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A Melting Pot of Mush

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:55:36 -0400

New York, I Love You
Running time 110 minutes
Written by Emmanuel Benbihy (concept) and Tristan Carné (premise), and various others
Directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer
Starring Shia LeBeouf, Bradley Cooper, Blake Lively, Julie Christie, Robin Wright Penn, Orlando Bloom, John Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Christina Ricci, Chris Cooper, Irrfan Khan

With the movie...

Burberry Gets Lit! Blake Lively, Justin Long Share Misty Views from Palace Roof

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:56:48 -0400

Blake Lively isn't really a resident of the ritzy New York Palace Hotel. She just plays one on TV!

“I don’t know if I could live in a hotel,” said Ms. Lively, whose character on the popular CW series Gossip Girl, Serena van der Woodsen, occupies the posh Palace's penthouse. “I need a kitchen because I love to cook, but I love the Palace Hotel so much! I had my 21st birthday...

Morning Memo: Christopher Buckley to Continue Telling All; Madonna and A-Rod Spotted in Mexico; Lindsay Lohan Gives Advice

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:37:06 -0500

Christopher Buckley will continue to work through his daddy issues with a new book about the death of his parents, William F. and Pat Buckley, which he predicts will "land hard in some quarters." [P6]

Cameron Diaz made a big deal of avoiding ex Justin Timberlake's current girlfriend Jessica Biel backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, but Ms. Biel was apparently too busy showing off her hot dad to notice. [Full Disclosure, second...

Morning Memo: Damon Dashes; 'Top Chef' Comes To Le Bernardin; Mean "Bunnies"

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:23:26 -0400

Eastern Savings Bank is suing hip-hop mogul Damon Dash for money he owes on his two Tribeca apartments; he reportedly hasn't paid his $78,000 per month mortgage since January. [TMZ]

Top Chef is filming tonight at Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin on West 51st Street. [Eater]

Actor Orlando Bloom made out with his on-again girlfriend, model Miranda Kerr, at Lure Fishbar in Soho. [P6]

House Bunny actresses Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, Anna Faris and Katharine McPhee all...

Orlando Bloom Soaks Up Nepal Trip

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:28:03 -0500

While most of us were eating cold noodles and watching Project Runway, another major Hollywood actor joined the industry’s growing brigade of charitable stars.

Orlando Bloom recently took a four-day tour of Nepal on a UNICEF-supported visit, which took the 30-year-old actor to the impoverished western districts of Kaski and Chitwan.

“Another Hollywood movie star might feel strange in...

The Pisher Kings

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:34:45 -0400

Shia LaBeouf is the next Tom Hanks. Or so it hath been officially decreed by the frothing, groaning, don’t-stop-us-now-we’re-on-a-roll Hollywood hype machine that’s been building buzz for the 21-year-old actor over the past few months. The surprise box office topper Disturbia, the Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the big-ass Michael Bay blockbuster, the Steven Spielberg seal of approval—it all culminated this month with a glossy Vanity Fair cover featuring Mr. LaBeouf in a space...

A Thousand Mrs. Blooms

Sun, 15 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400

The promotional campaign for Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott's $140 million epic, has blitzed the airwaves and stampeded across early-morning and late-night talk shows as ruthlessly as the 12th-century Crusaders it portrays. But it all finally came to an end where so many such campaigns do, at the movie's May 4 Ziegfeld Theater premiere.

A little more than an hour before the film was scheduled to begin, Fox publicists raced up and down the red...