Psycho babble from writer Ellis
Author Bret Easton Ellis put his foot in it, big-time, on Twitter, by taking a shot at Kathryn Bigelow. She is the only woman ever to win a best-director Oscar (for 2009’s The Hurt Locker), and she has another hit coming right now, Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Yet Ellis wrote that Bigelow “would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she’s a very hot woman she’s really overrated.”
(Now that he mentions it, I guess she is somewhat attractive. Being a sensitive new-age guy, I hadn’t noticed.)
Ellis’s own career isn’t even mildly interesting. He has been hacking around Tinseltown since the 2000 movie of his vile 1991 novel American Psycho. Most recently he wrote the screenplay for something called The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lo
han and porn star James Deen. Ellis is 48. Bigelow’s 61.
It ain’t over till it’s over: Back in October, you may recall, Danny
DeVito and Rhea Perlman announced their separation, after 30 married years. But now DeVito has told extra.com that there is no divorce looming, and there may even be a reconciliation: “We’re working on it. … Rhea and I are really close. Actually, still together, just separate, but together.”
He’s 68. She’s 64.
Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS,
has finally spoken out about An
gus T. Jones, the kid from Two and a Half Men who went on some Christian YouTube channel and denounced the show as “filth.”
Moonves was calm but clear: “We took this boy who started with us when he was 8 years old. … He’s now making $300,000 per week, which is not a bad salary for a 19-year-old kid, and he went on a religious channel and urged people not to watch the show because it was filth. By the way, he’s still collecting his $300,000 a week.”
Still, Moonves added, after dealing with Charlie Sheen’s goofy behaviour, this Jones business seems like “a piece of cake.”
Ashley Judd is thinking seriously about seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate, reports the website Politico. Not a movie role, a real elected job.
She’s from Kentucky, and I need hardly tell you that she’s a Democrat, and she has been truly active in the party, not just another pretty face, for years.
The story says she wants to challenge incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell in 2014, or else Rand Paul, the other Republican incumbent, in 2016.
She’s 44.
Rocker Jack White is sort of backing away from what he told Es
quire’s British edition about Lady
Gaga.
The original comment was this: “I don’t think she lives (her music) because it’s all artifice. It’s all image with no meaning behind it. You can’t sink your teeth into it. It’s a sound bite. It’s very of this age, because that’s what people want.”
Now he’s scoffing at the “tabloidesque drama baiting” and claiming that the words were taken out of context. He also congratulates the Gagster for her good work supporting gay rights.