Entries from LAist tagged with 'angelinajolie'
June 30, 2008
Wall-E prior to the apocalypse that destroyed humanity. | Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Wall-E continued Pixar's long streak of box-office success this weekend as it hauled in $62.5M to top the vile action flick Wanted ($51.1M). The race wasn't expected to be nearly so close, but Wanted somehow managed to blast past early estimates and do huge business in a rare hit for Angelina Jolie. Hold-overs staked out the rest of the top 10:......
Continue Reading "Box Office Review: Number 5 is Number 1"June 27, 2008
But where the hell is Fisher Stevens? | Photo courtesy of Disney Sooner or later Pixar has to release a dud, right? They can't just keep releasing great film after great film can they? Won't the odds eventually catch up to them? Maybe not. The early critical reception for Wall-E has been nothing short of ecstatic. If you thought the first ten, dialogue-free minutes of There Will Be Blood were pure cinematic brilliance, wait till......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Guide: Number 5 is alive!"June 19, 2008
Driving Miss Daisy 2: The Revenge | Photo courtesy of Universal The Los Angeles Film Festival officially kicks off tonight with the premiere of the awful-looking Angelina Jolie action flick, Wanted. It's something about assassins, tattoos, curving bullets and explosions--you know, standard indie fare. Starting tomorrow, the festival begins in earnest with films and events rolling at 18 locations all around Los Angeles. Most, however, are relegated to Westwood and the surrounding neighborhoods. While......
Continue Reading "Los Angeles Film Festival Starts Tonight"June 9, 2008
Jonathan Nail messes with the Zohan. | Photo courtesy of Ask You Movie Review Large crowds of children propelled Kung Fu Panda to a win at this weekend's box office race ($60M) while legions of morons drove You Don't Mess with the Zohan to a healthy second-place finish ($40M). Hold-overs staked out the rest of the top 10, led by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($22.8M/$253M). Sex and the City......
Continue Reading "Box Office Review: Panda chops Zohan"June 6, 2008
Is it me or is Adam Sandler the natural successor to Noel Coward? | Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures I understand the appeal of Steven Seagal far more than I ever will that of Adam Sandler. I've hated him in his comedies just as much as I have in his dramas. In fact, I've yet to make it through the entirety of Punch Drunk Love even though Paul Thomas Anderson is high on my......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Guide: You don't go to the Zohan"May 28, 2008
There are a lot of quality events going on about town this hump day evening: DARFUR TOUR The Darfur Now College Tour arrives at UCLA today and kicks off with a screening of Don Cheadle’s documentary Darfur Now tonight. The tour’s purpose is to raise awareness and funds to stop the genocide happening in the African nation. (Please park in lots 4 and 6 for this event.) 6 pm // Moore 100 @ UCLA //......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In: Wednesday"May 15, 2008
Less is more, Shia! Less is more! | Photo courtesy of Paramount A few weeks ago we ran a story called "Irksome and Insufferable: The Ten Most Annoying Singers". Given that actors are just as capable of being annoying as musicians, I thought it would be worthwhile to throw out 10 names for public review. I avoided the easy ones (Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, etc.) and tried to cobble together a list of actors......
Continue Reading "Irksome and Insufferable 2: The Ten Most Annoying Actors"January 8, 2008
Yesterday, famed and veteran Los Angeles fashion designer, Mr. Blackwell, talked up his worst-dressed women list, just released this morning, with LAist. He began the annual list 48 years ago. "I was sick of the ugly clothes that were being presented in the fashion industry and as dress designer I wanted to express my opinion. I never expected it to be this big." This year's list (which is after the jump) left Britney Spears alone,......
Continue Reading "Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed Women of 2007"January 7, 2008
When Sharon Stone wears a gown that looks like she's been shot or Lindsay Lohan goes out in public in an insanely sheer dress, Mr. Blackwell considers their candidacy for his annual top 10 worst dressed. Countless actresses and singers made questionable wardrobe choices in 2007. The overexposed, the under-dressed, and the over-the-top take center stage in this yearly ritual. Tomorrow Mr. Blackwell, the well-known fashion critic and designer, will unveil his 48th Annual Worst-Dressed......
Continue Reading "LAist Interview: Mr. Blackwell on The 10 Worst-Dressed Women List"November 30, 2007
Producers and writers have been talking and numbers are starting to be released. Nothing's final yet, but this strike could be soon over. What does $9.3 million buy the LAPD? It will finish the job on a backlog of 6,700 of DNA testing for sexual assault cases. Les Deux Cafe, a club where celebiatches Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears hang out, was scene to a fight early this morning that led to......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra: Jump for Joy! It's Finally Raining! "November 24, 2007
Just one day after being touted on national television as a "success story" out of the series "The Bachelor", Mary Delgado a former professional cheerleader and fiance of Season 5's Byron Velvick was arrested for domestic violence after punching him in a drunken argument - Defamer Hulk Hogan's wife, Linda Bollea, has filed for divorce from her husband Terry, aka "Hulk Hogan" this weekend - Pink is the New Blog Also Linda seems to have......
