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(PCM) Director Bryan Singer tweeted a picture of ‘naked’ Jennifer Lawrence getting her Mystique makeup applied, giving us a first look at the Oscar-winning actress as the X-Men baddie.
Contrary to some reports, Jennifer is, in fact wearing a body suit, along with some blue make-up. We look forward to seeing more of the star, and the rest of the cast in full costume soon.
X-Men Days of Future Past is coming to US theaters July 18, 2014.
(PCM) Story from our friends at Hollyscoop.com: Chris Brown is newly single and he’s already found someone to keep him company. It’s tiny, and furry, and its breath smells really bad.
It’s Chris Brown’s new 13-week-old English bulldog puppy.
Awwww, the furry pal’s name is Chief, but we hear Chris wants to give it a new name.
Chris got the dog from Shrinkabulls, which has helped celebs like Cher Lloyd, Joe Jonas and Randy Jackson adopt bulldog puppies.
Chris’ adorable little friend won’t get much larger than in the photo. Chris loves dogs, he’s owned pitbulls in the past.
Hopefully his new friend will help him get over his breakup and keep him busy!
For the full story and more please visit: http://www.hollyscoop.com/chris-brown/chris-brown-s-new-puppy-adorable.html
(PCM) Meanwhile, backstage at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez walked in together, while the Beibs, just over to their left, edged his way to the entrance, and Selena gave him a hello peck-on-the cheek. Best of all, you can watch Taylor stick her toungue out ‘yecch!”.
A win for everybody!
(PCM) Alan O’Day, the talented and sometimes quirky writer of many popular songs for artists like the Righteous Brothers, Cher and Helen Reddy, lost his battle with cancer on Friday, his record label announced. He was 72.
The songwriter, producer and artist died at his home in Westwood, Calif. surrounded by family and friends.
He even made his own Number 1 Billboard hit with 1977′s “Undercover Angel,” “Alan continued to write and perform until his last days,” a statement from 1st Phase Records reads. “Alan was a generous man who gave his heart and soul to the music industry.”
He began with several of his own bands in the late 1950s, and even went to work on movie soundtracks (Eegah! and Wild Guitar come to mind) O’Day signed with Warner Brothers Records in 1971, later writing “Train of Thought” for Cher, “Rock and Roll Heaven” for the Righteous Brothers, and the 1974 No. 1 “Angie Baby” by Helen Reddy.
1977 landed him at the top of the Hot 100 with his own single, “Undercover Angel.” 1980′s “Skinny Girls” was a popular novelty hit.
In the 1980s, O’Day teamed up with Janis Liebhart to co-write dozens of songs for the popular “Muppet Babies” cartoons.
Throughout his career, O’Day’s songs were performed by artists ranging from Johnny Mathis, the 5th Dimension, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Tony Orlando, Three Dog Night and Paul Anka, among others.
O’Day is survived by his wife, Yuka.
By Debra Wallace
Julianne Moore has learned many life lessons at home and at work.
In addition to a rich life as an actress, Julianne says that family life is equally important to her and she keeps her work close to home as a result. She, her husband, director Bart Freundlich, and their children, Liv, 11, and Caleb, make their home in New York.
During a recent spring chat Moore was friendly, charming and eager to talk about her latest movie. The English Teacher, which opens on Friday, May 17.
The well-written and expertly acted indie movie, which was featured at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, is about Linda Sinclair, a 40-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. Linda is so immersed in her collection of great literature and her students that she has no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors.
Linda’s life is far less complicated than the dramas on the page, and she is comfortable with the status quo – a nice quiet apartment, two Siamese cats, and a predictable routine.
Linda’s simple life turns an unexpected page when her former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano), returns to Kingston High School after trying to make it as a playwright in Manhattan. Now in his 20s, Jason wants to abandon his art and is pressured to go to law school by his overbearing father Dr. Tom Sherwood (Greg Kinnear). Not wanting Jason to give up his dreams, Linda figures out a way for the high school drama department, led by flamboyant teacher Carl Kapinas (Nathan Lane), to stage a production of his play.
With Linda out of her comfort zone, The English Teacher is a page turner on film – funny, touching, charming, dramatic, clever and well-written – everything you want a film to be.
Have you shared this movie, The English Teacher, with your family, or your children, yet?
JULIANNE MOORE: No, but my kids have never seen anything that I’ve done. I don’t really show it to them. They don’t have an understanding of this. It’s kind of something that’s separate. It’s my job. I’m just their mother. My husband sees stuff. He saw it. But the kids, I kind of don’t do that.
Do your kids affect your choice of film roles?
JM: Absolutely. If there’s something that they wanted to see or they wanted me to be in, that would be great, great to be able to do something like that.
What are your personal challenges in doing this film and in general being an actor?
JM: Everyone has this issue, it’s not just actors – everyone wants, as Freud says, you need love and work, that’s what you need. So you want to have a relationship and a family and a personal life and that’s a rich life that way. And you want to have a rich and interesting creative and work life. And trying to have that, for all of us, it’s the balance that you want to create. But it’s great to have those options, we’re so lucky to have those opportunities. But I think that’s the day-to-day challenge.
