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Chris Pine's meteoric rise to fame started with 2009's Star Trek (sorry, Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement fans), with Pine stepping into the iconic role of Captain Kirk. Pine took a step backward with This Means War, the recently released romantic comedy that received lousy reviews and failed to impress at the box office.
Still, with Pine currently shooting Star Trek 2 (working title), the actor has little cause for concern. Despite the fact that his non-Star Trek efforts, This Means War and 2010's Unstoppable, have failed to become massive successes, Pine has already lined up another potential franchise. He will be taking over the role of CIA analyst Jack Ryan in an untitled reboot — the first movie to feature the Tom Clancy character since 2002's The Sum of All Fears.
In an interview with Australia's Adelaide Now, Pine admitted he's "not too nervous" about playing Ryan after already successfully playing James T. Kirk.
what did pine say? >> Posted 02.23.12 by Ryan -
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Madonna says she's nervous about her Super Bowl performance, but Sir Elton John offered her some simple advice that will likely rekindle their ongoing feud: "Make sure you lip-sync good." Meanwhile, pictures of the stage at Lucas Oil Field have emerged — she'll sing "Vogue" — and it may need to be structurally reinforced now that the Material Girl will be joined by LMFAO, Cee-Lo Green, M.I.A., and Nicki Minaj.
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Newt Gingrich is trailing Mitt Romney by 14 points as the Florida polls open today, and now he's being sued by a member of Survivor for playing "Eye of the Tiger," the Grammy-winning song from 1982's Rocky III.
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American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe was so impressed by Barack Obama's singing of the first line of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" that he's pitching the Prez to appear on the show and sing a duet with Green.
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Alec Baldwin is demonstrating the benefits of dating a yoga instructor, having dropped 30 pounds after quitting sugar and taking up Pilates, spinning, and, of course, yoga.
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In relationship news, Italian model Elisabetta Canalis appears to have traded down — way down — going from George Clooney to Jackass star Steve-O, and People reports Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana are official after being spotted together often at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Writer-director Ryan Murphy has had a pretty good run of success — having created the TV shows Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story and Glee, and his last movie, Eat, Pray, Love, made a solid $204 million worldwide — so its no surprise that actors are lining up to work with him on his next movie project: an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart.
THR reports that Julia Roberts (who worked with Murphy on Eat, Pray, Love), Alec Baldwin (It's Complicated, 30 Rock), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), and Matt Bomer (USA's White Collar, In Time) are all joining actor Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right) in the drama, based on Larry Kramer's 1985 autobiographical play about the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York’s gay community in the 1980s. Kramer wrote the screenplay for the movie version as well.
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For those that aren't familiar with the hit Broadway musical, the trailer for the movie adaptation for Rock of Ages may not explain the musical's plot, but it does reveal the comedic — borderline ridiculous — tone of the ensemble movie. Set in 1980s Hollywood, the trailer reveals the movie's large ensemble, filled with rock 'n roll sensations (Tom Cruise), club owners (Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige), club managers (Russell Brand), rock 'n roll haters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and rock 'n roll dreamers (Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta).
"This movie is just a giant party," director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) said to MTV about the trailer. "It's a bring-your-friends giant party." And, according to Shankman, no one had more fun at the party than Cruise.
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Lindsay Lohan had her $5K Chanel purse stolen while on vacation in Hawaii, along with $10,000 in cash inside. Later, the purse — along with her passport and court docs permitting travel — was recovered but not the loot, and she's terrified the episode might send her back to jail.
Meanwhile, an un-Photoshopped pic of LiLo at her Playboy shoot has emerged. Lohan says that "sex and sexuality are part of nature" and that posing nude gives her confidence, and that women need confidence.
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Jennifer Aniston has been named "The Hottest Woman of All Time" by Men's Health magazine. When asked by the men's monthly what her least sexy character she's ever played was, without hesitation she answered Jeannie Bueller on the TV version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Katy Perry and Alec Baldwin propelled Saturday Night Live to its highest ratings in five weeks, and also delivered the funny with Baldwin playing American Airlines captain Steve Rogers, who apologized for removing him from the plane and saying, "Alec Baldwin is an American treasure."
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Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mueller, is admitting she has a substance abuse problem and will go to rehab, but apparently at some point later as she was photographed falling outside a Beverly Hills nightclub on Saturday night.
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Lindsay Lohan's Playboy cover has leaked weeks before its official newsstand release, and it features LiLo straddling a bunny logo chair with the rabbit ears covering her cleavage. Hugh Hefner did say the shoot would be tasteful and "very classy."
In other Lohan news, Star is reporting the discovery of Lindsay's diary, in which she called Heath Ledger "the love of my life" the day he died from a drug overdose in 2008.
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Alec Baldwin issued an apology to his fellow passengers after getting kicked off a plane on Tuesday, but then took aim at American Airlines, comparing the experience to riding a Greyhound bus. Both companies responded with AA calling Baldwin "extremely rude" and Greyhound saying, "I don’t know why he’s mentioning Greyhound, but we take pride in our safe and enjoyable service."
Before Baldwin deleted his Twitter account, he got in his parting shot, tweeting that American Airlines is "where Catholic-school gym teachers from the 1950s find jobs as flight attendants."
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez took their PDA show to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the Biebs took pics of Gomez in a tiny turquoise bikini. Gomez was also snapped wearing a diamond ring, which led to speculation Bieber had popped the question, but a rep for Gomez said flatly, "She is not engaged."