Continue Reading "Thanksgiving Weekend Gossip"November 19, 2007
While waiting for the premiere of Project Runway, I came across the list of designers that were participating this season. One name caught my eye. This is a name I already knew. He lives in LA. I had noticed several of his designs in photos from red carpet events. His dresses were always the ones I'd put in my 'if I could ever buy' category. Here was his name on the list of designers......
Continue Reading "LAist Interview: Rami Kashou of Project Runway"November 16, 2007
It almost feels like summer again as Beowulf comes crashing into theaters with a huge amount of hype. From where I'm sitting, though, that hype actually looks deserved. If 3-D is (once again) the future of film, consider me an early adopter. Combine a technical innovator like Zemekis with two--and I mean this as a true compliment--odd birds like Avary and Gaiman and you get a movie that is relentlessly beautiful and compelling. Love......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Guide: That! Guy! Is! Beowulf!"November 15, 2007
Amy Winehouse got booed offstage during the opening of her new tour after ranting about her husband's incarceration - BBC Britney Spears runs over another photographer last night while leaving The Four Seasons - TMZ Rumer Willis has been named "Miss Golden Globe" by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Defamer Little Zahara's family wants her back in Africa! They are claiming that Angelina Jolie's adoption paperwork is wrong - Digital Spy Dave Letterman opens......
Continue Reading "Thursday Gossip Quickie"October 16, 2007
Transformers would have been perfect as a 20-minute demo reel for ILM. Instead, it's a long, dull live-action cartoon. And I still don't understand all the fuss about Shia LaBeouf. He's good. Not amazing. Good. No one saw A Mighty Heart at the theater, but it's worth a rental. Angelina Jolie the Actress has been replaced by Angelina the Star, but she doesn't get in the way of a gripping, horrifying story. No one......
Continue Reading "DVD Tuesday: Great! More damn money for Michael Bay!"June 19, 2007
A Word or 56+/-: I guess Tuesday's are Ida Lupinow filmfests on TCM - why, god why? How about a Terry Thomas filmfest for effssake? If you want to watch new stuff tonight you'll have to head over to PBS. And hey, Colbert has a "surprise guest that rhymes with Steagle" tonight. Bugsy Siegel? Tonight - Tuesday - June 12th, 2007 Dodgers @ Jays (KCAL, 4:00 p.m.) Astros @ Angels (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.)......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: PBS and Late Night TV's All I Got"June 18, 2007
Despite his recent slash amazing drunken video release, David Hasselhoff was granted sole custoday of his two teenage daughters - CBC Skating with Celebrities star Kristy Swanson pulls a Tanya Harding and was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend (and former skating partner's) ex- wife - People Angelina Jolie and the kids take a fathers day shopping trip - She also speaks about potentially repairing her estranged relationship with her own father Jon Voight - Just......
Continue Reading "Weekend Gossip Roundup"June 13, 2007
Just cause Angelina Jolie is lady on the street doesn't mean she still isn't a freak in the bed - National Enquirer Shar Jackson denies reports she's carrying K-Fed's fifth child - US Weekly Katie Holmes gets same haircut as her bestie Victoria Beckham - Daily Mail New Couple Alert- Jen Aniston and sexy British model Paul Sculfor, plans to adopt in the works? - Daily Mail Isaiah Washington is fired and miffed - Entertainment......
Continue Reading "Wednesday Gossip Fix"April 26, 2007
Jack Valenti dies. Does this mean the end of those annoying 'downloading movies is like stealing your grandmother's purse' previews before every dvd ever made? - Bloomberg Eve crashes her gold Maserati on Hollywood Blvd. - TMZ Sexual battery charge filed in Los Angeles against ’Girls Gone Wild’ founder Joe Francis. Look out for 'Some Dude Goes Wild on Joe Francis' on dvd, real soon. - Boston Herald Dad who was released from prison......
Continue Reading "Extra Extra - Jack Valenti, R I P"March 30, 2007
It’s only the preseason, but goddamn that was a snoozer. You would think that winning a game 13-4 would set off absolute pandemonium, but the sound of boredom set through the crowd during most of the game. With the exception of the moments when the 13 Dodgers crossed home plate, the sporadic plays of beach balls amped up the crowd the most. I was actually caught up in one of these episodes when the......
