Knightley: ‘actor’ or ‘star’?
In 2014, Keira Knightley starred in a musical rom-com, Begin Again, for Irish director John Carney. It earned solid reviews and decent profits.
But now, Carney, out plugging a new movie, has badmouthed Knightley quite bluntly. An actor, he tells the Independent, must “not be afraid to find out who you really are when the camera’s rolling. Keira’s thing is to hide who you are and I don’t think you can be an actor and do that.”
And her “entourage” made it difficult to “get any real work done. … I like to work with curious, proper film actors as opposed to movie stars.”
Some of her other directors are defending her. Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go) called Carney an “arrogant ( bad word) head” and praised Keira. Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World) said working with her was “just lovely.”
Knightley’s 31. Carney’s 44. Ronnie Wood’s wife, Sally Humphreys, gave birth to twin girls Monday night, according to the Sun in England (headline: “Papa is a Rolling Stone”). Their names are Gracie Jane and Alice Rose.
They’re the first children for this couple but numbers five and six for Ron, whose other four — with Krissy Findlay and Jo Wood — are now all adults.
Sally is a theatre producer. She’s 38. Ronnie is 68. The crowd loved it when Adele stopped her show in Verona, Italy, the other night to berate a fan who had blatantly set up a tripod to film the performance.
The New York Daily News has video — apparently made by another fan, which is kind of amusing — that records the applause after Adele pointed into the crowd and said this:
“Yeah, I want to tell that lady as well, can you stop filming me with a video camera, because I’m really here in real life. You can enjoy it in real life, rather than through your camera. Can you take your tripod down? This isn’t a DVD, this is a real show. I’d really like you to enjoy my show, because there’s lots of people outside that couldn’t come in.” Frank Sinatra once tried to hire a hit man to wipe out Howard Stern. So says Montreal-born celebrity biographer Ian Halperin, in his upcoming book about the radio shock jock.
Halperin, who has written unauthorized tell-all biographies of Michael Jackson, Celine Dion and others, is still working on the book, says the New York Post.
Stern had criticized Frank’s children, see, so Frank called some pals — around the same time, it seems, some unnamed Dull Normal who looks like Stern got whacked, Halperin suggests.