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Last week, we reminisced about the hottest vampires ever to hit Hollywood, so it’s only fare to recognize the leading werewolves on the silver screen.
So in honor of the release of New Moon, OK! recalls the wildest werewolves of all time. And don’t forget to cast your own vote! Read more »
Everyone knows the hottest werewolf on the prowl these days is Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black fom Twilight Saga: New Moon. But there were many howling at the Hollywood moon before Taylor was even a pup (and some not on the screen yet)! We’ve picked a few other classic movie werewolves (we know we missed some of your faves, so feel free to add them in the comments!) and we want to hear from you — who’s the wildest werewolf to ever have made your hair stand on end? Read more »
Last night I went to the Lakers game and thanks to my friend Dimitrios Papadogonas, the Director of Marketing for Virgin America (whose logo dresses every courtside seat in alternating white and red) we didn’t just go to the game – we watched from the owners box and hung out in the Chairman’s Lounge during halftime and after the game.
So far, I’ve seen Jack Nicholson, David Beckham and David Arquette at every game I’ve ever been to. Well, I’ve only been to two so far, but…
Jack, that’s Nicholson, has been a season ticket holder since 1970 with courtside season tickets for the past 25 years – and I was told that courtside tickets start at $2300. That’s per seat, per game!!! AND, she said courtside at the Lakers is one place being a celebrity does NOT get you a discount. After nearly 40 years, she told me that even Jack, who the team considers family more than a fan (because he nearly Never misses a game) still pays for his seat. Although, she did add that corporations own many of the season tickets and people like Beckham, who sits in the Nike seats, probably don’t pay.
In the Chairman’s Lounge during halftime it was so crowded that after I walked in my friend was told it was at capacity (the fire marshall was standing at the door) and he’d have to wait until someone exited to enter. The next person to leave the room was a make-up-less Kate Hudson who said she was just running to the ladies room. She was told if it was still full she’d have to wait to get back in upon her return. Kate grimaced and headed off. I’m not sure she made it back.
Meanwhile, Jack Nicholson made his way from his seat to the lounge with so much focus that I don’t think he has any peripheral vision, Beckham hung out near the back of the room with Marc Anthony and Jonah Hill and the girl he was with must have stayed in their seats because I didn’t see them – or Jack Black, until they came on the jumbotron.
I love being a Lakers fan. I haven’t really had a team since a kid who used to look up to Hakeem Olajuwon (literally) at Rockets games in Houston. I’m glad my too long displaced sports enthusiasm has found a home again – and what a good home and family it is!
Although the lovely as always Julia Roberts is only turning 41 years young today, she says she won’t be starring in a Pretty Woman sequel.
"No one wants to see an old hooker! Do they?" she joked to Extra at last night’s benefit and staged reading for The Painted Turtle, Paul Newman’s Hole in The Wall California Camp.
And while the mother of three has been at the top of Hollywood’s most beloved actresses for two decades, even she admits to being starstruck at the event’s guest list.
"I was in the afternoon here during rehearsal and I had my baby [Henry] with me," she says. "And it’s chilling when Jack Nicholson goes, ‘Henry, how ya doing kid?’ It’s like ‘Aaahhh!’ "
The plainspoken star also confesses she doesn’t quite care for the focus on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s $150K clothing, saying, "I could give two sh—s about her wardrobe. I don’t think it’s her wardrobe we have to worry about."
For more of Extra’s interview with the birthday girl, tune in tonight!
George Clooney is urging his acting peers to put forth a united front in the face of the SAG and AFTRA contract dispute.
With another potential strike looming, the Oscar winner penned a two-page letter to each acting union, asking them to "just talk."
”What we can’t do is pit artist against artist,” he wrote.
AFTRA and SAG have been butting heads the last few months over studio deals. AFTRA has already hammered out a tentative agreement with studios, which is expected to be ratified July 8; however, SAG, feeling like the third wheel, is against the deal.
Should the AFTRA deal go through in two weeks, producers can make one final offer to SAG, and if the union declines it, studios have the option to lock out SAG members.
Both of AFTRA’s and SAG’s current deals expire on Monday.
Thus far, many of Hollywood’s elite have taken sides: Alec Baldwin and Tom Hanks are Team AFTRA while Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen and Holly Hunter are pro-SAG.
George is playing Switzerland in all of this, calling the rift counterproductive and saying he understands both parties’ sides.
"Both are, of course, right," he wrote. "AFTRA feels that a work stoppage would be devastating to its members and SAG believes that if they don’t draw a line in the sand, the studios will repeat what they did with DVDs."
Trying to negotiate, the 47-year-old also makes two suggestions of his own.
"First, we set up a panel … Jack Nicholson and Tom Hanks, for instance … 10 of them that sit down with the studio heads once a year … 10 people that the studio heads don’t often say "no" to," he suggested. "Those 10 people walk in the door with all the new data that SAG and AFTRA compile, and adjust the pay for actors… once a year."
Secondly, George calls for high-earning A-listers like himself — those who make "an exorbitant amount of money" — to do their part and pay a larger share of union dues.
"Right now, there’s a cap of 6,000 bucks that actors pay their union … based on $1 million in earnings," he said. "Make it $6,000 for every million … if someone makes $20 million, they pay $120,000 into the union. That could go a long way in helping pensions and health care.
