The 2011 Golden Globes Awards took place in Hollywood last night and there was a few surprises with the winners list, mainly The Social Network taking the award for Best Motion Picture instead of Black Swan. You can see the full winners list after jump because I don’t really want to talk about. Here is what I want to talk about:
Yes, Ricky Gervais‘s opening monologue which he pretty much went in on everyone in Hollywood and I loved every second of it. I’m sure there is probably a number of hits out on his head today.
The best one for me is when he decided to crack a joke at Tom Cruise and John Travolta, after saying Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor played two gay characters in “I Love You Philip Morris”, he then said “the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then.”
It was a good start to the show and really the only bit that I cared about, if these celebrities can’t take being made fun of then they are definitely in the wrong business.
TGIF! This week’s celebrity news brought us some pretty funny quotes. We’ve got Nick Jonas commenting on his murse, David Letterman taking a jab at Tiger Woods and himself, along with Russell Brand and his womanizing ways.
“I’m not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It’s like a man purse. It’s a whole thing.”
– Nick Jonas, admitting that he also gets pedicures, on It’s On with Alexa Chung
“I wish he would stop calling me for advice.”
– Recent tabloid headliner David Letterman, taking a jab at his replacement, Tiger Woods, on his late show
“He knows every song, every word, every step, and he wants to wear all the costumes.”
– Madonna, sharing her son David Banda’s admiration for Mom’s music with the British morning show GMTV
“But what can you do with George Clooney? George Clooney is one of the most handsome, best actors in the world and is nice to everyone. It’s like going at Mother Teresa.”
– Ricky Gervais, on promising not to target notorious jokester and charitable actor George Clooney as host of this year’s Golden Globes, to People
“There’s been way higher mountains than you in my past.”
– The 5 ft. 4 in. Seth Green, to the 5 ft. 11 in. Wendy Williams, on dating taller women
“He told me I looked good, but I’d look better if I had a personal trainer.”
– Colin Firth, crediting his trimmer physique to Single Man director Tom Ford, to The New York Times
“I told him he was fat.”
– Tom Ford, recalling a slightly different conversation with Firth, to the NYT
“Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I’ll be eating it,”
– Eva Longoria Parker, revealing her food vice, to People
“You try to pretend like you’re paying attention to your family, but in the meantime, you’re like “Grandma, can you pass the gravy? I’M OPEN!”
– Ray Romano, on the challenges of watching football during holiday meals, on Live! With Regis and Kelly
“The girls with the bigger…”
– Modern Family’sSofÃa Vergara, giving a new perspective on the age old question of whether blondes or brunettes have more fun, on Rachael Ray
“I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough – to get the right one.”
– Russell Brand, on dating his way to current girlfriend Katy Perry to British morning show GMTV
Daniel Craig will once again be putting on the suit of 007 for the (currently titled) “Bond 22†film. This time he will have an up-and-coming actress to work along side him. Gemma Arterton has scored the role of the next Bond girl and will be aptly wooed by Craig in the next movie.
Eon Productions, the masterminds behind the current Bond films, is after a more modern look combined with a slight vulnerability. After graduating from the RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) this year, she worked behind a beauty counter to pay the rent. Gemma was then picked up for the role of a lifetime. Beating out Sienna Miller for a part in the film “St. Trinian’s,†she shared the screen with Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. She played a young seductress who uses sex appeal to get her way. (Complete with school girl outfit.)
Arterton is the next “big name†according to the buzz across the pond. She beat out over 1500 hopeful ladies for the role of Bond girl. Filming starts in January with an expected release date of November 7, 2008.
Source: Gemma Arterton Got Bond Girl Part? [Ace Showbiz] and Gemma Arterton is the next Bond girl [Gossip Boulevard]
With celebrities-turned-fashion designers currently basking in the pop culture spotlight, let’s visit the model-turned-actor‘s.
Despite some high profile flops (Cindy Crawford in ‘Fair Game‘, anyone?), there seems to be an endless supply of leggy lovelies dreaming of snagging an Oscar.
LILY COLE
One look at this flame-haired, porcelain-skinned catwalker, and it’s clear that she was destined to play Alice in Wonderland. But given his recent predilection for teenage girls, we can’t help wondering about the wisdom of signing up for the role under the direction of cultural provocateur Marilyn Manson. Still, Cole already has one film project under her belt, playing a schoolgirl in the upcoming St. Trinian’s, co-starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth and based on a popular British cartoonist’s anarchic vision of boarding school life. And if she can survive the cutthroat fashion world, an aging shock rocker should be, well, child’s play.
