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Box Office Breakdown: It's Tyler Perry's World

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:36:51 -0400

Faced with the start of the NFL season, the VMA’s (like everyone else, we’re on Team Taylor Swift), and, perhaps, a bit of moviegoer ennui, it was another slow weekend at the multiplex. Tyler Perry’s latest film, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, topped all comers with an impressive $24 million, but otherwise it was a mixed bag for the remaining new releases. The “visionary” animated flick 9...

Box Office Breakdown: Even Blockbusters Get Labor Day Off

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:25:40 -0400

This is how the summer ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper. The combined totals of the top five films over the four-day holiday weekend could only manage to gross 75 percent of what X-Men Origins: Wolverine pulled down during its opening weekend back on May 1. The Final Destination claimed the top spot for the second weekend in a row, barely edging out Inglourious...

Box Office Breakdown: Hollywood Gets Restricted For the Final Weekend of August!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:16:29 -0400

If you’re under 17 and reading this, we have to ask: What on earth did you do this weekend? The top four movies at the box office were all rated R, with the field paced by The Final Destination; the 3-D horror sequel opened in the top spot with $28.3 million. Also debuting was Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2, slashing into third place with $17.4 million. Unfortunately, it wasn’t all...

It's Time For Some Summer Oscars!

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:11:01 -0400

Unless the idea of watching people get murdered at an alarming rate appeals to you—no, we will not be seeing Halloween 2 or Final Destination: 3-D—the summer movie season is officially kaput. Where has the time gone? At least with the book closed we can now look back fondly on the joys Hollywood had to offer. There are usually no Oscars given to summer movies, but maybe there should...

I Had a Helluva Time Watching Inglourious Basterds

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:32:09 -0400

Inglourious Basterds
Running time 153 minutes
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger

Like all Quentin Tarantino movies, Inglourious Basterds is exasperating, absurd, cruel, cynical, sneeringly arrogant, racist, elitist, naïvely derivative and viciously funny. It is also one whale of a rigorous entertainment.

The wild plot: In World War II–occupied France, a band of bloodthirsty American Jews form a battalion of renegade guerrilla...

Livingston, We Presume? Fans Ignore Ron as Brad Makes Surprise Showing at Time Traveler's Wife Premiere

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:39:53 -0400

The premiere of The Time Traveler’s Wife was an evening of temporal weirdness.

Based on a novel by Audrey Niffenegger, the movie stars Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana as a loving couple plagued by his uncontrollable time traveling—it’s a genetic condition, naturally.

The movie also has three child stars, who arrived first to the Wednesday, August 12 screening at the Ziegfield Theater. Preternaturally poised, already pros at posing in front of the...

This Was a Movie Project?

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:49:00 -0400

You may have heard that Sony Pictures “dropped the ball” or “struck out” (depending on which baseball cliché jumped into a writer’s head) on a film version of Michael Lewis’ best-seller, Moneyball. The film was set to star Brad Pitt with Steven Soderbergh directing.

The reasons behind Sony’s decision appear to be sound. According to Michael Cieply in The New York Times, Sony has already paid $10 million in script developments...

The Story of Moneyball Helps Prove That Hollywood Has Gone Over the Edge

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:17:37 -0400

Sometimes watching how Hollywood studios operate is more entertaining than the movies they produce. Case in point: Moneyball. For those of you haven’t been following the chaos surrounding the now-dead adaptation of Michael Lewis’s nonfiction baseball best seller: Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt were all set to make this film for Sony Pictures—with a budget of around $57 million—when, just days before shooting started, company co-chair Amy Pascal pulled the plug...

Single Person's Movie: Fight Club

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:30:15 -0400

It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.

Need a movie to keep you company until you literally can't keep your eyes open? Join us tonight...

Get Your Summer Movies!

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:45:36 -0400

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Summer Movie Sneak Peek: Ten Big Flicks!

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:58:30 -0400

Break out the SPF 50! The summer movie season starts in earnest this weekend with the openings of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and, frankly, we could not be more excited. Bank on the next four months being filled up by superheroes, stunted man-children, teenage wizards and an unusual amount of killer robots. (Seriously, is Hollywood trying to warn us about something?) Check out our slideshow of the 10 most anticipated...

Please Kill Fee Me: The Scary Rise of Celebrity Journalism Dilettantes

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:15:00 -0400

How much worse can things get for journalists?

