Natalie Portman was happy to lend a helping hand - or two - to her son Aleph during a recent playground visit in Los Angeles.
Source: http://feeds.celebritybabies.com/~r/celebrity-babies/~3/dyrX-xKetLo/
05/30/2012
05/29/2012
Jack, My Narcoleptic Nephew Update
Remember when I wrote this post about how my nephew Jack can sleep anywhere?
Well, here's the latest:
Source: http://www.prettyinthecity.com/blog/2011/6/17/jack-my-narcoleptic-nephew-update.html
Catherine Bell Chandra West Charisma Carpenter Charli Baltimore
05/28/2012
05/27/2012
'Men In Black' Stars Pit Tommy Lee Jones Against Josh Brolin
'You gotta go with the original, and I just would not mess with Tommy,' director Barry Sonnenfeld tellsMTV News of which Agent K would win in a fight.
By Josh Wigler
Tommy Lee Jones in "Men In Black 3"
Photo: Columbia Pictures
NEW YORK — Even if the cast and crew of "Men in Black 3" can't exactly wrap their heads around time travel, the mind-boggling plot device was well worth executing if only for one reason: the creation of Young Agent K, played by Josh Brolin. The actor delivers a shockingly spot-on turn as a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones' iconic man in black, to the point that co-star Will Smith was "shocked" at Brolin's "amazing" work.
Brolin's incredible performance aside, however, it's widely believed among the "Men in Black" family that given the right circumstances, Jones' Agent K would kick the ever-loving slick out of Brolin's younger version. At the "Men in Black 3" red carpet in New York earlier this week, MTV News asked Smith, director Barry Sonnenfeld and more to weigh in on the hypothetical battle of the Ks, and the votes were almost unanimously in Jones' favor.
"At the end of the day I'm going to go with Tommy Lee Jones," said Sonnenfeld. "You gotta go with the original, and I just would not mess with Tommy. He knows some mean moves."
Smith agreed: "When Tommy Lee Jones comes up [to you], feel his arm. That's a cattle man right there. You don't want to creep up on Tommy Lee Jones."
But even as the odds-on favorite to win against his younger counterpart, Jones himself wasn't so sure of who would come out on top. Asked to weigh in on the theoretical clash, Jones was taken aback. "I don't know. I don't know how to answer a question like that."
With Jones unable to endorse his K over his '60s-era self, the stage was set for a Brolin comeback. Alice Eve was the first to cast her vote in the future "Oldboy" star's favor.
"Josh Brolin, obviously," she said. Even when it was pointed out that everyone else had thrown their support behind Jones, Eve remained committed to her pick. "I'm right. Have you met Brolin? Look at him!"
When it came time for Brolin to toss out his two cents on the K-on-K action, we expected him to stump for his version of the straight-laced alien-investigator. To our surprise, he sided with Smith and Sonnenfeld's opinion.
"Older K for sure," he grinned. "He's got the experience, he's got the moves, and he's got the look. I'm a dilettante compared to him."
Which Agent K would win in a fight, Brolin or Jones? Let us know in the comments section below! Check out everything we've got on "Men in Black 3."
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Nicole Kidman Talks 'Raw And Dangerous' 'Paperboy' At Cannes
Lee Daniels-directed film, also starring Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey, has met with decidedly mixed reception.
By Kara Warner
Nicole Kidman in "The Paperboy"
Photo: Lee Daniels Entertainment
Much ado is made over the glitz and glamour that surrounds the exotic Cannes Film Festival each year. A lot of what brings so many celebrities and so much attention to the international film fest is its location. Who doesn't want to travel to the sandy shores of the French Riviera for "work"? The other big draw, of course, is the opportunity to see movies of all genres, budgets, origin, etc., many of which can get an early jump into awards-season consideration with positive reviews from the notoriously hard-to-please Cannes audiences.
From the outside looking in, "The Paperboy" is one of the films at the festival that has major awards-buzz potential because of its director, Oscar nominee Lee Daniels ("Precious"), and its cast: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey and John Cusack. Judging from the initial reactions to the small-town, sexed-up murder mystery, however, the reception has been decidedly mixed.
"Daniels wants to show us realities that other movies don't, and I truly think that he's got the talent and drive to do it. But there's a major downside to that impulse," wrote . "If what happens on screen is in any way odd or exaggerated or, even worse, if it defies common sense, the clang of falseness is going to be deafening.
"The line on this movie in Cannes is the same one that a lot of critics, including me, took on Daniels' 'Shadowboxer': that it's so luridly overripe it's nuts — or, at the very least, high camp," Gleiberman continued. "Certainly, you're going to have that feeling during the scene when Kidman, at the beach, saves Efron from a jellyfish sting by urinating on him — which is an anti-jellyfish home remedy, but the way the scene is shot, I think Daniels had something else in mind. The wrong notes, the extremeness, just piles up from there."
Efron and Kidman spoke to the film's extremes during a press conference Thursday (May 24). "I don't think I was supposed to feel comfortable," Efron said. "It's like life. This character is supposed to be learning the ways of the world, and that can be very uncomfortable. But it's also exciting."
"I'd been looking as an actor for something raw and something dangerous," Kidman said. "I may be uncomfortable watching the movie. But that's my job — it's my job to give over to something, not to censor it, not to put my own judgments of how I feel as Nicole playing the character. I am there to portray a truth."
And no matter the discomfort surrounding the onscreen nudity, sex or the pee scene, Efron said he loved the experience of making the movie.
"I've been in love with her for a long time, since 'Moulin Rouge,' "the actor said of Kidman. "It was the loveliest time in the world for me."
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