More questions than answers in Stallone’s paintings about life
Sylvester Stallone, a painter? Who knew? But there’s an exhibition of his paintings on right now, until May 30, at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Nice, just down the road from the Cannes Film Festival. Sly is in town, but not for the movie schmooze-a-thon.
His paintings are mostly the standard meaningless blobs and smears of paint, although one is supposed to be his Rocky character.
His art, he told the L.A. Times, asks questions: "What is life, what is (it) all about … My art isn’t … making social statements. It’s not drawing conclusions. It’s not declaring what is right. It is not political. It’s just one man’s struggle and success and all emotions you go along (with) in life.”
He’s 68. Ellen DeGeneres asked Jennifer Lopez a simple question: Is she still with boytoy Casper Smart, or not?
JLo’s response: “I’m kind of not, and I kind of am.”
DeGeneres pressed for more, and got this: “Have you ever been at a point in your life where you don’t know? Like you’re not sure about things? Well … I am not sure about anything.”
DeGeneres: “So, you’re just hanging out, and holding hands and posting pictures?
Lopez: “And having fun and doing … whatever I feel like doing. I’m a grown woman.”
She’s 45. Casper’s 28.
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody — respectively the former stars of teen TV dramas Gossip Girl and The O.C. — are expecting their first child together, says a website called PopSugar, with photos to support the theory.
They married in February 2014. He’s 35, she’s 29. Richie Sambora, who played guitar for Bon Jovi, is locked in an ugly feud with ex-girlfriend Nikki Lund.
Last December she was praising Sambora as “amazing in bed,” but last week she complained to the L.A. cops that he had threatened her life. She produced a phonecall recording in which a man says “Don’t (bad word) bother me about this anymore. Do you understand I could (bad word) kill you, like I’ll dig you a grave and you’ll (bad word) be dead?”
Sambora responded by claiming she and publicist Sean Borg extorted $100,000 from him with, err, “threats of false statements.” He claims the recording, made without his knowledge, was edited to change its meaning.
Police and prosecutors have decided to ignore the whole mess, the N.Y. Daily News reports. Pity; this might have made a lovely court case.
He’s 55. She’s 32.
In New York the other day, Hillary Clinton took her husband to see Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth in this play The Audience. Mirren slipped in a line just for them, the N.Y. Post says:
“In one scene, Mirren, as the Queen, is speaking to one of her prime ministers and says, ‘Well, you are better off with me than with what they have over there.’ “She then stared out at the Clintons, and the crowd loved it.