Continue Reading "The Great Los Angeles Snoozefest"March 26, 2007
Lakers 115, Warriors 113 - Kobe joked about having an "off-night" after scoring 43 against Golden State, the first time in five games that he failed to reach the 50 mark. The Lakers have won all five of those games to recover from a seven game losing streak that was the worst of Phil Jackson's career. Kobe also had nine rebounds in the winning effort, but contributed seven turnovers to the Laker's season high 24.......
Continue Reading "LAst Night's Action: Kobe Merely Great"March 16, 2007
Angelina adopts again, welcomes Pax Thien Jolie Pitt to the clan - People Lindsay's back to her old ways, partying almost every night this week - Page Six Hayden Christensen and OC Alum Rachel Bilson a new couple - Just Jared Cute new tennis partner helps Britney work it out on the court - X17 Exclusive I mean, if theres going to be a celebrity death hoax, could we pick someone other than Sinbad? -......
Continue Reading "Pre-Weekend Gossip Fix"January 28, 2007
The mother of Angelina Jolie, Marcheline Bertrand, died yesterday after fighting cancer for over seven years. Ms. Bertrand, a Canadian-American actress of Spanish and Québécois descent, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Jolie's older brother James Haven were at the hospital yesterday. Bertrand, 56, who had a few bit parts in '80s films, studied with Lee Strasberg, and raised Jolie and Haven after she separated from Jon Voight in 1975 and......
Continue Reading "Marcheline Bertrand, Mother of Angelina Jolie, Died Yesterday of Cancer"January 10, 2007
Drew Barrymore - Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti = Us Marilyn Manson + Evan Rachel Wood = People Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie - condom = Accident Shiloh? - dlisted Kurt Cobain + fight video + Danzig fight vid = CityRag Mandy Moore + DJ AM = I'm Not Obsessed Justin + Scarlett = W.O.W. Kelly Osbourne + Playboy = Star Pulse James Brown's body - grave + rape charges = Socialite Life Paris Hilton......
Continue Reading "Gossip and Celeb Math Quickies"December 26, 2006
Every week in Living in Sin, Jen Sincero provides advice to LA's sexually confounded. Sign up for her newsletter and have it sent to you every week. Ask Jen your questions: all are posted anonymously. Dear Jen, We're an attractive married couple in our late 30's and I, the husband, am writing this. Like most men, I would love to engage in a threesome with an attractive woman and my wife. My wife would......
Continue Reading "Living In Sin: Wifely Action"December 18, 2006
Tonight - Monday TV Junkie is desperate, there ain't crap for new stuff on tonight other than late night talk - and the (free) movie channels have nothing inspiring on AND I have no new DVDs to look at, somebody help me for effssake! Monday Night Football: Bengals @ Colts (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.) Flames @ Ducks (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.) "Identity" (NBC, 9 p.m. EST) A new game show with Penn Jillette, let the magic......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Jolie, DeNiro, and Damon on Larry King AND Charlie Rose "November 1, 2006
- NO! The nude photos of 41 yr-old Cindy Margolis' fake boobies in Playboy have hit the Interwebs! - Drunken Stepfather - NO! Flava Flav preparing for his Seventh child - People - NO! Angelina is expecting againgelina - Star - NO! Shanna Moakler is getting paid to throw a Divorce Party at the Bellagio on Friday - Perez Hilton - OMG NO! Pete Doherty wears Kate Moss' clothes and shoes - Entertainmentwise -......
Continue Reading "Noonish No News - and one Yes"November 1, 2006
- Perez Hilton might go down because of his illegal photos - Radar - Official photos from the Playboy Halloween Party - Bricks & Stones - Part of Woodman Street in Sherman Oaks dressed up for Halloween as a Sinkhole - CBS2 - The Best Halloween Party We Didn't get invited to: Tera Patrick's porno lovin' fiesta at Tao - Movie Hotties - iPod + Breathalyzer = Genius - Gizmodo via Gmask - Semper......
Continue Reading "Good Morning, Kendra"September 22, 2006
Millionaire beautiful people Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie did a lot more than just browse while attending the latest Banksy show in downtown LA; they scooped up three pieces, including the $226,000 painting "Picnic", which depicts a family of white people eating while several Africans look on hungrily. Some say the husband in the party looks similar to Pitt. But the spending spree didn't end there. According to Star Magazine, and reported by the......
Continue Reading "Brangelina Blow Nearly $400k On Trendy Art About Rich Whites Picnicking; See No Irony"September 21, 2006
Last night I had a dream I was walking on an empty freeway with a martini in one hand and a beedog in the other. Bathrobe clad with a cigarette dangling from my mouth like Valley of the Dolls meets The Color of Money, I flag down Mr. T, who is speeding by on a tractor while singing “Private Eyes,” by Hall and Oates. We exchange knock-knock jokes and arrive at an oceanfront condo......
Continue Reading "Tell Me About Your Mother"