Newspapers and magazines are closing; the ones that remain grow thinner by the week as if somehow cursed; freelance budgets are being slashed and staffers accustomed to taking it easy are being forced to write like their livelihoods depend on it. (Hint: They do.) The only thing worse than losing one of the few, cramped spots in a magazine's well is losing it to a celebrity—you know,...

Be a Paparazzo, Or Just Stalk Like One: Snapping Celebrities for Fun and Profit

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:58:00 -0400

A couple of years ago, Jordan Osher spotted Kanye West in SoHo, chomping on a hotdog and spilling mustard on his shirt. Naturally, he took a picture.

"You get a photo of it and, what do you do with it?" Mr. Osher asked The Observer. Well, put it on the Internet, of course! "The average person gets a photo of a celebrity and they save it to their desktop, they email their ten best...

How Much Money Will Watchmen Make?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:54:08 -0500

If it feels like all you've done this week is read stories about Watchmen, that’s probably because you have. But don’t worry! By Monday morning, the suspense will be over and the whole world will know who actually watched the … well, you know. Projections for the opening weekend have been all over the map, ranging from as high as $100 million to as low as $60 million. Normally, we consider ourselves fairly adept...

Will Terrence Malick's Coming of Age Film Star Dinosaurs?

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:10:37 -0500

Nothing like some third hand reportage to start the week off right! Apparently the eagerly anticipated new Terrence Malick film, The Tree of Life, will be shown in IMAX upon its release so that the "long and lingering" shots of the digitally created dinosaurs can appear more life-size. Yeah, you read that right: dinosaurs. This bit of news comes from visual effects artist Mike Fink in an interview he did with this month’s Empire...

The Week in DVR: Big Love for Big Love, Comedy Central's New Funnyman, Truffaut's Blows

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:54:05 -0500

Monday: Big Love
Since you were busy watching the Oscars on Sunday night, chances are you missed Big Love. That's okay; we miss the show a lot ourselves. Still, when we have watched it this season, Big Love has been fantastic. For all the press that the casts of Mad Men and Lost rightly get, doesn't it seem like everyone is quietly napping on Bill Hendrickson and his lovely wives? The lack of...

The Week in DVR: A Dose of Reality, Brad Pitt's Bad Boy, Our Favorite Working Girls

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:09:52 -0500

Monday: Confessions of a Teen Idol

So it's a little more lowbrow than we usually recommend, but we're feeling like watching Confessions of a Teen Idol might actually count as charity work. The eight-episode reality series focuses on a handful of 80s was-beens-including Christopher Atkins (remember The Blue Lagoon?), Jamie Walters (90210 crooner turned fireman), and Eric Nies (he of the original Real World and The Grind)-as they deal publicly with their status as...

Thank You, Santy, for Brad, Leo, Cate and Kate

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:52:33 -0500

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Running time 159 minutes
Written by Eric Roth
Directed by David Fincher
Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson

They saved the best for last. Sure, the end of 2008 produced its share of animated kid stuff. Daniel Craig overcame his James Bond label long enough to prove he can still act, in Defiance...

Morning Memo: Mary-Kate Olsen at Miami Art Basel; Brad Tells Angie Not to Befriend the Help; Hugh Grant Takes Up Matchmaking

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:19:01 -0500

A probably not pregnant Mary-Kate Olsen hung out in a "faux abandoned meth lab" with boyfriend Nate Lowman at Art Basel Miami Beach last week. [Intelligencer, P6]

Brad Pitt thinks it's "inappropriate" for Angelina Jolie to make friends with the couple's household staff. [Page Six Magazine]

Big Love star Ginnifer Goodwin (and Katie Holmes's ex) Chris Klein have broken up. [Us Weekly]

Hugh Grant has been pawning excess groupies ("eligible Stateside ladies") off on his...

Morning Memo: Brad Pitt Confused About His Family's Fame; Tricia Walsh-Smith Sexy, Scary; Britney Spears Isn't Ready to Tour

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:09:44 -0500

Brad Pitt told Larry King that he didn't understand the public's interest in his life with Angelina Jolie and their children, though he would allow that his is an "interesting family. It's not your usual family." [Us Weekly]

Tricia Walsh-Smith, who you might remember from the Youtube tirade she directed at former husband Philip Smith, has posted a new video in honor of her ex's promotion to chairman of the Shubert Organazation. The clip is...

