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May 17, 2012

While you were sleeping

HIMYM... brought to you by Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders and Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother at the CBS Upfront. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images).

American Idol really, really wants J.Lo to return "Jennifer Lopez isn't sure if she'll come back for a third season of "American Idol," but the big cheese on the show says he wants her back in the worst way. "A.I." EP Nigel Lythgoe tells TMZ, "We want her back. I want her back." Nigel is reacting to Lopez' comment on "Ellen," saying, "I don't know if I can go for a third year. I miss doing other things. It really does lock you down." Nigel says, "I know how much she loves doing the show and how much she cares for the kids."  That said, Nigel adds, "It's a business. She has to weigh everything. I know she's gotten lots of offers to do movies and other things." Ever the optimist, Nigel says by saying she "doesn't know" if she'll come back, it's classic negotiations, which means the door is open. Welcome to Hollywood." I HAVEN'T WATCHED THE SHOW SINCE THE JUDGES STOPPED BEING, YOU KNOW, JUDGEY, BUT I GUESS PEOPLE REALLY LIKE THAT FAUX-CARING BULL-BLEEP AND J.LO REALLY, REALLY LIKES MONEY, SO SHE'LL PROBABLY BE BACK.

Avengers now ninth all-time money-making movie Coming Soon: "Walt Disney Pictures reported that Marvel's The Avengers has climbed to the 9th spot on the all-time worldwide box office list, surpassing the studio's own Alice in Wonderland ($1,024.3 million) and Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace ($1,027.0 million). The film has grossed $1,036.2 million worldwide. "The Avengers" also became the highest domestic grossing film of 2012 passing The Hunger Games in just 12 days of release and is the 13th highest grossing domestic release of all-time. On Tuesday, the Joss Whedon action adventure added $11.7 million internationally and $8.5 million domestically for a total of $20.2 million. The international gross to date is $646.8 million and domestic gross has reached $389.5 million. The movie should easily pass up the next three films on the all-time global list which are all three Disney films - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1,043.9 million), Toy Story 3 ($1,063.2 million) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1,066.2 million)."

God of your choice help us "Celebuzz has been with the entire cast of Snow White and the Huntsman for the past few days in London, England, for the big world premiere! During our sit down with star Kristen Stewart, who plays Snow White, we started talking about another phenomenon… Fifty Shades of Grey. The sexy novel — that has been acquired by Universal Studios in a movie deal — was based off of her and boyfriend Robert Pattinson‘s characters Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from the Twilight novels. Knowing this, could Kristen ever see her and Rob starring in Fifty Shades? Kristen told us about her hopes to work with Rob again: “I haven’t read the book yet– so I don’t know,” she said when asked if she could picture herself and Rob playing these roles. ... “I’m dying to make another movie with Rob, I think that we’re a good team,” Kristen added. “I think whatever it is needs to be so ridiculously ambitious. So maybe! I just haven’t read it, so I don’t know what it is, but I would love to work with him again.”

Let's speak ill-ish of the dead Us: "Before Adele became a multiplatinum powerhouse, there was another British crooner who ruled the airwaves: soul singer Amy Winehouse, who passed away in her London home on July 23, 2011. With smoky-voiced Adele entertaining audiences worldwide, Grammy winner Winehouse, 27, was eager to record a follow-up to her 2006 smash Back to Black. "We spent a little time together and talked about it," Winehouse's friend and longtime collaborator Mark Ronson, 36, told The Village Voice May 9. "But, what little time we had, well, it was tense. She was in a bad state, God knows why." "I think that the Adele thing had Amy freaked out. She liked her, but Adele's success was making Amy feel upset, competitive, restless," Ronson continued. "Anyway, we lost touch briefly. And before she and I could really start the process of beginning a new album, it was too late."

May 16, 2012

Cannes: What is going on here?

A) Wes Anderson, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Bill Murray all have terrible teeth and don't like for people to see them laughing. B) Wes Anderson, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Bill Murray shouldn't have eaten that day-old seafood. C) Wes Anderson, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Bill Murray need to understand that "don't put your fingers on the hot-plate" really means "don't put your fingers on the hot-plate."

Moonlight
(REUTERS/Eric Gaillard)

John Travolta vs. the masseurs: here are the tabloid covers

ENQMAG19It's a little sad for the tabloids when a story is already losing steam by publication date, but Star and The Enquirer have bravely soldiered on with these fine covers. No stories yet, but it looks like there's an exciting list in the Enquirer of guys Johnny wanted to give a ... nice ... shoulder rub to. I see Christopher Reeves, Robert Urich and Jeff Conaway on the list. And is that George Michael, Richard Gere and John Savage? It looks like. So half are dead and the other half don't really strike me as people who'd give a flick of a towel what the Enquirer writes about them. Good work.

