Louis Gossett Jr., who took home the golden prize in 1982 for An Officer and a Gentleman, announced today that he’s been diagnosed with the early stages of prostate cancer.
The 73-year-old claims he wants the world to know in order “to set an example for the large number of African-American men who are victims of this disease because of the comparatively low emphasis in our community on preventative examinations and early treatment,” he told KTLA News in Los Angeles. “I want to influence them to seek, as I have, the fine medical care and early detection now available.”
Here’s hoping he has a speedy recovery.
source: Louis Gossett Jr.: I Have Cancer [e online]
With ‘The Wolfman’ terrorizing its way into theaters Friday, we couldn’t help but wonder whether or not the film’s producers really needed to shell out for all those expensive CGI effects on Benicio Del Toro. We’re in a recession, after all, and there are plenty of actors in Hollywood who are more than hairy enough to fit the ‘Wolfman’ bill without all the costly add-ons.
Robin Williams
The godfather of Hollywood Hairiness, Robin Williams has been in the game for nearly four decades and is still going strong. Forget the Oscar and the Golden Globe awards; Williams’ greatest achievement might be making it into the Urban Dictionary lexicon: a noun signifying “an exceptionally hairy person, usually a guy.” Hair on, Robin!
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin is without a doubt the most prolific Baldwin brother and probably the hairiest as well. Even the most casual of Baldwin Google searches will ultimately take you to a strange world of fandom and devotion for his epically hairy chest. Try it for yourself, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Tom Selleck
So many people focus on Mr. Selleck’s propensity for growing world-class mustaches that they often forget that the man is just as follicly endowed everywhere else (minds out of the gutter, please). Selleck’s no one-trick pony, but he’s probably just as furry.
Chuck Norris
Same Selleck principle goes for Chuck Norris as well — if you weren’t so busy focusing on his sheer awesomeness, then you’d definitely know by now that he’s one hairy ninja.
Burt Reynolds
Though his face may be a little unrecognizable these days, there’s no denying the hairy chest is still all Burt.
Sean Connery
The baddest Scot in the game, Sean Connery is the prototype for a leading man brazen enough to drive an Aston Martin unscathed through a literal minefield, dismantle a bomb set to destroy the world and still get the girl — au naturale of course. Who has time for manscaping when you’re James Bond?
Hugh Jackman
After three ‘X-Men’ movies and a one-mutant spin-off, it’s hard to imagine anyone but Hugh Jackman filling out those Wolverine mutton chops.
David Hasselhoff
Little known fact: a lock David Hasselhoff’s chest hair sells for about €75 in Germany ($102 U.S.).
Steve Carrell
And we’ll leave you with one of the more memorable manscaping moments in recent history — Steve Carrell’s hysterical adventures in waxing from ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin.’
I leave you with Madonna’s hairiest crotch shot ever (NSFW) ha!
source: Hollywood’s Hairiest Actors: The Definitive List [popeater]
While penning a piece for travel magazine AFAR, Andrew McCarthy was detained at gunpoint after entering an Ethiopian church without proper documentation.
The actor, who found himself without his paperwork while visiting the historic Lalibela church in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, was confronted by an armed guard. McCarthy writes,
“His gun [was] pointed at my back. I thought his reaction to my offense was extreme; I tried to say as much. He grunted something in Amharic and prodded me with the tip of his rifle.”
After being escorted from the church, McCarthy was helped to safety by residents of the town.
Despite the alarming incident, the actor maintained his sense of humor, saying it was “just the kind of thing that happens when you show up alone in a distant country without a plan.”
I will always have a soft spot for Andrew, “Pretty in Pink” for the win!
After coming across these photos of Karissa and Kristina Shannon, I can now see why exactly Hugh Hefner dumped their ass.
On top of how stupid they both act, the fact that they would show up to an event at the Playboy Mansion (or anywhere at all including a McDonalds) would be enough to make me dump anybody. Even if they were twins who would do anything in bed.
It’s not even the clothes that bother me it’s that ratty hair they have going on, they both just look dirty and they always look bloated in the face. Maybe I’m too picky?
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source: So That’s What Hef Saw In These Two [Dlisted]
I know this may not be a bombshell to most “Star Wars” fans, but James Earl Jones was not in the Darth Vader suit at the time of filming. For the eight people who didn’t know that, sorry to ruin the illusion.
Since Jones’s voice was dubbed in later, David Prowse, the English Actor and body builder (thanks wikipedia) inside the suit, could be heard saying the lines during the actual filming.
