Jones is starring opposite Guy Pearce in the new old Hollywood film surrounding the lure of Houdini. The 1920s version of Catherine has a little meat on her bones. She plays a seductress and love interest to Houdini who has claimed she can contact his mother from the beyond. The affair is the underlining tension in the new film “Death Defying Acts.” The movie depicts Houdini’s clout as an escape artist and tortured soul. While Catherine struts around scantily clad and strips down to a belly dancing costume, Harry is focused on his dead mother.
Is it just me or is she looking great at 38 after two kids. But her hands are telling a different story. Those look like the claws of a old queen with a new set of acrylics.
Now this is some funny,… funny stuff. However, the one of Marilyn Monroe just might give me nightmares tonight. If you are easily confused, the pictures to the left are of the real celebrity.
Former “Sex and the City” star Kristin Davis is the most beautiful woman in the world, according to a poll conducted by the British women’s magazine Eve.
As reported by TMZ (oddly, none of this is on Eve’s website), the Top Ten are:
1. Kristin Davis
2. Catherine Zeta-Jones
3. Halle Berry
4. Nicole Kidman
5. Charlize Theron
6. Kate Beckinsale
7. Kate Winslet
8. Eva Longoria
9. Jennifer Aniston
10. Angelina Jolie
TMZ observes, “Interestingly, all the ladies in the top ten are in their 30s and 40s.” Quite unusual, indeed. They’re a beautiful bunch and Davis was almost my choice for prettiest on “Sex and the City” (although not the sexiest; that was Kim Cattrall). Still, while Christy Pastore may be right to be heartened that “not a Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson or a Scarlett Johansson made the grade,” I disagree that “Jennifer Aniston is more beautiful than Angelina Jolie.” Lovely though Aniston may be, she’s not Top Ten material. She wasn’t even the prettiest of the “Friends” girls.
Still, this is the equivalent of debating whether Porshe or Ferrari make a finer sports car or whether one would rather own a Rolls or a Maibach. Either way, you can’t go wrong.
Despite reports that Ellen Barkin will join Danny Ocean’s merry band of bandits for the third installment, Ananova now claims that “Angelina Jolie is reportedly in talks to star in Ocean’s 13.” The implications are obvious: “If she agrees it would see her working again with lover Brad Pitt. The pair first joined forces in Mr and Mrs Smith. Jolie has also recently worked with Matt Damon on The Good Shepherd reports Guardian Unlimited.”
More importantly, though, it would continue the hottie factor of the first two movies, which had and Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the female lead slots.
As a bonus, while the idea that Matt Damon would date Ellen Barkin is a stretch, audiences will have no problem believing that Brad Pitt would date Angelina Jolie.
Variety reports that Ellen Barkin will play the female lead in “Ocean’s Thirteen,” scheduled to start shooting this summer.
Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub have set a July 21 start date for “Ocean’s Thirteen,” and Ellen Barkin is the pic’s new leading lady.
Filming will take place primarily on five soundstages on the WBthe WB lot in Burbank, where a fully operational casino will be built. The first “Ocean’s” film was shot at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the sequel in Europe, but it became too arduous to shoot a movie around the gambling traffic in a real casino, producer Jerry Weintraub said. Director Steven Soderbergh and star George Clooney just used the WB soundstages to shoot “The Good German,” a European-set period drama.
Soderbergh has already committed to direct returning cast members George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould.
With Barkin in, that means previous first femmes Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones are sitting this one out.
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Weintraub wouldn’t disclose plot details, other than that Barkin gets closely involved with Damon’s character. As for the absence of Roberts, who starred in both pictures, and “Ocean’s Twelve” addition Zeta-Jones, Weintraub said: “Their characters just weren’t part of the script this time.”
There’s nothing like a little exposed skin to boost a starlet’s public profile. Plaster a titillating image of her nude frame on the cover a glossy monthly, and she’s instantly grabbed the attention of millions. When 20-year-old Scottish diva Keira Knightley and 21-year-old Scarlett Johansson stripped and strategically struck PG-13 poses for the cover of the March issue of Vanity Fair, the press types deemed it a risky and risqu? move (one British tab called the pic “shocking and provocative”). But it’s nothing new: from Marilyn to Madonna and beyond, lots of actresses have flashed a little flesh in mainstream mags as a way of upping their, ahem, visibility.
If you’ve been perusing the newsracks in recent years, you may have noticed Rachel Weisz, she of the “Mummy” movies fame, clad only in a boa constrictor for the April 2004 cover of Esquire. You may have been nonplussed by the sight of a topless Paris Hilton (covering her assets, of course) on the October 2005 cover of Vanity Fair. Sharon Stone graced the cover of December 1999’s Esquire in the buff, while in 2003, Britney Spears went pantless for Esquire and topless for Elle. And if you got past the cover of the Knightley-Johansson issue of Vanity Fair, you’d have found a photo inside of Angelina Jolie, reclining nude in a bath tub. In May 2003, all three Dixie Chicks dropped their drawers for the front of Entertainment Weekly.
Yes, it’s legal eye candy for adolescent boys of all ages, but other than a momentary blip on the tabloid radar, do stars reap any long-term benefit by baring it all?
“Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson can only benefit from their recent unclothed appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair,” says Mr. Skin, otherwise known as James McBride, a movie nudity expert who runs MrSkin.com and author of “Mr. Skin’s Skincyclopedia.” “After all, here we are talking about them. Both Keira and Scarlett, although they’re young, are established Hollywood stars and this blast of bare flesh is going to propel them upward into the next echelon of fame. That cover is being, well, covered all over the world, and it will be collected, fussed over and looked back on fondly for decades to come. As to which woman will benefit more, well Scarlett actually shows more skin in the photo.”
In this day and age, few celebrities are shy about baring it all onscreen. So when bashful Natalie Portman asked director Mike Nichols to cut her nude scenes from the upcoming flick “Closer,” it was newsworthy. Portman — for now, at least — is that rare star who chooses to keep herself under wraps, while much of Hollywood, male and female, is dropping its drawers.
Almost every actress currently on the A-list has done a nude scene or two. Some of them did it a few years before becoming mega-famous, like Reese Witherspoon (”Twilight”) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (”The Mask of Zorro”). A few actresses used an attention-grabbing nude scene to help catapult their careers — witness Halle Berry (”Monster’s Ball”) and Kate Winslet (”Titanic”) — while others have continued taking it all off long after their star status was cemented, like Angelina Jolie (”Taking Lives”) and Nicole Kidman (”Cold Mountain,” among others). And then there was Meg Ryan, trying to rekindle her career by letting it all hang out (”In The Cut”).
“Halle Berry proved that one could garner high accolades while getting down and dirty with her naked sex scenes in ‘Monster’s Ball’,” says Mr. Skin, otherwise known as James McBride, a movie nudity expert who runs MrSkin.com and author of an upcoming book, “Mr. Skin’s Skincyclopedia.”
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What are the benchmarks by which all nude scenes are measured? McBride says the first on-camera nudity by a major celebrity occurs in the “Ecstasy” (1932), in which Hedy Lamarr skinny-dips “and her chest is clearly visible,” he says. Another historic scene, he says, is the wet-dream sequence in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” when Phoebe Cates takes off her bikini top. “In my skin-pinion, all previous celebrity nude scenes led to that moment and its greatness looms permanently over all that have come since.”
Some photos from the films in question are thumbnailed below.
