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Playing a former President or First Lady is becoming a trend in movies these days, especially with Precious director Lee Daniels' upcoming The Butler, which will span eight different administrations while it tells the story of White House butler Eugene Allen. While Alan Rickman will play actor-turned-President Ronald Reagan in that project, it looks like Michael Douglas will also get a chance to play Reagan as well.
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Attention celebrities: If you have revealing photos on your phone — delete them now. Mad Men's Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn are the latest celebrities to have their phones hacked (joining the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis). Over the weekend scandalous photos of both actresses were leaked online showing the two in skimpy outfits. Both actresses are denying that photos showing actual nudity are them. Hendricks' rep told TMZ that a topless shot is not Hendricks. TMZ is reporting that Munn is claiming the same about photos that show a woman completely naked. In both instances the faces of the women being photographed are not in frame.
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Reviews of Lindsay Lohan's Saturday Night Live appearance are in and the general consensus is that Lilo should have stayed home. For many sketches Lohan was kept in the background and when she did have lines, she was painfully dependent on cue cards. EW.com was asking readers if Lohan was the worst host of the season (47% said yes) and on Twitter, Joan Rivers commented: "Lindsay Lohan was so bad on SNL that the judge is sending her back to rehab, but for acting lessons.” Someone else tweeted: "#SNL had Lindsay Lohan on mainly so NBC News would have fresh file footage next time she's arrested." Despite the bad reviews, Lilo's episode gave SNL its second-highest ratings of the year.
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So what do you do with a hundred thousand dollars worth of wedding gifts after your marriage ends after 72 days? If you're Kim Kardashian you keep them but donate money to charity. In a letter sent to guests who attended her wedding, Kim said she is donating the cash amount of the gifts she received to the Dream Foundation. TMZ reports the total cash value of all gifts is estimated to be around $100K but Kim is cutting a check for twice that amount to the charity.
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Over the weekend, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Bacon, and Chris Colfer were among the stars who performed a one-night benefit reading of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's play 8, about the legal battle over California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. Meanwhile on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, '80s sitcom star Kirk Cameron was blunt about his opposition to homosexuality, saying it is "unnatural and ultimately destructive." He also said he opposed gay marriage.
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And in celebrity hair news, Willow Smith can no longer whip her hair back and forth now that she's buzzed it and dyed it green.
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Adrien Brody stars as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher and lost soul grappling with a troubled past, in Detachment. Barthes finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Barthes inadvertently becomes a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is.
Called a "harrowing depiction of the American educational system" by The Hollywood Reporter, Detachment is the long-awaited movie from director Tony Kaye (Amercian History X). Its stellar ensemble cast includes Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, and newcomers Sami Gayle and Betty Kaye.
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Nicolas Refn's new movie, Drive, opened in theaters this weekend, but the Danish director simply can't stop talking about his passion project — directing a live-action adaptation of DC Comics' Wonder Woman. Refn first mentioned his desire to make a Wonder Woman movie back in April 2010, telling BBC that it would be his "$200 million extravaganza" and that he took the directing job on Drive to "start the ball rolling within the [Hollywood] system." Then, at the U.S. premiere of Drive, Refn once again mentioned Wonder Woman, even offering up Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks as his ideal Amazonian princess (Hendricks actually responded to Refn's casting idea yesterday, saying, "It is complete rumor, but it’s fun when people talk about it."). Refn recently spoke about the character yet again, admitting to Collider that he is "completely obsessed about Wonder Woman" and even going so far as to say he has a "fetish" for the superheroine.
how obsessed is Refn with Wonder Woman? >> Posted 09.17.11 by BrentJS -
Fanboy alert! Nearly a year ago, we reported on a potential big-screen version of Wonder Woman. And now, it seems Mad Men star Christina Hendricks could be cast in the title role, should the project get off the ground. The news came from the Los Angeles Film Festival during the U.S. premiere of the heist flick Drive, which stars Hendricks alongside Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.
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Today's Challenge: Can you find the movie link that connects these two Christinas, Ricci and Hendricks?
Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.
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Posted 05.02.11 by reelz