This is actual footage from the filming of the first movie. Not really the menacing voice of a Sith Lord, or a body builder for that matter. But he delivers the lines with such gusto. Such fervor.
I don’t know about you, but all I can think about is THIS.
We all know that some men wear makeup, especially in Hollywood, but usually the makeup is done better than the way Bradley Cooper had his done last night?
While attending the premiere for his new movie Valentine’s Day, the actor showed off what a disaster makeup can look like if not done right.
Bradley Cooper should fire his makeup artist, or hire one – if he did it himself, because it looks like only half of his face is done with bronzer while the rest of it it looks his natural white color.
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source: Renee Zellweger’s boyfriend Bradley Cooper suffers a tanning disaster on the red carpet [Daily Mail]
Brooklyn Decker has been revealed as the as the Sports Illustrated covergirl for the 2010 Swimsuit Issue.
The cover was revealed on The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday night and the model will now do her round of talk show visits to promote the cover.
After the cover was released the 22-year-old took to her Twitter to say “I cried three times because family flew in to surprise me! The issue is amazing, glowing, fun, the girls are happy… it’s not over-the-top, the girls and editors should be so proud! THANK YOU ALL!!!”
The 2010 Academy Awards take place next month but Time Magazine have gone ahead and put up a list of the biggest 10 Oscar nomination snubs.
Best Actor: Fred Astaire, Top Hat (1935)
The Academy has traditionally thought of movie acting as dramatic acting: tearing a passion to tatters, preferably while speaking in an accent and wearing eccentric makeup. That excluded the swellegant, elegant Mr. Fred Astaire; all he did was sing and dance with greater craft and feeling than anybody in movie history. His duets with Ginger Rogers — “Isn’t This a Lovely Day” and “Cheek to Cheek” in Top Hat and “Never Gonna Dance” in Swing Time — are not just superb examples of Terpsichore’s art but among the most powerful expressions of courtship, love and loss in screen history. Astaire was never nominated for these musicals, or for any other — though the Academy did insult his dance legacy by nominating him for Best Supporting Actor for a nothing role, played long past his prime, in the 1974 disaster pic The Towering Inferno.
Best Actor: Cary Grant, His Girl Friday (1940)
Golden-age Hollywood promoted glamour all year long and then, when it came to the Oscars, rewarded anti-glamour. To understand the Academy’s prejudice against its richest resource, consider that by 1941 Walter Brennan — who specialized in playing cunning, toothless galoots — had won three Oscars, while Cary Grant had not even been nominated. By then Grant had starred in The Awful Truth, Topper, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings and The Philadelphia Story — fashioning the indelible template of the attractive, self-deprecating movie male, and doing it with superb comic timing or action-adventure gruffness, as the role demanded. In His Girl Friday he’s a ruthless newspaper editor who browbeats his writer-wife (Rosalind Russell), all other journalists, the city’s mayor and cops and a condemned killer, just because … he’s Cary Grant. It’s a fast, gorgeous comic turn, for which Grant got no nomination. He would be cited for two dramatic performances, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, yet Hollywood’s greatest comic actor was never nominated for a comedy role.
Best Actor: Bill Murray, Groundhog Day (1993)
Selfish and snarky, Bill Murray’s Phil Connors is a Pittsburgh weatherman who plans to be in Punxsutawney, Pa., for just one day: Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. Except that the day repeats itself, with infinitely minute variations, until Phil gets it right. In a minor scandal, the film got no nominations. An Oscar should have gone to Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin for the script, which deftly balances comedy and philosophy (Is God a groundhog? Discuss), and another to Bill Murray for acting. From Caddyshack to What About Bob?, Murray had refined his amiable doofus into the minimalist modern man: his posture a question mark, his face a concrete poem of anticipated disappointment. In Groundhog Day he rises to romance and sinks to despair — and is wonderfully funny — all in the same day after day after day.
Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (1941)
The Hollywood screen’s all-time toughest, smartest dame, Barbara Stanwyck played comedy and pathos with equal agility, yet she never won a competitive Oscar. Her scheming adulteress-murderess in Double Indemnity, for example, lost out to the harried wife played by Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight, as Hollywood chose to reward the noble victim rather than the brilliant predator. Some of her tangiest roles flew right under the Academy’s radar, like the career gal who literally screws her way up the corporate ladder in Baby Face. Her sharpest comedy performance, no question, was playing the cruise-ship con artist who seduces a hapless Henry Fonda in Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve, probably the all-time top screwball comedy. She is the devil every man would gladly play the sucker for; but neither she nor Sturges got a nomination. The movie’s only reward was immortality.