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Newly single Kris Humphries is building a man cave in his Minnesota home with the help of DIY Network's Jason Cameron and former NFL player and current FOX announcer Tony Siragusa. Cameron concocted a "chill lounge" concept that has two bars, liquor dispensers, and a wall that transforms into a 120-inch projection screen.
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Scout Willis, the 20-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, got extremely cheeky in a photo shoot for personal style site StyleLikeU, riding a motorcycle in a pair of buttless chaps.
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Alec Baldwin was not kicked off an American Airlines flight for playing "Words With Friends" as has been reported, but because after he was told to turn off the game he stormed to the bathroom and slammed the door so hard the captain called back to flight attendants to find out what was happening. At any rate, Zynga, the company behind "Words With Friends," tweeted a pic in support of Baldwin.
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Terrence Howard's estranged wife Michelle Ghent was granted a restraining order against the actor, claiming he regularly beats her and threatens to kill her, but Howard says it's all a lie. In documents filed with the court Ghent alleges Howard:
— Threatened to throw her off a balcony
— Said, "If you tell anyone about my business, I'll kill you and no one will ever know."
— Yelled, "B!tch, walk home. That's my car, I pay for it."
— Said, "I'll hit a woman quicker than I'd hit a man."
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Kim Richards is back in rehab not just for alcohol abuse, but for "other problems" and that they're "serious." Meanwhile, Kelly Bensimons, who was booted off this season's show, has gone back to her modeling roots and can clearly still rock it at 43.
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Forbes has released its list of Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck and Kristen Stewart is at No. 1. For every $1 Stewart is paid her films earn an average $55.83. KStew is followed by Anne Hathaway ($45.67), Robert Pattinson ($39.43), Daniel Radcliffe ($34.24), and Shia LaBeouf ($29.40).
Last month Forbes listed the most overpaid actors in Hollywood, and Drew Barrymore was the runaway winner/loser, earning just 40 cents for every dollar spent on her movies.
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At 75, Woody Allen is at a career high. His last movie, Midnight in Paris, was his largest financial success in his long and storied career, earning $107 million in worldwide box office.
While Allen shot Midnight in Paris in, well, Paris, France, his latest movie was shot in Rome, Italy, and was initially titled The Bop Decameron. Made up of four vignettes, the movie stars Alec Baldwin, Robert Begnini, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg and Ellen Page and also has a new title. Allen told THR that The Bop Decameron, named after Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval allegory The Decameron, didn't register with most people so he changed it.
I couldn't believe how few people had heard of The Decameron even in Rome. And the few that did assumed the movie was based on Boccaccio's tales which it's not. Anyhow, I changed the title to Nero Fiddled, which is the first time I've changed a title since my last minute switch of Anhedonia to Annie Hall.
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Reese Witherspoon will not press charges against the 84-year-old woman who hit her with her car Wednesday. Granny is not completely off the hook though as she's been cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk and has been forced to retake her driver's test.
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Ali Lohan's modeling agency denies recent rumors that she's had plastic surgery, while a leading nutrition expert suspects her more angular face is the result of muscle wasting and that a calorie-restricted diet has Ali down to 95 lbs.
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In need of cash since husband Russell Armstrong committed suicide, Taylor Armstrong has inked a book deal focused on domestic abuse, which will include photos of injuries sustained allegedly at the hands of Russell.
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Jon Gosselin is offering Kate Gosselin some sage advice, telling her ex-wife, "Reality TV is not a career. Get back to a normal life – a simple life." Kate clearly isn't ready to listen, rolling in a brand new, 4-seat Audi TT.
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Nike's limited-edition Marty McFly sneakers from Back to the Future II are for sale on eBay and prices are topping $9,000. All proceeds from the sale benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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Finally, Ben and Jerry's is paying tribute to a classic Saturday Night Live skit by releasing a limited batch of Schweddy Balls ice cream. It's vanilla with a hint of rum and loaded with fudge-covered rum and malt balls.
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Hustler magazine insists it's in posession of a sex tape starring Rihanna and rapper J. Cole — Cole opened for her Loud tour this year — but Rihanna says no tape exists, tweeting: "We don't believe U, U need more people...AND of course an actual sextape! #slownewsday" (We hear you, Rihanna.)
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There's no denying the existence of a creepy tape 49-year-old Jim Carrey made confessing a huge crush on 22-year-old Emma Stone. Carrey posted a video on his website in which he gushes, "Emma, I think you're all the way beautiful. Not just pretty, but smart and kind-hearted. And if I were a lot younger, I would marry you. We would have chubby little freckle-faced kids."
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Forbes released its annual list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women and Lady Gaga (#11) is more powerful than Oprah Winfrey (#14) and Beyoncé Knowles (#18) but not as powerful as German Chancellor Angela Merkel who's #1 on the list.
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Successfully avoiding the paparazzi, Casey Anthony reported to the Florida Department of Corrections Wednesday night to begin one year of probation for her conviction for check fraud.
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As he readies a run for mayor of NYC, 53-year-old Alec Baldwin is moving in with 27-year-old yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas. And in another May-September relationship, 64-year-old Larry David is dating 41-year-old actress Amy Landecker. The two met on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm earlier this year while shooting "The Bi-Sexual" epsisode, which aired last Sunday.
Posted 08.25.11 by reelz