STARMAG19
 

Best American politics skit ever. Today

Justin Bieber is third on Forbes' Most Powerful Celebrities list

Forbes
... he's also the coverboy of the new issue of Forbes. Here's a small excerpt from the story: "Bieber’s tech savvy infuses more than his music—it’s also a core strategy for how the entertainer intends to translate all that fame and fast money into enduring riches. Instinctively, he embraces a Peter Lynch model of investing—“I’m not going to invest in something I don’t like; I have to believe in the product”—but rather than load up on buy-what-you-know value stocks, the singer has been quietly plowing millions into private tech startups. According to his manager, Bieber holds stakes in a dozen such companies. FORBES was able to verify four: messaging platform Tinychat, social-­curation app Stamped, gaming outfit Sojo Studios and, most critically, Spot­i­fy, the disruptive music service founded by Daniel Ek and backed by everyone from Sean Parker to Li Ka-shing."

You can read about the methology here, if you're interested in such things. I'm not.

Here is the entire list, which will probably make you cry and rend your clothing. A few observations: 1) Seven of the top 10 are women, which is great. We'll try to forget the fact that Kim Kardashian ranks above Steven Spielberg. 2) A new reason for Jennifer Aniston to cry herself to sleep: She ranks nine spots beneath Angelina Jolie, who herself will have to come to terms with the fact that Taylor Swift is more powerful. 3) Gisele Bunchen is more important than Stephen King. Of course she is. 4) Taylor Lautner is more important than Seth MacFarlane. 6) I'll stop now or I'll have go bang my head into a wall.

 
1  Jennifer Lopez
2  Oprah Winfrey
3  Justin Bieber
4  Rihanna
5  Lady Gaga
6  Britney Spears
7  Kim Kardashian
8  Katy Perry
9  Tom Cruise
10  Steven Spielberg
11  Taylor Swift
12  Tiger Woods
13  Angelina Jolie
14  Donald Trump 
15  LeBron James
16  Beyonce Knowles
17  Elton John
18  Simon Cowell
19  Rush Limbaugh
20  Tyler Perry
21  Paul McCartney
22  Jennifer Aniston 
23  Glenn Beck
24  Adele
25  Bon Jovi
26  Dr. Dre
27  Kobe Bryant 
28  Brad Pitt
29  Ryan Seacrest
30  Howard Stern
31  Roger Federer
32  David Beckham
33  Manny Pacquiao
34  Ellen DeGeneres
35  Michael Bay
36  George Lucas
37  James Patterson
38  Jay-Z
39  Jerry Bruckheimer
40  Peyton Manning
41  David Letterman
42  Sean "Diddy" Combs
43  Kristen Stewart
44  Cristiano Ronaldo
45  Kanye West 
46  Leonardo Dicaprio
47  Rafael Nadal
48  Phil Mickelson
49  Toby Keith
50  Lionel Messi
51  Ashton Kutcher
52  Floyd Mayweather 
53  Kenny Chesney
54  Dick Wolf
55  Sandra Bullock
56  Johnny Depp
57  Adam Sandler
58  Will Smith
59  Cameron Diaz
60  Tom Brady
61  Gisele Bundchen
62  Mark Burnett
63  Alex Rodriguez
64  Jerry Seinfeld
65  Tom Hanks
66  Stephen King
67  Taylor Lautner
68  Brad Paisley
69  Lil Wayne
70  Dwayne Johnson
71  Maria Sharapova
72  Ben Stiller
73  Khloe Kardashian Odom
74  Seth MacFarlane
75  Charlize Theron
76  Sofia Vergara
77  Serena Williams
78  Alec Baldwin
79  Janet Evanovich
80  Julia Roberts
81  Eva Longoria
82  John Grisham
83  Meryl Streep
84  Tiesto
85  J.K. Rowling
86  Sarah Jessica Parker
87  Li Na
88  Hugh Laurie
89  Reese Witherspoon
90  Jeff Dunham 
91  Larry The Cable Guy
92  Skrillex
93  Tina Fey
94  Kate Moss
95  Ray Romano
96  Zooey Deschanel 
97  Bethenny Frankel
98  Tim Allen 
99  Melissa McCarthy
100  Adriana Lima

 

Prometheus promo

Best dolphin pizza ever. Today

Dolphin-gif-plain-fast

By Andrew Salomone via Neatorama.

MIB3 London premiere: What is going on here?

A) Alice Eve, Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson just heard the best joke ever. B) Alice Eve, Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson are sponsored by Laugh-a-lot: The Best Cure for Hangnails. C) Alice Eve, Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson need to dial it down a notch.

MIB3

(AP Photo/Jim Ross)

Anchorman 2 teaser poster

Anchorman-2

'Wand,' you dummy! 'Wand!"

Stargazing blog by Malene Arpe


  • Malene’s interests and hobbies include Schadenfreude, sci-fi and fantasy (good and bad alike), hilarious hair pieces, age-inappropriate celebrity crushes, messed-up starlets, waiting for the next Star Trek movie, hating Björk, creative profanity, disobedient robots, fake celebrity relationships, post-apocalyptic dread, singing super-villains, baseball, David Beckham (but only when he keeps his mouth shut), vampires and knitting tiny sweaters for her seven cats. That’s not true. Maybe.

    Email: marpe@thestar.ca