Paper of Record Goes Team Aniston

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:33 -0500

Today, The New York Times' Brooks Barnes offered a hard-hitting A1 investigative report on how Angelina Jolie manipulates the press, especially how she uses access to her family to further her own agenda.

Writes Mr. Barnes:

Shifting the focus is one of Ms. Jolie’s best maneuvers, magazine editors and publicity executives say. When she became romantically involved with Mr. Pitt, for instance, she faced a public relations crisis — being portrayed in the tabloid...

Morning Memo: The Jolie-Pitt Motorcade; Barack Obama Gets (Sort Of) Hip; Mary-Kate and Ashley Fight Over Breast Implants

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:37:17 -0400

Volkswagen has provided the Jolie-Pitts with 20 vehicles for their stay in Berlin. That's 2.5 cars for every member of their family. [NYDN]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen may be fighting about the possibility of getting matching breast implants. It seems that Ashley wants to "look more voluptuous" and told Mary-Kate "that she wanted her to get one at the same time so that it wouldn't be glaringly obvious that Ashley had work done." For her...

Brad Pitt In Space!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:57:55 -0400

If you have a Google News Alert set-up for Brad Pitt, today was a busy day for you. The star, currently filming Inglourious Basterds as he gets ready to mount an Oscar run with his performance in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will reportedly team up with Warner Brothers to produce and potentially star in an updated version of Homer's classic The Odyssey, that will take Odysseus... into space! Yeah, you...

Next Tarantino Flick Has Pitt, But Not Really Anyone Else

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:34:14 -0400

Is it too early to start a backlash against Quentin Tarantino's new movie Inglourious Basterds (intentionally spelled wildly incorrectly), which has just begun principle photography? Maybe "backlash" is too strong a word, since we're pretty excited to see the latest film from Mr. Tarantino, especially since Basterds has been knocking around inside his giant head since Pulp Fiction. It's just, well, we were expecting more.

No, not from the script, which is reportedly...

Morning Memo: Lara Logan's War Spoils; The Jolie-Pitts Stop Traffic; Elizabeth Hasselback Will Stick With 'The View' (For Now)

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:04:13 -0400

Scandal-causing CBS correspondent Lara Logan might be in even more trouble; she allegedly (and illegally!) brought home a couple of pre-invasion portraits of Saddam Hussein from Iraq and displayed them in her office. [P6]

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their half-dozen children caused a traffic jam outside their hotel in midtown Manhattan. Said someone on the scene: "Angelina undoubtedly has more foreign-policy knowledge than Sarah Palin. … No wonder people don't know where...

Trailer Cache: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:31:21 -0400

While September might be a slow month for movie releases, it's one of the best times of the year to see prestige trailers. The latest? David Fincher's take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, staring Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton and, of course, Brad Pitt, in the titular role as a man who ages backwards.

We loved the teaser trailer that ran...

Brad Pitt Wants Better Investigative Journalism

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:46:44 -0400

An up-and-coming writer named Brad Pitt has a piece on Vanity Fair's Web site in which he nominates Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, to the magazine's "Hall of Fame." (Not, it should be noted, to the magazine's Best-Dressed List: International Hall of Fame.)

Mr. Pitt offers this bit of press criticism in citing Mr. Roth for the list:

At the heart of the group's effectiveness: meticulous field research, which creates an...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie More Likely to Marry in the Possibly-Not-So-Distant Future!!!

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:53:36 -0400

This morning, we learned that Brad Pitt donated $100,000 to fight a ballot initiave to overturn California's legalization of same sex marriage. In a statement to reporters, Pitt explained why he was supporting the cause:

Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no...

Morning Memo: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson on Sarah Palin; Is Alicia Keys the "Other" Woman?; ScarJo's Ego Gets Bigger

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:08:31 -0400

Scarlett Johansson has reportedly let Woody Allen's adoration go to her head. [P6]

Like everyone, Lindsay Lohan has an opinion on Sarah Palin; Ms. Lohan is not too fond of the vice-presidential candidate's sponsorship of a conference to "convert" gay people. [Celebrity Myspace]

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $2 million to the Global Health Committee to provide care for children with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia. [People]

Artist Richard Prince may or...

Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading Is Too Hot to Handle!

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:55:44 -0400

Burn After Reading
Running time 96 minutes
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, from their own screenplay, strikes me as one of the most willfully awful movies I’ve ever seen. What makes it even worse is that every one of the “name” performances—George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances...