Best Director: John Ford, The Searchers (1956)
It is now widely regarded as the greatest western of the 1950s, the genre’s greatest decade. The tale of a loner searching for a missing daughter has been remade scores of times (most recently in Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness). But John Ford’s darkly profound study of obsession, racism and heroic solitude was shrugged off when it first appeared. Though Ford was Hollywood’s most honored auteur, with four Oscars as Best Director, he got nothing when he made his masterpiece. The Academy also ignored the towering performance of John Wayne as the scarred Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards, who either exorcises his demons or surrenders to them in violent revenge. Wayne would finally get an Oscar for his assured but much less complex performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. But reward his most powerful role? That’ll be the day.
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)
The movie got a Best Picture nomination (losing to Rocky) — as well as nominations for Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster (Best Actor and Supporting Actress) and for Bernard Herrmann’s creepy score — but its gifted director was ignored. Like Hieronymus Bosch working with spray paint, Martin Scorsese visualized a Manhattan hellscape with steam, blood and vomit everywhere, and in the center a crazed cabbie who literally gets away with murder. By rights, Scorsese could have been nominated three times in the ’70s: for Mean Streets and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as well as Taxi Driver. But America’s most astute and passionate picture maker had to wait until 2007, and The Departed, to get a Best Director statuette. By then it might as well have been a lifetime achievement award — or the Academy’s public apology for more than 30 years of myopic calls against him.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)
The opposite of Sally Field’s gushing “You like me, you really like me” upon winning an Oscar was Steven Spielberg’s response when his first big movie, Jaws, was nominated for Best Picture but stiffed in the Best Director category. Jaws had only become the top-grossing film since The Sound of Music a decade before, and Spielberg had managed to wrangle Bruce — the production’s balky mechanical shark — into a creature of demonic intent and satanic power. The tarring of Spielberg as a maker of “just movies” would continue through Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, for which he was nominated but lost. The year of E.T., the Academy gave the Best Picture and Director prizes to Richard Attenborough’s worthy but plodding Gandhi. Spielberg had to make his only true-life epic, Schindler’s List, before he finally won an Oscar.
Best Picture: King Kong (1933)
In 1934, for the first time, the Academy allowed 10 Best Picture nominations. All those slots, and not one of them could be filled by the greatest fantasy in Hollywood history? Cavalcade, the stately, starchy filming of a Noel Coward play, took the Best Picture award, and King Kong received no nominations at all, not even in the technical and engineering categories. So much for Willis O’Brien’s construction and stop-motion animation of the 18-in.-tall ape, which gave Kong gravitas as he battled dinosaurs on a jungle island and soul as he wooed Fay Wray and took her to the top of the Empire State Building. King Kong inspired generations of boy geniuses, from Steven Spielberg to Peter Jackson (who did a loving though oversize remake in 2005), while Cavalcade slipped into oblivion.
Best Picture: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Voted the best American comedy of all time in an American Film Institute survey 10 years ago, Billy Wilder’s fizzy farce earned nominations for screenplay, direction and Jack Lemmon’s performance as a Prohibition musician who goes on the lam disguised as a woman. (Tony Curtis, Lemmon’s partner in drag, deserved a nod too.) But the movie was denied one of the Best Picture slots, which were filled by two religious epics (Ben-Hur and The Nun’s Story), two “daring” melodramas (Anatomy of a Murder and Room at the Top) and The Diary of Anne Frank. Back then, elevated sentiments and hot-button social issues seemed so much more important than an ephemeral comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and two guys in dresses. Today, it’s the ephemeral that has lasted.
Best Picture: The Dark Knight (2008)
Why did the Academy decide to reinstate the 10-film field for Best Picture in 2010? Because the year before, The Dark Knight wasn’t voted into the top five. At the time the second biggest dollar earner in movie history (now passed by Avatar), Christopher Nolan’s saturnine fantasy was a film that kids and critics alike appreciated, less as a live-action comic book than as a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. The Academy members didn’t go bats for this Batman; instead, they filled out their Best Picture cards with their favorite fallen President (Frost/Nixon), a Nazi warden (The Reader), a civil rights martyr (Milk), an old guy who gets younger (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the eventual winner, Slumdog Millionaire. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Best Supporting Actor), The Dark Knight was ignored in all major award categories, earning only doorstop prizes like Best Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Safe to say that the Academy won’t shut out the big action-adventure movie of 2009. Avatar is a sure nominee for Best Picture, and a likely winner.
