanna scooped up two Moon Men. And, of course, Britney opened her "comeback" performance with the imminently classy line, "It's Britney, bitch!"

Holding the whole shebang at The Palms Casino Resort was a great move--where else but a hotel should Fall Out Boy smash up guitars after playing a set? Kanye West performed at the Palms' Hugh Hefner Sky Villa--and not on the main stage, much to his dismay. (Funny, Britney didn't have a problem performing there.)

Kid Rock's scuffle with Tommy Lee got him kicked out of the Palms, set off a Vegas wide police search, and earned him a misdemeanor battery. However, he didn't get a moon man for his performance, looks like he will have to wait until the 2008 MTV Movie Awards where he is sure to snag the award for "Best Fight".

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