EFFORT: B+ TALENT: TO BE DECIDED
GEMMA WARD
The credit for this in-demand model’s role in the upcoming horror movie The Strangers, starring fellow sometimes mannequin, Liv Tyler, is a stroke of pure irony (unwittingly, if we know Hollywood). The face that launched a hundred fashion spreads is listed simply as “Masked Stranger,†although we can’t imagine that the director will be able to keep this wide-eyed lovely under wraps entirely.
EFFORT: N/A TALENT: TO BE DECIDED
GISELE BUNDCHEN
Behind-the-scenes fashion folk have raved about the down-to-earth sense of humor of this arguably most super of supermodels for years, so it’s no surprise that her most memorable film role to date (we’ll forget Taxi, as we hope she has) was as an acid-tongued fashion assistant in the tongue-in-chic blockbuster The Devil Wears Prada. EFFORT: B- TALENT: C+
We have to give credit to anyone who has held her own against Mark Wahlberg AND a hairy ape (Warren did both in Tim Burton’s widely-panned Planet of the Apes remake). Still, the former synchronized swimmer has largely fallen off the radar in recent years, except as a pillow-lipped fantasy figure in the minds of devoted male fans.
EFFORT: C TALENT: C+
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
That killer smile, that killer car. Brinkley zoomed into every adolescent boy’s dreams thanks to a high profile cameo as “the girl in the Ferrari†in the comedy classic National Lampoon’s Vacation, but these days she’s more likely to be found tooling around her beloved Hamptons—and holding her head up in the aftermath of a nasty divorce—than appearing at a theater near you. EFFORT: C TALENT: C
REBECCA ROMIJN
Hate her or love her, it appears that Rebecca Romijn, actress, is here to stay. Fusing her smoldering swimsuit model physique with a goofy girl next door charm, the former Mrs. Full House has emerged with a full-fledged second career that’s fast outstripping (pun intended) her Victoria’s Secret heyday.
EFFORT: A+ TALENT: B-
CLAUDIA SCHIFFER
She spoofed herself in Zoolander and took on a bit more of a stretch in filmmaker James Toback’s controversial exploration of race relations, Black and White, but at the end of the day this Teutonic supermodel’s most absorbing role is playing mom to children, Caspar and Clementine.
EFFORT: C- TALENT: B
MILLA JOVOVICH
This sharp-cheekboned Slavic stunner has carved out a niche for herself on the other side of the catwalk, as half of the design team behind hipster label Jovovich-Hawk, but she’s played a pretty convincing alien in her day (in former flame’s Luc Besson’s fantastical The Fifth Element), and she’s set to return to the silver screen this fall as the star of the latest installment of the horror-sci-fi series Resident Evil.
EFFORT: A TALENT: C-
CINDY CRAWFORD
Internationally recognized as one of the original core supermodels, Cindy Crawford seemed to have been “marked” for commercial success. Just not in the film/television category. She started off strong with the George Michael “Freedom 90″ video, and the hot Pepsi commercials in the mid-’90s, but when she tried her hand at film (the forgettable Fair Game), her star quickly fizzled out.
EFFORT: B TALENT: D
ELLE MACPHERSON
This eternal amazon’s lingerie empire is now her central focus, but back in the late ‘90s “The Body†made a genuine stab at movie stardom, showing up in such diverse films as the sophisticated sex-drenched comedy Sirens, opposite Hugh Grant, and the bloated big budget flop Batman and Robin.
EFFORT: C+ TALENT: B+
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Her frenzy-inducing public service stint was more entertaining than anything we’ve seen in theaters in years, so here’s hoping that this tempestuous fashion icon harnesses even an iota of her naturally dramatic mojo for her rumored upcoming movie project.
EFFORT: A TALENT: TBD
And… the ONLY MALE…
ASHTON KUTCHER, Yes… he was first a model!
No exploration of the model-turned-actor phenomenon would be complete without Demi Moore’s favorite accessory. Despite attempts at scaling the dramatic A-list, former Calvin Klein model Kutcher is still best known for playing dim-witted Kelso on the long-running sitcom That ‘70s Show and for playing practical jokes on fellow celebrities on his reality show Punk’d. Oh, and of course for being, like, the best stepdad EVER!
EFFORT: B TALENT: B
