Pitch Perfect 2 star Elizabeth Banks covers the June issue of Allure and opens up about her happy family life with husband Max Handelman and their two sons Felix, 4, and Magnus, 2.
On making her movie-directing debut with Pitch Perfect 2: “Once you get offered a studio job, as a woman, it’s really hard to say no because they don’t let women do this very often. So I knew I needed to embrace it and I couldn’t mess it up. Because if you mess it up, they don’t let you do it again, and you become representative of female directors as a whole. Like, ‘See, girls can’t do it!’”
On her personal theme: “If I had to pick a theme of the things that I do it would be: Girls win…. It’s a good theme.”
On her happy marriage: “I didn’t meet my husband and think, I’ve met the man I’m going to marry. I was like, He’s cute. I’ll f*ck him, because I’m 18 and in college….Really, what happened was I’ve never met anyone that I liked more. In the early years, did I have crushes or little interests here and there? I know my husband did, and so did I, but we stayed together. We still to this day take the long view. We have always dreamed about our life together. And we work together every day, and we have a lot of respect for each other on every level. And then there’s love. And then there’s lust. So it’s great.”
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Jennifer Lopez’s final American Idol red carpet look was not great. It’s Zuhair Murad and I guess she’s in “mourning”? [I’m Not Obsessed]
Julia Roberts made David Letterman all about Julia Roberts. [LaineyGossip]
Emily Ratajkowski understands how to internet. [The Blemish]
Jessica Simpson is full of booze & pills. [Celebslam]
John Travolta’s latest wiglet is sad. [Dlisted]
Apparently the new season of RHOOC is a total mess. [Reality Tea]
Jennifer Lawrence is the new face of Dior Addict makeup. [Wonderwall]
Sarah Jessica Parker uses social media to find lost items. [Gawker]
Paris Hilton is still around, shilling a new perfume. [ICYDK]
Missouri Republican sexts with an intern, because of course. [The Frisky]
Miley Cyrus = “a ratchet butterfly who delivers meth.” [IDLY]
Hilary Duff is so thirsty. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Bedhead sent me this Variety interview with Michael Fassbender yesterday and I found it so depressing that I was all “Eh, I’ll wait until we have some photos of him in Cannes.” It’s not depressing because of Fassy – it’s depressing because the Variety interviewer, Ramin Setoodeh, is such a well-known hack. Setoodeh used to work for Time Magazine and I hated him then too – his “shtick” is not doing any research and being pretty rude and unprofessional to the people he interviews. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights (in context of Setoodeh’s terrible questions):
RS: You recently finished playing Steve Jobs. Is it dark?
MF: Like “The Conjuring”?
No, is it a favorable adaptation?
I think it is.
You look skinnier now.
I didn’t lose weight. But I certainly didn’t go to the gym.
Did it cause you to look at Mac products differently?
It did. I’m still on my iPhone 4.
You don’t have the iPhone 6?
No, the 4 is my favorite design. I also use something until it’s no longer useable.
Your phone looks broken.
But it still works. The cover actually broke off my broken phone.
Where are you living now?
I’m still in London, but I haven’t spent too much time there in the last year. I did think about L.A. before, but not so much now. I think I’m European. I know I’m European. I’m happiest there.
Do you still have to put yourself on tape?
Luckily, not for a while. I think the last audition I did was for “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the Coen brothers film.
Are you in that movie?
No, I’m not. Thanks for pointing that out. It was an unsuccessful audition. I went up for Oscar [Isaac’s] part.
[From Variety]
I think that was the point where most people are like, “Really? You’re going to ask Michael Fassbender if he’s in Inside Llewyn Davis?” What else? Let’s see… Fassy says he would “shoot a hundred” X-Men films if they wanted him but that his contract was for three films and he’s “curious” as to what will happen next. He also says he hasn’t seen Macbeth yet and that he didn’t really learn how to perform in iambic pentameter, saying: “I’m a little dyslexic with the iambic pentameter. I just always tried to make sense of it, and hoped the rhythm would follow.”
Speaking of… they just revealed this first clip from Macbeth as a Cannes teaser. Hopefully we’ll get a real trailer in the next week. The shouting… hm…
Photos courtesy of PR Photos, ‘Macbeth’ production still.
Here are some photos of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall today in Liverpool. They were visiting the World Museum’s exhibition ‘The Mayas: revelation of an endless time’. I think Charles looks pretty sharp here, doesn’t he? While he’s not trendy or “hip,” he sort of has a timeless style.