He continued, "To be sure, I’m not the brightest bulb out there. So maybe someone has a lot better idea … I just happen to believe so strongly in both unions."
To read George’s full letter, click here.
I was so excited to meet Ben Affleck for the first time when I headed out to the New York Film Critics Circle Awards held at NYC’s Spotlight Live. What would he be like? I could only imagine, and I thought my curiosity was soon-to-be quenched until … I got the updated tip sheet. Beloved Ben had been deleted.
Well, that’s OK. I did get to speak to best supporting actress winner Amy Ryan, who stars in Ben’s flick Gone Baby Gone.
“What I most liked about Ben was his courage and his passion and his generosity,” she tells me. “He’s one of those directors who really loves actors and gives you all the room, freedom and confidence to set forth to tell the story.” Amy adds, “he’s a devoted family man.”
Tantilizing trays swing by with red wine, baby burgers, pita and feta cheese, hummus and this super-great filet mignon on crackers. Patricia Clarkson waves “hello” to me.
Alas, I would have to settle for best supporting actor winner Javier Bardem, who answers questions only in Spanish. (You never know when those foreign language classes will come in handy!)
Here’s best first film winner Sarah Polley, who earns rave reviews during many junkets. How does it feel to take the prize for Away From Her? “Amazing,” she tells me. “It’s really exciting and also really rewarding after trying for many years to make a film.” She looks forward to celebrating her 29th birthday in NYC. “I’m just going to be at my friend Doug’s place. He’s going to make dinner for a bunch of my friends. It’s going to be very low-key. Then I’ll go home to Toronto and have dinner with my family.” And what about her Go co-star Katie Holmes? “She was lovely and grounded and down-to-earth,” she says.
Fendi-clad presenter Amy Adams is caught in gridlock on the way from the bar, as Sarah chats with presenter Olympia Dukakis. “Are we going to go around?” Amy says. The Enchanted star gladhands with partygoers, and greets a young female fan with an “oh, you’re so cute.”
Presenter Jonathan Demme, who directs Anne Hathaway in Dancing With Shiva, calls the Prada star “a great American actress.” He adds, “She’s profoundly gifted. She’s a great human being. She’s as good as it gets.”
Presenter Ruby Dee calls out Will Smith, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicolson as her favorites. “I love the public ones too. I like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt because they’re such activists. They’re more than actors, and I like them because they’re humanists also. I like those actors that are wide open as human beings.” What about Denzel Washington, her American Gangster co-star? “He’s a marvelous man, and I went to see his wife Pauletta sing A Christmas Carol at Lincoln Center with Natalie Cole. Denzel is an extraordinarily creative actor and has a great sense of humor. He has a great capacity to go with the flow. He makes things up as he goes along. He’s very gifted.”
The lights flicker on-and-off, signaling the end of the cocktail hour. Time to dole out the awards …
This past weekend Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough married longtime sweetheart Leigh Boniello and Scott Baio finally settled down with fiancee Renee Sloan. But even though Baio and the Backstreet-er are both hitched, there’s still plenty of hunks on the horizon. Below, OK!’s list of the hottest Hollywood bachelors.
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Owen Wilson has ponied up to plenty of gorgeous women in the last several years — Kate Hudson and Sheryl Crow among them, but none of them have stuck.
7) Matthew McConaughey is currently dating Brazilian model Camilla Alvez and has been linked previously to Penelope Cruz and Ashley Judd, but it seems his heart is always with his guy friends. He and buddy Woody Harrelson recently rekindled their “bromance” with a guy’s trip to Peru.
6) Zach Braff has gone through a string of hot blondes — from his Scrubs co-star Sarah Chalke, to singer Bonnie Somerville, to Mandy Moore, all without settling down. The emo-tastic lothario is currently on the prowl.
5) Described by his We Own the Night co-star Eva Mendes as a “puppy dog,” Joaquin Phoenix was at one time linked to Liv Tyler, but in recent years, has said that, “My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.”
4) Maroon Five singer Adam Levine has marooned relationships with Jessica Simpson, Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan, but claims he’s hardly a playboy. Still, he told Canadian magazine Dose, "I’d rather [people] think I’m this playboy sleaze ball, or whatever they think I am — a ladies man. (I don’t think it’s gotten to the point where they think I’m a pig.) No matter what they think, A: it doesn’t matter to me and, B: the farther away from my actual character it is, the better I feel. I think it’s good to have some privacy."
3) After a quickie marriage and divorce from British actress Amelia Warner in 2001, Colin Farrell played the field, hooking up with a slew of Hollywood hotties, including Britney Spears, Rosario Dawson and Lindsay Lohan. He’s still unattached, though.
2) Legendary bachelor Jack Nicholson is known for dating — and dissing— much younger women, including most recently Lara Flynn Boyle. He also got into trouble for impregnating one young starlet while still involved with main squeeze Anjelica Houston. When Houston found out that Nicholson was having a kid with actress Rebecca Broussard, “she really beat me up,” he told Parade. “I tell you, Anjelica can punch!”
1) How serious is George Clooney about staying single? He’s got a $100,000 bet with Michelle Pfeiffer that he’ll never marry again. He was wedded, once — to Talia Balsam, from 1989 to 1993, and the confirmed bachelor has been dating Las Vegas cocktail waitress Sarah Larson since the summer, but Larson should take a lesson from past Clooney girlfriends like Krista Allen and realize that Clooney can’t be caught.
