Deschanel belle of ‘Nerd Prom’
Hollywood’s trudge through awards season continues. The other night it was the Writers’ Guild’s turn to have a boozy banquet and pass out statuettes. As you know, scriptwriters are a muchmocked bunch in Hollywood, far down the food chain, badly underpaid, hopelessly unglamorous, utterly powerless. Anyway, the Guild landed Zooey Deschanel as their awards-evening host. Her opening line: “Welcome to Nerd Prom. Male writers, you are so hot with your minds and plaid shirts. Hit on me.” 14 x 2 = Trouble: Fashion designer Marc Jacobs hired two 14-yearold girls to be runway models at New York Fashion Week. This violates a Council of Fashion Designers of America guideline which set a limit at age 16. The non-binding rule came in after a spate of reports of anorexia among very young model-wannabes.
“The industry’s hiring of prepubescent-appearing teenage girls as models of adult clothing sets an unrealistic standard; the curves that define the female figure are absent,” Council president Diane von Furstenberg told the New York Times.
Jacobs, who’s on the Council’s board, just laughs: “I do (my) show the way I think it should be, not the way somebody tells me it should be. There is no controversy.” Mustaine must have Santorum: It’s hardly news any more when an entertainment figures endorses a Democrat. Hollywood has long been groupthink city. But would you believe a heavy-metal rocker speaking up for hyper-conservative Christian Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum? Ten years ago Dave Mustaine, the frontman for Megadeth, came out as a bornagain Christian (not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
The other day Mustaine said, “I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the White House and that it’s Rick Santorum.” But then the rocker told Billboard mag he does not consider that to have been an endorsement. Approval not Granted: Waiting for the third Bridget Jones movie? Keep waiting. Hugh Grant, who starred in the first two flicks along with Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth, now says none of the three have signed a Jones III contract, because the script still isn’t good enough.
“There’ve been a number of drafts that have had great things in them but haven’t quite hit the bull’s-eye,” Grant told Total Film mag. “They’re working on it again now with yet another writer. As soon as they get to a good point we will do it, I’m sure.”