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By Mark Stone
Megan Fox (Photo contributed)
Now that it looks as if these two won’t be working together again anytime soon (there is no talk of another Bay-directed sequel), the gloves have come off between hottie Megan Fox and Transformers director Michael Bay. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bay was asked what he thought of Fox condemning his films for being special-effects-driven and not offering enough acting opportunities.
Bay, who always seems to have no problem with giving the world a piece of his mind, had this to say: “Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, ‘Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it.’ But I 100 per cent disagree with her. Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in Armageddon. Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did Transformers—and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from Bad Boys. Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers. I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.”
Okay, Mr. Bay, we’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on the Megan Fox saying ridiculous things bit. But taking credit for discovering Nicolas Cage, Ben Affleck, Shia LaBeouf, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence? Yeah, right. I think your sense of time is slightly off.
Directors in Hollywood have a bad rep for their overinflated egos, but Bay’s ego seems to be swelling in sync with the box office receipts for Transformers 2. Let’s bring him down a few pegs, shall we? How about this: even though Transformers will rake in a whole crapload of cash when all is said and done, Todd Phillips, director of The Hangover, will have made more money from that film than Bay will from his. Ahhh… that feels better.
Megan Fox goes on date with Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens goes crazy
Okay, maybe I made up the Vanessa Hudgens going crazy part, although I’m sure that it’s not too much of a stretch. What would you do if Zac Efron was your boyfriend and you found out that he was dining with Megan Fox?
Anyway, Celebuzz is reporting that last night, the Michael Bay-shunned, 23-year-old Transformers star shared an intimate dinner with Zac Efron on Tuesday night at Pace, an upscale restaurant in LA’s Laurel Canyon neighborhood. A fellow diner revealed, “They were very friendly and their faces were close when they talked.”
Nobody knows whether the dinner was capped off with any further intimacy. But c’mon now… you’re Zac Efron and you’re out with Megan Fox. You know exactly how you’d like the evening to end.
When asked about her friendship with Efron, Fox has even said, “What you don’t know is that Zac and I are the same person. It’s like Janet and Michael [Jackson], we are the same person.”
No, Megan. That’s what you said to Vanessa Hudgens when she told you to go *bleep* yourself.
Who is Hollywood’s top paid actress?
I’m sure you can probably guess, and it’s no surprise that Brad Pitt’s current partner, Angelina Jolie, tops the list of Forbes Magazine’s top paid actresses. Between June 2008 and June 2009, Forbes estimates that Jolie earned $27 million. The majority of those earnings apparently came from her share of the profits on last summer’s Wanted, but she likely did just as well for herself for the upcoming spy thriller Salt.
Second place? Brad Pitt’s ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, who earned $25 million for Marley & Me and the upcoming comedy The Baster. Jen still earns money from Friends (nice).
What I find troubling (other than the fact that Kate Winslet at $2 million is so grossly underpaid) is that pay scales in Hollywood are no different than they are in the City of Kelowna. Here, the average salary for a male public official is much higher than that for a female essentially doing the same job. It’s the same story in Hollywood: The top 10 actors (reported by the magazine last month) earned $393 million, while the top 10 actresses only took home $183 million. How have we as a society not yet overcome this awful wage discrimination?
The rest of the list:
Meryl Streep, $24 million
Sarah Jessica Parker, $23 million
Cameron Diaz, $20 million
Sandra Bullock, $15 million
Reese Witherspoon, $15 million
Nicole Kidman, $12 million
Drew Barrymore, $12 million
Renee Zellweger, $10 million
Cate Blanchett, $8 million
Anne Hathaway, $7 million
Halle Berry, $7 million
Scarlett Johansson, $5.5 million
Kate Winslet, $2 million
Emmy host will be both Awesome and Legen… wait for it… dary
Looks like Barney Stinson Neil Patrick Harris may be hosting the upcoming Emmy Awards. Variety is reporting that NPH is in the middle of cutting a deal with CBS and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to host the 61st annual kudos on Sept. 20. Insiders are cautioning that the deal is not yet completed, but all sides are working toward setting Harris as this year’s host as soon as possible.
This is great news for fans of How I Met Your Mother (one of our faves). Having Barney Stinson front and centre at the Emmys will amount to a huge promo boost for the show, which is moving to the 8 p.m. anchor slot of CBS’s Monday comedy block the night after the Emmys. HIMYM has had its ups and downs over the last few seasons (primarily due to the writer’s strike) and I hope that the show can get its momentum back this year.
I beg the writers of the show yet again: Please, please, please give us some sort of hint as to who the damn mother is already. Four years has been a long time to wait!
Want a date with Jon Gosselin? Here’s his Match.com video
The folks at Funnyordie have come up with this fake dating video for newly single father of eight, Jon Gosselin. It’s not hilarious, but funny enough to take 29 seconds out of your day to watch.
Denise Richards in a bikini. It’s not complicated.
She may be a whole bunch of crazy mixed in with a heaping serving of Cookoo for Coco Puffs, but you cannot deny how good Denise Richards looks here in a bikini. Boys – thank me now or thank me later.
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Barney Stinson, Denise Richards, Jon Gosselin, Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Neil Patrick Harris, Zac Efron
