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Morning Memo: The Jolie-Pitt Twins Have Landed

Irina Aleksander — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:12:45 -0400

At last the Jolie-Pitt twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, entered the world on Saturday night via a Ceserian section at the Lenval hospital in the South of France. Giving a press conference shortly after the birth, Dr. Michel Sussman told reporters:
"It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy. [Brad] was my assistant! He was perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the birth of his children, very moved and very emotional." [Us Weekly]

An official photo of the precious twins is estimated to fetch between $15 and $20 million. [NY Daily News]

Meanwhile, Brad Pitt is reportedly going right back to work, meeting with Quentin Tarantino in France today about starring in Inglorious Bastards, a World War II movie inspired by spaghetti westerns. [P6] read more »

Tarantino's Long-Awaited WWII Flick to Be Produced by Weinstein?

Gillian Reagan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:29:54 -0400

Might we spot Harvey Weinstein picking up loose change off New York city streets soon? The man is on the financial outs, according to Nikki Finke on her blog Deadline Hollywood Daily. The media mensch thinks the rumors are true about The Weinstein Company's recent money troubles, since news broke about Harvey producing (not financially backing) Quentin Tarantino's movie Inglorious Bastards.

The movie, a World War II "Spaghetti Western," has been in the works since 2001 (originally with Miramax). But Ms. Finke said the script has been presented to four other studios, "Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount (all yesterday) and Sony (today)"

She writes:

This certainly adds fuel to those rumors that The Weinstein Co is having movie money woes. read more »

Obama Warns Tarantino: 'They Will Bamboozle You'

Jason Horowitz — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:39:49 -0500

On stage in front of a "change" banner at a fund-raiser at the Avalon club in Hollywood, Barack Obama reprised his his ‘bamboozled” line last night for an audience that included celebrities. (Quentin Tarantino!).

“It’s the typical response against a movement for change," he said. “[It] happens, by the way, every time. It’s fascinating, you know, Bill Clinton was confronted with the same stuff back in the 90s. And now, you know, things go full circle.” read more »

From Hecht to Tarantino, a Screenwriter Unspools the Talents and Near-Talents

Scott Eyman — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:48:42 -0400

You can practically count the number of books about screenwriters on two hands. This latest is the best—by far. read more »

High Heels: a Quentin Tarantino, Mad Violence Sort of Pain

Observer Staff — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:27:16 -0400

ERICA: I've been agonizing over shoes for my wedding. Not the ridiculously priced $400 pair of shoes I'll likely buy to wear for my ceremony and pictures and then immediately kick off at the reception the moment no one's looking. It's the flip flops I plan to put on afterwards that have been keeping me up at night.

For anyone out there who plans to pull off wearing a pair of 3 or 4 inch heels all day during pictures and all night long at their wedding, I offer you mad props. Apologies to Manolo and company, but heels KILL ME. I'm talking Quentin Tarantino, mad violence sort of pain. There's no way in hell I'd even consider keeping heels on all night without making plans to leave the reception in a wheelchair.

High-wedge thongs, 3 1/4" heel, they're genius.

So I'm happy to report my search has ended. Shockingly, these fantabulous flip flops recently featured on Weddingbee.com come from Victoria's Secret. And they only cost $11!

Granted, they are kind of ugly, but they clock in at a whopping three and a quarter inches of fierce, flip flop heel height. For a girl like me who is 5'4" (OK, I'm 5'3", but I lie about it so much, I've convinced myself I'm officially one inch taller), these are just what the doctor ordered.

Pam Grier More Than Foxy; Nothing Tops Jackie Brown

Charles Taylor — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:00:00 -0500

Has any honest-to-God movie star ever been given sleazier settings in which to shine than Pam Grier? read more »

Frenzy of Judyism May Augur the Dawn Of New Neural Age

Ron Rosenbaum — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:00:00 -0500

Out of the delirium of Judiana (Gawker’s coinage), a paradigm shift? read more »

Frenzy of Judyism May Augur the Dawn Of New Neural Age

Ron Rosenbaum — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:00:00 -0500

Out of the delirium of Judiana (Gawker’s coinage), a paradigm shift? read more »

The Cinema Stupido: Kill Bill, Sin City New Dumb Avant-Garde

Ron Rosenbaum — Sun, 01 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Remember the moment in Kill Bill: Vol. read more »

Kung Fu Catfights-The Bride Returns in Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Andrew Sarris — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. read more »