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Celebrity Sizzle by Mark Stone
Rihanna's latest advice to women: send naked photos of yourself to your boyfriend (photo contributed)
Oh, Rihanna. Just when your recent Good Morning America interviews went so far with respect to helping women, you go and say something that probably should have been stopped at the gate that lies between your brain and your mouth. In an interview with New York’s Hot 97 radio station, Rihanna’s ostensibly telling women they should be sending naked pictures of themselves to their boyfriends.
The Barbadian beauty was mortified when leaked photos of her flashing her flesh made their way onto the Internet, but after getting over her initial embarrassment she realized it was no big deal.
“If you don’t send your boyfriend naked pictures, then I feel bad for him. When it happened I sent my mom flowers first before I called and then she texted me – when the world is against me she’s always there supporting,” she said.
Is there any way that we’re taking this out of context? I didn’t hear the interview, so there’s always the chance that she was speaking facetiously. Still… probably not a great thing to say.
So what’s worse – taking naked pics of yourself to send to your bf or endlessly waiting for that perfect vampire boyfriend to come around and sweep you off your feet? Ahhh… to be a young teenage girl and having all these wonderful messages being thrown at you.
Pattinson, Stewart spill details on Eclipse
In the Twilight series of books, not a whole lot happens until the third volume of the saga, Eclipse. Apparently the same is to be said for the movies, as non-Twihards will tell you that nothing significant takes place during New Moon.
The two biggest stars on the planet right now, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, are in the hottest film at the box office but are already talking about the next film in the Twilight saga. “I think Bella’s little bit of treachery in the third one will be — I think it’s going to be a good scene,” Pattinson told MTV News.
Stewart elaborated slightly, with: “I’m looking forward to seeing the love triangle actually becoming a problem. We sort of innocently touch on it in ‘New Moon,’ but it actually becomes something that is very, very real.”
Eclipse hits theatres on June 30, 2010. It is the first in the series that I actually (I’m catching K-Stew’s “actually” bug) am slightly looking forward to. The third film is being directed by David Slade, whose past work includes 30 Days of Night (a real vampire movie, albeit not a great one) and the fantastically edgy Hard Candy.
More evidence Avatar is going to suck
Earlier this week I talked about the upcoming big-budget 3D film from director James Cameron, Avatar, and how it may not live up to expectations. In a second part of a piece called “Mounting Evidence That Avatar Will Suck,” Gawker is posting a review of the film from an unnamed entertainment guru who is privy to seeing films before there completion. His report is not in the least bit promising for the film. Not only does he call it “literally vomit inducing” but also refers to it as an overall “piece of s**t.”
Dig this: “I watch a lot of movies, and am especially obsessed with watching horrible films with inflated budgets. I was delighted to find that Avatar didn’t disappoint in the absolutely horrible fetishizing of azure humanoids that James Cameron has obviously been drawing on the back covers of his notebooks since middle school and secretly getting off to in the gym locker room. The new technology they’ve been using to eliminate the headaches and sickness conducive to old 3D tech has not been used properly in the action scenes throughout Avatar. The problem is with cutting in between 3D focal points and perspective – the mind cannot adjust to it without a buffer – thus, Avatar is literally vomit inducing. But the movie itself, the story/acting/tone are alienating and weird. Of course there are very beautiful moments, with great editing/sound/art direction, but overall it’s a horrible piece of s**t. The entirety of the Hollywood marketing machine is behind it, however, so it’s going to make a boatload (eh I could slip a Titanic ref. whatever) of money.”
Even if the movie is as bad as this guy is saying, does it matter? Like many successful films at the box office have proven (this means YOU GI Joe and Transformer 2), hours of ludicrous dramatics interspersed with a bunch of people getting killed is never a bad formula to bring in the money.
Should be interesting to see how this movie turns out.
Avatar opens December 18.
Actor’s Youtube video lands big role in Warner Brothers Yogi Bear film
What do you do when you’ve auditioned twice for a role in the upcoming screen adaptation of Yogi Bear and failed to impress the casting director? If you’re Cloverfield actor TJ Miller, you go out and film your own audition with a real live bear and post it to Youtube.
Lucky for Miller, the video made its way to Barry Meyer, the chairman of Warner Brothers, resulting in an offer for the part of Ranger Jones. It is assumed that Ranger Jones will be a live-action role, while Yogi and Boo-Boo will be computer animated.
The film has recently signed Anna Faris, Justin Timberlake (I can totally hear him saying “Pull the cord, Yogi) and Dan Aykroyd, which could go either way in terms of overall quality.
Take a look at his audition tape. While TJ Miller does an okay job of acting, the real star of the video is Bam Bam the bear, a resident of the Hollywood Animal Ranch.
Tags: Avatar, Eclipse, James Cameron, Justin Timberlake, Kristen Stewart, Rihanna, Robert Pattinson, TJ Miller, Yogi Bear