Will your character of Linda have that?
JM: I think she does, and that’s Linda’s story. She’s someone who’s only been in the book. She’s only been in the narrative and she hasn’t stepped out of it. She’s kept her choices very restricted, and she sort of blows it open at the end by making all these mistakes and kind of being present in the real world.
This was a terrific ensemble with Nathan Lane, Leo Norbert Butz, Jim Breuer and John Hodgeman, more like a stage play than a movie.
JM: That’s right. It was a pretty extraordinary cast, actually. They were great, really, really, great people. Jim Breuer I had already done SNL with. My son was two months old, so that was 15 years ago. We had a great cast.
One of the things about this movie is that everybody does something they should apologize for. But not everybody apologized. Please talk about that.
JM: I think one of the nice things about the movie is that people don’t apologize. They all do some things…it’s kind of one of those cause and effect things, where at the end of the day, a lot of people are very shamed, but there’s a kind of forgiveness that they all offer one another, and looking the other way… Maybe they weren’t all their best selves at that moment, but they had the best intentions. There’s a humanity; I think, to their recovery that’s very nice. In the sense that your mother always told you – just let time go by. It’s true, they all let a little time go by and it all settles down again.
I found your character to be inherently sweet. Is that something that you did for that character?
JM: I love Linda. I was like Linda, I was the kid that read all the time and went to the library and won the summer reading contest and ended up in the drama club after school. I wasn’t athletic, I couldn’t do anything else, and it was sort of another extension of reading. I feel like it would be very easy for me to have been Linda if I didn’t have a high-school English teacher who told me I could be an actress. So I found her incredibly relatable, and I loved her. I loved her [that] she’s sort of innocent, and I thought she was really endearing, actually.
Can you talk about the sex scene? Because I think it’s so sweet and funny. It’s funny. Talk about how you worked on that.
JM: I’ve had a lot of experience with them, so – you know – Michael was more, I guess we do this, than we do this?
Tell me more.
JM: I just kissed him because I wanted him to feel comfortable, like he didn’t have to be afraid. We were just going to do it. You’re always doing it [comedic] as well, so a little bit of the onus is off. You know you’re going to play with the props and throw some things around. I took my hair down, took my glasses off. All of those really silly things, and it was funny to go from that, ‘oh, you poor kid, your dad is so bad to you’ – to a love scene. It was fun.
Have you ever had anybody who you knew years earlier come back to you, and say you’ve influenced me…?
JM: Not yet! But I’ve had someone who has influenced me greatly.
Who was that?
JM: My high school drama teacher, Roble Taylor, was the one who said to me – you can be an actor. I was in plays, but I’d never met an actor, I’d never seen a real play, I didn’t think you could make a living doing it, I didn’t know anything about the theater. And she said – here’s a copy of Dramatics Magazine, and here are different schools that you can go to, and I was like, oh, okay. Had I not met her, I don’t think I would have done that. She changed my life, and she knows that, I told her. I met her years later when I was in LA for a while, and she was in Arizona. She altered the course of my life.
How do you juggle your career and family life? It’s always been a bit of an issue for women can you have it all… What do you think about that?
JM: It’s that thing that everybody says – yeah, you can have it all; you just can’t have it at the same time. You can’t. There’s going to be compromises somewhere. There are some jobs you’re not going to do. I don’t go to Australia and work, I can’t shoot the film in Romania, I can’t do that kind of stuff, it’s just too far away. So, if I shoot a movie, I shoot here in town, or in the summertime, they can come with me or they’re at camp or something. Or we break it up into little pieces. You figure it out.
(PCM) Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA1 gene, which makes it very likely she would get breast cancer.
Angelina and Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday’s New York Times under the headline, “My Medical Choice.” She wrote that between early February and late April she completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts.
From Her New York Times Announcement:
“MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.
Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average.
Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.” (full story)
That was a very personal and difficult choice, and something that, given her high profile, would be noticed and asked about in the public.
(PCM) Cocktails named after the rich and shameless are nothing new – what could be more decadent than the lifestyles of our favourite celebrities, after all? We’ve collected some fabulous recipes that were concocted in honour of all sorts of entertainers, ranging from David Bowie to Dita Von Teese.
We’ve mixed them up with a few imaginary cocktails that we think would be perfect for those celebrities who are perhaps past their best – can you separate the actual cocktails from our made up ones – there’s definitely a clue in working out who’s still cool and who is best left behind…
So, next time you’re at your favourite club or having a private party integrating playing online at http://www.jackpotcapitalcasino.com and want to start the evening with style, you know exactly what to offer or ask for – and what not to! You never know, if you’re lucky you might just bump into the celebs themselves sipping on their very own cocktail before they get stuck into their high rolling roulette game!
THE DAVID BOWIE
A chocolate and bourbon concoction dreamt up by the New Deal Distillery in Portland, Oregon.
Method: Stir five parts chocolate liqueur with one part bourbon and serve on the rocks with a slice of orange.
