Sexiest Man AliveGate, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Happy Thursday! Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Sharon Stone will get maternal in Lovelace... Elvis Mitchell gets his close-up... Sacha Baron Cohen's method... Ricky Gervais wastes no time scaring the Hollywood establishment... and more.
· Apparently People Magazine's choice of Bradley Cooper as this year's Sexiest Man Alive is drawing outrage in some circles, where the sanctity of the annual prize is in doubt after Ryan Gosling was passed over. A pro-Gosling Facebook page pledges a protest at People HQ, while another dissenter has enlisted scientific data to objectively prove Gosling's SMA supremacy. Meanwhile, fans of Leonardo DiCaprio, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Idris Elba, David Beckham and numerous other sexy, sexy men have voiced their own displeasure with Cooper's selection, and one site has put the matter to a simple vote. Huzzah! We are the 99 percent! Of idiots. [People]
· Speaking of People Magazine, is "Dakota Fanning: I'm Learning to Do Laundry" the best Web headline ever, or what? Learn faster, Dakota! Elle's delicates aren't gonna wash themselves! [People]
· OK, enough frivolity! On to the hard stuff: Sharon Stone has announced that she will play porn star Linda Lovelace's mother in the upcoming biopic Lovelace. Amanda Seyfried was confirmed previously for the lead. [AP]
· What's former Movieline critic Elvis Mitchell up to these days? Well, it's complicated, but it all starts with holding the egg. [LA Weekly]
· "'It was weird, working with Sacha [Baron Cohen]. You're tempted to go up to him and say'and here Butterfield slips into a perfect Borat imitation'"Is a-niiiice."' But during filming he was so serious, and everyone had to call him Inspector.'" Wait -- what is up with 14-year-old Hugo star Asa Butterfield having seen Borat? [Vanity Fair]
· For your consideration: Clint Eastwood is a hack, and history proves it.
· What's third-time host Ricky Gervais got in mind for the Golden Globes? Let's hear it from the man himself... [@rickygervais via THR]
Just told Billy Crystal he'd better not use any of my holocaust or pedophile material at The Oscars. He agreed (true) http://t.co/s1JWOCiy
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Scandal! It's almost as if People's Sexiest Man Alive is a trivial, utterly subjective, publicist-manipulated non-contest instead of a rigorously scientific, democratic process with world-shattering implications! Occupy Newsstands!
But what does Victor Garber think about this whole mess?