Aniston's Directorial Debut, Back-End Deal

By Marc Malkin Oct 18, 2006 10:24 PMTags
Jennifer AnistonJohn Sciulli/WireImage.com

Jennifer Aniston has a nice ass. But more on that later.

Aniston hit the red carpet in Los Angeles for the premiere of her directorial debut, Room 10, an emotional short film that details the encounter of a nurse (Robin Wright Penn) and a stranger (Kris Kristofferson) whose wife of forty-five years is dying. "Jennifer definitely has no problem telling you how she feels and what she wants from you," the 70-year-old Kristofferson told me just before the screening at the DGA building in L.A. "She wasn't scared to tell an old fart like me what to do."

Room 10, codirected by Aniston's longtime friend Andrea Buchanan, is one of three shorts in this year's Reel Moments, Glamour magazine's Cartier-sponsored film series. While Aniston may not like her private life getting splashed all over the press, this movie may not help her on that front. A good chunk of Kristofferson's dialogue is about love and how hard it is to make a marriage work. Sound familiar?  "Luck," says Kristofferson's character of his marriage, "has nothing to do with it."

Indeed. Nor was it luck that got Kristofferson involved in the film: "I just wanted to meet Jennifer Aniston, because I've always been a big fan of that TV series of hers."

Also at the premiere--which included a champagne-filled bash at the Chateau Marmont--were the other films' directors and stars, including Ron Howard's daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, comedian Carol Leifer, Katherine Waterston, and Alfred Molina, along with Sean Penn, Tobey Maguire and pregnant fiancée Jennifer Meyer, Rita Wilson and Cindy Leivi, Glamour mag's always friendly editor in chief. And, hey, what would a party be without Lindsay Lohan?

The starlet hit the bash with her hairstylist. Perhaps L.L. is looking for an invitation from Glamour to make her directorial debut, too?

Okay, back to Aniston's derriere. At least one photo agency is offering close-ups taken last night of her tiny, tight tush and her left hand, which has no—I repeat, no!—ring on the wedding finger.