THE COINTREAU TEESE
Inspired by the sexy and talented Dita Von Teese, this cocktail is sharp, distinctive and feminine.
Method: Combine Cointreau, apple juice, violet syrup and fresh lemon juice and serve in a glass rimmed with essence of ginger.
THE MURRICANE
Created by The Anchor Bar, Soho, New York, in honour of Bill Murray who popped in for a drink once, this is apparently extremely popular – much like Bill himself.
Method: Combine fresh watermelon with basil leaves in a shaker and muddle. Add bourbon, fresh lemon juice, elderflower liqueur, along with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with black pepper.
THE OBAMATINI
Because he deserves an ace cocktail!
Method: Add pineapple juice, gin,lime juice, sugar water and a half a Thai chili into a shaker, add ice and shake vigorously for 15 minutes. Strain into a glass and garnish with a twist of lemon.
THE BI-POLAR
Especially for Mel Gibson – back when he was not showing himself to his best advantage – the Oak Room in New York made this.
Method: Combine vodka, gin, vermouth, club soda and a splash of cocktail onion juice. Serve on ice.
RIHANNA ON THE ROCKS
Inspired by the legendarily awful relationship that is Rihanna and Chris Brown, this seductive yet sharp cocktail will make your taste buds think twice.
Method: Strain one part gin, one part vodka, one part blue curacao over crushed ice, serve in a tall glass and garnish with fresh mint.
THE PRINCE
Created for the young Jacko himself, Prince Jackson, this is a sweet treat perfect for the younger cocktail aficionados – but don’t let them have too many, it’s pretty lethal…
Method: Crush one pack of skittles, mix with two parts milk and one part absinthe. Stand well back.
LADY B
In honour of Beyonce and JayZ, this sophisticated and full bodied cocktail is guaranteed to get you shaking your booty on the dancefloor, but only the poshest and richest of dancefloors.
Method: Mix vodka with raspberry gin liqueur, lemon juice, raspberry syrup and iced tea. Top up with soda water and serve with raspberries and lemon.
(PCM) Several sources are saying that Lindsay Lohan is absolutely desperate to leave the Betty Ford Center, but this time she is not getting her way. Prosecutors are continuing to reject her request to change facilities once again and are seemingly completely fed up with Lindsay’s constant demands and brat-like behavior.
Lindsay who is battling an addiction to the drug Adderall, claims that the Betty Ford Center is “old-fashioned” and is looking to be transferred to a facility that is more lenient and up with the times. Lohan is still refusing to admit that she has a problem with the drug and was given a court order by prosecutors to find a reasonable treatment center within 45 days, which is when she decided to give the Betty Ford Center a try, despite advice from her team of people who urged her the center would not be a good fit.
The court officials will not budge regarding the change of facility request and that is probably for the best, if anything the last thing this girl needs is any more leniency.
(PCM) From our friends at Hollyscoop.com: Things have been pretty silent on Amanda Bynes’ Twitter account since May 5, 2012. Maybe she’s still sleeping off Cinco de Mayo?
When Amanda Bynes is tweeting bizarre selfies, we’re worried about her, but when she’s silent on the social networking site for even 12 hours, that worries us even more.
And what’s more, a source close to the actress told Hollyscoop that the rumors surrounding Amanda reconnecting with her parents are totally false. She hasn’t reunited with her family at all!
Late last week, Radar Online reported that Amanda had a “really positive talk” with her parents, and her ‘rents are “thinking of flying out to NY.”
The story seemed shady to begin with. Why are her parents “thinking” of flying out? They should be booking a plane ticket and tracking her cellphone with a GPS as soon as the phone rang!
Our source says none of it’s true, that the “parent” story is trying to make all the chaos in Amanda’s life seem better than it actually is and that she’s still totally alone.
“There is no truth to the story,” a source close to the family tells Hollyscoop, “the whole [story about the parents] is an attempt to cover up the negative. Amanda is worse than she was last week!”
Last week Amanda was posing half-naked on Twitter and most recently she opened up about her nose job which reportedly removed the “webbing between her eyes.” Hopefully things will change and maybe Amanda WILL reach out to her parents.
For more on this story please visit: http://www.hollyscoop.com/amanda-bynes/amanda-bynes-still-hasn-t-reconnected-family-says-source.html
(PCM) “Two And A Half Men” and former “That 70′s Show” actor Ashton Kutcher got into quite the scuffle with security guards at the recent Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, CA.
Kutcher was in the VIP area of the country music festival and according to sources a female fan approached him to say hello and chat. After that the details are a bit sketchy, but when Kutcher attempted to shake the ladies hand things began to unravel. In some way a festival security guard attempted to intervene the handshake, shoving both Kutcher and the female fan. This led to a violent shoving match erupting between Kutcher and the security guard until Kutcher was restrained by his friends and eventually left the scene. Most witnesses on-site are blaming the security guard for the incident.
Apparently no police report was filed and Kutcher was allowed to attend the rest of the festival for the weekend, as he continually sent out live tweets from the front row for the rest of the weekend.
