Reese Witherspoon Hit by Car, and Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Happy Thursday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Gatsby goes Bollywood ... An avant-garde legend passes away ... Steven Spielberg takes on a partner for Robopocalypse ... Hollywood's latest plastic-surgery nightmare fuel ... and more.
· Yikes! Reese Witherspoon was struck by an 84-year-old woman motorist Wednesday while jogging in Los Angeles. The Oscar-winner was treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital and released. Thank goodness. Joggers everywhere, take a health and safety tip from me: Just stop exercising. [LAT]
· Baz Luhrmann is finally getting his $127 million, 3-D Great Gatsby adaptation aloft in Australia, with new cast addition Amitabh Bachchan -- yes, that Amitabh Bachchan, the inveterate Bollywood idol -- playing the "shadowy gangster" Meyer Wolfsheim. Aussies Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke have signed on as well, joining topliners Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. [Variety]
· The gonzo/avant-garde cinema guru George Kuchar -- who, with his twin brother Mike, created a half-century's worth of no-budget curios that have influenced two generations of do-it-yourself filmmakers -- died on Tuesday following a battle with prostate cancer. He was 69. [NYT]
· Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks -- which already has partners in India's Reliance conglomerate and distributor Disney -- have now enlisted Fox's foreign-distribution muscle for his next directing project, the megabudget sci-fi blockbuster hopeful Robopocalypse. It's currently set to open July 3, 2013. Maybe Paramount can supply the craft services. [Deadline]
· Congratulations to 17-year-old Ali Lohan for her precocious, preternatural advancement to the Plastic Surgery Nightmare Hall of Fame. It's sick, it's sad, it's the Lohans. [Yahoo!]
· "Brett Cummins, a 33-year-old KARK meteorologist, woke up on Monday in a bathtub next to a corpse wearing a dog collar." Of course he did. [Huffington Post]
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People get hit by cars everyday and die. She is not dead and this is front page news?
Reese Witherspoon is insignificant. Jesus accomplished more during his time on earth.
Let us pray that people will stop worshipping False "Hollywood" Idols and embrace Jesus instead.