I agree with the majority of these, I enjoyed The Dark Knight but I really don’t the movie should have gotten a nomination so I would take that off the list. Instead I would put on Alfred Hitchcock, it’s a disgrace he never got an Oscar. What do you think? Any movies or people who should have received nominations?
Hugh Hefner is being sued by Playboy shareholders over living the high life and not selling the company at a reasonable and profitable price.
A Playboy shareholder claims that the company is falling apart and Hef has intentionally sabotaged two potential deals in the past six months to sell off the company at a decent price.
In the lawsuit, an investment company that analyzed Playboy’s business sent a note stating “we think the wildcard here is Hugh Hefner.” The note continues, “If you were Hugh Hefner, 81, would you give up the parade of busty blonds, the fancy mansion and the reality TV show for a payout.?”
The suit goes on … “Hefner has continued to live the good life and make sure everyone knows it. Hefner remains in the limelight, showing up at media events and at the Playboy mansion … with his girlfriends by his side.”
They are claiming that Hef is running over them by not grabbing the profit while he could. They are seeking unspecified damages.
Of course he’s living it up, wouldn’t you at that age?
source: Hugh Hefner Accused Of Screwing Playboy – [tmz]
Remember the little thing about Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler’s faux romance? Well it is heating up apparently because her ass (literally..check the photos below) is in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with him at the moment.
Aniston is currently in Cabo celebrating her 40th birthday (she turns 40-years-old on February 11th) with her friends Courtney Cox, Sheryl Crow and of course Butler.
But I’m so sick of talking about her relationship with Butler, it will be over by the time their new movie they did together comes out on DVD, so instead I am going to talk about her ass.
Look at that ass in the photos, I was surprised it belonged to Jennifer Aniston but what a nice surprise to have right? Even if she and Gerard Butler aren’t really together, I hope he at least gets to tap that for putting up with this fauxmance crap.
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source: Jennifer Aniston Bikini Pictures Go Ass Up [Egotastic]
Carrie Prejean is doing what most straight couples do – getting married to the opposite sex and not opposite married. Make sense? Probably not but neither does this bitch classy lady.
The former Miss California got engaged to her boyfriend Kyle Boller, the quarterback for St. Louis Rams, over the weekend in San Diego.
The couple began dating in July of 2009 and he stuck with her ass through all the drama of her life for the past few months. He owns a home in San Diego and spends all his time during the off-season.
I can’t even congratulate them, I’m sure she is torn up inside because of that.
source: Carrie Prejean Engaged to a Ram [Popeater]
Well hello there Anne Hathaway looking all sexy in the new issue of British GQ Magazine, how nice of you to wake me up this morning. That is what I thought of when I first came across these photos.
We all know that she is beautiful but she never really does any “sexy” photoshoots or anything so when they come along I like to make a point of getting to know them very well.
If she could change anything in her life: “Looking back, if I could give myself some advice, I would tell myself not to take it all so seriously.”
On kissing in movies : “If you’re both unattached and you get along, of course kissing in a movie is fun, but you can never get truly deep down and into it. It’s a totally different experience. You really you have to be Angelina Jolie to pull that off and still look good. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I ain’t no Angie.”
When asked who the best kisser in Hollywood was she said Jennifer Garner. I wouldn’t mind kissing either Garner or Anne Hathaway especially if she wore the corset in these photos.
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source: Holy Anne Hathaway Hotness, Batman! [Egotastic]
In Hollywood, it is commonplace for shy stars to use a body double for a sex scene. But while Megan Fox happily went naked in her latest film Jennifer’s Body, it appears she isn’t quite so confident with her hands.
In her latest role, starring in a one-off Super Bowl advert for Motorola, it appears the actress has enlisted a hand double.
In the Motorola ad screened yesterday, a naked Megan Fox reclines in a bubblebath with some strategically placed suds protecting her modesty. But while her sexy pouting caught a lot of attention, other viewers were more concerned with the fact her ‘hands’ didn’t belong to her.
In the commercial, a totally different woman’s fingers are seen playing with the phone during the close-up.
The actress has a genetic condition called brachydactyly, which means she has clubbed thumbs. So rather than use her actual thumbs for the close-up on the new Blur smart phone, Motorola enlisted a hand model.
I wonder if she was concerned, or Motorola?
source: Megan Fox enrols a ‘hand double’ as she peels off for sexy Super Bowl advert [daily mail]
“His gun [was] pointed at my back. I thought his reaction to my offense was extreme; I tried to say as much. He grunted something in Amharic and prodded me with the tip of his rifle.”
