Eva Mendes has been making the rounds promoting her new film “The Spirit” and giving her opinion on whiny actresses. She is also blasting Hollywood for being sexist. But, hey, that doesn’t mean she minds getting naked for a part when it calls for it.
She said, “[My character Saref is] so kick-ass in every way. She’s such a smart dame, that part of her sexuality, part of getting what she wants, is turning up the sex. So yeah, I had no problem with taking my clothes off for this role.”
Madonna’s teen daughter Lourdes Leon has enrolled at New York Professional Children’s School since moving to the Big Apple with her mother, following Madge’s divorce from Brit Guy Ritchie. The 12-year-old Lourdes wants to pursue her interest in acting, a career that has proven elusive to her mother.
“Lourdes is desperate to become an actress and has joined Manhattan’s Professional Children’s School,” a source told London’s Daily Mail.
Sad news for actor John Travolta and his wife actress, Kelly Preston, as their son Jett, 16, died today while vacationing with his family in the Bahamas.
It’s being reported that Jett Travolta suffered a seizure at his family’s vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island. Initial reports say that he fell and hit his head in the bathtub Friday morning. Though attempts were made to revive him, he died at the scene.
Beyonce Knowles has created a hip hop beef with Janet Jackson - by suggesting that the Jackson clan is lower class. Beyonce allegedly said: “I grew up upper class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like The Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”
It’s on! Janet Jackson, who barely knows Beyonce, is going to support her family to the fullest and confront the former Destiny’s child singer about the slam.
The BBC was shocked - Shocked! - when Sir Paul McCartney did an impromptu “trans-racial” impersonation of Michael Jackson on the air. McCartney is said to have talked in a high-pitched Jackson-style voice when asked about the once-black-man turned middled-aged white-woman singer, which the usually insensitive and over-the-top BBC decided was too outrageous, even by non-existent British standards.
A BBC source told the Daily Mail: “McCartney started to reply in this high-pitched Jacko voice, and apparently it was very funny. But the BBC - deeply nervous, perhaps because of the Jonathan Ross-Russell Brand affair - has declined to broadcast the interview.”
The death of actor Heath Ledger, who was on the cusp of breaking into mega celebrity thanks to his performance in ‘The Dark Knight,’ was voted as the biggest movie news story in 2008. Over 3.5 million votes were cast in the December poll at AOL’s Moviefone.com deciding on the best and worst movie events for the year.
Ledger, whose death at age 28 in January 2008 of an accidental prescription drugs overdose shocked the world, received a whooping 83 percent of votes as the biggest movie news of the year.
Queen Latifah has become the victim of a robbery on vacation, and a resort staffer may be the culprit. The singer/actress was staying at the $1,000-per-night Stone Haven Villas in Black Rock, Tobago, with a female friend when someone robbed her of $10,000 worth of jewelry.
Latifah, who checked in under the name Cynthia Hadden, reportedly returned from a barbecue brunch to discover a bracelet, two gold rings, a gold chain and a silver ring were missing.
Are J. Lo and Marc Anthony going to break up their marriage after their Valentine’s Day Concert next month? According to a report in the New York Daily News, that’s the plan for the new parents of twins born just 10 months ago.
“Marc and Jennifer are planning on announcing their divorce … right after Marc’s show at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 14,” a source claims. “Jennifer is planning on joining Marc onstage for a surprise duet.”
Is Angelina Jolie being warned not to conceive again? According to a source who spoke with OK! magazine, the mother of six has been advised by doctors to avoid getting pregnant since her two prior deliveries had complications.
“Her previous pregnancies ended with emergency Caesarian sections,” an insider tells OK!. “She’s been told that, at the least, she should not get pregnant for a year after her last deliver, and it would be safer if she did not get pregnant again - Ever.”
Have you ever wondered what happened to Scott Baio from “Happy Days” and “Charles in Charge,” Christopher Atkins from “The Blue Lagoon,” or Jason Hervey who played Kevin’s older brother Wayne on “The Wonder Years”?
Well the aging idols are back on a new VH1 reality show, “Confessions of a Teen Idol,” which debuts January 2. While Chachi has stuck around Hollywood, the others have gone on to lead less glamorous lives. But they’re willing to take a shot at celebrity again by making their “confessions.”