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Celebrities are truly a funny breed… but not nearly as funny as their Muppet comparisons.
I’m not sure why I am so amused by this, but one of my favorite Muppet creations was the Fraggle Rock Doozers.
Beaker and Carrot Top
Miss Piggy and Tori Spelling
Janice and Donatella Versace
Grog and Bruce Vilanch
The Swedish Chef and Dr. Phil
Fozzie Bear and Jack Black
Rowlf the Dog and Whoopi Goldberg
Gonzo and Adrien Brody
source: Hollywood Muppets [tmz]
Actor Brad Renfro has been found dead.
The 25-year-old actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home this morning. The cause of death has not been determined, however, Renfro had a history of drug abuse.
 Sources tell us Renfro, who had starring roles in “The Client” and “Apt Pupil” had been working valiantly to stay clean, especially since this summer. Renfro had been convicted of several drug offenses, including attempted heroin possession.
Renfro had been filming a movie with Winona Ryder and Billy Bob Thornton. The movie, “The Informers,” just wrapped.
Renfro has had a rough time personally since moving from Tennessee to Los Angeles. His parents split, and we’re told he did not have real guidance from adults as he tried navigating the treacherous movie industry.
Brad Renfro Biography:
Renfro was ten when he was discovered by Mali Finn, a casting director for Joel Schumacher, director of The Client. He played the title role in the film, adapted from a best-selling John Grisham novel, opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. The suspense/drama was one of the top-grossing films of 1994. Renfro went on to act in other films including 2001’s Ghost World and Bully and 2005’s The Jacket with Keira Knightley and Adrien Brody. He also played Huck Finn in Tom and Huck with Jonathan Taylor Thomas. In 1995, he won Hollywood Reporter’s “Young Star” award and was nominated as one of People magazine’s “Top 30 Under 30″. Renfro also appeared in “Watch”, an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Recently he completed filming his role in the upcoming film The Informers.
source: Actor Brad Renfro dead at 25 [msnbc]
Last night at the premiere of “The Darjeeling Limited”, Owen Wilson made his first public appearance since the suicide attempt. Although he avoided the red carpet, he did join costars Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, and Anjelica Huston onstage.
Owen was introduced by director Wes Anderson as “my best friend.” He aded, “I’ve never made a movie without him. and I hope I never have to.”
Jason Schwartzman was also happy he was there, saying, “Owen is doing very well and he is with us tonight, and I love him.”
It’s good to see Owen out and about, and I can’t wait to see Wes Anderson’s latest.
Source: “Owen Wilson Shows Up at Movie Premiere” [People]; “Owen Wilson – Back in the Game” [TMZ]; Photo: dlisted
Natalie Portman, who’s set to appear in the movie ‘Hotel Chevalier‘, and based on these racy photos, will no doubt get those tongues a wagging.
For those of you who actually care about the movie, and not a nude Natalie Portman:
 Movie director Wes Anderson, known for such offbeat films as “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” is adding an especially unconventional touch to his latest project.
Before “The Darjeeling Limited” is released in New York on Saturday, Mr. Anderson is urging audiences to see another of his films — this one a related 13-minute short called “Hotel Chevalier” that will be released on the Internet this week.
“Hotel Chevalier” represents a novel approach to generating buzz for “Darjeeling,” a quirky film from Fox Searchlight that doesn’t have a powerhouse marketing budget. The main film is about three brothers — played by Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody — who take a comic “spiritual journey” through India after their father’s death. Like Mr. Anderson’s past films, the new picture isn’t easily summarized or boiled down to an easy selling point.
“Hotel Chevalier,” meanwhile, is a prequel of sorts that was made a year before “Darjeeling” even began filming. It takes place entirely in the Paris hotel room of Mr. Schwartzman’s character and includes information that later becomes relevant in “Darjeeling.” The short film’s premiere will be Tuesday night at Apple stores in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Monica, Calif. Then, starting Wednesday, it will be available as a free download on Apple Inc.’s iTunes Web site. Read more…
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The first pictures of Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ biopic “I’m Not There.”
The film also stars Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Wishaw and Marcus Carl Franklin as Dylan during different times of his life.
Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Adrien Brody and Charlotte Gainsbourg play various other people in his life.
The film was slated for Cannes next month, but won’t. It will hit US theaters in September.
source: goldenfiddle via ONTD
Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums screenwriter/director Wes Anderson teams up with like-minded writers Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman to tell the tale of three brothers (Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Adrien Brody) whose travels through India lead to a series of quirky adventures.
The brothers believe their father has been reborn as an albino leopard, and trace their mother to a convent where she teaches poor children. The train they travel by is The Darjeeling Limited, and they are on a search for their father/Leopard.
 Here’s what is what appears to be a very first and rough draft of Wes Anderson’s new film The Darjeeling Limited. Missing is the Bill Murray-is-a-tiger part and Natalie Portman’s part, so it feels really, really bare and like something’s missing…but you can get the basis of the story from this script. Deadly snake! Adrien Brody in pink boxers! Mace! Jason Schwartzman having sex in a lavatory! Turbans! Dead boy! Drugs!
http://www.natalieportman.com/picstemp/Darjeeling%20Limited.pdf
from natalieportman.com
Seems a bit creepy to me.
Penelope Cruz looking as beautiful as ever. Psst… Matt looks like [insert foul word here], since breaking up with her. The fool!
PENELOPE CRUZ once again joins forces with acclaimed director PEDRO ALMODÓVAR on the upcoming ‘Volver.’
It is the duo’s third collaboration and the first since 1999’s ‘All About My Mother,’ which earned an Oscar.
In ‘Volver’ (meaning ‘Coming Back’), Cruz plays Raimunda, who lives in Spain with her teenage daughter (YOHANA COBO) and is married to an unemployed laborer. But things get complicated when Raimunda’s mother (CARMEN MAURA), who died in a fire, begins to appear and can be seen by Raimunda’s hairdresser sister Sole (LOLA DUEÑAS).
What follows is a series of comedic events coupled with deep emotions as the living and the dead work to co-exist.
But Cruz isn’t the only one who is reuniting with Almodóvar. Dueñas appeared in the filmmaker’s 2002 hit ‘Talk to Her,’ while Maura is an Almodóvar veteran, having starred in the director’s ‘Pepi, Luci, Bom,’ ‘Dark Habits,’ ‘Matador,’ ‘Law of Desire,’ ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?!’ and the international smash ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.’
In addition to ‘Volver,’ due in theaters November 3, Cruz will also soon be seen in ‘The Good Night’ with Gwyneth Paltrow and ‘Manolete’ opposite Adrien Brody. [The Insider]
Diane Lane, Ben Affleck & Adrien Brody at Hollywoodland premiere in Venice (08/31/06).
 
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