Duke and Duchess of Cambridge plan LA visit; Ashton Kutcher on the catwalk
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s North American tour is taking shape, with more details about their Californian visit confirmed. The three-day stay in Los Angeles begins on July 8 as the royal couple is met at the airport by British ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald. They will attend Variety’s Venture Capital & New Media […]
J. R. and Sue Ellen return: Dallas stars promote Larry Hagman and Mary Martin auction
To commemorate an auction of memorabilia owned by I Dream of Jeannie and Dallas star Larry Hagman, the actor and former Dallas co-star Linda Gray took to riding on horseback down Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. Hagman, 79, and Gray, 70, promoted the Larry Hagman Collection, being auctioned both online and by Julien’s […]
Antonio Banderas film a triumph, but Cannes overshadowed by von Trier expulsion
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Any report on the events of the 19th at the Festival de Cannes is overshadowed by the latest news that director Lars von Trier, director of Melancholia, had been expelled, labelled as persona non grata, after pro-Nazi comments. Von Trier has since apologized, but he is out of the running. Without […]
Jonathan Ross interviews Woody Allen and Owen Wilson at Cannes
Filmed Thursday, Jonathan Ross talks to Midnight in Paris director Woody Allen and actor Owen Wilson, discussing their time at Cannes and the movie’s première on the first night. Wilson says he is not keen on seeing a movie with an audience, but that he enjoyed the opening ceremony for the film, and seeing […]
Robert Pattinson’s on-screen kisses; Pippa Middleton’s rear gets internet presences
Here’s one for the ladies today: heartthrob du jour Robert Pattinson discusses on-screen kisses at the UK première of Water for Elephants. It turns out that Pattinson was happy to do the film as soon as he read the script, but he doesn’t have a favourite on-screen kissing partner. And, slightly creepily, Royal Wedding […]
Keira Knightley flirts up a storm for Coco Mademoiselle
As day breaks, golden sunlight bathes over a slumbering Keira Knightley. A Joss Stone version of ‘It’s a Man’s, Man’s World’ starts just as she awakens, and the scene is set. Keira, who is vamping up her role in a short film for Chanel directed by Pride and Prejudice’s Joe Wright, gets up, wrapped in […]
As you go down the woods today, you are in for a surprise
His name is Shiloh Fernandez and he is the next big thing in Hollywood. As the leading man in Red Riding Hood, Fernandez plays the role of the very charming, yet seemingly dark at the same time, poverty-stricken wood-cutter Peter. I know what you all must be thinking, ‘Is this another Twilight?’ I […]
Louis Vuitton on the Oscars and internal changes
Above, from top Producer Emile Sherman. Actor Andrew Garfield. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Normally, among the European labels, it’s Giorgio Armani who’s first to tell the media who wore what at a major gala event. This year, Louis Vuitton has sent information through, claiming Emile Sherman, Andrew Garfield and Gwyneth Paltrow as its clotheshorses at the […]
On the red carpet at the Brit Awards; while Justin Bieber crashes Johnny Depp’s press conference
Take That has won the Best British Group at the Brit Awards this year, 21 years after its début. The group has, over its history, scored 17 number-one hits, and reunited in the 2000s. That That’s newest album, Progress, scored first-day sales of over 235,000, eclipsing Oasis’s Be Here Now of 1997. […]
Clive Owen joins Design Hotels’ cinematic photo contest jury
Getty Images and courtesy Bulgari Above Clive Owen, pictured with Julianne Moore at the Paris Bulgari exhibition late last year. Actor Clive Owen is on the jury of Design Hotels’ Don’t Forget the Popcorn photo contest. He joins experts such as, inter alia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Palme d’Or winner 2010, Efe Cakarel, founder and CEO of […]