Anyway, the big news for Charles was that the “Black Spider Memos” were released with much fanfare yesterday. Charles and various British government officials had been fighting the release of Charles’ correspondence to various government officials, but the British courts basically said that considering everyone involved was a public figure, the public has a right to know what Charles writes to government officials. They’re called the “Black Spider Memos” because A) the Brits love to give ridiculous names to mundane things and B) Charles’ handwriting resembles a black spider or something.
Some people behaved like they expected Charles’ memos to reveal some kind of terrible man giving terrible advice on the most pressing issues of the day. In truth, the memos revealed what we already sort of knew about Charles: he’s a pretty decent, rather harmless guy with varied interests and he’s happy to discuss those interests with whomever will listen. He’s rather funny in a cheeseball way (he makes a lot of jokes about being so old), he cares deeply about organic farming and the British food chain (not shocking), he pays close attention to the welfare and resources of soldiers fighting overseas (nice), he’s an advocate for herbal medicines and supplements, and more. He links bovine TB to badgers and he has harsh words for the Badger Lobby! Big Badger is going down!! He advocates for conservation many, many times. You can read some excerpts from the memos here and here.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Last month, Johnny Depp finally surfaced in Australia to film the fifth Pirates movie. Disney practically had to move mountains to get him there. His arrival date was pushed back for weeks, and he disappeared at one point. It probably took forever to pack all those scarves and necklaces and get Amber Heard on board. Perhaps some of the official international travel requirements were overlooked … or maybe Johnny and Amber figured the guidelines didn’t apply to them. The two newlywed messes brought Amber’s wee Yorkshire Terrier, Pistol, and Lily Rose’s dog, Boo, along for the voyage.
Australia runs a tight ship on imported plants and animals. They are very wary about even letting fruit come into country. When it comes to dogs, Australia’s guidelines are extensive but readily available. The country is very serious about protecting the ecosystem from foreign diseases like rabies or Lyme disease. Now there’s a #waronterrier brewing on Twitter because Amber and Johnny imported their two dogs via private jet. Australia has ordered the dogs into quarantine. Even worse, officials say Johnny must remove the dogs by this weekend, or Pistol and Boo will be euthanized:
Actor Johnny Depp has been told he has until Saturday to remove his dogs from Australia or they will be put down.
Depp and his wife Amber Heard are accused of not declaring Yorkshire Terriers Boo and Pistol to customs officials when they flew into Queensland by private jet last month.
Australia has strict animal quarantine laws to prevent importing infections. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said he understood the dogs were being sent back to the US. The dogs were discovered when a picture was posted of them at grooming parlour
“I personally as a minister don’t have Mr Depp’s phone number, nor does he have mine,” Mr Joyce told the BBC. “But my department is informed they are organising for the dogs to be sent back to the United States. “I’d say that is the wisest move.”
An online petition to save the “cute dogs” had received nearly 5,000 signatures by late on Thursday local time in Australia. “Have a heart Barnaby! Don’t kill these cute puppies,” it appealed.
Mr Joyce said in an earlier interview: “If we start letting movie stars even though they’ve been the ‘sexiest man alive’ twice to come into our nation, then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody? It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.”
The dogs’ illicit entry appears to have been uncovered after a grooming salon on the Gold Coast posted pictures of them on its Facebook page. Biosecurity officials visited the vast Gold Coast house Depp and Heard are renting on Wednesday.
“The dogs have been ordered into quarantine and the owners have been advised the dogs must be exported within 72 hours,” said a statement on the agricultural ministry website.
[From BBC]
Death sentences for the dogs does seem like high drama, but Australia doesn’t mess around when it comes to biosecurity. It’s not like Australia keeps their requirements a secret either. Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Bart brought his pet frog along, and the creature disrupted the entire balance of nature? These guidelines aren’t sitting on a dusty bookshelf, they’re part of popular culture. Johnny and Amber (or their people) should have known better than to bring Pistol and Boo along without proper declarations. These two dogs shouldn’t be put to death (and that won’t happen), but they need to return to the United States.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
Julia Roberts always gets the last word, so it makes sense that she would get David Letterman’s last kiss before next Wednesday’s big sign-off. After all, she is his favourite guest. He admitted it back in 2001 and he was clearly just as smitten last night.