The Vanity Fair 100: Some Rise, Some Fall, We Scratch Our Heads

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:19:08 -0400

Vanity Fair has come out with its list of 100 most powerful influentials, most of which—since they've already been covered by various lists in Time (the Time 100), Forbes (celebs and richest Americans) and elsewhere—come as no surprise.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and Google boys Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt are all in the top 10, followed closely behind by David Geffen, Bill Clinton and billionaire...

Hey, Variety ! Burn After Reading Is Hilarious!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:20:51 -0400

We here at the Culture Czar happen to be big fans of Variety and particularly of reviewer Todd McCarthy. Many times we’ll read his reviews, nod along, and even make mmmhmmm noises at our desk. Which was why we were shocked (shocked!) to see his review of the Coen brothers new film Burn After Reading, which opened the Venice Film Festival last night:

"After their triumphant dramatic success with 'No Country for Old...

Clooney, Pitt Do Cute Buddy Routine at Venice, Evade Journalist

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:34:31 -0400

OMG could George Clooney and Brad Pitt please stop being so charming/funny/arch whatever they are? At a Venice Film Festival press conference today promoting the new Coen brothers movie Burn After Reading, the irrepressible duo found themselves answering the same questions we swear they did last year, or at some other press thing.

Reporter to Brad Pitt: Will Clooney ever settle down?

Clooney to reporter: ''I am so...

Fashion Roundup: Brad Pitt Turns the Camera on Angelina Jolie; Calvin Klein's New Online Store; Park Ave. Merchants Displeased

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:34:07 -0400

Brad Pitt personally photographed Angelina Jolie and their children for the November cover of W magazine at the Chateau Miraval in the South of France last week. [FWD]

Karl Lagerfeld has also decided to become a photographer. [Times UK]

Some shops on Park Avenue are not pleased with New York City's idea to block off whole stretches of major streets this summer to traffic. [NY Times]

Nolita boutique Seize sur Vingt is coming to...

Celebrity Blogs: Love and War

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:38 -0400

Roseanne Barr has a blog! And, as Page Six has reported, she’s using it to attack Angelina Jolie for failing to officially endorse Barack Obama’s candidacy. In open letter to the mother of—six now, right?--yesterday, Ms. Barr writes:

...Miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn't decided who to endorse....huh? Aren't you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents...

Brad Pitt To Be Tarantino's Bastard

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:06:35 -0400

Oi gevald! It's official: Brad Pitt will play one of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards in the director's "spaghetti western." Mr. Pitt will star as Lt. Aldo Raine, a Southern beau who leads a band of Jewish rebels to fight the Nazis in German-occupied France.

A source familiar with the script told Reuters that Mr. Pitt will play a Samuel L. Jacksonin Pulp Fiction-type outlaw character who says things like "we're gonna be doing one...

Will Abu Dhabi Construction Workers Whistle at Pam Anderson?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:26:00 -0400

Former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson is the latest celeb to attach her name to an eco-friendly hotel in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. In June, Ms. Anderson visited Abu Dhabi with the Make a Wish Foundation and reportedly "fell in love" with the emirate, prompting her to partner with the royal family on what she described as an "environmentally friendly" hotel.

Whether the PETA spokeswoman will be as vocal about workers' rights...

Morning Memo: Mary-Kate Might Dish; the Jolie-Pitt Twins Show Their Faces; Paris Hilton Shuns McCain

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:23:15 -0400

Mary-Kate Olsen may speak with federal investigators regarding the January death of Heath Ledger, whom she was allegedly dating at the time, though she's reportedly requesting immunity from prosecution if she does. [NY Post]

The first photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins Knox and Vivienne have been published by People magazine. [People]

The photos sold for over $14 million; the money will go to charity. [AP]

Paris Hilton has no thoughts...

The Jolie-Pitts Snub American Media, Put Provincial French Paper on the Map

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:26:54 -0400

The ever charitable Jolie-Pitts, who went as far as installing a magical shield across the windows of Ms. Jolie's hospital room in France, decided to bestow the privilege of covering the birth of their babies to one particular publication according to AP.

It wasn't In Touch, which reported on Saturday that two girls were born to the couple. And it wasn't OK! magazine or Us Weekly or the slew of...

Morning Memo: The Jolie-Pitt Twins Have Landed

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...

Magical Shield Erected at Hospital to Deflect Evil Paparazzi Rays Directed at Pitt Twins

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:46:31 -0400

The Lenval hospital in Nice where Angelina Jolie is preparing to birth the golden twins has reportedly covered the windows of her room with a "special material" that cameras cannot see through.

