Rogen, Hathaway, Jackman, Franco, Rudd Join the Academy
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Seth Rogen and James Franco have taken the pineapple express to Oscar credibility.
As if expanding the Best Picture nominee pool and potentially nixing the Best Song category wasn't enough to modernize the usually staid Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, surely its welcoming of cinema's preeminent bong jokesters is.
Rogen and Franco are two of 134 new artists and movie industry executives who have been extended invitations to join the Academy and, in doing so, secure voting rights for all future Oscar ceremonies beginning in 2010.
The smokin' Pineapple Express duo are joined by fellow Judd Apatow repertory players Michael Cera, Paul Rudd and Jane Lynch, along with Casey Affleck, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Taraji P. Henson, James McAvoy, Tyler Perry, Danny Boyle, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams, Amy Ryan, Slumdog soundtracker A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, Tom Cruise's producing partner-in-crime, Paula Wagner, Milk man Dustin Lance Black and Mr. Oscar himself, Hugh Jackman.
Did Ex-Dawson's Creek Show Runner Just Trash Katie Holmes?
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No, it isn't 1998. It's just that former Dawson's Creek show runner Tom Kapinos spoke at a Los Angeles Times' Envelope Emmy screening series panel about his current show, Californication, last night, and well, he went off on his former starlets.
In talking about the genesis of Californication, Tom explained: "The idea came out of my own misery of working on Dawson's Creek. I came out here to write screenplays, and I ended up on Dawson's Creek, which was very lucrative and fun, but it was not what I wanted to do."
Tom then went on to seemingly trash Dawson's stars Katie Holmes, James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams. Check this craziness out...
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• Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams scents a catfight in this faux de parfum ad directed by Roman Polanski. [See the whole thing at Dazed Digital]
• Speaking of scents, Gossip guys Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick are stinky. [NY Daily News]
• Megan Fox sure knows how to stretch a dollar. [Star]
• Joaquin Phoenix tries to explain the ugly. [Sun]
• Channing Tatum is dollicious! [People]
• Dear Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: We hear your kids caused quite a stir at a London hotel. It's nice to know your family isn't as perfect as it appears. Love, Rise 'n' Shine [Sun]
Is Leonardo DiCaprio contemplating peace in our Big Picture Gallery, or is he picturing girlfriend Bar Refaeli lookin' smokin' on the cover of the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated?
Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams Pass First Oscar-Season Test
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Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and James Franco, your tickets to Oscar season have been punched.
Mickey Rourke, you've been punched, too. In a good way, this time.
All actors were front and center as nominations were announced today for the Independent Spirit Awards, the movie-award calendar's first major test.
Brokeback Mountain costars Hathaway and Williams are up for Best Female Lead for dressing down in the art-house hit Rachel Getting Married and the upcoming Wendy and Lucy, respectively.
Rate-a-Trailer: Michelle Williams Movie a Tough Sell?
Warning. Marley & Me this ain't.
Yes, Wendy and Lucy does feature a cute Lab (the Lucy in the title) much like the one in the upcoming Jennifer Aniston flick, but that's pretty much where the similarities begin and end between that silly-antics-filled romp and this more serious, seemingly depressing, indie starring Michelle Williams.
In the trailer, we follow Michelle's rather morose (actually, make that very morose) Wendy, who, while trying to make her way to Alaska, encounters trouble every step of the way—trouble with her car, trouble with the law, trouble with her family and, ugh, even trouble with her dog. Not to mention having to interact with some creepy dude with icky teeth.
So what do you think? Are you up for a downer, or is dinner with the in-laws this holiday season gonna be torture enough?
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