Peter Jackson is continuing to beef up The Hobbit with some major talent.
The Oscar-winning director took time out from shooting the highly anticipated two-part epic in New Zealand to...
Buffythe Vampire Slayer fans, rejoice! Your girl Sarah Michelle Gellar is back on television after taking a hiatus to spend time being a mommy.
"Buffy was all-encompassing; it was my life and you really need to take a break from that. But then I realized I missed the familial atmosphere," Gellar explained to Extra, about why she's doing a TV show again. "And now having a small child, I have the best of both worlds."
In 2009, Gellar and hubby Freddie Prinze, Jr. welcomed daughter Charlotte Grace.
Now, the 34-year-old actress returns in a new CW drama called Ringer, in which she plays a young woman on the run from the mob. But the new series puts plenty on Gellar's plate, as she's doing double-duty as the main character -- and her twin sister!
So, how is she handling the new challenges of being a working mother? Gellar says she's mastered the art of multi-tasking.
"Don't forget, I'm playing two characters and I'm the executive producer!" she says. "You men think if we are texting on our BlackBerrys, we can't hear you. But we can."
Gwyneth Paltrow is full of surprises, and not just the salvia growing in her backyard. During an appearance on "The Graham Norton Show" this week, she shared that she is a huge fan of '90s hip-hop. Apparently, she's super into NWA and so Graham had her rap part of "Straight Outta Compton," beeping out the bad words, natch. Oh, and with Geoffrey Rush beatboxing in the background.
Kerry Campbell, the mother who said she gave her her eight-year-old daughter Botox so she could compete in beauty pageants, now claims she made everything up. In fact, she says her name isn't even Kerry Campbell! A woman named Sheena Upton claims she is an actress who was offered $200 by The Sun, a tawdry British tabloid, to "play the role of Kerry Campbell" for an article. Upton/Campbell's daughter was removed from her home by Child Protective Services, then returned after the girl was examined by doctors. Media outlets who interviewed Upton/Campbell, like "Good Morning America" and "Inside Edition," are now scrambling to figure out her true identity (and the rest of the truth!). [TMZ]
Victoria Beckham is reportedly booked to deliver her daughter via C-section in Los Angeles on July 4th. Is Victoria too Posh to push? (Get it? Ha ha.) Also noteworthy: Victoria and David Beckham have denied reports that they are naming their new daughter "Atlanta." [Daily Mail UK]
Every issue of Playboy, dating back for the past 60 years, is now available on the iPad's new iPlayboy app. In other words, it just got 700 percent more likely that you're going to catch someone looking at porn when you don't want to. [Mediabistro]
Last week we learned that Beyoncé decided to title her new album 4 and today we get to check out the album artwork for the disc. Due for release on June 28, 4 will be Bey‘s fourth studio album. Click below to get your first look at the coverphoto for 4 and see just how [...]
Lorenzo Lamas isn't taking his ex-wife's arrest lying down.
"She does have a pattern of getting into relationships that are not healthy," the former Leave It to Lamas...
Amid Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s love child scandal, a strong Maria Shriver attended Oprah Winfrey‘s special farewell taping at United Center in Chicago on Tuesday. During her special tribute to the veteran TV host, Maria may have been making a dig at her estranged husband, who she announced last week that she was separating from after 25 [...]
Recently proclaimed as the most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine, Lady Gaga has finally opened up about the triumphant title bestowed upon to her by one of the more highly regarded publications around.
Talking with Extra, the "Born This Way" singer was a bit passive about claiming the top spot from longtime frontrunner Oprah Winfrey, saying, "That's very nice, only Oprah is infinitely more important and influential than me. I'm just grateful to have even ever met her, really. What matters most to me is how the fans feel about the work that I'm doing and the music. But it's always really, really nice to get compliments like that. I really appreciate it."
