If you liked Zoolander, you’ll love this
That’s not really Stephen Hawking, it turns out, narrating this new teaser for Zoolander 2, the sequel to Ben Stiller’s 2001 comedy about brain-dead male models. Sure sounds like him, though.
And it’s a great teaser: In that distinctive robo-voice, “Hawking” speaks in voice-over as we see images invoking the big bang, the beginning of time, the vastness of space, evolution, etc. But the images get sneakily goofier, in sly allusions to the first movie.
Finally the narrator moves from cosmic marvels to “the human brain, the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution,” able to ponder “the one question that has puzzled mankind since the beginning of time.”
Cut to Stiller, in character, asking “If God exists, then why did he make ugly people?”
The movie’s due next February. Us Weekly says Nova Scotia-born actress Ellen Page (Juno, X-Men, etc.) is dating a tall blond artist from Texas named Samantha Thomas. This has been going on for seven months, but we didn’t know ’till now.
Ellen’s 28, Samantha’s 33.
Hugh Jackman has made a deal with Keurig to put his Laughing Man coffee into those little single-serving capsules the company makes, Forbes Magazine reports.
Laughing Man Dukale’s Dream, as the product will be called, is fair trade — meaning “it meets certain environmental, labour, and developmental standards in its production,” Forbes explains.
Jackman tells the mag that Laughing Man is “a labour of love” that began when he visited Ethiopia in 2009 and met a small-scale coffee grower called Dukale.
“I was so touched by how hard he worked and how little benefit he reaped … I felt compelled to make a promise to him to help out.”
So Jackman launched a foundation, opened two New York coffee shops, and now this. His efforts dovetail neatly with Keurig, which Forbes says is the world’s largest purchaser of fair-trade-certified coffee.
Spotlight couple: Sean Penn,
recently dumped by Charlize Theron, is dating Emmanuelle Vaugier of CSI: New York. Us Weekly had the story.
He’s 54, she’s 39.
Ben Affleck is still denying any fling with his kids’ nanny, so how will he explain the photo, in the N.Y. Daily News, of said nanny Christine Ouzounian handing him a bottle of champagne in the driveway of his new home in L.A. on July 17?
“With a look of delightful surprise on his face,” the paper says, “Affleck kindly accepts the present.” (I suppose they meant “delighted.” But I digress.)
This was evidently a late-night paparazzo stakeout job. Did Ouzounian tip somebody off to be there? Why the delay before publication?
And now In Touch magazine has luckily obtained photos of Christine in a bikini at the swanky Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills. “A friend” says Ben is paying her bills there, the mag reports, and if he stops, Christine will sue for wrongful dismissal from the nanny job. She sounds like quite a piece of work.