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Despite Warren, Calif. Gays Celebrate Obama

Gathering at West Hollywood gay bar hiss at controversial pastor's invocation

(Newser) - A crowd gathered today at West Hollywood’s premier gay bar to celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration, but also to watch with dismay as Rev. Rick Warren took the Capitol stage, the Advocate reports. Many in the community were shocked by Obama’s choice of the anti-gay marriage pastor to...

Rourke Finds Comeback Light at End of Dark Tunnel

Wrestler actor self-destructed on the way to role of a lifetime, Golden Globe honors

(Newser) - After the collapse of his career—admittedly his own fault—Mickey Rourke has found his way back up the Hollywood ladder with his recent Golden Globe for The Wrestler. Despite many promising turns during the 1980s, CNN reports, self-destructive behavior and problems with authority—which Rourke attributes to childhood abuse—...

Hollywood Reeling From DVD Slump

Disappearing profits threaten movies, star deals

(Newser) - Hollywood studios are faced with huge losses because of a 21% slump in DVD sales and the fallout from the crisis on Wall Street, reports the Financial Times. Studio heads have been forced to cut back on the number of new movies in production and are preparing to trim the...

Spielberg Pays Bills for Ailing DreamWorks

Credit crunch forces director into personal bailout for studio

(Newser) - Perhaps for the first time, Steven Spielberg is using personal funds to pay half of a $26.5 million bill his company, DreamWorks, owes ex-partner Paramount so it can keep 17 film projects under its wing. Due to cash shortages, the studio has already lost the rights to as many...

Underdogs Rule at Globes
 Underdogs Rule at Globes 
Jan 12, 2009 3:12 AM CST

Underdogs Rule at Globes

Big winners include 30 Rock , Kate Winslet

(Newser) - Hollywood blockbusters bowed to award-grabbing underdogs like critics' darling Slumdog Millionaire at the Golden Globes last night, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Mumbai thriller once considered straight-to-DVD material swiped honors for Best Dramatic Film, and top awards for screenplay, director and original score. The quirky indie comedy In Bruges ...

Tabloid Alter Ego Leaves LiLo Cold
Tabloid Alter Ego Leaves
LiLo Cold
Jan 8, 2009 3:48 PM CST

Tabloid Alter Ego Leaves LiLo Cold

Overexposed star reflects on youthful antics, career fallout

(Newser) - At 22, Lindsay Lohan is burdened by regrets, and she finds a sympathetic listener in retired supermodel Lauren Hutton, who sits down with her for Interview. "In  terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn't know how to...

Arquette Calls It Quits With Hubby Jane

Actor hires celeb divorce lawyer who repped Britney

(Newser) - Patricia Arquette has cited “irreconcilable differences" and filed for divorce from actor Thomas Jane, TMZ reports. The couple of 2 years has no prenup and a 5-year-old daughter, so Arquette will rely on celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser to sort things out. Wasser has handled power breakups for...

Batman's Commissioner Gordon Dies
Batman's Commissioner Gordon Dies
Jan 5, 2009 2:49 AM CST

Batman's Commissioner Gordon Dies

Pat Hingle, veteran tough-guy actor, mentored young

(Newser) - Actor Pat Hingle—whose characters included Commissioner Gordon in the '90s Batman movies and Norma Rae's father in the 1979 film—has died of blood cancer at his Carolina Beach home at the age of 84, the Wilmington Star-News reports. The Tony Award nominee and Broadway star had said he...

Global Warming Battle Hits Malibu Beach

Wealthy homeowners pay millions for temporary solutions

(Newser) - Malibu's scenic Broad Beach is vanishing between the rising sea and the sea walls homeowners are building to protect million-dollar properties from global warming, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ocean levels are projected to rise at least a couple feet in the next century, wiping away this and many other...

Hollywood Shells Out for Obama's Big Day

A-listers fork over $50K for events

(Newser) - A blackout hit Barack Obama’s Hawaii vacation home last week, but his inauguration next month will be lit up with plenty of star power. Hollywood A-listers have been shelling out top dollar to help pay for the president-elect’s big day, Politico reports. Donors include Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx,...