Set to release her new album this coming Tuesday (May 23), Gaga said of her musical offering, "'Born This Way' is about living halfway between reality and fantasy. I wrote the whole record myself. It's my metaphor about the real you and the magic that's inside of you. The fans are what keep that alive in me. 'Born this Way' is now our attempt as a community to tell the world 'Magic is not artificial, it's real. Theatre is not artifice; theatre is not a joke'."
In part of her many promotions associated with album's release, the 25-year-old is also set to appear on this weekend's season finale of "Saturday Night Live" alongside host Justin Timberlake.
When Danish director Lars von Trier was at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago, he polarized audiences with the purposely provocative film Antichrist. This year, his film Melancholia is earning raves from Cannes audiences -- but now it's the notoriously out-there filmmaker's seemingly pro-Nazi comments that are causing an angry uproar.
At a press conference following the Wednesday premiere of Melancholia, von Trier baffled the crowd -- including the film's star, Kirsten Dunst -- by proclaiming that he was "really a Nazi" and that he sympathized with Hitler. In response, the Cannes Board of Directors issued a statement this morning saying, "The Board of Directors firmly condemns these comments and declares Lars von Trier a persona non grata at the Festival de Cannes, with effect immediately."
In a rambling monologue at the press conference, von Trier dug himself into a hole that he could not get out of, even as Dunst gently tried to get him to stop. After confessing that it gave him "pleasure" to discover that he's "really a Nazi," von Trier said: "I understand Hitler. I think he did some wrong things -- yes, absolutely... Hitler is not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him and sympathize with him a little bit." He tried to reassure the shocked crowd by saying, "I'm not for the Second World War. I'm not against Jews," -- but then continued to shoot himself in the foot by making fun of Jewish director Susanne Bier and calling the Israelis a "pain in the ass."
Von Trier has a reputation as a provocateur (in his films and in his life), and he is noted for his outrageous comments. Crazy behavior from von Trier at press conferences is nothing new. Was this all some kind of misguided joke? Did he hope people would laugh? Looking at the clip, he seems to think he is being funny, but the jokes are falling on the crowd like a lead balloon, and Dunst starts to look visibly uncomfortable as the rambling monologue goes on.
Yesterday, von Trier issued a brief apology: "If I have hurt someone this morning by the words I said at the press conference, I sincerely apologize. I am not antisemitic or racially prejudiced in any way, nor am I a Nazi."
Von Trier has since elaborated in an interview with the L.A. Times. "I must say that I believe strongly that the Holocaust is the worst crime against humanity ever, and I do not sympathize with Hitler one second," von Trier says. "I'm really sincere when I say I don't really know what hit me. I can understand if you take things out of context. This was very sarcastic and very rude, but that's very Danish. I'm very sorry that it's being taken the wrong way."
Melancholia will remain in competition, but von Trier is forbidden from attending the the awards ceremony to pick up any prizes.
Von Trier, director of such provocative films as Breaking the Waves (starring Emily Watson), Dancer in the Dark (starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve), Dogville (with Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall), tells the L.A. Times: "Sometimes I hurt people on purpose, when there's provocation that I want to get through that has a meaning. This doesn't have a meaning. I've studied how bad the Jews have been treated in (places such as) Poland and France. This is something that matters very much to me. And this was an idiotic way to behave. I'm just an idiot that should just say home in Denmark and never talk to anybody."
Watch von Trier's controversial Cannes comments below:
Sheena Upton aka Kerry Campbell claims "Good Morning America" was so anxious to get the first interview with the Botox Mom ... show producers never even bothered to double check her story.Upton tells TMZ, GMA -- who she claims offered her $10,000 for her story -- "didn't ask me any questions to try to figure out anything" before airing the show last week -- adding, they just put her straight on TV. A spokesperson for ABC has already insisted the show made several attempts to verify Upton's story -- telling us, "Good Morning America has repeatedly questioned Upton, members of her family, and other sources who again and again stood by the Botox story." As we previously reported, Upton claims the entire story that she injected her 8-year-old daughter with Botox was a complete sham ... concocted by a U.K. tabloid called The Sun -- which then paid her $200 for acting the part.