"It is impossible to see into Mr. Brad Pitt and Mrs. Angelina Jolie's room. So any pictures released are either posed fakes set up by paparazzi or they are pictures of other patients," the hospital said. "We hope...

Brad and Angelina May Option Times Prom Story

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:14:14 -0400

Unnamed sources are telling New York Magazine's culture blog Vulture that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are trying to sell a movie version of that New York Times City section piece, "This Strange Thing Called Prom" by Brooke Hauser.

The piece is about Brooklyn International High School's first-ever prom and how students from Liberia, Haiti, China and Tibet--unlike their Upper East Side private school counterparts--try to figure out what it is exactly and how to...

Brad in Dubai: Will His Green Hotel Be Mean?

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:57:44 -0400

As the world’s best-known celebrity/activist power couple, Brangelina has forced paparazzi lenses to capture humanitarian crises worldwide, raising public awareness about issues like the plight of Iraqi refugees and AIDS in Africa.

Now that Mr. Pitt is working as a design consultant on an 800-room, “American-themed,” green hotel in Dubai, the 44-year-old actor may put the spotlight on the chronic exploitation of the estimated 700,000 foreign workers powering the construction boom in the...

Angelina Overshares Again

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:04:30 -0400

As we wait for the blessed children to leave Angelina Jolie's womb, she can't seem to stop oversharing about her and Brad Pitt's life together. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, she offers yet another interview in which she gushes about their home life. (For those keeping up, she is also on the July cover of Vanity Fair.)

As usual, scroll down for highlights!

On chatting with Clint Eastwood, her...

Report Report: Jolie-Pitt Twins (?) Are Not Born!

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:02:13 -0400

First, Entertainment Weekly reported that twins were born on Sunday to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Lending authenticity to the report were details, like their names (Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane) and the little detail that they were born at a "Catholic clinic" somewhere in the Aix-en-Provence region of France.

Then, People, the magazine that paid $4.1 million to the couple in 2006 for photos of the couple's fourth child, Shiloh, swatted the report down with...

Everyone Wants a Private Forest

Fri, 30 May 2008 11:38:23 -0400

It seems everyone is deserting the cities for open fields and fresh rural air. Tom Brokaw raises and sells bison off of his ranch in Montana and yesterday we learned that Jack White and wife, supermodel Karen Elson are enjoying their weeping willows in Nashville, where Ms. Elson will soon open a vintage store. How quaint!

Now we hear from The Huffington Post that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's new $70...

'Close Source' to Us: Angelina Jolie Is Pregnant

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:12:55 -0500

Angelina Jolie is pregnant, according to a source close to the 32-year-old actress and her partner, Brad Pitt. Whether or not she is expecting twins, as some rumors have suggested, was apparently not confirmed by the insider, who contacted Us.

The baby buzz began at last weekend’s S.A.G. Awards, where Ms. Jolie arrived wearing a flowing dress that seemed to be specially designed to hide any signs of a growing bump. (Reps for...

Jon Voight Comments on Daughter Angelina Jolie's Possible Pregnancy

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:36:40 -0500

Our intrepid political reporter Jason Horowitz is following Rudy Giuliani around Florida this week. On Rudy's press plane, the legendary actor Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance), a supporter who is traveling with the presidential hopeful today, took a break from such topics as Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nature of the media and the normal guyness of Mr. Giuliani to address today's rumors that his daughter, Angelina Jolie, is pregnant.

“It’s wonderful news that she’s having...

Banksy Painting Sells, Notting Hill Wall Included

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:01:43 -0500

A work by Banksy, the faceless London artist who has entangled the city’s residents in a high-brow game of Cat and Mouse, just sold on eBay for nearly $400,000.

Buying the piece—one of the artist's typical graffiti numbers, this one depicts an artist in an old-fashioned getup putting the finishing touches on the word “BANKSY”—may prove to be the easy part. The work adorns a wall...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Find Peace, Pizza in Missouri

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:03:37 -0500

This week, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ate more fast food with their family while on vacation in Mr. Pitt’s childhood hometown of Springfield, Missouri. It seems they’ve moved on from McDonalds, KFC and convenience stores—at least for the moment—this time getting some slices at Arris’ Pizza.

The pizza joint’s kitchen manager told Perez Hilton that the other restaurant patrons left the family pretty much...