Oscar-Worthy Comebacks
 Oscar-Worthy Comebacks 
Dec 30, 2008 9:00 PM CST

Oscar-Worthy Comebacks

Some celebs are best after years of fermenting

(Newser) - Some stars combust and others fizzle, but a few are reborn. Metromix honors the second wave:
  • The Wrestler was made for Mickey Rourke, the "one-time '80s sex symbol" turned professional boxer.
  • Drug habits wrote off Robert Downey Jr. until the Iron Man returned with back-to-back hits.
  • Dennis Hopper
...

How to Write a Hollywood Holocaust Film
How to Write a Hollywood Holocaust Film
opinion
Dec 29, 2008 8:29 PM CST

How to Write a Hollywood Holocaust Film

(Newser) - New Holocaust movies arrive in time for the holidays and Academy voters every year, "but maybe new isn't quite the right word," writes Ben Crair, who sees five basic Holocaust plots. He lists them in Slate: 
  • Nice German: From Schindler's List (1993) to this year's Valkyrie,
...

Hollywood, Lay Off the 'Burbs
 Hollywood, Lay Off the 'Burbs 
analysis
Dec 28, 2008 2:00 PM CST

Hollywood, Lay Off the 'Burbs

Hating on the suburbs is the cheapest, easiest move in art

(Newser) - Revolutionary Road, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, “is the latest entry in a long stream of art that portrays the American suburbs as the physical correlative to spiritual and mental death,” Lee Siegel writes in the Washington Post. Everyone from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath has given...

Kitt's Purr Wore Down Racial Barriers
Kitt's Purr Wore Down
Racial Barriers
appreciation
Dec 26, 2008 7:00 PM CST

Kitt's Purr Wore Down Racial Barriers

(Newser) - Eartha Kitt camped it up in Batman episodes and stirred live crowds with her crooning, but also nudged "Hollywood's color barrier several feet from the dominant crude stereotypes," Reed Johnson writes in the Los Angeles Times. The performer who danced with Katherine Dunham's troupe and acted alongside Sidney...

Older, Wiser Pitt Happy With Life's New Path

Relationship, kids with Jolie 'a natural direction'

(Newser) - Now 45 and the father of six, Brad Pitt appears ready to shed the image of clowning heartbreaker to tackle weightier matters in life and work, writes Reed Johnson in the Los Angeles Times. Pitt’s role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which his character ages backward,...

Paris: Gem Thief Was No Stranger

Heiress has suspects in mind

(Newser) - Paris Hilton is pretty sure she knows the burglar who stole $2 million in jewels from her home, E! Online reports. “I think whoever did this, definitely has been there before. We have some suspects that I'm thinking of,” said the heiress, adding that many of the stolen...

Paris Slays 'Misconceptions'
 Paris Slays 'Misconceptions' 
GLOSSIES
Dec 20, 2008 5:34 AM CST

Paris Slays 'Misconceptions'

Indeed, having a nightclub at home makes life soooo much simpler

(Newser) - Paris Hilton dishes to Esquire about what she’s learned from being, well, Paris Hilton. For starters, she wants everyone to know she’s not a brainless celebutard—“I was up making phone calls at seven in the morning, and I’ll be working until 1 a.m.”...

Tinseltown Not Run by Jews? I'm Insulted

(Newser) - Just 22% of Americans say Jews run Hollywood, and one Jew is insulted: "It just shows how dumb America has gotten," Joel Stein writes in the Los Angeles Times. "Jews totally run Hollywood." Looking through the trades, he could find only eight Gentiles holding powerful positions...

Paris' Home Robbed of $2M in Jewelry

Thief entered through unlocked door; heiress was elsewhere

(Newser) - Paris Hilton’s Hollywood Hills pad was robbed early this morning of an estimated $2 million worth of jewelry and other goods, the LA Times reports. A man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and gloves entered the house through the unlocked front door at 5am, according to an anonymous source. Hilton,...

Columbo Star Has Alzheimer's

Daughter seeks legal custody to shelter ailing dad

(Newser) - Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease and no longer recognizes people, says the Columbo star's daughter. Catherine Falk filed court papers seeking conservatorship of her father, reports TMZ, saying he "requires full-time custodial care for his health and safety" and that she fears he "can easily be deceived into...

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