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Superman’s fight cost Metropolis a bundle

- DOUG CAMILLI

Star shines for British store: Helen Mirren is filming a British TV ad for Marks & Spencer, says the Telegraph. She was spotted in East London being photograph­ed against some funky background­s by Annie Liebovitz, snapshot artist to the stars.

Tossing mad: Lady Gaga’s dad Joe Germanotta is upset that Big Apple inspectors lowered the hygiene I haven’t seen this movie Man of Steel, and with a little luck I never will see it. But I’m interested all the same in this thing on Buzzfeed:

They got some expert in disasterol­ogy to calculate just how much damage was done to Metropolis by the, you know, zombies or aliens or businessme­n or whoever the baddies are. (I said I haven’t seen it, didn’t I?)

Anyway the toll is kind of nasty: 129,000 people dead, 250,000 missing and nearly a million more hurt. Total cost: $750 billion, more than 12 times more than 9-11. Some superhero.

If you’re going to sell out, go big: The N.Y. Times says Samsung paid $5 million to buy one million copies of Jay-Z’s about-to-drop album Magna Carta Holy Grail. It will be available online for Galaxy smartphone owners three days ahead of its release to us Dull Normals. rating of his Manhattan resto, Joanne Trattoria. So he started ranting, via Twitter:

“We had a bad potato in a bin with 40 good potatoes. It wasn’t being served to a customer, it was raw; and when the inspector pointed it out we threw it away. How many bad veggies do you toss?”

Hammering it out: Actor Armie Hammer, interviewe­d in Playboy, says way more than we need to know about, err, intimate aspects of his married life.

He also discusses his enthusiasm for McDonald’s: “Left to my own devices I’d probably eat four Big Macs a week. My wife, Elizabeth, says, ‘You can’t fill your body with that crap. They put eyeballs in it!’ And I go, ‘Sounds good!’”

Made-up features: Amy Adams, who is Lois Lane in this new movie Man of Steel, looks just fine to me. But she’s self-deprecatin­g in her Allure mag cover story. “I have no features without makeup,” she said.

Talking about why she eschews diets, she said: “I just don’t see the point. I’m just not going to be one of those people photograph­ed in a bikini where people are like, ‘OMG, look at Amy!’ I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.”

Mick lock: Have I got a deal for you! In London next month, an actual lock of Mick Jagger’s hair is going to be up for auction. It turned up among the effects of the granny of Jean Shrimpton, a top model of the ’60s who — like pretty much every babe of the era — had a fling with Mick.

Pre-auction estimates begin at $1,597 Cdn, considerin­g that somebody recently paid $1,442 for a lock of Keith Richards’ hair. The money goes to a plastic-surgery charity, at least, but still …

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Helen Mirren
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Amy Adams
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Jay-Z
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